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Artist pension Trust
APT New York Participating Artists   
The first Artist Pension Trust was introduced in New York in Spring 2004. Formal operations began at the end of 2004. Artists are selected throughout the city and across the region to participate in this new and unique investment program. Below is information on APT New York's Director and its Curatorial Committee Members.
 
 
Pamela Auchincloss, Director

Pamela Auchincloss has dedicated her entire professional career to work in both the commercial and the institutional fields of the art business. From 1980 through 1993 she owned and operated a commercial art gallery, first in California and then in New York City. In 1993 she reorganized the business, directing her interests and efforts towards education and curatorial services. During the next twelve years, Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management organized and circulated more than 75 monographic and thematic group exhibitions to university art galleries, regional art museums and contemporary art centers. In addition to exhibition management, the company also advised on strategic planning, publication planning and distribution and board development.

Ms. Auchincloss has served on numerous community and arts-related boards including the University of California, Santa Barbara Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees for the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, the University Art Museum, UCSB, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Housing Works, Inc. and Pratt Institute. She is also a member of the Council on the Environment of New York City, a mayoral appointment.

 
 
Dan Cameron, Curatorial Committee Member

An art critic and independent curator based in New York since 1979, Cameron has published over two hundred fifty texts on art in various international publications, including Artforum, Parkett, Frieze and Flash Art. He has contributed to numerous museum catalogues for such institutions as the Royal Academy of Art, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. As an independent curator, Cameron has organized large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art at several major venues, including Art and its Double (Fundacio 'la Caixa,' Barcelona, 1986); Aperto, Biennale di Venezia (1988), Cocido y Crudo (Centro Renia Sofia, Madrid, 1994-95), Threshold (Fundação de Serralves, Oporto, 1995); and Theory of Leisure (Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, 2002). He was most recently curator for the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, September-November 2003.

Dan Cameron was Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York City, from 1995 through 2005. In his time at the New Museum, Cameron organized or co-organized exhibitions over two dozen exhibitions, including Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including her Limits (Nov 1996 – Jan 1997); Unland: Doris Salcedo (Mar-Jun 1998); Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts (Oct 1998 – Jan 1999); Fever: the Art of David Wojnarowicz (Jan-Jun 1999); Cildo Meireles (Nov 1999 – Mar 2000); Pierre et Gilles (Sept 2000 – Jan 2001); Paul McCarthy (Feb-May 2001); William Kentridge (Jun –Sept 2001); Living inside the Grid (Feb-Jun 2003); Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez (Jul-Sept 2003); and East Village USA (Dec 2004 – Mar 2005).

Cameron has lectured at museums and universities around the world, served on numerous grant and fellowship panels and is a board member of several committees, including the Acquisitions Committee of the art collection for Fundacio 'la Caixa,' Barcelona. He attended Syracuse University and Bennington College, earning a B.A. in 1979.

 
 
Clarissa Dalrymple, Curatorial Committee Member

Clarissa Dalrymple is a private art dealer and curator. She began her career in the arts in 1983 as the assistant to Nicole Klagsbrun - the then-Director of the Paul Olsen Gallery in New York. In early 1984, Dalrymple and Klagsburn opened the Cable Gallery, where they represented acclaimed artists such as James Nare, Haim Steinbach, Clegg & Guttman, Karl Apfelschnitt, Chris Wool, Ashley Bickerton, Barbara Ess, Dan Graham and many more.

Ms. Dalrymple has curated shows at Stein/Gladstone Gallery, Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, to name a few. In 1992, at Stein/Gladstone, Dalrymple curated an illustrious 12-person group show of the Young Brits featuring Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Rachel Whiteread. In addition, she curated a 3-person exhibition at Stein/Gladstone that featured Nancy Rubin, Sam Reveles, and Matthew Barney.

Having dedicated her professional life to discovering and supporting emerging artists and their work, Ms. Dalrymple is a constant monitor for the next great presence in the art world. Her ideas and opinions are widely respected among other prominent curators, dealers and collectors. Ms. Dalrymple was born and educated in England and has lived in New York since 1968.

 
 
Simon Watson, Curatorial Committee Member

Simon Watson is a 24-year veteran of New York's art scene. From 1979-1991 he directed a commercial gallery (Baskerville Watson Gallery) dedicated to exhibiting emerging visual artists. The gallery made its reputation by spotting outstanding emerging talent - every Whitney Biennial since 1985 has included at least two artists he has exhibited. Now, important New York galleries including Paula Cooper, Deitch Projects, Barbara Gladstone, Marianne Goodman, Jay Gorney, Anton Kern, Leo Koenig, Matthew Marks and Metro Pictures represent these artists.

In 1993, Mr. Watson founded the non-profit arts group Downtown Arts Projects. Dedicated to emerging artists, DAP has presented more than 5,000 artists in all disciplines through the annual Downtown Arts Festival, a career development website named EmergeProject.net and the arts guide Simon Says.

Committed to encouraging greater public awareness of contemporary art and artists, Mr. Watson has led more than 500 public art tours to galleries and museums and is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts as well as New York University. He has been a guest lecturer at dozens of universities (CalArts, Columbia University, Hunter College, Yale University) and museums (Bronx Museum, Dia, New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art). He serves on the Boards of Swiss Institute and RUSH Arts, and Advisory Boards of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies and The New School's Vera List Center. A passionate art collector, Mr. Watson received a BA in art history from Williams College.

 
 

For more information, please contact:

APT New York
ny@aptglobal.org
Tel: +1 212 871 1011
Fax: +1 212 871 1015