Nora Burnett Abrams is the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, she has organized over thirty exhibitions and authored or contributed to nearly a dozen accompanying publications. Recent projects have highlighted unusual or unknown episodes in artists' careers, such as Basquiat Before Basquiat (2017), as well as the first survey of Senga Nengudi's R.S.V.P.
sculptures (2014). She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Drew Sawyer is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator, Photography, at the Brooklyn Museum, where he recently organized Garry Winogrand : Color (2019) and Liz Johnson Artur : Dusha (2019).
Previously, he was Head of Exhibitions and the William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. His exhibitions accompanied by catalogues are Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 (2019) ; / Too Sing America : The Harlem Renaissance at 100 (2018) ; Red Horizon : Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010 (2017) ; Golden State (2017) ; The Sun Placed in the Abyss (2016), and 'Social Forces Visualized' : Photography and Scientific Charity, 1900-1920 (2011).
His other exhibitions include Isaac Julien : Looking for Langston (2018) ; Family Pictures (2018) ; Allan Sekula : Aerospace Folktales and Other Stories (2017) ; and Lucy Raven : Low Relief (2016). Sawyer holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University. George Lange is a photographer based in Pittsburgh, PA.
