Board of Directors
JASMINE AMUSSEN
President
Writer and editor in Atlanta. Her writing focuses on Southern art, aesthetics, and traditions in popular culture. She holds an MFA in Writing from Bard College.
ISIS DAVIS-MARKS
Board Member
Isis Davis-Marks (b.1997) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer based in New York City. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues including the Yale School of Art, the Spring Break Art Fair, and the Prizm Art Fair. In her writing practice, Isis focuses on covering contemporary art, and her articles have been published in Smithsonian magazine, Cultured magazine, Phillips Auctions, Artsy, Frieze, the Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere.
EKIN ERKAN
Board Member
Art critic, art historian, and philosopher who works on issues related to Kant, Hegel, German Idealism, and the distinction between artifacts and fine art. Erkan's art criticism has been published in Hyperallergic, Whitehot Magazine and Erkan's academic writing has recently been published in Oxford Art Journal, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophia, and Owl of Minerva. Erkan was born in Istanbul and is currently based in New York.
JOSEPHINE GEAR
Board Member
Art writer, curator, and professor in the Museum Studies Program at New York University for 25 years.
ROSELEE GOLDBERG
Board Member
Founding Director and Chief Curator of Performa. Art historian, critic, and curator whose book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. Her book Performance Now: Live Art in the Twenty-First Century, is a major survey that charts the development of live art around the globe. Goldberg’s many awards include Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, Yoko Ono’s Courage Award for the Arts, and the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award from ICI. She has taught at NYU Steinhardt since 1987.
NORMAN KLEEBLATT
Board Member
Independent curator and critic. Formerly chief curator at The Jewish Museum, New York. The many exhibitions Kleeblatt has organized include the award winning Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 (2008) and From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, 1945 – 1952 (2014). He has contributed to ARTnews, Artforum, Art Journal, and Art in America, among other publications.
MAIKA POLLACK
Board Member
Art historian, critic and curator. Most recently she served as director and chief curator of the John Young Museum of Art and University Galleries at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu where she curated exhibitions on modern and contemporary art in Hawaiʻi and beyond. Writing in: The Art Bulletin, Frieze, Artforum, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, Aperture, BOMB, the New York Observer, The New York Times and Interview Magazine, among other publications.
JOHN RAVENAL
Board Member
Independent curator and art historian. Former Executive Director of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Before that, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Fourth President of the Association of Art Museum Curators. Recent publications include essays on Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch, Neil Jenney, Sally Mann, Xu Bing, and museum mergers.
JUDITH STEIN
Board Member
Author of Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016). A former arts reviewer for NPR's Fresh Air and Morning Edition, she has written for such publications as Art in America and The New York Times Book Review.
AMEI WALLACH
Board Member
Art critic and filmmaker; AICA-USA board president, 2000-2005. Wallach has written for Art in America, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair, as well as numerous books and catalogs; formerly arts commentator for PBS Newshour, chief art critic for Newsday/New York Newsday. Organizes and moderates numerous US and international panels and symposia. Co-director, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008). Her film, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here, debuted at Film Forum in New York and is currently in international release. Founding Program Director, Art Writing Workshop, a partnership between AICA and the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation.
Staff
HC HUỲNH
Managing Director
Arts administrator and cultural programming producer. They are currently Managing Director of the United States Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) and the Deputy Director at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.