Contents for June 17, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Upcoming FUND Performance: Monstera Deliciosa, FF FUND 2023-2024 @monsteradeliciosapresents
1. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Fridman Gallery, Manhattan, June 21-Aug. 10
2. Michelle Handelman, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, in new publication and more, June 1-30th
3. Raquel Rabinovich, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
4. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
5. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at CARA, Manhattan, June 20 and more
6. Akiko Ichikawa, FF Member, at Bowne Playground, Flushing, Queens, NY, June 22
7. George Peck, FF Alumn, at Black Spring Books, Brooklyn, June 22
8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, June 27
9. Kathy Westwater, FF Alumn, receives Bronx Council on the Arts 2024 BRIO Award
10. Andrew Ginzel, Joyce Kozloff, Jean Shin, Bernard Tschumi, FF Alumns, at National Academy of Design, Manhattan, opening June 20
11. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Westbeth Arts Complex, Manhattan, thru July 31
12. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru July 6
13. Nicole Eisenman, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
14. Christopher Wool, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
15. Elizabeth Murray, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
16. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, June 21
17. Georgia Lale, FF Alumn, at Goethe Institut, Thessaloniki, Greece, opening June 20
18. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at Open Art Biennial, Örebro, Sweden, thru Sept. 30
19. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at Emalin Gallery, London, UK, thru June 29 and more
20. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, June 18
21. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
22. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY, July 14
23. Jim Costanzo/Aaron Burr Society, FF Alumns, at Umbrella House, Manhattan, thru July 19
24. Gaetano Carboni, FF Alumn, at Eataly, Manhattan, June 20, and more
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Weekly Spotlight: Upcoming FUND Performance: Monstera Deliciosa, FF FUND 2023-2024 @monsteradeliciosapresents
‘na sirena
Time & Location:
7:30pm procession starting at Stuvysant Cove Ferry Terminal.
8:00pm performance at Grace Exhibition Space. The procession will follow this simple route from the top of Avenue C to Grace Exhibition Space.
Project Description:
What do trans-feminine people and mermaids have in common? Well, they’ve both historically had terrible press ~ damn man-eaters! Courtesy of the male gaze, mermaids have always been depicted as seductive and predatory creatures. And, in today’s world,
trans-feminine people still live through a similar reputation. Through a procession performance-installation hybrid, ‘na sirena will invite you to witness a stumbling mermaid as she swims through life – Splish Splash – and chronicles her joys and sorrows. You will dip your toes into a sea of projections, sound and text mixing iconographies of mermaids with representations of past and present trans lived experiences, bridging trans legacy with futurity to remind us we’ve always existed and will continue to exist.
No wax earplugs needed.
Artist Bio:
My name is Monstera Deliciosa.
I am no artist, but have inhabited spaces and practices that some would call artistic. A she-they kind of womxn, I live through the joys of trans-feminism, the perils of visibility and the paradoxes – physical and philosophical – that existing outside of the gender binary brings (boo to assimilation!). My work endeavors to articulate this all – be it through the minutia of applying lipstick while dangling from a super tall balcony or the grandeur of my sticky breath imprinted against a gallery window front. Neither here nor there, but mostly all over, Monstera tries to unsettle what is perceived as spectacular, in a balancing act between endurance and elegance, compulsion and commotion.
Hope you still like her, if you hate her!
Other participants in the project: Angel, Ariel, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Maira, Tench
Link to the GoFundMe Campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-incredible-work-of-glits-mermaid
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1. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Fridman Gallery, Manhattan, June 21-Aug. 10
A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity
Curated by Maty Sall
Artist
Fridman Gallery is honored to announce A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity, a group exhibition curated by Maty Sall.
The belief that different cultures are not separate but rather inherently interconnected, sharing past and present influences, is generally known as polyculturalism. And, in as much as it is a belief, it is also an observation of perpetual flux that points us towards an obvious truth: human beings are engaged in an eternal process of cultural exchange. Our history is one of mutual influence, a constant migration and exchange of people, ideas, and objects.
The current popular understanding of how cultures interact has morphed into a simplified notion of cultural exchange as a system of top-down oppression that frames non-Western people and their art as “source material.” This both denies non-Western people the dignity of being influential and casts the Western world into the role of “observer” while framing non-Westerners as, simply, the “observed.” Moreover, it could not be further from the historical truth: a Hellenistic influence on Indian art and architecture is documented from the 4th century BC onwards. It was just as 17th-century Chinese potters began to emulate Ottoman and Safavid ceramic designs that 17th-century Europe developed a fascination with Chinoiserie. The distinct stylistic qualities of Byzantine art reveal centuries’ of influence from North and East Africa on the Eastern Mediterranean. And, famously, when seeking to reinvent the human figure Cubism looked straight towards African art.
Nearly a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, this cross-pollination has only intensified. In all instances, the works featured in A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity push back against a deterministic vision of human identity centered on division and against fatalistic notions of difference. As the contemporary world reorients itself around new forms of material production, new channels of trade, and increasingly rapid means of communication, for those who wish to break new ground, abundant sources of inspiration come from all directions.
As information travels faster and faster, polyculturalism hints at what the future holds—we are not moving towards a single, homogenous culture, but towards a billion, brilliant points of unity. We are accelerating towards immaculate multiplicity brimming with potential and, time and time again, it is artists who find themselves on the vanguard of this eternal cultural exchange.
A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity features works by Hilary Balu, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Laurena Fineus, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Terrence Musekiwa, Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Rakajoo, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Yelaine Rodriguez, David Smalling, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Malaika Temba, Maya Ines Touam, and Saya Woolfalk.
[Text by Grace Nkem. Edited by Maty Sall.]
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2. Michelle Handelman, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, in new publication and more, June 1-30th
Michelle Handelman, Sarah Schulman, FF Alumns, in new publication and more
Little Joe selects BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism
To celebrate the release of the new Little Joe book, Metrograph Theater invited editor-in-chief Sam Ashby to curate a program for the month of June. Films include Thundercrack (Curt Mcdowell), I.K.U (Shu Lea Cheang), Bloodsisters (Michelle Handelman), L.A. Plays Itself (Fred Halsted), Zero Patience (John Greyson), And A Bigger Splash (Jack Hazan)
Streaming June 1-30, 2024
go to this link to stream:
Little Joe book now available!
The cult periodical Little Joe, published as a limited-edition zine from 2010 to 2021, challenged the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebellious, queer perspective. Rather than reviewing new releases, it explored forgotten and overlooked films and celebrated a diverse spectrum of cinema – from obscure art films to porn to Hollywood classics – as worthy of critical debate. Stubbornly print-only, Little Joe was notoriously hard to find, privileging word-of-mouth distribution akin to the films it championed. This volume, compiled by editor-in-chief Sam Ashby, brings together the best of its previously elusive texts and proposes a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style.
This volume features essays, in-depth conversations, and archival discoveries from a host of queer artists, filmmakers, and academics, including John Waters, Sarah Schulman, Douglas Crimp, William E. Jones, Erika Balsom, Jeremy Atherton Lin, John Greyson, Elizabeth Purchell, Liz Rosenfeld, Peter Strickland, Ira Sachs, Terence Davies, Shu Lea Cheang, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Abdellah Taïa, Marlene McCarty, John Cameron Mitchell, Rosa von Praunheim, Michelle Handelman, Stuart Comer, Ed Halter, Jenni Olson, A.L. Steiner, A.K. Burns, Desiree Akhavan, and Andrew Haigh.
Use this link to purchase
“Personal transformation as political agency”
–Art Forum
25 years after its original release, bloodsisters: leather, dykes and sadomasochism, Michelle Handelman’s ground-breaking documentary on the San Francisco leather dyke scene is as vital as ever.
Now enjoying its 25 year anniversary tour and back in NYC!
From pushy bottoms to macho femmes, BLOODSISTERS is an A-Z documentary guide that shatters assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality, with a kickass soundtrack by San Francisco punk bands Frightwig and Typhoon, and Industrial Music pioneers Chris & Cosey and Coil.
In the 1990s, BLOODSISTERS was attacked in congress by the American Family Association for its depictions of radical lesbian sexuality. Twenty-five years later, the film has become recognized as a treasured historical document of a movement that tore down barriers of sex, gender, and activism.
For Booking Inquiries:
George Schmalz, gschmalz@kinolorber.com
kinolorber.com/contact
For Press Inquiries:
Nicholas Kemp, nkemp@kinolorber.com
Matt Barry, mbarry@kinolorber.com
For Educational Inquiries:
Estelle Grosso, egrosso@kinolorber.com
Watch trailer
“BLOODSISTERS was the first film to start the current conversation on gender fluidity and radical sexuality.
It reminds us that now, more than ever, we need to keep vigilant on queer and trans rights.”
–Screen Slate
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3. Raquel Rabinovich, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/artseen/Raquel-Rabinovich-Avatars
Thank you.
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4. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/artseen/Adam-Pendleton-An-Abstraction
Thank you.
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5. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at CARA, Manhattan, June 20 and more
Join us on Thursday, June 20 at 7 pm for a conversation between artist Javier Téllez and
CARA’s Senior Curator Rahul Gudipudi.
Téllez and Gudipudi will discuss the process of making the exhibition Amerika (on view through August 11), exploring aspects of Téllez’s practice, including historical and political references and collaborative forms of filmmaking.
Amerika is Javier Téllez’s (b. 1969, Venezuela; lives and works in New York) first institutional solo exhibition in New York City in nearly two decades. This solo exhibition centers around the film installation AMERIKA, commissioned by CARA. Drawing from cinema histories and vaudeville, the film mobilizes reenactment, fiction, and metaphor to respond to the ongoing exodus of millions of Venezuelans from their home, motivated by the state’s repressive policies, continued violence, and socioeconomic collapse.
Téllez produced AMERIKA in collaboration with Andreina Arias, José Díaz, Luisandra Escalona, Leonardo Masa, Nazareth Merentes, Jesus Ramirez, Omar Ríos, and Mariana Vargas—a group of Venezuelan refugees currently living in New York.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
Javier Téllez, AMERIKA. Production still: Pablo Monsalve.
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West Side Fest
July 12-14
We are thrilled to be participating in the second annual West Side Fest!
Now extended to three days, West Side Fest is a multi-site celebration bringing together the best of arts and culture on Manhattan’s West Side. From July 12-14, New Yorkers and visitors of all ages are invited to enjoy free admission to participating museums and cultural institutions, and free activities like special indoor and outdoor programming, crafts and artmaking, and much more.
English and Spanish tours of Javier Téllez: Amerika will be taking place at CARA throughout the weekend. Schedule below:
Friday, July 12 at 6:30 pm: Exhibition Tour in English
Saturday, July 13 at 3 pm: Exhibition Tour in English
Saturday, July 13 at 3:30 pm: Exhibition Tour in Spanish
Experience our vibrant cultural neighborhood, packed with museums, parks, performing arts centers, and community organizations!
Participating organizations include: Center for Art, Research and Alliances; Chelsea Factory; Dia Chelsea; the High Line; Hill Art Foundation; Hudson Guild; Hudson River Park; The Joyce Theater; The Kitchen; The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center; Little Island; NYC AIDS Memorial; Poster House; Print Center New York; Rubin Museum of Art; The Shed; Westbeth Artists Housing; West Village Rehearsal Co-Op; White Columns; Whitney Museum of American Art.
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6. Akiko Ichikawa, FF Member, at Bowne Playground, Flushing, Queens, NY, June 22
Korea Art Forum presents
Shared Dialogue, Shared Space:
Part I, No. 2
Bowne Playground
(Union Street & Sanford Avenue, Flushing, Queens)
Saturday, June 22nd, 12 noon – 4 pm
New York, NY, June 14, 2024—Korea Art Forum (KAF) is excited to announce the continuation of Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (2024 SDSS), a yearly initiative by which artists are selected and commissioned from KAF’s open call to create and present new participatory work in everyday, public settings. SDSS integrates art into ordinary activities in public spaces, exploring and crystallizing the conditions and impacts of creative moments in New York City residents’ experiences.
First launched in 2020, SDSS has not only survived the challenges of the pandemic but has thrived, demonstrating art’s transformative ability to integrate into and enrich daily life. SDSS underscores the essential role of art in human existence. When life is in crisis, art activates to intervene. In this context, “art’’ refers to the ability to invent solutions to given critical problems, and SDSS promotes this human capacity for resilience and creativity.
This year’s SDSS will begin with art stations at the yoga and tai chi square in Bowne Playground, Flushing. The location, directly accessible from Sanford Avenue at Union Street, has been chosen for the convenience of visitors and community members alike. Participatory art activities will begin at 12 p.m. and continue until 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 22nd, ensuring participants ample time to enjoy the events. Featured artists are Akiko Ichikawa, Eiko Nishida, Sari Nordman, and Thomas Gallagher.
Akiko Ichikawa has translated English-language sayings found on t-shirts worn by pedestrians in the community into Japanese. She stencils these Japanese translations on secondhand t-shirts at the events. The artist’s activity also includes a skillshare session on producing one’s own stencils for fabric. Limited, Limited Edition (Flushing) is a way of engaging passersby and participants, the artist creating singular cross-cultural experiences and an imaginative space transcending consumerism and any one-dimensional take on Japanese culture.
Eiko Nishida builds curiosities amongst neighbors of diverse backgrounds with an activity that sparks conversation. She scatters pine barks on the ground, each with a text on the back. Participants can take a piece with them. In exchange, they are asked to glue a text of their choosing to the back of a bark, adding the new one to the collection. Nishida’s activities aim to share and acknowledge cultural differences among diverse participants while illuminating the changing meanings of the same word or phrase in different contexts.
Sari Nordman has created Anxiety Lean-to, a public and social engagement project involving knotting workshops to create tapestries using recycled plastic films and traditional Finnish rya rug weaving methods. The workshops will culminate in an environmentally-themed fiber arts installation of lean-tos, addressing the problems of single-use plastics and their negative impact on the environment and people, particularly in underserved communities. During the collaborative process of making lean-tos from plastic tapestries, participants share their perceptions and reflections on recycling, single-use plastics, and solutions to plastic waste problems. This raises awareness of environmental issues and their root causes.
Thomas Gallagher has created an opportunity for neighbors from the community to bridge language and cultural barriers: to speak, hear, and understand the “voice of the other” through a game he calls Lingo Bingo. His project draws on the vernacular visual language and play mechanics of the game Bingo, replacing the numbers with words and phrases in multiple languages to create a low-risk, playful setting for participants of diverse cultural backgrounds to discover shared values.
The four artists anticipate their participatory art activities promoting community building among people of disparate backgrounds, fostering respect for immigrants from different parts of the world, and giving space to values that span cultures like climate justice, racial justice, and equality. Participants can take home objects, such as a piece of bark with text or a shirt they helped to repurpose, to remember and reflect on their projects’ experiences.
SDSS offers artist-run workshops, performances, and participatory activities free of charge with live interpretation services in English, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish at local parks in community hubs. ASL services are also available with two weeks’ advance notice.
SDSS connects the public to art and culture, focusing on immigrant communities, people with disabilities, and those experiencing economic hardship. The initiative fosters dialogues between audiences and artists, covering a wide range of subject matter and the multidimensional impact of art on cultural production and social change. It particularly seeks to disrupt anti-Asian sentiment and to bridge racial divides entrenched in all sectors of American life.
For the past four years, SDSS has broadened communication channels between the contemporary art world and local communities in New York City, advancing the artists’ creative endeavors to engage the public. This year again, SDSS promises to be an immersive and captivating experience showcasing the artists and the communities’ many talents and perspectives. All are welcome to attend, and admission is always free to SDSS events.
Program Summary
2024 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space: Part I, No. 2 will be held at the Bowne Playground in Flushing, Queens on Saturday, June 22nd, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. It will feature participatory art created by Akiko Ichikawa, Eiko Nishida, Sari Nordman, and Thomas Gallagher, celebrating New York City’s diverse cultures and traditions.
For more information, please send an email to info@kafny.org.
About Korea Art Forum (KAF)
Founded in New York City in 2013, the Korea Art Forum (KAF) is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art to create peace by supporting artists in their public engagement and enhancing people’s quality of life and well-being. Operating at the intersection of the visual arts and the humanities, KAF produces interrelated projects—commissions, exhibitions, forums, and publications—to bring together people across the art world and beyond to share dialogue, build an interconnected world, and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.
Thank you!
KAF’s 2024 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS): Part I, No.2 is supported, in part, by an award of Grants for Art Projects from the National Endowment for the Arts; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF). We especially thank our community partners, South Bronx Unite, the Minkwon Center, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Council Members Vickie Paladino, Sandra Ung, and Julie Won for supporting KAF’s projects.
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7. George Peck, FF Alumn, at Black Spring Books, Brooklyn, June 22
We’d like to cordially invite you to
When in Roma…
An exhibition of George Peck’s pastel works accompanied by Live Poetry and Song on June 22nd, 7-10 pm at Black Spring Books: 672 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211!
On view for one night only:
When in Roma… will take place on June 22nd from 7 pm to 10 pm at Black Spring Books in Williamsburg. This show will place works by George Peck, including eleven new pastel works by the artist, collectively titled Surreal Abstractions, in dialogue with a selection of poems and music.
The pandemic’s unreal reality and the environmental shift of lockdown conjured a surrealistic atmosphere for Peck, which provoked him to turn to automatic compositions and adopt the language of The Surreal. He has since maintained a near-daily practice of producing these pastels— each is a product of unpremeditated action; you can find video documentation of his process here.
When in Roma… speaks to George’s emotional response to his last trip to Rome, where he found this surrealistic atmosphere profoundly heighten and saturate even further, as the city’s charged with past and imagined histories. As a result, these works capture the colors, the light, and the motifs reflected in this atmosphere. All becomes tangible past symbolic.
Throughout his practice, Peck challenges color, light, material, and motifs while proposing new modes of seeing and understanding our entirely new reality.
A portion of the artist’s proceeds will go to The THANC Foundation—a remarkable non-profit organization that pioneers research and education in the early detection and treatment of Thyroid, Head, and Neck Cancer. George greatly admires Dr. Mark L. Urken, MD, FACS, the founder of THANC, for his expertise in helping many patients. The eleven available pastel works will be available for purchase through Saatchi in the next coming week.
We hope you can join us for this marvelous evening.
Find the advanced preview here.
For checklist or other inquiries, please reach out to studio@georgepeck.art
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8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, June 27
Ten poets rock the mic for 5 minutes each, at this curated evening of spoken word and poetry, hosted by Galinsky. The show is fast, fun, and eclectic. Poets this month include: Dr. Bukky, Ebony Sojourner, Ciltona Cawthorne, Emerald, Christian Morant, Oscar Sanders, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and live musical guest Ian McFarland.
Poetry in New York hosted by Galinsky, Thursday, June 27th, 8 pm, at Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street, NY NY 10009
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9. Kathy Westwater, FF Alumn, receives Bronx Council on the Arts 2024 BRIO Award
Honored to receive the Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO award last night from Brian Hyunsuk Lee, Grants Manager, and Viviana Bianchi, Executive Director. Feeling grateful to the community which makes it possible for me to work as an artist. Kathy Westwater
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10. Andrew Ginzel, Joyce Kozloff, Jean Shin, Bernard Tschumi, FF Alumns, at National Academy of Design, Manhattan, opening June 20
191st Annual: Academy Style
June 20, 6-8 pm
519 W. 26th St, Floro Two
thru Sept. 14, tues-sat, 12-6
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11. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Westbeth Arts Complex, Manhattan, thru July 31
SOLO OPEN STUDIO Sat. June 15 – Wed. July 31 (please email for appointment: eMediaLoft@gMail.com)
Westbeth Arts Complex
enter: 55 Bethune St. #629, NY, NY 10014
SW Corner Washington St, (south of The Whitney)
Barbara Rosenthal: Photography, prints, digital art, New Media, Video
Bill Creston: oil paintings
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12. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru July 6
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
A Group Exhibit of Viridian Artists
June 11 – July 6, 2024
Closing Reception:
Saturday, July 6, 4–6 pm
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Chelsea, NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of extraordinary art by the artists of Viridian. The show opens June 11 and continues through July 6, with a closing reception Saturday, July 6, 4–6 pm
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13. Nicole Eisenman, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/artseen/Nicole-Eisenman-What-Happened
Thank you.
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14. Christopher Wool, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/artseen/Christopher-Wool-See-Stop-Run-June2024
Thank you.
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15. Elizabeth Murray, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/06/artseen/Elizabeth-Murray-Drawings-19742006
Thank you.
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16. Judith Sloan, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, June 21
Please visit this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6-nMGeI1gVyhjcz2UdQ2RVQrSdzSJ-zho7IA_0vRC6TCSXQ/viewform
Thank you.
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17. Georgia Lale, FF Alumn, at Goethe Institut, Thessaloniki, Greece, opening June 20
April Fools
Goethe Institut Thessaloniki
Opening: Thursday, Jun 20 at 20:00
“April Fools”, 2024, donated bed sheets by womxn that live in Greece and sewing thread,
81” x 81.5”, 206 x 207 cm
Georgia Lale’s art deals with the phenomena of femicide and gender-based violence in Greece, and the systematic negligence and inability of state structures to protect the country’s citizens. The work “Pink Flag” by Lale, who lives and works in New York, became the symbol against femicides after the censorship suffered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs during the exhibition “The Guilt of the Neighborhood” at the Consulate General of Greece in New York.
The fabric sculpture “April Fools” is a tribute to Kyriaki Griva, 28 years old, who was murdered in front of the police station of Agioi Anargyri municipality of Athens by her ex-partner, on April 1st, 2024. Kyriaki unsuccessfully appealed to the police for help. She was stabbed to death while on the phone with an officer, requesting a police vehicle to transport her safely to her home. The policeman’s response was: “The police is not a taxi.” The visuals of the sculpture are referencing to the symbol of the Greek Police.
The work is made out of bed sheets given to the artist by womxn living in Greece, with the intention of using them to create works that denounce the phenomenon of gender violence and claim a state of welfare and law, capable of protecting all its citizens regardless by their gender and sexual identity.
The exhibition is organized by the Goethe Institut (Leof. Vasilissis Olgas 66, Thessaloniki, GR) in the context of EuroPride 2024 and the Pride March, under the curation of Alexander Kapetanou.
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18. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at Open Art Biennial, Örebro, Sweden, thru Sept. 30
Dear colleagues and friends,
Come join us in Örebro Sweden for my sculpture
Liberator
a Speaker Sculpture at the Open Art Biennial in Örebro Sweden
thru Sept 30th, 2024
https://openart.se/openart/openart2024inenglish.4.259a817c18b84edd10571ee.html
An interactive sound sculpture made of 400 connected loudspeakers built around an older sculpture in the city center.
The public is invited to express themselves on the theme of “Liberation“ (or anything else).
They can participate via a number of ways:
— by calling one of two telephone numbers and expressing themselves for 3 minutes:
+46 76-531 26 86
+46 76-531 26 82
— via Bluetooth and individual Smartphones they can relay songs, music and messages to the sculpture.
— via a direct line in (plug and play) they can connect their laptop, microphone and musical instrument directly to the sculpture and express themselves live.
Functioning hours: 11 am to 5 pm
Enjoy!
