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Education

BA and MA, Oxford University, England, Classics, 1985

BA, University of Chicago, Music and Classics, 1982

 
 

Awards

Guest of the Director, American Academy in Berlin, Spring, 2006

National Translation Award, 2005, from the American Literary Translators Association, for THE COMPLETE ELEGIES OF SEXTUS PROPERTIUS

John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize Fellowship for a one-year residency at the American Academy in Rome, selected by the Literature Committee for Awards of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001-2002

 
 

Books of Translation

THE COMPLETE ELEGIES OF SEXTUS PROPERTIUS, translated from Latin (2004, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford)

CHARM, translations from Latin of Roman poet Sextus Propertius (Book I) (1995, Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles)

 
 

Books of Poetry

RAPID DEPARTURES, with art by Mario Cafiero (2005, Ateliê Editorial, São Paulo, Brazil)

UNDERSTANDING OBJECTS (2000, Hard Press, West Stockbridge)

PEARL, with art by Tabboo! (1998, powerHouse Books, New York)

BOULEVARD TRANSPORTATION, with photographs by Rudy Burckhardt (1997, Tibor de Nagy Editions, New York)

NEW YORK HELLO!, with photographs by Rudy Burckhardt (1990, Ommation Press, Chicago)

CABAL OF ZEALOTS, (1988, Hanuman Books, Madras & New York, Francesco Clemente, Raymond Foye, editors)

A TREMOR IN THE MORNING, with linocuts by Alex Katz (1986, Peter Blum Edition, New York)

ROOMS, cover by Alex Katz (1978, Open Window Books, New York)

 
 

Poetry Published in the Following Periodicals:

Brooklyn Rail, can we have our ball back, The Canary, Conjunctions, Court Green, The East Village, Evergreen Review, Jacket, LIT, Milk, Mississippi Review, Pressed Wafer, Provincetown Arts, Shampoo, Shiny, Shuffle Boil, Skanky Possum

 
 

Books on Art: Monograph or Essay

KIKI SMITH: HOMESPUN TALES, text (2005, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice)

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: TANDOORI SATORI, essay (2004, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham)

RUDY BURCKHARDT, essay (2004, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York)

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: NEW WORKS, essay (2004, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin)

BEAT STREULI: NEW YORK CITY, essay (2003, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit)

CY TWOMBLY PHOTOGRAPHS, essay (2002, Schirmer Mosel)

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE NAPOLI, essay (2002, Electa, Napoli)

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: EXPERIMENT IN ART, edited by Vincent Katz, with essays by Martin Brody, Robert Creeley, Vincent Katz, and Kevin Power                      (2002,   MIT Press, Cambridge)

JANET FISH PAINTINGS, monograph (2002, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York)

RED GROOMS GRAPHICS, essay (2001, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York)

ROBERT ZANDVLIET, essay and poem (2000, Peter Blum Edition, New York)

LIFE IS PARADISE: THE PORTRAITS OF FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, monograph with interview (1999, powerHouse Books, New York)
 
 

Art Reviews published in

Art in America, ARTnews, Art on Paper, art press,  House and Garden,  Parkett, World of Interiors
 
 

Curator of the Following Exhibitions

Alex Katz Portraits, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, June 13-September 30, 2003

Black Mountain College: Una Aventura Americana, (Albers, Cage, Chamberlain, de Kooning, Kline, Rauschenberg, Rockburne, Twombly etc.) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, October 28, 2002 -January 13, 2003

Rudy Burckhardt’s Maine: An Exhibition Of Photographs, Paintings, And Films , Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 17-October 4, 2002 (a version of this exhibition appeared at the New York Studio School, May 8-June 21, 2003)

Rudy Burckhardt & Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and ‘60s, Co-curated, with Lynn Gumpert, photographs of artists by Burckhardt combined with works by those artists (Pollock, de Kooning, Mitchell, Marisol, Rothko, etc.) at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, May 8 -July 15, 2000

Rudy Burckhardt: A View From Astoria, a selection of photographs of New York City, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, October 10, 1999-January 15, 2000

Rudy Burckhardt, the artist’s first retrospective, at IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain, July 8-September 20, 1998 (exhibition catalogue contains essays by VK and Robert Storr of MoMA NY)

 
 

Artist’s Books/Collaborations

PARK, BARI, OSTIA, two monotypes and one etching with Francesco Clemente (2003, Harlan & Weaver, printers)

CABIN, woodcut and etching, with Alex Katz (2003, Chris Ericson, printer)

LYING IN THE FIELDS, ceramic tablets, with Alex Katz (2002, I DISUGUALI  No. 4, edited by Enzo Cucchi and Ettore Sottsass, Edizioni Galleria Roberto Giustini, Rome)

TERRA FRAGILE, Francesco Clemente paintings, translations and poetry (2001, Edition Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich)

VOYAGES/HYDE PARK BOULEVARD, an artist’s book in two volumes done in collaboration with James Brown, poetry and images (1994 & 2000, Grenfell Press, New York)

SMILE AGAIN, Alex Katz paintings from the 1960s, poetry (2000, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne)

 
 

Selected Video Productions

Director and/or Producer of the following projects:

MAN IN THE WOODS: THE ART OF RUDY BURCKHARDT (2003, 24 min) (appeared in the 22nd Montreal International Festival of Films on Art, 2004, and was  awarded the "Best of Festival" award in the Arts category at the Berkley Film and Video Festival, 2004); produced by the Checkerboard Foundation

HANUMAN PRESENTS! (1998, 42 min) a 1989 reading at St. Mark’s Church in New York of 14 writers from the Hanuman Books series: Corso, Ginsberg, Huncke, Mead, Mueller, Ricard, et al.  With footage from the films of Rudy Burckhardt

RED GROOMS’ GREATEST HITS (1997, 8 min), compilation of Grooms own films, happenings, and films done about the artist, including television footage from “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” and “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood”

ALEX KATZ’ FIVE HOURS (1996, 21 min),documents Katz painting the six-by-fourteen foot January III in five hours, accompanied by the music of Meredith Monk; produced by the Checkerboard Foundation

RED GROOMS AT GRAND CENTRAL (1994, 17 min.), documentary of 1993 retrospective at Grand Central Terminal, New York, commissioned by Marlborough Gallery

RED GROOMS IN IOWA (1992, 12 min.), documentary on “sculpto-picto-rama” by Red Grooms commissioned by the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; includes fabrication, painting, installation

TWO OF KENNETH KOCH'S ONE THOUSAND AVANT-GARDE PLAYS (1990, 9 min.), Agamemnon  & Mahx Bruddahs, two short plays by one of America's foremost poets, staged for video

KENNETH KOCH BRASIL (1989, 4 min.), four from One Thousand Avant Garde Plays -- Départ Malgache, Hippopotamus Migration in Africa , Incident on the Street,The Arrival Of Homosexuality In Greece, or The Fagabond, shot in Ubatuba, Brazil, with Brazilian actors

 
 

Teaching

Workshop teacher of a course entitled “Journey to Black Mountain,” Naropa University, Summer Writing Program, Boulder, Colorado, July, 2005

 

 

 

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