Contents for July 21st, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Sungjae Lee, FF FUND Recipient 2021-22, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Manhattan, July 24
1. Franklin Furnace @ Gallery 360°, Tokyo, and Seiji Shimoda, FF Alumn, in Shinano Mainichi newspaper
2. Nicole Goodwin, FF Alumn, at Galerie Shibumi, Manhattan, Aug. 8 – Sept. 6
3. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray Associates, Manhattan, extended thru Aug. 1
4. Lydia Grey, Pope.L, Robert Wilson, FF Alumns, at Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY, July 26
5. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, awarded 2025 Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture
6. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia, thru July 31
7. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Leslie Tonkonow, Manhattan, thru Aug. 29 and more
8. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Zander Gallery, Paris, France, thru Aug. 2
9. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, now online at FKW Journal
10. Nina Sobell, Peggy Ahwesh, Nancy Burson, Julia Heyward, Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumns, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, thru Aug.16, and more.
11. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at N/A Project Space, New Paltz, NY, July 27, and more
12. Lizzie Olesker, FF Alumn, new publication
13. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at Nicholas Auvray Gallery, Manhattan, opening July 24
14. Mark Bloch, Richard Foreman, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Joseph Nechvatal, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young, FF Alumn, at Montsoreau Castle, France
15. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium, reception Aug. 9
16. Ruth Wallen, FF Alumn, at San Diego Central Library, CA, thru Oct. 15
17. Jenny Snider, FF Alumn, at Ed Rothfarb Studio, Athens, NY, July 26-27
18. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, new publication now online at https://eroplay.com/mirror-before-and-after/
19. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1102893544
20. Heide Hatry, FF Member, at Ivy Brown Gallery, Manhattan, July 22, and more
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Weekly Spotlight: Sungjae Lee, FF FUND Recipient 2021-22, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Manhattan, July 24, July 24
Upcoming FUND performance: Sungjae Lee (FUND 2021-22) @thony0806
“Curing, Shimmering, Together: A Ritual Performance and Collective Action”
Thursday, July 24, 2025.
Doors at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art: 6:00 PM.
Performance begins at 6:30 PM and ends when the last light fades, at Christopher Park
Project Description:
“As the light disappears, we remain visible.”
“Curing, Shimmering, Together” is a two-part performance ritual and communal protest-walk led by Korean diasporic artists Young Sun Han, Young Joon Kwak, and Sungjae Lee—invoking ancestral queer and trans/non-binary intimacy, interdependence, resistance, and insurgent glitter. The collaborative performance unfolds as both a ceremonial activation of Kwak’s exhibition RESISTERHOOD and a public intervention in defiant response to the state’s ongoing attempts to erase trans and queer marginalized histories at the site of the Stonewall Uprising.
The performance opens in the museum gallery with Lee’s slow, reflective movement—casting light across the space in response to Kwak’s Glitter Manifesto. The artists then come together in a shimmering embrace as Han baptizes Kwak and Lee in liquid glitter. Veiled, bound, and visibly transforming as the glitter begins setting on their skin, Han guides the artists through the streets in a slow procession toward the Stonewall National Monument at Christopher Park. Audience members are invited to walk with them—as witnesses, protectors, and chosen family.
As the sun sets and the glitter cures, the artists arrive at the monument—offering a shimmering counter-monument to ongoing erasure, in communion with the Black and Latinx trans femmes who led the Stonewall Uprising. Together, they become a living declaration of queer Korean ancestral healing, power, and visibility—casting shimmer into the night.
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by SHS Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Additional thanks to: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art @leslielohmanmuseum, Queer|Art @queerart, and Commonwealth & Council @commonwealthandcouncil
Artists bio
Sungjae Lee (he/they; lives and works in Chicago) @thony0806 is a visual artist, educator, and writer whose practice centers around the visibility and varied representations of queer Asians. He has presented his works globally in South Korea, Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. He has had residencies at ACRE, High Concept Labs, HATCH Projects, Fire Island, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Arts, and Yaddo. He was selected for 2025 Queer | Art | Mentorship, the 2024 Chicago Artadia Awards Finalist, 2022-2023 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Fund 2021-22, and the 2020 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship. He received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from Seoul National University and M.F.A. in Performance Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Young Joon Kwak (they/she; lives and works in Los Angeles) @youngjoonkwak received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, an MA from the University of Chicago in 2010, and an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014. They are the founder of Mutant Salon, a queer-transfem-BIPOC collective beauty salon and collaborative art and performance platform. They are also the lead performer of the drag-electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. Their work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums internationally, including at the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living and the solo exhibition Resistance Pleasure at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2024. Their solo exhibition, RESISTERHOOD, is currently on view at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art until July 27, 2025.
Young Sun Han (they/them; lives and works in Brooklyn) @youngsunart is a visual artist, curator and educator who creates stories through photography, durational and interactive performances, rituals, installation, and found objects. Their work reveals how marginalized individuals and communities negotiate and locate their sense of place within society and history. Han actively organizes and advocates with the Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network and the KQTx (Korean Queer Trans) National Network. Han holds a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. They have held solo shows at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn.
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1. Franklin Furnace @ Gallery 360°, Tokyo, and Seiji Shimoda, FF Alumn, in Shinano Mainichi newspaper
Please visit this link to the illustrated article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11iBIWpy21NYf1X2k7hZTrrl2KjHr4ccF/view?usp=sharing
For non-Japanese readers, the article focuses on FF Alumn Seiji Shimoda’s life and work as a performance artist. About the first 1/3 of the article talks about FF Rising, the first of Franklin Furnace’s 50th Anniversary exhibitions, talk, and gathering at Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan, with some quotations from Shimoda-san and Harley Spiller, Ken Dewey Director of Franklin Furnace, a brief history of FF, and a short Shimoda biography, specifically about his father and how he sees his performance practice resonating with his father’s decision to quit his state job and take over his wife’s family’s pharmacy store. Shimoda’s father served in WWII as a squad leader and in the article Shimoda describes this decision as his father’s way of making amends to taking a part in the atrocity. All told, the focus is on Shimoda with the talk providing a context to discuss his work and career.
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2. Nicole Goodwin, FF Alumn, at Galerie Shibumi, Manhattan, Aug. 8 – Sept. 6
GALERIE SHIBUMI PRESENTS “BLACK NEW YORK” — A POETIC PORTRAIT
OF DIASPORA, IDENTITY, AND EXPRESSION
Galerie Shibumi is proud to present Black New York, a group exhibition featuring painting, photography, sculpture, and film by a dynamic cross-section of NYC-based artists. Rooted in diasporic legacy and contemporary urgency, the show reflects on what it means to create—and exist—through a Black lens in the city that claims to be the capital of the world.
This is not a retrospective or a didactic timeline. Black New York unfolds like a poem: unbound by singular narrative or form, rhythmic in tone, layered in meaning, and alive with contradictions. It invites reflection, dialogue, and feeling. The works don’t explain—they resonate. Like a good poem, they ask to be felt before they are fully understood. The title Black New York carries weight—and for some, complexity. But just as in subtractive color theory, where black is the culmination of all colors combined, the Black experience in New York is not absence, but presence. It is rich. It is the creation of shade, depth, and new dimensions. It holds histories, frictions, joys, and innovations all at once.
The exhibition features work by: Shasekh Augustin, Jenna Arvelo, Maya Beverly, Santana Copeland, Nyzere Dillon, Laura Gayle, Nicole Goodwin, Garry Grant, Kahdeem Jefferson, Leah King, Ayanna Legros, Emily Manwaring, Alexis Mendoza, Aala Oni, Iris Phenix, John Ricard, Haley Sessoms, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Christina M. Tapper, Atiim Turnbull, Michael Young, and Zawadi.
These artists reflect the expansive possibilities of Black expression in New York today. They come from different lineages and training—some self-taught, others
institutionally trained—but all bring a distinct vision shaped by their lived realities, cultural memory, and emotional landscapes. Through their work, they transform the city’s chaos into clarity, and its density into poetry.
“This city is a mirror,” says Folana Miller, Director of Galerie Shibumi. “It reflects and refracts everything— language, pain, capitalism, culture, trauma, love. The artists in Black New York don’t just react to that; they transform it. They make sense of the noise through beauty, repetition, vulnerability, and vision.”
The exhibition marks the opening of Galerie Shibumi’s new space at 261 West 35th Street, Suite 1401, a hub for contemporary art that prioritizes discovery, discourse, and community-building. With this show, the gallery reaffirms its commitment to presenting work that is emotionally honest, culturally urgent, and unapologetically personal.
Exhibition Details:
Location: Galerie Shibumi – 261 West 35th Street, Suite 1401, New York, NY
On View: August 8 – September 6, 2025
ABOUT GALERIE SHIBUMI:
Galerie Shibumi is a New York–based contemporary art gallery committed to showcasing work by emerging and underrepresented artists. The gallery embraces a
spirit of curiosity and critical engagement, with a focus on nontraditional creative paths and diasporic narratives.
Galerie Shibumi
Contact: Folana Miller
Email: contact@galerieshibumi.com
Phone: 917-890-1547
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3. Chloë Bass, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray Associates, Manhattan, extended thru Aug. 1
Please visit this link:
https://www.alexandergray.com/exhibitions/843-chloe-bass-twice-seen
Thank you.
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4. Lydia Grey, Pope.L, Robert Wilson, FF Alumns, at Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY, July 26
Pope.L’s piece “Under the Milk” will be performed by Lydia Grey at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Summer Benefit, on Saturday, July 26, 2025.
https://www.watermillcenter.org/
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5. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, awarded 2025 Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture
Marina Abramović awarded the 2025 Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture
Sean Kelly is delighted to congratulate Marina Abramović on being awarded the 2025 Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, one of the world’s most prestigious honors recognizing lifetime achievement in the arts. Presented annually by the Japan Art Association, the Praemium Imperiale celebrates outstanding artists across five disciplines, Sculpture, Painting, Architecture, Music, and Theatre/Film, whose contributions have had a profound impact on global culture. Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of the Arts,” the Praemium Imperiale was established in 1989 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Japan Art Association and to honor the legacy of its longtime patron, Prince Takamatsu, who died in 1987.
A visionary pioneer in performance art, Marina Abramović has redefined the limits of artistic practice through her exploration of physical and mental endurance. Using her body as both medium and subject, Abramović has transformed the role of the audience from passive viewer to active participant. Born in the former Yugoslavia, she first captured international attention in 1974 with Rhythm 0, a seminal performance in which she invited the public to interact with her body using a series of objects, prompting powerful reflections on vulnerability, trust, and control. Abramović’s impact on contemporary art has been recognized with numerous accolades, including the prestigious Golden Lion awards at the Venice Biennale in 1997. In 2010, her landmark retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York featured The Artist Is Present, a silent durational performance in which she sat across from visitors for more than 700 hours. The work became a cultural phenomenon, setting attendance records for the museum and solidifying her reputation as one of the most influential artists of our time. Her most recent major solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2023 marked a historic moment as she became the first woman in the institution’s 250-year history to occupy the entire gallery space.
With the awarding of the 2025 Praemium Imperiale, Marina Abramović joins a distinguished list of laureates whose visionary practices have shaped the evolution of contemporary art. For information on the Praemium Imperiale, please visit praemiumimperiale.com For additional information on Marina Abramović, please visit skny.com
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6. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia, thru July 31
Exciting News: Verónica Peña Joins Gasworks Arts Park for 2025 Small Sculpture Studio Residency
We’re excited to announce that multidisciplinary artist Verónica Peña has been selected for the 2025 Small Sculpture Studio Residency at Gasworks Arts Park in Melbourne, Australia. During her three-month residency, the artist is developing a new body of work that merges her sculptural and performative practices, focusing on themes related to the aging body.
Engage with Verónica’s work during the Open Studios on July 19, and as part of Open House Melbourne, July 26-27, 2025.
