ART THEORY AND PRACTICE

Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

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recent visiting artists

2009-2010

Anna Biller | Mike Hoolbloom |
Theaster Gates

2008-2009

Tom Marioni | Fritz Haeg |Dan Graham | Andrea Bowers |Deborah Stratman | William J. O'Brien
Gaylen Gerber | Geof Oppenheimer | Amanda Ross-Ho

2007 - 08
Hamza Walker | The Speculative Archive | Claire Sherman | Harrel Fletcher | Faith Wilding | Catherine Sullivan | Nayland Blake | Chris
Sperandio | Emily Jacir | Anoka
Faruquee | Emna Zghal | Robert A. Pruitt | Claire Bishop |
Cheryl Donegan | Takao Kawaguchi

2006 - 07
Kamrooz Aram | Coco Fusco | Scott Reeder | Sara Black | Sharon Hayes | Salem Collo-Julin & Marc Fischer | Pedro Lasch | Stan Shellabarger | Mendi and Keith Obadike | OUT OF SIGHT

2005 - 06
Amy Adler | Mequitta Ahuja | Paul Chan | Patty Chang | Ken Fandell | Pamela Fraser | Gareth James | Virgil Marti | Dave McKenzie | Ernesto Neto | Mai-Thu Perret | POST POST STUDIO

2004 - 05
Ben Butler | Sean Duffy | Sam Durant | Diana Fridd | Inigo Manglano-Ovalle | Damir Niksic | Katy Siegel | Stephanie Snider | Tony Tasset | Shirley Tse | Mel Ziegler

 

2003 - 04
Cindy Bernard | Andrea Fraser | Michelle Grabner | Renee Green | Laura Owens | Dan Perjovschi | Richard Rezac | Howard Singerman | Christopher Wool

2002 - 03
Gregg Bordowitz | Michael Corris | Simon Grennan & Chris Sperandio | Joseph Grigley | Helen Mirra | Amy Sillman


O'Brien
William J. O'Brien | Untitled 2008 | Mixed Media

William J. O'Brien appropriates design elements and illustration conventions in a myriad of approaches, from drawing to video to sculpture to fiber art to installation, to nurture ideas, both personal and universal, about sexuality, media, identity and other information streams that course through his art and life. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, as well as Locust Projects and Ingalls and Associates, both in Miami. His work has been shown in group shows internationally at Nina Menocal Projects in Mexico City, Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland, Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL Barbara Gladstone, and Marianne Boesky in New York, as well as Blum & Poe in Los Angeles.