Contents for February 10th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Stephanie Bernheim, FF Alumn, at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Feb. 15
2. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, new publication
4. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, in Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 20-24
5. Nyugen Smith, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Feb. 11
6. Glenn Belverio, FF Alumn, at Art in the Parlor, Narrowsburg, NY, Feb. 22
7. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at Five Points Art Center, Torrington, CT, opening Feb. 28
8. Josely Carvalho, FF Alumn, at 315 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, Feb. 26 & Mar. 1
9. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA, March 8-May 11
10. Stefan Hayn, FF Alumn, at Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, Feb. 16-21
11. Danny Georges, FF Alumn, at Untouchable Bar, Newburgh, NY, Feb. 14-15 and more
12. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1054768135
13. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online and StarmakerMachine.co
14. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at VEKKS, Vienna, Austria, Feb. 25
15. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL, opening Feb 27
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1. Stephanie Bernheim, FF Alumn, at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Feb. 15
Depending on Glass
Stephanie Bernheim
February 15–March 16, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, February 15, from 6–8pm
GALLERY II & III
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Depending on Glass, an exhibition of installation,
sculpture, and painting by A.I.R. Alum Artist Stephanie Bernheim. Connecting the
bodies of work on view is the material of glass, which the artist repurposes in a new
installation and uses as a sculptural support and canvas for painting.
Throughout her career, Bernheim has explored experimental processes and used
materials in unexpected ways. One evening, while Bernheim was working at her
farm in the countryside, there was a dramatic storm. Suddenly, the force of the wind
carried a large glass sheet several hundred feet up a hill toward her house. The glass
shattered and sprinkled like snow throughout the grass, producing an unexpected
landscape. Bernheim retrieved the glass remains, gathering the shards for a future
work. The installation on view brings these shards together with digital transfers of
Polaroids taken by Bernheim of the initial shattering, as well as early drawings of
mixed-media assemblages. In these drawings, bits of glass pile up to create colorful
geometric delineations, conveying a multi-dimensional experience of glass.
The artist’s Early Relief works use glass panels as a support structure for considering the possibilities of acrylic paint as a sculptural material. Bernheim creates skins by building up layers of acrylic paint on panels of glass. Over time, through methodic and experimental interventions, the acrylic bubbles, bends, curves, and contorts to create unexpected grounds. In these three-dimensional geological landscapes, paint becomes its own support and breaks free from the canvas. Bernheim has described her intention to form surfaces “where the earth’s crust and the crust of the painterly object might coincide.”
Concluding the exhibition are several works which extend the process of Bernheim’s Early Reliefs by transforming window panes into canvases for painting. In these glass works, repetitive drips of paint accrete in fine, multi-hued layers through which occasional contrasting color seeps through. Moreover, the thin layered build-up exposes the transparency and reflection of the glass grounds embedded within. Hung alongside these paintings are several Paint Skins, oval, square and circular in shape, which also reference the hues, dots, and drips of the previous windowpane paintings. Depending on Glass surveys Bernheim’s use of a single medium across five decades. In various two- and three-dimensional forms, the artist demonstrates the possibilities of glass as an artistic material, while also suggesting more experiments are yet to come.
A.I.R. GALLERY | 155 Plymouth St. | Brooklyn, NY 11201 | https://airgallery.org | info@airgallery.org | (212) 2556651 | Wed – Sun 12-6pm
A.I.R. Gallery is wheelchair accessible via ramp. There are accessible toilets in the venue. There is comfortable seating with backs.
Free tap water is available. The venue is nearest to the F train at York St (0.2 miles) and the A, C trains at High St (0.5 miles). The nearest wheelchair accessible trains are the 2, 3 at Borough Hall (0.8 miles) and the B, Q, R at Dekalb Av (1.1 miles). The roads immediately surrounding the gallery are cobblestone. The nearest accessible parking garage (for an hourly fee) is two blocks away at 100 Jay St. No fee or ID necessary for entry. Please contact info@airgallery.org
for more information or to request additional accommodations.
Stephanie Bernheim lives and works in New York. Bernheim graduated from Sarah Lawrence College (BA) and New York University (MA), where she studied with Milton Resnick, and studied with Ad Reinhardt at Hunter College. She has been affiliated with A.I.R. Gallery for over three decades. She was a New York Member of A.I.R. Gallery for seven years (1990–97), and in 1993, founded the A.I.R. Fellowship Program. Bernheim’s exhibitions in galleries and museums include P.S.1 Museum in Long Island City, Trisha Collin’s Grand Salon, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Franklin Furnace, Art Resources Transfer, Inc., The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and The Arts Club of Chicago. Her work is in the collections of The Yale University Art Gallery, The Milwaukee Museum, The Metropolitan Museum, The Princeton Museum, The Arts Students League, and many private collections. The book Stephanie Bernheim: From Paint to Pixels, a monograph by Kara L. Rooney (Foli Art Publ: London, New York, Brussels 2017), traces Bernheim’s career from 1978 – 2016.
