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Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — April 15, 2013
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 2013
Thea Burns. The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint (London: Archetype Publications, 2012).
Michael Ann Holly. The Melancholy Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).
Sharon Louden, ed. Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists (Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2013).
Joanne Pillsbury, ed. Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012).
Anna K. Tuck-Scala. Andrea Vaccaro (Naples, 1604–1670): His Documented Life and Art (Naples, Italy: Paparo Edizioni, 2012).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — February 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. This section is not an exhibition calendar: artists may submit information for shows that have taken place within the past six months for publication.
February 2013
Mid-Atlantic
Marcia Annenberg. Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, December 17, 2012–February 14, 2013. News/Not News. Mixed media.
Maria Creyts. College Art Gallery, University Hall, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, January 8–February 8, 2013. Bespoken. Photography, photo-frieze, and fashion.
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Tom McGlynn. Hamilton Square, Jersey City, New Jersey, December 7, 2012–March 25, 2013. Very Much Like (Pictures of Nothing). Painting.
Linda Stein. Bogigian Art Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, March 31–April 30, 2013. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
Midwest
Kate Gilmore. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, March 16–June 9, 2013. Kate Gilmore: Body of Work. Video and sculpture.
Northeast
Sharon L. Butler. Pocket Utopia, New York, January 8–February 17, 2013. Precisionist Casual. Painting.
Cora Cohen. Guided by Invoices, New York, February 15–March 16, 2013. The Responsibility of Forms. Painting.
Leila Daw. Gallery West, Suffolk County Community College, Michael J. Grant Campus, State University of New York, Brentwood, New York, January 31–March 14, 2013. Leila Daw: Remember How You Got Here. Mixed media.
Sharon Lee Hart. Charles C. Thomas Gallery, Porteous Building, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, October 19–December 17, 2012. Sanctuary: Portraits of Rescued Farm Animals. Photography.
Susanne Slavick. Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, December 7, 2012–January 12, 2013. Wrought. Mixed media.
Tova Snyder. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, New York, February 27–March 29, 2013. Italian Roofscapes. Painting.
Esmé Thompson. Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, New York, January 19–February 22, 2013. Esmé Thompson. Painting, sculpture, and installation.
Josette Urso. Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, February 7–March 9, 2013. Snow Day. Painting.
Leah Wolff. Scaramouche, New York, November 11 2012–January 13, 2013. Leah Wolff: It’s Been Hours. Ceramic sculpture and drawing.
South
Barbara Bernstein. Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, December 1, 2012–March 30, 2013. Connections. Plans and maquettes for a public art commission for seven stations of the Virginia Transit System.
Heather Deyling. Roy C. Moore Gallery, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, Georgia, November 1–28, 2012. Imminent Overgrowth. Installation and painting.
Lauren Kalman. Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, South Carolina, January 25–March 3, 2013. Spectacular. Sculpture and video.
West
Dawn Roe. Gray Box Media Space, White Box, University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, February 7–March 23, 2013. Dawn Roe: Goldfields. Video installation.
Linda Stein. Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee Vallery College, Wenatchee, Washington, January 2–March 14, 2013. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
People in the News
posted by CAA — February 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.
February 2013
Academe
Peter Chametzky, formerly professor of art history and director of the School of Art and Design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, has been appointed professor of art history and chair of the Department of Art at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Irene V. Small, formerly an assistant professor in art history at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, has joined the faculty of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
Museums and Galleries
Austen Barron Bailly, previously head of the American Art Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, has been named George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
Susan L. Beningson has joined the Brooklyn Museum in New York as assistant curator of Asian art. She will help with a major reinstallation of the museum’s permanent galleries of Asian and Islamic art, scheduled to open in 2015.
Katherine A. Bussard, associate curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, has been named Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey. She will begin work at the museum on April 15, 2013.
Nicholas Capasso, deputy director of curatorial affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, has become the new director of the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Anne Collins Goodyear, associate curator of prints and drawings for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and president of the CAA Board of Directors, has been appointed codirector of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. She will lead the institution with her husband, Frank H. Goodyear III.
Alisa LaGamma has joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as curator in charge of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. On April 1 she will succeed Julie Jones, who is retiring at the end of March 2013.
Lauren K. O’Neal, a faculty member of the Graduate Arts Administration Program at Boston University in Massachusetts, has been appointed director of the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Lynn Orr, curator in charge of European art for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in California, has left her position after twenty-nine years of service.
Valérie Rousseau, an independent curator and scholar, has been chosen to serve as curator of twentieth-century and contemporary art at the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — February 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.
February 2013
The Dallas Museum of Art in Texas has announced that it will offer free admission to all visitors and also initiate a rewards-for-participation system. A new online software system will enable visitors to track their museum-related activity and communicate their experiences with the museum.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana has received a $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project called “Documenting Modern Living: Digitizing the Miller House and Garden Collection,” which includes correspondence, drawings, blueprints, textile samples, and photographs that chronicle the design, construction, and maintenance of the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana.
Parsons the New School for Design in New York has opened a new academic center in Paris, France, opening in summer 2013. Called Parsons Paris, the center will offer undergraduate, graduate, and study-abroad programs.
