Maria Czako Herskovic Ph.D.

Maria Czako Herskovic (née: Maria Czako-Graham) started as a medical scientist.

Accomplishment in the Field of Medical Science:

1979: MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science

1980: PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York, NY; PhD thesis carried out at NYU School of Medicine, NY.


1980: Postdoctoral Fellow at The Rockefeller University, NY.

1981: NIH Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

She participated in publications of the experimental results:

Her PhD thesis:

STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL RECONSTITUTION OF ROUGH AND SMOOTH MICROSOMES FROM RAT LIVER

Journal of Supramolecular Structure

Invited Review

Characterization of the ribosomal binding site in rat liver rough microsomes: Ribophorins I and II, two integral membrane proteins related to ribosome binding

Gert Kreibich, Maria Czakó-Graham, Ruth Grebenau, Winnie Mok, Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan, David D. Sabatini 

First published: 1978 https://doi.org/10.1002/jss.400080307 Citations: 52

63rd Annual Meeting, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

Dallas, Texas April 1-10, 1979

Reconstitution of microsomal vesicles containing the signal peptidase for precursors of secretory proteins.

M. Czako-Graham (Author), Boime, D. D, Sabatini and G. Kreibich (Author).

NYU Sch. of Med. and Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. 

After retirement from medical science she set out to documenting the post-World War II American Art.

Owner, Chief Editor, under the assumed name, Marika Herskovic, New York School Press; .

Creative Works:

Author/Editor, “New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists:

A Complete Documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals 1951-1957” (2000);

Highly recommended. General readers; undergraduates through faculty. --Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, February 2001

Author/Editor, “American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey With Artists’ Statements, Artwork, and Biographies” (2003);

OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE ~CHOICE, 2003

"This excellent publication builds on the earlier publication. It has broadened the scope to include artists from throughout the US, rectified...omission of African American artists...and concentrated on 88 artists...Excellent layout and superb photographs. Highly recommended. ~CHOICE,

CURRENT REVIEWS FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES July/August 2003. --CHOICE MAGAZINE,CURRENT REVIEWS FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES July/August 2003.

Author/Editor, “American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism:

Style is Timely, Art is Timeless” (2009);

This survey is a follow up to the earlier volumes: New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists; and American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey. Fifty eight American painters and sculptors of the post-World War II era, are represented, each by one abstract and one figurative work. The book intends to show that the most engaged mainstream creative work in New York and across the USA was not restricted to non-representational or representational expressionism but rather to the creative power of the individual expressionist artist. --CHOICE, January, 2010. Current reviews for Academic Libraries

Author/Editor, “Albert Kotin, American Abstract Expressionist of

the 1950s” (2016);

Marika Herskovic produced 27 videos on the art and lives of the artists of the New York School. These videos, repeatedly shown on cable TV, were listed in «Art on Screen, – A joint venture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust.« She hosted numerous video taped artist seminars.

She credits her spirituality and curiosity coupled with discipline and hard work for her success.

When she asked: "Why did you become involved in your profession or industry?"

Her answer is clear:

“I have found it to be critical to maintain the historical legacy of the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across

the Atlantic, including in Paris.”