Academic
Samples below were submitted (graded) assignments from various art history classes throughout my academic career. The papers can be opened by clicking the green icons next to the descriptions.
An Argument for Site Specificity
AAssignment was to discuss an object from a perspective or art movement it is not initially associated with. This essay explores two objects, Olafur Eliasson’s Double Sunset (1999) and Gregor Schneider’s Cube Hamburg (2007) from the perspective of site-specific art.
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Final paper written for AH 365, Concept of Contemporary Art
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Spring, 2017
Standard Mocha, Standard Lines
Visual analysis of line and color technique by artist Ed Ruscha in his serigraph Mocha Standard.
Written for an intro survey art history course.
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Spring, 2017
Mocha Standard, Pt 2
Historical interpretive analysis of Ed Ruscha's Mocha Standard that examines the implications of the oil industry in middle America throughout the 1960s.
Written for an intro survey art history course.
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Spring, 2017
Shanghai Courtesan: An Agent for Photography
Capstone project for a proseminar in Chinese art history that considered the issues of gender in Chinese art.
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Essay explores the Shanghai courtesan and her contributions made to the 1920s cosmopolitan climate through her relationship with photography.
Fall, 2016
The Stone Operation
Visual analysis of Hieronymus Bosch's painting, The Stone Operation. Assignment for an early Netherlandish painting course at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Fall, 2015