How Does An Artist Build Legacy?

Antwaun’s recent books are The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (2019) and Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (2020). His recent exhibitions include the group show series Social Works; Social Abstraction; and solo presentations of artists Virgil Abloh, Derrick Adams, Awol Erizku, Cy Gavin, Lauren Halsey, Rick Lowe, Tyler Mitchell, and Amanda Williams.

Lisa Le Feuvre is a curator, writer, and editor. In 2018 she became inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, the artist foundation dedicated to the legacies of artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-1973). From its home base in New Mexico, USA the Foundation collaborates with artists, writers, thinkers, and institutions to realize exhibitions, publish books, initiate artist commissions, program educational events, encourage research, and develop collections across the world. Le Feuvre has curated more than seventy exhibitions as an institutional and independent curator, edited over thirty books and journals, spoken at 150 museums and universities across the world, and has published more than 125 essays and interviews with artists. Her recent curated exhibitions include For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 at The Warehouse, Dallas, (curated with Thomas Feulmer); Robert Smithson / Teresita Fernández at SITE SANTA FE, New Mexico (curated with Fernández); at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio Nancy Holt: Power Systems and Maria Hupfield: The Endless Return of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan) and the just opened Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels: Echoes & Evolutions at Sprüth Magers, New York. Le Feuvre’s recent publications include the introduction to the compendium Great Women Sculptors (Phaidon Press) and texts on the artists Kapwani Kiwanga, Delcy Morelos. Charlotte Moth Lucia Pizzani, Robert Rauschenberg and Medardo Rosso. Previously based in the UK, Le Feuvre led the Henry Moore Institute from 2010 through 2017, the center for the study of sculpture; directed the contemporary art program at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich from 2005 to 2009; and was an academic based in the graduate Curatorial Program at Goldsmiths College and Course Director of the graduate program in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Rick Lowe was born 1961 in Russell County, Alabama, and lives and works in Houston. He pairs works in painting, drawing, and installation with collaborative, community-based initiatives developed in the tradition of Joseph Beuys’s concept of “social sculpture.” Beginning with his cofounding of Project Row Houses (1993–2008) in Houston’s Third Ward and continued through other enterprises across the United States and internationally, Lowe aims to catalyze sustainable change, harnessing creativity to promote understanding, equity, and justice. In his studio-based practice, Lowe combines painting and collage to develop works—often at an expansive scale—that are partially inspired by patterns of domino games that he plays with community members. Noting correspondences between the dense, layered patterns of these games and maps of urban districts, his vibrant abstractions suggest the configurations and transformations of civic structures and relationships over time.

Dan Leers is curator of photography at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Previously, he was the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall curatorial fellow in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Since beginning at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015, he has organized numerous exhibitions and publications. Recent projects include Forum 80: Deana Lawson (2018); An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (2020); Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries (2021); Forum 85: Sara Greenberger Rafferty (2022); and Gordon Parks in Pittsburgh 1944/1946 (2022). His book, Mirror with a Memory: Photography, Surveillance, and Artificial Intelligence won the 2022 award for Best Publication from the Association of Art Museum Curators. He received his BA in Art History from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, and an MA in Modern Art/Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.