2011 JURORS
Nene Humphry
Nene Humphrey has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries since coming to New York in 1979. Recent venues include Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Mead Museum Amherst, MA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC. Humphrey has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Brown Foundation, and Anonymous was a Woman among others. Her work has been written about in numerous publications including the New York Times, Art in America and ArtNews and Sculpture Magazine. Since 2005 she has been artist in residence at the Joseph LeDoux neuroscience lab at NYU where her work has focused on explorations of the brain mechanisms underlying human emotions. Nene Humphrey has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries since coming to New York in 1979. Recent venues include Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Mead Museum Amherst, MA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC. Humphrey has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Brown Foundation, and Anonymous was a Woman among others. Her work has been written about in numerous publications including the New York Times, Art in America and ArtNews and Sculpture Magazine. Since 2005 she has been artist in residence at the Joseph LeDoux neuroscience lab at NYU where her work has focused on explorations of the brain mechanisms underlying human emotions.
Katherine Sherwood
Katherine Sherwood’s acclaimed mixed-media paintings gracefully investigate the point at which the essential aspects of art, medicine, and disability intersect. Her works juxtapose abstracted medical images, such as cerebral angiograms of the artist’s brain, with fluid renderings of ancient patterns; the paintings thus explore and reveal, with a most unusual palette, the strange nature of our time and current visual culture. In addition to showing regularly throughout the United States, she co-curated the exhibition "Blind at the Museum" at the Berkeley Art Museum, and organized an accompanying conference at UC Berkeley. Sherwood was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 2005-2006 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant 2006-2007. Her work was included in the Smithsonian Museum’s “Revealing Culture” and at a solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco in 2010. Katherine is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Art Department and the Disability Studies Program. She is the artist-in-residence at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the co-founder of the art and disability collective- The Yelling Clinic.
Lilly Wei
Lilly Wei is an independent curator, essayist and critic who writes regularly for Art in America and is a contributing editor at ARTnews and former contributing editor at Art Asia Pacific. Wei contributes to several other publications here and abroad, frequently reporting on international exhibitions and biennials. In addition, she has written essays for numerous books, exhibition catalogues and brochures on contemporary art. Wei has curated exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia and is currently working on an international exhibition of video artists as well as an exhibition on Israeli photography and video art. She also lectures on critical and curatorial practices and serves on a number of advisory committees and review panels. She is on the board of several art institutions and organizations including AICA/USA (the International Association of Art Critics). Wei was born in Chengdu, China and has an MA in art history from Columbia University.
2010 JURORS
Mildred Howard
Mildred Howard is a mixed-media and installation artist, as well as a teacher and educator. She is known for work that often incorporates memory, history, text, and found objects. Howard has received numerous awards, including the Rockefeller Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy (in 1996 and 2007); Joan Mitchell Award; California Arts Council Artists Fellowship; Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts; Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship; Lila Wallace—Reader’s Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico; the Fleischhacker Fellowship; and an NEA grant in sculpture. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as the Neuburger Museum Biennial of Public Art, Purchase, New York; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Walcot Chapel, Bath; Moeller Fine Art, Berlin; MoAD, San Francisco; and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. Her work is included in numerous collections, including those of the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Oakland Museum of California; San Jose Museum of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; International Museum of Glass, Seattle; Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego. Howard received her MFA from John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California.
Barbara MacAdam
Barbara A. MacAdam is the deputy editor of ARTnews, where she has worked for some 23 years. She has written on subjects ranging from the persistence of abstract painting to the prevalence of deconstructed sculpture, and has profiled such contemporary artists as sculptors Petah Coyne, David Rabinowitch, and Mark di Suvero as well as painters David Reed and Nancy Haynes. MacAdam has also served as executive editor of Art + Auction for a year and was an editor at Review: Latin American Literature and Arts and at New York Magazine. She has written book reviews for the New York Times Book Review and the LA Times Book Review, among others, and articles on art and design for various publications. In addition, she has curated art exhibitions at nonprofit spaces, including the show Monumental Drawings at Blue Star Art Center in San Antonio. She is on the board of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics. MacAdam earned her BA from the University of Michigan.
