Contents for January 27th, 2025

CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):

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1. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Creative Capital Award
2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Drama Book Shop, Manhattan, Jan. 30, and more
3. Coco Fusco, Pablo Helguera, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic.com
4. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, now online at rhizome.org
5. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Susan Inglett Gallery, Manhattan, Jan. 31-Mar. 15
6. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Feb. 10
7. Naoto Nakagawa, FF Alumn, at Kapow Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 7
8. Akiko Ichikawa, FF Member, at AHL Foundation Gallery, Manhattan, Feb. 8-Mar. 1
9. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, now online at Frieze.com
10. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 1-30 and more
11. Gisela Gamper, FF Alumn, at Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, Feb. 6 and more
12. Jerri Allyn, David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumns, named 2025 Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence
13. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, opening Jan. 28
14. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publication
15. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Pageant, Brooklyn, Feb. 6-7
16. Suzanne Anker, FF Alumn, at The Gallery of ARTFul Medicine, The Bronx, Jan. 24-Apr. 18
17. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley MOCA, opening Feb. 1
18. Donna Kaz, FF Alumn, at New Circle Theatre Company, Feb. 5-16
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1. Rashaad Newsome, FF Alumn, receives 2025 Creative Capital Award

Please visit this link:

https://creative-capital.org/award/awardees/2025/?mc_cid=f2230e3bc8&mc_eid=8d23be7a9e

Thank you.

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2. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, at Drama Book Shop, Manhattan, Jan. 30, and more

Winter 2025 News:

Jan 30 Drama Book Shop talk

Listening with China Blue podcast

While I have been fortunate to give many public talks on the “our laundry” sections of my memoir, on January 30th, I will discuss the “Our Town” side of Our Laundry, Our Town at the celebrated Drama Book Shop! I will be joined in conversation by Shoshana Greenberg of The Thornton Wilder Society (and a fellow NYU/GMTWP alum!). Among other things, we will discuss the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama. Learning of this influence was a turning point catalyst for several of my dramatic and teaching breakthroughs––as explored in the memoir. Our talk will also be recorded for a future Drama Book Show Podcast!

This event celebrates both the recent Broadway revival of Our Town as well as the Lunar New Year––hope you can join us!

Please note that the purchase of Our Laundry, Our Town  ($18.95) or my Giacometti play, Three Trees (11.95), is required for entry.

RSVP and more info 

https://dramabookshop.com

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Interviewed for Listening with China Blue podcast!

Honored to be among the distinguished artists, culture creators and business leaders to be interviewed for the Listening with China Blue podcast. This new series examines how listening is at the heart of creativity and…everything. China Blue is an accomplished visual/sound artist and former NASA advisor. She is also a longtime friend and colleague who, like me, grew up in an immigrant Toisan Chinese household. Among other topics, we discuss how navigating “sonically bi-cultural” childhoods strongly shaped and continue to inform our day-to-day and artistic processes.

Please click here to listen to the podcast or log on at:

https://rss.com/podcasts/listeningwithchinablue/1849071

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Upcoming: NYPL Fellowship Presentation on May 16, 2025! 

Looking ahead to the spring, the capstone public presentation of my New York Public Library Fellowship will be on Friday, May 16, at 2pm. NYPL’s Main Branch, 5th Ave & 42nd St. More info soon.

My Fellowship project is researching and developing a memoir/non-fiction book, Urban Oracle Bones. The work will compare and contrast The Opium Wars’ profound impact on the Chinese Diaspora to NYC of my grandfather’s generation, with the “heroin chic” punk counterculture of my 1970s NYC teenage years.

The book will be a stage-to-page adaptation of my solo acoustic punk raconteur performance piece, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN (or How I Kicked Punk).

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Finally, I am most grateful for your ongoing interest and support.

Wendy and I wish you all good things for the Solar New Year just begun and the coming Lunar New Year! 

Alvin

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3. Coco Fusco, Pablo Helguera, FF Alumns, now online at Hyperallergic.com

Please visit this link:

https://hyperallergic.com/984150/the-sanest-response-to-insane-times/

Thank you.

