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J. TOLNICK CHAMPA SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“On Independent Curating”
Invited commentary for museumViews (NY: Fall 2010) a quarterly newsletter for small and mid-sized
museums, p.2
Pierre Huyghe, “La Saison des fêtes”
Curator’s Pick Review of exhibition at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (March 18– June 13,
2010) for artforum.com
Natalie Alper “Energy Fields”
Curator’s Pick Review of exhibition at Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia (December 18, 2009 – January 25,
2010) for artforum.com
Jo Yarrington: Site Projects
Invited essayist for Introduction. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum, “Ocular Visions.” (March 15-June 6, 2010).
Irving Haynes: Abstractions, 1960-2005
“Irving B. Haynes: Composing an Artistic Life,” Invited essayist, exhibition catalogue for memorial
exhibition, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island (April 4 – June 7, 2009). Haynes was a professor
at the Rhode Island School of Design and a painter, architect and musician.
The Girl of My Dreams
Illustrated catalogue, Photography Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January,
2008). Curator of monographic exhibition, Stacy Renee Morrison’s extended portrait of Sylvia DeWolf
Ostrander of Bristol, RI (1841-1925) a photographic project derived from the intact contents of a trunk
discarded on the streets of New York. Catalogue essay.
CHINA seen by…
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 2007).
Curator of 14-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by contemporary Chinese and Western
photographers Tina Barney, Hai Bo, Edward Burtynsky, Lois Conner, Weng Fen, Michael Kenn, Hong Lei,
Sze Tsung Leong, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Chi Peng, Wang Qingsong, Huang Yan, Liu Zheng. Assembled and
drafted illustrated booklet containing Acknowledgments, Introductory Essay, Annotated Checklist.
Looking at the Land: WATER LAND SKY LINEN STEEL STONE Merrill Wagner Paintings
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ and Fine Arts Center Galleries,
University of Rhode Island (October, 2006). Wrote catalogue essay addressing abstraction/representation
issues in Wagner’s work for this monographic, cross-institutional collaboration.
States of Siege: A Consideration of Reenactment Photography
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 2006).
Curator of 8-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by photographers David Graham, Stephan
Jacobs, Bill & David Murcko, Lauren Piperno, Damon Sauer, Robert J. Szabo, Willie Anne Wright and
painter Don Pollack; assembled and drafted 10-page illustrated booklet containing Introductory Essay.
On the Mark, a special exhibition of contemporary drawing
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 2005).
Curator of 6-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Miriam Cabessa, Susan Knight, Tom Marioni,
Andrew Raftery, Frances Trombly and Heeseop Yoon; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure
containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Speaking Volumes
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 2005).
Curator of 4-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Tricia Cline, Deborah Muirhead, Jane Rosen,
and Suzanne Volmer; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and
Exhibition Checklist.
Abstraction Pure and Impure
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 2004).
Curator of 8-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Stuart Arends, Carlos Estrada-Vega, Tayo
Heuser, Markus Linnenbrink, Jane Schiowitz, Stephanie Weber and Stephen Westfall; assembled and
drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
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Excess: Food as metaphor & other strategies of consumption
Exhibition brochure, Photography Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island
(September, 2004). Curator of extensive, multi media group loan exhibition featuring photographs by
Sharon Core, Anthony Goicolea, Celia Shapiro and Anne Turyn plus 3d stereographic Kodachromes and
many anonymous works held by Johnson & Wales University. Assembled illustrated brochure featuring
Essay by Bioanthropologist Marquisa LaVelle; Exhibition Checklist.
Cuba Journal: A sculptural installation by Ana Flores
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (June, 2004).
Curator of exhibition; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and
Exhibition Checklist.
Suspended Narratives
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 2003).
Curator of 6-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Deborah Brown, Cynthia Consentino, Michael
Oatman, Barbara Rachko, Judith Raphael and John Wilde; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure
containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Carl Chiarenza
Exhibition brochure, Photography Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island
(November, 2003). Curator of loan exhibition featuring past and present works by this photographer;
assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay, Biographical Overview and
Exhibition Checklist.
Translations/Transgressions
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 2002).
