SAIC's Interlink Visiting Artists Program presents: Laura Letinsky
• Artist’s Talk Tuesday, March 7th, 12:05-1pm, Michigan Rm. 707
• Lottery for Graduate Student Studio Visits Friday, March 3rd, 12:15pm,
Michigan 15th Fl.
Laura Letinsky’s photography offers intimate glimpses into private lives. Her
most recent work documents domestic social interactions, as evidenced in the
food remains and dirty dishes left behind. Their exquisite light and delicate
compositions recall 17th century Dutch still life painting; in narrowing its
subject matter down to the remains of the feast, Letinsky’s photography brings
a contemporary conceptual edge to genre imagery.
A graduate from the MFA program at Yale University School of Art (1991),
Letinsky lives in Chicago, where she is Associate Professor in the Committee on
the Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors; in 2004, the University of Chicago’s
Renaissance Society featured a survey of her career: “Hardly More Than Ever:
Photographs 1997-2004.” (SAIC)