Contents for November 27, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, with Ministry of Culture, Hangzhou, PR China, thru Dec. 3
2. Pope.L, FF Alumn, at South London Gallery, UK, thru Feb. 11, 2024
3. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Rice University, Houston, TX, Jan. 20, 2024
4. Ann Hamilton, Liza Lou, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum
5. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at The Elysian, Los Angeles, CA, thru Dec. 9
6. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at Mcuser.com
7. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, online with University of Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 29
8. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, receive New York State Council on the Arts award
9. Samuel Kaplan, FF Member, at Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, opening Dec. 2
10. Julie Atlas Muz, Mat Fraser, FF Alumns, at Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan, Dec. 2-24
11. James Godwin, Isabel Samaras, Ken Weaver, FF Alumns, at 14BC Gallery, Manhattan, opening Dec. 8
12. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at The Gallery at Argosy Books, New York, NY, Dec 2
13. Claire Fergusson, FF Alumn, launches new website at clairefergusson.com and more
14. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, in the United Nations Report on The Decade of Healthy Ageing, now online
15. David Antonio Cruz, Clifford Owens, FF Alumns, at New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, Nov. 29
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1. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, with Ministry of Culture, Hangzhou, PR China, thru Dec. 3
Anahí Cáceres invited by the Ministry of Culture of the P.R. China for “Silk road International artists rendezvous” Huangzhou, Zheijang China. November 23 to December 3, 2023.
“Liangzhu Forum”. Subforum. “Exchanges and Mutual Learning between Civilizations since Chinese perspective and Artists foreigners”; Realization of a work and inauguration of the art exhibition “Silk Road Artists’ Rendezvous”, is a brand program hosted by the China International Culture Association, aspiring to promote cultural exchange and mutual learning between China and other countries with art as the bridge .Each artist -one for each country- is requested to create 2 to 3 paintings during the event, for collected by China International Culture Association.
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2. Pope.L, FF Alumn, at South London Gallery, UK, thru Feb. 11, 2024
Pope.L
Hospital
November 20, 2023 – February 11, 2024
South London Gallery, London, UK
L’s first institutional solo exhibition in London opens at the South London Gallery on November 21.
Pope.L: Hospital brings together reconfigurations of early installations and interventions by that center on society, politics, and contemporary culture to reveal often provocative themes in gender, language, nationalisms, and race.
The exhibition foregrounds an expansive new installation that consists of three wooden towers, all in different states of gradual collapse. The structures, each topped with a toilet, are based on Pope.L’s seminal performance, Eating the Wall Street Journal (2000). For this latest version, Pope.L has removed the live performance element to shift the focus to the dynamic of the toppling tower structures and viewers’ capacity to imagine what might have happened or what is still to come.
Other installations address ideas of memory and mourning, and include a new set of shelf works with arrays of bottles of cheap alcohol showcased on simple wooden shelves and the video Small Cup (2008) which captures the destruction of a miniature seed-coated model of the US Capitol building by a handful of goats and chickens.
1700 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021 +1 213 623 3280
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3. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Rice University, Houston, TX, Jan. 20, 2024
Premier | Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness
January 20, 2024 | Rice University’s Brockman Hall for Opera | Houston, TX
A Merging Of Art Practices For The Stage
Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness is a groundbreaking multidisciplinary performance that merges visual art, music, dance, movement, and spoken word to create an urgent new language for collective expression.
Stemming from James Drake’s epic drawing of the same title, Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness is an immersive performance that unfolds in five movements, with a score by renowned composer Gabriela Ortiz, text and lyrics by award-winning author Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and 24 singers from the Grammy-winning chamber choir, The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally. The multidisciplinary collaboration features stage movement by artist Shaun Leonardo, accompanied by local US military veteran performers from each city in which the project is performed; additional music by master flutist Alejandro Escuer; and a dance ensemble from Houston Ballet Academy. The collaborative performance tells its story from the perspective of “the Earth, the Land, the Soil, the Sand,” which “do not demand our daughters and our sons as sacrifices.” Creators of Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness seek to encourage hope in a dark and divisive time by conceiving a transformational work that is complex, moving and immersed in a through line that carries us from violence and conflict to healing and forgiveness.
