Jan 27, 2014
This week: From OxBow, Duncan along with with Abigail Satinsky and Elizabeth Chodos sit down for a chat with Hese McGraw, Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Programs at San Francisco Art Institute.
Here is an outdated bio from his website:
Hesse McGraw is a curator, writer and artist working as curator at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
He was the founding director and curator of Paragraph, a
contemporary art gallery operating under the non-profit Urban
Culture Project in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. He is the former
assistant director of Max Protetch gallery in New York, City and
former senior editor of Review, a Kansas City-based visual
culture magazine. He has served as a lecturer in the
Interdisciplinary department of the Kansas City Art Institute and
frequently serves as a guest lecturer, critic and juror for fine
art and architecture schools and organizations throughout the
US.
Alongside producing two dozens exhibits and projects over three
years at Paragraph, he has curated exhibitions for FLEX Self
Storage (Topeka, Kansas), The New Genres Festival (Tulsa), The
Stray Show (Chicago), Guild and Greyshkul (NYC), -scopeMiami, RARE
(NYC), Rocket gallery (London) and White Flag Projects (St.
Louis).
He regularly contributes to publications including Art
Papers, Dots & Quotes, Empty magazine, The Kansas City Star, RES,
Review, Tank, Ten by Ten. He has written exhibition essays for
artists including Ryoji Ikeda, Tobias Wong, Steve Mumford, Eric von
Robertson and many others.
His artwork incorporates photography, video, sound and text into
site-specific installations and published works. The work
experientially engages cultural information systems to amplify
loaded micro-histories with the intent to create new networks of
meaning. The work aims to construct democratic viewing scenarios
that offer viewers a bit of personal space within the context of
the general world. His work has been shown in venues
internationally and in a solo exhibition at RARE, NYC.