Internationally acclaimed artist Roberto Lugo to current at Munson Museum of Artwork

Utica, N.Y. — Hear internationally acclaimed ceramic artist Roberto Lugo talk about his profession at Munson Museum of Artwork as he presents the Easton Pribble Lecture Sequence at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, within the Museum’s Sinnott Household–Financial institution of Utica Auditorium in downtown Utica. This occasion is free and open to the general public.

Lugo, recognized for his daring, extremely ornamental works that reference historic types, creates defiant, genre-mixing sculpture that confronts the operate and material of excessive artwork from Classical Antiquity, East Asia, the Italian Renaissance, Europe, and past. Utilizing clay as his canvas, Lugo calls consideration to intergenerational experiences of injustice whereas celebrating modern African American and Latino tradition.

Utilizing clay as an inventive medium is vital to Lugo due to its connection to time and tradition. Over the course of historical past, finely-crafted ceramic objects stood as symbols of sophistication, privilege, and the aristocracy. Lugo creates a brand new, extra modern mode of storytelling that blends tales of on a regular basis life and portraiture with time-honored types.

Lugo’s work could be present in main artwork museums world wide, together with the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork; Philadelphia Museum of Artwork; the Museum of High quality Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Artwork; and Munson Museum of Artwork’s assortment. His sculpture “The Day We Had Church and Tires Had been Stolen” (2023) is at present on view in Munson’s Fountain Elms parlor, and the Museum has additionally commissioned a serious new work from the artist, consisting of a number of elements, that can exchange historic items with items of Lugo’s personal creation referencing area people figures and tradition.

Roberto Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute and an MFA from Penn State. He’s the recipient of quite a few awards, together with a 2019 Pew Fellowship, a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, a US Artist Award, and most lately the celebrated Heinz Award for the Arts.

For media inquiries, please contact Katie Voce, communications supervisor, at 315-797-0000 ext. 2147 or through e-mail at kvoce@munson.artwork.