Special Events
Susana Torruella Leval speaks about Eugene Ludins and his work.
Saturday, June 16, 5:30-7:00 pm
"Representation and Its Discontents" panel discussion, reception to follow
at: Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY
Following a Woodstock tradition, this panel of experts in the fields of modern and contemporary art will discuss representation's shifting pertinence after abstraction. Referring to artists they have worked on during their careers—Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stuart Davis, Andrew Wyeth, Philip Pearlstein, Roy Lichtenstein, John Currin—they will explore the variable, complex interface between representation and abstraction.
Panelists:
Avis Berman
Patterson Sims
Tom Wolf
Moderated by curator Susana Torruella Leval
Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
http://www.woodstockguild.org
Phone: 845.679.2079
Fax: 845.679.4529
Email: info@woodstockguild.org
AVIS BERMAN, an independent writer and art historian, has written extensively on painting, sculpture, photography, design, and museum history for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, ARTnews, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Antiques, and Art & Antiques. She has contributed essays to encyclopedias, anthologies, and museum catalogues on the Armory Show, Brassaï, Roy Lichtenstein, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, Elie Nadelman, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and James McNeill Whistler. She is the author of "Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art;" "James McNeill Whistler;" and "Edward Hopper's New York," and co-author and editor of Katharine Kuh's memoir, "My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator." Since 2001, she has directed the oral history program of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
SUSANA TORRUELLA LEVAL, curator of the exhibition Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist, has been a member of the Woodstock community since 1974. There she had the good fortune to befriend an extraordinary older generation of Woodstock artists. Eugene Ludins and his wife, Hannah Small, were close friends of the Leval family for twenty joyous years. Born in Buenos Aires and raised in Puerto Rico, Susana Torruella Leval has worked in New York City since 1970 as an art historian and curator, specializing in Puerto Rican, Latino, and Latin American contemporary art. She was director of El Museo del Barrio from 1994–2001. She also served as chair of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) and as vice president and president elect of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). She sits on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dreamyard, and the Aperture Foundation, as well as on the advisory boards of Hunter College's CENTRO, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and the Virtual Mirror of Race Project at Suffolk University, Boston. She is married to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
PATTERSON SIMS has held five positions in the visual arts since 1969. His concentration has been in the modern and contemporary field with a specialty in American modernism and contemporary art. Sims is the author of books on Ellsworth Kelly, Jan Matulka, Willie Cole, and Philip Pearlstein, and the highlights of the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has written on numerous artists including Charles Burchfield, Viola Frey, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ad Reinhardt, Fanny Sanin, Hedda Sterne, James Surls, Betty Woodman, Andrew Wyeth, and on the public sculpture fabricator Lippincott, Inc. From September 2001 through 2008, Sims was the Director of the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey, where he also organized several exhibitions, including Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands and Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications. Previously he served as Deputy Director for Research Support at the Museum of Modern Art, Associate Director for Art and Exhibitions, Curator of Modern Art at the Seattle Art Museum, and as the first designated curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art's collection of 20th century American Art.
TOM WOLF is a professor of art history at Bard College. He is active as a curator and has written extensively about twentieth century American art, including publications about Yasuo Kuniyoshi (among them "Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Women" and "Kuniyoshi in the Early 1920s," in "The Shores of a Dream: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Early Work in America"). He has also published studies of the art colony at Woodstock, New York, and the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts colony that preceded it. Recent publications include "The Tip of the Iceberg: Early Asian American Artists in New York," in Asian American Art, A History, 1850–1970, and "Peggy Bacon, Cats & Caricatures." He served as co-curator (with Nancy Green) for Byrdcliffe, An American Art Colony, organized by The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University in 2003, and Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographer at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz in 2009.
If you are a person with a disability who will require special accommodations please contact Amy Pickering at 845.257.3844 no later than one week before the event.
