Contents for March 20, 2023
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1. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 28
2. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, March 21 and more
3. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at Rutgers University, online and in person, March 22
4. Chunhua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, now online at Niio.com
5. GOODW.Y.N., FF Alumn, receives 2023 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grant
6. Seung-Min Lee, FF Alumn, at International Objects, Brooklyn, thru May 28
7. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, publishes new album and book
8. Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, at Saugerties Public Library, NY, Mar. 3 to Apr. 28, reception Apr. 14
9. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, now online at SquareCylinder.com
10. Susan Share, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, April 20
11. Stanley Moss, FF Member, at Galla libreria, Vicenza, Italy, March 25
12. Barbara T. Smith, Allan Kaprow, FF Alumns, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 13
13. Aaron Landsman, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY, Mar. 27-Apr. 8
14. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Touchstones, Rochdale, UK, thru May 6
15. Kathy Westwater, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, April 20-29
16. John Cage, Barbara Moore, Nam June Paik, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
17. Some Serious Business, FF Alumn, at form and foncept gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Mar. 25
18. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, live online with A.I.R. Gallery, March 20, and more
19. Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at Artspace, Richmond, VA, opening Apr. 28
20. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at Hof, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Mar. 26
21. Monty Cantsin Amen, FF Alumn, at Shenzen Museum of Contemporary Art, China, April 2023
22. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, releases new music
23. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at The Players, Manhattan, April 27
24. Babs Reingold, Grace Roselli, FF Alumns, live online at Artists Talk on Art, March 20
25. Moya Devine, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA, opening March 21
26. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, now online at podcasts.apple.com
27. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, now online at VoyageMIA.com
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1. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 28
Dread Scott
Goddam
April 28 – June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, April 28, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
219 Bowery, Floor 2
New York, NY 10002
Cristin Tierney Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new works on canvas by Dread Scott. Entitled Goddam, the show features four works inspired by songs sung by Nina Simone: Goddam, Four Women, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free, and Pirate Jenny. Goddam opens Friday, April 28, with a public reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The artist will be present.
Taking Simone’s 20th-century protest songs as inspiration, Scott’s four screenprints on canvas interpret her themes with contemporary vocabulary and iconography. Although decades have passed since the music was first performed, white supremacy and patriarchy remain an intrinsic part of America’s bedrock. The injustices Simone addressed have clear counterparts in recent history, with Scott’s works providing the link between past and present.
The song “Mississippi Goddam”was Nina Simone’s response to the murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers in Mississippi and the Baptist church bombing in Alabama. Considered her first protest song, the song laments the violence perpetuated against Black communities, calling out the states where the crimes happened. Scott’s print repeats the song’s utterance “Goddam!” in red capital letters spread across a silver ground. At the center is a black and white image of the US Capitol, flanked by outlines of Florida, Texas, Minnesota, and Georgia. These states are at the forefront of such nationwide problems as brutality, murder, and control of and cruelty to Black people, women, and the LGBTQ+ community. They are places where recent events have spurred nationwide protests and resistance but little change in legislation-except for increasing disenfranchisement of Black people.
Central to the exhibition is Scott’s Pirate Jenny, based on the song from The Threepenny Opera about Jenny, a hotel maid who gets revenge on the arrogant men who torment her. In the song, Jenny is a leader of marauding pirates, and she sails away with them after they’ve killed her oppressors and destroyed the town. Placed on a saturated blood red canvas and highlighted by gold leaf, Scott’s Pirate Jenny is a Black waitress or barista, and her persecutor is the police. Screened onto the canvas are drawings of pirates with sabers warding off a cop car, next to photographs from a Black Lives Matter demonstration with a police vehicle set on fire. Are the protestors Scott’s modern-day pirates, unleashed by a disrespected barista? The work leaves this question unanswered, inviting us to consider who Jenny’s modern-day liberator could be.
The works in Goddam bring the struggles of the past into the present, encouraging viewers to acknowledge how the issues of inequality and prejudice faced decades ago are still influencing our present. Violence, racism and sexism are ongoing plagues on our communities. White supremacy is experiencing a return to mainstream politics with a level of visibility that has not been witnessed in years. Goddam confronts commonly-held beliefs about America by holding a mirror up to our society, and asking us how much has changed in the years since Nina Simone sang her civil rights era protest songs.
Dread Scott (b. 1965, Chicago, IL) is an interdisciplinary artist who for three decades has made work that encourages viewers to re-examine cohering ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its transgressive use of the American flag. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others burned flags on the steps of the Capitol. He has presented a TED talk on this subject.
His art has been exhibited at MoMA/PS1, The Walker Art Center, CAM St. Louis, and Kunsthal KAdE. It is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Ackland Art Museum at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and Worcester Art Museum, and has been featured on the covers of Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail, and on the front page of NYTimes.com. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community engaged project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, by Christiane Amanpour on CNN and highlighted by Artnet as one of the most important artworks of the decade.
In 2021, Scott received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Frieze Impact Prize and a Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also completed a residency at KADIST that year and was named a Senior Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College in Maine. He was the 2019 Open Society Foundations Soros Equality Fellow and has received fellowships from United States Artists and Creative Capital Foundation. In December 2021, ARTnews named his NFT White Male for Sale one of the defining artworks of the year. His studio is in Brooklyn, New York.
Founded in 2010, Cristin Tierney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on The Bowery with a deep commitment to the presentation, development, and support of a roster of both established and emerging artists. Its program emphasizes artists engaged with critical theory and art history, with an emphasis on conceptual, video, and performance art. Education and audience engagement is central to our mission. Cristin Tierney Gallery is a member of the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America).
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2. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, March 21 and more
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong
Kimsooja
Topography of Body
18 March – 3 June 2023
Opening reception with the artist in presence
Saturday 18 March 2023, 2 – 6 PM
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary conceptual artist Kimsooja. Topography of Body is Kimsooja’s first solo exhibition after several presentations in the city. The exhibition features a selection of work that demonstrates her vast multidisciplinary practice including the film Thread Routes: Chapter III, a series of indigo Indian block prints, new clay and rice paper works, and two prints of Geometry of Body.
Artist Talk by Kimsooja
Moderated by Dr. Yongwoo Lee
Tuesday 21 March 2023, 9 – 11 AM
Reception: 9 – 10 AM
Artist Talk: 10 – 11 AM
Dr. Yongwoo Lee is a media historian and cultural studies scholar, currently affiliated as Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies and Associate Director of the MA in Cultural Management Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research and teaching interests focus on media and cultural studies in East Asia, contemporary Asian visual art and criticism, visual and material culture in East Asia and sensorial modernity.
RSVP Essential due to limited capacity. Please email info@axelvervoordtgallery.com.hk.
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong
21F, Coda Designer Centre
62, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong
Open Tuesday – Saturday from 11 AM to 7 PM
Open Daily from 18 March – 25 March during Art Basel in Hong Kong
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3. Julie Tolentino, FF Alumn, at Rutgers University, online and in person, March 22
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4. Chunhua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, now online at Niio.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.niio.com/blog/is-there-gender-equality-in-the-digital-art-world/
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5. GOODW.Y.N., FF Alumn, receives 2023 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grant
Please visit this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9mmisssjfnevfq2/FY23%20CE%20Grantee%20List.pdf?dl=0
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6. Seung-Min Lee, FF Alumn, at International Objects, Brooklyn, thru May 28
Please visit this link:
https://objects.international/
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7. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, publishes new album and book
My album “An Afternoon in the Arboretum” is now available on Bandcamp!This one is all instrumental music, mostly for keyboard, from as early as 1976 to as late as 2022. You’ll find music for theater and dance, variations on a theme by Lewis Carroll, a piece for psaltery and harpsichord, a new set of two-part inventions, and more. And on Bandcamp, you can always listen without buying it, you know.
And my new translation of Alphonse Allais is now available from Black Scat Books! “Let’s Not Hit Each Other,” from 1900, shows the master discussing flying whales, an inflatable colonel, telepathic snails, an amphibious herring, twin cousins, and crossing the English Channel with swings. You’ll also meet Mr. Fish, who travels with capsules of American air, presaging Duchamp’s “Paris Air” by decades. I also introduce and annotate this curious volume; it was designed by Norman Conquest (Derek Pell), and includes an original portrait of Allais by Corinne Taunay.
More info here: blackscatbooks.com
Stay safe! Spring is soon! Doug
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8. Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, at Saugerties Public Library, NY, Mar. 3 to Apr. 28, reception Apr. 14
Karen Shaw
The Altered Book
Saugerties Public Library
March 3 to April 28
Reception April 14
The idea for this exhibition was to use paper garnered from discarded reference material to create site specific works.
The Saugerties Public Library, 91 Washington Avenue, Saugerties, New York,.
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9. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, now online at SquareCylinder.com
Please visit this link:
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CBA Lecture April 20, 2023, 7PM Eastern
To register: https://centerforbookarts.org/calendar/talk/stretch-stack-stand
Stretch, Stack, Stand
Susan Joy Share is an Alaska-based visual artist with a passion for the book form, its structural variations and movement potential. She will trace the development of her dynamic bookworks in a Zoom presentation, Stretch, Stack, Stand. She is well known for her large-scale, colorful fold-out sculpture, wearable books and pop-ups, and collaborative performances. Susan is an early explorer of “book action”, the connection of the book to the body and the rituals of opening and closing. Her intricate, layered work is steeped in the history of books. She uses a wide range of materials and attachment methods. Susan will also share some special images from the early days at the Center for Book Arts (late 1970s) when she curated an exhibition called, “The Naked Book”.
Susan has exhibited and performed across the US and is included in collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Anchorage Museum, the Jaffe Center, and NY CBA. She worked in book conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society, and The Brooklyn Museum. Susan has created large-scale public and private art installations and received a Rasmuson Foundation Artist Fellowships in 2018. Her solo exhibit, Sounds Sumptuous, 2022, at Bivy, a gallery in Anchorage, included an opportunity to develop a new performance in collaboration with S. Hollis Mickey. Susan’s teaching includes Penland, NC, Haystack, ME, Anderson Ranch, CO, and the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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11. Stanley Moss, FF Member, at Galla libreria, Vicenza, Italy, March 25
Saturday, 25 March 2023 at Galla libreria 1880 in Vicenza at 17:30 we’ll be speaking about these and other titles Second Guess Press has published. Congratulations, Marco Fazzini.
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12. Barbara T. Smith, Allan Kaprow, FF Alumns, at The Box, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 13
Barbara T. Smith
with Friends
Treasures
March 18 — May 13, 2023
Opening Reception: March 18th, 4-7pm
An artist’s life in storage; an artist’s practice of holding or discarding works of their own and others, teaches us about who they are as artists and what and who they value as influences. In the case of Barbara T. Smith, one sees both her support of friends whose works she admired and appreciated, and the dedication to safeguarding her own works, as a means to tell their story and create her legacy. In some cases she has stored these works for over 50 years.
This exhibition, Treasures, will be a presentation of the work of Barbara T. Smith and over twenty other artists whose work she has in her personal collection. The idea of this show came together as Smith and The Box were working together to organize her Artist Estate, realizing how many fantastic works she has been collecting: by trading/exchanging with her own work, buying the artworks when she could afford to, storing pieces when others couldn’t, or when works were given to her as gifts. The majority of the works in the exhibition are from the 1960s and 1970s, and will range from large paintings to small mail art exchanges. Artists included are: C. Lewis Baltz, Chris Burden, James Lee Byers, Sister Mary Corita, John Duncan, Fred Eversley, Dr. Elsa Garmire, Phil Hefferton, George Herms, Channa Horwitz, Shiro Ikegawa, Daniel Larue Johnson, Kim Jones, Allan Kaprow, Dick Kilgroe, Fred Mason, Paul McCarthy, Karen Neubert, Michael Olidort, Bill Ransom, James Rosenquist, and Richard Rubenstein.
The work of George Herms included in the exhibition tells a story of support and friendship. The piece titled F from 1965, was one of a series of assemblages that he made while living on the property of Smith’s then home in Pasadena. This landmark Greene & Greene house, where she lived with her then husband Allen and their three children, had a garage apartment where they would house artists, many whom she met while working at the Pasadena Art Museum. George Herms was one of these artists, and as a means to financially support him, they acquired this work which he had informally installed on the side of the garage. It’s a fantastic example of Herm’s grimey appealing wall works, including a baby doll and used paint brushes.
As a comparative story, we will be showing a unique early sculpture of Barbara T. Smith’s titled Bed Stand from 1963. This piece gives a glimpse into her early life with her husband, and the erosion and death of her marriage. It includes a small blue bed stand holding a top surface with a constructed tableau that includes a miniature velvet coffin that opens up to a small doll with blue plastic wrapping around its head and black onyx beads. When recently unpacking this work Smith commented, “this is about the death of my marriage”. The harsh truth revealed that simultaneous to Smith’s development as an artist came the end of her marriage. Coming from a family of morticians, Smith was surrounded by death, its aesthetics, and the psychological associations that might entail. The implications of which are seen in both this work and her other performances, one of which is included in the exhibition titled Piercing the Corporate Veil, 1980.
This collection of works presents the artist as witness to her community, herself, and practice. One comes away seeing a larger, more expansive understanding of how artists live, and gives us a glimpse into how Smith engaged with her artist community in genuine ways. To this day with Smith, going through the artworks of others one sees the memories flooding in, and her remembering these artists and her individual experiences with them. The deeply interpersonal revelations unearthed in this curated selection of pieces in Treasures will be many.
Barbara T. Smith (1931, Pasadena) is a visual artist who for over five decades has produced a body of work in performance, painting and sculptural installation. Smith studied painting at Pomona College in the early 1950s and later studied independently with Emerson Woelffer at Chouinard Art Institute. She was part of UC Irvine’s first class of the Masters of Arts program (1969-71), where she developed her practice alongside her peers Nancy Buchanan and Chris Burden. Smith spent formative years in her artistic development as a volunteer and then Educator at the Pasadena Art Museum where Walter Hopps encouraged her artistic career. Throughout her career, Smith has been involved with important alternative art spaces including F Space, the Woman’s Building, and 18th St. Arts Center.
Recent exhibitions include The Way to Be (2023) at The GETTY CENTER, Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 (2023) at LACMA, how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith (2022) at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, and Holy Squash (2021) at Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles. Notable past exhibitions include multiple shows with WACK!; State of Mind (2011, 2013) at The Orange County Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, and Smart Museum of Chicago; Under the Big Black Sun (2010) at MOCA Los Angeles; and Out of Actions: Between Performance & the Object, 1947-1979 (1998) at MOCA Los Angeles and MAK-Australian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. Smith will have a solo exhibition opening in October 2023 at the ICA LA curated by Jenelle Porter.
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13. Aaron Landsman, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY, Mar. 27-Apr. 8
Please visit this link:
https://chocolatefactorytheater.org/aaron-landsman-2022/
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14. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Touchstones, Rochdale, UK, thru May 6
Betty Beaumont’s “RiverWalk” (1989) in “A Tall Order!” (2023):
Printed images of Betty Beaumont’s performance “RiverWalk” (1989) are currently on view in “A Tall Order!” at Touchstones in Rochdale, UK, alongside other artworks exhibited at the Rochdale Art Gallery during the 1980s. The exhibition runs from February 4–May 6, 2023.
While in Rochdale for her exhibition “Changing Landscapes” (1989), Beaumont noticed a plaque announcing Europe’s Widest Bridge – although she saw no river. The River Roch is concealed by a 445-meter-long covering dating back to the Industrial Revolution, when its water became polluted. The river enters Rochdale from the east, disappears under the covering, and reappears on the west side of town. Conversations with the people of Rochdale revealed that they still believed the water was tainted. In contacting Greenpeace, Beaumont discovered that as there was no longer industry in the North, the river now ran clear.
In order to perform “RiverWalk,” Beaumont had to gain permission from the National Water Board and the Town Council. She led an interdisciplinary team of three engineers and the director of the Rochdale Art Gallery below the town, in a performance along the length of the covered river. Seen locally at the site and regionally as a mainstream news event, “RiverWalk” dispelled the myth separating Rochdale’s community from their river.
Images of Beaumont’s 1989 survey exhibition “Changing Landscapes” and her “OCULUS” monument project (1989– ) are also included in “A Tall Order!”
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of California at Berkeley, and grants from Creative Capital, NEA, NYSCA, the Gottlieb Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. In addition to numerous exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Asia, and the US, she has shown internationally at museums including The Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt), National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto and Tokyo), Museum Het Domein (Sittard, Netherlands), Bibliotéca Nacional José Marti (Havana, Cuba), Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA P.S.1, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY), and Katonah Museum (Katonah, NY). Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University.
Gallery address: Touchstones Rochdale, The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ, UK
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 am–5:00 pm, Wednesday 10:00 am–9:00 pm
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15. Kathy Westwater, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, April 20-29
The Chocolate Factory Theater Presents
Kathy Westwater
Revolver + Choreomaniacs
April 20-29, 2023
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7pm
@ The (new) Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, NYC 11101
7/N trains to Queensborough Plaza / F to 21st Queensbridge
March 14, 2023
The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of Revolver + Choreomaniacs, two new dance works by Kathy Westwater. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased in advance at (866) 811-4111 or www.chocolatefactorytheater.org.
Kathy Westwater, “an unconventional choreographer experiencing a surge of recognition” (The New Yorker), builds on nearly thirty years of dancemaking with the premiere of Revolver + Choreomaniacs, two new works staged within an immersive visual environment designed by artist-architect and longtime collaborator Seung Jae Lee.
Choreomaniacs, a piece for five dancers, explores the historical phenomena of choreomania – or “dancing plague” – in which people danced themselves to death during the Middle Ages. An accompanying duet, Revolver, which the artist began just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, explores the existential threat of super-catastrophes. Together the works articulate the bifurcation of time in the pandemic: of the time “before” and “since.” As a performance diptych, the works also grapple with the idea that dance itself at times causes pain. Both works engage Westwater’s seminal pursuit of “the disorganized body,” a comprehensive movement system that the artist initiated in 2001 in the wake of 9/11, and has continued to develop for over twenty years. Through infinite permutations of a set of physical prompts, designed inclusively for anyone to perform, the process generates movement from a destabilized body, stumbling toward cohesion. The movement is signature to Westwater’s choreography, and is a radical proposition of a dimensional dancing body. As an integrated system of misalignments, Westwater’s movement unravels inherited traditions of her field.
Revolver + Choreomaniacs are choreographed by Kathy Westwater in collaboration with the performers. Revolver is danced by Lance Gries and Westwater, and Choreomaniacs features Alex Romania, Rakia Seaborn, Stacy Lynn Smith, Nattie Trogdon, and Westwater. Revolver is accompanied by music by Ava Mendoza, Choreomaniacs by music by Ava Mendoza and Mike Baggetta. Both works feature set design by Seung Jae Lee, costume design by Claire Fleury, and lighting design by Madeline Best.
The Artist
Kathy Westwater has choreographically pursued experimental dance forms since 1996. Described as “at the limits of the human” (The Brooklyn Rail), her work responds to contemporary experience and the societal landscape in which it manifests by reimagining the body’s movement potential. Westwater’s Bessie-nominated Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part, co-presented at New York Live Arts by NYLA and Lumberyard, explores pain and the body, including the pain of others. Her other major works have explored the built environments of monuments (Anywhere); landfills and parks (PARK); phenomena of war and pain (Macho); the intersection of human and animal culture (twisted, tack, broken); psycho-physical states of fear (Dark Matter); and interactive virtual environments (The Fortune Cookie Dance).
Westwater is a recipient of the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography. She has received commissions from Gibney, Lumberyard, Temple University, Dance Theater Workshop, and Danspace Project; and awards from CUNY Dance Initiative, Dance NYC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New Music USA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Puffin Foundation, Franklin Furnace Fund, Meet the Composer, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Westwater was artist in residence in 2022 at the Arts Center on Governors Island; in 2021 at both Snug Harbor and Yaddo; in 2019 at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography; and in 2018, one of three inaugural artists in residence at Petronio Residency Center.
About the Chocolate Factory Theater
The Chocolate Factory Theater exists to encourage and support artists in their process of inquiry. We engage specifically with a community of artists who challenge themselves and, in doing so, challenge us. We believe that by supporting the labor of these artists, we contribute to elevating New York City as a thriving and more equitable wellspring of ideas.
The Chocolate Factory embraces artistic practice as an integral part of the artist’s whole life, an essential component of the life of our community and a key element of a larger national and international artistic dialogue. As such, we host artists as our equal partners with shared autonomy, trust and appreciation. While we seek to make big ideas and extended relationships possible, we commit to working at a small, intimate and personal scale, with few artistic compromises or boundaries.
We achieve all of this by creating a vessel for artistic experimentation through a residency package serving the whole artist – salary, space, responsive and flexible support for the development of new work from inspiration to presentation.
Works supported by The Chocolate Factory have received numerous Bessie and Obie Awards and have toured nationally and internationally.
An extensive archive of The Chocolate Factory’s past performances is freely available at vimeo.com/chocolatefactory.
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16. John Cage, Barbara Moore, Nam June Paik, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/arts/mary-bauermeister-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
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17. Some Serious Business, FF Alumn, at form and foncept gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Mar. 25
SSB Away welcomes Lost Time to Abiquiu
Performance Saturday, March 25th at form and concept gallery, Santa Fe
“How do we wander, overlap, and come together? Can momentary union exist as a place of belonging and can it change us as we go our own ways? Lost Time create immersive, improvised performances utilizing dream-like narrative exploring public intimacy in transitory spaces via multi-arts performances. Performers develop distinct sections of shifting emotional states. Each artist generates their unique approach to society, identity, body, sexuality, race, and ideology into explorations on intimacy, connection, loss, hope, and discord.
SSB loves nothing better than an open ended collaborative experiment. We’re pleased to welcome Lost Time—the Santa Fe-based improvisational collective of Chris Jonas, David Forlano, Edie Tsong, and Red Cell—for an SSB Away residency offered in association with Unashay. The group will use it’s time to prepare for their free public performance, Crossing Over, at form & concept gallery from 3–4 PM on Saturday, March 25th—an improvised accompaniment for visitors surrounded by Tsong’s Crossing Over drawing installation and other works currently on view at the gallery.
More about Unashay here: https://unashayhome.com/
More about Form & Concept here: https://www.formandconcept.center/
Utilizing acoustic and electric sounds, vocalization, and text, the quartet create a dream-like environment—each performer drawing from their individual experiences in search of unity and intimacy in this unique setting.
More about SSB Away here: https://someseriousbusiness.org/ssbaway-artist-allison-jae-evans-exhibition-the-vessel/
SSB Away provides crucial time and space for artists to step away from career demands and public scrutiny—to play with and explore emerging, unfamiliar, messy or mysterious aspects of their practices and open to new ideas, processes, theories, dreams, and artistic experiments. Retreat residences offer artists the agency to leave their habitual surroundings and to rest and inhabit a nourishing space of creative sanctuary, solitude, access to nature, and multivalent privacy. SSB Away is a program of Some Serious Business, a nonprofit arts resource hub and producer of performances, exhibitions, and hybrid initiatives rooted in a highly collaborative
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18. Susan Bee, FF Alumn, live online with A.I.R. Gallery, March 20, and more
Susan Bee
Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries: New Paintings
March 18–April 16, 2023
Opening reception: Saturday, March 18 from 6–8pm
Zoom interview with Ann McCoy for The Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment
March 20, 1pm EST
Register here:
https://brooklynrail.org/events/2023/03/20/susan-bee-apocalypses-fables-and-reveries/
Read more about the show here: https://www.airgallery.org/exhibitions/apocalypses-fables-and-reveries
Watch the studio video with Don Yorty: https://donyorty.com/2023/03/02/with-susan-bee-apocalypse-paintings/
https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bee/
A.I.R. Gallery
155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours: Weds.-Sun., 12-6pm
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19. Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at Artspace, Richmond, VA, opening Apr. 28
Here and Now – Extracting Inspiration from Experience and Memories
Solo exhibitions by four artists make personal comments about current times at nonprofit gallery in Richmond, VA
Contact:
Dana Frostick
804-338-8032
Artspace presents four solo exhibitions by artists whose past experiences have formed their present aesthetics from April 28 – May 20, 2023. The opening reception, scheduled for Friday, April 28, 2023, 6-9 p.m., features artwork by Jaraz Jenkins, Rebbeca Shkeyrov, Joy Black and Jenny Reed.
An artist talk by our featured artists will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2023 beginning at 2 p.m. Also on view will be a group exhibition by Artspace Artist Members.
Jaraz Jenkins presents Politics as usual, a collection of oil on canvas paintings he made during the Covid 19 pandemic. With the uninterrupted time to sit down and watch TV, he “quickly realized that there is a stark contrast in the way American people view politics.” These paintings offer the viewer a fun but serious perspective from “authentic people from the bottom who don’t feel included in our American policies.”
Jenkins is a professional artist from Richmond, VA. Art has been a part of Jaraz’s life for a long time. As a child, he would draw pictures to escape the harsh reality of poverty and systematic racism. Through grade school, Jaraz did well in art classes and quickly realized that painting was his greatest strength. As a young man, he never thought being a professional artist was a reachable goal because of his living environment. Jaraz attended Virginia Commonwealth University’s Painting and Printmaking program from 2015-2018 and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts. After college, he stayed in Richmond and became a teacher to give back to his community. jarazart.com
In her exhibition, Paintings Painting Paintings: Nested Selves, Rebbeca Shkeyrov “showcases the artist indulging her aesthetic inclination towards depicting artwork within her work.” From childhood, Rebecca was obsessed with matryoshka dolls and Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman which features objects within objects stretching out to infinity. Shkeyrov hopes to “uncover the complex and evolving relationships between three figures viewed through the lens of painting: the literal self, the idealized self, and the inner child.”
Rebecca Shkeyrov, received her BA in Studio Art and Art History from William & Mary in 2020 and has exhibited in cities across New York, Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland. She began creating ceramic sculptures during her 2022 residency at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. When not creating art, she can be found studying to become a Certified Hypnotherapist. rebeccarov.com
Joy Black presents mixed-media paintings in her exhibition, Boundless. Created during a recent three-year period of upheaval and loss, these abstract intuitive works were the artist’s therapy as she was “pulled from one tragic loss to the next with no time to process what was happening.” Her paintings tell stories, reflecting the “energies of our natural world and the essence of our own internal energies.”
Joy Black is an abstract artist based in Richmond, Virginia. She intuitively expresses the energies of our natural world, and the essence of our own internal energies, on stretched canvas with acrylic and mixed media. Joy earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in Communication Arts & Design, and enjoyed a 40-year career as graphic designer, art director, and creative manager in design studios and ad agencies, and three entrepreneurial creative ventures. A senior instructor of the healing art of Qi Gong (Chi Kung), Black has studied the practice for more than 15 years and traveled to Thailand and China for further training. Qi Gong has deepened her sensitivity to the various energies she paints, and her artworks frequently radiate the peace and balance of those connections.
Instagram: @joyblackart
The ceramic and fiber assemblage sculptures by Jenny Reed are physical manifestations of the space between herself and her surroundings. The inspiration for her exhibition’s title, Paradise is Exactly Like- came from a song by Laurie Anderson that begins with “Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better.” Reed states, “Both surprisingly optimistic and brutally mundane, these works imagine what could be so great about the here and now.”
Jenny Reed is an assemblage sculptor whose work is predominantly composed of ceramics, fibers, and other craft based materials. Her works depict abstracted, whimsical representations of domestic objects and spaces. Jenny received her BFA from Northern Kentucky University and MFA from Indiana University Bloomington. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the US, including The Lormina Salter Fellow Solo Show at Baltimore Clayworks and Spring / Break Art Show in NYC. Jenny also creates community art projects, and recently showcased Community Installation: Drawing the Still Life with support from the Maryland State Arts Council. She has participated in workshops and residencies across the US and beyond, including Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia (Italy), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Penland School of Craft, and Baltimore Clayworks. In addition to her art practice, Jenny enjoys gardening and hanging out with her favorite tubby orange tabby, Benjamin.
Rounding out our March-April shows in the front of the gallery, Artspace Artist Members will present an exhibition of artwork in a variety of styles and mediums. 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.
Exhibition Dates: April 28 – May 20, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, April 28, 6-9pm
Artist Talks: Saturday, April 29, 2pm
2833-A Hathaway Rd. Richmond, VA 23225 in 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.
Exhibition webpages:
Jaraz Jenkins / Politics as usual
https://www.artspacegallery.org/jaraz-jenkins-april-may-2023-exhibition
Rebbeca Shkeyrov / Paintings Painting Paintings: Nested Selves
https://www.artspacegallery.org/rebecca-shkeyrov-april-may-2023-exhibition
Joy Black / Boundless
https://www.artspacegallery.org/joy-black-april-may-2023-exhibition
Jenny Reed / Paradise is Exactly Like-
https://www.artspacegallery.org/jenny-reed-april-may-2023-exhibition
Artspace Artist Members / Group Exhibition
https://www.artspacegallery.org/artspace-artist-members-aprilmay-2023-exhibition
artspace
2833-A Hathaway Road
Richmond, VA 23225
804-232-6464 (office)
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20. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at Hof, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Mar. 26
Equinox – Same But Different. Hof, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 26 March 2023: 13:00 – 14:00 hrs.
‘Equinox – Same But Different’ is an international event for public action for freedom for all people. Every year on the Equinox (around 20 March and 21 September), the duration of day and night is roughly equal around the world. In the spirit of cosmic equality, the event is a global connection for people performing together in public space.
This sharing of time and space brings us closer together, as a temporary (global) community to encourage, through performance art, non-violent expressions for locally specific conditions.
Everyone is welcome to participate with openness and in solidarity, embracing and embodying diversity while acknowledging each other’s individual circumstances, difficulties and conflicts.
There will be no programme of consecutive performances but everything takes place simultaneously, collaborations can arise spontaneously.
If you want to participate, send an email to frans@singel222.nl or just show up at the Hof.
Participating so far are: ieke Trinks, Peter Baren, Ienke Kastelein, Yvette Teeuwen, Lotte Werkema, Kirsten Heshusius, Kamila Wolszczak, Geerten Ten Bosch, Yvo van der Vat, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Gerwin Luijendijk and no doubt more will follow.
History:
This idea of exploring the interconnected role of the performative collaboration and the citizen in shaping and transforming public space has been a fundamental endeavor of Same But Different [Equinox] and its artists worldwide since a symposium hosted by Bbeyond in Belfast in 2017. During this event, Chumpon Apisuk proposed a day of public action as a follow-up to Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (September 2016), where 283 artists from around the world (45 locations in 29 countries) worked together in public spaces.
It is the day that all states must recognise and allow actions from the people which are ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-violent’. This day of action can be with or without context, but for the recognition of all people’s rights to share the public space together, in solidarity with each other, in respect of each other’s rights to share the same public space, as well as the time.”
More and more countries are experiencing social unrest due to the rise of governmental restrictions on basic human rights. Every continent is experiencing some form of repression of civil liberties, be it individual, social, economic, political, religious, cultural, or environmental. These rights are at the forefront of what makes us human and shape civil society.
The global discourse initiated by Same But Different [Equinox] is based on an openness to talk about public space as a social and political sphere. The pandemic has increasingly shown us that public space is essential for community life. It is a place of physical creation that is repeatedly claimed and interpreted by a variety of groups and movements.
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21. Monty Cantsin Amen, FF Alumn, at Shenzen Museum of Contemporary Art, China, April 2023
We are happy to confirm that The Sense of Neoism?!, an Artificial Counter-Intelligence Monolith created by internationally acclaimed new media artists Sofian Audry and Monty Cantsin Amen, has gone through government examination in Shenzhen, China, and has been officially approved by the Censor Board of Shenzhen and endorsed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party to be shown at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the upcoming international exhibition focusing on Artificial Intelligence, in April/2023.
As outlined by the authors and announced by Neoist News Agency Dispatcher, Blattella Germanica, the installation explores the high spirit of Neoism?! in the context of today’s technological society through a Counter-Intelligence Monolith that indefinitely generates blurbs, reflexions, motos, and nonsense. Underlying the system is an artificial neural network machine learning algorithm with hundreds of thousands of synapses, fed almost all existing neoist propaganda known to mankind, among others The Book of Neoism?!, The Poetical Plunderground of Neoism?!, and Reclaiming the Bodymachine, allowing it to spy on the entirety of Neoist texts and build its own understandings of Neoism?! resulting in a new form of counter-intelligence brainwashing.
The work reembodies the collective brain of today’s “spider web network identity” into a technological substrate with a life of its own. The machine/monolith mimics an audio gear box with dozens of jack plugs that reproduce the inner workings of the artificial neural network. At the top of the machine, an LED panel endlessly regurgitates its own new neoist verses into the eyes of the audience, equally brainwashing humans, cyborgs, robots, and other technobiological systems. Anyone can directly hack into the system’s artificial neural synapses by unplugging, replugging, and criss-crossing jack cables directly on the machine, thus deconstructing, reconstructing, and even destroying the generative capabilities of the system in real-time.
The simple fact that the outburst of Neoism?! coincided with the explosion of New Technology in the early 80s was not an accident. At the time when Neoism?! went amok and mutated into a world wide communication network, Artificial Intelligence was also heavily implemented in the increasing planetarian operations of computer control technology. Neoism?!, representing an ever growing independent multi-faceted network-entity, responded to the new rules of technology with both refusal and vision, resulting in a platform of revolutionary subvertainment.
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22. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, releases new music
I want to let you know that after publishing my decades-spanning cassette retrospective Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) last year, Pentiments released HERE my The Viral Tempest double vinyl LP and Bandcamp tracks.
More on Selected Sound Works here: https://pentiments.bandcamp.com/album/selected-sound-works-1981-2021
More on Pentiments here: http://pentiments.org/
More on The Viral Tempest double vinyl here: http://pentiments.org/catalog/pen010/
The audio on the first disk I made in collaboration with Andrew Deutsch: OrlandO et la tempete viral symphOny redux suite. It uses an anonymous reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a type of sonic signature that my virus-modeled artificial life audio material (adjusted from the first movement of my 2006 viral symphOny: the enthroning) reanimates. The second piece, pour finir avec le jugement de dieu viral symphOny plague, serves as a brother suite to the first and instead uses Antonin Artaud’s controversial recorded performance of his radio play To Have Done with the Judgement of God as the sonic figure.
The LP is in an edition 200 with a full color gatefold jacket, full color labels, an 11×11″ 12-page full color exhibition catalog documenting the paintings featured in my 2020 Orlando et la tempête art exhibition at Galerie Richard (Paris) and an 8.5×11” insert featuring an interview with me by S.K.G. Noise Admiration regarding my art of noise philosophy. The tracks were mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering.
Joseph Nechvatal
Websitite: http://nechvatal.net/
Blog: http://josephnechvatal.wordpress.com/
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23. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at The Players, Manhattan, April 27
Please visit this link:
Steve Zehentner is with Penny Arcade.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/steve.zehentner
https://www.facebook.com/pennyarcadesuperstar
April 27th at 8pm!
Tickets:
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24. Babs Reingold, Grace Roselli, FF Alumns, live online at Artists Talk on Art, March 20
“Pandora’s BoxX Project”
A Panel Discussion Monday Night March 20th
Dear Friends
I’m delighted to join Grace Roselli for a panel discussion about her “Pandora’s BoxX Project” on
Monday night March 20th, 2023
7:00 – 8:30 PM (EST)
Artists Talk On Art Event on Zoom
ATOA website:
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86314194491
Artist and moderator Grace Roselli is joined by artists Babs Reingold, Vinnie Bagwell, Moko Fukuyama, and Cydney Williams
Grace Roselli’s Pandora’s BoxX Project is an inclusive and wide-ranging photographic portrait series addressing the changing face and transformative cultural impact of women, trans, and non-binary individuals (womxn) in the arts over the past six decades.
https://www.pandorasboxxproject.com/
Please join us!
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25. Moya Devine, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, at Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA, opening March 21
Moya Devine, Ruth Wallen, FF Alumns, have work in Climate Reckoning, opening March 21, 4-6 pm, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA. continues thru April 25.
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26. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, now online at podcasts.apple.com
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27. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, now online at VoyageMIA.com
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