Sentences with phrase «challenges as curators»

Working within a medium specific agenda presents particular challenges as curators.

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Scott Rothkopf, the deputy director for programs and the chief curator at the Whitney, said in a statement, «Adrienne has distinguished herself as one of the most innovative curators working in performance today by engaging artists across diverse disciplines and often challenging them to explore new genres and experimental forms.

Mthethwa's work challenges the conventions of both Western documentary work and African commercial studio photography, marking a transition away from the visually exotic and diseased — or «Afro - pessimism,» as curator Okwui Enwezor has described it — and employing a fresh approach marked by color and collaboration.

Biggs speaks to us about the challenges of working with «real life» and how he sees his role as curator.

With the Stuart Hall Library acting as a critical and creative hub for our work, we collaborate with artists, curators, researchers and cultural producers to challenge conventional notions of diversity and difference.

Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery in London, has taken on a challenge as guest curator of this year's edition of the biennial: to re-brand and re-interpret the term «modern».

The curator, Naomi Beckwith, sees him as a challenge to documentary photography, Goldblatt's included.

Most Notable Exhibition: Schimmel set the bar high with «Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s» (1992), his first exhibition as chief curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, which sought to upset stereotypes about West Coast art and challenge the assumed superiority of the New York art scene.

At the same time, as Chris Stephens (Head of Displays, and Lead Curator of Modern British Art, Tate) has acknowledged, his art «challenged and dispensed with the values at the heart of the American painting», reflecting a new spirit of engagement with popular culture and the mass media.

As Albright - Knox Chief Curator Emeritus Douglas Dreishpoon notes in his essay in the exhibition catalogue, Frankenthaler instinctively adopted Jackson Pollock's determination to challenge the basic tenets of what painting could be — an ethos that sustained her well beyond her breakout work Mountains and Sea (1952), indeed, for the rest of her artistic life.

Here, as in the Smart Museum's exhibition Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, Wu uses the government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me (Beijing, 1998) to anchor his analysis of the challenges faced by contemporary Chinese artists and curators.

Over a 40 - year career as a curator, I've interviewed hundreds of artists, each of them different and challenging in their own ways.

Speakers will explore how our understanding of the Modernist ideal of the new presents special kinds of challenges to conservators and curators as artworks age.

She curated several residency projects (AFFECT, 2014 - 16; Fugitif, 2011) and programs (Self - monitoring as a curatorial experiment, 2014; The performative curatorial studio, 2013), focusing on critical and creative contexts where the relationship artist / curator is challenged through active forms of dialogues.

Entitled Flip Your Field, this series asks these guest curators to consider artwork outside their field of specialization from UMMA's renowned collections to challenge their own thinking as well as that of UMMA's audiences.

Similarly (and roughly contemporaneously), in her 1991 essay «Notes on the White Man's Burden», Piper challenged critics and curators to «situate the art of colored people within the larger context of art history,» rather than separating it, thus relegating it to an «unrelated, less valued category (such as «ethnic art» or «sociology») where its seminal influences on Euroethnic art can be ignored.»

As for the galleries, fortunately H & dM are not in the ranks of architects who believe that contemporary curators ought to be challenged by spatially awkward situations.

Summarised by curator and critic Norman Rosenthal as «manifestations of a joyful acceptance of American culture», Koons's work — which here fills Newport Street's six, expansive galleries — challenges and teases in equal measure, reflecting as much on the profundities of our existence as the banalities of daily life.

Curator Hofmann notes «as we reintroduce SITE with the opening of a bold and expanded building this fall, we will present an exhibition that examines our dynamic and decisive moment in global history and looks to the challenges and possibilities of the future.»

When Norris performed the piece at Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver recounts in the catalogue, it provoked «audible and muffled gasps as well as a wave of flinching and cringing from the audience... Although she read no manifesto, it was clear that she was challenging the practice of painting, the art academy, and the canon of art history, and she was doing so gangsta - style.»

At the Art Institute of Chicago, whose contemporary - art collection recently expanded into a spacious new wing, curators have begun using the security staff, museum educators, and visitor - services employees to provide interpretive help to viewers encountering such challenging works as Robert Gober's 800 - square - foot installation Untitled (1989 — 96).

Bringing an open forum to an Art Fair is a complex balancing act, as the commercial aspects of an art market often challenge the positions of artists, curators and exhibition makers.

For More Pricks Than Kicks, Simon Denny will explore the notion of negation that lies in Beckett's work: indeed, he was asked by the curators to handle the display of the artworks in the exhibition, and, after having accepted this challenge, announced that he «would prefer not to», quoting Bartleby's famous motto (mention source Bartleby as not Beckett).

«I spent most of my life as a curator and loved every bit, but after decades, I became more fascinated with the institutional challenges and meta problems,» says Dorothy Kosinski, 60, director of the Phillips Collection and a member of the executive board at the Association of Art Museum Directors.

apexart is a non-profit arts organization in Lower Manhattan that was conceived to offer opportunities to independent curators and emerging and established artists, as well as to challenge ideas about art, its practice and curation.

