Contents for May 02, 2022
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Danielle Abrams, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, online at CUNY & live at City Lore Gallery, Manhattan, May 20
2. Justin Randolph Thompson, FF Alumn, at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 4-5
3. Hans Haacke, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, live online with The New Museum, May 3
4. Tracy Quan, FF Alumn, now online at https://topicalpoetry.com/night-light/
5. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, at WhiteBox, Manhattan, opening May 11
6. Rafael Montañez Ortiz, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
7. Giles Denmark, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.tiktok.com/@gilesdenmark
8. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, now online on YouTube
9. Stefan Hayn, FF Alumn, at Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany, thru June 12
10. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Trinity Lower East Side Church courtyard, Manhattan, May 11
11. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumns, live and online, Manhattan, May 7
12. Lucy Lippard, Dread Scott, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, in new publication
13. Elise Engler, FF Alumn, at Farmer’s Market, Manhattan, May 1 and more
14. The Dark Bob, FF Alumn, launches new website, www.TheDarkBob.com
15. Ken Butler, Warren Lehrer, Judith Sloan, FF Alumns, at The Gallery on Dobbin Mews, Brooklyn, May 7
16. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, Gallery Talk at the Sheldon Galleries, St. Louis, MO
17. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, film screenings, May-June
18. Kiyan Williams, FF Alumn, at Lyles & King, New York, NY, May 12 thru June 25
19. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at Zurcher Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 16
20. Christy Rupp, FF Alumn, on Lower East Side, Manhattan, May 7
21. Hanne Tierney, FF Alumn, at Five Myles, Brooklyn, June 2-18
22. E.F. Higgins, III, FF Alumn, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 12
23. Ad Art Show 2022, live online May 3
24. Alice Aycock, Cynthia Carlson, Lucy Lippard, Mary Miss, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
25. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
26. Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, Miriam Schapiro, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
27. Iris Rose, FF ALumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, May 22
28. Nicole Eisenman, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
29. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
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Danielle Abrams, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2022/04/25/tufts-mourns-unexpected-loss-of-danielle-abrams/
Thank you.
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1. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, online at CUNY & live at City Lore Gallery, Manhattan, May 20
Please save the date!
Friday, May 20, 2022
Two-Part Book Launch!
Virtual & In-Person/NYC
Our Laundry, Our Town
My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
A memoir by Alvin Eng
Part I (May 20)
Virtual Book Launch Reading and Talk / 5:30pm – 7 pm (EST)
AAARI/CUNY’s online Friday Lecture Series
Asian American/Asian Research Institute, City University of New York
Part II (May 20)
In-Person Book Launch / 7pm – 9pm (EST)
City Lore Gallery, 56 East 1st Street, East Village, NYC
“Alvin Eng’s masterful, sweeping memoir about growing up with his five siblings in a dysfunctional family in the back of the Foo J. Chin Chinese Hand Laundry in Flushing, Queens is laced with his marvelous humor, family anecdotes and metaphors that bring a century of the Chinese American Experience to life. I was deeply touched, especially by the spirits parallels between the folks in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and the laundry and the beautiful idea that his parents didn’t really see each other either––like the characters in the play. Just a beautiful book.”
Steve Zeitlin author Poetry of Everyday Life, Founding Director of City Lore
Hope you can join us online or in-person to celebrate the publication!
More details soon!
OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN
My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Fordham University Press publication date: May 17, 2022
Available for Pre-Order now:
Fordham University Press
Bookshop (please select a favorite indie bookstore!)
Amazon
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2. Justin Randolph Thompson, FF Alumn, at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 4-5
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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3. Hans Haacke, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, live online with The New Museum, May 3
Please visit this link:
https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/press/press-releases/news/id/207
Thank you.
