Tracy Fitzpatrick

Assistant Professor, Art History, School of Humanities
Curator, Neuberger Museum of Art (www.neuberger.org) 

Office: Humanities 2043
Tel: (914) 251-6059
Fax: (914) 251-6559
email: tracy.fitzpatrick@purchase.edu

Education
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2003
M.A., George Washington University, 1994
B.A., Tufts University, 1989

Positions
Assistant Professor in Art History, Purchase College, SUNY, 2004-Current
Curator, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 2004-Current
Lecturer, Christie’s Education Graduate Program, 2004-Current
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History of Art Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Lecturer, History of Art Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, intermittent 1999-2004
Research Assistant, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY, 2003-2004
Lecturer, History of Art Department, Kean University, Union, NJ, 2003
Assistant Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1995-1997 
Exhibition Coordinator, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1992-1995
Curatorial Assistant, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1990-1992

Fellowships and Awards  
Junior Faculty Development Award, 2005-2006 
UUP Professional Development Award, 2005-2006
Faculty Support Award, Purchase College, SUNY, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005
Rutgers University Dissertation Teaching Award, 2003-2004
Luce Foundation American Art Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001
Mellon Fellowship, Print Department, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998-1999

Areas of Expertise
Modern art; museum studies; feminist practice; women and art

Courses Taught
Abstraction in Modern Art; American Art and Architecture in the Age of the Machine; Introduction to Museum Studies; Masters Colloquium; Modern Art; Performance Art

Research Interests
The development of abstraction; visual culture of the New York City subway art, women and constructions of self-representation

Publications, Exhibitions, and Conference Papers (selected)
“Neuberger Museum of Art: Rethinking its Role as a College Museum,” conference paper, College Art Association, New York, 2007.

Facing Abstraction: Refiguring the Body in the Twentieth Century, exhibition and brochure, Neuberger Museum of Art, 2006

Underground Art, 1904-1950: Images of the New York City Subway, exhibition and catalogue, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, 2004.

 “Token Representations: Reginald Marsh’s Why Not Use the “L”? (1930), conference paper, Southeastern College Art Conference, Raleigh, NC, 2003
  
“Futurism Underground: Max Weber, Joseph Stella, and the New York City Subway,” conference paper, 62nd Annual Symposium on the History of Art, sponsored by the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002

“Joseph Beuys’ Creativity=Capital (1983) and the New York City Subway as Performative Space,” conference paper, Andrew W. Mellon Colloquium, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, 2001.

“Picturing the Underground: Images of the Subway by Reginald Marsh,” Imagining the Space Between: Constructing Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, conference paper, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 2000.

Traffic Patterns: Prints by American Artists in the Machine Age, Zimmerli Art Museum, exhibition and brochure, 2001.

“Exhibiting Reform: The Women’s Movement and the Role of the Museum,” conference paper and panel discussion, “American Museums and Social Movements,” American Association of Museums Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2000.

Another Dimension: Sculptors as Printmakers, Zimmerli Art Museum, exhibition, 1999.

“About the Cover: The Art of Ellen Day Hale,” Women in the Arts 14 (Spring 1996): 4-5.

Artful Advocacy: Cartoons from the Woman Suffrage Movement, National Museum of Women in the Arts, exhibition in conjunction with 75th anniversary of Woman Suffrage, 1995.

Women Artists and the WPA Era: Realism and the Graphic Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, exhibition, 1995.