Back to the Future
By Suzanne Hudson
Suzanne Hudson writes on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on abstraction, painting, process, creativity, pedagogy, and American philosophy as it intersects with aesthetics and institutional discourses. She is cofounder of the Contemporary Art Think Tank and the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, an affiliate society of the College Art Association. Her work has appeared in such publications as Artforum, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, Art Journal, and October. She is the author of Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT Press, 2009; 2011), the coauthor and coeditor of Contemporary Art: 1989–Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and the author of Painting Now (Thames & Hudson, 2015). She teaches art history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.