Contents for January 05th, 2026
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1. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray Associates, Manhattan, opening Jan. 9
2. Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, at SWPK Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 7 and more
3. Phoebe Potts, FF Member, at Actors Temple, Manhattan, Jan. 11, 2026
4. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY, Jan. 24
5. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Oakland University, Rochester, MI, thru April 20, 2026 and more
6. Christine DeFazio, FF Alumn, at Bronx Art Space, The Bronx, opening Jan 8
7. Arleen Schloss, FF Alumn, now online at https://youtu.be/tKj3Sl0vR2Q
8. Susan Newmark, Janet Goldner, FF Alumns, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 8, 2026
9. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at Le Mans, France, Jan. 17-22
10. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ASjz3qXgA
11. Larry List, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Jan. 9
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1. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alexander Gray Associates, Manhattan, opening Jan. 9
Regina Silveira: Latin American Puzzle
January 9–February 14, 2026
Alexander Gray Associates, New York, presents Regina Silveira: Latin American Puzzle, the artist’s sixth solo exhibition with the Gallery. The exhibition brings together To Be Continued… (1997) from Silveira’s Latin American Puzzle series and its newest installment, Continued… (2025). Equally monumental, both works are composed of 110 oversized, interlocking jigsaw pieces. 100 of the pieces in each work bear a singular bold image drawn from the region’s diverse cultures, histories, and landscapes. Building on her longstanding exploration of the circulation of images, Silveira brings together iconic figures and pivotal events with symbols of popular culture, sport, and the arts, as well as maps, flora, and fauna. Described by the artist as “a patchwork quilt of entropic character,” the series unfolds as a layered, open-ended meditation on Latin American identity.
Conceived in 1992—five centuries after the first European incursions into the Americas—Latin American Puzzle emerged amid a wave of democratic transitions across the region and a reframing of pre- and post-colonial histories throughout the Western hemisphere. Within these contexts, the series embraces the memorial and the celebratory, the dead and the living, the natural and built environments. Silveira’s constellation of images confronts the exploitation of natural resources and devastation of Indigenous communities, while acknowledging the resilience and creativity that continue to define the region. Within the artist’s visual lexicon, conquistadors appear alongside cocaine, piranhas beside Jesuit missionaries, pop singers with pre-Columbian relics, and revolutionaries with populist leaders. Across these juxtapositions, Silveira maps the complexities and paradoxes that animate Latin America’s collective and evolving stories.
Spanning nearly three decades, the interval between To Be Continued… and Continued… underscores both continuity and change—histories that overlap, diverge, and transform. The work extends Silveira’s longstanding investigation into systems of visual representation, employing scale, absence, and distortion to challenge established power hierarchies and mythological histories. Rendered in black and white, the series draws on the visual language of mass media that once portrayed Latin America as a tropical paradise, a dangerous frontier, and an object of exotic fascination. By collapsing time and geography, Silveira creates unexpected encounters—sometimes humorous, sometimes unsettling—that expose how such representations persist. The ellipses in her titles, and the puzzle’s unfinished, reconfigurable structure, point to a story still unfolding: one that resists closure and remains open to reinterpretation.
Each puzzle piece tells its own story—some instantly familiar, others elusive. Together, they form a vivid composite of the myths, histories, and lived realities that shape Latin America today. Through this intricate assembly, Silveira invites viewers to look closely, question what they see, and find meaning in the space between connection and contradiction.
Silveira has exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas, including solo exhibitions at Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil (2025); La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain (2024); Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo (MAC-USP), Brazil (2021); Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Pavilion Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, WA (2019); Museu Brasileiro de Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2015); Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2012); Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil (2009); Køs Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark (2009); Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (2008); and Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2005), among others. Her work is represented in public collections internationally, including the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Tomás Francisco Prieto Award (2025); Prêmio Governador do Estado de São Paulo (2013); the MASP–Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Award for Career (2013), which was accompanied by an exhibition; and the Award for Life and Work (2012) from the Brazilian Art Critics Association.
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2. Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, FF Alumns, at SWPK Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 7 and more
Tears from the American Dream at SWPK Gallery 417 Lafayette St, 2nd Floor, NYC
Join us Wednesday, January 7, 6-8 PM for the opening of May We Dance in the Face of our Fears – a group exhibition curated by Maureen Sullivan
Tears from the American Dream
We are pleased to be showing Tears from the American Dream, a 10 ml bottle of melted water collected from The American Dream ice sculpture on Independence Mall, Philadelphia. The sculpture was installed the first day of the Democratic National Convention, July 25, 2016. An archival digital print of the sculpture on site is included in the exhibition.
May We Dance in the Face of our Fears exhibition includes works by
Antonia Wright, Barbara von Portatius, Brad Kahlhamer, Cannon Hersey, Claudia Peña Salinas, Corey Escoto, Finley, Jen DeNike, José Carlos Martinat, LigoranoReese, Jennifer Wen Ma, Nene Humphrey, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu, Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos), Thomas Beale, and others.
Curated by Maureen Sullivan
SWPK Gallery / The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Foundation
417 Lafayette St, 2nd Floor, NYC. www.swpk.org
and
Deception Fragrance Launch, January 6, 2026
Our newest pure product drops on January 6, 2026. Deception Fragrance is distilled from our Democracy ice sculpture on the National Mall last October.
Deception is an edition of 101 bottles. The first 50 will be available on January 6th at pureproductsusa.com.
Stay tuned for the NYC launch/presentation later this winter.
and
Vanishing Finish
Extended through January 2026
at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Vanishing Finish comprises 49 cyanotype prints documenting endangered keystone species from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List
Recent Press
The Guardian, A Trump-Epstein statue, melting democracy and human banners: the art of protesting in 2025 – in pictures December 30, 2025
ArtNews, How Artists Responded to 2025’s Surging ICE Raids, December 19, 2025
The Washington Post, Democracy Ice Sculpture Drips in Daylight, October 15, 2025
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3. Phoebe Potts, FF Member, at Actors Temple, Manhattan, Jan. 11, 2026
TOO FAT FOR CHINA
January 11, 2026 3PM and 7:30PM
Actors Temple, 339 W. 47th St, NY, NY
Too Fat for China, a comedy about the tragedies of adoption, is a solo show written, drawn and performed by Phoebe Potts. A native of Brooklyn, where everyone was indignant before breakfast, Potts learned to tell stories to get her family to like her and to understand thorny issues. In Too Fat for China, Potts uses humor and honesty to tell the irreverent story of the terrible things she did for love.
“Potts’ presence grips the viewer so firmly that it is impossible to look away… she is capital H Hilarious”
-Megan Kempton, DC Theater Arts
Potts comes to the stage armed with a larger than life hand cranked scroll of her own comic strips featuring the newsreel in her head. After a wave of sold out performances at Gloucester Stage Company, Central Square Theater, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Official Selection), NYC for United Solo (WINNER Best Storytelling), Urbanite Theater, Lost Nation Theater, and cities across the U.S. Potts returns to her hometown to showcase Too Fat for China at APAP.
website: www.toofatforchina.com
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VEDpPea5y4&feature=youtu.be
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4. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Woodstock Artist Association & Museum, NY, Jan. 24
Dear friends –
Happy New Year!
You are invited Saturday, January 24
Marvel’s Cabinet
Yura Adams solo show
artist talk 3-4pm, reception 4-6pm
Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, 28 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Hope to see you there!
Yura Adams
@yuradams
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5. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Oakland University, Rochester, MI, thru April 20, 2026 and more
elin o’Hara slavick’s work is included in the exhibition Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. She will be talking about her work at the gallery on January 15, 2026. The exhibition goes until April 20, 2026.
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6. Christine DeFazio, FF Alumn, at Bronx Art Space, The Bronx, opening Jan 8
Tales From The Ghost Yard Featuring MIKE 171, SJK 171, SNAKE 1, and T-KID 170
Bronx Art Space, 700 Manida Street, Bronx, NY
Curated by Christine DeFazio (christinedefazioarts@gmail.com)
January 8-February 14, 2026
Opening January 8 6:30-8:30 pm featuring DJ SANITY
Closing February 14 5:00-7:00 pm
Tales From The Ghost Yard features writers who worked at this infamous locale and illustrates two important periods in the art history of graffiti writing. MIKE 171; SJK 171, who are also called The Boys from the Heights, painted some of the first pieces on stationary trains there in the early 1970s, as did SNAKE 1, who was co-founder of Writers Corner 188, one of the earliest writing crews. The exhibition includes Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1972-73 photograph of a piece SJK 171 painted in the Ghost Yard in 1971, as well as photographs illustrating writing at the Ghost Yard from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, alongside aerosol paintings.