Benoît Maubrey
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19. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, at Emalin Gallery, London, UK, thru June 29 and more
Judith Bernstein
Truth and Chaos
Emalin gallery London
thru June 29, 2024
In conversation June 26
Amelia Abraham / Beth Bramich
In celebration of her current solo exhibition, Truth And Chaos, now extended to June 29th, Judith Bernstein will be in conversation with Amelia Abraham and Beth Bramich to discuss her work, legacy, and continued relevancy in times of both daunting uncertainty and radical reimagining.
In our post-Dobbs era, where the female body has become the battleground over the soul of a nation and truth a matter of personal preference, Bernstein’s creative surges of feminist rage and discontent are all the more palpable.
About the speakers:
Amelia Abraham is a journalist and author from London. her writing has appeared, which includes The Guardian, London Review of Books, Granta, British Vogue, Dazed and VICE. She has published two books; We Can Do Better Than This: An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people and Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture.
Beth Bramich is a writer and researcher based in South East London. She has contributed to Art Monthly, Afterall, Frieze, Apollo Magazine, and Burlington Contemporary. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, with visiting teaching roles at Oxford Brookes and the Arts University Bournemouth.
Date: Wednesday, June 26th
Location: Emalin Gallery, 1 Holywell Lane, London
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20. Power Boothe, FF Alumn, at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, June 18
Please visit this link:
https://www.lymanallyn.org/events/conversation-with-power-boothe-and-dr-george-smith
Thank you
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21. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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22. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY, July 14
New workshop just announced!
Linda Montano: Laugh/Cry With the Chakras
July 14, 2-4 PM
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is very excited to collaborate with artist Linda Mary Montano in offering a 2-hour workshop that consists of group sound, movement and performative interactions based on Montano’s 14 Years Of Living Art, a Chakra Endurance.
Linda Mary Montano is a visionary figure in contemporary feminist performance art. Many of her performances are endurance-based, such as Three Day Blindfold (1974), where she lived for three days blindfolded; Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984, a collaboration with Tehching Hsieh, where she spent a year bound to the artist by an eight-foot rope always in the same room and never allowed to touch; 14 Years of Living Art (1984–98), in which she wore strictly monochromatic clothing, spent a portion of every day in a colored room, and listened to a designated tone, all of which corresponded to the energetic qualities of a specific chakra; and provided monthly “Art/Life Counseling” in the windows of the New Museum in New York (1984–91). In 2019, her acclaimed retrospective and performance, Linda Montano: The Art/Life Hospital held at the Dorky Museum addressed Montano’s interest and exploration of healing, aging, and death.
Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experiences, autobiographical videos and intricate life-altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly real, brave, and is often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide-ranging – she has taught at many universities and has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco, and the ICA in London. Now in her 80’s, she is practicing the Art Of Life.
For additional information and to register: https://www.woodstockguild.org/events/linda-montano-laugh-cry-with-the-chakras/
2024 sessions have been announced for Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and include classes and workshops on wellness, ceramics, poetry, and jewelry design. Additional information may be found at https://www.woodstockguild.org.
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23. Jim Costanzo/Aaron Burr Society, FF Alumns, at Umbrella House, Manhattan, thru July 19
Jim Costanzo/Aaron Burr Society, FF Alumns, at Umbrella House, 21 Avenue C, Manhattan – for more information please visit @abcnorio on Instagram
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24. Gaetano Carboni, FF Alumn, at Eataly, Manhattan, June 20, and more
Gaetano Carboni, FF Alumn, is presenting wines in NYC. The first event is at Eataly on Thursday the 20th, from 6 to 7.30 pm and it’s a wine seminar focused on Rosè, hosted by various producers: https://www.eataly.com/us_en/ros-camp-a-wine-seminar-in-la-scuola-di-eataly-2024-06-20-16760
The second event is on Friday the 21st from 6 to 8 pm, again at Eataly and it’s a walk-around wine tasting again focused on Rosè from several producers: https://www.eataly.com/us_en/ros-camp-a-walk-around-wine-and-food-tasting-2024-06-21-16761
The final event is a lunch with pairing and presentation of our wines at Roscioli in Soho. This is on Sunday the 23rd from 1.00 to 3.00 pm. https://rosciolinyc.com/
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