Explore Nature and Art with Hyperallergic Editor John Yau

Examine nature through the contrasting visions ofFrederic Edwin Church and Thomas Nozkowski with renowned poet and art critic John Yau. Wednesday, October 12, 6:30 p.m. ET.

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Landscape painting of an aurora borealis over the mountains and ocean.

Seeing Nature

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series with John Yau
Wednesday, October 12, 6:30 p.m. ET
In Person and Online

Join award-winning art critic, poet, curator, and writer John Yau for an engaging talk on 19th-century landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and 20th-century abstractionist Thomas Nozkowski. Yau's discussion focuses on how each artist’s vision of nature, as embodied in their paintings, could provide lessons for us today.

"John Yau: Church and Nozkowski and Their Views of the Catskills" is the second of three 2022 Clarice Smith Lectures presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Abstract painting with pale rectangles and shapes over a red canvas.

John Yau stands in front of a lectern holding a book.

About John Yau

Yau was the 2018 recipient of the Jackson Prize in Poetry, followed by a Rabkin Award for his art criticism in 2021. He currently serves as the editor of Hyperallergic Weekend and is a professor of Critical Studies at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Know Before You Go

In-Person Attendees
Visitors attending the program in person who arrive after a speaker has begun will be asked to wait in the lobby until there is a break to be seated with minimal disruption.

Virtual Attendees
Online participants must be subscribed to SAAM’s YouTube channel 24 hours in advance to participate in the chat and ask a question that may be answered live by the speaker during the program.

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Program Credit:  The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series takes place each fall, and is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith (1933-2021).

Image Credits:
Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Eleanor Blodgett, 1911.4.1

Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (8-61), 2005, oil on linen on panel, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James F. Dicke Family, 2014.12.12, © 2005, Thomas Nozkowski

John Yau, photograph courtesy of the artist

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