Sue Spaid
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Sue Spaid is an American curator and writer, currently based in Baltimore
. She grew up in Saudi Arabia
, where her father George Spaid worked for Saudi Aramco
as a petroleum engineer. Her interest in contemporary art began while living in Austin
, during the early eighties, but intensified when she moved to New York City in 1984, affording her regular visits to East Village and Soho galleries.
She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering
from the University of Texas at Austin
in 1983 and an M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University
in New York City in 1999.
She’s writing her Ph.D. dissertation on the philosophy of curatorial practice at Temple University.
Currently, the Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum Baltimore
, Spaid has taught courses at Art Center College of Design
(1993–1998), Otis College of Art and Design
(1996–1998), University of Cincinnati
(2004–2006), Temple University
(2006–2008), and Drexel University
(2010).
Spaid’s thematic exhibitions feature all types of art, though she is most known for experiential
exhibitions, such as “Action Station: Exploring Open Systems” (1995) at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
; “Comestible Compost” (1998) at the Pavilions Marketplace in West Hollywood; “Cremolata Flotage” (1999) on the Andrew J. Barberi Staten Island Ferry
; “An Active Life” (2000) at the Contemporary Arts Center
, Cincinnati; “Hovering Above” (2008) and “Endurance: Visualizing Time” (2009) for the Abington Art Center Sculpture Park in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; and “Microfibers” (2009) at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia. She has organized career surveys for Jim Isermann (1993, Sue Spaid Fine Art), Robert Overby (1994, Sue Spaid Fine Art), Lynne Berman/ Kathy Chenoweth (1997, Special K), Eileen Cowin (2000, Armory Center for the Arts) and Jim Shaw (2000, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati).
as a collector
, art writer, curator
and adjunct professor. While Curator at the Contemporary Arts Center
, Cincinnati (1999–2002), she curated fourteen solo shows, organized five thematic exhibitions and authored the book Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies to accompany the exhibition, co-curated with Amy Lipton.
As an independent curator, Spaid has organized over 50 exhibitions for artist-run spaces, university galleries, commercial galleries and museums, including the Abington Art Center
, Armory Center for the Arts, Bellevue Arts Museum
, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
, Mississippi Museum of Art, P*P*O*W, Santa Monica Museum of Art
, SPACES in Cleveland, and The Suburban
. In 2005, she and Patrizia Giambi discovered and documented the remains of Robert Smithson
’s Asphalt Rundown (1969) in a quarry outside of Rome, Italy, which Spaid wrote about in Domus. Spaid documented their discovery in the March 2007 issue of Domus. During her 2005-2006 “Yes Brainer Tour,” she traveled via car through 38 states presenting “The Gist of Isness,” based on an essay published in X-tra and delivered at the 2006 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
in Portland, Oregon.
Alter egos Pippi, Tree-top and Dragon-Princess have performed and exhibited since the mid-90s.
At Beyond Baroque, Venice, Spaid read “This Aint No Manifesta” during Manifesto Night (1992) and interpreted “Vindicating the Vulva” during Erotica Night (1996), and her Tree-Top awarded cultural heroes (1997) during July 4 Readings. Spaid modeled outfits designed by Antonio Gomez-Bueno during “The Gomez-Bueno Spiritual Fashion Show” (1993); Gomez-Bueno and Pippi during the "Food House Fashion Show" (1994) and Lun*na Menoh in "He(ad)dress" (1997). The Dragon Princess launched her "presidential campaign" at the Lotus Motel (1995). In 1997, she hosted the live talk-show “Trailblazing the Economies of Art” in the Barnsdall Art Park auditorium. She played a cameo role in Martin Durazo’s film Suck It Up (1998). Olga the May-Day Nymph performed only once at Dirt (1998), Los Angeles, CA. Works created by Tri Via, a collaboration between her three aliases were exhibited in “Grouptopia” (2001), "Warsaw Projects", Cincinnati, OH, and “Tasty Buds” (2003) at The Work Space, New York City, NY. In the mid-90s, Spaid co-wrote for Coagula under the nom de plume Miles Tut-Hill.
In addition to collaborating with Alysse Stepanian on the multi-media event scourge.org at OnetoManyThree (1999), Spaid performed “Suitably Contrite” (1998) (Socrates text & Dave Soldier soundtrack) at TwoMANYtwo. Soldier also dejayed “Worker’s Opiate” (1999), an outdoor fashion show at the corner of Walker & Broadway, New York City, across the street from Canal Self Serve, whose motto “Serve Yourself and Save” inspired artists to create fashion from less than $10 of stuff purchased there. In 2000, Jan Baum Gallery presented “Used and Amused,” which featured works by twelve artists who had used Spaid as their muse.
