Research Interests
- Painting, practice and materials through history
- Modernism
- Clyfford Still
- Sight and vision
- Perception and recognition
Education
MA, Art History, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Sociology, Southwestern University
Bio
Semlitsch’s research concerns the legacy of abstract and subjective thought manifest in the history of painting. The practice of painting has indexed intimate details of human ontology throughout time; today, some painters elect to apply pigment to surface with the same techniques developed and employed generations prior. Others innovate the practice using contemporary digital and analog technologies. For example, Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s pensive application of paint asserts itself differently than the practice of artists such as Katharina Grosse and Drew Bacon. Each of these artists paint, though the diversity of their practice and the public’s affinity for their images betray the sensuous hold painting and its changing boundaries exert on our imagination.