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4. Tracy Quan, FF Alumn, now online at https://topicalpoetry.com/night-light/
Tracy Quan’s new poem Night Light is published in Topical Poetry, Issue #30: https://topicalpoetry.com/night-light/
A webzine launched in 2021, Topical Poetry is devoted to original verse on current events. (TopicalPoetry.com)
Tracy is a regular guest on RTHK Radio 3 “Morning Brew.” Highlights from her latest show, French voters and American poetry. A first reading of Night Light: https://soundcloud.com/2022_ny_tracyquan/cackling-in-stacks-national-poetry-month
To learn more about Topical Poetry: https://topicalpoetry.com/about/
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5. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, at WhiteBox, Manhattan, opening May 11
EXODUS VII:
JMA Matriarchive In Resistance
May 5- June 30, 2022
Opening May 11, 6-9 PM
A Curatorial Project by Yohanna M. Roa
Round Table 6:00 pm
Josefina Mena, Blanca de La Torre, Angeles Donoso. Moderator: Yohanna M Roa
This exhibition is the premier worldwide activation of the Mexican-Lebanese pioneer ecofeminist architect Josefina Mena’s archive reconsidered within the contemporary paradigm of New York’s present-day artistic, cultural, environmental, and socio-political scene. It showcases her participation in various social, artistic and technological movements between 1967 and 1976 in Europe, Africa, and South America. Her life trajectory, architectural projects, art world links and political activism are framed in early intersectional, ecofeminist and decolonial practices. Mena’s fifty years’ documentary collection includes material from Cecilia Vicuña (poet, artist), Koen Wessing (War photographer), Gustav Metzger (developer of the Auto-Destructive Art concept), the ‘Grupo Radical Technology’ in England (alternative technologies), Maurice Wilkins (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1962), Social and Resistance movements such as the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the MIR in Chile (Movement of the Revolutionary Left), among others. The exhibition also presents works by artists who activate the archive: Ivan Navarro and Courtney Smith, Mike Hoolboom, Jorge Lozano, Lilia Ziamou, Sa’dia Rehman, María Evelia Marmolejo, Roland Gebhardt, Ivan Navarro, Fuentes Rojas (Red Fonts) / Tania Andrade Olea y Claudia Baez. To visualize the breadth of themes of the matriarchive, the following writers and curators are participating Semíramis González, Kate Aydin, Blanca de La Torre, Karen Cordero, Simonetta Moro and Lia Gil Antunes.
To read more click here:
https://whiteboxnyc.org/2022/9b9/matriarchive-curated-by-yohanna-roa/
With more information or questions, please email: info@whiteboxny.org
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6. Rafael Montañez Ortiz, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
A Defiant Exhibit by an Artist, at a Museum He Helped Create
Thank you.
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7. Giles Denmark, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.tiktok.com/@gilesdenmark
I am using TikTok as my vehicle to return to the new life of renewal.
https://www.tiktok.com/@gilesdenmark
My website is https://www.gilesdenmark.art
Thank you.
Giles Denmark
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8. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, now online on YouTube
As a part of their ongoing “Legacy Series”, ArtistsTalkOnArt is re-broadcasting a 1998 dialogue between performance artist and former ATOA executive director, Vernita Nemec and former MoMA curator, Robert Storr.
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHhkdUP5u4&t=6s
Hope you enjoy!
Best,
Vernita
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernita_Nemec
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9. Stefan Hayn, FF Alumn, at Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany, thru June 12
May 1 – June 12, 2022, Thu-Sat 4-8 p.m., Sun 2-6 p.m
Kunstbunker – forum for contemporary art eV, Bauhof 9, D-90402 Nuremberg
https://kunstbunker-nuernberg.org/gestern-heute-morgen/
Opening | Opening: April 30, 2022, 5-9 p.m
kind regards,
Stefan
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10. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Trinity Lower East Side Church courtyard, Manhattan, May 11
Let’s get together
We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Open Mic Under the Stars!, May 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM. FREE EVENT. Sign up for 5 minutes of stage time at the event.
Register soon because space is limited.
We hope you’re able to join us!
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11. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumns, live and online, Manhattan, May 7
A Peculiar Works Project Site-Specific Performance Walk Through The Penn District for Municipal Arts Society and Jane’s Walk NYC 2022
To attend the FREE Live Event
https://www.mas.org/events/__trashed-7/
OR
Watch the Virtual Performance on Zoom
https://www.mas.org/events/janes-return/
3pm on Saturday, May 7, 2022
Admission is Free – Reservations are Required
Walking time: 75 minutes (approximately 1/2 mile)
with
Ashleigh Awusie • Laurie Bennett • Michelle Beshaw • Carmela Davis • Beth Griffith • Jude Kondik • Madeleine Popkin • Catherine Porter • Isabella Jane Schiller
Music by Skip Laplante • Cinematography by Bianca Ilich • Stage managed by Heather Olmstead • Dramaturged by Barbara Yoshida • Produced by Barry Rowell • Created & Directed by Ralph Lewis
Jane Jacobs in 1962 carrying a protest sign that reads ‘Conscience: the ultimate weapon!’Travel back in time to the original Penn Station and across today’s most controversial NYC real estate developments for this site-specific performance. Using the incomparable Jane Jacobs’ timely words and sporting her iconic blonde bob and black glasses, our diverse cast will march from Greeley Square to Madison Square Garden, with stops at landmark architecture in imminent danger of destruction.
