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“Personal Vision//Collective Obsession: Alien Contact in the Art of Ken Grimes and Contemporary Culture”

Saturday, March 10, 6 pm

Charles Russell, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in American Studies, Rutgers University, will give the talk "Personal Vision//Collective Obsession: Alien Contact in the Art of Ken Grimes and Contemporary Culture" at Intuit, 756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago. The talk is free and open to the public.

Russell’s talk accompanies Intuit’s current exhibition Ken Grimes: ELUSIVE MESSAGES. With the focus of a researcher, Grimes mines the rich and on-going legacy of scientific exploration into extraterrestrial phenomena. Grimes’ research traces the possibility of communication with alien worlds and his monochromatic paintings reflect the significance of this possibility.

Russell is a respected scholar in the fields of outsider art and American literature and is Associate Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. He edited Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art (University Press of Mississippi, 2001) and authored Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avant-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism (Oxford University Press, 1985). His next book, co-edited with Carol Crown, is Sacred and Profane: Personal Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught, published in February 2007 by the University Press of Mississippi.