Author to speak Oct. 22

Author and art historian Hayden Herrera will speak on the Armenian artist Arshile Gorky on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Business Center Alice Peters Auditorium.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Herrera has lectured widely, curated several exhibitions of art, taught Latin American art at New York University and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her newest book is “Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work.” It is a story of how Gorky overcame his influences and became an artist of singular originality and beauty.

Gorky (1904-1948) was born in Armenia and came to the United States when he was 16. He was influenced by the Surrealist movement, which encouraged artists to explore images of the subconscious in much the same way as did the new Freudian theories of psychoanalysis.

Among Herrera’s other books are: “Frida: A Biography of Fida Kahlo,” and “Mary Frank” and “Matisse: A Portrait.”

Her appearance is sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program. For more information call 8-2669.