Our Janes are back for a 3rd Jane’s Walk NYC (2 JANE JACOB, 2019; JANES CALLING, 2021), and this year they’ll channel their inspirational namesake to march through the controversial Penn Station District with protest signs and musical instruments. Informed by the historic 1962 Penn Station marches, our Janes will reinterpret the prescient words of Ms. Jacobs at the sites of endangered NYC architecture in this fast-changing Manhattan neighborhood.
More info, check out our website http://peculiarworks.org/janesreturn_2022.php or Jane’s Walk 2022 https://janeswalk.org/
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12. Lucy Lippard, Dread Scott, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, in new publication
An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art
Published by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
Now available to order from
The University of Chicago Press
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo120140959.html
and Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Archive-Artistic-Activism-Foundation/dp/3777437565
In this enlightening and empowering book, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation underscores its commitment to social justice issues, global equity, and its history in promoting art’s role in the formation of both community empowerment and justice.
Reflecting on the Rubin Foundation’s art and social justice initiatives over the last six years, An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art includes thematic essays, roundtable discussions, newly commissioned artworks and documentation of visual art exhibitions organized by the Foundation.
Consisting of two volumes, the publication highlights the emergence of a cultural shift, addressing art’s role in the formation of community and advocacy for justice. ‘Discourse’ features essays, thematic roundtables with cultural producers, and newly commissioned text based projects. ‘Art’ documents exhibitions at The 8th Floor, the Foundation’s gallery and event space, as well as selections from the Rubins’ private collection. This compendium is conceived to be a critical resource for education and those interested in socially-engaged art, and includes contributions from leading artists, scholars, critics and activists.
The first volume features essays by André Lepecki and Lucy Lippard; newly commissioned artwork by Hock E Ay Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Dread Scott, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles; and roundtables on accessibility in the cultural sector, visibility in the digital age, and the role of art in this current moment. The second features newly commissioned poems by Mel Chin and Claudia Rankine, and documents exhibitions at The 8th Floor such as In the Power of Your Care, Enacting Stillness, The Intersectional Self, and the exhibition series Revolutionary Cycles.
Social justice and ideas surrounding art’s ability to be an instrument for change has shifted considerably in relation to the cannon of contemporary art. This publication highlights and centers artist/activists who are at the vanguard of this movement. As Martha Wilson said: “The big difference in my view between art making in the last 100 years and art making in the last couple of decades is that artists are now engaged in both the protest and the solution.” Collectively artists need to see art as a democratic tool, and their process is addressed throughout the documentation of their activities by this artist-centered organization, as Sean Leonardo put it: “…artists have become more attuned to the inherent power dynamics at play in works that involve cooperation versus participation forwarding a particular agenda meant to be fulfilled by ‘actors,’ rather than a framework that allows for co-design and co-authorship.”
Now available to order from The University of Chicago Press and Amazon.
An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art is edited by Anjuli Nanda Diamond, with Sara Reisman and George Bolster.
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13. Elise Engler, FF Alumn, at Farmer’s Market, Manhattan, May 1 and more
There are finally some in-person events coming up for my book A Diary the Plague Year: An Artist’s Chronicle of 2020. Here are two, in May.
On Sunday, May I will be at the Farmer’s Market near Columbia University in conjunction with the bookstore Book Culture.
On Wednesday evening May 11, I will be doing a presentation at Battery Park City’s 6 River Terrace about the project that resulted in this book and about making art every day. I will show the work of other artists who have made daily work as well.
A bit about the book–
In November of 2015 I gave myself the task of drawing/ painting the first headline I heard on my bedside radio every morning. It was supposed to be a one-year project. When our 45th president was elected, I realized I had to continue and soon after, as the news cycle intensified, I documenting multiple headlines. A Diary of the Plague Year (Metropolitan Books, 2022), starts on January 2021 with the first appearance of the coronavirus and ends with the inauguration of President Joe Biden in January of 2021.
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14. The Dark Bob, FF Alumn, launches new website, www.TheDarkBob.com
For the past two decades almost every artist has had a website EXCEPT for The Dark Bob…until now….
