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Dr. Jess Ziegenfuss is an art historian and visual studies scholar teaching and working in the Southwest. Her scholarship explores the material and cultural life of objects, sites, and structures often on the borders of traditional art history. Topics at the center of her research include materiality, ecological art, vernacular art forms, and craft practices. In particular, her work critically examines the relationship between resource extraction, related industries (petrochemical, nuclear, mining), histories of slow violence, and the globalized art world. Additionally, she is an independent curator who has conducted many exhibition projects in association with modern and contemporary collections of photography, art, and ephemera. Her book project continues her research on synthetics in the art of Eva Hesse. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine and a M.A. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University. |
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