Contents for August 19th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, at MAG Galleries, San Francisco, CA, opening Sept. 6, and more
2. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, opening Sept. 19 and more
3. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, Oct. 1
4. Shawn Escarciga, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, Sept. 14
5. Jesus Benavente, Crystal Z Campbell, Judith Simonian, receive 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships
6. Suzanne Anker, FF Member, at VCS Flatiron Project Space, Manhattan, opening Sept. 12
7. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at FotoFocus Biennial, Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 26-28
8. Nancy Buchanan, Susan Mogul, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic.com
9. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, receives Brooklyn Arts Council grant, and more
10. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at The Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, Sept. 27-28
11. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, January 2025
12. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, Sept 10
13. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, opening Oct. 12 and more
14. Bruce Barber, FF Alumn, new publication
15. RT LIvingston, FF Alumn, now online at SiteBrooklyn.com
16. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, in new film now online
17. Robert Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
18. Micki & Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, at WHAM!, Woodside, Queens, opening Sept. 2
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1. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, at MAG Galleries, San Francisco, CA, opening Sept. 6, and more
My first solo show opens Fri 9/6 @maggalleries !! I’m so excited to share this new work with you, hope you can attend and I’d love to know what you think of the show! thank you for all your love!!
for you or someone you know
new work by Alice Wu
9/6-10/27/24 MAG Galleries
3931 18th St San Francisco
Opening: 9/6 5-9pm (@castroartwalk)
Artist Talk: Sat 9/28 3pm (@artspan SFOS)
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Gallery hours are 12-7pm Thurs & Fri and 12-5pm Sat & Sun
thank you. Alice
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2. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, opening Sept. 19 and more
Frank Moore’s paintings to be part of an exhibit at MCASD in La Jolla.
Five of Frank’s oil paintings will be part of For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, opening September 19, 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla, California. The exhibit will run to February 2, 2025. The show is organized by Senior Curator Jill Dawsey, PhD, and Associate Curator Isabel Casso, as part of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty Foundation. More information about the exhibit here: https://mcasd.org/exhibitions/for-dear-life-art-medicine-and-disability
This past week, U.S. Art came and wrapped up the paintings and loaded them on their truck to deliver to MCASD.
The two of us, Linda Mac and Mikee LaBash, will be attending the opening on Thursday, September 19.
Photos of the paintings and art pick-up can be viewed here: https://www.eroplay.org/p/franks-paintings-to-be-part-of-an
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3. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, Oct. 1
Big Dance Theater
Book Launch: Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study
October 1, 2024
In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic book project is dedicated to an artist-centric perception of dance history. This book interrogates the history of dance from the subjective, poetic perspective of a choreographer. Diverse dance artists from the American dance field contribute prismatic, disruptive perspectives on how dance has unfolded over time and what dance history is. They reimagine the question: What is dance history? Twelve illustrated booklets, each written by a working choreographer, address the subject of dance history from nonacademic, subjective, poetic perspectives. The books model a way of enlarging and complicating how we view dance history by giving the authorial microphone to artists, to learn how their embodied perceptions relate to or diverge from the dominant dance canon.
Authors: mayfield brooks, thomas f. defrantz, Maura Nguyen Donohue, Keith Hennessy, Bebe Miller, Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake, Annie-B Parson, Javier Stell-Fresquez, Ogemdi Ude, Mariana Valencia, and Andros Zins-Browne.
Published by Dancing Foxes Press and Wesleyan University Press.
Produced by Big Dance Theater with the generous support of The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Starry Night Fund, Big Dance Theater’s Board Designated Fund, Virginia and Timothy Millhiser, and King’s Fountain.
Dance History(s) was published through a partnership between Dancing Foxes Press, Big Dance Theater, and Wesleyan University Press.
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ANNOUNCES
ITS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
The Chocolate Factory Theater is thrilled to announce its 20th season of performances featuring 10 Commissioned Premieres, 8 Early Stage Creative Residencies (with several others TBA), new work by The Chocolate Factory’s Co-Founder / Artistic Director, and partnerships with L’Alliance New York / Crossing The Line Festival, Ping Chong and Company, Under The Radar, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place at The (New) Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City NY 11101. Details and tickets at chocolatefactorytheater.org.
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4. Shawn Escarciga, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, Sept. 14
CATCH 76
September 14, 2024
CATCH is a party that centers short and/or in-progress live performances and other time-based media. CATCH 76 will feature Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein, leahlaia, Hiera Jihye, Kennie Zhou, Laura Ortman, Paris Alexander, River L. Ramirez, Shawn Escarciga, Sol Cabrini, + a Collective Action by Yanira Castro.