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2. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/criticspage/gloria-s-call
Thank you.
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, new publication
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel publishes new essay with Taylor & Francis in ANTHROPOLOGY NOW!
“Orlando Marin —The Last Mambo King Memorial That Danced Us All into Life?
To purchase this essay click https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19428200.2024.2425589
In this piece Nicolás narrates his experience attending the memorial for The Last of the Mambo Kings. This was a gathering in the Bronx of some of the luminaries of the Salsa and Mambo universe.
Through his research for this essay, Nicolás learned that the meaning of Mambo is that of a conversation with the Gods, and that is how it felt for him to be at Marin’s memorial: a deeply spiritual coming together of community.
Nicolás has access to 50 free digital copies of this piece, and if you are seriously interested in reading this essay, email Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com and he will share a copy with you while this offer lasts.
Published by Taylor & Francis in ANTROPOLOGY NOW / The Last Mambo King Memorial That Danced Us All into Life on Volume 16, 2024 – Issue 3
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4. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, in Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 20-24
Pals! Damn, what a sh*tshow. I’ve been trying to ween off social media, but as I’m sure you can relate to, it’s the way I keep in touch with you! I opened a b lue s ky acct, but it will take some time to get the word out! THE SHOW MUST GO ON! I’m going to the West Coast for 3 shows, live in person: Feb 20 in LA Lodge Room Highland Park – Feb 22 in PALM SPRINGS at Revolution Stage Company – Feb 24 in LAS VEGAS at Miss Behave’s Mavericks Plaza Hotel & Casino. Each show, I’ll be joined by bandleader Jordan Katz & The Stiff Gimlets. Emotional support hugs avail upon request. All genders welcome, even ones that haven’t been thought of yet! TICKETS ON SALE NOW at mistershowbiz(dot)com LOVE YOU, KEEP YOUR CHINS UP! xoMurray
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5. Nyugen Smith, FF Alumn, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Feb. 11
Please visit this link:
https://www.pratt.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-series-with-vals-fellow-nyugen-e-smith
Thank you.
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6. Glenn Belverio, FF Alumn, at Art in the Parlor, Narrowsburg, NY, Feb. 22
Hey Dolls! (especially upstate NY dolls): Art in the Parlor is hosting a screening of three videos from the Glenn Belverio Archive in the lovely hamlet of Narrowsburg on Saturday Feb. 22 at 90 Main Street. I’ll be there for a talkback with the audience. $10 at the door. Retro Night 2/22 7 p Glennda and Friends 90s Drag Videos & Talkback @ Art in the Parlor 90 Main Street, Narrowsburg.
Bare Truths, 2./14-28 exhibition
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7. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at Five Points Art Center, Torrington, CT, opening Feb. 28
Solo Exhibition
I Am My Mother’s Savage Daughter
Five Points Art Center
Torrington CT
Opening Reception, Friday, February 28, 6-8pm
Artist Talk Friday, March 28, 6:30pm
February 28 – April 12, 2025
I’ve been hard at work getting ready for this show. I had the fantastic honor, thrill, and privilege to collaborate with master woodworker and artist Kurt Steger on the armature for my new monumental sculpture- to be “premieried!” at my upcoming solo. Artists working together to make things not break things, is life-giving. If you don’t know Kurt’s work- you need to! I am so grateful for his wisdom and generosity in translating my drawing into an object in the world.
Come see the results- along with other new works! If you are in the Torrington area, or want to make the trip, reach out if you’d like to meet during the show. I hope to be there often.
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8. Josely Carvalho, FF Alumn, at 315 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, Feb. 26 & Mar. 1
STUDIO OPENING 2025 315 W 39TH ST, STUDIO 403. NEW YORK, NY 10018
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 5:00-8:00PM 6:30PM TALK
SATURDAY, MARCH 1 2:00-6:00PM 3:30PM TALK
Personal Invitation:
I have lived and worked in many places. Home. A garage. A residency. New York, Washington, Missouri. Brazil. My computer. However, two places have had the most powerful emotional impact: St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, where The Silkscreen Project lived from 1977 to 1987. Tracajá Studio near Union Square, 1987 to 2000. For the last 25 years, I have dispersed my practice across fabrication studios for blown glass and printmaking and conceptualized works on my computer. The statelessness of my studio allowed me to uncover less tangible mediums and genres such as olfaction, internet art, and public interventions.
In this moment of fear, fracture, uncertainty– and disgust with American politics– I considered going back to Rio de Janeiro. Instead, I chose to rent a large studio in Manhattan’s dense, noisy heart, where I would sit inside the chaos. My studio is open. I will keep my archive of 60 years of artwork in this space– a space for gathering, speaking, and seeing. I invite all friends, artists, activists, and women, and am open to collective ideas and suggestions.
I would love to have you at the opening of my studio, where I am unfolding pages of my Diary of Images and Smells, sharing artworks from my archive, and creating new work.
