Founding Directors

The Co-Founding Directors, Melissa Bianca Amore and William Stover collectively have over forty-years experience working with artists across curatorial, academic and publications, within commercial, museum and non-profit sectors. As a collaborative, the pair have curated several exhibitions, including Sites of Knowledge, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York; Traveling Spaces, VOLTA New York, which included a series of site interventions, and most recently Parallel Infinities, a solo exhibition on artist Simone Douglas. Each of these exhibitions were curated into distinct contexts–a gallery, an artfair and domestic setting, highlighting RE-SITED’S continual examination with the relationship between the site and work of art.

The exhibition Sites of Knowledge addressed critical ideas about history, authorship and visual structures of knowledge. Indirectly, the curators questioned how we “look” at knowledge and engage with the complexities of our collective history — both imagined and observed. At what point do we begin to attach meaning to a line, a symmetry, and a sound? Knowledge is primarily understood as the basis to knowing, the basis to creating a network of associations and the relationship between memory and history. So, we will continue to ask: what is the “site” of knowledge?

The exhibition examined the function of language as a spatial semiotics, architecture and topography which navigates our perceptual awareness and cognition, with featured works by Richard Artschwager, Henri Chopin, Simone Douglas, Guy Laramée, Jen Mazza, Kristin McIver, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Michael Rakowitz, Karen Schiff and Sophie Tottie. These artists, through various mediums, examine the function of the “symbol” and language per se as their primary apparatus. In many ways, these artists return to the ideologies and techniques once employed by the concrete poets, using linguistic fragments or elements as a structural visual form and as a typographical aesthetic. Their work is about the visual and oral histories of knowledge, and the architecture of memory.