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EDUCATION
2005 Ph.D. Brown University, History of Art and Architecture, advisor K.S. Champa
1997 M.A. with distinction, Brown University, History of Art and Architecture
1994 B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Russian Literature and Art History
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2019–20 Adjunct Faculty in Liberal Arts, Laguna College of Art and Design
2014– present Part-time Lecturer in Art History, School of Art, College of the Arts, CSULB
2014–15 Research Associate, Department of Art History, UC Irvine
2011–14 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
2009–11 Assistant Professor in Art History Waseda University, SILS, Tokyo, Japan
2008–09 Honorary Research Associate, Art History Department, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
2008–09 Temple University, Japan Campus: Adjunct Faculty in Art History
2007–08 Pastoral Tutor, Ustinov College, Durham University, UK
2006–08 Honorary Research Associate, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Durham University, UK
2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University
2002–04 Instructor, Summer Studies, Brown University
2001 Teaching Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University
1998-2001 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of Design
1999-2000 Teaching Assistant, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
GRANTS, INTERNSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Getty Library Research Grant (project: “All Art No Fame: The Countercultural Case of Wally Hedrick”)
2011–12 ASUSU Centennial Professor Award Nomination
2002–03 Salomon Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University
2002 College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship Honorable Mention
1996 Internship, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Curatorial Department, 20th-century Art, June–August
1995–96 Graduate Fellowship, Brown University
1994 Internship, State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), May–June
1994 Zillman Summer Fellowship Award (Phi Kappa Phi), UW-Madison
CURRENT RESEARCH
The Countercultural Case of Wally Hedrick. Monograph, in progress
PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
• Word and image studies
• Art Criticism in context
• Artist biographies, art in exile and artistic identities
• Contemporary art
• California art after 1950 and Beat art
• European modernism and Fin de Siècle art
• Russian, Soviet, Russian émigré and Post-Soviet art
• Romanticism and its legacy
PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS
2011 Beyond Symbolism to Surrealism: Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art, Northwestern University Press. 235 pages, 16 color & 46 b/w illustrations
PUBLICATIONS: EDITED VOLUMES
2016 Dustbunnies: Dave Hickey’s Online Aphorisms.June 2014–March 2015.PCP Press. 586 pages. (Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 2016, pp. 23-24. “Everyone’s a critic,” by David Hawkes)
2016 Wasted Words: The Essential Dave Hickey Online Compilation. PCP Press. 124 pages. (Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 2016, pp. 23-24. “Everyone’s a critic,” by David Hawkes)
PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2020 “Isteriia po-siurrealistki” (“Hysteria: The Surrealist Case,”) Aleksei Remizov: Issledovaniia i materialy(Aleksei Remizov: Research and Materials). Edited by Alla M. Gracheva, Russian Academy of Sciences, forthcoming
2008 “The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov,” Elective Affinities. Word & Image Interactions 6. Edited by Catriona McLeod, Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi
2003 “Ot teksta i izobrazheniia k zvuku: rukopisnyi al’bom “Marun” kak primer sinteticheskogo tvorchestva Alekseia Remizova” (“From Text and Image to Sound: the Album “Marun” As an Example of Alexei Remizov’s Synthetic Art”). Aleksei Remizov: Issledovaniia i materialy (Aleksei Remizov: Research and Materials). Edited by Alla M. Gracheva and Antonella d’Amelia, St. Petersburg-Salerno: Russian Academy of Sciences/Institute of Russian Literature
1999 “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Holy Rus’ and Hard Cash in Post-Soviet Rock Music,” co-author. In Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev. Edited by Adele Barker, Duke University Press
PUBLICATIONS: INVITED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND CATALOGUE ESSAYS
2021 “A Masterwork: Thiebaud’s One Hundred-year-old Clown,” in Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns, Laguna Art Museum, December 6, 2020–April 4, 2021
2020 “Nothing is Unimportant,” catalogue essay, in Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Pomegranate Press, Crocker Museum of Art
2018 “Annie Lapin: The Archeology of Meaning,” Miles McEnery Gallery, September 2018
2017 “Sexual Neurosis or Creative Catalyst? Hysteria and Demonic Possession in Alexei Remizov’s Solomoniia,”in Mental Illness in Symbolism. Edited by Rosina Neginsky. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press
2012 “Merezhkovsky’s Leonardo,” The Lives of Leonardo. Edited by Thomas Frangenberg and Rodney Palmer, Warburg Institute Colloquia 22
2010 “A Powerless Seeker: Merezhkovsky’s Romance as Life-Writing,” in Symbolism, its Origins and Consequences. Edited by Rosina Neginsky. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES
2021 “Digital Art NFTs: The Marriage of Art & Money,” Athenaeum Review, April 13
2020 “Philip Guston (Not) Now: The Impact Argument,” Athenaeum Review, November 16
2020 “In Defense of Lecturing,” Athenaeum Review, October 15
2020 “Classicism by Decree,” Athenaeum Review, Issue 5
2012 “The Invisible Cosmology of Chihiro Kabata,” Glossary, vol. 1, Edited by Charles Merewether. Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2010 “Alexei Remizov’s Creative Act,” Interfaces: Image Text Language, vol. 29. Edited by Maurice Geracht and Frédéric Ogée
2007 “Cézanne and the Poetics of Metonymy,” Word & Image, 23 (3), July–September
2003 “Blok’s ‘Gift of Hearing’ Through Remizov’s “Audible Colors,”” Slavic and East European Journal, Volume 47, Number 3
1996 “Melancholia II: An Interview with Manel Llèdos,” Graven Images: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred, Volume 3
1995 “On the Iconography of ‘From Many Wounds You Bleed, O People’: An Intersection of Art and Literature,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter25: 6
PUBLICATIONS:BOOK REVIEWS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2020 Camille Paglia, Provocations. Kropf, 2018. Athenaeum Review, Issue 3 (Winter 2020), “The Last Call,” 172–177
2008 Oleg Brezgin, Persona Diagileva v khudozhestvennoi kul”ture rossii, zapadnoi evropy i ameriki. Bibliographia.Perm’: 2007 (“Diagilev’s Persona and the Artistic Culture of Russia, Western Europe and the United States. A Bibliography”), book review, SEEJ52.3 (Fall)
2007 “Crossing the Boundaries: Alexei Remizov’s Artistic Space,” “Oni unesli s soboi Rossiiu,” (“They Carried Russia to Exile”), Symposium on the 65thanniversary of The New Review, Harriman Institute, Colombia University, The New Review
2005 Michael Urban with Andrei Evdokimov, Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times(Cornell, 2004), book review, Canadian Slavonic Papersvol. 48, nos. 3-4
2001 “Vospriiatie fovizma i kubizma v russkoi kritike kontza deviatnadzatogo, nachala dvadzatogo veka.” (“The Reception of Fauvism and Cubism in Turn-of-the-Century Russian Criticism”) Norwich Slavic Conference Proceedings, Konetz veka kak kul’turnyi fenomen (The End of a Century as a Cultural Phenomenon)
PUBLICATIONS: ART CRITICISM INARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL
2014 Tom of Finland, PICKS, 02.12
2013 Iva Gueorguieva, PICKS, 09.23
“Painting,”PICKS, 01.05
2012 Tsibi Geva, PICKS, 09.15
Lawrence Weiner, PICKS, 06.06
“The Economy of Means,” PICKS, 03.14
“Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha,” PICKS, 03.10
2011 Juan Downey, PICKS, 10.15.11
Dmitrii Prigov, in print, October 2011
Paul Gaultier, PICKS, 09.10.11
“Venice in Venice,” PICKS, 06.07.11
Paul Kos, PICKS, 05.04.11
Xavier Veilhan, PICKS, 04.07.11
LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams, in print, May 2010
Aki Sasamoto, PICKS, 01.17.11
2010 Taiji Matsue, PICKS, 11.04.10
Yuuki Matsumura, in print, October 2010
“Nanugi Agency, PICKS, 09.15.10
Nobuyoshi Araki,in print, September 2010
William Eggleston, PICKS, 07.10
Miwa Yanagi, in print, May 2010
Tamotsu Ikeya, in print, March 2010
Ohad Matalon, PICKS, 04.08.10
MeeNa Park, PICKS, 03.03.10
Kosuke Ichikawa, PICKS, 01.21.10
2009 Shinro Ohtake, PICKS, 11.08.09
Seiji Aruga, PICKS, 10.15.09
PUBLICATIONS: THE HUFFINGTON POST
2014 “On Abstraction, Ed Moses, and the Need to Explain”
2014 “Dave Hickey in Los Angeles: Pirate vs. Farmers”
2013 “Miley Cyrus Strikes Again, or the Destruction of the Pendulum”
2013 “From Raku-Fired Vessels to Large-Scale Installations: Wayne Higby’s Ceramics Retrospective at the ASU Art Museum”
2012 “Le Prix Marcel Duchamp récompense-t-il la créativité?”
