I love working directly with students in the classroom, and I consider teaching my most significant responsibility at Hollins. It goes without saying that I want each student to leave a class of mine knowing more about the subject matter than when they started. I aim to cultivate in them a love for art. Yet, I have a second set of goals that I pursue with all of my students: to develop critical thinking about visual culture, and articulate that through clear, persuasive writing and oral presentations. Art History provides a unique canvas upon which to cultivate these skills. By taking account of the fact that students approach this field from a variety of backgrounds, I design courses to facilitate the pursuit of their interests and also to encourage the exploration of less familiar aspects of visual culture. Students to learn to analyze and examine effects of artistic developments with consideration of how such shifts shaped and reflected contemporary changes. As students become more nuanced observers of the world around them, they begin to gain a deeper understanding of constructed spaces as places of encounter and solitude, places for politics and policies transformed by design, and, finally, places of representation.
Areas of Expertise
- Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture
Courses Taught
- Modern Art
- Postmodern and Contemporary Art: 1960-2015
- Feminism and Contemporary Art
- Critical Methods of Art History
- Global Architecture
- Modern Architecture
- Green by Design: Sustainable Architecture and the Environment
- Paris in the 19th Century: Studios and Styles
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- History of Photography
- American Art
Accomplishments
- Session Chair, 鈥淎rt and Architectural Dialogues in the 20th Century,鈥 Midwest Art History Society Conference, Cleveland, OH, April, 2017.
- Artist Fellowship Selection Committee, SECAC Conference, Roanoke, VA, October, 2016
- 鈥淟e Corbusier鈥檚 Postwar Painterly Mythologies,鈥 International Conference: Le Corbusier, 50 Years Later, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. November, 2015
- 鈥淐harlotte聽Perriand聽and the Misery of Paris,鈥 Utopia and Dystopia in the French Landscapes and Cityscapes of the 1930s,聽European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies conference, Helsinki, Finland. August, 2014.
Research Interests
- My research has focused on correlations between painting and architecture during the 19th and 20th Centuries; as such, I have examined individual artists and architects as well as collective efforts, and analyzed works including paintings, drawings, photographs, architectural plans, and buildings.
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Publications & Articles
- ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Vision/Revision: The Photography of Robert Sulkin” in Robert Sulkin Photographs 1973-2019 (Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, 2020), 4-9.
- 鈥淭ouching the Body: Le Corbusier鈥檚 Figurative Works鈥 in Le Corbusier: The Measures of Man. eds. Cinqualbre and Fr茅d茅ric Migayrou (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2015), 120-127. Also published in French and German.
- 鈥淯n architecte-peintre,鈥 in Connaissance des arts, 茅ditions hors-s茅rie, Paris, April, 2015: 10-21.
- 鈥淪till Life with Siphon,鈥 鈥淕uitarist,鈥 and 鈥淏irth of the Minotaur鈥 in Le Corbusier, le jeu du dessin, ed. Dani猫le Pauly (Antibes: Mus茅e Picasso, 2015), 141 (61), 145 (111), 147 (119). (exhibition catalog entries written in English, translated into French and German)
- 鈥淩ue Nungesser-et-Coli: In the Painter鈥檚 Studio, in Search of an Expanded Syntax,鈥 in Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2013: 234-240.
- “Evocative Objects and Sinuous Forms: Le Corbusier in the Thirties,鈥 in Le Corbusier鈥檚 Secret Laboratory: From Painting to Architecture Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013: 185-199. Also published in Russian.
- SCHOLARLY TRANSLATIONS
- Dani猫le Pauly, Le Corbusier: Drawing as Process (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).
- Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works, Volume 3, 1956-1968 (Paris: Archives Charlotte Perriand and Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG, Zurich, 2017), 16-209.
- Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works, Volume 2, 1940-1955 (Paris: Archives Charlotte Perriand and Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG, Zurich, 2015), 14-268.
- Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works, Volume 1, 1903-1940 (Paris: Archives Charlotte Perriand and Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess AG, Zurich, 2014), 4-13, 48-299.