Peter Frank
Peter Frank is the editor of Visions art quarterly and art critic
for the L.A. Weekly and the Long Beach Press Telegram. He
was born in 1950 in New York, and moved to Los Angeles in 1988. In New York
Frank served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo
Weekly News. He contributes articles to numerous publications (including
ArtScene), and has written many exhibition catalogues. Frank has
organized numerous theme and survey shows, and his teaching background includes
Pratt Institute, Columbia University's School of the Arts, the Tyler School
of Art, UC Irvine, Claremont Graduate School, CSU Fullerton, UC Santa Barbara,
and other institutions. His Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography
was published by McPherson & Co.-Documentext in 1983. A cycle of poems,
The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville
Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York
art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987.
Merle Schipper
Merle Schipper earned her Ph.D. in Art History at UCLA and has taught and
lectured at UCLA, USC, CSU Northridge, and Claremont Graduate School. She
has presented numerous scholarly papers, examples of which include Light
on the Horizon: Painting in Los Angeles 1900-1920 (Symposium, Archives
of American Art, San Marino CA, 1986) and Censorship L.A. Style (1991
Congress, International Association of Art Critics [AICA]), was was published
in Beyond Walls and Wars: Art, Politics and Multiculturalism (New
York: Midmarch Arts, 1993). Her critical writings have appeared in many
periodicals, including Arts, Art in America, Journal of
Art, and she served as a correspondent for ARTnews. She has reviewed
art books for the Los Angeles Daily News, and is currently chief
columnist for ArtScene and a contributing writer for Visions.
As West Coast Chair, American Section, of AICA, she headed the organization
of the 1991 Congress in Santa Monica. She have curated numerous exhibitions
in California. Currently she is preparing an exhibition of William Spratling
for the Craft and Folk Art Museum to begin mid-1997, which will travel to
museums around the United States over a three-year span.
Michael Wright
Michael Wright is a painter working in both traditional and electronic mediums.
He has exhibited work recently at the @ Cafe (New York), the Cheekwood Museum
(Nashville), CSU Chico, the Downey Museum of Art, Loyola Marymount University's
Laband Gallery, and the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. He is the
recipient of a Los Angeles Cultural Affairs grant, and his work is represented
in Linda Jacobs' book Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology and
Robin Dunitz' Street Gallery. Wright currently serves as director
of the Sam Francis Gallery at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences
in Santa Monica. He is on the Siggraph Traveling Exhibition selection
committee, and is a board member of the Downtown Artists Development Association
(DADA). He has been a guest artist at CSU Los Angeles and Humbolt State
University, and currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design, where
he has received their award of excellence in arts education, and at Crossroads,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mount San Antonio College, and the
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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