Bruce Katsiff:
Stories from the Beginning of the Museum
35th Anniversary Lecture Series
Michener Art Museum
Lecture Date:
November 15, 2023
1:00 - 2:00 PM
$20/ $10 member/ $5 with valid student ID
Location:
Michener Art Museum
138 South Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
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From 1989 until his retirement in 2012, Bruce Katsiff served as Director/CEO of the James A. Michener Art Museum. Katsiff turned a modest art center into a robust arts institution with an unparalleled collection of acclaimed regional artists including more than 2,500 works. Join us as Katsiff share stories from the early days of the Michener Art Museum while highlighting the key moments in the building of the Museum’s collection.
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Biography
Bruce Katsiff is an accomplished photographer whose poignant and varied work encompasses environmental portraiture, collage, and carefully curated constructions of bones and decay. Seeing elegance beyond the surface, Katsiff’s work reveals complexity and empathy as well as a virtuosity with camera and darkroom. His Platinum Palladium and Gelatin Silver prints made with a 20” x 24” view camera are a testament to the manner in which his work combines science with the magical and unknowable beyond the lens.
Katsiff earned his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Katsiff has published two monographs on his work, with Nature Morte accompanying his solo exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum.
Born in Philadelphia where he attended Central High School, Bruce Katsiff went on to study photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and completed graduate work at Pratt Institute, earning BFA and MFA degrees. He also attended postgraduate studies at Oxford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. For 25 years, he taught photography and from 1989 to 2012 served as Director/CEO of the James A. Michener Art Museum.
The James A. Michener Art Museum collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits art, primarily American art, and promotes the Delaware River Valley region’s rich artistic and cultural heritage, with a particular focus on Bucks County. The Museum presents exhibitions that explore a variety of artistic expressions and offers diverse educational programs that develop a lifelong involvement in the arts. For more information, visit: https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/