Education

 

Ph.D. Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Modern Media and Theories of Spectatorship. Critical Theory with David Joselit, History of Photography with Sally Stein, and Film Theory with Linda Williams.

Dissertation: About Turns: Minimalism to Excess in the Films of Yvonne Rainer. Linda Williams, Chair.

 

MA Comparative Culture, University of California, Irvine.

Expressive Forms of Culture.

 

MA Art History/Museum Studies, University of Southern California.

Modern and Contemporary Art (Susan Larsen).

Curatorial Studies (Selma Holo).

Thesis: A Studio of One’s Own: Vanessa Bell and British Modernism.

Susan Larsen, Chair.

 

BA University of California, Los Angeles.

Dance Performance.

 

Current

 

Independent Curator since 1996.

Professor and Chair, Art History, Saddleback College since 1987.

 

Administrative Experience

 

Chair, Online Education Committee, 2015

Director, Saddleback College Art Gallery, 1987-1997.

Vice-President, Academic Senate, Saddleback College, 1992-1994.

Chair, Honors Program, Saddleback College, 1992-1994.

Chair, Art Department, Saddleback College, 1989-92 and 2010-13.

Chair, Area D, Statewide Academic Senate, California Community Colleges.

 

Previous

 

Director and Curator, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, 1987-1997

Curator of Collections, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1985-1987

Fellow, JP Getty Museum, Manuscript Department, Malibu, 1985

Curatorial Assistant, Fisher Gallery, USC, 1983-1985

 

Courses Taught

 

Modern and Contemporary Art, History of Photography, Introduction to Visual Studies, Art Appreciation

Women and Art, Museum Studies, Introduction to the Theories of Art, Feminist Theory, and Introduction to Performance and Media Studies.

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

Past Imperfect, University of Saskatchewan, Kenderdine Gallery and Wignall Art Museum, Chaffey College.

Digital Matter, Digital Memory I & II, University of Saskatchewan, Kenderdine Art Gallery.

Coughing Paint: Feminism and New Painting, Saddleback College.

Out on Screen: Queer Film and Video, The Film and Video Center, UCI.

Bernd Damke and Rudolf Knubel: Painting and Sculpture, Sponsored by the Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart and the Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, LBMA.

Berliner Stadtlandschaften/ Berlin Cityscapes, LBMA.

Japan/America, LBMA.

Fusion, Fisher Gallery, USC.

Flemish Manuscript Painting, JP Getty Museum.

 

Selected Publications

 

“The Moth, the Water, the Mouth, the Veil: A Reading of Nicole Jolicoeur’s Symptômes” in Félix Ernesto Chavéz y Diego Falconi (eds.)

A Body That Could Never Rest: Relaciones Entre Cuerpo Y Cultura En Las Tradiones Anglófonas Cuerpos Que Quentan vol. 2 UAB, 2008

 

“The Camera Made Me Do It: Nicole Jolicoeur and Troubling Archives” with Jeanne Perreault in Charles Merewether, ed., The Archives, Documents in Art Series, MIT Press, 2006.

 

“Yvonne Rainer’s Avant-garde Melodramas: When the Personal is Political” in Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wexman, Women and Experimental Filmmaking, University of Illinois Press, 2005.

 

“The Camera Made Me Do It: Female Identity and Troubling Archives” with Jeanne Perreault in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Vol. 37 No. 4 December 2004.

The University of Manitoba, pp.51-56.

 

Research Interests

 

Photography, Film, New Media, Performance, Marlene Dietrich, and Phenomenology.