Dallas Architecture Forum presents A Conversation with Flavin Judd on March 6, 2012 March 6, 2012

Dallas Architecture Forum, the non-profit organization dedicated to providing challenging and on-going public discourse about architecture will present a moderated panel discussion on A Conversation with Flavin Judd on Tuesday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Dallas Center for Architecture, 1909 Woodall Rodgers, Ste. 100. Admission is free. Frances COLPITT, Ph.D, will serve as Moderator. For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. For questions about the Forum, call 214-764-2406.
Panel Season Sponsors are Heather + Ray Balestri, Cindy+ Armond Schwartz, and Talley Associates. Sponsorship for this Panel is provided by Dee Dee Hoak + Wendy Konradi.

Donald Judd’s unique understanding of art and architecture has left a significant and enduring set of distinctions between the two disciplines, as well as a formal vocabulary almost instantly recognized as singularly his. Join us in this dialogue with his son Flavin Judd, a founding board member of Judd Foundation, as he discusses his father’s ideas and legacy with Dr. Colpitt, who knew his father and has written extensively on his work.

About the moderator:
Frances Colpitt holds the Deedie Potter Rose Chair, an endowed professorship in contemporary art history, at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. She was professor (1990 – 2005) and Department Chair (2002 – 05) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Cornell University; and the University of Southern California. She was a visiting professor at UCLA in 1999. Dr. Colpitt is a specialist in American art since 1960.

A corresponding editor for Art in America, where her articles and reviews appear regularly, she is also contributes to artUS. Her books include Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective (Washington University Press, 1993) and Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002). She is the lead author of a monograph on Texas conceptual painter Vernon Fisher published by the University of Texas Press in 2010. Among her many publications are “Hard-Edge Cool,” which appears in Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Mid-Century, and “The Formalist Connection and Originary Myths of Conceptual Art” in Conceptual Art, Theory, Myth, and Practice.

She has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary American art at venues including the University of Texas at San Antonio; Artpace; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Fisher Gallery at the University of Southern California; Blue Star Art Space; the Phoenix Art Museum; and TCU’s gallery for contemporary art, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts. A member of the advisory committee for Under the Big Black Sun: California Art in the Age of Pluralism, 1974 – 81, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for 2011, she also contributed the essay “In and Out of the Studio” to the exhibition’s catalogue.

About the Dallas Architecture Forum
The Dallas Architecture Forum is a not-for-profit civic organization that brings leading architectural thought leaders from around the world to speak in Dallas and also fosters important local dialogue about the major issues impacting our urban environment. The Forum was founded in 1996 by some of Dallas’ leading architects, business, cultural and civic leaders, and it continues to benefit from active support and guidance from these citizens. The Forum fulfills its mission of providing a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in - and for - the Dallas area. The Dallas Architecture Forum's members include architects, design professionals, students and educators, and a broad range of civic-minded individuals and companies intent to improve the urban environment in North Texas. The Forum has been recognized nationally with an AIA Collaboration Achievement Award for its strategic partnerships with other organizations focused on architecture, urban planning and the arts. For more information on the Forum, visit www.DallasArchitectureForum.org.
Among the over 130 speakers who have addressed the Forum’s Lecture Series are Shigeru Ban, Brad Cloepfil, Diller + Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Daniel Libeskind, Thomas Phifer, Rafael Vinoly, Juhani Pallasmaa, AIA Gold Medal Winner Peter Bohlin, and regional architects David Lake and Ted Flato. Pritzker Prize winners speaking to the Forum have been Kazuyo Sejima, Rafael Moneo, Thom Mayne, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster (the latter two in collaboration with the ATT Performing Arts Center). Other speakers for the Forum have been leading designers Calvin Tsao, Andrée Putman, and Karim Rashid; landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh; and National Trust President Emeritus Richard Moe. Important critics, authors and patrons who have spoken to the Forum include Emily Pulitzer, Terence Riley, Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Campbell and Blair Kamin, Aaron Betsky, and the late David Dillon.
The Forum organizes and presents an annual series of Panels—local, informal, open, and offered free of charge as a public service to the community—led by a moderator who brings a subject of local importance along with comments by participating panelists. Moderators and Panelists have also come from both other Texas cities as well as from national institutions that were connected with particular Panel subjects. Panels offer attendees the opportunity to participate in creating discourse. Important topics addressed in Panels in recent years include: “Thoughts on the Dallas Comprehensive Plan”; “The Kimbell Expansion: A Discussion”; “Filling Out the Dallas Arts District”; and “Re-envisioning the Trinity”.
The Dallas Architecture Forum also presents two symposia annually. The Forum works closely with the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Arlington, and jointly presents the David Dillon Symposium in Texas Architecture. Symposia have focused on local architectural icons Frank Welch and E. G. Hamilton, and on “African American Architecture in Dallas”. The Dallas Design Symposium, founded four years ago by the Forum, has created a partnership with the Nasher Sculpture Center and in 2011 presented environmental artist Christo.
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