Consultants: Monday, January 26, 2015
Doctor’s Hours for Visual Artists
CONSULTANT BIOS:
These bios provide an opportunity for you to research which consultants would be appropriate for the advice and feedback you are seeking. Register here for Doctor’s Hours after 11:00 AM EST on Thursday, January 15.
Yaelle Amir, Curator
Yaelle Amir is an independent curator and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has curated exhibitions at Center for Book Arts, Artists Space, ISE Cultural Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation, Nurture Art, and Wallach Art Gallery, among others. Her writing has appeared in numerous art publications including Art in America, ArtLies, ArtSlant, ArtUS, Beautiful/Decay, and Sculpture Magazine. She has worked at major New York art institutions, such as the International Center of Photography, Rubin Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, and currently holds a Research Scholar position at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her writing and curatorial projects focus primarily on emerging and mid-career artists whose works meld the creative process with immediate social concerns, with an emphasis on photography, video, and new media.
Marco Antonini, Executive Director and Curator at NURTUREart
Antonini’s tenure, started in December 2010, has coincided with a period of great expansion and change in the organization, helping consolidate its status as a unique forum for emerging artists and curators. Antonini’s own curatorial projects at NURTUREart include the organization of ambitious programs: the 2011 WE ARE:, in which ten artists, curators and neighboring organizations were invited to take over NURTUREart for a week each,the 2012, three-part, …Is This Free? for which he also edited a book of interviews and texts on the topic of “Free” art and the upcoming Multiplicity, a reflection on poetic urbanism curated in collaboration with an international network of curators, hosted by NURTUREart in collaboration with Invisible Exports and Mixed Greens galleries. Some of Antonini’s previous curatorial projects have been produced by Japan Society, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), ISE Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation, The Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CCEG, Guatemala City. Recent projects include Welcome to The Real an exhibition curated for {TEMP} art space and the ongoing Richard, a large multi-authored project dedicated to a re-evaluation of readymade art in contemporary practice. Antonini’s articles, essays, interviews, short stories and poetry have been published worldwide on magazines, journals, catalogs and other exhibition-related publications. His MA dissertation thesis “The Obsolete in Reverse: Robert Smithson and Science Fiction” was a finalist in the 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants and were presented at the 2014 College Art Association conference in Chicago. He is currently editing a book of essays and interviews dedicated to the return of abstraction in contemporary painting.
Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director at Mixed Greens Gallery
Since joining the gallery in 2000, she has curated over one hundred exhibitions while managing a roster of nearly two-dozen artists. She is also an adjunct lecturer at Brown University where she teaches a professional practices class for visual arts majors. She sits on the board of NURTUREart (a nonprofit in Brooklyn that offers opportunities to emerging artists and curators) and the board of directors at Art Omi (an artist residency in Ghent, NY). She is a member of the College Art Association. In recent years, she co-authored ART/WORK, a professional development book for artists published in 2009 by Simon and Schuster, was a member of NADA, and co-chaired the programming committee for ArtTable in NY. She lectures and participates in portfolio reviews and panel discussions across the country. Bhandari received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Mixed Greens, she worked at contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, both in New York City.
David Dean, Development and Fundraising
David Dean has over 25 years of experience as an arts administrator and non-profit fundraiser. He was the Executive Director of Printed Matter for five years and has worked for a range of other organizations in both the United Kingdom, where he was born and educated, and the United States, including Queens Museum of Art, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, The French-American Foundation, English National Opera, and The National Trust. He is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Gabriel de Guzman, Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill,
Gabriel organizes the Sunroom Project Space series for emerging artists and coordinates thematic group exhibitions in Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery. He was also co-curator of Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial (summer 2013), featuring 73 artists who participated in the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program in 2012–13. He served as guest curator of the group exhibitions Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity (spring 2013) at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, and Immigrant Too (fall 2013) at Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. He recently curated photographer Yael Ben-Zion’s solo exhibition, Intermarried (winter 2014), at La Galeria at Boricua College, New York. In April 2014, he organized the Recent Graduates Exhibition for the Affordable Art Fair in New York. Before joining Wave Hill’s staff in 2010, he was Neubauer Family Foundation Curatorial Assistant at The Jewish Museum, where he coordinated exhibitions on Harry Houdini, Louise Nevelson, Joan Snyder, Andy Warhol, and Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. Mr. de Guzman contributed an essay in the Bronx Calling catalogue, an entry in Masterworks of The Jewish Museum, as well as biographical texts in catalogues for Houdini: Art and Magic, Warhol’s Jews, Louise Nevelson, and Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. He earned an M.A. in art history from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a B.A. in art history from the University of Virginia.
Miriam Katz, Curator and Writer
Miriam Katzis a New York- and Los Angeles-based curator and writer. She has organized exhibitions and performances for MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Art21, and Columbia University in New York, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Several times a year Katz also organizes and hosts a stand up show at David Lynch’s arts club, Silencio, in Paris. Her curatorial work has been written about in publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Bomb Magazine, and The LA Weekly. She writes regularly about art and comedy for Artforum and Bookforum magazines.
Jason A. Maas Founder & Director of the Artist Volunteer Center
Jason is an artist, educator, and arts nonprofit director. He founded the Artist Volunteer Center (www.avcenter.org), a nonprofit that connects artists with humanitarian volunteer opportunities. His work is dedicated to supporting artists who get involved in community projects and create socially-conscious work through grants, residencies, and shows. He has over ten years’ experience in college and K-12 art teaching. His artwork has been shown nationally and internationally, including the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, the Noyes Museum, Governor’s Island Art Fair, and Smack Mellon.
Jennifer Scanlan, Curator
Jennifer is a New York-based independent curator focusing on contemporary art and design. Her current exhibition is Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden at the Museum of Biblical Art, NYC, and she is working on upcoming exhibitions for 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, OK and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions for UrbanGlass in Brooklyn; the Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, VT; and the Visual Arts Center of Summit, NJ. Prior to working independently, for twelve years, she was Associate Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, where she organized a number of exhibitions, includingCrafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design. Scanlan has lectured internationally, including at the 2010 Conference of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies in Brussels, Belgium; Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute in Taichung, Taiwan; the 2007 Adornment Magazine conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; and the 2005 Glass Art Society Conference in Adelaide, Australia. She has also taught at Courtauld Institute of Art Summer School in London, England, and is currently part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. She has a BA in art history and Italian from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and an MA in the history of decorative arts, design, and culture from the Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York.
William Stover, Curator
William Stover has been a curator of contemporary art for over 16 years and has held positions in a number of important and diverse institutions including the Carnegie Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Independent Curators International, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stover is currently an independent curator and consultant to private collections in New York City.
Christine Walia, Programs Director, Lower East Side Printshop
Since joining the Printshop in late 2010, Christine works closely with studio and administrative staff to plan, schedule, and implement all residencies and programs for artists. She oversees program outreach, publicity, documentation, and evaluation, and hires outside consultants such as panelists, lecturers, and instructors. Prior to joining the Printshop, she was the Manager of Exhibitions and Programs at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ where she managed and coordinated programming including exhibitions, public programs, and functioned as the staff coordinator for its annual Fine Art Auction fundraiser. She is a Leadership Newark alumni, member of ArtTable and has a BA in Art History and minor in Business and Management from Skidmore College, NY.
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