Catherine Lord
California based artist, art historian and curator
Thursday, November 15

Lord's most current project, White Settlers in the Tropics, is "a skewed and illustrated encyclopedia of the Caribbean island of Dominica." The book will take an unconventional approach to understanding Caribbean history and culture through an investigation of its flora, fauna, cooking, and "bad art objects" made by its European colonizers. Working with a book designer, and conducting research that draws material from a wide range of archival sources as well as from the artist's family history, Lord will create a work that functions as both a museum and a memoir.

Catherine Lord is currently a professor in the Department of Studio Art and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. Lord has served as a curator for The Los Angeles Art Gallery, the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles, and the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. Her artwork has been displayed at the Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, the Santa Fe Museum of Art, and the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles. Last year, she was awarded both the Frank Jewett Mather Award, and the Sir Joseph Banks Fellowship at the Royal Botanical Gardens, London.