State of the Art/Art of the State

My painting "Flock 2" will be included in the State of the Art/Art of the State exhibition at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC. The exhibition focuses on contemporary art by artists currently living in, or native to, the state of North Carolina. The work will hang from May 7 through October 2011.

PARTICIPATING CURATORS

Susan Davidson: Senior Curator, Collections & Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Before joining the Guggenheim, she was collections curator at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas for 18 years. Davidson’s research areas include Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, and she specializes in the art of Robert Rauschenberg. Her most recent exhibitions and catalogues include: Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts; Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation; No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper; Peggy and Kiesler: The Collector and the Visionary (The Story of Art of This Century); and American Pop Icons. Davidson holds advanced degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Nicholas Cullinan: Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern, London. There he has worked on exhibitions including Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia; Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons, and Pop Life: Art In A Material World. Cullinan has previously worked at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao and Venice. He writes regularly for journals including Artforum, The Burlington Magazine, Frieze and October and is currently working on a monograph on Cy Twombly for Phaidon and a book on Robert Rauschenberg's photography for Schirmer/Mosel. Among other projects, he is curating Tacita Dean's Unilever installation for Tate Modern's Turbine hall and the exhibition Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters at Dulwich Picture Gallery, both of which open in 2011. Cullinan completed his PhD on Arte Povera at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

Apsara Di Quinzio: Assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has organized solo exhibitions with Felix Schramm, Paul Sietsema, Mai-Thu Perret, and Vincent Fecteau and R. H. Quaytman. She is a co-curator of the upcoming 2010 SECA Art Award Exhibition, and organized the 2008 iteration as well. For SFMOMA, she also organized Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart, and she is in the process of editing the book The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality, co-published by DAP, to be released in fall 2011. Last year, The Andy Warhol Foundation awarded her a Curatorial Fellowship to develop an international group exhibition that will open at SFMOMA in the fall 2012.

Timothy Anglin Burgard: The Ednah Root Curator of American Art and the Curator-in-Charge of the American Art Department for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He designed the 2005 reinstallation of the new de Young Museum’s permanent collection of American art. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he holds Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. He worked previously at The New-York Historical Society and at the Harvard University Art Museums, where he served as the University’s first curator of American art. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books and numerous scholarly articles. Through his curatorial work, he has pursued his strong interest in interdisciplinary and multicultural studies that transcend traditional categorizations.

All participating curators will attend the exhibition opening on Saturday May 7, 2011 from 6:00-9:00 pm. The design of this project provides any participating artist equal opportunity to meet a significant curator working in the field of contemporary art today and have their work seen by all visiting curators.

This event pays homage to the open, creative curatorial spirit of the late art world maverick, Walter Hopps (1932-2005). In 1978, responding to a comment from his junior colleague, Deborah Velders (Jensen) about the problems artists face gaining access to notable curators, Walter Hopps conceived an entirely open, unmediated event to remedy the situation. His program invited any artist to bring a single work of art, to meet Hopps, and see installation of work. This event called “36 Hours” occurred in a gritty, street-level alternative space called MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art), located in downtown Washington, D.C. There was no jurying, no selection (or rejection), and no entry fee. The only restrictions were size (work needed to fit through the door), weight (regarding transporting/placing and support capacity), and the delivery time frame (36 hours). This unprecedented opportunity for artists was covered by the Washington Post, and attracted over 400 works of art, all by artists living and working in the Washington, D.C. area.