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

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

Robert A. Pruitt lives and works in Houston, Tx. He has had solo shows at ArtPace, Project Row Houses and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, as well as New York's Clementine Gallery. He participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. The artist has written of his work: " I have been educated by the contemporary art system, but my neighborhood , and most of its residents, are unaware of this world, and that world is unaware of it. This is the dichotomy out of which I work. An inhabitant of two worlds, my work attempts to bridge the gap between African cultural traditions supposedly lost to African Amercans, and contemporary art making tactics. I fuse Hip-hop sensibilities, rewritten histories, and penchant for the found, (or cheaply bought) object. I romanticize the revolutionary ideologies of the seventies, the dope fresh styles of the eighties, and the conceptual art making practices of the nineties. I collect objects, quotes, and events from my stereotypically disenfranchised neighborhood, bring them back to my studio, and mix them up to make art. My materials are artifacts stained with memory and meaning. I use these artifacts to make objects and images that expound on the black condition in America, and I use a chitlin circuit style of humor to sneak it into the subconscious of my audience."

Bubble gun, 2005