Jonathan Fineberg

Director, Illinois at the Phillips
Gutgsell Professor of Art History, UIUC

Dr. Jonathan Fineberg is Gutgsell Professor of Art History, Visiting Professor in Computer Science, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Director of the University's program at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and completed five years of training as a research candidate in psychoanalysis at the Boston and Western New England Institutes for Psychoanalysis.

He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia Universities and is a trustee of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. He has won numerous awards including the 1969 Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts Art Critic's Fellowship, the Dedalus Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, a Japan Foundation Senior Fellowship, and the College Art Association's Award for Distinguished Teaching in the History of Art.

Dr. Fineberg has curated major exhibitions in the United States and abroad and published more than a dozen books and catalogs as well as over 40 articles in journals ranging from Artforum to The New York Times. He is known for his persevering interest in emerging artists and his work on the psychology of creativity. His most recent books include: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to the Gates (Yale), The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist (Princeton), Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (Prentice Hall), and Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art (a Yale book and a two hour PBS television special, coauthored with John Carlin). His 2006 book and exhibition catalogue: When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child (University of California Press) is the first in a continuing series of annual symposium books to be copublished by Illinois at the Phillips and The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art.

CENTER FOR THE STUDY
OF MODERN ART STAFF:

......................................................... JONATHAN FINEBERG
Director

Illinois at the Phillips program

Gutgsell Professor of Art History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

.......................................................... RUTH PERLIN
Associate Director

Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collection

ILLINOIS AT THE PHILLIPS PROFESSORS:

.......................................................... SUZANNE HUDSON
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

.......................................................... TIM SPELIOS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 .......................................................... ANNE ELLEGOOD
Visiting Lecturer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ruth Perlin

Associate Director,
Center for the Study of Modern Art

Teaching (Fall 06 and Spring 07):
Museum Management Seminar

Ruth R. Perlin is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art at The Phillips Collection. From 2001-2006 she was Director for Initiatives in Education and Technology and Director of Educational Technology at The Phillips. Her most recent Web production, American Art at the Phillips Collection surveys the museum’s holdings of American paintings, while Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line, created in conjunction with the major retrospective exhibition, was the museum’s first interactive educational web program. Both have won MUSE Awards from the American Association of Museums.

She received her degrees in Art History from Wellesley College and The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Prior to joining The Phillips, for more than 20 years Ms. Perlin was at the National Gallery of Art. As both Deputy Director of Education and Head, Department of Education Resources, she pioneered the use of media and new technologies for programs distributed to schools, universities, other educational institutions nationally and internationally on the Gallery’s collections and special exhibitions.  She has produced almost one hundred educational resources on art: films, videos, color slide teaching programs, and programs using new technologies. She was project director for the first videodisc ever made on a museum collection (National Gallery of Art). Subsequently she directed and produced a comprehensive videodisc on the Gallery’s collections of American art, including the Index of American Design, and an accompanying interactive program with texts on the artists and almost 3,000 works of art.  In addition to American Art from the National Gallery of Art, Ms. Perlin directed and produced a counterpart, European Art from the National Gallery of Art, a comprehensive view of the Gallery’s paintings, sculpture, works of art on paper, including numerous works not generally accessible to public view. An unique aspect of developing these videodiscs was the production of extensive digital imagebases as the source for all images. In turn, these digital images—nearly 6,000 in all—became the basis for the National Gallery’s web site, along with related content.

Ms. Perlin has been active in education and museum organizations for many years, presenting frequently on the use of educational resources in classrooms, serving on the Board of the Museum Education Division of the National Art Education Association, and on the Board of the AAM’s Media & Technology Standing Professional Committee from 1994-2004. She was the Committee’s Chair from 1998-2000. She was named National Art Museum Educator of the Year in 2006 by the National Art Education Association. She was a founding member of the DC chapter of ArtTable and served on the Chapter’s Board from 1996-2000.



Suzanne Hudson

Assistant Professor
of Art History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching (Spring 07):
Modern Art and Mass Culture (General Art History Lecture)
Writing About Art (Advanced Art History Seminar)

Dr. Suzanne Hudson (M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University) has taught university courses in art history, writing, and visual culture, and has lectured widely on modern and contemporary exhibitions. She has been on faculty at Parsons/The New School University and has taught at Princeton University, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she was a Teaching Fellow for three years.

Dr. Hudson is a regular contributor to Artforum, and her work has appeared in October, Art Journal, and Critical Matrix. Recent publications include artist entries for the 2006 Whitney Biennial catalogue, Artforum reviews and features on Katja Strunz and Gedi Sibony, and "Robert Ryman's Pragmatism" in October.

Essays on Uwe Henneken for the Museum De Hallen Haarlem, Spencer Finch for MASS MoCA, and Robert Indiana for the Princeton University Art Museum are forthcoming this spring.

Dr. Hudson is currently at work on a manuscript on Ryman, Robert Ryman: Painting Pragmatism, which is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2008, as well as other essays on contemporary art and criticism.

Tim Spelios

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching (Fall 06 and Spring 07):
Drawing and Collage Studio

Tim Spelios has been active in the New York art scene since 1980. He has exhibited his sculpture, photo collage, drawings, site specific installations, and sound based pieces throughout the US and Europe. His work has been seen in such venues as PS1,The Drawing Center, The Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, White Columns, Sculpture Center, and Smack Mellon.

Spelios has performed and toured internationally in numerous sound projects including Impossible Music a group he and David Weinstein founded in 1990, John Zorn's Cobra, No Safety, and Chunk, (both bands recorded on the Knitting Factory Works Label). He is currently a member of the Four Walls Film Club Orchestra which includes Brian Dewan, and the Cartoon Cover Band, a duo in which Matt Freedman rapidly draws cartoons on large sheets of paper as Spelios plays the drums.

Spelios co-directed Flipside w/artist Caroline Cox, an alternative exhibition space in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn from 1997 to 2001. Flipside presented eighteen shows that included seventy artists.

His most recent constructed piece was a tunable square drum set Square, Plumb, Level and In-Line for the show B-SIDE at the Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, April/May 2006. Ken Johnson writes of B-SIDE in the April 14 New York Times, "This engaging group show includes Tim Spelios's beautifully made Surrealistic drum set in which the components are square rather than round..."

More information about Tim Spelios.

Anne Ellegood

Visiting Lecturer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching (Spring 07):
Contemporary Issues in Art

Anne Ellegood is Associate Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden where her focus is contemporary art. She was the New York-based Curator for Peter Norton's collection from 2003-2005, an ambitious collection of over 2400 works of contemporary art in all media. From 1998-2003, she was the Associate Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York where she organized Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces; Superficial: The Surfaces of Architecture in a Digital Age; Marco Brambilla: Halflife, and Candice Breitz: Babel Series, among several other exhibitions. Among her independent curatorial projects are Crossings: Artistic and Curatorial Practice, a ten-part exhibition co-organized with Rachel Gugelberger that took place throughout Manhattan at such venues as Artists Space, School of Visual Arts, and Apex Art in conjunction with the 2003 College Art Association's conference, and public.exe: Public Execution, co-organized with Michele Thursz, an exhibition exploring how artists are rearticulating the definition, distribution, and reception of public art, presented at Exit Art and throughout the streets of Manhattan, in the summer of 2004.

Since joining the Hirshhorn, she has organized Directions: Jim Lambie and recently opened the group exhibition The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, which includes the work of Andrea Cohen, Bjorn Dahlem, Isa Genzken, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Evan Holloway, Charles Long, Mindy Shapero, and Franz West, and is on view at the Hirshhorn through January 7, 2007.Ellegood has served on numerous panels and juries for a range of organizations, including SculptureCenter, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, and Socrates Sculpture Park, and has lectured widely on contemporary art and curatorial practice.

Ellegood received her Master's of Art from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and has taught at Bard's CCS, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Visual Arts, and George Washington University. She has written for such publications as Art Press and Artforum.