Pamela Fraser - Beyond Critique: Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction

Adrian Anagnost is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Newcomb College of Art at Tulane University. Her research centers on issues of urban space, architectonic form, and theories of the social in modern and contemporary art. Essays on Brazilian artist Waldemar Cordeiros approach to mass politics, embodiment and spectatorship in the work of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, and the problem of medium for the Polish avant-garde have appeared or are forthcoming in Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, Chicago Art Journal, and Womans Art Journal. Her current book project is entitled Ambientes: Art and Urban Space in Modern Brazil.

Jen Delos Reyes is a creative laborer, educator, writer, radical community arts organizer, and author of countless emails. She is the director and founder of Open Engagement, an international annual conference on socially engaged art that has been active since 2007. Delos Reyes currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, where she is the Associate Director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Andreas Fischer holds an MFA in Studio Art and an MA in Art History from The University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also attended the Universitt der Knste, Berlin. Exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Mattress Factory, Pittsburg; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Nathalie Karg Gallery and Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York; Devening Projects and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; among others. Awards include an Artadia Grant and The International Studio and Curatorial Program Artadia Residency in New York City. He is Associate Professor at Illinois State University.

Pamela Fraser is an artist whose work explores possibilities for abstraction. Her exhibitions include Galerie Schmidt Maczolleck in Cologne, Germany; asprey jacques in London, England; Casey Kaplan in New York; the Blaffer Museum in Houston, Texas; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany; and Omi International Art Center in Ghent, New York. In addition to her art practice, she writes about art and organizes exhibitions. Her book How Color Works: Color Theory in the 21st Century will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of Vermont.

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer who explores the politics of gender, race, war, and identity. She has won numerous awards, including 2016 Greenfield Prize in Visual Art; Guggenheim Fellowship (2013); Absolut Art Award for Art Writing (2013); CINTAS Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (20142015); USA Berman Bloch Fellow (2012); and Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2003). Fusco received her BA in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), her MA in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985), and her PhD in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007).

Anthony E. Grudin is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Working Class Warhol (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in Warhol: Headlines (National Gallery, 2011), 13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 Worlds Fair (Queens Museum/Andy Warhol Museum, 2014), ON&BY Andy Warhol (Whitechapel/MIT, 2016), October, Criticism, and Oxford Art Journal. He is working on a second book on Warhol and animal life.

David Joselit is Distinguished Professor in the Art History PhD Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and Yale University where he was Department Chair from 20062009. Joselit is author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 19101941 (MIT Press, 1998); American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, World of Art series, 2003); Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT Press, 2007); and After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012). He is an editor of the journal October and writes regularly on contemporary art and culture.

Grant Kester is a Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts department at the University of California at San Diego. His publications include Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (Duke University Press, 1998), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (University of California Press, 2004) and The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (Duke University Press, 2011). He is currently completing work on the book Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 19952010, co-edited with Bill Kelley (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2017).

Billie Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and a cultural critic. She holds an MFA from Yale University, a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa, University of New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Queens Museum. Lee is currently a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa working in the areas of contemporary art and pedagogy, critical and cultural theory, and art and politics.

Judith Leemann is an artist, educator, and writer living in Boston. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is Associate Professor in Fine Arts 3D/ Fibers at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her writings have appeared in Textile: A Journal of Cloth and Culture, as well as in the edited volumes The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MIT Press, 2007) and Collaboration through Craft: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).

Sofia Leiby is an artist based in New York. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Kimmerich Gallery, Berlin, Clifton Benevento, New York, and Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, Florida; and was included in group exhibitions at American Medium, New York; The Composing Rooms, Berlin; Joe Sheftel, New York; 247365, New York; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; and Future Gallery, Berlin. She has contributed criticism to rhizome.org, BOMB magazine, Newcity Chicago, WOW HUH and was a founding editor of Chicago Artist Writers and contributing editor of Pool journal.

Shona Macdonald was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and lives and works in Western Massachusetts where she is a Professor of Studio Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has had selected solo exhibitions in Wellington, New Zealand; Berlin, Germany; Boston, Massachusetts; New York; Chicago, Illinois; Roswell, New Mexico; and Los Angeles, California. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and Harpers magazine. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program, Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain, the Cromarty Arts Trust, Scotland, and Ballinglen, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

AnnMarie Perl is an historian of twentieth-century European and American art. Currently, her main project is a book, titled The Integration of Showmanship into Modern Art. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.

Paul Preissner runs Paul Preissner Architects, which is located in Chicago. He has written about architecture for publications including