BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Charles Kremer, Board Chairman
Charles
Kremer was raised in England and attended Westminster College. He
is the founder and president of Access Leasing Corporation, an
equipment leasing investment company begun in 1984. Prior to this
venture, Mr. Kremer was the president and chief operating officer of
PLM Financial Services Inc., a publicly held equipment leasing
syndicator since 1980. In 1984, Mr. Kremer founded Salestar, a telecommunications database company that he sold in
2000. In addition to all of this, Mr. Kremer is a chartered
accountant. He is also an active member of the Board of
Directors at the U.C. Berkeley Art Museum in California. His wife,
Naomie Kremer, is an artist who has studios in Oakland and Paris.
Alberta Arthurs, Board President
Alberta Arthurs is a
consultant for non-profit organizations. She has served on a
number of for-profit and not-for-profit boards, including, at the
current time, National Video Resources (chair), Yaddo, the American
Symphony Orchestra League and UNESCO’s International Fund for the
Promotion of Culture. Her background includes five years as
President and Professor of English at Chatham College, and teaching and
administrative positions at Rutgers, Tufts and Harvard Universities.
Previously, Arthurs served as Director for Arts and Humanities at the
Rockefeller Foundation where she oversaw national and international
programming in culture and scholarship. She lectures and writes
on the arts and contemporary values. Some of the publications that have
featured her essays are Prairie Schooner, Grantmakers in the Arts
Reader, Public Culture, and American Arts. In April, she was the
co-chair of the conference that was part of Art Table's 25th
anniversary Gala celebration.
Ida Applebroog
Ida
Applebroog is an American artist. Her work is featured in
numerous permanent collections of international institutions including
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, and Museum of Modern
Art. A major solo exhibition of her work was organized by the
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 2003. Also, in 1998
she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and in 1990 the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She attended the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Parsons
School of Design where, in 2004, she participated in the Voting Booth
Project. In addition to her artistic accomplishments, Applebroog
self-published the books Galileo Works, Dyspepsia Works, and Blue
Books. Accomplished, renowned and referenced in countless
textbooks and publications on art theory, she has been quoted saying
“This is our world, I dissect it, I assemble it, I call it art.”
A comprehensive catalogue of her work was published in 2002 called Are
You Bleeding Yet.
Papo Colo
Papo
Colo is a multi-disciplinary artist and the co-founder and artistic
director of Exit Art. He has conceived and curated more than 100
Exit Art visual art, performance/theater, film and video projects, and
has created the graphic design and exhibition design for more than 80
Exit Art presentations. From 1991-1993, he founded and directed
the alternative space The Cultural Space. In 1992, he founded the
theater company Trickster Theater, which has presented seven
productions including the web-based project M Play. His paintings
and installations have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Museo
d’Arte de Puerto Rico; the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus,
Ohio; the Tyler Gallery at Temple University, Philadelphia; and the
Herter Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship in 1991 and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant for
painting in the same year, and received an Individual Artist grant in
Theater from the New York State Council on the Arts for M Play in 2001.
Deborah Colton
Deborah Colton was raised in Essex Fells, New Jersey and graduated with a BS in Marketing Management from Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut in 1979. Deborah worked in national account sales, sales management and product launching for 3M Company's Business Communications Division in New Jersey, New York and Houston, Texas until 1987. Deborah and her family moved to Tokyo and then Bangkok for a eight year period due to her husband's career with Exxon-Mobil, at which time Deborah became a patron of the arts in Asia. Moving back to the United States in 2000, Deborah founded the Deborah Colton Gallery which is an international contemporary arts gallery with it's exhibition space in Houston, Texas. Deborah was recently the recipient of the YWCA Women in Leadership, Texas Women of the Arts Award.
Marilynn Donini
Marilynn Donini is
currently Director, External Affairs, Arts at St. Ann's in
DUMBO, Brooklyn. Previously Marilynn was Manager, Contributions at
Altria Group, Inc. where she was very active in pursuing the company's
support to the visual and performing arts, the environment and
education. Donini is also a board member of Art Table and The
Wooster Group.
Fairfax Dorn
Fairfax Dorn was born in San Antonio, Texas and received bachelor’s
degrees in studio art and art history from the University of Texas in
1997 and 1998, respectively. After graduating, she worked at the
Whitney Museum of American Art as development coordinator, and then
moved to Exit Art where she served as membership and exhibit
coordinator from 2000 to 2002. In 2003 she co-founded the Ballroom
Marfa, a non-profit space in Marfa, Texas dedicated to
contemporary art and culture that presents a varied cultural
perspectives explored through the visual arts, music, and film. She now
serves as its Executive Director. Presently, Fairfax Dorn serves on the
boards of the Lacoste School for the Arts
(Savannah College of Art & Design), in Lacoste, France; the Brown
Family Fund, in Houston, Texas; the Advisory Council for the Fine Arts
College at the University of Texas at Austin; and with Lebermann on the
University of Texas McDonald Observatory, in Fort Davis, TX.
