Art Criticism and Wiring alumni Lita Talarico (graduating class of 2007) has co-authored another book, Graphic; Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers published by Thames + Hudson. Other books co-authored by Lita are, Design School Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools, Published by Rockport Publishers, Inc. 2009 and, The Design Entrepreneur; Turning Graphic Design into Goods that Sell, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 2008.
Jee-Young Maeng, who graduated in 2007, curated an exhibition at Doosan Gallery in Chelsea, “Subtle Anxiety: This Is How You Feel Now,” from July 15-August 14, 2010, and wrote the catalogue essay. The show features the work of three young artists who graduated this year from MFA programs at Columbia, NYU, and SVA.
Art Criticism & Writing graduate Aimee Walleston will publish five pieces in Art in America online dealing with artists in the current Whitney Biennial. The first essay, on Lorraine O’Grady, has just appeared.
Second-year student Aimee Walleston recently interviewed author and art critic Dave Hickey for The New York Times “This Moment” blog. You can read it here.
Sophie Landres and Christine Licata, who graduated in May 2008 from the Art Criticism & Writing program, were just selected for the Young Art Critics Mentoring Program.
The Young Art Critics Mentoring Program is a partnership between AICA USA (the U.S. section of the International Association of Art Critics) and CUE Art Foundation, which pairs emerging writers with AICA mentors to produce original essays for catalogues accompanying exhibitions at the CUE space in the heart of Chelsea at 511 West 25th Street. Sophie Landres’ essay on Yayoi Asoma’s paintings (curated by Stephen Westfall) and Christine Licata’s essay on Marina Adams’ paintings (curated by Norma Cole) appeared in separate catalogues that also included texts by the curators of the exhibitions, which will be on view from October 16 to November 29, 2008. Eleanor Heartney acted as mentor for Christine, and Lilly Wei for Sophie. 10/14/08
Current second-year Art Crit student Aimee Walleston contributed short reviews of exhibitions of Shannon Plumb’s video projects, Joseph Beuys’s posters, and of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller to the Times blog The Moment.