PaintingsDIRECT.com - Our Writers

	Jeff Cannon
	Jeff Cannon has been working in the new-media industry since 1994 and is the recent founder of Marcis Interactive - an online production company that focuses on the development of branded content and content-based marketing programs. Coming from a diverse background of advertising and marketing, Jeff started his career producing for television and film before developing online marketing programs for such companies as Bank of America, Alpine Electronics, The Los Angeles Times, and Bikini.com. Most recently, Jeff published an Internet marketing book for McGraw Hill, and is in the process of launching three distinct online ventures that range from a weekly episodic adventure series targeting teens to a business-to-business networking concern. In addition, he is an ongoing lecturer, speaking at select events on Internet marketing and content development.
	Julie Chae
	Julie brings both art research and curatorial experience to PaintingsDIRECT. At the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia, she worked with artists, collectors, and museum professionals throughout the U.S. and Europe, and she gained experience in curatorial research and exhibition planning and design. She also litigated free speech cases involving the arts for the ACLU's Arts Censorship Project as the William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow. And as the Executive Director of the Trajal Harrell Dance Style of New York, Julie managed the production of major new performances at this cutting-edge, post-modern dance company. Julie attended the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College, specializing in U.S. and International Contemporary Art. She also has a B.A. in English from Williams College, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
	Vanessa Conte
	Vanessa has curated several online exhibitions on PaintingsDIRECT.com, including The Voice of Form, The Timeless Body, and American Landscape. An artist specializing in abstract landscapes, she has shown her own work at Exit Art and the Rosenberg Gallery in New York City. She has worked closely with New York-based artists Margaret Evangeline, Robin Kahn, and Stephen Ellis, as well as art historian Kirby Gookin. Vanessa has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and Art History from New York University where she studied with Robert Rosenblum, a leading scholar in 19th and 20th century art.
	Jennifer Dalton
	Jennifer Dalton is a visual artist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She has exhibited her work at Steffany Martz Gallery, Spencer Brownstone Gallery and numerous other sites in New York City and Los Angeles. Her critiques regularly appear in Review and Performing Arts Journal, and she has also written on art and culture for the Tribeca Trib, Rhizome, Stim, SonicNet, among other publications. She has taught sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jennifer served as Art Editor of Fizz, an LA-based music and culture zine, for four years, and also contributed to other zines such as Ben is Dead and Smug. Additionally, she has taught sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jennifer has a B.A. in Painting from UCLA and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the Pratt Institute.
	Susan Dudics-Dean
	Susan Dudics-Dean has been in the Interior Design profession for 20 years, and has built a successful interior design business in San Francisco and Washington D.C. She has written on design for several local newspapers, and publishes the column Designer Line for Window Fashions Magazine, a national design and decorating trade magazine. She is also a columnist for Design Linesand The Journal Publishing Company. Susan has made multiple television appearances on programs such as The House Doctor, syndicated on Home and Garden Television, and Marketplace. She is a frequent speaker at seminars on interior design and has been teaching interior design, sales skills and classes on Feng Shui locally and nationally for more than 10 years.
	Tamara Durham Hunter
	Tamara's extensive experience with the art world includes both Christie's and Sotheby's, where she worked a combined five years prior to joining PaintingsDIRECT. Prior to working for the auction houses, she worked in the retail, entertainment and advertising industries. A visual artist herself and an amateur vocalist, she enjoys the creative process and has a wide variety of interests. Tamara earned her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, from the University at Albany, and her Master of Arts in Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College.
	Daniel Grant
	Daniel Grant, a former art critic for Newsday, is the author of five books, including The Business of Being an Artist, The Fine Artist's Career Guide, The Artist's Resource Handbook and How to Start and Succeed as an Artist. Currently a marketing and career consultant to individual fine artists, Grant previously was Director of New York City's Foundation for the Community of Artists, as well as Development Manager of Art Horizons, a studio and performance space in Albany, New York. He is a contributing editor to American Artist magazine and has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including ARTnews, Art in America, The Artist's Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Grant continues to lecture on developing careers in the arts at colleges, public arts agencies and national associations throughout the country. He holds a BA from Northwestern University in Illinois.
	Tom Gross
	Tom is a London/Tel Aviv-based author and journalist. He is currently the Middle East correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and The New York Daily News, as well as a regular feature writer for the London Evening Standard, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph Travel, and The Jerusalem Report. Additional feature articles have been published in the Financial Times, the National Review, Harper's and Queen, Italian Elle and Cosmopolitan. He has co-authored several books, including the Time Out Guide to Prague, Peace Now: The History of the Israeli Peace Movement, and Out of Tune: David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine. Additionally, he has worked with BBC Television on several documentaries, as well as served as the Prague events coordinator for MTV Europe. He has also served as a special UN consultant on Czech Roma (gypsies) for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Tom graduated with Honors from Oxford University with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
	Jane Harris
	Jane is a New York-based critic and curator. Her writings are regularly seen in various publications such as Art in America, New Art Examiner, Performing Arts Journal, Sculpture Magazine, art/text, The Drama Review, and Time Out New York. She has also published numerous art-related essays in museum catalogues and brochures. Jane has worked as the Director of the Amos Eno Gallery in NYC, a non-profit, artist-run gallery space, as well as SOHO20, where she was in charge of curating and organizing all exhibitions. Additionally, she has taught graduate level courses in Contemporary Art Issues at Montclaire State University. Jane studied Museum Studies at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of New York University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the State University of New York with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology.
	Sarah Jorgensen
	Sarah, an artist herself, has a broad experience in art curation and business. She has worked at the Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art and has written about art and art markets for an anthropology journal. After receiving her BA with honours from the University of California at Berkeley, she went to work at Sotheby's. There she wrote and prepared for exhibitions in the contemporary Latin American and the African Art Departments and eventually coordinated the creation of various on line catalogues.
	Pamela Poncé
	Pamela Poncé has more than ten years of experience working in diverse international marketing and eCommerce positions for Fortune 50 companies. Prior to joining PaintingsDIRECT, in her most recent position, Pamela developed a multi-lingual eCommerce platform and online training program for a financial institution. Within this role she was responsible for managing content on internal and external web sites and supporting a global sales force. Her love for the arts brings her to PaintingsDIRECT where she plans to extend her online content and marketing expertise into the art world. Pamela completed graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania where she earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School, and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute for International Management. She received her BA in Government and International Relations from Dartmouth College.
	Kimberly Stevens
	Kimberly Stevens is a seasoned journalist and regular contributor to The New York Times. She has written for a variety of sections including House and Home, Dining Out, Style, Metro, the City and New York Times Magazine. Yankee Magazine and Boston Magazine are among some of the other magazines for which she has written. She grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Manhattan.
	Candace Worth
	Candace specialized in Contemporary Art at Christie's for 4 years, where she was an Assistant Vice President. At Christie's, she was responsible for the publication of 6 contemporary art catalogues a year, each featuring 100-300 works of art with complete exhibition and provenance information. In addition to the catalogue notes, Candace wrote many of the essays for the catalogue images detailing the history of the work of art and the artist. She has also worked with numerous private dealers, galleries, private collectors and artists throughout her career in New York City. Candace has done graduate work in twentieth century art history at Columbia University, and has a B.A. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania.