Contents for January 9, 2023
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace Archive and Pratt Institute present Dragging the Archive: a personal re:encounter with the early cyber years of Franklin Furnace by Elly Clarke
1. Judith Ren-Lay, Penny Arcade, John Kelly, Nicky Paraiso, FF Alumns, at Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan, Jan. 16, and more
2. Anna Costa e Silva, FF Alumn, at apexart, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, thru Jan. 31
3. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at apexart, Manhattan, Jan. 13-Mar. 11
4. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Est_Art Space, Madrid, Spain, Jan. 14
5. Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Jan. 14
6. Robin Tewes, Norm Magnusson, Franc Palaia, online at Leake Street Galleries, thru Jan. 31
7. Ronald Feldman, Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Christo, Helen and Newton Harrison, Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Hannah Wilke, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
8. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA, Jan. 25-Apr. 23
9. John Ahearn, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, Best Documentary Short, Philadelphia Arthouse Film Festival
11. Eve Biddle, FF ALumn, at Davidson Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 12
12. Anton van Dalen, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
13. Mimi Smith, FF Alumn, at Luis De jesus, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 14-Mar. 4
14. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at greatblankness.com
15. Judith Henry, FF Alumn, at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, opening Jan. 22
16. Robert Hickerson, FF Alumn, at IRT Theater, Manhattan, Jan. 13
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Weekly Spotlight: Pratt Institute and Franklin Furnace Archive present
Dragging the Archive: a personal re:encounter with the early cyber years of Franklin Furnace by Elly Clarke
The 8th Annual Live at the Library Exhibition
Opening reception, Thursday, January 19, 2023, 5-7 pm
Onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus Library, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
& Online at https://franklinfurnace.org/dragging-the-archive
Dragging the Archive opens at the Library at Pratt Institute and online on January 19, 2023 and continues through April 6, 2023. Accompanying this hybrid online/onsite exhibition of archival documents are a series of events taking place both online and onsite. These include including a virtual tour with curator Elly Clarke and Franklin Furnace founder Martha Wilson; a live remake of the very first Franklin Furnace Future of the Present netcast by Halona Hilbertz from 1998; a public workshop presented as a performance by Pratt professor and archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez; a live collaboration between Pratt Institute Professor Kim Bobier’s BFA students at Pratt and Elly Clarke’s MFA Curating students from Goldsmiths, University of London; and a closing panel. Details follow below.
Dragging the Archive is an online/onsite exhibition of materials from the early cyber years of Franklin Furnace Archive, 1996-2002, taking place across three floors of the landmarked Library at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1976 in artist Martha Wilson’s living loft in Tribeca, Franklin Furnace Archive continues to this day to support the production, presentation, and preservation of what was once known as ‘ephemeral art’ – which included artists’ books and live performance. In the mid 1990s, Franklin Furnace transferred its collection of artists’ books to MoMA, NY, sold its physical space, and Wilson made the decision to ‘go cyber’. This major shift ushered in a series of live ‘Netcast’ performances which were presented via Real Player over buffering, dial up networks, and broadcast out of Pseudo Studios in lower Manhattan. Franklin Furnace thus became one of the first arts organizations (anywhere) to support live art on the world wide web. In 1998, 22-year-old Elly Clarke arrived as a student intern at Franklin Furnace, and began to bear witness to, and provide youthful critique of, these new modes and methods of performance. Twenty-five years later, Clarke returns to the Archive to display fragments of what she (re)encountered during a research trip in 2019, and again just now in 2022-23. Clarke’s selections will be exhibited alongside extracts from her personal diaries and letters from the 1990s.
