Jovana Stokic Lecture Thursday, April 17th

The next visiting speaker for the Painting Department will be critic and curator Jovana Stokic. Ms. Stokic will give a lecture called "Best Regards from the Blind Spot: Feminine Representations in Video from Serbia and Montenegro (1976, 2007)"on Thursday, April 17th in Alexander Auditorium at 7:30pm.

Ms. Stokic was born in Belgrade and is based in New York City where she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is writing a dissertation titled The Body Beautiful: Women's Self-Representations and the Shifting Currents of Feminism, 1970-2000, advised by ProfessorLinda Nochlin. She received her BA from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of History of Art at Belgrade University (Yugoslavia), and her MA from the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside.

She has been writing art criticism for several years, and has curated several thematic exhibitions in New York and Belgrade. "Beauty Matters" was a group exhibition of works by prominent women artists representing the female figure. She is currently a curator at the Kimmel Galleries in New York University's Kimmel Center for University Life, dedicated to exhibiting a broad range of artistic work originating from the University community, students, and faculty. She also curated a video selection titled Best Regards form the Blind Spot, with works by Marina Abramovic and younger artists from the region in the Center Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain.

Ms. Stokic's lecture is free and open to the public.