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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faculty

Pamela Bannos
Dan Devening
Jeanne Dunning
Kelly Kaczynski
Judy Ledgerwood
Marlena Novak
Michael Rakowitz
Steve Reinke
Lane Relyea
James Valerio

 Pamela Bannos

Pamela Bannos's work challenges how we understand photographs, as well as how we perceive real space. She typically works either in series or what has amounted to year-long projects that culminate in an exhibition or a web-based presentation. The series, “Amnesia”, consists of photographs that appear as white as the paper they are printed on until one’s eyes adjust to the image and its nuances are revealed. These photographs were presented in a solo exhibition at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York in 2003. In the “Some Untitled Pictures” series, she scanned found vintage snapshots and then digitally manipulated them, shifting the focus to reveal something that was not the apparent intention of the original photographer. These pictures can currently be viewed at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. Year-long projects include “Imaging and Imagining Space”, which was a collaboration with a Northwestern professor of astronomy and culminated in an exhibition at Northwestern’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum in 2001, as well as a website. This project explores our trust in scientific imagery. Another recent web-based work, from 2004, examines the physical space within a found 19th century glass negative of a New York City street corner. “Hidden Truths”, Bannos’s current project, about and within Chicago’s Lincoln Park, will be web-based and site-specific. It will introduce questions about how visual evidence does not accurately represent the past, and show how a lack of such evidence may be literally hiding more historically accurate information.

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Senior Lecturer
office: 3-121 Crowe
pbannos@northwestern.edu