Curator
Curator
Archived Interviews 2016—2021
 

Curator is an online platform exploring art, design, and technology.

 

 

Team

DAN GOLDEN
Founder & Creative Director

Dan Golden is a Los Angeles based artist, designer and creative director. His work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York TimesThe Los Angeles TimesInterior DesignFast Company, and Elle, among others. Dan’s designs have been produced by leading manufacturers including Stephanie Odegard, Swarovski and CB2.

AMANDA QUINN OLIVAR
Editor-In-Chief

Los Angeles native Amanda Quinn Olivar is currently producing the feature documentary Seeing is Believing: Women Direct and the play & film Paint Made Flesh. She recently collaborated on Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies and an upcoming project about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes. A member of the International Press Academy, Amanda sits on the boards of London's Fashion and Textile Museum, Friends of Zandra Rhodes, and The Chimaera Project (an organization presenting opportunities for women & promoting gender equality in the media arts). As a curator and arts advocate, she received the HeArt Award for her work benefiting A Window Between Worlds, and has curated exhibits at venues including The Cornell Art Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Fresno Art Museum, and Brand Art Center.

JEN HUH
Managing Director

Jen Huh is a Los Angeles based artist, designer, educator and writer. Her large scale textile pieces have been featured in Interior Design magazine and are on permanent display in the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She formerly served as Director of First Year Advising at Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College at The New School. Jen is a partner at Dan Golden Studio.

JOHN OLIVAR
Associate Editor

Freelance writer and editor John Olivar received a Pillsbury Grant for Creative Writing, distributed through the Santa Barbara Foundation. His work has appeared in Spectrum (Santa Barbara), Storyville (Chigwell, UK), online at The American Center for Artists, and in other publications.

JAMIE THOMPSON
Associate Editor

Jamie Thompson is an LA-based writer and editor. Currently Managing Editor at Knock Knock, a publishing, gift, and stationery company, she also works as a script consultant, book editor, and copywriter. Her book “The Filmmaker Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom,” published by Princeton Architectural Press, is in its sixth printing.

 

 

Contributors

J. FIONA RAGHEB
New York

J. Fiona Ragheb is a curator, designer and writer who currently focuses on creative strategies for the studio division of UAP. Her career has taken her from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Broad Art Foundation in Los Angeles. She has authored and contributed to publications for the Guggenheim Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and Yale University Art Gallery, as well as journals such as Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism and Object Magazine.

ALEX MAY
Detroit

Alexandra May is a self-proclaimed life-long art and museum junkie. She attended her first art fair, Documenta, at age 10. She conducted her first artist interview with Andy Warhol at age 18. Although a Detroit transplant, she prides herself on being one of the city’s most avid art advocates. She serves on the Board of the Friends of African and African American Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

CATHERINE HAGGARTY
New York

Catherine Haggarty is an artist, curator and writer. She received her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011 and is currently a member of the artist run curatorial collective and exhibition space, Ortega y Gasset in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Publications include The Black and White Project (2015) for the Sluice Art Fair, London, UK. Haggarty was the recipient of the ESKFFEmerging Artist Grant and Residency at Mana Contemporary in 2014 along with the DNA Residency in Provincetown, MA in 2016.

SEMRA SEVIN
Berlin

Fashion and art photographer, Semra Sevin studied photography in Germany and film studies in the US. She is the founder of the fashion platform Reglam, which promotes diversity and challenges established patterns and cliches. Sevin's art photography is experimental in nature and builds on the tradition established by some of the giants of photography: Man Ray, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Hans Breder. Her artwork has been shown by galleries in Europe and the United States.

ANNIE TERRAZZO
Los Angeles

Born in Breckenridge Colorado, Annie Terrazzo has always surrounded herself with dreams. Her childhood was unorthodox and chaotic, having been raised by a mother who was a schizophrenic adult entertainer and a father who was a formula one race car driver. This chaos was countered by a family who, through silversmithing and plein air painting, taught her the value of and method to making beauty in the world. She spent large portions of her time writing plays on an old typewriter, watching old movies, and dreaming of Paris.

After graduating from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, CA, Terrazzo began her career in trash portraiture, focusing on using found objects, newspapers, and magazines. She strives to create work that allows the viewer to recognize image and text based language, drawing you in through the technical skill she possesses and the attention to detail that permeates all of her work. 

ANNE MARIE TAYLOR
Los Angeles

Anne Marie Taylor is the director of Evergreene Studio, a roving contemporary art gallery based in Los Angeles where she also works as an independent curator and writer. She received her B.A. in Visual Arts at Eugene Lang College at the New School in New York, while creating installations and videos for musical performances. Anne Marie is currently working as an editor of several independently published books of artist’s work (TBA).

MADDY NEFF
Los Angeles/San Francisco

Maddy Neff is a student at Scripps College in Southern California where her focus is in Politics, Studio Art, and Art History. Neff’s interests include writing, editing, architecture, and art curation, and her art practice incorporates analog photography, cyanotype, drawing, and collage.

SARAH SIEBER
New York

Sarah Sieber is majoring in the photography program headed by Stephen Shore at Bard College class of 2020 in upstate New York. She is also a student of art history and is interested in the lives and artistic processes of artists. She enjoys learning the history of techniques and mediums and the story of how the artist began making the work they do. Aside from photography, Sarah’s artistic practices include works on paper and various fiber arts.