果冻影院

PhD supervisor: Dr Cadence Kinsey听
Working title for PhD:听'Indeterminacy and Painting: Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas, Joan Mitchell'听

My PhD explores American abstract painting by women artists from the 1960s and 1970s to now, focussing on the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas and Joan Mitchell. 听

Fundamentally, this project addresses indeterminacy within medium-specific painting and studio practices. I argue that there is tension between the indeterminate position of women artists within the 1960s and 1970s, painting as a medium, and a late modernist sensibility. 听As such, this project seeks to generate new insight into the relationship of gender, painting, and abstraction. Examining the constraints upon and possibilities for painting in this period, I within Frankenthaler, Thomas and Mitchell鈥檚 distinct approaches painting and modes of abstraction. These artists鈥� practices do not so much advocate for or against painting. Rather, they illuminate three alternate possibilities: moving away from, between, and within painting as structure, site and subject.听

My PhD is fully funded by one of 果冻影院鈥檚 Graduate Research Scholarships.听

Publications:

• 鈥淛ust Look at Me Now: Alma Thomas鈥檚 Intermediality,鈥� Archives of American Art Journal 66, no.2 (Fall 2025), Forthcoming.
• 鈥樷�楽ome Place Else鈥�? Helen Frankenthaler鈥檚 Printerly 笔补颈苍迟颈苍驳蝉鈥�, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Special Issue: 鈥楬elen Frankenthaler Special鈥�, 9 no.1, (November 2023): 111-133.
• 鈥楤ook Review Abstract Expressionists: The Women鈥�, The Burlington Magazine 165, no.1447, (October 2023):1164. 听
• 鈥楾he Immateriality of Materiality: Ruth Asawa鈥檚 Looped Wire Sculptures鈥�, Immediations, no. 18, (2021).听

Conference Papers:

• 鈥榃hat if I used Printing Press Like a Paintbrush? Helen Frankenthaler鈥檚 Painterly Perseverance鈥�, 鈥�And Painting Continues, Nottingham University, 31st May 2024.
• 鈥�A Slice of the Stone Itself; Cutting Through Process and Identity in Helen Frankenthaler鈥檚 Prints,鈥� 112th College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 15th February 2024.
• 鈥淚 Do Not Want to Be Isolated When I Paint鈥�; Alma Thomas鈥� Studio as Workshop鈥�, 67th British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Keele University, 12th April 2023.
• 鈥楢rtwork - Craftwork: Alma Thomas鈥� 笔补颈苍迟颈苍驳蝉鈥�, Manufacture Conference, 果冻影院, 10th June 2022.

Teaching:

• Guest Lecturer, 鈥楾he American Print Renaissance: Helen Frankenthaler鈥檚 Prints in the Tate Collection鈥�, Prints and Printmaking, Department of History of Art, 果冻影院, March 2024.
• Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Methodologies of Art History, Department of History of Art, 果冻影院, January - March 2024
• Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, History of Art and Its Objects: BA Core Course, Department of History Art, 果冻影院, September - December 2022.

Awards听

• 2024: Getty Library Research Grant.
• 2024: Association of Print Scholars Travel Grant.
• 2023: Yale-果冻影院 Collaborative Doctoral Exchange Visiting Researcher Scholarship.
• 2023: British Association of American Studies Conference Bursary. 听
• 2022: Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grant.
• 2021-2024: 果冻影院 Graduate Research Scholarship.
• 2018: Lander Prize, for the highest-ranked History of Art student, Pembroke College.
• 2018: Foundation Scholarship for outstanding examination results, Pembroke College.
• 2017: Patrick Graham Travel Grant for archival research in the US, Pembroke College.听
• 2016/7: Book Prize, for First Class examination results, Pembroke College.

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