The Ghost Yard, on 10th Avenue between 207th and 215th Streets along the
Harlem River, formerly the location of the 1736 Nagel Burial Ground, was purportedly named for the haunting sounds echoing off the adjacent Harlem River. MIKE 171 recalled that a fog came in off the Harlem River in the hot summer months and the workers used hand held lamps which emanated an eerie glow as they walked around working in the foggy yard, hence earning the moniker Ghost Yard. The Ghost Yard,\ perhaps the most important yard in New York City writing history, was where writers painted many of the first and last pieces on the subway trains. It was the largest train repair and maintenance yard in New York City servicing nearly all of the New York city train lines, and it functioned as a nexus for writers and was the birthplace for many legendary aerosol works from very first pieces of the early 1970s, through the Golden
Age of writing, up until the last days of the Clean Train Era circa 1987.
T-KID 170 painted in the Ghost Yard from 1977-1987 spanning the most prolific
period of aerosol art on subway trains. T-KID 170 began ‘writing ‘at the Ghost Yard in 1977, and became ‘King’ of the yard in the 1980s, where he wrote with his own crews The Nasty Boys (TNB) and The Vamp Squad (TVS). Numerous ‘writers’ painted in the Ghost Yard during the first half of the 1980’s, where some of the largest crews of the 1980s joined forces.
Although the Ghost Yard itself is now off limits, as the yards are under strict
surveillance and cannot be entered, the area around the Ghost Yard remains an
important place for writers. T-KID 170 and others painted a series of Wild Style burners on a large wall near the Ghost Yard in honor of TRACY 168, in the summer of 2024. The artists featured in Tales from the Ghost Yard kept the tradition alive fifty years later.
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7. Arleen Schloss, FF Alumn, now online at https://youtu.be/tKj3Sl0vR2Q
It’s A to Z: The Art of Arleen Schloss
Hi Everyone, We have published the documentary about Arleen Schloss on YouTube for all to see it.
Now that we have ended our festival run, we feel the best way to get the word out about Arleen Schloss and her work is to make the documentary public and available.
Thank you to all the people who have supported us through the making of the documentary It’s A to Z: The Art of Arleen Schloss.
HERE IS THE LINK: https://youtu.be/tKj3Sl0vR2Q
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8. Susan Newmark, Janet Goldner, FF Alumns, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 8, 2026
Hope you are enjoying the holiday season and wish you the best for the new year. Please join us for Winter Mix, a group invitational exhibit at Carter Burden Gallery!
January 8 – February 3, 2026
Opening: Thursday, January 8, 2026: 6pm – 8pm
Carter Burden Gallery
548 West 28th St #534
New York, NY 1001
Opening: Thursday, January 8, 2026: 6pm – 8pm
East and West Galleries: Winter Mix: Beth Barry, David Bender, Pat Brentano, Karin Bruckner, Roz Dimon, Gary Dipasquale, Janet Goldner, Renee Khatami, Judy Mauer, Susan Newmark, Lance Paul, Robert Petrick, Christopher Skura, Stewart Siskind, Sue Sinick, Syma, and John Whittenberg.
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9. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at Le Mans, France, Jan. 17-22
Invitation to Le Mans
https://www.lemans-tourisme.com/fr/obelisk-sonore-avec-benoit-maubrey.html
Benoît Maubrey
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10. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ASjz3qXgA
I’m pleased to announce the premiere of the Global Accordion Project Orchestra’s new project: “2026 Year of the Accordion”.
Composed by Ian Watson, this piece brings together accordionists from around the world, and I’m pleased to be part of it.
The video will premiere tomorrow, New Years Day, 1st January at 2pm GMT on YouTube. (for those of you not in the UK, that’s 9AM EST. the project is based in London.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ASjz3qXgA
Happy New Year, everyone!
Bob
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11. Larry List, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Jan. 9
If you’d like to see the Man Ray When Objects Dream Show, play a casual game of chess, drink Man Ray Margaritas, and/or hear me give a brief gallery talk about
the artist’s first chess set
You can do so at the Metropolitan Museum Friday Night, January 9th
Enjoy Drop-in Games with Pawn Chess Club 5–8 pm at
Gallery 548, Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court
Enjoy a 2-for-1 Date Night Drink Special Cocktail
The Rayograph Margarita 6–8:30 pm Petrie Court Cafe
Join me for Gallery Talks & Dialogue from 6–7 pm in Gallery 199
or in the Petrie Court near the exhibition shop from 7:30 to 8 pm
where I’ll be available to sign copies of my book.
It should be a fun evening. Larry List
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