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4. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumn, now online at rhizome.org

Please visit this link:

https://rhizome.org/editorial/2025/jan/21/postborder-codependency

Thank you.

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5. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Susan Inglett Gallery, Manhattan, Jan. 31-Mar. 15

SAYA WOOLFALK

The Woods Woman Method

at

Susan Inglett Gallery

January 31 – March 15, 2025

https://www.inglettgallery.com/contact

We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent works by Saya Woolfalk at Susan Inglett Gallery, organized in collaboration with Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. The exhibition anticipates Woolfalk’s mid-career survey at The Museum of Arts & Design: Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe, curated by Alexandra Schwartz. The artist’s first major museum exhibition in New York City, opening April 12, 2025, will include multimedia installations, paintings, sculptures, performance, and works on paper created during the past twenty years.

The Woods Woman Method is the newest manifestation of the artist’s ongoing exploration of hybrid identity, accomplished through an elaborate fiction inspired by her own family background. Combining elements of African American, Japanese, and European cultures, with allusions to anthropology, feminist theory, science fiction, Eastern religion, and fashion, Woolfalk depicts the story of a chimeric species she names the Empathics, botanic humanoid beings with a highly evolved ability to understand the experiences of others.

The Woods Women, a secret society of forest dwellers, first emerged within Woolfalk’s Empathic Universe, as she prepared for her solo exhibition at the Newark Museum of Art in 2021. While Artist in Residence at the Museum from 2019 to 2021, she closely engaged with it’s renowned Herbarium and Hudson River School collections, leading to her reimagining of the earth and sky as she considered the “speculative fictions” of these idealized American landscapes, and her consideration of indigenous North American creation myths, oral histories of the descendants of enslaved Africans, and their uses of medicinal plants.  

The exhibition features drawings, prints, mixed-media collages, sculpture, and video. Among the works on view are Birthing a New Sky: Starship Moon Cycle (2022), an inspired visualization of the artist’s sister, sitting in a lotus position, anticipating the birth of her daughter. Woolfalk writes:

For a new sky to be born she must split herself into a million pieces. Each cell in her body replicates itself, spinning in twirling orbits. Her atomized insides burst apart, cascading into the void around her. Swirling and churning, one cell makes its way back to her center, where her heart had been. This brave new life expands, forcing its way out as new light, new land – a new sky.

Other highlights include the landscape collages, Birthing a New Sky: Manuscripts 3 and 4 (2021), 5, and 6, (2022) in which Woolfalk posits an alternative American creation myth. While appearing to be simple abstractions, these works are quite complex, composed of hundreds of intricately pieced and layered elements created from handmade Japanese papers that she has painted and stained with watercolor and gouache, Japanese silver foil, and acrylic medium.

Saya Woolfalk (b. 1979) earned her B.A. in visual art and economics from Brown University in 2001 and her MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Her many honors and awards include a Fulbright grant to study in Brazil (2005); a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2007); and most recently, the 2023 Anonymous Was a Woman award.

She has participated in exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia including solo shows at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey: the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts; The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; among others, and group shows at the AKG Buffalo Art Museum; ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and many other institutions worldwide.

Her many public commissions include The Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden, which was dedicated at the King Center in Atlanta in April 2023. Monuments to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and Ruth Bader Ginsberg (in Miami and Los Angeles respectively) are forthcoming.

Works by Saya Woolfalk are in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum; the Hunter Museum of American Art; AKG Buffalo Art Museum; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Chrysler Museum of Art; the Mead Museum of Art; the Everson Museum of Art; the Newark Museum of Art; the Weatherspoon Art Museum; and many other institutions.

Saya Woolfalk is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.

Leslie Tonkonow Art Works + Projects

401 Broadway, Suite 411

New York, NY 10013

www.tonkonow.com

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6. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Feb. 10

Please visit this link:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10299

Thank you.

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7. Naoto Nakagawa, FF Alumn, at Kapow Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 7

NAOTO NAKAGAWA

February 7 – March 2, 2025

Opening reception: Friday, February 7

6 – 8 pm

23 Monroe Street, New York

KAPOW GALLERY HOURS

Wednesday – Sunday, 1 to  6 pm

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8. Akiko Ichikawa, FF Member, at AHL Foundation Gallery, Manhattan, Feb. 8-Mar. 1

Art as a Collective Experience — 

A Report from 2024 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS)

featuring  Akiko Ichikawa, Sari Nordman, and Thomas Gallagher

at the AHL Foundation’s Gallery 

2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY 10030

February 8–March 1, 2025, Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6 PM

Korea Art Forum (KAF) is proud to present “Art as a Collective Experience,” an exhibition featuring the works of Akiko Ichikawa, Sari Nordman, and Thomas Gallagher. These New York-based artists created new artwork from their experiences in our year-long participatory art commission in six outdoor public settings across New York City. Independent curator Jennifer McGregor and recently retired Hunter College Integrated Media Arts Professor Martin Lucas contributed essays on the artists’ work and the SDSS initiative for the accompanying catalog. In partnership with KAF, the nonprofit AHL Foundation will host the exhibition and related programs in its gallery at 2605 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem from February 8 through March 1, 2025. The gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 pm. 

The program schedule is as follows:

Opening Reception on Saturday, February 8, from 3 to 5 pm

Writers’ Talk on Saturday, February 15, from 3 to 5 pm

Artists’ Talk on Saturday, February 22, from 3 to 5 pm, and 

Artists and Writers’ Closing Talk with a Publication Launch on Saturday, March 1, from 3 to 5 pm

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFDFTLy0fEGP-mmHzLIL17btRn5EJ25tt3XxQYDTwj_SXz4Q/viewform

Akiko Ichikawa redeveloped her gifting performance series Limited, Limited Edition series (2005-), in which she translates into Japanese sayings observed on message t-shirts worn by pedestrians in neighborhoods from which she later gives the shirts out for free or at low cost. For SDSS, Ichikawa guided participants into stenciling their selected translations onto secondhand tees she brought to the events. The exhibition at AHL (Korean for “egg”) Foundation will showcase the byproducts of Ichikawa’s design and some of the output from the public engagement processes. The artist sees Limited, Limited Edition as a way to glean from strangers the place of nihongo in their lives, to engage, and to create singular cross-cultural experiences with others.

Sari Nordman will contribute Anxiety to the exhibition, an environmentally-themed fiber art installation resulting from her social engagements through knotting workshops, where participants used recycled plastic films and learned traditional Finnish rya rug weaving methods. The installation addresses the problems of single-use plastics and their negative impact on nature and people, particularly in underserved communities. During the collaborative process of making plastic tapestries at SDSS events, participants exchanged their perceptions and reflections on recycling, single-use plastics, and solutions to environmental problems. These dialogues are hoped to raise awareness of environmental issues and root causes.

Thomas Gallagher created an opportunity for neighbors from the communities where SDSS took place to bridge language and cultural barriers: to speak, hear, and understand the “voice of the other” through a game he calls Lingo Bingo. The work draws on the vernacular visual language and play mechanics of the game Bingo, replacing the numbers with words and phrases in multiple languages to create a low-risk, playful setting for participants of diverse cultural backgrounds to discover shared values. He will create an installation for the exhibition featuring original game elements from Lingo Bingo, as well as those derived from the participatory process.

Inwood-based Jennifer McGregor contributes an essay describing her keen observations of artists’ interactive activities, identifying their themes and strengths. She also reconstructs the meaning of the SDSS’s pop-up nature, which encourages spontaneous engagement and prioritizes dialogue and shared experiences over traditional notions of art. McGregor summarizes SDSS’s values as deepening artists’ practices and inspiring future forms of art presentation while fostering partnerships with NYC organizations.

In his essay, Martin Lucas, a scholar of social practice art, explores the relevance of SDSS, a curatorial endeavor focused on integrating art into public life in our city. Amid economic hardship and tensions over immigration, SDSS emphasizes the importance of speech in cultural exchange. Artists like Ichikawa and Gallagher use language to foster understanding among immigrant communities, while Nordman’s workshops offer a meditative, communal experience. Lucas concludes his essay by noting the purpose of SDSS, which emphasizes collective creativity and inclusion. Challenging the notion of art as an individual, privileged experience, SDSS aims to explore a shared, accessible art for all.

Accommodations 

We welcome requests for individual accommodations. ASL and other disability services are available with at least two weeks’ notice. For such assistance, please contact us at info@kafny.org or (347) 840-1142.

About Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) 

It is KAF’s flagship initiative of commissioning artists to create participatory social engagement works in outdoor community hubs, focusing on serving (im)migrants, people with disabilities, and those facing economic challenges. Since its launch in 2020, SDSS has integrated art into daily city life, fostering dialogue between artists and the public while tackling various issues, such as racial divides and anti-Asian sentiment. SDSS promotes collaboration, resilience, and social change, offering free, accessible, and immersive art activities with live interpretation services. SDSS connects local communities to art, which enhances overall quality of life.

About Korea Art Forum (KAF) 

Founded in New York City in 2013, KAF is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art. KAF supports artists in their social engagement and enhances people’s quality of life and well-being. We produce commissions, exhibitions, forums, publications, and art workshops to bring people together across the art world and beyond to share dialogues, build an interconnected world, and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. 

THANK YOU! 

This exhibition and related programs, including 2024 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), are supported, in part, with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Panta Rhea Foundation, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ) Arts Engagement administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), and the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF). We especially thank our community partners, South Bronx Unite, the Minkwon Center, the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Council Members Vickie Paladino, Sandra Ung, and Julie Won for supporting KAF’s projects. 

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9. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, now online at Frieze.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.frieze.com/article/judith-bernstein-interview-2024

Thank you.

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10. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 1-30 and more

Women Work Together: Shoebox Projects Unveils Feminist Image Group’s Inspiring Women’s History Month Exhibit on Creative Collaboration, March 1–30, 2025

Shoebox Projects proudly presents Women Work Together, a  Women’s History Month exhibit by the San Diego-based Feminist Image Group (FIG). This transformative exhibition, running March 1–30, 2025, explores creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing thought-provoking works that address critical issues impacting women in today’s world.

Co-curator Elizabeth Tobias, a FIG member, explains, “Women Work Together,” examines collaboration as a feminist response to present-day conflict and division. The artists leverage their unique talents and perspectives to achieve shared goals, creating visually stunning and deeply resonant works.”

The exhibition features an array of media, including painting, textile, photography and sculpture, united by a common theme: the power of women’s collaboration to envision and build a better future. Women Work Together underscores how collective creativity can transform conflict into connection, division into unity, and ideas into impactful action.

DUETS: Sister Exhibit in West Hollywood

As part of this celebration, FIG has also curated a sister project, DUETS, on view at the Los Angeles Art Association in West Hollywood from March 1–30. This concurrent exhibition highlights intimate collaborations between pairs of artists, offering another perspective on the transformative potential of creative partnership.

A Legacy of Feminist Leadership

Founded in 2009 by artist and educator Anna Stump, the Feminist Image Group (FIG) amplifies feminist voices in the arts. Over the years, FIG has become a leading advocate for inclusivity and social change, fostering community through impactful exhibitions, collaborations, and public programs.

With members from diverse disciplines, FIG champions the transformative power of art to inspire equity, understanding, and progress. By embracing a global perspective and authentic multicultural dialogue, FIG challenges artistic norms and celebrates the rich diversity of creative expression.

