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Art Lecture, Saul Ostrow: A Career by Chance
Most often when people talk about their career – they represent it as a straight line: while in school they know what they wanted and went after it, end of the story… My career has been a roller coaster of chance encounters, each one opening the way to opportunities I had never imagined. This lecture is a brief account of that life.
Wednesday, March 2 @ 12-1pm (via Zoom)
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Saul Ostrow was trained as an artist, and since 1990 has been known primarily as an independent critic, curator. Presently he is art editor at large at Bomb Magazine. He has also served as co-editor of Lusitania Press (1996-2004) as well as the editor of the book series "Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture" (1996- 2006) published by Routledge. In 2010, he founded Critical Practices Inc. an all-volunteer, non-profit organization whose projects include curatorial projects, open forums, and a broadsheet publication. His writings have appeared in numerous art magazines, journals, catalogues, and books in the USA and Europe. His most recent publications have included: Off-register: the work of Ivelisse Jiminez, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2018); A Rear View: Recent Works of Gustavo Prado, Ventriloquist Press, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016); “The Art of Bearing Witness,” Dread Scott: A Sharp Divide, Rowan University; Adam Henry: Acceptance and Deferral, Meesen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium; Cuban Women Artists, Donald and Shelly Rubin Collection, Lowe Museum, University of Florida, Miami, Florida; Boris Lurie: When to Say, No! Museum Janco, Tel Aviv and Gallery. Ostrow received his MFA in art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Since 1986, he has curated over 70 exhibitions in the US and abroad including: Here’s Looking at Her: Images of Woman from the ESK Family Foundation Collection, Mana Contemporary Art Center, Jersey City, NJ (2015); The Gravity of Sculpture, Dorsky Projects, NYC (2013); The Lure of Paris: American Abstract Artists in Paris 1950-59, Loretta Howard Gallery, NYC (2009); Modeling the Photographic: The Ends of Photography, McDonough Museum, Youngstown, Ohio (2007). His most recent project was Positions Matters at Galerie Richard, NYC and Minus Space, Bklyn (June, 2018). Forthcoming exhibitions are: Drawing on Likeness: Ivelisse Jiminez, Gustavo Prada, Lidija Slavkovicat the Hollywood Art Center, Florida (2020) and The Image in The Ground at Loretta Howard Gallery NYC (2020). Website: https://bombmagazine.org/authors/saul-ostrow