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence has received a $250,000 gift from the Champlin Foundations to help complete ongoing improvements to the Eliza G. Radeke Building. The Champlin funds match an anonymous challenge from a large national foundation.
The Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, has received a gift from Marilyn Stokstad, distinguished professor emerita of art history at the University of Kansas, to endow the museum’s directorship, a position she once held.
The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, has opened the new Kubler-Thompson Gallery of Indo-Pacific Art, enabled by the generosity of Thomas Jaffe, a Yale alumnus, after a renovation and expansion project. The first installation features selections from Jaffe’s promised gift of ethnographic sculptures and Indonesian textiles.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — February 15, 2013
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 2013
Tenley Bick, a PhD candidate in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been awarded an Institute of International Education Graduate Fellowship for International Study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in support of her dissertation, “Capital and Rags: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Arte Povera in Turin, 1958–1972.”
China Blue has been listed in Who’s Who of American Art and received a nomination for Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally in 2012 by the International Association of Art Critics. She also has received the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship for New Genres and the Project Grant.
Maria Elena Buszek of the University of Colorado in Denver has won the twenty-eighth annual LoPresti Award for best essay collection of 2011. The award, administered by the Art Libraries Society of North America’s Southeast Chapter, recognizes Buszek’s anthology Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011) among those titles representing “excellence in art publications issued in the southeastern United States.”
Michael Cline, an artist based in Astoria, New York, has received a 2012 Artists’ Fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Eva Díaz, assistant professor of contemporary art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2012 award in the book category from the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She will work on The Fuller Effect: Contemporary Art and the Critique of Total Design.
Jennifer Doyle, associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, has been recognized by the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with a 2012 award in the book category. She will continue developing The Athletic Turn, an exploration of interactions between sports and contemporary art.
Kate Gilmore, an artist based in New York, has earned a 2012 Artists’ Fellowship in interdisciplinary work from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Abigail McEwen, assistant professor of art history in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland in College Park, has received a 2013 Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowship for her book project, “Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba.”
Ara H. Merjian, assistant professor of Italian studies and art history at New York University, has accepted a 2012 award in the book category from the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His project is titled Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Politics of Art History: Heretical Aesthetics.
Lauren Hackworth Petersen, associate professor of art history at the University of Delaware in Newark, has received a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to complete a book manuscript, “The Material Life of Roman Slaves,” coauthored with Sandra Joshel, professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Daniel R. Quiles, assistant professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, has received a 2012 award in the article category from the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. He will continue developing “Counterpublic Access: The Live! Show and TV Party, 1978–1984.”
Kristine Ronan, a PhD candidate in the history of art at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has been appointed a 2012–13 CIC/Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Ronan specializes in American and Native American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Alan Ruiz, an artist based in New York, has been accepted into the 2013 Art Law Program, a semester-long seminar series with a theoretical and philosophical focus on the effects of law and jurisprudence on cultural production and reception.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, professor emerita of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has received a 2012 award in the category of short-form writing from the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her project is titled Photography in the Age of Catastrophe.
Hakan Topal, an artist and scholar who teaches at the School of Visual Arts and in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, has been named a participant in the 2013 Art Law Program, a semester-long seminar series with a theoretical and philosophical focus on the effects of law and jurisprudence on cultural production and reception.
Corinne Ulmann, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has accepted a 2012 Artists’ Fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Harry J. Weil, a doctoral candidate in art history and criticism at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, has been recognized by the Arts Writers Grant Program, administered by Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with a 2012 award in the category of short-form writing.
Deborah Zlotsky, an artist who lives and works in Albany, New York, has received a 2012 Artists’ Fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — February 15, 2013
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 2013
Reni Gower. Papercuts. Ritter Art Gallery, University Galleries, School of the Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, January 19–March 2, 2013.
Andreas Marks. Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, November 13, 2012–February 3, 2013.
Barbara McPhail. No Land Escapes. Ink Shop, Ithaca, New York, February 1–March 29, 2013.
Stephen Petersen. Gertrude Käsebier: The Complexity of Light and Shade. Old College Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, February 6–June 28, 2013.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — February 15, 2013
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 2013
Bridget Alsdorf. Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).
Billy X. Curmano. Futurism’s Bastard Son (Vienna: Mark Pezinger Verlag, 2012).
Jonathan Fineberg. A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013).
Andreas Marks. Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints (Leiden, the Netherlands: Hotei, 2012).
Andreas Marks with Margalit Monroe. Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art (Washington, DC: International Arts and Artists, 2012).
Natasha Seaman. The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen: Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012).
Ian Verstegen. A Realist Theory of Art History (New York: Routledge, 2013).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — December 22, 2012
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 2012
Abroad
Grimanesa Amorós. Yuan Space, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, October 20–November 30, 2012. Voyage: Video Retrospective. Video.
Jenny Krasner. Shanghai Art Center, Shanghai, China, September 29–October 29, 2012. Jenny Krasner: The Shanghai Series. Photographic composites.
