SMU | Division of Art | Visiting Artist Program

R.H. Quaytman, March 24, 6:30pm, Meadows Museum

Monday, January 25, 2010

R.H. Quaytman is a painter living in New York City. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in 1992 and was a founding member and the Director of Orchard, a cooperative gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Her work is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery in NYC and Vilma Gold Gallery in London. Her first museum exhibition is currently on view at the ICA in Boston and she will be included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. In addition she is preparing two exhibitions for the fall of 2010: a survey exhibition for the Neuberger Museum, at SUNY Purchase, New York and a project exhibition for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has also been included in group exhibitions at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, Richard Telles, Los Angeles, Queens Museum of Art, The Kitchen, New York as well as the Lódz Biennial, Poland. Her book Allegorical Decoys is published by MER Press and is available at Printed Matter book store. She is currently on the faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Quaytman will join the art historian and critic Rhea Anastas, who was also a member of Orchard to discuss the activities of their collective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Tues March 23 at 7pm.

For more information about Orchard go to http://www.orchard47.org/

For more information about Quaytman’s work go to http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/R.H.Quaytman.htm

Posted by Noah Simblist