Contents for February 24th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Holly Hughes, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
2. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Joes Pub, Manhattan, Feb. 28
3. Barbara Pollack, FF Alumn, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 14
4. Annie Lanzillotto, LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at Ernie O’Malley’s Pub, Manhattan, Mar. 13
5. Blondell Cummings, Simone Forti, Fred Holland, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Rainer, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY, Mar. 7-June 23
7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com
8. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, in Times Square, Manhattan, March 1-31
9. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1058577879
10. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, extended thru Apr. 27
11. Yuliya Lanina, FF Member, at Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX, opening Mar. 1, and more
12. C. Carr, FF Alumn, selected as Finalist for Annual LA Times Book Prizes 2025
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1. Holly Hughes, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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2. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Joes Pub, Manhattan, Feb. 28
One night only at Joes Pub.
Feb 28. 7pm
Tribute to Big Mama Thornton
https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/p/pamela-sneed
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3. Barbara Pollack, FF Alumn, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 14
Please visit this link (last week’s Goings On listing had the wrong opening date for this exhibition which opens on March 14):
https://www.janelombardgallery.com/exhibitions/75-facial-recognition-curated-by-barbara-pollack
Thank you.
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4. Annie Lanzillotto, LuLu LoLo, FF Alumns, at Ernie O’Malley’s Pub, Manhattan, Mar. 13
On 3/13, FF Alumn Annie Lanzillotto performs, “Girls Girls Where Did You Work Last Night?!” and more.. from her Triangle Fire stories. And FF Alumn LuLu LoLo reads an excerpt from: “38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese Story) on March 13th, the anniversary of Kitty Genovese’s death in 1964. Come to the storytelling salon series: “Say It Ain’t So” hosted by John McDonagh (WBAI), in the back room of Ernie O’Malley’s Pub, 140 East 27th Street, (3rd & Lex), NY, NY.
FREE.
Get there by 7pm to grab a seat. The room fills up fast.
7:30 showtime.
Make it a night with a pint, a story and a bite!
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5. Blondell Cummings, Simone Forti, Fred Holland, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Rainer, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY, Mar. 7-June 23
Lucio Pozzi
In Here / Qui Dentro
David Ebony, curator / a cura di David Ebony
Magazzino Italian Art
2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY, 10516, USA
Room 8 Main Building
7 March/marzo – 23 June/giugno 2025 11AM-5PM
from Friday/venerdi to/a Monday/lunedì
I will be present on Friday 7 March from 2PM to 5PM.
The exhibition focuses on the more abstract strand of my art, leaving a wider survey of my works and ideas to the upcoming publication of a book. Rather than selecting a few pieces that are obviously connected by a same formula, the links between these works are simple devices such as the recurring use of four colors and black and white, force of gravity, duality, clustering and scattering, cutting and replacing, the full, the void. The earliest pieces are from 1963 and the latest from 2024. As Room 8 is a very large and tall space covered by an immense skylight but nonetheless one single room, we opted for the exhibition itself becoming a work of art that integrates specifically with the site. The objects exhibited range from three- to two-dimensional, from very small to very big and refer mostly to painting.
La mostra si concentra sul filone più astratto della mia arte, lasciando una panoramica più ampia delle mie opere e idee alla prossima pubblicazione di un libro. Invece di selezionare alcuni pezzi che sono ovviamente collegati da una stessa formula, i collegamenti tra queste opere sono semplici dispositivi come l’uso ricorrente di quattro colori e bianco e nero, forza di gravità, dualità, raggruppamento e dispersione, taglio e sostituzione, il pieno, il vuoto. Le prime opere sono del 1963 e le ultime del 2024. Poiché la Sala 8 è uno spazio molto grande e alto coperto da un immenso lucernario ma ciononostante un’unica stanza, abbiamo cercato di far sì che la mostra stessa diventi un’opera d’arte che si integra specificamente con il sito. Gli oggetti esposti spaziano da tridimensionali a bidimensionali, da molto piccoli a molto grandi e si riferiscono principalmente alla pittura.