She has thrice curated shows within shows, “Migration Platform” within “Once Upon a Time in the West” (2007), curated by Mark Harris; “Artists’ Installation Instructions” appeared both in “appropriately enough” (2004) at Warsaw Projects, Cincinnati, OH and “view do” (2005) at the Suburban, Oak Park, IL.
Ten thematic exhibitions featured works by gallery artists and Maura Bendett, Keith Boadwee, Robbie Cavolina, Russell Crotty, Linda Daniels, Sally Elesby, Sharon Ellis, Ava Gerber, Robert Gero, Patrizia Giambi, Michael Joaquin Grey
, Paula Hayes, Jim Isermann, Shirley Kaneda, Kahty Chen Milstead, Dave Muller, David Schafer
, Marc Schlesinger, Pam Strugar, Linda Stark, Fred Tomaselli and Richard Tuttle.
“In the Courtyard,” presented outdoor projects (1992–1995) by Lindsay Alstrom, Phyllis Baldino, Lynne Berman/Charlotte Moorman, Kahty Chen Milstead, Steve Hurd, Laura Howe, Eric Otsea, Eric Magnuson, Robert Overby and Jennifer Steinkamp.
In addition to gallery artists receiving dozens of reviews in Artforum ., Art issues, Frieze and Contemporanea, The New York Times featured Sue Spaid as the cover image that accompanied Roberta Smith’s story “The Art World’s New Image,” December 29, 1992.
, LA Weekly
, Village Voice and New Art Examiner
.
For artUS, she has discussed exhibitions of works by David Altmejd
, Marcel Duchamp
, Dan Flavin
, Victor Grippo
, Terence Hammonds, Mark Harris, Thomas Hirschhorn
, Carsten Höller
, Jonathan Horowitz
, Nina Katchadourian
, Rockwell Kent
, the land foundation, Tony Luensman, Margherita Manzelli, Martin Margiela
, Ree Morton, Ron Mueck, Laurel Nakadate
, Nouveau Réalisme, Jorge Pardo, Todd Pavlisko, Richard Pettibone, Print Liberation, Simparch
, the Situationist International and George Stone; and has reviewed Manifesta 7, U-Turn Quadrenniel for Contemporary Art, Carnegie International
, The Whitney Biennial and Dia:Beacon
and has interviewed philosophers, such as Richard Shusterman
and Joseph Margolis
.
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
. She grew up in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, where her father George Spaid worked for Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco , officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.Saudi Aramco is the world's largest and most valuable privately-held company, with estimates of its value in 2011 to be $7 trillion USD.Saudi Aramco has both the largest proven crude oil reserves,...
as a petroleum engineer. Her interest in contemporary art began while living in Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, during the early eighties, but intensified when she moved to New York City in 1984, affording her regular visits to East Village and Soho galleries.
She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
from the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
in 1983 and an M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in New York City in 1999.
She’s writing her Ph.D. dissertation on the philosophy of curatorial practice at Temple University.
Currently, the Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum Baltimore
Contemporary Museum Baltimore
Located in Baltimore, Maryland, Contemporary Museum is a museum specializing in contemporary art, founded in 1989. During its first decade, the peripatetic Contemporary was "dedicated to redefining the concept of the museum." "Like a hermit crab, it moved around the city of Baltimore, sponsoring...
, Spaid has taught courses at Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...
(1993–1998), Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design is an art and design college in Los Angeles, California.The school's programs, accredited by WASC and National Association of Schools of Art and Design, include four-year BFA degrees in illustration, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, landscape design, interior...
(1996–1998), University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....
(2004–2006), Temple University
Temple University
Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
(2006–2008), and Drexel University
Drexel University
Drexel University is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. Drexel offers 70 full-time undergraduate programs and accelerated degrees...
(2010).
Spaid’s thematic exhibitions feature all types of art, though she is most known for experiential
Experiential knowledge
Experiential knowledge is knowledge gained through experience as opposed to a priori knowledge. In the philosophy of mind, the phrase often refers to knowledge that can only be acquired through experience, such as, for example, the knowledge of what it is like to see colours, which could not be...
exhibitions, such as “Action Station: Exploring Open Systems” (1995) at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art is an independent non-collecting art museum located in Santa Monica, California. It exhibits the work of local, national, and international contemporary artists....
; “Comestible Compost” (1998) at the Pavilions Marketplace in West Hollywood; “Cremolata Flotage” (1999) on the Andrew J. Barberi Staten Island Ferry
Staten Island Ferry
The Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry service operated by the New York City Department of Transportation that runs between the boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island.-Overview:...
; “An Active Life” (2000) at the Contemporary Arts Center
Contemporary Arts Center
The Contemporary Arts Center is a pioneering contemporary art museum located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media...
