The Face of Contemporary Portraiture in the Wake of Recent Revolutions in Technology and Science Lecture and reception with Anne Collins Goodyear, curator, National Portrait Gallery Thursday, July 20, 2006 Lecture: 6-7 p.m. Gallery Hours: 5-8 p.m. 500 Fifth St NW, Room Keck 100 Free
Anne Collins Goodyear will lecture on developments in portraiture from the 1960s to the present, devoting special attention to the impact of new advances in technology and science, such as video, digitization, and genetics. Artists to be discussed include Nancy Burson, Douglas Gordon, Elizabeth Peyton, Marc Quinn, Gary Schneider, and Andy Warhol. Anne Collins Goodyear is assistant curator of Prints and Drawings at the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery. Goodyear has a long-standing interest in the relationship between art, science, and technology. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2002, and wrote her dissertation on “The Relationship of Art to Science and Technology in the United States, 1957-1971: Five Case Studies.” She has also studied the impact of flight on 20th-century art and is the author of essays in “Reconsidering a Century of Flight,” “Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight” and “2001: Building for Space Travel.” This lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition “Evolving Identities in the Genetic Age: Photographs by Ariel Ruiz i Altaba.” The exhibition will be on view by appointment from Monday, July 10 – Friday, Oct. 13 at the National Academies’ Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W. Call (202) 334-2436 or email arts@nas.edu to make an appointment.

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