Graduate Student & Professor Symposium
Portrait/Homage/Embodiment
June 11 & June 12, 2007
Matthew BaileyJune 12, 2007Matthew Bailey is from Girard, Kansas. His research interests are 20th
century American art, European modernism, and Latin American Modernism.
His current research focuses on issues of materiality and visuality in
modernist painting, Jackson Pollock in particular.
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Frederique BaumgartnerJune 12, 2007Born in Paris, Frédérique Baumgartner graduated from École du Louvre and Columbia University (M.A. in modern art – critical studies, 2003). She worked as an assistant curator in the New Media Department at the Centre Pompidou in 2003-2005, then joined the Ph.D. program at Harvard University, where she studies with Professor Lajer-Burcharth. Her interests include history painting in France at the end of the Old Regime, as well as video and performance. Her latest paper was on 1970s performance artist Gina Pane. Read All
Zachary BiberstineJune 12, 2007Born in rural Indiana, Zachary Biberstine received his BFA in sculpture from Indiana University in Bloomington. He is currently pursuing his MFA from The Ohio State University. Currently working in personal, time based performance; the work of Zachary Biberstine takes many shapes. Interested in experience and embodiment, his recent work lives in and through performative acts, sometimes shown as artifacts or documentation. His work deals with ideas of experience, embodiment, displacement, expansion, and collapse. Read All
Jamie BoyleJune 12, 2007Jamie Boyle was born in Pittsburgh, PA. Her childhood was spent in the classical ballet studio. Her nights, now, spent immersed in karaoke. Her current artistic interest is the idea of performance: personal performance histories, interrupted performances, clown noses, the trappings of the theater, kitchen concerts, pies in the face, and beyond. Read All
Mary BrunstromJune 12, 2007Mary Reid Brunstrom will be commencing the second year of the PhD program in Art History at Washington University in Fall 2007. She has two masters degrees from Washington University. One is in Liberal Arts with a thesis on Richard Serra's public sculpture entitled Twain, on the Mall in downtown St. Louis. The other is in Art History, with a thesis on 1930's architectural modernism in St. Louis. Read All
Mary CampbellJune 12, 2007Mary Campbell is originally from Utah. She got her B.A. from Brown, her J.D. from Yale, and she works primarily on 19th-century American photography. Her dissertation focuses on the work of Charles Ellis Johnson, a turn-of-the-century photographer who both produced photographs for the Mormon Church and did a brisk business in stereoscopic erotica. Her work tends to fuse art history with legal history, specifically the history of intellectual property. Read All
Allan DoyleJune 12, 2007Allan Doyle studies the history of modern art with a special interest in Nineteenth Century French painting. In 2008 he will begin work on a dissertation focusing on the atelier production of Jean-Léon Gérôme. He is also a painter and previously completed his MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. When not at school, he lives in a former one room schoolhouse in Cambridge, Ontario accompanied by his partner, two cats and an Airedale terrier. Read All
Michelle FoaJune 12, 2007Michelle Foa is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Princeton University, where she is completing her dissertation on Georges Seurat. Her research interests span nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and criticism, with a particular focus on later nineteenth-century French art, criticism, and culture. She has taught at Princeton University and at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History at Mount Holyoke College in 2007-2008. Read All
Lisa LeeJune 12, 2007Lisa Lee is a PhD Candidate in Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Her essay, “Make Life Beautiful! The Diabolic in the Work of Isa Genzken (A Tour through Berlin, Paris, and New York),” is in the Fall 2007 issue of the journal October. Read All
Adele MatternJune 12, 2007Adele Mattern is currently in the MFA sculpture program at The Ohio State University. Prior to returning to school, Adele was a professional fashion and textile designer living and working in New York, Maine and Boston. Adele is interested in the power of materials and objects to conjure, evoke and bear witness to stories and narratives that may otherwise go unnoticed. Read All
Sarah McGavranJune 12, 2007After graduating from Kenyon College with a B.A. in Art History in 2003, Sarah spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow. She completed her M.A. thesis, “A Studio of One’s Own: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Gabriele Münter in Paris, 1906-7,” at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate. Her thesis bridged her ongoing interests in female artists, traveling artists, self-portraiture and crosscurrents in modern French and German Art. Recent projects have included Edvard Munch and nineteenth-century German painting and the influence of Eugène Delacroix on Paul Gauguin’s conception of the female nude. Read All
Chris MeyerJune 12, 2007Chris Meyer hails from Berkeley, CA. He received a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Humanities, both from Stanford. His work experience includes stints at the Musée Rodin, the Musée d’Orsay, SFMOMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has just completed his second year at Harvard, where he is specializing in eighteenth-century French painting. This summer, Chris will take part in the Mellon Dissertation Seminar at the Getty Research Center. Read All
Iris MickeinJune 12, 2007Iris Mickein is a doctoral candidate in art history at Princeton University. She is preparing a dissertation that explores the role of technologies of perception and education in avant-garde practices in Weimar Germany.
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Kate NesinJune 12, 2007Kate Nesin grew up largely in Memphis, now resides in Brooklyn. This year she completed coursework toward a PhD at Princeton, and will spend the next months preparing for exams and the dissertation proposal. Kate has published variously on
the work of Richard Serra; her abiding interests tend toward modern and contemporary sculptural practices. Read All
the work of Richard Serra; her abiding interests tend toward modern and contemporary sculptural practices.
James NisbetJune 12, 2007James Nisbet hails from Dallas/Fort Worth. He received a B.A. from St. Edward’s University, Austin, and his M.A. from Williams College. His research focuses on 20th- century art and aesthetics. He is presently researching a dissertation that will address Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field and the history of ecological theory and practice. Read All
Peter ReeseJune 12, 2007Peter Reese was born and raised in Harleysville, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. He is currently pursuing his MFA from The Ohio State University. Reese's work investigates a wide spectrum of subjects including but not limited to: embodied knowledge, proprioception, mortality, the idea of "making", presence/absence, documentation, rumor, conversation, labor and first-hand experience. These ideas manifest themselves in any number of ways ranging from objects to actions, conversations to images. Read All
Lanka TattersallJune 12, 2007Born in Los Angeles, California, Lanka Tattersall is a graduate student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her research focuses on Modern and Contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of abstraction and performance in critically engaged artistic practices. She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Art and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, where she completed a thesis on Lynda Benglis’ videos from the early 1970s. In the summer of 2007 she will be based in Germany doing preliminary research for a monographic dissertation on the work of Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Read All
Anna WarbelowJune 12, 2007Anna is originally from Detroit, Michigan and attended Michigan State University where she received her dual B.A.s in English and Art History. She then received her M.A. in Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her Master's Thesis focused on Japanese conceptual photographer Yasumasa Morimura and his exploration of the performative nature of gender and racial identity. As a PhD candidate at Washington University, her current research engages with both theories of photography and theories of identity and specifically the intersection of these discourses in the work of contemporary conceptual artists such as Morimura, Nikki S. Lee, Collier Schorr, and
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