Contents for January 20th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Francheska Alcántara, Shawn Escarciga, Alicia Grullón, FF Alumns, at Longwood Art Gallery, The Bronx, opening Jan. 22 and more
2. Chloe Bass, Carlos Motta, FF Alumns, at Creative Time, Manhattan, Jan. 30 and more
3. Jesus Benavente, FF Alumn, at 125 Maiden Lane, Manhattan, Jan. 28
4. Terry Dame, FF Alumn, at Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, thru March 15
5. Ogemdi Ude, Caroline Garcia, FF Alumns, named Jerome Hill Artist Fellow 2025-28
6. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at FrankMoore.Substack.com
7. Papo Colo, Billy X. Curmano, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Alicia Grullón, Linda Mary Montano, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumns, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com/incantations
8. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at Wave Hill, The Bronx, Feb. 2 and more
9. Galinsky, Otchuda Say, FF Alumns, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, January 30
10. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, at Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 30
11. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF ALumn, at Main Library, Miami Dade, FL, Jan 31-Apr. 17
12. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, winter-spring news
13. Heidi Hatry, FF Member, at Meat Packing District, Manhattan, Jan. 25 and more
14. Silvia Ziranek, FF Alumn, at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, UK, Feb. 22
15. Shirin Neshat, Arlene Rush, FF Alumns, at Pen + Brush, Manhattan, opening Jan. 23
16. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, at ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, opening Feb. 7
17. Russet Lederman, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, Jan. 21
18. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.jaycritchley.com/42nd-rerooters.html
19. Mira Schor, FF. Alumn, at Lyles & King, Manhattan, thru Feb. 22, and more
20. Alec Finlay, Pavel Büchler, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Tuttle, Cecilia Vicuña, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Tuttle, FF Alumns at Edinburgh College of Art, UK, Jan. 30
21. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, now online at BrokeAssStuart.com
22. Nima Nikakhlagh, FF Alumn, online at Visualcontainer.TV, thru Jan. 31
23. Ellen Kahn, Lynda Kahn, FF ALumns, at Woodstock Guild, NY, thru May 3
24. Beth Lapides, Dona Ann McAdams, John Killacky, FF Alumns, at Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, VT, Feb. 13
25. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at 57W57ARTS, Manhattan, thru Feb. 28
26. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1048293568
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1. Francheska Alcántara, Shawn Escarciga, Alicia Grullón, FF Alumns, at Longwood Art Gallery, The Bronx, opening Jan. 22 and more
Public Program: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Artist Shawn Escarciga will present The Foundation for the Advancement of Gayguys of Wealthyx Experience Honors Shawn Escarciga. This work aims to critique the classist, inaccessible, and money-driven elements of the historically oppressive art world. By using absurdity, Escarciga highlights “neoliberal shortsightedness” and encourages us to “think outside of neat little boxes” during a time marked by vast hypocrisy and censorship in the arts. Following a great comedic tradition, Escarciga employs humor to expose the disparity between the Art World’s self-presentation and its actuality.
This event is part of the exhibition:
Support Systems
Curator: Christina Freeman
January 22 – February 25, 2025
Longwood Art Gallery
2700 East Tremont Avenue
Bronx, NY, 10461
Opening Reception: January 22, 6-8PM
The Longwood Art Gallery is located in the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA)
https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery
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2. Chloe Bass, Carlos Motta, FF Alumns, at Creative Time, Manhattan, Jan. 30 and more
Sonic Commons
Our 2025 Year Ahead
We are thrilled to announce Sonic Commons, Creative Time’s theme for 2025. Led by the curatorial direction of Diya Vij, the Sonic Commons guides a year of dynamic programming, including public art commissions, workshops, performances, and public gatherings. Throughout 2025, Creative Time programs will explore the sounds—and silences—that form our urban landscapes.
Sound shapes our atmosphere: the ways we interact with each other, what we hear and don’t hear, how we listen and to what or who. Sound, an invisible force, profoundly impacts our atmosphere, relationships, histories, and power structures.
In a time of growing political uncertainty, Sonic Commons offers a timely exploration of the shared auditory environment we all inhabit.
2025 Programming Highlights Include:
Two Major Publics Art Commissions by Chloë Bass and Hajra Waheed
Weekly CTHQ Programs, curated by Anna Harsanyi and Diya Vij, starting on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, with interdisciplinary gatherings including performances, workshops, meals, and listening sessions, centered on the sounds that make up our shared public space:
the summer anthem, the high heels clicking on the street, the catcall, the cackle, the small talk, the spontaneous street conversation, the shit talking, the lo-rider, the birdsong within city greenspaces, the protest slogan, the call and response, the collective song, the impetus to speak out, the notion that voices are heard (but is the hearing ever translated into action?), the censored voices, the scream, the shout, the catatonic scream, the silence, the stillness, the saying something when seeing something, the public address, the sign language, the signage, the endangered languages, the underground codes, the busking, the rhythm of urban infrastructure, the phone sounds played out loud, the music played outside, the thunder, the bass, the noise pollution, the noise ordinances, the alarms, the sirens, the screeching of a halt, the breathe, the struggle to breathe deeply in a polluted cityscape, the right to breathe, the air, the obstruction of breath, the asthma, indigenous sonic agency, the noise, the rumbling, the game of telephone, the prank call, the rumor, the encrypted group chat, the urban legend, the call to prayer, the call to action…
2025 Sonic Commons CTHQ Program Participants (in formation):
Accent Sisters • Lawrence Abu Hamdan • Safira Beradda • Gabo Camnitzer • Raven Chacon • Maia Chao • Sonia Louise Davis • Iskandar Dridi • JJJJJerome Ellis • Atheel Elmalik & Marwa Eltahir • GENG PTP • Joy Guidry • Lisa E. Harris • Dorchel Haqq • Harmony Holiday • Khaled Jarrar • Jessica Kwok • Yuniya Edi Kwon & Holland Andrews • Cara Michell (s l o w p r a c t i c e) • Carlos Motta • Music Research Strategies (Marshall Trammell) • Aki Onda • Laura Ortman • Ethan Philbrick • Samora Pinderhughes (The Healing Project) • Shirine Saad • Mohammed Salah • Kamala Sankaram • Robert Sember (Ultra-red) • Tiffany Sia • H. Sinno • Sonic Insurgency Research Group
Upcoming January CTHQ Programs:
The Coded Language: QueerWordPlay
Thursday, January, 30, 2025 | 6-8 pm
with Carlos Motta, Pete Sigal, Noelle Deleon, Rebecca Teich
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3. Jesus Benavente, FF Alumn, at 125 Maiden Lane, Manhattan, Jan. 28
Oh Hey,
So, I woke up the other day and a year had passed somehow.
You know, I want to say that it was a good year, but we all know that it really wasn’t.
Like many good things happened, but it definitely wasn’t a good year in the world.
I remember telling everyone that 2024 was going to be my flop year (dumb joke, I know),
But it turns out it was a flop year for like everyone.
Honestly, we knew that it would be.
Things just haven’t been right and it was no secret that it’s all about to get worse.
The most surprising thing hasn’t been that real bad was coming, but how well we have individually prepared ourselves for it. Everyone was just doing what needs to be done.
It turns out that this is actually a very bad and exhausting way to deal with things.
2024 was a flop because we just carried everything by ourselves.
Someone you knew dies. Carry it.
7 killed. Carry it.
13 lost. Carry it
100s taken. Carry it.
1000s burn. Carry it.
We’ve all been carrying the same weight.
However, not in a shared sense, but as individuals assuming that the weight was ours alone to carry.
A gofundme may get us there financially, but it doesn’t get us there as a people whose spirit carries that weight.
I’ve been thinking about the too muchness of everything. There is the crushing weight of what needs to be done.
Of what needs to be mourned. Of what needs to be forgiven. Of what cannot be forgiven. Of the world we live in and the world that we want to live in.
I ask myself what would it take to satiate us? How much more wealth needs to be hoarded. What will quench a bloodlust for death? How many more people will disappear into the landscape? How much more anger needs to be held onto? How much more love do we need? How much more work still needs to be done?
When will we say that it’s enough?
I find that the answer is Diez Mil Mas.
It will always be just 10,000 more. Dollars, deaths, days, disappointments and esperanzas and everything evermore.
So on January 28th at 125 Maiden Lane, I have an exhibition of a new work/works called DIEZ MIL MAS ( i got images and important info at the end). It is curated by Tessa Ferreyros, who told me she trusts me to just go for it. So I did. It’s a massive banner of a foolish dog nipping through the foolish legs that are the buildings that is the financial district. A banner that becomes a landscape of bones and jokes y tierra y el Cucuy que me persigue pero tambien llora por nosotros. It is many works, but it is also a singular work. It isn’t just one medium, but many mediums and ways of getting there. It’s a translation of a terrible thought told through a joke because I still believe that we can get through it.
It is about the too muchness of everything and how we have survived through this perilous path that we live on.
I ask you to come selfishly, because I miss you, but I also ask you to come altruistically because I miss us.
We’ve fallen into the trap of the cynicism that we just need to ride out the storm alone in our bathtubs. We survived before, but we forgot that we were holding hands when we did it. So let’s get back together. Talk. hold each other. Figure it out. We don’t have to give up. It’ll most likely be a cold night, but we will feel the warmth when we are close together.
Con Animo!
JESUS BENAVENTE
Please join Art-in-Buildings to celebrate the opening of
Jesus Benavente: DIEZ MIL MAS
Huyen Tran: We Work
Tuesday, January 28th
5:30 to 7:00 pm
Jesus Benavente is an amazing and attractive visual artist. Jesus earned an MFA from Rutgers University and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions and performances include Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Queens Museum, Queens, NY; LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Performa 13, NY; Acre Projects, Chicago, IL; Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; Neuberger Museum of Art, NY; Shin Museum of Art, South Korea; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY and Austin Museum of Art, TX. Born in San Antonio, TX, Jesus Benavente lives/works in Brooklyn, NY. San Anto es donde está mi corazón.
Jesus Benavente: DIEZ MIL MAS and Huyen Tran: We Work is curated by Tessa Ferreyros and sponsored by Time Equities Inc. (TEI) Art-in-Buildings.TEI is committed to enriching the experience of our properties through the Art-in-Buildings Program, an innovative approach that brings contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists to non-traditional exhibition spaces in the interest of promoting artists, expanding the audience for art, and creating a more interesting environment for our building occupants, residents, and guests.
Founded in 1966, Time Equities, Inc. (TEI) has been in the real estate investment, development, and asset & property management business for more than 50 years. TEI currently holds in its own portfolio approximately 22.61 million square feet of residential, industrial, office and retail property – including more than 3,078 multi-family apartment units. In addition, TEI is in various stages of development and pre-development of constructing approximately 1.62 million square feet of various property types which includes at least 1,157 residential units. With properties in 27 states, five Canadian provinces, Germany, the Netherlands, and Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, the TEI portfolio benefits from a diversity of property types, sizes and markets. There are concentrations in the Northeast, Southwest, Midwest and West Coast, and new markets are always being evaluated.
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4. Terry Dame, FF Alumn, at Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, thru March 15
I have some recent visual sound work in a show at Whitewater Gallery in North Bay, Ontario now through March 15.
Wild Waysides:Queer Ecologies and the New Natural is a group show featuring recent work from artists in residence at the Queer Up North residency last August in Temagami, Ontario. It’s a fantastic show curated by Pearl Van Geest and James Fowler! Very happy to have met this crew and be working with them.
My piece “Aquatic Vibrations” involves found sound, found objects, cymatics and a lake…which is hard in a gallery. So for this show it is a video of a performance at the residency.
