Alison Hearst
Alison Hearst is Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. She has presented solo exhibitions of artists including Fred Tomaselli, Mario García Torres, Joyce Pensato, Jill Magid, Martine Gutierrez, Thomas Demand, Lorna Simpson, Analia Saban, Jamal Cyrus, and Stanley Whitney, amongst others. She organized the twenty-year survey, Robyn O’Neil: WE, THE MASSES; Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings, and most recently the survey exhibition, I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen and Alex Da Corte: The Whale.
It’s no surprise that empathy is in short supply. Some are even calling it a sin. We sense this deficit in ourselves and in the world writ large, amid what feels like an endless parade of calamities that are too often quickly unremembered.
