Margo Ann Crutchfield
Curator
Above: Bruce Checefsky Dahlia tskui yori no shisha, 2010 Chromogenic print (detail) 32 x 40 inches Private collection
Adventures in Art
About
Contemporary Art Curator
Knowledge and experience: late 20th-century
American art to art of the present with an emphasis on recent, innovative work by regional, national, and international artists
Curator at Large, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech University (2012-2021)
Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
(2002-2011)
Curatorial Assistant Associate Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1984-2001)
Curatorial career began as an administrative assistant, then Assistant Curator, and brief tenure as Interim Director at the Aspen Art Museum
Born in Brazil, lived in Egypt, Libya, and Geneva, Switzerland, Aspen, and New York City. Currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Married to Art Historian, Curator, and Emeritus Professor Kevin Concannon, with whom she has two sons.
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Some Highlights
At the Virginia Museum:
One person presentation of the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz's sculptures as part of the Virginia Museum's opening of the museum's West Wing and the Sydney and Frances Lewis Galleries
Martin Puryear mid-career retrospective
Gerhard Richter, Alison Saar, Cindy Sherman, Rene Stout, and Martin Puryear acquisitions entered into the collection
Fast/Forward series of experimental music, dance, and performance art
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland:
Tara Donovan's first one person museum exhibition
All Digital: seminal exhibition of technology driven art
From Then to Now: Masterpieces of African American Art
At the Moss Arts Center:
Jennifer Steincamp monumental wall installation
Daniel Canogar one person exhibition and Grand Lobby Wall Commission
Jim Campbell Slur, 2015
Custom electronics, LEDs, and treated Plexiglas 17 ½ x 45 x 6 ¾ inches Edition of 3, Courtesy of the artist and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
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About the Moss Arts Center (renamed Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech in 2025)
Fife Theatre Interior (detail)
Designed by Snøhetta (Oslo/New York) the Moss Arts Center is a 150,000 square foot multi-purpose, state-of-the art facility, with a 1,260-seat theatre, visual arts galleries, a 3,000-square foot Performance Lab for performance, immersive environments, installations and research working space.
The Moss Arts Center presents an ambitious world class performing arts program, a vibrant exhibition program, and houses the Institute for Creativity, Art, and Technology, a robust interdisciplinary, research institute that brings together artists, engineers, scientists, and faculty from multiple disciplines to create new work at the intersection of art and science.
The Moss Arts Center is located in southwest Virginia at Virginia Tech University, one of the nation's leading Research1 universities.
Fall 2021
Sheila Pree Bright
Large scale black and white photographs from the #1960Now Series portraying the Black Lives movement and responses to police shootings and racial injustices.
Also featured were large scale color images artist’s Suburbia series
and a new work (above) commissioned by the Moss Art Center
Exhibitions curated at the Moss Arts Center
Winter/Spring 2021
Edward Burtynsky
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Unbearable Beauty
James Balog Daniel Beltrá Edward Burtynsky
Chris Jordan Steve Norton
Expansive in theme, panoramic in scope, and large in scale, the extraordinary work of five artists stands as a testament and reminder of both the beauty and the vulnerability of our planet
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Daniel Beltra
Unbearable Beauty featured large scale photographic work, a sound installation, and a video installation in a visually stunning but gripping exhibition addressing some of the most disconcerting issues of our times
Winter/Spring 2020
Fierce Women:
Five one-person exhibitions: Chakaia Booker, Jenny Holzer, Marilyn Minter, Rozeal, Guerrilla Girls
A suite of five simultaneous one-person exhibitions by some of the most acclaimed artists of our era presenting exemplary works of art that are formidable, impactful, and “fierce” in both their dramatic visual power and the potency of ideas presented. The exhibition explores issues of gender and racial inequality, the politics of identity, and injustices surrounding power, morality, and corruption.
Exhibition Summary
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Roots, Reeds, and Vines: The Art of Basketry
Kari Lonning
Objects of beauty and fascination from across the continent span the traditions of South Carolina seagrass and Appalachian basketry to innovative and intriguing contemporary forms
On Right: Ann Coddington, detail of 10 x 20 ft wall installation
Artists in the exhibition
Pamela Becker
Clay Burnette
Ann Coddington
Kathy Dulaney
Desmund Ellsworth
Scott Gilbert and Beth Hester
Kari Lonning
Anne Scarpe McCauley
Martha Olsen
Karyl Sisson
Lynette Youson
Exhibition Brochure
Exhibition Summary
Fierce Women Exhibition Brochure
Winter/Spring 2020
Fierce Women:
Five one-person exhibitions: Chakaia Booker, Jenny Holzer, Marilyn Minter, Rozeal, Guerrilla Girls
A suite of five simultaneous one-person exhibitions by some of the most acclaimed artists of our era presenting exemplary
works of art that are formidable, impactful, and “fierce” in both their dramatic visual power and the potency of ideas presented.
The exhibition explores issues of gender and racial inequality, the politics of identity, and injustices surrounding
power, morality, and corruption.
Marilyn Minter
Smash, 2014
HD Digital Video, 07:55 minutes
Chakaia Booker Jenny Holzer Marilyn Minter Rozeal Guerilla Girls
First one-person exhibition focussing on the artists' audacious pedestal-sized rubber tire sculptures
Chakaia Booker exhibition view
Photo by Pippi Miller
First exhibition in Virginia of the artist's electronic LED signs with their provocative and often ambiguous texts
Minter's monumental video Installation Smash, 2014 scrutinzing the representation and role of the female body in American culture and fashion
Drawing on Japanese culture, hip-hop, graffiti, and comic book motifs, paintings and drawings probe the complexities of identity across cultures
A selection of iconic works by this renowned activist group.
Scathing exposes of racial and gender discrimination
Fall 2019
DATAFORM Three one-person exhibitions
+Grand Lobby Wall Commission
Working with electronics, LEDs, computer-generated algorithms, video, and real-time data, three nationally and internationally acclaimed innovators in technology-based art transform data into sculptural form
DATAFORM
Exhibition Brochure
Daniel Canogar
Luminescent, fluid, and ever-evolving datapoints activated by real time online data generated from environmental and socio-political phenomena occurring across the globe
Jim Campbell
Thresholds of time, memory, and perception explored in sculptural forms that merge moving images into luminescent, continuously fleeting data points of light
Yorgo Alexopoulos.
