Ann Eden Gibson writes on Modern and Contemporary Art and is best known for her work on Abstract Expressionism. She holds an M.A. in Ceramics from Kent State University and taught studio art for ten years before beginning her M.A. in Art History at the University of Pittsburgh, from which she received the Distinguished Alumna Award for 1995. She received her Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Delaware and before she cane to Delaware, she taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Yale University, the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and UCLA ; she has held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Studies in the Visual Art at the National Gallery, the Smithsonian, and the Getty Research Institute.

Interested in the interaction of vision and language in the production of culture and identity, Gibson meshes ideas from fields such as literature, psychology, anthropology and philosophy with close examination of fine art and popular culture as well as works of art to look at how art affects culture and how culture is reflected in art. She specializes in art after World War II, teaching courses in Semiotics, Abstraction, Allegory, Cross-Cultural Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Feminist Theory and Contemporary Women’s Art, and Postmodernism.

Gibson is the author of Issues in Abstract Expressionism: The Artist-Run Periodicals (1990) and Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics (1997). She co-curated Judith Godwin, Style and Grace for the Museum of West Virginia (1997) and Norman Lewis: The Black Paintings, 1946-1977, at the Studio Museum in Harlem (1998). She has written catalogue essays for exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Corcoran, Kenkeleba Gallery and the New Museum, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Paul R. Jones Collection at the University of Delaware, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. With Stephen Polcari she guest-edited and published an article in an issue of the Art Journal , and her articles have appeared in journals such as Studio International, Kunstforum, the International Review of African American Art, Artforum, American Art, Genders, The Journal of Homosexuality, Yale Journal of Criticism, Arts Magazine, Third Text, and anthologies published by the University of Chicago, Cambridge University Press, Harper Collins, the University of Liverpool Press, The Institute of International Visual Arts, and Rutgers University Press. In 2004 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship for research on a book about Hale Woodruff.

ARTH623-010 Abstract Expressionism and Its Legacy (Spring 1999)

ARTH667-010 Regimes of Visuality (Fall 2000)

ARTH623-010 Adversarial American & European Art 1954-1969 (Spring 2001)

ARTH623-010 Art in the Seventies (Spring 2002)

ARTH667-010 Reliving Visual History as Social Critique (Fall 2002 taught with Dr. C. Marks)

ARTH623-010 Theory in the 1980's (Spring 2003)

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