Contents for February 26, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Tsedaye Makonnen, 2022-23 FF FUND recipient, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Feb. 29
1. Len Steinbach, FF Member, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, March 31
2. Kathy Brew, Yoshiko Chuma, Michelle Handelman, Julia Heyward, Stefanie Mar, Aline Mare, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at Westbeth Gallery, Manhattan, opening March 6
3. Dara Birnbaum, Sharon Hayes, Adam Pendleton, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, receive American Academy of Arts and Letter 2024 Awards in Art.
4. Johanna Drucker, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Joseph Kosuth, Deirdre Lawrence, Warren Lehrer, Angela Lorenz, Sabra Moore, FF Alumns, at The Grolier Club, Manhattan, Feb. 29-May 11
5. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Skid Row History Museum & Archive, LA, CA, opening Mar. 9
6. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, at BAM, Brooklyn, March 15-22 and more
7. Susan Martin, Ethyl Eichelberger, Holly Hughes, John Jesurun, John Kelly, Lydia Lunch, Ann Magnusson, FF Alumns, at Baker Falls, Manhattan, April 18, 21
8. S.K. Duff, FF Alumn, receives 2024 New Jersey State Council individual artist grant
9. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
10. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, at Tate Britain Reading Rooms, London, UK, Feb. 24 and more
11. Michael Bramwell, FF Alumn, at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 23
12. Hidemi Takagi, FF Alumn, at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, thru May 24
13. Nyugen Smith, FF Alumn, selected for Pratt>Forward 2024
14. Colette, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, now online at YouTube.com
15. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Sperone Westwater, Manhattan, opening March 1
16. Nancy Azara, Susan Bee, Janet Goldner, Susan Happersett, Kumi Korf, Warren Lehrer, Marianne R. Petit, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Miriam Schaer, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns,at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland, opening May 18
17. Suzanne Anker, Richard Serra, Donald Sultan, FF Alumns, at 52 Walker, Manhattan, and online thru Mar. 8
18. Dick Higgins, FF Alumn, now online
19. Deirdre Lawrence, FF Member, at The Grolier Club, Manhattan, Feb. 29-May 11
20. Kenneth King, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Ki Smith Gallery, Manhattan, thru Mar. 31
21. Grace Roselli, FF Alumn, live online March 4
22. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT, opening Mar. 27
23. Laura Lappi, FF Member, at Firetti Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai, thru Apr. 26
24. Marilyn R. Rosenberg, FF Alumn, now online at NYArtistsCircle.com
25. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at La Mama Galleria, Manhattan, opening March 2
26. Linda Stein, FF Member at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 5
27. Yael Kanarek, FF Alumn, at Central Synagogue, Manhattan, opening Feb. 29
28. Rory Golden, FF Alumn, now online
29. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, at The Drawing Center, Manhattan, opening March 6
30. Richard Alpert, FF Alumn, at Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA, opening March 22
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Weekly Spotlight: Tsedaye Makonnen, 2022-23 FF FUND recipient, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Feb. 29
Date: February 29th, 2024
Time: 11am & 1pm
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Africa & Byzantium exhibit (closes Mar. 3rd) and Petrie Court
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/africa-byzantium
Performers: Jasmine Hearn, Adia and musician Alsarah
Artist: Tsedaye Makonnen
https://www.tsedaye.com/bio
Title: Astral Sea – The Need for Collective Refuge Performance
Contemporary artist Tsedaye Makonnen, currently featured as one of the two living artists in the “Africa and Byzantium” exhibition has been commissioned by MetLiveArts and supported by Franklin Furnace to produce a new iteration from her performance and textile series Astral Sea to be featured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition explores the cultural interconnections between the African continent and Byzantium from the 4th to the 15th century. The Met has commissioned 7 new works from Tsedaye alongside this new performance piece.
