An advertising painting for a Paris art dealer connects art, society, gender, culture, and the art world. Early gallery work in Houston provided access to curators and led to an internship at the Menil Collection and graduate study at Williams College. Seeing admired figures build lives around art, beauty, design, and research became a model for personal possibilities. Nonfiction by Olivia Laing is valued for connecting people, events, and art objects across fields and times into cohesive personal storytelling. Listening to Amapiano and following interests beyond an artist’s work supports deeper insight. Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections informs curatorial thinking through dream analysis, including the origin story of Ruby City. Art is described as for pleasure, offering visual and conceptual stimulation, knowledge, awareness of others’ experiences, and genuine connection.
"Watteau's L'Enseigne de Gersaint (1720-21), an advertising sign painted to hang outside a Paris art dealer's shop! It's beautiful and manages to fold in art, society, gender, culture and the art world itself. It's a work that continues to intrigue me."
"As a high school senior, I worked at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. I had an interest in art but no knowledge of the contemporary art world. Devin and Hiram were genuinely passionate about art. They knew most of Houston's curators, so I gained early access to institutional figures, which led to an internship at the Menil Collection and, with Hiram's support, a Master's at Williams College."
"What mattered most was seeing these people I really admired making their way in life with art, beauty, design and research at its centre and recognising their lives were a model for what mine could look like."
"Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung. Our founder, Linda Pace, was deeply engaged with dream analysis. Ruby City came about because she dreamed of the building, sketched it and contacted David Adjaye in 2007 to make it real. The more I explore the subject, the more artists I find who share that investment, so this reading is also feeding my curatorial thinking in unexpected ways."
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