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Public Talk with Julia Bryan-Wilson: Lotty Rosenfeld's Materiality

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Location: McKenna Hall Auditorium (View on map )

Lotty Rosenfeld's Materiality: Sculpture Takes Up Space

In this talk, Julia Bryan-Wilson explores how the work of Chilean feminist artist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943-2020) utilized sculptural propositions to alter public space through materiality. Though Rosenfeld has been generally understood as a conceptual artist and co-founder of the important dissident group Colectivo Acciones de Arte, active during the Pinochet dictatorship, her work also has a persistent through-line that engages with materials (including street actions, textiles, and mixed media collages) that bring her work in dialogue with sculptural dimensionality.
 
This event is free and open to the public. After 4:00 p.m. on weekends and weekdays, as well as during holiday closures observed by the University, there is no charge for parking. In addition to visitor parking, faculty/staff lots (B) or student lots (C) will be open during this event. 

Julia Bryan-Wilson

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Julia Bryan-Wilson teaches contemporary art and LGBTQIA+ studies at Columbia University. She is the award-winning author of several books, including Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009); Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017) and Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023). As Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, she co-curated several exhibitions, including Queer Histories (2024/5). In November 2025 she opened two shows—GUTSY: On Feminist Infrastructure (at MSN Warsaw) and Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces (at the Wallach Art Gallery, organized with Natalia Brizuela). In 2024 she served as President of the International Jury of the 60th Venice Biennale.
 
 

Originally published at arts.nd.edu.