Dr. Nicole Georgopulos

Biography

Nicole (Nikki) Georgopulos is a historian, curator, and educator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. Her research focuses primarily on realism and its intersections with history, science, philosophy, and cultural constructs of gender. Georgopulos' current book project traces the representations of mirrors and reflection in nineteenth-century paintings and prints, examining the confluence of mechanical and chemical advances in mirror-making technology and the mirror’s rise as a prominent artistic motif in the age of realism. She has published extensively on the work of Mary Cassatt, particularly on Cassatt's interest in women's suffrage and representation. Georgopulos is also concerned with the representation of women's labor in the nineteenth century and has collaborated with Laurel Garber (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Britany Salsbury (Cleveland Museum of Art) to organize the symposium 'Picturing Women Work in Nineteenth Century'. Her further research interests include critical archival theory, critical fabulation, speculative play in art historical methodologies, and new curatorial approaches to nineteenth-century art. She has consulted and worked on exhibitions at institutions such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Musée d’Orsay (Paris), and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto).

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