Join us for a lecture with José Bedia, an artist featured in the exhibition Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art. The presentation will cover Jose Bedia's main artistic influences, spanning from different native and tribal communities throughout the world, and will also show the resulting works and creations from these 'field work' investigations. Personal examples and images of trips, as well as works directly made after these journeys will be seen and discussed.

José Bedia is a Cuban artist, born in 1959, his career has not only spanned over 3 decades but he was also a pioneer of the radical transformation of Cuban Art that inaugurated the Exhibition Volumen 1, which he was integral part of. Spanning from his participation in the monumental exhibit Magiciens de la Terre in 1989 to winning First Prize at the Beijing Biennale in 2010, Bedia's career and work have had an international outreach. Bedia's works are in many important private collections, as well as the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the PAMM, and he had a 30 year retrospective at the Fowler Museum in LA. His work merges his tribal and ethnographic interests, using a field work approach and adding layered social and historical elements of many world traditions.

Lectures are offered:
Art+ Museum Members: Free
Not-Yet-Members: $25
College Students: Free

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