JACQUELINE TARQUINIO, Gallery Director at THE BOX in LOS ANGELES
Jacqueline Tarquinio has worked in the gallery world for the last 5-6 years, seeing it as a space that has the most potential for artists to work in without restrictions. She is currently gallery director of The Box in Los Angeles where the program focuses on historical artists, often having been overlooked in their career/lifetime as well as younger artists who are encouraged to experiment in their practice. This multi-generational approach allows for a diverse interconnection between historical and contemporary work.
At The Box she is working with artists Judith Bernstein, Barbara T Smith, John Altoon and Stan Vanderbeek, among others, whose art practices range from painting, drawing, performance to film. These artists Jackie explains, ‘are finding a way to engage the personal, political, and raw experiences of life while at the same time having a unique and strong aesthetic voice. Often using humor and politics, they find a way to examine, question and comment on our society’.
Jackie was also previously a director at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
Her background also includes producing art having studied for a BFA at the University of Rhode Island followed by post-graduate work at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany.
NICHOLAS CHAMBERS, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.
In the position since the spring of 2012, Chambers, who is a native of Australia, previously served as curator of contemporary international art at the Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. Chambers holds Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Sydney. In 2005, he served as a visiting guest fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. In 2007, he was a lead curator for the large survey exhibition of work by Andy Warhol, staged by the Queensland Art Gallery in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum. He has curated individual exhibits by artists with an international focus including Pierre Bismuth, Katharina Grosse and Spencer Finch, who hail from France, Germany and the United States, respectively.
“A lot of what I do is working with living artists,” he says. “I get a huge amount of enjoyment from the process. I am thrilled to be working with Eric Shiner, Director of the Warhol Museum and our team, to bring ambitious new projects that reflect Warhol’s phenomenal influence on contemporary international art practice. Nicholas’ curatorial experience includes alternative spaces, major state museums and commercial galleries. This type of multi-faceted experience is crucial to the sorts of work he can bring to the Warhol, as it is a museum that combines qualities of all of these kinds of spaces, as well as being a unique, single-artist museum.
COLLEEN GRENNAN, Associate Director, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY
Colleen Grennan is an independent curator and writer currently living in New York. After graduating from Goldsmith College in London with an MFA in Curatorial Studies, she joined the ranks as co-director of Cleopatra’s, a storefront gallery space located in Brooklyn, NY. Cleopatra’s works collaboratively with artists and cultural producers to create projects that forge new networks and dialogues between individuals, art practices and institutions. Further investigations also occur in the form of off-site public programs such as the Brooklyn Pavilion as part of the Intercity Pavilion Project initiated by Jens Hoffman at the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Family Jewels at Family Business, an alternative exhibition site run by Massimiliano Gionii and Maurizio Cattelan, and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) .
Colleen is currently the Associate Director of Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York since 2012. She has also worked as the Assistant Director at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York,Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Aachen, Germany under the direction of Dorothea Jendricke, and Hotel Gallery in London. She has written for numerous catalogs and has contributed exhibition texts for the Intercity Pavilions at the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Mary Ann Aitken at Trinosophes in Detroit, and Leila Hekmat exhibition at Clockwork Gallery in Berlin, amongst others.
PAVEL ZOUBOK, owner of PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY in New York
Pavel Zoubok opened his first gallery in New York in 1997. Fifteen years later, it is still the only gallery in the country with a primary focus on collage, assemblage and mixed-media installation. From the outset, the gallery’s program has presented both contemporary and modern works in an effort to establish a cohesive art historical context for Collage and its related forms, spanning most of the major art movements of the postwar period. While the primary market has always been the driving force of the program, represented by a diverse group of gallery artists (including Mark Wagner, Vanessa German, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Donna Sharrett and Lance Letscher), the gallery maintains an inventory of works by important proponents of the medium, including Hannelore Baron, Joe Brainard, Joseph Cornell, Al Hansen, Ray Johnson, Jiri Kolar, Mimmo Rotella, Anne Ryan, Jacques Villeglé and David Wojnarowicz.
Since the gallery’s 2004 relocation from the Upper East Side to a ground floor space in the heart of Chelsea and subsequent expansion to a sprawling new space at 531 West 26th Street in 2013, the program has continued to evolve. Pavel Zoubok Gallery regularly publishes exhibition catalogues, collaborating with numerous scholars and critics including Alexander Andersen, Dan Cameron, Edward Gomez, Robert Hobbs, Charlotta Kotik, Carlo McCormick, Robert Rosenblum and Dickran Tashjian. Museum associations have included Wadsworth Atheneum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Katonah Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, Newark Museum, Norton Museum of Art, and others. In addition to its stated focus, the gallery also maintains a tangential but related interest in Surrealism, acquiring and placing works by artists such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, George Hugnet, Kay Sage and Stella Snead. In 2009, Pavel Zoubok Gallery was made a member of the ADAA (Art Dealer’s Association of America).
In a March 2011 interview in The Paris Review on the occasion of curating the magazine’s art portfolio, Zoubok spoke about the power of showing art in a vibrant, evolving arts-centric neighborhood like Chelsea. “One of the things I like about being in Chelsea is that people will actually come in off the street. I don’t put on the wall whether the artist being shown is an older artist, a younger artist, a dead artist. I find that unless somebody takes the time to read the press release or checklist, they don’t necessarily register whether the work is contemporary or not. I’m often struck by how surprised people are that a mature artist made such a work, because it seems so fresh to them today. Some of that is the context: they see it in a Chelsea gallery, in a white box, with a cement floor, lit in a certain way. Suddenly it becomes something else.”
MEG MALLOY, partner at Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York
Meg has a wealth of art world experience including a long history of editioning prints and multiples. She has overseen editions with Kara Walker, Arturo Herrera and Vik Muniz. Prior to joining Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Meg was the NY director for Munich-based Editions Schellmann. She joined founder, Brent Sikkema, and senior partner, Michael Jenkins, at the gallery in 2002. Founded by Brent Sikkema in 1991 Sikkema Jenkins & Co was originally called Wooster Gardens, located in Soho, before moving to Chelsea in 1999.
The gallery shows a leading edge group of first tier artists both established and emerging. From the photographic marvels of Vik Muniz to the societally skewering delights of Kara Walker’s silhouettes to the spiritual calm of Shahzia Sikander’s pan-cultural works, the gallery consistently delivers top-notch art that inspires and engages.
From the gallery website: ‘Sikkema Jenkins & Co. exhibits works of art in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, installation, photography, video, and sculpture. The gallery’s program includes important established artists such as Arturo Herrera, Vik Muniz,Shahzia Sikander, Amy Sillman, and Kara Walker. In addition, the gallery seeks to support the careers of emerging talent such as Josephine Halvorson, Marc Handelman, and Elizabeth Neel.’
PHOTI GIOVANIS, gallery owner, Callicoon Fine Arts
Giovanis opened Callicoon Fine Arts in May of 2009 in the upstate New York town after which it is named as a seasonal, weekend gallery while also working full time at Metro Pictures in New York City. Previously Photi was employed by P.P.O.W Gallery. The gallery program in Callicoon combined artist’s local to the area with artists from New York and elsewhere, including a group exhibition of over 20 German artists with André Butzer and Ulrich Wulff. Noted solo shows include those by Daniel Gordon, Carol Hepper, Ajay Kurian, Nicholas Buffon, Ben Berlow, Glen Fogel and two person shows by Francis Cape and Paul Kennedy, and Dave Miko with Nellie Bridge. Project room shows included installations by Trisha Baga, Margaret Lee, Mary Lucier and Ruby Sky Stiler.
In December of 2009, after being open for only a few months, the gallery participated in the NADA Art Fair, Miami, and was awarded the prize for best booth. This success prompted a move to the Lower East Side in September of 2011. The gallery’s exhibitions and artist representations include Etel Adnan, Sadie Benning, Nicholas Buffon, A.K. Burns, Glen Fogel, James Hoff, Thomas Kovachevich, Benjamin Kress, Luther Price and Jason Simon. Upcoming exhibitions include Hervé Guibert and Ulrike Müller.
Gallery artist Etel Adnan participated in dOCUMENTA (13) and A.K. Burns and A. L. Steiner’s film Community Action Center has been screened at MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMoMA and the Warhol Museum as well as at local community centers across the US.
Callicoon Fine Arts artists are currently or will be exhibiting work at The Carnegie International, Kunstmuseum Basel, the New Museum, International Center for Photography, NY, Project Art Center, Dublin, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, the Hammer Museum in LA, MASS MoCA and White Columns, NY.
ADRIANNE RUBENSTEIN, Director, James Fuentes Gallery, NY
Adrianne Rubenstein has been with James Fuentes Gallery in New York since 2011. She recently co-curated ‘Forget About the Sweetbreads’ with artist Joanne Greenbaum. This exotic title was culled from an episode of “The Cosby Show” set in a gourmet restaurant. The show featured work by Heike Kati Barath, Miriam Cahn, Ellen Gronemeyer, Alice Mackler, Annette Messager, Norbert Prangenberg and Hal Saulson and was positively reviewed in the New York Times. Gallerist NY reported ‘Even if artist Joanne Greenbaum and James Fuentes’s associate director, Adrianne Rubenstein, had included work by only one artist in their group show about the uses and peculiar attributes of ceramics, it would have been a hit—so long as that artist was Alice Mackler, an octogenarian ceramicist represented here by nine wild little ceramic figurines, all from 2012’…’But seven artists are represented here, and none of them underwhelms.’
Adrianne has served as a visiting critic at Hunter College and Rutgers University for their MFA thesis exhibitions. Born in Montreal in 1983 and completing her undergraduate studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006, Adrianne earned a Master’s degree in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011. During the interim between her degrees she resided in Toronto, where she worked at Greener Pastures Contemporary Art and maintained a studio practice. As a painter, curator, and gallery director Adrianne has a unique interdisciplinary approach to promoting the arts.
SUSAN INGLETT, gallery owner, print/multiple publisher and art fair founder, NYC.
Susan Inglett Gallery is located in the heart of Chelsea in a ground floor space at 522 West 24th Street. The gallery provides representation for a range of artists, emerging to established, working across media. Continuing a pattern established early in its history, the gallery consciously develops a program of surprising juxtapositions within and between exhibitions alternating between single artist shows, curated group exhibitions and historical exhibitions. Gallery artists have appeared recently in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International and Greater New York at P.S. 1 among many international venues.
Susan Inglett represents The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Luca Buvoli, Sarah Charlesworth, the Estate of Bruce Conner, Eric Fertman, Hope Gangloff, George Herms, Marcia Kure, Allison Miller, Shaun O’Dell, Robyn O’Neil, Eli Ping, Greg Smith, and William Villalongo.
In addition to the gallery, Susan Inglett produces prints and multiples as I.C. Editions, Inc. To date she has published the work of Barbara Bloom, Bruce Conner, Marcel Dzama, Anna Gaskell, Allan McCollum, Paul Noble, Claes Oldenburg, Robyn O’Neil, Catherine Opie, Richard Prince, Al Ruppersberg, Philip Taaffe, Terry Winters, and Andrea Zittel among others. In 1998, Susan Inglett founded and continues to organize the Editions|Artists Book Fair, NYC.
HUDSON, gallery owner, Feature Inc.
Hudson, owner of Feature Inc., a gallery that migrated from Chicago to NY’s Soho, then Chelsea, and now located on the Lower East Side, has for twenty-seven years held to a personal approach to art that counters the corporate and business models that have, since the early ’90s, deeply redirected the focus of our field from aesthetics to business. While exhibitions at Feature helped launch the careers of Raymond Pettibon, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Tom Friedman, Louise Lawler and many others, the gallery also continued to exhibit and support much art and many artists without regard for their having or gaining any position within the economic or critical status quo. From the mid ’70s until early ’90s, as an artist and administrator, Hudson worked with artist-run organizations and their prevailing concerns for autonomy, content, pluralism, and diversity shaped his interests and ethics.
