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.
