William P. Seeley
Associate Professor (part time) | Adjunct lecturer
University of Southern Maine | UNH - Manchester
wseeley2 at gmail dot com
Oxford University Press
February 2020
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Born: July 7, 1966
Education: CUNY-Graduate Center, Philosophy Program and Concentration in Cognitive Science.
M.A., 2001, M.Phil., 2001.
Ph.D., May 2006.
Dissertation: "The Neurophysiology of Aesthetic Experience: 3 Case Studies."
Columbia University, School of the Arts
M.F.A., Sculpture, 1992.
Columbia University
B.A., Philosophy, 1988.
Awards: Louis C. Sudler Prize in the Arts, Columbia University,1988.
Exhibitions: Faculty & Staff Art Show, Glickman Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, September 2024.
The Collaborative Drawing Project (Arms, Bodies, Chalk, & Oil Crayons). Arts Crawl: Chase Hall Gallery, Bates College
Lewiston, Maine, January 2017.
The Collaborative Drawing Project (Arcs, Lines, Gaze). Arts Crawl: Chase Hall Gallery, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine,
January 2015
The Collaborative Drawing Project (Dancing, Drawing, and Embodiment). Arts Crawl: Chase Hall Gallery, Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine, January 2013.
Rules and Chance Procedures (Art After the Antinomy of Taste), Chase Hall, Bates College, October 2012.
The Collaborative Drawing Project (Footsteps in the Snow after Sol LeWitt). Arts Crawl: Alumni Walk & Chase Hall Gallery,
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, January 2012.
Automatic Dancing-1112131411 (a collaboration with Rachel Boggia and the Bates College Dance Ensemble). Schaeffer Theater, Bates College, November 12-14, 2011.
Constrained Views, Natural Vistas, and the Constructed Landscape: Revealing a Science-Based Approach to the Aesthetics of Nature (after Nancy Holt). Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, May 26-27, 2011.
Art and Empiricism: Exploring the Conceptual Challenge to Modernism. Olin Lobby, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine,
November, 2010.
The Collaborative Drawing Project (after Sol LeWitt). Bates Museum, Lewiston, Maine, November, 2008.
The Collaborative Drawing Project (Movements & Marks). Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, March 2008.
Location Drawings (After Sol LeWitt), The Collaborative Drawing Project. Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall
College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, , November 2007.
Robotic Emergent Systems - Arts. SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 2006 (group show).
The Suntrap and Other Abstract Forms in Motion (Solo Exhibition). Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 2006, (solo exhibition).
Untitled (leaning with bricks). Turner Gallery, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, November 2005, (solo exhibition).
Studio Facchetti, Brooklyn (Williamsburg), New York, January 2003, (group show).
Gestural Vectors. Studio Facchetti, Brooklyn (Williamsburg), New York, May 2002, (solo exhibition).
Summer Exhibition. The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, 1994, (group show).
The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, February 1994, (group show).
The Next Generation. The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Spring 1993, (group show).
Outdoor Works. Ezra Styles College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 1992, (solo exhibition).
Ira Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, May 1990, (group show).
Annual Exhibition, Proceedings and Addresses of the Annual Meeting of the College Arts Association. Hunter College, New
York, December 1990.
Annual Student Show. National Arts Club, New York, December 1989.