The Chart is pleased to announce the artist, writer, and educator Jacquelyn Gleisner as our 2019 Visiting Critic-in-Residence! Gleisner, who is based in New Haven, is the founder of the new critical writing blog Connecticut Art Review. She has been published in Hyperallergic, Art New England, Two Coats of Paint, Arteidolia, Black Balloon Publishing’s The Airship, WOW/Huh, and Glass Quarterly, among others. Additionally, Gleisner was a regular contributor to four columns for the ART21 magazine for over seven years.
The 2019 jury — comprised of 2018 Critic-in-Residence Imani Roach, the Rabkin Foundation’s Executive Director Susan Larsen, and SPACE Gallery’s Managing Director Toccarra Thomas — selected Gleisner on the strength of her writing and the values of equity and accessibility evidenced in her practice. While in residence, she will be conducting studio and site visits as part of a critical investigation of place and site-specificity, which will serve to forge and deepen relationships between New England arts communities. Gleisner will present a free, public lecture as part of both her residency and a new Visiting Critic Lecture Series hosted by The Chart.
The Visiting Critic Lecture Series will bring five arts writers and critics, including Gleisner, to Maine this summer. Selected by the 2019 jury and The Chart‘s co-founding editor Jenna Crowder, this summer’s Visiting Lecturers include James McAnally (St. Louis), Andy Johnson (Washington, D.C.), Leah Triplett Harrington (Boston), and Dr. Jordan Amirkhani (Washington, D.C.). The dates for each visit as well as bios for each visiting lecturer can be found below. An announcement of the lecture schedule, all of which will be free and open to the public, is forthcoming.
Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Jacquelyn, James, Leah, Andy, and Jordan to Maine this summer!
Jacquelyn Gleisner
August 15–21, 2019
Jacquelyn Gleisner is an artist, writer, and educator. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, Gleisner’s earliest memories of art are inside Lucas Samaras’ experiential installation, Mirrored Room (1966) at the Albright Knox Gallery. She holds degrees from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, 2010) and Boston University (BFA, summa cum laude, 2006), and her work as a visual artist has been exhibited throughout the United States, especially within New England, and internationally, in Italy, Finland, and Botswana. In 2010, Gleisner was awarded a Fulbright grant to Helsinki where she researched surface design across art, fashion, and architecture. Five years later, she traveled around Botswana through an artist exchange funded by the Art in Embassies Program. As a writer, Gleisner has been published in Hyperallergic, Art New England, Two Coats of Paint, Arteidolia, Black Balloon Publishing, and Glass Quarterly, among others. Additionally, Gleisner was a regular contributor to four columns for the ART21 magazine for over seven years. Last year, she founded Connecticut Art Review, a writing platform for the arts in and around the state with the twin objectives of focusing on underrepresented communities and raising awareness of pressing social, cultural, and/or political issues. Since 2017, Gleisner has worked at the University of New Haven as a Practitioner in Residence in the Art & Design Department. She is currently serving as half of the Creative in Residence team with her husband and collaborator, Ryan Paxton, at Ives Squared, the makerspace at the New Haven Free Public Library.
Andy Johnson
June 13–16, 2019
Andy Johnson is a DC-based art historian, curator, and arts writer. He is Director of Gallery 102 at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design; contributing editor at DIRT; and serves on the curatorial and sales team for Art on the Vine, hosted by the Agora Culture. His academic and curatorial practice centers on queer/queer of color critique, feminist/black feminist theories, critical race theory, cultural studies, sexuality studies, photography, video, installation, performance art, and visual culture. He has curated exhibitions with Gallery 102, DC Arts Center, and Dupont Underground and was the 2018 DC Arts Center Curatorial Apprentice. He has presented research and spoken on panels at universities, galleries, and museums including Rutgers University, UC Santa Barbara, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, GW Museum, DuPont Underground, and others. He has published articles, exhibition reviews, and catalogue essays with DIRT, The Chart, Common Field’s Field Perspectives, The Rib, Pelican Bomb, and more. He has an upcoming exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution. Andy holds a M.A. in Art History from The George Washington University.
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani
July 5–8, 2019
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, critic, curator, and educator based in Washington, DC, where she serves as a Professorial Lecturer in Global Modern and Contemporary Art History at American University. Jordan received her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Art from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom in 2015 and has held academic posts at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and Canterbury Christchurch University in the UK as well as curatorial positions at The Royal Academy in London, England and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Prior to her engagement as Juror for the CACNO’s 2019 Open Call exhibition, Jordan organized exhibitions for The Moon Gallery at Berry College in Mt. Berry, GA, and The Apothecary Gallery in Chattanooga, TN. Amirkhani has published scholarship on the Franco-Cuban Dada painter Francis Picabia, the British conceptual art collective Art & Language, and the Serbian feminist political action organization Grupa Spomenik, and writes criticism for a number of contemporary art publications including Artforum, Art Practical, Baltimore Arts, and Burnaway. Her work on contemporary art and artists working in the American Southeast garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Short-Form Writing Grant in 2017 and two nominations for the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017 and 2018.
James McAnally
July 31–August 3, 2019
James McAnally is a co-founder and caretaker of The Luminary, an expansive platform for art, thought, and action based in St. Louis, MO. McAnally also serves as the executive editor and co-founder of Temporary Art Review, an international platform for contemporary art criticism that focuses on artist-run and alternative spaces, and is a founding member of Common Field, a national network of independent art spaces and organizers. McAnally has presented exhibitions, talks and lectures at venues such as the Walker Art Center, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation with Ballroom Marfa, Kadist Art Foundation, The Contemporary, Gwangju Biennial, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Kansas City Art Institute, INCA, Transformer, Washington University in St. Louis, and Moore College of Art and Design and has served as a Visual Arts panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. McAnally’s writing has appeared in publications such as Art Journal, Art in America, Hyperallergic, OEI, Terremoto, Pelican Bomb, and many others, and his publications are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Brooklyn Museum. McAnally is a recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short-Form Writing.
Leah Triplett Harrington
September 26–28, 2019
Leah Triplett Harrington is a curator, editor, and writer. She is the founding editor of The Rib, a publication dedicated to contemporary art and its communities outside of major urban centers. Her writing has most recently appeared there as well as Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. In 2018 she opened Under a Dismal Boston Skyline at Boston University Art Gallery. In 2019, she became assistant curator for Now + There, a Boston-based public art non-profit. Leah has lectured at Boston University, Montserrat College of Art, Stonehill College, Tufts University Art Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The 2019 Visiting Critic-in-Residence and the 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series is possible through the support of a project grant from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, based in Rockland, Maine, as well as through the generosity of individual donors and supporters.
