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Installation view of Janet Sobel: All-over at the Menil Collection, Houston. Image Credit: Paul Hester.
CONNECTING LINES: JANET SOBEL AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Public Program: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Menil hosted a panel conversation with art historians Sandra Zalman and Susan Davidson, and exhibition curator Natalie Dupêcher about Abstract Expressionism and Janet Sobel, a painter who pioneered what became known as “all-over” abstraction in the mid 1940’s.
Read the full article: https://www.menil.org/events/4305-connecting-lines-janet-sobel-and-abstract-expressionism
Image Credit: Dedalus Foundation. Motherwell in his Greenwich Village studio, ca. 1945
2022 Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellow
Sandra Zalman has been awarded The Dedalus Foundation’s 2022 Senior Fellowship for her book The Modern Remodeled: Museums of Modern Art at Mid-Century and the Construction of the Canon.
Sandra Zalman’s book, The Modern Remodeled: Museums of Modern Art at Mid-Century and the Construction of the Canon, analyzes how New York museums commissioned major architectural expansions to position themselves at the forefront of a new kind of cultural campaign as they competed to establish supremacy as unimpeachable standard-bearers of aesthetic ideals.
Read the full article: https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/fellow/sandra-zalman/
Image Credits: 1) Gary Snyder Fine Art; 2) “Milky Way,” 1945. The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA, Art Resource, NY 3) “Untitled,” circa 1946. The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA, Art Resource, NY
Interviewed for New York Times article on
Janet Sobel
Overlooked No More: Janet Sobel, Whose Art Influenced Jackson Pollock
The article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. With no formal art training, working in her Brooklyn apartment, [Janet Sobel] took up the drip style of painting that Pollock later made famous.
Read the full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/obituaries/janet-sobel-overlooked.html
Image Credit: Italian Art Society
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Fellowship Grant
Sandra Zalman, associate professor and program director of art history at the University of Houston, has been awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Fellowship Grant for the 2019 – 2020 academic year. Zalman was one of just 253 professors from across the country selected for the award. The $60,000 grant will support her forthcoming book, “Monumental Modernism: Museums of Modern Art and the Contest for Cultural Space.”
Read the full article: https://uh.edu/kgmca/about/news/2019-stories/01-07-art-history-professor-awarded-neh-grant.php
Image Credit: University of Houston
Consuming Surrealism in American Culture RECEIVES SECAC AWARD for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication
The Southeastern College of Art Conference (SECAC) proudly named the University of Houston’s Sandra Zalman the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication.
The annual award is reserved for outstanding research in a book, article or series of articles published within the past two years.
Dr. Zalman, who serves as an Associate Professor of Art History in the UH School of Art, received the honor for her 2015 book Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism, an insightful text that advocates Surrealism’s integral role in the development of American visual culture. Honing in on influential curators such as the Museum of Modern Art New York’s first director Alfred Barr, she explores the role curators and exhibitions play in shaping the landscape of modern art and popular culture.
Read the full article: https://www.uh.edu/kgmca/about/news/2016/11-10-zalman-award.php