Kelly Taxter, who from 2013 to 2021 served because the Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Up to date Artwork on the Jewish Museum in New York, has been introduced as the brand new deputy director of the nonprofit Artists House farther downtown. Taxter steps into her new position right this moment; her final exhibition for the Jewish Museum, “After the Wild: Up to date Artwork from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Basis Assortment,” opens at that establishment in March.
“I couldn’t be extra excited to welcome Kelly Taxter to Artists House,” stated Artists House govt director and chief curator Jay Sanders. “Over the previous 20 years, Kelly has contributed substantively to the artwork world in myriad methods,” stated I do know she shall be a improbable addition to our workforce within the essential position of deputy director, offering imaginative and prescient and management that shall be integral to our future.”
On the Jewish Museum, Taxter oversaw main exhibitions of the work of artists together with Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Rachel Feinstein, Jonas Mekas, and Isaac Mizrahi. After leaving the museum in 2021, she briefly served as director of the Parrish Artwork Museum in Watermill, New York. With Pascal Spengemann, she cofounded the New York gallery Taxter & Spengemann, which from 2003 by means of 2011 represented artists together with Lutz Bacher, Frank Benson, Xavier Cha, Adam Putnam, Kalup Linzy, Wardell Milan, and A.L. Steiner. A 2017 alumnus of the Getty Management Institute, Taxter earned her BFA on the Faculty of the Museum of High-quality Arts, Boston and Tufts College her MFA on the Middle for Curatorial Research, Bard School.