Josine Ianco-Starrels

Josine Ianco-Starrels
Born(1926-10-17)October 17, 1926
Bucharest, Romania
DiedApril 8, 2019(2019-04-08) (aged 92)
Rogue River, Oregon, U.S.
NationalityRomanian, American
OccupationCurator

Josine Ianco-Starrels (October 17, 1926 – April 8, 2019) was a Romanian-born American art curator who worked as a museum director in Los Angeles, California.

Background

Ianco-Starrels was born in Bucharest in 1926 and her family fled to Israel, then Palestine, during World War II. She was the daughter of Amélie Micheline "Lily" Ackermann and Marcel Janco, who was an artist, an architect and one of the founding members of Dadaism. She married Harold Manson in 1950 and moved to New York where she studied at the Art Students League of New York.[1] Her second marriage was with Herbert Kline, a documentary filmmaker. She was married to Maurie Starrels from 1969 until his death in 2000.[citation needed]

Career

Ianco-Starrels started her curatorial career in Los Angeles with Lytton Center of the Visual Arts in 1960.[2] She was an associate professor at Art Gallery Division at California State University, Los Angeles from 1969 to 1975.[3] From 1975 to 1987, Ianco-Starrels was Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park[4] and was senior curator at the Long Beach Museum of Art from 1987 – 1990.[5][6] In 1985, Ianco-Starrels was awarded an honorary doctorate from Parsons School of Design. In her career, she was responsible for many exhibits in Southern California from 1960's to 2000.[7][8][9] She retired in 2000, and moved to Rogue River, Oregon.[10]

Ianco-Starrels compiled The Times' Art News column for a number of years and was recognized for her work in her curatorial career counting exhibitions of then unknown artists, organizing the first exhibition of art by women in California in 1968, and including visual arts in L.A. festival.[11]

In April 2007, Ianco-Starrels won an ArtScene Special Recognition Award for Non-Artist who made the greatest impact on the California Art Scene in the past 25 years. She was nominated alongside the likes of Frank Gehry, Stephanie Barron and Eli Broad.[12]

Ianco-Starrels died on April 8, 2019, in Rogue River, Oregon, at the age of 92.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Oral history interview with Josine Ianco-Starrels, 1989 June 15". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution.
  2. ^ "Milestones Prior to the Opening of the Woman's Building". the Woman's Building.
  3. ^ Jones, Kellie (9 March 2017). South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Duke University Press Books (April 7, 2017). ISBN 978-0822361640.
  4. ^ Curtis, Cathy (14 December 1991). "Art Lecturer Gives the Past Its Due : Though Multiculturalism Is a Catchword of Today, She Gives Yesterday Credit for Its Vision". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ "Ianco-Starrels New Curator of Museum". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. 22 December 1986.
  6. ^ Greg, Braxton (20 July 1990). "Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ "Oral history interview with Josine Ianco-Starrels, 1989 June 15". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution.
  8. ^ "Josine Ianco-Starrels papers, 1930-1987 - Archives of American Art". Smithsonian.
  9. ^ "Good Morning Laguna: Josine Ianco-Starrels". Laguna Art Museum. 12 December 1991.
  10. ^ Aldous, Vickie. "The fine art of retirement". Ashland Tidings. Archived from the original on 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  11. ^ Wilson, William (2 September 1990). "A Curator's Declaration of Independence : Josine Ianco-Starrels works to give a unified vision to the visual arts of L.A. Festival". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times.
  12. ^ "ArtScene congratulates the recipients of the Los Angeles Art Awards ArtScene : 25, held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art Celebrating ArtScene's 25th Anniversary". Artscenecal.
  13. ^ Muchnic, Suzanne (April 19, 2019). "Josine Ianco-Starrels, curator who helped shape L.A. art scene, dies at 92". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 20, 2019.