FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP
Bruce Beasley
Founder
For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley's work has been propelled by a lifelong fascination and passion for the depth and range of expression afforded by abstract shape. He has devoted a successful career to discovering and communicating the dynamic language within sculptural geometric shape. While still an undergrad art student at University of California, Berkeley, Beasley's work was selected to join the works of artists like Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Motherwell for the seminal Museum of Modern Art show, The Art of Assemblage. His works have since been shown over 200 exhibitions at major international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, France.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue
Director
In addition to her role as Director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation, Marlena Donohue is the Head of the Art History and a Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, CA. She is an internationally respected curator and critic. Her credits include international/national exhibitions installed at Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing; Teda Modern Art Museum; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Edward Cella Art + Architecture; the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and the ARA Arts Center, Seoul, Korea. Marlena Donohue has written on fine art, culture and critical theory for over two decades in the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Sculpture, USA Today, the London Arts Newspaper, artltd, Visual Art Source, ArtScene, and many others.
As part of her commitment to social advocacy, Marlena Donohue has worked closely for seven years with the Exceptional Children’s Foundation in Los Angeles to advocate for neural diversity and uniquely abled artists. Among other work that emphasizes issues of equity and community building, she is currently collaborating with formerly incarcerated, critically acclaimed, D.C.-based black painter and poet, Halim Flowers.
Taryn Nicoll
Managing Curatorial &
Research Associate
Taryn Nicoll is a visual artist and arts administrator with ten years of experience in art education, curatorial practice and public program development. Taryn was previously the Chief Curator for the City of Pembroke Pines in Florida, where she directed exhibitions and art education initiatives at the Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, Studio 18 Art Complex and the Charles F. Dodge City Center. Taryn has taught foundations, studio art and art history courses at Nova Southeastern University and Louisiana State University. Additionally, she has delivered lectures at academic institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Maryland; the University of Dresden, Germany, and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has curated exhibitions at venues such as Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, and many others.