As Muholi continues to expand the series, and as curators face the unique challenges of their geo - cultural constraints and individual institutions, further consideration of the Faces and Phases series will be necessarAs Muholi continues to expand the series, and as curators face the unique challenges of their geo - cultural constraints and individual institutions, further consideration of the Faces and Phases series will be necessaras curators face the unique challenges of their geo - cultural constraints and individual institutions, further consideration of the Faces and Phases series will be necessary.

She is described in the press release as, «The principal curator in a visionary gallery that takes on challenging projects and regularly presents groundbreaking and historical exhibitions.»

As meanings shift, we might even be challenged to recall our initial impressions of the work, leading curator Kara Brooks to declare that the exhibition «illustrate [s] the fragility and malleability of memory.»

«Adrienne has distinguished herself as one of the most innovative curators working in performance today by engaging artists across diverse disciplines and often challenging them to explore new genres and experimental forms,» Scott Rothkopf, deputy director for programs and chief curator at the Whitney Museum, said in a statement.

The exhibition will feature an expansive series of performances and events, including a number of episodic, one - time demonstrations of rarely seen works, as well as new commissions, which will bring contemporary artists into dialogue with Calder's innovations and illuminate the many ways in which his art continues to challenge and inform new generations.Info: Curators: Jay Sanders and Greta Hartenstein, Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, Duration: 9/6-23 / 10/17, Days & Hours: Mon, Wed - Thu & Sun 10:30 - 18:00, Fri - Sat 10:30 - 22:00, http://whitney.org

The startling diversity of Pascali's work might once have posed problems for his dealers, but now it raises different challenges for curators: Given Pascali's treatment of each body of work as distinct, do you show all the artist's series together, or not?

Throughout it all, she has remained a thoughtful and steady presence, committed to doing challenging work as a scholar and curator, and to creating a program of exhibitions that reflects the diversity of Los Angeles» community and art audiences.

Founded by Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith, former curators of Tilt Gallery and Project Space, TILT Export: serves as a catalyst for opportunity, awareness, and the challenging of ideas through art making.

Braga has photography as his main media and his work is defined by the curator Paulo Herkenhoff, as «a challenge to the perception.»

«The challenge was to find works that speak to each other, where one could imagine the three artists conversing across centuries, questioning, cajoling, applauding, critiquing and challenging each other as though each were present in the same room at the same time», says curator Jeremy Lewison.

This project will (hopefully) be an exciting challenge for future artists and audiences, as well as for ourselves as curators.

Through the last three decades, he continues to challenge himself as a photographer and offers viewers new discoveries through thoughtful and visually arresting photographs that suggest overlooked aspects of the medium,» said curator David E. Little.

Dr Xavier Bray, Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich said: «It has been amazing to see our visitor numbers quadruple in the last three months as enthusiastic «connoisseurs» took up the challenge of identifying a Chinese replica among our permanent collection.

In her position as curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Andrea Karnes has challenged audiences with exhibitions such as Hubbard / Birchler: No Room to Answer, 2009.

The focus of the Jerome Foundation is to support emerging professional artists who are the principal creators of new work, and: who take risks and embrace challenges whose developing voices reveal significant potential who are rigorous in their approach to creation and production who have some evidence of professional achievement but not a substantial record of accomplishment who are not recognized as established artists by other artists, curators, producers, critics, and arts administrators

Collaborating with a wide range of eminent curators, iCI develops innovative traveling exhibitions, accompanied by catalogues and other educational materials, to introduce and document challenging new work in all mediums by younger as well as more established artists from the United States and abroad.

«It's all about challenging the visual as a domain of beauty, of aesthetics and of knowledge,» said curator Ellen Tani.

While exile is a powerful mental and physical challenge / influence, the installation organized by curator Frauke V. Josenhans also considers the situation as a catalyst for creativity.

«Singular Visions,» explained Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs, «is a bold first step within a broader Whitney initiative to reconsider the Museum's collection, especially our most challenging and complex works, as we prepare for our downtown expansion.

STUART COMER THIRD FLOOR How to define «American» in a survey of contemporary American art, especially one with as much history behind it as the Whitney Biennial, is a question that has often challenged, even vexed, curators.

Curator Okwui Enwezor's sprawling exhibition at the 2015 Biennale, Emily Jacir's engagement with the Palestinian crisis at the 2007 Biennale, as well as American contemporaries Theaster Gates (Rebuild Foundation and Dorchester Projects in Chicago) and Hank Willis Thomas (For Freedoms Project), are all part of a growing tide of artist - curator - activisits who challenge the traditional boundaries of what art is and whom it exisCurator Okwui Enwezor's sprawling exhibition at the 2015 Biennale, Emily Jacir's engagement with the Palestinian crisis at the 2007 Biennale, as well as American contemporaries Theaster Gates (Rebuild Foundation and Dorchester Projects in Chicago) and Hank Willis Thomas (For Freedoms Project), are all part of a growing tide of artist - curator - activisits who challenge the traditional boundaries of what art is and whom it exiscurator - activisits who challenge the traditional boundaries of what art is and whom it exists for.