Contents for August 31st, 2026
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1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.naaohistory.com/archive-home
2. Frayda Feldman, FF Alumn, celebration of life, Manhattan, September 26
3. Pope.L, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
4. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Manhattan
5. Coco Fusco & Nao Bustamante, Pablo Helguera, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Bruce Yonemoto, FF Alumns, at The Americas Society, Manhattan, Se[t/ 9-Mar. 27
6. Liz n Bow, Dustin Grella, FF Alumns, in Times Square, Manhattan, Sept.-Oct.
7. Barbara Hammer, Liz Magic Laser, Ana Mendieta, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
8. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, at the 8th Floor, opening Sept. 17
9. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, in Manhattan, September 25
10. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
11. Steve Epstein & Naimah Hassan, FF Alumns, at Balance Arts Center, Manhattan, Sept. 26
12. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, to receive Southern Vermont Arts Center’s 2026 Kimball Artist Award
13. Robert Mapplethorpe, FF Alumn now online at NYTimes.com
14. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at PS122 Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 5, and more
15. Tim Miller, FF Alumn, at Kansas City FilmFest International, MO, premiering Sept. 19
16. Nadia Coen, FF Alumn, receives 2026 Tree of Life grant, and more
17. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 15
18. Daria Irincheeva, FF Alumn, at Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, opening Sept. 19
19. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 8-Dec. 3
20. Jody Pinto, FF Alumn, at Artlot, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 3
21. James Siena, FF Alumn, at DC Moore Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 10
22. Thana Alexa, FF Member, at The Jazz Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 26 and more
23. Robyn Stein, FF Alumn, now online at https://veritenews.org/2026/08/21/aclu-menu-trump-chefs-of-justice/
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1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.naaohistory.com/archive-home
THE NEW ARTSSPACE includes essays on alternative art spaces and a directory collected and published by LAICA on for the first national gathering of art spaces in LA.
Read the essays here: https://www.naaohistory.com/naao-bulletin-flash-archive/artsspace-essays
Browse the archive here: https://www.naaohistory.com/archive-home
Ignoring Huxley’s brutal take, when Miranda exclaims “O Brave New World” she is instantly enamored with fantastical things, and a desire for a future amongst them. In late April in 1978, a group of mostly to sort-of young artists, administrators, thinkers, funders, and academics from around the country landed in Los Angeles to have their Miranda moment. It was the first national meeting of art spaces. They found out they were not alone. The art they loved had a community of dedicated followers. Their dreams were taken seriously and closely attended. Their trials were shared and their knowledge respected. Their successes were inspirational and activating. No question was too small and no plan too large. Their curiosity wasn’t quenched at this meeting. Not at all. Curiosity brought NAAO into being. Deep curiosity along with the glory of first discoveries were paired with calls to sustain a movement and move it forward. They were explorers of the best kind. They believed art should and can exist in every community; and that community is a word of infinite meanings.
Treat yourself to Jim Pomeroy’s Viewing the Museum: The Tale Wagging the Dog — especially the section, Stacking the Deck. In his critique of the museum, Pomeroy unwittingly maps out the practices of artists’ organizations that museums would adopt to pull themselves back from the precipice of retrograde acquisition and endless storage. You will find artist Martha Wilson of Franklin Furnace, Edit deAk and Walter Robinson, artists and co-founders of Printed Matter, Alana Heiss of P.S.1, Anne Focke of Seattle’s and/or, and many others here. The essays are followed by the first national directory of art spaces.
Enjoy! Charlotte Murphy, NAAO+ Founder
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2. Frayda Feldman, FF Alumn, celebration of life, Manhattan, September 26
Frayda Feldman Celebration of Life
Saturday, September 26, 2026
4:00 to 6:30pm
Program at 4:30 PM
Ronald Feldman Gallery
31 Mercer Street, New York, NY
Please join us Saturday, September 26, 2026, at Ronald Feldman Gallery for a celebration of Frayda’s life, career, and impact.
We are excited to gather to reconnect with old friends, share stories, and raise a glass to Frayda, surrounded by the current exhibition, Andy Warhol: Theme and Variation, comprised of unique works published by Ron and Frayda.
As co-founder and director of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Frayda served as the operational heart of the gallery for close to 56 years. During her career, she collaborated with hundreds of artists, mounted countless exhibitions, and dedicated her energies to address social, political, and cultural issues. Her journey brought her to local artist studios, endless political and art events, Capitol Hill, and the White House.
Drawing on her unparalleled expertise, Frayda served as editor of Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962–1987, the seminal reference book used by museums, auction houses, dealers, and collectors around the globe. Her scholarship and firsthand knowledge helped establish standards for the study, authentication, and collection of Warhol’s graphic work.
More than anything, Frayda had a gift for building enduring relationships. Through her warmth, organizational talent, and unwavering commitment to others, she helped transform a young gallery into a lasting institution and made generations of artists, collectors, staff members, and visitors feel welcomed and valued.
We look forward to celebrating Frayda with you,
The Feldman Family and Gallery Team
RSVP appreciated but not required.
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3. Pope.L, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Manhattan
30,000 Artworks and Counting
At Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, queer and trans artists convene, create, and grow with us. Works enter our permanent collection through longterm connections with artists and people that work with and know them: curators, patrons, friends. We prioritize support for living artists of unique skill and with unusual perspectives, as well as key historical figures, either lauded or deserving of more shine.
This mode of acquisition harkens back to our beginnings. In 1969, our founders presented explicit artwork made by close friends, when showing homoerotic imagery was criminalized. During the 1980s, they collected the work of artists around them who had died of AIDS-related complications. The collection, and the canon, are made not only of artworks, but relationships.
Here’s one of our recent acquisitions:
The Enormity of the Slave Trade 2, 2026
Screen print on photo rag paper, 12 x 16 in
Museum purchase with funds provided as a gift from the MacDougall family
Last winter, we presented the critically-acclaimed two-person exhibition, Pamela Sneed and Carlos Martiel: Sacred and Profane. Today, we’re honored to acquire some of Sneed’s work from the show into our collection. These works on paper, part of larger series, emerge from Sneed’s research into histories of the slave trade on Long Island and around the Fire Island inlet, where an illegal trade existed during the eighteenth century.
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5. Coco Fusco & Nao Bustamante, Pablo Helguera, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Bruce Yonemoto, FF Alumns, at The Americas Society, Manhattan, Se[t/ 9-Mar. 27
Please visit this link:
https://www.as-coa.org/exhibitions/telenovela
Thank you.
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6. Liz n Bow, Dustin Grella, FF Alumns, in Times Square, Manhattan, Sept.-Oct.
Featuring LIZN’BOW (September), Dustin Grella (October), and Julien Creuzet (November)
Nightly from 11:57pm–12am | Times Square Between 41st and 49th Streets
(NEW YORK, NY — August 19, 2026) — Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to announce its Midnight Moment Fall 2026 Season featuring works by multidisciplinary artists LIZN’BOW (September), Dustin Grella (October), and Julien Creuzet (November).
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running public digital art exhibition, synchronized on 100+ electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The Fall 2026 program includes a digital portal into a dream-like alternate reality that centers joy and connection; a nostalgic meditation on the everyday beauty of New York City landmarks; and a moment of sacred reflection on the mythologies of marginalized Martinican histories.
LIZN’BOW | El Mundo es Niña
September 1–30 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
September 20–27 | Inflatable sculpture installation
September 23 at 10pm | Live premiere performance with special guests Poncili Creación
El Mundo es Niña transforms Times Square’s synchronized billboards into a portal to Niñalandia, an expansive fictional universe created by Miami-based artist duo LIZN’BOW. In the video, the artists construct a queer, futurist, “pro-pocalyptic” meta-reality—a world shaped by adaptation, collective joy, and new ways of living together in the face of climate change, technological transformation, and uncertainty. Drawing from over a decade of collaboration, LIZN’BOW weave pop culture references, nostalgia, humor, and personal memory into an immersive moving-image landscape where the digital and the real gradually bleed into one another. A unicorn cow riding a jet ski, floating milk jugs, islands of money, rainbow portals, and Liz’s abuela on a flying bike drift through purple skies and vibrant dreamscapes, creating a vivid collage that is at once playful, surreal, and emotionally resonant.
