Laurie Simmons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), the Jewish Museum, New York (NY); the Neues Museum, Nuremberg (DE) and a career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL). Her work is included in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (DC); the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (MA); the International Center of Photography, New York (NY); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (NY); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY).

Chloe Wise was born in Montréal, Canada in 1990. She received a BFA from Concordia University in Québec, Canada.

Wise’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2022); “In Loveliness of Perfect Deeds” at Blouin Division in Montréal, Canada (2022); “Spite Unseen” at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva, Switzerland (2022); “Thank You For The Nice Fire” at Almine Rech in New York, New York (2021); “Second Nature” at Almine Rech Online in New York, New York (2020); “And Everything Was True” at HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark (2019); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2019); “Not That We Don’t” at Almine Rech in London, United Kingdom (2019); “Chère” at Arsenal Contemporary in New York, New York (2018); and “Of False Beaches and Butter Money” at Almine Rech in Paris, France. (2017).

Chloe Wise lives and works in New York, New York.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thingthat are important to them. The result?Surprising stories from great talkers.

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Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, “Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything,” was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

Courtesy of P·P·O·W, New York. Photo by Grace Roselli.

Wendy Olsoff co-founded P·P·O·W alongside Penny Pilkington in the first wave of the East Village Art Scene in New York City in 1983. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, exhibiting politically and socially conscious contemporary work in all media. P·P·O·W maintains a diverse roster of national and international artists including the estates of Hunter Reynolds, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, and Jimmy DeSana as well as representing the work of contemporary artists such as Guadalupe Maravilla, Robin F. Williams, Hew Locke, Carlos Motta, and Chiffon Thomas to name a few.

An alumna of William Smith College (1978), Olsoff has lectured extensively throughout the United States at universities and museums. In 2012, Olsoff was a recipient of the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award for the gallery’s dedication and support of artists in the LGBTQ+ community and her ongoing leadership in the fight against censorship. She is a founding Charter member of the Feminist Art Council at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum and served on the Board of Directors of the Art Dealers Association of America as well as Visual AIDS.

Brigitte Mulholland is a Senior Director at Anton Kern Gallery, where she has worked since 2017. She is also sometimes an independent writer and curator. Mulholland has been working in New York in the art world since 2006, and holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Hunter College.

Pricing Your Artwork:
A Primer for Emerging Artists

Join us for an informative panel discussion about how artists can determine and rationalize the prices of their artwork, even at the early stages of their professional career. Moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, this panel will explore some of the key factors artists should consider when thinking about pricing, as well as some of the psychological hurdles they may encounter during the process. Be sure to also register for our upcoming February 22 panel, Resale Royalties For Artists.

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Hilary Burt
Managing Director
SOCO Gallery

Hilary Burt is the Managing Director of SOCO Gallery, a contemporary art space based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before moving to Charlotte, Hilary worked as an Account Director and Strategist in design and branding, both in London, England and New York City, and was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute of Art & Design (New York, NY). In 2013 Hilary became an Adjunct Professor of Art History and Arts Leadership & Administration at Queens University (Charlotte, NC) and in 2017 she founded “The Sphere Series”, an organization dedicated to bringing global leaders in the arts to Charlotte to engage in thoughtful and relevant discussions on how arts and creativity can spark dialogue and promote social change. Hilary has a BA from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a MPS from the Pratt Institute of Art & Design, (New York, NY).

Schwanda Rountree
Contemporary Art Consultant/Advisor, Rountree Art Consulting

Schwanda Rountree is an attorney and independent art consultant. Schwanda has worked with galleries domestically and internationally in placing contemporary art in museums and private collections. She currently serves as National Advisory Council Member of Creative Capital, Professional Arts Consultant for the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Collections Committee Member of the Ackland Art Museum, National Advisory Board Member at the Ackland Art Museum, and Accessions Committee Member of the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has also served as Advisory Panel Member of CulturalDC, an Executive Board Member of the Porter Colloquium on African American Art, and a member of ArtTable. She has been featured in Artsy’s “Inside My Collection” editorial profile and Artnet News.

Steven Sergiovanni
Founder
Steven Sergiovanni Art Advisory

Steven founded Steven Sergiovanni Art Advisory in 2015, focusing on living Contemporary artists in all mediums.  With over 20 years’ experience in the gallery world Steven was the former Director of Mixed Greens, a gallery established in the late 1990s to support emerging artists so they could gain a wider audience. Mixed Greens had a reputation as an approachable and inventive gallery where artists were given their first New York solo exhibitions. It was also a gallery who pioneered promoting artists online and in experimental spaces.

He is the co-founder of The Remix, a project-based curatorial team established to exhibit the work of underrepresented artists. The Remix’ first podcast will be released in Summer 2018. Sergiovanni’s experience as director, gallerist and dealer hinges on a continued methodology of transparency.

Steven started his career at Jack Shainman Gallery, and has since worked for several galleries including Charles Cowles, Holly Solomon and Andrea Rosen. He was the former Vice President of the Board of Directors for Visual AIDS, a Contemporary arts organization committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness. He regularly speaks at institutions such as Yale, Brown, FIT, NYU and New York Academy of Art. He is currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute, teaching Artist as Curator to MFA’s. Steven is a member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA). Steven holds a BA in Art History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, and a MA in Arts Administration from New York University.

Join Katarina Feder, Co-founder and CEO of ARSNL and Charlie Jarvis, Co-founder of Fairchain for an in-depth conversation about resale royalties, intellectual property, and the future of your artwork. This panel will be moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly.

Katarina Feder
Co-founder and CEO of ARSNL

Katarina Feder is a founder and CEO of ARSNL, a digital studio and marketplace born out of Artists Rights Society’s 35-year legacy. For the last five years, Feder has been Director of Business Development at Artists Rights Society. She maintains a monthly advice column on Artnet, “Know Your Rights,” where she answers questions on matters of intellectual property and more!‍‍

Charlie Jarvis
Co-founder Fairchain

Charlie Jarvis is the co-founder and Head of Growth at Fairchain. She is an entrepreneur, technologist and creative with a passion for art, culture and social justice. Previous to founding Fairchain, Jarvis studied Computer Science at Stanford and worked in engineering and product management roles at Google and Youtube Music. Jarvis is committed to building at the intersection of tech and creativity, while creating frameworks for lasting social change.

 Matthew Hansel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from the Yale University school of Art. He has been featured extensively in solo exhibitions, including at The Hole, NY, USA (2021), Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy (2018) and PM/AM, London, UK (2017). Hansel has also featured in many group shows around the world, including at Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA (2021), Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany (2020), PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2019), Sophia Contemporary, London, UK (2018) and Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece (2017).

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist, now, in Art Is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points—from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today—Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz’s eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramović; and visionaries likeJackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like theObama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures fromThomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a “failed artist,” and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.

Copies of Jerry’s latest book, Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night will be available for purchase. The talk will begin at 6:30 PM with a book signing with Jerry at 7:30 PM.

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