Jo Farb Hernández

Jo Farb Hernández is a folklorist, curator, and writer based in Watsonville, California and Catalunya, Spain.[1] Succeeding founder Seymour Rosen as the second Executive Director of Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments (or SPACES Archives), she helped develop a large public archive on the subject of art environments.[2]

Hernández is currently Director Emerita of the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery and Professor Emerita in the Department of Art and Art History at San Jose State University (SJSU).[3] She is a contributing editor for Raw Vision magazine (UK), serves on the International Editorial Board for Elsewhere – the International Journal of Self-Taught and Outsider Art (Australia) and on the Advisory Council for Bric-a-Brac Arte Outsider journal (Italy), and is a member of several national and international boards for nonprofit arts organizations and art environments.[4]

Career

Hernández served as Director and Chief Curator of the Triton Museum of Art from 1978 to 1985, and at the Monterey Museum of Art from 1985 to 1993. She also served as President of the California Association of Museums from 1991-1992.[4]

She has received the Chicago Folklore Prize from the American Folklore Society for her writing on the subject of art environments. Other awards include a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award (2008) and being named as the 2014 President's Scholar at SJSU.[5][2]

Hernández has published 50 books and exhibition catalogs, as well as almost 100 articles in journals and encyclopedias in four countries. She has curated 237 exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Switzerland, and Spain, and has received over 30 honors and awards, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Residence Award to undertake extended research in Spain for Singular Spaces.[2] She has been on juries for national, statewide, and regional exhibitions; and a panelist for the California Arts Council and the U.S. Information Agency.[6][7]

In 2014, she published Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments (2013).[8] Among Hernández's other book-length works are A. G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions (Harry N. Abrams, 1997) and Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain (2005). In addition, as part of her curatorial work, Hernandez has authored exhibition catalogue texts on the works of Lorser Feitelson, Shoji Hamada, Jeremy Anderson, August François Gay, and Misch Kohn, among others.[9][10]

Preservation

Hernández has been consulted on the preservation of art environment sites including Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain.[11][12] She has been particularly active in preserving the Spanish art environments of Josep Pujiula, Xicu Cabanyes, Francisco González Gragera, Blas García, and Julio Basanta.[13][14][15]

References

  1. ^ "Watsonville's Jo Farb Hernandez details newest book". Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  2. ^ a b c "President's Scholar: Jo Farb Hernández | SJSU Newsroom". blogs.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  3. ^ Del Guidice, Luisa (15 June 2014). Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts. Oxford University Press. p. 461. ISBN 978-0823260669.
  4. ^ a b "Jo Farb Hernandez | Department of Art and Art History | San Jose State University". www.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  5. ^ "Chicago Folklore Prize - American Folklore Society". afsnet.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Hallie Ford Museum of Art: Hernández Lecture | Willamette University". willamette.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-04-03. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  7. ^ Henry, Rowanne. "Fowler Museum exhibition explores the fanciful art environments of 8 self-taught Spanish artists". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  8. ^ "Book Review: Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments". Interesting Ideas. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  9. ^ Hernández, Jo Farb; Fern, Alan Maxwell; Kohn, Misch; Art, Monterey Museum of (1998). Misch Kohn: beyond the tradition. Monterey Museum of Art. ISBN 9780810963818.
  10. ^ "A.G. Rizzoli". SFMOMA. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  11. ^ "KPBS: Art Professor Shares Outsider Art Expertise | SJSU Newsroom". blogs.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  12. ^ Solanilla, José Luis (31 July 2014). "La experta norteamericana en arte bruto Jo Farb pide conservar la casa de Épila". heraldo.es. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  13. ^ "Garrell - El Tarzan d'Argelaguer". Vimeo. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  14. ^ Girona, Diari de. "Les cabanes". Retrieved 2017-08-13.
  15. ^ "La casa castillo del 'Gaudí extremeño' cruza el Atlántico | Vivienda | elmundo.es". www.elmundo.es. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
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