Featured Artists

Alessandra Moctezuma + Doris Bittar

Ann Olsen + Kim Niehans

Cindy Zimmerman + Hannah Johansen

Irene Abraham + Stacie Birky-Greene

Jane E Hindman + Judith Christensen

Jennifer Spencer + Susan Osborn

Kathi McCord + Kathleen Mitchell

Kathy Nida + Moya Devine 

Kirsten Aaboe + Mary Pennell

Minnie Valero + Linda Litteral

Momilani Ramstrum + Therese Rossi 

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11. Gisela Gamper, FF Alumn, at Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, Feb. 6 and more

Open Studio Reception, Thursday Feb. 6, 6-8

Studio visit by appointment Feb 7-23

RSVP/contact

Mail@xoprojects.com

232 3rd St. Brooklyn 11215

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12. Jerri Allyn, David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumns, named 2025 Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence

Please visit this link:

https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/announcing-the-2025-joan-mitchell-center-artists-in-residence

Thank you. 

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13. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, opening Jan. 28

You are invited to my exhibition, Democracy of the Land, Inc. – FLAGrancy, opening Tuesday, January 28, 6:00-8:00 PM at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, through March 5, 2025.  

https://www.montserrat.edu/event/jay-critchley-democracy-of-the-land-inc-flagrancy/

Images of the exhibition here: https://www.jaycritchley.com/montserrat-show-pictures.html

Media: Art New England cover https://artnewengland.com/from-the-publisher-january-2025/ and article Artscope https://www.jaycritchley.com/artscope-article.html

Jay Critchley

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14. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publication

“The Virtuoso Parrot” is now available from Black Scat Books!

Claude-Sosthène Grasset d’Orcet (1828-1900) wrote hundreds of startling

articles and stories about secret societies, hidden bloodlines, and his

own idiosyncratic views of history. His obsession with finding puns and

rebuses, in both ancient inscriptions and modern speech, influenced

generations of occultists; it was the inspiration for the “language of

the birds” expounded by the enigmatic Fulcanelli.

My translation is Grasset d’Orcet’s first appearance in English. It

contains five of his odd and often hilarious stories and a contemporary

obituary, as well as my introduction and detailed notes on his ideas and

allusions.

At last, the virtuoso parrot speaks to English readers!

[blackscatbooks(dot)com]

Doug Skinner

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15. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Pageant, Brooklyn, Feb. 6-7

PAGEANT presents: “Project: The mental architecture of magic” by Jeanette Andrews

Thursday, February 6

Friday, February 7

8PM (doors 7:45)

𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦-𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘴. 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦-𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦.

𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯’𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵, 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘥. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘗𝘉𝘚, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴, “𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘴’𝘴 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵.” Andrews is a Visiting Artist for MIT and seeks to create work that showcases the complexity of perception and cognition.

Tickets here ($15-30 sliding scale):

https://www.pageant.space

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16. Suzanne Anker, FF Alumn, at The Gallery of ARTFul Medicine, The Bronx, Jan. 24-Apr. 18

A(I) Brighter Tomorrow:

Cancer and Beyond

January 24 – April 18, 2025

Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The Gallery of ARTFul Medicine

Montefiore Medical Center

Hutchinson Metro Center

1250 Waters Place

Tower One Lobby

Bronx, NYC 10461

Curated by Jodi Moise and Natalia Marin, the exhibition “A(I) Brighter Tomorrow: Cancer and Beyond” features a range of installations, interactive displays and immersive experiences that challenge traditional perspectives on illness and healing. My newest series “IVF: When Crystals Spawn Flowers” was conceived under these auspices and with the scientific guidance of Heather Feil at Montefiore’s Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Health.

Invitro fertilization (IVF), a type of assisted reproductive technology that employs a combination of medication and surgical procedures to allow stored sperm to fertilize an egg external to the woman’s body. Embryos are frozen in cryogenic tanks until it is time for implantation in the uterus. This process is comparable to the eruption of life after the frost. While perennials plants “sleep” in frosted encrusted earth, they reappear when spring emerges. Such is the case after women complete of their chemotherapy. Frozen embryos are “reawakened” and implanted in the uterus and begin their life cycle.

This set of photographs employs the metaphor of rebirth after frost as a way to poetically picture IVF. The sculptures also capture the ice crystallization necessary for this technique.