In Conversation with Daria Jaremtchuk: Washington DC: Bacchanalia
Josely Carvalho’s 1975 series Washington DC: Bacchanalia was created while Carvalho lived in Washington DC, amid the Watergate Scandal and the frenetic energy it incited. These drawings and silkscreen prints continue to possess a sense of urgency and relevancy with their wit, bright compositions, and political provocation.
Daria Jaremtchuk is a Professor of Art, Literature, and Culture in Brazil and History of Art at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, São Paulo University (EACH/USP), Brazil. She is currently researching the relocation of Brazilian artists during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and the relationship between art and politics in the 1960s and 1970s.
Josely Carvalho and Daria Jaremtchuk will discuss Carvalho’s 1975 series Washington DC: Bacchanalia. This series of never-before-exhibited prints and drawings were created while Carvalho lived in Washington DC, where she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. At this time, Josely Carvalho was influenced by the Watergate Scandal and the frenetic energy it incited in Washington.
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9. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA, March 8-May 11
AGNES DENES
at
DESERT X 2025
March 8 – May 11, 2025
Coachella Valley
We are extremely pleased to announce Agnes Denes’s participation in Desert X 2025 in the Coachella Valley. Her work, The Living Pyramid, a monumental sculpture and environmental intervention, is currently on view at Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California.
Originally commissioned in 2015 by Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, The Living Pyramid was the artist’s first major site work in New York City since 1982 when she created the now iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation on two acres in lower Manhattan. It unites Denes’s powerful environmental interventions with her ongoing exploration and invention of pyramidal structures—a central theme in her work throughout her long and distinguished career. Spanning 30 feet at the base and standing 30 feet high, its towering, curving form echoes the organic architecture that first appeared in the artist’s pyramid drawings of the 1970s. She writes:
The Living Pyramid, planted with growing material, renews itself just as evolution does to our species. The rigid angle becomes an arc to aspirationally reach above. It is not just planting, but the planting of a paradox, a structured edifice of soil and foliage, not on a farm or field but in the heart of a busy mega-city or various parts of our world. It is planting the seed into soil and human minds.
The Living Pyramid brings mathematics and plant-life into wondrous harmony, engineering accuracy and stability mixed with the daily changes of growth. Again, my obsession with blending nature and the human intellect is at play, visualizing opposite forces to exist in harmony creating the powerful paradox that governs this art form and gives it such strength.
Denes intends the work to be presented throughout the world, representing the ecologies of each individual site. In 2017 it was featured in documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany where vegetables were planted together with local grasses and flowers. Recreated in 2022 at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, the work was planted with a lush profusion of indigenous foliage. In 2023, it was installed indoors for the first time at the Hayward Gallery in London as a central part of the exhibition Dear Earth: Art in a Time of Crisis.
At Desert X, for its first presentation in a desert landscape, it features a variety of native succulents and grasses that will continue to grow and change throughout the run of the biennial.
Curated by artistic director Neville Wakefield and co-curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, Desert X 2025 reflects on the desert’s deep time evolutions, revealing a profound reverence for the enduring spirit of this harsh yet resilient region that challenges us to glean wisdom from its vast knowledge.
Leslie Tonkonow Art Works + Projects
401 Broadway, Suite 411
New York, NY 10013
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10. Stefan Hayn, FF Alumn, at Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, Feb. 16-21
Screenings
So. 16.2. 10:30 with Q&A Arsenal 1, Potsdamer Str. 2, 10785 Berlin
Fr. 21.2. 15:30 with Q&A Kino Betonhalle@Silent Green, Gerichtsstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
Fr. 21.2. 21:15 with Q&A Delphi Filmpalast, Kantstraße 12A, 10623 Berlin
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/berlinale-programme.html/v=59/o=asc/p=1/rp=25
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11. Danny Georges, FF Alumn, at Untouchable Bar, Newburgh, NY, Feb. 14-15 and more
I have two current photo diptychs and a small sculpture from the 1990s in The New Bohemia Now, a show curated by the marvelous Anna West (IG annawest.painter) at Untouchable Bar, 40 Liberty ST, Newburgh NY. Opening Friday, Feb 7, 2025 6-9pm. At some point there will be music. All the artists practiced in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1990s (New Bohemia – then) and are now in the Hudson Valley (not so new – now). for full information visit https://www.timeshudsonvalley.com/mid-hudson-times/stories/the-new-bohemia-now,156702
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12. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1054768135
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
PZ, FEBRUARY 8, 2025
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13. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online and StarmakerMachine.co
Please visit this link:
https://starmakermachine.co/how-to-exploit-a-xerox-machine-mark-bloch-and-panmodern
Thank you.
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14. Nina Sobell, FF Alumn, at VEKKS, Vienna, Austria, Feb. 25
Performing live music!
In collaboration with St.Celfer and Sachiko Hayashi
February 25 at 8:00
Place: VEKKS
Vienna
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15. Quimetta Perle, FF Alumn, at Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL, opening Feb 27
Quimetta perle, Protectors of the Women, Feb. 28-April 5. Opening feb. 27, 5-7 pm
palmbeachculture.com/exhibitions
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