Category Archives: Lectures

Seph Rodney was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in New York City. He has an English degree from LIU, Brooklyn, a studio art MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a PhD in museum studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is an editor for the Hyperallergic blog, writing about contemporary art and related… Read More

Rachel Uffner opened her eponymous gallery in fall 2008. Originally located on Orchard Street in New York City’s Lower East Side, the gallery relocated to its current two-story home at 170 Suffolk Street in 2014. The gallery has built up a significant roster of emerging to established artists whom exhibit in significant museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. Uffner is also… Read More

Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute of the Arts. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984. They have had one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and… Read More

  The editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian is an editor, art critic, curator, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise on the intersection of art and politics.   Hrag co-founded the publication Hyperallergic in 2009 in response to changes in the art world, the publishing industry, and the distribution of information. Breaking news, award-winning reporting, informed opinions,… Read More

  Julie Heffernan is represented by PPOW Gallery (New York) and Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco). She has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Japan and Europe, and a travelling museum show entitled “When the Water Rises” originating at the LSU Museum of Art in 2016 in Baton Rouge and travelling to museums in red states throughout the country… Read More

Damian Loeb (born 1970) is a self taught classical painter currently living and working in New York City. Loeb’s creative process involves collecting, studying, and creating intimately potent images through both painting and photography. In creating an empirical sense of reproduction, Loeb invents a dialogue between relativism and individual interpretation; exposing cultures codification of a popular visual vocabulary.

**PLEASE NOTE THIS LECTURE IS AT 1 PM ON SEPTEMBER 25 Navigating Social Media: Sharon Louden talks with social media guru Robin Cembalest about navigating social media to increase visibility and stay connected.   Described by artnet as “one of the leading lights of art-world social media,” Robin Cembalest is a journalist and editorial strategist. The former longtime executive editor… Read More