Véronique Chagnon-Burke

Associate Professor, Director of Studies

Ancienne Elève de l’Ecole du Louvre; Ecole du Louvre Museum Studies Program, post-graduate certificate; Licence en Histoire de l’Art, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV); M.A. Institute of Fine Art, New York University, PhD The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 11 West 42nd Street, 8th Fl., New York, NY; Tel. +1 (212) 355 1501 Fax. +1 (212) 355 7370;
vchagnon-burke@christies.edu

Véronique is a specialist in the history pf nineteenth century French landscape painting. Her fields of expertise also include 19th century art criticism and women artists. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York. She has taught a wide range of subjects at Queens College, Parsons School of Design and Hunter College. Her museum and research positions have included work at the Museum of Modern Art and the College Art Association. She has worked at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris.

Research

The Art of the July Monarchy, French 19th Century Landscape Painting, especially the Barbizon School, art and national identity, 19th century art criticism, with a focus on women art critics, artistic institution and the art market, emerging art markets and women artists.

• The History of Modern Art Market
• Landscape Painting in 19th century France
• French art and National Identity 1830-1945
• 19th Century Art Criticism

Current research interests include investigation of the development of the art market in mid-19th century Paris around the rue Laffitte and the concept of peinture bourgeoise.

Teaching

Véronique teaches the History of the Art Market Seminar and contributes lectures on 19th and 20th century French Art and on Women Artists to the Modern Art Survey Lecture Course at Christie’s Education New York. In the past she has taught graduate seminars in Historiography and Methods of Art History, Modern Women Artists, French Painting 1880-1890

She is also a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where she teaches graduate classes in the history of the art market.

Administration

• Chair Christie’s Education New York Advisory Board
• Member College Art Association
• Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
• Nineteenth-century French Studies
• Société des Dix-Neuvièmistes

Selected Recent Publications

Forthcoming: Vanishing Acts: Women and the Art World in 19th-Century France, edited by Wendelin Guenter ed. (Delaware University Press); “Women Art Critics during the July Monarchy (1830-1848)”; “’A Career True to Woman’s Nature’: The Construction of the Woman Artist in the Feminine Press in the 1830s and 1840s”; “’Tel père, telle fille’: Judith Gautier, Artist, Writer and Art Critic,”
Essays for Le Dictionnaire des créatrices (Paris: Edition Des femmes, 2010): “Les Femmes et la critique d’art au 19ème siècle”; “Marie de Flavigny”; “La Baronne Bonne Decazes”; “Judith Gautier”
The Politicization of Nature: The Critical Reception of Barbizon Painting During the July Monarchy (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009)
“Preserving the Oak Tree: The Fontainebleau Forest and the School of Barbizon,” in PART, no. 10 (Fall 2004)
Picturing the 1830s Revolution: Delacroix’s The 28thof July: Liberty Leading the People Versus Horace Vernet’s Louis-Philippe Leaving the Palais Royal,” in Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Hines H. Hall editor (Auburn University), Fall 2003
“Escaping the Metropolis: Looking at and Buying Landscape Paintings in Paris During the July Monarchy (1830-1848),” in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Barry Rothaus editor (University Press of Colorado), vol. 28, Summer 2002.

Selected Recent Conference Papers

College Art Association, Chicago 2010, chaired a session titled “It Is A Small World After All: Contemporary Art in the Age of Emerging Art Market.”
Société des Dix-Neuvièmeistes, Conference Mémoire et souvenirs au/du XIXe siècle, Manchester March 2008: “Rue Laffitte et la formation d’un certain goût bourgeois dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle"
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Indiana, Bloomington, October 2006: “Under the Artificial Light: Looking at Contemporary Art in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris.”
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, October 2005: “Nos Ancêtres les Gaulois: The Making of a National Icon in Late 19th Century France”
College Art Association, Atltanta, Georgia, 2005, chaired a session titled “The Auction House and Art History”
Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Canada, April 2004, “Women Art Critics in Mid-Nineteenth Century France”
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2002, “Tel Père, Telle Fille: Judith Gautier Artist and Art Critic in Mid-Century France”
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001, “Women Art Critics During the July Monarchy (1830-1848)”
Western Society for French History, UCLA, November 2000, “Escaping the Metropolis: Looking at and Buying Landscape Painting During the July Monarchy (1830-1848)”
College Art Association, New York City, February 2000 “Art and Ecology”, “Preserving the Oak Tree: The Fontainebleau Forest and the School of Barbizon”
Gendered Landscape: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space, Pennsylvania State University, May 1999, “The Oak Tree, the Gaul and the Druid: The Landscape Paintings of the School of Barbizon and the Definition of France’s National Identity”

