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Saul Ostrow
Saul Ostrow is Dean of Visual Arts and Technologies at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Before accepting this position in 2003, he was Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Director of the Center of Visual Arts and Culture and Coordinator for the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Master Artists and Scholars Institute at the University of Connecticut. Before joining the University of Connecticut I was the graduate thesis advisor in the NYU MFA program where since 1989 he had taught courses in critical theory and contemporary art history. From 1995-2001 he was the Editor of book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture published by G+B Arts International, this series has since been purchased by Routledge for whom he continues to edit it. Books in this series were on or by Arthur Danto, Marshall McLuhan, Freidrich Kittler, Griselda Pollack, Stephen Melville, Jonathan Katz, Moira Roth, Mark Poster, Stanley Aronowitz, Norman Bryson, Mieke Bal, David Carrier and two books edited by Richard Woodfield respectively on the work of Alois Riegl and Aby Warburg.
Prof. Ostrow is also Art Editor for Bomb Magazine (a quarterly magazine of art, literature, theater and film) and Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (which publishes anthologies focusing on contemporary cultural issues and a consulting editor to the University of Minn. Press. His own writings have appeared in Flashart International, ArtPress (FR.), Neue Bilde Kunst (Ger) the International Review of Art (Col.) Arts Magazine, World Art and the New Art Examiner (USA) as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. These have included Gunthar A. Wenner, Gallerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany, Moira Dryer/ Jessica Stockholder, Johnson State Community College, KC, Mo. Chuck Agro, Earl McGrath Gallery, NYC, Ray Johnson, Richard Feigen Gallery, NYC & Chicago, Eliot Green, 'A' Space, Kenyon College, Ill, Russell Maltz, Kustverien, Ludwighaven, Ger., Valarie Jaudon, Sidney Janis Gallery, Bill Komoski, Galarie Ludwig, Krefeld, Ger, Jonathan Lasker, Bravin/ Post Lee Gallery, NYC, Glen Seator, Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland, Noel Dolla, Center for Contemporary Culture, Tours, France, Peer Veneman, PTT Conf. Center, Netherlands, Alan Uglow, Kolnische Kunstverien, Koln,Ger, as well as for exhibitions he has curated. He has also particpated and chaired numerous panels and symposia.
He has also written the entry on Art History and Criticism for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism and the entry on sculpture in the US since 1960 for the Encylopedia of Sculpture also published by Routledge. In addition to writing and teaching, he has curated over 50 exhibition in the US and abroad since 1986. Approximately half of these have dealt with the issues of Abstract Art, the others with issues arising from other forms of representation. These include Support Dreamingof a More Better Future, Rhienberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2005, Surface, Prescient Now and Then for David Dorsky Projects, NYC, 2002, “Painting Function, Making it Real", Spaces, Cleveland Ohio, 2000, "Painting All-Over: Again" at the Municipal Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain 1996, "Painting in an Expanding Field" Bennington College, Vt. 1997 and Divergent Models", Kunstverein, Wiesbaden,Germany, 1997.
Prof. Ostrow is also Art Editor for Bomb Magazine (a quarterly magazine of art, literature, theater and film) and Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (which publishes anthologies focusing on contemporary cultural issues and a consulting editor to the University of Minn. Press. His own writings have appeared in Flashart International, ArtPress (FR.), Neue Bilde Kunst (Ger) the International Review of Art (Col.) Arts Magazine, World Art and the New Art Examiner (USA) as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. These have included Gunthar A. Wenner, Gallerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany, Moira Dryer/ Jessica Stockholder, Johnson State Community College, KC, Mo. Chuck Agro, Earl McGrath Gallery, NYC, Ray Johnson, Richard Feigen Gallery, NYC & Chicago, Eliot Green, 'A' Space, Kenyon College, Ill, Russell Maltz, Kustverien, Ludwighaven, Ger., Valarie Jaudon, Sidney Janis Gallery, Bill Komoski, Galarie Ludwig, Krefeld, Ger, Jonathan Lasker, Bravin/ Post Lee Gallery, NYC, Glen Seator, Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland, Noel Dolla, Center for Contemporary Culture, Tours, France, Peer Veneman, PTT Conf. Center, Netherlands, Alan Uglow, Kolnische Kunstverien, Koln,Ger, as well as for exhibitions he has curated. He has also particpated and chaired numerous panels and symposia.
He has also written the entry on Art History and Criticism for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism and the entry on sculpture in the US since 1960 for the Encylopedia of Sculpture also published by Routledge. In addition to writing and teaching, he has curated over 50 exhibition in the US and abroad since 1986. Approximately half of these have dealt with the issues of Abstract Art, the others with issues arising from other forms of representation. These include Support Dreamingof a More Better Future, Rhienberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2005, Surface, Prescient Now and Then for David Dorsky Projects, NYC, 2002, “Painting Function, Making it Real", Spaces, Cleveland Ohio, 2000, "Painting All-Over: Again" at the Municipal Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain 1996, "Painting in an Expanding Field" Bennington College, Vt. 1997 and Divergent Models", Kunstverein, Wiesbaden,Germany, 1997.