The Dark Bob was part of the first generation of performance artists that flourished in the restless art scene of Los Angeles during the 1970’s. He earned a BFA at the Art enter College of Design in 1974 where he studied with notable artists including Richard Diebenkorn and Llyn Foulkes.
It was at Art Center that The Dark Bob laid the groundwork for his art career when he co-founded the “genre-blurring” conceptual art team Bob & Bob. Often cited as pioneers of performance art, Bob & Bob produced a large body of work that can be seen in public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Museum and the audio collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
The papers and archives of The Dark Bob’s solo career are housed in the Smithsonian Institute’s Archives of American Art, as are the papers and archives of Bob & Bob.
“The Dark Bob embraces pop culture at the same time that he parodies it. But above all else, he is a storyteller, and every facet of his visual art, live shows, his albums and films comes together to create a narrative; the abiding subject is love in all it’s permutations, and the dark forces that treated it. He speaks with an exquisite combination of the absurd and the profound – and that is the source of his genius.”
– Kristine McKenna, author, critic
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15. Ken Butler, Warren Lehrer, Judith Sloan, FF Alumns, at The Gallery on Dobbin Mews, Brooklyn, May 7
The Gallery on Dobbin Mews is organizing a fundraiser event to help the Ukrainian people, next door at TBSP Studio
48 Dobbin St. Brooklyn NY 11222
5-7 pm Saturday May 7, 2022
Tickets are for sale in advance at the gallery or on the same day before the door opens.
Pay as you wish. Cash, or checks made out to Alma on Dobbin Inc, a nonprofit organization overseeing the sales, are welcome.
“In Ukraine” exhibition at The Gallery on Dobbin Mews features primarily Ukrainian photographers and videographers. The show also includes a selection of books for the viewers to explore. Curators: Ira Lupu and Fred Ritchin
Open: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 2-6 pm through May 8th, 50 Dobbin Street
The performance program (in order of appearance):
Mike Gusev: “Chatter” installation
Devu Shah: “Ode To Ukraine” harmonium
Liam Hastings: “R C A RADIO” contrabass, radio
Kevork Mourad: “Memory Gates” multimedia
Ken Butler: “Improvisation on Vibra Band” performance
Warren Lehrer: “Piece Is Just An Other Word For Nothing Else To Kill” performance
Judith Sloan : “On a boat from Kiev to Chernobyl” performance
Kamron Saniee: ”Ysaye Sonata No.1” violin
Andras Borocz – “The Nutcracker 2022” multimedia
Curators: Andras Borocz, Eniko Imre
If you can’t attend, please consider donating to essential organizations on our website: https://www.thegalleryatdobbinmews.com/inukraine
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16. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, Gallery Talk at the Sheldon Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Opening: Friday, May 6, 2022 6pm, Gallery Talk: at the Sheldon Galleries, 7pm
The Gallery at the Kranzberg
501 N. grand (Next to the Fox Theater)
St. Louis, MO 63103
Hours: Thursdays: 2-5pm, by appointment, Saturdays: Noon-4pm
To Reserve: Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com, search Mel Watkin
Mel Watkin
417 Oak St.
Cobden, IL 62920
melwatkin@gmail.com
314-630-9482 cell/text
Pronouns: She/her/hers
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17. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, film screenings, May-June
Cheri Gaulke’s upcoming film screenings:
INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE
Directed, written and produced by Cheri Gaulke and Cheryl Bookout
Screening at San Luis Obispo Film Festival, live April 30 and May 1, virtually May 1-8
https://slofilmfest.org/inside-the-beauty-bubble-2/
Available for viewing at the Short Film Corner during the Cannes Film Festival
https://catalogue.cannescourtmetrage.com/fiche.aspx?id=xmQeXyfpBsI%3d
Description: INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE follows “America’s hairstorian,” famed stylist and collector of hair artifacts Jeff Hafler, as he struggles to keep his Joshua Tree California roadside attraction afloat during a year that changes his life and the lives of his husband and son. It is a film about family, fabulousness and folk art, a film that reminds us it’s sometimes the strong people on the margins that hold a community together.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/703892004
TRUDIE’S GOOSE
Directed by C. Lily Ericsson, Cheri Gaulke, Samara Hutman and Liran Kapel
Screening at The American Pavilion during the Cannes Film Festival, May 26
Description: When a young girl preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ritual, befriends a Holocaust survivor elder both lives are changed forever as they journey from darkness to healing through the power of art. Adapted from the short story, TRUDIE’S GOOSE, by Maya Savin Miller. Based on the life and art of Holocaust survivor Trudie Strobel.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/cherigaulke/trailertrudiesgoose
GLORIA’S CALL
Directed, written, edited and produced by Cheri Gaulke
Screening at the Venice Biennale as part of a conference on Leonora Carrington and Samiland, June 3-7
Description: From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. The short film, Gloria’s Call, uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure. Her delightful tale brings alive an often unseen history of women in the arts.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/546982919
-Cheri Gaulke
Artist/Filmmaker/Educator/Activist
323-240-4745
Director of
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
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18. Kiyan Williams, FF Alumn, at Lyles & King, New York, NY, May 12 thru June 25
Kiyan Williams
Un/earthing
May 12 – June 25, 2022
Opening Reception: May 12, 6-8pm
21 Catherine Street
Lyles & King is pleased to present Un/earthing, the first solo exhibition of New-York based artist Kiyan Williams.