I’m working on an indoor installation version for a show in April with the same group
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5. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, named Jerome Hill Artist Fellow 2025-28
Please visit this link:
https://www.jeromefdn.org/jerome-hill-artist-fellows-2025-2028
Thank you.
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6. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, now online at FrankMoore.Substack.com
Please visit this link:
https://frankmoore.substack.com/p/the-function-of-the-arts-in-culture
Thank you.
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7. Papo Colo, Billy X. Curmano, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, Alicia Grullón, Linda Mary Montano, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumns, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com/incantations
The Interior Beauty Salon republishes a new archive of older interviews
https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/incantations
Interviews include conversations with:
Alicia Grullón / Glendalys Medina / Antonia Pérez / Coco López / Mauricio Arango / Ayana Evans / Jessica Lagunas / Karina Aguilera Skvirsky / Alanna Lockward / Francisca Benítez / Jane Clarke / Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga / Quintín Rivera Toro / Maris Bustamante / Quintin Rivera Toro & Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez / Carlos Jesus Marinez Dominguez & Manuel Acevedo / Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and Jessica Kairé / Jessica Kairé and Papo Colo / Linda Mary Montano / Chip Conley / Julie Davis / Jane Clarke / Billy X Curmano / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
There are more interviews being reviewed for republication. These will be posted throughout 2025
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8. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at Wave Hill, The Bronx, Feb. 2 and more
I am an artist-in-residence for the Wave Hill 2025 Winter Workspace Program
I am creating glass work inspired by healing plants and the legacy of my maternal grandfather, who was trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Save these dates for the Wave Hill Open Studio events:
Drop-In dates: Sun, Feb 2nd and Sun, Feb 9th from 1–3p
Open Studios: Sat, March 1, 12:30 – 3:30p
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9. Galinsky, Otchuda Say, FF Alumns, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, January 30
Thursday January 30th! Galinsky Presents Poetry in New York – at Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street NYC – 1st artist hits the mic at 8pm! – 10 Curated POETS perform 5 Minutes Each – this month includes: Masha Michelle, Jon Meharg, Mo Reyes, Karen Casey, Noah Mezzacappa, DBlack, Otchuda Say, Stevie Latham all hosted by Galinsky and co-host Anna Carlson and Ian McFarland Music with Dig Ferreira on live action painting and more live art by Brian Kwon!
The show is PAY WHAT YOU CAN / FREE and all donations, here on Eventbrite and live at the venue, are accepted – your generosity at any level is valued. The show starts at 8pm and the Book
Club cafe is fine place to relax before and after the show.
Full bar and light snacks are available throughout the night, come early, stay late! Book Club Bar 197 East 3rd Street, NY Thursday January 30, 8 pm
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10. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, at Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 30
Please visit this link:
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/145810
Thank you.
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11. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF ALumn, at Main Library, Miami Dade, FL, Jan 31-Apr. 17
CLAIREJEANINESATIN
One person exhibition
ART TYPING: ART TYPING BOOKS BY CLAIREJEANINESATIN
Main Library, Miami Dade, Miami Florida
January 31-April 17, 2025
22 works including a workbook printed in 1939, titled Artyping used to teach how to make designs on the typewriter by controlling the carriage. Owned by the artist’s father in his typewriter classes and was the source for many of the artist’s images. Books also contain elements of typewriter materials: ribbons, keys, spools, etc. Many accompanied by handwritten text referring to the history of the typewriter and its content
All are welcome
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12. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, winter-spring news
I am included in the following exhibitions
Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art,
Group exhibition, “So you think I’m too old to…”
Feb 1 – May 3, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 1, 3-5pm
I am exhibiting a mixed media photographic wall piece, “Chaos, Rome”
1701 Main St Peekskill, NY 914- 788-0100
museum hours: Thursday & Saturday- 11- 5pm
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Suny- New Paltz, NY
Exhibition: Movement: Hudson Valley Artists 2025. Curator- Ransome
Feb. 8 – April 6, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 8, 5-7pm
I am exhibiting a sculpture, “Totem with Leash”
1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum 845-257-3844
museum house: Wednesday- Sunday, 11-5pm
Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY (Hamlet of Haverstraw)
solo show: FRANC PALAIA, “Urban Archaeology”, 20 year Survey Exhibition
Main Gallery- Building 35. 2025 Festival Exhibition
May 3 – June 15, 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 4, 3-5pm.
Gallery Hours: 2- 5pm Fridays, 1pm- 5pm, Saturdays and Sundays
Building 35 is open to the public during gallery hours. Appointments can be made during normal business hours- Mon – Fri 9am- 5pm.
Urban Archaeology includes paintings, frescoes, photographs, sculpture and mixed media installations created from 2005 – 2025. Approximately 60 works. During the 2025 Festival, (May 17 & 18th) FRANC PALAIA and his band will perform an original musical performance. Other musicians include Trevor New on electric violin and David Henningsen on guitar. Franc on drums and percussion —live streamed
55 W. Railroad Ave. Garnerville, NY. www.Garnerartscenter.com, https://garnerartscenter.org
845-947-7108, jesse@garnerartscenter.org
Center for Photography at Woodstock, 25 Dederick St , Kingston, NY
group inaugural show in the CPW new gallery space in Kingston and not in Woodstock as their name implies. CPW opened in Woodstock in the late 1970s. Main office– 474 Broadway, Kingston, 1401
info@cpw.org. I will be exhibiting one color photograph, “Temple, Agrigento with Spot”
in the Community Gallery. Hours: Thur – Sun. 12 – 4pm, 845-679-9957.
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13. Heidi Hatry, FF Member, at Meat Packing District, Manhattan, Jan. 25 and more
Polar Bear Fest
Our second meeting will take place
Saturday, January 25 from 3-5pm in the Meat Packing District.
Please join our WhatApp group to receive details including location and other important info.
In addition, it would be amazing if you could do one (or more) of the following tasks which will make the Fest more beautiful!
Collect material for noses and eyes, especially hollowed citrus fruit halves, toilet paper rolls, and avocado pits, which are the best materials we’ve discovered, and bring them to the meeting. Also, if you have left over black paint (possibly water resistant) please bring that as well.
Talk to one environmental institution, grassroot group, or whatever group you belong to, (no matter if it’s your book club, a group focusing on parenting, or gardening…,) and invite them to attend our next gathering, and come to the Great Lawn when it snows. Find one friend who is committed to go with you to the Great Lawn in Central Park when it snows.
Ask your most connected friend (or friends) if they would be willing to post something on social
media, the day when it snows (and since it should actually snow this year, don’t forget to remind them again on those days.) Think of your friends who might be interested in promoting Polar Bear Fest on the radio, newspaper, in their podcast, TV, magazine, etc.
And please follow Polar Bear Fest on Instagram, or spread the word by other means.
Let’s give vanishing a material presence.
Let’s stop the earth from melting!
In solidarity and with love,
Heide
Upcoming:
Tropic Bound
Artists’ Book Fair, Miami, Design District,
February 6 – 9
For more information of hours, symposium, and tickets please visit their website.
Flacofolio,
New Book Release, Spuyten Duyvil,
forthcoming end of January
A collaboration with Leonard Schwartz about Flaco the owl.
For more information please visit their website.
The Year of Flaco
At The New York Historical,
February 7 – July 6
An exhibition of photographs and videos, also featuring letters, drawings, and objects left at a memorial beneath Flaco’s favorite oak tree.
For more information please visit their website.
Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair
At Powerhouse Arts,
March 27-30.
With Maddy Rosenberg/ Central Booking
For more information please visit their website.
65th Annual ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
At the Park Avenue Armory,
April 3-6
With Dan Wechsler/ Sanctuary Books
For more information please visit their website.
Flacofolio Book launch
At the German Embassy in Washington, DC,
April 9.
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14. Silvia Ziranek, FF Alumn, at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, UK, Feb. 22
LIVE WORD-BASED PERFORMANCE in sort-of memory of Blondin, the first to cross Niagara Falls on tightrope.
My delicious new prose poem perf “NOT DEAD, SHE SAID”, 2pm sharp, February 22, 2025, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow
Road, London, W10 4RA.
Anyone can follow me on instagram @silvia_ziranek and I’m in the process of updating my endless website.
Thank you and ever on!!
Kind regards
Silvia Ziranek
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15. Shirin Neshat, Arlene Rush, FF Alumns, at Pen + Brush, Manhattan, opening Jan. 23
Curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias Opening Reception January 23, 2025 from 6 – 8pm
Pen + Brush is thrilled to announce our first exhibition of 2025 Free, Fearless, and Fantastical, a group exhibition at Pen + Brush, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias. The exhibition, which prominently features both art and poetry by a notable group of international artists and writers, evokes an exhilarating sense of liberation as a call out to the collective morphology of humans, women and the gender-marginalized, who have been silenced and constrained by patriarchal norms for centuries, says Sarkar Ellias.
There will be more events happening in March during Women’s History Month so check back in on Pen + Brush here: https://www.penandbrush.org/
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16. Mel Watkin, FF Alumn, at ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, opening Feb. 7
Mel Watkin
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2025, 5-8pm
In essence my work is about the process of drawing — the highly detailed layering of mark upon mark to create images and patterns. I have long work on surfaces other than plain paper. Surfaces that come with embedded histories such as graph paper, old road maps, lace, and pillowcases.
The Birdland series is an exhibition of drawings on collaged security envelopes — envelopes used for bills, bank statements and other mailings requiring privacy. Different environments and environmental concerns strongly influence my imagery and the materials I work with. The Birdland series reflects my recent travels to the mountain west, rust belt cities like St. Louis and the Shawnee National Forest surrounding my home in Southern Illinois. Birds play a role, as our old farmhouse lies along one of the largest migratory bird routes in the country — the Cache River Flyway.
Opening Reception, Friday, Feb 7, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: January 23 – February 28, 2025
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council
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17. Russet Lederman, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, Jan. 21
Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print
Conversation with Lesley A. Martin, Olga Yatskevich and Russet Lederman
Tuesday, January 21, 6–8PM
Printed Matter
231 11th Avenue, NYC
Join us for a conversation at Printed Matter between Olga Yatskevich, Russet Lederman and Lesley A. Martin on occasion of the release of Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, a new anthology from 10×10 Photobooks.
Flashpoint! dives deep into protest photography in print through a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers. Edited by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich, this talk will explore the diverse roles and varying aesthetics that photography in print undertakes in its support of resistance.
Complete information at https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2010
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18. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.jaycritchley.com/42nd-rerooters.html
The 42nd annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Carbon Captured Broligarchy (nobraC derutpaC shcragilorB) took place on January 7, 2025 at sunset in Provincetown Harbor. The ceremony was attended by 150 people on a very cold and winding day and included the Ten Commandments of Self-Trafficking and the singing of O Holy Night, Divine, honoring Divine’s 80th birthday. The tree/boat was sent out onto the harbor afire with purging messages on the tree.
Are you experiencing Pre-Emptive Revenge or creating Mindful Pollution?
https://www.jaycritchley.com/42nd-rerooters.html
Jay Critchley
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19. Mira Schor, FF. Alumn, at Lyles & King, Manhattan, thru Feb. 22, and more
Project–Mira Schor: Nuns, January 17 – February 22. For complete information please visit this link:
and
“Mira Schor: Visions and Materialities,” Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium, January 22 – March 1, 2025. Complete information here:
https://mendeswooddm.com/exhibitions/352-mira-schor-visions-and-materialities-mira-schor
Thank you.
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20. Alec Finlay, Pavel Büchler, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Tuttle, Cecilia Vicuña, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Tuttle, FF Alumns at Edinburgh College of Art, UK, Jan. 30
Happy New year I am one of the people contributing to this evening discussing the work of the Scottish polymath, poet, marginal gardener, mountaineer, and scientist GF Dutton, at Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, West Court on Thursday 30 January 6-7:30 pm. All welcome. https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/
In terms of the studio, I have a unearthed a few copies of ‘anthology’ (1997), a rare artist book published by morning star, with woven name poems and a hardback descriptive catalogue, with notes. Anthology features original work by Richard Tuttle, Harry Gilonis, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Stephen, Graham Rich, Lesley Kerman, Simon Cutts, Medbh Mcguckian, Hans Waanders, Thomas A. Clark, Pavel Büchler, Michael Longley, David Bellingham, Zoë Irvine, Alec Finlay, Simon Patterson, Cecilia Vicuna, Kevin MacNeil, John Burnside, Lawrence Weiner. The woven poems come in a variety of types and colours. I am selling these for £25.00 plus postage – it’s currently listed on Abe for 200 dollars.
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21. Kal Spelletich, FF Alumn, now online at BrokeAssStuart.com
Please visit this link:
https://brokeassstuart.com/2025/01/16/american-aria-a-stark-reflection-on-democracys-fragility/
Thank you.
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22. Nima Nikakhlagh, FF Alumn, online at Visualcontainer.TV, thru Jan. 31
SHOUT IN SILENCE (فریاد در سکوت), a performance film orchestrated by Nima Nikakhlagh
– Jury Award and Audience Award
Beauty, conflicts, life, and simply being a human full of projects—some urgent, some not—that are waiting to come alive… The award winning works of Pebbles Underground Summer and Winter Screenings of 2024 are starting the year ahead, pushing us gently towards having an inquisitive mind, play, and new forms in 2025.
https://pebblesunderground.art/2024awardscreening/
Thank you.
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23. Ellen Kahn, Lynda Kahn, FF ALumns, at Woodstock Guild, NY, thru May 3
Hello Hello,
We would like to personally invite you to the show My Sister, My Self which opening to the public on January 18 and runs through May 3rd.
https://www.woodstockguild.org/current-upcoming-exhibitions/
My Sister, My Self contextualizes the rarified world of twins while exploring visual dualities and women’s identities in post Roe v. Wade America. My Sister, My Self features photographs by identical twin women artists. Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn, are Emmy award-winning artists known for their futuristic self-portraits and bold, graphic tableaux. Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn McLaughlin Abbe were successful fashion photographers, as well as co-authors of the book Twins on Twins. During the 1970s and ‘80s, photographers Colleen Kenyon (American, 1951-2022) and Kathleen Kenyon (American, 1951-2023) were part of the women artists’ movement that challenged the photographic establishment with innovative approaches to the medium. During the 1980s and ‘90s, the Kenyon sisters served as Director (Colleen) and Associate Director (Kathleen) of the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Presented in conjunction with CPW in Kingston, https://cpw.org/exhibition/my-sister-my-self-photographs-by-colleen-kenyon-and-kathleen-kenyon/ the exhibition is curated by Bard College art historians Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg, and is the first full-scale retrospective of the artists, both longtime Woodstock residents.
Thank you and we hope to see you.
Cheers!
Ellen + Lynda
ELLEN KAHN | TWINART
646.244.9333
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24. Beth Lapides, Dona Ann McAdams, John Killacky, FF Alumns, at Venetian Soda Lounge, Burlington, VT, Feb. 13
I have a very good and old friend named Beth Lapides @beth_lapides she had a very good friend named Taylor Negron. I met him once a long time ago in LA. Taylor and Beth had a good friend names Syd Straw @sydstraw who I didn’t know but I was a huge fan of her work. Beth said you need to meet Syd she lives in Vermont. But for many years this didn’t happen. For various reasons it didn’t happen until it did and things happen for a reason when they do. One day maybe during the pandemic I got a message on my land line from Syd Straw. She had been calling the wrong number and I had no number to call her. Well at last we were connected. One day Syd said that she had performed at PS122 once in the last century. And that someone had stolen her very beautiful coat from the dressing room. That sucks but what doesn’t is that I found her in the archive. Lori said @snappyseid that she thought it was 1991 and I think Syd said too. While mining the archive I found 10 exposures on a contact sheet. This is a cropped photograph to fit this format of Syd who is now a good friend and Vermonter. Which is miraculous. We have a gig at @venetiansodalounge with John Killacky on February 13 th. If you’re in Burlington come on down. #blackbox #gingerale #sydstraw #donaannmcadams #ps122 with Syd Straw and John Killacky and Beth Lapides and The Venetian Soda Lounge
https://www.venetiansodalounge.com
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25. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at 57W57ARTS, Manhattan, thru Feb. 28
Cyrilla Mozenter – Problems of Art | Michael Dumontier | Andreas Exner – PEBEO STUDIO | Celeste Fichter – Chat Room
January 19 – February 28, 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 19, 1-4pm
WAITING ROOM
Cyrilla Mozenter – Problems of Art
Problems of Art is a selection of hand stitched industrial wool felt freestanding and wall works made in a twenty year span.
The process of making throughout is improvisational. Hand stitching wool felt creates stress. The felt buckles, torques, droops, and stretches in unpredictable response, requiring attentiveness, flexibility, as well as a sense of playful adventure in ever-changing circumstance. The suspense of the process applies not only to form but also to color. As felt shapes are stitched together, cut edges soften and meld, shadows between disappear. Color relationships may shift dramatically. What looks harsh or dissonant at one moment in the process, transforms to harmonious in another.
Felt is a textile of ancient origin made from matted and consolidated tangles of animal fur suggesting compressed chaos. Unlike the grid of woven, felt is the fabric of irrationality. An insulator, the felt I use is thick, dense, and quieting—soft to the touch, with a matte, impressionable, non-reflective surface. The silk thread with which I stitch, is lustrous, refined. Both materials derive from creatures.
The earlier freestanding works are from More saints seen, shown in a grouping of 30 primarily vessel forms, suggestive of sacred ritual objects, and with related works on paper at the Aldrich Museum in 2005. They are made with cream-color felt (with small touches of black or grey), pencil marked and studded with toothpicks, wooden ice cream spoons, buttons, pearls, and beads. While felt absorbs liquid, vessels by definition are able to contain it. These vessels cannot function as such, but instead have an absurd pale presence, that of ghosts or resurrected memories of these elemental and essential forms.
More recent felt wall works involve the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived, and pictogram-like shapes that serve to activate irregularly shaped felt ‘grounds’ suggesting flags, banners, and pennants. In the works on exhibition, some of the letter forms are not overt, informing the contour of a shape in one instance or in absence as a letter-shaped open space in another. Like the ‘saints,’ the inlaid shapes are iconic and, in this context, can bring to mind medieval heraldry. The wall works are not flat; they hover in a space between two and three dimensions. Shapes are cut out and then inlaid (and stitched) into position not unlike marquetry, requiring exactness. The spiraling tension of the hand stitching causes subtle dimensional flare-ups that further animate the work. A doomed attempt at regularity, the stitching is in opposition to the chaos that is felt. It is a form of physical drawing. Much of the work begins with cast-offs or remains of earlier pieces: cutout shapes and the grounds from which they have been cut with untidy edges ‘as is’ suggesting history and the desire for repair and renewal.
Cyrilla Mozenter is known for her gouache-painted, pencil-drawn (and written) works on paper and hand stitched industrial wool felt pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived and pictogram-like shapes. A Guggenheim Fellow, Mozenter has shown extensively in galleries and museums, including solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center and the Aldrich Museum. She has produced two collaborative books with photographer/writer Philip Perkis. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Pratt Institute.
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26. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1048293568
Please visit this link
Thank you.
PZ, JANUARY 19, 2025
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