The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences presents 2021 Spring RELACS

Laura Lake Smith, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History

Title: Models for Uncertainty:  Richard Tuttle's Paradoxical Series

Abstract: This talk will examine the curious serial art of Richard Tuttle (b. 1941), which privileges fluctuations and uncertainty and hence confounds the clarity, repetition, and progression typically associated with seriality. By reading incoherence and irresolution as a purposeful ploy in his work, this talk will consider how Tuttle’s paradoxical seriality, and especially in his later career, questions the very underpinnings of conventional series and its associated modes of systems, models, and methods, functioning, in this way, as a means of philosophical inquiry.  The talk will also examine how, in its tenuous and, moreover, quotidian constitution, Tuttle's seriality might suggest a model for living amid the uncertain nature of life.  

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