Through its layered imagery and recurring characters, El Mundo es Niña explores themes of memory, kinship, belonging, resilience, and chosen family, while challenging conventional narratives about identity, visibility, and the future.
This Midnight Moment is accompanied by a monumental 34-foot-long inflatable rainbow and a 27-foot-long inflatable unicorn cow riding on a jet ski, on view from September 20–27, in addition to the premiere of a live performance by the artists’ feminist reggaeton band Niña and Puerto Rican art collective Poncili Creación on September 23, supported by Creative Capital Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts. LIZN’BOW’s takeover transforms Times Square into Niñalandia, where moving image, public art, music, and performance merge into a shared site of imagination, participation, and collective celebration.
Dustin Grella | Sunday Morning
October 1–31 | Nightly 11:57–Midnight
Animator Dustin Grella’s practice works to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane. In Sunday Morning, Grella’s chalkboard animations wax nostalgic for an ever evolving city. Flowing between quotidian moments and New York City landmarks, illustrations move through 42nd Street, a subway platform, a stoop on the Lower East Side, Madison Square Park, Moondance Diner, Fifth Avenue, Doyer Avenue, Tribeca, and Battery Square Park.
Hand-drawn in chalk pastel on a slate blackboard salvaged from an 1800s schoolhouse, the piece captures fleeting instances of connection amid the city’s chaos: tea and a transistor radio on an East Village stoop, a summer picnic in Central Park, a late-night conversation at one of the city’s once-plentiful diners. The East Village stoop that opens the piece is drawn from memory: in the early 1990s, Grella spent his afternoons there, dreaming of one day making it as a New York artist. Thirty-five years later, his chalkboard drawings animate the synchronized billboards of Times Square.
Built from snapshots of memory, Sunday Morning consists of twenty years of animations, compiled from over four hours of footage and choreographed into a three-minute loop to consider New York as a city in constant transition, where brief moments of stillness, however easily overlooked, are what make the city, and its people, worth celebrating.
https://www.timessquarenyc.org/news-and-press-releases/fall-2026-midnight-moment-program
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7. Barbara Hammer, Liz Magic Laser, Ana Mendieta, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, at the 8th Floor, opening Sept. 17
Carlos Martiel: Dark Age
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 17, 6-8pm
The 8th Floor, 17 W 17 St, NYC
Please join us on Thursday, September 17 from 6-8pm at The 8th Floor to celebrate the opening of Carlos Martiel: Dark Age. Martiel’s performances are known for distilling concepts of colonialism, racism, and genocide, forcing viewers to bear witness and confront their complicity. Three new performance commissions will accompany the exhibition, featuring new drawings and documentation of key works from the past 20 years. Please save the dates below – full details and individual RSVP links for the performances will be announced soon, alongside additional fall programming.
Dark Age
Saturday, September 19, 2pm
Mano de hierro (Iron Hand)
Thursday, October 8, 7pm
Fear of Them
Thursday, December 10, 7pm
Please direct media inquiries to katrina@bluemedium.com.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation | 17 West 17th Street, 8th Floor | New York, NY
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9. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib, FF Alumn, in Manhattan, September 25
Art in All Places / A Blessing
Please join in opening the AiOP 2026: UTOPIAS festival with a blessing performed by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel Atrib.
Nicolás dedicates this to Linda Mary Montano.
For the blessing performance, be ready to meet Nicolás on Friday, September 25, 11:45 PM. The blessing will start promptly at midnight. The exact meeting location will be shared with you after you RSVP and close to the date of the event.
