NINA KATCHADOURIAN: MONUMENT TO THE UNELECTED
While working at Flaten Art Museum as the Interim Collections Manager, I had the tremendous honor of preparing the artwork and managing the installation of Monument to the Unelected by Nina Katchadourian. This temporary installation is comprised of a series of election lawn signs that bear the names of every major-party candidate who ever ran for the office of United States president and lost. Monument to the Unelected was created by Katchadourian in 2008 for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and has been shown across the United States every presidential election cycle since then. This non-partisan artwork was presented in conjunction with Practicing Democracy (September 13–December 10, 2024) at Flaten Art Museum. Monument to the Unelected was installed outside of the Center for Art and Dance main east doors from October 22 to November 24, 2024. Following the November 5th election, one St. Olaf student and first-time voter will added the unelected candidate’s sign to the group.
In addition to managing the installation of the piece, I co-wrote a Teaching Guide for Monument to the Unelected, that engaged St. Olaf students, faculty and staff, as well as Northfield, MN community members.
Image: Nina Katchadourian: Monument to the Unelected, installation view, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Pace Gallery. Photo: Enrico Tamayo
CO-CURATION + INSTALLATION MANAGEMENT with INCUBATOR
INCUBATOR is a sub-division of the SITE Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). While with INCUBATOR, I was a Graduate Curatorial Assistant (GCA). As a GCA, I juried, curated, and installed exhibitions of SAIC student artowrk that were on display on the busy corner of Wabash and Monroe in downtown Chicago.
Perception, Perspective & Power
May 3–19, 24–26, 2019
This is the fifth annual Lasting Legacy exhibition, an ongoing series that puts St. Olaf art history majors in contact with objects from Flaten Art Museum’s collection. As students select and interpret a work of art, they offer fresh perspectives on objects from disparate cultures, eras, and media.
Perception, Perspective & Power investigates the relationships among artist, viewer, subject, and medium. Diving into questions of identity, power differences, and positionality, we can see how visual culture is shaped as well as how it shapes us. This exhibition examines how the gaze affects works of art, uncovers relationships between the artist and subject, and what those relationships reveal about society. These works from the Flaten Art Museum collection were chosen for their treatment of the subject in their adherence, subversion, and rejection of typical representations of power differences within society, exposing such dynamics through the works individually as well as in juxtaposition with one another.
Prints & Pots
Prints & Pots was an artist-curated exhibition developed by myself and David Morrison. We were making artwork in response to one another — I made prints and David made pots.
A Collectors Obsession
A Collector’s Obsession: Excerpts from the Tetlie Collection was curated using objects from Flaten Art Museum’s Tetlie Collection. Richard Tetlie collected and donated many objects to Flaten Art Museum. For this exhibition, I worked with Gustave Courbet’s Promenade En Bateau and wrote interpretive texts for the piece in relation to the exhibition.
