Contents for June 13, 2022
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Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, thru Aug. 26
2. Aricoco, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumns, at Pearl River Mart Soho, Manhattan, thru Aug. 28
3. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, FF Alumn, at Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, June 19
4. Maria the Korean Bride, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, thru June 19
5. Zeelie Brown, FF Alumn, at EFA Project Space, Manhattan, June 15
6. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, receives 2022 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction
7. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, presents Pausa-Performance Art USA, Bronx River Art Center, June 16
8. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, at MW Projects, Pier 25, Manhattan, opening June 22
9. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Laurel Gitlen, Manhattan, thru July 16
10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, now online at magazzino.art
11. Peter Gordon, FF Alumn, at Hudson Yards, Manhattan, June 15
12. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, new publication
13. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, at NYC Indie Film Festival, Manhattan, June 19
14. AA Bronson, General Idea, FF Alumns, at National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
15. RT Livingston, FF Alumn, at Santa Barbara Tennis Club, CA, thru June 29
16. Mark Waskow, FF Alumn, at The Karma Bird House, Burlington, VT, opening June 25
17. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, at Staten Island Museum, thru Mar. 26, 2023
18. Lisa Kron, FF Alumn, at Museum of the City of New York, Manhattan, June 13
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Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Artist, critic, producer, writer and performer Jacki Apple, born in New York in 1941, died at her home in Culver City, CA on June 8, 2022, surrounded by white flowers and listening to the music of Meredith Monk, a friend and colleague. Her work encompassed multi-media installations, interdisciplinary performance, photography, audio, radio, film, artists books, conceptual works, site specific works, and public art projects, with experimental narrative and collaboration as key components. With her focus often on loss and disappearance (of species, of freedom and democracy and natural resources) she was an early practitioner of what has come to be called eco-feminism.
Following an early career in the fashion industry, her involvement with new forms of art began in New York in the late 1960’s, with the establishment of APPLE Gallery (1969-74) where she was Associate Director. In 1976, she became the first Curator of Exhibitions at Franklin Furnace, a position she would hold until 1980. She would go on to curate for the Montclair Museum (NJ), New Museum (NY), Seibu Museum (Tokyo), and for numerous museums in Australia and New Zealand. Having exhibited her own work at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (LA/NY), Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and the Sydney Biennial, her output has been cited in books and articles by such writers as Lucy R. Lippard, Roselee Goldberg, Marvin Carlson, Peggy Phelan, and many others.
Dedicated to increasing the cultural power of fellow artists, she became a vital contributor to the growth of performance and conceptual art criticism in Southern California after moving there in 1980, while also creating five public art works for the LA Cultural Affairs Dept. Deeply immersed in audio art, from 1982-1995 her KPFK-FM show Soundings brought contemporary artists into the homes and cars of the Southland. Her critical writings in Fabrik, Artweek, High Performance, PAJ, TDR, and The L.A. Weekly remain essential to the careers of many prominent artist/performers, some of whom had studied with her at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) where she taught art history and practice from 1983-2017, receiving a Distinguished Teaching of Art Award from the College Art Association in 2012. Having performed at PS 1 (NY), Washington Project for the Arts (D.C.), Santa Monica Arts Festival, Highways (Santa Monica), LACE, Barnsdall (LA), and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, her final performance was as part of the Grande Dames & Divas at Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA). In 2018, she assembled her critical writings into Performance / Media / Art / Culture. Selected Essays 1983-2018 (Intellect 2019).
At the time of her death, she was working with archivist (and former student) Emily Waters on a forthcoming book about her 1979-80 interdisciplinary performance project, The Mexican Tapes Redux: An Archaeological Memoir, as well as preparing for the inclusion of her audio work in The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial, to be held in September at the James Gallery of the City University of New York. Archives of her work are housed at the Fales Library Special Collections at New York University and the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian.
Predeceased by parents Caroline and Irving Blum. Survived by sister Marjorie B. Bank (Kazlow), brother-in-law Alan Kazlow and nephew Terence. A green burial at Joshua Tree is planned, along with memorials in Los Angeles and New York.
– Jeff McMahon
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Jacki Apple and I met virtually in 1974 when Lucy R. Lippard included both of us in her exhibition, c. 7,500, a “number show” which originated in Valencia, CA, population c. 7,500. The catalog consisted of unbound 4 x 6″ notecards, and the artists got both sides of the card to use as art space. I put “Breast Forms Permutated” on one side, and can’t remember now what I put on the other side, but I do remember finding Jacki’s work to be also about identity as a woman so I obtained her address (we used envelopes and stamps in those days) and commenced corresponding. At the time, I was living in Canada, having moved after graduating from college in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war. I had been raised a Quaker and my boyfriend didn’t want to be drafted into the United States Army, so we moved to Halifax, where the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the school our painting teacher said was “the coolest art school in North America” was located. Lucy had visited the school in 1973, saw what I was creating and said, “Yes you are an artist and there are other women around North America and Europe who are doing feminist work.”
In December, 1973, Jacki and I collaborated on a performance art work, “Transformance,” which took place at the Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel, where we invented an ideal female character between us, and with some of Jacki’s friends, took her to lunch; then in a limo we went downtown to 420 West Broadway to look at art. Jacki, the New Yorker, was relaxed and happy throughout this process; I was nervous we would be discovered as poseurs. The uptown crowd thought we really were perhaps from Vogue Magazine; we instructed the photographers to agree with whatever people at other tables projected upon us. But the staff at Sonnabend was unhappy that we were taking pictures in the gallery–of ourselves, not the art on the wall–and threw us out.
Jacki and I became fast friends, and as I talked with her about founding a not-for-profit organization to collect, exhibit and preserve “artists’ books” (we didn’t have this term yet; I was calling them “book-like works by artists”), she took on the role of curator of exhibitions such as “Notebooks, Workbooks, Scripts and Scores”; as well as meeting with individual artists such as Jenny Holzer to prepare window works; and individual artists such as Scott Johnson to prepare gallery installations, and Martine Aballea to present performance art works. Jacki held the role of Curator of Franklin Furnace until 1980, when she moved to Los Angeles.
In addition to her curatorial work for Franklin Furnace, Jacki prepared an exhibition for the New Museum entitled “Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview, 1969-75.” Jacki had been Billy Apple’s wife and partner during a time when art spaces were beginning to appear in New York, Apple among them, so she had a deep understanding of what would later be called the “downtown” art scene. I am among those who will miss Jacki Apple greatly!
-Martha Wilson
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Jacki Apple 1941-2022
Interdisciplinary visual, performance, and media artist, writer, audio composer, and educator whose work has been performed, exhibited, broadcast, and published internationally for five decades. Her work has encompassed multi-media installations, interdisciplinary performance, photography, audio, radio, film, artists books, conceptual works, site specific works, and public art projects, with experimental narrative as a central component, and collaboration as an important aspect of her creative process.
Selected Installations/ Exhibitions
Craft and Folk Art Museum (LA,CA); Yokohama Triennial (Yokohama, Japan); Fifth Int. Artists Book Exhibition (Hungary); Sackler Center, Brooklyn Museum; LACE/Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Norton Museum (FL) & Hudson River Museum (NY); Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum at Philip Morris (NYC); M.I.T. (Cambridge); Sydney Biennale; Nova Scotia College of Art
Five Public Art Works commissioned by Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept 1997-2005
Selected Interdisciplinary Performances
PS1 (NYC); Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, D.C.); John Anson Ford Theatre (Los Angeles; Santa Monica Arts Festival; Highways (Santa Monica); Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena); Franklin Furnace (NYC); Whitney Museum at Philip Morris (NYC); African-American Museum of Art (Los Angeles); LACE/Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Barnsdall Municipal Gallery (Los Angeles)
Selected Radio Broadcast and Producing
New American Radio series, satellite broadcast/60 stations nationally; NPR Playhouse, National Public Radio; Pacifica Radio; Independent community radio- “Music at the End of a Century”, KOHM, Lubbock, CKUT, Montreal; Territory of Art series, American Public Radio; Soundspot: Music in the 80s series, National Public Radio; US EAR series, National Public Radio; Canadian Broadcasting Company; ABC Radio, Australia; Sender Freies Radio, Berlin; Radio Panik, Brussels; National Radio Finland; Swedish National Radio; International Festival of New Radio and Audio Art, NYC.
1982-95 KPFK-FM, L.A Producer/host, Soundings, weekly one hour show featuring sound art, radio art, audio art, performance art, experimental music from around the world. Also live interviews.
1987 Executive Producer, Soundings LIVE, six part series of live performance works by Terry Allen, Rinde Eckert, Rachel Rosenthal, Noreen Hennesy, David Antin, Mike Kelley. Pacifica Radio. Distributed on cassette by High Performance. National broadcast distribution, Pacifica Visions series, and New American Radio.
1987-88 Southern California writer/producer for U.S. EAR, new music and performance series. Distributed by National Public Radio.
Fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts; Santa Monica Arts Commission; California Arts Council
Curatorial work: 1976-1980 Curator of exhibitions for Franklin Furnace, seminal downtown NYC performance, exhibition and archive space; Montclair Museum (NJ); Kansas City Art Institute Gallery; New Museum (NYC); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Seibu Museum (Tokyo); 11 museums in Australia and New Zealand. Side Street Live (Los Angeles); LACE (Los Angeles)
Citations: Soho News, Art in America, Art News, Art New Zealand; Village Voice; Heresies; Afterimage; LAIC Journal; Artweek; Art Papers; Los Angeles Times; High Performance; L.A. Reader; LA Herald Examiner; Books by Lucy R. Lippard, Roselee Goldberg, Marvin Carlson Bruce Barber, Toni Sant, Cornelia Butler, Pegy Phelan, and published by MIT Press, Routledge, Intellect, Univ. of California, Abrams
Critical writings published several hundred critical essays and reviews, in numerous publications, such as L.A. Weekly, High Performance, Artweek, Art Journal, Fabrik, PAJ TDR, since 1982 and is the author of the 2019 Performance / Media / Art / Culture. Selected Essays 1983-2018. Intellect, UK. She writes the column Peripheral Visions: Perspectives on Performance, Media, and Culture online at https://fabrikmagazine.com/peripheral-visions/
Jacki was central to the emergence of, and recognition for, the burgeoning work in performance art being created in Southern California in the 1980’s and 1990’s, after she moved from NY to LA in 1981.
Final live performance as part of Grande Dames & Divas, Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA) 2018
Professor Emerita, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA . where she was a faculty member 1983 -2017.
2012 recipient of the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award.
Archive housed at the Fales Library Special Collections at NYU, plus additional artists projects documents at the Archives American Art at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Predeceased by former husband Billy Apple (NYT obituary 2021), and survived by one sister.
At the time of her death, she was working with her assistant (and former Art Center grad student) Emily Waters on a book about her 1979-80 interdisciplinary performance project, TH MEXICAN TAPES, as well as preparing for participation in a group show, The Racial Imaginary Institute Biennial, to be held in September at the James Gallery of the City University of New York. That exhibition will feature Apple’s audio works Redefining Democracy in America Part 1: Episodes in Black and White (1991) https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/wj9j19, Voices in the Dark (1991) https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/wj9j19, and The Garden Planet Revisited (1982/1992) https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/0mbam2.
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1. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, thru Aug. 26
Mesophotic Sanctuary | Solo Exhibition
June 10 – August 26, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 5-9pm
The Delaware Contemporary
You’re invited to my solo exhibition at The Delaware Contemporary, presented in partnership with the Delaware Children’s Museum. Mesophotic Sanctuary is an imaginary underwater “middle light” marine ecosystem with video animations, glass and light installation and new sculptures. This multimedia art installation challenges the public to wildly re-envision the future of the planet and how communities can develop sustainable strategies inspired from nature’s adaptability and perseverance.
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2. Aricoco, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumns, aty Pearl River Mart Soho, Manhattan, thru August 28
Soft Solidarity (SoS), group exhibition in NYC | Curator
May 18 – August 28, 2022
Pearl River Mart SoHo
I had the pleasure of curating a group exhibition for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, presented in partnership with the Asian American Arts Alliance and Pearl River Mart. The group show explores the urban sociological concept of soft solidarity during a tumultuous time of anti-Asian sentiment and violence during the on-going pandemic. On view are four women-identifying artists who share a love for contemporary art and traditional craft:
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
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3. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, FF Alumn, at Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, June 19
Sunday, June 19th, 2022
5pm & 7:30pm
Spectacle Theater
124 S 3rd St
Brooklyn, NY 11249
$5, tickets available here: https://withfriends.co/event/14475011/around_space_works_by_theresa_hak_kyung_cha_sujin_lee_and_jesse_chun
“Her movements are already punctuated by the movement of the camera, her pace, her time, her rhythm. You move from the same distance as the visitor, with the same awe, same reticence, the same anticipation. […] All along, you see her without actually seeing, actually having seen her. You do not see her. For the moment, you see only her traces.”
– Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Wendy’s Subway, and Spectacle Theater are pleased to co-present a screening of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s video works, featured alongside works by artists Sujin Lee and Jesse Chun. Grappling with the porosity of language, historicity, geopolitics and more, Cha, Chun, and Lee’s works explore these issues with dexterity and playfulness. Between the subtle and obvious gestures towards Cha in both Chun and Lee’s works, the screening will be an exciting opportunity to view Cha’s work in community, and in conjunction with artists working in and along her lineage.
This event is part of Wendy’s Subway’s series The Quick and the Dead (http://wendyssubway.com/programs/q-d/theresa-hak-kyung-cha), a yearlong, multi-phase project that bridges the life, work, and legacy of a deceased writer to those of contemporary practitioners. In its third year, the program focuses on Korean American artist Cha (1951–1982), and considers her profound interventions in film and video, historiography, language and translation, and autobiographical writing. Cha’s exploration of the porousness between artistic mediums leaves indelible marks on contemporary art, especially film and video.
The program will screen in its entirety twice on Sunday, June 19th at 5 and 7:30pm. Please note Spectacle’s capacity of about 35 audience members per screening. We anticipate reaching capacity quickly and recommend purchasing your ticket in advance.
Sujin Lee is an artist currently living and working in Seoul, South Korea. She works with language in text, moving image, and performance. Lee’s work has been presented at Arko Art Center, Kumho Art Museum, Cake Gallery, Wumin Art Center in South Korea, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, A.I.R. Gallery, Mandeville Gallery at Union College, NURTUREart, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Small Editions in New York, US, and the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center in Saint Petersburg, Russia, among others. She participated in artist residencies, including the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, I-Park, Newark Museum, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, and Artkommunalka. She is a recipient of the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2012-2013), SeMA Emerging Artist & Curators Program grant (2016), and Wumin Art Award (2018).
Jesse Chun is an artist working and living in New York. Chun’s work has been presented internationally at the Nam June Paik Art Center (South Korea); SculptureCenter, New York; the Drawing Center, New York; BAM, New York; Queens Museum, New York; the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York (United States); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada), among others. Recent awards and fellowships include Art by Translation (Paris, 2022); Ballroom Marfa (Texas, 2021), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US, 2020).
From the mid-1970s until her death at age 31 in 1982, Korean-born artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a rich body of conceptual art that explored displacement and loss. Her works included artists’ books, mail art, performance, audio, video, film, and installation. Although grounded in French psychoanalytic film theory, her art is also informed by far-ranging cultural and symbolic references, from shamanism to Confucianism and Catholicism. Her collage-like book Dictée, which was published posthumously in 1982, is recognized as an influential investigation of identity in the context of history, ethnicity and gender.
Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They support emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes for learning and thinking in community.
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4. Maria the Korean Bride, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, thru June 19
This is the best part: Celebrating with friends and colleagues. Artwork: Artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Open until June 19, 2022. Gallery 199. #metmuseum #mariathekoreanbride #artreception #nyccelebrate
Thank you. Maria the Korean Bride
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5. Zeelie Brown, FF Alumn, at EFA Project Space, Manhattan, June 15
Zeelie Brown: Queer Mothers’ Space
Solo Project On View: June 1 – 15, 2022
Closing Reception: Wednesday, June 15, 5-9 PM | RSVP via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zeelie-brown-queer-mothers-space-opening-reception-tickets-342041965727?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=a27ac9d9c1&mc_eid=e9b4e9b28b
EFA Project Space is thrilled to present Zeelie Brown: Queer Mothers’ Space (https://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/queer-mothers-space?mc_cid=a27ac9d9c1&mc_eid=e9b4e9b28b), the first solo presentation of work in New York by Alabama raised and NYC-based artist Zeelie Brown. The exhibition is accompanied by an original zine publication by the artist featuring a commissioned essay by Katherine Adams and poems by Dre Cardinal. Framed as a conversation between Brown and figures both living and historic, the solo project will include performances by Brown and guests, a public dinner, talks, and a gallery-spanning installation of lush inter-media, tactile, and sonic works that confront the intersectional realities of climate injustice, oppression, and anti-Blackness in contemporary American society. Brown focuses on the potential for transformative and restorative justice through acts of resistance and care, as a means to “(re)form the world.” Brown refuses polite forms of permission-seeking to exist and to be visible, or as Brown writes in their artist statement, “You’ll forgive me if I want to destroy things…”
Artist Statement
Queer Mothers’ Space is a multi-sensory scream for Black&queer justice in a time of environmental genocide. This space roils as/like a hurricane, storming down the market systems suckled at birth by chattel slavery. In this storm’s wake, I leave fertile ground to revolutionize global provision and nourishment. I offer a gentle breeze for children to befriend and a wild tempest to tatter the sails of the unjust. For inspiration, I think of what my woods used to be.
The Alabama woods, my first art museum, are browning. The grass in my family’s little hamlet of 100 souls no longer clothes itself in morning dew. The morning air no longer turns blue regularly between the loblolly pines. The next crop of okra and field peas hasn’t been planted in twenty years. Main Street, in the big town down the way, folded to Walmart’s half-priced, quarter-made imitations. I’m 33. I’ve seen most of those dearest to me from back home to their graves. I long for the rusted, browning stories of the old folks’ steel mill escapades up Nof’. Familiarity lingers in the stench of trees boiling in a rage of sulfuric acid: the paper mills are always hiring. Oil companies cut up my swamps into Swiss cheese to get to the Gulf faster, leaving all who live there turning and twisting, vulnerable to ever more forceful hurricanes.
You’ll forgive me if I want to destroy things.
I spent a great deal of my 20’s going through lists of things I’d like to destroy: myself, for not being able to manage independently; others for being in a place where they could do something and covering their ass with the complacency of well-resourced apathy; the Metropolitan Museum for putting African art in a room that looks like the food stamp office got it’s nails done; the Whitney plantation museum for embodying in waterfront glass and steel the country my family has lived in since the Declaration of Indepedence was signed, the country I may never truely be a member of; Oberlin for making life hell on Earth for Black students; global markets, for the stupid economic religion that all natural competition is zero sum.
