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Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — April 15, 2014
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars—browse a list of recent titles below.
Books Published by CAA Members appears every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2014
Katharine P. Burnett. Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013).
Klara Kemp-Welch. Antipolitics in Central European Art: Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956–1989 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).
Andreas Marks. Kunisada’s Tōkaidō: Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2013).
Griselda Pollock and Max Silvermann, eds. Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).
Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, eds. Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).
D. N. Rodowick. Elegy for Theory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi. Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — February 22, 2014
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2014
Mid-Atlantic
Julie Green, Texas 30 March 2010, from The Last Supper series (2000–ongoing), cobalt blue pigment painted on porcelain, kiln-fired ceramic, 6 x 6 x 1 in. (artwork © Julie Green)Julie Green. Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, January 18–March 1, 2014. The Last Supper: Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates. 550 painted, kiln-fired ceramic plates.
Midwest
Hartmut Austen, Ferris, 2013, oil on canvas, 75 x 60 in. (artwork © Hartmut Austen)Hartmut Austen. The Butcher’s Daughter, Detroit, Michigan, January 18–February 23, 2014. Approximate Territory. Painting.
Regina Mamou, Chartres Cathedral (left), 2012, C-print, 40 x 50 in.; and Lustgarten (right), 2012, C-print, 40 x 32 in. (artworks © Regina Mamou)Regina Mamou. City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 2013–January 19, 2014. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise. Photography.
Christopher Troutman. Mallin Gallery, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri, December 13, 2013–January 17, 2014. Charcoal and ink drawing.
South
Sharon Louden, Community, 2013, oil and enamel on stretched paper mounted on panel, 11 x 14 x 1½ in. (artwork © Sharon Louden)Sharon Louden. Beta Pictoris Gallery, Maus Contemporary Art, Birmingham, Alabama, January 7–February 16, 2014. The Dancing Line: New Paintings, New Drawings. Painting and drawing.
West
Jeffrey Glossip, Arrival (New Big), 2012, oil on canvas, 72 x 80 in. (artwork © Jeffrey Glossip)Jeffrey Glossip. Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, Washington, January 8–July 31, 2014. Big Paint. Large-scale nonrepresentational painting.
People in the News
posted by CAA — February 17, 2014
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
The section is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2014
Museums and Galleries
Kathleen Bickford BerzockKathleen Bickford Berzock, previously curator of African art at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been appointed associate director of curatorial affairs for the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Michael Brown, a researcher, lecturer, and formerly Mayer Curatorial Fellow for Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, has become an associate curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art in California.
Elizabeth KozlowskiElizabeth Kozlowski, formerly Windgate Curatorial Fellow at the Arizona State University Museum in Tempe, has become a new curator for the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — February 17, 2014
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
Institutional News is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2014
The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Frick Collection, whose institutional libraries formed the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), have been awarded a $340,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to initiate a program of web archiving for specialist art-historical resources. The two-year program will follow a 2012 pilot study, Reframing Collections for the Digital Age, also funded by the Mellon Foundation.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville has accepted a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support an upcoming exhibition, Joseph Cornell and Surrealism, organized by the museum and the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France.
The J. Paul Getty Trust, based in Los Angeles, California, and the British Museum in London, England, have announce a three-year collaboration with the National Cultural Fund and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the aegis of the Indian government’s Ministry of Culture, to build the capacities of ASI’s site-museum and site-management professionals. Nearly one hundred ASI professionals—among them archaeologists, site-museum professionals, site managers, directors, and caretakers—will participate in workshops, trainings, conferences, and working-group meetings in India, Los Angeles, London, and other Asian sites to help reimagine Indian site-museums with enhanced narratives, better collection management, and conservation.
The Herron School of Art and Design, part of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, has received a $2 million gift from Cindy Simon Skjodt, a philanthropist and advocate for mental health, to endow a chair for the school’s program in art therapy.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania has met the goal of a major five-year initiative, the Lenfest Challenge, having raised a total of $54 million to endow twenty-nine staff positions in its curatorial, conservation, library, archive, education, publishing, and digital-technology departments. H. F. (Gerry) Lenfest, chairman emeritus of the museum’s board of trustees, and his wife, Marguerite, offered a $27 million grant in September 2008, challenging donors to match this gift on a one-to-one basis to endow and name these positions.
The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles and the Pacific Asia Museum of Pasadena, one of the few American museums dedicated to the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands, have announced a new partnership that will preserve the museum’s 1924 Chinese Qing Dynasty–inspired mansion in downtown Pasadena as an art museum. The partnership will also enhance the scholarship of the creative faculty and students at USC’s six arts schools and those in the departments of art history, East Asian language and cultures, religion, and archaeology. In addition, the alliance will provide a foundation for a renewed museum-studies and curatorial-training program at USC.
