Contents for December 5, 2022

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1. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, now online at Forward.com

2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Manhattan, December 7, and more

3. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Metz Cathedral, France, and more

4. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Arantxa Araujo, Heng-Gil Han, LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at 601 Artspace, Manhattan, opening Dec. 16

5. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Alumn, at Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania, opening Dec. 8

6. Toby Maclennan, FF Alumn, receives Honorable Mention award, 2022 International Photography Awards

7. Judith Ren-Lay, FF Alumn, new publication, and more

8. Brahna Yassky, FF Alumn, at Jefferson Market Library, Manhattan, Dec. 12

9. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in O-Neill Society News

10. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com

11. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, new publication

12. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, at The Center, Manhattan, Dec. 16, 18

13. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, at Industry City, Brooklyn, Dec. 5

14. Martha Rosler, FF Alumn, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Manhattan, opening Dec. 8

15. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, at Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Dec. 9

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1. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, now online at Forward.com

Please visit this link:

https://forward.com/culture/525505/chloe-bass-artist-wayfinding-black-jewish-together-skirball-los-angeles-greensboro/

Thank you.

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2. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Manhattan, December 7, and more

Envisioning the Brown Mother

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles on Pilgrimage to the Hispanic Society Museum & Library with La Virgen de Altagracia 

December 7, 2022, starting at 10:30 AM at his home in the South Bronx and arriving around 2:20 PM at Hispanic Society. Those willing to attend at Hispanic Society will need to stay in the courtyard due to ongoing renovations.

On December 7 I engage in a one-person pilgrimage centered on La Virgen de La Altagracia, Tatica, the protector of the Dominican Republic and to some, of the whole Island. I hence plan to travel from the Bronx to Washington Heights, two enclaves of Dominican presence in the City. Up until recently, Washington Heights, Little Quisqueya, has been the epicenter of Dominican cultures, that is, until the burgeoning Dominican communities that are rapidly arising in the Bronx as a result of the gentrification of “The Heights.” My journey takes into consideration the back and forth between these two loci. Tatica, the short or nickname for Altagracia and the name of the Dominican protector and guardian saint of the country, has evolved to become one of the loas, spirits, of the Vodun pantheon named Alaila. Tatica is celebrated on January 21st. This pilgrimage will be presented as part of an artist fellowship research with Hispanic Society, and it is supported by a NYSCA grant. 

Special gracias to Alexander Campos and to the Dominican Studies Institute at CCNY. 

This experience is dedicated to the late Juana Camacho (Mami) / A long-term Dominican resident of Washington Heights 

(If you would like to join or volunteer, please contact Nicolás at the addresses below)  

To join this pilgrimage email Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or contact him at https://www.instagram.com/interiorbeautysalon/?hl=en @interiorbeautysalon 

To Join a live post pilgrimage conversation online on Thursday, December 14, 6PM click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ4zIprWykA

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3. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Metz Cathedral, France, and more

To Breathe – Leiden

Lucas van Leyden Fund – Leiden, The Netherlands

Consisting of semicircular arches stretched over the canal that get lit delicately in the evening, To Breathe – Leiden symbolically attests to the connection between art and science that is Leiden’s core character. Furthermore, the series of arches across the canal is a metaphor for Kimsooja’s key motif of sewing and weaving, which also historically grounds the city’s textile tradition.

The Lucas Art Award was presented by the Lucas van Leyden Fund, responsible for bringing contemporary art in the city. The work was executed by Anything is Possible and supported by Axel Vervoordt Gallery and it will be on view for 3 years, until 2025.  For more information, click here

To Breathe

Permanent Public Art Commission

Metz Cathedral, Metz, France

To celebrate its 800th anniversary, the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Metz unveiled new stained-glass windows, created by Kimsooja. The artist is not only the first non-European and the first 21st century artist, but also the very first woman to be commissioned such a project. Her stained-glass windows are installed in the bays of the triforium in the south arm of the transept. Kimsooja offers an abstract work designed to be a gentle experience, centred on colour and the changing light throughout the day and the seasons. The stained-glass panes were created in collaboration with the French master glass maker, Pierre-Alain Parot, using a combination of blown glass and dichroic glass.

This public art commission of a permanent piece was initiated by the Ministry of Culture. The project, overseen by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Grand Est region, in close liaison and with constant collaboration with the clergy responsible for the cathedral, was designed as a highlight of the celebrations of the eighth centenary of this Gothic structure. For more information, click here and relevant article here. 