Artist Shaun Leonardo leads the movement component of the performance through a powerful non-verbal storytelling practice that enables veterans to translate personal narratives of war and conflict into performative gestures.
Please visit this link:
https://www.canweknowthesound.org/
A co-commission of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University & Carnegie Hall
Please visit this link for presale tickets:
https://my.music.rice.edu/136/137?promoapplied=true
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4. Ann Hamilton, Liza Lou, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum
Please visit this link to the Brooklyn Museum’s illustrated list of recent acquisitions:
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5. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at The Elysian, Los Angeles, CA, thru Dec. 9
Dynasty Handbag’s The Bored Identity
The Elysian, Los Angeles, CA
Through December 9, 2023
See Jibz Cameron’s (2020 Grantee) alter-ego Dynasty Handbag perform their new comedy record The Bored Identity. With takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity, Cameron moves through a slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.
Please visit this link:
https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/jibz120923
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6. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at Mcuser.com
Please visit this link:
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7. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, online with University of Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 29
Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, will be featured in a moderated talk, The Art of Mediamaking and Documentary, with Gillian Rhodes, Global Outreach Coordinator, with the School of Creative Arts at the University of Lahore on Wednesday, November 29th. Given the time difference between Lahore and NYC, the online conversation will take place at 8 am EST, 6 pm, Lahore time.
Please visit this link:
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8. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, receives New York State Council on the Arts award
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has received a 2024 New York State Council on the Arts award for Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx RiverConceived by Nicolás. To be presented with Arantxa Araujo, FF Alumn, Luis A., Deborah Welsh, and Priscilla Marrero.
Nicolás is thankful for The Action Lab’s fiscal sponsorship for this New York State Council on the Arts grant.
About Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River:
The Bronx River has been a constant presence for me since I moved from the Dominican Republic to NYC in 1991. My first job in NYC was in the Fordham Road section with the Bronx River Restoration Project. In 2011, I was baptized by Bill Aguado and Susan Newmark at Drew Gardens. The sacramental was water from the Bronx River and the intention was that of a rite of passage into Bronxhood; and so, I officially evolved from Lebanese-Dominican/Dominican-York into a Bronxite. Three decades after my first encounter with the beloved Bronx, and in a rapidly gentrifying borough, I seek to approach the Bronx River from the perspective of elderhood to generate a series of multidisciplinary actions along its banks for which I invite four artists to join me.
During four consecutive gatherings in several sites along the Bronx River, and at different times of the day/night, improvisations centered on flow, water, compassion and deep listening from an ecological perspective are meant to unfold for different audiences, as well as for unsuspecting passersby, joggers, bicyclists, and wanderers and to become a sight of wonder and contemplation.
Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River © 2021 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
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9. Samuel Kaplan, FF Member, at Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, opening Dec. 2
Artists at the Edward Hopper House weave a vibrant connection between Hopper’s beginnings and his enduring impact in not only the local community, but also in the history of American art.
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to announce a juried exhibition for our Artist Members. The show, on view from December 1 to 30, 2023, showcases Member artworks in the galleries of the Edward Hopper House Museum. This year’s show was juried by Sabrina Blaichman, Director of Karma, a contemporary art gallery located in New York City.
The juried show also has a new theme, The Artist’s Way, based on Edward Hopper’s own words: “Originality does not reside in method, but is deeper seated in the personality and inner life of the artist.” Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, December 2, 4-6 pm. Samuel Kaplan’s painting “Last Payphone Maine” will be on exhibition.
82 North Broadway, Nyack NY 10960
Please visit this to rsvp:
https://www.edwardhopperhouse.org/artist-members.html
Thank you.
