Isabelle Loring Wallace

Mid-20th Century American Painting, 21st Century Installation and Video, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, Semiotics, and Historiography.

Isabelle Loring Wallace is Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory and former Director of Graduate Studies at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Her research spans the 20^th and 21^st centuries and is dedicated to close, theoretically inflected readings of modern and contemporary art that are nevertheless grounded in the long history of art and art writing. She has published to numerous articles and exhibition catalogue essays on artists such as Manet, Duchamp, Jenny Saville, Wim Delvoye, Christian Jankowski, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Carissa Rodriguez, and Paul Pfeiffer, and she is and the co-editor of three anthologies that reflect her commitment to thinking about contemporary art within broad cultural and historical contexts: Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, co-edited with Jennie Hirsh (Ashgate/Routledge 2011); Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility, co-edited with Nora Wendl (Ashgate/Routledge 2013); Ventriloquism, Performance and Contemporary Art, co-edited with Jennie Hirsh (Routledge 2023). In addition, Professor Wallace is the author of Jasper Johns (Phaidon 2014) and Pipe Dream: Jasper Johns, the Readymade, and the Paradox of the Perfect Copy (forthcoming with Chicago University Press), which considers Johns’ work in conjunction with contemporaneous developments in the fields of genetics and psychoanalysis. She is currently working on a new project that considers a cross-section of contemporary video art as it relates to Judeo-Christian themes, capital, technology, and the built environment. At the School of Art, she teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on postwar visual culture, as well as various thematic courses dedicated to tracing contemporary art’s intellectual and artistic genealogies.