Upon entering the gallery, viewers are confronted by a row of battered, seasoned, and fried American flags previously flown over the U.S. Capitol Building. In this ongoing project, Williams transforms the symbol of national identity into a bubbling, charred, and delectable object using a range of regionally-specific seasonings. In their practice Williams often draws on quotidian, everyday materials and processes that reflect the social, ecological, and political conditions that shape everyday life.
In the main exhibition are slightly-larger-than human scale forms composed of earth, steel, and mixed media. The forms gesture towards human bodies and exist somewhere between figures, geological ruins, and trees. Reflecting on themes of transformation and decay, this new body of work furthers the artist’s conceptual and material exploration of the relationship between Blackness, land, and trans/gressive subjectivity.
The contrast between earth and light is inspired by the sublime landscape of Lake Drummond at the heart of the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia. As early as the 1600s, The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for formerly enslaved people who emancipated themselves from the regime of chattel slavery and forged maroon communities within the difficult and inaccessible terrain of the swamp. Williams often visits and draws inspiration from fugitive landscapes that hold obscured and hidden histories. For Williams, fugitive landscapes serve as an allegory for the capacity of subjugated life to emerge in conditions that are inhospitable and hostile.
The additive way that Williams layers earth on top of itself is related to historical processes, and the way the soil simultaneously reveals and obscures. In their ongoing use of soil as a primary medium, bodies are not fixed but always in the process, as suggested by the title Un/earthing. As their sculptures dry—forming cracks and fissures—they appear to be fragile when they are in fact quite rigid and sturdy. Like the layers of history embedded within them, William’s sculptures are an assemblage and entanglement of fragmented matter that exist in states of ruination, oscillating in and out of legibility, enduring, transforming, decaying, and regenerating amidst social, historical, and environmental shifts.
Kiyan Williams (b. 1991, Newark, NJ) has forthcoming exhibitions at Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. They have exhibited work at SculptureCenter, New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; Recess Art, New York, NY; Lyles & King, New York, NY; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Shed, New York, NY; among others. They earned a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University. They have given artist talks and lectures at the Hirshhorn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Princeton University, Stanford University, Portland State University, The Guggenheim, and Pratt Institute. Their work is held in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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19. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at Zurcher Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 16
26th Edition in New York
A satellite fair of Frieze New York
Salon Zurcher
11 WOMEN OF SPIRIT
PART 5
May 16-22, 2022
Debra Pearlman
Hours
Opening Monday, May 16: Opening 6-8pm
Tuesday, May 17-Saturday, May 21: 12-8
Sunday, May 22: 12-5pm
Zurcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, New York 110012
Phone: 212-777-0790
studio@galeriezurcher.com
Located between Lafayette and Bowery
Judith Braun
Cair Crawford
Carol Diamond
Fredericka Foster
Joy Nagy
Debra Pearlman
Ester Podemski
Jennifer Riley
Francine Tint
Margaret Watson
Majorie Welish
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20. Christy Rupp, FF Alumn, on Lower East Side, Manhattan, May 7
Lower East Side Pollinator Walk
Saturday, May 7, 2022
1:00 PM
Meet at Howl! Happening, 6 East First St
https://www.mas.org/events/lower-east-side-pollinator-walk/
As part of “Othered” at Howl! Happening we are participating in the Municipal Arts Society’s “Janes Walk”
Led by Amy Berkov and Christy Rupp
Join us for a pollinator-plus walk around the Lower East Side. Amy Berkov will lead us around to drop in at a few local community gardens. Amy made a mid-life career change from art to science. Her research program focuses on host associations of Neotropical wood-boring beetles—but she seeks out local biodiversity. This link will show you some of the insects frequently seen in April and May.