Mark L. Epstein
Mark Epstein is currently
a General Partner of Dara Partners LP real estate holdings and
President of Ossa Properties, Inc. Real Estate Management. He is also a
Licensed Real Estate Broker. Epstein is a co-creator of
SomaChrome Inc., a producer of the first temporary tattooing
system. He is a consultant and supporter to the Humpty Dumpty
Institute, which is finding creative means to fund land mine clearance
activities around the globe. Mark serves on the Advisory
Committee for the New York String Orchestra Seminar and the Alexander
Schneider Concerts at the New School. He holds a BFA from the
Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science and Art, where he currently
serves on the board of Trustees, and was a past president of the alumni
association. He was named Alumnus of the year in 2002. Mark is a Licensed
Coast Guard Captain and life member to the United Nations Association,
USA.
Frayda Feldman
Frayda and Ronald Feldman
co-founded Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in 1971 and are currently
co-directors. The gallery has mounted 250 solo and group exhibitions
featuring over 1000 artists from the US, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and
Asia. Frayda and Ronald are active in their ongoing fundraising
efforts for the Democratic Party and related issues. In 1992 they
received the Project VOTE award for raising funds to support the voter
registration drive.
Ronald Feldman
Ronald Feldman is an art
dealer and co-authored The Future of the National Endowment for the
Arts, a transition report for President Clinton in 1993, before he was
appointed by the president to the National Council on the Arts, where
he served for five years. In 1997, he received the Larry Award
from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and in 1991 he was an
adjunct professor of art history at Brown University. Ronald Feldman
currently serves on the boards of Creative Capital Foundation, the Art
Dealers Association of America, People for the American Way Foundation,
and the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia
University. He is currently writing a book that examines the
content of art through the centuries.
Peter F. Frey
Peter Frey lives in Greenwich Village with his wife Carrie Shapiro. He is on the Board of Directors and is the
head of the Finance Committee at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum as well as an involved
president of Exit Art. After receiving a
BA in Economics from Vassar College in 1982, and an MBA from
Wharton in 1984, Peter spent 17 years at JP Morgan as the head of both US Fixed
Income Sales and Global Emerging Market Sales.
Currently Peter is a partner at The Rohatyn Group,
an asset management company that is focused on Emerging Markets investments.
Peter grew up in Austria.
Jeanette Ingberman
Jeanette Ingberman is
the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Exit Art/The First
World. Prior to founding Exit Art in 1982, she was the Curator of
the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a research consultant for the Brooklyn
Museum of Art. She has an M.A. in Art History from Columbia
University and did doctoral work at The Graduate Center of City
University of New York. At Exit Art, she has curated over 100
visual art exhibitions, and overseen the publication of over 30
catalogs, writing introductions or essays for most of them. Her
innovative work with Papo Colo in supporting unique experimental
performance work was recognized with a “Bessie” New York Dance and
Performance Award in 1995, and Exit Art’s 18-year retrospective The End
was named Best Show in an Alternative Space by the International Art
Critics Association in 2000.
Jenette Kahn
Jenette Kahn
is a founding partner of Double Nickel Entertainment, a production
company with a first-look deal at Warner Bros. in both movies and
TV. Double Nickel just completed its first film, The Flock,
starring Richard Gere and Claire Danes. For 26 years prior to forming Double Nickel, Jenette was President and
Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics (home to Superman, Batman and Wonder
Woman) and, later, MAD Magazine as well. She has been honored by the
White House and the State Department for her work on drug awareness,
landmines, and gun control. In addition to Exit Art, Kahn serves on the board of Aaron Davis Hall,
Harlem’s Principal Center for the Performing Arts, and the advisory
council of The W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard, from which she
graduated. Kahn is also a founding member of The Committee of
200, the first national organization of women business leaders.
Her book, In Your Space, was published in 2002.
Eileen Kaminsky
Eileen
Kaminsky, a native New Yorker brought up in Belle Harbor, is the Vice
President of Merchandising Gem Financial Services. She is on the
Foundation Board of Directors for the Friar's Club. A mother of
two, and grandmother of 5 great kids, she is a collector and student of
art and French. Kaminsky graduated from Adelphi University, Suma Cum
Laude.
Jerry Kearns
Jerry Kearns is an American
artist who has extensively exhibited his work in the U.S., Europe,
Asia, Australia, and Cuba. His artwork is in 35 permanent museum
collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum
of American Art in New York. Represented by Modernism in San Francisco,
CA, Kearns received his MFA from the University of California Santa
Barbara and works as a multi-media visual artist. From 1980-85 Kearns
was politically active and collaborated with Lucy Lippard on curating
and writing articles in the Village Voice, Artforum and other
publications about relevant social issues. He received the Rome
Prize for sculpture in 1968-70 and has received numerous grants
including the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation
for the Arts. A well-known artist and active voice in the art
world, he is referenced in many artistic publications, and is part of
the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of
Art.
John Koegel
John Koegel is an attorney
and founder of the law firm The Koegel Group. Since 1982 he has
specialized in “art law”, exclusively representing artists, galleries,
and others involved with visual art in most areas of the law including
litigation. He attended Fordham Law School and initially joined the law
firm of Rogers & Wells. After a two year appointment as counsel to
a National Commission appointed by President Carter in Washington D.C.,
he served as General Counsel and Secretary at the Museum of Modern Art.
Over the years he has been actively involved in the drafting of
legislation affecting the arts, especially including the Visual Artists
Rights Act of 1990 (the federal law of moral rights for artists).
Richard J. Massey, PhD
Richard Massey was President and Chief Operating
Officer of BioVeris Corporation and prior to that IGEN International,
Inc. BioVeris is an integrated healthcare company, based in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, that develops proprietary diagnostics and
vaccines. BioVeris is publicly traded and resulted from the
merger between IGEN International, Inc. and F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Ltd. Massey was a co-founder of IGEN International, Inc. and was
actively involved in business development. He managed the
research and development programs, intellectual property portfolio and
operations at IGEN International, Inc. and BioVeris from1982 to
2004. Prior to IGEN International, Inc., Dr. Massey was on the
faculty of Rush Medical College, Chicago and a Senior Scientist at the
National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research Center.
Massey received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Illinois. He is on the board of directors for BioVeris Corporation
and an ex-officio member of the company’s scientific advisory board. He
has recently established a foundation to support fellowships in the
arts and sciences. Massey is a visiting Professor at Lund University,
Sweden, a member of the board of directors for White Box Gallery in New
York and a committee member for film and media arts at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York. Massey has published numerous scientific articles
related to the study of viruses that cause cancer, host immune
responses to tumors and electrochemiluminescence methods for analytical
measurements. Richard Massey has been awarded over 200 patents.
Edward L. Milstein
Edward
Milstein is co-Chairman of Emigrant Savings Bank as well as co-Chairman
of Milstein Brothers Capital Partners. He is heavily involved in
real estate, banking and venture capital. Mr. Milstein also
serves on the board of directors of the National Crime Prevention
Council and the Citizen’s Crime Commission of New York City.
Leslie Moran
Leslie Moran and her husband Bill divide their time between New
York City and Kent Cliffs, New York. After receiving a B.A. and an
M.B.A. from Columbia University, Leslie devoted her professional career
to marketing research. She owned her own research firm in
NYC for more than 25 years, specializing in large-scale custom
strategic studies for Fortune 500 companies. Now retired, she is a collector and a
student of art.
Amy Newman
Amy
Newman has written extensively on contemporary and modern art.
She is currently writing a biography of Barnett Newman, and her recent
book Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974 received critical
acclaim. She has written numerous articles on art and culture for
The New York Times. She is a collections curator for the Cravath,
Swaine and Moore LLP, and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, law firms. Newman
has taught at the School of the Arts, Columbia University, and was the
managing editor of ARTnews magazine from 1978 to 1983, during which time
ARTnews won: National Magazine Award, General Excellence (1981), George
Polk Award, Cultural Reporting (1981), Silurians Award, Investigative
Reporting (1978). She is on the board of directors for Landmark
West! and serves on the Columbia University Art History and Archaeology
Advisory Council and the Barnard College Arts Advisory Council.
She was an advisor to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts
for Transit on the Broadway and 66th Street subway station, and the
Riverside South Planning Corporation. She holds an M.A. in Art History and Archeology from Columbia
University and an A.B. from Barnard College.
Yigal Ozeri
A native
Israeli, born in Tel Aviv, 1958, Yigal Ozeri is an artist
who has been living in New York since 1990. In September of 2005,
a major retrospective exhibition and accompanying catalogue of his work
was organized by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curated by Moti Omer, the
Chief Curator and Director of the museum. He participated in Exit
Art’s The End 2000, and La Tradicion 1997, and has been represented by the
Mike Weiss Gallery for 5 years. In 2006, there was a
retrospective of his work at the Musee Fleury in Lodeve, South of
France. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the
Albertina Museum in Vienna, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv
Museum. He has exhibited in galleries including Eric Dupont in
Paris, Hieke Curtze in Berlin and Vienna, New Gallery in Houston TX and
Alon Segav in Tel Aviv, Israel. His work has been featured in articles
in Artforum, ArtNews, and Art in America. As an artist, Yigal Ozeri
explores those things closest to him, like his children or the windows
of his studio.
Mary Anne Staniszewski
Mary
Anne Staniszewski, Ph.D., has written about art and culture for a
diverse range of academic, art world, and general interest publications
for twenty-five years. Staniszewski investigates art and culture in
relation to social issues and as a means of promoting progressive
aesthetic, cultural, and political perspectives. Her books include Believing Is Seeing: Creating the
Culture of Art (Penguin, 1995) and The Power of Display: A History of
Exhibitions Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (MIT Press,
1998). She is currently writing a book dealing the myths of the United
States, recent "technological revolutions," and contemporary notions of
race, sex, and life and death. Staniszewski is an Associate
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of the
Arts at Rensselaer.
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