Thank you. Grazie. Lucio Pozzi
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7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com
An interview between Dermis León and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel
https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/dermis-leon
With kindness,
Nicolás
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8. Brendan Fernandes, FF Alumn, in Times Square, Manhattan, March 1-31
Dear Friends!
I hope this note finds you well and taking good care of yourself and your loved ones.
I’m thrilled to share that Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is announcing their Midnight Moment Spring season, and my work, “Build Up the House II,” will be the March presentation in partnership with ART on THE MART!
Each night at 11:57 PM – 12:00 AM, all 90 monitors in Times Square will transform into an immersive space featuring my work. Please check it out!
Cheers,
Brendan !!!!
Times Square Arts & ART on THE MART present
Brendan Fernandes: Build Up the House II
Times Square | Billboards Between Broadway and 7th Avenue, 41st and 49th Streets, New York
On View March 1-March 31, 2025
On View Nightly, from 11:57PM-12AM
Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to announce their Midnight Moment Spring Season featuring Build up the House II by multidisciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes, presented in partnership with ART on THE MART.
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on over 92 electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. The Spring 2025 program showcases video works that employ the body and movement to pay tribute to intersecting cultural histories and enact Indigenous technologies.
Combining silhouettes of dancers that leap, spin and vogue across vibrant, pulsing compositions inspired by the artist’s East African heritage, Build up the House II exists at the intersection of visual art, performance and architecture that has characterized Fernandes’ work more broadly. The brightly colored patterns and rhythms of the dancers pay homage to house music by honoring the genre’s queer and POC roots, along with its legacy of providing spaces of safe haven, creative expression and solidarity for those communities since the late 1970s.
As a communal celebration of identity through dance and assembly, Build Up the House II mirrors the broader spirit of Times Square itself, a gathering place for New Yorkers and visitors from all over the world, one that generates a spectacular and ever-changing choreography of people, lights and moving images. “Times Square is a public space saturated with the semiotics of capital and commerce,” said Fernandes. “Having the opportunity to take over and intervene within this space has allowed me to create a transformative public experience—one where people gather and respond to the flashes, actions and gestures of my animation. My goal is to create a space of celebration and joy, where movement and communal gathering become acts of unity and resilience. This work is a homage to my cultural identity and to queer and POC communities, affirming that through dance and shared space we can foster connection and collective presence.”
Though currently based in Chicago, Fernandes was originally born in Nairobi and eventually immigrated to Canada and then the United States via New York City. He incorporates all of his lived experiences into his practice, with a particular focus on themes of race, migration and movement. Build Up the House II is a monumental mark of the artist’s efforts to merge new and historical narratives within a unified expression of dance, heritage and communal renewal both on the screen and in the streets.
The original iteration of this work, Build Up the House, was commissioned by ART on THE MART and presented in fall of 2024 with an accompanying house music soundscape by Chicago-based producer Sean J. Wright.
Project Credits:
Build Up The House II: Brendan Fernandes
Original Music for ART on THE MART: Shaun J. Wright
Produced by: Domenic Del Carmine
Dancer: Katlin Michael Bourgeois
Dancer: Lieana Sherry
Animation & Production: Daily Planet Productions, Ltd.
Animator: Tim Berthiaume
Animator: Mike Pindara
Animator: JC Tecklenburg
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9. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1058577879
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS MAILING LIST:
“All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day, put the pieces back together my way.”
(Aesop Rock)
PZ, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
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10. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, extended thru Apr. 27
Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, in Territorial Perspectives- EXTENDED through April 27, 2025
Terrestrial Perspectives takes the extensive collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen as a starting point to explore the phenomenon of human interventions on the surface of the earth.
The exhibition spans work from the beginnings of Land Art in the late 1960s to the present, and
investigates connections between ecology, colonialism, and resource extraction. The exhibition
includes works by Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Nancy Graves, Robert Smithson, Betty
Beaumont, and Jean-Michel Basquiat among others.
Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark creates a critical link to ecological activism while offering
perspectives beyond the male-dominated narratives within Land Art. Beaumont’s work in
Territorial Perspectives includes three videos: The Journey (1980), Ocean Landmark Virtual
World ((2000), and Imagining Imaging (2001).
Ocean Landmark is an underwater work on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, made of 500 tons of
processed coal-waste, a potential pollutant, that underwent stabilization and a planned
transformation into a flourishing ecosystem. Seventeen thousand coal fly-ash blocks were
fabricated, shipped to the ocean site, 40-miles from the New York Harbor and three-miles off
Fire Island National Seashore, and laid on the continental shelf. Ocean Landmark started to
change at the point of its installation. It has grown and developed into a productive new
ecosystem over forty-four years and continues to evolve as a living artwork, that when fished,
feeds people. Today, the work is listed as a “Fish Haven” on the NOAA (National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) coastal navigational charts. Ocean Landmark is the fifth in a series of Beaumont’s large-scale site works.
Beaumont freely integrates cross-disciplinary ideas and the connections among them to produce works that reveal transformational ideas about our contemporary world and urban landscapes.The flow from the specific concrete, and technical, to the abstract, meditative and lyrical characterizes her work.
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards including the Distinguished Alumni
Award (University of California, Berkeley), the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Gottlieb
Foundation and Creative Capital grants, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York
State Council on the Arts Fellowships. In addition to exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Japan,
South Korea, South America, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S., Beaumont has shown
internationally at museums including the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), National Museum of
Modern Art (Tokyo and Kyoto), Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt), Museum Het Nieuwe Domein
(Netherlands), Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Marti (Havana), and in New York at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Katonah
Museum, and MoMA PS1. Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California
at Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and
Columbia University. She has produced work in a variety of media including photography,
sculpture, installations, public interventions, and new media.
Lisa Oord is the curator of Terrestrial Perspectives.
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
Jülicher straße 97-109
52070 Aachen
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11. Yuliya Lanina, FF Member, at Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX, opening Mar. 1, and more
Dear friends,
I hope this email finds you well during these challenging times.
I would like to invite you to my upcoming shows and events and hope to see you at one of them!
UPCOMING SHOWS
Solo show:
Un/Broken
Reception: March 1st, 2025, 7-9pm
March 1st-April 5th, 2025
Performance March 22nd, 2025
Ivester Contemporary
916 Springdale Dr, Bldg 2, #107, Austin, TX
Group shows:
Salon Manifest
February 22nd-March 1st, 2025
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada
24 Hours of Wonder
January 13-February 20th, 2025
Closing Reception: February 20th, 5-7pm
Gardiner Gallery
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
PERFORMANCE:
My Dear Skeleton
February 22nd, 3:30pm
OUTsider Festival
Vortex Theater (Tent), 2307 Manor Rd, #2135, Austin, TX
COLLECTION:
This year Mother/Land art book produced with the help of Artpace became part of the collection at Ruby City, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
PUBLICATION:
I am immensely grateful to Rebecca Rossen for writing the most comprehensive essay about my work to date Bodily Transfigurations and Transgenerational Trauma in the Multimedia Art of Yuliya Lanina and to Feminist studies for publishing it and including so many examples of my work in the latest Feminist Studies publication.
Conversation with Nicolas Dumit for Interior Beauty Salon: https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/yuliya-lanina?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_4_27_2024_21_15_COPY_01)&mc_cid=36968ba48c&mc_eid=7d085cae64
AWARD:
My latest collaboration, the interactive ballet MoonFall, for which I created projection design, was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Media Design.
Copyright © 2025 Yuliya Lanina All rights reserved.
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12. C. Carr, FF Alumn, selected as Finalist for Annual LA Times Book Prizes 2025
C. Carr’s biography “Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar” is a finalist for the 45th Annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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