Join us for a gallery talk with exhibiting artist Allan Hacklin in conversation with Professor DeWitt Godfrey.

A native New Yorker, Allan Hacklin was born and grew up in Harlem. His paintings, sculpture and drawings are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Allen Museum of Oberlin College, the Aldrich Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the North Carolina Museum of Fine Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Currier Museum in New Hampshire. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in this country and Europe and featured in articles in The New York Times, Art News, Art Forum, Arts Magazine, Art International, and Vogue.

Hacklin is a graduate of Pratt Institute and taught there and at the California Institute of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Union and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he headed the Painting Department. At the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, he created the internationally renowned Core Program, an artist residency conceived as a laboratory for young artists, offering studio space in which residents could spend up to two years devoting themselves to research and development. At Columbia University, he was the first LeRoy Neiman Professor of Visual Arts, where he directed the school's new LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and restored the Master of Fine Arts program and established a rigorous program in visual arts for undergraduates.

This event opens Allan Hacklin's exhibition Then to Now: Thirty Years of Roaming, which runs until Nov. 1 in the Clifford Gallery. Reception to follow.