Darrel Ellis: Regeneration

Antonio Sergio Bessa is chief curator emeritus at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. A distinguished scholar of concrete poetry, Bessa has organized several critically acclaimed exhibitions on themes related to text-based art. He also collaborated with Deborah Cullen at the 3rd Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan Puerto Rico, in 2012. His essays on concrete poetry have been published in several anthologies, journals, and websites including ubu.com and fahlstrom.com. He is the author of Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing, and editor of Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos, and Mary Ellen Solt: Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry.

Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery. His books include Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023), Fever, (Matte Editions, 2021), and Detour (Kehrer, 2001). Frame was a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including, Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery; Darrel Ellis at Art in General in NYC, and in 2023, Luxe, Calme, Volupte at Candice Madey, with co-curator Sergio Bessa. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), the International Center of Photography in New York, and for Strudelmedialive.

Dr. Leslie Cozzi, FAAR'18, is the Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the museum’s post-1900 works on paper and has organized numerous exhibitions, including A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone and Baltimore; Omar Ba: Political Animals; and Darrel Ellis: Regeneration. She was a 2017-2018 Rome Prize Winner at the American Academy in Rome. Dr. Cozzi previously served as the Curatorial Associate at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum. She holds a PH.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from Yale University.

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation on art, AIDS, and lesbian identity in the United States. Soboleva is currently working on a book project titled Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation, and co-editing (with Svetlana Kitto) the first major publication on the lesbian gallery Trial Balloon. Her writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Ursula Magazine, as well as various exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She teaches at the New School and NYU.