Lesley Shipley
Lecturer
Telephone: 610 526-7752
Email: lshekitk@brynmawr.edu
Office Hours: Monday 11:00-1:00, or by appointment
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Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, 2011
M.A. Bryn Mawr College, 2007
M.F.A. American University, 2004
B.A. University of Maryland, College Park, 2002
Lesley
Shipley specializes in modern and contemporary art and theory, with
particular interests in critical theories of identity, post-World War II
painting and sculpture, and themes of war in art. Her dissertation,
entitled "Specific Objects: Lee Bontecou's Steel and Canvas Reliefs,
1959-1964," investigates the reception and interpretation history of an
influential series of reliefs created by the little-known American
artist Lee Bontecou. As a graduate student at Bryn Mawr, she received a
Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a National
Endowment for Humanities Curatorial Internship, and was a teaching
assistant in the history of art and a mentor to Hanna Holborn Gray
Undergraduate Research Fellows. She has presented her research at the
IFA-Frick Symposium on the History of Art at the Institute for Fine Arts
at New York University, and, most recently, at the Third Annual
Feminist Art History Conference at American University in Washington,
D.C. Shipley's essay, entitled "Ambivalent Objects: War, Memory, and
History in Lee Bontecou's Steel and Canvas Reliefs," will be included in
an anthology on Women and War, edited by Helen Langa, Debra L. Murphy,
and Paula Wisotski, currently under review by Ashgate Press.