Friday, June 8 at 3:00 PM
Free with museum admission

"Joseph McGurl is the featured speaker at the 2012 Edmund & Elizabeth Zachar Memorial Lecture. Considered one of America's finest contemporary landscape painters, his work has been included in several museum exhibitions in MA, NY, CA, and RI, as well as several traveling museum shows. Additionally, he has had solo exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, and the Saint Botolph Club in Boston. He is a frequent lecturer on art-related issues presenting a unique perspective as a practitioner. Artists from around the country join him at his annual workshop on Cape Cod to study his plein air and studio technique and philosophy. At the CCMA, he will speak on Issues in Contemporary Realism, focusing on three areas of concern for collectors, connoisseurs, and practitioners working in the contemporary realist genre. The first, defining realism, a term used to describe a wide variety of artwork that by reason of logic cannot all be labeled realism. The second topic will survey this counter revolutionary realist movement in terms of its strength, weaknesses, and prospects for the future. The third issue pertains to realism in relation to the art establishment and its institutions manipulating the contemporary art market."

Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Lane, Dennis, MA 02638