Hybrid fusions of digital animation and sound. Swaths of rich color fields, video data of spectacular landscapes and geometric forms in mesmerizing, constantly moving narratives
Grand Lobby Wall Commission
Daniel Canogar:Surge (2019) On view through 2020
In conjunction with the DATAFORM exhibition this major site specific wall commission featured a
sequence of dynamic, data-fed sculptural forms traversing across five wall sections of the Moss Art Center Grand Lobby
Flowing continuously thousands of flickering LED lights responded in real time to incoming environmental data such as regional weather patterns to water and pollution data
Above:
Diana Cooke and Len Jensel
Emancipation Oak, 2014
Hampton University
Digital image on Phototex
10 x 15 feet
Center left: Rosemary Laing
Rose of Australia, 2017
Archival pigment print
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York
Center right: Yuken Teruya
Corner Forest, 2005
Paper rolls, painted steel and magnets
Private Collection, New York
Photo by Etienne Frossard
Winter /Spring 2019 Arboreal
Elizabeth Bradford Diane Cook and Len Jenshel Ori Gersht Sam Krish Rosemary Laing Tom Nakashima Roxy Paine Linda Foard Roberts Eric Serritella Michelle Sons Yuken Teruya Quayola
Twelve emerging, national and internationally acclaimed artists explore the metaphoric power of trees in probing concepts about beauty, nature, and time, to reverence of – and alternatively– to the disruption, and impending desecration of forests and the natural environment
Photography, sculpture, video, painting, and works on paper by artists from Australia, Spain, Israel, Japan, and the United States
Exhibition Summary
Exhibition Brochure
Gerry Bannan Summer 2019
A new body of watercolor, painting, and ink drawings by Gerry Bannan in which he expanded his practice
working with color, Yupo paper (a Japanese watercolor paper) and occasionally, expansive scale, in works that bring the forest floor to life
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Fall 2018
Coordinating Curator for
History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence
90 works from 1963-2000. Organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum
Spring 2018
Cordinating Curator for the loan exhibition
Soundscapes
Gallery installation featuring an evocative world of multi-channel sound by five leading figures in experimental music and sound art.Curated by Internationally acclaimed sound artist Stephen Vitiello
Marcus Fisher
Maria Chavez
Olivia Block
Maria Chavez
Marcus Fischer
Robin Rimbaud-AKA Scanner
Jana Winderen
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Spring into Summer 2018
Cordinating Curator for
Laurie Anderson:
Invented Instruments
Curated by Kevin Concannon, Ph.D., Art historian and Director of Virginia Tech’s School of the Visual Arts.
One of the most acclaimed artists of our time, Laurie Anderson is a composer, musician, storyteller, performance artist, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.
Laurie Anderson
Invented Instruments cont.
Initially trained in violin and sculpture, Anderson became recognized worldwide in the 1970s and 1980s as a performance artist and musician as well as a groundbreaking leader in the use of technology in the arts and insightful commentator on technology in contemporary life.
This exhibition presents an extraordinary selection
of Anderson’s unique musical instruments and sonic interventions.
Exhibition Brochure with essay by Kevin Concannon
Sitting Pretty: The Inventive Chair
David Bonhoff
Bruce Bradford
Stoel Burrowes
Graham Campbell
Sonya Clark
Jacob Cress
Felicia Dean
Douglas Finkel
Sophie Glenn
Sophie Glenn
Timothy Hintz
Craig Nutt
Ann Walsh
Summer 2018
Sitting Pretty: The Inventive Chair
A selection of contemporary chairs by seventeen artists from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee that expand upon traditional forms and push beyond expectation, re-imagining the possibilities of what a chair is and can be
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William Wegman: Sit!
Curated in tandem with the exhibition Sitting Pretty this selection of photographs, presented for the first time in Virginia by conceptual artist and pioneering video artist William Wegman, features his beloved subject—Weimaraners—on tables and chairs by renowned designers Charles and Ray Eames and George Nakashima
Eddy-Mauri-River, 2003
Still Life, 8-23-2014
Winter/Spring 2018
Ray Kass
Broad Channel: Vorticella Polyptych, 1991
60 panels, overal 98 x 360 inches
An outstanding artist with a long record of national and international exhibitions Ray Kass is known not only for the quality and breadth of his art but as a pivotal, even catalytic figure in southwestern Virginia. This exhibition highlights exemplary work from his prolific career, ranging from his large-scale monumental watercolor Polyptych paintings (1961-2003) to his most recent work
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Wilson Creek Triptych, 1989
Image captions Eddy–Maury River, 2003 Water media, “smoke,” and mica on rag paper Framed in recessed white maple 42 x 66 inches Capital One Financial Corporation, Corporate Collection in Richmond, VA Still Life, 8-23-2014 Water media, oil emulsion and dry pigment on rag paper Under beeswax mounted on panel Framed in recessed white maple 32 x 58 ½ inches Courtesy of the artist Broad Channel: Vorticella Polyptych, 1991 Watercolor on rag paper 60 panels, 98-x 360 inches (8.1 x 30 feet) Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art Gift of Howard Risatti in memory of James Risatti Wilson Creek Tryptych, 1989 Water media on rag paper 3 panels, overall 70x 80 inches Courtesy of the artist
Fall 2017
Pia Fries
Pia Fries, fahnenbild b, 2012
Pia Fries. Photo by Hans Brandli
Oil on panel 48 7/8 x 66 7/8 inches
Collection of the Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gift of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz
A one-person exhibition of the Swiss artist’s work featuring a selection of paintings and prints. The exhibition, the first art institution exhibition in the United States of this important European artist, travelled to Kenyon College
Exhibition Brochure
Fall 2017
Radcliffe Bailey
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Windward Coast-West Coast Slave Trade, 2009-2011 c Radcliffe Bailey Full Gallery installation Piano keys, plaster bust and glitter and sound. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
A selection of paintings and the large scale installation of “Windward Coast West African Slave Trade” (2009-2011), referencing ancestral histories and migrations- including that of enslaved African peoples escaping through Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp.
Above:
Conductor, 2016
Mixed media, including collage elements, paint, and glass on panel 60 x 60 x 5 3/8 Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery
Winter/Spring 2017
From These Woods
Melissa Engler
Alex Bannan
Highly creative and skilled handmade works in wood by ten artists living in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee showcasing a range of artistic practices including woodturning, carving, basketry, furniture and instrument making. Curated by Curatorial Interns Jeff Attridge and Devon Johnson under the direction of Margo Crutchfield
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John Albright
Spring 2017
Susan Danko
One-person exhibition of real and imagined landscapes representing a beautiful but increasingly vulnerable world
Exhibition Brochure
Image above:
Forest Pattern, 2014
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches.
Jennifer Williams: Blacksburg Unfurled (2016-2017)
An expansive, 150 ft long site-specific wall installation based on the artist's research into and response to the history, architecture, and community of Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg Unfurled (Details)
Winter 2017
Art and Archtitecture
Projection/Convergence/Intersection
James Casebere Amy Casey Dionisio Gonzales
Candida Hofer Matthew Kolodziej Jean-Francois Rauzier
and
Jennifer Williams: Blacksburg Unfurled (2016-2017)
Spanning the practices of photography, painting, and installation art this visually arresting and conceptually layered exhibition featured large-scale works by artists who
engage architecture in their work, while addressing underlying issues of history, memory, and place
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Exhibition Brochure
Image Above:
Dionisio Gonzales
New Halong I, 2013
59 x 118 inches C-print, diasec, mounted on dibond and aluminum
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Richard, New York/Paris
Amy Casey
James Casebere.
Green Staircase #4, 2002-2003
Digital chromogenic print mounted to Plexiglas 89 1/2 x 71 1/2 inches Edition of 5 with 2 APs
© James Casebere, Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly, New York
Amy Casey (top image)
Acrylic on paper
36 x 50 inches
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Fall 2016
Four one-person exhibitions
Susan Jamison
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(Exhibition organization and Essay by Meghan Hicklin,
Exhibition Program Manager)
Lynn Hershman
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Amy Cutler
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Steeped in allegory and fantasy but rooted in telling realities, four female artists explore alter egos, imaginary persona, and the impact of personal and political history on the female Self.