Installed in museum vitrines across three levels of Pratt Library, Dragging the Archive: re:encounters with the early cyber years of Franklin Furnace, is an exhibition designed to be encountered in any order – (pro)posing a starting point for interactions with faxes, slides, videos and the heavy boxes in which these materials have been p/reserved. The ex:position is an invitation: to discuss, respond, and reflect. And to be involved: by zooming in via QR codes, that give greater clarity to fading faxes, the detail of the slides, the YES / NO / YES notes scribbled on the edges of a rejected proposal dug out of deep storage. Visitors are invited to share their reactions to these objects: online via the specially built website, and on site via the old-fashioned visitor’s book you’ll find on the second floor.
In physics, drag is a force that pulls in two directions at once: forwards, and back; up, and down. It is also both a performance – with the possibility of transformation – and a burden, or resistance. Within the context of this archive, how to hold this tension? How to re:present evidence of a time, an event, a happening, a performance – as well as the major institutional shift taken by Franklin Furnace at this time – out of the physical and digital matter that remains? How best to present an entire storage box of phone messages received for the Founding Director over lunch? Clarke’s response is to present the logbooks as found in storage, as a readymade sculpture titled ‘Missed Calls, 1984-1988.’
Curated by Elly Clarke with design by Yunjia Yuan, Live at the Library VIII is presented with the support of Michael Asher Foundation; Hollinger Metal Edge Archival Storage Materials, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs;The New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Pratt Institute; The Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and the Board of Directors, members, and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive. And Elly Clarke’s PhD funders CHASE Doctoral Training Programme.
Accompanying Events:
Thursday, January 19, 2023 –
Onsite Opening Reception of Dragging the Archive
5:00-7:00pm ET in the Library at Pratt Brooklyn – with simultaneous Dragging the Archive website launch. Elly Clarke’s short introduction will be live broadcast via Franklin Furnace’s Instagram account.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 6pm-7:30pm ET
Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez’s Dragging the Workshop: How to Read Archive Materials
In the Pratt Brooklyn Library, Alumni Reading Room,
Free, open to the public. Booking required. Link to follow.
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Goldsmiths/Pratt collaboration with Elly Clarke’s MFA curating students and Professor Kim Bobier’s BA Art Since the Nineties class, resulting in new interpretations of the materials on show that will be added to the exhibition website
Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 3pm ET
Virtual Tour with Elly Clarke and Martha Wilson – showing video walk though and Q&A – with curator Elly Clarke and Franklin Furnace Archive’s Founding Director Emerita Martha Wilson. Online at Franklin Furnace LOFT. Booking link to follow.
Monday, February 6, 2023 at 3-4:30pm ET –
Dragging up the Performance: Halona Hilbertz: Pseudo Studio Walk 25 Years Later
Live broadcast from the Alumni Reading Room at the Library at Pratt, Brooklyn Campus to Franklin Furnace online LOFT performance space
Reconstruction of the very first Future of the Present Franklin Furnace / Pseudo Studios Netcast performance, by artist Halona Hilbertz, 25 years later to the day.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 3-4 pm ET
Dragging the Archive Closing Panel with Elly Clarke, Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez, Halona Hilbertz and Martha Wilson. Online at the LOFT. Booking link to follow.
Biographies:
Elly Clarke is an artist interested in the performance, and burden (‘the drag’) of the physical body and objects in an increasingly digitally mediated world, as well as the ‘snapping-to-grid’ of templates. She explores this through photography, music, curating, community-based projects and #Sergina, a border-straddling, multi-bodied drag queen who, across one body and several, performs songs and scripts about love, lust and loneliness in the mesh of hyper-dis/connection and data discharge. For five years Clarke ran a gallery out of her apartment in Berlin, eventually taking exhibitions elsewhere, including to non-art venues. Clarke is a practice-led PhD candidate at Goldsmiths College, University of London, working on a project titled Is My Body out of Date? The Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age. Part of this involves a study of Franklin Furnace archive – which has led to this exhibition. Clarke is based between London and Felixstowe, UK.
http://ellyclarke.com/ (artist website)
Elly Clarke (@digitalb0dy)
Yunjia Yuan is a graphic designer based in lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) and came from Shanghai, China. She believes in the power of design to drive things forward, for both utilitarian purposes and conceptual inquiries. She enjoys melding design, writing, and interactive media to reveal everyday normalcy, surveillance, and power.
Thank you.
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1. Judith Ren-Lay, Penny Arcade, John Kelly, Nicky Paraiso, FF Alumns, at Bowery Poetry Club, Manhattan, Jan. 16, and more
Dear friends,
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!
Please join me for my 80th Birthday/Book Launch Party!
January 16, 7pm
Bowery Poetry Club
Free admission, snacks, cash bar
Directed by Kevin Maloney
Performers include
Penny Arcade
Emma Rose Brown
John Kelly
Nicky Paraiso
Wanda Phipps
Judith Ren-Lay
Basil Roderick
and here’s information on my new book:
Quartet: Four Part Harmony from a Recollected Life
by Judith Ren-Lay
Published by Vaudevisuals Press 2023
For those who pre-ordered, books shipped,
Books can still be ordered at quartetbook.com
And will be widely available after January 16th
on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
https://vaudevisualspress.bigcartel.com/product/quartet-four-part-harmony-from-a-recollected-life
Thank you, Judith.
Thank you.
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2. Anna Costa e Silva, FF Alumn, at apexart, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, thru Jan. 31
Art for Women’s Lives curated by Milhas Pela vida das Mulheres is on view at apexart Rio De Janeiro Brazil, at Paco imperial, Praca Quinze de Novembro, 48-Centro. Daily 12-5 pm.
Obrigado.
Thank you.
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3. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at apexart, Manhattan, Jan. 13-Mar. 11
“My Pen Won’t Break, But Borders Will”, curated by Julia Hartmann, with work by Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, will be on view at apexart-nyc 291 Church Street, Manhattan, from January 13-March 11, 2023. Apexart.org
Artists:
Parwana Amiri – Rajkamal Kahlon – Regina José Galindo – Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow – Michikazu Matsune – Tanja Ostojić – Oliver Ressler – Peng! Collective – Lisl Ponger – Borjana Ventzislavova – UNITED for Intercultural Action
Online Tour Saturday, January 21, 2023, 12:00 pm RSVP
Tues – Sat, 11am – 6pm
Opening: Fri, Jan 13, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm with curator present
Apex Art
291 Church St.
New York, NY 10013
Email: info@apexart.org
212-431-5270
Thank you.
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4. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at Est_Art Space, Madrid, Spain, Jan. 14
VERÓNICA PEÑA at FEMINART
Live Performance “A Matter Of…”
Saturday, January 14th, 2023 6:00pm
Est_Art, Madrid, Spain
FEMINART is an exhibition with which the gallery Est_Art stands out from the month of March to emphasize that women in the Art world must be given visibility the remaining eleven months of the year. In fact, the full title of the exhibition is: “Hey! March is over, now what?… FEMINART”. The exhibit, which aims to be inclusive and bets on equality, is not closed to the participation of “artistos” working on female issues.
With these premises, Est_Art brings together the work of more than fifty emerging and established artists, offering visitors a wide spectrum of the contemporary art scene generated around the topic of women. Responding to the gallery’s effort for equality, the names of the exhibiting artists remain hidden, seeking the participation of the public in discovering the identity of the artists. The exhibition, distributed throughout 1500m², houses a wide range of disciplines including painting, photography, video art, installation, and performance art.
For additional information visit: https://www.odiseacultural.com/2022/12/22/feminart-una-exposicion-colectiva-sobre-la-mujer/
https://www.estartspace.com/es/#
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. Her performance installations combine underwater submersion, visual metamorphosis, and participation to address global issues of migration, cross-cultural dialogue, peaceful resistance, empathy, and women’s empowerment. Peña performs/exhibits primarily in Europe and America. In America: Museo Ex Teresa (ZonaMACO, Mexico City, 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), Pioneer Works (2020-canceled due to Covid-19), Smack MellonFoundation, Triskelion Arts, Hemispheric Institute, Queens Museum, SAIC (Visiting Artist), Times Square, Armory Show, Defibrillator Performance Gallery, Momenta Art Gallery, Dumbo Arts Festival, Consulate of Spain in NY, among others. Europe: Fundación Bilbaoarte (Bilbao, 2021), Museo La NeomudéJar (Madrid, 2019), Friche La Belle De Mai (Marseille, 2018), Festival Intramurs (Valencia, 2018), Zaratan Arte Contemporáneo (Lisbon, 2017), among others. She was selected for the Creative Capital NYC Taller 2020, received a FCA Grant 2022, and a Franklin Furnace Fund 2018, among others. She published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She leads Performance Art Open Call, a +24,000 member FB Community. Peña received an MFA from Stony Brook University.
@veronica.pena.live.art
Thank you.
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5. Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, Jan. 14
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters @ MoMA/PS 1
Institutions Beyond Institutions:
Reimagining architectures of bureaucracy
January 14, 2023 @ 3 pm
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY 11101
Participants:
Nandini Bagchee (Principal, Bagchee Architects)
Peter Cramer & Jack Waters (artists and former co-directors of ABC No Rio)
Jody Graf & Elena Ketelsen González (Assistant Curators, MoMA PS1)
Libertad O. Guerra (Executive Director, The Clemente)
Since the 1970s, municipal and city-owned buildings across New York City have been reclaimed by artists and cultural workers as sites for experimentation, including PS1 and The Clemente, both of which are housed in decommissioned public school buildings. Focusing on select case studies—including The Clemente, El Bohio, and ABC No Rio—this event considers how efforts to reclaim city-owned buildings for creative projects served to propose new models for institutionality and educational initiatives. Intersecting with larger socio-spatial forces in the city, these histories bring a new perspective to the story of the “alternative art space” movement, and the complex ecology of spaces working within these frameworks then and now. What do the varying outcomes of these projects tell us about the politics of stewarding creative and public space in NYC?
Free with RSVP.
Learn more here: https://www.momaps1.org/events/185-the-art-of-land
Thank you.
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6. Robin Tewes, Norm Magnusson, Franc Palaia, online at Leake Street Galleries, thru Jan. 31
50/50 is the inaugural virtual exhibition of Leake Street Galleries. The exhibition runs through January 1-January 31, 2023. Celebrating 25 US and 25 UK artists, working with the Urban Landscape. www.leakestreetgalleries.art
List of Artists:
ROBIN TEWES https://www.robintewes.com @robinjtewes room 16
NORM MAGNUSSON https://theartofnormmagnusson.blogspot.com
FRANC PALAIA https://francpalaia.com @francpalaia
DAINA HIGGINS https://dainahiggins.com @dainahiggins_studio
CURTIS CREATIONZ https://www.curtiscreationz.com @curtiscreationz
JOE ADDISON https://www.instagram.com/joeaddisondrones
APPARAN https://www.apparan.com @apparan
ERNI VALES https://www.evlworld.com @ernivales
HAZARDONE https://www.hazardone.co.uk @francpalaia
GARY HIRSCH https://www.botjoy.com @ghirschart @botjoy
JELLY J https://jellyjartist.com @jellyjartist
STOCKE https://www.instagram.com/stockeartworks
JOHN BREINER https://www.johnbreiner.com @johnbreiner1
CURLY https://www.curly738.co.uk @curly738
1LOVEART https://1loveart.com @1lovebristol
ORBIT https://www.instagram.com/orbitldn
JAMES ROGERS https://www.instagram.com/r.i.p.e.z
KENJI https://kenjibaseball.wixsite.com/kenjinyc @kenji.nyc
KEITH MERRILL https://www.instagram.com/legtheatreco
MATT MUNDAY https://www.mattmunday.com @matt_munday_illustrator
CHLOE MOSBACHER https://www.chloemossart.com @_chloemoss
ECHO GOFF https://echogoff.com @echoingcaves
MATTO https://www.mattoconnorart.com @matt.oconnor
LEON RAINBOW https://www.leonrainbow.com @leon.rainbow
LIZ AMARAL https://sunhearthealing.com/artwork @lizamaraltheartist
LOUISE BIRD https://www.louisebirdportaits.com @louisebirdportraits
MAX THE VIRUS https://.www.maxthevirus.com @maxthevirus
MARIA LINARES FREIRE https://marialinaresfreire.net @marialinaresfreire.art
MICHAEL SALISBURY https://www.instagram.com/at_it_art
7TH PENCIL https://www.7thpencil.com @7th_pencil
SOULD https://sould-art.com @sould_art
MY NAME OZIS https://www.instagram.com/mr.ozis
ARTFORM https://www.instagram.com/artformdodger
MIKE PANTELIDES https://www.instagram.com/4__the__record/
ViBE https://www.instagram.com/x.vi3e.2022/
RICK PRICE http://www.rickprice.net/ @rickprice_artist
VANE MG https://www.vanemg.com @vanemg.art
VALERI LARKO https://www.valerilarko.com @valerilarko
STACIE FLINT https://www.stacieflint.com @stacieflintart
RAVEN GEORGE https://www.ravengeorge.com @raven.theartist
MICHAEL SALISBURY https://www.instagram.com/at_it_art
CLIVE LAWRENCE http://www.clivejonlawrence.com/ @cliveybwoy
XLVII https://www.xlvii.uk @xlvii
ARTBYFANE https://pixels.com/profiles/artbyfane-london/shop @artbyfane
SICK5 https://www.instagram.com/sick5_
GRACE GRAUPE PILLARD https://www.neoimages.com @graupepillard
JUNE WILSON https://www.instagram.com/junewilson.painting
RODRÍGUEZ CALERO https://www.rodriguezcalero.com @rodzcalero
LUDVIG https://www.instagram.com/ludvigism/
JULIE CATANESE https://www.instagram.com/trinitycatdeline
Thank you.
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7. Ronald Feldman, Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Christo, Helen and Newton Harrison, Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Hannah Wilke, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/arts/ronald-feldman-dead.html?smid=url-share
Thank you.
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8. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA, Jan. 25-Apr. 23
Frank Moore / MATRIX 280: Theater of Human Melting
January 25–April 23, 2023
https://bampfa.org/program/frank-moore-matrix-280-theater-human-melting
This exhibition represents a small portion of the vast body of creative work by the late Berkeley-based artist and teacher Frank Moore (1946–2013). Over the course of more than five decades, Moore, who was born with a physical disability, used painting, performance, public access television, and an extensive writing practice to explore the unlimited capacity for humans to connect.
The impetus for this exhibition was BAMPFA’s recent acquisition of two of Moore’s paintings: Mariah (1977) and Patti Smith (1979). Guest curators Vincent Fecteau and Keith Wilson chose to focus on Moore’s lesser-known contribution to painting to create an access point to his large and complex archive (housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library). Painting, a distinctly physical medium, affords the opportunity to contemplate essential questions that all of Moore’s work proposes about our bodies in relationship not only to objects and materials (canvas, paint, a computer keyboard), but also to each other as subjects and viewers, artists, and models.
The exhibition includes twenty-nine of Moore’s works on canvas hung on two of the gallery’s walls. Playing on a monitor is the video Let Me Be Frank to contextualize the paintings within Moore’s larger artistic and social practice. Engaging the Berkeley community and the art community at large with Moore’s exuberant, confrontational, and at times, discomforting art, the exhibition encourages deeper, embodied connections in a world of increasing fragmentation and isolation.
The opening also features a Curator’s Talk on Wednesday, January 25, 5:30pm. Artists and guest co-curators of Frank Moore / MATRIX 280, Vincent Fecteau and Keith Wilson will discuss the role of Moore’s painting within his expansive body of creative, spiritual, and performance work.
Linda Mac & Michael LaBash, Moore’s closest collaborators and curators of the Frank Moore archives will be present at the opening and may also be involved in this presentation.
Thank you.
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9. John Ahearn, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, Best Documentary Short, Philadelphia Arthouse Film Festival
Just learned that FOLLOWING THE THREAD is the award winner for Best Documentary Short in the December version of the Philadelphia Arthouse Film Festival. Viva the weavers! Kathy Brew
Thank you.
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11. Eve Biddle, FF ALumn, at Davidson Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 12
Dear friends,
Ya’ll. Me and Mom. One show. Both floors of Davidson Gallery. There will be tears. They will be mine. It will be fantastic.
Eve Biddle | Mary Ann Unger: Generation
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 12th, 6:00 – 8:00pm
January 12th – February 18th, 2023
Davidson Gallery – 521 W 26th Street, New York
Curated by Ylinka Barotto
Love,
Eve
Thank you.
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12. Anton van Dalen, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.ppowgallery.com/news/what-to-see-in-n-y-c-galleries-right-now4
Thank you.
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13. Mimi Smith, FF Alumn, at Luis De jesus, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 14-Mar. 4
“Although my earliest work was also feminist in both a personal and political sense there was no available vocabulary for it and it often went misunderstood, or in some cases not seen for decades. The word “feminism” was not a word in my own vocabulary until the early 70’s when its ideas inspired me with hopes and ambitions for things I had not imagined or even considered.” – Mimi Smith, 2017
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce MIMI SMITH: HEAD-ON, the pioneering artist’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast, to be presented in Gallery 1 from January 14 through March 4, 2023. The exhibition will present sculptures, paintings, and drawings spanning the 1960s to the present.
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, the gallery will host a conversation with Mimi Smith and Christie Mitchell, Executive Director of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, CA (formerly, Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York) on Saturday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m. The talk will be followed by an artist’s reception from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
For nearly six decades, artist Mimi Smith (b. 1942) has created objects that simultaneously engage the personal, domestic sphere and the larger socio-political context of our time. Smith is often regarded as a feminist artist ‘avant la lettre’—ahead of her time—creating work that forecasted the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s. The works presented in this exhibition are indicative of Smith’s experimentation with various mediums in navigating to womanhood, identity and history, and use her body as “the armature for a worn environment.
Thank you.
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14. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at greatblankness.com
Please visit these links:
http://greatblankness.com/portfolio-items/8-new-morning/
FULL SET:
http://greatblankness.com/portfolio-gallery/new-morning/
Thank you.
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15. Judith Henry, FF Alumn, at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, opening Jan. 22
Portrait of the Artist, curated by Mary Birmingham, Hunterdon Art Museum, January 22-April 30, 2023, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton, NJ.
Opening reception and talks with curator and artists, Sunday Jan. 22, 2-4 pm.
Thank you.
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16. Robert Hickerson, FF Alumn, at IRT Theater, Manhattan, Jan. 13
IRT Theater and Siena Rafter are pleased to present an open studio and reception for Robert Hickerson and Curtis Welteroth, featuring “Target Audience”, a new video work by Hickerson with live music by Anders Nils and arid tear, and an installation of works-on-paper by Welteroth.
“Target Audience” imagines an advertising agency run by vampires who specialize in the kinds of targeted ads that we are bombarded with every day. The project centers on a live scored and live edited video, which will be created for the first time at IRT. Welteroth’s works-on-paper installation surveys an evolution of their preparatory practice on paper over the last 5 years.
“Target Audience” was made possible in part by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2022-23, supported by Jerome Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
This event will take place from 7pm – 9pm at IRT Theater on Friday, January 13th, at 154 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014. Masks recommended.
Thank you.
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