Karen Kurczynski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Kurczynski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurczynski |
| SIGNATURE | KURCZYNSKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KAREN KURCZYNSKI teaches art history and critical theory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She is currently writing a monograph entitled “The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn,” based on her dissertation at New York University, as well as co-curating a centennial exhibition on Asger Jorn's artistic dialogues for the Museum Jorn in Denmark in 2014. |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6546-3491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Steve Locke’s ‘#Killers’
This article explores the critical reflection on whiteness initiated by Steve Locke’s series of drawings entitled ‘#Killers’, which depict the white perpetrators of lethal violence against Black victims in graphite on paper. Locke presents a subjective take on media and social media images that he reframes as portraits of pathological whiteness. The article argues that, while other artists have powerfully memorialized Black victims, Locke’s drawi…
Yayoi Kusama
Materialism and Intersubjectivity in Cobra
No Man's Land
July 01 2012 No Man's Land Karen Kurczynski Karen Kurczynski KAREN KURCZYNSKI teaches art history and critical theory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She is currently writing a monograph entitled “The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn,” based on her dissertation at New York University, as well as co-curating a centennial exhibition on Asger Jorn's artistic dialogues for the Museum…
Primitivism, humanism, and ambivalence
Leveraging Situationism
Expression as vandalism
Leveraging Situationism
Expression as vandalism
Primitivism, humanism, and ambivalence
No Man's Land
July 01 2012 No Man's Land Karen Kurczynski Karen Kurczynski KAREN KURCZYNSKI teaches art history and critical theory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She is currently writing a monograph entitled “The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn,” based on her dissertation at New York University, as well as co-curating a centennial exhibition on Asger Jorn's artistic dialogues for the Museum…
Yayoi Kusama
Materialism and Intersubjectivity in Cobra
Steve Locke’s ‘#Killers’
This article explores the critical reflection on whiteness initiated by Steve Locke’s series of drawings entitled ‘#Killers’, which depict the white perpetrators of lethal violence against Black victims in graphite on paper. Locke presents a subjective take on media and social media images that he reframes as portraits of pathological whiteness. The article argues that, while other artists have powerfully memorialized Black victims, Locke’s drawi…
Art (7 works) · Art history (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Library science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Citation (2 works)