He explained to artist and writer Steel Stillman in a profile for Art in America in December 2010 – “I firmly believe that viewers or collectors should go to the art, art should not be delivered to them. I’m always amused to hear dealers talking up clients by telling them about an artist’s upcoming exhibitions, inclusion in noted private or museum collections and so on—as if those things really make an artist or artwork better. Why isn’t the bullshit of that house of cards transparent to listeners? It’s far too rare that you hear someone speaking about how an artwork expresses itself; about what is inventive or engaging in the artist’s use of materials; or about how the content impacts your thinking or emotional life.”
ISAAC LYLES, ELIZABETH DEE GALLERY, New York
Isaac is currently working with Elizabeth Dee at her gallery on West 20th Street in New York’s Chelsea district. Prior to this position he worked during the summer of 2014 with JACK TILTON GALLERY. Before that Isaac worked at the Derek Eller Gallery, also in New York beginning in February 2011. While with DEREK ELLER Isaac curated the exhibitions Perfectly Damaged and Sweet Distemper, which were positively reviewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Modern Painters and the Village Voice among others. About Sweet Distemper, Peter Schjeldhal wrote, “”Ingratiating Pissed-Offness” would seem a more forthright name for the strong show of five young artists who evince a rising spirit of our day: eager to please, exasperated with everything.”
Prior to working in New York, Lyles worked at Gallery 400 in Chicago under Anthony Elms, now a curator at the Philadelphia ICA. Lyles’ love of art was instilled at an early age by his father, a pastor turned decorative painter who co-founded an artisans’ guild in Dallas, Texas. Isaac Lyles has a BA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
BRIAN PAUL CLAMP, Gallery Owner, CLAMPART.
Brian Paul Clamp was introduced to the concept of fine art during a high school slideshow where he was shown work by Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus. ”Their work turned me on to photography and the fire was lit. Prior to that moment I really hadn’t had any exposure to fine art. My mother was craftsy, but that was the extent of it.” After studying mathematics in Colorado, Brian moved to New York, and while working as a director for Owen Gallery on the Upper East Side, he earned an MA in Critical Studies in Modern Art from Columbia University. Since 2000 he has been the owner and director of ClampArt, a gallery in New York City specializing in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on photography, mounting ten to fifteen exhibitions per year featuring the work of emerging and mid-career artists, including Brian Finke, Jill Greenberg, Lori Nix and Nancy Burson, who is currently featured in “Face Contact” at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Clamp has curated photography shows at the University of Maine Museum of Art and the Griffin Museum of Photography, among others, throughout the United States, and regularly takes time to participate in panels to review photographers’ portfolios. Mr. Clamp is also the author of numerous publications on American art including Lily Ente: Listening to the Stone (Woodstock Artists Association, 2001), and is also a contributor to The Light Work Annual and other art periodicals.
Brian explains how he feels ClampArt is different. “A lot of the big players still retain an old school mentality. The new kids on the block tend to be less medium specific and we find ourselves experimenting a bit. Although the acceptance of digital photography over analog is still developing, people are no longer afraid to offer and buy prints made digitally. I think it often is a matter of a generational difference.”
MICHAEL FOLEY, Gallery Owner, Lower East Side, New York
Michael Foley opened FOLEYgallery in the fall of 2004 after fourteen years of working with notable photography galleries including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery. FOLEYgallery brings together fine line and obsessive precision in the disciplines of drawing, cut paper, painting and photography. After 8 years in Chelsea, the gallery has relocated to the LES, taking a storefront location on Allen Street, just south of Delancey.
Foley went on to co-found The Exhibition Lab with partner Sasha Wolf in the fall of 2009. The Ex Lab is a study center for people involved in various aspects of fine art photography. It provides a vibrant modern-day salon for artists, scholars and others who are interested in engaging the world’s diverse and vital photography community through the gateway of New York City.
Foley continues his interest in educating by being on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography where he teaches and lectures on issues in contemporary photography.