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CURRICULUM VITAE The Andy Warhol Museum |
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Present Position
Director, The Andy Warhol Museum
May 1996 - Present
Profile -
Member, American Association of Museums; College Art Association of America;
Association of Art Museum Directors Budget - $4.6 million
Staff - 45 full-time; 20 part-time employees
Direct all operations of the largest one-person museum in the United States
and manage a permanent collection of over three thousand objects. Supervise
professional staff and monitor budget; work closely with the president
of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the umbrella organization for The
Andy Warhol Museum on major fundraising strategies and to establish policies.
Establish exhibition policy for over 78,000 square feet of exhibition
space. Coordinate relations between the Board of The Andy Warhol Museum
and its co-founding partners, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts, Inc., and the Dia Center for the Arts. Completed the first Strategic
Plan for the Museum, fall 1999, and expanded the annual budget by $750,000
in 1998.
Director, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University
October 1984 to April 1996
Profile -
Member, American Association of Museums; College Art Association of America.
Budget - $950,000
Staff - 9 full-time; 5 work-study students
Direct all operations of a temporary exhibition space and manage the university's
art collection both on-site and on-loan; Supervise professional staff
and monitor budget, work closely with the Senior Vice-President for External
Affairs on major fundraising strategies and to establish policies; act
as the administrator for four other exhibition spaces throughout New York
University. Serve as liaison for the NYU Humanities Council in major intellectual
festivals celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the French Revolution (1989)
and the Quincentenary of the Discovery of America (1992).
Exhibitions - Fifteen temporary exhibitions and site-specific
installations presented annually ranging through the entire history of
world culture with a special emphasis on contemporary art and culture.
Collections - 5,500 items: Twentieth Century European and American
paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints; American decorative arts;
The Ben and Abby Weed Grey Collection of Contemporary Near and Far Eastern
Art; African art objects; publicly sited sculpture sited around the New
York University campus in Greenwich Village, New York City.
National & International Touring Exhibitions Originating at Grey Art Gallery
Contemporary Indian Art from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family
Collection
Winter 1985-86. Traveled to the Center Gallery, Bucknell University and
the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College.
Rosalyn Drexler: Intimate Emotions,
Summer, 1986. Traveled to the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville,
South Carolina.
Morality Tales: History Painting in the 1980s,
Autumn 1987. Traveled to the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California;
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; The Lowe Art Museum,
The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; The Goldie Paley Gallery,
Moore College of Art; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina;
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska;
Musee du Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
A Success is a Job in New York: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol,
Spring 1989. Traveled to The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Lingotto Art Space, Turin, Italy; and Foundation Cartier, Paris, France.
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties,
Summer 1989-Spring 1991 (co-organized with the List Visual Arts Center,
MIT). Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Akron Art Museum;
List Visual Arts Center-MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Seattle Art Museum;
The Contemporary Center, Cincinnati; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
Peter Hujar, Winter 1990. Traveled to the University Art Gallery, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art,
Winter 1991. Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts; Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin;
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Elaine Reichek: Native Intelligence,
Spring 1992. Traveled to the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville,
South Carolina; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Western Gallery,
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
George Platt Lynes: Photographs from The Kinsey Institute,
Autumn, 1993. Traveled to the University Gallery, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana.
Willie Doherty: The Only Good One is a Dead One,
Fall 1994. Traveled to The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland; and Matt=s Gallery, London, England.
Rene Santos: Suspension of the Law,
Fall 1994. Traveled to the Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Narelle Jubelin A Soft Shoulder,
Winter 1995. Traveled to The Renaissance Society at the University of
Chicago; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.
Selected Recent Experience to the Present
Chief Curator, The Chrysler Museum, July 1982 to September 1984.
Profile- Oversee a curatorial department of six curators, one conservator,
and one slide librarian; coordinated and planned yearly exhibition schedules,
served as exhibition designer and director of yearly lecture and symposia
program; served as liaison for the adult education program as well as
for the local university departments; oversaw curatorial budgets, acquisitions
and departmental fund-raising.
Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, The Chrysler Museum, September 1981 to June 1982.
Juror for the AAperto" Section of the Venice Biennale, 1985-86.
Invited member of The Japan Foundation tour for American art professionals, Winter 1986.
Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Museum Training Programs 1989.
Juror for McKnight Foundation Fellowships, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Spring 1990.
Board Member, Penny McCall Foundation, 1989 to present.
Board Member, Visual AIDS, 1990 to 1994; president of board 1992-1994. Directed an annual $100,000 budget for an organization that produces the largest AIDS-commemorative event internationally on December 1st. In 1994, over 8,000 institutions participated. Organized and directed a $250,000 fundraising event, the DaDa Ball in October 1994.
Board Member, Artist & Homeless Collaborative, 1991-93.
Participant in symposium, AExpanding Internationalism,@ Venice 1990.
Board Member, MacDowell Colony, 1991 to 1995.
Guest Lecturer, Australian Council/Visual Arts & Crafts Board, Spring 1992.
Juror - Artist Selection Committee, City of New York, Percent for Art Program, Winter 1992.
Participant in symposium at the 1992 Sydney Biennale: AThe Boundary Rider,@ Sydney, Australia, Fall 1992.
International Visitor/Lecturer for the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, February-March 1993.
Participant in symposium, AContemporary Art in Asia II,@ Bombay, India, Winter 1994.
Editorial Board, Art + Text, 1993 to present.
TV Arts Correspondent, F/X Cable Television Network, 1994 to present.
Board Member, Dance Alloy (contemporary dance company), Pittsburgh, PA, 1996 to present.
Board Member, Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998 to present.
Panel Member, Art Commission, Pittsburgh Convention Center, Architectural Campaign 1999 - present.
Member Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance, 1997 to present.
Arts Commentator, WQED (Pittsburgh PBS affiliate) TV art reporter, 2000
Education
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, September 1972 - 1978
M.A. degree: October 1974
Thesis: A The City in the Labyrinth: An Iconographical Study of the Medici
Villa at Castello all Olmo
Ph.D.: A.B.D. as of June 1976.
Dissertation topic: A Sebastiano Conca (1680-1764) and the Transitional
Style in Roman Eighteenth Century Painting.
The University of Chicago, September 1968-June 1972
B.A. degree: art history major
Awards
The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship, 1978-79
John Anson Kittredge Fund Fellowship, 1978
The Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1974-78
Institute of Fine Arts Fellowship, 1974-78
Illinois State Scholarship, 1969-72
The Baroque Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in the Area of Seventeenth
Century Art and Architecture, June 1972