Biography

Professor of Art History and Communication Studies
Ph.D., Temple University

Andrew Hottle is an art historian whose research focuses on the work of women, with particular emphasis on feminist art of the 1970s. In addition to articles, essays, and book reviews, he has published two books, The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration and Shirley Gorelick (1924-2000): Painter of Humanist Realism. He is currently writing a detailed monograph on the art of Sylvia Sleigh and preparing the catalogue raisonné of her paintings. His extensively researched book about the founding members of SOHO 20 Gallery is also in progress.

Courses

CMS 04450  Seminar in Communication Studies
ARHS 03220  Modern Art
ARHS 03241  History of Photography
ARHS 03340  Survey of Women Artists

Recent and Notable Publications

Hottle, Andrew D. "Older than God." In Cynthia Mailman: Origins of God, 7-11. Privately printed, 2023.

Hottle, Andrew D. "Mater/Filia." In Mater/Filia: Elsa M. and Jo Ann Goldsmith, 5-26. Glassboro, NJ: Rowan University Art Gallery, 2023.

Hottle, Andrew D. "They’ve Been Here All Along." In The Difference We’ve Made: Women Artists Active in the NYC Art World in the 1970s and Still Making Art, 6-7. New York: Carter Burden Gallery, 2022.

Hottle, Andrew D. Review of Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970, by Vivien Green Fryd. Art Inquiries 18, no. 1 (2020): 597-599.

Hottle, Andrew D. Review of Social Concerns and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880–1940, by Matthew Baigell. American Jewish History 100, no. 4 (October 2016): 571–573.

Hottle, Andrew D. The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd./Routledge, 2014.

Hottle, Andrew D. Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000): Painter of Humanist Realism. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Hottle, Andrew D. "Some Thoughts on Pieta, Afloat." In Feminist Art Workers: A History, edited by Cheri Gaulke and Laurel Klick, 58-59. Los Angeles: Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, 2012. 

Current Projects

Sylvia Sleigh: Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings
This yearslong research project will culminate in two publications. The first is a forthcoming monograph about the life and work of the feminist painter Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010). The second is a complete critical catalogue of every known painting created by the artist.

The Women of SOHO 20 Gallery: Founders and Early Members
This multiyear project is a detailed study that explores the founding of SOHO 20 Gallery (est. 1973), its exhibition program in the mid-1970s, and the professional careers of its original members. SOHO 20 was the second women-only, artist-run exhibition venue in New York City and the only expressly feminist gallery.