On Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, from 2:30 – 3:30 pm, artist Vitaly Komar will speak in the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, in the Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center (D Building), at the Fashion Institute of Technology, located at 27th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY. The event is open to the public. The ARTSpeak 2011-2012 Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art and Design and the School of Liberal Arts.

Vitaly Komar is a Russian painter and performance artist who was born in Moscow. He and fellow Russian artist Alexander Melamid collaborated as the conceptual art duo Komar & Melamid until 2003. In 1972, Komar & Melamid founded a movement they called Sots Art, a unique version of Soviet Pop and Conceptual Art that combines the principles of Dadaism and Socialist Realism. Komar currently resides in New York City, and has had solo exhibitions at the Moscow Biennale and the Galerie Sandmann, Berlin, Germany.

For more information on Vitaly Komar, go to his page on the website of the Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York City: http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/artistsrffa/artkom01.html

Vitaly Komar