RTS presents artist talks from our current artist in residence, Maria Schumacher, and new RTS member, Lex Kosieradski. Come join us on Tuesday, September 22nd from 7pm to 9pm.
Maria Schumacher´s paintings are references of the painting process itself. Marks, residues and gestures in different states and layers constitute the imagery. She received her MFA (Diploma) in Fine Arts / Painting from Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig with Neo Rauch and H.C. Ottersbach in Germany. Maria was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship as well as of a San Francisco Art Institute Merit Scholarship which gave her the opportunity to do her first MFA year at SFAI, San Francisco. Maria received in 2014 the project grant `All for the wall` from the state Saxony (KdFS). Maria currently lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Lex Kosieradzki is an artist and writer based in Oakland, California. He holds a BA in Sculpture and Art History from Marlboro College, and an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of The Arts. He has exhibited and performed his work at the Berkeley Art Museum, City Limits Gallery, Southern Exposure, e-flux gallery, the For-Site Foundation, and elsewhere. His writing has appeared in Anamesa, Sparkle and Blink, Writing Without Walls, and is forthcoming in the book, Procession For The Extracted. Recently, his work has focused on the construction of space—architectural, aesthetic, psychological, historical, and ideological—and has taken the form of games, improvisatory performances, experimental art criticism, screenplays, radio plays, guided meditations, sculptures, and poetry. He is currently part of a collaborative research project that will be in residence at the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts in early 2016.