Diana Al-Hadid and Gregory Volk
2012/13 STUDIO CONVERSATIONS
Friday, October 12, 2012, 7:00 pm

New York-based artist Diana Al-Hadid creates complex sculptures that push the limits of their physical properties to create a sense of precarious balance and impending collapse. Her work has gained international attention, including recent solo exhibitions at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia, Spain; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including grants from The Joan Mitchell Foundation; Nimoy Foundation; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She also received the…

Burren College of Art located on the Burren, a limestone plateau in County Clare on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast. The facilities at Burren include modern studios, well-equipped darkroom and photography studio, sculpture workshop, lecture theater, library, internet, seminar room, study room with word processing and copying facilities and art materials store. The Burren itself is an area of some 150 square miles of remarkable fissured limestone terraces and rolling mountains. The landscape is dotted with megalithic tombs, prehistoric burial mounds, Bronze Age and Iron Age forts, ancient settlements and field systems, churches, monasteries, holy wells and medieval castles.