Performers Jasmine Hearn and Adia will be adorned by Astral Sea mirrored textiles created by the artist Tsedaye moving through the exhibit and Petrie Court. Their abstracted gestures will emulate water, land and the cosmos becoming a conduit of those who the work honors. The performance will highlight themes of healing, protection, hope, resilience, and the power of collective action, drawing connections between the rich histories of Africa and the African diaspora. It will be accompanied by a special live soundscape created by world renowned Sudanese musician Alsarah from Alsarah and the Nubatones.
Please come & share. More soon,
xx Tsedaye Studio
“Africa and Byzantium” press release
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2023/africa-and-byzantium
P.S. Whew! We’ve been busy. Tsedaye is featured in The Walters Art Museum historical “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” https://thewalters.org/exhibitions/ethiopia-crossroads/ (closes Mar. 3rd), she guest curated the contemporary works! More info in the following articles
https://bmoreart.com/2024/02/everything-old-is-renewed-again-at-the-walters-art-museum.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/10/ethiopian-art-walters-museum/
and https://bmoreart.com/2023/12/confluence-ethiopia-at-the-crossroads.html
Downloadable link here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sls98581vhVuvVMk1IC_Gl7gMhYH-_x2
(Press and media kit with detailed info & installation images)
This work was made possible in part by the Franklin Furnace FUND 2022-23, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
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1. Len Steinbach, FF Member, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, March 31
Sunday, March 31 • 1pm
Dixon Place • 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002
12:30pm – Doors- Music- Mingling
1:00pm – Service & Eulogies for the “Lenorial” (Len-Mem-Orial) including open mic for 2-sentence, pithy audience tributes
2:00 -3:30pm -Shiva/Reception/Mingle > in the Dixon Place Lounge
Yes! We are aware Mar 31 is Easter.
But this is when the space and the rabbi are available.
And our hope is that folks can hide eggs and eat chocolate bunnies before +/or after the Len hug.
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2. Kathy Brew, Yoshiko Chuma, Michelle Handelman, Julia Heyward, Stefanie Mar, Aline Mare, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at Westbeth Gallery, Manhattan, opening March 6
Women on the Verge
Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St. NY NY
March 6-23
opening March 6, 6-8 pm
wed-sun 1-6 pm and by appointment
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3. Dara Birnbaum, Sharon Hayes, Adam Pendleton, Fred Wilson, FF Alumns, receive American Academy of Arts and Letter 2024 Awards in Art.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2024 Art Award Recipients List
Award of Merit Medal for Painting
Matt Connors
Arts and Letters Awards
An-My Lê
Dara Birnbaum
Edgar Heap of Birds
Walid Raad
Fred Wilson
Jacob Lawrence Award
Pepón Osorio
Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award
Sharon Hayes
Willard L. Metcalf Award
Gala Porras-Kim
John Koch Award
Jordan Casteel
Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting
Adam Pendleton
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4. Johanna Drucker, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Joseph Kosuth, Deirdre Lawrence, Warren Lehrer, Angela Lorenz, Sabra Moore, FF Alumns, at The Grolier Club, Manhattan, Feb. 29-May 11
A new exhibition of contemporary artists’ books at the Grolier Club celebrates hundreds of years of communication through real and imagined languages.
Thanks,
Deirdre Lawrence
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5. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Skid Row History Museum & Archive, LA, CA, opening Mar. 9
Los Angeles Poverty Department Presents
Welcome to the Covid Hotel
March 9 – December 14, 2024
Exhibition by leading Skid Row arts organization explores unexpected lessons about healthcare for the homeless community that emerged from LA County-run quarantine sites during the Covid crisis
(Los Angeles, CA) — Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is pleased to announce the Saturday, March 9 opening of its new Skid Row History Museum & Archive exhibition,
Welcome to the Covid Hotel with a public reception from 4-7 pm at 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, 90012.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel reveals the exceptional innovations and successes of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who ran LA County Health Department’s emergency Quarantine and Isolation (QI) sites for houseless Covid patients and people exposed to the virus in shelters. The opening event will feature a 15-minute preview of a work-in-progress theatrical performance by LAPD at 5 pm, as well as an opportunity to meet some of the frontline heroes who staffed the QI sites.
