A Conversation on Richard Pousette-Dart

Charles H. Duncan

Charles H. Duncan is Executive Director of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation. He curated the first museum exhibition and wrote the definitive catalogue on Pousette-Dart’s photography. He contributes frequently to publications including The Brooklyn Rail.

Jeffrey Katzin

Jeffrey Katzin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and Curatorial Fellow at the Akron Art Museum. From Cleveland, Ohio, he specializes in the modern and contemporary art of the United States, with his research ranging from painting, to photography, film, and video art. Jeffrey has received a certificate in Art Museum Studies from Smith College, a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MA from the University of Texas at Austin. Through his current dissertation work at Penn, he is exploring the history and potential of abstract photography, with particular focus on Alvin Langdon Coburn’s Vortographs of 1916–17. For Pace, he contributed the catalogue essay for Noland: Flares earlier this year.

Joanna Pousette-Dart

Joanna Pousette-Dart was born in New York. She graduated from Bennington College, in Vermont, in 1968 and has since lived and worked in New York with blocks of time spent in New Mexico. She was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, a National Endowment of the Arts Grant in 1989, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 2017.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Wiesbaden Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany; Lisson Gallery in New York and London; Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, PA ; Texas Gallery, Houston, TX;  Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY ; and Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY. as well as a three-person exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York, NY.

Pousette-Dart’s work was featured in a three- person exhibition at PS1 Moma, New York, NY, as well as group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world. Her work is held in numerous public collections such as the Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany.