Contents for October 02, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany, thru Nov. 4, and more
2. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 2-Dec. 4
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, thru Oct. 25
4. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Queens Historical Society, Flushing, NY, Oct. 5 and more
5. Helixx C. Armageddon, Day de Dada Performance Art Collective, LuLu LoLo, Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumns, at Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 13-15
6. Patty Chang, FF Alumn, at e-flux, Brooklyn, Oct. 14
7. Nadia Granados, FF Alumn, named 2023-24 Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellow
8. Graciela Cassels, Georgia Lale, FF Aumns, at Governors Island, NYC, thru Oct. 30
9. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 6
10. Martha Edelheit, Mimi Gross, FF Members, at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, thru October 21
11. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, at The Global Centers, Paris, France, Oct. 18
12. Lisa Levy, FF Member, at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, NY, October 4, and more
13. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Rochester, NY, opening Oct. 18
14. John Giorno, FF Alumn, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7
15. Isabel Samaras, FF Alumn, at Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 20
16. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, online Oct. 6
17. Artists’ books, live online event, Oct. 12
18. Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Brandon Ballengée, Nancy Chunn, Komar & Melamid, Andy Warhol, Hannah Wilke, FF Alumns, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 3, 2023-Jan. 31, 2024
19. Ad Art Show 2023, at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, October 15-16
20. Grace Roselli, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, Oct. 17
21. Allen Ginsberg, FF Alumn, at Howl!, Manhattan, Oct. 6
22. Mark Bloch, FF Alumns, now online at NewArtExaminer.net
23. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
24. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke-Heist, Belgium, opening October 7
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1. Kimsooja, FF Alumn, at Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany, thru Nov. 4, and more
Kimsooja, Meta-Painting
September 8 – November 4, 2023
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
For the exhibition at Kewenig Galerie, Kimsooja has covered all the windows of the historic gallery building with a film that lets in the daylight, breaking it into countless colours. This installation is part of her series of works To Breathe. It encompasses the entire building, bathing it in a shimmering light of bright rainbow colours and entering into a dialogue with other works shown here as well as with the people moving through the building. Also the installation Meta-Painting, which lends its title to the exhibition, involves several stretched but unpainted canvases hanging on the wall but also freely in the room, and bottaris made of the same, natural linen fabric spread across the floor. In addition, Kimsooja will be showing works that she has made from hanji, the traditional Korean rice paper titled Deductive Object: Un(fold).
For more information, please visit this link:
https://kewenig.com/exhibitions/kimsooja-meta-painting-berlin
Newly Published: Sowing into Painting
Sowing into Painting unveils the essence of Kimsooja’s transformative 2020 exhibition at Wanås Konst. The book includes an interview of Kimsooja by Elisabeth Millqvist along with a foreword by Milena Hoegsberg. Co-published by The Wanås Foundation and Kewenig, this meticulously crafted publication offers a profound exploration of Kimsooja’s groundbreaking vision.
For more information, please visit this link:
https://kewenig.com/news/kimsooja-sowing-into-painting-catalogue
100 pages, softcover, English
Co-published by The Wånas Foundation and KEWENIG, Berlin 2023
25 € (incl. 7% VAT), ISBN: 978-3-9821229-5-3
Installation view of To Breathe, 2023. Site-specific installation with sound performance The Weaving Factory, at Bienalsur 2023, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo (MNAD). Courtesy Bienalsur and Kimsooja Studio. Photo: Horacio Volpato
Strangers in the Palace. Chapter 1.
Until January 28, 2024
BIENALSUR 2023, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo (MNAD), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curator: Diana Welcher
Through the works of Kimsooja, Sarah Abdu, Saad Alwahede, Hmoud Alattawi, and Estanislao Florido, the show delves into alternate perspectives and illuminates previously unexplored narratives within the gaps of established histories, in an attempt to amplify Walter Benjamin’s notion that an image encapsulates more historical depth than its mere observer. Kimsooja’s work, To Breathe, ingeniously transforms the exhibition space. Boundaries are blurred, solid surfaces lose their rigidity, and confining structures seemingly metamorphose into fluid expanse to create an immersive experience.
For more information, please visit this link:
https://bienalsur.org/en/single_agenda/446
Weaving the Light
Until November 30, 2023
Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museums, Frederiksberg, Denmark
https://frederiksbergmuseerne.dk/en/udstillinger/kimsooja-in-cisternerne/
To Breathe
Until October 29, 2023
Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, Paris, France
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-i/
ICÔNES (group exhibition)
Until November 26, 2023 (Artist talk: October 17, 2023)
Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-d/
Deductive Obejct: (Un)fold
Until November 18, 2024
Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou- Metz, France
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-h/
Making Worlds (group exhibition)
Until January 2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, Australia
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-k/
To Breathe – Leiden
Long-term installation
Lucas van Leyden Fund – Leiden, The Netherlands
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-u/
To Breathe
Permanent public art commission of stained glass window
Metz Cathedral, France
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-o/
Don’t Take Fake (traveling group exhibition)
Until October 8, 2023
Hasyna Square, Lviv, Ukraine
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-b/
Constellations: Global Reflections (group exhibition)
Kura Kura Bali, Indonesia
https://kimsoojastudio.cmail19.com/t/y-l-pkltykd-dylrmlyth-n/
Thank you.
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2. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 2-Dec. 4
First Mondays: Readings of New Works in Progress
Organized by Sarah Schulman
Reading
October 2 – December 4
The first Monday of every month | 7pm
Free with RSVP
Please visit this link:
An ongoing program with accomplished writers who give us an intimate insight into their work-in-progress, long before publication or performances.
Thank you.
