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:

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).

Berry, Ian, Lauren Haynes, and Alma Thomas. Alma Thomas. New York, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2016.

Hayes, Jeffreen M., Kirsten Pai Buick, Bridget R. Cooks, and Augusta Savage. Augusta Savage : Renaissance Woman London, UK: GILES, an imprint of D Giles Limited, 2018.

Articles

“David Driskell, 1931-2020” Artforum,  April 10, 2020

“Norman Rockwell’s Negro Problem,” Cultural Critique 105, Fall 2019

“The Art World Has Lost its Mind: Lorraine O’Grady and the Birth of Mlle Bourgeise Noire.” Afterall (46: Fall 2018).

“Redux: Bridget R. Cooks on Harlem on My Mind (1968),” “Vision and Justice”: Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas. Volume 223 (Summer 2016).

“Sound of the Break: Jazz and the Failures of Emancipation,” co-authored with Graham Eng-Wilmot. American Quarterly 68:2 (June 2016).

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

 

Ricker Library Facebook posts about artists that Cooks discusses in the lecture with links to resources

Nona Faustine

Xaviera Simmons

LaToya Ruby Frazier