, Cincinnati; “Hovering Above” (2008) and “Endurance: Visualizing Time” (2009) for the Abington Art Center Sculpture Park in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; and “Microfibers” (2009) at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia. She has organized career surveys for Jim Isermann (1993, Sue Spaid Fine Art), Robert Overby (1994, Sue Spaid Fine Art), Lynne Berman/ Kathy Chenoweth (1997, Special K), Eileen Cowin (2000, Armory Center for the Arts) and Jim Shaw (2000, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati).
Professional Background
Since 1984, Spaid has lived in New York City, Los Angeles, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, where she has been active in the art worldArt world
The art world is composed of all the people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art. Howard S. Becker describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things,...
as a collector
Collecting
The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. Some collectors are generalists, accumulating merchandise, or stamps from all countries of the world...
, art writer, curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
and adjunct professor. While Curator at the Contemporary Arts Center
Contemporary Arts Center
The Contemporary Arts Center is a pioneering contemporary art museum located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media...
, Cincinnati (1999–2002), she curated fourteen solo shows, organized five thematic exhibitions and authored the book Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies to accompany the exhibition, co-curated with Amy Lipton.
As an independent curator, Spaid has organized over 50 exhibitions for artist-run spaces, university galleries, commercial galleries and museums, including the Abington Art Center
Abington Art Center
Abington Art Center, located in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, PA is a non-collecting contemporary art museum with exhibition galleries and a sculpture park. Abington Art Center’s mission is to cultivate the power of the arts – inspiring individuals and strengthening community...
, Armory Center for the Arts, Bellevue Arts Museum
Bellevue Arts Museum
The Bellevue Arts Museum traces its roots back to street fair art in 1947. After several temporary locations, it moved to the third floor of Bellevue Square, a large shopping center in the center of downtown Bellevue, Washington in 1983...
, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Located in Hollywood, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is a nonprofit exhibition space and archive of the visual arts for the city of Los Angeles, California, USA...
, Mississippi Museum of Art, P*P*O*W, Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art is an independent non-collecting art museum located in Santa Monica, California. It exhibits the work of local, national, and international contemporary artists....
, SPACES in Cleveland, and The Suburban
The Suburban
The Suburban is the largest English-language weekly newspaper in the province of Quebec. It is a community newspaper based in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, and serves primarily the west-end of the city and the West Island suburbs. The newspaper's editor-in-chief is Beryl Wajsman. Its...
. In 2005, she and Patrizia Giambi discovered and documented the remains of Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art.-Background and education:Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York....
’s Asphalt Rundown (1969) in a quarry outside of Rome, Italy, which Spaid wrote about in Domus. Spaid documented their discovery in the March 2007 issue of Domus. During her 2005-2006 “Yes Brainer Tour,” she traveled via car through 38 states presenting “The Gist of Isness,” based on an essay published in X-tra and delivered at the 2006 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association
The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work...
in Portland, Oregon.
Alter egos Pippi, Tree-top and Dragon-Princess have performed and exhibited since the mid-90s.
At Beyond Baroque, Venice, Spaid read “This Aint No Manifesta” during Manifesto Night (1992) and interpreted “Vindicating the Vulva” during Erotica Night (1996), and her Tree-Top awarded cultural heroes (1997) during July 4 Readings. Spaid modeled outfits designed by Antonio Gomez-Bueno during “The Gomez-Bueno Spiritual Fashion Show” (1993); Gomez-Bueno and Pippi during the "Food House Fashion Show" (1994) and Lun*na Menoh in "He(ad)dress" (1997). The Dragon Princess launched her "presidential campaign" at the Lotus Motel (1995). In 1997, she hosted the live talk-show “Trailblazing the Economies of Art” in the Barnsdall Art Park auditorium. She played a cameo role in Martin Durazo’s film Suck It Up (1998). Olga the May-Day Nymph performed only once at Dirt (1998), Los Angeles, CA. Works created by Tri Via, a collaboration between her three aliases were exhibited in “Grouptopia” (2001), "Warsaw Projects", Cincinnati, OH, and “Tasty Buds” (2003) at The Work Space, New York City, NY. In the mid-90s, Spaid co-wrote for Coagula under the nom de plume Miles Tut-Hill.
In addition to collaborating with Alysse Stepanian on the multi-media event scourge.org at OnetoManyThree (1999), Spaid performed “Suitably Contrite” (1998) (Socrates text & Dave Soldier soundtrack) at TwoMANYtwo. Soldier also dejayed “Worker’s Opiate” (1999), an outdoor fashion show at the corner of Walker & Broadway, New York City, across the street from Canal Self Serve, whose motto “Serve Yourself and Save” inspired artists to create fashion from less than $10 of stuff purchased there. In 2000, Jan Baum Gallery presented “Used and Amused,” which featured works by twelve artists who had used Spaid as their muse.
