Saul Ostrow is a critic and curator and Art Editor at Lodge, Bomb Magazine. Since 1987, he has curated over 70 exhibitions in the US and abroad. He is presently working on two projects for Fall 2012, The Gravity of Sculpture (White Box and Dorsky Projects) and The Lure of Paris, American Abstract Painters in Paris 1950-1960 (Loretta Howard Gallery.) His writings have appeared in numerous art magazines, journals, catalogues, and books in the USA and Europe. His most recent catalogues have been An Account of the Absurd, and Traumatic Details of Balázs Kicsiny’s Installation: Killing Time, Kemper Museum, St. Louis, MO. and To Scale: The sculptures of Mia Westerland-Roosen, Betty Cunningham Gallery NYC. He and the artist, Charles Tucker have collaborated since 2008, on a project in which they seek to construct a quantifiable “systems-network” by which to analyze artworks. Currently he is Chair of Visual Arts and Technologies at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and serves on the board of directors of the College Art Association. He has also been 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, London.
2012 CRITIC EMERITUS
Denise Carvalho, Ph.D.
Dr. Denise Carvalho (Art Omi Critic in Residence 2000) is an art critic, independent curator, and cultural scholar. Her latest accomplishments include several exhibitions in Eastern Europe and in the US focusing on the dialogue with Eastern European contemporary art. She has also curated exhibitions at Smack Mellon, Dumbo Arts Center, Westport Arts Center, Momenta Art, White Box, and the Chelsea Museum. Her upcoming exhibitions include the 3rd Mediations Biennale in Poland in 2012, where she is the main curator of the Americas, and an international selection from the biennial at the Gyeonggi Museum of Art in Korea in 2013. As an art critic, she has published hundreds of essays to several important magazines and journals, including Flash Art, Sculpture, Art Nexus, Art in America, Journal of Art and Society, Springerin, Umelek, and others. Since 2008, she has been teaching at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
