Associate Curator
Department: Prints and Drawings

Current MIA Projects

• Organizing an exhibition of recent gifts of contemporary works on paper
• Organizing an exhibition American Scene graphic art
• Conducting preliminary field research on the life and work of Mexican modernist Alfredo Ramos Martinez

Education

• M.A., University of Minnesota—Minneapolis
• B.A., B.S., University of Wisconsin—Madison
• Hunter College, New York

Background/Work History

• Minneapolis Institute of Arts since 1989
• Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisc., 1983–84

Specialties/Areas of Interest

Contemporary art; modern graphic art; German Expressionism; French, British, and American etching revival; Latin American printmaking; modern and contemporary book arts

Honors and Professional Associations

• Leadership Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Class of 2008–9
• Print Council of America, Washington, D.C., trustee
• Association of Art Museum Curators, New York
• Association of Art Historians, London
• College Art Association, New York
• American Alliance of Museums, Washington, D.C.
• Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, founding board member, 2000–present
• Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis and Paris, executive board member, 2006–11
• University of Minnesota Graduate Fellowship, 1986–88

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

• "The World at Work: Images of Labor and Industry, 1850 to Now," 2012–13
  
• “SYNTHESIS 3D: Artist Multiples,” 2012–13
• “Michael Mazur: The Inferno of Dante,” 2011–12
• “Collateral Damage: Scenes from a War,” 2011
• “Drawings for the New Century,” 2011
• “From Press to Page: Book Arts in Minnesota,” 2010–11
• “The Experimental Print: Stanley William Hayter and the Artists of Atelier 17,” 2010–11
• “Cover Story: Master Bookbindings from the Collection,” 2010
• “New Old Masters,” 2010
• “Extraordinary Editions: Artist’s Books of the 20th Century,” 2009–10
• “Wordscapes: Text as Image in Contemporary Art,” 2009–10
• “Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960,” 2009
• “Breaking with Convention: Avant-garde Artist’s Books,” 2008–9
• “Robert Rauschenberg: Prints/Editions 1962–78,” 2008–9
• “Pablo Picasso: Livres d’Artistes,” 2008
• “Hail to the Chief: Images of the American Presidency,” 2008
• “Space/Surface: Contemporary Sculptors as Printmakers,” 2008
• “The Prints of Sean Scully,” 2008
• “Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Etcher,” 2007
• “The 1960s: Prints and Editions,” 2007
• “Vermillion Editions Limited: Prints, Multiples, Artist’s Books, 1977-92,” 2006–7
• “Marks of Intention: Abstract Art on Paper, 1945–2005,” 2006
• “The Water Remembers: Recent Paintings by May Stevens, 1990–2005,” 2005

Publications

Author, co-author, and contributor to ten books and numerous articles and essays, including the catalogue raisonné of the published prints and multiples of Vermillion Editions Limited, a Minneapolis-based collaborative printmaking workshop, whose archive is part of the MIA’s permanent collection, (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2006)

Contact

(612) 870-3105
(department phone)

February 2013