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Interdisciplinary artist Jason Middlebrook, whose work is on view at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, will speak at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Interdisciplinary artist Jason Middlebrook, whose work is on view at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, will speak at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He will be the first speaker in this year’s Hanes’ Visiting Artist Lecture Series presented by the art department. The free public talk will be in the Hanes Art Center auditorium, accessible via the Swain Visitors Lot off Cameron Avenue.

Middlebrook’s work is part of “Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance and Joy” at the Chicago museum, which features contemporary artists who are rethinking Calder’s legacy in new ways. For the exhibition, Middlebrook produced a 4,000-pound sculpture, a dense cluster of found wood objects, discarded pieces of furniture and architectural debris balanced by a hanging tree trunk.

“This formidable mobile in space tracks the circuitry from living forest to functional object to landfill-destined refuse,” said art professor elin o’Hara slavick. “In his broader art practice, Middlebrook recycles imagery from contemporary culture – latter-day archetypes that have seeded the current collective unconscious.”

Middlebrook, of Craryville, N.Y., has had work exhibited at institutions including Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., and the Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art in Ridgefield, Conn.

For more information, call (919) 962-2015.

Middlebrook Web site:  http://jasonmiddlebrook.com

Note: Middlebrook will be available for interviews on request.

Photo: Millbrook’s “From the Forest to Mill to the Store to Home to the Streets and Back Again,” 2009-10. Log, salvaged wood and iron. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Courtesy of the artist and Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/arts/2010/middlebrookimage.jpg

Millbrook on Youtube:

He describes his pieces in a large exhibition of his work in Albany:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TIZwTFKyJQ
His describes creation of his work in the Calder show in Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8owZgjXNsk

Art department contact:
elin o’Hara slavick, (919) 923-4550, eoslavic@gmail.com

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