Ashley Lazevnick

Washington and Lee University

06/27/2021 - 08/08/2021

Ashley Lazevnick is a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute. She is visiting assistant professor of art history at Washington and Lee University. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2018 and her MA from Williams in 2012. A specialist in Modern American art, her research investigates the intersections of art and literature, the history of science, and philosophies of pragmatism in the twentieth century. Previously, her work has appeared in the journals American Art and Word & Image as well as publications for the Warburg International Seminar, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Munich. At the Clark, Ashley will be completing the manuscript for her first book project, Fantasies of Precision, which reconsiders a group of American artists known as the Precisionists through an interdisciplinary analysis of the meanings and values of precision in the early twentieth-century.