In spring 2020, the LA County Department of Health mobilized resources to ameliorate the devastation of the public health crisis on the region’s most vulnerable population: people experiencing homelessness. Makeshift QI sites were set up at various locations, including then-vacant hotels and motels. More than 10,000 people quarantined at the sites. There were very few deaths, and once released, 93% of the patients needing housing were sheltered in nursing homes, recovery programs, and transitional programs leading to permanent housing—a remarkable rate.
“This exhibition focuses on the secret sauce—the spirit of the QI workers—their commitment, passion, and courage. Their ability to improvise when so many certainties crumbled. The things they discovered and employed everyday were broad departures from business-as-usual convention. The successes they saw led to a belief that the model of care they discovered and provided can be scaled up to address the twin problems of housing and healthcare. But to do that, more impassioned and dedicated people are needed,” said John Malpede, LAPD Artistic Director/Executive Director.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel unveils the unconventional approaches that engendered this success—holistic care coordinated among typically siloed practitioners, harm reduction, and housing first practices, along with an uncommon level of interpersonal care, steeped in empathy and compassion. The exhibition recreates elements of the facilities at a motel-turned-QI site and recordings of the staff telling how their work saved lives, transformed patient care, and got people housed. “The lessons we learned about the power of integrated care is the real gift that emerged from this experience,” said Dr. Sudarsky, who served as Medical Director of the QI sites from April 2021 until their closure in June 2022. “This model successfully merged specialty silos in housing and healthcare to help vulnerable Angelenos get swift access to care. In other words, when health and housing are prioritized as a human right for an entire community, everyone is better off.”
A panel discussion series launches at the museum Wednesday, March 27 at 6:30 pm, with Adversity Generates Innovations, featuring Dr. Sudarsky with Marissa Axelrod, RN and Alternative Healing Practitioner, who was one of the first staff at the original QI site; and Soma Snakeoil, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Sidewalk Project, which improvised responses to help people living on the streets during the pandemic; moderated by Clancey Cornell, a clinical social worker and member of LAPD’s archive staff whose interviews are featured in the exhibition.
From March 9 – December 14, Thursdays through Saturdays, 2-5 pm, the exhibition is open to the public. LAPD performances and additional discussions are soon to be announced. Project research materials and documentation will be preserved and made available in the museum’s archive. For information, contact info@lapovertydept.org.
Welcome to the Covid Hotel project activities are made possible with support from City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs; John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; Institute of Museum and Library Services; and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Los Angeles Poverty Department programs are supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Arts Council; California Humanities, The Kindle Project; Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; and Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.
Credits
Welcome to the Covid Hotel is curated by Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers, LAPD Associate Director, and support from Dr. Sudarsky; with design collaboration from Peter Gould, Alan Tollefson, and Young Mi Chi. And thanks to the Institute of Contemporary Art ICA-LA. Photos courtesy of Dr. Sudarsky.
About Los Angeles Poverty Department
Los Angeles Poverty Department is a multi-disciplinary arts organization that produces and presents artworks and events that instantiate the existence of the Skid Row community—affirming its assets, advocating for its rights, and supporting its aspirations. LAPD projects interweave exhibitions, publications, theatrical performances, public conversations, and cultural events. Programs are developed, produced, and performed collaboratively with Skid Row community members. Founded in 1985 by John Malpede, LAPD was the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people, and the first arts program of any kind for homeless people in Los Angeles.
About Skid Row History Museum & Archive
Since 2015, LAPD has operated the Skid Row History Museum & Archive in downtown Los Angeles. In addition to being the primary venue for the presentation of LAPD artworks, the Museum partners with Skid Row organizations and individuals to provide free space for their civic and cultural activities. Our community archive houses 20,000+ items documenting the 50+ year history of activism and agency in Skid Row. Located at 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, 90012, the Museum is open to the public Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2-5 pm and by appointment, info@skidrowpovertydept.org.
Visit https://www.lapovertydept.org/ for more information. All are welcome. Admission is free.
