Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, prolific critic, painter and author, will be a guest speaker at 8 p.m. Sept. 10, as part of the UNLV Art Department's Visiting Artist Program. The lecture will be held in Room A108 of the Classroom Building Complex on the UNLV campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Gilbert-Rolfe, colleague and friend of Dave Hickey, UNLV art professor and 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, has written several books, including Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts 1986-1993; Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime; Immanence and Contradiction: Recent Essays on the Artistic Device; and Frank Gehry: The City and Music. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in painting. The College Art Association also presented him the 1998 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.

As a painter, Gilbert-Rolfe began to display his work in 1970. His most recent one-person exhibition was at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, California in 1998. His most recent group show was held at the Richard Tellis Gallery in Los Angeles in 2002.

Gilbert-Rolfe is currently a professor in the graduate program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.