The University of Texas at Dallas has announced the new home for the Arts and Technology (ATEC) program: the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building. This new 155,000-square-foot facility will host programs and promote advancements in visual art, emerging media technology, and multimedia communications.
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, has received a $9.6 million bequest from the estate of Charles H. Schwartz to establish an endowment to expand and enhance the museum’s collection of English and European works of art from the eighteenth century.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — February 15, 2014
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
Grants, Awards, and Honors is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2014
Amy BryzgelAmy Bryzgel, lecturer in history of art at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2014 to support work on a book project titled “Performance Art in Central and Eastern Europe,” which will be a comprehensive study of performance art practices in the region.
Sharon L. Butler, an artist and writer based in New York and southeastern Connecticut, has accepted a 2013 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program for her blog, Two Coats of Paint.
Stephanie Cardon of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, has been accepted into the 2013 Art Writing Workshop, a partnership between the International Association of Art Critics, the Arts Writers Grant Program (supported by Creative Capital), and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Carolyn Castaño, an artist based in Los Angeles, California, has received a $25,000 award from the 2013 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program, administered by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Victoria Fu, an artist based in San Diego and Los Angeles, California, has earned a 2013 grant from Art Matters to support her ongoing work.
Gregory Halpern, a photographer who lives and works in Rochester, New York, has been accepted into Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program for 2014.
Steve Kurtz, professor of art and chair of the Department of Visual Studies at the State University of New York’s University at Buffalo, has earned a 2013 grant from Art Matters to support travel to Argentina for Critical Art Ensemble’s work with the art and environmental organization Ala Plástica in Río de la Plata, toward the second part of the project Basins.
Jessica Labatte, a photographer based in Chicago, Illinois, has been accepted into Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program for 2014.
Saloni Mathur of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, has earned a 2013 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program for her book project, “A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art.”
Allison Miller, an artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, has been named a 2014 Artist in Residence by the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, based in New Berlin, New York.
Sarah Pollman of Allston, Massachusetts, has been accepted into the 2013 Art Writing Workshop, a partnership between the International Association of Art Critics, the Arts Writers Grant Program (supported by Creative Capital), and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Gregory Sale has won a 2013 Art Matters grant to support the first iteration of Sleepover, a series of activities with diverse constituents exploring reentering society after incarceration, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Krista Thompson, associate professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has received a 2013 award from the Arts Writers Grant Program for her book project, “The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice.”
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — February 15, 2014
Check out details on recent shows organized by CAA members who are also curators.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2014
Joe Fig, Chuck Close: Summer 2004 #1, 2007, Cibachrome print, 16 x 20 in. (artwork © Joe Fig)Susan Ball. Inside the Artists’ Studios: Small-Scale Views. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, December 14, 2013–March 16, 2014.
Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick. Art under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm. Tate Britain, London, England, October 2, 2013–January 5, 2014.
Alison Saar, Blue Plate Special, 1993, etching, lithograph, and chine collé, 29 x 28¾ in. (artwork © Alison Saar) Tyrus Clutter. [in]justice: art and atrocity in the 20th century. Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida, February 8–May 11, 2014.
Laura Knott. 5000 Moving Parts. MIT Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 21, 2013–November 20, 2014.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — February 15, 2014
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars—browse a list of recent titles below.
Books Published by CAA Members appears every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2014
Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick, eds. Art under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm (London: Tate Publishing, 2013).
Stacy Boldrick, Leslie Brubaker, and Richard Clay, eds. Striking Images: Iconoclasms Past and Present (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013).
Amy Bryzgel. Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia, and Poland since 1980 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).
Steven Careau. Invention and Understanding: A Pedagogical Guide to Three Dimensions (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2013).
Andrew E. Hershberger, ed. Photographic Theory: An Historical Anthology (Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Hina Hirayama. “With Éclat”: The Boston Athenæum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston: Boston Athenæum, 2013).
Rosina Neginsky. Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
Michele Zackheim. Last Train to Paris (New York: Europa Editions, 2014).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — December 22, 2013
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
December 2013
Abroad
Sue Johnson, Paddling Brush, 2011, gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper (artwork © Sue Johnson; photograph by Malcolm Osman/PRM)Sue Johnson. Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury, England, February 1–May 10, 2014. Pitt Rivers: Collecting Patterns. Painting and printmaking.
