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| In October 2004, the second Artist Pension Trust was announced in Los Angeles. Visual artists living in the United States and Canada are eligible for participation. Please find information about the APT Los Angeles Director and Curatorial Committee Members below. |
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Irene Tsatsos, Director |
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From 1997 until 2005, Irene Tsatsos was the Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), where she is credited with revitalizing the organization’s reputation for experimental and rigorous programming. At LACE, she mounted nearly fifty exhibitions, including the much-heralded retrospective of performance artist Yvonne Rainer and Chris Burden’s project Small Skyscraper. Prior to taking the leadership of LACE, Tsatsos worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art as the exhibition coordinator of the 1997 Biennial; and held leadership positions at the Arts Club of Chicago and N.A.M.E. gallery, Chicago.
Currently, Tsatsos is an arts consultant and independent curator based in Los Angeles, whose current practice provides expertise on exhibitions, educational programs, publications, marketing, and not-for-profit institutional development. Having worked with a range of museums, alternative arts spaces, and contemporary art centers, Tsatsos enjoys a profile as a collaborative and forward-thinking facilitator of artist-initiated projects. Her relationships with emerging and mid-career artists, particularly on the West Coast, provide her with a unique perspective on today’s contemporary art practices.
Tsatsos advises a range of international art organizations, including Farmlab, an artist initiative funded by the Annenberg Foundation; UCLA’s Fowler Museum’s exhibition Make Art/Stop AIDS; International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm; University IAUV, Venice, Italy; California Institute for the Arts, Valencia; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California; and Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, among others. Tsatsos’ recent curatorial projects include Civic Matters, an exchange between Los Angeles and Scandinavian artists; Failure. Ridiculous. Terrible. Wonderful. , an exhibition at Park Projects, Los Angeles; and Fair Exchange, an experimental, biennial-style exhibition with extensive public programs at the Los Angeles County Fair, featuring 28 Los Angeles-based artists and collectives.
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Mary Leigh Cherry, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Mary Leigh Cherry is co-owner of Cherry and Martin gallery in Los Angeles. Along with the gallery, from 2001 to 2005 Ms. Cherry served as the Administrative Director of the Fellows of Contemporary Art, a thirty year old charitable foundation that sponsors California artists. She managed Fellows-sponsored exhibitions, board driven activities and publications as well as assisted with policy changes to initiate mid-career artist grants projected for the year 2006. From 2001 until 2003, she also assisted the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division on major public art projects and their art acquisition program. She was previously in the Development/Public Relations department and Board Liaison at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Ms. Cherry moved to Los Angeles in 1998 following a working sojourn in Venice, Italy. |
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Kris Kuramitsu, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Kris Kuramitsu is former Curator for the Collections of Eileen Harris-Norton and Peter Norton and former Director of Arts Programs for the Peter Norton Family Foundation. As Curator, she has helped develop the Norton and Harris-Norton Collections, which have a 20 year history of acquiring work by emerging artists in all media. Ms. Kuramitsu’s responsibilities also included oversight of the grant-making program of the Peter Norton Family Foundation in the arts, which primarily supports the exhibition of work by emerging and underrepresented visual artists. Previously, she was an administrator for a non-profit public art organization in Los Angeles. She received a BA in Art History from Pomona College in 1993 and an MA in Art History with an emphasis in 20th Century Art from UCLA in 1997. |
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Pilar Tompkins, Curatorial Committee Member |
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Pilar Tompkins is curator of the Claremont Museum of Art located in Los Angeles County. In 2006 she was a founding director and curator of the MexiCali Biennial, a bi-national art exhibition and music event transcending the socio-political and physical constraints of the US/Mexico border. She currently sits on the program committee for Outpost for Contemporary Art, whose 2007-2008 cycle of video screenings, artist residencies, and exhibitions features artists from Eastern and Central Europe. Recent projects include Latitude: Patterns for Orchestrating Domain at LA Art Core in October 2007. In 2003-2004 she served as co-chair for the Los Angeles County Museum¹s Graphic Art Council Advisory Board.
Ms. Tompkins has a commercial gallery background and has held positions as director of leading contemporary spaces The Project, MC and Anna Helwing Gallery. She has worked with established artists from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia including Julie Mehretu, Aernout Mik, Paul Pfeiffer, Jose Damasceno and Mark Bradford. Ms. Tompkins received degrees in Latin American Art History and in Art from the university of
Texas at Austin. She supplemented her education with studies in Italy at Studio Art Centers International, in Brazil at Universidade de São Paolo and Universidade Federal da Bahia, and in Mexico at Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende. |
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Julie Deamer, Curatorial Associate |
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Julie Deamer is the Founding Director of Outpost for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She has been working in the field of contemporary visual art for twelve years as a gallery owner/director, curator, writer, educator, and fundraiser. She founded Four Walls in San Francisco in 1995 and served as its Director for 5 years receiving broad public acknowledgement and extensive critical attention for the professional and inventive exhibitions and events she facilitated. As an independent curator, she has organized numerous solo and group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. Julie has taught at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and has served as the Development and Communications Coordinator at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, a non-profit arts organization. Julie's abiding passion and proven talent lie in her curatorial aptitude and vocation as an ardent supporter of artists and the influence art has in society. |
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