Independent curator + consultant for artists' estates and foundations
Recent and Upcoming Projects
The Estate of Paul Gardère at the Independent 20th Century art fair in collaboration with Soft Network
September 8–11, 2022
September 15, 2022–March 5, 2023
Rosemary Mayer in Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 9, 2022–February 18, 2023
Shirley Gorelick: Family at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
June 23–July 29, 2022
"Shirley Gorelick: Painting and Personhood"
video interviews with Jessica Bell Brown, Andrew Hottle,
David Ourlicht and Susan Fisher Sterling
June 2022
Shirley Gorelick in How Do We Know The World? at The Baltimore Museum of Art
November 14, 2021–September 2023
Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching at Lenbachhaus, Munich
June 11–September 18, 2022
Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching at the Swiss Institute, New York
September 9, 2021–January 9, 2022
Pleasures and Possible Celebrations:
Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments, 1977-1981 at Gordon Robichaux, New York
May 2–June 27, 2021
Light Over Plastic Clouds at CPM, Baltimore
Fabienne Lasserre, Rosemary Mayer, Yamini Nayar
March 20–May 8, 2021
Rosemary Mayer: Rods Bent Into Bows
Fabric Sculptures and Drawings 1972-1973 at ChertLüdde, Berlin
September 4–December 19, 2020
Max Warsh is co-director of the Estate of Rosemary Mayer, consultant for The Shirley Gorelick Foundation and co-director of Soft Network.
As an independent curator and consultant for artists’ estates and foundations, Max Warsh focuses on building relationships with galleries and institutions to shape exhibitions and acquisitions that further the goals of an artist’s career and legacy. Coordinating exhibitions, events, publications, research and archive development, Warsh creates opportunities for curators, critics, art historians and other artists to discover and engage with an artist’s work. Throughout this process, Warsh strengthens the public’s awareness of artists by contextualizing their work both historically and in relation to contemporary artists of the present day.
Max Warsh works in a studio shared by the Stan VanDerBeek Archive, the Estate of Rosemary Mayer and The Shirley Gorelick Foundation. Complementing their respective independent work, this consortium is establishing the non-profit Soft Network to support artists' estates collaboratively. Through curatorial projects and an estate-in-residence program, Soft Network provides a platform, strategic planning and services for estates and foundations in the early stages of their development. Soft Network collectively builds and shares resources with the goal of strengthening opportunities for the artist estate and foundation community.
From 2017 to 2021, Max Warsh was the Director of Programming at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA); and from 2010 to 2017, he was co-founder and director of the artist-run gallery Regina Rex, New York. In addition to organizing numerous exhibitions at galleries in New York and other cities, Warsh has also worked as a curatorial consultant for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Assistant Editor at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Warsh received his MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002.
As an artist, Warsh’s artwork has been included in exhibitions at the Queens Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the Eduardo Sívori Museum in Buenos Aires, AR and the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Ireland; and galleries such as CPM, Baltimore; The Pit, Los Angeles; Longhouse Projects, New York; New Capital, Chicago; Shoot the Lobster, New York and others.
Image captions: (Top image) Installation view of Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching at Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2022; (Middle image) installation view of Shirley Gorelick: Family at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, 2022; (bottom image) installation view of Light Over Plaster Clouds at CPM, Baltimore, 2021.
contact: maxwarsh@gmail.com