Other artists in the exhibition include Federico Muelas, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May, Dr. Sabina Sucuri, Vladimir Gheorghiu.

https://www.cancerandbeyond.info

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Beijing Art and Technology Biennale, the Daejeon Biennale 2018, Korea, The Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe | ZKM, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the JP Getty Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts in New York, where she continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Laboratory. She is also the recipient of SLSA’s (Society of Literature, Science and the Arts) Lifetime Achievement Award (2024).

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17. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Alumn, at Hudson Valley MOCA, opening Feb. 1

Dear Friends and Colleagues,  

‘So You think you’re too old to…’ opens at Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY, on February 1, 3-5 PM where my work will be presented in a juried exhibition that showcases artists whose mature years have enriched their creative powers.

Hudson Valley MOCA

National Juried Exhibition

So you think you’re too old to…

Feb 1-May 3, 2025

Opening Reception Saturday, Feb 1,  3-5pm

68 artists selected from over 200 applicants, 62 thru 94 years of age.  

Karen Allen, Sara Allen, Peter Anderson, Inez Andrucyk, Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong, Steffani Bailey, Susan Barrett, Robert Barthelmes, Ernesto Beckford, Ilene Bellovin, Tony Buczko, Carol Bouyoucos, Kit Boyce, Camille Ann Brewer, Mary Bridgman, Sydney Cash, Sharon Cavagnolo, Vivien Collens, Larry D’Amico, Maxine Davidowitz, Al Desetta, Ellen Elchlepp, Ryoko Endo, Donna Faranda, Jean Feinberg , John Fitzsimmons, Dan Florin, Luis Fonseca, Jeffrey Friedkin, Joseph Fucigna, Ruth Geneslaw, Caroline Hardy, Lannie Hart, Jeffrey Hartman, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Judith Eloise Hooper, Deborah Kittay-Heffler, Carole P. Kunstadt, Larry Leibowitz, Harry Leigh, Linda Lindroth, Alise Loebelsohn, D. Dominick Lombardi, Timothy Lutz, Patricia Malarcher, Jean-Marie Martin, Barry Mason, Marilyn Mitchell, Alexandra Negoita, Adam Niklewicz, Daniel Oppenheim, Franc Palaia, Paul Plumadore, Chris Randolph, Margaret Roleke, Warren Rosenberg, Joan Ryan, Vicente Saavedra, Linn Saffer, Jeffrey Schrier, Michael Seri, Carolyn Sirois, Hui Tian, Peter Tilgner, Suprina Troche, Lydia Viscardi, Lee Willett,Thomas Zaccheo

The Museum selected my 2023 ‘Bridegroom of Blood, Draggin’ Me’ inspired by dead leaf forms and the Getty Center’s manuscript 116 folio162, a 1296 illumination of a hybrid beast with feet protruding from its jaws.

For my 7 ft high interpretation of the manuscript  2″ detail, I used scans of my left foot at age 80 and my right foot at age 36, mined from my Dreaming Self (assembled body-part transfers fused to a bed-sheet slept on during years of actively recording my dreams). The King size bed sheet construction was commissioned for Science Digest’s 1981 issue on Sleep and Dreams and first exhibited in tangent with David Hockney’s cityscape of assembled polaroids, at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery by director Andrew Stasik,1985. For my 1990 solo at the Yeshiva University Museum I spread the Dreaming Self bedsheet on a mattress for Yacov’s Dream, covering my body scans with my feet protruding from an image of the tunic from the Jacob’s Dream fresco of the 3rd century Dura Europos Synagogue, Syria.  In ‘Bridegroom of Blood, Draggin’ Me’  my feet at age 36 and age at 80 in the beast’s jaws, reflect the last 44 years of my nearly lifelong artistic journey. The Dancing feet are mined from my Osibisa album cover illustration for Warner Music, 1973.

Hope you can make it to the Hudson Valley MOCA opening!

All best, Jeffrey

more: https://jeffreyschrier.org

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18. Donna Kaz, FF Alumn, at New Circle Theatre Company, Feb. 5-16

Please visit this link:

https://www.newcircletheatrecompany.org/new-page-3

Thank you.

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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, FF Intern, Summer/Fall/Winter  2024/2025

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