Tucker, Marcia, 1940-2006
American curator, art critic and museum director (1940-2006) received her Bachelor of Arts from Connecticut College in 1961. She then went on to earn a Masters of Art from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1965.
Starting out as an artist, she wrote reviews for art magazines, and cataloged and curated the private collections of Alfred and Margo Barr, and of William and Noma Copley. Finding she preferred the role of art interpreter and presenter, she accepted a position curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969, where she soon distinguished herself as an innovator and advocate for the underrepresented American artists residing outside New York City, as well as for women artists, African American artists, folk artists, and other sorts of "outsiders." insisting that the criteria for exhibiting contemporary art should never be those of the connoisseur, and Influenced by the political ferment of the times, Tucker selected work that challenged, disturbed, and resisted interpretation. For this she was roundly criticized but not deterred from what she later called "a career built on bad reviews." An early exhibit that she co-curated with James Monte, "Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials," was one of the first major exhibitions dedicated to Process Art or Post Minimalism. Frequently traveling around the country and especially to California for studio visits, she developed friendships with artists whose work she exhibited, such as Terry Allen, John Baldessari, and Bruce Nauman.
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