Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s five curatorial consultants. Phipps joins the GFC after nearly two decades at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She started there as an intern in 2009, and by the time she left she was an associate curator, having organized shows like “Flatlands” in 2016, which featured work by five then up-and-coming painters, and, more recently, “Sixties Surreal” and  “Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: Memory Maps,” which included several loans from the Gochman collection. Related Articles “Laura understands that contemporary Native art is central to American art history,” said GFC creative director and curator Rachel Martin in a statement about Phipps’s appointment. “Her collaborative, artist-first practice reflects our belief that collections can function as living, responsive ecosystems.” Her role with the GFC will involve much more than …