September 14

Isabelle Bonzom - Art Historian / Artist

Isabelle Bonzom will discuss her research, both as a painter and a scholar, on the representation of the flesh based on two iconographic characters: Judith and Salomé. Through dramatic images showing women with male heads, Bonzom will talk about the cutting of body, image and composition. She will examine how Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gentileschi and Klimt treat those subjects and how Brancusi, Matisse and Fischl evoke the question.

Artist and art historian Isabelle Bonzom is a painter of the flesh. Born in France, she views painting as a living body. She is primarily concerned with revealing relations between the matter and the image. Bonzom is also one of the rare contemporary artists to master buon fresco. She has authored a reference book on the art and technique of fresco, and since 1989 she has been a lecturer at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

September 21

Hilary Harkness - Artist

Hilary Harkess lives in New York City.
Jerry Saltz, critic for The Village Voice, wrote about her figures: "Whatever they're involved in, they ooze a bitchy demonic kinkiness, which makes looking at these paintings slippery fun."

September 28

Wei Dong - Artist

"Wei Dong explores through painting the space where heritage and modernity coexist. His works set up a dialogue, present a confrontation and explode a good number of conventions. In a disruption of tradition Wei Dong has taken this male dominated domain and subjected it to domination by women."

- www.chinesecontemporary.com 

October 5

Alexi Worth - Artist

Alexi Belsey Worth was born and raised in New York City. He attended Yale College (BA 1986) and Boston University (MFA 1993). He has exhibited with, among others, the Elizabeth Harris, Bill Maynes and DC Moore galleries; received awards from the Tiffany Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts; and is currently represented by DC Moore. In addition to his painting, Worth has written about art for The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Slate, and other magazines. He is currently a Senior Critic at the University of Pennsylvania 's Graduate Program in Fine Art.

"Painted with sensuous neatness in a nicely simplifying representational style, Alexi Worth's pictures present curious visual puzzles slyly charged with sexual undercurrents."

-K. Johnson

October 19

Ross Bleckner - Artist

Ross Bleckner was born in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts from Cal Arts in 1973, and has taught at many of the nation's most prestigious universities. The Solomon R. Guggenheim of Art had a major retrospective of his works in 1995, summarizing two decades of solo shows at internationally acclaimed exhibition venues such as SFMoMA, Contemporary Arts Museum, Stockholm Moderna Museet, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Works by Mr. Bleckner are also held in esteemed public collections throughout the globe, including MoMA, MoCA, Astrup Fearnley, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Not only has Mr. Bleckner had a profound impact of shaping the New York art world, his philanthropic efforts have enabled many community organizations to perform their vital work.

October 26

Lisa Dennison

Chairman, Sotheby's North and South America

November 2

Ken Currie

Ken Currie is a Scottish painter, born in North Shields, England. He is one of the most influential living artists in Scotland. His paintings are displayed in public and museum collections worldwide.

Currie's paintings are concerned with how the human body is affected by illness, ageing and physical injury, social and political issues or philosophical questions.

November 9

Pablo Helguera "The Estheticist"

The Estheticist is a free ongoing service of art consultation around practical, philosophical and ethical issues around the visual arts profession.Helguera’s work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction.He is the author of eight books ncluding: Endingness (2005), an essay on the art of memory; The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style (2005; Spanish edition; 2007, English edition), a social etiquette manual for the art world.

November 16

David Salle - Artist

David Salle is an American painter who helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy), and the Guggenheim Bilbao. In March 2009 a group of fifteen paintings were shown at the Kestnergesellschaft Museum in Hannover, Germany. That same year Salle's work was also featured in an exhibition titled "The Pictures Generation" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in which his work was shown amongst a number of his contemporaries.

December 7

Mia Brownell - Artist

Mia Brownell will have a September 2010 solo show with Alix Sloan: "Stomach Acid dreams". A graduate of Carnegie Mellon and State University of New York, Buffalo, Mia has been teaching painting and drawing since 1993. She has held a tenured faculty position at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven since 2003. She was recently awarded the Southern Connecticut State University's Faculty Scholar Award and promoted to Full Professor.

"Brownell describes visiting a supermarket and being "transported to a unique place without seasons" -I think "transported" has to be understood in both senses of the term - when she views the Eden of organic life on the fruit counters. On the other hand, she acknowledges a debt to Dutch Old Master still lives of fruit. Thus she stands between the supermarket and the museum - in the commercial cornucopia of modern America and in the grand tradition of Old Master still life." - Donald Kuspit