Creative Disturbance

Catherine Craft is Curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas and a scholar of Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-Dada. She is curator of the recent exhibition The Nature of Arp, the first North American museum survey of the artist Jean (Hans) Arp in three decades; she will also oversee that exhibition’s installation at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where it will open April 2019. Dr. Craft curated the Nasher’s 2015 touring retrospective Melvin Edwards: Five Decadesand, as with The Nature of Arp, was principal author of the accompanying publication. She was also a contributing author for Nasher exhibition catalogues on the artists Ann Veronica Janssens and Katharina Grosse; on Isamu Noguchi for Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943-1963; and Lara Almarcegui, Rachel Harrison, and Liz Larner for Nasher XChange: 10 Years. 10 Artists. 10 Sites. In 2017 she curated the group exhibition Paper into Sculpture, which examined contemporar