Artist Selection Panelist Biographies Portable Works 2021

Prepared for the City of Houston by Houston Arts Alliance Department of Civic Art + Design Art Professionals

Deborah Fullerton Curator of Exhibitions, Art Museum of South Texas

Corpus Christi, Texas

Deborah Fullerton has served as Curator of Exhibitions since 2005. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Corpus Christi State University and a Masters of Art degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Following her work in the field of Outreach Art Education for the Creative Arts Center, Deborah joined the Art Museum as Outreach Coordinator in 1994. In 1995, she began her role as Curator of Education and later that Fall the Art Museum affiliated with TAMUCC. In 1996, the Museum merged with two local arts organizations; The Center for Hispanic Arts and the Creative Arts Center, forming the South Texas Institute for the Arts, and Deborah became the Curator of Adult Education. It was during this time that she coordinated the visiting artists for Art Journeys, appearing on live interactive television sponsored by H.E.B. In 2000, Deborah began the Student Docent Program, bringing University students into the museum as trainees to lead tours, and co-hosted with University film faculty a 19-year run of The Territory, an Independent Film Series on KEDT-PBS. As Curator of Exhibitions, Deborah has curated 22 unique exhibitions, traveling one-person exhibitions in Texas, and Arte Caliente, a private collection and Modern and Contemporary Masters: Selections from the Permanent Collection throughout the U.S. She has contributed to and overseen the publication of numerous art catalogues, including the Target Texas: drawn worlds which we will look at today. Since the COVID 19 pandemic which began on March 17, 2020 Deborah has learned to Zoom, Web Ex, connect remotely to the files, colleagues in the museum field and her fellow museum colleagues and is currently working on-site installing, researching, presenting and negotiating future projects including the Philip Johnson 50th Year Anniversary exhibitions for 2022. In her free-time during the stay-at-home time she excavated a portion of her front lawn (due to a grub infestation) and designed a bird and butterfly garden viewable from her front living room, which has served to give her and her husband Jim many thrilling encounters with nature right outside their windows!

Page| 4 Christopher Green Professor, University of North Texas,

Denton, Texas

Christopher Green is a scholar of modern and contemporary art whose research focuses on Native American art and material culture, primitivisms of the historic and neo-avant-garde, and the global representation and display of Indigenous culture. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas

Anjali Gupta Curator, Editor, Producer, and Writer

San Antonio, Texas

Anjali Gupta is a curator, editor, producer and writer based in San Antonio. Anjali was Director and Curator of Sala Diaz from 2015-2020. She was also Director of the Casa Chuck Residency, an invitational program for curators, critics and writers housed next door to Sala Diaz in the home of the late Chuck Ramirez (2012-2020). Prior, she was Executive Director (2008-2010) and Editor-in-Chief (2003-2010) of Art Lies, a contemporary art quarterly published in Houston. During her tenure, Art Lies received a multi-year award from The Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Publications Initiative for critical merit, which helped increase contributor’s fees and establish alternative distribution models for nonprofit arts journals.

From 1996-2005, she curated exhibitions and interdisciplinary events in her own art spaces in San Antonio (The Wong Spot, 811 Lounge, The Honey Factory and The Wiggle Room). Additional exhibitions include a four-part project with Jason Singleton at fluent~collaborative (Austin, 2004), Roy Stanfield: Armacell (Lab Gallery, NYC, 2005), Critics Select (Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (Long Branch, NJ, 2005), Michele Monseau: Gone Again (Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, 2007), Ballad of the Non-specific Object (David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, 2011) and Megan Harrison: Atramentite (Guest Curator, Sala Diaz, 2013). From 2004-2006, she was Assistant Director of Contemporary Art Month, an annual, month-long, citywide celebration of the contemporary arts in San Antonio.

Page| 5 Her writing has appeared in periodicals including Art Asia Pacific, Art Lies, Art Papers, artUS, Glasstire, Magnet, …might be good, Punk Planet, San Antonio Current and tema celeste; as well as catalogues including the Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900 [Wangechi Mutu & Peter Rostovsky] (2007); Beers, Steers & Queers: The Texas Biennial (Big Medium, 2007); Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque (Ruiz- Healy Gallery, 2011), America’s Finest: Recent Works by Vincent Valdez (David Shelton Gallery, 2013) Sara Frantz: In Search of the Vernacular (Women & Their Work, 2015), Sterling Allen & Larry Graeber: Formal Proof (Blue Star Contemporary, 2019) and The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion (Amon Carter Museum, 2020). Book editing projects include the AMA award-winning monograph Thomas Glassford: CADÁVER EXQUISITO (UNAM, 2007), Silvia Gruner: Un Chant d'Amour (Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, 2008), Colin de Land/American Fine Arts Co. (text only, with Dennis Balk, powerHouse Books, 2008), Unpacking the Collection (Museum of Contemporary Craft, 2008) and Manuel Espinosa (Colección Espinosa, 2013). Gupta’s video credits include shooting, producing and/or editing projects for Edgar Arceneaux, Candice Breitz, Kendell Geers, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Christian Jankowski, Jorge Macchi, Susan Philipsz, Paul Pfeiffer, Shahzia Sikander, Yutaka Sone, Andre Stitt, Survival Research Labs and Jeremy Deller’s Turner Prize-winning Memory Bucket.

Additionally, she worked as a Lecturer in the Graduate Studio Art Department at the University of Texas at Austin, served a panelist and final round juror for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Creative Capital Arts Writers Program (2008/2010) and was a planning committee member for the 2011 Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers Convening. She has also served on multiple panels at College Art Association, public art selection committees in both Houston and San Antonio, and as a grant nominator for Art Matters, the Herb Alpert Foundation and Red Bull Arts, among other organizations.

Page| 6 Andrea Karnes Senior Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas

Andrea Karnes is senior curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Most recently, she organized a four-decade-long survey of the work of the artist Laurie Simmons, Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, which opened in 2018 in Fort Worth and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2019. The exhibition examined Simmons’s career-long observations of prescribed gender roles, especially exploring American women in domestic settings. In 2016, Karnes curated KAWS: WHERE THE END STARTS, which broke the Modern’s attendance records to date before traveling to the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, on view in 2013–14, was an international, multigenerational group presentation exploring contemporary Mexican art in relationship to global conceptualism. The exhibition Hubbard/Birchler: No Room to Answer, on view in 2009, featured the collaborative photographic and video works of the Swiss/American team Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, whose work was recently presented in the Swiss Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2007, Karnes presented Pretty Baby, a group exhibition that included the works of thirteen artists who addressed the subject of childhood, from innocent reverie to the dark side. In 2005, she organized Pierre Huyghe: One Million + Kingdoms, and in 2004, Julie Bozzi: Landscapes.

As curator of the Modern’s FOCUS series from 2005 to 2015, Karnes organized nearly thirty solo exhibitions of international artists working in a range of media. The FOCUS exhibitions featured the work of Rosson Crow, Jeff Elrod, Teresita Fernández, KAWS, Vera Lutter, Barry McGee, Cornelia Parker, Erik Parker, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Gary Simmons, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Kehinde Wiley, among many others. Her current project is an exploration of women painters who paint women as subject matter. The exhibition, set to open in spring 2022, is titled, Daughters Sisters Lovers Mothers Visionaries: Women Painting Women, and is a five-decade long look at some of the most intriguing painted images of women in the world today.

Karnes has authored publications in conjunction with her major exhibitions, including Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera; KAWS: WHERE THE END STARTS; México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990; Hubbard/Birchler: No Room to Answer; Pretty Baby; Pierre Huyghe: Stranger than Fiction; and Julie Bozzi: Hidden in Plain Sight. She was a contributing author for Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s and for the Modern’s permanent collection catalogues, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: 110 and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Collection Highlights.

Karnes completed her master’s degree in art history at Texas Christian University in May 2000. Her thesis, Sally Mann: Beyond the Black and White, offers an in-depth look at the artist’s monograph Immediate Family, published in the early 1990s. Specifically addressing the critical reception of Immediate Family,

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Karnes examines why the imagery was a hot button issue at the time it debuted and why it was often couched within the framework of the Culture Wars of the late 1980s. Rigoberto Luna Artist & Creative Director, Presa House Gallery

San Antonio, Texas

Rigoberto Luna is the Co-founder and Director of the Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, TX. Luna has developed numerous exhibitions with a heavy focus on Latinx artists of Central and South Texas. Recently Luna served as the juror of the "Rising Eyes of Texas" at Rockport Center for the Arts, "Third Coast Biennial National Juried Exhibition" at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX, and panelist for the Third Annual "Tito's Prize" at Big Medium in Austin. Luna has also served as curator for multiple exhibitions with the City of San Antonio's Department of Arts & Culture and the World Heritage Office. In October of 2020, Luna joined Big Medium in Austin, where he works as a Curatorial Assistant and Exhibition Coordinator for the Texas Biennial. Additionally, Luna currently works in the Exhibitions Department at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Delilah Montoya Professor, Katherine G. McGovern College of the Arts

Houston, Texas

Delilah Montoya is a professor, in the Katherine G. McGovern College of the Arts at UH, who investigates cultural phenomena, addressing and confronting viewers' assumptions. Women Boxers: The New Warriors, a book published by Arte Publico Press 2006 as well as an exhibition shown in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Dallas and NYC at PS1moma 2018. It was reviewed in Art in America 2008. Montoya's artwork has traveled with the ICP exhibition "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self" and "Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum." She received Artadia Award and was honor with Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Montoya is a founding member of the artist/ activist collective Sin Huellas that aims to protest the US immigrant detention complex as well as a founding member of www.MantecaHTX.com, Texas’ first online Latinx Artist Registry Directory.

