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Lisa S. Wainwright

Contributor

Website : School of the Art Institute of Chicago

BIOGRAPHY

Lisa Wainwright has held several positions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Dean of Faculty, Vice President of Academic Affairs (present); Interim Dean of Faculty (2007 – 2010); Dean of Graduate Studies (2004 – 2008); Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism (2003 - present); Interim Dean of Graduate Studies (2002 – 2004); Undergraduate Division Chair (1996 – 2001). Her educational background: BA, cum laude, 1982, Vanderbilt University; MA, 1986, and PhD, 1993, University of Illinois. Lectures: "Decadent Ornament," Los Angeles; "Rauschenberg and After," Dallas; "Pink Decay: The Femme Fatale in Contemporary Art, " South Carolina; "Ed Paschke and Toulouse Lautrec: Picturing the Demi-Monde," Chicago. Curator: "Ah...Decadence," "From Steel to Flesh"; "2001 Spaced Oddities"; "At Home in the Museum"; "Pink"; "1968."

Primary Contributions (36)

Articles

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text. Basquiat was raised in a middle-class home in Brooklyn. His mother was an American of Puerto Rican descent. She encouraged Basquiat’s interest in art, taking him to…

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Publications (1)

Things of Nature and the Nature of Things John Wilde in the McClain Collection (2006)

By John Wilde, Lisa Wainwright

John Wilde (1919-2006) was one of the most notable artists in the Magic Realist school of painting, garnering attention far beyond Wisconsin, his native state. Wilde's gift for drawing and painting diverged from the style of regional artists such as John Steuart Curry and evolved into an aesthetic characterized by beguiling, intensely detailed images. He was particularly adept at mixing the discipline of taxonomy with icons of the subconscious.
Things of nature and the nature of things informed...