61125profile12850607071352737745<![CDATA[Ruth Dusseault]]>
Dusseault's numerous projects examine utopian expressions in the built environment. Her work reveals the paradoxical relationship between utopian and dystopian realities in our present and immediate histories. In her Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project (High Museum 2006), she tracked the six-year transformation of Atlanta's last large-scale industrial site from a century-old steel mill to a new urbanism city within the city, the largest urban redevelopment in the U.S. In a recent photographic study, Play War, (Emory 2010) she documents the sculptural uses of recycled materials to create homemade recreational battlefields. With Modern Nature, (2006 -08), she began an architectural survey of early 20th century tourist attractions that interpret the landscape. She has also curated touring exhibitions that merge art and architecture, including Terrain Vague: Photography and Architecture in the Post-Industrial Landscape (The Contemporary 2002, Carnegie Museum of Art 2003). For her work, she has received over a dozen artist awards, including and award from New York's Artadia Foundation (2009), the Emerging Artist Award from the Forward Arts Foundation (2003) and an NEA Design grant (2006). Her work is exhibited and collected internationally.
Educational Background
1992 - MFA Florida State University
Fields
Photography
Art and Architecture
Visual Studies in Design Research
Documentary Studies
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photography; art and architecture; visual studies in design research; documentary studies]]>Recent Courses
Arch 4415/ID 3813: Photography
Arch 4011: Senior Studio/Installation Art
Arch 4012: Senior Studio/Children's Museum Exhibition
(Emory University): Photo 3/Advanced Photography
Arch 4416: Photography II
]]>In the sciences, many creative devices have been built and many unusual events have occurred in the quest to test hypotheses. In centuries past, art and science were linked in the cultural imagination, only to be separated by the institutional systems of market and industry. Both art and architecture have the ability to provide access to the experiences of people in other times and places. They can prepare our students to deal with the complexities of human societies. A central objective in my teaching is to demonstrate to our students that art is a legitimate mode of inquiry, and that creative work has a place in the world of research.
Research Groups/Labs
Society for Photographic Educators, 2011 National Conference Committee
Future of Arts Criticism Working Group, Emory University
Art Papers, Board & Program Committee
Publications, Exhibitions, and Media Coverage
2010 Play War, reviewed in Art Papers magazine, Sept/Oct.
2010 Hyper real World: Landscape and Commodity, Florida St. Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 8 – Nov. 21
2010 Play War, Emory University, Atlanta, March 18 - April 23
2009 Featured Imagemaker, National Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Dallas, Mar. 27
2009 Artist Lecture, Emory University, Visual Arts Program, April 16
2009 Catherine Fox, “Play War Exhibit Puts Battlefields in New Light,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 26
2009 Play War, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, June 11 – July 12
2006 New Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, July 15 – October 1
2006 Lisa Kurzner, featured “On View,” Photograph NY, March/April
2005 Convergence: Beijing Off-Biennial, Curator Feng Boyi, Sept. 21 – October 7, Beijing, China
2005 Constructions / Reconstructions, SE Contemporary Art Gallery, Louisiana, Sept. 1 – 26
2005 Abstraction & Empathy, Fay Gold Gallery, Curator Christian Rattenmeyer, Feb. 18 – March 26
Recent Funded Projects
2010 Wendover Artist Residency, Center for Land Use Interpretation (www.clui.org)