So, to remind me of home—amid an installation full of embroidered denim quilts, home-canned food, a clothesline to hang your emotional dirty laundry and a self-theft room; spicy and bitter craft cocktails; music by Yatta Zoker and me; a crab and Conecuh sausage gumbo dinner; poetry by Dre Cardinal, and a conversation in a Southern truck garden that I’ve grown for this show—I rage. I destroy. I craft. I green. I care. I queer. I mother.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Participant Bios
Zeelie Brown’s first art museum was the pine woods in Alabama. They make Black&queer wilderness refuges called “soulscapes” to (re)imagine what nature might be. Zeelie is currently working with the MIT Department of Architecture, NOMAS, and Group Project to create sustainable human waste solutions in her native rural Alabama. Queer Mothers’ Space is their first solo presentation of work in Manhattan.
Dre Cardinal is a half-Korean, quarter French-Canadian, quarter German published poet who has won numerous awards, most notably the highly competitive creative thesis mentorship under her favorite poet Josh Bell while (not) studying at Harvard College. A Gemini military brat who moved around the South, she mostly grew up in San Antonio where Zeelie was her next door neighbor. Dre has also lived in Germany, South Korea and Madagascar. She is the last of a long line of first-born surviving females. Her life’s purpose is to clear heart chakras through her writing—and bring love. She’s known Zeelie for 31 years.
For Press Inquiries Please Contact:
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Program Director, EFA Project Space
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EFA Project Space
323 W. 39th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC, 10018
www.projectspace-efanyc.org | projectspace@efanyc.org
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6. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, receives 2022 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction
The winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction is Sarah Schulman (@sarahschulman3) for Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, published by @fsgbooks #Lammys
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7. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, presents Pausa-Performance Art USA, Bronx River Art Center, June 16
This Thursday, June 16th, from 6 to 9pm, Hector Canonge will present the second installment of Pausa-Performance Art USA featuring the work of artist Ciro Beltrán (Chile / Germany).
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8. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, at MW Projects, Pier 25, Manhattan, opening June 22
Thank you MW Projects and Lilac PreservationProject, Melinda Wang and Captain Mary Habstritt.
New York, NY, June 7, 2022 – MW Projects is pleased to present “River Dreams,” a solo exhibition by multi-media artist Graciela Cassel. The exhibition will be on view from June 18 through October 23, 2022, with a public opening reception on June 22, 6-8pm, aboard the historic museum ship Lilac.
Cassel explores water as a connecting force – linking far-flung geographies, humans to nature, and the past to the present to the future. Artworks using technology and man-made materials are her tools for diving into the natural world, and it’s the juxtaposition of the artificial and natural that allows for our deeper understanding and appreciation of the elements.
We are invited to peer into a mega-kaleidoscope, row into a river of videos, visit abstracted islands and submerge our senses in layers of images and colors. Water is the free-flowing energy that powers our dreams.
The artworks will be featured within the ship’s unique spaces, including several site-specific installations. In addition to the exhibition, the Lilac will host performances, community activities and educational events. The schedule of events will be available on the Lilac’s website at www.lilac preservation project.org. The exhibition and events are free and open to the public.
Cassel explores water as a connecting force – linking far-flung geographies, humans to nature, and the past to the present to the future. Artworks using technology and man-made materials are her tools for diving into the natural world, and it’s the juxtaposition of the artificial and natural that allows for our deeper understanding and appreciation of the elements.
We are invited to peer into a mega-kaleidoscope, row into a river of videos, visit abstracted islands and submerge our senses in layers of images and colors. Water is the free-flowing energy that powers our dreams.
The artworks will be featured within the ship’s unique spaces, including several site-specific installations. In addition to the exhibition, the Lilac will host performances, community activities and educational events. The schedule of events will be available on the Lilac’s website at www.lilacpreservationproject.org. The exhibition and events are free and open to the public.
