Susan Richmond
Associate Dean, Associate Professor College of the Arts- Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2002
- Specializations
Modern and Contemporary Art of the U.S. and Europe;
Feminist and Gender Theories
- Biography
Dr. Susan Richmond’s research and teaching focus on material histories of art and visual culture in the United States since 1945, with a specific emphasis on feminist historiographies and the intersections of art, gender, and labor. She is the author of Lynda Benglis: Beyond Process as well as articles that have appeared in American Art, Art History, The Journal of Modern Craft, Feminist Theory, and Art Journal, among others. In 2021 she organized Diana Al-Hadid: Nothing is Stable for the Welch Galleries at Georgia State University, an exhibition supported by a GSU CENCIA grant and a Georgia Humanities Grant.
Affiliations - Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Publications
Monographs
Lynda Benglis: Beyond Process. London: I.B. Tauris Press, 2013; reissued in paperback, 2015.
Selected Articles
“Lily Cox-Richard in Conversation with Susan Richmond.” Feminist Studies. Forthcoming 2021.
“The Craft of Anne Ryan’s Collages.” Art History 44, no. 1 (February 2021): 52-77.
“Aleene and Hazel: Tacky Ladies and Handicrafts for Fun.” Journal of Popular Culture 53, no. 3 (June 2020): 547-578.
“Amanda Ross-Ho’s White Goddesses and the Afterlife of Vintage Macramé.” Journal of Modern Craft 9, no. 3 (November 2016): 313-332.
“The Sentimentality of Ree Morton’s Signs of Love,” American Art 30, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 92-111.
“Introduction” and co-edited forum, “Sexing Sculpture: New Approaches to Theorizing the Object.” Art Journal 72, no. 4 (Winter 2013). With Jillian Hernandez.
“‘From Stone to Cloud:’ Mary Kelly’s Love Songs and Feminist Intergenerationality.” Feminist Theory 11, no. 1 (2010): 57-78.
“The Ins and Outs of Female Sensibility: A 1973 Video by Lynda Benglis.” Camera Obscura 23, no. 3, 69 (2008): 80-109.
“Stop Frame, Rewind, Push Forward: Mary Kelly’s Love Songs.” Art Papers 32, no. 4 (July/Aug 2008): 26-31.
“Sheila Pree Bright’s Suburbia: Where Nothing is Ever Wanting.” Art Papers 31, no. 4 (July/Aug 2007): 18-22.
“Sizing Up the Dildo: Lynda Benglis’ Artforum Advertisement as a Feminist Icon.” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal 15 (2005): 24-34.