Joe Kelly
Summer 2016
A selection of paintings and sculptures by longtime resident of Blacksburg, Virginia meld an interest in Southwestern Virginia folk culture with contemporary art. His quirky sculptures, made of carved wood and piano parts, reference Appalachian lore and the rich music culture of the region as well as puppetry, African fetish objects, and spiritual traditions of the far east
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The artist’s multitude of small scale paintings, from an ongoing series titled The Natural History of the Undescribed Birds, build on the metaphoric power of birds as a potent symbol of ascendance while capturing an uncanny sense of emotion and character
Window, 2001 Custom software, Macintosh G3 Powerbook, acrylic plastic 19 x 16 x 3 inches
John F. Simon.Jr
Casey Reas
Code, digital images,
computer, screen
1080 x 1920 pixels
Spring 2016
DATAStream
Four One-person exhibitions
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Four one-person exhibitions by artists working across various digital platforms within the emergent and rapidly evolving realm of computer and electronically-generated art
Philip Argent, Heart of Palm, 2014
Acrylic on canvas, 33 x 44 inches
© Philip Argent
Courtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Quaola
Strata #1, 2008
Multi-channel audio visual HD video
Large scale ceiling installation
Philip Argent
Untitled (Endless Fences II), 2014
Acrylic on canvas 72 x 56 x 2 inches
Collection of the artist,
Courtesy of Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA © Philip Argent
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Diana Cooper
Grand Lobby Wall Commission
17 ft high by 116 feet long
on view for two years
Spring 2016
HighWire, 2016
Digital composition on PhotoText
An expansive commission spanning 116 feet over six wall sections of the Moss Arts Center Grand Lobby, this monumental work fused analog and digital technologies into an inventive representation of complex systems, infrastructures, and abstract data.
With essay by Meghan Hicklin
Exhibition Program Manager
Exhibition Brochure
Partial View from upper Moss Arts Center level
Winter 2016
Paul Ryan
A new series of abstract paintings -ambiguous, and seemingly playful- but intellectually rigorous, address underlying social issues. Ryan's images, derived from flattened, commercial
packaging materials, the discarded boxes and cartons that litter our lives, casts a critical eye on the impact of commercialism and late capitalism on our lives
The exhibition travelled to the Stainer Gallery, at the Washington and Lee University
Catalogue
With an essay
by Ashley Kistler
Meaghan Dee
POST: Selections from the PostCard project in which over 400 postcards designed by the artist were mailed to strangers, then returned to the artist and created into a sequence of books
Fall 2015
Three exhibitions explore the intersection of nature and culture-- past and present-- real and unreal
Philip Taaffe
One of the preeminent painters of our time, Philip Taaffe's work draws from an encyclopedic range of references to history, architecture, anthropology and the natural sciences in bold, vibrant paintings distinguished by formal rigor and commanding presence
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Above:
Aspidium, Asplenium, Pteris I, 2011
Philip Taaffe
Mixed media on canvas
Oil pigment on canvas
39 x 63 ½ inches
Exhibition Brochure
Beyond Real: Still life in the 21st Century
Juxtaposing tradition with innovation seven artists transform the time-honored still life tradition through the lens of the 21st century
Gerry Bannan, Ori Gersht, David Halliday, Jennifer L. Hand, Laura Letinsky, Tim O’Kane, and Agniet Snoep
Painting, photography, and video by artists from Israel, Holland, Canada, and the United States
Exhibition Brochure
Above:
Grasshopper, 2011
Agniet Snoep
Archival digital print on aluminum
Artist proof, Courtesy of the artist
23.7 x 35.4 inches
Steven Vitiello
Art intersects science: an interdisciplinary site-specific sound installation
A Scuttering Across The Leaves, 2015, a commissioned sound installation based on micro sounds of the forest created by the internationally recognized sound artist Stephen Vitiello in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Kasey Fowler
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Summer 2015
Pat West:Tangled
Bold, richly textured, expressionistically rendered paintings by this established New River Valley artist. Thick paint and vigorous brushstrokes lend a sensual density to works in which vitality and chaos seem to alternately seethe, merge, and collide. Movement, insistent and relentless, convey a restless, complicated world of exterior landscapes in nature while suggesting a complexity of interior landscapes in the mind and heart.
3 Exhibitions Exhibition Brochure
A journey through landscape-
--both real and imagined
Unleashed: Poetry Unbound
350 feet of wall space and a cascade of poems by 12 poets living in the New River Valley Exhibition concept:Margo A Crutchfield: Poetry by authors in the region addressing concepts of garden, paradise, and refuge-visualized and transformed on the gallery walls- Curated by Matthew Volmer, Author and Assistant professor, Department of English at Virginia Tech, and Meggin Hicklin, Moss Arts Center Curatorial Graduate Assistant Design, production and implementation: Megan Hicklin Participating poets: Nathan Blake Thomas Gardner Nikki Giovanni Ann Goette Jane Hendrick Lesley Howard Amy Morengo Diana Lee Mazor Erika Meitner Rob Neukrich Diane Porter Goff Lucinda Road Curated by Matthew Volmer, Author and Assistant professor, Department of English at Virginia Tech, and Meggin Hicklin, Moss Arts Center Curatorial Graduate Assistant Design, production and implementation: Megan Hicklin Participating poets: Nathan Blake Thomas Gardner Nikki Giovanni Ann Goette Jane Hendrick Lesley Howard Amy Morengo Diana Lee Mazor Erika Meitner Rob Neukrich Diane Porter Goff Lucinda Road
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Wanderings
Charlotte Chan, Betty Collier, Mary Moore
Paintings and works on paper by three accomplished Virginia artists living in the New River Valley. Representating the beauty of gardens, fields and dales their musings on nature—real and re-imagined, personal and universal, reveal what can be so familiar ...yet ultimately unfathomable-
Spring 2015
THREADED: Four one-person exhibitions
Suspended...
..from the ceiling
..on the walls...
on and across the floors... ..
Thread, silk, sequins, and various fabrics transformed
and
Shinique Smith
Angelo Filomeno
Lalla Essaydi
Polly Apflebaum
Angelo Filomeno Brochure
Polly Apfebaum Brochure
Shinique Smith Brochure
Winter 2014
Sam Krisch: Elements
Large scale photographs
The sheer power and splendor of nature in far-away places is the subject of Sam Krisch’s photographic practice. Over the last five years, Krisch has journeyed to remote locations ranging from the Mohave Desert to Antarctica to capture stunning images of ice formations, the raw force of turbulent waters, and empty expanses of desert landscapes. This exhibition presents a selection of the artist’s digital photographs created between 2012 and 2014, in which his approach to composition verges on the abstract, taking the work beyond documentation into a world of pristine, yet daunting, beauty. These are gorgeous, even idyllic landscapes, tinged nonetheless with the terrifying knowledge that these worlds are slipping away in an irreversible trajectory caused by human forces. Krisch lives and works in Roanoke...
