2018 Contributors
WILLIAM ATKIN
ROBIN BLYN
ANNA COTTRELL
DOUGLAS CUSHING is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, provisionally titled “Interwar Romanticism, Revolution, and Modernism on Display in transition,” treats Eugene Jolas’s little magazine, transition (1927–1938), as a virtual gallery space and meeting place. The project also explores the transatlantic transmission, circulation, and transformation of avant-garde ideas via the periodical, as well as transition's afterlives in the postwar art of the United States. Cushing’s past research includes work on Marcel Duchamp’s relationship with the writings of the Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), beginning before the advent of Dada and Surrealism. Cushing was the 2013–14 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Prints and Drawings and European Paintings at the Blanton Museum of Art, where he was subsequently curator for that museum’s exhibition Goya: Mad Reason (June 19 to September 25, 2016). Cushing’s most recent awards include the 2017–18 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, from the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the 2018–19 Vivian L. Smith Fellow at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. [return to article]
ANNE GOODYEAR
CATHERINE HOLLIS
JAMES HOUSEFIELD
JONATHAN JUDD
BETH SAMANTHA KAVKY
ELLIOTT H. KING
MARIANNE KINKEL
CATRIONA McARA is University Curator at Leeds Arts University. She has published extensively on Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington with a particular interest in feminist aesthetics and surrealist legacies in contemporary practice. She is author of A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor with Jonathan P. Eburne of Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017). [return to article]
ERIN McCLENATHAN
JAMES W. McMANUS
JANINE MILEAF, Ph.D., is Executive Director of The Arts Club of Chicago. A transformative leader of this century-old institution, she was formerly Associate Professor at Swarthmore College. Her book Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade was published by the University Press of New England and Dartmouth College Press in 2010, and she is a contributing writer to a range of international publications and museum exhibition catalogues. Mileaf also co-edited with Susan F. Rossen The Arts Club of Chicago at 100: Art and Culture 1916-2016 (2016) and A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago (2018), both distributed by the University of Chicago Press. At The Arts Club, Mileaf has curated exhibitions with such artists as Kerstin Brätsch, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ralph Coburn, Janice Kerbel, Sharon Lockhart, Josiah McElheny, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Roman Ondak, Bettina Poustchii, David Salle, Allison Smith, and Simon Starling. Upcoming curatorial projects include A Home for Surrealism, as well as solo exhibitions with Amy Sillman and Abraham Cruzvillegas. [return to article]
FRANCIS M. NAUMANN
GAVIN PARKINSON
BERIT POTTER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Humboldt State University, where she also oversees the Museum and Gallery Studies certificate program. She received her doctorate from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2015 as well as a M.A. from New York University’s Program in Museum Studies. Her research engages with issues including the display and reception of Latin American and US modern art on the West Coast as well as the use of exhibitions as propaganda during World War II. Her current book project examines the career of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Grace McCann Morley, and her pioneering advocacy for global perspectives in the study and exhibition of modern and contemporary art. She has held positions in several art institutions, including a research fellowship sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Prior to joining HSU, she taught art history and museum studies at numerous institutions, among them Mills College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and University of San Francisco. [return to article]
ROBIN BLYN
ANNA COTTRELL
DOUGLAS CUSHING is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, provisionally titled “Interwar Romanticism, Revolution, and Modernism on Display in transition,” treats Eugene Jolas’s little magazine, transition (1927–1938), as a virtual gallery space and meeting place. The project also explores the transatlantic transmission, circulation, and transformation of avant-garde ideas via the periodical, as well as transition's afterlives in the postwar art of the United States. Cushing’s past research includes work on Marcel Duchamp’s relationship with the writings of the Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), beginning before the advent of Dada and Surrealism. Cushing was the 2013–14 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Prints and Drawings and European Paintings at the Blanton Museum of Art, where he was subsequently curator for that museum’s exhibition Goya: Mad Reason (June 19 to September 25, 2016). Cushing’s most recent awards include the 2017–18 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, from the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the 2018–19 Vivian L. Smith Fellow at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. [return to article]
ANNE GOODYEAR
CATHERINE HOLLIS
JAMES HOUSEFIELD
JONATHAN JUDD
BETH SAMANTHA KAVKY
ELLIOTT H. KING
MARIANNE KINKEL
CATRIONA McARA is University Curator at Leeds Arts University. She has published extensively on Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington with a particular interest in feminist aesthetics and surrealist legacies in contemporary practice. She is author of A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor with Jonathan P. Eburne of Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017). [return to article]
ERIN McCLENATHAN
JAMES W. McMANUS
JANINE MILEAF, Ph.D., is Executive Director of The Arts Club of Chicago. A transformative leader of this century-old institution, she was formerly Associate Professor at Swarthmore College. Her book Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade was published by the University Press of New England and Dartmouth College Press in 2010, and she is a contributing writer to a range of international publications and museum exhibition catalogues. Mileaf also co-edited with Susan F. Rossen The Arts Club of Chicago at 100: Art and Culture 1916-2016 (2016) and A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago (2018), both distributed by the University of Chicago Press. At The Arts Club, Mileaf has curated exhibitions with such artists as Kerstin Brätsch, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ralph Coburn, Janice Kerbel, Sharon Lockhart, Josiah McElheny, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Roman Ondak, Bettina Poustchii, David Salle, Allison Smith, and Simon Starling. Upcoming curatorial projects include A Home for Surrealism, as well as solo exhibitions with Amy Sillman and Abraham Cruzvillegas. [return to article]
FRANCIS M. NAUMANN
GAVIN PARKINSON
BERIT POTTER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Humboldt State University, where she also oversees the Museum and Gallery Studies certificate program. She received her doctorate from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2015 as well as a M.A. from New York University’s Program in Museum Studies. Her research engages with issues including the display and reception of Latin American and US modern art on the West Coast as well as the use of exhibitions as propaganda during World War II. Her current book project examines the career of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Grace McCann Morley, and her pioneering advocacy for global perspectives in the study and exhibition of modern and contemporary art. She has held positions in several art institutions, including a research fellowship sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Prior to joining HSU, she taught art history and museum studies at numerous institutions, among them Mills College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and University of San Francisco. [return to article]
JACQUELINE SHIN
AIMEE ARMANDE WILSON
SANDRA ZALMAN is Associate Professor and Program Director of Art History at the University of Houston. Her book Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism was recently issued in paperback. It won the 2016 SECAC Award for Excellence in Research and Publication and was supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Association of University Women. She has also received an arts writers grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and a Publication Grant from the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists. [return to article]
AIMEE ARMANDE WILSON
SANDRA ZALMAN is Associate Professor and Program Director of Art History at the University of Houston. Her book Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism was recently issued in paperback. It won the 2016 SECAC Award for Excellence in Research and Publication and was supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Association of University Women. She has also received an arts writers grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and a Publication Grant from the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists. [return to article]