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, thru Oct. 25
Latinx Voices: Art, Activism, and Identity / Exhibition Opening Reception: Thursday, September 28, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm (ART LAB)
Anto Astudillo / Esperanza Mayobre / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel / Andrés Senra
Art Lab
SUNY Old Westbury Social and Environmental Justice Institute
Woodlands Hall 1
https://www.amelieawallacegallery.org/art-lab
September 28 – October 25, 2023
Exhibition Opening Reception: Thursday, September 28, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm (ART LAB)
Art Lab and SUNY Old Westbury Social and Environmental Justice Institute (SEJI), in conjunction with El Conuco and the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, are proud to present Lantinx Voices: Art, Activism, and Identity, an exhibition of video, documentary film, photography, and works on paper by Anto Astudillo, Esperanza Mayobre, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, and Andrés Senra, from September 28 through October 25, 2023. The show explores themes of social justice, cultural identity, and resistance through the lens of the history of social movements and people’s resistance in Chile, the Dominican diaspora of New York City, and gender identity politics. Through their filmmaking, performances, and visual arts, these artists offer diverse narratives that reflect the past through the reality of the present, while offering hope for global social justice.
The exhibition is sponsored by SUNY Old Westbury Social and Environmental Justice Institute.
Anto Astudillo presents The People’s Revolt (Part1) (15:35, 2022) and Golpes (7:29, 2020). Astudillo has been filming protests in the US and Chile over the past ten years: Chile’s “Pingüin” Student Revolution, the Queer Liberation March, BLM, The Women’s March, and Chile’s Social Movement of October 18, 2019. Astudillo aims to archive history as well as motivate audiences to feel community with popular movements around the world. Golpes revisits the coup d’état of September 11, 1973 by the Chilean army on the Government Palace (La Moneda) through images that document fifty-year-old bullet holes on the walls of nearby buildings, drawing a parallel between the army of 1973 and the police force that continues to oppress Mapuche communities and the Chilean people at large. Brief visions of the Atacama Desert appear as a vast landscape that once served as the repository for thousands of “disappeared” persons, victims of the State. The non-sync sound and contrasting images reflect the way the film was shot (HI-CON film) as growing discontent and anger exploded into the social movement of October 2019.
Esperanza Mayobre creates fictive laboratory spaces rooted in the traditions of Latin American literature, music, and visual art influenced by contemporary politics and evolving culture. Since arriving in New York in 2004, Mayobre has immersed herself in the city’s culturally saturated landscape to create environments and images that reveal how cultures and ideologies merge and overlap. Mayobre’s recent gold grid drawings are meditations on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela as the cash-strapped government continues to deforest the Amazon, causing irreversible ecological and financial harm to the local communities. Formally, the works are based on indigenous weaving practices and her childhood memories of weavers of the Orinoco River region.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel presents Visioning the Brown Mother (19:37, 2022), video documentation of Nicolás’s solo pilgrimage to La Virgen de La Altagracia, Tatica, the protectress of the Dominican Republic. Nicolás travels from the South Bronx to Washington Heights, the two principal New York City Dominican enclaves. Until recently, Washington Heights—“Little Quisqueya”—had been the epicenter of Dominican cultures, but the burgeoning of Dominican and Dominican York communities arose in the Bronx as a result of the gentrification of “The Heights.” Tatica, the nickname for Altagracia, the guardian saint of the country, has evolved to become one of the loas, ‘spirits’, of the Vodun pantheon. Nicolás dedicates the pilgrimage to the late Juana Camacho (Mami), a long-time resident of Washington Heights. Holding an image of La Virgen de La Altagracia, the artist interacts with pedestrians while walking the route.
Andrés Senra presents four ink drawings, a video-performance from his series Post-Trauma, and a photograph from his series Based on True Events. Both series compile images disseminated by the media depicting LGBTQIA+ individuals who have been victims of state violence and oppression. Senra starts with archival images to construct a new archive that reflects the structural violence experienced by LGBTQI+ individuals, leading to social ostracism, trauma, or death. The photograph recreates a beating suffered by a young gay man in Brazil, transforming the image it into what could be a fashion advertisement. His drawings include Evelyn “Jackie” Bross and Catherine Barscz at the Racine Avenue Police Station in Chicago in 1943, found in the Museum of Chicago archive—individuals who were arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting cross-dressing—and Scissors, a reference to genital surgery on intersex newborns that prevents them choosing their sex as teens or adults, and Lashes on Gay Prisoners, depicting the physical and emotional torture inflicted on homosexuals in many countries around the world.
Artist Biographies:
Anto Astudillo (they/them) is a filmmaker, performance artist. and curator. Born in Santiago, Chile (Wallmapu) and based in Brooklyn, (Lenapehoking). Astudillo works in 16 mm film, video, and performance to create emotionally moving portraits of personal and political issues. Their work navigates the dynamic interconnections among embodied action, psychophysical practice, and experimental cinema, employing reflective internal dialogues and anthropological observations. Astudillo is the Program Director of Millennium Film Workshop in New York, which promotes personal cinema and other independent art practices. Currently, they serve as festival programmer at Newfest and as lead programmer for TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival.
Please visit this link:
https://www.antoastudillo.com/
Esperanza Mayobre, born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, is based in Brooklyn. Mayobre has exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museo Eduardo Sivori Buenos Aires, the Queens Museum, SUNY Westchester Community College, La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao Caracas, the Bronx Museum, Hallwalls, MIT Cavs, BRIC, The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C., the Contemporary Museum of El Salvador, and the Incheon Biennial Korea. She is a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Smack Mellon Studio Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Mayobre studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2003) and El Instituto Artesanal de la Colonia Tovar (IACT), Caracas (1999).
Please visit this link:
https://esperanza-mayobre.com/
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel grew up in a culturally and spiritually diverse home on the Caribbean island of Quisqeya. Nicolás has exhibited and performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, the IX Havana Biennial, Performa 05/07/20, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Nicolás’ residencies include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite—a citizen of the Bronx.
Please visit this link:
https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/
Andrés Senra, born in Brazil and raised in Spain, is a New York based Spanish artist, curator, and teacher of Fine Arts at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Senra’s work revolves around the political, economic, and social situations affecting communities under-represented in the history of art. He has developed a series of collaborative and socially engaged artistic practices that attend to disadvantaged communities. His art works have been shown in solo and group shows at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Argentina; Hosek Contemporary, Berlin; Art Center Nabi, Seoul; Contemporary Art Center Matadero Madrid, Culture Lab LIC, and BAAD, Bronx. Senra received an Art Creation Grant of Madrid Region (2018-2022) and a Multiverso Videoart Grant, BBVA Foundation (2015). Born in Brazil, Senra studied Philosophy and Biology for his undergraduate degree, and holds a PhD in Philosophy, Esthetics, and Arts from University of Salamanca, Spain.
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The Art Lab and SUNY Old Westbury Social and Environmental Justice Institute
Art Lab is collaboratively operated by the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery and the Visual Arts Department of SUNY Old Westbury. Founded in the context of SUNY Old Westbury Social and Environmental Justice Institute (SEJI), which embodies SUNY Old Westbury’s historic and ongoing social justice mission, it is housed on the lower level of Residential Hall 1. SEJI is a living-learning environment that enhances student education through civic engagement and applied learning, thus sustaining initiatives for social justice locally and abroad. Art Lab focuses on interdisciplinary exhibitions, performances, and creative activities that draw attention to social and environmental justice issues while creating opportunities for professional artists, students, and faculty to display their work.
Please visit this link:
https://www.instagram.com/art_lab_amelieawallacegallery/
For more information, contact Dr. Hyewon Yi, Director of Art Lab and Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at yih@oldwestbury.edu
Art Lab Hours: Mondays: 1–5 pm, Tuesdays: 2–5 pm, Thursdays: 2–6 pm, and by appointment.
Thank you.
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4. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Queens Historical Society, Flushing, NY, Oct. 5 and more
Our Laundry, Our Town:
Paperback Pub Date: 10/10/23!
Oct 24: Paperback Celebration Launch
(In-Person-NYC & Online)
October 2023 Events / New Podcast Interview
Thur. Oct 5
Queens Historical Society
Author Talk & Book Signing, 6-7pm (in Flushing!)
event info:
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Come celebrate the paperback book launch of Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond–in-person and online! Alvin will be in conversation with Henry Chang (author of the acclaimed Detective Jack Yu crime novel series) and special guest emcee, Think! Chinatown’s Board President, Amy Chin. Alvin will also read and rap from his memoir and perform a song with a special guest.
Please visit this link:
Info & RSVP for In-Person Event:
Virtual Event Registration:
More info on Chinatown Arts Festival:
CUNY Book Beat podcast
“Tales From the Eng Dynasty”
Please visit this link to listen:
To order the books:
Our Laundry, Our Town (Fordham University Press)
Please visit this link:
Three Trees (No Passport Press)
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Plese visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. Helixx C. Armageddon, Day de Dada Performance Art Collective, LuLu LoLo, Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumns, at Art in Odd Places, 14th Street, Manhattan, Oct. 13-15
Art in Odd Places 2023: Dress
35+ local, national, and international artists’ visual & performance public projects,
Along 14th Street, Manhattan NYC from Avenue A to the Hudson River
October 13-15
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2023: Dress, curated by Gretchen Vitamvas, is scheduled for October 13-15, 2023 for its eighteenth annual public visual and performance art festival taking place on select blocks each day along 14th Street, Manhattan.
The 35+ artists participating in Art in Odd Places 2023: Dress explore the many facets of ‘dress’ with projects examining clothing production and colonialism, fast fashion and waste, transformation and gender identity (and intolerance), cultural identity, work and labor, censorship, the passage of time and its traces, beauty, disability, status, armor, joy and grief.
Artists Daniela Fabrizi, Melissa Lockwood, and Clare Charnley & Farah Naz Moon all address the economic and environmental damage of the fashion industry. Fabrizi creates creatures portraying overconsumption and excess using the most common waste materials, in this case fabric, in Garbagia. Similarly, in Landfill Looks, Lockwood constructs exaggerated garments from fashion industry waste fabric. Her models literally carry the burden of the waste on their bodies.
In Ever Given Neelkuthi, Clare Charnley & Farah Naz Moon explore the legacy of colonialism in clothing production by joining two garments covered with information and stories from different geographic and cultural positions (the UK and Bangladesh). The artist duo will meet in person for the first time during the festival.
Reid Arowood speaks to trans rights and visibility in NeXXXa, a radical rejection of the binary and a celebration of the fluidity of queer identity. It is a shape-shifting creature that morphs and mutates to evade capture and persecution; neither male or female, human or alien.
Kasia Ozga utilizes flags in Wear Out: Manual Labor. In a gig economy in which working-class labor is alternately ignored, derided, and prized, her surfaces sewn from blue collar worker garments assert pride in our common industrial heritage.
Micki Watanabe Spiller’s Banned Books Banditos wear bandoliers containing books that have been banned in the past. As our country continues to ban books and restrict knowledge, there is a parallel to weaponizing books and the danger of reading ensues.
In The F Word, Vanessa Fairfax-Woods challenges impossible beauty ideals by creating a couture outfit from images of her untamed flesh. By turning herself into a garment she speaks to the taming of flesh, the absurdity of ‘correct flesh’, and our relationship with food.
Jana Greiner’s Grief Procession visualizes and creates space for grief and loss while Kaczmarek/Miranda’s Layers of Exuberance does the same for joy.
