Modern Art Colloquium and Ricker Library present:
Contemporary Landscape Photography and the Black Female Figure
Wednesday, September 9 @ 5:30pm CT
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kM5QUHnizfRWf4NX9
a lecture by
PROFESSOR BRIDGET COOKS
University of California, Irvine
More about Dr. Cooks:
Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California, (2018) (Pasadena Museum of California Art); and Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum (2019), and the forthcoming exhibition The Black Index.
She is author of the book Some of her other publications can be found in Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, and American Quarterly. She is currently completing her next book titled, Norman Rockwell: The Civil Rights Paintings.
Selections from Dr. Cooks’ bibliography:
Books and book chapters:
Articles
“David Driskell, 1931-2020” Artforum, April 10, 2020
“Norman Rockwell’s Negro Problem,” Cultural Critique 105, Fall 2019
Other Projects and articles where Cooks is interviewed:
UCI Podcast: The cultural significance of visual representation
“SFMOMA Grapples With Accusations of Racism” SF Weekly, 7/20/2020
Getty Research Institute Oral history project
Bridget R. Cooks, moderator: Oral History on Photography: Herb Randall, Ming Smith, Dawoud Bey, Adger Cowans, Herb Robinson
Artnews announcement about the initiative