Mid-Atlantic
Peter Dueker, Untitled (#9), digital c-print, 10 x 10 in. (artwork © Peter Dueker)Peter Dueker. Outer Space, Washington, DC, October 5–26, 2013. 19 Hot Biscuits. Photography.
Midwest
Michelle Grabner, Untitled, 2013 (artwork © Michelle Grabner; photograph provided by the artist and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago)Michelle Grabner. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1, 2013–February 16, 2014. I Work from Home. Painting, printmaking, video, and sculpture.
Michelle Handelman, Irma Vep, the last breath, 2013, 4-channel HD video installation, 33:00 min. (artwork © Michelle Handelman; photograph by Laure Leber)Michelle Handelman. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, September 20, 2013–March 30, 2014. Irma Vep, the last breath. Multichannel video installation.
Amy Reidel. Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, Saint Louis Community College, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 3–25, 2013. Relic-quarry: New Work by Amy Reidel. Painting, installation, collage, and video.
Northeast
Invitation card for Michele Brody’s Harlem RootsMichele Brody. Casa Frela, New York, November 9–December 9, 2013. Harlem Roots. Environmental installation.
Sharon Louden, still from Community, 2013, digital animation, 2:35 min. (artwork © Sharon Louden)Sharon Louden. Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, October 24–December 7, 2014. Community. Sculpture and video.
Josette Urso. Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, September 4–October 12, 2013. Multiple Choice.
Michael Velliquette, Working Arm, 2013, paper, ink, acrylic, foam, and glue, 52 x 36 in. (artwork © Michael Velliquette)Michael Velliquette. DCKT, New York, October 25–December 8, 2013. Their Arising and Passing Away. Sculptural cut-paper construction.
South
Invitation card for Kyra Bélan’s exhibitionsKyra Bélan. Fine Arts Gallery, Cape Coral Arts Studio, Cape Coral, Florida, December 6–26, 2013. Painting and text.
Kyra Bélan. Member Gallery, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Meyers, Florida, December 6–28, 2013. Painting, drawing, digital media, and mixed media.
Blane De St. Croix, Broken Landscapes III, 2013 (artwork © Blane De St. Croix)Blane De St. Croix. Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, December 5, 2013–February 16, 2014. Broken Landscapes III. Sculpture.
Sue Johnson, Mod-style Hearth (left) and Picture Window Looking West, from the series Ready-Made Dream, 2013 (artworks © Sue Johnson)Sue Johnson. Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia. October 3–December 7, 2013. Sue Johnson: American Dreamscape. Installation.
Josette Urso, Cloud Lily, 2013, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (artwork © Josette Urso)Josette Urso. Maitland Art Center Galleries, Art and History Museum Maitland, Maitland, Florida, October 11–December 29, 2013. Artist-in-Residence ONE: Josette Urso. Painting.
West
Mira Schor, Reversible Painting: Map, 2013, ink and oil on gesso on linen, 28 x 24 in. (artwork © Mira Schor)Mira Schor. CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, California, October 19–December 8, 2013. Mira Schor: Chthonic Garden. Painting.
People in the News
posted by CAA — December 17, 2013
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
The section is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
December 2013
Academe
Anna ColletteAnna Collette has been appointed assistant professor in photography by the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
Luba Freedman, a specialist of Italian Renaissance art and professor in history of art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, has been named Jack Cotton Professor in Architecture and Fine Arts at her school.
Carma GormanCarma Gorman has joined the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin as associate professor in design.
LaToya M. Hobbs has been appointed to teach foundations at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Museums and Galleries
Cathleen Chaffee (photograph by James Sevigny)Cathleen Chaffee, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, has joined the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, as curator.
Amy Galpin, an associate curator for the San Diego Museum of Art in California, has become the new curator for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Mazie McKenna Harris, a doctoral candidate in the history of photography at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has been named Linda Wyatt Gruber ’66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Ronda Kasl, formerly senior curator of painting and sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana, has become a curator of colonial Latin American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Karl KusserowKarl Kusserow, curator of American art at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, has been named the inaugural John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at his institution.
Michael W. Maizels, most recently a research assistant and predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, has been appointed Mellon New Media Curator and Lecturer by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Joanne Pillsbury, an associate director of the Getty Research Institute, has been named Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Kelly TaxterKelly Taxter, a cofounder of Taxter and Spengeman Gallery in New York and a curatorial consultant for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, has joined the Jewish Museum in New York as assistant curator.
Mary M. TintiMary M. Tinti, formerly a curatorial fellow for the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, has been appointed associate curator of the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — December 17, 2013
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
Institutional News is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
December 2013
The December 2013 listing of Institutional News will be published in spring 2014.