Foreword

Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, curator, and critic currently based in Washington, DC, where she is a Professorial Lecturer in Art History at American University. She has published scholarship on the Franco-Cuban painter and polemicist Francis Picabia, Mequitta Ahuja, Crow artist Wendy Red Star, and the Nashville-based photographer Vesna Pavlović. Recent curatorial projects include Identity Measures, an exhibition of twenty-three southeastern artists for the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and the 2021 Atlanta Biennial, Of Care and Destruction, which featured thirty-four artists working and making across the southeast United States. Jordan’s art criticism and writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Practical, Baltimore Arts, X-Tra, MOMUS, and Burnaway. Her emphasis on contextualizing contemporary art and artists working in the American Southeast garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation “Short-Form” Writing Grant in 2017 and three nominations for The Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017, 2018, and 2019.