TO RSVP, go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-in-all-places-a-blessing-tickets-1998958682229
Right when clocks in New York City mark 12:01 AM on September 26, 2026, I, Nicolás, convene with a small cadre at a public yet clandestine location on 14th Street in Manhattan, to bestow a blessing on Art in Odd Places (AiOP). This is meant to be the very first gesture for the 2026 Festival, hence releasing a spiritual and energetic reverberation throughout two unfolding days of actions in our streets.
With Art in All Places / A Blessing, I rely on my own understanding of art as an inextricable part of the mystery called Life, as well as from my personal proposition that utopias at this decisive moment in history can serve as a locus where to experiment with freedom in the midst of rampant repression. Also, with the fact that not everything needs to be made visible, and that there can be power in that which remains concealed. Our gathering unravels at the threshold of the late-night and early-morning, hence tracing a circular path that goes back to those courageous artists who have dared to engage spirituality in the arts for decades.
Those wishing to attend in person, must RSVP by September 24, 11:59 PM, and will be guided to meet me, Nicolás, outside a specific location the actual day of the gathering. No exact location will be disclosed and I, Nicolás, will guide you to our secret destination. Those willing to attend in spirit can email me at indioclaro@hotmail.com, and they will receive some suggestions as to how to engage from wherever they are, mentally-spiritually-emotionally.
Other than an audio to be produced by AiOP, there is absolutely no filming, photographing or audio-recording permitted.
RSVP required
Art in All Places / A Blessing ©2026 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful
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10. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Steve Epstein & Naimah Hassan, FF Alumns, at Balance Arts Center, Manhattan, Sept. 26
“Scatter Naimah’s Ashes Amongst The Ghosts Of Greenwich Village “ Saturday Sept 26 Balance Arts Center 151 W. 30 Street, Manhattan. “A poetreads his crooked rhyme / Holy, Holy is his sacrament/30 dollars pays your rent on Bleecker Street”. Paul Simon 1964. Pizza at John’s on Bleecker Street is 33 dollars 2026. Lots of Ghosts in Greenwich Village shaking their heads.
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12. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, to receive Southern Vermont Arts Center’s 2026 Kimball Artist Award
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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13. Robert Mapplethorpe, FF Alumn now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at PS122 Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 5, and more
Dot, Line, Thread, Wave
curated by Patricia Miranda
Sept. 5-27
I am so excited to bring together these artists for this conceptually and materially beautiful exhibition! Each creates work that involves line in unexpected ways, from performance drawing, to sound, lace, and glass. Also- I don’t often have the opportunity to show my large lace works in the city.
Colleen Coleman, Katherine Jackson, Chris Kaczmarek, Patricia Miranda,
Jo Yarrington
Join us for one or all of the events!
Sept 5
2-4pm: Come in and out for Colleen Coleman’s durational drawing
4-6pm: Artist Reception
A point walks into a line, a body draws lines in space, a line of thread pierces through cloth, a dot etches glass, a wave of light reverberates into sound. From neurological brain waves flowing from arm to form, these artists use line to create multi-dimensional conceptual drawings; on paper and on walls, in lace and in glass, performance, and invisible lines of light and sound.
Intensive Workshop + Residency with Patricia Miranda
Sept 14-26
Truro Center for the Arts
Castle Hill, Edgewood Farm Campus, Truro MA
An intensive in person studio residency in two fabulous weeks! Each artist has a studio and private room in the Edgewood historic house, access to the campus and beautiful landscape. Bring materials and enthusiasm- we will dig in to work and discuss and push the work forward. All media and experience are welcome.
Reach out to find out more- email info@patriciamiranda.com
Colleen Coleman’s performance drawings are cartographic, vibrational readings that use her full body to dance graphite across a wall, bare feet planted on floor, blackened hands presented to the room in an act of embodied defiance.
Katherine Jackson utilizes the technology of light as an expressive device; she etches letters, dots, pulses, lines, and bullets into thick sheets of glass.
Chris Kaczmarek builds solar powered sound installations, drawing waves of light into engines that clack eggshells together, making light waves insistently visible through sound.
Patricia Miranda threads donated lace together into monumental wall drawings, lines of
PS122 Gallery
150 1st Avenue
NYC NY 10009
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15. Tim Miller, FF Alumn, at Kansas City FilmFest International, MO, premiering Sept. 19
I am super excited about the feature-length documentary about me and my work “Tim Miller Citizen Artist: Performing Stories to Change the Ending” that will have its world premiere at the Kansas City International Film Festival on September 19. The directors Heather Carver and William Horner are superstars – their first feature documentary is the only film on Pedro Zamora- and were a total joy to work with. What a wild three plus years it has been working with them on the film. We had so many adventures journeying from my parents bedroom in the house I grew up in where I came out to them to marching with No Kings protests in downtown LA. There are wonderful interviews about my work with Tony Kushner, Moisés Kaufman and many other great folks. The film is just beginning its adventure and will hopefully get to your town’s film festivals! Thanks to Bill and Heather, all the fabulous crew, and everyone who participated in the film! I love this foto on the poster. (Photo credit Kirk Winslow) One of my earliest performance shots. 20 years old, my name spray painted on my chest and ready to queerly shake things up.
“Citizen Artist explores the life and career of the internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller who, over his long career made crucial early performances about gay identity and HIV/AIDS, fought a free speech case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court as one of the “NEA Four,” and co-founded two groundbreaking performances spaces, on in New York and one in Los Angeles which continue to be hubs for creativity and change. He uses his creative work to fight for social change and human decency. A fierce defender of the First Amendment and an uncompromising figure for LGBTQ rights and the rights of marginalized people for more than four decades, Tim Miller is an artist who performs to change the world for the better.”
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16. Nadia Coen, FF Alumn, receives 2026 Tree of Life grant, and more
– Tree of Life: Individual Artist Grant recipient, 2026
– Design completion and opening of the Alpha Mercy Historical Center museum in Kingston, Jamaica through my parallel practice in exhibition design of museums & narrative spaces.
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17. Benoît Maubrey, FF Alumn, at City Hall, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 15
Coming to Kitchener Canada
Exhibition time 15.09 until (at least) 15.10.26 Location: in Front of City Hall
in September 2026: SPEAKERS ARENA:The sculpture serves as a public participatory sound platform. Audiences can express themselves through the sculpture . Designed both to be sat on and used as a stage, it transforms public space into a communal sonic experience.It consists of 400 connected loudspeakers, 2 amplifiers, a direct internet interface for people to talk through it and leave messages , 3 Bluetooth receivers, , 4 input jacks, 1 microphone, mixing board. The public and local musicians can participate “live”through the sculpture. People from all over the world can talk through it via an internet interface https://speaker-arena.art and visit it via live streaming.
Link to project in 2018 https://benoitmaubrey.com/arena-2/
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18. Daria Irincheeva, FF Alumn, at Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, opening Sept. 19
The official opening of my exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum includes my large painting project Forced Omission and my artist’s book. The opening coincides with the Museum’s 25th anniversary and will take place on September 19, from 4-6pm, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY.
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19. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 8-Dec. 3
Andy Warhol
Theme and Variation
Unique Trial Proof Prints from the 1980s
September 8 – December 3, 2026
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri 10-6
Public viewing hours: Tues – Thurs 1-5
Ronald Feldman Gallery is pleased to present Andy Warhol: Theme and Variation, an exhibition devoted to unique trial proof prints created during the final decade of the artist’s career. Many of the works included are published by Ronald Feldman Gallery, have remained in private collections for decades, and are brought together here for the first time.
Beginning in the late 1970s, Ronald Feldman proposed a new approach to Warhol’s print portfolios. Rather than producing multiple images of a single subject, each portfolio would consist of ten entirely different images united by a common theme. This concept became the foundation for some of Warhol’s most ambitious late print projects, including Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, Myths, Endangered Species, Ads, and others.
Silkscreen printing played a central role in Warhol’s practice, and he used printmaking as another artist might use drawing: as a flexible medium for experimentation. The resulting trial proofs challenge the expectation of uniformity in the printmaking process and are characterized by remarkable variation of color, nuance, and complexity. More complete than state proofs, they reveal Warhol exploring color, registration, layering, and composition via continual adjustment and technique. The exhibition’s title, Theme and Variation, reflects both the diversity of subjects within these portfolios and the distinctly beautiful combinations within each trial proof.
In addition to being a visual artist, Warhol was an author, filmmaker, magazine publisher, model, partygoer, and a cult phenomenon in the worlds of fashion and celebrity. Perhaps inevitably, his fame and lifestyle became intertwined with the popular understanding of his art. The years since his passing in 1987 have made it easier to appreciate Warhol’s work on its own terms and to recognize the artistic strategy that he employed.
The exhibition is informed by decades of scholarship documenting Warhol’s printmaking practice. Frayda Feldman, longtime Director of Ronald Feldman Gallery and coeditor of the indispensable Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962–1987 with Jörg Schellmann, helped establish this definitive scholarly record of Warhol’s prints, including the unique trial proofs featured here. Factory photographs, preparatory drawings, source material, and related works complement that scholarship, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the development of these celebrated print portfolios.
A complete trial proof portfolio of Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980) is featured. This project marks the first time Warhol portrayed figures from history rather than from contemporary celebrity, choosing individuals recognized for their accomplishments in science, politics, literature, music, philosophy, and the arts. Scaled to larger than life, these portraits are less ironic and more compositionally complex than earlier examples, conveying a distinct psychological gravitas.
A complete trial proof portfolio of Myths (1981) is presented. Warhol once stated that his favorite artist was Walt Disney, and Mickey Mouse became the first subject in the series. The portfolio brings together a cross section of postwar American icons and imaginary characters, including Superman, Greta Garbo as Mata Hari, Santa Claus, Uncle Sam, Dracula, and the Wicked Witch. Warhol understood these figures as embodiments of collective hopes, fears, and dreams that spoke to enduring questions of identity, community, and good versus evil. He included himself as The Shadow, the mysterious crime fighting character from the popular radio series. After considerable experimentation, the now iconic three-quarter profile emerged as the defining image of the project.
A complete trial proof set of Ads (1985) is prominently displayed. Although Warhol did more than any other artist of his era to revitalize portraiture, he began his career as a commercial artist, and that experience remained foundational to his work. As he famously observed, “Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art.” The ten advertisements range from automobiles and candy to perfume, technology, clothing, film, and war bonds, demonstrating how commercial imagery had itself become a form of modern mythology.
Additional works include trial proofs of Moonwalk, Brooklyn Bridge, and Neuschwanstein, further illustrating the breadth of subjects of Warhol’s late printmaking.
Together these unique trial proofs reveal an aspect of Warhol’s practice rarely available to the public. Rather than simply documenting the finished image, they capture the artist’s creative process as he explored color, composition, and visual possibility. They offer an exceptional opportunity to experience the making of some of Warhol’s most celebrated print portfolios.
This exhibition would not have been possible without the generosity of the private collectors who lent works from their collections. Ronald Feldman Gallery gratefully acknowledges their support.
For press and image inquiries, contact Cat Zhou at (212) 226-3232 or catherine@feldmangallery.com
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20. Jody Pinto, FF Alumn, at Artlot, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 3
Jody Pinto
Body/Land Exchange
August 28, 2026 – March 7, 2027
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 3, 2026
5–8 pm
Body/Land Exchange
Two structures face each other. They are alike yet different. They are connected by a body-land exchange. It is a transfusion of rain through a sluice system. They are dependent upon each other for life. A second exchange occurs when the project is watered by hand. It is alive – it has thirst.
— Jody Pinto
Art Lot presents Body/Land Exchange, in partnership with moCa Cleveland on the occasion of the artist’s first retrospective, Jody Pinto: Body/Land. Drawing on her series of architectural sculptures from the late 1970s, Pinto constructed a pair of “living” structures connected by a weather-responsive trough system, each dependent on the other and their environment in a shared ecology of survival.