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VERÓNICA PEÑA (US/Spain) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and international-community advocate. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art, science, and technology. Her performance installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and audience participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, empathy, and women’s empowerment. Peña performs and exhibits primarily in Europe and America. In America: SVA School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2024), Museo Ex Teresa (ZonaMaco, Mexico City, 2022), Queens Arts Council (NYC, 2022), SatelliteArt Fair (Miami Art Week, 2021), ChaShaMa (NYC, 2021), Grace Exhibition Space (NYC, 2021), Franklin Furnace (NYC, 2021), NARS Foundation (Artist-In-Residence, 2021), Coaxial Arts Foundation (LA, 2021), Smack Mellon Foundation, Triskelion Arts, Hemispheric Institute, Queens Museum, SAIC (Visiting Artist), Times Square Alliance, Armory Show, Defibrillator Performance Gallery, Momenta Art Gallery, Dumbo Arts Festival, Consulate of Spain in NY, among others. Europe: AADK (Artist-In-Residence, Spain, 2024), Est_Art Gallery (Madrid, 2023), Fundación Bilbaoarte (Bilbao, 2021), Museo La NeomudéJar (Madrid), Friche La Belle De Mai (Marseille), Festival Intramurs (Valencia), Zaratan Arte Contemporáneo (Lisbon), Casa de América (Madrid), among others. She was selected for the Creative Capital NYC Taller 2020, received a QAC Fund 2022, FCA Grant 2022, and a Franklin Furnace Fund 2018. She published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She leads Performance Art Open Call, a +33,000 member FB Community. Peña received an MFA from Stony Brook University.
veronicapena.com
@veronica.pena.live.art
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7. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Leslie Tonkonow, Manhattan, thru Aug. 29 and more
SAYA WOOLFALK
New and Recent Works
at
Leslie Tonkonow
Artworks + Projects
By Appointment
through August 29, 2025
Saya Woolfalk creates works of art in a wide range of mediums that combine elements of her African American, Japanese, and European heritage, with allusions to anthropology, feminist theory, science fiction, and Eastern religions. Through numerous multimedia exhibitions, installations, performances, and screenings, she relates the story of the Empathics, a fictitious community of hybrid beings who possess extraordinary abilities to understand the feelings, desires, and motivations of others.
We are extremely pleased to present Woolfalk’s newest works in which she continues the story of The Woods Women, a secret society of forest dwellers that predates her Empathic Universe. The Woods Women first emerged through the artist’s reimagining of the earth and sky as she considered the “speculative fiction” of the idealized American landscapes of the Hudson River School, and was also inspired by indigenous North American creation myths, oral histories of the descendants of enslaved Africans, and their uses of medicinal plants.
The exhibition includes Woolfalk’s intricately pieced collages and glass and ceramic sculptures. These works expand the narrative and physical universe of The Woods Women, creating a visual language in which humans are embedded in and not separated from the natural world and the cosmos.
Saya Woolfalk 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.
Works by the artist have been featured 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. She has also participated in 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 Empathic Universe, a comprehensive, traveling survey of works by the artist at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and Saya Woolfalk: Floating World of the Cloud Quilt, at the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas remain on view through September 7, 2025
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8. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Zander Gallery, Paris, France, thru Aug. 2
Please visit this link:
https://mailchi.mp/8a51eb707f52/notes-from-paris-january-17991501
Thank you.
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9. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, now online at FKW Journal
“Working in and on Anthropocene Landscapes: Artistic and Feminist Strategies” Betty Beaumont’s work Ocean Landmark (1978-1980) is examined alongside the works of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Agnes Denes, and Mary Mattingly.
The Academic essay by Dr. Gerko Egert, a German art scholar at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, and was published in FKW Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur (Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture), No.75, April 2025. The article can be found online at:
https://fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/article/view/1726/1702
“This text examines the relationship between climate justice, labor, and artistic practice from a feminist perspective. It focuses on four artists who, since the late 1960s, have incorporated issues of labor into their explorations of landscape, ecology, and climate. The visual and performative works of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Betty Beaumont, Agnes Denes, and Mary Mattingly share a focus on the man-made landscapes that have shaped the Anthropocene in both urban and rural settings. How are landscapes made? What forms of labor do they inherit? Drawing on concepts of care, maintenance, repair, and collective labor, the artists not only create a different image of landscape, climate, and ecological action, but also challenge capitalist production and its extractivist structures. Given that climate justice is only possible as ongoing labor, the text asks about feminist labor in and with landscapes in the Anthropocene.”
