Join us on Thursday, November 20 at 6:30pm for a special panel discussion celebrating the legacy of Walter Robinson and his influential career. The conversation will be moderated by Carlo McCormick and will feature Jane Dickson, Tom Otterness, and Kate Shepherd.
Jane Dickson has been exhibiting her paintings, drawings, and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades. She frequently works with unusual surfaces such as Astroturf, sandpaper, vinyl, or carpet to exploit the implicit references and the textural possibilities these materials offer. Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Creative Time, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Major museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Karamay Museum in Xin Jiang, China, and most recently the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian own her artworks. In 2008 she completed a mosaic for MTA in the 42nd street station. Her work is also represented in corporate collections such as Microsoft Corporation, The 3M Corporate Collection, and The Paine Weber Collection. Her images have appeared extensively in books and periodicals.
Tom Otterness was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1952. He studied at the Arts Students League and in an Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City. Among his many solo exhibitions at prominent galleries and museums, his works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. The artist lives and works in New York.
Carlo McCormick is a critic and curator based in New York City. He was at Paper Magazine for over 30 years, where he was senior editor, and has written for numerous art and popular culture magazines. His texts have appeared in over 100 books and over a dozen languages. He has curated exhibitions at museums across America, Europe and Asia, and is a frequent lecturer at art schools and universities.
Kate Shepherd is an artist based in New York whose practice spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation. Trained in both classical and contemporary painting as well as architecture, she creates subtle yet exacting meditations on space. Her larger-scale projects include a stone amphitheater in Santa Fe, New Mexico; a full-room installation at 56 Henry in New York that referenced the construction and colors of construction sites; and four major wall paintings, one of which is permanently installed at Rice University in Houston. Shepherd also completed residencies at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas, The Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe New Mexico, and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough New Hampshire. Her most recent exhibition, A B C and sometimes Y, was presented at Galerie Lelong in New York in 2024–2025.
Her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Menil Collection in Houston; and the Seattle Art Museum, among others. She is represented by Galerie Lelong in New York and Paris, and by Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco. In 2021, she delivered artist talks at both the Menil Collection and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.