“Hat,” 2025, oil and spray paint on linen, 106.5 x 83 inches
Stas Orlovski: Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture
Stas Orlovski will deliver the 2026 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
As the Fall 2026 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist, Orlovski will complete a week-long residency working alongside students in Island Press, a research-based printmaking workshop at WashU that is committed to creating and publishing innovative prints and multiples, educating students and the broader community about print media, and advancing the printmaking field.
About Stas Orlovski
Stas Orlovski is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and animation. Born in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, his family fled to Tel Aviv, then Paris, to eventually settle in Toronto. Orlovski earned a BFA from York University, a B.Ed from the University of Toronto and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He has exhibited widely including at the 56th Venice Biennale. Orlovski’s work is represented in private and public collections including LACMA, the Crocker Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Progressive Corporation. Awards, fellowships, and residencies include Skowhegan, Yaddo, Art Omi, COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation Getty Fellowship, Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.
More Upcoming Lectures
Nov 11 at 5:30pm • Kemper Art Museum
Roots and Rhizomes: Relational Networks in the Art of Carolina Caycedo
In 2022, Carolina Caycedo stewarded the planting of an indigenous shadbush tree in a community garden in New York City’s East Harlem (El Barrio). This living organism, whose metaphorical seeds grew from Caycedo’s ongoing “Genealogy of Struggle” series, inspires Susanna V. Temkin’s exploration of the artist’s work within larger relational networks. Expanding ecological and symbolic concepts associated with roots, seeds, and branches, Temkin considers connections within Caycedo’s practice and across broader art histories of the Americas. In particular, Temkin will address connections to other artists in Caycedo’s work, along with broader histories of protest, ecofeminism, solidarity, and resistance.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots”, as well as the forthcoming presentation of Confluencias at El Museo del Barrio, New York (originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo).
About the Speaker
Susanna V. Temkin is an art historian and the interim chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, where she has worked since 2018. Temkin earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas, with a concentration on Cuba. At El Museo, her curatorial credits include the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, "Culture and the People" (2019), “La Trienal” (2020, 2024, and forthcoming 2027 edition), and the recent monograph of photographer Sophie Rivera (2026), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as assistant curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues and publications and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.