Contents for March 06, 2023
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1. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx, opening March 22
2. Dara Birnbaum, Jaime Davidovich, General Idea, Frankl Gillette, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Every Ocean Hughes, Sanja Ivekovic, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Muntadas, Nam June Paik, Howardena Pindell, Marlon Riggs, Martha Rosler, Julia Scher, Marshall Reese, Richard Serra, FF Alumns, at MoMA, Manhattan, March 5-July 8
3. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, March 10
4. Paulette Richards, FF Alumn, now online at https://youtu.be/H1tWyCf7Cdg and more
5. Pope.L, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. David Hammons, Robert Rauschenberg, FF Alumns, at David Lewis, Manhattan, March 10-April 15
7. Todd Ayoung, Greg Sholette, FF Alumns, now online at e-flux.com
8. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Nina Kuo, Xinan Helen Ran, Alice Wu, FF Alumns, online and at Connecticut State University, Willimantic, thru Mar. 9
9. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, and more
10. Joseph Nechvatal, Rhys Chatham, FF Alumns, at Centre Pompidou Paris Cinema 2, France, March 8
11. Nora Ligorano, FF Alumn, at Grolier Club, Manhattan, thru April 8
12. Carl Kissin, FF Member, at Marlene Meyerson JCC, Manhattan, March 10
13. Halona Hilbertz, Vernita Nemec, FF Alumns, at Viridian, Manhattan, thru March 25
14. Stella Waitzkin, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
15. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Mar. 16
16. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at An Beal Bocht, The Bronx, date changes
17. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, now online at BuffaloSocietyofArtists.org
18. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, at Portal, Brooklyn, Mar. 9
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1. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx, opening March 22
Bronx River Art Center is pleased to present:
PEREMOHA/victory/ukr.
Exhibition Dates: March 22 – April 23, 2023
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 22, 6:00-9:00 PM
Curated by Irina Danilova
On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Bronx River Art Center is proud to present five brave Ukrainian Women artists responding to their experience of the war in our next exhibition: PEREMOHA/victory/ukr.
The show’s opening reception will be on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. From 6PM – 9PM, culminating with a live performance by artist Daria Koltsova, who is flying in from her exile in Great Britain.
Click to RSVP for Opening Reception:
Over the past year, the democratic nations of the globe have come together to support Ukraine for their ultimate success against the imperialistic aggression of Russian. Ukraine’s victory, and the preservation of a democratic world order of liberty and justice for all, is the main motivations for this show. The artworks conjure courage, love for the land, friendship, collaboration, support, strength, and freedom from oppression. This show is, in effect, an affirmation of the values that form the cornerstone of humanity, and it pays tribute to the cooperation of Ukrainians and Americans in the struggle against Putin’s autocratic thirst for domination of its neighboring countries. The show warns all of us in the West of his intention to re-establish a Russian empire ruled by himself in the guise of Russia’s brutal Tsars of the 17th – 20th centuries. We Americans would be wise to heed the threat to world democracy that this war can manifest if left unchecked.
The Ukrainian women artists showcased in this exhibition, Olia Fedorova (Kharkiv), Daria Koltsova (Kharkiv), Maria Kulikovska (Kerch, Crimea), Natalia Lisova (Vinnytsia), and Maria Proshkowska (Kyiv), belong to a generation that was raised in independent Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian occupation of Crimea and its military invasion of the Donbass occurred when they were just entered adulthood. These tragic events, and the associative Russian barbarianism, shaped these artists perspectives on the human condition and the need to take a stand for Ukraine’s autonomy. These five women artists have become known in Ukraine for their courageous outspokenness and are now becoming renowned throughout Europe for their strength in the face of oppression and atrocities.
Photo: Olia Fedorova, Anger Exercises, paper and ink, wall installation, 2022
Art and War are mutually exclusive concepts: creation and destruction. War deteriorates life, stifles creativity, eliminates lightheartedness, and suppresses artistic expression. This show presents various explorations of wartime art and the shifts in perception during the war.
The ecological performances of Natalia Lisova become stirring declarations of love for the land. Since February 24, 2022, she has remained in Ukraine, traveling around country to conduct art workshops for refugee teens and children to express their war driven heightened emotions.
The artworks of Maria Proshkowska call for resistance. In the video documentation of her performance that was made in the vicinity of Kiev just a few days before the Russian invasion, she is patiently preparing her personal weapon of defense, self-made from kitchen supplies.
Olia Fedorova addresses the aggressors in a direct verbal appeal by exploring the possibilities of restoration in her performance series “Making Yoga in the Burned Woods”.
Maria Kulikovska, a Ukrainian refugee from occupied Crimea in 2014, examines the boundaries of the tolerable. Her personal life was directly intertwined with the war when pro-Russian forces in occupied Donbass used her sculptures for target practice.
Daria Koltsova, who has lead an international art project in support of people living in danger in Ukrainian cities and villages, will perform a farewell Lullaby to the hundreds of children killed in this war on the night of the opening.
Photo: Daria Koltsova, Lullaby, vocal performance, 2022
The etymological meaning of the word “victory” varies depending on language and culture. “pobeda” in Russian literally means “after a tragedy”. The Latin word “victory” means “to conquer”. Chinese “shengli” means “to succeed”. The Ukrainian term for victory, “peremoha”, is a combination of the words over and ability: beyond the possible. The conflict in Ukraine is an example of unimaginable resistance of an outnumbered Ukrainian army heroically confronting a massive Russian aggression. Their stoic defiance has not waned for more than a year.
Curator Irina Danilova says of her intent in creating this exhibition: “War is predominantly a masculine militaristic conflict, ironically manifested through the phallic shapes of cannons and rockets. The Russian attack on Ukraine has been led by the twisted ambitions of a psychologically deranged male ruler. Combat is literally and symbolically in the domain of men, while women largely belong to the anti-war movement. Aptly, this show is being presented during Woman’s History Month. The exhibition presents a fearless response of five young Ukrainian women artists to the atrocities of wartime. Their artworks partake in the global effort to thwart the Russian invasion and put an end to this war.”
Along with the presentation of war related works of Ukrainian emerging women artists, one of the main goals of this show is to bring Ukraine closer to Americans and to show our mutual effort in bringing about the Peremoha. A photo documentation by Alexei Zagdansky, an immigrant from Kyiv, of the antiwar movement in New York City in support of the ongoing resistance of the Ukrainian people will also be presented as part of the show.
PEREMOHA/victory/ukr. premiered in December 2022 at the WhiteBox alternative art space in the Lower East Side. There it was a site specific installation organized by Ukrainian-American artist and curator, Irina Danilova, who was born and raised in Kharkiv. This iteration of the exhibition will be substantially expanded to include new artworks and the photo documentations and live performances mentioned above. The Bronx River Art Center will hold aloft the peremoha in anticipation of Ukrainica’s ultimate victory.
Thank you.
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2. Dara Birnbaum, Jaime Davidovich, General Idea, Frankl Gillette, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Every Ocean Hughes, Sanja Ivekovic, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Muntadas, Nam June Paik, Howardena Pindell, Marlon Riggs, Martha Rosler, Julia Scher, Marshall Reese, Richard Serra, FF Alumns, at MoMA, Manhattan, March 5-July 8
Please visit this link:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5224
Thank you.
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3. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, March 10
Hello!
Please join me for the opening reception for Yale’s Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition in New Haven, Connecticut, taking place Friday, March 10 from 6-8PM. During the reception I will be showing a new performance called Foot Vox that incorporates tap dancing, sculpture, and sound manipulation. More info below!
Yale Sculpture MFA Thesis Reception
Friday, March 10, 6-8PM
Performance at 7PM
Green Hall Gallery
1156 Chapel St
New Haven, CT 06511
Thank you.
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4. Paulette Richards, FF Alumn, now online at https://youtu.be/H1tWyCf7Cdg and more
Dear Franklin Furnace Friends,
I’ve been to some snowy places this winter — Chicago for the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in January and Munich in February — fortunately I didn’t get stuck in any snowstorms.
I went to Munich because I was invited to present at a conference on Race and Representation in puppetry. It was organized by the Munich City Museum. They have an extensive collection of puppets representing all kinds of negative stereotypes. Here is a link to a Google drive photo where I uploaded the photos I took:
Munich Puppets
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15mjtPVGhG1bEMSCHDnoTKn8CFgtlqhuh?usp=sharing
Trigger warning — there is some really disturbing stuff in there including a Nazi Kasperl that was used to indoctrinate children.
I went to Baltimore over the President’s Day weekend and presented a workshop on limberjack puppets at the Black Cherry Puppet Theater. I also had the opportunity to attend the opening reception of the “Village of African American Doll Artists” exhibit at the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum. There is information about the show on the curator, Kibibi Ajanku’s website:
I had a great time in Baltimore but when I landed in Atlanta, Southwest Airlines lost a suitcase containing 12 of my dolls and puppets. Please help me pressure them to assign a human being to look for the bag by sharing these two posts with your network:
Southwest Airlines — Give Me Back my Black Dolls!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpJLZ6MuUx_/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Southwest Airlines Shuck and Jive
Many thanks, Paulette Richards
Thank you.
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5. Pope.L, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/new-york-art-galleries.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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6. David Hammons, Robert Rauschenberg, FF Alumns, at David Lewis, Manhattan, March 10-April 15
Dial / Hammons / Rauschenberg
March 10 – April 15, 2023
57 Walker Street, New York, NY
David Lewis is proud to present Dial / Hammons / Rauschenberg. This is the first-ever exhibition to solely bring together these three great American artists, each of whose conceptual ingenuity is expressed by way of material transformation and possibility. In particular, Dial / Hammons / Rauschenberg seeks to articulate the intersection between the American Duchampian legacy, as expressed in the material invention and possibilities of postwar Neo-Dada, and African-American traditions of redemptive, alchemical, and visionary practices based in found and discarded objects.
The exhibition ranges over more than 50 years; the earliest work presented is in Rauschenberg’s iconic 1962 assemblage Cartoon, then includes an early Duchampian wire, rope, pipe cleaner, hair, ball, and tack construction by David Hammons (Untitled, 1976-77), and then focuses on the 90s and 2000s, featuring four magisterial assemblages from Thornton Dial’s ‘high,’ most modernist phase of work, as well as an example of each of Hammons Kool-Aid and Tarp series from 2006 and 2007 and additional later Rauschenberg works. The exhibition also features two important sculptures: Dial’s Top of the World (1998), and Rauschenberg’s extraordinary The Lurid Attack of the Monsters from the Postal News, August, 1875 (Kabal American Zephyr) (1981). The largest work in the exhibition, Dial’s astonishing Master of Space (2004), conjures and critiques the iconography of American imperialism, military and corporate both (the eagle is made of neckties), while simultaneously calling upon and vengefully subverting the most classical of all modernist devices: the grid.
Every piece in the exhibition deploys, invents, and reflects upon the logic of assemblage: the Duchampian act of appropriation, transmuted in postwar America, into the language of assemblage, the Rauschenbergian combine. Dial / Hammons / Rauschenberg highlights these acts of American alchemy, and asks us to imagine their power and possibilities in ways which revise, expand, and complicate the history of modern and contemporary art, and weave a broader tapestry.
Explore Dial/Hammons/Rauschenberg here: https://www.davidlewisgallery.com/exhibitions/dial-hammons-rauschenberg
Thank you.
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7. Todd Ayoung, Greg Sholette, FF Alumns, now online at e-flux.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/524920/a-counter-progressivist-turn
Thank you.
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8. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Nina Kuo, Xinan Helen Ran, Alice Wu, FF Alumns, online and at Connecticut State University, Willimantic, thru Mar. 9
Chinatown Chronicles takes its inspiration from the novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu – the book chosen for Eastern’s 2023 NEA Big Read award.
This exhibition explores the poignant themes of Interior Chinatown through the work of twenty artists who offer unexpected connections and parallels for Yu’s incisive portrait of a vibrant community that has thrived in the face of unrelenting stereotyping.
Chinatown Chronicles reveals the tensions between belonging and estrangement endemic in immigrant communities – through paintings, sculptures, and documentary films grounded in exemplary storytelling and archival research.
We are grateful to the artists for prompting dialogs in the gallery that create moments of education, revelation, and transformation. A big cheer for Arts Midwest in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts for providing us with resources and support for weaving together literature and the visual arts. Thank you, Eastern community, for your ongoing support of our daring gallery’s program.
Participating Artists:
Susan Chen
Annika Cheng
Adam Chau
Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Sally J. Han
Sin Ying Ho
Yun-Fei Ji
Nina Kuo
Yuchae Lee
Min Xiao-Fen
Wiralpach “Mi” Nawabutsitthirat
Xinan (Helen) Ran
Shanzhai Lyric
Linda Sormin
Alice Wu
Exhibition website: https://ecsu.squarespace.com/
Thank you.
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9. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, and more
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Big news: I am an artist-in-residence at New-York Historical Society! I’ve been researching the collections with Curator of Material Culture Rebecca Klassen and our project, On Our Terms (working title), will culminate in an exhibition in Spring 2024. Stay tuned for details!
