Elizabeth Driscoll Smith

Elizabeth Driscoll Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at the University of California Santa Barbara, specializing in American art, craft, and material culture of the twentieth century. Her dissertation, “Build/Live/Work: Artist-Built Environments and the Expanded Vernacular in the Twentieth Century,” examines the ways artist-environment builders responded to new forms of mobility and movement in the postwar era. Elizabeth is a 2022-2023 Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Being Safe is Scary: Learning from Germany

This year, when documenta 14 expanded its scope to include...

Cautious Optimism

Patterned tentacles burst from the wall of Louisville’s 21c Museum....

Between Pictoralism and Polaroids

Drawing comparisons between images of two disparate periods in the...

Between Reality and Dream: The Nostalgic and Surreal Drawings of Patricia Bellan-Gillen

“We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: ‘sleep...

Drawn to Bodies: A Review

On the first floor of Zephyr Gallery, a replica of Jackie Onassis’s pink Chanel suit hangs against...

Experiments in Art History

University art galleries have the potential to serve as science...

Past Forward, Present Tense

Curatorial discourse has become increasingly self-reflexive, questioning the power structures...

When Less is More

Stephen Irwin spent most of his life making impressions—ask those...

All About the Alloy

The echoes of Rosalind Krauss’ 1979 article, “Sculpture in the...

Uncanny Nanny: The Intrigue of Vivian Maier

Six years after their public introduction, Vivian Maier’s photographs still...
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