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undabout Project Jurors:
Abby
Chen
Abby Chen is an internationally recognized curator, educator, writer and community organizer and is the first head of department for contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. From 2006 to 2018 Chen the artistic director at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC), where she was given a platform to transform the organization through risk-taking exhibitions, process-driven practices, and impactful public art, including the multidisciplinary project WOMEN 我们 (2010–2013), Chinatown Keywords School + Social Botany (Xu Tan, 2014–2016), and Sky Bridge (Beili Liu, 2015), among others. Chen also spearheaded numerous public projects and initiatives in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Chen maintains strong ties with experimental artist communities locally and internationally, which has contributed to her wide record of publications and presentations on the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, nation, migration, and technology in both the United States and Asia. Born in China, Chen holds an M.A. in visual and critical Studies from the California College of Arts.
Julie E
ppich*
Julie Eppich is a Napa resident and a member of the Public Art Steering Committee (PASC). She brings a diverse perspective with 20 years of experience in international visual arts and events management. Julie has a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Indiana University, and along with her business background, has always had a commitment and passion to the world of the arts.
Ju
lie's primary work experience in the arts began during the 3 years she lived in Singapore. During this time, through her work with local Asian art companies, she studied Chinese antiquities as well as contemporary Asian fine art. Julie had the unique experience of marketing, developing and managing a gallery concept which was ultimately opened in the world famous Raffles Hotel in Singapore. She returned to the US to open her own Asian art gallery in the renowned River North Gallery District in Chicago. Julie spent close to a decade traveling Southeast Asia seeking out and representing overseas artists, and supporting their works and cultures in her gallery. Julie’s experience includes arts marketing, overseas logistical management, events marketing and management, building customer relationships, website development and social media marketing.
* Julie Eppich replaced Judy Chang as the PASC representative. Judy Chang served as the PASC representative during the first phase of the RFQ process.
Rhe
a Fontaine
Rhea Fontaine is Partner and Gallery Director at Paulson Fontaine Press where they produce and publish limited edition intaglio prints. The press emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich tradition of fine art printmaking. Paulson Fontaine Press’s philosophy is to facilitate rather than direct an artist, creating an environment where artists can do their best work. Prints by PFP are in major museum collections across the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library of Congress, MOMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rhea is one of the first African-American women to publish fine art
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prints by contemporary artists. Dedicated to contributing to the image archive of artists of the African Diaspora, PFP has published over 150 editions with Black Artists.
Rhea was a past curatorial board member at Southern Exposure and board member of NIAD where she served as Vice- President. She received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998 and a post baccalaureate diploma in museum studies from Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy in 2000. Rhea lives in Berkeley with her son and recently became a board member of Chez Panisse.
Betti - Sue Hertz
Betti-Sue Hertz is currently the Director and Chief Curator of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. Prior to her position at Columbia she served as Director of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. Hertz has also work independently curating public art programs in China.
Hertz is an innovator in presenting to American audiences cutting-edge art from various regions around the world. Her strong belief in diversity and inclusion was shaped during the early years of her career as the director of visual arts space s in the South Bronx. Her work as a curator has focused on the areas of global exchange, the urban environment, and the intersection of aesthetics and social issues. Major exhibitions that Hertz has curated (or co-curated) include Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, which was presented by both Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2014, and the 2013 Dissident Futures, also at Yerba Buena, which explored how we think about possible futures through a variety of media.
Hertz holds an MFA from Hunter College and studied in the Ph.D. program in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has published numerous exhibition catalogues and writes regularly for periodicals and anthologies.
Gordon Huether
Artist Gordon Huether founded his studio in Napa, CA with a mission to create large-scale site-specific permanent art installations. Huether’s careful consideration of the artwork in context with the place and its users has led to over 75 public art projects and over 170 private commissions. Projects have included installations for civic buildings, corporations, hospitals, hotels, libraries, museums, recreation centers, transportation centers, and universities throughout the world. Huether is currently working with the Salt Lake City International Airport Department of Airports in designing fabricating and installing significant structurally integrated installations for its Airport Redevelopment Program, expected to complete in 2024.