From the Associates Point of View

Who are the Associates?

Katharine T. Carter, President & CEO of Katharine T. Carter & Associates, is pleased to offer the services of her Associates, a unique group of accomplished individuals with extensive experience in the art world.  The Associates, whose ranks include critics, curators, designers, and consultants, bring great expertise to all facets of the Company’s art services, including career consultation, art writing, criticism, media relations, national marketing programs, and comprehensive public relations.

William Zimmer, was an art critic who achieved international status through his catalog essays, which were published by museums all over the world. He retired as contributing critic to The New York Times after more than 20 years. His career began with ARTS Magazine in 1975; in 1977 he was hired by The Soho Weekly News, a paper published in Lower Manhattan. By virtue of the paper’s location in the burgeoning Soho district, Zimmer was the first critic to review Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Keith Haring and many other artists who became major art world figures of the 1980s. Zimmer’s catalogue texts include essays on Donald Sultan, Brice Marden, Catherine Lee, Benny Andrews and Richard Bosman, to mention only a few. His generosity to up-and-coming artists was legendary, and in his lifetime he wrote hundreds of essays for emerging and mid-career artists. Zimmer passed away in September of 2007, and the Zimmer Prize in Art Criticism was established that same year by Larry Powell Management and Katharine T. Carter & Associates. www.zimmerprize.org

Richard Vine is the managing editor of Art in America.  He has taught at such institutions as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Conservatory of Music and New York University, and has served as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review and of Dialogue: An Art Journal.  His articles on art, literature, and intellectual history have appeared in numerous journals, including Salmagundi, Modern Poetry Studies, and the New Criterion.  He is author of Odd Nedrum: Paintings, Sketches, and Drawings, published by Gyldendal/D.A.P. in 2001.

Jonathan Goodman is an art writer and editor who has published extensively on modern and contemporary art for such publications as Art in America, Sculpture, Art Asia Pacific, and Art on Paper.  He has written extensively on Asian art for several publications, and has written exhibition catalogues for art venues throughout the world.

Dominique Nahas is a critic and independent curator based in Manhattan. A newly elected member of the board of AICA-USA (Association International des Critiques d'Art), Mr. Nahas has written for Flash Art, Review, Paris Photo, Sculpture, Art on Paper, Handmade Paper Magazine, dArt International, and Trans, among numerous other magazines, and is a regular contributor to Art in America and Art Asia Pacific. Currently the Interim Director of the Hoffberger Graduate School at Maryland Institute College of Art, Nahas  is the  former director  of the Neuberger Museum and former  museum curator at Everson Museum and has curated many shows nationally and internationally, and serves as an advisor to many arts organizations.   He served as Associate Curator at the Palm Beach ICA between 2001 and 2004. Exhibitions include:  BROOKLYN! for PBICA (2001) and JAPAN:RISING for PBICA 2003. Dominique Nahas is concurrently a regular faculty member of Pratt Institute and The New York Studio Program where he teaches critical theory.  Additionally, he is the 2005-6 Critic-in-Residence at Montclair State University. His monographic study on the work of Monica Castillo, published by the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico City, appeared in 2004.  His most recent publication, a survey of the work of Merle Temkin (Telos Press), appears in the summer of 2005. He is currently organizing a Miriam Beerman retrospective (opening in late 2006) for the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art.

Peter Frank is Senior Curator at the Riverside (CA) Art Museum and art critic for Angeleno magazine and the L.A. Weekly. In New York he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News and he is the former editor of Visions Art Quarterly. Frank has organized and assisted with numerous theme and survey exhibitions for such prestigious institutions and organizations as the Guggenheim Museum, Independent Curators Inc., The Alternative Museum, and Artists’ Space in New York; the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid; Documenta in Kassel, Germany; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary ARt, and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He has published numerous books and catalogues, the latest a monograph on the painter Robert De Niro, Sr.

Kathleen Cullen Kathleen Cullen is a curator, art dealer, consultant and the founder of Artek contemporaries and Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts.  With an extensive background in studio arts and art history, Ms. Cullen has worked within the New York fine arts community for two decades. As the Vice President of Sales for Eyestorm Gallery and contemporary specialist for Artnet auction sales, Ms. Cullen has developed a keen eye for the pieces that sell, the artists that last, and the trends that influence the broader art marketplace. By working directly with emerging artists, Mrs. Cullen stays close to the pulse of today’s fast evolving art world, while still maintaining a special appreciation for art history. As a gallery curator and exhibit organizer Mrs. Cullen has developed a deep understanding of what drives both the artists as well as the art buyers, enabling her to better help collectors not only identify good pieces but also good artists who offer the potential to grow in their stature and reputation. In this way each client’s decision to purchase art and build a collection becomes a highly personal process that results not only in art that appreciates, but also in a greater appreciation of art.

