PAN: A GRAPHIC ARTS TIME CAPSULE, EUROPE 1895-1900

PANelist Bios

Peter Frank
Editor for THE magazine Los Angeles, Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum, and past critic for Angeleno magazine and the L. A. Weekly, Peter Frank was born in 1950 in New York. In New York, he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, and moved to Los Angeles in 1988, where he edited VISIONS art quarterly in the early 1990s. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogues to one-person and group exhibitions. Frank has also organized numerous theme and survey shows, most notably "19 Artists - Emergent Americans," the 1981 Exxon National Exhibition mounted at the Guggenheim Museum. McPherson & Co.-Documentext published his Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983. A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987. Frank has also published many catalogues and artists monographs, including Roller: The Paintings of Donald Roller Wilson, for Chronicle Books in 1988 and Robert De Niro, Sr., for Salander-OReilly in 2004.

Robert Flynn Johnson
A renowned collector and curator of PAN exhibition, Johnson holds degrees from McGill University and Institute of Fine Art NYU. He worked as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1973 until 1975; Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from 1975 until 2007, as well as the Art History Instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute (1977- ) and University of California, Santa Cruz

(2009- ). He authored numerous publications including Lucian Freud: Works on Paper (1988); Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones (1999); Artists Book's in the Modern Era (2001); Anonymous: Enigmatic Images by Unknown Photographers (2004); and The Face in the Lines: Enigmatic Images of People by Unknown Photographers (2009).

Eva Kirsch
Director of the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum since 1998, Kirsch holds degrees in art history, museum studies, and exhibition design. Born in Poland, where she lived until 1992, she worked as the curator of contemporary art for the Museum of Silesia, Katowice (1985-1992), organizing numerous exhibitions and developing the comprehensive permanent collection of post WWII paintings. After moving to California in 1992, she held museum, private and community college sector positions. She has curated over 50 exhibitions, including a ground-breaking presentation of Renaissance art in the Upper Silesia for the Museum of Silesia, Wrestling with the Sublime: Contemporary German Art in California Collections for CSU, Fullerton, and Hellenistic Art from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Polish Art in Southern California Collection, Wonderlands and Realities: Best in Childrens Book Illustration 1880-1940, Turbulence and Tranquility: Stanislav Szukalski and Teng Hiok Chiu ("Forgotten Masters Revived" series) for the RVF Art Museum. She has taught extensively, including history of graphic design, published numerous articles and catalog essays both in Polish and English, expanded the museums permanent collection by about 500 objects, and led the museum's accreditation process, successfully completed in 2008.

Victoria Martino
Accomplished art historian, writer, critic, and independent curator, Victoria Martino is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and the University of California. A specialist in interdisciplinary studies, she has degrees in art history, literature and music. She has curated numerous international exhibitions, and has published catalogue essays and scholarly articles in more than six languages on artists and composers, including Wassily Kandinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Sean Scully, Mimmo Paladino, John Baldessari, Josef Capek, and Zoran Music, among others. As an art, music and theater critic, she is a regular contributor to THE Magazine Los Angeles and the Berkshire Review for the Arts. Ms. Martino has participated in many international symposia and lectured widely. She has taught art history, music, and innovative humanities courses at universities in Australia and the United States.

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