CONTRIBUTORS

CHRISTOPHER BLAY is an artist, writer, and curator. His art practice includes photography, sculpture, video, and performance. Exhibitions include Christopher Blay: SpLaVCe Ship at Barry Whistler Gallery and in Marfa, Texas. He penned essays for Richard Prince and Letitia Huckaby, and is the chief curator of the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where he mounted his inaugural show, David-Jeremiah: Early Career Survey, about whom he writes in Art Influencers

DANIELLE AVRAM is a curator and writer who has held positions at Texas Woman’s University; Southern Methodist University; The Power Station, and The Pinnell Collection, among others. She has an MFA from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, and a BA from UT Dallas. In The Sounds of Silence she writes of Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point, on view on the grounds of the Amon Carter, which examines endangered and extinct bird species.

LAUREN CHRISTENSEN has over two decades of experience in advertising and marketing. As a principal with L+S Creative Group, she consults with a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and businesses in many sectors, including retail, real estate, and hospitality. Lauren is a Dallas native and a graduate of SMU with a BA in advertising. Her clean, contemporary aesthetic and generous spirit make Lauren the perfect choice to art direct Patron

Nancy

COHEN ISRAEL is a writer, art historian, and educator at the Meadows Museum. Always looking forward to Patron ’s annual Influencers issue, this year she was delighted to profile Joshua King and Shane Pennington, the founders of AURORA. Another highlight was touring the Montgomery Collection with Jeffrey Montgomery and curator Luigi Zeni. She looks forward to enjoying it with many more visits to the Crow Museum.

LEE CULLUM is a journalist covering economics, politics, and public policy. Nothing has brought her more pleasure, however, than writing about the arts. For Patron she reviews the Noltemy years at the Dallas Symphony, and she has been intrigued by the emergence of two teams crucial to the organization: the Kim Noltemy / Terry Loftis group heading business operations and, on the artistic side, the happy band around Fabio Luisi and Katie McGuinness.

DARRYL RATCLIFF is an artist and poet with a writing and curatorial practice whose work engages communities and mobilizes social issues. He builds collaborative, durational cultural projects that promote civic engagement, and increase community health. As a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 10 Fellow, he works on prototypes addressing climate change and racial equity. He is also the founder of Gossypion Investments.

Chris Byrne

Chris Byrne is the coeditor (with Keith Mayerson) of Frank Johnson, Pioneer of American Comics Vol.

1: Wally’s Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and the Bowser Boys (19461950), published by Fantagraphics in 2023. He is the curator of Peter Halley: Paintings and Drawings 1980-81, currently on view at Karma and Craig Starr Gallery in NYC, and wrote the essay for the accompanying catalogue.

LINDA P. CUSTARD is a benefactor for the arts, education, and social services and is a partner of Custard & Pitts Investment Company, LP. She served as trustee of SMU and was honored as Trustee Emerita. She chairs the advisory council of the Meadows Museum. Husband William A. Custard and she endowed the Meadows School of the Arts’ Museum Director and Centennial Chair.

Spain’s H.M. King Felipe VI awarded her the Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Católica.

VICTORIA GOMEZ graduated from the University of North Texas in December 2022. Her practice includes editorial and fine art photography while her personal work focuses on themes regarding femininity, identity, culture, and intersectionality. For Patron, she brought her camera to an artist’s studio, museum, exhibition space, a filmmaker’s home, and outdoor locales —The Texas Theatre and Carpenter Park— to capture this year’s crop of Art Influencers

EVE HILL-AGNUS is a writer, editor, and translator with roots in France and California. She has been a teacher of literature and journalism; an awardwinning dining critic who also covers art and dance; and a freelance writer/editor of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Her joy recently has been translation, whether the translation of one language to another or of art into words. Eve explores the Green Family Art Foundation's summer show and Motherwell’s blockbuster exhibition in A Legacy Looms Large

BRANDON

KENNEDY is an occasional artist, book scout/collector, curator, and writer who also serves as a Texas Regional Representative for Bonhams Auctioneers. This September sees the publication of Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry from UT Press, in which he profiles the bookman’s early scouting days. In these pages, the former student of Vernon Fisher pays tribute to the late North Texas artist and educator.

Extended through October 15, 2023

Organized by the Denver Art Museum in collaboration with The Phoebus Foundation, Saints and Sinners explores the artistic styles and subjects that flourished between the 1400s and 1600s in Flanders—better known today as the Southern Netherlands. Flanders was home to revolutionary artists, including Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, and Anthony van Dyck, who found new ways to depict reality, portray humanity, and tell stories that continue to resonate with viewers today. Featuring roughly 140 extraordinary works of art in a variety of media, from paintings to manuscripts, the exhibition opens a doorway into the past, telling the story of enterprising townspeople, prosperous cities, and an ever-developing society. These stunning artworks also detail stories about dreams and ambitions, fears and desires, and what it means to be human.

Learn more and get tickets at saintsandsinners.dma.org

PUBLISHER | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Terri Provencal terri@patronmagazine.com

ART DIRECTION

Lauren Christensen

DIGITAL MANAGER/PUBLISHING COORDINATOR

Anthony Falcon

COPY EDITOR

Sophia Dembling

PRODUCTION

Michele Rodriguez

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Danielle Avram

Christopher Blay

Chris Byrne

Steve Carter

Nancy Cohen Israel

Lee Cullum

Linda Custard

Eve Hill-Agnus

Brandon Kennedy

Darryl Ratcliff

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

A Sea of Love

Beckley

Bruno

Kent Barker

Tamytha Cameron

T. Charles Erickson

Exploredinary

Victoria Gomez

Joan Marcus

Chris Plavidal

Steven Probert

Chadwick Redmon

Kaitlyn Saragusa

John Smith

Eric Stoner

Kevin Todora

Can Turk

Jonathan Zizzo

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