AHL Forum: Jean Rim, Sohee Koo, Sanuen Hwang, Jenna Sunjoo Kang
Thursday May 31, 2018
THiNK PREP
474 7th Avenue, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10018
Panelists: Melissa Leigh Carn & Paul Laster
Paul Laster is an editor, critic, independent curator, artist and lecturer. He’s New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and artBahrain. He was the founding editor of Artkrush.com and Artspace.com, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Flavorpill.com and OneWorld Magazine.
He’s a contributor to Time Out New York, GARAGE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Art Review Asia, Ocula Magazine, New York Observer, ArtPulse, ConceptualFineArts.com and Glasstire.com. He has also written for Art in America, Interview, Modern Painters, Paper, Flash Art, Newsweek, Bomb Magazine, FLATT, Avenue, amNew York, Artnet.com and ArtInfo.com.
A former curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), his recent curatorial projects include Altered States at Stux Gallery, New York; Me, Myself & I at Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton, FL; It’s a Beautiful Day Ise Cultural Foundation, New York; The Garden at 4AM at Gana Art New York; Adam Frezza & Terri Chaio: Paper Islands at Humanities Gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn; A Weekend in the Country at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York; and Maker, Maker at the Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York.
Melissa Leigh Carn is currently employed as a Personal and Sales Assistant at the Mugrabi Collection, working closely with one of the world’s most important collections of post-war and contemporary art. She has worked on exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s artworks at museums in Milan, Rome, São Paulo, and Brasilia. Previously, she interned in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s New York. She received an MA in Modern Art and Its Markets in 2015 at Christie’s Education and a BA in History with a double minor in History of Art and Classical Studies with honors for her thesis at Bryn Mawr College in 2010. She won the Most Outstanding Thesis Award at Christie’s Education for her unprecedented analysis of the late collages of New York artist Joseph Cornell.
