ELIZABETH  L. LANGHORNE

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Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Professor at Central Connecticut State University, recently emerita, has taught American, modern and contemporary art history. She has also taught at the University of Richmond and at the University of Virginia. While at UVA she organized a symposium, Abstract Expressionism: Idea and Symbol. Her 1977 PhD dissertation, "A Jungian Interpretation of Jackson Pollock's Art through 1946," sparked a scholarly discussion with William Rubin in the pages of Art in America in 1979-80. In 1986 she became an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Her articles on Pollock have appeared in Art in America, Art History, American Art, and in numerous anthologies. Some titles are "Pollock, Picasso and the Primitive," "The Magus and the Alchemist: John Graham and Jackson Pollock," “Jackson Pollock und das Sakrale: Das Kirchenprojekt," "Pollock’s Dream of a Biocentric Art: The Challenge of His and Peter Blake’s Ideal Museum." Her monograph Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche (Art as a Search for Meaning) was published by Hawel Verlag in Germany in 2013.

            She is a board member of the Vieques Historic Conservation Trust in Puerto Rico, and has served on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust. Her conviction that ecologically aware art is an effective means of raising society’s awareness of issues of sustainable development led her in 2009 to curate two exhibitions at Central Connecticut State University’s Chen Art Gallery: Aviary and SUSTAINABLE? In Spring 2017 she curated an exhibition there entitled Earth, Fire, Water, Air: Elements of Climate Change.