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9. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Laurel Gitlen, Manhattan, thru July 16
June 9 – July 16, 2022
Opening Reception June 9, 5-7pm
Reading 7pm
“ABOUT Time” presents twenty-four works on paper by poet, activist, visual artist, and
educator Pamela Sneed, an artist I’ve long admired. The watercolors, mostly
portraits of people she holds in great esteem, are often coupled with descriptive
phrases, narrative excerpts, or poems. Pamela’s gestural brushstroke has the
immediacy of a diary entry, with emotive explosions of color and a teary liquidity,
rendering her subjects through feeling as much as detail. The line of her drawing
extends into the hand of her writing, connecting a space of vision with a space of
declaration. Public and historical Black figures appear alongside family members
blurring distinctions between collective Black experiences and personal ones.
This selection belongs to a larger series of paintings she has been making as a daily
practice since the onset of the pandemic. Each piece marks another day, while the
twenty-four works on view might collectively suggest a day’s hours. Overlapping time
signatures weave through her paintings. The slow pace of quarantine is measured
against the too-soon deaths of friends and family members. The George Floyd
uprising was a long time coming and the violence perpetrated against Black bodies
continues time and time again.
Each of the paintings is an act of dedication, commemorating the lives lost and those
cruelly taken. Her work carves out space for love and grief outside of time, while also
demanding our action and accountability in the now. Two collages, one with her
father and another with herself as a child (The Fighter 2, 2022 and The Poet 2, 2022)
identify the strength and lyricism at play in her work. In Crown for George Floyd,
2022, Pamela enshrines George Floyd with the radiant power of the lines of her
poem, 8 Minutes 46 Seconds. (Justine Kurland, May 2022)
Laurel Gitlen 465 Grand Street Suite 4C New York, NY 10002
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10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, now online at magazzino.art
Please visit this link:
https://www.magazzino.art/visit/events/design-is-one-lella-and-massimo-vignelli
Thank you.
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11. Peter Gordon, FF Alumn, at Hudson Yards, Manhattan, June 15
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra will be performing at a free outdoor concert at Hudson Yards on June 15 at 6pm, (doors open at 5pm). Sharing the bill is the Museum of Love. LOLO’s set starts at 6pm.
https://www.bowerypresents.com/shows/detail/436371-museum-of-love
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12. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, new publication
Please visit this link:
http://www.innenzines.com/index.php?/zines/judith-bernstein/2/
Thank you.
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13. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, at NYC Indie Film Festival, Manhattan, June 19
ART/new york presents
New York Premier
Marcia Resnick
bad girl photographer
A Paul Tschinkel Film
Shown at NYC Indie Film Festival
358 West 44 St., NYC, 10036
Screening at 2:15 pm on June 19th, 2022
Get your tickets here: https://nycindieff.com/films/marcia-resnick-bad-girl-phot/
Marcia Resnick, born in Brooklyn, studied photography at NYU, Cooper Union, and CalArts. As a young woman photographer, she photographed many of the downtown personalities that populated the New York City underground art and music scene in the 1970s and ’80s, which included Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, John Belushi, William Burroughs, and others. ART/new york spoke with her in 2020 in her Greenwich Village apartment about her life as a photographer and her new book Punks, Poets, & Provocateurs, a collection of her long running Bad Boys series in which she took portraits of men from the female gaze.
Marcia’s humor and interest in conceptual ideas is also explored as she recounts her early career making DIY photography books and staging her subject matter. Today, Marcia’s work has resurfaced and has led to a re-examination of her art as an important contribution to photography.
See the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-zW0PY1Bgk
Paul Tschinkel is the producer and director of the ART/new york series. A painter and video artist, he is a graduate of the MFA program at Yale University. His work has been shown widely in Europe, Japan and in the US at such prominent institutions as The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA and the National Gallery. Over the years, Tschinkel’s unique work has become a valuable historical resource on contemporary art & artists. Begun in 1979, ART/new york has covered such notable artists as Alice Neel, Chuk Close, Jeff Koons and many more. During this time, Tschinkel also produced and recorded many of the Punk/New Wave bands of the late ’70s/’80s.
