Joanna Frueh

Joanna Frueh (January 18, 1948 – February 20, 2020) was an American artist, writer and feminist scholar. Their two successive homes in Highland Park were designed by architects Crombie Taylor and Robert Bruce Tague.

Frueh received her Bachelor of Art from Sarah Lawrence College in 1970; and her Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1971; and her PhD, from the University of Chicago in 1981.

Frueh authored and edited several books, notably Erotic Faculties (University of California Press, 1996) and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective (1989); and was coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon (2000), Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action (1994), and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (1991). She wrote articles and reviews for Art in America, Art Journal, AfterImage, High Performance Magazine, and New Art Examiner, among others.

Freuh was also a photographer and performance artist; many of her photographs are collaborative self-portraits. Her work was exhibited internationally.

Awards Frueh was awarded a Women's Caucus for Art Honor Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in 2008.

Published works

Books BRUMAS: A Rock Star's Passage to a Life Re-Vamped. Includes series of black-and-white self-portrait photos shot by Glascock and Glascock. Oberlin, Ohio and Ukiah, California: Freshcut Press, 1982. Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective. With Hannah Wilke and Thomas H. Kochheiser. St. Louis, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1989. Her archives are located at Stanford University Library Special Collections.