Guest editorial contributor Noah Simblist is an artist, writer and Assistant Professor of Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His work explores iconography that deals with the political role of the artist, the concept of forgiveness, Christian Zionism and the idea of home in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His recent projects include a collaboration with Charissa N. Terranova on Collecting and Collectivity, a series of lectures, panel discussions and exhibitions that question the relationship between radicality and the market in the contemporary avant-garde. Simblist is the recipient of the 2007 Moss-Chumley Award for the Visual Arts.
Guest editorial contributor Michelle White is Assistant Curator at the Menil Collection where she co-curated the fall exhibition Lessons from Below: Otabenga Jones & Associates. White is a frequent contributor to Art Papers and the Houston-area regional editor of Art Lies.
Julie Ault is an artist whose work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics. She is the editor of Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (University of Minnesota Press, 2003). In 1979, Ault co-founded the NYC-based collaborative Group Material, active from 1976 to 1996.
Martin Beck is a New York-based artist whose work engages questions of authorship, historicity and display and often draws from the fields of architecture, design and popular culture. Ault and Beck have collaborated on projects, including Social Landscape at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, and Outdoor Systems, Indoor Distribution at the NGBK in Berlin. They are the authors of Critical Condition: Selected Texts in Dialogue (Essen: Kokerei Zollverein | Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kritik, 2003).
Critic and art historian Frances Colpitt holds the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. A corresponding editor for Art in America, where her articles and reviews appear regularly, she also contributes to Los Angeles-based artUS. Colpitt is the author of Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective (University of Washington Press, 1993) and Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and is currently at work on a book on hard-edge abstraction in Southern California. ether, her collaborative project with Fort Worth-based artist Terri Thornton, will be on display at testsite in Austin in January 2008.
In addition to their individual practices, artists William Cordova and Leslie Hewitt have been collaborating as BASE since 2002 to producing projects with other artists, designers, filmmakers and cultural activists. Hewitt is currently in an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Amy Dickson is an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, London, where she was co-curator of the exhibition Media Burn and curator of New Report Live, a collaborative performance by Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy.
Anjali Gupta is a critic, editor and video producer based in San Antonio. She is the editor of Art Lies and currently a guest lecturer in the graduate program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals including tema celeste, Art Papers, Art Asia Pacific, artUS and Public Art Review.
Jason Hill is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Southern California. This is his second contribution to Art Lies.
Sara Hines writes on art and culture from the frontier of Southeast Brooklyn. She is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary Masters in Humanities and Social Thought in New York University’s Draper Program.
Houston-based collective Otabenga Jones & Associates is comprised of artists Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Jamal Cyrus, Kenya Evans, Robert A. Pruitt and Otabenga Jones. The group was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and their exhibition Lessons from Below is currently on view at The Menil Collection, Houston.
Toby Kamps is Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Tony Matelli is an artist based in New York and represented by Leo Koenig Inc. Matelli has also exhibited at Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris; Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna; Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; P.S.1 and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Aram Moshayedi is the assistant curator for LA> Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer and founding member of the artist collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution and REPOhistory, as well as co-editor of The Interventionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (Mass MoCA/MIT Press, 2004) with Nato Thompson, and Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 with Blake Stimson (University of Minnesota, 2007). He is currently working on a book about his concept of “creative dark matter” for Pluto Press, London.
Charissa N. Terranova is Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies and Director of CENTRAL TRACK: The UT Dallas Artists Residency at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Terri Thornton is an artist based in Fort Worth. She splits her time between tending to the responsibilities of her position as Curator of Education at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and pursuing her career as an artist. ether, her collaborative project with art historian and critic Frances Colpitt, will be on display at testsite in Austin in January 2008.
Gilbert Vicario, curator in the department of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was the U.S. commissioner for the 10th International Cairo Biennale in 2006 and is a curatorial player for the 2007 Biennale de Lyon, 00s - The History of a Decade That Has Not Been Named.