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ACCOMPLISHED ART HISTORIAN TO SPEAK AT EOU
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Prominent art historian and critic Sue Taylor will give a talk titled "Feminism and Femmage Since 1970" at 4 p.m. May 24 in Zabel 142 at Eastern Oregon University. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will address women artists' use of fabric and sewing in art-making since the 1970s. Taylor will talk about how women have used these materials to question our notions of high art vs. craft as well as the divisions between the traditional artistic domains of men and women. A broad range of art will be discussed. Taylor, an art historian, curator and critic, received her bachelor's degree in art history from Roosevelt University, and her master's and doctorate, also in art history, from the University of Chicago. She has served as curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum and as associate curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. Formerly a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, she has published feature articles and exhibition and book reviews in Art in America, Art Journal, Art News, Dialogue, and the New Art Examiner, and authored and edited numerous museum catalogues on modern art. In 1994, she received the distinguished American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women to support her research on the German-born surrealist Hans Bellmer. The resulting book, "Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety," which examines the artist's often disturbing work from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective, was released in 2001 by the prestigious MIT Press. Taylor taught art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, before joining the faculty at Portland State University in 1997. Taylor will also serve as visiting juror for the 2003 Student Juried Exhibition. She will work with a local juror, Kathy Andrew of Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council, to select the most outstanding student art work. Cash prizes will also be awarded. The selected work will be exhibited from May 31 to June 7 in Nightingale Gallery in Loso Hall. |