In conjunction with the inaugural at Metz Cathedral, the film titled The Lantern of God (filmed by Gilles Coudert & Damien Faure, 52 min. / 2020) is available to get through a.p.r.e.s 

Group Exhibitions

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4. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Arantxa Araujo, Heng-Gil Han, LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at 601 Artspace, Manhattan, opening Dec. 16

Korea Art Forum Presents an Exhibition:

2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS)

At 601Artspace in Chinatown, NY

(88 Eldridge St., New York, NY 10002)

From Friday, December 16, 2022 to Sunday, January 15, 2023

With a reception on Friday, Dec 16, 2022from 6 to 8 pm.

601Artspace in Chinatown, NY, December 2, 2022 – Korea Art Forum (KAF) is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of art objects produced through the series of outdoor art events and activities, 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), which include:

HERE FROM AFAR guest-curated by Jennifer McGregor presented different experiences of nature in different cultural contexts. THE EARTH IS NO LAND guest-curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez created a temporary space for participants to envisage the Earth as Gaia, a super-organic single system, shifting our understanding of the earth that is currently seen as a divisible and tradable commodity. BUILDING TOGETHER piloted creative activities to change our dominant zero-sum worldview causing competition and contradictions, exploitation of others and natural resources, and racial and social injustices subjugating people of color. MOTT HAVEN PROJECT and MOTT HAVEN ART BLOCK PARTY brought neighbors together to experience art, promote their own creativity, and confirm their presence in the area. AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN-SENTIMENTS presented art elements in resistance to the recent surge of hate crimes and incidents against Asian-Americans.

Exhibiting at 601 Art Space at the end of 2022 provides an opportunity to reflect on what we have done and share the outcomes with a different audience. It provides a platform to discuss the unequal distribution of art resources not as an issue of lacking material and manpower, but as an issue of priority setting, challenging dominant narratives of anti-immigration and racial injustices that are deeply embedded in American culture today. The exhibition offers an examination of accessible approaches to social practice art and renewed conception of art as an effort of community building and immigration as social and cultural bridge-building work.

KAF will also have all SDSS print catalogs published to date available at the exhibition, showing the trajectory of the program’s development from its inauguration in 2020 through June 2022. The 2022 quadrilingual catalog (English, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese) includes artist interviews, curatorial statements, and participants’ reviews of in-person events at local parks in both Inwood, Manhattan and Flushing, Queens, For more information, to purchase copies of the catalogs, or to view for free online, please visit https://www.kafny.org/publications, or email hhan@kafny.org.

About The Artists

Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican artist whose work is multidisciplinary, feminist, meditative, and is rooted in bio-behavioral research. Their work Cocoon (2022) will be presented, a prop used for performance at the waterfront of Inwood Hill Park made with satin and chiffon connective wings.

IG: @ArantxaAraujo, Website: www.arantxaaraujo.com 

Ana Paula Cordeiro makes books by hand, photographs with film, prints from lead type, and writes either sparingly or profusely on unbound folios, which she then proceeds to bind by hand into volumes. Her exhibited work is Gathering of Impressions/Encuentro de Impresiones (2022).

IG:@anaco_dex, Website: https://anapaulacordeiro.com 

Cody Herrmann is an artist and community organizer based in Flushing, Queens. Her work A Glimpse of the Future (it’s bound to come tumbling down) (2022) implements blocks of cardboard to represent the distribution of affordable housing, market-rate units, and hotel rooms in the Special Flushing Waterfront District (SFWD). The project empowers participants to speak on issues of overdevelopment and displacement.

IG: @americanbabe, @flushinbayandcreep, Website:  http://codyannherrmann.com 

Jeanne F. Jalandoni is based in NYC and explores the idea of Asians as a perpetual foreigner in her art. Her work Community Weaving (2022) is an output of a participatory activity that invited visitors to weave collectively and took place in Inwood Hill Park on April 23, 2022.

IG: @jfjalandoni.art, Website: http://jeannejalandoni.com 

Yeon Jin Kim’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses animated films shot from miniature sets, cut-paper works, drawings and plastic quilts inspired by Jogakbo (Korean traditional quilting). Her work Collaborative Jogakbo (2021-2022) are Jogakbos made by participants stitched together.

Instagram: @yeonjikim4, Website: www.yeonjinkim.com 

David Yonghwan Lee is a visual artist whose body of work currently focuses on personal experiences of relocation. His work Drawing Workshop (2022) is a 3D installation of the table used to invite immigrant passersby to draw their experience of the new city they recently immigrated to. This drawing workshop took place in downtown Flushing on May 14, 2022.

IG: @david_yonghwan_lee

Yunjeong Lee has been working on interactive art since 2019. She started working on augmented reality based on the work completed with public participation to enhance the interactive experience. Her work Love Is All (1022-2) (2022) is an output of a participatory activity that invited visitors to express their ideas of racial inequality and took place in Mott Haven, the South Bronx, on September 25, 2022.

Website: www.bc12us.com 

Rejin Leys is a mixed media artist and paper maker based in Queens. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in several public collections. Her work New Colossus Paper (2022) is a group of 3 prints on a wall and her paper-making station (a cart with a container of shredded paper in front of the prints)

Instagram: @rejinl, Website: www.rejinleys.com 

Lily & Honglei is an immigrant artist collaborative whose practice integrates Asian cultural heritages, traditional art mediums, and emerging technologies. Their work The Red String: Life of the Invisibles (2022) is inspired by “The Butterfly Lovers,” an ancient Chinese folktale, and reflects Asian immigrants’ cultural heritage and their search for a new identity in the western metropolis.

Instagram: @lily_honglei, Website: https://lilyhonglei.net 

LuLu LoLo is an international visual/performance artist and playwright/actor for over twenty-five years. Her work Listening to the Birds (2022) is presented as a wall piece with a headphone and sound equipment next to a photograph. The artist interviewed visitors at Inwood Hill Park, sharing conversations about their experiences and memories of birds.

IG: @thelululolo, Website: https://www.lululolo.com/ 

Eunhae Mary Park is a visual development artist. Her work 行雲流水 (Kou-un-ryu-sui) (2022) is a comic sharing the artist’s experiences of immigrating to the US. The artist was born to Korean immigrant parents in Japan. Due to Japanese Nationality Law, which is based on ethnicity and doesn’t recognize birth in Japan, she automatically became an immigrant from birth. 

IG: @zmaa4, Website: http://emarypark.com

Minshik Shin is a Korean immigrant artist based in Flushing. He works with people to make paintings, focusing on immigrants who have been denied access to art due to their locality, language, or economic hardship. His work Awaken Tuxedo (2022) is a white tuxedo painted by participants. The artist bought the white tuxedo (in the picture) a long time ago with the hope of attending an upscale event such as an award ceremony. But as a blue-collar art worker, he has never had such an occasion. Thus, the tuxedo has been hanging in his closet. For the outdoor SDSS event on a sunny fall day, he finally took it out and used it for the art festival.

Instagram: @minshikfineart

Quintín Rivera Toro was born in Puerto Rico in 1978. He holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from R.I.S.D. in Providence, Rhode Island (2013); and a Ph.D. in Art Production and Research from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2019). His work Mott Haven Project (2022) is a wall piece developed in honor of community activists. Quintin asked photographer Shian Cui to take portraits of community members. He arranged the portraits into a large-scale scaffolding shed banner. KAF’s and the South Bronx’s communities combined resources to produce the banner installed at a construction site at 349 E 140th Street, Mott Haven, the South Bronx.

IG: @quintinriveratoro, Website: http://quintinriveratoro.com 

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About The Organizations

Korea Art Forum (KAF) was founded in New York 2013, and is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art, advancing indispensable art’s social values of connectivity, relevance, and equity to create a peaceful world and enhance people’s quality of life and well-being. KAF aims to stem root causes of inequality found in the contemporary art field and promote an eco-human-centric framework of art as a social product of public engagement that enables the creation of a peaceful world of coexistence, cooperation, and shared prosperity. Operating at the intersection of the visual arts and humanities, KAF annually produces interrelated projects — Commissions, Exhibitions, Forums, and Publications – to bring together all people from the art world and beyond to share dialogues, serving to build an interconnected peaceful world and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

601Artspace partners with artists, curators and other not-for-profit organizations to produce unconventional exhibitions, talks, film screenings and special projects within a non-commercial context. Often its permanent collection acts as a catalyst for artistic and curatorial encounters. Through such interdisciplinary practices, 601Artspace engages with and investigates issues in the production, organization and reception of contemporary art.

Thank You!

Korea Art Forum (KAF) is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. KAF’s 2022 SDSS outdoor programs taking place in Northern Manhattan, the South Bronx, and Queens are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, and are 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. The 2022 programs are also made possible in part with funding from the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), and the UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ) and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). WQXR is the media partner of Korea Art Forum presenting Shared Dialogue, Shared Space.

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5. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Alumn, at Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania, opening Dec. 8

We invite You to a very special event – the opening of the international exhibition MERCY. The exhibition features works by Luc Tuymans, one of Belgium’s most renowned and influential artists, and Croatian artist Zlatko Kopljar. Curated by Ory Dessau.

Opening: Thursday, 8 December, 6 pm, Galerija VARTAI, Vilniaus str. 39, Vilnius.

Artist talk: Wednesday, 7 December, 6 pm, Vilnius Picture Gallery, Didžioji str. 4. Participants: Zlatko Kopljar and Luc Tuymans, Ory Dessau, and Arūnas Gelūnas, Director of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. The number of places is limited, registration will start soon.

