Carmen Cicero Panel Discussion at NYSS
Carmen Cicero Panel Discussion will be held at the New York Studio School on March 11, featuring Annette Blaugrund, David Ebony, Ken Johnson, and Jim Metcalf.
Annette Blaugrund, independent scholar, author and curator, was director of the National Academy of Design Museum for 11 years and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from them and a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University, has written sixteen books about American art, and two months ago co-curated an exhibition at Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery.
David Ebony is a writer, editor and curator based in New York. He has had a long association with Art in America, the magazine’s former managing editor, now a contributing editor. He is currently editor of Snapshot of the Art World for SNAP Editions, and the author of David Ebony + Art Books, a column for Yale University Press online. He is a contributor to artnet News, The Magazine Antiques, The Brooklyn Rail, and Upstate Diary, among other publications. A long-standing member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), he is a former board member of the organization. Ebony is the author of numerous artist monographs, including Stephen Antonakos: Neon and Geometry (2023, Rizzoli), Larry Poons (2023, Abbeville Press); and Carmen Cicero: Drawings and Watercolors (Abbeville Press, 2024).
Ken Johnson wrote art reviews regularly for the New York Times from 1997 to 2016. From 2006 to 2007 he was chief art critic for theBoston Globe. In 2011, his book Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art was published by Prestel Books.
Jim Metcalf was introduced to Cicero’s work in the late ‘70’s when his dad started taking art classes at Montclair State College taught by Cicero. It wasn’t long before his father acquired his first Cicero watercolor, which blew him away and began his lifelong adventure of collecting his work. His relationship with Cicero and Mary Abell has grown over the past few years as the artist approaches 100. He’s made annual trips to Provincetown and his Bowery studio to spend quality time together. His family collection has grown to 26 original pieces of Cicero’s work in all media. Metcalf, with a career in the oil and gas industry, resides along the Gulf Coast, primarily Houston, Texas.
Photo courtesy of the New York Studio School.
Article on New York Studio School website.