Fact Sheet
Who
Art in Odd Places 2023: Dress
Artists
Blanka Amezkua | AnimaeNoctis | Sally Apfelbaum | Helixx C. Armageddon | Reid Arowood | Alex Bard | Leenda Bonilla | Sayali Bramhe | Kasie Campbell | Clare Charnley & Farah Naz Moon | Margaret Chodos-Irvine | Day de Dada Performance Art Collective | Daniela Fabrizi | Vanessa Fairfax-Woods | Paola Fiterre | Jana Greiner | IGUANA Collaborative | Juliet Johnson | Kaczmarek/Miranda | Melissa Lockwood | LuLu LoLo | Deirdre Macleod | Kristin Mariani | MiSWiP | Ankon Mitra | Lee Nutbean | Olek | Kasia Ozga | Rettocamme | Gabrielle Senza | Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars | Molly Jae Vaughan | Micki Watanabe Spiller | Yvonne Zhang
Curator
Gretchen Vitamvas is a Brooklyn artist and camoufleur. Her art costumes employ camouflage, armor, and spectacle to play with opposing desires to blend in and stand out. She first became interested in working in public space by reworking bus shelter advertisements and re-installing them, using the pop art of consumer culture as a raw material. An AiOP veteran, she has participated as an artist in Art in Places, 2006; 2007: Howl at Lincoln Center; 2008: Pedestrian; 2009: Sign; 2011: Ritual; 2012: Model; 2013: Number and 2021: Normal.
Founder and Director
Ed Woodham is a queer elder conceptual artist, curator, and educator based in Manhattan originally from Atlanta, Georgia where Art in Odd Places began.
Partners
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center) was established in 1983 at the height of the AIDS crisis to provide a safe and affirming place for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers to respond to the urgent threats facing the community. Over the past 40 years, The Center has grown to meet the changing needs of New York’s LGBTQ+ community, delivering services that empower people to lead healthy, successful lives.
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Bureau of General Services – Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space hosted by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City.
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Pollinate is a community-driven art platform connecting individuals to practiced artists and rich creative experiences. Pollinate utilizes digital technologies to engage communities unifying the artist and art lover. Both on and offline, Pollinate works to elevate the art experience, making it accessible to the new generation of collectors. In collaboration with AiOP, Pollinate will capture the story of each performance and installation to help amplify the narrative to all audiences, regardless of physical boundaries.
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What
Art in Odd Places 2023: Dress (Uniform, Armor, Identity. Express, Provoke, Conform.) is the 18th edition of the NYC festival featuring 35+ local, national, and international artists exploring dress as a medium, and rethinking 14th street as a runway to present, walk, and pose. Featuring conceptual garments, live performances, visual installations, workshops, and more in public spaces. All Events Are Free.
For more information about AiOP’s history and artists’ project descriptions and schedules, please visit the website: dress.artinoddplaces.org
When & Where
Friday, October 13- Sunday, October 15, 2023, at various locations along 14th Street from Avenue A to the Hudson River: Friday, Avenue A to Third Avenue; Saturday, University Place to Seventh Avenue; Sunday, Seventh Avenue to the Hudson River.
Public Programs
Walk & Talk / Friday, October 13, 2023, 6-7:30pm, Bureau of General Services: Queer Division / Room 210, LGBTQIA+ Center, 208 W 13th St #210, New York, NY 10011. An intimate runway presentation of six projects from the festival. Featuring Reid Arowood, Clare Charnley & Farah Naz Moon, Daniela Fabrizi, Vanessa Fairfax Woods, Juliette Johnson and Molly Jae Vaughn.
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Sidewalk Runway / Saturday, October 14, 2023, 4-6pm, 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Artists and festival-goers are encouraged to sashay, strut, saunter, swagger, or slay their idea of DRESS on a pop-up public runway.
Paper Dress Ball / Saturday, October 14, 2023, 7-10pm, LGBTQIA+ Center, 208 W 13th St #210, New York, NY 10011. A celebration of the Art in Odd Places 2023: Dress festival and participating artists with all proceeds going directly to the vital work of NYC Anti-Violence Project (AVP). AVP serves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy.
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Why
AiOP is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, founded and led by NYC artist Ed Woodham, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. Using 14th Street as a laboratory, this project continues AiOP’s work to locate cracks in public space policies and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space.
Art in Odd Places
Art in Odd Places is fiscally sponsored by GOH Productions, and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and private donors.
Curator’s statement
Everyday we get dressed. Our clothing communicates information about our work, activities and aspirations. Dress can be prescribed or intentionally personal. It can be practical, protecting our bodies from the weather or worksite; or fanciful, making a statement. We dress to provoke, to go unnoticed, to align with a social group, to conform (whether by choice or requirement), to challenge, to fit in, to be admired, to aspire, to protest, and to express identity.
How do you know what people do for a living, how recently they’ve come to this country, if they are tourists? We regard each other and make judgements about gender, class, work, lifestyle, social group, and cultural heritage based on appearance.
Dress as a medium for expression is immediately relatable to a viewer as it contains or relates to the body. It invites us in by utilizing familiar social cues and the ritual of applying the exterior with which we face the world. In this way, dress can be a critical tool, whether to explore the body, class, form vs function, the construction of gender, political activism, or to address cultural differences.
The same piece of clothing on one body can communicate something completely different on another; and in one country versus another. Traditional clothing can become appropriated clothing. Clothing that expresses privilege can become a burlesque of that privilege, or a challenge and empowerment. Societal norms and expectations define this visual communication, and our reactions to a challenge of expectations can show us our own.
— Gretchen Vitamvas, curator AiOP 2023: Dress
To view the new AiOP 2023 festival website and artists’ projects, please visit:
Thank you.
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6. Patty Chang, FF Alumn, at e-flux, Brooklyn, Oct. 14
I’ll be in town for a screening at e-flux on oct 14, actually 2 screenings at 4 and 6pm.
Please visit this link:
https://www.e-flux.com/events/562016/overburden-patty-chang-and-david-kelley/
All the best,
Patty
Thank you.
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7. Nadia Granados, FF Alumn, named 2023-24 Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellow
Meet the 2023-2024 cohort of Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellows: the sixth cohort of our nomination-based Fellowship, a dedicated program designed to empower queer artists of color from a wide range of cultural experiences.
