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Ph.D. in Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, (2005)

M.F.A. in Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University, (2000)

Expertise

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary abstract painting and criticism; problems of modernism and composition.

Articles

Colaizzi, V. (2018). On Formal Noodling: Invention and Determination in Recent Abstract Painting. ASAP Journal (Association of the Study of the Art of the Present) 3 (1) , pp. 67-96.

Colaizzi, V. (2016). Joan Thorne: Analytic Ecstasy. Woman’s Art Journal 37 (1) , pp. 37-45.

Colaizzi, V. (2007). ‘How it Works:’ Stroke, Music, and Minimalism in the Early Paintings of Robert Ryman. American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum 21 (1) , pp. 28-49.

Books

Colaizzi, V. (2017). Robert Ryman. Phaidon.

Colaizzi, V. and Schubert, K. (2009). Robert Ryman: Critical Texts Since 1967. Karsten Schubert and Ridinghouse.

Colaizzi, V. (2008). Placing Color: Brett Baker, Carrie Patterson, and Kayla Mohammadi. The Painting Center: St. Mary’s City Maryland, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Book Chapters

Colaizzi, V. (2016). ’I’m Not We’—Step Up, New Work Thornton Willis: Interviews & Essays New York: Muse Eek Press.

• 2015: 51Ç鱨վ Summer Research Fellowship Program, 51Ç鱨վ
• 2007: Winona State University Fellowship for research on Ryman monograph, Winona State University
• 2005: Professional Fellowship in Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• 2004: Dean’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 2003: Paul and Fredrika Jacobs Fellowship, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University