Dan Golden
Founder & Creative Director

Dan Golden is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, and creative director. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Interior Design, Fast Company, and Elle, among others. Dan’s designs have been produced by leading manufacturers, including Stephanie Odegard, Swarovski, and CB2.

Jen Huh
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Jen Huh is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer, educator, and writer. Her large-scale textile pieces have been featured in Interior Design magazine and are on permanent display in the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She formerly served as Director of First-Year Advising at Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College at The New School.

Amanda Quinn Olivar
Editor-in-Chief

Native Angelino Amanda Quinn Olivar grew up surrounded by art and artists, organically navigating toward curating & producing. She has collaborated with venues including the Cornell Art Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Fresno Art Museum, The Brand Art Center, and the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Amanda produced the award-winning feature documentary on female directors, Seeing is Believing: Women Direct, and the play Paint Made Flesh. She received the HeArt award for her efforts benefiting nonprofit A Window Between Worlds, and serves on the boards of The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, Axial Theatre, She CURAtes The Residency, Friends of Zandra Rhodes Fashion & Textile Museum, London, is a member of the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA), and a founding member of The Chimaera Project’s Board of Directors.

If you have the opportunity, do what you love - AQO

John Olivar
Associate Editor

Freelance writer and editor John Olivar received a Pillsbury Grant for Creative Writing, distributed through the Santa Barbara Foundation. His work has appeared in Spectrum (Santa Barbara), Storyville (Chigwell, UK), online at The American Center for Artists, and in other publications.

Annie Terrazzo
Contributor, Los Angeles

After graduating from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Terrazzo began her career in trash portraiture, focusing on using found objects, newspapers, and magazines. She strives to create work that allows the viewer to recognize image and text-based language, drawing you in through her technical skill and the attention to detail that permeates all of her work.

Saul Appelbaum
Contributor, Los Angeles/New York

Saul Appelbaum is the Founding Director of The Pioneers. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Chicago. Since 2001, he has worked with Harper’s Bazaar, Serpentine Gallery, ASICS Tiger, Elle, Petzel Gallery, FGP Atelier, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, InStyle, the Ann Hamilton Studio, the Jewish Federation, Transfer Gallery, Heidi Klum LLC, de Sarthe Gallery, Snoop Dog, L’Officiel, Hirmer Verlag, Kids of Immigrants, the Columbus Museum of Art, Vogue, the Singapore Art Museum, Critical Inquiry, Perry Ellis America, and Numéro.

Ricky Lee
Contributor, New York

Ricky Lee is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator, currently working as the Director of Communications at Petzel Gallery. He has directed public relations and marketing campaigns for publishers such as Abrams, Phaidon, The Vendome Press, and luxury brands such as Hermès of Paris. Lee was a founding editor and inaugural fashion director of Quincy Jones’s Vibe magazine and has worked as a journalist for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Andy Warhol’s Interview, 7 Days, Vogue, i-D, and The Los Angeles Times. He holds a Master of Arts degree in French from Middlebury College

Natalie Varbedian
Contributor, Los Angeles

Natalie Varbedian is dedicated to examining changing conceptions of art and the disciplines of art history. She received her MA in art history from UC Davis while working as a teaching and research assistant. She has collaborated on exhibitions with several institutions, including the Bakersfield Museum of Art and the Fresno Museum. Natalie lives and works in Los Angeles, and her recent exhibition, Discovering Takouhi, is on view at the Armenian Museum of America in Boston.

Alex May
Contributor, Detroit

Alexandra May is a self-proclaimed life-long art and museum junkie. She attended her first art fair, Documenta, at age 10. She conducted her first artist interview with Andy Warhol at age 18. Although a Detroit transplant, she prides herself on being one of the city’s most avid art advocates. She serves on the Board of the Friends of African and African American Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Joan Agajanian Quinn
Contributor, International

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Quinn is a journalist, producer, curator, collector and arts advocate. She was appointed the West Coast Editor of Interview magazine by Andy Warhol, was Society Editor of Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Editor at Steve Samiof’s Stuff Magazine, founding West Coast Editor of Condé Nast Traveler and has written for several of their magazines. Joan recently produced the documentary Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies, is currently the co-host of Beverly Hills View and has been the producer and host of the Joan Quinn Profiles for over 35 years.

Sascha Behrendt
Contributor, London/New York

Sascha Behrendt is a writer who specializes in arts and culture in the UK and the US. Before focusing on art, she was a creative director for Stella McCartney and worked with designer Peter Saville. Reviews and interviews include artists such as Arthur Jafa, Dana Hoey, Nicola Tyson, Arlene Schechet, and Francesca Woodman. She is currently working on a comedy thriller novel.

Shristi Sainani
Contributor, India/Nigeria

Shristi Sainani is a curator, designer, researcher, and writer currently based in New Delhi, India, where she functions independently. Her interest lies in dismantling and assessing core concepts of exhibition making, specifically focusing on Contemporary Art churned through the diaspora of the Global South.

She also writes poetry, having published three books in the genre, and has contributed to several art and architectural forums. Her independent research focuses on collections and architecture of private art museums. Shristi's paper on inclusivity in museum spaces won the INSC Researchers Award in 2021.

Shristi is a formally trained architect. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney and her Master’s in Curatorial Studies from the University of Melbourne.

Camilla Boemio
Contributor, Rome

Camilla Boemio is an internationally published author, curator, and member of the AICA (International Arts Critics) based in Rome. In 2013, Boemio was the co-associate curator of PORTABLE NATION: Disappearance as Work in Progress – Approaches to Ecological Romanticism, the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. In 2016, Boemio curated Diminished Capacity, the First Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Boemio’s recent curatorial projects include her role as co-associate curator at Pera + Flora + Fauna. The Story of Indigenousness and The Ownership of History, an official collateral event at the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 2022. Invitations to speak include the Tate Liverpool, MUSE Science Museum, and the Cambridge Festival 2021 at Crassh, in the UK.