2012 “Art in ‘Paradise’ (Far From the Art-Industrial Hive)”
2011 “The School of Things”: Japanese Art c. 1970 Comes to Los Angeles
2011 “Turkey with the Side of Ajax: Thanksgiving According to Alice Neel”
THE NEW CRITERION
2021 “A cleaner slate,” The New Criterion, March 2
2020 “Past continuous,” The New Criterion, November 14
2020 “The most dangerous place to be,” co-authored with David Hawkes, The New Criterion, August 27
2020 “Why words matter,” The New Criterion, June 2
2019 “There ought to be clowns,” The New Criterion, vol. 38, no. 4 (December)
2019 “Hour of the clown,” The New Criterion, June 20
2019 “Ok, Cupid?,” The New Criterion, May 16
2018 “’Happy trees’ and culture-death,” The New Criterion, October 24
2018 “You are what you read,” The New Criterion, June 12
2018 “Tony DeLap at the Laguna Art Museum” The New Criterion, May 10
2018 “The user-centric university,” The New Criterion, April 25
2018 “Paint it black,” The New Criterion, vol. 36, no. 8 (April)
2018 “Make art history great again: crowdsourcing and the mechanics of publicity,” The New Criterion, February 2
2018 “A warning about the Balthus warning,”The New Criterion, January 05
2017 “The art world’s ‘hidden enemy’,” The New Criterion, vol. 36, no. 4 (December)
MUSEUM COURSES, MUSEUM LECTURES and DOCENT TRAINING
2019
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA. “Forever Landscape” lecture cycle, November-December
Laguna Art Museum, Art and Nature festival, opening lecture, October 31
2018-19
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA. Docent training. Modern Art lecture cycle, November-March
2019
“Decadence is Where it All Started,” OCMA, Visionaries lecture cycle, 6 lectures, Spring
“Realism, Photography and Visual Truth,” OCMA, Visionaries lecture cycle, 6 lectures, Fall
2018
“Romanticism and its Consequences,” OCMA, Visionaries lecture cycle, 6 lectures, Winter
“Contemporary Art: 1978–2018,” OCMA, Visionaries lecture mini, 6 lectures, Spring
“Art in the Society of the Spectacle,” OCMA, Visionaries lecture cycle, 6 lectures, Winter
2016-17
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA. Docent training. Modern Art lecture cycle, September-January
2016
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Docent training. Modern Art lecture cycle, June-August
2012
Phoenix Art Museum, “Sexuality and Violence in Early Modernist Art,” November 30
RESEARCH SEMINARS AND INVITED LECTURES
2020
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. “Three Takes on Thiebaud” in conjunction with Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings retrospective, December 5, panel participant
2016
DiRosa Collectors’ Forum “The Countercultural Case of Wally Hedrick,” June 26
Hammer Museum, UCLA, in-conversation event with Dave Hickey, May 11
Site Sant Fe, in-conversation event with Dave Hickey, April 15
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, “From Printed Page to Facebook Page and Back: Dave Hickey’s Digital (Mis)adventures,” March 31, invited lecture
CAC Las Vegas, March 5, in-conversation event with Dave Hickey
2015
UCI Department of Art History, “Chihiro Kabata and Chim↑Pom respond to Tohoku and Fukushima Disasters,” June 2, invited lecture
2014
ASU Origins Project, “Gustave Courbet’s ‘The Origin of the World’: a Positivist Statement or a Libertine Dream?,” April 7, invited lecture
2013
Salon Spirit of the Senses, “Alexei Remizov,” November 9, invited lecture
Salon Spirit of the Senses, “West Coast Art 1950–2013,” April 20, invited lecture
2012
ASU Museum Herberger Institute Visiting Faculty Series, Current Research Presentation, April 13
2011
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Research Forum Autumn Term 2011, “Alexei Remizov’s Creative Method,” November 24, invited lecture
University of Oregon, Eugene, “Alexei Remizov’s Creative Method,” November 11, invited lecture
Stanford University, Slavic Colloquium Lecture Series, “Alexei Remizov’s Creative Method,” May 4, invited lecture
Arizona State University, Department of Fine Arts, “Art Today” lecture, March 28, invited lecture
2010
Waseda Institute for Advance Study, “Materiality in Contemporary Japanese Art,” November 10, invited lecture
2009
Seminar participant, “Teaching M. Bakhtin,” AATSEEL, Philadelphia, December 28
2008
Ustinov College Research Seminar, Durham University, UK, June 28, invited lecture
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham, “Alexei Remizov’s illustrated albums,” February 4, invited lecture
2007
Seminar co-leader, “Borders of European Modernism,” 9thAnnual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), USC, Long Beach, November 1–4
“Merezhkovsky on Leonardo,” Author as Critic, BASEES 20thcentury literature group, Oxford University, September 21–22, invited lecture
“From parsunas to the ‘Black Square’ in 200 years,” series of three invited lectures for the Introduction to Russian Culturemodule RUSS 1151, 25 January, 8 February, March 15
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2019
“Sleepers Redux and the Dilemma of Viewing,” for the panel Experimental Engagements in Desire, 33rdAnnual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), November 7
Remizov Symposium, Amherst College, “О сонной многомерности, безобразии и Эвклиде,” “On the Fourth Dimension, Chaos and Euclid,” August 12–17
2013
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEES) Annual Convention, “Remizov vs. Kandinsky: When Words are not Enough,”for the panel Dreamworlds and Imagetexts: Revolutionary Conjunctures between Literature and Visual Media, Boston, November 25
XXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), “Hysteria as a Creative Condition in Alexei Remizov’s Solomoniia,”for the panelLe mouvement symboliste et les maladies mentales, July 18–24
College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, “Between Awe and Anger: Young Japanese Artists Respond to Tohoku and Fukushima,” for the panel Disaster and CreativityNew York, February 15
2011
“From Pious to Lubricious: The Tale of a Reluctant Wife,”IAWIS/AIERTI 9th International Conference of Word & Image Studies: L’imaginaire / The Imaginary, Montreal, CA, August 22–26
2010
“Tales from the Fourth Dimension and the Cultivation of Dreams,”for the panel Dreams, Illusions, and Russian Modernist Aesthetics, AAASS annual conference, Los Angeles, November 18–21
2009
“Life into Fiction, Fiction into Life: the Love and the Sin of Alexei Remizov,” for the panel Living Fiction(organizer), AAASS annual conference, Boston, November 12–15
“Alexei Remizov’s Creative Act,”plenary talk, International Word and ImageConference (IWIC), College of the Holy Cross, 24–26 June
2007
“Manuscript Comics? Alexei Remizov’s Graphic Experiment,”9thAnnual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), UC, Long Beach, November 1–4
“The Modernist Games of A. Remizov,” BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 31 March–2 April
“Hysteria as Creativity,” The Institute of Russian Literature International Symposium Alexei Remizov and World Cultureorganized by Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, October 4–6
2006
“Beyond Christianity and Paganism: Merezhkovsky’s Leonardo,” Leonardo da Vinci Society Symposium: Lives of Leonardo, Warburg Institute, London, September 15
“Dispensing with Metaphor: Cézanne’s ‘Large Bathers,’” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference, Durham University, July 6–9
2005
Presented at the “Author Business” seminar, 7thAnnual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Loyola University, Chicago, IL, November 3–6
“Flourish as the Hook: From Ornamental Texts to Non-Ornamental Drawing,” IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International Conference on Word & Image Studies: Elective Affinities, University of Pennsylvania, PA, September 23–27
2003
“The ‘Change of Instruments’ and Other Excuses: Alexei Remizov as a Drawing Writer,” 56thAnnual KFLC conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2002
