Contents for April 10, 2023
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1. Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumn, at Taylor Street Farms, Chicago, IL, April 8, and more
2. Berserk Productions, FF Alumn, at Birdcage Comics Café, San Bernadino, CA, April 10
3. aricoco, Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumns, at Sharpe-Walentas Studios, Brooklyn, April 21-23
4. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, April 15-16
5. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, thru Aug. 27
6. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Bronx Museum of the Arts, April 29
7. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, now online at documentary.org
8. Ellen Kahn & Lynda Kahn aka TwinArt, FF Alumns, at Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, thru May 13
9. Conrad Gleber, Ron Littke, Gail Rubini, FF Alumns, Media Garage Art Project, Narrowsburg, NY
10. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Dept. of Contemporary Art, Ybor City, FL, thru April 20
11. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Earth Day Dune Shack Walk, Provincetown, MA, April 22
12. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, at Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, thru June 3
13. Alan Sondheim, FF Alumn, now online at Tagvverk online magazine, and more
14. Jacob Burckhardt, FF Alumn, at Douglas Dunn Dance Studio, Manhattan, May 10
15. Susan Joy Share, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, April 20
16. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at HEW Berlin, Germany, opening April 14
17. Betsy Damon, Mariam Ghani, Dafna Naphtali, FF Alumns, named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
18. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, in London, UK and around the globe, thru April 30
19. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, opening April 15
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1. Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumn, at Taylor Street Farms, Chicago, IL, April 8, and more
Chicago: Oddball Cookout
Sat, April 8, (10:30am-12pm)
Join us for squash soup, coffee, and hot cocoa + art and games
Location: Taylor Street Farms, Chicago, IL
“Oddball Cookout” is a series of events featuring seasonal produce grown onsite that aims to empower children currently living in public housing units surrounding the National Public Housing Museum and bringing diverse, mixed-income public housing communities together through yummy, healthy food. No RSVP required.
Presented by Taylor Street Farms and The National Public Housing Museum with NPHM’s Artist as Instigator, Marisa Morán Jahn (illustration by Marisa).
Works in Progress
I’m excited to share some new works created with the National Public Housing Museum — a coloring book page and series of wallpaper that features the larger-than-life animal sculptures created for the courtyards of public housing across the United States. Archival photographs of children from public housing homes across the U.S. over multiple decades are scaled to convey the outsized presence of the beloved sculptures. Cuddling, crooning, and petting the inanimate animal sculptures, the children’s affection invokes memories of childhood imagination.
The artwork are inspired by the WPA era designs integrated into public housing before the 1950s, during a time when recreation, joy, and play were valued as essential aspects of a community and home.
For more Info: https://www.nphm.org/marisa?mc_cid=c27911e951&mc_eid=aed0d19f42
Boston/Cambridge: Design & Solidarity Book Launch Party
Thurs April 20, 2023 (6-7:30 pm)
MIT School of Architecture (Long Lounge, 77 Mass Ave)
Authors: architect Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn
In conversation witt:
Arturo Escobar, Design Anthropologist; Author, Designs for the Pluriverse
Greg Lindsay, Fellow, MIT Future Urban Collectives
Mercedes Bidart, Co-Founder, Quipu
Rashin Fahandej, Multimedia Artist, Filmmaker
Remarks by Jules Rochielle Sievert, Artistic Director, NuLawLab, Northeastern University and Sarah Wolozin, Director of MIT OpenDocLab
Moderated by Ana Miljacki, Critic, Curator, Director, Architecture and Urbanism Section, MIT
Co-presented by MIT Open Doc Lab and NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law
RSVP: https://architecture.mit.edu/events/design-solidarity-book-launch-party
Thank you.
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2. Berserk Productions, FF Alumn, at Birdcage Comics Café, San Bernadino, CA, April 10
4/10/2023
“Delightfully Green”
Birdcage Comics Café
165 W Hospitality Lane, #17
San Bernardino, CA 92408
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided.
Bezerk Productions is excited to announce the exhibition, “Delightfully Green,” hosted by Birdcage Comics Café in San Bernardino. Please join us to celebrate new artworks created by Bezerk’s current cohort of Cracked Eggs. Cracked Eggs is an interdisciplinary arts program conceived by Linda Sibio for people living with mental differences. In 2021, Bezerk partnered with San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health (SBC-DBH) to work inside their clubhouse system. Participants to Cracked Eggs learn a variety of techniques that bridge issues surrounding mental wellness with creative expression, movement, and breathing.
Cracked Eggs is a five year program supported by a California Mental Health Services Act. Click the map button below for directions to this upcoming exhibition. There is a wheelchair accessible entrance at the north side of the coffee shop along hospitality lane. Parking is found behind the coffee shop if you enter through commerce or hunts lane. If you have any other accessibility questions please call (760) 853-0186.
Thank you.
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3. aricoco, Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumns, at Sharpe-Walentas Studios, Brooklyn, April 21-23
You’re invited to the annual Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program open studios!
Opening reception: Friday, April 21, 6-8 PM
Open studios: Saturday, April 22 & Sunday, April 23, 1-6 PM
The 2022-2023 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program artists look forward to welcoming you to the Studio Program later this month. Festivities kick off with a reception on Friday, April 21 from 6-8 PM, and continue on Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, April 23 with open studio hours from 1-6 PM.
2022–2023 Studio Program artists are aricoco (Ari Tabei), David Atkin, Jeane Cohen, Maia Cruz Palileo, Avram Finkelstein, Jim Gaylord, Yasi Ghanbari, William Kohler, Naeem Mohaiemen, Janice Nowinski, Martha Poggioli, Erin M. Riley, Grace Sachi Troxell, Kathia St. Hilaire, Jonathan Torres, Margaux Valengin, and Cherrie Yu. You can learn more about the resident artists at thestudioprogram.com
Location: 20 Jay Street, Suite 720, DUMBO, Brooklyn
DUMBO open studios will also be happening in the neighborhood on Saturday, April 22 + Sunday, April 23, 1-6pm.
Thank you.
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4. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, April 15-16
Hello!
I’m excited to participate in Yale School of Art’s upcoming open studios – Saturday, April 15 and Sunday, April 16 from 12-6PM. Would love to see you there!
https://www.art.yale.edu/about/visiting/open-studios
36 Edgewood Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Studio 312
Justin
Thank you.
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5. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France, thru Aug. 27
Liliana Porter, le jeu de la réalité. Des années 1960 à aujourd’hui
Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse
Toulouse, France
April 6 – August 27, 2023
Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is pleased to announce Liliana Porter, le jeu de la réalité. Des années 1960 à aujourd’hui, the first retrospective in France for gallery artist Liliana Porter [1941, Argentina], at Les Abattoirs museum in Toulouse, France. The exhibition opens tonight, April 6 and will be on view through August 27, 2023. Featuring around one hundred works, the exhibition represents Porter’s ouevre from the 1960s through present day and is curated by Annabelle Ténèze, Director of Les Abattoirs, and Lauriane Gricourt, Curator at Les Abattoirs.
As stated by Les Abattoirs, “Porter explores the potential of various media including print-making, painting, sculpture, photography and video, in a long-term examination into our perception of reality and our notions of time and space.
Print-making is at the heart of her work, which she helped revive in the 1960s as part of the collective New York Graphic Workshop, co-founded with Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo in 1964. This technique, which was rediscovered by Pop artists and championed in Central and South America for its political dimension, has allowed her to view the idea of authorship and collective work with a critical eye, as well as provide her with new narrative forms.
In the 1970s she became interested in photography and began including images of her own body into drawings, in particular wall art, echoing concerns held by female artists at the time.
The first half of the exhibition recounts this journey, while also offering a rereading of the historical, artistic and social context of the time, with regard to the commitment of Porter and the artistic community to which she belonged.
The second half presents her installations, including two that have been especially created for Les Abattoirs. These small scenes have been present in her work for around twenty years and are created with contemporary figurines and knickknacks that she has found in flea markets during her travels. They also feature in her paintings and videos.
By continuing her poetic exploration of reality, Liliana Porter upsets representational codes and challenges both the creative process and the surreal power of the image.”
Porter’s work is included in many major museum collections including La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France; Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, USA; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA; Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, New York, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA; Tate Modern, London, England, UK; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, USA.
Learn more and plan your visit: https://www.lesabattoirs.org/en/Exhibitions/liliana-porter-reality-play/
For inquiries and more information on Porter’s work, email Mónica Hernández at monica@sicardi.com or call the gallery at 713.529.1313.
Thank you.
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6. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Bronx Museum of the Arts, April 29
Bronx Museum of the Arts
https://bronxmuseum.org/event/community-convening-were-not-softening-our-resistance/
April 29, 2023
1-4 pm
Join us in celebrating earth day with a video festival and panel showcasing short films/videos by visual artists on issues around climate change, indigenous land rights, black liberation and migration. Participate in a critical intercultural exchange and platform to discuss climate breakdown and what resistance looks like. After the festival, audience members are invited to join in activities led by local and international environmental justice activists taking a deeper dive into the films’ theme. Curated and organized by Alicia Grullón.
Part of this program is funded by Social Practice CUNY through generous funding from the Mellon Foundation.
Thank you.
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7. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, now online at documentary.org
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Ellen Kahn & Lynda Kahn aka TwinArt, FF Alumns, at Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, thru May 13
After Glow X TwinArt
Opening reception: April 7 | 4-7p
Show runs April 7 – May 13
Melissa Morgan Fine Art
73660 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260
Melissa Morgan Fine Art invites you to the inaugural exhibition for Emmy-award winning, bi-coastal identical twins Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn (AKA TwinArt). This special collection of works will include “tuned in and tuned out mashups” of the sister’s artwork from the 1980s thru 2023.
TwinArt integrates video, new wave music, double-exposure Polaroid 20×24 photographs, digital painting, and light sculpture. Their interdisciplinary approach to art combines media-storytelling with technology, to include television and computers, transmitting an afterglow… a pleasant effect or feeling that lingers after something is experienced.
To find out more, check out twinart-studio.com
Thank you.
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9. Conrad Gleber, Ron Littke, Gail Rubini, FF Alumns, Media Garage Art Project, Narrowsburg, NY
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Dept. of Contemporary Art, Ybor City, FL, thru April 20
Dear friends
I’m delighted to participate in “Beauty In Climax”
Department of Contemporary Art Tampa FL
April 6 – 20, 2023
Opening reception
Thursday April 6 from 6-9pm
1624 E. 7th Ave. Suite 237, Historic Ybor City Tampa
An exhibition of pieces debuted in “Mono No Aware” by LittleBull fashion show and the work of artists Jason Hackenwerth, Kenny Jensen and Babs Reingold who each offer unique perspectives on the ephemerality of beauty and art making as a means to capture, preserve, and create new beauty out of inevitable loss.
On exhibition is work from my “Fallout: Beauty Lost and Found” and “A Question of Beauty” series.
Thank you.
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11. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Earth Day Dune Shack Walk, Provincetown, MA, April 22
Saturday, April 22, 2022
1:00 to 3:00 pm
$20, Advance registration required, limited to 20 participants
https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/-0f2-G6zrR5_bzMzSuuZvg
The mission of The Compact is to advance the health and cultural well being of the community of Provincetown and the Lower Cape – its people, the natural environment and the economy. Our initiatives include: The Swim For Life, Dune Shack Residencies, our Think-ubator program, Prayer Ribbons and special projects and initiatives.
Thank you.
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12. Max Gimblett, FF Alumn, at Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, thru June 3
Dear Friends, Family, and Colleagues,
I am so happy to share with you that Max Gimblett—Big Mind is now open at NMG in Christchurch. The exhibition consists of four important monumental works from 1978 to 1997.
The show runs through June 3rd by appointment only. Please email info@nadenemilnegallery.com or call 027 440 1665 to schedule your visit.
Warm regards,
Matt Jones
Studio Manager
Max Gimblett Studio
NMG press release for Max Gimblett—Big Mind:
This landmark exhibition represents the brilliant synthesis of Gimblett’s vast aesthetic, stylistic and philosophical interests which have marked him not only as a leading abstract expressionist in New Zealand, but also an artist who has established a highly regarded and significant reputation internationally.
Expressed and reflected in his work for decades, Gimblett’s indelible connection to the Pacific and Asia has proved the greatest influence and defining constant throughout his practice.
Gimblett explains ‘Going back—I was born in Auckland which has an ocean and island culture. I believe New Zealand and Australia are part of the East; our trajectory is north rather than east. My early memories of the Auckland Museum, which I haunted as a boy, were the all-powerful presence of sacred Maori art balanced by a modest-sized room of Asian Art where I went and looked at Buddhas and Eastern ceramics. There was also the aesthetics of the Church, which I loved. The light through stained glass windows, the carving of the pews and furniture (the quatrefoil was there, carved in the altar)’.
Despite having lived in New York for the past three decades, Gimblett continues to visit and exhibit regularly in New Zealand. He feels the pull of the Pacific Ocean, connecting him to his homeland. He says, ‘I think it’s magnetic, it’s mineral. When I’m in the plane on the way over, I feel like I’m being pulled down into Mother Pacific.’ 2013.
Siting his work in the context of a Pacific Rim culture, Gimblett is recognised as making a significant contribution to a dialogue between East and West, fusing elements from Eastern spirituality, calligraphy, and sumi ink painting with Western concepts of abstract expressionism, modernism and pop art. Gimblett speaks about/identifies with a ‘mid-Pacific culture’ that spans the triangulation of the Pacific, New Zealand, America and Japan. He draws upon the traditions of the Pacific, post-colonial New Zealand, this country’s mythologies and landscape. While having spent the major part of his career in the USA, Gimblett maintains close links with the Pacific and also regularly travels to Asia.
The influence of Zen Buddhism is a strong force, its presence expressed and felt within his paintings, carrying with it an echo of Asia’s proximity to his South Pacific home. Eastern principles have informed the Western and Pacific content of Gimblett’s work since the very beginning, reflecting in part what Gimblett describes as ‘an awakening of Western Culture towards Asia’.
Our mailing address is:
Max Gimblett Studio
515 Broadway #5B
New York, NY 10012
Thank you.
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13. Alan Sondheim, FF Alumn, now online at Tagvverk online magazine, and more
The current Tagwerk online magazine carries a selection of my video work at:
https://tagvverk.info/2023/04/04/alan-sondheim/
All of these works are available online, mostly on YouTube.
and
We have a new online and cd production for ESP-DISC’ – Galut: Ballads of Wadi-Sabi, available in preorder at:
https://alansondheim.bandcamp.com/album/galut-ballads-of-wadi-sabi .
Performers – Azure Carter voice; Rachel Rosenkrantz bass; Edward Schneider, saxophone; Alan Sondheim, various instruments including rubab, saz, oud, shakuhachi, etc.
The CD itself will be distributed at the end of April. This has been years in the making; we’re immensely proud of the album, which is breaking new ground, at least for us.
Thank you.
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14. Jacob Burckhardt, FF Alumn, at Douglas Dunn Dance Studio, Manhattan, May 10
The event at the National Arts Club is sold out.
(from the NAC mailing list, even before I sent out my invitation)
Douglas Dunn has been kind enough to allow the event to happen again at his studio at 541 Broadway, 3rd floor, on Wednesday, May 10 at 8 PM
Admission is free but you can make a reservation by contacting Douglas Dunn Dance Studio at (212) 966-6999.
Slide Lecture on the Loft Generation
On Wednesday, May 10, at 8PM I will give a second slide lecture on The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: portraits and sketches, 1942-2011 (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2021) by Edith Schloss (my mother) at Douglas Dunn Dance Studio.
It will center on the illustrations, especially those that (for reasons of space) did not get in the book, plus images of her work.
The occasion is the book’s paperback release.
Where and When:
Douglas Dunn Dance Studio
541 Broadway, 3rd floor
New York, NY, 10012
Wednesday, May 10, at 8PM
Thank you.
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Please visit this link:
https://centerforbookarts.org/calendar/talk/stretch-stack-stand
Thank you.
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16. Elana Katz, FF Alumn, at HEW Berlin, Germany, opening April 14
Dear friends,
I would like to invite you to our upcoming HEW exhibition opening on April 14th. It will take place in a historic building – formerly a prison operated by the KGB directly after the 2nd World War, located in Berlin-Karlshorst.
The building is currently home to the Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen, however the underground level, where the prison was located, has been used only as a storage space and has had little to no visibility in recent years.
Our opening event on April 14th will have two parts:
18:00-19:00 in the Foyer of the Katholische Hochschule, where the artwork of Dario Srbić, Achim Valbracht, Exildiscount, Tzu-Ting Wang, K. Yoland, and myself will be exhibited. At this location at 18:30 I will also do an opening performance that explores a coded language once used by prisoners held within the building walls.
Katholische Hochschule: https://www.khsb-berlin.de/de/node/11873
This will be followed by a communal walk to the Museum of Karlshorst where we will have an opening reception 19:00-21:00. At the museum the artwork of world-renowned composer Joshua Fineberg will be featured in the historic office of the head of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (in use until 1949).
Museum of Karlshorst: https://www.museum-karlshorst.de/museum/kontakt
You are warmly invited to our opening on April 14th, hope to see you there!
Please find all details and the addresses of both locations below.
Warmly,
Elana
Exit is No Object
An exhibition by HEW Berlin @ Katholische Hochschule Berlin
In cooperation with Galerie KWADRAT & Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Opening: Friday April 14th, 18:00 – 21:00
18-19:00 Katholische Hochschule Berlin | 18:30 Uhr: Performance by Elana Katz
19-21:00 Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Exildiscount | Joshua Fineberg | Elana Katz | Dario Srbić | Achim Valbracht | Tzu-Ting Wang | K. Yoland
Exhibition duration: 14. April – 5. May 2023
This HEW exhibition takes place in the historic underground level of the Katholische Hochschule, formerly used as a prison by the Soviet Staatssicherheitsdienst (KGB). Selected artists will create site-specific artwork in the rooms of the basement, reactivating this historical space (which has in recent years had little to no visibility) through the innovative medium of contemporary art.
As the public cannot be granted access to the building’s lower level due to safety regulations (no emergency exit) – the exhibition will be viewable only through the use of surveillance cameras. The live surveillance footage will be screened on monitors exhibited in the Foyer of the Katholische Hochschule – 1 floor above the physically inaccessible rooms and artworks being watched. Segments will also be exhibited online via Livestream, as well as at our collaborating institution, the Museum of Karlshorst.
The title “Exit is No Object” refers to the focus of the exit in the space’s history and present-day restrictions. The exit as an object of surveillance is an impossibility, as surveillance exits precisely to prohibit the existence of an exit. The conceptual focus of the exhibition will deal precisely with this tension, furthermore considering tools and practices of surveillance as a useful format of communication to reach the otherwise unreachable, as well as a tool of voyeurism.
Curated by Elana Katz and Dario Srbić.
House for the End of the World (“HEW”) is a nomadic contemporary art space founded by Elana Katz in Berlin in 2020, in cooperation with Gallery KWADRAT. In its founding context of the pandemic, HEW functioned as a dystopian sanctuary created by artists in surreal and uncertain times. Regularly changing locations, HEW presents a program based on site-specificity at each space that it occupies, while focusing on locations in transition – with complex pasts and often unknown futures. At its previous two Berlin-Kreuzberg locations, HEW has hosted an extensive program of group exhibitions, solo shows, performances, and artist talks, including a solo exhibition by Hans Peter Kuhn in 2020.
Thank you.
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17. Betsy Damon, Mariam Ghani, Dafna Naphtali, FF Alumns, named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
Please visit this link:
https://www.gf.org/news/foundation-news/announcing-the-2023-guggenheim-fellows/
Thank you.
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18. Laurie Anderson, FF Alumn, in London, UK and around the globe, thru April 30
Please visit this link:
https://circa.art/artist/laurie-anderson/
Thank you.
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19. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, opening April 15
Please join me at the Ossam spring show!
Reception: Saturday April 15, 5–7pm
Exhibit hours: Saturday & Sunday April 15–16 and April 22–23, 1–6pm
Ossam Gallery
300-302 7th St between 4th and 5th Ave
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Susan Newmark
Thank you.
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