Tour with David Getsy and Jess Wilcox

David J. Getsy is the author of Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (2022), which won the Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in the history of modernism in the arts. His other books include Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (2015/2023), Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance (2011), and the forthcoming co-edited volume Magic Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa. He is Professor Emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He currently teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History.

Jess Wilcox, curator of Scott Burton: Shape Shift, is an independent curator with a focus on sculpture, ecocritical, and public art.  She has held curatorial positions at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Brooklyn Museum. Wilcox has curated dozens of group and single-artist exhibitions including Maren Hassinger: Steel Bodies, Helio Oiticica: PN15, Guadalupe Maravilla: Planeta Abuelx, MONUMENTS NOW, and AgitProp!  She has a BA from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.