Baltimore Museum of Art recently acquired my textile work Colonial Desires (2022) that was on view in Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears.
See here: https://beatriceglow.org/once-the-smoke-clears
This marks my first acquisition by a major public institution and the piece will be back on view in summer 2023. Check out the other exciting 150+ acquisitions here: https://cdn.artbma.org/2023/01/17154026/NEWSRELEASE_BMA_Announces_Fall_2022_Acquisitions_final-2.pdf
A wall-scale version of my Pattern Index of Flowers and Forts (which can be seen here: https://beatriceglow.org/books-prints/patterns-index-of-flowers-and-forts) is now on view at Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery as part of the group show Mediums and Messengers curated by Danni Shen. Learn more about the show here: https://www.ric.edu/department-directory/bannister-gallery/current-and-upcoming-exhibitions
In January, I performed over 12 editions of The Auctioneer, The Specialist & The Artist. I led small groups of visitors through fictional historic period rooms I installed at Saint Joseph’s Art Foundation as part of auction house Nicot & Tang’s preview of a 2068 evening sale of The Collection of the EoS 10^15. Presenting this speculatively dystopic future has been my most ambitious performance to date blending immersive theater, installation, sculpture, olfactory experiences, and as one visitor called it, “nutty sci-fi.” I hope to one day do this on a larger scale. For now, The Auctioneer’s white gloves are tucked away in storage.
See more of Nicot & Tang here: https://www.nicot-tang.com/
See the preview of The Collection of the EoS 10^15 here: https://www.nicot-tang.com/upcoming-auctions
Warmly, Beatrice
Thank you.
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10. Joseph Nechvatal, Rhys Chatham, FF Alumns, at Centre Pompidou Paris Cinema 2, France, March 8
On March 8 ~ at 7pm ~ at the Centre Pompidou Paris Cinema 2 there will be a screening and conversation between art historian Nicolas Ballet (curator of the No Wave exhibition Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s now on till May 1st on the 4th floor) composer Rhys Chatham and artist Joseph Nechvatal about their XS: The Opera Opus project created downtown during 1984-1986 in New York City.
More info on XS: The Opera Opus here : https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/GKIsi5r
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XS:_The_Opera_Opus
More info on Who You Staring At? here: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/collection/films-et-nouveaux-medias/who-you-staring-at?
This conversation ~ with large screen projections ~ is free ~ first come first serve open cinema seating. The full title of the evening (7-9pm) on niveau 1 is XS: The Opera Opus: An Operatic Transvaluation of No Wave Aesthetics by Joseph Nechvatal and Rhys Chatham. ~
Thank you.
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11. Nora Ligorano, FF Alumn, at Grolier Club, Manhattan, thru April 8
Open now through April 8th, 2023
Grolier Club: https://www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=384827&ssid=322448&vnf=1
47 East 60th Street, NYC
From 1988 through the mid 90’s, Virginia Buchan and I made and sold hand painted paste papers under the name Lost Link Papers for designers and art stores nationwide. By 1995 we applied our paste papers technique to surface design, using Lost Link Papers for a wide range of commercial products and we changed our name to Lost Link Design.
Now Lost Link Papers are part of the permanent collection in the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and included in the accompanying book, Pattern and Flow.
If you are in NY, please stop by the show.
Thank you.
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12. Carl Kissin, FF Member, at Marlene Meyerson JCC, Manhattan, March 10
You Are Invited to a Special Presentation of
Jewish in An Hour
Friday, March 10th
8:00 – 9:00 pm
Let three-time Manhattan Monologue Slam champion
and Chicago City Limits improv master Carl Kissin
take you on a comic joyride through the major holidays
and traditions. Speed-Hebrew school is in session!
Tickets:
$18
Get your tickets now!
Ticket price includes pre-show dinner, wine, and after-show dessert
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Dinner & Wine
8:00 – 9:00 pm: Jewish in an Hour
9:00 – 9:30 pm: Dessert
@ Shabbat Shabbang
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th St.
New York, NY 10023
646-505-4444
Dear Friends of Franklin Furnace
As I get closer to shuffling off this mortal coil, I need to curry some favor with the Lord. So I have written a comedy solo show, Jewish in an Hour.
It explains everything the Almighty would want you to know about the Jewish religion, culture, and people. And all in an attention-deficit-disorder-friendly length that will get us to the Promised Land… quickly.
The JCC is super-reasonable, charging $18 for an evening that spans 7:00 – 9:30 PM and includes dinner, wine, my show, and dessert. That said, if you wish to make independent culinary choices, you could also just see the show, 8:00 – 9:00 PM.
Seeing you there would be heavenly!
Cheers,
Carl
carlkissin.com
For more information, please contact me
Thank you.
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13. Halona Hilbertz, Vernita Nemec, FF Alumns, at Viridian, Manhattan, thru March 25
Herstory
An Exhibition for All Genders
February 28 – March 25, 2023
Opening reception: Thursday, March 2,
6–8pm
“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marie Ange Hoda-Ackad, Denise Jones Adler, Linda Ganus-Albulescu, Teruko Asuguchi, Ayako Bando, Annaliese Bischoff, Renée Borkow, Jenny Belin, Vanessa Brown, Ellen Burnett, Sabine Carlson, Chasity Colón, Irene Christensen, May De Viney, Kiffi Diamond, Rhonda Donovan, Céline Downen, Bernice Faegenburg, Elizabeth Fidoten, Arlene Finger, Jean Foos, Gani, Rachel Green, Joshua Greenberg, Ishiyama Haruka, Halona Hilbertz, Miho Hiranouchi, K. Junko, Kat King, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Angela M. LaMonte, Catherine Lazure, Stephanie Lempres, Vern McClish, Vernita Nemec, Anna Novakov, No,44, Mariko Okabayashi, Petronia Paley, Brett Poza, Laura Rutherford Renner, Sarah Riley, Frank Sheehan, Kasia Skorynkiewicz, Katherine Ellinger Smith, Sheila Smith, Vicky Tesmer, Chieka Uruga, Emily Waters, Victoria Webb, Courtney Lee Weida, Zoe Brown-Weissmann
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present “Herstory,” an exhibition of outstanding art by all genders celebrating women. The show extends from February 28 – March 25, 2023.
Herstory: an exhibit dedicated to the experience, viewpoint, and history of women. The term dates back to 1962, but it wasn’t until 1970 that Robin Morgan elevated it into common usage in her book, “Sisterhood is Powerful.” And it was not until 1987 that the month of March was designated Women’s History Month. Gender continues to be in the public eye, and we are constantly reminded that there is a contest of power between entitlement and equality.
The art in this exhibit explores a wide variety of questions, doubts, remembrances, hopes, fears, and fury that women continue to have. In too many ways, women are still struggling to combat the gender gap. Feminism entered its 4th wave in 2012, epitomized by the MeToo Movement and similar developments, focusing on the empowerment of women. Since then, the dilemma of gender has become much more complex as gender fluidity and change has become more commonly embraced, and with targeted discrimination occurring in these increasingly-discussed avenues of identity.
Although, sadly, female artists must still struggle to gain recognition and value equal to that of male artists, this year we have invited artists of all genders to participate, allies demonstrating support through their art about continued gender inequity and the importance of parity.
We encourage everyone to recognize the importance of art and culture to reflect our memories of the past and our wishes for the future. Viridian invites you to view this exhibit of moving and truly outstanding artwork, and to experience how our artists view the experience of women in the world today.
And, as Gilda Radner once said, “I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.”
Viridian Artists, 548 West 28th St #632, NYC Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm
For further information please contact: Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director or Jenny Belin, Assistant Director at viridianartistsinc@gmail.com or view the gallery website: www.viridianartists.com
Thank you.
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14. Stella Waitzkin, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
Our Stella Waitzkin show is in The New Yorker, Selected by Johanna Fateman.
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/stella-waitzkin
Stella Waitzkin: These Books are Paintings
Curated by Craig Hensala
On view through March 11, 2023
See updates on Craig’s instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/craighensala/
Slag Gallery
522 W 19th Street
New York, NY
Thank you.
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15. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Mar. 16
Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street, “Poetry In New York” 8pm-9:30pm FREE. This month the first set features three 15 minute sets of poetry by: Rana Bitar, D-Black, Galinsky We also will have a second set of “Five Minute Features” featuring: Jess Focht, Joelle Parness, Kaniz Hossain, and Ron Kolm Stay for one set or stay for both. The show starts at 8pm sharp and the Book Club cafe is fine place to relax before and after the show, with wine or coffee or tea.
Thank you.
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16. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at An Beal Bocht, The Bronx, date changes
Please note the change in exhibition start date and the reception date!!!
And, do join me at Mapping Nature’s Creative Transformation and Survival, an exhibition of my recent large oil paintings.
Mapping Nature’s Creative Transformation and Survival exhibition, March 7-30, 2023
An Beal Bocht, 445 West 238 Street (between Greystone and Waldo Avenues), The Bronx
Reception: Wednesday, March 29, 6-8 pm
Mapping Nature’s Creative Transformation and Survival includes recent large oil paintings. It celebrates my recent recognition as a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes its Own) grant-in-painting recipient, administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts. I will give a brief artist’s talk and answer questions about my work at the reception.
Should you be unable to attend the reception, please meet me there at another time later in the month. Contact me by email to make an appointment. An Beal Bocht hours are Monday-Friday 11am-2am, Saturdays-Sundays 10am-2am
Public Transportation:
IRT 1 subway stop West 231 Street and Bx7 bus up Riverdale Avenue to West 238 St, then a short downhill walk or
IRT 1 subway stop West 238 St (with a 10-minute walk, including a 7-story! outdoor staircase)
My apologies for the last-minute changes! Covid has struck!!
Be there in person or in spirit!
Shelley Haven
www.instagram.com/shelley.haven.art
@shelley.haven.art
Thank you.
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17. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, now online at BuffaloSocietyofArtists.org
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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18. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, at Portal, Brooklyn, Mar. 9
Fractured Hearts and Lurid Details: A wistful paean to a shattered romantic ideal… a one night only staged reading of the play by Pamela Enz.
A song and dance of adultery and divorce to a Big Band soundtrack…
Winner of the first Tennessee Williams One Act Play Award, Fractured Hearts and Lurid Details examines the way our ideas of romantic love have been passed down – a verbal a jazz quartet that explores and exposes the cracks in our American dream and asks how we can learn to love ourselves and others in its wake.
Written in 1990, Pamela Enz’s play is being resurrected in a one night only staged reading at AllInOne Collective’s new property, Portal (recently highlighted in the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/style/valentines-day-art-show.html) in South Slope,
Brooklyn on March 9th starring Alida Rose Delaney, Sophie Dushko, Samuel H. Levine, and Vincent Santvoord, with a musical performance by Kara Arena.
Four of the company’s artists met at Invulnerable Nothings’ Barn Lab residency in Maine last spring, where Enz and Dushko (also a playwright) were workshopping new plays. Enz and Dushko have continued their collaborative relationship, generating new work together, and saw Fractured Hearts… as an opportunity to reunite the like minded group. Dushko and Santvoord played opposite each other in Enz’s Falling Sideways Off the Face of the Earth in Maine and are playing frustrated married couple Wanda and Harry in Fractured Hearts… while Delaney plays the femme fatale, Lana. Joining the company in the role of the eternal playboy, Jack, is Samuel H. Levine, an actor who has worked both on and off Broadway and was introduced to the group via mutual collaborators.
The group is united by their desire to bring intimate and unconventional theatre to new audiences and their love of the play making process, something that was made clear in Maine and permeates their work on this piece in Brooklyn today.
The intergenerationality of the group is a selling point for producers Delaney (KALIDASCOPES Media) and Dushko, who are part of a new generation of theatre makers creating hybrid work in non-traditional spaces that echoes the work Enz and cohorts in Bad Rep have been doing since the ‘90s. The theatre has re-emerged as a cultural touchstone for young people in New York City, who are hungry for inventive and challenging work presented in new spaces and forms outside of the digital landscape.
This cyclical nature of art and nostalgia for the analog highlights the themes in Enz’s play: while the songs may be from the 1930s and ‘40s and the play itself from the ‘90s, the romantic anxieties and questions of identity the piece explores are startlingly relevant in our current age of hookup culture, dating apps, incels, and tradwives, making now the perfect time for the play to reach a new audience.
An intimate night of music and theatre, the evening will begin with an acoustic jazz influenced set of original music and covers from Kara Arena– an emerging singer – followed by a brief pause after which actors will perform the one act.
Audiences will be encouraged to mix and mingle following the reading, letting the play’s open hearted Big Band beat carry them into the night.
Fractured Hearts and Lurid Details by Pamela Enz
March 9th at 8pm
Portal, 164 20th St, Brooklyn, NY
Produced by Sophie Dushko and KALIDASCOPES Media
Starring: Alida Rose Delaney, Sophie Dushko, Samuel H. Levine, and Vincent Santvoord With a musical performance by Kara Arena
Tickets $15, available: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/fractured-hearts
Special $10 reduced price tix for Franklin Furnace cohorts and Friends
code: Fractured5
Thank you.
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