CONTRIBUTORS
STEVE CARTER Dallas Contemporary’s Kiki Smith: Mortal is a blockbuster, a tour de force exhibition of the iconic artist’s recent work celebrating the human condition. In this issue, freelance arts writer Steve Carter visits with the artist and DC’s Justine Ludwig to profile and preview the show, which runs September 29 through December 17. “This is a really important exhibition, maybe even a gamechanger,” Carter says. “In some ways it’s like a distillation of Smith’s career-long thematic preoccupations.”
CHRIS BYRNE Chris Byrne is the author of the graphic novel project The Magician (Marquand Books, 2013) as well as the book The Original Print (Guild Publishing, 2002). He is Co-Chair of Art21's Contemporary Council and serves on the Dallas Contemporary’s board of directors, the American Folk Art Museum’s Council for the Study of Art Brut and the SelfTaught, and VisitDallas Cultural Tourism Committee. He is the co-founder of the Dallas Art Fair and was formerly Chairman of the Board of the American Visionary Art Museum.
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LAUREN CHRISTENSEN With more than 19 years of experience in advertising and marketing, Lauren consults with clients in art, real estate, fashion, and publishing through L. Christensen Marketing & Design. She serves on the boards of the Christensen Family Foundation and Helping Our Heroes. Her clean, contemporary aesthetic and generous spirit make Lauren the perfect choice to art direct Patron.
PEGGY LEVINSON A previous showroom owner in the Dallas Design Center and home magazine design and style editor, Levinson lends her design expertise to Patron. In Nasher-esque, she catches up with Donald Fowler, between his buying trips to Paris, on the artisans he hand-selected for the new titivated Nasher Store. Modern Move had Peggy visiting with Robyn and Michael Siegel in their historical home filled to the brim with contemporary art and the arrival of their baby girl, Phoebe Tiger.
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NANCY COHEN ISRAEL A Dallas-based art historian, Nancy is an ongoing Patron contributor who writes for other national publications of note. For this issue, she enjoyed covering two of the season’s most exciting exhibitions. First, in Horror Show, she highlighted Dallas’s own Misty Keasler whose exhibit Haunt is on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. And she delved into the newly restored paintings of Francisco de Zurbarán from Auckland Castle mounted at the Meadows Museum in All My Sons.
GAVIN DELAHUNTY Gavin Delahunty is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. His forthcoming projects include a survey of film and video artists from the 1960s to the present titled Truth: 24 frames per second and Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty, the first full exploration of the artist’s work in the U.S. for almost 30 years. Delahunty is widely published, with recent essays on Walter De Maria, Laura Owens, and Charles Ray, and a forthcoming text on the life and work of David Smith.
JUSTINE LUDWIG Justine Ludwig is the Director of Exhibitions/Senior Curator at Dallas Contemporary. In recent years she has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Tuft University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. Ludwig holds an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths University of London. In Celia Eberle’s Aesthetic Soothsaying, Justine tells of the artist’s totems comprised of natural found materials.
KENDALL MORGAN A Dallas journalist about town, whose work has appeared in The Nasher and Patron among others, Kendall Morgan has spent her career examining the space where culture, art, fashion, and food align. In this issue she discovers All That Glitters is indeed gold, with the opening of the highly anticipated restaurant, Bullion, a venue that embodies all of these elements in one ambitious mix. Here she visits with Thomas HartlandMackie, artists of international renown, and the Michelinstarred Chef, Bruno Davaillon.
SHAYNA FONTANA From the windy streets of Chicago, Shayna Fontana is a fashion and interiors photographer living in Dallas with her husband Rand Horowitz and toddler, Oliver. Shayna’s work has appeared on the cover of Patron in addition to numerous fashion and home features within its pages. In Modern Move Shayna worked with stylist Kristen Richter to harness the spirit of Robyn and Michael Siegel’s 1926 home, adorned with an enlivened contemporary art collection.
JOHN SMITH An ongoing Patron contributor, Dallasbased photographer John Smith enjoys bringing out the art of architecture in his work. He consults with numerous architects, designers, and artists to bring their vision to light. In All That Glitters John took a sneak peek inside Bullion with Patron, the much-anticipated Chef Bruno Davaillon-helmed restaurant on Record Street, and captured Cindy Rachofsky and Deedie Rose on the eve of TWO x TWO in Precious Materials.
THOM JACKSON Jackson is a fine art photographer represented by Craighead Green Gallery and On Center Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His editorial work has appeared in Vogue, Italian Bazaar, and GQ. His images from Blurring the Line were acquired for The Resource Center’s collection. Thom's commercial career began with a trip to the former Soviet Union on an award-winning assignment for Neiman Marcus and set the standard for his work. The inspiration for Full Transparency stems from his two photographs: Dress #1 and Dress #2. STEVEN TAYLOR Steven Taylor is an American photographer and director based in Los Angeles working with both film and digital. His portfolio highlights a simplistic and sophisticated side of an artist whose identity is seamlessly paralleled in his own work. With a near painterly quality, he captured TWO x TWO Artist Honoree Jonas Wood for Mark Maker. Of the experience Taylor says, "I'm a fan so it never felt like I was working. I was just making sure I would remember my time with Jonas in his studio."