About the Artist/Author

Jeffrey Strayer is an artist and philosopher and is the author of Subjects and Objects: Art, Essentialism, and Abstraction (Brill, 2007). Strayer has been an invited speaker at both domestic and foreign universities and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. He is at work on a series of artworks called the Haecceities Series that investigates the limits of Abstraction in art and the conceptual and aesthetic possibilities of Essentialism. A companion volume to Subjects and Objects titled Haecceities: Essentialism and the Limits of Abstraction is a work-in-progress that pertains to the works of the Haecceities series and examines a number of things that are of aesthetic, artistic, and philosophical interest to the project of Essentialist Abstraction. Strayer is a Continuing Lecturer in philosophy at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne.