EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS + EVIDENCE OF EXPERTISE
2010
Presenter, Special Guest Lecturer, University of Akron MFA Program (Lari Pittman)
2010 Curator: The Bigger Picture, 18 August-11 September 2010 at Edgar Varela Fine Arts
2010 Sculpture Curator: Art Squared Gallery, Pershing Square, June-October 2010
2010 Panelist,
Contemporary Art Conversations #4, at Lawrence Asher Gallery, June 2010
2010 Presenter, Artillery Magazine Art Debates Round 2, at the Downtown Standard, March 2010 [INFO] [VIDEO]
2010 Panelist: Showing Art in a Domestic Setting, Salon Marine
2010 Presenter, X-TRA's One Image, One Minute, at the Pacific Design Center/Art Contemporary LA Art Fair
2010 Presenter, Sea & Space Explorations Three Hour Tour at the Torrance Art Museum
2010 Presenter: J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson artists in conversation series at Lawrence Asher Gallery
2010 Curator/Juror: re:Materialization, Juried Show Co-Curator, Deborah Martin Fine Art
2010 Panelist, Jay Mark Johnson: Beyond Spacetime, at the Edye Stage, Broad Art Center (video trailer coming soon)
2010 Panelist,
Contemporary Art Conversations #3, at the Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena
2009 Radio Interview: Interviewee, Off-Ramp Internet Radio, December 2009 [MP3]
2009 Presenter: Live at Lunch conversation series:
With Marcus Miceli of AIR Properties
With Bill Bush and Ashley Emenegger (of THE Magazine)
2009 Presenter Lisa Adams artists in conversation series at Lawrence Asher Gallery
2009 - Panelist: GYST artist workshops, Cal Arts
2009 Panelist: College Art Association Conference, Panel Co-Chair: Just Another Critical Day in Paradise: Art Writing in Los Angeles. Here's what Ed Schad thought about what I had to say on the CAA BLOG.
2009 Juror: Las Vegas Contemporary Arts Center, 20th Anniversary Juried Show, Juror. INSTALLATION SHOTS, STATEMENT, and GREAT VEGAS PRESS for the show.
2009 Curator: What's the Matter with Mommy, the Hang-Over, January 2009 at Phantom Galleries, Downtown LA, Exhibition Curator (see the page on this website) AND (see installation shots here)
2008
Curator: What's the Matter with Mommy? at Salon Oblique, November 2008, Exhibition Curator (see the page on this website)
2008
Panelist: Collecting Contemporary Urban Art, Panel at Bonham & Butterfield w/ Seth Carmichael, Shepard Fairey, Jon Reiss, and Charming Baker
2008
Curator: Surface Sounding at See Line Gallery, guest curator, October 2008, reviewed by Tucker Neel in Art Lies
2008 Curator: The Bronx Zoo salon series culminating exhibition Curator at Ghettogloss Gallery, Los Angeles, October 2008
2008 Curator: Joint Custody Project, Co-Curator, at Found Gallery LA, July 2008
2008 Presenter Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Guest Lecturer with artist Jennifer Vanderpool, July 2008
2007
Presenter Everyone's a Critic, featured speaker, Art
Spoken Here lecture series at TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, December 2007
2007 Panelist:
PSFK Conference, LA, Summer 2007: “What Happens in LA Stays in LA”
2007 Curator,
“Candy Necklace” exhibition series at the Brickhouse Kitchen, Venice, June-December 2007
2007 Curator
“Family Garden” at Elizabeth Paige Smith Atelier, Venice, May 2007
2007 Presenter Featured
Speaker, Atelier Zero Artist Survival Workshops at Pharmaka, February 2007
2006 Panelist,
Art and Digital Media, Gallery 825, September 2006
2006 Curator, Patrick
Collins: “Back Fence” new paintings at Another Year in LA, Downtown, February
2006
2005 Curator
“Betting on Our Muses”:
An invitational juried drawing show in magazine form produced by Gallery
Domingo
2005 Presenter Venice Art Walk, Invitation and Fringe Tour
Brochure Text & Studio Docent (Marischa Slusarski)
2005 Juror Affaire in the Garden,
the Beverly
Hills annual juried art show, Juror of Paintings
2005 Presenter Guest Lecturer, UC Santa
Barbara, undergraduate seminar, Critical
Theory
2005 Presenter Guest Lecturer, Otis College, continuing arts education seminar
2005 OutAuction 2005 benefit,
art search committee, Summer 2005 event
2004 Juror , La Mano Press
Miniatures Invitational
2004 Presenter Venice Art Walk, Invitation and Fringe Tour
Brochure Text & Studio Docent (Andy Moses)
2004 Curator
, “Overwrought: a
Modern Baroque” at SK Gallery, Venice
2004 Curator
“The
Secret Life of Sets: Set Decorators at Work”, curatorial committee and Graphics
Text Editor
Academy
of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Gallery, travel to Conde Nast Building,
NYC
2003 Panelist
“Art Critics Uncensored”, at CalArts (April) and Bergamot Station (July)
with
Bruce Bauman, Peter Frank, George Melrod & Holly Myers
2001 Curator
“Chaz Guest at
Crazy Space” an interdisciplinary art performance and exhibition to open the
season at Crazy Space, 18th Street Arts Complex in September 2001
2001 Curator
“Off The Hook: The Mixed Messages of Prostitution” a group show to benefit the
Mary Magdalene Project. Reviewed in
d’Art Magazine, Spring 2001.
1998-2000 Venice
Art Walk Silent Auction & Docent Tour Committee(s) Member
1998 Panelist
Producer/Panelist,
Califragile Sideshows Low-Brow Art Panel Discussion, L.A.
1997 Curator
Artist & Image Liaison,
Lollapalooza '97, curator of original visual art for Festival Concourse
1997 Presenter Society
of Illustrators of Los Angeles, "Breakout" Panel Discussion Moderator
featuring Robert Williams, Mark
Ryden, Rob & Christian Clayton and Eric White
1996 Curator Co-Curator,
"Feminine Eyes Femininize Feminine I's", 6 women photographers, half
a dozen rose
1996 Curator
Co-Producer, "The
Three Sons of Viracocha" performance by Laslo Nosek, half a dozen rose
1995 Curator
Co-Producer, "Public
Punishment", multimedia performances, Andras Wahorn & Laslo Nosek,
half a dozen rose