Mid-Atlantic
Steven Bleicher. Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery, College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, Maryland, September 4–October 4, 2012. Steven Bleicher: Lonesome Road. Mixed media.
Midwest
Binod Shrestha. Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 19–December 30, 2012. Remnants and Rumination. Sculpture.
Buzz Spector. Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 19–November 16, 2012. Buzz Spector: Off the Shelf. Installation and photography.
Northeast
China Blue. John Brown House Museum Courtyard, Providence, Rhode Island, September 20, 2012–April 2013. Firefly Grove. Interactive light and sound installation.
Patricia Cronin. Ford Project, New York, November 8–December 21, 2012. Dante: The Way of All Flesh. Painting, watercolor, and drawing.
Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy. Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC, January 5–February 2, 2013. Grid, Sequence Me. Projected animation.
Jeff Frederick. Brooklyn College Library Gallery, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, August 28–December 1, 2012. Color Fusion. Painting.
Lia Halloran. DCKT Contemporary, New York, November 17, 2012–January 6, 2013. Metamorphose. Drawing.
South
Lia Cook. Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, University of North Carolina (Asheville), Hendersonville, North Carolina, July 26–November 9, 2012. Bridge 11: Lia Cook. Mixed media.
Blane De St. Croix. University Galleries, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, November 6–21, 2012. Blane De St. Croix: (Un)Natural History II. Sculpture and installation.
West
Ken Gonzales-Day. Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, California, October 27–December 15, 2012. Profiled | Hang Trees | Portraits. Photography.
People in the News
posted by CAA — December 17, 2012
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 2012
Academe
Jay Gould, a photographer and a member of the faculty at the Maine Media Workshops, has joined Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore as a full-time faculty member in photography for academic year 2012–13.
Anne D. Hedeman has been appointed Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Prior to accepting the position, she was professor of art history and medieval studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Sonja Kelley, who has taught in the Department of Art and Art History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been appointed a full-time faculty member in art history, theory, and criticism for academic year 2012–13 at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Daniela Sandler, a scholar and professor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, has joined Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore as a full-time faculty member in art history, theory, and criticism for academic year 2012–13.
Dominic Terlizzi, an artist, has become a full-time faculty member in foundations for academic year 2012–13 at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Allison Yasukawa, a visiting lecturer at the University of St. Frances in Joliet, Illinois, and a teaching artist with the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chicago Artists Partnership in Education, has joined Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore as a full-time faculty member in humanistic studies for academic year 2012–13.
Museums and Galleries
Susan Ball, formerly interim director of programs at the New York Foundation for the Arts, has been appointed deputy director of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ball had served as CAA executive director from 1986 to 2005.
Ian Berry, curator and associate director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, has been named director of his institution.
Sabine Breitwieser has left the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she had been curator of media and performance art, for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in Germany, where she will serve as director.
Nicholas Capasso, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, has been named the new director of the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Mara Gladstone has been appointed assistant curator at the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs, California. She recently received her doctorate from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.
Katherine Hall, who recently earned a master’s degree in art history from the University of Georgia in Athens, has become curatorial fellow at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Texas. Her position is for three years.
Thomas Kren has been promoted to associate director of collections for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. He had served as acting associate director for collections at the museum since January 2010 and also as senior curator of manuscripts there.
Elizabeth Morrison has been appointed senior curator of manuscripts at J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, succeeding Thomas Kren. She had been acting senior curator of manuscripts at the museum since January 2012.
Elizabeth A. Williams, assistant curator of decorative arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, has been appointed curator of decorative arts and design at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence. She will take up her position in January 2013.
Organizations and Publications
Brooke Davis Anderson, deputy director of curatorial planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, has been appointed executive director of Prospect New Orleans in Louisiana. She will work with the biennial’s artistic director and two curatorial advisors to organize Prospect.3.
Karin Higa, an independent scholar and curator and formerly senior curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California, has been selected as a cocurator of Made in L.A. 2014, the city’s next biennial art exhibition.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — December 17, 2012
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 2012
The Dallas Museum of Art in Texas has accepted a $94,681 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to create a Learning Lab, described as a space for young people to interact with mentors and peers using new media and traditional materials, with the goal of having museum visitors create content as well as consume it.
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has won a Community Service Award from the Oklahoma Arts Council, an official state agency. The award recognizes significant contributions to the arts in specific Oklahoma communities in areas of leadership and volunteerism.
The Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri has received a $125,000 multiyear commitment from the Private Client Reserve of US Bank for the Beaux Arts Council, a leadership giving group that provides unrestricted support for the museum.
The University of Michigan School of Art and Design in Ann Arbor has received a $32.5 million pledge from Penny Stampls, a 1966 design graduate, and her husband, E. Roe Stampls, which will be matched with $7.5 million from the university.
The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, has received the 2012 Benjamin West Award from the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust. This annual award is given to an individual or institution that has shown extraordinary commitment to Anglo-American friendship and generosity to the arts.
Yale University Press, based in New Haven, Connecticut, has accepted a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new digital initiative in its scholarly publishing program in art and architectural history. The grant will allow the press to launch extensive market research and development of a new electronic model for illustrated books.