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An exhibition featuring excerpts from the artist's multi-panel painting installation, Fly Over (2013) and The Big Country (2014). Based on aerial views of the earth from planes or satellites, these works are painted on multiple panels and configured into segments up to 30 feet long. They represent the stunning visual experience of seeing the earth from above and the artist’s fascination with the changes humans have imposed on the earth, both beautiful and disturbing. Bannan lives in Roanoke. She is an instructor of painting and drawing in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech.
Betsy Bannan
Fall 2104
Three one-person exhibitions. +Grand Lobby Wall Commission
Patrick Wilson
Patric Wilson
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Evolving Geometries
Building on the rich tradition of geometric
abstraction, three artists take the visual
language of line, form, and color in
compelling directions
Odili Odita
Evolving Geometries Brochure
Manfred Mohr
Manfred Mohr
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Fall 2014
Odili Odita Grand Lobby Wall Commission
Bridge, 2014
Wall Painting
17 x 35 feet
A monumental wall painting conceived of and designed by Odili Odita and implemented over the course of 25 days by two studio assistants. On view for two years
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Brilliant color, compositional complexity, and rhythmic energy
Spring 2014
Kehinde Wiley
Aspects for the Self: Portraits of our Times
Intentionally merging tradition with innovation...
...taking portraiture into a territory far beyond depiction
Exhibition Catalogue
Images Above: Kehinde Wiley
On Left:
Dacia Carter, 2012
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
Private Collection
Photo courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery
New York
On right:
Mame Ngagne, 2007
Oil on canvas 26 x 22 inches
Private Collection
Photo courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
From Andy Warhol to Internet based art 22 artists re-invent the genre
Artists in the Exhibition
Above:
Christopher Baker: Hello World! 16 x 40 ft- U-tube video wall
Elizabeth King
Animation Study: Pose 7, 2005
C-print,
20 x 20 inches
Collection of the artist
Photo by Eric Beggs
Winter 2014
Video still© 2005
Chiho Aoshima/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd
Chiho Aoshima
City Glow, 2005
A mesmerizing five-channel video installation tracing the cycles of nature in a landscape full of fantasy and wonder
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Landscape: Another Dimension:
Innovation meets tradition in four one-person exhibitions as artists from the Netherlands, Japan, and the United States re-envision the landscape tradition
Four one-person exhibitions
Adam Cvijanovic
A Woods I Do Not Know, 2014
Full gallery commissioned installation
Flashe, house paint, and acrylic on Tyvek,
Wood, and mirrored structures
With consummate skill and a wildly inventive approach to the landscape tradition Adam Cvijanovic transformed the entire gallery into an ambitious 3-dimensional site-specific installation. Responding to the New River Valley this acclaimed hyperrealist painter created an uplands Appalachian forest scene. With an innovative, even unprecedented use of paint on Tyvek, Cvijanovic lined what he termed “portable frescoes” along an open maze of wood and mirrored structures in what became an encompassing surreal and almost fluid environment.
Exhibition Brochure
Reflection, 2010
HD animation on hard disc. Courtesy of Marian Boesky Gallery, New York and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
Joni Pieńkowski
Thermal Emergence, 2012
Oil, acrylic, Prismacolor, charcoal, and graphite on birch
80 x 12 ins
Jacco Olivier
An inventive fusion of painting with filmmaking
Abstract Landscapes that elicite the poetic power and life force of nature. A rich palette of earth tones, dashes of burnt oranges, yellows and whites, with wisps of fluid forms allude to the complexities of change and growth, not only in field and woodland ecosystems but in ourselves.
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Belgian artist Jacco Olivier’s animations seem like intimate vignettes— amorphous, almost fluid landscapes that move in and out of abstraction. Three signature works in the exhibition reveal the evolution and transformation of the artist’s painting practice in a process that begins with painting but ends in film.
Two one person exhibitions:
Convergence: Art, Science, and Technology
Jennifer Steinkamp
Madame Curie, 2011
Video installation: site-specific, multi-channel, synchronized projection
Exhibition Brochure
Fall 2013
Moss Arts Center Inaugural Exhibitions
Leo Villareal
Digital Sublime
Featuring a selection of the artist's signature
"kinetic light paintings" created with computer code, custom software, and thousands of programed LEDs
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Exhibitions Curated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
All Images© By the artists, courtesy of their gallerists/or representatives. Exhibition brochures and catalogues © Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Coordinating Curator for:
Teresita Fernandez:Blind Landscape
Organized by the University of South Florida
Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
Spring 2011
Teresita Fernández is internationally known for immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and perception. Made with polished stainless steel, glass, and other materials including plastic and graphite, Fernández's abstract sculptures incorporate reflection, light and shadow in poetic, sometimes luminous formations that suggest natural phenomena. .
Summer 2011
Delicious Fields:
Ohio Photographers
Curated with Lisa Kurzner
Jodi Boatman, Joy Christiansen Erb, Bruce Checefsky, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Mary Fahy, Ardine Nelson, Marcella Hackbardt, Jordan Tate, Benjamin Montague
“Delicious Field’s” derives from “Champs Delicieux” a portfolio of photo grams created by Man Ray in 1922. As an avant-garde publication of the Surrealist era Champs Delicieux was revolutionary for its time. Man Ray’s images offered a scrambling of reality…Just so, the nine Ohio photographers exhibited overlay personal narrative on the Ohio landscape, or, conversely subject this and other topographies to overt manipulation and examination..What results is a selection of photographic works imbued with the spirit of the enigmatic, as descended from its French forbearers. Excerpted from the MOCA Cleveland summer 2011 Newsletter
Terrain, 2011
Site Specific Sound Installation
Julianne Swartz
A dynamic sonic landscape with twelve channels of sound moving through space
Utilizing over a hundred speakers to emit hums and hushed whispers, the piece emanates sounds reminiscent of stormy weather, blowing leaves or a gentle wind. To make the soundtrack for the piece, Julianne Swartz asked thirty-eight volunteers to envision a loved one, and to speak into a microphone as though whispering in that person's ear. Swartz has woven these intimacies so that visitors will hear abstract affective tones, interspersed with discernible moments of conversation. The layering and merging of disparate voices and languages constructed an aural topography of human sentiment.
Fall 2010
Assume Vivid Astro Focus
ilegítimo, 2009.
Site-specific wall installation
Self-adhesive vinyl, 12 x 85 feet.
Courtesy of the Artists and Peres Projects, Berlin
©assume vivid astro focus
Fall 2010
Seth Rosenberg
A one-person exhibition tracing the remarkable development and transformation of Rosenberg's painting practice from abstraction to figuration.
Catalogue
With essays by Crutchfield, artist Don Harvey, art critic Christopher French; and Terrie Sultan, then director of the Parrish Art museum
Summer 2010
Marilyn Minter:
Orange Crush
One of the most adventurous and accomplished artists today, Minter’s provocative paintings and videos depict extreme closeups of women with a shocking but irresistible sensuality. Minter focuses on the female body in both a critique and embrace of beauty, fashion, glamour, sensuality, and desire––with its pleasures and dangers.