Robert Curcio is a private dealer, an advisor to collectors and co-founder and producer of the Scope Art Fair, Inc.  Scope is an international contemporary art fair which was launched in New York City, 2002.  Curcio has been an arts professional in New York City since the early 1990s, during which time he has been the owner of a contemporary gallery (Curcio/Spector), director of a non-profit arts organization (Ward-Nasse Gallery), independent curator and dealer and writer.  Many of the artists he represented have been included in exhibitions at Artist’s Space, Art Resources Transfer, Art in General, New Museum, OK Harris, Robert Miller and Thockmorton Fine Art.

Robert Mahoney has been an art writer in New York for over fifteen years, writing for such publications as ARTS  (1985-92) FLASH ART (1988-94) Contemporanea, Tema Celeste and Cover magazines. He currently writes for TIME OUT New York (since 1995), Artnet.com (since 1996), and contributes to edificerex.com and d'ART International.  Mahoney is also the author of numerous catalog essays on contemporary artists, his writing having been presented in conjunction with exhibitions around the world. From 1994-99 Mahoney served as public information officer at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York City, where he brought high-profile coverage to exhibitions of contemporary art.

John Mendelsohn is a painter who has written articles and reviews on contemporary art for Cover Magazine, ArtNet Magazine, and The Jewish Week, as well as essays for exhibition catalogues. He teaches in the Studio Art Program at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He has contributed to the forthcoming book, A Book of Images: Reflections on Symbols, to be published by the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism at the C.G. Jung Institute, New York.

D. Dominick Lombardi, as an independent curator, has placed shows in a variety of galleries and museums such as The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (SICA), Long Branch, NJ, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY and the Choate Gallery, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY. He has written over 200 features and art criticisms that have been published in The New York Times, Sculpture, Sculpture Review, d’ART (US editor), Art Papers, Art Lies, ARTnews, Art New England, NYARTS magazine and others. He is a member of (AICA) International Association of Art Critics.  Lombardi's lectures on art and related topics have been given at a number of institutions such as Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT, SICA (The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts), Long Branch, NJ, Branchville Gallery, Branchville, CT, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT, Broadway Gallery, NY, SUNY Stonybrook, NY, Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, TX, 2003. His most recent lecture was titled “The Meaning of Success”, which was given at the university of Texas at  San Antonio.

Karen Chambers has been a free-lance curator, editor, and writer for such notable publications as American Ceramics, Art in America, American Craft and Glass. Ms. Chambers served as the editor of New Work, now Glass magazine, and executive editor for Craft International.  She has held various museum staff positions and her New York experience includes work at Sperone Westwater Fischer, Droll/Kolbert, and the Susan Caldwell Gallery.  In addition to these posts, Ms. Chambers has also organized exhibitions for the Morris Museum, Tampa Museum of Art and the United States Information Agency.

Deborah Ripley has been an acknowledged print expert for 20 years. She is a print dealer in New York and contributes articles to Art on Paper, a leading journal on print collecting and connoisseurship. In 1999 she was the Director of online print auctions at Artnet.com. Previously she worked in the Print Department at Christie’s auction house and is currently with I. Brewster & Co. in Philadelphia.

Mary Hrbacek has been writing about art in New York City since the late nineties. She has had more than one hundred reviews published in The New York Art World, and has written for NY Arts Magazine. Her commentary spans a broad spectrum of art, from the contemporary cutting-edge to the Old Masters. She has covered exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art as well the Armory Show, the Affordable Art Fair, and two consecutive Venice Biennials.

Iyna Bort Caruso is a widely published freelance writer and marketing specialist. Her articles have appeared nationally in dozens of consumer, custom and trade publications.  Credits include The New York Times, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor, American History, AmericanStyle and more.  With a background in art history, she has written about such topics as self-promotion strategies for artists, city art tours, profiles and art trends.  She is also a veteran copywriter with more than 20 years of experience. Caruso’s developed and managed award-winning campaigns for high profile firms and helped individuals elevate their personal brands.

Bill Mutter has been a graphic designer and partner in the award-winning New York City based design group of James Orlandi and Associates, Inc. for over 20 years, serving such clients at MasterCard International, Texaco, Inc., Coopers & Lybrand, IBM, Manufacturers Hanover, The Queens Museum of Art, and Hilton International.

Alison Slon is an Art Director for interactive media and web design. She has designed and produced sites for both artists and corporate clients and has recently completed the redesign of KTCassoc.com. She was an Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, in the department of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media and has an MA from New York Institute of Technology in Communications and Computer Graphics. Her clients include: The Lego Company, Citigroup Smith Barney, JWT, C2 Creative, HBO.com, CBS.com, Time Warner, Condé Nast Publications and Scholastic.

Anne Leith is a partner with Max Allart in AllartStudio, a video production firm based in New York and Weston, VT. Leith is a proficient video editor and interviewer, as well as an art historian and published art critic. She has worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, and was instrumental in the development of the Duetsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin.