PAST EVENT
PAST EVENT
September 9–October 9, 2005
Public Speaking
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Artwork by
Mary Lum
Her work is currently being exhibited at MASS MoCA and is represented by Joseph Carroll and Sons (Boston) and Fredereicke Taylor (NY). She has been an artist in residence at St. John’s College, Oxford, UK, and has had solo shows in New York, Paris, and Boston. Lum taught at Alfred University for many years before being appointed to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard, and subsequently to the visual arts faculty at Bennington College. She resides in North Adams, MA, and is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.
Public Speaking is a series of artists’ billboards that will appear over the course of three years—2004, 2005, and 2006. Works are selected for this temporary exhibition to spark curiosity, conversation, and debate. The 2005 series takes the legacy of unlawful global prisoner detainment as it’s premise. Torture is wrong, immigrants are here, someday we’re all going to die.