Category Archives: Lectures

Melanie Kress is a curator and writer based in New York. She is the Associate Curator for High Line Art, where since 2014 she has commissioned and presented projects with artists including Maria Thereza Alves, Firelei Báez, Lubaina Himid, Sky Hopinka, Zoe Leonard, Sable Elyse Smith, and Tourmaline, among many others. In 2010 she co-founded the Brooklyn-based project space Concrete Utopia, of… Read More

 Believe Me, 100” x 94”, 2020, wool, cotton Erin M. Riley is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Erin received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA and a MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA both in Fibers. Riley is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY where she has had solo… Read More

 Allison Ayers is a Partner and Director at Houston-based Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino. Before joining the gallery in 1997 as a marketing advisor, Allison worked in advertising and marketing with Ogilvy and Mather and Hermann Hospital.  In 2000, she became partners with Maria Ines Sicardi and Carlos Bacino and a director of the gallery. Since then, she along… Read More

 Sandro Kopp is a painter, based in the Scottish Highlands Wes Anderson’s recently released film The French Dispatch is about a fictional painter (played by Benicio del Toro) and, among other things, his artistic journey from figuration to abstraction. The 16 artworks featured in the film are real pieces created by Academy alumna Sian Smith MFA 2018, Edith Baudraud… Read More

 Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and was the recipient of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, a Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, a Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, and… Read More

Roxanne Jackson is a ceramic artist and sculptor living in Brooklyn, NY. Her macabre works are black-humored investigations of the links between transformation, myth and pop-culture. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Forbes, Metal Magazine, The Huffington Post, Artnet, The Observer, Gothamist, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Cool Hunting… Read More

 Born in London, England, in 1933 Mary Frank moved to the United States with her family in 1940. In the early 1950s she studied with Hans Hoffman and Max Beckmann. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor, painter, photographer and gifted ceramic artist.  Without allegiance to any particular way of working or medium, Frank is fueled by her ever… Read More

Jori Finkel is a journalist who covers art from the West Coast for The New York Times and The Art Newspaper. Her writing has also been published in W magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, and Art+Auction magazine, where she was previously a senior editor in New York. She lectures regularly at museums and art fairs and also appears on NPR,… Read More

Esther Kim Varet is the founder of Various Small Fires, a gallery established in 2012 with locations in Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea. VSF focuses primarily on emerging and established American arts, in particular those with practices relating to social justice, climate activism, identity politics, and alternative modalities of visual art production and consumption. A native Detroiter, David… Read More

Rona Pondick was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. She studied at Yale University School of Art and received her MFA in 1977. Since 1984 she has had over 48 solo exhibitions of her work in museums and galleries internationally, including Galleria d’Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Rupertinum Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Salbzburg, Austria;… Read More