benerdmann.space

I am a PhD student in art history. I study American art from the second half of the 20th century. Originally from Houston, TX, I’m particularly interested in the art, exhibition, and cultural networks of the American South.

My thinking is indebted to the fields of black studies, urban studies, and poststructuralism. Under our contemporary material conditions, I believe our analysis of art and culture must begin with firm political horizons that refuse concessions to the violence of the status quo. Art does more than “imagine” otherwise; art can articulate the embodied relations that exceed and scaffold our ideologies.

I live in Brooklyn, NY. You can often find me at Better Read Than Dead or Bar Cornelia.