About
I currently work as Executive Editor at The Drawing Center in New York, and am Editor-at-Large for Art Review magazine. I’m a member the editorial board of Artworld Salon and a co-founder of, and partner in, Boyd Level LLC, a private curatorial firm that specializes in contemporary art.
I have a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University and a B.Arch from Cornell University. I have taught courses in modern and contemporary art and architectural history, critical writing, critical theory, and the history of photography at Columbia University, The New School (Parsons) and The Sotheby’s Institute.
“Consecutive Matters” is a title lifted from the dialogues that Hollis Frampton and Carl Andre conducted between 1962 and 1963. Frampton joined Andre at his place in Brooklyn, usually on the weekends, and over a few beers, the two would take turns at Andre’s typewriter putting to paper their responses to each others’ thoughts on, and criticisms of, everything from sculpture and painting to film and Frampton’s own experiments with photography. The dialogs offer a remarkably clear look at the mindset of two of the twentieth century’s most important artists and at the crystallization of a larger aesthetic sensibility that shaped an entire generation of artists and intellectuals. Each of the dialogs’ titles began in the same manner: “On Painting…,” “On Sculpture…, ” On 40 Photographs…,” and ended with the same phrase: “…and consecutive matters.”
You can contact me at jonathantdneil (at) artreview (dot) com