Guest Curators

From January 2022:
​We will be kicking off our very first show under a new name and new leadership. We have exciting plans for 2022 and plan to mount four extraordinary shows that tackle perspectives and conversations around pressing issues of social and environmental justice. We have put out a national call to curators who specialize in these areas and will be announcing the line up through 2023 early in the new year.  Each show will have a robust programming schedule accompanying it in order to maximize our outreach to our community.

​It is important for us to get broad perspectives from both artists and curators across the nation in order to share valuable perspectives with our audiences. We believe that a guest curatorial approach de-centers the conversation from our staff’s very limited experiences, and allows us the opportunity to be facilitators for conversations that are occurring nationally, affecting a larger circle than what we have knowledge of.

We are seeking quarterly shows to run through 2025. Please reach out with your unique ideas. ​​

Aaron Gach - Guest Curator: Probably Just the Wind: Death, Necropolitics and Transformation

Aaron Gach’s diverse artistic practice consistently addresses public concerns, social politics and power dynamics. Inspired by studies with a private investigator, a magician, and a ninja, he established the Center for Tactical Magic in 2000. His work has been presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Hayward Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain; Deutsches Theater, Berlin; and a major public commission for the City of Toronto. Aaron Gach has taught courses in Community Art, Street Media, Art & Magic, Collaborative Practices, and 4D Art at the University of California Santa Cruz, Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and currently at the California College of the Arts.

Curatorial Statement

Christie Mitchell - Guest Curator: Seeking Discomfort: ​Artistic Strategies in a Dystopian Reality

Christie Mitchell is an independent curator based in New York. She specializes in post-war and contemporary art, and is a Program Committee member of Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), where she works with leadership to create content for programming streams. Previously, she worked in the curatorial departments of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she organized the collection display fruits, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad, and the commissioned public project Do Ho Suh: 95 Horatio Street. Mitchell was a member of the curatorial team for the retrospective Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, which debuted at the Whitney before traveling to the San Francisco Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018-2020. Other projects at the Whitney included work on Julie Mehretu, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium, Open Plan: Steve McQueen and Open Plan: Michael Heizer. Mitchell holds a B.A. in Art History from Duke University, and an M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
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