Richard Speer -- Online Curriculum Vitae

Author
• The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020)
• Journey to the Third Dimension: Tom Cramer (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2019)
• David Borgerding: Significant Forms (Callan Contemporary, 2018)
• Eric Wert: Still Life (Pomegranate Books, 2018)
• Dunbar (Callan Contemporary, 2018)
• Peter Halley: Boats Figures Trees Crosses 1977-78 (Karma NYC, 2017)
• HALLEY/MENDINI (Mary Boone Gallery, 2013)
• Henry Hillman: Illuminating the Fourth Dimension (Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 2008)
• Matt Lamb: The Art of Success (John Wiley & Sons, 2005, revised edition 2013)
• Echoes Among the Tides (Centre Picasso, 2003)

Curator
• Sam Francis in Japan: Emptiness Overflowing (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, scheduled for April-September 2021, Resnick Pavilion, co-curated with Hollis Goodall [LACMA curator of Japanese art] and Leslie Jones [LACMA curator of drawings and prints])
• Journey to the Third Dimension: Tom Cramer Drawings and Paintings 1974-2019 (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene. August 17-December 29, 2019, Artist Project Space.)
• Curatorial grant from the Sam Francis Foundation
• Exhibition documentation and support grant from the Ford Family Foundation

Arts Journalist
Articles, essays, and reviews in:

• The New York Post
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Los Angeles Times
• Newsweek
• Salon
• Opera News
• Willamette Week, Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative newsweekly in Portland, Oregon (Visual-arts critic 2002-2015)
• The Oregonian

Visual Arts Critic

• Contributing critic and feature writer, ARTnews
• Contributing editor, Visual Art Source
• Contributing editor, Art, Ltd.
• Contributing critic and feature writer, GLASS Quarterly
• Contributor, Surface Design
• Contributing feature writer, Digital Photo Pro
• Contributor, The Huffington Post

Author of catalogue essays for exhibitions of contemporary artists such as:

• Peter Halley at Karma (New York, NY)
• Peter Halley and Alessandro Mendini's collaboration at Mary Boone Gallery (New York, NY)
• Jun Kaneko's New Glass at Bullseye Gallery (Portland, OR)
• Eva Hild's sculpture at Gallery Bienvenu (New Orleans, LA)
• Jessica Loughlin and Silvia Levenson at SOFA West 2009 (Santa Fe, NM)
• Gregory de la Haba's Between Nothingness and Paradise at Bridge Art Fair Wynwood (Miami, FL)
• Joe Thurston's abstract paintings at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, OR)
• Matt Lamb's exhibition, Lamb Encounters Picasso at the Centre Picasso (Horta, Spain)
• Matt Lamb's exhibition, Lamb Encounters Miró at the Centre Miró (Mont-roig, Spain)
• Henry Hillman, Jr.'s glass sculpture at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, OR)
• Key-Sook Geum's exhibition, Moving or Dancing at Gallery Bienvenu (New Orleans, LA)
• Milton Rosa-Ortiz's exhibition, REVIVIR at Gallery Bienvenu (New Orleans, LA) and Prospect.1
• Michael Kessler's exhibition, Calvin Cycles at Gallery Bienvenu (New Orleans, LA) and Red Dot Art Fair (Miami, FL)
• Barry Mack's exhibition, Natural Forces at Lawrence Gallery (Portland, OR)
• Raine Bedsole's sculpture and paintings at Gallery Bienvenu (New Orleans, LA)
• Selena Engelhart's exhibition, Cosmology at Atomic Café (Santa Fe, NM)

Editor, Matt Lamb Blog, the official blog of the estate of Irish-American painter Matt Lamb (1932-2012), and the Matt Lamb Facebook Fan Page

Lecturer
Topics include: contemporary art criticism; the components of an effective artist statement; the current state of broadcast, cable, and online news; and contemporary challenges in journalistic ethics. Talks and PowerPoint presentations address academic, institutional, and corporate audiences including:
• The University of British Columbia
• The Pacific Northwest College of Art
• Portland State University
• Portland Community College
• The National Coalition of Independent Scholars
• ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries
• Newspace Center for Photography
• The Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Bullseye Glass Company
• The Atlas Society
• Alberta Arts Foundation
• Beaverton Arts Commission
• Marty Rudolph Seminars
• Portland City Club

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Editor/Co-author/Writing and Public Relations Consultant
Collaborative editorial and public-relations projects have spanned a wide range of corporate, small-business, non-profit, and private clients. Projects have included:

• Co-authoring the nonfiction book proposal, A Child Divided, with Susan Buchweitz
• Editing the nonfiction book, Advertising: Industry in Peril, (Perfect Paperback, 2006) by John Michelet
• Providing strategic public relations counsel, on-air reports, and videotape-editing consultation for the television pilot FreeNation.TV
• Aiding in planning and execution of FreeNation.TV's participation in the annual convention/trade show of the National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE)
• Writing press releases/catalogue essays for Gallery Bienvenu (New Orleans, LA)
• Acting as liaison between KFSM-TV (CBS affiliate in Fayetteville/Fort Smith, AR) and public relations staff at Saint Edward Mercy Medical Center, in the coordination of medical reports to run on KFSM's newscasts
• Facilitating media coverage for Wiederkehr Wineries (Altus, AR); Café Chisme (Van Buren, AR); James at the Mill restaurant (Fayetteville, AR), Inn at the Mill (Fayetteville, AR), and Chez Charles restaurant (Eureka Springs, AR).

Education

Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, University Honors Program graduate, Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Communications/Journalism major; Humanities minor

Studied humanities under Professor Daniel R. White

Directed studies under Dr. White focused on aesthetics, gender studies, and ethics, resulting in:

a monograph examining the visual metonymy of rectilinear abstraction from dialectical and Gestaltist perspectives

a monograph considering whether gender identification and sexual orientation have epistemological antecedents, and if so, whether such antecedents are a priori or empirical

a short story dramatizing the dynamic between metaphysics, ethics, and action; and exploring dialecticism and utopianism in the vein of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point

Member of Phi Kappa Phi (academic honor society); Sigma Delta Chi (honorary journalism fraternity); Phi Eta Sigma (academic honor society); Golden Key International Honor Society; and "Who's Who Among American College Students"

Graduate, Central Florida Lyric Opera Resident Singer's Training Program

Valedictorian, Zweibrücken American High School, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany