Contents for February 5, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: The Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects 2024-2033
Weekly Spotlight: LIVE AT THE LIBRARY IX now on view at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus Library, thru April 11, panel discussion February 10
- Gigi Otálvaro Hormillosa, FF Alumn, new publication, at Northwestern University, IL, Feb. 15 and more
- Jaguar Mary X, FF Alumn, at Artlife Institute, Kingston, NY, Feb. 9
- Modesto Jimenez, FF Alumn, named Jerome@Camargo Resident 2024-2026
- Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 7
- Alvin Eng, Bing Lee, Stefani Mar, FF Alumns, at Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, Manhattan, Feb. 8
- Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, celebrated in Central Park, Manhattan, Feb. 18
- Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Venice Biennale, preview April 17-19
- Dolores Zorreguieta, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
- Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, Mar. 29-Aug. 18 and more
- Simone Forti, Barbara Hammer, Carlos Motta, FF Alumns, in 2024 Venice Biennale, Italy, April 20-November 24
- Katherine Behar, FF Alumn, at University of California, Irvine, thru April 20
- Mark Russell, Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, FF Alumns, Obie Award Winners 2024
- Alice Klugherz, FF Alumn, now online at Dance-Enthusiast.com
- Robbin Ami Silverberg & András Bōrōcz, FF Alumns, at CODEX Artist Book Fair, Oakland, CA, thru Feb. 7
- Jeffrey Schrier, FF Member, at Hudson Valley MOCA, opening Feb. 17
- Gregory Sholette, FF Alumn, now online at GregorySholette.com
- Kay Rosen, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
- Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, now online at ArtSpiel.org
- Mimi Smith, FF Alumn, at Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
- Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at Jazz Forum, Tarrytown, NY, thru mid-May and more
- Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden West Gallery, Manhattan, through March 6
- Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, now online at ArtBasel.com
- Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, thru May 11, and more
- China Blue, Stefani Mar, Martin Wong, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
- Dee Shapiro, Miriam Schapiro, FF Alumns, at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Manhattan, thru April 26
- Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publication, and more
- Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 8 and more
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Weekly Spotlight: The Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects 2024-2033
Franklin Furnace is honored to present the inaugural Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects, celebrating the enduring impact of Jacki Apple on the New York art scene.
Jacki was Franklin Furnace’s curator and programs manager from 1976–1980, one of the earliest staff members. As a feminist performance artist herself, Jacki’s curatorial practice expanded into the spectrum of interdisciplinary and multi-media visual, audio, and written expression.
This award will be an annual award given over the next ten years and reflects Jacki Apple’s commitment to championing artists, demonstrated through her multidisciplinary career as a writer, educator, radio host, and artist since the early 1980s.
The Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects is initiated by Jacki’s sister, Marjorie Bank, along with Jeff McMahon, Deborah Oliver, Stuart Jackson-Hughes and Emily Waters. The Jacki Apple Fund is a tribute to Jacki’s lifelong dedication to NY & LA’s avant-garde art communities. Franklin Furnace and sister organization LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) will each distribute one $10,000 award per year for a total of 20 awards over the coming decade.
Requirement: Project must be completed within one year of receiving the award.
Eligibility: The artist selected for the inaugural 2024 grant will have the added requirement of being a mid or late-career artist, including past recipients of the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art.
The selection panel will meet in July, 2024 and the award recipient will be publicly announced in October, 2024.
For more information and to apply, please visit this page:
https://franklinfurnace.org/jacki-apple-award/
Thank you.
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Weekly Spotlight: LIVE AT THE LIBRARY IX now on view at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus Library, thru April 11, panel discussion February 10
Pratt Institute Libraries & Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. present their annual collaborative exhibition and event
LIVE AT THE LIBRARY IX
The Ballad of Reversals: Ephemeral Images of Ephemeral Art
On View January 19 through April 11, 2024
Mondays-Fridays. 10am-6pm
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn Campus Library
Panel Discussion
Saturday February 10, 2024, 5-6 pm
Brooklyn Campus Library
Alumni Reading Room
(elevator accessible)
and online at the Franklin Furnace digital LOFT
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/797302020807
All exhibition and related events take place at Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus Main Library, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11205-3802
The new exhibition The Ballad of Reversals: Ephemeral Images of Ephemeral Art reflects on the medium of reversal film through the image archives at Franklin Furnace. Reversal film, also known as slide film, positive film, and transparency film, was introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935 as an affordable and high-quality alternative to negative film. This advance made it possible to directly project images onto screens, as opposed to images needing to be developed in a darkroom becoming visible. By the 1960s, artists, particularly those whose practices were conceptual and ephemeral in nature, began to use reversal film to document and exhibit their work.
The Ballad of Reversals considers the conjunction of two parallel missions of Franklin Furnace: one that supports and celebrates the ephemeral art and another that aims to preserve the ephemerality. Reversal film, which inevitably deteriorates with age and exposure to light, is itself ephemeral. It is both a medium of preserving ephemeral moments and an object of ephemerality. Embodying this ambivalence, The Ballad of Reversals explores the paradoxical nature of the now obsolete medium through images and physical slides drawn from Franklin Furnace’s Event archives. The exhibition also features a glass vitrine in which visitors can glimpse a simulated darkroom wherein the “magic” of photographic image making takes place.
The accompanying panel discussion, from 5-6 pm et on February 10th, will present exhibition co-curator Tsubasa Berg, conversing on the topic with photographers Barbara Nitke and Marty Heitner, and Harley Spiller, Ken Dewey Director of Franklin Furnace and co-curator of the exhibition. The panelists, all colleagues and friends of Michael Katchen, Franklin Furnace’s Senior Archivist and photography expert, who worked steadily for the organization from his first day as a university student intern in 1980 until his death in February 2023, will also discuss Michael’s career and legacy, and respond to comments and questions from audience members.
Tsubasa Berg, Photographic Digitization Specialist, has worked with Franklin Furnace since 2021. He is an artist/photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Barbara Nitke is a New York photographer and educator best known for her intimate and compassionate work in the alternative sex world. Long a champion of the LGBTQ+, kink and sex worker communities, she lives and works in Harlem.
Marty Heitner is an artist and professional photographer who has created photographic documentation of Franklin Furnace art events since the early 1980s. His work has been published in The New York Times and he lives and works in Brooklyn and Greenport, New York.
Harley Spiller, Ken Dewey Director, is a lifelong New Yorker who started working for Franklin Furnace in 1986. He is an artist, collector, educator, and author of Keep the Change: A Collector’s Tales of Lucky Pennies, Counterfeit C-Notes, and Other Curious Currency (Princeton Architectural Press 2015).
Franklin Furnace, an independent 501(c)3 charitable organization-in-residence at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2026. Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 by artist Martha Wilson to serve artists who chose publishing as a primary, “democratic” artistic medium who were not being supported by existing arts organizations.
Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. What started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty. 135 years in the making, this is Pratt.
Documentation of work by the following Franklin Furnace artist alumns is on view:
Alba Sanchez
Alex Mavro
Alison Knowles
Alvin Eng
Alyson Pou
Annie Lanzillotto
Angelika Wanke-Festa
Barbara Hammer
Blue Man Group (Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton)
Bob Sikoryak
Brigid Murphy
Carnival Knowledge
Caroline Sykora
Cathy Simmons
Cheri Gaulke
Chris Kraus
Christine Papalexis
Sonia Knox
Dan Kwong
Debbie Moore
Deborah Edmeades
Dee Dee Russell
Dominique Dibbell
Elise Kermani
Eliza Schwarz
Eric Bogosian
Estelle Eichenberger
Frank Moore
Fred Holland
Gearoid Dolan
Gitta Gsell
Giuditta Tornetta
Harold Olejarz
Harley Spiller
Harry Kipper
Jim Sutcliffe
Joan Jonas
Joel Reynolds
Jones Twins
Judith Jackson
Julie Laffin
Julio Morales
Kevin Carter… et al
Koo Dance
Kriota Willberg
Kristen Stiles
Kugla
Layne Redmond
Lorraine O’Grady
Maciej Toporowicz
Margaret Nelson
Mary Beth Edelson
Maurya Wickstown
Michael Montgomery
Mineo Aayamaguchi
Nigel Rolfe
Patricia Winter
Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver
Philip Brown
Pope.L
Ralph Wolf
Rebecca Moore
Rose English
Sheelah Murphy
Sherman Fleming
Susanne Grossberg
Tari Ito
Ted Weiss
Thomas Churm
Thought Music (Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley)
Timothy North
V-Girls
Yoshiko Chuma & School of Hard Knocks
Zone West
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1. Gigi Otálvaro Hormillosa, FF Alumn, new publication, at Northwestern University, IL, Feb. 15 and more
Gigi Otálvaro Hormillosa at College Art Association, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and Stanford University
To celebrate the launch of her dissertation-based book incorporating practice-based research, Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco (University of California Press, 2024), Otálvaro-Hormillosa will appear and present excerpts from the book at these upcoming events:
Book talk at Northwestern on 2/15
Panel presentation at College Art Association on 2/16
Book talk at University of Chicago on 2/19
Book launch and celebration at Stanford University on 3/14
More details about these events, the book, and purchasing options at:
https://www.gigiotalvaro.org/705-2/ or @gigi_otalvaro on Instagram.
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2. Jaguar Mary X, FF Alumn, at Artlife Institute, Kingston, NY, Feb. 9
HUNG
Live Durational Performance Art
by Pirate Jenny with Guest Artists
Turtle Island Premiere
Artlife Institute Kingston
185 Abeel St, Kingston, NY 12401
Friday, February 9
4 – 8pm
Free Registration:
For more information: http://www.artlifekingston.com/
info@artlifekingston.com
Hung…is the first of a series of performances celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pirate Jenny, the time-traveling avatar of performance artist, Shola Cole. Pirate Jenny embodies the Atlantic Slave Trade’s 16th century meeting point with the Golden Age of Piracy, and also reflects Cole’s experience as an “othered” body, immigrant and queer, living in the US.
On Friday, February 9th, Pirate Jenny will hand wash their personal items along with other selected garments belonging to invited members of the Hudson Valley community; centering QT+BIPOC who have labored with so much selflessness and love amidst so much struggle. In hand washing garments, HUNG with Pirate Jenny and invited guest artists, continues to be an offering, an intentional journey, a meditation and an act of joy, gratitude, and purpose within a seemingly functional mundane and needed task. Most immediately, witnesses may reflect on location, history and context. Hand-washed clothing is simultaneously an artifact of care and evidence of hardship.
This durational performance of HUNG (Turtle Island Premier) at the Artlife Institute is from 4pm till 8pm followed by a Q & A with the artist. Attendees are invited to come and witness Pirate Jenny’s labour at any stage of the evening.
About the Artist
Shola Cole aka Pirate Jenny (They/Themme & She/Hers) is a New York based performance artist and Afro-Caribbean/UK born immigrant. An artist, adult learner, neuro-queer and youthfully mature being unpacking their gender non-conforming edges – Cole explores radio, movement, drawing, figure modeling within a time traveling tool wearing persona, Pirate Jenny (PJ).
Produced by Nights of Black Queer Manifestation, a project by Jaguar Mary X, a Black-Queer-Trans artist in the Hudson Valley. NBQM promotes awareness about the history and legacies of our oft ignored black queer ancestors. Registration is required. Please wear a mask to the event to support and protect our immunocompromised people
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3. Modesto Jimenez, FF Alumn, named Jerome@Camargo Resident 2024-2026
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 7
Artist Talk: Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, Social Practice Artist-in-Residence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at Austin
2301 San Jacinto Blvd
Austin, Texas 78712–1421
ART 1.102
https://art.utexas.edu/locations-parking
Free and Open to the Public
https://www.art.utexas.edu/events/artist-talk-nicolas-dumit-estevez-raful-espejo-ovalles-morel-social-practice-artist
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he helps unfold within the quotidian. He is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing. Nicolás is a Senior Lecturer and Social Practice Artist in Residence in the Art and Art History Department at The University of Texas, Austin; and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow
Nicolás has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07/21, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, City as Living Lab, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. During the last 15 years Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field.
Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, CEC ArtsLink, IDENSITAT, The Performance Project, Soaring Gardens, Jentel, Henry Street Settlement, Center for book Arts, Lower East Side Printshop, Artists Alliance Inc, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Nicolás holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with Coco Fusco; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS).
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5. Alvin Eng, Bing Lee, Stefani Mar, FF Alumns, at Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, Manhattan, Feb. 8
Thursday, February 8, 2024, from 6:30 – 8pm
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge St (btw. Grand & Hester), NYC
I am honored to be curating and hosting this Special Event for U+ME––a singular, illuminating dialogue of painting and poetry by Milton Resnick and Matthew Wong, two late renowned artists of different generations and backgrounds. To celebrate and deepen this interdisciplinary dialogue, I will be joined in discussion by an accomplished, intergenerational group of Asian American artists comprised of Yuchen Chang, Bing Lee, Lanie Lee, Stefani Mar, Helen Oji and Siyan Wong.
In the spirit of the exhibition, curated by Alex Paul Chapin, some of the artists will reflect on the show with poetry of their own before a group discussion that will be moderated by yours truly. In addition to celebrating U+ME, we will also be celebrating Milton Resnick’s thirty-plus years of creating art in the former synagogue at 87 Eldridge Street.
This pre-Lunar New Year event is free, but Eventbrite RSVPs are required (Exhibition link follows). If you’re free, I hope you will join us! Also, hope you can see this unique exhibition. U+ME is on view Thursday thru Saturday from 11am-6pm, and runs thru Feb. 10.
Please share with anyone who may be interested. Happy almost Year of the Dragon!
https://www.resnickpasslof.org/current-exhibitions/u-me
Artist/Panelists
Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner — writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. By constantly entering and exiting each medium, she strolls against the category of things, the labor division among people. She is currently in residence in the Artist Studio Program at Smack Mellon.
www.changyuchen.com
Bing Lee is founding member of Godzilla -Asian American Arts Network, Epoxy Art Group and Tomato Grey. His public art installations include the Canal Street (NYC) and Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong) subway stations among others. He initiated the ongoing project “Pictodiary” in 1983 and has committed to making iconographic journal daily as his significant portrayal of work.
www.bingleestudio.com
Lanie Lee is a Chinese American artist, born and raised in the Bronx. She received a Pollock-Krasner grant and had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Alpha Hills paper making in Japan, and Mass MOCA. She has been in numerous exhibits, including P.S. 1 and the Basement Workshop. In 2022-23, her solo exhibition, Passages Through Time, was on view at the New York Public Library’s Hudson Park branch.
lanie212.wixsite.com/arts
Stefani Mar, artist/designer, explores materials and forms to examine current and perennial obsessions. Born in Seattle, WA, attended art school (CCAC), graduated from UC Berkeley. Living/working in NYC since 1980, artworks include drawing, painting, sculpture, installations shown in galleries, museums and in public spaces. Design works include clothing, textiles and costumes––including a long-term association with Ping Chong & Company.
Helen Oji is a sansei (3rd generation Japanese American) who is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Her work blends Asian, American and European visual traditions and explores the synergy of gesture, paint, color, and shape. After earning her MA degree in Art (Painting) in California, she moved to New York City in 1976 where she currently lives and works.
www.helenoji.com
Siyan Wong sees the power of portraiture to share the human experiences. A self-taught painter, an immigrant, and a workers’ rights lawyer, her experiences inform her artistic vision. Her solo exhibition in Fall of 2023, Lives of Three Canners: New York’s Chinese Elderly Immigrants, was on view at the 456 Gallery in Manhattan. Her art is fiscally sponsored by NYFA and publicly funded.
www.siyanwong.com
Bing Lee, Stefani Mar and Helen Oji currently have work on view in the group exhibition, “GODZILLA: Echoes from the 1990s Asian American Arts Network”, at the Eric Firestone Gallery thru March 16, 2024:
Curator/Host
Alvin Eng is a native NYC playwright, memoirist, performer and educator. His memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond, was published by Fordham University Press. “Three Trees,” the first of Eng’s Portrait Plays series of historical dramas about artists, was published by No Passport Press. He is currently developing a solo acoustic punk raconteur performance piece, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN (or How I Kicked Punk):
https://alvineng.com/solo-performance-works/
Honors include Fulbright Specialist and NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships, LMCC grants. Eng’s works have been seen Off-Broadway, as well as in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
www.alvineng.com
Please visit these links:
“Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/our-laundry-our-town-my-chinese-american-life-from-flushing-to-the-downtown-stage-and-beyond-alvin-eng/17784895
“Three Trees”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/three-trees-alvin-eng/17810238
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6. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, celebrated in Central Park, Manhattan, Feb. 18
Continuing a yearlong celebration, we are celebrating Yoko Ono’s 91st birthday this year in Central Park at the Naumburg Bandshell with MORNING PIECE FOR YOKO ONO once again. The gathering will begin at 11:00 a.m., and below are links to information and click’n’drag downloadable .jpg images for easy sharing. The scenario will be much the same, yet the mirror is slightly different, and there will be limited-editioned cards for attendees to take away.
In the spirit of Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree,” wish tags will be available for attendees to write their wishes for sharing with Yoko. A limited number of “Say Something Nice About Yoko Ono” stickers will be available to those who say something nice about Yoko. A distinctive limited-edition pocket mirror will be available on a first-come basis to use at the morning’s Happening when singing “Happy Birthday” to Yoko. Also, participants are requested to bring bells to ring. Signage, balloons, and flowers as well. Attendees are encouraged to dance and perform on the bandshell’s stage to celebrate Yoko Ono’s extraordinary life.
Here are links to the event information and the social media links:
Event flyer for Morning Piece for Yoko Ono: https://crisperanto.org/YokoOno/morningpieceforyokoflyer.html
Event publicity info for Morning Piece for Yoko Ono:
https://crisperanto.org/YokoOno/morningpieceforyoko.html
Facebook Events page for Morning Piece for Yoko Ono:
https://www.facebook.com/events/753727083271377
The Instagram page dedicated to the Happening:
https://www.instagram.com/phillipwardproject/
I send my best,
Phillip Ward
Director, Phillip Ward Project
Literary & Estate Executor for Quentin Crisp
Archivist & Curator, Crisperanto: The Quentin Crisp Archives
Archivist & Curator, Martin Fishman Project
crisperanto.org ~ martinfishmanproject.com
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7. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Venice Biennale, preview April 17-19
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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8. Dolores Zorreguieta, FF Alumn, now online at YouTube.com
Dear Families, artists and educators,
A new video is available right now about mistakes and how they often inspire some of our best ideas. Do you know the secret behind Vincent Van Gogh’s beloved Sunflowers painting from 1889?
I want to thank the Museum Van Gogh and their foundation for allowing me to use video excerpts from their research and education program.
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/123Iamanartist
With support from: NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Dolores Zorreguieta
I am an artist!
Art videos for kids
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9. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at New-York Historical Society, Mar. 29-Aug. 18 and more
2024 kicks off with exciting news (drumroll, please!):
Solo exhibition at New-York Historical: “Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet” will be on view March 29 – August 18, 2024! This will culminate a two-year artist-residency during which I collaborated closely with curator Rebecca Klassen, studied New-York Historical’s vast collection and created a new body of work.
“Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet”:
https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/beatrice-glow-when-our-rivers-meet
National Endowment for the Arts: The NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects category announced matching support for the final stretch of my residency and culminating exhibition that funds applicants who “strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem.”
https://www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2024/national-endowment-arts-announces-more-32-million-arts-funding-organizations-nationwide
Creative Capital Award: I received the Creative Capital Award to realize “Gilt/Guilt,” a speculative performance-installation imagined as a late-21st century auction preview whose hauntingly luxurious collectibles reveal cascading impacts of colonial violence and environmental extraction. I look forward to learning and growing with my stellar Creative Capital cohort (we were in the New York Times, Artsy and Art Forum last week)!
2024 Creative Capital Awardees:
https://creative-capital.org/press/announcing-the-2024-creative-capital-awardees-in-visual-arts-film/
“Gilt/Guilt”:
https://creative-capital.org/projects/gilt-guilt/
Creative Capital on Art Forum:
https://www.artforum.com/news/creative-capital-243739/
Thank you for your continued support! Updates on public programs, exhibition tours and workshops are forthcoming. I hope you will join me!
With warmth and care,
Beatrice
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10. Simone Forti, Barbara Hammer, Carlos Motta, FF Alumns, in 2024 Venice Biennale, Italy, April 20-November 24
Please visit this link:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-2024-artist-list-1234694571/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Thank you.
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11. Katherine Behar, FF Alumn, at University of California, Irvine, thru April 20
Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! I’m excited to share that UCI’s Beall Center for Art + Technology will present my solo exhibition, “Ack! Knowledge! Work!”
Please join me for the opening on Saturday, February 3, 2024 from 2–5pm.
“Katherine Behar: Ack! Knowledge! Work!” will be on view February 3 – April 20, 2024.
https://www.arts.uci.edu/event/katherine-behar-ack-knowledge-work
Among other works, the exhibition includes three premieres: the final iteration of “Anonymous Autonomous,” an interactive installation with robotic office chairs, the first iteration of “We Grasp at Straws (Take One),” a new experimental screendance film that’s part of a new body of work involving robotics and basketry, and “Indispensable,” an interactive installation about care work and service work that involves a talking hand sanitizer dispenser.
Please come out and play with all of these and more… I’m looking forward to sharing these works with you!
Till soon,
Katherine
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12. Mark Russell, Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, FF Alumns, Obie Award Winners 2024
Please visit this link:
https://www.obieawards.com/2024/01/67th-obie-award-winners-announced/
Thank you
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13. Alice Klugherz, FF Alumn, now online at Dance-Enthusiast.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Robbin Ami Silverberg & András Bōrōcz, FF Alumns, at CODEX Artist Book Fair, Oakland, CA, thru Feb. 7
Dobbin Books will participate in the 9th CODEX Artist Book Fair in the Bay area, February 4 – 7, 2024
Please come visit us at Table #117! We will have our three most recent artist books: Year of Love Letters, Simulacrum (or Mapping) and RE—Tale of Two Cities along with several others!
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center: 10 10th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Dobbin Books: https://www.robbinamisilverberg.com
CODEX 2024: https://www.codexfoundation.org/codex-2024
— Robbin Ami Silverberg & András Bōrōcz
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15. Jeffrey Schrier, FF Member, at Hudson Valley MOCA, opening Feb. 17
I invite you to visit WAR at the HudsonValley MOCA
Exhibition dates: February 15-April 8, 2024. Opening, February 17, 3-5PM.
WAR-PAINT: Jeffrey Schrier, 2024 – Here’s what’s in it:
WAR-PAINT: Within a Raoul Wallenberg Shutz-Pass format, a Maimonides 1173 letter scribed to aid the release of Jewish captives of the crusades, is also inset with an image of doorposts streaked with red X’s, intended to subvert death from Jewish dwellings, as described in the Passover biblical narrative. Also included are war images from my cover art for Gustav Holst’s The Planets recorded for Ken Russel’s film of the same name, war related images I used for THE LAMP, from my art for historian David McCullough’s narrative of 100 years of the world’s most impactful events, and a reproduction of a coin minted by our uncle Marion Gaisler, a freedom fighter against the Nazis, in the Polish Underground. A ‘deconstructed’ image of a Nazi military march is included below the smeared doorposts, also in the art for the Planets. The red streaked door posts inform the work’s WAR-PAINT title.
More details about the work soon to be added to my Facebook page at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/jeffreyschrierstudio?fref=ts
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16. Gregory Sholette, FF Alumn, now online at GregorySholette.com
Dr. Philip Glahn, Temple University, PA, on the trajectory of my writing and research:
“DIVIDUAL LABOR” (Afterimage, 2024)
https://www.gregorysholette.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Glahn-on-Sholette-Afterimage-2024.pdf
Thank you.
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17. Kay Rosen, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Kay Rosen and Terry R. Myers in conversation at:
https://brooklynrail.org/2023/12/art/Kay-Rosen-with-Terry-R-Myers
Rail: … But mainly when you’ve done video pieces, they are ad infinitum. They loop back.
Rosen: Yes, and the videos are all part of my “Lists” series too. The video loop Blue Monday is a perfect amalgam of two larger systems, days of the week and the colors of the spectrum, but the video loop Sisyphus, actually demonstrates the chaos of the English language with its hundreds of exceptions to the rules. The pronunciation of the name Sisyphus, punctuated by a drum roll and a ta-da, never changes over seventy frames, although the spelling of Sisyphus changes seventy times. It is never spelled correctly.
Rail: Systems is a loaded word for you in different ways. There is also the material and procedural diversity of your work that makes it possible for it to be anywhere in the world, or even, let’s say, in the future on the moon.
Rosen: Well, that’s good. You’re talking about the wall paintings…
Rail: Again, a kind of precognition that maybe you want to develop a practice that can not make itself, but be made by others with the right kind of tools. Hopefully there will still always be professional sign painters.
Rosen: Or vinyl stencils.
Rail: Much of what your work is made of will always be available.
Rosen: I do strive for that. The wall works are conveyable as you mentioned, and one only really needs a skilled sign painter or, if vinyl stencils are used, a skilled team of preparators to execute them, but they can’t be transferred from one situation to another without creating completely new layouts that are resized to the new dimensions and circumstances of the space. So each time, it’s like designing a new installation: new margins, new letter heights and widths, new spacing, even matching colors to available paint via Pantone, RAL, Benjamin Moore, or whatever. In the certificate that accompanies the wall paintings, I try to cover as many what-ifs as possible, but there’s a point where one depends on previous versions providing a guide and then hopes for the best. Whenever I remake a work, I have so many new decisions to make, decisions which someone other than I will have to make someday. I worry.
https://www.micheledidier.com/en/artistes/oeuvres/16110/kay-rosen
Next exhibition at the gallery: Jack Goldstein, La fulgurance de l’instant ou l’histoire fragmentée, from February 29 to May 4, 2024.
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18. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, now online at ArtSpiel.org
Please visit this link:
https://artspiel.org/harriet-kormans-brutal-realism/
Thank you.
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19. Mimi Smith, FF Alumn, at Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Mimi Smith’s clock-themed sculpture, “Don’t Turn Back,” 1985, has just been acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art for its permanent collection.
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20. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at Jazz Forum, Tarrytown, NY, thru mid-May and more
I invite you to see my artworks in two current exhibitions. See details below!
Please share this news with interested folks! And follow me on Instagram and Facebook for updates. Join me in person or in spirit!
Shelley
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Through mid-May at Jazz Forum, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown NY
Winter/Spring 2024 Exhibition: Artworks by Shelley Haven, Carole Naggar and Mitchell Visoky
I am exhibiting ten oil paintings that many have never seen before!