She has thrice curated shows within shows, “Migration Platform” within “Once Upon a Time in the West” (2007), curated by Mark Harris; “Artists’ Installation Instructions” appeared both in “appropriately enough” (2004) at Warsaw Projects, Cincinnati, OH and “view do” (2005) at the Suburban, Oak Park, IL.
Sue Spaid Fine Art
From 1990 to 1995, Spaid’s Los Angeles gallery presented solo shows by artists Lynn Aldrich, Polly Apfelbaum, Angie Bray, Carole Caroompas, Laura Cooper, Steve De Groodt, Jacci Den Hartog, D.E.M. (Jan Tumlir/Erik Otsea), Steve Derrickson, Nancy Evans, Terrie Friedman, Kenneth Goldsmith, Theresa Hackett, Larry Hammerness, Jim Isermann, Patrick Nickell, Robert Overby, Carter Potter, Adam Ross, Carole Szymanski, John Souza, Kevin Sullivan, Wastijn & Deschuymer, and Marnie Weber.Ten thematic exhibitions featured works by gallery artists and Maura Bendett, Keith Boadwee, Robbie Cavolina, Russell Crotty, Linda Daniels, Sally Elesby, Sharon Ellis, Ava Gerber, Robert Gero, Patrizia Giambi, Michael Joaquin Grey
Michael Joaquin Grey
Michael Joaquin Grey is an American artist, inventor, educator, and toy designer based in New York City....
, Paula Hayes, Jim Isermann, Shirley Kaneda, Kahty Chen Milstead, Dave Muller, David Schafer
David Schafer
David Schafer is an American visual artist based in New York. He attended The Art Institute of Kansas City, Missouri from 1973–75, received a B.A. from the University of Missouri, Kansas City in 1979 and an M.F.A...
, Marc Schlesinger, Pam Strugar, Linda Stark, Fred Tomaselli and Richard Tuttle.
“In the Courtyard,” presented outdoor projects (1992–1995) by Lindsay Alstrom, Phyllis Baldino, Lynne Berman/Charlotte Moorman, Kahty Chen Milstead, Steve Hurd, Laura Howe, Eric Otsea, Eric Magnuson, Robert Overby and Jennifer Steinkamp.
In addition to gallery artists receiving dozens of reviews in Artforum ., Art issues, Frieze and Contemporanea, The New York Times featured Sue Spaid as the cover image that accompanied Roberta Smith’s story “The Art World’s New Image,” December 29, 1992.
Recurring Collaborators
Collaborators have included Michael Anderson, Jay Belloli, Maura Bendett, Robert Blackmon, Angie Bray, Kendall Bruns, Emily Buddendeck, Fred Dewey, Robert Gero, Patrizia Giambi, Theresa Hackett, Twan Janssen, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Amy Lipton, Dave Muller, Kahty Chen Milstead, Ole Jørgen Ness, David Schafer, Alysse Stepanian/Philip Mantione, Shirley Tse and Christian Wilhelmy.Publication History
A member of the artUS Contributors Board, Spaid has written regularly for this LA art publication and its predecessor ArtText since 1997. She has also written for Art issues., Art in AmericaArt in America
Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...
, LA Weekly
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
, Village Voice and New Art Examiner
New Art Examiner
New Art Examiner was a Chicago-based art magazine. Founded in October 1973 by Derek Guthrie and Jane Addams Allen. Publication ceased in 2002.November 2011 will see the release of Essential New Art Examiner, an Anthology of representative articles and editors...
.
For artUS, she has discussed exhibitions of works by David Altmejd
David Altmejd
David Altmejd is a Canadian artist who lives and works in both Montreal and London, England.In 2001, he completed his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, in Montreal, Canada...
, Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
, Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.-Early life and career:...
, Victor Grippo
Víctor Grippo
Víctor Grippo was an Argentine painter, engraver and sculptor, considered the father of conceptual art in Argentina...
, Terence Hammonds, Mark Harris, Thomas Hirschhorn
Thomas Hirschhorn
-Life and works:In the 1980s, Hirschhorn worked in Paris as a graphic artist. He was part of the group of Communist graphic designers called Grapus. These artists were concerned with politics and culture, displaying impromptu creations and posters on the street mostly using the language of...
, Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller is a German artist. He lives and works in Farsta, Stockholm, in Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.-Early life and education:...
, Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz is a New York based artist working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography. Horowitz critically examines the cultures of politics, celebrity, cinema, war, and consumerism...
, Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian is an American artist. She is known for conceptual works that explores themes of mapping, translation, and public space. Her projects have been exhibited widely, including a solo show of video installations at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in July 2008.-Biography:Nina...
, Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.- Biography :Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper...
, the land foundation, Tony Luensman, Margherita Manzelli, Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer. He studied at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts along with the legendary avantgarde fashion collective the Antwerp Six. Many still consider him to be the "7th" member of the collective.- Life and work:After graduation in 1980 he worked as a...
, Ree Morton, Ron Mueck, Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate is an American video artist and photographer living in New York City.Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa....
, Nouveau Réalisme, Jorge Pardo, Todd Pavlisko, Richard Pettibone, Print Liberation, Simparch
Simparch
SIMPARCH is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. Presently this group is organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch and Steve Badgett...
, the Situationist International and George Stone; and has reviewed Manifesta 7, U-Turn Quadrenniel for Contemporary Art, Carnegie International
Carnegie International
The Carnegie International is the oldest North American exhibition of contemporary art from around the globe. It was first organized at the behest of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on November 5, 1896 in Pittsburgh. Carnegie established the International to educate and inspire the...
, The Whitney Biennial and Dia:Beacon
Dia:Beacon
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present. The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated...
and has interviewed philosophers, such as Richard Shusterman
Richard Shusterman
Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher, currently the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He is internationally known for his contributions to philosophical aesthetics.-Biography and career:Richard...
and Joseph Margolis
Joseph Margolis
Joseph Zalman Margolis is an American philosopher. A radical historicist, he has published many books critical of the central assumptions of Western philosophy, and has elaborated a robust form of relativism....
.
| Book Title | Essay Title | Date | Publisher | ISBN Number |
| Mara Scrupe | “Buyer Beware” | 2010 | Indiana State University | |
| Carmel Buckley | “The Aesthetics of Physics: Space, Replace, Erase, Place and Trace (f.k.a. matter, created, destroyed, isolated system and time)” | 2009 | Ohio State University | |
| Stewart Goldman | “Sea Change” | 2008 | Springfield Museum of Art | |
| Guglielmo Achille Cavellini | “Four Places, Many Faces and Thousands of Races” | 2008 | Cavellini Foundation: Brescia, Italy | |
| the handmaking | “The Work of Art in the Age of Femmage” | 2007 | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA | |
| Shrinking Cities | “Shrinking Cities: Expanded Opportunities” | 2007 | SPACES, Cleveland, OH | |
| Locally, Localized Gravity | “How the Gold Fish Test Became the Bicycle Messenger Test” | 2007 | Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Mississippi Invitational 2006 | “Going Places: Jackson to Nachez and Back Again” | 2007 | Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS | |
| Sabina Ott | “Set Theory: A Set is a Set is a Set” | 2006 | Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX | |
| Presence | Being Here: Wrestling with Resemblance in an AntirepresentationaEra | 2006 | Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY | |
| Ruby Ossorio: A Story of a Girl | “Flirting with Femininity, Freedom and Femmage” | 2005 | Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum | 10:0971219559, 13:9780971219557 |
| Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies | Main text | 2002 | Contemporary Arts Center Green Museum,Eco Art Space | 10:0917562747, 13:9780917562747 |
| Sharon Ellis | “A Phenomenological Phoenix” | 2002 | Long Beach Museum of Art | |
| Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger | “Lay of the Land” | 2001 | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati | |
| Patrizia Giambi: A Ten Year Survey | “A 360 Degree Stretch” and “Testimonial” | 2001 | Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy | |
| Eileen Cowin: Still (and all) | “The Impossibility of Expression” | 2000 | Armory Center for the Arts | 10:189390010, 13:9781893900011 |
| Angie Bray | “A Palimpsest, You Jest!” | 2000 | Fresno Art Museum | |
| Surface <=> Structure | “Nautilus: Surfacing, Anticipation and Effervescence” | 1999 | Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate School | |
| Twan Jansen | “Je suis ne pas une Prestidigitator, Mais Je le Joue Dans Le Monde” | 1999 | Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | |
| Under Construction | “Skirting the Perils of Representation” | 1995 | Armory Center for the Art | ASIN:B00EV06TO |
| Steve de Groodt | “Resisting the Culture: Perusing, Cruising and Moseying” | 1993 | SF MOMA |
Exhibitionography
| YEAR | TITLE | PARTNER(S) | ARTISTS |
| 2011 | L.O.L.: A Decade of Antic Art | Contemporary Museum, Baltimore | Kendall Bruns, Chto delat, Patrizia Giambi, Gimhongsok, Larry Hammerness, Jonathan Horowitz, Nina Katchadourian, Katie Kehoe, Larry Krone, Jennifer Levonian, Kahty Chen Milstead, Gianni Motti, Ryan Mulligan, My Barbarian, Dan Perjovschi, William Powhida, Rob Pruitt, David Schafer, Nedko Solokov, Alysse Stepanian/ Philip Mantione, Joey Versoza, Yes Men |
| 2009 | Microfibers | Locks Gallery, Philadelphia | Danielle Bursk, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel & Laura Watts |
| 2009 | Endurance: Daring Feats of Risk, Survival and Perseverance | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA | Phyllis Baldino, Janet Biggs, Johanna Billing, Patty Chang, Caryl Davis, Emily Jacir, Nikki S. Lee, ManosBuckius Collective, Renzo Martens, Laurel Nakadate, John Pilson, Alysse Stepanian/Phil Mantione, &Type A |
| 2009 | Endurance: Visualizing Time | Abington Arts Center Sculpture Park, Jenkintown, PA | Robert Gero, John Kalymnios, Stacy Levy, Winifred Lutz, David Schafer & Bill Schuck. |
| 2009 | Spring Solo Shows | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA | Arden Bendler Browning, Shannon Donovan, Merav Ezer, Sarah Julig, Jacob Lunderby and Serena Perrone |
| 2008 | Global Suburbia | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA | Chris Ballantyne, Amy Bennett, Mark Bennett, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Goetz Diergarten, Barbara Gallucci, Fritz Haeg, Michael B. Miller, Sarah McCoubrey, Matthew Moore, Hiro Sakaguchi, David Schafer, Mark Shetabi, Lee Stoetzel, Eva Struble & Thomas Wrede |
| 2008 | Spring Solo Shows | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA | Louise Barteau, Danielle Bursk, Rosalyn Richards, Nyugen Smith, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Laura Watt, Kimi Weart & Jacques Wilmore |
| 2008 | Hovering Above | Abington Art Center Sculpture Park, Jenkintown, PA | Actual Size Artworks, Roberley Bell, Sylvia Benitez, Jamie Dillon/Nick Paparone, Carole Loeffler, Mike Ross, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, |
| 2007 | Migrations Platform: Once Upon a Time in the Midwest (Curated by Mark Harris) | Reed Gallery, University of Cininnati, OH | Terry Berlier, Carmel Buckley, Diane Fishbein, Stewart Goldman, Mark Harris, Maiza Hixson, Hudson, Kim Humphrey, Peter Huttinger, Judy Ledgerwood, Nick Papparone, Rachel Rampleman, Oren Slor, Tony Tassett, Bill Test & Marion Wilson |
| 2007 | Shrinking Cities (In collaboration with exhibition curator, Philipp Oswalt) | Spaces, Cleveland, OH | Paul Cotter, Jeremy Deller, Jörg Dettmar, Tyree Guyton, Gordan Matta-Clark, Kyong Park, Latz + Partner, Dan Peterman, Cedric Price, Isa Rosenberger, Superstudio, Andreas Siekmann, Oswald Mathias Ungers & Ingo Vetter/Annette Weisser |
| 2006 | Poolside (Co-curated with Theresa Hackett) | Traymore Hotel, Miami, Florida | Denise Burge, Jamie Dillon, Patrizia Giambi, Robin Hill, Theresa Hackett, Annette Monnier & Alison Slon |
| 2006 | Mississippi Invitational | Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS | Suzi Altman, Lea Barton, Maude Clay, Lang Clay, Randy Hayes, Rebekah Potter, Lee Renninger & Carlyle Wolfe |
| 2005 | View Do | The Suburban, Oak Park, IL | Denise Burge, Kahty Chen Milstead and Artists’ Installation Instructions) |
| 2004 | Appropriately Enough | Warsaw Project, Cincinnati, OH | Kendall Bruns, Andre Hyland, Annette Monnier, Rachel Rampleman, Millicent Straub, Joey Versoza & Leigh Waltz & Artists’ Installation Instructions, |
| 2003 | Nowhere Better than This Place (co-curated with Emily Buddendeck) | SS NOVA, Cincinnati, OH | Keith Benjamin, Debbie Brod, Kendall Bruns, Emily Buddendeck, Denise Burge, Fred Ellenberger, Stewart Goldman, Peter Huttinger, Lori Larusso, Andy Marko, Tom Phelps, Rachel Rampleman, Jenny Steube & Joey Versoza/Dana Ward |
| 2002 | Proposed and Delivered (Botched or Delayed) | Chidlaw Gallery, Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH | Kendall Bruns, Erin Heitsch, Kelly Verde, Caroline Caldwell, Brandon Hickle, Lisa Chioli, Gabe Imlay, Andre Hyland, Jenny Stuebe, Dana Hamblen, Juliet Rios, Joey Versoza, Scott Fredette, Ellie Resler & Andrew Loughnane |
