Karen McCready - About - Independent Curators International

Karen McCready was a print publisher, gallery owner, and writer. In 1968 she graduated from Austin College with a degree in art and worked with the Neiman Marcus window design department. After moving to New York in the early 1970s she joined Pace Editions, the print-publishing arm of Pace Gallery in 1972. In 1982 McCready was appointed Director of the New York branch of Crown Point Press, a San Francisco print publisher that has published prints by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, John Cage, Pat Steir, and Tom Marioni among many others. In 1996 she opened Karen McCready Fine Arts in Greenwich Village. Often collaborating with her husband and a fine art printer Jean Yves Noblet, McCready published artists’ prints and exhibited them in her gallery. Exhibitions included works by Sandy Gellis, Julia Jacquette, Lorna Simpson and Georgia Marsh. McCready was widely knowledgeable in many areas of the fine and applied arts and was an avid collector of ceramics, especially white porcelain. Her publications include Porcelain Traditions and New Visions, written with Jan Axel, and Art Deco and Modernist Ceramics.

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Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

West Hollywood, CA, USA West Hollywood, CA, USA New York, NY, USA Denver, CO, USA Las Vegas, NV, USA Houston, TX, USA Williamstown, MA, USA Gambier, OH, USA Cleveland, OH, USA

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Project 35

West Hartford, CT, USA Cape Town, South Africa Philadelphia, PA, USA Skopje, Macedonia Los Angeles, CA, USA Quito, Ecuador Dublin, Ireland Göteborg, Sweden Tirana, Albania Tirana, Albania Lagos, Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Sioux Falls, SD, USA Greenfield, MA, USA New Orleans, LA, USA Mobile, AL, USA Conway, SC, USA Taipei, Taiwan Storrs, CT, USA Indianapolis, IN, USA Springfield, MA, USA New York, NY, USA Portland, ME, USA Fitzroy, Australia Wooster, OH, USA London, England, UK East Jerusalem Berlin, Germany Biel, Switzerland Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Raleigh, NC, USA Greencastle, IN, USA Calgary, Canada Dakar, Senegal Moscow, Russia

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Team Spirit

Purchase, NY, New York Cleveland, OH, USA Vancouver, Canada Miami, FL, USA Scottsdale, AZ, USA Charlotte, USA Winnipeg, Canada Davenport, USA St. Louis, USA Salina, KA, USA

Journal

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: A Lenten Meditation on COVID-19 in New Orleans

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Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico

Austin, TX, USA New York, NY, USA Corpus Christi, USA Miami, FL, USA Amherst, USA Billings, USA Fresno, USA Grand Rapids, USA Camden, USA

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Joey Terrill