Sep 30, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
As a faculty member and Chair of the Art Department, I have the extraordinary privilege to be able to think about art almost all the time. As artists who teach, we often get lost in the responsibilities of our teaching and other aspects of our university life over...
Sep 23, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
What is the shelf-life of an idea? How long do ideas stay relevant or fresh in the way that other perishables have a particular period of time in which they fulfill their original promise or ideal? These questions are not limited to the abstract or philosophical, but...
Sep 16, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
I have a multi-drawer Steelcase file cabinet in my office filled with xeroxed copies of articles, essays, and printed matter that, at some point in my life, I found to be interesting or even profound. Even as I write that sentence it feels arcane and of another time....
Sep 9, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
My garden is full of sunflowers right now. None of them were planted by me, yet, there they are; a kind of crazy incursion of self-propagated second generation immigrant flowers set into motion by a crop planted and harvested last year. I did plant sunflowers again...
Apr 29, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go… -Walt Whitman, from The Wound-Dresser I’ve been thinking a lot lately about about the metaphorical and often quite real presence of the wound in contemporary art. Ideas about the wound...
