The Essential New Art Examiner

Biographies

Biographies Founding Editors Jane Addams Allen (1935–2004) was an art critic and co-founder of the New Art Examiner. She wrote art criticism for the newspapers Chicago Tribune and The Washington Times in addition to publications such as Art in America, American Craft, Insight, and Studio International. Allen received two art critic’s grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Renwick Fellowship from the Smithsonian, a Manufacturers Hanover award for excellence in art criticism, and a Chicago Art Award for investigative reporting. Derek Guthrie is an artist, art critic, and co-founder of the New Art Examiner. From 1971–73, Guthrie wrote art criticism for the Chicago Tribune. He and his wife, Jane Addams Allen, co-founded The New Art Examiner to create an alternative voice in Chicago with a national view of the art world. As a result, the magazine nurtured and brought to view a new generation of art critics, including Eleanor Heartney, Jerry Saltz, Robert Storr, Grant Kester, Suzi Gablik, Howard Risatti and Alice Thorson. He is currently an Editor-at-Large for Proof magazine. Contributors María José Barandiarán was born in Argentina and grew up in Chile and the U.S., where she studied art and printmaking at the Corcoran School of Art (BFA), Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA), and Il Bisonte, in Florence, Italy. She moved to Chicago in 1992, and while interning at the New Art Examiner, she was given the opportunity to write art reviews. She truly enjoyed writing. Since then, she moved back to Chile, where she runs a small bakery and coffee shop, enjoys her art collection and reads a lot. Steven C. Dubin is Professor of Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University and a Research Affiliate of the Columbia Institute of African Studies. He has written extensively on controversial 326   B I O G R A P H I E S art, censorship, museums, and the art and politics of South Africa. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and has been a visiting professor in Israel, Iceland, and South Africa. He is the author of five books, including Arresting Images (Routledge, 1992), Displays of Power (New York University Press, 1999), and Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and his writing appears regularly in Art in America, Art South Africa, and African Arts. Jan Estep [www.janestep.com] has an expanded creative practice that comprises critical writing, creative writing, and a range of visual media including sculpture, photography, video, and independent publishing. In her writing and art projects she is concerned with the relationship between art and language and the ways humans connect to social and natural environments through images and words. Estep exhibits nationally and internationally and her critical writing has been published in Bomb, Afterall, Frieze, Modern Painters, InterReview, Rain Taxi, and New Art Examiner. She has been awarded a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation NY Artist Residency, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Research Grant, a research commission from Breaking Ground, Ireland, and in 2008-2009 Estep was the inaugural arts practitioner/writer fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. In December 2009 she was awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for short-form writing. Estep is currently Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Joanna Frueh is a writer, a performance artist, and a scholar whose work expands into photo, video, and audio pieces. Her most recent book is Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces, 1979–2004 (Duke University Press, 2008). She is Professor of Art History Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno. Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include: The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (Paradigm, 2007); Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); Politics Beyond Hope: Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race and Democracy (Paradigm, 2010); and Hearts of Darkness : Torturing Children in the War on Terror (Paradigm, 2010). B I O G R A P H I E S    327 Michelle Grabner is an artist and writer. She is a Professor and Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute. Grabner is the co-founder and director of The Suburban, an...