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Aria Dean, a forward-looking L.A.-born artist, critic, and curator whose solo exhibition "Suite!" is on view at REDCAT, shares what's currently capturing her attention

"There's no artist whose work— objects and writing—I return to more than Robert Morris's," says Dean. "I have a poster of him overlooking my dining room."

"The programming at Artists Space in New York," says Dean, highlighting the recent retrospective of Art Club 2000, which raised still-relevant critiques of capital and '90s downtown cool—"is intelligent and rigorous, and often quite fun (an important combination)."

Dean calls Adrienne Edwards, director of curatorial affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a beacon for her "heavy-duty theoretical component" to curating, citing her work on post-structuralism and race.