![a city park with green grass and red tile channels cut into the lawn with a large metal structure over a large drain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured/public/2021-07/Holt-Catch_Basin-1200pxW-1.jpg?itok=CxWXP9Xx)
Paige Hirschey
![a city park with green grass and red tile channels cut into the lawn with a large metal structure over a large drain](/sites/default/files/styles/featured/public/2021-07/Holt-Catch_Basin-1200pxW-1.jpg?itok=CxWXP9Xx)
Project Description
Paige Hirschey's Research Fellowship focuses on Nancy Holt’s 1982 work Catch Basin and related System Works.
Biography
Paige is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto specializing in artists' engagements with science and technology from the Cold War to the present. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado in 2014 and her M.Sc. in Art History, Curating and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. She is currently at work on her doctoral dissertation, which offers a reexamination of the aesthetic theories of György Kepes and the enduring legacy of his Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.