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards, including the Distinguished Alumni Award (University of California, Berkeley), the Gottlieb Foundation and Creative Capital grants, and the New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships. In addition to exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Japan, South Korea, South America, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S., Beaumont has exhibited internationally at museums including: National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo and Kyoto); Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí (Havana); Museum of Alexandria (Egypt); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (France); Net Nieuwe Domein (Netherlands); Museum of American Art, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, and in New York at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1. Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University. She has produced work in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, installations, public interventions, and new media.
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10. Nina Sobell, Peggy Ahwesh, Nancy Burson, Julia Heyward, Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumns, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, thru Aug.16, and more.
The First Circle: Radical Humanism at MIcroscope Gallery, 525 W. 29th Street, NYC. I’m excited that BrainWave Drawing 1973 was selected from the First Circle Archive, and am thrilled that GammaTime will have its New York premiere as part of the show, on August 3rd at 4:30 PM. All are very welcome to participate!
and
Unearthing the Light curated by Alison Cornyn opens on July 19th from 6-9 PM at the Church in Staatsburg, 5 Market Street, Staatsburg, New York, as part of Upstate Art Weekend featuring my video Unseen Unheard 2020, the folio Unseen 2020 and porcelain sculptures of Cori 1991.
Others included in this show: Nancy Burson, Celine Cannon, Alison Cornyn, Yolanda Cuomo, Elena del Rivera, Heather Greer, Sandra Harper, Jazmine Hayes, Ophelia Mangen, Tanya Marcuse, Jillian McDonald, Rita Peress, Negin Scharifzadeh, Maggie Simonelli, Diane Weimar and Marina Zurkow.
A bit about the premiere of BrainWave Drawing – GammaTime:
“New York-based artist Nina Sobell, in collaboration with artist-engineer Ed Bear and digital artist Lucinda Jacobson, presents GammaTime. This interactive, real-time participatory BrainWave Drawing performance explores non-verbal communication through the synchronization of brain waves, a concept Sobell has been investigating since 1973, steeped in the perception of thought. GammaTime allows participants to experience and understand Gamma brain waves and other brain activity through art and music. As they engage with the installation, participants can observe their own brain wave patterns and their connection to others, while also benefiting from the cognitive and emotional effects of 40 Hz gamma stimulation. Currently, Sobell is concentrating on visualizing and materializing the infinite relationship between the corpus callosum, DNA, the Möbius strip, and the epigenetic connection between DNA and brain waves—ideas she seeks to explore through GammaTime. All of her work invites creative exploration and contributes to the dialogue between art and neuroscience, highlighting the universal nature of non-verbal communication across all living beings.”
Thank you.
Nina Sobell
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11. Rachel Frank, FF Alumn, at N/A Project Space, New Paltz, NY, July 27, and more
Hi friends,
Hope you are staying cool with this heat wave. I recently returned from a themed residency on Freshwater Ecology at Goldey House and will be conducting an offering vessel workshop while in residence at The Soil Factory https://lehmannlab.cals.cornell.edu/research/art-and-sciences/the-soil-factory/ next month. I also have some shows already open and opening this month.
I have a site-specific sculpture in my Chrysalid series which will be installed outdoors as part of Upstate New York with N/A project Space
Transcending Taxonomy at N/A Project Space
Curated by Natale Adgnot
Participating artists: Sarah E. Brook, Rachel Frank, Ruth Jeyaveeran, and Jemila MacEwan
N/A Project Space
137 Martin Sweedish Rd
New Paltz NY
Closing Reception Sunday July 27, 12-3 pm
Hours:
July 17-21 (Upstate Art Weekend): 12-5pm
July 25: 3-5pm
July 26: 12-5pm
July 27: 12-3pm
I also have work up at Asya Geisberg with some amazing female sculptors. I’m really thrilled to be showing with such an amazing group of women. There is a performance tonight with Sonic Mud if you haven’t caught the show.
Banshees Remix at Asya Geisberg Gallery
I have one of my horseshoe crab chrysalid vessels in this group show of women sculptors.
June 27 – August 2, 2025
4.5 Cortlandt Alley
New York, NY
and
I also have two new sculptures from my Chrysalid series at Sarah Crown Gallery around the corner.
Let Them Eat Chaos at Sarah Crown Gallery
June 13 – July 26, 2025
373 Broadway #215
New York, NY
Hope to connect with you soon,
Rachel Frank
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12. Lizzie Olesker, FF Alumn, new publication
Dear Friends,
Hello! I’m very excited to share with you that Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, a book that I co-authored with experimental filmmaker Lynne Sachs, was just published by punctum books. Hand Book grew out of a 10-year collaboration that began with our live laundromat performances of Every Fold Matters, followed by the hybrid documentary film The Washing Society, and now this book. With essays by project collaborators, photographic images, interviews, poetry, and a playscript for Every Fold Matters, Hand Book examines the laundromat as a microcosm of service work within our city. The book was formed as a compilation of different voices and is very much a visual experience. Turning a page becomes an interactive, quasi-cinematic encounter…
You can order Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process and the Labor of Laundry in several ways:
– Bookshop.org or your favorite online service.
– Asterism, a great supporter of independent presses.
– Directly from punctum (where you can also download the entire e-book for free thanks to their open source policy).
– Support your local bookstore by asking them to order it.
We will keep you posted on upcoming readings and events we’re planning with punctum books. Whether we gather in a bookstore, college campus, a laundromat or other community space, we hope you will join us.
Many thanks for your support and if you do order the book, I hope you enjoy it.
With love,
Lizzie
“This generously kaleidoscopic offering invites readers to think through the labor of laundry via an impressive collage of perspectives, histories, and bodies.” – Christopher Harris, filmmaker
“A beautiful example of how art in tandem with other methods of revelation illuminates the everyday, at once celebrating a particular aspect of how people live, critiquing the power dynamic it contains, and seeking to intervene in bad ‘business as usual.’” – Jan Cohen-Cruz, author of Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance
“A poignant exploration of the value of labor within and outside capitalism’s frame.”
– Caridad Svich, playwright and author of Toward a Future Theatre
“The best of art manifests an ordinary devotion to experiences that become extraordinary given enough care and attention, or an extraordinary devotion to conveying the genuine depth of what passes for the ordinary. Here it is, both at once.”
– Paul Chan, artist and publisher
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13. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at Nicholas Auvray Gallery, Manhattan, opening July 24
Please visit this link:
https://www.nicolasauvraygallery.com
Thank you.
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14. Mark Bloch, Richard Foreman, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Joseph Nechvatal, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young, FF Alumn, at Montsoreau Castle, France
The Mirror Effect Art & Language Exhibition at Montsoreau Castle, France
Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art Presents: The Mirror EffectCelebrating 60 Years of Art & LanguageTo celebrate 60 years of the pioneering collective Art & Language, the Château de Montsoreau –Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to announce a landmark exhibition: The Mirror Effect on view from July 11 to November 3, 2025.Located in the Loire Valley and housed in a historic Renaissance château, the museum holds the world’s largest collection of works by Art & Language, assembled by collector Philippe Méaille,and has been at the forefront of promoting conceptual art on an international scale.Curated by Lara Pan, renowned researcher and curator, this major exhibition brings together over50 international artists to reflect on the enduring legacy of Art & Language and its profound influence on contemporary artistic practices.“The Mirror Effect is an intuitive ode to the collective, says Lara Pan.Translated into an exhibition experiment, it explores the dynamic relationships between various artists and their singular artworks, engaging with the principles of Art & Language. While the title draws partial inspiration from Mirror Piece (1965), a contemporary installation by MichaelBaldwin, it also serves as a conceptual tool for examining fundamental questions about artistic form.The exhibition investigates whether—and how—these forms highlight the relationship between artwork and viewer, inviting reflection on perception, interpretation, and meaning. Especially today, it’s more important than ever that we serve as mirrors to ourselves, taking a moment for honest self-reflection. Who are we, truly? What values do we carry? Do we still aim for a more compassionate, conscious, and connected world?”Founded in 1966 by Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell,centred on what is now Coventry University, Art & Language has played a pivotal role in shaping the practice and discourse of artists in Europe. America and beyond. Mel Ramsden, who died last year, joined the group in 1970.Today, Art & Language’s influence resonates more than ever with younger generations of artists,thinkers, and art historians. Amidst today’s complex political landscape, conceptual practices have re-emerged as vital tools of critique, reflection, and resistance.Rooted in a nuanced web of theoretical, political, practical, and experimental thought, Art & Language critically engaged with how language constructs meaning, interrogating the functions of art as a site of discourse. Their work continues to challenge and inform contemporary artistic practice by questioning institutional frameworks and the boundaries between art, theory and philosophy.“Art & Language is art as living thought. That’s why we celebrate them.”says Marie-Caroline Chaudruc, Director of the Château de Montsoreau – Museum ofContemporary Art.
