visual artist, itinerant art historian, freelance writer
Writing this review was a huge challenge for me in my particular position as an art history graduate student and aspiring artist. I enjoy the challenge of writing about visual and/or conceptual things, but have come to prefer the physical process of making my own drawings and tactile objects…
Dealing with the mountains of delicious desire, [...]
For your drawing inspiration today, this is an hour long lecture by feminist and psychoanalytic scholar of art history Catherine de Zegher on Eva Hesse’s relationship to drawing, and on contemporary art’s expansion of drawing, from the Walker Art Center’s 2009 exhibition of Hesse’s drawings…
Introduction from the Walker Art Center’s site:
The exhibition Eva Hesse Drawing [...]
My trip to the University of Pennsylvania’s ICA archive has already proved exciting, pushing forward my MA dissertation and PhD preparation on the abstract painter Agnes Martin. In an (as far as I can tell so far) anonymous, 1973 essay on one of the artist’s grid drawings, entitled ‘The Desert’, I came across this wonderful [...]
Surprise, surprise: I’ve only just realised that my a-n blog (made up of more personal and sporadic reflections on the academic and creative life than my website here) was selected as an Artists Talking ‘choice blog’ a month or so ago. I didn’t even think that anyone read it, so I’m really touched by the [...]
Taking a break from Freelance Journalling today. Instead, here’s the marvelous Bruce Nauman…
Click through to Ubuweb for more Nauman classics and a brief bio.
I haven’t posted any art history notes for a while so thought it’s time to share a snippet from a recently completed essay on Cornelia Parker’s ruinous and theatrical installation Cold Dark Matter, 1991. Maybe I can make AHN a Wednesday thang? This section of the essay deals with the way in which an art [...]
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