 |
 |
 |
 |
Nanette Salomon is a professor of art history in the Performing and Creative Arts department and the curator of the College's Art Gallery. She recieved her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU. She has written numerous articles that range in subject from the Cnidian Aphrodite of the Hellenistic Greek period to the work of Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish woman artist who perished in the Holocaust. Her two books, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting, Davaco Press 1984 and Shifting Priorities; Gender and Genre in Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting, Stanford University Press, 2004, are feminist interpretations of Dutch painting. Her work has also included a critique of the history of the History of Art. She is also a regular lecturer for the Education department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. At the College of Staten Island she teaches a full range of courses from the Ancient World through the Baroque period, as well as courses that survey Women and the Fine Arts and the History of Printmaking. As Curator of the Art Gallery she produces four exhibitions a semester of both historical and contemporary art.