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"Lucas Joseph Reiner (born August 17, 1960) is an American painter, print maker, and photographer. Based in Los Angeles, he is married to Maud Winchester.https://www.bridgeprojects.com/programs/echo-locate-lucas-reiner Early life and education The third child of Estelle (née Lebost) and Carl Reiner, Lucas Reiner was born and grew up in Los Angeles. Raised in a Jewish family of creatives, his paternal grandfather designed a timepiece for Emperor Franz Joseph before immigrating from Czernowitz to New York City.Petra Giloy- Hirtz. “Lucas Reiner’s Los Angeles Trees.” Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008. Munich. Prestel. 2008. Between 1978 and 1986, Reiner studied fine art at Parsons School of Design, Otis Art Institute and Parsons School of Design Paris.http://www.artnet.com/artists/lucas-reiner/biography Exhibition history Since 1985, Reiner has exhibited internationally in Los Angeles, Milan, Munich, New York City, Regensberg, Rome and Schwarzenbruck.https://art.state.gov/personnel/lucas_reiner/ He has had solo exhibitions with Bennett Roberts, Los Angeles, CA (1995);Toby Crockett."Lucas Reiner at Bennett Roberts." Art in America. May 1996. Tricia Collins Grand Salon (1996);Steve Mumford. “Lucas Reiner.” Zing magazine. Winter/Spring 1997. Griffin Contemporary (1998), Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1999); Roberts & Tilton (2003);Eve Wood. "Implied Narratives". Artnet. January 27, 2003 Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles (2005) and Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY (2007).http://calendar.artcat.com/exhibits/5584 Additionally, his work has been included in numerous group shows, including “Left Coast. Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art” at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art(2014), “Drawn” at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin (2014), Ace Gallery Beverly Hills (2013), “Landscape and Architecture” at Irvine Fine Arts Center (2012) and “Speak for the Trees” at Friesen Gallery in Seattle and Sun Valley.Andria Friesen. Speak for the Trees. Seattle. Friesen Gallery. 2008 In 2009, Prestel Publishing published ‘’Lucas Reiner: Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008: Paintings, Drawings, Filmstills’’ by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, with an essay by Fred Dewey. In this book, Dewey compares Reiner’s process to the “old monk poet Basho, who, it was said, would go into the mountains to pay tribute to specific trees,” though of course Reiner typically approaches trees via car.Fred Dewey. “If We are Lucky.” Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008. Munich. Prestel. 2008. "Cut for instrumental reasons according to non-arboreal, non-natural intent, the trees nonetheless retain their nature, responding to heat, light, and soil, but most of all the ferocious Department of Transportation."Fred Dewey. Trees and Words. Venice. Beyond Baroque. 2004. "The result is quiet, calling for contemplation, and, in a final move, hints at the story and mystery behind the shape." Work =Color Field Paintings= "Beginning with minimalist canvases, Reiner moved into painting signs and word fragments in the urban landscape, influenced by the work of LA artists Ruscha, Diebenkorn, Celmins..." Although Reiner's abstract paintings have also been compared to those by Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly, critics have been quick to note that his “color field” paintings capably distill quotidian experiences into particular palettes. Toby Crockett observed how "Reiner's controlled approach creates a template by which the world can be reduced to its juicy details [and] is filled with genuine feeling."Toby Crockett. "Lucas Reiner at Bennett Roberts.Art in America. May 1996. =City Tree Paintings= After spending time in the Michigan forests in 2001, Reiner started to focus on the trees in his Los Angeles environment. Responding to the way urban trees are routinely brutalized by trucks, sidewalks, and neglectful passersby, Reiner started creating little tree portraits. Fred Dewey wonders why it took contemporary artists so long to address suffering city trees, since Frederick Law Olmsted noticed the savage cutting of trees around 1870. Eve Wood noted that "these dense little paintings are more than quaint depictions of [city] trees, but encapsulate both their stature and movement, as well as a kind of ineffable presence."Eve Wood. "Implied Narratives." Artnet. January 27, 2003. From observing Reiner's tree paintings, whose titles reflect their particular locations, Petra Giloy-Hirtz discovers that Los Angeles trees are “crooked, mistreated, strangely trimmed, pruned into shapes by the traffic, grazed by the truck, cut back to cut the view of the billboards, [and even] alienated by signs, Christmas decorations, or graffiti.” Responding to Reiner's tree paintings, Nicholas Grider observes how “specific individual trees…float against delicately-colored abstract expressionist backgrounds that recall Phillip Guston’s early work. The tension between specificity and the general nature of the gestural backgrounds deliberately leads the viewer to think not just about trees as portrait subjects, but about what his or her own relationship with trees is in daily life.” Nicholas Grider. “Minimalism, Theatricality, and You.” ‘’Artslant.’’ September 9, 2007. Petra Giloy-Hirtz adds, "For in the end the tree is not an unusual theme in the history of art. It is less about the phenomenology of the tree than about the possibilities of painting." Regarding Reiner's relationship to his subject matter, Dewey adds that "The links of Reiner's work to those of painter Giorgio Morandi are clear. Morandi did painting after painting of bottles and landscape...pushing a commitment to representation of the world to the limit." *Spirit of '76 (1990) *Gold Cup (2000) *Trees in Los Angeles (2005) Teaching In addition to having taught at Art Division (2011) and at Otis College of Art and Design (2007), Reiner has been a visiting artist at numerous institutions, including the American Academy in Rome, California State University, Northridge, Oberlin College, Myers School of Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, and Università Iuav di Venezia. References External links * Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:American male painters Category:American filmmakers Category:Jewish painters Category:American people of Austrian- Jewish descent Category:Filmmakers from California Category:People from Los Angeles Category:Reiner family "
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"Ruth V. Watkins is an American scholar of child language and speech pathology. She is the 16th and current president of the University of Utah (U of U). Education Watkins completed a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology, graduating from the University of Northern Iowa with highest honors in 1985. She completed her graduate work at the University of Kansas, earning a master's degree in child language/speech-language pathology in 1987, and a PhD in child language in 1989. Additionally, she has a certificate of clinical competence in speech-language pathology. In 2003, she was named a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Career In 1989, Watkins was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as program director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders, where she worked until 1993. Later that year, she moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor, and was appointed associate dean for academic and research affairs in the College of Applied Life Studies in 2000, then associate provost responsible for undergraduate education and academic affairs in 2003. She served in this capacity until she was promoted to vice provost, a post she held from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, she was named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which included approximately 600 faculty, 2,500 graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, with an annual operating budget of about $142 million. On April 4, 2013, it was announced that Watkins would assume the post of Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the U of U. She officially began in this capacity on August 1, 2013, also receiving an appointment as a full professor in the Department of Linguistics. Her work in this position has included advocacy for better online education and an emphasis on cross- disciplinary science, including support for interdisciplinary cluster hires via her creation of the Transformative Excellence Program. On January 18, 2018, Watkins was appointed as the 16th president of the U of U. She officially assumed this position on April 2, 2018, and is the first woman to serve in the post. Attendees at her September 21, 2018 inauguration included the chair of the U of U's board of trustees, H. David Burton, and Utah Lieutenant Governor, Spencer Cox. References Category:University of Utah faculty Category:Living people Category:Speech and language pathologists Category:University of Northern Iowa alumni Category:University of Kansas alumni Category:Presidents of the University of Utah Category:Year of birth missing (living people) "