Join me Tuesday, February 20, 6-8pm, for a wine and cheese reception and artist conversation at 7pm.
https://jazzforumarts.org/art-gallery/
Or view my work during a jazz concert Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Check the schedule at:
https://jazzforumarts.org/tickets/
Join me for Sunday, March 10, 4pm for Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes. Or, if you prefer, I will try to join you at the music event of your choice! Shows do sell out! So, check the schedule and buy your tickets early!
Through February 24 at Blue Door Art Center, 13 Riverdale Ave, Yonkers
I am exhibiting a pastel on paper, New York Botanical Garden, in Blue Door’s Winter 2025 Exhibition.
Gallery hours: Thursday and Friday 3-6pm, Saturday 1-6pm
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21. Vernita Nemec. FF Alumn, at Carter Burden West Gallery, Manhattan, through March 6
Vernita Nemec’s solo exhibit “Evil Plastic Blues” opens at Carter Burden West Gallery
“Carter Burden Gallery, located at 548 West 28th Street, suite 534, is pleased to present Vernita Nemec’s latest sculptural artworks created from throw-away plastic packaging. Entitled “Evil Plastic Blues,” the show will open in the West Gallery on Thursday, February 8th with a reception from 6-8 PM and continue through March 6th. On Saturday, February 24th, 3-5 pm, the artist will be talking about the work with a reception to follow. The new work parallels her art from junkmail created in the early 2000’s.”
“Sculptor, performance artist, and curator, Vernita Nemec finds fascination in the weathered beauty of broken and discarded objects, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi, which embraces the value of imperfection and material transience. Evil Plastic Blues features her latest series Eco-Plasticism, which includes vacuum-formed bas relief collages and small sculptures created from deformed plastic packaging. By repurposing overlooked and discarded plastic, transforming it into artwork Nemec brings attention to the vast quantities of refuse contributing to our current environmental emergency. Urging action to address this escalating plastic crisis with her work, she states “These plastic forms, fragmented and irregular, coalesced into compositions that spoke to the chaotic interplay between our lives and the pervasiveness of plastic detritus. Plastic in trash not only fills our landfills but is filling the oceans, the air, the soil and even our bodies as it is incorporated into more and more substances that we live with, including the fabric of our clothing and much more.”
Vernita Nemec, also known as N’Cognita, born in Painesville, Ohio, earned a BFA from Ohio University and an MA from New York University. She began creating and exhibiting her work in New York City in the early 70’s and continued to have a prolific career with performances and exhibitions at notable institutions including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City,
the Pompidou Museum in Paris, France, the Hiroshima Prefecture Museum of Art in Japan, Soho 20 Gallery, AIR Gallery, Ceres Gallery, 55 Mercer Gallery, and many more. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Asian American Art Center, Savaria Museum in Szombathely, Hungary, Sylvia Sleigh Collection of Feminist Art at Rowan University, as well as numerous private collections across the United States and Europe.
You can see more about Vernita Nemec and her art at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernita_Nemec and on her website at www.ncognita.com.
Located in Chelsea, the Carter Burden Gallery is a program of The Carter Burden Network designed to give a voice to New York City’s re-emerging older professional artists. The Carter Burden Network is a non-profit organization established in 1971 by the late Carter Burden, a New York City Councilman.
In East Gallery: Nieves Saah & Janet Goldner
“On The Wall”: Olivia Beens
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22. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, now online at ArtBasel.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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23. Moya Devine, FF Alumn, at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, thru May 11
Please visit this link:
https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/event-or-exhibition/2024-infobahn/
And at Art Produce Community Room, San Diego, CA, Feb. 24
Please visit this link:
https://www.instagram.com/collectiveretrospective/
Thank you.
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24. China Blue, Stefani Mar, Martin Wong, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/design/nyc-galleries-february.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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25. Dee Shapiro, Miriam Schapiro, FF Alumns, at D. Wigmore Fine Art, Manhattan, thru April 26
D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. is pleased to announce Abstraction in Fiber and Paint, 1976-1989, focused on seven women rethinking fine art and craft. This exhibition of twenty works looks at both painters who use or reference fabric and fiber artists who work in painterly ways. This exhibition is anchored by Miriam Schapiro, a leader of Feminist Art and the Pattern & Decoration (P&D) group. Abstraction is used as a universal language and a means to explore color by these artists. In the 1970s, bringing craft into fine art was a feminist statement to acknowledge centuries of anonymous women’s work. Our seven artists looked back and forward in time, embracing craft and nature while using computers or algorithms to achieve their vision. They embraced the plurality of materials and content seen in contemporary art today.