“A Modernist Scribe? Remizov’s Illustrated Albums and Russian Manuscript Art,” Third Annual NSGSA Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI
2001
“The Threshold Art of A. Remizov,” AATSEEL annual conference, New Orleans, LA
“Vospriiatie favizma i kubizma v russkoi kritike kontza 19go, nachala 20go veka.” (“The Reception of Fauvism and Cubism in Turn-of-the-Century Russian Criticism”) Norwich Slavic Conference “The End of a Century as a Cultural Phenomenon,” Middlebury College, VT
2000
“Shamanism and Modernism: Remizov’s Siberian Tale,” VI ICCEES World Congress, Tampere, Finland
1997
“A Call for Unity: On the Ecumenical Theme in the Bronckhorst-Bosschuyse Triptych,” Sixteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, GA
COURSES TAUGHT
- Art History Survey: Renaissance to Contemporary(introductory lecture course)
- Costume in Painting(introductory lecture course)
- Art of the 20thCentury I(introductory/intermediate lecture course)
- Romanticism in the Arts 1790-1907 (intermediate lecture course)
- Nineteenth Century Art and Visual Culture(intermediate lecture course)
- Early 20thCentury Art(intermediate lecture course)
- Russian Avant-Garde(intermediate lecture course)
- From Paris to Oslo: European Art 1850–1900(advanced lecture course)
- Art in Europe and America after 1945(advanced lecture course)
- European Avant-Garde1900–1925 (advanced lecture course)
- Art of Romanticism,(seminar)
- Reading and Writing Art History: Methodology and Practice (seminar)
- Russian Modernism in the Arts1890–1930 (seminar)
- Russian Conceptualism 1960–Present (seminar)
- Beat and Beyond: San Francisco Art 1950–2000,(seminar)
- West Coast Art 1950–2013 (seminar)
- Theories of Contemporary Art (seminar)
- Art and Design Criticism (seminar)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2012 Phoenix Art Museum, juried Contemporary Art Forum Awards for 2012 in mid-career and emerging artists, April 16
2012 Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Harry Wood Gallery, juried the Summer Show April 14
2009–11 College Admissions Committee, School for International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
2009–11 Entrance examination grader and proctor, School for International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
MUSEUM/GALLERY EXPERIENCE
2016 Jamie Brooks Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA, Curated Forrest Solis: Sleepers Reduxexhibition, September 15–October 26
2011 Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore ICAS. Curated the exhibition Chihiro Kabata: flight/fear/fleeting. April 7–May 6, Singapore
2011 The Container, Tokyo, Japan. Curated Anything But, exhibition of LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams,June 6–August 30
2000 Gallery Proctor, RISD Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, Spring Term
1997 Curatorial Assistant, Bell Gallery, Brown University, 1996–1997. Curated the exhibition State vs. Individual: A Selection of Soviet Posters from the Bell Gallery, Brown University, January 31–March 14
1996 Intern, National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Curatorial Department, 20th-century Art. Wrote the wall texts for the exhibition Picasso: The Early Years, June–August
1996 Co-curated an exhibition of Chinese pottery held at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, entries on Cizhou ware, April–July
1994 Intern, State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg, Dept. of Northern European Prints, May–June
1991–94 Gallery Assistant, Spaightwood Galleries, Madison, WI
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AAH (Association of Art Historians)
AHSC (Art Historians of Southern California)
CAA (College Art Association)
IAWIS (International Association of Word & Image Studies)
MSA (Modernist Studies Association)
The Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)