By parsing aspects of Amor's own research and writing on postwar abstraction this talk will address locality, materiality and situatedness as yielding towards relationality instead of ontological certainty. By addressing underbellies of modernism, such as craft, pedagogy and synthesis of the arts, she will share her efforts to decenter the canon of postwar abstract art.

Monica Amor teaches modern and contemporary art with a focus on intermedial practices and transnational dialogues at Maryland Institute College of Art. She holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and her research has been supported by fellowships at DRCLAS Harvard University, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, The Graham Foundation, and PLAS Princeton University among others. She has written art criticism, essays, and numerous catalogues as well as curated several exhibitions.  Her book, Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944-1968 was published in 2016.  Her second book, Gego: Weaving the Space in Between was published by Yale University Press last April.