Painters Miriam Schapiro, Gloria Klein, and Dee Shapiro were all identified with the P&D group. They contributed to the feminist art publication Heresies and were included in Pattern Painting at PS 1 (now part of MoMA) in 1977. Fiber artists Cynthia Schira, Sherri Smith, Kris Dey, and Diane Itter used paint and color when the prevailing style used neutral, coarse fibers. Smith was in MoMA’s first fiber art exhibition Wall Hangings in 1969 and Dey was included in the follow-up Wall Hangings: The New Classicism in 1977. Our fiber artists were all in The Art Fabric: Mainstream, a 1981 exhibition and catalogue by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen. It identified 125 international artists key to fiber art and opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art then traveled to nine other museums.
This exhibition is our first to include artists of the 1980s. It continues our aim to identify moments when new materials or techniques advance art forward. The fiber art in this exhibition is a natural follow up to the stained and Op paintings in the 1960s that resulted from the hard edge or flow achieved with new acrylic paints.
The gallery has shown the influence of Bauhaus artist Josef Albers’ color theory on generations of artists. In this exhibition, we note the importance of Anni Albers and her 1965 book on weaving which introduced a new generation to her Black Mountain College teachings. Anni Albers encouraged her students to experiment with the interaction between medium and process that leads to form. This set up textile work to develop into its own art form in the 1960s called fiber art.
There are crosscurrents between our fiber artists and P&D post-modern painters. They all looked globally and historically for decorative patterns to use in their art, especially pre-industrial textiles of Africa, Asia, Indonesia, and the Americas, particularly Peruvian textiles and American quilts.
For more information, please visit the following link:
https://www.dwigmore.com/recent-exhibitions/abstractioninfiberandpaint
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26. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publication, and more
I’m happy to point out that my translation of “The Rat Wins,” a caustic anti-war satire by the anarchist Lucien Descaves, is now available from Black Scat Books. Originally written in 1917, but censored until 1920, it presents the true winners of any war: the rats. Lucien Laforge drew the lively illustrations. It’s available from Black Scat Books:
https://blackscatbooks.com/2024/01/16/war-what-is-it-good-for/
The fourth issue of “Typo” is also out. I contributed a translation of a “Cubist Tale” by Gabriel de Lautrec (Toulouse’s cousin) and an article on typos. You can order this delightful magazine on Amazon.
And if you’re in Denton, Texas, at the end of February, you can see “The Donner Party” at the University of North Texas. This production was developed by the group Kraken in Oberlin way back in 1974, and directed by Herbert Blau; I contributed three songs. The revival is directed by Jim Eigo and Marjorie Hayes, and runs from February 29 to March 3.
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27. Olivia Beens, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, opening Feb. 8 and more
Carter Burden Gallery presents On the Wall featuring the installation “Out of Body” by Olivia Beens.
In her installation Out of Body, Olivia Beens explores our changing times, bodies, memories, and collected possessions by divulging aspects of the self. This installation resulted from the need to purge unwanted items in her life, and, by chance, rediscovered bygone treasures, and memories. She found the process of revisiting objects that once held interest and value, X- rays, trinkets, and items thought lost, illuminates her personal history. Utilizing these objects Beens incorporates the mark of her hand by soaking, scrubbing, and scratching photographic emulsion away, adding paint to the backlit images, and then stringing them together in sequences. The sequences can be read and interpreted as light, shadow, and reflection, revealing otherwise reticent information. She adds, “As an older adult, I value and want to honor what is behind me and what has yet to come.”
Sculptor/educator Olivia Beens, born in 1948 in the Netherlands of Czech and Dutto parents and lived in Portugal until age 7. After receiving a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1977 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1982 she moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she still lives and works. During the 1980’s she exhibited installation and performance work in many alternative art galleries including Franklin Furnace, ABC No Rio, PS 122 and was a member of artists groups such as Colab, PADD, and other political art groups.
In 2014 and 2015 she was a (SPARC) Artist In Residence at Sirovich Senior Center and completed a series of ceramic murals that are permanently installed in the grand auditorium. She has taught through many arts organizations, worked for the New York City Department of Education, Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute. Beens has received commissions for public artworks througartworksArt for Public School and has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship as well as residencies at the Mac Dowell colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center and received a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to Turkey, and traveled to India and Portugal with grants.
We’re having another opening February 8, 6-8pm @ CBG —3 exhibitions
Transcultural Enigmas
Janet Goldman & Nieves Saah
Evil Plastic Blues
Vernita Nemec
Out of Body
Olivia Beens
Artist Talk: February 24, 3-5pm
Vernita Nemec & Olivia Beens
exhibitions continue thru March 6 2024
and
I’m delighted by this article in Meer.com:
https://www.meer.com/en/78223-olivia-beens-out-of-body
Thank you.
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