With: Ak2deru – Ericka Beckman – Mark Bloch – Marc Buchy – Tony Conrad – Alvin Curran – Constance De Jong – Arnold Dreyblatt – Terry Fox – Richard Foreman – Darko Fritz – Carla Gannis – Abdulnasser Gharem – Nicolás Guagnini – Adam Harrison – Jenny Holzer – IRWIN – On Kawara – Joseph Kosuth – Filip Kostic – Peter Kubelka – Ruth Leavitt – Sol LeWitt – Mark Lombardi – Katrin Mayer/c0da – Gregor Mobius – Vera Molnár – François Morellet – Manfred Mohr – Ioana Vreme Moser – Joseph Nechvatal – Carsten Nicolai – Olaf Nicolai – Rudolf Polanszky – Edwin Schlossberg – Otavio Schipper – Nicolas Shake – Igor Simic – Conrad Shawcross – Sasha Stiles – Rasa Todosijevic – RYBN.ORG – Susanne Treister – Lawrence Weiner – La Monte Young – Constantina Zavitsanos – Carlo Zanni – Ashley Zelinskie
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15. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium, reception Aug. 9
Lucio Pozzi
Spotting
Paintings and a digital diptych
July – October, 2025.
Reception: 9 August 2025
Sabine Wachters Fine Arts
Golvenstraat 11
8300 Knokke, Belgium
[English]
As time passes, Sabine Wachters and Xavier De Schepper find that all my paintings from diverse families share much more than at first appeared. Works, even when they seem to be so different, are linked by a semiotic and imagistic network of cross-references, and these gallerists have started exhibiting them together since several years.
One of the recurring motifs of my painting is how the focus of spots, shapes and colors continuously shifts in the gaze of the viewer. Whether they are representing faces or flowers or geometries or other, the intensity is sought in the voids that link them.
[Italian]
Col passare del tempo, Sabine Wachters e Xavier de Schepper notano che pitture di diverse mie famiglie condividono più di quanto sembrasse. Le mie opere, anche quando paiono tanto differenti, sono interconnesse da una rete di corrispondenze semiotiche e d’immagine, e questi galleristi le espongono insieme da diversi anni.
Uno dei motivi ricorrenti nella mia arte si trova in come i punti di attenzione, forme e colori, sfuggono la permanenza e cambiano di continuo nello sguardo di chi osserva. Sia che rappresentino facce o fiori o geometrie, cerco l’intensità nei vuoti che li connettono.
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16. Ruth Wallen, FF Alumn, at San Diego Central Library, CA, thru Oct. 15
My piece, “Censored: Disappearing Along with the Ice,” for the exhibition “In the Land Of,” on the first floor of the SD Central Library. This artist book with each page representing ice breaking off of a glacier is made out of recycled materials–clear plastic containers, and toilet paper and candy wrappers. All words, which are cut from newspapers, are on PENs list of words scrubbed from federal documents and websites. With the passage of the big destructive bill, it is more important than ever to use these words, not to loose sight of all of the ways that all living beings will suffer as the earth’s fever continues to rise because the of the greed and short-sidedness of federal government policies. Ruth Wallen
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17. Jenny Snider, FF Alumn, at Ed Rothfarb Studio, Athens, NY, July 26-27
Minimal/Maximal
8 Artists at Ed Rothfarb’s Studio
July 26-27, 12-6 pm 841 Leeds Athens Road, Athens NY 12015
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18. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, new publication now online at https://eroplay.com/mirror-before-and-after/
We are very pleased to announce the release of the autobiographical book, A Mirror of Before and After, by Frank Moore. You can purchase the book in paperback, hardcover and/or ebook now from the beautiful new website:
https://eroplay.com/mirror-before-and-after
ABOUT THE BOOK
Frank, a twenty-six-year-old man with cerebral palsy, sits in his wheelchair in a head shop in Washington, D.C. trying to communicate with people by pointing out words printed on a board, using a pointer strapped to his head.