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6. Toby Maclennan, FF Alumn, receives Honorable Mention award, 2022 International Photography Awards

I’d like to share with my friends the award of Honorable Mention in the 2022 Edition of the International Photography Awards for my photograph, Octopus Woman, a portrait of Natalie Green, my dear friend and collaborator who will always be in my heart.  

Toby Maclennan

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7. Judith Ren-Lay, FF Alumn, new publication, and more

Dear friends,

Thrilled to announce the January 2023 publication of 260 page soft cover memoir!!

Available For Presale ~ Books ship January 2023!

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8. Brahna Yassky, FF Alumn, at Jefferson Market Library, Manhattan, Dec. 12

Brahna Yassky, FF Alumn, will moderate an in-person panel on publishing a debut book after 60. December 12, 6 pm et, Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave. Manhattan, with Sue Mell, Kate Walter and Beverly Willet.  

Hope to see you there!

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9. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, in O-Neill Society News

Please visit this link:

http://www.jaycritchley.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117551151/oneill_pr.jpg 

Thank you.

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10. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com

Please visit this link:

https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/yura-adams-at-olympia-gallery/5584?_kx=

Thank you

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11. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, new publication

Please visit this link:

https://pur-editions.fr/product/9160/peter-downsbrough

Thank you – Merci beaucoup (this book is in French)

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12. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, at The Center, Manhattan, Dec. 16, 18

JEFF MCMAHON: I’m singing with the Art Mob! Founded in 1979 by Marcia Tucker but new for me.  A strange and wonderful assortment of songs, almost none of which have to do with the holidays. www.artmob.org December 16 at 8pm and 18 at 3pm. The Center, 208 W. 13th St. 

Jeff McMahon

www.jeffmcmahonprojects.net 

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13. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, at Industry City, Brooklyn, Dec. 5

Dear friends and colleagues, 

Please join me for a performative lecture and discussion concerning my neon wall sculpture, Confronting the Statisticon, 2015-2017, Monday, December 5th at 7 p.m. at Industrial City, 900 Third Avenue in Brooklyn. The work is part of the exhibition Singing in Unison, curated by Phong Bui. Thyrza Goodeve, Sanford Kwinter, and Barry Schwabsky will join me. 

Warren Neidich’s text-based neon sculpture The Statisticon Neon will be the subject of a conversation between Thyrza Goodeve, Sanford Kwinter, and Barry Schwabsky. The Statisticon was a term Neidich invented in 2015 to describe a new form of power resulting from the entanglement of mental labor, Big Data, and the brain’s neural plasticity.  He will update this performance to consider its importance to Deep Ecology and the development of eco-centric technologies as a means of escape from the traumas inflicted by the Anthropocene. The event will begin with a short blindfolded performance of the sculpture by Neidich followed by ten-minute comments by each respondent. Subjects ranging from the political power of art, poetry and architecture, neural plasticity, ecology, psychedelic drugs, the Internet of Everything, and Big Data will be discussed in the hope of creating a language of resistance to our current neural-digital predicament.

Industry City

900 3rd Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11232

Over the past five years, American artist Warren Neidich has used written texts, neon light sculptures, paintings and photographs to create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations at the border zones of art, science, and social justice. He is Founder and Director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art. He has exhibited internationally and his work has been the subject of over 150 magazine and newspaper articles. Recent awards include Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR (2020 and 2021), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2021), and Katalogförderung des Berliner Senats (2017). Neidich currently works between New York City and Berlin. His the author and editor of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One (Archive Books, 2017), among others.

More on Warren Neidich warrenneidich.com @warrenneidichstudio

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14. Martha Rosler, FF Alumn, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Manhattan, opening Dec. 8

Please visit this link:

https://www.miandn.com/exhibitions/martha-rosler4

Thank you. 

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15. Graciela Cassel, FF Alumn, at Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Dec. 9

Ensemble: Winter Group Show

December 8- December 18, 2022

Opening Reception: Friday, December 9, from 6-9 PM 

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Ensemble, our winter group show. This exhibition will be displaying works by eighteen artists: Tulu Bayar, Elena Barenghi, Irja Bodén, Graciela Cassel, Chris Esposito, Candace Jensen, Grant Johnson, Sam Jones, Kahori Kamiya, Robert McCann, Jose-Ricardo Presman, Kahty Putnam, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Philip Swan, Paloma Vianey, Aaron Wilder, Joyce Yamada and Z-Zeta. Curated by AEG Director Emireth Herrera Valdés.

Featuring paintings, sculptures, photography, collage, and mixed media, Ensemble becomes a single composition with multiple compasses where more than 30 artworks vibrate with their unique rhythm.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, December 9, 2022 from 6-9 PM at the gallery’s location at 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY, across the street from the Morgan Ave L train stop.

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