Curator of 15-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Hannah Barrett, Nancy Burson, Patti Capaldi,
Linda Cordell, Bryan Crockett, Judy Fox, Wenda Gu, Viktor Koen, John Kuchle, Scott Morgan, Rosamond
W. Purcell, Casey Reas, Alexis Rockman, Gary Schneider and Lisa Young. Assembled and drafted
illustrated full color booklet containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist and Eugenics
Bibliography. Accompanied by A Reference Guide to Eugenics and Eugenics-Related Texts
Produced Summer, 2002 on the occasion of the above exhibition by Summer Interns under the direction
of J. Tolnick; containing a relational eugenics geneology.
Eccentric Landscape
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 2003).
Curator of 10-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Peter Brooke, Marcia Clarke, Rob DeMar,
Dawn Marie Guernsey, Louise LeBourgeois, Vicky Perry, Scott Richter, Clifford Smith, Brian Shure and
Jonathan Tucker; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and Checklist.
Lighthouse: recent works by Ernest Silva
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (June, 2001).
Curator of loan exhibition featuring works by this San Diego painter and sculptor; assembled and drafted
illustrated brochure containing Acknowledgments, Introductory Essay by critic Leah Ollman, Biographical
Note & Exhibition Checklist.
A Celebration of Aging: Harriet Casdin-Silver & Kevin Brown
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October 2001).
Curator of exhibition featuring sound holographic installation; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure
containing Acknowledgments by Casdin-Silver, Introduction by myself; Essays by Arthur Dion; A.D.
Coleman and Kevin Brown; Biographies and Checklist.
Imprints, Punctures & Other Pointed Maneuverings
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 2002).
Curator of 5-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Jean Blackburn, Dave Cole, Irene Lawrence,
Fran Siegel and Merle Temkin; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay
and Exhibition Checklist.
The Natural Environment: Hopelessly Unstrung or Pausing to Rewind? (in 2 parts)
Exhibition brochure, Photography Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island
(September, 2001). Curator of 21-artist group loan exhibition featuring photographs by Andrew Borowiec,
Gary Braasch, Marilyn Bridges, Laurie Brown, Edward Burtynsky, Lois Conner, Robert Dawson, Joseph E.B.
Elliott, Terry Evans, Robert Frank, Peter Goin, Erik Gould, Emmet Gowin Doug Hall, David T. Hanson, Mark
Klett, Elaine Ling, Richard Misrach, Chris Rainer, Stephen Shore and Tim Sledz; assembled and drafted
illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and Artist Checklist.
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Wrapped Objects by Peri Schwartz
Exhibition brochure, Corridor Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (February,
2002) Curator of loan exhibition featuring pastel drawings by this NY painter; assembled and drafted
illustrated brochure containing Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Figure/Disfigure
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 2001).
Curator of 8-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Vincent Ciniglio, Mike Cockrill, Diane Edison,
Frank Holliday, Rima Jabbur, Barbara Lubliner, Elizabeth Olbert, and Carol Radsprecher; assembled and
drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Eva Yeh: Sculpture in Paper
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (June, 2000)
Curator of loan exhibition featuring paper sculpture by this Chinese born, German resident artist;
assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Investigating the Department of Special Collections
Visitors’ Guide to Corridor Gallery exhibition (December, 2000) containing Historical Overview; About the
Exhibition; Narrative Checklist, 8 pages.
Offsite Exhibition: Engaging Curiosities/Selections from University Collections/ URI Foundation
Developed with Curatorial Interns, Managing Curator and author of Guide to the Exhibition (October,
2003) with catalogue entries for all works exhibited off-site, at the University of Rhode Island Foundation,
media ranging from contemporary painting through illustrated books through teaching specimens. Loans
from multiple departmental lenders, University wide. 11pages.
The War in Vietnam—Afterimages
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (September,
1999). Curator of 9-artist group loan exhibition featuring photographs by Craig J. Barber, Reenie Barrow,
Mitch Epstein, Marie-France Hickman, Thomas Morrissey, William Short, Don Unrau, Wendy V. Watriss and
David Wohl with contributions by RI Vietnam Veterans and members of the Southeast Asian community;
assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Simple Statements
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 2000).
Curator of 7-artist group loan exhibition featuring painting and sculpture by Pat Adams, Phoebe Adams,
Lavi Daniel, Max Gimblett, Peter Soriano, Oona Stern and Jason Stewart; assembled and drafted
illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
Fred Sandback Sculpture
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (March, 1999). A
monographic installation; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and
Biography.
Unlocking the Grid: Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 1999).
Curator of 10-artist group loan exhibition featuring painting and sculpture by Michel Alexis, Natalie Alper,
Gregory Coates, Heather Hutchison, Jo Ann Rothschild, Sean Scully, Joan Snyder, Esther Solondz, Peter
Stevens, Denyse Thomasos. Assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essay and
Exhibition Checklist.