Awardees include artists working across disciplines and exploring topics such as queer history, radical kinships, decolonizing diasporas, and queer futurity: Saira Barbaric (Seattle, USA), Seba Calfuqueo (Santiago, CL), Jordan Deal (Philadelphia, USA), La Fulminante: Nadia Granados (Bogotá, CO), PachaQueer: La CoCa & La MoTa (Quito, ECUA), Maque Pereyra (Berlin, DE), and Moises Salazar Tlatenchi (Chicago, USA).
Ela Troyano, LLMA Artist Fellowship Founder and Director, shared, The Fellowship program is a constantly evolving, risk-taking laboratory of ideas, and we look forward to welcoming this group of forward-thinking creatives as a curated cohort. Joining from different cities around the world, each fellow brings unique experiences and backgrounds that will spark meaningful debate on what artists need today in the ever-changing cultural landscape.
The Artist Fellowship program is generously supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Program Director at RBF, continued, Supporting LGBTQIA+ artists is not only a matter of promoting diversity and inclusivity in the art world but also a way of advocating for human rights and challenging societal biases. The wide spectrum of artists, performers, and creatives in this latest cohort contributes to the Museum’s role as a home for queerness, reminding us that creativity knows no boundaries.
Fellows participate in monthly workshops exploring best practices in professional development, from personal finances, to project fundraising, public speaking, art business skills, strategic planning, peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, and community-building across disciplines. Additionally, a lineup of monthly seminars is led by thought leaders in art, media, and LGBTQIA+ studies.
We look forward to sharing more about our Fellowship Cohort and their individual practices in the coming months.
Thank you.
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8. Graciela Cassels, Georgia Lale, FF Aumns, at Governors Island, NYC, thru Oct. 30
Transborder Art with Graciela Cassels presents: Residency 2023 with Georgia Lale and others
Colonels Road 406-A
Governors Island NYC
thru October 30, 2023
Thank you.
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9. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Oct. 6
October 6th Book Launch for Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings by Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, and Adeena Karasick.
Please visit this link with info about the event, including registration, which is recommended because seating is limited:
https://centerforbookarts.org/calendar/book-launch/ouvert-oeuvre-openings
Thank you.
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10. Martha Edelheit, Mimi Gross, FF Members, at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, thru Oct. 21
Please visit this link:
https://www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitions/pictures_girls_make_portraitures
Thank you.
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11. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, at The Global Centers, Paris, France, Oct. 18
Please visit this link:
https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=db9da4ff159a88611bd3172f9&id=0a88863ed0
Thank you.
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12. Lisa Levy, FF Member, at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, NY, October 4, and more
Dear Friends and Colleagues-
This is an important project for me that I want you to know about!
I’m opening an “art gallery” in a comedy club to bring funny art to a comedy audience. It’s installed at “The Dog House” space of the Brooklyn Comedy Collective in Bushwick, a community of very funny people.
I’ve curated a great program where each artist gets a solo show to show whatever they like as long as it has humor in it.
The first show is new work from Paul Outlaw and Jen Catron who are legendary for their over-the-top fabrications and ideas.
Please join me in viewing and celebrating this very first exhibition! I am eternally grateful to the Brooklyn Comedy Collective for partnering with me on (as my Dad would say) “one of your crazy ideas.”
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 4, 6–9 PM
Dog House Gallery
137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206
I’m excited to be co-mingling these two smart, creative communities.
Come by—I Love You!
Lisa
with Special Thanks to
Curatorial assistant: Caylin McGlynn
Bill Jacobs of Widgets and Gizmos
Invaluable Expert: Phil Buehler
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw: Meat Sweats
October 4 to November 13, 2023
Dog House Gallery
137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 4, 6–9 PM
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 5–9 PM and by appointment.
Email lisalevyindustries@gmail.com to schedule.
Dog House Gallery is pleased to present Meat Sweats, an exhibition of works by artist duo Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw.
Meat Sweats is an excessive display of raw, decadent meat: a feast for the eyes. The ceramic meats mimic a common display found in butcher shops but inhabit a display case inside a comedy club instead. Throughout the show, the meats—chicken, sausage, hamburger, and more—appear to be continuously sweating, as if being overheated to death. The result is grotesque and humorous, with an absurd nod to its unique location.
About Jen Catron And Paul Outlaw
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw met and began collaborating at Cranbrook Academy of Art. After graduating, they moved their art practice to Brooklyn, New York, where they live and collaborate today. Using performance, painting, video, and mechanics, the artists create layered conceptual pieces that oscillate between the tragic and the absurd, using humor and enjoyable participatory experiences to take viewers through a range of emotions. Their absurd, provocative and weirdly funny artworks have been widely exhibited and written about in places such as The Brooklyn Museum and the New York Times.
Dog House Gallery
Dog House Gallery, a collaboration between Lisa Levy—conceptual artist, radio show host and curator—and the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, is an enclosed exhibition space in the lobby of BCC’s Dog House studios. Levy designed the gallery to be a mini version of a typical storefront gallery. This fully functional gallery, complete with track lighting and an oak floor, is mounted on the wall of the Collective. Levy’s goal in curating the gallery’s exhibition program is to bring work from artists who use humor as an important part of their practice into a comedy space with an audience that thrives on humor.
About the Brooklyn Comedy Collective
Since its debut in March 2018, the Brooklyn Comedy Collective has produced over 2000 shows featuring fearless and irreverent comedy from up-and-coming and top comedic talent. The BCC produces 24 shows a week at Eris Evolution (167 Graham Ave, Brooklyn), a two-floor theater in East Williamsburg, along with classes and student shows hosted at the BCC Dog House (137 Montrose Ave) and the BCC Pig Pen (144 Boerum St). The BCC offers a wide array of classes in improv, sketch, stand-up, and more — available year-round — as well as corporate shows and workshops teaching improvisation skills to organizations of all sizes.
Press Contact
Roman Kalinovski
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13. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Rochester, NY, opening Oct. 18
Rochester Library: Art of the Book & Paper
I am happy to announce that my artwork Double-Sided Shortcomings was awarded 1st place in the Altered Books category of the Rochester Library’s 2023 Art of the Book & Paper exhibit.
https://dougbeube.com/section/486363-Double%20Sided%20Shortcomings.html
My other artwork The Interchangeable Dictionary was awarded an Honorable Mention and another piece Dis/connecting the Reality of Old Glory will also be exhibited.
https://dougbeube.com/section/485972-The%20Interchangeable%20Dictionary.html
https://dougbeube.com/section/486016-Dis/connecting%20the%20Reality%20of%20Old%20Glory.html
The exhibition will be on display at the Anthony Mascioli Gallery in Rochester, NY from September 18 to January 6, with an opening reception on October 18 from 5:30 to 7:00. I will be attending the reception next month and hope to see you there if you’re in the area, otherwise you can see the show online until January 6, 2024.
Please visit this link:
https://roccitylibrary.org/artofthebook/
Thank you.
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14. John Giorno, FF Alumn, at Performance Space New York, Manhattan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7
John Giorno Octopus Series
Guest-Curated Program
A guest-curated program that creates space for the exploration of ideas free from expectations.
Organized by J Wortham
October 19 | 7pm
Please visit this link for tickets:
Organized by LL Proyectos
November 2 | 7pm
Please visit this link for tickets:
Organized by Stev
December 7 | 7pm
Please visit this link for tickets:
Visit PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org to see the full line-up and to reserve tickets now.
If you have any questions or access requests please email:
boxoffice@PerformanceSpaceNewYork.org
Performance Space New York
150 First Ave, NY, NY 10009
Thank you.
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15. Isabel Samaras, FF Alumn, at Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 20
Howdy! Writer Ben Marks has curated a show at the Haight Street Art Center, featuring myself, Dennis Larkins, and Dave Klock, where I’ll have a swell lil collection of paintings, prints and posters on display — including a rare re-uniting of “The Porridge Eaters (Baby Bear and Goldy)”!
Hope you can make it to one (or both!) of the *two* opening events for “Keepin’ It Surreal” — I’ll be there
Friday Oct 20th, 6-8 (in conjunction with The Festival of Rock Posters, hosted by The Rock Poster Society)
Haight Street Art Center
215 Haight St
SF, CA 94102
Please visit this link:
https://haightstreetart.org/pages/keepin-it-surreal-dennis-larkins-isabel-samaras-dave-kloc
Hope you can make it,
Isabel
Thank you.
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16. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, online Oct. 6
Please join us for a special event marking the birthday of artist Sonya Rapoport, who would be 100 years old on October 6th!
This online event will be 5 – 6 pm PDT on Friday, October 6th, via Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85633899941?pwd=6G4EccwPMDR0ob8lsQKe8Tj5ltl4fg.1
The Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust will be celebrating this milestone by launching a completely redesigned website that will fill out the story of Rapoport’s life as an artist, including previously unseen images of her work.
We were surprised and think you will be too!
Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova, co-authors of three volumes on Rapoport’s art, will share tidbits of the artist’s inner life gathered from the archives, and will give a brief performative reading in Rapoport’s own words.
SRLT Director Farley Gwazda will present selected images of Rapoport’s earliest paintings, newly restored from slides, which tell the story of an artist who was always pushing boundaries and experimenting with materials.
We would be delighted to see you as part of the extended community of people who continue to enjoy and support Rapoport’s work.
Bring a glass for a celebratory toast!
Hope to see you there,
Farley Gwazda
Director, Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
Note: Our website, sonyarapoport.org is currently offline for metamorphosis…
Thank you.
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17. Artists’ books, live online event, Oct. 12
Please visit this link:
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18. Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Brandon Ballengée, Nancy Chunn, Komar & Melamid, Andy Warhol, Hannah Wilke, FF Alumns, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 3, 2023-Jan. 31, 2024
Group Exhibition
Airspace
October 3, 2023 – January 31, 2024
Ronald Feldman Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition that brings together works inspired by humankind’s fascination with flight and artists’ persistent drive to unshackle the soul. At this critical moment, with so many anxiety-producing issues facing us, the gallery presents a selection of works that defy gravity – not only in their physical depictions but also through their permeating spirit, as a way toward a bird’s eye perspective.
The exhibition is curated by Marco Nocella and consists primarily of works in the collection of Ronald and Frayda Feldman. The sixteen artists included are Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Brandon Ballengée, Nancy Chunn, Terry Fox, Rico Gatson, Cameron Hayes, Kelly Heaton, Komar & Melamid, Kim Levin, Pepón Osorio, Panamarenko, Tavares Strachan, Andy Warhol, and Hannah Wilke.
Like a beacon of hope with her arms upraised, Rico Gatson’s brilliant photographic collage of an exultant Toni Morrison is installed as a frontispiece and serves as the exhibition’s muse.
Kim Levin’s 1970’s painting entitled Gloster Gladiator starts things off. The WWI biplane, often used in airshows and exhibitions, is seen up close and angled upward as if taking off. Wingwalker I: Stearman depicts a daredevil performing a dangerous stunt mid-air on the plane’s wing.
Panamarenko’s human-powered flight experiments and wildly imaginative aerodynamic studies embody a spirit of investigation and possibility. On display are sixteen of his visionary sculptures, drawings and editioned works that use nature, physics, and quantum mechanics as starting points.
Urban Angels by Komar & Melamid and Self-Portrait as Angel by Hannah Wilke add an overt spiritual presence, the artists spending decades responding to oppression by creating art that uplifts and empowers. Nearby, a bottle of liquid entitled Resurrectine by Terry Fox offers a tantalizing elixir.
Ascending/Descending by Pepón Osorio is a tribute to a tough and irascible man the artist once knew. A pair of plastic sandals are pierced with numerous black and white-tipped hat pins, so numerous that they begin to define a metaphysical aura surrounding the footwear. A mirror underneath creates the appearance of levitation and implies relief from what must have been a painful existence.
Ida Applebroog’s painting entitled Yes, that is art shows a figure in the orans position, from behind and repeated four times, who appears to be having a rapturous experience.
In the Moonwalk portfolio, by combining and manipulating three NASA photographs, Andy Warhol commemorates the historic “one step for mankind” lunar mission and reminds us of a truly inspirational moment in our collective consciousness. These editioned prints were to be part of a larger, unrealized project conceived by Ron Feldman and Andy Warhol, to be titled TV Sets, based on images referencing watershed moments in the history of television.
Two drawings by Tavares Strachan from the Orthostatic Tolerance series refer to the physiological stress that cosmonauts and deep-sea explorers endure while exiting and re-entering our home, the thin surface of planet Earth.
Nancy Chunn’s painting Spring Cleaning from 2000 uses Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and events from the time related to Kosovo and Columbine as a springboard to a new type of history painting – one with a decidedly humanist viewpoint.
Eleanor Antin’s Banquet in the Clouds, a drawing from 1974, is part of a visual diary of Antin’s King persona depicting various reveries in his imaginary realm.
A selection of works from Frameworks of Absence by Brandon Ballengée, an artist, biologist and environmental activist, is included. The series’ title refers to animals that have succumbed to the Holocene or the Sixth Great Extinction, which continues at an alarming rate. A memorial urn with paper ashes accompanies each silhouette of a different bird species, underscoring the interconnectedness of nature and portending dire consequences for our own species.
As a coda to the exhibition, Cameron Hayes’ To prove he was the only god, Caligula killed all the pilots and still made the people take their flights creates chaos and mayhem in the skies, sounding a note of caution about those who arrogantly seek authoritarian control.
Office hours: Monday through Friday, 10am to 6pm
Exhibition viewing hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 1pm to 5pm
Contact information:
Cat Zhou, Catherine@feldmangallery.com or
Jomani Kelly, Jomani@feldmangallery.com
(212) 226-3232
Please visit this link:
Ronald Feldman Gallery
31 Mercer St New York, NY 10013
212.226.3232
Thank you.
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19. Ad Art Show 2023, at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, October 15-16
Show Opens Sunday, October 15 th with VIP Reception Monday 16th
MvVO Art, the creator of AD Art Show, in partnership with the Clio Awards, proudly presents the AD Art Show 2023, unearthing the vibrant fine artists emerging from the advertising world. This unique showcase will take place at Powerhouse Arts (PHA), a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression. Housed in a purpose-built facility in Brooklyn, the organization hosts an extended network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong. As spotlighted by The New York Times, Powerhouse Arts symbolizes the rebirth of Brooklyn’s Batcave into a modern artistic haven.
The AD Art Show was founded with the intention of bridging the artistic disciplines of fine art and advertising. Drawing inspiration from artists like Andy Warhol and Edward Hopper, whose roots in commercial art informed a pioneering career in the fine art market, the AD Art Show seeks to celebrate the practices of artists working in the commercial advertising industry, offering a new lens by which to appreciate their practice. The AD Art Show 2023 showcases today's artists treading similar paths and beginning to carve their niche in the annals of art history.
Maria van Vlodrop, Founder of MvVO Art/AD Art Show, stated, “The bridge between art and
advertising has been both historical and impactful. At AD Art Show 2023, we’re unveiling the next wave of artists poised to leave their mark.”
Eric Shiner, Powerhouse Arts’ President and former Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, shared, “Our collaboration with MvVO ART embodies the dynamism of the contemporary art scene and the sophistication with which artists can apply their artistic viewpoint to various audiences and markets. Powerhouse Arts is thrilled to be part of this celebration of emerging talent and the connoisseurship of broad definitions of art.”
Nicole Purcell, CEO of the Clio Awards, noted, “Our collaboration with the AD Art Showis both a celebration of creativity and a recognition of the artistic talent working within the world of advertising.” The crowning moment will see a standout artist receiving the esteemed Clio Award. Beyond this honor, the top ten artists will be showcased on Outfront billboards nationally, throughout the U.S., with the top three displayed in Times Square.
“We are thrilled to be partnered with MvVO Art/AD Art Showin celebrating and showcasing winning industry artists,” said Liz Rave, Vice President, Marketing at Outfront Media. “Creative is the key ingredient in effective out-of-home, and at Outfront our leadership and commitment to excellence in creative is unparalleled.”
“We’d like to express our gratitude to Ourfront Media for their generous contribution and support, as well as our other lead partners and sponsors including TIME, Google Pixel, Grey Advertising, WPP and Omnicom. We are proud supporters of Franklin Furnace and Artistic Dreams International” said MvVO’s Maria van Vlodrop.
For a firsthand experience of this unique art presentation, reserve tickets online in advance. At the VIP Reception on Monday, October 16 th there will be a special LIVE performance by ARKAI music https://www.arkaimusic.com along with drinks and light bites.
Sunday, October 15 th 2023 – Public Day (11:00 am to 7:00 pm)
Monday, October 16 th 2023 – VIP reception (6:00 pm to 10:00 pm)
For more information about MvVO Art/AD Art Show and to purchase please visit:
About the MvVO Art/AD Art Show:
Since its launch at Sotheby’s in 2018, the MvVO Art/AD Art Show has been instrumental in
acquainting art enthusiasts, collectors, curators, gallerists, and critics with the skilled fine artists hailing from the advertising sector. Curated by a panel of contemporary art experts, participants are selected annually, with collector-driven jury panels determining prize recipients. MvVO Art continues to provide unwavering support to featured artists, offering a dedicated Artsy gallery page for art purchase. For more information about Powerhouse Arts: www.powerhousearts.org
For more information about Maria van Vlodrop, please visit this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-van-vlodrop-4010392
/ See MvVO Art/AD Art Show on Instagram: @mvvoart
Press Contact (MvVO Art/AD Show):
Norah Lawlor | Lawlor Media Group | www.lawlormediagroup.com
Norah@lawlormediagroup.com | Tel: (212) 967-6900
I: @lawlormedia | F: LawlorMediaGroup | X / T: @LawlorMedia
Press Contact (Powerhouse Arts):
Ellie Hayworth | Hayworth | ellie@hayworth.co | www.hayworth.co
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20. Grace Roselli, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, Oct. 17
Hello,
I am honored to be partnering with the Brooklyn Public Library in presenting Pandora’s BoxX Project: Celebrating Womxn Artists & Visionaries. Artists Deborah Kass, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi and Emily Mae Smith will engage in a lively conversation on their work and the art world as they see it, with Ivy N. Jones, founder of Welancora Gallery, moderating. Co-organized with Cora Fisher, manager/curator of visual arts programming at BPL.
