Dr. Dodge is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance art and architecture, and the historical study of artists’ techniques. A former curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, she developed and taught York’s art history courses in Florence, Italy. Her research centres on technical and iconographic issues in 14th and 15th …
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Shirley Ann Brown
Shirley Ann Brown is a medievalist whose teaching and research interests include Medieval Art and Architecture of the British Isles, the History of Stained Glass/Stained Glass in Canada, and Art History Methodology. She taught previously at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, and at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Shirley Ann Brown is …
Ted Bieler
Sculptor Ted Bieler has extensive exhibition credits throughout North America. His commissioned works include sculptures for Expo ’67 in Montreal and for public spaces throughout Ontario, notablyTetra in Kingston, and Canyons in the Wilson subway station and Triad on Front Street at University Avenue in Toronto. His monumental outdoor sculpture Wave Breaking can be seen on the grounds of the Canadian chancery …
Carol Zemel
Professor Zemel joined the faculty in the Department of Visual Arts in 2000. Prior to York, she taught at Concordia University, Temple University (Philadelphia), Dartmouth College and the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she chaired the Art History Department from 1997-2000. Professor Zemel’s areas of research and publication include 19th and 20th-century …
Kevin Yates
Professor Yates’ art practice and research revolves around creating sculpture which functions like film stills: objects that hold space like a “pause” so the viewer can examine and inspect them. He creates installation experiences which confound the expectation of knowing-through-seeing, setting the stage for a perpetual mystery. He is particularly interested in crime scenes, in …
Brandon Vickerd
Brandon Vickerd is a sculptor whose site-specific interventions, public performances and object-based sculptures act as a catalyst for critical thought and engagement with the physical world. Purposely diverse, his studio work straddles the line between high and low culture, acting as a catalyst for critical thought and addressing the failed promise of a modernist future …
Malcolm Thurlby
Malcolm Thurlby is an internationally renowned specialist in medieval art and architecture and Canadian architectural history. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, he has published four books over 150 articles on aspects of Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture in Britain and 19th century …
Karen Stanworth
Professor Stanworth is an art historian whose research addresses issues of knowledge formation within visual culture, with a particular emphasis on the representation of identities, and the paradox of belonging and difference. She has published on topics related to visual culture and pedagogy; higher education and the arts; feminist cultural theory and production; and narrative …
Yvonne Singer
Professor Singer was born in Budapest, Hungary. She received a BA in English Literature at McGill and an MFA Honours from York University. She also studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Singer is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the former Graduate Program Director in visual arts. Her community …
Judith Schwarz
Professor Schwarz is a nationally-recognized artist whose work is found in public and private collections across Canada. She teaches sculpture and drawing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has also developed and taught courses in feminist studio. Judith Schwarz has created several large-scale public commissions in Toronto and Vancouver that stress integration between …