Howl Happening will host this walk, in partnership with the exhibition “Othered” by sculptor Christy Rupp.
https://www.howlarts.org/event/christy-rupp-othered/
About Christy Rupp:
As artists rummaged through the remnants of a crumbling city in the mid 1970’s, Rupp developed an interest in urban ecology, noting that the city is an ecosystem with a delicate balance. Transforming that discovery, she created work at the intersection of performance and site, joining a stream of artists breaching the boundaries of the gallery system’s white box.
In Othered, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper, a nonhuman world view represents the voices of invisible microbes and species long displaced. Using collage and cast off materials, Rupp has investigated topics including climate chaos, the industrialization of our food supply, and water pollution through the lens of discard studies, or the examination of the waste stream. Her work is less concerned with representation of animals than with the framing of our attitudes toward habitat, and how we construct our opinions of nature.
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21. Hanne Tierney, FF Alumn, at Five Myles, Brooklyn, June 2-18
Please visit this link:
http://fivemyles.org/homage-to-popova
Thank you.
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22. E.F. Higgins, III, FF Alumn, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 12
Doo Da Forever! Ed Higgins III Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: May 12th – June 5th, 2022 | Opening Reception: May 12th, 6 PM – 8 PM
E.F. Higgins III (1949-2021) grew up in a small town outside of Chicago, IL. He majored in Fine Arts at Western Michigan University but quit school two weeks before graduating. Higgins later attended the University of Colorado to receive his BFA and then went on to receive an MFA in 1976 from the same school, majoring in Painting and Printmaking. In the same year, Higgins left for New York City where he lived and worked s as a professional artist. He was a member of The Rivington School.
While at university, his interests in painting and printmaking led him to create a number of works including play money, stock certificates, stamps, mining claims, postcards, posters, letterheads, labels, maps, and blueprints. These are all considered “non-art” or commercially produced 2-D visuals. After moving to NYC, he began extensively producing correspondence art, leading to his invention of the Doo Da Post. The Doo Da Post is a stamp created for the made-up country of Doo Da. He has created 780 editions of Doo Da stamps. Higgins continued to develop his creative language with stamp-making in his back pocket. The painting of his most recent works, The Fire Cracker Label Series, applied strong colors and graphic lettering–trademark designations that Higgins carried on from his stamp-making. This series is painted on canvas with acrylic paints and then mounted on cardboard tubes. These pieces incorporate a pop art aesthetic, availing imagery of the American West placed in a logotype context to portray playful renditions of folklore, nostalgia, and circumstances.
HOURS & INFO
156 Orchard Street, New York, NY, 10002
212-227-8983
Sun-Wed: 12pm-5pm | Thurs-Sat: 12pm-6pm
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23. Ad Art Show 2022, live online May 3
Please livestream Ad Art Show 2022 on Instagram.com/mvvoart/ on May 3rd at 7 pm est. The exhibition at Westfield World Trade Center inside the Oculus, Manhattan, is on view May 1-31.
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24. Alice Aycock, Cynthia Carlson, Lucy Lippard, Mary Miss, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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25. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/arts/design/guggenheim-poetry.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thank you.
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26. Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono, Miriam Schapiro, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
In Dishes and Dolls, a Foundation of Feminist Art
Thank you.
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27. Iris Rose, FF ALumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, May 22
TWEED’s Sundays @ 7 @ Pangea presents
Iris Rose
THE AUDACIOUS YEARS
1978 – 1982
The Audacious Years tells the roller coaster story of Iris Rose’s years in a punk rock band, The Stingers, in Long Beach, California. Included are Iris’s interpretations of songs of the era by X, The Buzzcocks, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, and more. With Christopher Berg on keyboard and piano and Mark Lerner on bass.
Sunday, May 22nd at 7:00 pm
Arrive by 6:45 to place food/drink orders
Tickets https://bit.ly/3L1B4U4
$20 online, $25 at door, cash only
$20 food/drink minimum
Proof of vaccination and photo ID required for all audience members
At Pangea
178 2nd Avenue
New York City
212-995-0900
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28. Nicole Eisenman, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
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Art and Architecture Get a Refresh on the California Coast
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29. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
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Warhol, A Forgotten Star of the Pop Era, Back in the Spotlight
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