As part of the exhibition Friends & Lovers, FLAG will host a collectors roundtable discussion featuring Reuben O. Charles, II, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Glenn Fuhrman, and Bernard I. Lumpkin, moderated by Sarah Douglas, Editor-in-Chief at ARTnews.
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Glenn Fuhrman is a co-Founder and co-Managing Partner of Tru Arrow Partners (New York, NY) and is the Founder and CEO of Virtru Investment Partners (New York, NY). Prior to launching Tru Arrow and Virtru, he co-Founded MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and from 1998 thru 2019 served as its co-Managing Partner. Glenn is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Modern Art, and The TATE Americas Foundation; he is a Board member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y in NY and the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Glenn is also on the board of Gagosian Gallery. In 2008, he founded The FLAG Art Foundation, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary year.
Beth Rudin DeWoody is the daughter of the late real estate developer Lewis Rudin and the late Gladyce Begelman, and is a native of New York. Ms. DeWoody resides between New York City, Los Angeles and West Palm Beach. She is Chairman of The Rudin Family Foundations and Executive Vice President of Rudin Management Company. Ms. DeWoody also curated many shows for several different art galleries between New York City, New Orleans, and London. Ms. DeWoody has a private art space called The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach which opened in 2017 and displays works from her collection. Ms. DeWoody’s Board affiliations include Executive Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Life Trustee at The New School, Board Member of Empowers Africa, Desert X and Save A Child India, Inc. She is also on the Advisory Board at The Glass House in New Canaan, and the Board of Advisors at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as well as an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Ms. DeWoody is a Trustee Emeritus for The New York City Police Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board for New Yorkers for Children, Inc. She serves on the Parsons Board of Governors of the New School andis a Member of the Committee for the University Art Collection, and is on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her professional affiliations include charter member of New York Women Executives in Real Estate. She is Chairman of the Arts and Culture Committee of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY).
Bernard I. Lumpkin is a contemporary art collector, patron, and educator whose commitment to both emerging and established artists of African descent is part of a broader mission of institutional advocacy and support. Mr. Lumpkin sits on the Board of Trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mr. Lumpkin co-chairs the Education Committee and also serves on the Painting & Sculpture Committee. At the Museum of Modern Art, he serves on the Media & Performance Committee and is also Vice-Chair of the Black Art Council. Mr. Lumpkin advises public and private organizations on collecting and patronage, and participates in discussion panels at art fairs, auction houses, and universities. Mr. Lumpkin was educated at Harvard (A.M., Ph.D.) and Yale (B.A.), where he serves on the Task Force at the School of Art. The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection is the subject of a bestselling book —Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (DAP, 2020) — and a nationwide traveling exhibition which is currently on view at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.
Reuben O. Charles, II is a businessman and philanthropist with over twenty-five years of experience, and is the founder of Citadel Firm, a facilities management and construction firm based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Charles’ profound, enduring love for visual arts developed in partnership with his wife, Kimberly, with whom he cultivated multiple relationships with emerging and early career artists, hosting salons and art-inspired social gatherings at their home, and patronizing programs that support the launching and expansion of artists’ careers. Mr. Charles and his wife co-founded The Charles Collection, which focuses on contemporary art from the Caribbean and African Diaspora, as well as other contemporary artists of color. The Collection will soon be on view in its permanent home in the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Charles serves on the Board of Directors of Rebuild Foundation, an arts, education, and cultural development organization founded by artist Theaster Gates. He also serves on the DC Public Library Art Advisory Council and the Collection Committee for the Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art, for which he will also act as the chair for the museum’s upcoming exhibition of Simone Leigh’s Venice Biennale presentation. He previously served on the Board of Directors at the St. Louis Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO.
Sarah Douglas is a journalist and editor living and working in New York, NY. Douglas has been the Editor in Chief at ARTnews since 2014. Previously, she was culture editor at The New York Observer, where she launched its online platform Gallerist. Douglas spent six years as a staff writer at Art+Auction magazine and its website Artinfo.com. She has contributed to The Art Newspaper, The Economist, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The National, among other publications, writing about art, the art market, and the art world. Douglas has also participated in and led numerous panel discussions on topics ranging from art collectors’ estate planning to museum funding. In 2013, she received ArtTable’s New Leadership award.