Faculty

Huey Copeland (Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 2006) is an Assistant Professor specializing in contemporary American art with an emphasis on articulations of “blackness” in the visual field.  A recipient of the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2003) and a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2003), his research and teaching interests also include: modernism and its discontents, psychoanalytic criticism, theories of the photographic image, and twentieth-century sculpture.  He is co-organizer with Krista Thompson and Wayne Modest of “Out of Sight: New World Slavery and the Visual Imagination” (2007), and co-curator with Anthony Elms of Interstellar Low Ways (2006), an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center that explores jazz icon Sun Ra’s effect on a wide range of recent artistic practices.  He is also the author of several essays, most recently, “Out of the Well” (2006), published in the catalogue accompanying the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s Fred Wilson: Black Like Me.  At present, he is preparing a book manuscript that examines the aesthetic and political significance of slavery for a generation of post-Minimal African-American practitioners—such as Renée Green, Glenn Ligon, and Lorna Simpson—whose work of the early 1990s both refigures the constitutive lineaments of black being and reconsiders the crisis of the object within modernity.

h-copeland@northwestern.edu

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