Exhibition Brochure
Spring 2010
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Reviews:
Beacon Journal
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art
Kara Walker
Leonardo Drew
A selection of painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper by 27 artists ranging from Romare Bearden to Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew and Kehinde Wiley in an overview of the rich cultural heritage voiced by African American artists over the last decades of the 20th-century into the 21st-century
Image Captions: Kara Walker: Untitled, 1998 Cut paper and adhesive 55 x 32 inches Collection of the Progressive Corporation Leonardo Drew Untitled, 2001 Mixed media, cotton, rust, wood 120 x 288 x 8 inches Collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum Alison Saar Lave Tete, 2001 Mixed media 102 x 15 x 23 inches Collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum
Alison Saar
Fall 2009
Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli photography and video
Outstanding photographic and video art works by emerging and established Israeli artists, portraying a complexity of shifting realities in Israel-a country rich in history, a convergence of multiple, often conflicting cultures, values, and beliefs, and ongoing strife
Catalogue
with essay and entries on on each artist
Yael Bartana Rina Castelnuovo Natan Dvir Barry Frylender Ori Gersht Dana Levy Adi Nes Michael Rovner Rona Yefman
Review
Spring 2009
Coordinating curator for
Superlight
Superlight: Selections from the 01SJ
Global Festival of Art on the Edge
A collaboration with Curator Steve Dietz
to present 8 artists from the around the world selected from the SuperLight exhibition
Two exhibitions featuring art at the
intersection of art and digital culture
Jean Michel Huelin
Jean Michel Huelin
Video Installation
The Swiss video artists' first presentation
in the United States in a visual exploration of biological processes and
our relationship to nature in the digital age
Summer/Fall 2009
An exhibition at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus, featuring the work of 16 artists culled from extensive studio visits throughout northern Ohio
Catalogue
with essay and entries on on each artist
Sam Taylor Wood
2018
The first major museum exhibition of the acclaimed British artist in the United States
Photo by Tim Sufranek
Catalogue
With essays by Margo Crutchfield,
Barbara London, and Linda Nochlin
Exhibition travelled to the Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Self Portrait Suspended VIII, 2004
C-print
53 3/16 x 63 13/16 inches
Photos courtesy of the artist and White Cube Gallery, London.
David, 2004
DVD Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes
National Portrait Gallery, London
Commissioned with the support of J.P. Morgan
through the Fund for New Commissions
Fall 2007
Catalogue
With essay and entries by Margo Ann Crutchfield
and an interview by Barbara Pollock
Beyond the Line:
The Art of Diana Cooper
An expansive exhibition of drawings, large-scale wall reliefs and installations.
Exuberant combinations of painting, drawing, and sculpture created with paper, canvas, pipe cleaners, sharpie markers, plastic, photographs, push pins, pompoms, pencils and ball point pens
Images of the Exhibition
photos by Tim Sufranek, and Diana Cooper
Winter/Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Coordinating Curator for
Dana Schutz: Paintings 2002-2006
Organized by the Rose Art Museum
All Digital
The first major exhibition in the region of computer generated works of art by leading international new media artists
Anne-Marie Schleiner John F. Simon, Jr. Lynn Hershman Paul Chan Leo Villareal + World premieres of commissioned installations by
Charles Sandison; Chris Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
John F. Simon, Jr.
Catalogue
Essay and entries on each artist by
Margo Ann Crutchfield and an essay by
Jeffrey Shaw
+ a cyber discussion by Steve Dietz Christiane Paul, and Benjamin Weil
Charles Sandison
Lynn Hershman
Image Captions From Left to Right John Simon Fountain, 2004 (screen still) Projection Software, Apple G4 PowerBook 8 x 19 foot diptych Charles Sandison Index, 2006 Site-specific installation for MOCA Cleveland Project data: code, computers, projectors Approximately 2000 square feet Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, Lynn Hershman Leeson DiNA, 2004-5 Networked artificial intelligent agent Artificial intelligence mark-up language and Java code,Pulse 3D Veepers software Voice-recognition software, text-to-speech software,PC, microphone 10 x 5 ft Projection Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau LifeSpacies, 1999 (screen still, detail) Interactive computer installation
+ Cyber Lounge
The first online exhibition organized by MOCA Cleveland, featuring a selection of art by 20 artists working in cyberspace
Image above:
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
LifeSpacies, 1999 (screen still, detail)
Ange Leccia
La Mer, 2001 Video Instalation
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Tom Banberger Inkjet pigment print mounted on aluminum 39.25 x 109.6
Summer 2005
Out There: Landscape in the New Millenium
Landscape and our relationship with the natural world through an outstanding selection of large-scale photographic and video works
Tom Bamberger Uta Barth Olafur Eliasson Anna Gaskell Ellen Kooi Rosemary Lang Ange Leccia Jennifer Steinkamp
Fabricated scenes at once fantastic and uncanny
preposterous and improbable
Exhibition Brochure
Top Right: Jennifer Steinkamp
Dervish 14, 2004
Video Installation
12x15 feet
Above: Anna Gaskell
Untitled #105 (A Short Story of Happenstance), 2003 7 C-prints, ed. 3/3 40 x 30, each Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Bottom Right:
Ellen Kooi
Velsen- Slootmist, 2003 Enduraprint/plexiglass/reynobond
35.4 x 65.7
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Jennifer Steinkamp
Ellen Kooi
Winter Spring 2005
Coordinating Curator for the loan exhibition:
Jim Hodges
Light, as material and symbol in a decade of the artist's work Organized by the Weatherspoon and Tang Art Museums
Exhibition Brochure
Summer 2004
Coordinating Curator
Rona Pondick
Beautiful, strange, and disconcerting stainless steel sculptures created with groundbreaking digital technologies combined with traditional carving and casting techniques that address themes probing the animal nature of our desires and the mutable nature of human existence
Above: Rona Pondick
Monkeys, 1998–2001
Stainless steel 41.25 x 66 x 85.25 inches
Winter/Spring 2004
Kori Newkirk
A 12 x 35 ft long commissioned site-specific wall drawing made with pomade and pencil--gigangtic images of the artist's fingerprints- markers of individuality, identification, and more
Exhibition Brochure
Center right:: Maria Fernanda Cardosa
Cementario-Jardin Vertical (2004)
Thousands of flowers clustered along a 12 x 50 ft wall
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Winter/Spring 2004
Six national and international artists
Jun Nguyen-hatsushiba
Video installation
Memorial Project, Nha Trang, Vietnam:Toward the Complex for the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001
Courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
Material Witness
Douglas Gordon Maria Fernanda Cardoso Santiago Sierra Johnny Coleman Laylah Ali Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba
Installations of art distinguished by sensual, symbolically charged materials that address philosophical, moral, and socio-political issues
Catalogue with essay and entries on each artist
Above: Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Cemetery-vertical garden / Cementerio-jardin vertical, 1992-2004 Artificial flowers and pencil on wall
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum
Purchase with funds from Charles C. and Sue K. Edwards, 2000
Laylah Ali
Untitled, 2000
gouache on paper
13 x 21 inches,
Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York
Fall 2003/Winter 2004
Tara Donovan
The artist's first one-person museum exhibition
Untitled, 2003
Full gallery installation
Paper plates,glue.
