Justine Fisher
RoseLee Goldberg: Performa
Summary
World-renowned art historian, critic, author, and curator RoseLee Goldberg discusses her childhood in South Africa as the foundation that turned her into a powerful activist and advocate for the arts. She discusses her book, a revisionist history of the 20th century, and Performa Biennial, an event that hosts a variety of performances and art installations at different locations around New York City.
Justine Fisher
Justine Fisher was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She currently lives and works in Watermill, NY, where she creates large-scale oil paintings that blend abstraction and figuration, landscapes and domestic interiors, and the real and the uncanny. Working within these liminal spaces, Fisher builds numerous gestural layers of color, form, and texture to create works that draw from traditional genres, art history, her own personal experiences, and the natural world to investigate the complexity of human nature, intellect, and desire. Justine received her MFA in 2013 from the New York Academy of Art, her BFA in 2010 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her BA in Art History in 2007 from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions organized by Weosky Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2013); New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (2013 and 2012); Sotheby’s, New York, NY (2011), and Phillips de Pury, New York, NY (2010).
RoseLee Goldberg
RoseLee Goldberg was born in Durban, South Africa. She is an art historian and curator who completed a degree in fine arts and political science at the University of the Witwatersrand before moving to London to complete a graduate degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. RoseLee is the director and chief curator of Performa, an organization that she founded in 2005 and considered one of the most innovative and impactful nonprofits working with established and emerging artists in new media around the globe. She is also an associate professor at New York University where she has taught since 1987. RoseLee’s book Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1979) pioneered the study of performance art and has been published in fourteen languages.