Curated Exhibitions and Projects

Montez Press Radio

Initiated, organized, and curated a new segment on Montez Press Radio. Object Record is an oral history of privately shared insights about art and its making, as well as a platform for new dialogues. These conversations invite openness and transparency about how the art world may better align with the artistic temperament. As our industry shifts to renewed interest in estates and rediscovery, curators and gallerists are increasingly in contact with artists whose practices have thrived outside of dominant systems. This segment aims to examine such trends through the eyes of artists, and imagine how our industry might better reflect their experiences. 

The inaugural episode with Madelon Vriesendorp was named an MPR Pick.

Derosia, New York, June 23–August 11, 2023.

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As Gallery Director, selected and liaised with artists, developed exhibition checklist, defined the exhibition’s thematic framework, wrote exhibition materials.

Martos After Dark, New York, February 17–July 8, 2023.

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Review in The New York Times by Travis Diehl

Review in T Magazine by M. H. Miller

The Heidelberg Project, New York City, was the inaugural exhibition in Martos’ new project space, Martos After Dark. As Director, I conceived and developed the 24-hour exhibition space alongside the gallery’s owner, Jose Martos. In collaboration with Tyree Guyton and The Heidelberg Project, the exhibition was developed to fundraise and bring visibility to the permanent installation in Detroit, and to envision how the site-specific project may be protected and made available to future generations, both outside of Detroit and in the custody of institutions. This exhibition opened shortly after Tyree Guyton received Detroit’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions.

Martos Gallery, New York, February 1–March 19, 2022

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Review by Holland Cotter in The New York Times

Review by David Everett Howe in Frieze

Earth Work was the first two person exhibition by Rafael Sánchez and his late partner, Kathleen White. Rafael Sánchez (b. 1960, Havana, Cuba) and Kathleen White (1960, Fall River, MA – 2014, New York) began to collaborate alongside their romantic partnership in Downtown New York in the mid-2000’s. As Director, I conceived the exhibition and designed its salon-style installation, which mingled their work to mine points of intersection both intentional and serendipitous. I also managed all logistics including framing, fabrication, and conservation; pursued and secured sales; and developed press strategy.

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As Director, discovered the work of Bob Smith and cultivated the representation of his estate by Martos Gallery, announcing his addition to the gallery’s roster in January 2022. Before being tapped to lead Derosia, I laid all the curatorial and logistical groundwork for his inaugural exhibition with the gallery, and his first solo exhibition in New York in decades. Bob Smith (1944, Springfield, Massachusetts – 1990, Miami, Florida) regularly exhibited in Europe, yet remained in relative obscurity during his lifetime. Though Smith maintained a relationship with figures from the American avant-garde including Gary Indiana, Alice Neel and Larry Rivers, he developed much of his oeuvre in self-imposed exile, spending his early career in Europe and the Middle East before settling in New York and Miami.In the early 1980s, using the discarded items he had long been collecting from the city streets, Smith began his most signature series: his Boxes. Miniaturized worlds which nonetheless evoke expanse, these mysterious environments were orchestrated in found or sourced dresser drawers turned upright. Smith's boxes appear to represent dimly lit hideaways with panoptic views; baroque prosceniums evacuated of an audience; preciously encased memories of exotic trips; and the cavernous outer reaches of the psyche.

Martos Gallery, New York, November 5, 2021–January 15, 2022.

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Reviewed in The New York Times by Martha Schwendener

Reviewed in Artforum by Zak Hatfield

Named one of the top exhibitions of 2021 by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine

In collaboration with Jose Martos and Arthur Simms, programmed the artist’s debut exhibition with Martos, following his 2019 presentation at Shoot the Lobster curated by Marquita Flowers. Determined the exhibition checklist and design, conceiving the show as a historical survey of the artist’s work (dating back to 1989) and a reflection of maximalism of the artist’s studio, where hundreds of works made with his signature rope and wire skeins are stored. The exhibition was broadly reviewed and celebrated as one of the best exhibitions of 2021 by critics and curators including Dan Cameron, Zak Hatfield, Matthew Higgs, Jerry Saltz, Martha Schwendener, and many others. In addition to curating the exhibition and organizing its detailed logistics, I placed Simms’ works in several prominent private and public collections.

Martos Gallery, New York, September 8–October 3, 2021.

Reviewed in the New York Times by Yinka Elujoba

Alongside Jose Martos and in collaboration with Dr. Nicole Fleetwood and PS1, organized this exhibition focusing on work by formerly incarcerated artists. A portion of all sales went to Right of Return, a fellowship for artists impacted by the justice system and initiated by participating artists Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig.