Victoria Anstead: Driving Victoria Anstead’s work in the art world is a passion and dedication to share the power, potential and joy of art – in its most subjective, sublime sense and its financial aspect as well.
For more than twenty years, she has expertly guided collectors through the ever-changing landscape of modern and contemporary art as advisor, educator and curator.
Building on relationships formed over these years with leading galleries, artists, institutions and auction houses around the world, she works with each client to devise a strategy. She then sources, researches and verifies art that achieves these goals, finally negotiating their purchase. Read more…
Fredric M. Bell, FAIA: Rick Bell, FAIA serves as executive director of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Since starting at the AIA in 2001, Rick has raised the profile and involvement of the architectural community in New York on public policy issues, including accessibility, active design guidelines, affordable housing, disaster response and sustainable design. He helped create the AIANY’s storefront Center for Architecture, a place where 1,000 events each year include many educational programs, professional training sessions and topical exhibitions.
Previously, Rick worked in the public sector as Chief Architect (1993-1996) and Assistant Commissioner of Architecture & Engineering at New York City’s public works agency, the Department of Design + Construction (1996-2001) where he supervised a staff of 100 design professionals with responsibility for capital projects ranging from libraries and day care centers to courthouses and police stations. Read more…
Gisue Hariri: Gisue Hariri received her Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Cornell University in 1980. After working with notable architectural firms in New York and San Francisco, she formed her own practice in 1986.
Gisue has devoted time to teaching since 1987, to emphasize the importance of Academic and Philosophical discourse within the context of professional practice. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, a Visiting Critic at Cornell University, Mc Gill and Parsons School of Design.
She has lectured on the work of Hariri & Hariri extensively at variety of institutions and architectural schools, notably Getty Center, Berkeley Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Read more…
Chris Northrup: Fueled by a passion for art, architecture and design, publicist Chris Northrup brings a proven track record of national and international media placements in some of the world’s most prestigious media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, HGTV, Metropolis, Wallpaper* and Surface among others. Chris has successfully conceived and executed programs in consumer and trade media for the art, architecture, design, publishing and real estate industries for such clients as Hariri & Hariri Architecture, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Metropolis Books, Phase Design, Stephen Alton Architect, The Hotel Wales, Alexander Gorlin Architects, Chad Oppenheim Architect, 3form and Tufenkian Carpets among others. He has also worked on projects with such world-class architects as Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Matteo Thun and others. Read more…
Charles Renfro: Charles Renfro is a practicing architect and has been based in New York City since 1989. Renfro was an associate at Smith-Miller+Hawkinson Architects and Ralph Appelbaum Associates. He was also a founding partner of the Department of Design before joining Diller + Scofidio in 1997. The studio was renamed Diller Scofidio + Renfro after he became partner in 2004. He has served as Project Leader on Brasserie, Eyebeam, the BAM master plan (with Rem Koolhaas/OMA), Blur, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, Renfro has served as a Design Principal for the redesign and expansion of The Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall, Public Spaces at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, High Line, and the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janiero, among other projects. Read more…
David van der Leer: David van der Leer joined the Guggenheim in October 2008 and has worked on the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Prior to the Guggenheim, Van der Leer held editorial and curatorial positions at 010 Publishers in Rotterdam; the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), in Rotterdam; and Steven Holl Architects in New York. He has lectured internationally on architectural theory and is a regular contributor to publications such as Domus, Bomb, Mark, The Architect’s Newspaper, Azure, and PIN-UP. He received his master’s in Urban and Architectural Theory from the Department of Art and Cultural Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Lorna Simpson: Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. When Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. Feeling a strong need to re-examine and re-define photographic practice for contemporary relevance, Simpson was producing work that engaged the conceptual vocabulary of the time by creating exquisitely crafted documents that are as clean and spare as the closed, cyclic systems of meaning they produce. Her initial body of work alone helped to incite a significant shift in the view of the photographic art’s transience and malleability. Read more…
Victoria Anstead continued:
As acquisition is just the beginning, Anstead advises clients on matters including collection management, conservation, insurance and exhibition as well as estate and philanthropic issues.
Over the years she has guided the acquisition of master works but just as frequently has introduced clients to emerging artists in all media, many of whom have gone on to significant acclaim and value.
Anstead brings the role of art advisor professional experience in international banking and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She attained LEED-AP from the US Green Building Council in 2009.
