Adams Gallery; and a baby boy born on June 2 to Lizzie Fisher ’02, exhibitions organizer at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. To celebrate the grand opening of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, Virgilio Garza, head of the Latin American Art Department at Christie’s New York, participated in a panel discussion about Latin American art in international museum collections. Cecilia Brunson ’01, director of INCUBO, Santiago, Chile, gave a presentation. Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak ’00 are codirectors at the Sara Meltzer Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. Rachel is an independent curator and former associate director of the galleries and museum at the School of Visual Arts; Jeffrey was the director of Henry Urbach Architecture for the past three years. Brian Wallace is the curator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. He and his wife, Kelly, and their daughter, Helen, have moved to New Paltz from Philadelphia, where Brian’s previous position was director of exhibitions at Moore College of Art and Design.
’98 Sarah Cooke completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sunderland. She spoke at an international symposium on the topic of curating new media art at the Liverpool School of Art & Design. Anne Ellegood, associate curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution’s museum of modern and contemporary art, organized the exhibition Directions—Jim Lambie. It was the first show of Lambie’s work in Washington, D.C. Jessica Hough, curatorial director at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, curated Work in Progress at d.u.m.b.o arts center in Brooklyn. Zhang Zhaohui curated RUINS, an exhibition of new video and photography from China, at Peck School of the Arts’ Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee. The group show, which addressed the tension between China’s rapidly developing and urbanizing society and its traditional culture, ran from March 10 to May 14. He and artist Ma Yongfeng gave a lecture on the exhibition’s theme at Inova Gallery in Milwaukee. Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate at the Central Academy of Art, Beijing, will be the director of the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, which is under construction.
’99 Denise Markonish, gallery director and curator at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut, writes that she had a busy spring “teaching at RISD, working on a few huge projects (one with Jessica Hough ’98), as well as doing some writing.” She also curated Hypervision, an exhibition at the Westport Art Center.
’00 Lisa Hatchadoorian, director of the Westby Gallery, Rowan University, curated Critical Mass at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn. The exhibition ran from March 31 to May 6 at the venue, a nonprofit gallery dedicated to the presentation of contemporary drawings and works on paper. Sofía Hernandez, curator and programs manager at Art in General in Manhattan, participated as a “commentator” in “Iron Artist”— “an over-the-top, multimedia event of competitive, real-time art making” that took place at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in June.
’01 Cecilia Brunson has relocated to Santiago, Chile, where she is director of a residency project called INCUBO. She was formerly assistant curator of Latin American art at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. Olga Kopenkina curated Russia: Significant Other, an exhibition presented by the National Center for Contemporary Art and the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fontanniy Dom, St. Petersburg, Russia. The exhibition addressed the history of political utopias and cultural myths and styles connecting Russia and the West. Olga is an independent curator based in New York City. Chus (Maria) Martinez is the director of Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Germany, which reopened in a renovated space in April. Prior to her assuming her new position, Chus was the curator at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain. Allison Peters has been promoted from exhibitions coordinator to director of exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
’02 Kristen Evangelista is an assistant curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. She was formerly gallery and program manager at Southern Exposure in San Francisco. Sandra Firmin, curator of the UB (University at Buffalo) Art Gallery, organized an exhibition that consisted of a room-sized painting by Adam Cvijanovic, which was on display at the gallery from March 23 through July 29. Cvijanovic’s 35-foot-high, floorto-ceiling painting of Niagara Falls, which extended over three walls, inaugurated the Lightwell Projects, an annual series of sitespecific installations in the UB Art Gallery.
’03 Ingrid Chu is a development associate for the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City. She had previously held several positions at the Americas Society, most recently that of cultural affairs and development associate. She continues to work as an independent contemporary visual arts curator and critic in New York. In February, she presented a discussion
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