Name:	Jan Estep, PhD, MFA
Email:	jestep@umn.edu
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Specialty:	Contemporary Visual Art, Conceptual Art, Philosophy and Art, the relationship between language and art
Statement:	Jan Estep is an artist, writer, and associate professor of art at the University of Minnesota. Estep studied biology as an undergraduate, and has a PhD in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis (1993) and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1997). She is a conceptual artist working in video, sculpture, drawing, photography, and text-based forms. Estep’s critical writing has appeared in various international catalogues and in the art journals Afterall, Frieze, Bridge, New Art Examiner, Bomb, InterReview, Modern Painters, and Rain Taxi. Prior to moving to Minneapolis she was senior editor of New Art Examiner.
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Recent Selected Publications:	“Why Write About Art?” in Rain Taxi, Vol.11, No.1, Spring 2006. “more and less: Haim Steinbach’s Dialectics,” in InterReview, Spring 2006. “Transcendental Twaddle: Saying Wittgenstein,” in New Art Examiner, January/February 2002.