Evening Presentation
Registration 6:45pm
Discussion 7:00pm
Close 8:00pm

For over half a century, Robert Indiana’s paintings and sculptures bearing the words like LOVE, EAT, and the numbers 1 through 0 have been some of the best-known works of contemporary American art. They are direct and succinct, and at the same time, deep and complex. This multiplicity derives from Indiana’s use of language in art. This lecture will trace his long career history, illuminate his unique approach to the relationship between the word and the image, and examine how this fertile relationship has also inspired the artists from Asia featured in the exhibition LOVE Long: Robert Indiana and Asia.

Dr. Miwako Tezuka is Co-Director of PoNJA-GenKon (Post-Nineteen-Forty-Five Japanese Art Discussion Group), a global online network of scholars, curators, and artists. She is also Consulting Curator of the Reversible Destiny Foundation, a conceptual artist foundation established in New York by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Formerly Director of the Gallery, Japan Society, New York (2012–15) and Curator of Contemporary Art, Asia Society, New York (2005–2012), she has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Garden of Unearthly Delights: Works by Ikeda, Tenmyouya & teamLab (2014), Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori (2013), and Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool (2010), among many others.

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