| 2002 | Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies (Co-curated with Amy Lipton) | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati | AMD&ART, Brandon Ballangée, Betty Beaumont, Joseph Beuys, Jackie Brookner, Center for Land-Use Interpretation, Mel Chin, Tim Collins, Betsy Damon, Agnes Denes, Tera Galant, Georg Dietzler, Reiko Goto, Hans Haacke, Henrik Håkansson, Harrison Studio, Lynne Hull, Basia Irland, Laurie Lundquist, Kathryn Miller, Patricia Johanson, Aviva Rahmani, Ocean Earth, Buster Simpson, Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, Susan Liebovitz Steinman, George Steinmann, Superflex, & Shai Zakai |
| 2002 | Sprawl (co-curated with Andrée Hymel-Bober) | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati | Polly Apfelbaum, John Bock, Karsten Bott, Berman/ Chenoweth, Diana Cooper, Liz Craft, Twan Janssen, Ole Jørgen Ness, Sabina Ott, Mick O’Shea, Matthew Ritchie, Tomoko Takahashi, Shirley Tse & Dodie Wexler |
| 2002 | Beatitudes Betrayed | Gallery for the Arts, Mt. Sterling, KY. Traveled to Morehead, Whitesburg, Georgetown and New Albany, IN | Sharon Austin, Maria Theresa Bazzell, Mary Craik, Bonnie Creighton, Jim Fields, Sallie Guy, Elizabeth Johnson, William Papineau, Danelle Pickett, Sarah Lynn Potter, C. J. Pressma, Karen Telford & Carleton Wing |
| 2001 | Pacific Northwest Annual, juror | Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA | Larry Bemm, JRR Blevins, Kari Boeskov, Joe Burmeister, Felicia Carlisle, Donnabelle Casis, Leslie Clague, Jack Daws, Joe DeNardo, Nancy Edelstein, Christian French, Mark Geil, Ellen George, Dean Hudson, Todd Kephart, Jay Krajic, Gloria Lamson, Tom Landowski, Scott Lawrimore/ |
| Jim Wilcox, Lester Lee, Lisa Liedgren, Edmund Madrid, Brett Mosher, Yuki Nakamura, Dylan Neuwirth, Melody Owen, Hilary Pfeifer, R. Eugene Parnell, Matthew Picton, Amy Rueffert, Mike Shea, Juniper Shuey, Tim Sullivan, Storm Tharp, Thin Ice, Marie Watt & Jennifer West | |||
| 2000 | An Active Life | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH | Jonathan Borofsky, Ingrid Eriksson, Nancy Evans, Fred Fehlau, Carsten Höller, Martin Kersels, Jennifer Moon, Stephen Shackelford, Pauline Stella Sanchez, Richard Wearn & Hiro Yamagata |
| 2000 | Scopophilia: Pleasure in Looking | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH | Solo shows of: Gillian Wearing, Jeremy Blake, Janet Biggs, Sam Taylor-Wood, Pipilotti Rist & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster/Pierre Huyghe/Philippe Parrino |
| 2000 | Used and Amused | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Angie Bray, Don Bachardy, Antonio Gomez-Bueno, Robbie Cavolina, ChanSchatz, Berman/Chenoweth, Robin Michals, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Dave Muller, Ole Jørgen Ness, Alysse Stepanien & Ann Summa |
| 1999 | Cremolata Flotage | Andrew J. Barbieri Staten Island Ferry | Angie Bray, Jackie Brookner, Alix Delmas, Jim Dingilian, Theresa Hackett, Madeleine Hatz, Elana Herzog, Nina Katchadourian, Reynard Loki, Kate Loy, Maureen McQuillan, Alysse Stepanian/Philip Mantione, Chrysanne Stathacos, Austin Thomas & Shirley Tse & Anton Vidokle |
| 1999 | Surface <=> Structure | Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA | Ava Gerber, Twan Janssen, Robert Overby, Cynthia Phillips, John Souza, Shirley Tse, Alexis Weidig & B. Wurtz |
| 1998 | Comestible Compost | Gallery 207 & Pavilions Marketplace, West Hollywood, CA | Pavilions: Berman/Chenoweth, Michael Barton Miller, Laura Cooper, Terrie Friedman, Doug Hamnett, Constance Muller, Kori Newkirk, José Álvaro Perdices, Shirley Tse, Alexis Zoto, 207: Angie Bray, Michael Damm, Kim Fisher & Leif Palmquist |
| 1998 | Individually Twisted | Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Berman/Chenoweth, Sue Choi, LouAnne Greenwald, Cameron Jamie, Cliff LeCuyer & Cynthia Philips. |
| 1998 | Polymorphous Memorialus | POST, Los Angeles, CA | Eduardo Abaroa, Robert Blackman, Casey Cook, Will Fowler, Clifford LeCuyer, Michael B. Miller & Paul Henry Ramirez |
| 1997 | Random Access Memory (Co-curated with Twan Janssen) | Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Twan Janssen, Fransje Killaars, Kinke Kooi, Jaap Kroneman, Paul de Reus & Roland Schimmel |
| 1997 | Working out the Kinks | Herslebsgate10B @ Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin DE | Polly Apfelbaum, Lynn Aldrich, Lindsay Alstrom, Angie Bray, Maura Bendett, Terrie Friedman, Ava Gerber, Twan Janssen, Garrett Keith, Dave Muller, Carrie Ungerman & John Souza |
