News
Forthcoming Publication:
“Meredyth Sparks’ Differendialism: The Art of Sublime Micrologies” in Nicolas Bourriaud and Robert Hobbs, Meredyth Sparks (Blou, France: Co-édition: Monografik Éditions, 2009). This bilingual French and English catalogue is being distributed by Diffusion-distribution: le Comptoir des independents.
Current Research:
Monographs on Peter Halley and Joseph Kosuth
Talks:
Participating in public conversations with Yinka Shonibare (Blumberg News, New York, June, 2009), Tavares Strachan (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, July 2009), and Sterling Ruby (San Francisco Art Institute, September 2009 and Art Institute of Chicago, February, 2010)
Lecture on Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum of Art, January, 2010
Teaching:
Graduate Seminar: “Form Revisited,” Yale University, Fall, 2009
Graduate Seminar: “The Sublime,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Spring, 2009
Spring Break Travel Course,” Pop Art,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Spring 2009. This class will include travel to Pittsburgh to visit the Andy Warhol Museum as well as a trip to New York to look at important works of proto-Pop and Pop art in major museums in addition to visits to galleries and studios of artists whose work redirects Pop to achieve new goals. (Week of March 15, 2010)
Dissertations and Theses:
Dissertation director for the following:
Nicole de Armendi, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and American Mazes and Labyrinths, completed summer, 2009
Timothy Andrus, Stuart Davis’s Theory of Art in the 1920s
Dennis Durham, Vancouver Conceptualism
Heather McGuire, John Baldessari’s Blasted Allegories
Jessica Welton, Fred Kabotie and the Formation of the Santa Fe School
Thesis director for the following:
Rachel Thomas, Historicizing Le Bontecou’s Early Work