The First Annual Distinguished Art
History Alumni and Scholars Lecture
Dr. Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of
Art History, Rutgers
University
"Women of Abstract Expressionism:
Artists and Their Critics"
Thursday,
March 15, 2012 | 4 p.m.
Tyler School of Art | Room B004
Dr. Joan Marter, a distinguished Temple alumna, is an
internationally respected and widely-published art historian and curator.
She is editor of Woman’s Art Journal and served as Editor-in-Chief of
the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. In 2011, Marter received a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art at the College Art
Association meetings. Guest curator for 16 exhibitions, her show Women
and Abstract Expressionism was honored by the International Association of Art
Critics (AICA).
This paper problematizes the
received canon of Abstract Expressionism by presenting the critical reception
of women artists from the 1950s to the present. As the organizer of the
only exhibition devoted to these artists—Women and Abstract Expressionism—she
will also consider some of the ethical problems in working as a guest curator.
Joan was among the first to receive
a B.A. in Art History from Temple
in University graduating magna cum laude in 1968.
