my life in the art world..
Before embarking on a career as a Production Designer, Patti Podesta was well known as an artist, curator and teacher. Her early performative video works "Stepping" and "Richochet" consider the problem of embodiment and are described as "subtly transgressive." Later works investigate philosophical reflection via the film form and the female subject. Over the course of ten years, she became increasingly involved with narrative form. Films include "A Glory" and "A Short Conversation From The Grave With Joan Burroughs."
Ms. Podesta's works have been screened throughout the United States and Europe including the Museum of Modern Art, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the American Film Institute National Video Festival, the Pacific Film Archives and recently at LACMA and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Her work was included in the Getty Museum's historic "California Video" exhibition and catalogue. She has received numerous awards and grants for the work.
T E A C H I N G A N D R E L A T E D E X P E R I E N C E
1988 to the present ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN Graduate Fine Art Core Faculty
Art Film and Video Theory and production for fine art, digital media and film grad students. Taught for 10 years, with new content each semester to keep abreast of innovation as well as lectures on classic subjects. Mise En Scene A study course presenting the language of film design and its application
Phenomenology A study course of this philosophical movement, particularly as it applies to film Subject and Sense A study course of films in which subjectivity and perceptual sensibility are discussed Master’s Thesis Thesis committees and individual meetings with graduate fine art candidates
Theories of Construction A critique class emphasizing the relationship betweenformal language and theoretical concepts Readings in Fine Art A study class in which critical theory is read and discussed
Hollywood and Subjectivity A study class for film, design and art students of all levels
1994 – 1996 USC SCHOOL OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION Production Design Classes
1987 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS Contemporary Theories class
1982 UNIVERSTIY OF MADISON, WISCONSIN VideoPerformance Classes
F O U N D E R VIDEOLACE
1982 Video exhibition program at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Grantwriter, Curatorial Committee Member 1982-84 and 1987-89
E D I T O R A N D D I R E C T O R RESOLUTION: A CRITIQUE OF VIDEO ART 1986 Publication and symposium on the subject of video
A W A R D S A N D G R A N T S JAMES D. PHELEN VIDEO AWARD 1990
ART MATTERS INC. for “A Short Conversation From The Grave With Joan Burroughs” 1989 WESTERN STATES REGIONAL MEDIA FELLOWSHIPS for “A Short Conversation...” 1989 NEA INTERARTS GRANTS “A Short Conversation...” 1987 and “Sleep a Little Death” 1988 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA FINE ARTS GRANT for “A Glory” 1987
NEA ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP Video 1985
V I D E O E X H I B I T I O N S
2008 “California Video” The Getty Museum (catalogue)
2002 Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000” San Jose Museum of Art
2000 “Made in California: 1980” The Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1998 “Sunshine and Noir” The Armand Hammer Museum
1997 The Olympia Film Festival
1994 The Museum of Modern Art, New York David Zwirner, New York
1993 The Rotterdam Film Festival
“Sampler” – Southern California Video 1970-1993 The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Karsten Shubert Ltd., London
1992 “LAX: The Los Angeles Biennale” LACE, Los Angeles “The Exploding Valentine” The Kitchen, New York
Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt “Choice Encounters” The Long Beach Museum of Art 1991 The Wexner Center for Visual Arts, Columbus
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley American Film Institute, Los Angeles
1990 American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Los Angeles 1989 American Film Institute, Los Angeles
“Sleep A Little Death” Newport Harbor Art Museum (theater piece with video) Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
1988 University Film and Video Association Conference, Bouseman, Montana “Recent Art From L.A.” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1987 American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles Langton Arts, San Francisco
“Variations III” (Fellows of Contemporary Art exhibition) LACE, Los Angeles Fine Arts Gallery, UC Irvine
1986 2nd Annual Videonale, Bonn
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1985 “Ten Year Retrospective” Long Beach Museum of Art “California Video Festival” Image/Form, Tokyo and tour 1983 “Video L.A.” CNA/Art Available
The Red Bar, New York
1982 “L.A. Uncensored” Danceteria, New York The American Center, Paris
1981 The San Francisco International Video Festival La XIe Biennale de Paris a Lisbon
“Everson Video Review” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse 1980 La XIe Biennale Paris
“California Video” Long Beach Museum of Art and tour “Video 80” The San Francisco International Video Festival
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
“A Short Conversation...” Mary Beth Crain L.A. WEEKLY January 1991
“Sleep: Its Anything But Ordinary” Barbara O’Dair ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER April 1988 “Sites and Motion” Josef Woodard SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT April 1988
“The Wry Stuff: Patti Podesta” Ralph Rugoff L.A. STYLE March 1988
“Support Your Local Video Artist” Don Snowdon L.A. TIMES SUNDAY CALENDAR October 1988 “Is Video Art An Oxymoron?” Bill Horrigan ARTWEEK May 1987
“Resolution Video Project” Christopher Knight L.A. HERALD EXAMINER April 1982 “Les Videos de la Cote Quest” Jean Paul Fargier LIBERATION October 1982
“Honoring The Surreal Days of Television” Regina Hackett SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER December 1980 “California Video” William Wilson LOS ANGELES SUNDAY TIMES CALENDAR August 1980
C R I T I C A L W R I T I N G
“Teresa Banks: Evidence of a Site” VIDEO NETWORKS 1993
“Undine: A Discussion of A Film or Maybe Not a Film” FELIX Winter 1992 “Resolution: A Critique of Video Art” (introduction) VIDEOLACE May 1986 “The AFI Video Festival” L.A. READER September 1984
“John Sanborn: A Video Panorama” exhibition catalogue co-authored with Tim Martin for VIDEOLACE January 1984 “Headhunters” exhibition catalogue co-authored with Tim Martin for VIDEOLACE September 1983
“The Lower Depths: Notes from L.A.” monthly column for VIDEO NETWORKS 1981-82 “The AFI Video Festival” ARTCOM 1982
“Green Card: An American Romance” L.A. READER 1982
T A P E O G R A P H Y
A Short Conversation From The Grave With Joan Burroughs 1991
Prologue to Sleep... 1989
Pleasure: Impressions of Beverle Houston’s Critical Text 1988
A Glory 1987
video tryptich: Charm + 1 / Death Portraits / Delectacio Morosa 1986
The Fifth Republic: An Interview With Michel Foucault 1984
American Plague 1983
Ricochet 1981
Stepping 1980
E D U C A T I O N
MFA Claremont Graduate School BA Pitzer College
