the ski club
MILWAUKEE
Buzz Spector
Writ Large
April 2016
Writ Large
Ski Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2016
Buzz Spector’s artwork has been the focus of exhibits in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, and Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. His work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. Spector has written on topics in contemporary art and culture for American Craft, Artforum, Art on Paper, Exposure, and Hand Papermaking, among other publications. His more experimental writing has been published in various journals and reviews since the 1970s, including Benzene, Café Solo, and River Styx. He was a co-founder, with Reagan and Roberta Upshaw, of WhiteWalls: a magazine of writings by artists, in Chicago in 1978, and served as editor until 1987. Spector holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.