RAW AND UP FRONT

"High Aesthetics: Abstraction / Imagery"
Thursday April 17,1997 at 7 PM

The Panelists:

William Agee William Agee is a professor of Art History at Hunter College. Former Director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, he is an author, art critic and historian. He has served as curator at several major museums. He is currently working on the Sam Francis Retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Mira Goldfarb Berkowitz Mira Goldfarb Berkowitz, is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Fine Arts at the Jewish Museum, in New York since 1993. She has participated in the collecting activities and planning of a number of exhibitions there, including the 1996 group exhibition of contemporary art, “Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities.” In 1997 she curated the exhibition “Morris Louis: The Charred Journal Series, 1951,” based on research for her Masters thesis.

John Griefen John Griefen is a painter and since the late sixties he has had solo exhibitions of his paintings in the United States, Canada and Australia. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions in museums and galleries here and abroad. His work is represented in public and private collections including: The Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute, Ft. Lauderdale Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art. He attended the Chicago Art Institute, Bennington College, Williams College (BA), and Hunter College. He taught at Bennington College in 1969 and has been teaching and lecturing since then. In 1994 he taught an open-air landscape painting class through New York University Continuing Education Center in Central Park, and he was a guest teacher at The Art Students League in 1995.

Ronnie Landfield (moderator) Ronnie Landfield is a painter and since the late sixties he has had solo exhibitions of his paintings throughout the United States. Last year he had exhibitions of new work in Boca Raton, Florida and Sapporo, Japan. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, recently in Beijing and Manila. His paintings are represented in public and private collections including: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center and The Norton Simon Museum of Art. He is an Art Students League instructor since 1994. He taught in The Department of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, in New York from 1975 until 1989. He was a guest instructor at Bennington College in 1968. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of California at Berkeley and The Art Students League where he studied with Arnold Blanch and Stephen Greene.

James Monte James Monte is a painter, writer and independant curator. From 1964 until 1969 he was an Associate Editor at Art Forum Magazine. From 1966-67 he was Director of Exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute, in 1967-68 he was Assistant Curator of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum. He came east in 1969 to become a curator at the Whitney Museum, where he remained until 1975. Since the sixties his work has been included in several exhibitions. Over the last several years he has been painting and writing exclusively. He attended the Art League of California, The California School of Fine Arts, Academie de La Grande Chahumiere, and the College of Marin.

William Pettet William Pettet is a painter originally from Los Angeles and who has lived and worked in New York since 1969. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Texas and elsewhere. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions around the world. His work is represented in private and public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The Whitney Museum of American Art. He attended the California Institute of the Arts (BFA).

Larry Salander Larry Salander is the proprietor of The Salander / O'Reilly Gallery, in Manhattan. The gallery exhibits works by masters like Delacroix, Constable, Corot, Hartley, Lachaise, Stuart Davis and also contemporary works by David Park, Griefen, Poons, Resika, Di Niro, Olitski, and many others. He is also a painter with many solo and group exhibitions to his credit. Recently he has had several exhibitions of his paintings at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, including his Biblical Inspirations and Somalia Paintings. In 1989 he was honored in serving as Sole Juror for the 79th Annual Columbus Art League Exhibition, the oldest continuous annual art exhibition in the United States. Past jurors included: Edward Hopper, Max Weber, Augustus St. Gaudens, George Bellows, Winslow Homer and David Smith.

The program is dedicated to the memory of: Willem de Kooning, Allen Ginsberg, Sam Golden, and Rosina Florio.