The School of Art, Art History & Design is pleased to welcome Suzanne Hudson as a visiting scholar.
A Los Angeles-based art historian and critic, Suzanne Hudson is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. She writes on modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on abstraction, painting, art pedagogy, and American philosophy. A longtime contributor to Artforum, she is the author of Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT Press, 2009; 2011), Painting Now (Thames & Hudson, 2015), Agnes Martin: Night Sea (Afterall/MIT Press, 2017), and the co-editor of Contemporary Art: 1989–Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Mary Weatherford is forthcoming in 2019 from Lund Humphries, and Contemporary Painting will be published in 2020 by Thames & Hudson. Supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she is pursuing research into the practical applications of art making for her book, Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process, a study of the therapeutic origins of process within American modernism.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska; enhancing the education of our students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for the public to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. All lectures in this series are free and open to the public.