Remembering Ceal Floyer, Michele Singer Reiner, and Christine Choy
This week, we honor a conceptualist who made the ordinary human, a wide-ranging photographer, and a filmmaker who made space for others.
In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.
Ceal Floyer (1968–2025)
British conceptual artist who made the quotidian human
She transformed ready-made objects, such as an umbrella, into heartrendingly human objects tinged with absurdist humor. "In addition to the acceptance of trying and falling short," Devon Van Houten Maldonado wrote in a review of her work for Hyperallergic, "Floyer’s work asks: What are we trying to get right? How do we know what’s right?
Arthur L. Carter (1931–2025)
Sculptor and Renaissance man
His metallic freestanding sculptures have been featured in Connecticut museums like the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford and the New Britain Museum of American Art. One of his works was also installed outside of a library at New York University.
Christine Choy (1952–2025)
Filmmaker, journalist, and activist
She was best-known for co-directing the 1988 documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin? She also co-founded Third World Newsreel, dedicated to people of color and social justice, and Asian CineVision, an exhibition space and incubator for Asian and Asian-American filmmakers.
Roberta Fallon (1949–2025)
Artist, writer, and Artblog cofounder
She chronicled the art world of Philadelphia through stories, interviews, reviews, podcasts, videos, and more. She championed women, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented artists.
Aaron Goldblatt (1955–2025)
Museum planner, exhibition designer, and sculptor
He and his business partner Alan Metcalfe specialized in glass floors, canopy walks, abstract playgrounds, and more at institutions such as Museum of the American Revolution and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He created environments that encouraged play and what he referred to as "informal learning."
David Heathcote (1931–2025)
British artist, art historian, and teacher
He taught art history at universities in Kent and Canterbury, England, and Zaria, Nigeria, where he studied Hausa craft workers, amassing a collection of clothing, leather work, and crafts now housed at the British Museum. He made surreal assemblages in bronze and stone, as well as drawings and collages, exhibiting in London, Paris, and various cities in Nigeria.
Michele Singer Reiner (1957–2025)
Photographer and filmmaker
She worked as a photographer for video games and films, and captured Donald Trump for The Art of the Deal (1987) before becoming a vocal critic of him. She was also a political activist for LGBTQ+ rights, early childhood development programs, and more.
Jeanette Winter (1939–2025)
Author of picture books about artists
She wrote and illustrated more than 65 children's books about artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Benny Goodman — and also stories like a baby hippopotamus separated from her mother and the building of the atomic bomb.
