{"id":146,"date":"2026-05-25T22:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:14:17","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/?page_id=146","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-base-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who we are<br><\/strong><br><strong><em><a href=\"mailto:lucia@the-gam.com\">Lucia Arbery Simek<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0is a writer, curator, and artist with a commitment to fostering the creative growth of artists, organizations, and communities. She is the former executive director of Dallas Contemporary, where she spearheaded major performance and emerging talent programs, and recently curated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascontemporary.org\/pam-evelyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Futures<\/em>.<\/a> She also led communications and international programs at the Nasher Sculpture Center, growing the museum\u2019s global reputation by creating programming partnerships with institutions around the world. At Dallas\u2019s landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adolphus.com\/restaurants-bars\/the-french-room-salon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adolphus Hotel<\/a>, she curated a series of lauded salon conversations, integrating contemporary art, architecture, and literature into a hospitality setting. She\u2019s written on art for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\/ursula\/the-landscape-of-eternity-travels-through-texas-with-forrest-bess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ursula<\/a><\/em>, <em>Flash Art<\/em>, <em>D<\/em> and others.<br><br><strong><em><a href=\"mailto:gkm@the-gam.com\">Gavin Morrison <\/a><\/em><\/strong>is a writer, curator, and publisher. His work engages with historical and contemporary art, architecture, and literary research. He is the former director of Skaftfell Center for Visual Art\u00a0 in Iceland, and has held research roles with institutions including Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; and Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, USA. Recent curatorial projects include: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/exhibition\/roman-signer-the-icelandic-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roman Signer: Icelandic Works<\/a><\/em>, Skaftfell, 2026; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.listasafn.is\/en\/art\/exhibitions\/the-architecture-of-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Architecture of Place: Donald Judd &amp; H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00c1g\u00fastsson<\/a><\/em>, National Gallery of Iceland, 2026; and<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashersculpturecenter.org\/art\/nasher-public\/exhibition\/id\/386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J\u00f3hann Eyfells: Cairns<\/a><\/em>, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2025.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we areLucia Arbery Simek \u00a0is a writer, curator, and artist with a commitment to fostering the creative growth of artists, organizations, and communities. She is the former executive director of Dallas Contemporary, where she spearheaded major performance and emerging talent programs, and recently curated Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Futures. She also led communications and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}