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Notes from the Chair Graduate News Ashley Atkins recently published The Sum is Greater than the Parts: Collage and Assemblage from the Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art for the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. In October 2001 she presented a paper, "Winslow Homer and the Aesthetic Movement," at the Southeastern College Art Conference held in Columbia, South Carolina. Sharon Matt Atkins presented "Exploring Gender Identity Through Appropriation: Cindy Sherman's History Portraits," during the "Art and Identity" session at the Southeastern College Art Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (October 2001); and "Tangled Identities: Untangling Hair as a Signifier in the Art of Lorna Simpson," for the Department of Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University (April 2001). She curated an exhibition for The Seventh Annual New Jersey International Book Arts Exhibition, held at the John Cotton Dana Library in Newark, New Jersey from November 2, 2001 to January 11, 2002. Her recent publications include an entry on Ann Ryan in The Encyclopedia of New Jersey, eds., Maxine Lurie and Marc Mappen (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming) and entries on Robert Colescott and Jeff Koons in Contemporary Artists, 5th Edition, eds. Tom and Sara Prendergast (New York: St. James Press, forthcoming). Lisa Victoria Ciresi's article "A Liturgical Study of the Dreikönigenschrein" will be published in the forthcoming Objects, Images and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy, ed. Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University. In addition, her article "The Aachen Karls- and Marienschreine" has been accepted for publication in Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage, eds Sara Blick and Rita Tekippe, E.J. Brill Press, Leiden (2004); she will also be presenting this paper at the 37th International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 2002). Aliza Edelman participated in the Southeastern College Art Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (October 2001) for the session "The Visual Culture of Corporations and the Incorporation of Visual Culture" with her paper, "It Takes Art to Make a Corporation Great: The Politics of Philip Morris." On the beautiful and cool evening of July 28, 2001, she married Sean Ross at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York. Craig Eliason presented a paper at the CAA in Chicago in February 2001. His paper, "Manifestos by Mail: Postcards in the Theo van Doesburg Correspondence," was part of a panel about postcards and art history, whose papers will be published as an upcoming special issue of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. He dissertation, "The Dialectic of Dada and Constructivism: Theo van Doesburg and the Dadaists, 1920-1930," was completed in January 2002 under the supervision of Professor Jack Spector. Aaron Freedman is curating two exhibitions, which will open simultaneously at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, between Jan 29 and March 28, 2004: “Change and Continuity: Indian Folk and Tribal Art from the Lowe Art Museum” and “Heart and Hand: Indian Drawings from the Subhash Kapoor Collection.”
Tom Loughman will be presenting two papers: "Commissioning Familial Remembrance: Alberti patronage at Santa Croce, Florence," in the session "Conspicuous Commissions: Status Signaling Through Art in them Italian Renaissance" at the CAA Conference in Philadelphia in 2002; and "Organized to Orient: Notes on Spinello Aretino's Life of Saint Benedict at San Miniato al Monte, Florence" in the session, "Monumental Narrative: Construction of Space and Ritual" at the Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 2002. He is giving a workshop in Princeton on Monastic Art in the Renaissance.
Molly Gwinn participated in the Spring 2001 Andrew W. Mellon Colloquium at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Her paper was regarding the print "Le Ciel," from Henri Riviere's album "La Tentation de Saint-Antoine," in the museum's collection. The theme of St. Anthony's appeal to late 19th-century French artists and critics is the topic of her dissertation. Natalia Kolodzei has published "4+4: Two Generations of Russian Avant-Garde." Exh. cat., Mimi Ferzt Gallery, NY (Sept - Oct, 2001); "Komar & Melamid: Dreaming of a Trend," ArtChronika 6 (2001), 88-93; and in the same issue, p. 15, a review: "Marc Chagall Early Works from Russian Collections.” She gave a presentation: "Oscar Rabin: Lionozovo and Soviet Nonconformism" in the Fall 2001 Andrew W. Mellon Colloquium "Art as Social/Political Propaganda," at the Zimmerli Art Museum. In September 2001, she presented her paper "Gia Edzgveradze: Georgian Soviet Hybrid within Nonconformist Circles" in the Conference on Social Norms and Deviance in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Era at The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In October, 2001, she curated an exhibition for the French Embassy in Washington DC, "Exhibition of Contemporary St. Petersburg Artists. Selection from the Kolodzei Collection" from the Russian Consulate, NYC. Alison Poe received the 2001-2002 Bevier Grant from Rutgers for dissertation research. She was also granted the Rutgers Dissertation Teaching Award, which has enabled her to design and teach a 400-level undergraduate seminar, "The Roman Art of Death." She has written several entries for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology. Denise Rompilla was appointed Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at St. John's University, Queens, NY, in September 2001. Denise is also part of the faculty for the new minor in Women Studies, the Summer Program in Paris, and serves as an advisor to the University Gallery. In December, Denise presented a paper on "The Atom and the Universe are their Playthings: Making/Unmaking the Universe in the Alchemical Painting of Jess" at the International Conference of Art and Alchemy in Aarhus, Denmark. In that same month, she was awarded a grant from the Council for the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island for a year-long program on the History of Women in Photography at the Alice Austen house, the home and museum of pioneering 19th-century woman photographer. She has begun research for a textbook for Prentice-Hall on the History of VisualCommunications, based on a course she has developed at St. John's University. Jen Schubert published two articles in 2001: "Nosadella's Annunciation," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, Vol. 59, nos. 1 & 2, pp.63-8., and "Nosadella, non Agostino, nella collezione di Benedetto Giustiniani," Quaderie Secentesche. Gli Artisti, i Committenti, i Generi della Pittura, edited by Francesca Cappelletti(Rome: Gangemi, 2002). Jennifer Tonkovich is the curator in charge of Pierre Matisse and His Artists, 14 February-20 May 2001, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. As the Assistant Curator of Drawings at the Morgan Library, she has several other projects in the works, including A Love Affair With Line: Drawings by Al Hirschfeld (6 June-1 September), and with Diane Kelder, Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920-31 (6 September-20 December). She is also co-author of the Pierre Matisse catalogue and contributing author to the catalogue for The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994, which opens at the Library on September 27, 2002. Aileen June Wang has published "An Adoration of the Magi After Hugo van der Goes," The Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 59 (2000) 39-45. Her article, "Michelangelo's Signature," based on her dissertation, was accepted for publication by The Sixteenth Century Journal. She was married on Sept. 2, 2000 to Michael Steirman, a CPA for the Manhattan firm Friedman, Alpren, and Green. Midori Yoshimoto curated the exhibition, "Japonisme: Highlights from the Zimmerli Art Museum's Collection," to be held at the Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, from January 26-March 22, 2002. She will present a lecture at the opening. Jennifer Zarro gave
the following gallery talks at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “African American Artists in the Museum's Collection,” (Feb 6, 2002); “Simple Gifts by Whistler,” (Jan 23, 2002); “Mary's First Fruit: A Look at Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Annunciation,”
(Dec 26, 2001); “An Intimate Look at a Family Gathering: Mary Cassat's Family Group Reading,” (Nov 21, 2001). She contributed entries
on Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, and Lorna Simpson to the
Dictionary of Contemporary Artists, 5th Edition, St. James Press. She also
presented "Remembering Childhood: A Look at Glenn Ligon's A Feast of Scraps,"
at the University of Arizona, Graduate Student Symposium, February 2001.
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