Contents for January 15, 2024
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Weekly Spotlight: Lina Azalea, FF FUND recipient 2023/24, at New York Live Arts, Manhattan, Jan. 27
1. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, Jan. 26
2. Dolores Zorreguieta, FF Alumn, now online at Youtu.be
3. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, live on WPKN 89.5FM, Jan. 27
4. Every Ocean Hughes, Sharon Hayes, FF Alumns, at UC Irvine, California, opening Jan. 20
5. Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumn, at Mothership, Woodstock, NY, thru Jan. 15 and more
6. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Jan. 26-May 5, and more
7. Kumi Korf, Scott McCarney, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Miriam Schaer, Buzz Spector, Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumns, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Jan. 18-May 1
8. Olivia Beens, Franc Palaia, Harley Spiller, Stewart Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at Personaland.com
9. Jenny Polak, FF Alumn, at BRIC, Brooklyn, thru Jan. 21, and more
10. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Jan. 16-21
11. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, at Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel, thru Feb. 29
12. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, Mar. 19-Aug. 18 and more
13. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, new publication now available
14. Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, receives LACE Lightning Fund 2024 award
15. Bonnie Ora Sherk, FF Alumn, at Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, thru March 10
16. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, at Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 10, and more
17. Nancy Azara, FF Member, live online Jan. 23
18. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, now online at TwoCoatsOfPaint.com
19. Harth, FF Member, at Brooklyn Art Haus, Jan. 30
20. James Romberger, FF Alumn, at Wallworks New York, The Bronx, opening Jan. 20
21. Jacob Burckhardt, John Maggiotto, FF Alumns, at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Feb. 2-Sept. 1
22. Christy Rupp, FF Alumn, at Fairfield University Art Museum, CT, opening Jan. 18
23. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, at TIbor de Nagy Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 26 and more
24. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, opening Jan. 26 and more
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Weekly Spotlight: Lina Azalea, FF FUND recipient 2023/24, at New York Live Arts, Manhattan, Jan. 27
“Light Meditation”/ January 27th, 2024 7:30pm / New York Live Arts (New York, NY)
On Saturday January 27th at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts, interdisciplinary artist Lina Azalea presents the premiere of a new multimedia dance work entitled Light Meditation. The work will include choreography, costumes, sculptures, and props created by Azalea, a newly commissioned musical score by Matt Luczak, video art by Azalea and David Schell using TouchDesigner, and will be performed by dancers Sayer Mansfield and Maddie Leonard-Rose. The work uses lighted garments (such as dresses embedded with LED lights), projections, props, sculpture, and live experimental voice. Light Meditation is based on a year-long research and performance process by Azalea (previous iterations have been performed at Rosekill, Glasshouse Project, Trans-Pecos, and others). The work takes Azalea’s research of amplifying her own body’s energetic ripple with carefully designed props and costumes and extends it into a physically and emotionally forceful duet. Light Meditation seeks to develop a novel visual language that uses light to reveal truths about our bodies and relationships that may be otherwise missed.
Lina Azalea is an interdisciplinary artist and event producer based in the Hudson Valley and New York City. She specializes in multimedia movement performance and dance event creation. Her work has been presented at New York Live Arts, ROSEKILL, Glasshouse Project, Rockaway Art Week/The Locker Room, Green Kill, Trans-Pecos, Groundswell Series, Terrain Exhibitions, The Lace Mill, North Node Kingston, and DIY venues across the Northeast. She is a 2023 Franklin Furnace FUND Recipient for her work with “Light Meditations.” She is the 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room. She produces BADDANCE, a dance event series she founded in 2017 that upholds the merit of confounding, obscene, strange, and very bad dance works. In 2022, she co-founded Momenta, a monthly dance and performance art event series in residence at Trans-Pecos. She operates a part-time DIY show house in Kingston, NY. @lina__azalea (Instagram)
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2023-24, supported by SHS Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive. This project has received additional support from Raising HOPE Ulster County. Generous studio space has been provided by Groundworks Residency. The project will be produced by Ellen Robbins as part of her Alumni Showcase.
Choreography: Lina Azalea
Dancers: Sayer Mansfield and Maddie Leonard-Rose
Music: Matt Luczak
Costumes and props: Lina Azalea
Video art: Lina Azalea (editing, performance, costume) and David Schell (filmography, TouchDesigner)
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1. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, Jan. 26
Friends in Cleveland: I am heading your way. I am delighted to be the inaugural speaker of FRONT talks, a series of talks organized by the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art .
Friday, January 26, 2024 at 12:15 pm
Cleveland Institute of Art, Peter B. Lewis Theater.
Please visit this link for more info:
Thank you.
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2. Dolores Zorreguieta, FF Alumn, now online at Youtu.be
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1buceDpnZK8&feature=youtu.be
Thank you.
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3. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, live on WPKN 89.5FM, Jan. 27
I’ll be one of 3 artists on Live Culture on WPKN 89.5 FM. The program will air on Sat, Jan 27. We are being interviewed by Martha Lewis about the exhibit curated by Alva Greenberg, “No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor” at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Every Ocean Hughes, Sharon Hayes, FF Alumns, at UC Irvine, California, opening Jan. 20
On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time
Opening and Book Lauch: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 2 to 5pm, RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdet6Qnxk2TqRK5hbcN8mB8pgadLknKKD3geuqq2lBczyldlA/viewform
On view: January 20 to April 7, 2024
Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery
Curated by Juli Carson
Join us for the opening of On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at the CAC Gallery from 2 to 5pm. To mark the opening, curator Juli Carson and artist Mary Kelly will be in conversation at 3:30pm to discuss the exhibition and the upcoming release of Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings.
Featured artists:
Abigail Raphael Collins
Damir Avdagic
Every Ocean Hughes
Karl Haendel
Kerry Tribe
Latipa
Mary Kelly
Meleko Mokgosi
Sharon Hayes
This exhibition is organized in coordination with the release of Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings, published by Bloomsbury Press. Following the book’s lead, the exhibition focuses on “project-based” work by a younger generation of artists who have worked closely with Kelly. The exhibition position’s Kelly’s WLM Demo Remix as its thesis. Produced for her Love Songs project—featured in documenta 12 (2007) —WLM is a 90 second projected film-loop with a slow dissolve creating a bridge between past and present representations of the 1970 Women’s Liberation demonstration in New York, producing a visual palimpsest of the political “there-then,” in the “here-now.” In dialogue with the other works featured in this exhibition, WLM becomes a call to heed the repressive politics of the current moment, returning us to such historical pulse points as 1968, 1989, 2001, 2011, 2016 and 2020 as exemplars of resistance.
The exhibition takes its concept of a “political primal scene” from the timely intergenerational, on-line conversation that Kelly moderated for the Tate Modern in 2015. The conversation’s title, On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, was a nod to Guy Debord’s 1959 semi-autobiographical Situationist film of the same name as well as Kelly’s exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth in London (2014). Kelly’s online conversation took a wide-angle view of the “discursive site,” which is, as she put it, fundamentally intergenerational, and at the same time, historically specific. Accordingly, the conversation framed those who were born during or after World War II, whose children were born in the late 60s and 70s, and their grandchildren in the new millennium. As Kelly explains, “What is passed on, from one generation to another, seems to be both a practical question, as Hayden White put it, ‘how to live in the present,’ and a riddle to be deciphered, as Walter Benjamin’s ‘secret agreement’ implies, the transmission of unconscious collective desire, which is, ultimately, the foundation of historical memory. Seen in this way, an era could be defined as the discursive footprint of shared aspirations left by a few people passing through an infinitely brief period of geological time.”
Read more about the exhibition and the parallel program on our website here:
https://uag.arts.uci.edu/exhibit/passage-few-people-through-rather-brief-period-time
You can pre-order the book here:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mary-kellys-concentric-pedagogy-9781350352438/
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5. Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumn, at Mothership, Woodstock, NY, thru Jan. 15 and more
Linda Mary Montano is in Cheap Art by Expensive Artists, a group show on view at the Mothership in Woodstock thru January 15. Her piece “Chicken Drawing on a photo of Cai Silver’s painting” is being offered in a silent auction.
Bids (over $99) accepted at mothershipwoodstock@gmail.com thru January 15.
Mothership Events group on Facebook.
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6. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Jan. 26-May 5, and more
Saya Woolfalk
We are pleased to announce that the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum has acquired the multimedia installation: We Emerge From the Sunset of Your Ideology
Saya Woolfalk is a 2023 recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
Networked Nature
From the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
January 26 – May 5, 2024
Saya Woolfalk: The Heart of a Museum
Currier Museum of Art
Manchester, NH
Through February 6, 2024
New Eden
ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
through March 3, 2024
Women Reframe American Landscape:
Contemporary Practices
New Britain Museum of American Art
through March 31, 2024
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7. Kumi Korf, Scott McCarney, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Miriam Schaer, Buzz Spector, Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumns, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, Jan. 18-May 1
Please visit this link:
https://centerforbookarts.org/50th-anniversary-members-exhibition-exhibition
Thank you.
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8. Olivia Beens, Franc Palaia, Harley Spiller, Stewart Wilson, FF Alumns, now online at Personaland.com
“Mythology: Ancient to Modern” art show launched on Friday and is featured
Please visit the show and pass the good news with friends, fellow artists and art lovers.
https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/mythology
Thank you.
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9. Jenny Polak, FF Alumn, at BRIC, Brooklyn, thru Jan. 21, and more
My solo show ‘Homeward Bound’ is open through Sunday January 21 at BRIC:
https://bricartsmedia.org/exhibition/jenny-polak-homeward-bound/
Address: BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Interview with Michelle Millar Fisher published in Bomb as part of ‘Women by Women’:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/jenny-polak-interviewed/
Video profile about my work here:
https://youtu.be/HwcYqsJER-Y?si=vfTfNIpyhEVTmIpY
‘How Art Changed Me’ post on All Arts here:
https://www.allarts.org/2024/01/jenny-polak-how-art-changed-me/
Thank you.
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10. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Jan. 16-21
Penny Arcade returns to Joe’s Pub with the second evolution of her memoir musical The Art Of Becoming Episode #3 Superstar Interrupted
Any Penny Arcade work in progress is a master class in performance making and The Art Of Becoming is a spectacular example of LIVE ART
Since decade 1968 Penny Arcade has contributed to new art forms She is among the few performance artists from both the 1960’s or 1980’s who are still creating work and touring full time,
Penny is currently developing her full length memoir with a ten episode podcast.
Please visit this link:
https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2024/p/penny-arcade/
Thank you.
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11. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, at Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel, thru Feb. 29
Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
Curated by Cecilia Alemani
548 West 22nd Street, New York
Through January 27, 2024
RE/SISTERS
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Through January 14, 2024
Orayta: From Content to Form
The Jerusalem Biennale
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Through February 29, 2024
RE/SISTERS
FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp
March 29 – August 18, 2024
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12. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, Mar. 19-Aug. 18 and more
FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp
March 29 – August 18, 2024
Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Through March 31, 2024
The Irreplaceable Human: The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Through April 7, 2024
Extreme Tension: Art between Politics and Society 1945–2000
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Through September 28, 2025
How is Life? — Designing For Our Earth
Toto Museum, Kitkyushu, Japan
Through October 3, 2024
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13. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, new publication now available
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, receives LACE Lightning Fund 2024 award
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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15. Bonnie Ora Sherk, FF Alumn, at Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, thru March 10
Please visit this link:
https://fortmason.org/event/bonnie-ora-sherk/
Thank you.
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16. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, at Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 10, and more
We will celebrate Susan’s life and work at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 10 at 4:00 pm.
We’ll also have a birthday party in New York next November 23 at the Explorers Club!
My very best wishes for the new year,
Les
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17. Nancy Azara, FF Member, live online Jan. 23
Spirit Ladder
Workshop by Nancy Azara
Tuesday January 23, 2024, 6-9pm (Online Zoom)
$55
No ladder needs the bird but skies
To situate its wings, …
-Emily Dickinson
Using art making and meditation, we will explore the idea of a ladder as related to our view of ourselves. Participants will make collages and drawings using various materials such as watercolor, pencil, crayon, etc. Open to all.
If you are interested, I hope you will join! To reserve a place, call or email Nancy at 917-572-7461, nancy@nancyazara.com
Nancy Azara is a sculptor who works in wood and whose scroll rubbings and tracings are collaged on mylar and paper. Her work has been shown extensively, most recently in a solo show VOTIVES at Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Currently on view: A Legacy of Making, curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra at the Calandra Institute, New York, NY (2023-24), Sandstone Steps Project, Mitchell Gallery, Scotland (2023-24). She is the author of Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art, Red Wheel/Weiser and the subject of the monograph VOTIVES: Sculptures, Nancy Azara (2022). Nancy has taught many workshops and classes.
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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18. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, now online at TwoCoatsOfPaint.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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19. Harth, FF Member, at Brooklyn Art Haus, Jan. 30
The Book Of Harth
Release Party + Film Screening
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Doors: 7:00 p.m. Screening: 7:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tickets:
Direct Ticket Link:
Drinks + Eats available for purchase at on site cafe:
https://www.cafeartistesbk.com
Join the filmmaker and subject for the Release Party of their award-winning documentary The Book of Harth. Each ticket comes with a tabloid inspired zine featuring deleted interviews from the film and other fun goodies. This zine will be exclusive to ticket holders of this Release Party and will not be sold elsewhere. Come see the film on a big screen before it’s released nationwide on DVD & VOD. Stick around after the film for a Q&A with director Pierre Guillet and subject David Greg Harth, moderated by Pablo Helguera. For more information on the film, please visit https://www.bookofharth.com/
Cheers,
Harth
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20. James Romberger, FF Alumn, at Wallworks New York, The Bronx, opening Jan. 20
Join us for the first exhibition of the year, a solo exhibition from legendary New York artist James Romberger!
Wallworks New York is excited to host this small survey of work from Romberger, based on his creative eye of New York over the years.
Opening Reception: January 20th, 6PM – 8PM!
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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21. Jacob Burckhardt, John Maggiotto, FF Alumns, at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Feb. 2-Sept. 1
Please visit this link:
https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/rivers-flow-artists-connect/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Thank you.
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22. Christy Rupp, FF Alumn, at Fairfield University Art Museum, CT, opening Jan. 18
Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp
Fairfield University Art Museum, Walsh Gallery 1073 North Benson Rd, Fairfield CT
(Fairfield, CT- ) This survey features Rupp’s graphics, wall installations, and free-standing sculptures, which analyze intertwined systems of food politics and ecology that have become dysfunctional. In her sculptures birds, fish, mammals, and micro-organisms are fashioned out of detritus gathered from the waste stream: the single-use plastics, packaging, credit cards, discarded chicken bones, and bits of industrial debris that are contributing to crises precipitated by humanity’s callous treatment of nature. Informed by science and the historical representation of natural history, these works provide vivid representations of the contemporary geological era scientists have dubbed the Anthropocene in which human activity is now the primary driver of evolution and climate change.
There will be an Opening Night Lecture featuring Christy Rupp on Thursday, January 18, 2024, 5 pm at the Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, followed by a reception for the artist from 6 – 8 pm at the Quick Center for the Arts Lobby and Walsh Gallery.
Presented as part of the Edwin L. Wiesel Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation
About Christy Rupp: Christy Rupp is a conceptual artist and citizen scientist, who creates work informed by the study of animal behavior and habitat. Since the late 70’s she has examined the relationship between waste and the environment through the lens of Discard Studies, or the study of the waste stream. Growing up in the Great Lakes rustbelt of the 50s and 60s, she became aware at an early age how our perceptions are framed as much by images of waste as they are of wonder.
Rupp was part of the artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab)—organizers of the historic Times Square Show—as well as ABC No Rio and other East Village-era artist groups.
She has received grants from Anonymous was a Woman Foundation, Joan Mitchell FoundationCALL Award, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Art Matters Inc. Her work has been recently shown at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen, Netherlands; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; The Butler Gallery at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NYC; Zimmerli Art Museum, Howl ! Happening, and ABC No Rio in Exile. This fall she will open a survey exhibition at UB Anderson Gallery, in Buffalo, NY. She has recently launched a career survey publication, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper, published by Insight Editions, a division of Simon and Schuster
Christy Rupp lives in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
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23. Ken Aptekar, FF Alumn, at TIbor de Nagy Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 26 and more
Great reason to come to Detroit!
Ken Aptekar: Twenty-two Carrots
Opening at Wasserman Projects on January 20th, from 5-8PM!
Details: https://wassermanprojects.com/winter-2024/
Then, the week after come to New York City!
Ken Aptekar: Says me. Says you?
Opening at Tibor de Nagy Gallery on January 26th from 6-8PM!
Details (More soon!): https://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions
And in the meantime, get lost on my newly updated website!
https://kenaptekar.net
All the works that will be shown in NYC and Detroit are now online under Works>2020-2023:
https://kenaptekar.net/illuminated-manuscripts/
Can’t wait to see you in Detroit and/or NYC!
All best, Ken
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24. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, opening Jan. 26 and more
It’s All Abstract
Art Access Gallery
540 South Drexel Ave.
Columbus, OH 43209
January 24 through March 15, 2024
Opening reception, Friday, January 26, 5 – 7 pm
My new paintings and photographs are included in a group exhibition, It’s All Abstract, curated by Barb Unverferth at her gallery, Art Access, in Columbus, OH.
A year ago I invented a tool using string to integrate color in my paintings that also opened up a new way of making photographs. In my unstretched canvas paintings, it allows crisp, pressed-paint grids to float amongst the multi-colored pools. In my photographs, the tool becomes part of the subject, creating a play of light and shadow obscuring the hand-written pages of an open journal.
I’m pleased to have my work exhibited alongside paintings by Alan Crockett, Sharon Dougherty and Ron Johnson.
Come see the show!
Best wishes for the New Year,
Anne Sherwood Pundyk
www.annesherwoodpundyk.com
Please save the date for “Beauty Out of Bounds,” my upcoming solo exhibition at East End Arts, Riverhead, NY on the North Fork of Long Island. The show opens March 23rd and runs through May 5, 2024.
Please visit these links:
https://www.artaccessgallery.com/project/anne-sherwood-pundyk/
https://eastendarts.org/art-galleries/
Thank you.
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