| 1996 | Love’s Labour’s Lost | SITE, Los Angeles, CA | Kahty Chenoweth, Dave Muller, John Souza/Monique van Genderon, Takako |
| 1996 | Chalk: A Momentary Chillout Room | Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Uta Barth, Sally Elesby, Terrie Friedman, Twan Janssen, Clifford LeCuyer, Dave Muller, Monique Prieto & Shirley Tse |
| 1995 | Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in Painting | Victoria Room and Push!, San Francisco, CA; traveled to Murray Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA | Maura Bendett, Linda Burnham, Linda Day, Linda Daniels, Sally Elesby, Nancy Evans, Tim Forcum, Ava Gerber, Theresa Hackett, Penelope Krebs, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Mai Ottersen-Redfield, Renee Petropoulos, Karl Petrunak, Adam Ross, Margaret Sherwood, Carole Silverstein, Dani Tull, Lilly van der Stokker, |
| 1995 | Action Station: Exploring Open Systems | Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA | Maura Bendett, Angie Bray, Rory Devine, FluxKits, Robert Filliou, Caren Furbeyre, Patrizia Giambi, Joseph Grigely, Larry Hammerness, Laura Howe, Lun*na Menoh, Toby Mott, Yoko Ono, Carole Szymanski & Ricardo Zulueta |
| 1995 | Par Avion | Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, L.A., CA | Antonio Gomez-Bueno (ES), Twan Janssen (NE), Ole Jørgen Ness (NO), Michael Persson (SW), Melanie Smith (UK/MX) |
| 1995 | Postmarked L.A. | P*P*O*W, New York, NY | Lynn Aldrich, Sharon Ellis, Chris Finley, Terrie Friedman, Hilja Keading, Martin Kersels & Michael Pierzynski |
| 1995 | Under Construction: Rethinking Images of Identity (Co-curated with Michael Anderson) | Amory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA | Nancy Burson, Carole Caroompas, Catherine Howe, Laura Howe, Monica Majoli, Kerry James Marshall, Adrian Piper, Joey Santarromana, Hugh Steers, John Valdez and David Wojnarowicz |
| 1994 | Interdisciplinary | Woodbury College, Burbank, CA | Laura Howe, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jim Isermann, Lun*nah Menoh, Jorge Pardo, Laura Stein, Carole Szymanski and Paul Varnac |
| 1993 | The Layered Look | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Linda Burnham, D.E.M., Merion Estes, Nancy Evans, Theresa Hackett, Claude Kent, Robin Mitchell, Selma Moskowitz, Sabina Ott, Marc Pally, Steven Robison, Adam Ross & Philip Taafe |
| 1993 | Appraising the Preternatural (Co-curated with Michael Anderson) | Pat Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | Emily Cheng, Sharon Ellis, Jeff Gambill, David Humphrey, Laura Lasworth, Tom Knechtel, Robin Palanker & Lari Pittman |
| 1992 | ptyx | Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA | Jacci Den Hartog, Steve Derrickson, Patrizia Giambi, Carole Szymanski, |
| 1991 | Essentially Raw (co-curated with Michael Anderson) | Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA | Lynn Aldrich, Steve Appleton, Steve De Groodt, Dawn Fryling, Robert Gero, Pat Nickell, Kevin Pasnik & Richard Tuttle |
| 1991 | The Wiled Wild West Show | Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA | Robert Cavolina, Russell Crotty, Brad Dunning, Max Frazee, Richard Misrach and Carter Potter |
| 1991 | Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum | Sue Spaid Fine Art & Parker*Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Maija Beeton, Kathe Burkhart, Carole Caroompas, Laura Cooper, Thomas Hartman, Melissa Hoffs, Hugh Lentz, Lauren Lesko, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Dominica Salvatore, Leonard Seagal, Jim Shaw, Kevin Sullivan, Dani Tull, Paul Varnac, Unknown Knights, Laura Whipple, Stephanie Wilger & Sue Williams |
| 1990 | Sublime Geometries | Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA | Jacci Den Hartog, Sharon Ellis, Paul Feeley, Kevin Pasnik, Bonnie Rychlak & Andrew Winer |
| 1986 | On the Water Front | Artists’ Studio | Steve Derrickson, David Schafer & Michael Rees |
External links
- "The Los Angeles Art World's New Image", by Roberta SmithRoberta SmithRoberta Smith is an art critic for the New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art.Born in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Smith studied at Grinnell College in Iowa. Her career in the arts started in 1968 while an undergraduate summer intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in...
, The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, 29 December 1992