Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
Bryn Mawr College 101 N. Merion, #16-26 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Dr. Steven Z. Levine
My dissertation considers shared artistic strategies and audience reception across the histories of trompe l’oeil painting and photography practices.
History of Art 107, Self and Other in the Arts of France (Prof. Steven Z. Levine) History of Art 110, Identification in the Cinema (Prof. Homay King) Humanities 395, Advanced Special Topic: Literature and Cinema (Prof. Vyacheslav Ivanov)
“Lifelike: Modes of Realism in the Work of Thomas Demand,” Multiple ‘Realisms,’ Southeastern College Art Conference, Durham, NC (October 19, 2012) “Double Take,” Double Take (Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2011). “The Real and the Fake in Thomas Demand’s Trompe l’oeil Photography,” published online: www.real-fake.org, 2011. “The Real and the Fake in Thomas Demand’s Trompe l’oeil Photography,” 8th Annual Festival of the Arts Art History Symposium, California State University, Sacramento (April 16, 2011) “The Letter as Image: Figuring Interruption since the 17th Century,” The 16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (April 9, 2011) “Without Medium: A Consideration of Loss via Thomas Demand,” The Symposium on the History of Art, The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY (April 4, 2009) “Max Beckmann: An Encounter with Expressionism,” Walking a Tightrope: German Expressionist Printmaking 1904 – 1928 (Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, 2002).
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Grant, Bryn Mawr College (2012) Mary Patterson McPherson Curatorial Award, Bryn Mawr College (2011) Teaching Assistantship, Bryn Mawr College (2010–2011) Graduate Fellowship in Photography Collection, Bryn Mawr College (2009–2010) Dean’s Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College (2006–2009) Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Grinnell College (2002)