This event will be held Oct. 17th, 6:30-8pm at the Central Library, Dweck Center, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238.
Please rsvp at this link:
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/pandora%E2%80%99s-boxx-project-central-library-dweck-20231017
Pandora’s BoxX Project : portraying the changing face and profound cultural influence of womxn artists and art practitioners over the past six decades. The power of Pandora is in the portraits and their accompanying stories. These are unacknowledged histories behind our contemporary art world—as we engage with art history, we are actively creating a new and living history.
Please visit this link:
http://www.pandorasboxxproject.com/
I hope you can join us!
Warmly,
Grace Roselli
Thank you.
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21. Allen Ginsberg, FF Alumn, at Howl!, Manhattan, Oct. 6
Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall Of America Vol II
Album Release and Film Screening
Friday, October 6 | 6 – 8 PM
Howl! Arts / Howl! Archive (250 Bowery, 2nd Floor)
Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive celebrates the release of Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America Vol II, a musical interpretation of poems from Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971.
Join us for a film screening including Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg’s Have you Seen this Movie, Ai Weiwei and O_Future‘s Allen Ginsberg’s Hum Bom, Jack Dangers & Allen Ginsberg‘s Holy Ghost on the Nod over the Body of Bliss, CJ Mirra and Kai Campos & Allen Ginsberg‘s Bixby Canyon, and Seb Taylor & Allen Ginsberg, Over Denver Again.
Vinyl and CDs will be available for purchase at the event. All proceeds from sales will benefit Pen America.
Pre-Order The Fall Of America Volume II
The Fall of America Volume II, a musical tribute to Allen Ginsberg to benefit Pen America will be released digitally as well as on CD and vinyl on October 6, 2023, via Allen Ginsberg Recordings. The album features performances by Ai Weiwei, Philip Glass, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore With Saul Williams, Devendra Banhart, Miho Hatori, Jack Dangers, Yoni Wolf, Fennesz & Taylor Deupree, Stephen Hillage & Miquette Giraudy, Kai Campos & Cj MIrra, Dj Spooky / Aka That Subliminal Kid Feat Antoine Drye, and more.
“Allen could often seamlessly mix the secular with the divine, the past to the future, and enact transformation and liberation through poetry. It’s an honor to mouth these words with the shaping of music composed here.” – Anne Waldman
“Well, here we are now dearest Allen, rallying and resisting, revolting and revealing, your ‘prophecy’ in constant manifestation, fighting fascism as soldiers of peace, informed by your singing out from the ‘mind jail.’” -Thurston Moore
“Allen’s spirit of true freedom clearly resonates in his words & in the soul that he was.” -Ai Weiwei
“Wow! It’s just like when we used to perform together! It’s like the pieces were made for each other.” – Philip Glass
Fall of America Poems published by City Lights Books in San Francisco, covers the years 1965-1971 when Ginsberg was crisscrossing the country, exploring a system of composition by narrating into the portable reel-to-reel Uher that Bob Dylan had gifted him.
“In 1965, Ginsberg began planning an ambitious project, a book of thematically connected poems, a collection that ‘discovered’ America in poetry similar to the way Kerouac’s On the Road had explored the country in prose. The Vietnam War would be a constant presence overhanging Ginsberg’s travel writings like a darkening shadow affecting daily life in the country. It would be a study of contrasts: natural beauty slammed up against an ugliness that rose out of the tensions of violence. The public’s polarized dialogue over Vietnam and, earlier in the decade, the civil rights movement, convinced Ginsberg that America was teetering on the precipice of a fall.” – Michael Schumacher, from Introduction to The Fall of America Journals 1965-1971
For more information and to preview tracks please contact (co-producers) Peter Hale phale@allenginsberg.org & Jesse Goodman jgoodman@allenginsberg.org
Thank you.
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22. Mark Bloch, FF Alumns, now online at NewArtExaminer.net
Please visit this link:
https://newartexaminer.net/the-once-and-future-diy-network/
Thank you.
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23. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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24. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke-Heist, Belgium, opening October 7
No End In Sight
5, 6, 7, October 2023 Public painting
Plus new Flower Paintings and minipaintings
Opening 7 October, 6 – 8 PM
October 7 to December 31, 2023
Sabine Wachters Fine Arts
Golvenstraat 11
8300 Knokke-Heist
Belgium
I will paint in public a Crowd Group mural on canvas every day from 12 noon to 6PM.
The Crowd Group paintings are large and small, started around 1995. They are surfaces filled to the edge with a bustle of images of all kinds painted in black acrylic with a few small brushes. To paint while others watch and within a short period of time causes extreme concentration and risk that lead to a different kind of introspection and personal discoveries and activate in the visitor changing emotions that respond in real time to mine.
The Flower Paintings have similar images, but they are formatted in oil paint and color, juxtaposing an agitation of forms exploding from- or, if you wish, imploding into an imaginary vase. They are a homage to one of the most ancient traditions in painting, so abused that it is now a fresh field for absolute sensibility. I have started doing Flower Paintings in 1980.
The minipaintings are a family of works I keep returning to over the years. Small, hand-sized panels of thick wood, sometimes covered with canvas, oil paint spread with a palette knife, odd scratches and tiny brushstrokes added, they can hold lots of space on a wall.
Thank you.
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