Published article in Contemporary Impressions, 2000 issue, based on “Big Impressions” text (below)
Big Impressions: the contemporary large-scale print
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (November,
1999). Curator of 10-artist group loan exhibition featuring large-scale prints by Leslie Bostrom, Robert
Broner, Patt Durr, Nancy Friese, Joan Hall, Barbara A. Harder, Anne Queeney McKeown, Peter E. Marcus,
Kathleen Sidwell and Kim E. Tester; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory
Essay and Exhibition Checklist.
‘The Beauty of Utility’: Lewis Hine, Joseph McCarthy and Industrial Rhode Island in
Photography
Produced Guide to the Photography Gallery exhibition in final edited form, working with undergraduate
honors students enrolled in History of Art course with Prof. Ronald J. Onorato. (Fall, 1999)
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The Visual Arts Program of Sea Grant [Rhode Island]—The First Ten Years
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (June, 1998).
Executive Curator of 10-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by former Sea Grant Award Winners
from throughout New England; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing Introductory Essays
and Descriptive Checklist.
Elusive Traces
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (February, 1998).
Curator of 6-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Ron Ehrlich, Carol Hepper, Juliet Holland, Knut
Wolfgang Maron, Rebecca Smith, and Kunié Sugiura; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure
containing essay.
Go, Figure!: the temptation continues...
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 1997).
Curator of 5-artist group loan exhibition featuring works by Grace Hartigan, Lester Johnson, Judith
Linhares, Richard Rappaport, Nancy Spero; assembled and drafted illustrated brochure containing essay.
Al Loving in the Nineties: the collaged wallworks
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January, 1997).
Curator of monographic loan exhibition; assembled brochure showcasing a new Interview with Al Loving
undertaken by Studio Art Prof. Robert Dilworth.
The Rhode Island State House Centennial Exhibition, a Traveling Exhibition
48-page illustrated exhibition booklet and collaboration with three art and architectural historians, based
on an historical centennial exhibition held Nov. - December, 1996, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries.
Organizing curator of this project. Assembled all brochure materials and drafted 14-page Discursive
Chronology on the Rhode Island State House Years entitled "Much More Than The Sum Of Its Architectural
Parts."
"The Uneasy Surface": points of turbulence in contemporary art
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (September1996).
Curator of contemporary painting and sculpture loan exhibition, assembled and drafted brochure
containing essay. Exhibition featured works by progenitor painters Mark Tobey, Ronald Bladen, and Joan
Snyder, along with paintings by Suzanne McClelland, Sandi Slone, Linda Stojak, and Leslie Wayne and a
special installation by Mia Westerlund Roosen.
"In Memoriam": daguerreotype death portraits from the Collection of Stanley B. Burns MD
Exhibition brochure, Photography Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (March,
1996). Curator of historic photography loan exhibition, assembled and drafted brochure containing essay.
Figuration Forward: a combined exhibition featuring Paintings by Jill Moser and Wall and
wall/floor sculptures by Catherine Lee
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October 1995).
Curator of two-artist loan exhibition, assembled and drafted brochure containing essay.
"Art and Academics: a special meeting ground," professional position article, Museum Views
Autumn: 1995, p.2.
"Plans" & "Elevations": a combined exhibition featuring Paintings by Maggi Brown and
Sculptures by Ken Greenleaf
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October 1995).
Curator of two-artist loan exhibition, assembled and drafted brochure containing comparative essay.
All About Edges: an exhibition of contemporary abstract painting by Mary Heilmann; David
Reed; Michael Venezia; Merrill Wagner
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery,Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (January 1995).
Curator of four-artist loan exhibition, assembled and drafted brochure containing essay characterizing
contemporary abstraction.
"Unstill" Still Life: Contemporary Painting in Oil
Exhibition brochure, Main Gallery,Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 1994).
Curator of thirteen-artist loan exhibition, assembled and drafted brochure containing essay characterizing
the trope of contemporary still life.
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Basins & Fountains by Howard Ben Tré
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galeries, University of Rhode Island (February, 1994).
Co-curator of monographic loan exhibition of public art process works, cast glass sculptures and drawings.
Assembled and drafted catalogue materials with Ronald J. Onorato, guest essayist.
Carol Ann Carter: Celebrating Difference
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October, 1993).
Curator of monographic loan exhibition of recent mixed-media paintings and sculptures. Assembled and
drafted all catalogue materials.
Under Wraps: Ouint-Rose Sculpture
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries,University of Rhode Island (February 1993).
Curator of monographic loan exhibition of recent polychromed paper sculptures. Assembled and drafted all
catalogue materials for exhibition to travel to Portland, Maine, Museum of Art.
"Frame Up!"
Exhibition catalogue, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island (October 1992).
Curator for 7- artist loan exhibition of recent and contemporary paintings excited by the frame. Assembled
and drafted all catalogue materials, including historical introductory essay.
Interstices: Maine Artists Invitational 1989
Juror's Statement, exhibition catalogue, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine (September 1989). Cocurated with Suzette Lane McAvoy, Farnsworth curator.
*Over Here: Modernism, The First Exile, 1914 – 1919
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University (April 1989). Contributed essay entitled
"Collecting American Modernism and Modernists" to 20-author scholarly catalogue accompanying largescale loan exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography and drawing produced during WWI in America.
Designed and supervised installation of exhibition and production of catalogue. Exhibition reviewed by
Hilton Kramer, The New Criterion, summer 1989. (Primary exhibition organizer.)
Pulled and Pressed: Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Exhibition checklist, David Winton Bell Gallery, (September 1987). Curated Permanent Collection
exhibition of recent and contemporary prints and multiples; supervised graduate student assistants in
cataloguing, preparation and installation, and produced checklist and full-color poster.
Alternative Supports: Contemporary Sculpture on the Wall
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery,(April 1987). Guest Curator for large-scale loan exhibition
of recent and contemporary wall sculpture (23 women artists). Assembled and drafted all catalogue
materials, including historical introductory essay. Worked with designer to supervise design and
production of catalogue and poster. Exhibition reviewed in Art News, November 1987.
Italo Scanga: Recent Sculpture and Drawings
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, (April 1986). Co-organized exhibition with director of Bell
Gallery; exhibition circulated to 3 additional New England venues through NE Foundation for the Arts
(NEFA). Catalogue essay on Scanga by William H. Jordy.
From the Permanent Collection: European Etchings of the Nineteenth Century
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, (November 1985). Supervised two graduate interns in
researching and writing eighty entries on works selected from the Permanent Collection. Editor,
proofreader and supervisor for mainframe-produced catalogue: also contributed introductory essay and
several catalogue entries.
Allan Wexler: Small Buildings and Furniture
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery (September 1985.). Assembled all catalogue material,
designed catalogue and oversaw production with graphic designer.
*Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, (April 1985). Contributed essay, "Abstract Painting during
the War-- A Background," and extensive graph of exhibition histories of all painters exhibited. Designed
and supervised production of major scholarly catalogue with Director of Electronic Publications, Brown
University. Editor and proofreader for all entries drafted by graduate students, Program in History of Art
and Architecture. Also oversaw production of accompanying mainframe-produced booklet that charted, in
detail, exhibition data for all painters. Exhibition co-sponsored by Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy
Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, with travel to The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, New
York (summer, 1985). Exhibition reviewed in The New York Times. (Primary exhibition organizer.)
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Hanging Out: Stereographic Prints from the Collection of Samuel Wagstaff Jr. at the J. Paul
Getty Museum
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, (October 1984). Assembled all catalogue materials,
including selection of guest essayist, stereographic images and printing of plates with photographer.
Worked with designer and supervised production of catalogue. Catalogue sold out. (Primary exhibition
organizer).
Some Photoqraphic Uses of Color
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, (May 1984). Assembled and drafted all catalogue
materials, including introduction, for guest faculty curator Hugh Townley, Department of Art, Brown
University.
Painting: Gregory Amenoff Howard Hodgkin. Melissa Miller, Katherine Porter. Joan Thorne.
Susan Whyne
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, (November 1983). Assembled and drafted biographic
materials for catalogue and advised guest faculty curator, Wendy Edwards, Department of Art, Brown
University, on catalogue production.
The Thirties
Exhibition catalogue, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, Massachusetts (February 1983).
Contributed essay and entries for all objects, supervised design and production of catalogue to which all
Liberal Arts faculty contributed.
The Classical Spirit in American Portraiture
Exhibition catalogue, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University (February 1976). Scholarly group
exhibition project; contributed essay entitled "Public Patronage" and several catalogue entries on 19thcentury American sculpture and prints.
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