Rhea Anastas

Rhea Anastas is an American art historian and critic, born in 1969 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. From 2001 to 2008 Anastas served as Visiting Professor of Art History at the Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, at Bard College, New York. She is presently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Anastas has co-edited a number of books, including (with curator/critic Marianne Brouwer) Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000 (2001) and (with art critic Michael Brenson), Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne (2006).[1] Recent articles include "The Artist Is a Currency," with Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser, Jutta Koether, and Glenn Ligon, for Grey Room 24 (Summer 2006);[2] "A Rendezvous Under the Counter: On David Joselit and Gareth James at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York," Texte zur Kunst no. 65 (March 2006); and "Her Kindling Voice: The Artist Interview According to Louise Lawler," Texte zur Kunst no. 67 (September 2007).

She has contributed essays to the publication for the 2005 exhibition Accumulated vision : Barry Le Va, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia;[3] to the publication for the 2009 retrospective exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota;[4] and to the Dia Art Foundation's book on Agnes Martin.[5] She is presently working on a book about Andrea Fraser's Untitled (2003), and a monographic book on Allan McCollum.

Anastas was one of the original co-founders of the well-known art exhibition and event space Orchard,[6][7][8] on Orchard Street in New York's Lower East Side; she curated a number of their exhibitions, and organized a variety of their programs. Orchard was a three-year project, cooperatively founded and managed by a group of artists, writers, and curators, which ran from May 2005 through May 2008.

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  1. ^ Anastas, Rhea, and Brenson, Michael, eds. Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne, published by Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, 2006. ISBN 978-1931493550 http://www.bard.edu/ccs/ccs/pr/pr.php?id=1116
  2. ^ Anastas, Rhea; Bordowitz, Gregg; Fraser, Andrea; Koether, Jutta; Ligon, Glenn, The Artist Is a Currency, Grey Room, Summer 2006, No. 24, Pages 110-125. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/grey/-/24
  3. ^ Accumulated Vision: Barry Le Va, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Essays by Rhea Anastas, Pamela Lee, Ingrid Schaffner and Paul Virilio. ISBN 978-0884541066 http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/le-va.php
  4. ^ Simpson, Bennett, and Isles, Chrissie, eds., Dan Graham: Beyond, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-1-933-75112-2 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11694
  5. ^ Cooke, Lynne and Kelly, Karen, eds., Agnes Martin, with essays by Rhea Anastas, Douglas Crimp, Jonathan D. Katz, Michael Newman, Kathryn A. Tuma, et al, Yale University Press in association with the Dia Art Foundation. ISBN 9780300151053 http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300151053
  6. ^ Joseph, Brandon W., '"Orchard Dossier," Grey Room, Spring 2009, No. 35, Pages 90-91. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/grey.2009.1.35.90
  7. ^ Gilligan, Melanie, "Public Image LLC: The Three-Year Plan," Grey Room, Spring 2009, Pages 100-107.
  8. ^ Jones, Kristin M., "From One O to the Other: Orchard, New York, USA," Frieze Magazine, July 16, 2008.

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