Elsewhere: Art and Community-Building Beyond the Center

Dr. Chaim will introduce the alternative space movement in the United States as it developed in the 1970s and discuss the influence of this research on her curatorial practice.

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art

Thursday, April 24 at 6:30 PM

Jordan Karney Chaim is a contemporary art historian and Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Her research and writing has centered on the intersections of art and community, focusing on artists and institutional histories in the United States. Her most recent writing can be found in East of Borneo, Hyperallergic and HereIn Journal.

Jordan holds a doctorate in the History of Art & Architecture from Boston University where she was a Raymond and Margaret Horowitz Foundation Fellow in American Art. Her dissertation, Do It Yourselves: Alternative Spaces and the Rise of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 1970-1990, examines the origins of three exhibition spaces (The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) in order to illustrate how a flourishing network of alternative spaces became one of Los Angeles’s most significant art-historical developments in the latter half of the twentieth century. At ICA San Diego, Jordan's curatorial work is artist-centered, collaborative, and aimed at providing career-building opportunities for exhibiting artists as well as those in the San Diego community.

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