By "contemporary visual art," we mean visual art made since World War II. Projects on post-WWII work in adjacent fields—architecture, design, film, theater/performance, sound, etc.—will only be considered if they directly and significantly engage the discourses and concerns of contemporary visual art. Projects with a pre-WWII component will only be considered if the project’s main focus is contemporary.
About
Margaret Sundell, Consulting Director
Margaret Sundell is an editor, critic, and art historian. A former art editor of Time Out New York and co-founder of Documents Magazine, her work has appeared regularly in these publications as well as in Art Journal, Art Nexus, and Artforum, to which she is a frequent contributor. Sundell holds a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has taught art history and critical theory at Columbia University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Parsons New School of Design. She currently serves as caa.reviews field editor for modern and contemporary exhibition reviews (New York and International) and is completing a book-length study of Man Ray's photography entitled Man Ray's Ambivalent Avant-Garde.
Pradeep Dalal, Director of Grants and Services
Pradeep Dalal is an artist and writer. His work was recently included in exhibits at the Herter Art Gallery in Amherst and at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark. He has exhibited at the New York Public Library, Orchard, and ps122 Gallery, and at TART in San Francisco and the Miami-Dade Public Library. Dalal's reviews and interviews have been published in ARTWURL, TeachingPhoto.com, Village Voice, and EGO Magazine. He is a recipient of Tierney Fellowship, and has an MFA from ICP/Bard College and a M.Arch from MIT. He is also on the faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Julie Evanoff, Information and Technical Services Manager
Julie Evanoff is a Brooklyn based artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking and video animation. Her exhibitions include: The Gallery at The Art Institute of Tucson, Julie Evanoff: in between; The Invisible Dog Art Center, If you see nothing say something, Brooklyn, NY; Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stories real and vividly imagined, Stockholm, Sweden; Hallways, Brooklyn, NY. Her animations screened in video festivals: 2k5 Video Festival; City Without Walls, Juried Video Festival. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She was awarded the Geraldine Dodge Grant from The Women’s Studio Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. She received the Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award from Rutgers University.
Kareem Estefan, Program Assistant
Kareem Estefan is a poet and critic who lives in Brooklyn. His immediate family comes from Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Baghdad, but among these cities he has only visited Beirut; when prompted by personal or political circumstance, he imagines the figs, families, old souks, and new walls in the others. He began writing as a music reviewer and later sculpted words into speculative poems and essays about the Internet, noise, unknown places, and performative identities. Before coming to the Arts Writers Grant Program, he interviewed conceptual poets on a WNYU radio program, Ceptuetics, and produced talk shows for National Public Radio. He especially likes to dance.
Margaret Sundell is an editor, critic, and art historian. A former art editor of Time Out New York and co-founder of Documents Magazine, her work has appeared regularly in these publications as well as in Art Journal, Art Nexus, and Artforum, to which she is a frequent contributor. Sundell holds a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has taught art history and critical theory at Columbia University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Parsons New School of Design. She currently serves as caa.reviews field editor for modern and contemporary exhibition reviews (New York and International) and is completing a book-length study of Man Ray's photography entitled Man Ray's Ambivalent Avant-Garde.
Pradeep Dalal, Director of Grants and Services
Pradeep Dalal is an artist and writer. His work was recently included in exhibits at the Herter Art Gallery in Amherst and at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark. He has exhibited at the New York Public Library, Orchard, and ps122 Gallery, and at TART in San Francisco and the Miami-Dade Public Library. Dalal's reviews and interviews have been published in ARTWURL, TeachingPhoto.com, Village Voice, and EGO Magazine. He is a recipient of Tierney Fellowship, and has an MFA from ICP/Bard College and a M.Arch from MIT. He is also on the faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Julie Evanoff, Information and Technical Services Manager
Julie Evanoff is a Brooklyn based artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking and video animation. Her exhibitions include: The Gallery at The Art Institute of Tucson, Julie Evanoff: in between; The Invisible Dog Art Center, If you see nothing say something, Brooklyn, NY; Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stories real and vividly imagined, Stockholm, Sweden; Hallways, Brooklyn, NY. Her animations screened in video festivals: 2k5 Video Festival; City Without Walls, Juried Video Festival. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She was awarded the Geraldine Dodge Grant from The Women’s Studio Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. She received the Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award from Rutgers University.
Kareem Estefan, Program Assistant
Kareem Estefan is a poet and critic who lives in Brooklyn. His immediate family comes from Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Baghdad, but among these cities he has only visited Beirut; when prompted by personal or political circumstance, he imagines the figs, families, old souks, and new walls in the others. He began writing as a music reviewer and later sculpted words into speculative poems and essays about the Internet, noise, unknown places, and performative identities. Before coming to the Arts Writers Grant Program, he interviewed conceptual poets on a WNYU radio program, Ceptuetics, and produced talk shows for National Public Radio. He especially likes to dance.