Exhibition Brochure
Summer 2003
Ingrid Calame
Secular Response 2A
A commissioned 12 x 150 ft long full gallery painting installation based on the artist's tracings of the floors of the epicenter of global financial power -The New York Stock Exchange
Julian Laverdiere
An installation mapping global military sites and networks where history science and commerce intersect
Mark Lombardy:Global Networks
Complex visual drawings that trace the convoluted, often illegal, and clandestine financial transactions that underlie the global economy
Loan exhibition curated by Robert Hobbs
The Global Arena: Money, Power and Politics
A cluster of three inter-related one-person exhibitions that address interlocking themes of geo-politics and the global economy
Mark Lombardy Julian Lavadiere Ingrid Calame
Ingrid Calame Catalogue
Exhibitions Curated at the Virginia Museum
2001
Martin Puryear
Mid-career retrospective
Exemplary examples of Puryear's classic constructed-wood sculptures, his woven and latticed pieces, and a selection of wire mesh and tar works drawn from prominent public and private collections were featured, including new works from the artist's studio exhibited for the first time
Exhibition traveled to the Miami Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the DeMoines Art Center
Confessional, 1996-2000
Full color catalogue with essay and entries on each object
Art in America Review
Wall Street Journal Review
Studio view: Brunhilde, and .work in progress
Plenty's Boast, 1994-1995
Washington Post Review
ArtNews Review
Lever # 2, 1989
On right
Studio View
Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996
Katharine Wetzel /Photo Shoot for the catalogue
Image Captions From Left to Right: Confessional, 1996-2000 Wire mesh, tar, and wood 77 7/8 x 97 1/4 x 45 inches Collection of the Virginia Museum (upper) Brunhilde, 1998-2000 Cedar and Ratan 93 1/2 x 112 3/4 x 73 1/2 inches Studio view with work in progress (lower) Plenty's Boast, 1994-1995 Red cedar and pine 68 c 83 x 118 inches Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (upper, Far Right) Lever # 2 Ponderosa pine, ash, cypress and rattan 71 x 293 x 55 inches Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art (lower right) Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996 Catalogue photo shoot in progress /Katherine Wetzel
Images of all works
© Martin Puryear
and may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the artist and the Virginia Museum archives
Abstracted/Figured/Exposed (1997)
An exhibition of 10 artists from the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area
Curated by invitation of the City of Baltimore School 33 Arts Center.
1997
Abstracted/Figured/ Exposed
An exhibition of 10 artists from the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area
Curated by invitation of the City of Baltimore School 33 Arts Center
Catalogue
On Right: Red Dress, 1992
Velvet, wood and metal hanger
12 ⅔ ' x 10 ½ ' x 45 ½ '
Collection of Eileen and Michael Cohen
1996
Beverly Semmes
An installation by artist Beverly Semmes featuring two of Semmes’ signature works, Red Dress, 1992 and Buried Treasure, 1994 in an exploration of identity, gender, stereotypes, and the role of women in our society
Travelled to the Smith College Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art
Beverly Semmes
Buried Treasure, 1994
Catalogue
With essays by Margo Crutchfield, Linda Muehlig, Lisa Hurley, and Russel Ferguson
Video documentary co-produced with the Hirshhorn Museum
1994
Philip Guston: Paintings of the 70s
A focus exhibition including six major paintings and a suite of small oil-on-panel studies from the last and most important decade of Philip Guston's life including loans from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of American Art, and several private collections in addition to the Virginia
Museum's 1974 painting, The Desert.
Alison Saar: Crossroads (1994)
A recreation of Saar's 1989 installation featuring three carved figures including the Virginia Museum's new sculpture acquisition, Untitled. Crossroads was presented to accompany Fertile Ground (1994), an installation of five carved figures that examined the complex relationship of African Americans to the southern landscape.
Jim Dine: Robes (1993)
The first of a series of Focus exhibitions designed to place the Virginia Museum holdings in context. Two paintings from the permanent collection were featured in addition to 11 large works on paper representing the artist's treatment of this theme throughout 30 years.
Al Carter, 1993
Paintings, Drawings, Mural
An expansive exhibition and community based mural project
Exhibition traveled to the Portsmouth Art Museum.
Exhibition Brochure
Community mural project created during a 10-day residency in which the artist worked with students from throughout the city
A Reinstallation of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Galleries
In/Sight:Late 20th-Century Art at the Virginia Museum (1993)
Organized by legendary Walker Art Center Director, Martin Friedman with Virginia Museum Associate Curators Margo Crutchfield and Ashley Kistler
A complete re-configuration of 13,000 square feet of gallery space with over130 works, new acquisitions, and periodic rotation of works on view.
Robert Morris: Perspectives on the Permanent Collection (1991)
An exhibition highlighting works by the artist in the Virginia Museum's collection, augmented by loans from public and private collections.
Included were early examples conceptual works, two Morris' felt wall sculptures, a monumental painting from the Burning Planet series, and a selection of large-scale charcoal/paper drawings
ExhibitionBrochure
Robert Stackhouse 1990
Installation created by the artist on site during a 10-day residency
A commissioned installation featuring a large-scale semi-abstract construction made of rough-sawn wooden laths, suggesting massive skeletal structures or archaeological remnants, A selection of large-scale watercolors accompanied the exhibition
Exhibition Brochure
Image on right:
Ruby’s Heart, 1988
Watercolor and charcoal on paper, mounted on linen, 9 x 5 ft
Photo by Ivan Dalla Tana
Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists (1990)
Group exhibition featuring fourteen Virginia artists in depth: Emile Brzezinski, Donald Crow, Tom Davenport, Joan Elliott, Roger Esseley, Stephen Fox, Martin Johnson, Elizabeth King, John McCarty, Masako Miyata, Carlton Newton, Robert Stuart, Holly Wright, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Co-curated with Julie Boyd and Ashley Kistler
Catalogue
Full color with entries on each artist
Coordinating Curator with Julia Boyd and Ashley Kistler for:
Power: De-Coding its Myths, Icons, and Structures in American Culture, 1961-1991
An exhibition of 80 works tracing how representation changed over 30 years and how the work of the 27 featured artists
decoded power as a way of expressing
political, cultural and social concerns.
Included works by Andy Warhol, Robert Morris, Roy Lichtenstein, Dennis Adams, Krystof Wodiczko, Chris Burden, Hans Haacke, Lorna Simpson, Babara Kruger, Louis Lawler, Stephen Laub and Jenny Holzer among others.
Organized by the Indianapolis Museum
of Art. (1990)
Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists (1988)
Group exhibition featuring fourteen Virginia artists in depth: Emile Brzezinski, Donald Crow, Tom Davenport, Joan Elliott, Roger Esseley, Stephen Fox, Martin Johnson, Elizabeth King, John McCarty, Masako Miyata, Carlton Newton, Robert Stuart, Holly Wright, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Co-curated with Julie Boyd and Ashley Kistler
Catalogue
Full color with entries on each artist
Ray Kass: Recent Paintings (1987
An exhibition of seven monumental works on paper by Virginia artist Ray Kass employing watercolor mixed with beeswax to create immense renderings of semi-abstract cityscapes
Catalogue
Ephemeris: An installation by Kristin Jones/Andrew Ginzel (1986)
A gallery wide installation by two emerging New York artists collaborating as a team to create invented atmospheric landscapes incorporating symbolic elements representing wind, fire, metal, and earth
Pi
An Installation by Chuck Henry
A holographic installation by Virginia artist Chuck Henry.
Catalogue
Mimmo Paladino: Painting and Sculpture (1986)
An exhibition by the preeminent Italian artist, feturing a monumental wall installation, several sculptures, five large paintings, and a selection of works on paper
Catalogue
With essay by Margo Crutchfield and an interview with the artist by art historian Howard Risatti
Magdalena Abakanowicz (1985)
Inaugural exhibition in the Contemporary Exhibition Galleries for the opening of the Virginia Museum's West Wing.
Two installations, Seated Figures (1974-79) and Backs (1976-82) were featured in addition to a selection of works from the mid 1980's
Seated Figures, from the Alterations series 1974-1979
Burlap and glue, steel stands, 18 pieces
Each approx. 41 x 20 x 26 inches
Collection of Sydney and Frances Lewis
Richmond, VA
Catalogue
With essay by Julia Boyd and Margo Crutchfield
Coordinating Curator for
Susan Rothenberg (1985)
An exhibition of large-scale paintings by this renowned American artist. Organized by the La Jolla Art Museum
East Village Artists
Exhibition featured 15 east village artists during the heyday of the East Village art scene in the early 1980s. Artists included Dan Asher, Jane Bauman, Ellen Berkenblit, Bob Desautels, Fred Brathwaite, Futura, Rodney Greenblat, Kathleen Grove, Richard Hambleton, Rick Prol, Louis Renszoni, Ted Rosenthal, Anton Van Dalen, Bruce Wall, and David Wojnarowicz
Exhibition publication
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fast/Forward Series
All Images ©. All rights reserved.
Images or any portion of images here may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the artists and their representatives.
Working with colleagues Julia Boyd and Ashely Kistler, developed the Fast/Forward series of experimental contemporary performance events into an acclaimed. nationally recognized program. Served as Artistic Director, producer, and co-ordinator of performance events with related educational programs and residency activities.
Fast/Forward
A History
Bill T. Jones Kazuo Ono
Fast/Forward Review Compendium 1984-2001
All Images © Courtesy of the artists, their
representatives/and or agents, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives.
Ronald K. Brown
Marie Chouinard
Photo © Annie Liebovitz
Steven Petronio
Diamanda Galas
2000-2001
33 Fainting Spells: September September
Oliver Lake: The Matador of 1s and ISt
Uri Caine: Primal Light
Claudia Stevens
Ron Brown:Evidence
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1998/1999
Diamanda Galas: Malediction and Prayer
Rennie Harris PureMovement
Hot Mouth
Maureen Fleming
Roger Guenveur Smith
1999/2000
Spalding Gray
Kathy Rose
Compagnie Marie Chouinard
Basso Bongo
Mathew Barney
Spoken Hand
Dael Orlandersmith
Laurie Anderson
Real Live Poets
1997/1998
Laurie Anderson: Speed of Darkness
Real Live Poets
Stephen Petronio Dance Company
Bang on a Can Orchestra
Paul Zaloom
Reggie Workman Ensemble: Commission of Africa Brass and regional
tour
Photo © Gart Krautbauer
Photo © Meg Handler
Photo © Amalia Pistili
Reggie Workman Ensemble
1995/1996
Wim Vandkeybus: Mountains Made of Barking
Don Byron Quintet
Paul Dresher Ensemble: New American Landscapes
Ann Carlson: An Evening of Solo Work
Robert Wilson Merce Cunningham Dance
Paul Zaloom
Post Fast/Forward ?
Photo © Ira Berger
Oliver Lake
1996/1997
Robert Wilson: Entering the Multidimensional Vision of Robert Wilson; A space that is
filled with Time.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Events
Robbie McCauley: Family Stories
Christian Marclay: An Orchestra of Djs
Henry Threadgill Sextet
Urban Bushwomen
1993/1994
Charlie Hayden and the Liberation Music Orchestra
Kazuo Ohne, Waterlilies
Diamanda Galas
LadyGourd Sangoma
Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Company
1992/1993
Lenny Pickett Septet
Reno
Molissa Fenley
Lawrence Butch Morris & Ensemble
Fred Curchak
David Rousseve
1994/1995
Philip Glass: Solo Piano
Rachel Rosenthal Pangaen Dreams
Amiri Baraka and Blue Ark Black History Music
Currents: Morton Feldman
Urban Bush Women (7-day City-wide Residency)
John Kelly and Company, Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte
Rennie Harris: Pure Movement
Photo © David Michael Kennedy
Rachel Rosenthal
Reno
Sankai Juku
Sankai Juku
Ralph Lemon
Sun Ra
Kodo
1990-1991
Spaulding Gray: Monster in a Box
Wim Vandekeybus: What the Body Does not Know
Sankai Juku: Unetsu
World Saxophone Quartet
1989-90
Trisha Brown Company
Garth Fagan Bucket Dance
Shelley Hirsch & David Weinstein
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Elizabeth Streb Ringside Dance (Commission)
1991/1992
Laurie Anderson: An Informal Talk
Don Pullen and the Afro-Brazilian Connection
David Moss
Susan Marshall and Company
Photo © Lois Greenfield
Elizabeth Streb: Ringside Dance
1988-1989
Laura Dean Dancers & Musicians
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Book of Days: A Music
Concert with Film
Kathy Rose: Syncopations
1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, and Jerome Sirlin
John Zorn & Musicians: Ruan Ling-yu
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra
Photo © by Stanley Greene
Bobby McFerrin
1987-1988
Chris Burnside & Dancers
Bebe Miller & Company
with guest choreographer Ralph Lemon
Bobby McFerrin
Kodo
Kronos Quartet with Terry Riley
Photo © Deborah Fengold
Don Byron
Photo : Jack Mitchell
Philip Glass
photo:Anthony Barbosa
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Molissa Fenley
photo ©Michele Clement
Kronos Quartet
1985-1986
Eiko & Koma
Philip Glass Ensemble
Steve Reich & Musicians
Peter Rose: The Pleasures of the Text
Glenn Branca & Musicians
Terry Riley
1986-1987
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company: Animal Trilogy
Relache with Pauline Oliveros
Anthony Davis & Episteme
Wendy Woodson & Present Company
Tom Johnson & Catskill Woodwind Quintet
Mark Morris Dance Group
Photo by Lois Greenfeld
Bill T. Jones
1984-1985
Performance Art: An Overview, introductory lecture by Sally Baines
Theodora Skipitares: Micropolis
Eric Bogosian: Funhouse
Meredith Monk: A Solo Concert
Publications
Moss Arts Center
Full color trifold publications with biographical notes, curator's essay
and exhibition checklists
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Unbearable Beauty (2021)
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Jason Middlebrook (2020)
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Fierce Women (2020)
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Catalogue essay for the one-person Nancy Lovendahl exhibition:
Small Glimpses, Many Times (2020)
at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Colorado Springs, CO
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DATA/FORM (2019)
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Gerry Bannan (2019)
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Arboreal (2019)
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Sitting Pretty: The Chair Re-envisoned (2018)
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SoundScapes (2018)
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Ray Kass (2018)
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Radcliffe Bailey (2017)
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Pia Fries (2017)
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From These Woods (2017)
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Susan Danko (2017)
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Artists and Architecture
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Projection/Convergence/Intersection (2017)
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LynnHershman (2016)
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Amy Cutler (2016)
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Joe Kelly (2016)
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Diana Cooper (2016)
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DATAStream: Philip Argent, John Simon, Casey Reas, Quayola (2016)
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Paul Ryan: New Paintings (2016)
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Beyond Real: Still Life in the 21st Century (2016)
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Stephen Vitiello (2016)
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Philip Taaffe (2016)
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Pat West /Wanderings ((2015)