For over fifty years, Pinto has developed a radical body of work spanning sculpture, drawing, ephemeral outdoor installations, activism, and public art. Emerging during the Land art movement in the 1970s, she built sensorial, provisional works outdoors, often activated by weather conditions and visitors. In 1987, she completed the work for which she is best known: Fingerspan Bridge, a permanent fixture sited along a hiking trail in Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia. Since the 1990s, Pinto has been commissioned as an artist on more than fifty international public projects including bridges, parks, train stations, waterfronts and gardens. Across these varied works, she explores the experience of passage, the performance of being in public, and the generative possibilities of collaboration and entropy.
In Pinto’s new outdoor sculpture Body/Land Exchange, two monolithic structures build on her Heart Chambers sculptures from 1978, sited at the ICA Philadelphia at UPenn and the Art Institute of Chicago. Working with students and using cinder blocks and metal duct work, the artist built structures to house fabric bundles containing red pigment. When it rained, the structures appeared to bleed from their metal channels, or “arteries,” as Pinto called them— an indication of living forces within. In her newest version, a ritual performance of watering also activates the work.
As founder of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) in 1973, Pinto played a foundational role in the feminist movement against sexual violence, channeling her experience into a sustained artistic inquiry that examines interdependent effects of oppression, corporeal violence, and environmental extraction. Driving this transdisciplinary practice is Pinto’s idea of “body/land,” a formulation that connects bodily and environmental systems such as veins and irrigation, hair and plant growth, and cycles of injury and healing.
— Marie Catalano, co-curator of Jody Pinto: Body/Land
Jody Pinto (b. 1942, New York, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. Her work was recently featured in Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX (2023) and Underground at MoMA (2022-2023). Pinto’s work has been included in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and in exhibitions at Artpark, Lewiston, NY; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia; the New Museum, and the Queens Museum (both in NY). From 1971-74 she founded and directed Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), the longest-operating rape crisis center in Philadelphia, PA. She has collaborated on over 50 public works including for bridges, gardens, parks, and transit systems and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for this work, including the NEA Federal Design Achievement Award, A.I.A. Honor Award: National Design for Transportation Award, Art in Public Spaces and two National ASLA Design Honor Awards. Her extant public works include Fingerspan Bridge (1987) in Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia PA, Tree of Life (1992) at Papago Park, Phoenix, the redesign of Santa Monica State Beach and Palisade Park in Los Angeles (2001), the Fort Lauderdale International Airport (2002), Land Buoy (2014) in Philadelphia, PA and the Rio del Rey Bridge in Phoenix, AZ. . Pinto received her BFA from Pennsylvania Academy for Fine Arts (PAFA) where she later taught for four decades.
Art Lot is proud to present Body/Land Exchange in partnership with moCa Cleveland. This exhibition takes place in tandem with Jody Pinto: Body/Land, the artist’s first retrospective and first solo museum exhibition hosted by moCa Cleveland, curated by Marie Catalano and DJ Hellerman. More information here.
Art Lot
206 Columbia St.
Brooklyn, NY 11231
@artlotbrooklyn
Open by appointment and visible
24/7 from the sidewalk.
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21. James Siena, FF Alumn, at DC Moore Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 10
James Siena has work in the group exhibition On-In-Off the Grid at DC Moore Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 10, 6-8 pm and continuing through Oct. 3
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22. Thana Alexa, FF Member, at The Jazz Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 26 and more
Link for tix is thanalexa.com/live
Thank you.
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23. Robyn Stein, FF Alumn, now online at https://veritenews.org/2026/08/21/aclu-menu-trump-chefs-of-justice/
Hi friends at FF:
I was just interviewed and quoted in a piece about cause related marketing related to a program in New Orleans where restaurants are donating funds to the ACLU.
https://veritenews.org/2026/08/21/aclu-menu-trump-chefs-of-justice
All best regards
Robyn L. Stein
President, https://www.rlsteingroup.com/
Non-Profit Consultant | NYU Wagner Adjunct Associate Professor | Professional Organizer
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