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VERGE SELECTION AND HOST COMMITTEES
ANNOUNCED
Inaugural Edition Premiers December 3-6,
2009
Verge
proudly announces the Selection and Host Committees for its
inaugural Miami fair,
December
3-6, at the Catalina Hotel and Beach Club during Art Basel
Miami Beach.
Highly
diverse, the Verge Selection Committee membership forms an
influential peer group representative of the art community as
a whole. Similarly, the Verge Host Committee gathers together
influential business and community leaders to ensure the
success of the inaugural Verge fair.
Selection
Committee
Dan Cameron,
Founder and Artistic Director of Prospect New Orleans and
Director of Visual Art, Center for Contemporary Arts (CAC),
New Orleans
James Yood, Critic, Artforum
International
Beth Rudin Dewoody,
Collector
Samuel Messer, Associate Dean,
Yale School of Art and Director, Yale Summer School of Music
and Art in Norfolk
Edouard Steinhauer,
Artistic Director, Verge
Presenting an exclusive total of 30 exhibitors this
year in Miami.
The
application deadline for Verge is October 1.
Host Committee
Amy Kisch,
Sotheby’s
Andrea Reynosa, Founder, Smack Mellon, Sky Dog
Projects
Rhona Kisch, Hahn and Hessen, LLP
Mandy
Kalajian, Mirrorball
Taisha Hutchison, The New York
Metropolitan Opera
Nico Wheadon, Curator, Rush
Arts
Susie Belanger, Belavie Lifestyle Management
Lilia
Garcia, CEO Lilia Garcia
Tsipi Ben-Haim, City Arts
Jane
Hart, Curator of Exhibitions, Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood
Amnon Bar-Tur, Safe Harbor Capital
Group
Host Committtee membership inquiries may be
directed to info@vergeartfair.com
About Verge
Verge
is an international platform for the most exciting and
interesting in new and emerging art. Verge exists to establish
boundaries of the extraordinary as a counter to the natural
compulsion towards stagnation in the way art is evaluated and
delivered to the public. Staying true to this necessary state
for the advancement of art requires a sustained focus on the
best new ideas and practices of those marginal or newly
emerging to international art audiences. The satisfaction of
this fixed requirement for a healthy and competitive artistic
culture is at the core of Verge as an international exposition
of the highest quality artistic production and the galleries,
museums and audiences who sustain it.
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