Assistant Professor of Art History
283 Fine Arts Center // x3801 // lenore.metrick-chen@drake.edu
Professor Lenore Metrick-Chen’s teaching and research share a commitment to examining international borders and cultural intersections, examining cross-cultural dialogues through art and theory. Her interest in global and local interactions focuses on contemporary art, postmodernism and the way these are understood in China and in the United States.
Her classes have provided opportunities for students to assist in curating and preparing exhibitions that explore trans-cultural and cross-disciplinary ideas. Her recent curatorial projects include The Chinese of the American Imagination: 19th century Trade Cards and Imaging Others in the Colonial Period.
Professor Metrick-Chen is involved with a national and international artistic and academic community through participation in conferences and programs, and as a guest speaker. She was a presenter at Harvard’s 2011 Visualizing Asia in the Modern World Conference and participated in a month-long program at the Confucian Summer Institute 2011, sponsored by the Center for East-West Relations at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Professor Metrick-Chen has written Collecting Objects / Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1800-1900, in production at SUNY Press. She has written numerous essays on art, on Chinese and American art, respectively, and on their dynamic exchanges.
Metrick-Chen is interested in exploring ideas about politics, art and society, issues of identity and strategies of translating visual ideas across media.