CATCH promotes community and the exchange of ideas across a broad constellation of progressive artists, scenes, and their friends and fans, by curating, producing, promoting and documenting parties that center short (and frequently in-progress) performances and videos.
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ANNOUNCES
ITS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
The Chocolate Factory Theater is thrilled to announce its 20th season of performances featuring 10 Commissioned Premieres, 8 Early Stage Creative Residencies (with several others TBA), new work by The Chocolate Factory’s Co-Founder / Artistic Director, and partnerships with L’Alliance New York / Crossing The Line Festival, Ping Chong and Company, Under The Radar, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place at The (New) Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City NY 11101. Details and tickets at chocolatefactorytheater.org.
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5. Jesus Benavente, Crystal Z Campbell, Judith Simonian, receive 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships
Please visit this link:
https://www.nyfa.org/blog/introducing-2024-nysca-nyfa-artist-fellows-finalists-and-panelists/
Thank you.
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6. Suzanne Anker, FF Member, at VCS Flatiron Project Space, Manhattan, opening Sept. 12
Arctic Gardens and the Sixth Extinction
Exhibition Dates: August 6 – September 25, 2024
VCS Flatiron Project Space
133/141 W 21st St, Ground Floor
Gallery Hours: Mon – Sat, 10 am-6 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 12, 6-8 PM
Artist Talk: September 16, 7 pm 35 W 16thSt, NYC, Ground Floor – Open to the Public
About the Show: Drifting back in time, five mass extinctions have marked Earth’s history. Such catastrophic events are unexceptional. Rather they are intrinsic to the rotating cycle of the planet’s elements. Geological clocks with their time spans are elusive concepts to grasp because they are calculated in millions, if not billions of years. Even algae are found in ice cores of Antarctica. Imagine the Arctic as a tropical jungle fifty million years ago. “Arctic Gardens and the Sixth Extinction” is a series of digital prints that fuse seasonal changes into a single image. Each day we wake, the seasons remake themselves: a new reality for which Anker has coined the term “Monoseason.” As temperatures rise and fall, soil turns into mudslides, fires erupt, draughts incinerate crops, diseases shift from animals to humans, and strange viruses mutate globally. Also included in the exhibition are three-dimensional hand-painted rapid prototype sculptures corresponding to the original collages. A video, entitled “Insecta” adds the dimension of time and sound to the exhibition.
For more information:
https://sva.edu/events/suzanne-anker-arctic-gardens-and-the-sixth-extinction
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7. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at FotoFocus Biennial, Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 26-28
FRANC PALAIA, FF Alumn, will be included in an international photography exhibition called FotoFocus Biennial.
The biennial is made up of several smaller shows presented at several venues in and around Cincinnati Ohio.
The title of the show is “Blank Generation: Downtown New York 1970s-80s”. Curator is George Kurz.
Palaia will be exhibiting samples from his NightLife photo series of the black shadow paintings of the 1980s by Richard Hambleton in NYC.
Exhibition dates are Sept 26- 28th.
for more info: gkurz@kurzholdco.com Francpalaia1@gmail.com. 845-505-3123. https://www.fotofocus.org/biennial/2024
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8. Nancy Buchanan, Susan Mogul, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
https://hyperallergic.com/941870/how-five-women-artists-made-it-happen-in-1970s-los-angeles/
Thank you.
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9. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, receives Brooklyn Arts Council grant, and more
Ann Rosen has recently been awarded two grants, which will allow her to expand her “Being Seen” project into new communities, one from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the other from the Puffin Foundation. Last year, she received a similar grant from the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts to run her project in Rochester, NY for the month of June, 2024.
The Brooklyn Arts Council is funding an expansion of her “Being Seen” Project making it possible for Ann to bring this program into East Brooklyn. The Puffin Foundation has awarded her funding for a group exhibition she curated which will be on view at El Barrio Artspace PS 109 for the month of December. The exhibition will examine concepts of community and portraiture through the work of five women photographers. With the support of the Brooklyn Arts Council, Ann will be offering workshops with women who are tenants of the Brooklyn non-profit, HousingPlus, an organization that provides community-based housing and comprehensive services to women, gender diverse people, and their families, to assist them in overcoming poverty, homelessness, addiction, trauma, and the effects of incarceration. During her art and photography workshops, she invites these women to create art and find the healing freedom of the creative flow state. Then, they step in front of her camera and they talk about their story as they collaborate to create images that capture their strength and grace while also revealing the instability they are currently facing. Together, they work to create artworks that challenge dominant views of feminine strength.
