Contents for January 22, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Elke Solomon, FF Member, In Memoriam
Weekly Spotlight: Jesus Benavente, FF FUND recipient 2023/24, at The Boiler – ELM Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 23-27
Weekly Spotlight: Shawn Escarciga, FF FUND recipient 2023/24, at Brick Aux, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 25-27
1. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA, opening Jan. 25
2. Judy Giera, FF Alumn, at The Bronx Museum, NY, opening Jan. 26
3. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, named BAX Artist in Residence 2024-25
4. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Feb. 2
5. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, new publication
6. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, new publication with Columbia University Press and Eris Press
7. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Santa Ana College, CA, opening Feb. 3 and more
8. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, thru April 4
9. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, now online at CulturedMag.com
10. Marina Abramović, Annie Sprinkle, Laura Raicovich, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
11. Doug Beube, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, at The Argosy Bookstore, Manhattan, Jan. 27 and more
12. Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, at BronxArtSpace, NY, thru Feb. 23
13. Brian Buczak, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joyce Kozloff, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
14. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Cultural Council of Palm Beach, FL, opening Jan. 25
15. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, now online at FilmmakerMagazine.com and more
16. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, at BAM, Brooklyn, Feb. 5-10
17. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, now online at AMNY.com
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Elke Solomon, FF Member, In Memoriam
VanDeb Editions has announced the sad news that Elke Solomon has passed away. Elke was a longtime member and supporter of Franklin Furnace, a founding member of Heresies Collective, Prints and Drawings Curator at The Whitney Museum of American Art, and a teacher at Princeton University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Parsons School of Design. A multidisciplinary artist, Elke created paintings, drawings, prints, performances, and installations. Please visit her work at elkesolomon.com and on IG @elkesolomon.
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Weekly Spotlight: Jesus Benavente, FF FUND recipient 2023/24, at The Boiler – ELM Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 23-27
“Paint and Pour and Pain and Poor”
January 23th – January 27th, 2024 6-9 pm
The Boiler – ELM Foundation
191 N 14th St. Brooklyn, NY
“Paint and Pour and Pain and Poor” is a week-long performance in a rented/borrowed space in nyc. The performance takes the shape of a free to the public nightly “sip and paint” social event. However, instead of recreating an already made painting of a tree, or painting a still life. I and other hired performers will guide participants into a more deeply examined consideration of various societal issues (each night tackling a different issue). The performance turns audiences into fellow performers/artists as we guide them to consider our complicity in our social systems and provide an opportunity to collectively act.
Jesus Benavente is an amazing and attractive visual artist. Jesus earned an MFA from the Mason Gross School of Art at 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.
This work is presented by ELM Foundation at The Boiler, it is made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2023-24, supported by Jerome Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
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Weekly Spotlight: Shawn Escarciga, FF FUND recipient 2023/24, at Brick Aux, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 25-27
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present
Admin Reveal: An Evening With Miss Lady Salad
by Shawn Escarciga (Miss Lady Salad) [Shawn Escarciga]
January 25 – January 27, 2023
at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave
The veil between URL and IRL thins once more for ADMIN REVEAL. Darling internet pest and real life gayguy Miss Lady Salad welcomes f-slurs far and wide to journey through their valley of memes, celebrating three years of a meme-a-day (or 3) with a little talking, a little sharing, a little durational performance, 15mg of generic Lexapro, and a dream.
Created by Miss Lady Salad (Shawn Escarciga)
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2023-24, supported by Jerome Foundation and the members and friends of Franklin Furnace Archive.
Free Durational Performance January 27, 12:30-2pm – Miss Lady Salad will sit IRL working on their many screens. Visitors are invited to use the Miss Lady Salad selfie stick to take a photo with the artist against their meme backdrop, but do not expect a response… the internet is calling them.
Shawn Escarciga (Miss Lady Salad) is a multidisciplinary maker, administrator, and connector working between performance, collage/memes, comedy, and curation. Shawn’s work has explored labor and class; questioning value systems and hierarchies; and ways to balance being silly with tangible moves towards equity and care. Shawn thinks a lot about classism, visibility, access, the internet, intimacy amongst f-slurs, communication, being a little shit, and what it would be like to live in a country that supports non-commercial artists and poor people. Their work has been seen throughout galleries, museums, sex parties, and DIY spaces across New York City, domestically, and abroad. They are a staff member of Visual AIDS, the founder and co-leader of the NYC Low-Income Artist and Freelancer Relief Fund, and a recent recipient of a Franklin Furnace FUND grant.
Social media: @missladysalad
Link to show: https://www.theexponentialfestival.org/adminreveal2024
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1. Alicia Grullón, FF Alumn, at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA, opening Jan. 25
“Like a Slow Walk with Trees” opens next Thursday and continues from Jan 26 to June 9 at the Mead Museum @meadartmuseum at Amherst College in MA. There’s always emotion poured into work made. This time it’s been something else. Happy to say everyone working on this show has been spectacular. Thank you.
Text below is by curator at the Mead, Lisa Crossman:
“Like a Slow Walk with Trees is a meditation on land and labor by Alicia Grullón. The body, the banner, photography, and video with text are employed as part of her artistic practice, which centers activism. Grullón’s work continues in the tradition of artists since the 1970s who have critically used photography and written language to address current issues and disrupt the possibility of singular readings of each form as simply documentary or reportage…
Grullón poetically knits together the direct language used to make demands—symbols and language of protest—with other references that layer and complicate associations. How do we define labor and land? How are trees and people connected? And how might one imagine a ‘Slow Walk with Trees’?”
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2. Judy Giera, FF Alumn, at The Bronx Museum, NY, opening Jan. 26
Hello!!
I am excited to share that I have work on view as part of Bronx Calling: The 6th AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum opening next Friday, January 26, 2024. Curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch (Director of Curatorial Programs – Bronx Museum), the Biennial is presented in two parts and features 53 emerging artists who have participated in The Bronx Museum’s flagship artist professional development program, the AIM Fellowship, from years 2020 through 2023. I was an AIM Fellow in 2022 and am excited to be showing amongst an amazing group of artists in Part 1 of the exhibition, on view January 26 – March 31, 2024. The Bronx is a borough I have lived in and went to graduate school in and has introduced me to so many great people and artists. It is always a privilege to come uptown and I do hope you get a chance to see the show!
The museum is open Wednesday – Sunday and admission is always free. Visiting is a quick walk from the 167th St station on the 4, B, or D trains.
Hope to cross paths soon,
xo
~Judy~
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3. Ogemdi Ude, FF Alumn, named BAX Artist in Residence 2024-25
BAX is honored to announce our new 2024–2025 Artists in Residence!
Hello everyone! For the 2024/2025 season, we are thrilled to offer each of our new Artists in Residence 450 hours of free rehearsal space over an 18-month period (January 2024 to June 2025), an $8000 stipend, and advisory, marketing, and production support to develop their artistic practice. Artists receive mentorship from Artist Advisors Abigail Browde and nia love, as well as additional advising from BAX Artistic Director Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, and Senior Director of Programs and Production Lucia Scheckner. As with all of our residencies, BAX supports parent artists by offering free arts programming for their school-age children.
The residency includes the artist’s participation in three benchmark presentations that progress over the residency: two Open Studios (May 2024 and November 2024) and a Work-In-Progress public performance/presentation (May 2025 with documentation & livestream option) at BAX. The Open Studios may range in forms, from an open rehearsal to a public workshop to a practice-based engagement — anything that will advance the artists’ research and practice.
Please join us in welcoming Cheri Stokes, Elisabeth Motley, and Ogemdi Ude!
Ogemdi Ude (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based dance and interdisciplinary artist, doula, and educator creating performances, texts, installation, and media that focus on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. She uses movement and voice as a tool for digging up personal and sociocultural narratives, and processing grief. She is interested in how we search for objective “truth” to justify grief; why we seek evidence of our relationships to that which we have lost. How do we find people, cultures, and histories that aren’t there anymore in all the bits that are? She engages the body holistically to re-member: sew together the fissures that trauma creates in our personal narratives.
Ogemdi’s work has been presented at Gibney, BRIC, Abrons Arts Center, ISSUE Project Room, Danspace Project, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Gibney, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, Lewis Center for the Arts, and for BAM’s DanceAfrica festival. As an educator, she serves as Head of Movement for Theater at Professional Performing Arts School and has taught at The New School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, MIT, and University of the Arts. She has worked with artists including Raja Feather Kelly, iele paloumpis, Marion Spencer, Rebecca Lazier, Stuart Singer, Aaron Landsman, Melanie Lane, Prue Lang, Raven White/BIRDHOUSE, Oskar Eustis, Laurie Woolery, and Lear deBessonet.
She is a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and has been a 2022-2023 Smack Mellon Studio Artist, 2022 Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence, 2021 danceWEB Scholar, 2021 Laundromat Project Create Change Artist-in-Residence, and a 2019-2020 Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Resident Fellow. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English, Dance, and Theater from Princeton University.
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4. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, Feb. 2
Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, will present his first produced multi media performance on February 2 at the Trolley Barn Gallery in Poughkeepsie, NY. The performance, entitled Shadow Dancing, is inspired by Palaia’s black shadow photographs of the wall paintings by Richard Hambleton painted in NYC in the 1980s. Shadow Dancing is an illuminated musical dance performance that includes two back-lit dancers, two percussionists (Palaia on drums and Kazi Oliver on hand drum percussion). Palaia also designed the sets and props. The performance runs from 6-8pm Friday Feb 2 2024. for more information: Francpalaia1@gmail.com, 845-505-3123. Tickets are $10. Trolley Barn Gallery 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY 845-452-5240.
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5. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, new publication
On Jan 8th Orbis Tertius Press released Joseph Nechvatal’s cybersex novella “~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©~Ñ~vibrator, even” as an e-book here:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/joseph-nechvatal/venus%C3%B1vibrator-even/ebook/product-kvv648e.html
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6. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, new publication with Columbia University Press and Eris Press
My new book, The Glossary of Cognitive Activism, just got announced at Columbia University Press published by Eris Press.
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7. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Santa Ana College, CA, opening Feb. 3 and more
elin o’Hara slavick has 2 upcoming solo shows at Santa Ana College:
After Hiroshima (Part One) February 3 – March 2, 2024, SACarts Gallery at the Santora Building, downtown Santa, California, opening February 3, 2024, 4-9 pm
and After Hiroshima (Part Two) February 7 – April 3, 2024 at Santa Ana College Main Art Gallery, opening February 10, with an artist lecture 2-3 pm and reception 3-5 pm.
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8. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, thru April 4
Please visit this link:
https://www.carterburdengallery.org/current-exhibition
Thank you.
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9. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, now online at CulturedMag.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/01/16/video-artist-dara-birnbaum
Thank you.
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10. Marina Abramović, Annie Sprinkle, Laura Raicovich, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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11. Doug Beube, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns, at The Argosy Bookstore, Manhattan, Jan. 27 and more
“Doug Beube: A Survey of Zoom +/-” at The Gallery at Argosy Books in New York City has been extended until January 30, 2024. There are two recent mentions/reviews, by Rebecca Chace in Two Coats of Paint and Buzz Spector on Instagram, you can click the links below to read. For the last weekend on Saturday, January 27, from 3-4 pm at Argosy, Buzz Spector and Doug will have a conversation about his mapworks. Buzz is an artist, writer, and art editor of december magazine, an international publication of literature and art. Spector and Doug Beube have participated both nationally and internationally in numerous group exhibitions together over the past three decades.
