A symposium on George Rickey’s art was held on September 27, 2024, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Watch a recording of the program here.
This one-day symposium brought together six leading scholars to consider Rickey’s work and legacy, situating his practice alongside other figures such as Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Tinguely, and addressing his art’s engagement with modern architecture and landscape design, commercial manufacturing, cybernetics, and the cultural history of postwar Germany where he lived and worked for many years.
Friday, September 27, 2024
Symposium: 1:30-6:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Session One - 1:30 p.m.
Alex J. Taylor, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh
Peripatetic Before Kinetic: George Rickey as Artist-in-Residence
John J. Curley, professor, Wake Forest University
Winds of Change: George Rickey in Berlin, c.1970
Susanneh Bieber, associate professor, Texas A&M University
Across Three Continents: Correspondences between Rickey and Soto
Discussion
Session Two - 4:00 p.m.
Marina Isgro, associate curator, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
Painting in Four Dimensions: George Rickey’s Early Work
Marin R. Sullivan, independent art historian and curator
Beautiful Machines: George Rickey and Design
Caroline A. Jones, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kinetics or Cybernetics? George Rickey’s Bargain
Discussion
Organized by:
Institute of Fine Arts, Robert Slifkin, Director of Graduate Studies; Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts
George Rickey Foundation, Inc., Richard Benefield, Executive Director
