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Welcome to the ARTIST OF THE MONTH CLUB (AMC).

The AMC works like a subscription. Each month for one year, a different curator selects an artist to create an original artwork. These artists can be established or up-and-coming, but must represent what the curator sees as vital and long-lasting. Someone worth owning. Subscribers to the AMC will not know the identity of these artists beforehand, which introduces Duchampian chance into the act of collecting.

Artworks may take any form, though the standard will be 17 x 22 inches archival print.

Each month, subscribers will receive one of the artworks by mail, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. At the end of the twelve months, subscribers will not only be introduced to some new artists, but will own the works. It will broaden the range of established collectors or be the perfect starter for a beginning collector.

The AMC is sold on a first come basis. There are no holds or reserves. All collectors have equal access to this coveted edition.

THIS EDITION-BY-SUBSCRIPTION IS LIMITED TO 50 SUBSCRIBERS.

Curators taking part in this edition of the AMC hail from all corners of the art world including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Swiss Institute, Ballroom MARFA, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Participant Inc., White Columns and others.

The 2009 ARTIST OF THE MONTH is available for $3000, which includes shipping and handling. This includes twelve original artworks by twelve different artists, exclusively available through this project.

 

2010 CURATORS ANNOUNCED
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The 2009 ARTIST OF THE MONTH CLUB was curated by the following:

BENGALA
Matrimonial art ollective. Co-founder of AMC.

AMY DAVILA
Began her career at Haines Gallery in San Francisco. While there, she curated exhibitions such as Circuits, Currents & Codes; Momentum; Absence & Otherness at Cellspace, a non-profit arts organization among others. In 2001 Amy left San Francisco for New York to work at David Zwirner Gallery. Amy also began working along side Lauri Firstenberg as her curatorial assistant at Artists Space. Amy curated her first exhibition in New York at The Annex, White Box’s ancillary space, in the fall of 2003. She also was one of the curators for Salad Days at Artists Space in the summer of 2004 and was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s program entitled, Initial Public Offerings (I.P.O.): New Artists, New Curators. Amy left David Zwirner in 2004 to become the Director at Perry Rubenstein’s new exhibition space. In 2006 Amy Davila returned to David Zwirner to be the Director of Marketing and Exhibitions. There she co-curated a point in space is a place for an argument in 2007. She left in 2008 to move to Los Angeles where she is currently the Director at 1301PE.

LIA GANGITANO
Founder, director of PARTICIPANT, INC. Associate curator at P.S.1.

MATTHEW HIGGS
British artist, curator, writer and publisher, currently based in New York. Director of White Columns in New York. In 2006 he was one of the Turner Prize judges and in 2007 he selected EASTinternational with Marc Camille Chaimowicz. As an artist he has had solo shows at the Wilkinson Gallery in London. His work is held in the collection of the Tate.

ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
Berlin-based critic, curator and PhD candidate at Oxford University. She writes on cotemporary art for fashion and art magazines including British Vogue, V, ArtForum.com, Art in America, Artnet.com, Art Journal, Dazed & Confused, TANK, and the Guardian Unlimited Art & Architecture blog. She is the Visual Arts correspondent for Style.com and a Senior Correspondent for Saatchi Online.

GIANNI JETZER
Director of the Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art in New York. From 1998 to 2001 he was curator at the Migros Museum in Zurich following his directorship of the Kunsthalle St. Gallen. He has curated over 80 group and solo shows and writes regularly on art in magazines such as Parkett, Flash Art or Kunst-Bulletin.

LISA KIRK
An acclAimed artist and curator, her work has been exhibited at PS 1 Contemporary (MOMA); Galeria Comercial, PR; Participant INC., NY, Invisible-Exports, and MOT International, London. She has also contributed projects to North Drive Press, NYC; Creative Time, NYC, and Charlie, NYC. Her curated projects include LEGION, Bonds of Love, at John Connelly Presents, NYC, The Outlaw Series and You. Her projects have been reviewed in ART FORUM, L’uomo Vogue, Plan B; The Guardian, Time Out London/New York, The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and Art Review.

RISA NEEDLEMAN
New York-based curator. co-founder of AMC.

ALICIA RITSON
Associate curator of Ballroom Marfa.

SHAMIM MOMIN
Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria. She is the co-curator of the 2008 Biennial exhibition, having previously co-curated the 2004 Whitney Biennial. As part of The Contemporary Series, which she organizes, Momin curated the solo exhibitions Terence Koh (2007), Mark Grotjahn (2006), Raymond Pettibon (2005-06), and Banks Violette: Untitled (2005). Recent outside curatorial projects include Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Impossibility of Translation a curated book project with artist Olga Adelantado; No Ordinary Sanctity (2005), a group exhibition at the Deutschbank project space, Salzburg, as well as Will Boys be Boys?: Examining Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art (2004-2007). In addition to her Whitney exhibition catalogues, Momin has contributed to numerous other publications, most recently Phaidon’s Ice Cream. She participates regularly on juries and panels in the US and abroad.

BARBARA THOMPSON
Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas at the Cantor Arts Center. She previously served as Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College from 2002–2008. Her exhibitions often address the crossover between historic, contemporary, and global artistic practices, such as Crossing Currents: The Synergy of Jean Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts (2003); A Point of View: Africa on Display? (2003–4); Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art (2004-2005); So Much Trouble in The World—Believe It or Not!, a site-specific installation by Fred Wilson (2005), as well as Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. She has received grants and fellowships from the Kress Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, LEF Foundation, and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, among others.

ANTON VIDOKLE
Founding director of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist, Do it, Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life and Martha Rosler Library. Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin called Unitednationsplaza—a twelve-month project involving more than a hundred artists, writers, philosophers, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, UNP’s program featured numerous seminars, lectures, screenings, book presentations and various projects.His work has been exhibited in shows such as the Venice Biennale, Lyon Biennial, Dakar Biennale, Lodz Biennale, and at Tate Modern, London; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Musée d’art Modern de la Ville de Paris; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; UCLA Hammer, LA; ICA, Boston; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; P.S.1, New York; among others. With Julieta Aranda, he organized e-flux video rental, which traveled to numerous institutions including Portikus, Frankfurt; KunstWerk, Berlin; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and others