Previously, Rick worked in the public sector as Chief Architect (1993-1996) and Assistant Commissioner of Architecture & Engineering at New York City’s public works agency, the Department of Design + Construction (1996-2001) where he supervised a staff of 100 design professionals with responsibility for capital projects ranging from libraries and day care centers to courthouses and police stations. Rick has also worked in the private sector in New York City, France and Switzerland and was a design partner at WBTL Architects & Planners (1979-1993), responsible for the design of schools and libraries.
A registered architect in New York, New Jersey and California, Rick was became a Fellow of the AIA in 2000 for his work in public facility design. He was president of the AIA’s staff association, CACE in 2008 and served on the AIA National Board (2008 and 2009) and Executive Committee (2009). He holds degrees from Yale College (1973) and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (1976) and has received numerous awards for civic activities and design. A frequent speaker on architecture and planning issues, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, the Institute for Urban Design and the Forum for Urban Design.
Hariri & Hariri was established in 1986 by Iranian-born Cornell-educated sisters Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri; this New York-based firm is one of the most progressive American firms of their generation. For nearly 25 years, they have imbued conceptual, residential, commercial and institutional projects with their own unique brand of sensual modernism. In 2010 the firm was included in the prestigious Architectural Digest ʻAD100,ʼ and selected for inclusion in the Guggenheimʼs ʻContemplating the Voidʼ exhibition, a celebration of Frank Lloyd Wrightʼs landmark museumʼs 50th Anniversary. They have been honored with numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture and inducted into Interior Design Magazineʼs ʻHall of Fameʼ in 2006. The firmʼs designs have also been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide including the ʻUnprivate Houseʼ exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The US National Building Museum.
He formerly worked in public relations at two of New York’s most noted design and consumer public relations firms prior to starting his own practice.
Prior to working in public relations, his past experience includes fundraising, external affairs, marketing and events planning for some of New York’s most prestigious arts institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the World Monuments Fund, the Municipal Art Society and as founding Coordinator of the Paul Rudolph Foundation. Educated in art and architectural history, he began his career in New York as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s prestigious summer intern program in the Department of Drawings assisting on Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974 (1999). Chris has a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University and studied twice in London including a grant from the Victorian Society of America for intensive study of English 19th Century architecture, design and landscapes. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and speaks fluent German.
DS+R has been awarded the AIA Presidents Award, the AIA Medal of Honor, and the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Renfro’s work with DS+R has been exhibited worldwide at many museums and institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Centre Pompidou. Prior to joining DS+R, his independent art and architectural work has been exhibited in several galleries nationwide including the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. In 2009, Renfro joined the board for the Storefront for Art and Architecture. His writing has been published in Bomb and A+U magazine. In 2009, he authored the essay, “Undesigning the New Art School” for Steven Henry Madoff’s book Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century). He lectures frequently both in the United States and abroad. Renfro is a graduate of Rice University and holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s GSAPP. He has been on the faculty of Columbia since 2000 and was the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University in 2006. Since 2009, Renfro has served as Visiting Scholar at the Friends Seminary and Visiting Professor at Parsons New School for Design in the School of Constructed Environments.
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Miami Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany. She has been the subject of numerous articles, catalogue essays, and a monograph published by Phaidon Press. Simpson’s first mid-career survey was exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Miami Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Gibbes Museum in South Carolina. Of late, she had a solo exhibition at Salon94, New York, in 2008 and a solo exhibition at Obadia Galerie, Paris, in 2009. In 2010, she is the recipient of the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award in Art.
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For more than twenty years, she has expertly guided collectors through the ever-changing landscape of modern and contemporary art as advisor, educator and curator.
Building on relationships formed over these years with leading galleries, artists, institutions and auction houses around the world, she works with each client to devise a strategy. She then sources, researches and verifies art that achieves these goals, finally negotiating their purchase. Read more…
Previously, Rick worked in the public sector as Chief Architect (1993-1996) and Assistant Commissioner of Architecture & Engineering at New York City’s public works agency, the Department of Design + Construction (1996-2001) where he supervised a staff of 100 design professionals with responsibility for capital projects ranging from libraries and day care centers to courthouses and police stations. Read more…
Gisue has devoted time to teaching since 1987, to emphasize the importance of Academic and Philosophical discourse within the context of professional practice. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, a Visiting Critic at Cornell University, Mc Gill and Parsons School of Design.
