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Lisa Dennison is Chairman of Sotheby’s North and South America, responsible for international business development and client relationships.
From 1978 to 2007, Ms. Dennison was on the staff of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, most recently as Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and prior to that, as Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Foundation. During her tenure at the Museum, Ms. Dennison curated numerous exhibitions of Modern and contemporary art, many based on the Guggenheim’s renowned permanent collection She was also responsible for the exhibition program and collection development activities for the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Venice, Bilbao, Berlin, and Las Vegas.. Ms. Dennison is the author of more than 25 essays in catalogues that accompanied the exhibitions she organized for the Guggenheim and for major institutions around the world.
Ms. Dennison earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in art history and French in 1975, and received an M.A. in art history from Brown University in 1978. A Founding Member of the Creative Arts Advisory Board of Brown University, she also serves on the Board of Directors of the Byrd-Hoffman Foundation; the New York Committee of the Wellesley College Friends of Art; the International Advisory Board of the Louise T. Blouin Foundation; and is a member of Art Table and The Women’s Forum.
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Kembra Pfahler is the founder and lead singer for the theatrical shock rock band "The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black," founded by her and her husband Samo in 1990. Originally from Malibu Beach, California, she became a major figure of the 1980s East Village scene. One part high fashion glamour, one part cult horror film archetypes, this group has etched itself deeply into the New York underground, all the while continuing to follow Kembra’s rules of anti-naturalism and "availablism" to push them forward. Using only what is on hand, the group is able to create complex and compelling performances filled with low-tech props and minimalist costumes. The brightly painted girls of 'Karen Black' complete the equation, walking into the performance with confidence in their stiletto boots, high contrast black and white costumes, blackened teeth, and two foot tall fright wigs; aware that they are the most visually stunning and alarming creatures present.
Performances have included cracking eggs on her vulva and sewing her labia shut, in her famous performance done in collaboration with Richard Kern titled Sewing Circle. She also performs an act known as The Wall of Vagina which consists of several women, The GOKB or Girls Of Karen Black, who are covered in body paint, stacked naked and spread-eagled on top of each other.
She curated and was featured in the Womanizer show at Deitch Projects in early 2007, a group exhibition of female artists that utilize various media for their confrontational, edgy exploits but all share a background in cutting-edge performance.
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Susan E. Cahan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Des Lee Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Prior to joining UMSL, she was a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Culture at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1994 to 2003) and a visiting professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles (2000 to 2002). As an art historian she specializes in contemporary art and the history of museums.
In addition, she has had over twenty years experience as a curator and museum professional. From 1996 to 2001 Cahan served as senior curator for the private collection of Eileen and Peter Norton, one of the world's largest collections of contemporary art, and director of arts programs for the Peter Norton Family Foundation. From 1987 to 1996 she worked at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York as Deputy Director (1993 to 1996) and Curator of Education (1987 to 1993).
She also served at The Museum of Modern Art in New York as School Programs Coordinator (1983 to 1987) and School Programs Assistant (1982 to 1983). She has published widely on museums and culture and is co-editor of Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (Routledge, 1996). Her most recent essay, "Arts Philanthropy and Rethinking the Problem of Conflict of Interest," will be published by the Banff International Curatorial Institute in 2004. She received her M.A. in Art History at Hunter College and her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation, entitled "Inventing the Multicultural Museum: A Critical Study of Harlem On My Mind" addressed the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on museums in the United States.
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Stephanie Roach is the Director of The FLAG Art Foundation. Prior to joining FLAG, she worked at contemporary art gallery Galeria Senda in Barcelona, Spain. She served as a liaison to various English speaking and Spanish artists such as Jane Hammond, Bjarne Melgaard, Gino Rubert, and Peter Halley, among her many other responsibilities. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Art History and Spanish. While at Penn, Stephanie was a Board Member at the Institute of Contemporary Art. In her final year working with ICA, she co-curated "Framing Exposure: Process and Politics" featuring Craig Baldwin, Chris Chiappa, Andrea Fraser, M. Ho, Liza Johnson, Ronald Jones, Michael Rakowitz, Gerhard Richter, Tokihiro Sato, and Francesco Simeti.
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