妮可-弗利特伍德 艺术史学家和策展人

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Nicole Fleetwood
Art Historian and Curator | Class of 2021
Elucidating the cultural and aesthetic significance of visual art created by incarcerated people.


Portrait of Nicole Fleetwood

Title
Art Historian and Curator
Affiliation
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Location
New York, New York
Age
48 at time of award
Area of Focus
Art History/Theory/Criticism and Visual Culture, Criminal Justice
Website
New York University: Nicole Fleetwood
Marking Time
Social
Twitter
Instagram: Marking Time
Published September 28, 2021
ABOUT NICOLE'S WORK
Nicole Fleetwood is an art historian and curator exploring how the art of incarcerated people is essential to our understandings of contemporary art, the carceral state, and the humanity it contains. Fleetwood’s earlier work focused on representations of Blackness in art, performance, and popular culture, particularly how assumptions within American culture about Blackness are disrupted or reinforced by Black artists and public figures.

In part motivated by her experiences visiting imprisoned family members, Fleetwood turned her keen curatorial vision to artistic production in and around the United States prison system. In the book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020), and an accompanying museum exhibition of the same name, Fleetwood investigates the cultural, personal, and aesthetic significance of incarcerated people’s art. The book is the most extensive work to apply the interpretive methods of art history to study the art people make within prison. Drawing on interviews with over seventy currently and formerly incarcerated artists and hundreds of paintings, photos, collages, and other forms of art, Fleetwood develops a concept of “carceral aesthetics” to understand both the works of art produced by incarcerated individuals and the constrained conditions under which they were created. She pays particular attention to the ways people build a sense of themselves and community through creative connection despite the circumstances of imprisonment. For example, the artists Gilberto Rivera, Jesse Krimes, and Jared Owens established a conceptual art workshop focused on multiracial collaboration while serving time at the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution in New Jersey. Another artist, Tyra Patterson, created multimedia portraits inspired by other incarcerated women.

Fleetwood’s emphasis on both the artworks’ aesthetic value and the artists’ ingenuity in finding ways to convey their creative vision is a powerful testament to the humanity of all those impacted by the criminal justice system. In both the book and exhibition, she takes a deeply collaborative approach and centers the lived experiences of the artists themselves, many of whom participated in conferences, panel discussions, and other opportunities for public engagement that informed and emerged from the years of work that went into Marking Time. Fleetwood is demonstrating that art and imagery produced and used by incarcerated individuals is a critically important form of human expression, and her work sheds new light on the toll the criminal justice system in the United States takes on human lives.

BIOGRAPHY
Nicole Fleetwood holds a BPhil (1994) from Miami University and an MA (1998) and PhD (2001) from Stanford University. From 2005 to 2021, she was affiliated with Rutgers University at New Brunswick, with appointments in the Departments of American Studies and Art History. Fleetwood is currently the James Weldon Johnson Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her additional publications include the books Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness (2011) and On Racial Icons (2015) and articles in Artforum, African American Review, Aperture, Callaloo, and LitHub. Fleetwood’s co-curated exhibitions have appeared at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture Foundation Galleries, and Zimmerli Museum of Art, among other venues.



妮可-弗利特伍德
艺术史学家和策展人｜2021级
阐明被监禁者创作的视觉艺术的文化和美学意义。


妮可-弗利特伍德的画像

标题
艺术史学家和策展人
工作单位
纽约大学媒体、文化和传播系
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为48岁
重点领域
艺术史/理论/批评和视觉文化, 刑事司法
网站
纽约大学。Nicole Fleetwood
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社会
推特
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发表于2021年9月28日
关于尼科尔的工作
妮可-弗利特伍德是一位艺术史学家和策展人，她在探索被监禁者的艺术如何对我们理解当代艺术、监禁状态和它所包含的人性至关重要。弗利特伍德早期的工作侧重于艺术、表演和流行文化中的黑人表现，特别是美国文化中关于黑人的假设是如何被黑人艺术家和公众人物破坏或加强的。

部分原因是她探访被监禁的家庭成员的经历，弗利特伍德将她敏锐的策展眼光转向美国监狱系统内部和周围的艺术生产。在《标记时间：大规模监禁时代的艺术》（2020年）一书以及同名博物馆展览中，弗利特伍德调查了被监禁者的艺术的文化、个人和美学意义。该书是将艺术史的解释方法用于研究人们在监狱中的艺术的最广泛作品。弗利特伍德通过对70多位目前和曾经被监禁的艺术家的采访，以及数百幅绘画、照片、拼贴画和其他形式的艺术作品，提出了一个 "监禁美学 "的概念，以了解被监禁者所创作的艺术作品以及创作这些作品的受限条件。她特别关注人们在被监禁的情况下通过创造性的联系建立自我和社区意识的方式。例如，艺术家Gilberto Rivera、Jesse Krimes和Jared Owens在新泽西州Fairton联邦惩教所服刑期间建立了一个专注于多种族合作的概念艺术工作室。另一位艺术家泰拉-帕特森（Tyra Patterson）在其他被监禁妇女的启发下创作了多媒体肖像画。

弗利特伍德强调艺术作品的美学价值和艺术家们在寻找传达他们的创造性愿景的方法方面的独创性，这有力地证明了所有受刑事司法系统影响的人的人性。在这本书和展览中，她采取了一种深入的合作方式，并以艺术家本身的生活经验为中心，其中许多人参加了会议、小组讨论和其他公众参与的机会，这些机会为《标记时间》多年来的工作提供了信息并产生了效果。弗利特伍德表明，由被监禁者制作和使用的艺术和图像是人类表达的一种极其重要的形式，她的作品为美国的刑事司法系统对人类生命造成的损失提供了新的启示。

个人简历
妮可-弗利特伍德拥有迈阿密大学的哲学学士学位（1994年）、斯坦福大学的硕士（1998年）和博士（2001年）。从2005年到2021年，她隶属于罗格斯大学新布朗斯维克分校，在美国研究系和艺术史系任职。弗利特伍德目前是纽约大学媒体、文化和传播系的詹姆斯-韦尔登-约翰逊教授。她的其他出版物包括《麻烦的视觉》。2011年）和《论种族图标》（2015年），以及在《艺术论坛》、《非裔美国人评论》、《光圈》、《Callaloo》和LitHub上发表的文章。弗利特伍德共同策划的展览出现在安德鲁-弗里德曼之家、光圈基金会画廊和齐默里艺术博物馆等场所。