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10. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at The Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, Sept. 27-28
Symposium: The Conservation of Jenny Holzer’s Installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1989/2024)
Fri-Sat, Sept. 27-28
Please save the date for a symposium devoted to the conservation of Jenny Holzer’s signature body of work, exemplified by the monumental LED sign that currently centers the Guggenheim’s exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line.
Since 2021, the Guggenheim’s time-based media conservators have conducted in-depth research into Holzer’s use of LED as a medium and explored the implications for the future care and perpetuation of this body of work.
The program will commence with an afternoon exhibition tour and an early evening reception on Friday, September 27, in the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda and adjacent galleries. This will be followed by a full-day program of speakers and moderated panelists on Saturday, September 28.
The symposium will be free for all attendees but seating is limited and advance RSVP is required. An invitation with registration instructions will follow.
About the Exhibition
Jenny Holzer: Light Line
Through Sunday, September 29
This exhibition presents a new manifestation of the Guggenheim’s collection work Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text). The first manifestation of this work was displayed along three rotations of the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda in 1989 where visitors were greeted with Holzer’s texts displayed in three colors in what was then cutting-edge LED technology. The current manifestation of the work, titled Installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1989/2024), has been extended to span all six ramps, fulfilling the artist’s initial vision for the work and utilizing contemporary LED technology.
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11. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, January 2025
Untitled Nile Harris Project
Co-presented with Ping Chong and Company and Under The Radar
January 2025
Nile Harris will premiere a new work in his ongoing series minor [ ], which responds to the biography of early Jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden. Set to music by Kwami Winfield and featuring actor Jim Fletcher, this ensemble performance confronts the nature of desire, and “the theater” as a site of (im)possibility.
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ANNOUNCES
ITS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
The Chocolate Factory Theater is thrilled to announce its 20th season of performances featuring 10 Commissioned Premieres, 8 Early Stage Creative Residencies (with several others TBA), new work by The Chocolate Factory’s Co-Founder / Artistic Director, and partnerships with L’Alliance New York / Crossing The Line Festival, Ping Chong and Company, Under The Radar, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place at The (New) Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City NY 11101. Details and tickets at chocolatefactorytheater.org.
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12. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, Sept 10
A performance lecture on the mental architecture of magic. Sept. 10, 6:30 pm. National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan. Free. Register here: https://www.nationalartsclub.org/
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13. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, opening Oct. 12 and more
Love is Louder
BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
October 12, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Underground: American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
October 13, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Tell These People Who I Am: Women Artists in Expressionism and in the Network of Fluxus
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
October 25, 2024 – March 23, 2025
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
November 9, 2024 – April 13, 2025
Screening: Mild Minds at the Hudson Eye Festival
Second Ward Foundation, Hudson, NY
August 23 – September 2, 2024
Screening: Sentient | Disobedient
PHI Foundation, Montreal, Quebec
August 26 & 27 from 12-9 PM
August 28 & 29 from 7-10 PM
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14. Bruce Barber, FF Alumn, new publication
My new book Popular Modernisms is now available here, where I previously published Littoral Art & Communicative Action. https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/284644?category_id=cgrn
Thank you. Bruce Barber
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15. RT LIvingston, FF Alumn, now online at SiteBrooklyn.com
Two of my IDENTITY CRISIS fingerprint drawings are in the online exhibit Series & Repetition, curated by Yulia Topchiy, at SITE BROOKLYN.
https://www.sitebrooklyn.com/series-and-repetition
My work is on Wall 4:
Identity Crisis: into the abyss and Identity Crisis: pressure cooker.
Click on each image for details re: media, price etc.
Thank you
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16. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, in new film now online
Please visit these links to the 3 part film (in 3 thirty-minute segments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGw_HoOSNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMz0JnivdKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXglHmffHP8
Thank you.
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17. Robert Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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18. Micki & Harley Spiller, FF Alumns, at WHAM!, Woodside, Queens, opening Sept. 2
You’re invited to the 2024 Fall season opening,
Labor Day Monday, September 2, 2024 12 noon
“Guest Artist: Samarra Khaja- Tapestries”
“The two textile wall-hangings exhibited depict elements of what history has left for us to piece together, much like fabric itself. Using an interplay of textures and tones, dimensional elements and lettering, the assembled fabrics offer a sort of call and response in banner form.”
Also Visit the world’s first Dollar Store Museum Gift Shop!
Refreshments will be served!
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WHAM!
Woodside Heights Art Museum
4148 54th Street
Woodside Queens
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