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Andrea Gyorody

— Los Angeles
Independent curator, art historian, writer (recently departed Weisman Museum directorship)

She's not strictly Greenbergian — nobody credible under 60 is — but she is solidly in the formalist-materialist tradition. She is a specialist in 20th and 21st century European and American art, and her recent curatorial work includes a major Joseph Beuys exhibition for The Broad. ANDREA GYORODY Beuys is the artist who most seriously extended and challenged the Greenbergian legacy from within — he took the question of what a medium is and pushed it toward fat, felt, and the social body. A curator who can work with Beuys without reducing him to identity politics is exactly the kind of formalist-adjacent thinker you want.

She has also written for Artforum and Hyperallergic, and she is now fully independent ANDREA GYORODY — which means she's available, building her practice, and looking for projects with intellectual substance.
Why she fits The Threshold: Her Lilly Endowment grant project at Pepperdine was specifically about how art engages with life's major transitions — which is threshold thinking applied to institutional programming. She will recognize the framework and have something real to say about it.