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14. AA Bronson, General Idea, FF Alumns, at National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
We are excited to announce the renaming of the library reading room at the National Gallery of Canada as the “General Idea Reading Room”. The Archives & Library at the National Gallery of Canada includes many collections related to General Idea, including the Art Metropole Collection, the General Idea fonds, and the AA Bronson Collection. The collections are especially rich in artists’ books and multiples from the post-war period to the present, and of course in all things General Idea. A big thanks to the NGC for the honour.
#ngc #generalidea #exhibition
#artgallery #aids #retrospective #canadianart #canadianartists
#icons #modernart
#nationalgalleryofcanada
#aabronson #artistbooks
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15. RT Livingston, FF Alumn, at Santa Barbara Tennis Club, CA, thru June 29
RT Livingston has work in the AQUATIC exhibit that runs from June 4th to June 29th in Santa Barbara, CA.
RT Livingston’s The CiC: I draw the line where the water meets the sky,” represents the physical act of drawing a line across the horizon, while simultaneously expressing her aesthetic, philosophical and environmental points of view. The expression “I draw the line” means enough is enough.
“The Pacific’s evanescent, luminescent, rhythmic motion continues to lure me to its edge where since 2009 I‘ve painted THE CiC to make a point about its beauty and the fundamental necessity of clean water and air for life on Earth. THE CiC translates to The Sea I See. I recently returned from a four day mini vacation in Carpinteria where the ocean once again grabbed me. I think of Monet who said he becomes the flower. I become the ocean.”
RT Livingston
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16. Mark Waskow, FF Alumn, at The Karma Bird House, Burlington, VT, opening June 25
Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art (NNEMoCA)
John Douglas: A Life Well Lived
at The Gallery @ The Karma Bird House, 47 Maple St., Burlington, VT
Reception: Saturday, June 25th 5:30-7:30PM
Gallery hours: Monday – Saturday, 8:00AM – 3:00PM, June 22 – Aug. 22, 2022
John Douglas’ memorial retrospective documents his long, productive, and substantive body of work. Douglas called himself a “Truth Activist”. His irreverent, activist beliefs, and Zen-like appreciation of the world fueled his decades of creative output. Douglas unceasingly addressed injustice, hypocrisy, unjust wars, and climate change. In “Homeland Security” he leverages American symbols and uses himself as a central actor with near complete humility to create a forceful critique of our cultural priorities.
NNEMoCA engages people with important ideas, the ongoing dialogue in contemporary visual arts & culture, and creates transformative experiences for visitors by fostering meaningful dialogue and challenging established perceptions. NNEMocA was founded by Mark Waskow.
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17. LuLu LoLo, FF Alumn, at Staten Island Museum, thru Mar. 26, 2023
LuLu LoLo’s Interactive Presentation “Listening to the Birds” in the exhibition YES, AND a survey of Art and Artists Connected to Staten Island, Selection Panelists: Ayana Evans, Florence Lynch, Anthony Spinello, and Ed Woodham.
https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/exhibitions/yesand/
https://www.fitnyc.edu/creative-nexus/faculty/directory/lynch-florence.php
“Listening to the Birds” an interactive presentation honoring the beauty of birds and bird songs. The installation features taxidermy and photography from the museum’s collection, an audio compilation of native bird songs, and a listening bench outside the museum. LuLu invites guests to write memories that bird songs inspire to be included in the exhibition.
June 10, 2022-March 26, 2023, Wed-Sunday 11am-5pm
Saturday, June 11, Public Opening Reception: 2pm-4pm
Staten Island Museum on the grounds of Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A. Staten Island, NY 10301
https://www.statenislandmuseum.org
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18. Lisa Kron, FF Alumn, at Museum of the City of New York, Manhattan, June 13
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