Please join Eli Ridgway in Gallery 200 for a panel discussion with Amy Ellingson, Cathy Kimball and Charlotte Eyerman. The three will discuss issues surrounding abstraction and technology, gesture and mark-making, and abstraction and its metaphors.

Cathy Kimball is the Executive Director and Chief Curator at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. During her tenure she has implemented many new programs, authored numerous catalogues and curated dozens of exhibitions, including Amy Ellingson's 2014 solo exhibition, Iterations & Assertions. Prior to the ICA, she served as Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. Before moving to California in 1995, Cathy Kimball was Curator at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Medieval Studies with a concentration in Art History and Classics from Skidmore College. 

Dr. Charlotte Eyerman is a consultant, connecting art, ideas, and people, based in Carmel, CA. Presently, she provides strategic advisement to Barrett Barrera Projects, a multi-disciplinary, international art enterprise based in St. Louis, MO, among other projects. Previously, she served as Director and CEO of the Monterey Museum of Art (2013-2016); Director of FRAME (French American Museum Exchange), North America (2010-2013); Director at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (2009-2010); Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum (2006-2009); and Assistant Curator of Paintings, Getty Museum (2002-2006). She has published and lectured extensively on modern and contemporary art. Major exhibitions include Courbet and the Modern Landscape (Getty Museum, 2006); Action/Abstraction (Saint Louis Art Museum, 2008); and Cubisti Cubismo (Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 2013). Dr. Eyerman earned Ph.D. and MA degrees in the History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in English at College of the Holy Cross. In 2014, she was named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

Amy Ellingson’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and in Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Notable exhibitions include Iterations & Assertions at the San Jose ICA, Bay Area Now 3 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstractionat the Crocker Art Museum; and Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. Her work is held in various public and corporate collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts. Amy Ellingson lives and works in San Francisco.