Robert Taplin
Robert Taplin received a BA in Medieval Studies from Pomona College in 1973. He has exhibited throughout the U.S., including recently at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut; MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams; and Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York (which represents him). He has executed public commissions for the State of Connecticut and the New York Mass Transit Authority and received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work has been featured in publications such as ARTnews, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, and the New York Times. Taplin has also written extensively on sculpture, most prominently for Art in America, and published a number of articles and dozens of individual reviews. He has taught at a variety of institutions including the Yale University School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design.
2009 JURORS
Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown attended the University of Illinois in Champaign–Urbana, where he majored in painting, as well as the University of California at Davis, where he studied art with Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri. In 1978 Brown moved to San Francisco, where he painted and wrote art criticism for Artweek magazine. He received a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) through the Fulbright Program and studied in Munich. He returned to San Francisco after being awarded the second of his two art critics’ grants by the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1981 to 1994 he taught in the studio art department of the University of California at Berkeley, where he served as department chair from 1990 to 1994. He was awarded an NEA grant in painting in 1987, and an award in art from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988. Since 2001 Brown has been teaching at the California College of the Arts as an eminent adjunct professor.
Michael Duncan
Critic and independent curator Michael Duncan is a corresponding editor for Art in America. His writings have focused on maverick artists of the twentieth century, West Coast modernism, twentieth-century figuration, and contemporary California art. His curatorial projects include surveys and recontextualizations of works by Pavel Tchelitchew, Sister Corita Kent, Kim MacConnel, Lorser Feitelson, Eugene Berman, Richard Pettibone, Alberto Burri, and Wallace Berman. He curated the 2009 Texas Biennial and is the curator of two forthcoming exhibitions, LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945–1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy and An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan and Their Circle (co-curator).
Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff was born in London, England. She received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from Yale University. Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments. Her site-specific installations pierce through walls and careen through the air. In 2009 Pfaff was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received numerous grants and awards including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, a Bessie, and an NEA grant. Major exhibitions of her work have been held at the Denver Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Pfaff represented the United States in the 1998 Bienal de São Paulo.
2008 JURORS
Polly Apfelbaum
Since her first one-person show in New York in 1986, Polly Apfelbaum has seen her artwork featured in numerous museums, galleries, and private collections. A major mid-career survey of her work opened at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2003 and traveled through 2004. Apfelbaum’s work can be found in the collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.
Richard Kalina
Richard Kalina is an artist and critic. He is represented by Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., in New York. A 40-year survey of his painting was held at the gallery in the summer of 2010. Kalina is a contributing editor at Art in America, where he writes frequently on Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, and aspects of contemporary abstraction. He has written recently on Robert Morris, George Segal, James Ensor, Jack Tworkov, and Conrad Marca-Relli. He is the author of Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic, published by Routledge Press. Kalina teaches art and art history at Fordham University in New York.
Gay Outlaw
Gay Outlaw received a BA in French from the University of Virginia and studied photography in the General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has been making sculpture since the early 1990s, when she became known for her temporary works made of various types of pastry, including a public sculpture at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco made of fruitcake. She has continued to explore a wide range of materials, increasingly more permanent, while building a rich studio practice and an idiosyncratic sculptural vocabulary. Her sculptural work explores form through structure, pattern, and translation. She received the SECA award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1998 and has exhibited her work at the Berkeley Art Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Mills College Art Museum. She lives and works in San Francisco.
2007 JURORS
Mike Henderson
Mike Henderson received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Henderson is primarily known as a painter but is also a filmmaker and musician as well. He is identified as an abstractionist, with his paintings corresponding to the “inner studio” of his artistic process, which gets real when he takes brushes in hand. All sorts of references wink from his canvases, and his paintings assert sheer accretion as the theme. Henderson has received numerous grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, and a Flintridge Foundation Award. He has been included in exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art. His art is included in those museums as well as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Phoenix Art Museum./p>
Judith Shea
Since her groundbreaking clothing/figure pieces of the 1970s, Judith Shea’s work has been collected by such American museums as the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, W Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center. She has been awarded the Rome Prize; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy; Fellowship of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Cornish, New Hampshire; Guggenheim Museum Sculptor in Residence at Chesterwood, Massachusetts; and two NEA grants in sculpture. Recent exhibitions include Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820–2009 at the National Academy Museum, New York; Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; and Judith Shea: Legacy Collection, at Long Island University, Brooklyn.
John Yau
A leading art critic, poet, essayist, and prose writer, John Yau received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College. His works include Edificio Sayonara, In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol, and The United States of Jasper Johns. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets.