Christine Mehring
Contact Information
272 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
773-702-0253
mehring@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. Harvard University - 20th century art, contemporary art, art theory and criticism. Current areas of interest: abstraction, art and design, postwar Western Europe, German art, relations between new and traditional media.
Selected Recent Publications
- “Richter’s Collaborations, Richter’s Turn,” in essay collection on Gerhard Richter, eds. Christine Mehring, Jeanne Nugent and Jon Seydl (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010).
- “Art of a Miracle: Towards a History of German Pop, 1955-1972,” Art of Two Germanys, Cold War Cultures, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: LACMA, 2009).
- “Light Bulbs and Monochromes: The Elective Affinities of Palermo and Richter,” in Blinky Palermo: To the People of New York City, ed. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly (New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2009).
- Blinky Palermo, Abstraction of an Era (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
- “Television Art’s Abstract Starts, Europe c. 1944-1969,” October 125 (Summer 2008).
- “Emerging Markets: The first contemporary art fair,” Artforum (April 2008).
- “Duckhunting with Dieter Roth,” in Object Lessons (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008).
- “Modernism by the Yard: Yve-Alain Bois, Christine Mehring, and Ann Temkin discuss Palermo’s cloth-pictures,” in: Palermo (Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle, 2007).
- “Mass Appeals: The Art of Thomas Bayrle,” Artforum (April 2007).
- “Benjamin Buchloh,” in Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, ed. Jonathan Vickery and Diarmuid Costello (Oxford: Berg/Oxford International, 2007).
- “Siskind’s Challenge: Action Painting and A Newer Laocoon, Photographically Speaking,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006).
- “Hans Hartung, Mid-Century Modern,” in: Hartung: 10 Perspectives, ed. Anne Pontegnie (Milan: 5 Continents, and Antibes: Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergmann, 2006).
- Neo Rauch Renegaten, exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner Gallery, 2005).
- “Abstraction and Decoration in Blinky Palermo’s Wall-Paintings,” Grey Room (Winter 2005).
- “Continental Schrift: The Magazine Interfunktionen,” Artforum (May 2004).
- “Supergegenständlichkeit: Der Maschinenmaler Konrad Klapheck,” Special Issue on the 1950s, Texte zur Kunst (June 2003).
- Wols Photographs, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 1999).