Director

Waltemath, who has been an educator since the early 1990s, has taught for more than a decade at the I.S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union in New York and in the visual arts department at Princeton University in New Jersey. She has also served as the editor-at-large of The Brooklyn Rail, a critical publication of arts, politics and culture, for nearly 10 years.
As an artist, Waltemath has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally, including solo shows in New York; Basel, Switzerland; London; Brussels; and Bonn, Germany. Her work is in many noted public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Muse de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Waltemath has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has been invited to residencies, including Insel Hombroich (Germany) and The Edward F. Albee Foundation.
Critical Writings
- Agnes Martin: “Going Forward Into Unknown Territory”, Brooklyn Rail, July-Aug. 2004
- Marcia Hafif: Interruption in the Reign of Discontinuities, Brooklyn Rail, Nov 2005
- Rudolf de Crignis, Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2003 – Jan. 2004
- Architectures of the Mind: Hedda Sterne and Eve Aschheim, Brooklyn Rail, Mar. 2007
- Field of Color: Tantra Drawings from India, Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2004 – Jan. 2005
- Howard Smith: Stroke and Structure, Brooklyn Rail, Mar. 2008
- Nancy Haynes: Threshold, Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2007 – Jan. 2008
- Jene Highsten, Lines in Space, Brooklyn Rail May 2009
- Mediating the Void: Gabriel Orozco, Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2005 – Jan. 2006
- Josef Kosuth – A Labyrinth Into Which I Can Venture, Brooklyn Rail Nov. 2006
- Cora Cohen, Brooklyn Rail Nov. 2008
- Carmen Herrera at Frederico Seve, Brooklyn Rail Jun. 2010
- Sharing the Light: Alan Uglow’s Generous Economy of Beauty, Brooklyn Rail May 2010
- R. H. Quaytman Chapter 12: Iamb, Brooklyn Rail Feb 2009
- Suzan Frecon: Recent Paintings, Brooklyn Rail Sep 2010
- Frances Barth: Scale, Economy, and Unnameable Color, Brooklyn Rail Feb 2010
- Christine Hiebert, Brooklyn Rail Dec 2004-Jan 2005
- Deep Space: Thomas Scheibitz and David Row, Brooklyn Rail Oct 2004
- Artseen: Dorothea Rockburne, Astronomy Drawings, Brooklyn Rail Apr 2010
- Dan Walsh, Brooklyn Rail, Mar 2006
- Jill Nathanson’s Quiet Vision, Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2010 – Jan 2011
- Gordon Moore, Brooklyn Rail, February 2012
- Sonia Almeid The Angle of the Sun's Rays, Brooklyn Rail, April 2012
Interviews
- In Conversation: Jay Bernstein with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn Rail, Sept 2007
- A Life in Theory: Sylvere Lotringer with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn Rail, Sept 2006
- In Conversation: Ann Reynolds and Eve Andree Laramee, Brooklyn Rail, Oct 2005
- In Conversation: David Levi Strauss with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2003 – Jan 2004
- In Conversation: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn Rail, May 2005
- The Art of Parrying: Wilfried Dickhoff in conversation with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn Rail, Sept 2005
Maps & Directions