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Erin Murphy Director of Residencies and Exhibitions, Artpace San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

Erin K. Murphy is the Director of Residencies and Exhibitions at Artpace San Antonio. There she drives programming, planning, and oversees each residency cycle from start to finish. In 2021 she edited and published for the organization Artpace at 25. Prior to Artpace, she managed more than 40 temporary exhibitions and installations at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), as well as serving as the lead editor on major publications. At SAMA, she co-curated Intercambios: Modernist Photography in Mexico from the Permanent Collection and Of Country and Culture: The Lam Collection of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art and in 2018 she organized the general exhibition of the Vignette Art Fair in Dallas, TX. Preceding her tenure at the San Antonio Museum of Art, she served at various contemporary art galleries and art institutions including the Dallas Museum of Art, McClain Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, among others. She earned an English degree from Texas A&M University (BA) and an art history degree from the University of North Texas (MA).

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Dennis Nance Curator, Galveston Arts Center

Galveston, Texas

Dennis Nance is an artist and curator from Houston, Texas. He was appointed as curator for the Galveston Arts Center in 2016. From 2007 to 2016, Nance was Exhibitions & Programming Director for Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas, where he worked extensively with local and regional artists through over 20 exhibitions annually and the Lawndale Artist Studio Program. Nance has served on the Artist Advisory Board for DiverseWorks, Houston, TX and and the Artist Board for Box 13 ArtSpace. Nance is also a practicing artist and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance and an Idea Fund Award, administered through Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks Artspace and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, in 2015. He has exhibited his work at the ICA Boston Art Lab, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Brandon, BOX13 ArtSpace, Wedge Space, and the Menil Collection Bookstore. He received his BA from Austin College in Sherman, TX with a concentration in Fine Arts and French.

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Lanecia Rouse Artist + Owner, LAR Art Studio LLC

Houston, Texas

Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Houston, TX and the owner and creator of LAR Art Studio. Her portfolio includes a range of abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, and speaking. She also has extensive experience working collaboratively as a creative on various community engagement projects nationally and abroad.

Lanecia is the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Residence for the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University and the Artist-in- Residence at Holy Family HTX (2017-Present). She is also the Director for Justice and the Arts with projectCURATE and the Co-founding and Creative Director of the ImagiNoir Equity Group, an international alliance and community development and equity group of black activists, artists, writers, scholars, philanthropists, and educators. Lanecia is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School (MDiv) and Wofford College (BA in Sociology).

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Department Representatives

Guillermo Cabrera Assistant Director Asset Engineering, Houston Airports

Guillermo Cabrera has been a licensed Architect in Texas for over 30 years, holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame, and is a member of American Institute of Architects. His portfolio of work includes commercial and institutional work in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, North and South Carolina and Georgia. Guillermo is also an accomplished photographer that specializes in Architectural, Street and Fine Art Photography.

Alton DuLaney Curator of Public Art, Houston Airports

Alton DuLaney is the Curator of Public Art at the Houston Airports overseeing one of the largest collections of public art in the state of Texas, including nearly 300 works spread across three campuses. He is also a social media creator and conceptual artist who researches art’s ability to transform the perception of objects, images, and actions, as communicated through artistic expression, the relevance of site, and the identity of the artist. His multi-disciplinary practice includes painting, sculpture, photography, textile, neon, jewelry, video, tattooing, branding, mail art, public art, and, of course, performance art. As The World’s Most Famous Gift Wrap Artist, Alton has appeared on numerous national TV shows including Rachael Ray, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, The Wendy Williams Show, Access Hollywood, ETV, The Harry Connick Jr Show, as a judge on HBO’s Craftopia, as well as his own show the Great Gift Exchange on YouTube. Alton Page| 12

has shown his work in countless exhibitions in Texas, Los Angeles, and New York City as well as Europe and South America. He is in the collections of the Tom of Finland Foundation of LA, the Leslie Lohman Museum of NYC, the City of Marfa public art collection, and many important private collections. Alton has a BFA from the University of Texas in Austin, MFA from the University of Houston, where he also taught Public Art. He is also an art and décor consultant.

Dawn Hoffman Terminal Manager, Houston Airports

My name is Dawn Hoffman. I worked for Houston Airports as the Assistant Director of Terminal Management for William P. Hobby Airport. I have worked in the aviation field for 23 years. I hold a MBA and BS in Professional Aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

Foti Kallergis Director of Communications and Public Relations, Houston Airports

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Maricela Kruseman Program Founder and Director, Harmony in the Air

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