maria elena buszek : curriculum vitae
Professor of Art History
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Visual Arts
Office: CU Bldg. 800G
Mail: Campus Box 177, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364
e-mail: maria.buszek@ucdenver.edu
phone: 303/315.7413
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND CATALOGS
Current book project: Art of Noise: Feminist art and popular music since 1977
“Sarah Gjertson in Conversation with Maria Elena Buszek,” in F*Bomb: Sarah Gjertson, Influences and Legacies. Denver: Vicki Myhren Gallery/University of Denver, 2024.
Gina Birch: In My Fucking Room. London: Gallery 46, 2022.
Sensitive Content. London: Unit London, 2022.
Karen Reimer: Sea Change. Chicago, IL: Monique Meloche, 2021.
Co-editor (with Hilary Robinson), A Companion to Feminist Art. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series, 2019.
“Great Offender and Realist Criminal,” in Caroline Coon: The Great Offender. London and New York: Tramps Gallery, 2019.
“CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES PUNK PUNK PUNK WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN,” in Design History Beyond the Canon, edited by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Victoria Pass, and Christopher Wilson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
“Kate Kretz’s Lie Hole (2017),” in Fahrenheit 213. San Francisco: Arc Gallery and Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, 2019.
“Women Consumers of Pin-Ups” in The History of Illustration, edited by Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Problems and Provocations: Grand Arts, 1995-2015. Kansas City, MO: Grand Arts, 2016. Author of entries “Fierce” and “Feminist.”
Danger Came Smiling: Feminist Art and Popular Music. Stamford, CT: Franklin Street Works, 2016.
“Media, Process, History: Craft Beyond Crafting,” in Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture, edited by Nicholas Bell. Washington, DC and London: The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art/Bloomsbury, 2015.
“Punk-Rock Futurist,” in Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.
“The Next Great Moment in History is Hers,” in Dorothy Iannone: Censorship and the Irrepressible Drive Toward Divinity. Zurich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and JRP-Ringier, 2014.
“Radical Patience: The Work of Andrea Bowers,” in Andrea Bowers. Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2014.
“Joyce Kozloff: Cradles to Conquest.” Glassboro, NJ: Rowan University Art Gallery, 2014.
“Workt by Hand: Roundtable Discussion,” in Workt by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts, edited by Catherine Morris. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2013.
“Eros and Thanatos: Surrealism’s legacy in contemporary feminist art,” In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Munich: Prestel, 2012. (See museum websites for the exhibition’s run at LACMA, Musee National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec, and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City)
“’Her Life Was Saved by Rock and Roll’: Toward a feminist punk ethic/aesthetic,” in Punkademics, edited by Zack Furness. Brooklyn, NY: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2012.
Editor and essayist, Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Mark Newport: Self-Made Man. St. Louis, MO: Laumeier Sculpture Park, 2010.
“Mothers and Daughters, Sluts and Goddesses: Mary Beth Edelson and Annie Sprinkle,” in It’s Time For Action (There’s No Option): About Feminism. Zurich: JRP-Ringier, 2007.
“‘Perma-wave:’ Bridging feminism’s generation gap,” in Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2007.
Whitney Lee’s Power Craft. Austin, TX: Women and Their Work, 2007.
Charlotte Street Foundation: Ten. Kansas City: Charlotte Street Foundation, 2007. (Author of essays on Michael Converse, Gear, Peregrine Honig, Anne Lindberg, Seth Johnson, and May Tveit: Available online here)
Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
“Pleasure/principle,” in Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006.
Aidas Bareikis: The Guard of Sorry Spirit. Kansas City, MO: Grand Arts, 2006. (Available online here)
Charlotte Street Foundation Awards. Kansas City, MO: Charlotte Street Foundation, 2006. (Available online here)
“Allyson Mitchell: Desire and Dissent,” in Allyson Mitchell: Lady Sasquatch. Toronto, ON: Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 2005.
Contemporary Artists. 5 ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2001. (Author of new entries on Vanessa Beecroft, Sophie Calle, Raymond Pettibon, Pipilotti Rist, and Cindy Sherman; update author for entries on Laurie Anderson, Balthus, Lynda Benglis, Annette Messager, and Mel Ramos.)
Editor (with Stephen Goddard) and essayist, Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Years. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas (Fall 2001).
Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, Novelene Ross (ed.), Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 1997. (Author of essays on William Merritt Chase, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, and Carl Wuermer)