Repositioning At Icp - The International Center of Photography - Brief Article

Afterimage, Sept, 1999

The International Center of Photography (ICP) has announced the appointment of Brian Wallis as Director of Exhibitions/Chief Curator. Wallis comes to ICP with varied experience as a curator, editor, scholar, critic and educator. He has organized such exhibitions as "Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business" and "Damaged Goods: Desire and Economy of the Object" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, where he was curator from 1982 to 1988, and "Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet" at Exit Art/The First World, and "This is Tomorrow Today" at P.S.

1/The Clocktower, both in New York City. Wallis served as a senior editor of Art in America from 1988 to 1994 and has written and edited several books including Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation (1984), Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists (1986), Constructing Masculinity (1995, with Maurice Berger and Simon Watson) and Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America ( 1999, with Marianne Weems and Philip Yenawine). Wallis lectures across the country and has taught at Yale University, Williams College, the City University of New York and in the ICP/NYU Masters in Photography program. His doctoral coursework was in American Studies.