Contents for December 26, 2022
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1. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, Winter news
2. Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at Artspace, Richmond, VA, Jan.-Feb. 2023
3. Mary Lum, Clifford Owens, FF Alumns, in new MoMA publication
4. Georgia Lale, Dan Perjovschi, FF Alumns, at A.I. R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Jan. 7
5. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, 40th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Provincetown Harbor, MA, Jan. 7
6. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online in whitehotmagazine.com
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1. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, Winter news
Making Worlds
December 3, 2022 – 2023
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
In occasion of Sydney Modern Project’s inauguration, Archive of mind is now on view at Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia. With the artwork, Kimsooja invites visitors to collect a handful of clay, sit at the large work surface, and empty their minds of distraction; to sink into the experience of forming a ball of clay between the hands, rolling and wrapping it into itself like an infinite Bottari. The process transforms simple, everyday actions into moments of meditation and transcendence. As each sphere is completed, it is added to the table, forming an organic arrangement that holds the imprint of each maker. Archive of mind is accompanied by Unfolding sphere, a subtle soundscape composed of two sounds: the artist gurgling water and clay balls being pressed, rolled and colliding with one another. At some moments it recalls a distant thunderstorm, at others, a burbling stream.
This presentation of Archive of Mind is supported by a grant from the Australia-Korea Foundation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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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.
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The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality
October 1, 2022 – March 5, 2023
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Curators: Emma Lavigne, Yuko Hasegawa
Through his actions and performances, Yves Klein used colors such as blue, which he considered to be the most immaterial and spiritual, fire, water, and air, so that art could be experienced through sensibility, rather than being perceived just as a material object. As a young man, Klein came to Japan and earned a black belt in judo, and is known for his exploration of the relationship between the spirit and the body. This exhibition displays artworks by contemporary and modern artists that resonate with Yves Klein’s spirituality and sensibility, based on the keywords of color, fire, air, sound, and other immaterial elements that are at the core of his artistic practice.
To Breathe
Permanent public art commission of stained glass window
Metz Cathedral, France
HORIZONS
October 21, 2022 – April 10, 2023
Museum for East-Asian Arts – Cologne, Germany
Constellations: Global Reflections
Kura Kura Bali, Indonesia
Chaos:Calm – Bangkok Art Biennale
October 22, 2022 – February 2023
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Flowing Moon, Embracing Land: 3rd Jeju Biennale 2022
November 16, 2022 – February 12, 2023
Jeju Museum of Art – Jeju island, South Korea
Flags
September 29, 2022 – January 22, 2023
Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain – Brussels, Belgium
The Timeless Imagination of Yves Klein: Uncertainty and the Immateriality
October 1, 2022 – March 5, 2023
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Paik Nam June Effect
November 10, 2022 – February 26, 2023O
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Do we need to travel to be happy ?
May 20, 2022 – January 29, 2023
EDF Group Foundation, Paris, France
Thank you.
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2. Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at Artspace, Richmond, VA, Jan.-Feb. 2023
FF Alumn Mitzi Humphrey announces Meditation and Metaphor in Artspace’s Jan-Feb exhibitions
Three solo exhibitions focusing on intricacy, intimacy, and insight will be on view at the nonprofit gallery in Richmond, VA
December 19, 2022
RICHMOND, VA, as released by Artspace contact Dana Frostick
Artspace presents three solo exhibitions that utilize meditation and metaphor to present themes of intricacy, intimacy, and insight. The opening reception, scheduled for Friday, January 27, 2023, 6-9pm, features artwork by Reni Gower, Sandhi Schimmel Gold and Franchell Mack Brown. Exhibition dates are January 27 – February 18, 2023. Also on view will be a group exhibition by Artspace Artist Members and in the Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman Gallery, the annual exhibition of Central Region Virginia Art Education Association.
Reni Gower presents hand cut works of paper, vinyl, or Tyvek in her exhibition, GEOmatrix: a Perfect Proof. Reni’s work is “inspired by sacred geometry, which is thought to convey sacred and universal truths by reflecting the fractal interconnections (micro to macro) of the natural world. By reiterating these ratios, my work unlocks the language of abstraction through a collective recognition of geometric perfection evident in ethnic patterns all around the world.”
Gower’s work is inspired by the patterns found in Amish quilts, Celtic knotwork, and Islamic ornamental tiles.
Gower received a 2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2017, she was awarded SECAC’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. In 2014, she received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teacher of Art Award, as well as distinguished teaching awards from Virginia Commonwealth University and VCUarts. Her art work is represented in many prestigious collections and has been exhibited at international and national venues for over 40 years. After 37 years, Professor Emerita Gower retired from Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2018. Gower is represented by Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA. renigower.com
Sandhi Schimmel Gold’s mixed media assemblages will be displayed in her exhibition, Memoir and Mirrors: A reflection of four generations of creative women. Her exhibition is a meditation on the memories, souvenirs and materials collected by multi-generations of women. An established upcycle artist, Sandhi began incorporating all manner of paper and found objects into her work when she discovered a cache of mirrored napkin rings once belonging to her mother. After being inspired by a Venetian mosaic artist who created a massive installation of mirrored glass “tiles,” Sandhi began creating mixed-media memoirs on small canvases: manipulating a variety of personal objects holding on to their memories, moods, and nostalgia, into a massive installation of individual memoirs. Each canvas is hand-painted, and approached as an individual story. No two are alike. Each has a name attached to a place, a person or memory belonging to the artist or member of her family.
Sandhi Schimmel Gold, is primarily known as #theoriginaljunkmailartist, and is one of the pioneers of the green fine art movement. Sandhi has been upcycling junk mail, packaging, greeting cards and other paper ephemera to create portraits, landscapes and abstracts for over 20 years. Her work is in fine art galleries throughout the country and is in private, corporate and museum collections around the world. sandhischimmelgold.com
Franchell Mack Brown presents her exhibition FLAGVIBES: a perspective of PERSONHOOD from an-Other American. Franchell’s meditative and repetitive work employs an amalgam of materials. From the pliancy of crocheted ribbon to industrial cording and the solidity of welding, she juxtaposes soft and hard, exploring the dualities of being. Undulating forms and dripping tendrils suggest movement evocative of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits. Color and texture prevail in ecstatic collision, echoing her fascination with Egungun masking traditions and Native American tribal ceremonies. With her background as a jewelry designer, she features semi-precious gemstones, particularly freshwater pearls, in much of her work. The pearl embodies individuality. Each is a unique speck emerging from metamorphosis as an exquisite gem, a metaphor for the development and full expression of self.
The journey of FLAGVIBES began in 2020 and encompasses wearable and sculptural objects. They reflect the artist’s interpretation of the American flags 13 stripes and 50 stars. The USA was facing a pandemic, rising racial tension and a presidential election. Flags, generally a symbol of a unified nation, have become dissected totems that signal separation and division. “My hope is for true unity. My intention is to contribute to the unifying vision by producing work that uplifts, encourages, and empowers.” franmackart.com
Rounding out our January-February exhibitions, Artspace Artist Members will present an exhibition of artwork in a variety of styles and mediums.
Also on view during the January-February exhibition period, Artspace presents an exhibition by members of Central Region Virginia Art Education Association (CVAEA) in the Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman Gallery. The mission of CVAEA is to promote, support and advance visual arts education in the Central Region of Virginia. Their goal is to further serve their students and also each other as educators.This exhibition showcases the art of art educators in the central region of Virginia, including Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Richmond City & surrounding counties. After a few years hiatus due to world events and safety concerns, CVAEA is happy to bring back this exhibition to showcase the talents of art educators in the region.
Exhibition Dates: January 27-February 18, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 6-9pm
Artist Talks: Saturday, January 28, 2pm
Address: 2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225 in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center.
Gallery Hours: 12-4pm Tuesday-Sunday or by private appointment.
Website: artspacegallery.org
More information is available on our website. Please visit the links to each artist’s exhibition page provided below.
High resolution images are available upon request. Examples of artwork are attached below.
Artspace is a nonprofit and artist-run organization, populated with experienced professionals as well as emerging artists. These artists work in a variety of mediums including clay, encaustic, interactive installations, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and more.
In addition to the monthly exhibitions Artspace has been known for over the past three decades, the gallery is now providing teaching and meeting space. Artspace welcomes enquiries from artists looking for a teaching venue and individuals or organizations seeking a congenial meeting space.
Exhibition webpages:
Reni Gower / GEOmatrix: a Perfect Proof
https://artspacegallery.org/reni-gower-januaryfebruary-2023-exhibition
Sandhi Schimmel Gold / Memoir and Mirrors
https://artspacegallery.org/sandhi-schimmel-gold-januaryfebruary-2023-exhibition
Franchell Mack Brown / FLAGVIBES
https://artspacegallery.org/franchell-brown-januaryfebruary-2023-exhibition
Artspace Artist Members / Group Exhibition
https://www.artspacegallery.org/artspace-artist-members-january-february-2023-exhibition
CVAEA / Artist as Educator: Back from Hiatus
https://www.artspacegallery.org/cvaea-januaryfebruary-2023-elisabeth-flynnchapman-gallery
Thank you.
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3. Mary Lum, Clifford Owens, FF Alumns, in new MoMA publication
Please visit this link to Modern Artifacts, a new publication:
https://www.art-agenda.com/announcements/326933/michelle-elligott-and-tod-lippy-modern-artifacts
Thank you.
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4. Georgia Lale, Dan Perjovschi, FF Alumns, at A.I. R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Jan. 7
Dear friends,
Happy Holidays!
I would be delighted see you for the New Year, on January 7th,
at the A.I.R. Biennial where my work is featured.
Best wishes,
Georgia Lale
A.I.R. Biennnial Exhibition
Friend of the Artist
January 7–February 5, 2023
Opening reception: Saturday, January 7 from 6–8pm
Performance: DUVET, Saturday, January 21 from 2–4pm
Publication Launch: Peer Review, Saturday, February 4, from 4–6pm
Shia Conlon, Duvet, Valérie Hallier, Luiza Kurzyna, Georgia Lale, Manas Americanas, Priscilla Otani, Kariny Padilla, Peer Review, Dan Perjovschi, Elise Rasmussen, Annika Sarin, Elisabeth Smolarz, Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ), Shirin Towfiq and Bryan Truitt, Angie Waller
Curated by Eriola Pira
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce its 15th Biennial exhibition, Friend of the Artist, curated by Eriola Pira. Taking an open-call format, the exhibition asks artists to invite the public into their webs of relation, love, and mutual support. The works in Friend of the Artist offer intimate glimpses of individual friendships, as well as considerations of collaboration, community, and solidarity in artmaking and life.
Bringing together works meant for gallery display with a performance (Duvet), publication (Peer Review), and correspondence (Manas Americanas), the exhibition is offered as a place for artmaking, communing, and organizing. Exploring collectivity, mutuality, and reciprocity, these and other works in the exhibition (Priscilla Otani, Valérie Hallier) speak to sociality as a condition of artmaking and to the relations and networks that form in the pursuit of an artistic life. Artists, as many do in this exhibition, turn to their friends or befriend strangers when exploring subjects as varied as leisure and joy (Kariny Padilla and Elise Rasmussen); finding community and care (Shia Conlon, Georgia Lale, Annika Sarin); the alienating effects of capitalism and technology (Elisabeth Smolarz and Angie Waller); and interspecies love and human loss (Super Futures Haunt Qollective).Taking a turn toward the abstract, Luiza Kurzyna and Shirin Towfiq and Bryan Truitt create sculptures that evince friendship’s slippery, hard-to-pin-down relationality.
Thank you.
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5. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, 40th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Provincetown Harbor, MA, Jan. 7
The 40th annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony to highlight the global exploitive economy with ritualized community participation
Saturday, January 7, 2023, 4:00 pm EST, East End, Provincetown Harbor, MA USA http://www.jaycritchley.com/re-rooters.html
Images: http://www.jaycritchley.com/portfolio.html
In the darkest days of a New England winter, after the “Twelve Days of Stockpiling” of the consumptive holidays, a band of people will huddle together on the sand flats in Provincetown Harbor to sing, chant and purge personal, political and psychic detritus from the previous year. It’s January 7, 2023 and time for the president of the IRS (International Re-Rooters Society), Jay Critchley, to preside over the 40th anniversary of this deep-rooted, historic, global ritual.
This post-Christmas, post-New Year’s, post-consumptive binging start up was born in 1983 at the Provincetown dump when Critchley created a forest of discarded Christmas trees and stood them up in the piles of wrapping paper, ribbons, turkey bones and garbage. For four decades, the community ritual has been enacted in Provincetown Harbor on January 7, after the twelve days of Christmas, a purging of political and personal distress from the year gone by. The mission of the IRS is to re-root to and embrace the earth body and all of our human and non-human relatives.
In preparation for the ceremony, the artist builds a makeshift boat and compiles words and ideas and extrapolates from the evolving language of the year from various media sources and writings, beginning in the fall. The words form the basis of the theme and content of the ceremony, culminating in the “Ten Commandments” call and response.
Previous themes include: Meta-purse, 2022; Viral Warming, 2021; Extractive Democracy, 2020; Oil My Lips,1991; Free ‘rade, 2002; Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, 1994; Sports Futility Vehicles, 1999; and 2013’s Pistol Cliff; ). The ceremony is officiated by the artist, with song, ranting, chanting and the placement of participants’ discarded messages on the tree/boat. The rite concludes with the dramatic burning of a recycled Christmas tree on the vessel, sent out into the harbor at sunset.
Jay Critchley
Thank you.
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6. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online in whitehotmagazine.com
Mark Bloch has written about Rodney Zelenka’s Dominion and Frailty exhibition at https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/rodney-zelenka-s-dominion-frailty/5631
Rodney Zelenka
Dominion and Frailty
Tenri Cultural Institute
New York, NY, USA
Curated by Elga Wimmer and Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
November 17 through December 22, 2022
These are works about what happens when we treat each other inhumanely. As they did during World War II, power relations, inequality, damaged prospects, and socioeconomic pressures that manifest as wealth, poverty, and unevenly spread gaps between them, threaten our social order. Humankind’s value of the individual must be preserved by any means necessary. Perhaps this is more than what can be achieved by an art exhibition, but asking the right questions can help.
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