Two Coats of Paint: Rebecca Chace
Buzz Spector
https://instagram.com/p/C1yDBkisWu5NjArkhmOtwcxWQ0lRhku-nua8RE0
Curated by Ken Buhler and Laura Ten Eyck
116 East 59 St, New York, NY ∙ 212-753-4455
Monday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
gallery@argosybooks.com ∙ argosybooks.com
For more information: Contact Laura Ten Eyck
To access the gallery take the elevator to the second floor.
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12. Jerri Allyn, FF Alumn, at BronxArtSpace, NY, thru Feb. 23
BronxArtSpace
700 Manida St, Bronx, NY 10474
Exhibition on view thru Feb 23, 2024
Open: Thurs & Fri, 2:00-6:00. Sat 12:00-5:00.
BronxArtSpace (BAS), located for 13 years in MottHaven, moved into the Hunts Point Neighborhood in 2022 with the promise to bring culture & conversations to the residents of 700 Manida Street as well as to the surrounding neighborhood. Almost two years later it’s time to look at the present situation at BronxArtSpace as well as its surrounding upcoming new building projects so called the Peninsula Project (formerly known as the location of the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center).
After many years of community organizing and activism, Spofford Juvenile Detention Center, in the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bronx was shut down in 2011. In 2016, NYC Economic Development Corporation, via a request for expressions of interest, designated the development team, composed of THE POINT, The Hudson Companies, Mutual Housing Association of NY, Gilbane Development Co., and Urban Health Plan, to create a campus with five buildings containing 740 affordable apartments, commercial and light industrial space, a cultural arts center, a daycare center, and a full, one-acre plaza open and accessible to the community
The Roundtable event on January 20, 2024, presented experiences and strategies on how affordable housing and art initiatives could become game changers not only in the neighborhood of Hunts Point but in other cities as well.
Therefore Jerri Allyn and BronxArtSpace invited housing activists from Philadelphia to join us in reflecting on initiatives. Graphic Designer Elaine Lopez and Allyn worked with Act Up Philly members during Fall 2022 to create posters which inspired the exhibition. We’d like to see what we might learn from one another.
Kenneth Blackwell, Jazmyn Henderson, Stacie Lynn Miller, Max Ray-Riek, members Act Up Philadelphia :
Act Up members use their posters during their street outreach to spark conversations, and will participate in the Round Table event. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) members are a diverse, non-partisan group, united in anger, and committed to ending the AIDS crisis through direct-action. Since its inception, ACT UP has used a diversity of tactics to address social inequities that threaten people living with HIV/AIDS and those at risk of infection. Demanding affordable housing and safe, dignified emergency shelter has always been part of the fight against HIV.
Ismene Speliotis, Executive Director, MAHANY Management :
MAHANY is the nonprofit developer of 700 Manida Street (home to BronxArtSpace) and partly involved in building complexes at the Peninsula Project.
Their mission is to increase affordable housing opportunities by identifying and implementing creative housing development initiatives, with a focus on preservation and deep affordability; to Improve the way affordable housing for low and moderate income people is developed and operated. They work with building and community residents to get involved with their communities and neighborhoods. MAHANY aims to improve community conditions and increase neighborhood involvement. They educate and counsel to prepare low and moderate income people interested in purchasing their first home and counsel current homeowners to address mortgage delinquency and default
Carey Clark, THE POINT :
Speak to activism at THE POINT, spearheading the Peninsula Project to build affordable housing.
Daniel Freeman, Director, Inspiration Point Center for the Arts :
Inspiration Point is being developed with the support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to establish a cultural hub in the South Bronx. Their mission is to deliver essential, representative community programming, free and low-cost access to the arts, and affordable workspaces for emerging artists. Their facilities comprise a theater, gallery, and twenty-one artist and specialty studios for artist residents and their cohorts.
Andrea Sofía Matos, Arts & Wellness Coordinator, Urban Health Plan :
Urban Health Plan is a network of federally qualified health centers comprised of 12 health centers, 12 school-based health centers, and a free-standing mental health center located in the South Bronx, Corona Queens, and Central Harlem, NYC and is committed to breaking down barriers to holistic healthcare.
Jerri Allyn
Project Manager / Artist Educator Activist
(she, he, shimm/her)
310. 963. 8118
Working in Tongva & Lenape Nation territory’s
Quedishtu Projects: #SexEd #ProSex #EroticLaborersRights
“I am not nearly so interested in what monkey wo/man/x was derived from, as I am in what kind of monkey s/he/x is to become.” Loren Eiseley
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13. Brian Buczak, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joyce Kozloff, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in January 2024
Thank you.
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14. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Cultural Council of Palm Beach, FL, opening Jan. 25
I have the honor of exhibiting in She. Her. Hers, opening at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach on Thursday, January 25. Please note: the opening is free to members, $20 to non-members. The show is free during regular gallery hours, Tues.-Sat. 12-5, Jan. 26 through April 6.
I will be part of a panel discussion about the exhibition on January 27, 2pm.
https://www.palmbeachillustrated.com/cultural-council-to-unveil-she-her-hers/
Thank you.
Quimetta Perle
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15. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, now online at FilmmakerMagazine.com and more
Media praise for Artist Michelle Handelman’s newest work, “DELIRIUM PART ONE: DEATH (The Breakdown)”
Artist Michelle Handelman’s newest work, which debut at the SIGNS & SYMBOLS gallery in New York, has received media praise for the aesthetic brilliance of her work.
Featuring the iconic No-Wave performer and writer Lydia Lunch alongside choreography by the New York performance duo FlucT, DELIRIUM PART ONE: DEATH (The Breakdown) is the first chapter in Handelman’s epic four-part moving image installation DELIRIUM, an inquiry into the making and unmaking of meaning within hierarchical systems of desire and control. It envisages altered states of consciousness as means of resisting capitalist ideals of production, transfiguring the body and interrogating desire through a visceral, cinematic framework that refuses the production of meaning. DELIRIUM in its entirety will unfold over the upcoming years in four distinct vignettes — PART ONE: DEATH (The Breakdown), PART TWO: EUPHORIA (The Orgy), PART THREE: CONTROL (The Come Down), PART FOUR: SLEEP (The Release). In each section Handelman directs a central performer whose own work excavates the dark and uncomfortable spaces of political disintegration and circuits of desire through confrontational aesthetics.
Recent media:
Filmmaker Magazine
https://filmmakermagazine.com/124187-michelle-handelman-lydia-lunch-installation/
The Brooklyn Rail
https://brooklynrail.org/events/2024/01/12/michelle-handelman-delirium-part-one-death-the-breakdown/
Filthy Dreams
A Gathering of Tribes
https://www.tribes.org/features-1/2024/1/9/delirium
Fit Newsroom
https://news.fitnyc.edu/2019/01/18/michelle-handelman-receives-2019-creative-capital-award/
Texte Zur Kunst
Also, Signs & Symbols Gallery
https://www.signsandsymbols.art/exhibitions/delirium-part-one-deat
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16. Taylor Mac, FF Alumn, at BAM, Brooklyn, Feb. 5-10
BAM, Onassis USA and Pomegranate Arts
Present
Bark of Millions
Lyrics and direction by Taylor Mac
Music and musical direction by Matt Ray
Feb 5—10
Theater-making renegades Taylor Mac, Matt Ray, and Machine Dazzle come to BAM with the US premiere of their latest luxuriant, provocative extravaganza. Featuring 55 new original songs, Bark of Millions is a rock opera meditation on queerness created through an electrifying collision of performance, live music, and drag spectacle.
Tickets at this link:
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17. Pamela Enz, FF Alumn, now online at AMNY.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.amny.com/news/falling-sideways-east-village-show/
Thank you.
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