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Ansel Adams - in Our Time
Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984), Marin Hills from Lincoln Park, San Francisco, Negative date: 1952. Photograph, gelatin silver print. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibit
Looking forward and back, this exhibition of more than 100 works by photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984) places him in direct conversation with contemporary artists and the photographers who influenced him. Travelling exhibition from Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Institution
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Role
Assistant Curator/FAMSF Liaison
Year
2023
Selected Press
Paperworks: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Photo by Jorge Bachman
Exhibit
A gallery at the Legion of Honor dedicated to works on paper from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the department of prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books. Featuring select acquisitions made over the past 15 years.
Institution
Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Role
Assistant Curator
Year
2023
Selected Press
Visualizing Cinderella
André Beaurepaire (1927–2012), Set design for the ballet Cenerentola, Act II, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1955–56. Watercolor on paper, 19 x 25 in. (48.3 x 63.5 cm) (sheet). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Theater and Dance Collection, gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, T&D1959.30 © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Publication
Explores the history of the Cinderella story, the different ballet adaptations, and the role of set design in creating the fantasy world of the ballet, with a focus on the work of designer André Beaurepaire, whose preliminary drawings are now held in the Fine Arts Museums' works on paper collection.
Institution
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Role
Author
Year
2023
Power on Paper: Kara Walker’s Resurrection Story with Patrons
Kara Walker, Resurrection Story with Patrons, detail
Publication
Exploring the power dynamics between artists and patrons and the power dynamics within art itself. Contextualization of Kara Walker’s work within the tradition of Renaissance Europe's artistic production, which was a public negotiation of power and patronage, and how the artist-patron relationship glorified artworks and the people depicted within them.
Role
Author
Year
2023
Institution
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
New Alters: Reworking Devotion
The cover of TIME magazine's June 15, 2020 issue, featuring Titus Kaphar's painting, Analogous Colors, 2020. © Titus Kaphar. Photo: TIME
Publication
Exhibition review of New Alters: Reworking Devotion. Titus Kaphar’s first show in London, the exhibition is a moving contemplation on the interconnectedness of spirituality and artmaking, and the current and continuing relevance of the history of representation in art.
Institution
The Courtauldian
Role
Author
Year
2022
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
Francis Bacon, Second Version of Triptych 1944, 1988, oil and acrylic on canvas, Tate Britain, London
Publication
Exhibit review of Francis Bacon: Man and Beast. The first exhibition to centre on Bacon’s fascination with animals, specifically how they informed and distorted his approach to the human form.
Institution
The Courtauldian
Role
Author
Year
2022
DEIA Initiatives
SAY IT LOUD
Visionaries of Self
Joshua Michael Adokuru (b. 1999), Boy 1, 2021. Wool thread and coated nails on painted board. 23¾ x 23¾ in (60.4 x 60.4 cm). Offered in Say It Loud: Visionaries of Self on 5-19 August 2021 at Christie’s Online. Courtesy of the artists and Destinee Ross-Sutton & Associates Art Curation, Advisory and Management
Joshua Michael Adokuru (b. 1999), Boy 2, 2021. Wool thread and coated nails on painted board. 23¾ x 23¾ in (60.4 x 60.4 cm). Offered in Say It Loud: Visionaries of Self on 5-19 August 2021 at Christie’s Online. Courtesy of the artists and Destinee Ross-Sutton & Associates Art Curation, Advisory and Management
‘The figure’s visage glistens in the light like a polished onyx, as she rests her head upon rich purple velvet pillows’
Johnson Eziefula (b. 1998), Gloria's Trip to Paris, 2021. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. 44¾ x 35½ in (113.6 x 90.8 cm). Offered in Say It Loud: Visionaries of Self on 5-19 August 2021 at Christie’s Online. Courtesy of the artists and Destinee Ross-Sutton & Associates Art Curation, Advisory and Management
Online Sale
The second iteration of the groundbreaking Say It Loud sale, dedicated to the amplification and celebration of Black artists’ work, narratives and voices, closed online as a resounding success. Organized by the Christie’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Role
Dir. of Programming, CSR
Year
2021
Institution
Christie’s Auction House, New York