Artist Jury
Artists will be selected by a highly qualified jury of artists, authors, critics, and collectors. Selections will be based upon quality, originality, artists’ conception, and presentation of artwork and booth display. The top scoring artists in each category are invited to participate in the LJAWF.
The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival is proud to announce its esteemed panel of jurors for LJAWF 2010.
Bruce Helander, MFA Prominent Contemporary Artist & Former Provost of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Lisa Roumell, MBA Former Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York & Prominent Art Collector
Grant Kester, PhD
Director of the UC San Diego University Art Gallery & Chair of the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department
Michael W. Monroe, MFA Director Emeritus of the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington & Former Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Robin Clark, PhD
Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
LJAWF 2010's Jurors' Bio
Bruce Helander, MFA
Prominent Contemporary Artist & Former Provost of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Bruce Helander is an artist whose specialty is collage and assemblage. He is also a well-known curator art critic and national juror. He has a master's degree in painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where he later became the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the college. He is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and recently won the South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for professional achievement in the visual arts.
Helander arrived in Palm Beach in 1982 from New York City, where he published Art Express magazine. He quickly established a cutting edge gallery on Worth Avenue that thrived for thirteen years. During that time he opened a second gallery on West Broadway in New York City. He was also a commissioner for ARCOM in Palm Beach and the vice-president of the Worth Avenue Association. He is active in the south Florida art scene and was on the board of directors at the Armory Art Center and later was the Director of Exhibitions there.
City Link magazine called Bruce Helander "Arguably the most recognized and successful collage artist in the country..." and Kenworth Moffett, former director, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale said in Gold Coast magazine that "If there was a Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it."
His work is in over fifty museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles.
His collages appear in Jazziz, The New Yorker and Palm Beach Illustrated magazines, among others.
He has written extensively on contemporary art and has written over 150 published reviews. He has an enthusiastic following for his monthly columns in Art of the Times magazine, Art and Living magazine (Los Angeles) and ARTnews. Star Group International just published his book featuring of forty of his favorite reviews, titled Learning to See—An Artist's View on Contemporary Artists from Artschwager to Zakanitch.
As a curator, Helander has coordinated over eighty exhibitions of contemporary works. He has organized one-man shows for legendary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain, Duane Hanson, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski, Dale Chihuly and Kenneth Noland, among others. Helander's written observations about art are unusual in that very few art writers are also artists—in this case, with an academic background, extensive gallery and publishing experience and regular exhibitions of his work.
Lisa Roumell, MBA Former Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York & Prominent Art Collector
Most recently, Ms. Roumell spent five-years at the New Museum of Contemporary Art where she was Deputy Director, Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Trustees. While at the Museum, Ms. Roumell was a member of the programming committee that reviewed and selected exhibitions and public programs and oversaw a long-term affiliation with Rhizome.org, a new media arts organization showcasing and building communities around art made through the use of technology. Ms. Roumell was also responsible for day-to-day operations, development, retail sales, visitor services, financial and legal management, and strategic planning. In addition to her ongoing responsibilities, Ms. Roumell managed the design and construction of the New Museum's 60,000 sq. ft. new building, widely heralded as one of the top 10 architectural monuments of the decade and winner of a Municipal Arts Society Masterworks Award.
Ms. Roumell's involvement with contemporary art pre-dated the New Museum, as she has been an active and passionate collector of contemporary art for over twenty-years.
Ms. Roumell is currently a Trustee of The Brearley School and of Rhizome.org, and sits on the Phase II Advisory Committee of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Ms. Roumell received an AB degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Grant Kester, PhD Director of the UC San Diego University Art Gallery and Chair of the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department
Grant Kester is one of the leading figures in the emerging critical dialogue around “relational” or “dialogical” art practices. His publications include Art, Activism and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (Duke University Press), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art (University of California Press) and The One and the Many: Agency and Identity in Contemporary Collaborative Art (Duke University Press, forthcoming). His curatorial projects include “Unlimited Partnerships: Collaboration in Contemporary Art” at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 2000 and “Groundworks: Environmental Collaborations in Contemporary Art” at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Kester's essays have been published in The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (Blackwell, 2005), Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1945 (Blackwell, 2004), Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2004), Politics and Poetics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom (St. Martins Press, 1999), the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Ethics, Information and Technology: Readings (McFarland, 1997) as well as journals including Afterimage, Art Journal, October, Variant (Scotland), Public Art Review, Exposure, The Nation, Third Text, Social Text and Art Papers.
Michael W. Monroe, MFA
Director Emeritus of the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington & Former Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Monroe was curator and later curator-in-charge of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery for 21 years. He was invited by President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton to curate a collection of American craft for the White House to commemorate The Year of American Craft in 1993. The Collection toured the United States for11 years and was documented in book The White House Collection of American Crafts.
Monroe received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1967.
Robin Clark, PhD
Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Robin Clark is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Clark's most recent exhibition, Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, featured new work by fourteen international artists. The Automatic Cities catalogue featuring essays by Clark and Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, is distributed by D.A.P. Clark is curating the Getty-funded exhibition, Phenomenal: California Light and Space, which will open in all three MCASD venues in the autumn of 2011; she is also editing the accompanying catalogue, which MCASD is co-publishing with the University of California Press. Robin Clark curated site-specific installations by Ann Lislegaard and Sebastian Hungerer & Rainer Kehres for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (2008) and contributed an essay to Danskjävlar, the catalogue for the inaugural exhibition at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen (2008). Prior to joining MCASD, Clark was a curator at the Saint Louis Art Museum, where she organized solo shows by Tara Donovan, Ellen Gallagher, Isaac Julien, Julie Mehretu, Roxy Paine, Neo Rauch, and Matthew Ritchie among others. Clark earned a PhD in Art History from CUNY Graduate Center, an MA from Boston University and a BA from Smith College.
