ATOA

06/05/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, June 8th at 7 pm EST on Zoom for a dialogue between photographer Joel Simpson in dialogue with photography critic, author, and historian A.D. Coleman.

Over the past two decades photographic artist Joel Simpson has traveled extensively in search of exceptional geological locations to furnish the raw material for his visions. He hopes that powerful images made from provocative details of the Earth's crust can strengthen the aesthetic bond, and therein the spiritual one, between humanity and a planet in distress.

A.D. Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2500 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman has contributed to such periodicals as ARTnews, Art On Paper, and Technology Review. His syndicated essays on mass media, new communication technologies, art, and photography have been featured in such periodicals as Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), European Photography (Germany), and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 31 countries.

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05/15/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, May 18th at 7 pm EST on Zoom for a dialogue between artist Doron Wolf in and professor Margaret Olin, Senior Lecturer Emeritus at Yale University.

Doron Wolf is a New York–based artist and figurative painter whose work examines how identity, intimacy, and perception are shaped through images in a visually saturated world. Working primarily in oil paint, Wolf creates carefully constructed scenes drawn from domestic interiors and everyday life, often mediated through mirrors, screens, reflections, and art historical reference. His paintings explore the tension between lived experience and its representation, blending contemporary visual culture with echoes of classical painting traditions.

Margaret Olin is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. While at Yale she taught seminars in visual theory, the visual culture of witnessing and commemoration, and the religious performance of space. She has a PhD in History of Culture from the University of Chicago and completed studies in photography at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Among her books are The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses in Jewish Art, Touching Photographs (Chicago, 2012), Photography and Imagination (New York and London, 2020), edited with Amos Morris-Reich, and the photographic text The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine, with David Shulman (2024).

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05/08/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, May 11th at 1 pm EST on Zoom for a dialogue between photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx and scientist Dr. Erwin R. Boer.

Wanda Tuerlinckx is a visual artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her work is included in the collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Amsterdam City Archives, among others. In collaboration with human-machine interaction scientist Dr. Erwin R. Boer, she has been working since 2016 on the 'Robot Portraits' series, which combines features of art photography with the scientific photographic narrative introduced in 1841 by William Fox Talbot, who in his own time reported on the technical and scientific revolution. Continuing this objective process of scientific registration, Wanda Tuerlinckx records the stages and realizations of robots through the reflexive eye of a 19th century camera, from a time when technological possibilities began to materialize in the world we live in today.

Dr. Erwin R. Boer has carved out a niche for himself in the cross-disciplinary interaction between humans and machines. His research focus has been twofold. On the one hand, he focuses on developing mathematical models of how humans interact with machines to design better interfaces and more intuitive machines that humans collaborate with rather than use as a tool. On the other hand, he pursues anything that fuels the intellectual satisfaction he gains from developing algorithms to solve all kinds of problems across disciplines including the dynamics and lifetime of mesoscale convective clouds, the trap and siphon properties of graphs, and the human factors of car crashes. He is known for his behavioral entropy theory which states that the entropy of a human’s behavior is a direct reflection of how well she understands her environment or her task as well as how much attention she pays.

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05/02/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, May 4th at 7pm EST on Zoom for a Legacy Broadcast of ATOA's Studio Museum in Harlem panel from September 29th, 2006.

Artists Talk on Art Celebrates the Studio Museum in Harlem's breakthrough from a small second floor loft space in 1968 to a $160 million building.

We applaud the striving, perseverance, and success of the Studio Museum with its $300 million overall fundraising of its enhanced upper Manhattan cultural flagship status.

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04/23/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, April 27th at 7pm EST on Zoom for a dialogue between artist Bean Finneran & curator Michael Klein.

Bean Finneran constructs sculptures with a simple elemental form, a hand rolled curve made from low fire clay. The sculptures are abstract…rings, cones, lines, and ovals that evoke the natural world. The geometry of a curve weaves, allowing construction and holding the forms together. The sculptures are always transitory, built in space for a given amount of time and then de-assembled. The same curves can be reconstructed, transformed in another location and another form with more curves or less curves or composed with added colors.

For 25 years, she worked with a visual avant-garde theater company, SOON 3. When touring, they had to figure out how to set up a performance in every new space, so she became comfortable and excited with the process of arriving in a space to compose and set up a sculptural landscape particular to that space. Finneran continues to make individual sculptures and landscapes of sculptures altering shapes and colors using the curves she already has, overpainting, or changing the texture of the sculpture by changing the diameter of the curves.

Michael Klein's expertise is as a private art dealer and freelance, independent curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists, estates, galleries and non-profit institutions providing management, curatorial and other consulting services. At the same time the company services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid-career and established artists.The company also organizes traveling exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.

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04/16/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, April 20th at 7 pm EST on Zoom for a dialogue between artist James Greco & curator Michael Klein.

James Greco is a New York based artist with a multi-disciplinary approach to his art practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, performance, site-specific time-based work, collage and drawing. His work is designed to be viewed not only as a singular object but orchestrationally arranged like set designs to express a poetic personal narrative. His use of gesture, image and materials exploration has developed into a body of work that is influenced by his own experiences with life, death, and love, beauty and decay, violence and destruction.

Michael Klein's expertise is as a private art dealer and freelance, independent curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists, estates, galleries and non-profit institutions providing management, curatorial and other consulting services. At the same time the company services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid-career and established artists.The company also organizes traveling exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.

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04/09/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, April 13th at 7pm EST on Zoom for a panel between artists Anonda Bell, Nancy Cohen and Shari Mendelson moderated by ATOA's Doug Sheer. The artists will talk about environmental awareness, utilizing recycling and object re-use in their work.

Shari Mendelson is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn and Upstate New York. Her sculptures are influenced by Roman, Greek, Islamic, and Mesopotamian art and are constructed primarily from found plastic bottles. Mendelson has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award (2024), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant (2017), and four New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (2017, 2011, 1997, and 1987).

Nancy Cohen’s work in handmade paper and glass examines resiliency in relation to the environment and the human body. Recent exhibitions include "Nancy Cohen: The State We’re In" at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC, "New Acquisitions" at The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; "Legacies in Paper: Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong and Helen Heibert" at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, GA, and "Sculpting with Paper: Hand Papermaking at Dieu Donne" at The Turchin Center for Visual Arts, Boone, NC.

Anonda Bell is an Australian born, NY/NJ based artist and curator. Trained as a painter and printmaker she works primarily with paper based installation. Her work addresses themes of feminism, the environment, psychology, and a quest to seek social narratives and stories about individuals which have been overlooked or suppressed. She is the Director & Chief Curator of the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University – Newark.

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04/02/2026

Artists Tina Dickey and Doug Sheer, both veteran oral historians, hold a dialogue on Monday, April 6th at 7 pm EST on Zoom to celebrate the launch of Dickey's book "Form for Movement's Sake: Studies with Hans Hofmann" (Yale U Press) in a conversation ranging from memories of the Hofmann era to thoughts on the creative process and art education, to insights on the energies created by form, color, and spatial movement, and how all this relates to now. Those attending receive a discount of 30% on this book if buying from yalebooks.com in April.

Douglas I. Sheer was born in 1944 in New York City to two artist parents, Benjamin Sheer and Marcia C. Sheer. He grew up in Greenwich Village and attended P. S. 41 where his classmates included future critic A. D. Coleman and future actor Robert De Niro. Both his parents had been a part of the Artists Union and WPA in the 1930s and the family spent time in Woodstock, NY and summers in Provincetown, MA.

They maintained two apartments, one an art studio, on the same 6th floor as their residential apartment in a Hudson Street building near the old Meat Market District. That studio faced north and overlooked the operating High Line Railroad. He was also exposed to the art teaching of Hans Hofmann, to whose class his parents went in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Artist, author, and under her stage name, documentary filmmaker, Tina Dickey, is a recognized authority on the teaching of painter Hans Hofmann. In 1982 after a decade of exhibiting black and white woodblocks, Dickey began to study painting with several former Hofmann students before conducting an oral history now in the Archives of American Art.

She has presented lectures and moderated panels on Hofmann’s teaching at a number of venues, including the New York Studio School, Art Students League, NYU, Hunter College, Pollock-Krasner House, and the Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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03/26/2026

Join ATOA on Monday, March 30th at 7 pm EST on Zoom for a talk from Wendy Smith and Ginnie Gardiner to discuss Gardiner’s recently published book “Ginnie Gardiner: Change and Continuity,” which focuses on her series of artworks created from 2018 to present. The talk will also contains a chronology where they will discuss the earlier phases of Gardiner’s work. Participants viewing the presentation will be provided with a link to view the online catalog, as well.

Ginnie Gardiner has built a distinguished career spanning four decades, featuring numerous solo and group exhibitions. Gardiner graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1974. From 1978 to 2005 she lived in New York City. In 2005 she moved upstate to the Village of Catskill.

Wendy Smith writes about literature and the arts for a variety of publications, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and American Theatre magazine. She is a contributing editor at the American Scholar, which has published more than a dozen of her essays. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Red Bull Theater in New York City. She is the author of “Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940.”

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03/23/2026

Postponed!

POSTPONED - Join ATOA on Monday, March 23rd at 1pm EST on Zoom for a talk from Artist Sam Lock in Dialogue with Curator Michael Klein.

Born in 1973 in London, Sam Lock now lives and works near Brighton with his spacious studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast. Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MAs in both Fine Art and Art History. During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome to explore the relationship between history, archaeology, and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.

Michael Klein's expertise is as a private art dealer and freelance, independent curator for individuals, institutions, and arts organizations. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists, estates, galleries, and non-profit institutions providing management, curatorial, and other consulting services. At the same time, the company services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid-career, and established artists. The company also organizes traveling exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.

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