Beginning his slide lecture with a photograph of his childhood home in Long Island, Robert Longo described his growth from an insecure teenager into a standard bearer for one of the most adventurous periods of American art.  Longo recalled his time as an art student at the State University College, Buffalo, and Hallwalls, the alternative studio and gallery space that he founded with Cindy Sherman before moving to New York to participate in the seminal 1977 group show Pictures as Artists Space. From his first solo New York exhibition, Men in the Cities, in which his large-scale drawings of contorted figures earned him international recognition, to his recent drawings of waves, atomic detonations, and planets, Longo vividly recounted the evolution of his prolific and diverse career to a captivated audience.