Michael Rees and International Sculpture Center in partnership with Grounds For Sculpture are excited to present adhoc: a virtual talk series. Join Michael Rees as he talks with special guests who work in art, technology, and sculpture with a focus on making and the artist’s role in the current era.
Tom Moran served as the Chief Curator at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey from 2011 to 2020. Over the course of his service, he curated major exhibitions of the works of Bruce Beasley, Willie Cole, Jae Ko, Masayuki Koorida, Kang Muxiang, Michael Rees, Steve Tobin, Elyn Zimmerman, and many others. Moran is recognized as an expert in the field of public art having completed over 400 public art projects serving as the program director from 1982 to 2011 with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has worked with a vast number of artists including Michele Oka Doner, George Segal, Isaac Witkin, Alice Aycock, and Maya Lin. He also served as a peer review expert for the United States General Services Art-In-Architecture program from 1990 until 2010 on projects in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and others. Moran has served as a consultant to foundations, museums, governments, and artists about the field of sculpture, memorials, and public art and has published several major essays and lectured on these subjects throughout the United States and internationally.
Edward Winkleman is a private art dealer based in New York. He is the former director of Winkleman Gallery, and former co-founder of the Moving Image art fair which took place in New York, London, and Istanbul. He is the author of "Selling Contemporary Art" and the co-author of "How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery." Since 2019, he has been a consultant to the Art Basel Miami Beach Conversations program.
Michael Rees is a pioneer working with sculpture, technology, and interactivity exploring the dynamic between physical objects and virtual spaces. His invented sculptural platforms are made of robot assisted carvings, automatic dimensional prints, augmented reality, and photography. He is a professor and runs a one of a kind robot lab as the Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University developing one of the first experimental curriculums in sculpture and new media. He lives in North Bergen, New Jersey on the Palisade overlooking Manhattan with his wife the painter Mary Ann Strandell. Follow Michael Rees on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Join us every other week for more episodes! Make sure you subscribe to get updates on the International Sculpture Center. This program is made possible by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)Site catalogue is available in in the ISC Store.