She has lectured on the work of Hariri & Hariri extensively at variety of institutions and architectural schools, notably Getty Center, Berkeley Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Read more…
Victoria Anstead continued:
As acquisition is just the beginning, Anstead advises clients on matters including collection management, conservation, insurance and exhibition as well as estate and philanthropic issues.
Over the years she has guided the acquisition of master works but just as frequently has introduced clients to emerging artists in all media, many of whom have gone on to significant acclaim and value.
Anstead brings the role of art advisor professional experience in international banking and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She attained LEED-AP from the US Green Building Council in 2009.
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Fredric M. Bell, FAIA continued:
Previously, Rick worked in the public sector as Chief Architect (1993-1996) and Assistant Commissioner of Architecture & Engineering at New York City’s public works agency, the Department of Design + Construction (1996-2001) where he supervised a staff of 100 design professionals with responsibility for capital projects ranging from libraries and day care centers to courthouses and police stations. Rick has also worked in the private sector in New York City, France and Switzerland and was a design partner at WBTL Architects & Planners (1979-1993), responsible for the design of schools and libraries.
A registered architect in New York, New Jersey and California, Rick was became a Fellow of the AIA in 2000 for his work in public facility design. He was president of the AIA’s staff association, CACE in 2008 and served on the AIA National Board (2008 and 2009) and Executive Committee (2009). He holds degrees from Yale College (1973) and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (1976) and has received numerous awards for civic activities and design. A frequent speaker on architecture and planning issues, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, the Institute for Urban Design and the Forum for Urban Design.
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Gisue Hariri continued:
Hariri & Hariri was established in 1986 by Iranian-born Cornell-educated sisters Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri; this New York-based firm is one of the most progressive American firms of their generation. For nearly 25 years, they have imbued conceptual, residential, commercial and institutional projects with their own unique brand of sensual modernism. In 2010 the firm was included in the prestigious Architectural Digest ʻAD100,ʼ and selected for inclusion in the Guggenheimʼs ʻContemplating the Voidʼ exhibition, a celebration of Frank Lloyd Wrightʼs landmark museumʼs 50th Anniversary. They have been honored with numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award for Architecture and inducted into Interior Design Magazineʼs ʻHall of Fameʼ in 2006. The firmʼs designs have also been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide including the ʻUnprivate Houseʼ exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The US National Building Museum.
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Chris Northrup continued:
He formerly worked in public relations at two of New York’s most noted design and consumer public relations firms prior to starting his own practice.
Prior to working in public relations, his past experience includes fundraising, external affairs, marketing and events planning for some of New York’s most prestigious arts institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the World Monuments Fund, the Municipal Art Society and as founding Coordinator of the Paul Rudolph Foundation. Educated in art and architectural history, he began his career in New York as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s prestigious summer intern program in the Department of Drawings assisting on Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974 (1999). Chris has a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University and studied twice in London including a grant from the Victorian Society of America for intensive study of English 19th Century architecture, design and landscapes. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe and speaks fluent German.
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Charles Renfro continued:
DS+R has been awarded the AIA Presidents Award, the AIA Medal of Honor, and the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Renfro’s work with DS+R has been exhibited worldwide at many museums and institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Centre Pompidou. Prior to joining DS+R, his independent art and architectural work has been exhibited in several galleries nationwide including the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. In 2009, Renfro joined the board for the Storefront for Art and Architecture. His writing has been published in Bomb and A+U magazine. In 2009, he authored the essay, “Undesigning the New Art School” for Steven Henry Madoff’s book Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century). He lectures frequently both in the United States and abroad. Renfro is a graduate of Rice University and holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s GSAPP. He has been on the faculty of Columbia since 2000 and was the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University in 2006. Since 2009, Renfro has served as Visiting Scholar at the Friends Seminary and Visiting Professor at Parsons New School for Design in the School of Constructed Environments.
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Lorna Simpson continued:
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Miami Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany. She has been the subject of numerous articles, catalogue essays, and a monograph published by Phaidon Press. Simpson’s first mid-career survey was exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Miami Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Gibbes Museum in South Carolina. Of late, she had a solo exhibition at Salon94, New York, in 2008 and a solo exhibition at Obadia Galerie, Paris, in 2009. In 2010, she is the recipient of the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award in Art.
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