This true story explores his relationships with Suzy, Carol and Moe. Suzy, who has escaped from a mental hospital, shares with Frank the secrets and voices that guide her mystical and isolated reality. Carol brings Frank out for rides and movies and into his first physical closeness, but later she withdraws into the Jesus Freak movement and tries to heal him instead of love him. Moe, a bushy haired giant, runs the “Before and After” headshop, and has been Frank’s friend for many years. Frank tries to draw Moe out of his secret loneliness, coaxing him, questioning him, pulling him from the glittering trap the “Before and After” has become. Frank acts as a mirror for the reader, revealing these three friends clearly.
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19. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1102893544
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS MAILING LIST:
PZ, JULY 20, 2025
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20. Heide Hatry, FF Member, at Ivy Brown Gallery, Manhattan, July 22, and more
SOLO EXHIBITION:
Only at Dusk
A Tribute to Flaco the Owl
July 8 – August 7, 2025
IVY BROWN GALLERY,
675 Hudson Street 4N, New York, NYC, elevator entrance 22 ½ 9th Avenue
FLACO CELEBRATION WITH ARTIST TALK, LIVE MUSIC AND POETRY:
Tuesday, July 22, 6-8pm
IVY BROWN GALLERY,
675 Hudson Street 4N, New York, NYC, elevator entrance 22 ½ 9th Avenue
Doors open at 6pm.
LIVE MUSIC start at 6.30pm, including compositions for Flaco by
ELIJAH SHIFFER: Postscript for Flaco (alto saxophone), and
JANE LE CROY: Owl Always Love You (vocals),
READINGS
will include poems by
GERARD MALANGA (Flaco Flaco)
LEIGH CALVEZ (from The Hidden Lives of Owls)
LEONARD SCHWARTZ (Coop and Cosmos)
and others – read by others
ARTIST TALK by HEIDE HATRY at 7pm about her work in the exhibition and her experience with Flaco.
The event will take place during Heide Hatry’s solo exhibition, honoring Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle Owl whose bold escape and survival in New York captured the city’s imagination. As a fellow immigrant who arrived in America to pursue her artistic calling, Hatry found a deep personal connection with Flaco’s brief but poignant journey.
The show features unique book-based objects, assemblages, and artifacts inspired by Flaco. Many works incorporate objects relating to Flaco, like his pellets that Hatry collected beneath his Central Park perch, forming a poetic material bond between artist and bird. Some pieces appear in Flacofolio, a collaborative artist’s book with poet Leonard Schwartz, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press, which will be available for purchase and signing.
“…The rich archaeology of these excavated books connects Flaco with an intertextual field of associations and references through which the artist invokes her personal memory of a shared cultural experience.” —Johanna Drucker
“Hatry has also escaped from her artworld cage and what better tribute to nature’s brave non-human souls than her witty and heartfelt assemblages.” —Lucy R. Lippard
HEIDE HATRY is a NYC-based German artist, former rare bookseller, and best known for her work employing animal parts or other discarded, disdained, or “taboo” materials. She has curated many exhibitions and shown her work at museums and galleries all over the world. She has produced more than 250 artist’s books, edited dozens of art catalogues, and four of her larger projects (Skin, Heads and Tales, Not a Rose, and Icons in Ash) have been documented in monographic books.
She is the founder of ICONS IN ASH, a social art project devoted to helping people contend with loss, and of POLAR BEAR FEST, a Lumbung art initiative created to foster community while fighting the climate crisis.
Her most recent book, Flacofolio, “a remarkable encounter between a people and a bird, and between a poet and a visual artist, is also a beautiful ode to New York City.” – Phillip Lopate
Ivy Brown Gallery
and
BOOK LAUNCH
For Flaco and Flacofolio
with HEIDE HATRY and JONATHAN HOLLINGSWORTH
Wednesday, July 30, 7 pm
WORD BROOKLYN
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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, Archive Intern, Summer/Fall/Winter 2024/2025
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