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Threaded:Shinique Smith (2015)
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Threaded: Polly Apfelbaum, Angelo Filomeno (2015)
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Sam Krisch (2015)
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Odili Odito (2015)
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Manfred Moore (2015)
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Partick Wilson (2015)
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Aspects of the Self:Portraits of our Times (2014)
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Adam Cvijanovic (2015)
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Joni Pienkowsky (2015)
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Leo Villareal:Digital Sublime(2014)
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Jennifer Steinkamp:Madame Curie (2014)
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
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Seth Rosenberg: The Cleveland Years (2010)
Catalogue
Full color, 120 pages. With essays by Margo Crutchfield,
Terrie Sultan, Don Harvey and Christopher French
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Marilyn Minter: Orange Crush (2010) Exhibition brochure
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From Then to Now: Masterworks of African American Art (2010)
Exhibition brochure
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Hugging and Wrestling: Israeli Photography and Video (2009)
Catalogue
Full color, with essay and entries on the artists
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Sam Taylor Wood (2008)
Catalogue
Full color, with essays by Margo Crutchfield, Linda Nochlin, and Barbara London
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Beyond the Line: the art of Diana Cooper (2007)
Catalogue
Full color, 119 pages, with essays by Margo Crutchfield, interview with Lilly Wei
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All Digital (2006)
Catalogue
Full color, 150 pages. Essays and entries on the artists by Margo Crutchfield;
Cyber Discussion by Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul, Benjamin Weil; Essay by Jeffrey Shaw
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CyberLounge 2006 (Online catalogue)
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Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium (2005) Exhibition brochure
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Jim Hodges (2005) Exhibition brochure
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Rona Pondick (2004) Exhibition brochure
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Kori NewKirk (2004) Exhibition brochure
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Material Witness (2004)
Catalogue
Full color, 60 pages with essay and entries on each artist
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Ingrid Calame:Secular Response 11 (2003)
Catalogue
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Martin Puryear (2001)
Catalogue
Full color, 70 pages, with essay and entries on each object
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Abstracted / Figured/ Exposed (1997) Exhibition brochure
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Beverly Semmes (1996)
Catalogue
Co-produced with Smith College and the Norton Art Museum
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Al Carter (1993) Exhibition brochure
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Robert Morris: Perspectives on the Permanent Collection
(1991) Exhibition brochure
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Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists (1990) Catalogue
With Frederick Brandt, Julie Boyd and Ashley Kistler.
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Robert Stackhouse: An Installation with Drawings (1990) Exhibition brochure
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Un/Common Ground: Virginia Artists (1988)
Catalogue
With Frederick Brandt, Julie Boyd and Ashley Kistler.
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Ray Kass: Recent Paintings (1987) Catalogue
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Mimmo Paladino: Painting and Sculpture (1986) Catalogue
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Installations: Kristin Jones/Andrew Ginzel (1985) Exhibition brochure
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Magdalena Abakanowicz (1985) Catalogue
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East Village Artists (1984) Exhibition booklet
At the Aspen Art Museum
John DeAndrea (1982)
Assistance for the exhibition curated by Philip Yenawine, Director of the Aspen Art Museum
A selection of five life-size nudes by renowned sculptor John DeAndrea from public and private collections.
Paul Sarkisian (1981)
Assistance for the exhibition curated by Philip Yenawine, Director of the Aspen Art Museum
An exhibition of sixteen large paintings by a prominent southwestern artist whose "trompe l'oeil” paintings depict newspapers, boxes, and pieces of colored paper in abstract arrangements that appear to be "real" collages of objects.
Administrative Assistance for
Peter Lodato An exhibition of wall paintings, three sets in three corners of the main gallery, which created subtle and fascinating illusions.
Administrative assistance for
Castelli and His Artists An exhibition of works by artists of this renowned gallery, a chronological of major developments in the art of our times. Curated by Philip Yenawine, the exhibition featured artists included Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Kosuth, James Rosenquist, Robert Morris, Ed Rusha. Traveled the exhibition to four museums nationwide. (1982).
Curatorial Assistance for
The World of Eric Blas An exhibition of colorful and imaginative watercolor paintings, murals, painted furniture, illustrated journals and ceramic sculpture by this Colorado artist. (1982).
Publication Assistance for
Frank Mechau: Artist of Colorado (1982) A one-person exhibition by this social realist painter of the 1940s.
Exhibition Assistance for
Soundworks A series of installations and performances presented by the Art Museum and the Aspen Music Festival featuring Michael Czajkowski, Alvin Lucier, Harry Partch, Earle Brown and Philip Glass. (1981).
Exhibition Assistance and Co-ordination for
Ruckus Rodeo A gallery installation of Red Groom's 3-dimensional characters, all modeled after cowboys, rodeo queens, clowns and spectators. On loan from the Fort Worth Art Museum. (1981)
Features Articles Reviews
(Section currently in development)
Selected Feature Articles
Opening of the Moss Arts CenterVirginia Tech Magazine, winter 2013-14 (excerpt)
2013-14 Moss Arts Center Inaugural Season Publication (excerpt)
Virginia Tech University video interview on the making of an exhibition
Selected Video Features
Daniel Canogar: 1.5 mins Surge Video
Grand Lobby Commissioned installation, Moss Arts Center
Chakaia Booker: Exhibition video Moss Arts Center
Unbearable Beauty: Exhibition video Moss Arts Center
Radcliffe Bailey: Winward Coast -West Coast Slave Trade (2009-2011)
Moss Arts Center
Sam Taylor Wood exhibition documentary, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Beverly Semmes Documentary, co-produced by the Hirshhorn Museum and the Virginia Museum, directed by Olga Viso and Margo Crutchfield
Daniel Canogar Chakaia Booker. Radcliffe Bailey. Sam Taylor Wood
Hugging And Wrestling Exhibition
Steve Litt, Art News, April 2010
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec 12, 2009
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Diana Cooper Exhibition
Lilly Wei, Art in America, April, 2008
Sam Taylor Wood
Steve Litt, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Feb 10, 2008
Material Witness Exhibition
Douglas Max Utter, Angle Magazine
All Digital
Steve Litt, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Out There: Landscape in the New Millenium
Dan Tranberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 27, 2005
Martin Puryear
Art in America
Janet Koplos, Dec, 2001
Washington Post
Paul Richard, Mar 11, 2001
ArtNews
Lilly Wei, Dec. 2001
Wall Street Journal
David Littlejohn, Dec 3, 2001
Selected Reviews
Fast/Forward Review Compilation
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