Robin Reisenfeld

Associate Professor

B.A. The Colorado College; M.A./Ph.D. The University of Chicago

Robin Reisenfeld is an Associate Professor at Christie’s Education, New York where she teaches the connoisseurship seminar and delivers many lectures for the Modern Art Survey course. A specialist in the history of prints and modern German and contemporary art, she was awarded a two-year Kress Fellowship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany to pursue her doctoral research and received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Robin also works as a curator and was formerly Associate Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art and Director of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross College. She frequently writes on contemporary art and contributes to Sculpture Magazine and serves on the board of the international artists’ residency program Triangle Arts Association.

Selected Publications and Exhibitions

“Gravitas at Dorsky Curatorial Program, NY, NY” Sculpture Magazine, vol. 28, no. 7 (September, 2009)
“Brücke, NY.” Burlington Magazine, No. 1274, vol. CLI (May 2009)
“The Labyrinth in the Tower: An Interview with Diana Al-Hadid,” Sculpture Magazine, vol 28, no. 2 (March 2009)
Womens’ Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer, Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University. Salem OR, 2007
Anatomical Attitudes: Reconfiguring the Body, Heskins Contemporary, New York, NY (exh) March 17th-April 28, 2007
Paramnesiac Landscape, NYCAMS, New York, NY (exh) March 2006
Hybrid IDs: Contemporary Asian-American Identity, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 2001
“Collecting and Collective Memory: German Expressionist Art and Modern Jewish Identity” in Jewish Identity in Modern Art History, ed. Catherine Soussloff (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)

Research Interests

Global Artist Collectives and Initiatives
20th drawing and contemporary works on paper

Marisa Kayyem

Assistant Professor

BA (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY), PhD (Columbia University, NY, NY)

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 11 West 42nd Street, 8th Fl., New York, NY; Tel. +1 (212) 355 1501 Fax. +1 (212) 355 7370;
mkayyem@christies.edu

With a focus on American Art and the History of Photography, Marisa received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at a several institutions, including George Washington University, Columbia University, Suny, Purchase, Rutgers University and the International Center of Photography, NY, before joining Christie's Education in 2003. She has lectured on a variety of subjects on American Art and Photography, including such topics as Thomas Eakins Late-Portraits, Contemporary Photographers and Ancient Methods, Documentary Impulse in Photography, Early American Modernism, and Emerging Photographic Practices.

Current research interests include investigation of the following:
- Art Theft
- The Art Market and Photography

Teaching

Marisa teaches in the Modern Art Survey, lecturing on Photography and American Art and she teaches a section of the Historiography and Methods of Art History seminar. In addition, she is the moderator or organizer for the Professional Practices Seminar and supervises the internship program. She is Course Coordinator for the Art Business Certificate Program.

Dr. Matthew Nichols

Assistant Professor

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 11 West 42nd Street, 8th Fl., New York, NY; Tel. +1 (212) 355 1501 Fax. +1 (212) 355 7370;
mnichols@christies.edu

BA Vassar College, MA/PhD Rutgers University

Dr. Matthew Nichols is an Assistant Professor at Christie’s Education in New York, where he teaches the Historiography and Methods of Art History seminar, coordinates the Certificate Program, and delivers numerous lectures for the Modern Art Survey course. A specialist in modern and contemporary American art, he received a B.A. from Vassar College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Matthew also teaches art history at The New School, and rotates as the visiting critic-in-residence for the MFA program at Montclair State University. He is a frequent contributor to Art in America.

Selected Publications

Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography & Video, exh. cat. (New York: International Center of Photography, 2009), 13 catalog essays on contemporary artists, including Cao Fei, Kalup Linzy, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons
“Viewfinder: Martina Mullaney,” Photograph, vol. 6, no. 1 (September/October 2008), 82-83
“Putrih’s Play Stations,” Art in America, no. 5 (May 2008), 174-179
“The Taxonomy of Ruin,” Art in America, no. 1 (January 2008), 112-115
“Ligon’s Color Theory,” Art in America, no. 3 (March 2007), 154-159
Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography & Video, exh. cat. (New York: International Center of Photography, 2006), 16 catalog essays on contemporary artists, including Robert Adams, Catherine Chalmers, Sam Easterson, Noriko Furunishi and Diana Thater.
“On View: Sarah Pickering,” Photograph, vol. 4, no. 2 (November/December 2006), 74-75
“Willie Cole: The Energy of Objects,” Art in America, no. 5 (May 2006), 146-151
“Attack of the Cephalopods,” Art in America, no. 4 (April 2006), 136-139
“Through a Glass, Darkly,” Art in America, no. 11 (December 2005), 134-135
“The Nature of Things to Come,” Alyson Shotz, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Locks Gallery, 2004), 5-9
“Chakaia Booker: Material Matters,” Art in America, no. 6 (June/July 2004), 164-169
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (New York: International Center of Photography, 2004), 100 web site essays on contemporary artists, including Vanessa Beecroft, Glenn Ligon, Richard Misrach, Kori Newkirk, Richard Prince, Andres Serrano & Fred Wilson Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography & Video, exh. cat. (New York: International Center of Photography, 2003), 14 catalog essays on contemporary artists, including Yto Barrada, Chien-Chi Chang, David Goldblatt, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Joel Sternfeld
The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the Twentieth Century, ed. Ingrid Nyeboe (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2002), contributing researcher for visual art
The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures, ed. George Haggerty (New York: Garland Publications, Inc., 2000), contributing biographer for visual artists.

Julie Reiss

Associate Professor

B.A. (Reed College, {Portland, OR), Ph.D. (Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York)

Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 11 West 42nd Street, 8th Fl., New York, NY; Tel. +1 (212) 355 1501 Fax. +1 (212) 355 7370;
jreiss@christies.edu

Julie received her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Christie's, she taught courses on twentieth century art at Hunter College and SUNY Purchase. Julie has lectured extensively on modern and contemporary art, and is a regular lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A pioneering scholar in the field of Installation Art, she is the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999).

Research Interests

Post World War II American art, site specific art

Current research interests include:
- Legacy of Abstract Expressionism
- Donald Judd and Permanent Installation

Teaching

Julie teaches the Historiography and Methods of Research seminar at Christie’s Education. In addition she contributes lectures in her areas of specialization to the Modern Art Survey.

Books

From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1999)

Selected Articles

“Pricked: Extreme Embroidery,” Exhibition review, Textile A Journal of Cloth and Culture, Summer 2008
“Sound Affects: The Auditory Experience in Installation Art,” in Sonambiente 2006: Klang Kunst Sound Art, Berlin: Akademie Der Kunste, 2006

Selected Conference Papers

“Carsten Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room: The Museum as Private Domain,” Public lecture given May, 2009, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
“Installation Art and its Origins,” paper given in symposium, In Transit: From Object to Site,” List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2006.

Karen Maguire

Librarian

B.A., University of Vermont; M.S.L.I.S., Long Island University

After a career in information technology with IBM, Karen graduated from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Art History and from the Palmer School of Information Science at Long Island University with an M.S.L.I.S. with a concentration in Rare Books and Special Collections. Before coming to Christie's Education she was a researcher and web designer for Vance Jordan Fine Art and managed a private collection in New York. Karen is an avid patron of New York’s galleries, museums and libraries.