Clarissa Chevalier

Email:

cchevalier@ucsd.edu

Website:

https://www.clarissachevalier.com

Biography:

Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is an art historian, interdisciplinary researcher, and writer. She received an MA in art history from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020 and a BA in cinema arts and art history from Columbia College Chicago in 2018. Chevalier’s research areas are underpinned broadly by the global environmental crisis and include contemporary science/art collaborations, posthuman feminism, expanded definitions of science, craft mediums with an emphasis on ceramics, and the ecological practices of historically under-recognized artists, including the work of Agnes Denes.

Publications:

Chevalier, Clarissa. "Eco-Phenomenology and the Maintenance of Eco Art: Agnes Denes's A Forest for Australia." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 21, no 2, 273–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2021.1992726 

Chevalier, Clarissa. “Agnes Denes: Ecological Art and Cultural Sustainability.” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Edited by Robert Brinkmann. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_193-1