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10. Julie Atlas Muz, Mat Fraser, FF Alumns, at Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan, Dec. 2-24
Sleeping Beauty
Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
December 2-24, 2023
From Oneofus (Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser, 2023 Grantees), this larger than life, feel-good holiday spectacular will have your whole family singing, laughing, and dancing in their seats by celebrating the power of chosen family, the magic of love, and the defeat of Evil Queen Karen.
Please visit this link:
https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/sleeping-beauty-touch-tour
Thank you.
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11. James Godwin, Isabel Samaras, Ken Weaver, FF Alumns, at 14BC Gallery, Manhattan, opening Dec. 8
NYC Friends! Please join us on December 8th, 5-9 pm, for the opening of Spooky Action @ a Distance at 14BC Gallery 626 14TH Street NY, featuring works by Lara Allen, Millie Benson, Charles Browning, Ilayda Celik, Esme Eldridge, Carla Gannis, James Godwin, Marc Grubstein, Claire Hansen, Karen Margolis, Michael Moses, David Porter, Isabel Samaras, Ken Weaver, Max Yawney and Aaron Zimmerman. Hope to see you there thru Dec. 16, thursday-saturday.
Thank you.
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12. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at The Gallery at Argosy Books, New York, NY, Dec 2
“Doug Beube: A Survey of Zoom +/-” at Argosy Books is the second in a solo exhibition series of contemporary artists whose work resonates and finds inspiration from maps.
Doug uses the vocabulary of cartography and the printed word to take the familiar – a globe, a phonebook, a postcard – and reorient our experience of meaning through stop motion animation, bookwork, collage, and sculpture.
November 18, 2023 – January 6, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 2PM – 5PM
Curated by Ken Buhler and Laura Ten Eyck
116 East 59 St, New York, NY ∙ 212-753-4455
Please visit these links:
For more information: Contact Laura Ten Eyck
To access the gallery take the elevator to the second floor.
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13. Claire Fergusson, FF Alumn, launches new website at clairefergusson.com and more
Season’s Greetings,
I hope this note finds you well!
Please check out my new website: Six decades by six categories; Painting, Performance, Concept, Collage, Sculpture and Postcards!
Pleaser visit this link:
https://www.clairefergusson.com
Also, the jenneyarchivellc.com Online Gallery where 4 of my works and 4 of Jan Lang’s artworks are on view. I’m #17 and Jan is #18. You can access it from the Gallery on my homepage menu top bar.
Happy Holidays,
Claire
Thank you.
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14. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, in the United Nations Report on The Decade of Healthy Ageing, now online
I am thrilled to announce that “Uncertain Futures”, an art project I have been working on for over four years, has been chosen as a case study for the UN Report on The Decade of Healthy Ageing! Thank you to the team and everyone who supported us on this journey. #UNDecadeAgeing @unitednations @mcrartgallery #Uncertain Futures
Uncertain Futures is an art and research project that began in 2019 and will continue in its present form through 2024.
The project is a partnership between women and agencies in Manchester with Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Manchester.
Uncertain Futures has been produced by myself with Ruth Edson, Dr Sarah Campbell, Dr Elaine Dewhurst, and an Advisory Group of 14 women.
Filmed and produced by Soup Co.
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15. David Antonio Cruz, Clifford Owens, FF Alumns, at New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, Nov. 29
Greetings!
I hope this email finds you well.
As Director of Critical Studies at the New York Academy of Art, I’m delighted to invite you to the inaugural Keith Timmons Lecture Series featuring artist David Antonio Cruz in conversation with independent curator and writer Monique Long!
With support from Baltimore-based art collector Keith Timmons, I initiated and organized this public lecture series to convene leading Black diaspora artists, scholars, and critics at the Academy during the 2023 – 2024 academic year. (Future lectures will be announced soon.)
We hope to see you this Wednesday!
Please visit this link for more details:
https://nyaa.edu/david-antonio-cruz-in-conversation-with-monique-long/
Warmly,
Clifford
Thank you.
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