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6. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, at BAM, Brooklyn, March 15-22 and more
Dearest supporters of The Tuba Thieves,
It gives us great pride and pleasure to announce that The Tuba Thieves is finally making its way to a theater near you.
It has been a profound journey to this moment and we could not be more grateful for your support and enthusiasm for The Tuba Thieves.
Our trailer dropped this morning and we are happy to share with you posters and social media images.
Trailer
https://youtu.be/NWOTqGQoZvQ?feature=shared
Images
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/lmnamtncc2mdtzv77bekf/h?rlkey=4rwr454tejnqvwkuxez278uvs&dl=0
We hope you will help us spread the word in your communities about our upcoming theatrical screenings:
New York City
March 15-22
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
https://www.bam.org/film/2024/the-tuba-thieves
Los Angeles
March 22-28
Laemmle Theatres
Minneapolis
March 29-23
The Walker Art Center
https://walkerart.org/calendar/2024/the-tuba-thieves-by-alison-odaniel/
Chicago
April 12-18
The Gene Siskel Film Center
https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/tuba-thieves
San Francisco
May 5
Roxie
https://roxie.com/film/the-tuba-thieves/
We are also thrilled to confirm that our US broadcast premiere will take place on PBS Independent Lens on May 20, 2024!
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-tuba-thieves/
We hope to have further details on special Q&A guests, additional cities, and more as we get closer to the BAM opening next month!
Thank you all for your incredible contributions that have gotten the film to this moment. We can’t wait to share The Tuba Thieves with an expanded, nationwide audience!
With gratitude and excitement,
Alison, Maya, Su, and the rest of team TTT
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7. Susan Martin, Ethyl Eichelberger, Holly Hughes, John Jesurun, John Kelly, Lydia Lunch, Ann Magnusson, FF Alumns, at Baker Falls, Manhattan, April 18, 21
“We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It
by Brian Butterick, Susan Martin, and Kestutis Nakas
“Two Stars on the Bar” (Wendy Wild). Photo Lynn M. Grabowski
Smoky, dirty, narrow, crowded, and fabulous. —Michael Musto
20 February 2024—Unlike the mega-clubs of the era, like Area or Palladium, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge was a dive. Located at 101 Avenue A, the Pyramid offered a mixture of cultures: from groundbreaking, irreverent theater and experimental music to “anti-drag” that challenged the norms of gender binaries and stereotypes. It began in 1981, when the East Village was considered a dangerous no-man’s-land. Rents were cheap, AIDS was still unknown, and a new generation of creators broke the mold and went on to make art in an atmosphere of unbridled celebration.
The Pyramid was a finishing school for some really strange individuals. Everyone was totally fucked-up or certifiably crazy and going through a manic episode. Hapi, Tabboo!, and I became this sick team. Ethyl Eichelberger, I sucked at her tit. I asked Tabboo! when we were going on, and he said, ‘We’re already on.’ —Philly Abe
Some Serious Business and Damiani Books are pleased to announce the publication on April 16, 2024 of “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It by Brian Butterick, Susan Martin, and Kestutis Nakas. A narrative and oral history comprising more than 75 interviews with performers and bar boys, doormen and DJs, it covers the early years of the Pyramid from the time of its founding in 1981 through its rise, near demise, and rebirth. Excerpts of more than 50 Pyramid press releases in the club’s signature satirical tone document the hundreds of acts who performed there. Save the dates: 4/18 book signing & show at Ha/Ha and Sat. 4/20 “A Pyramid Homecoming at Baker Falls”
Theme nights and bar dancers, fixtures of the downtown avant-garde, punks and kids escaping their pasts all added to the club’s popularity. The genius behind the club was 23-year-old Bobby Bradley, an impresario who established a collaborative atmosphere that “felt like one giant yes!,” says Ann Magnuson.
We did [a] show and everyone seemed to love it. And I still couldn’t understand it. I had no idea what it was about. I was thinking, ‘Well, I got through that. Never in a million years am I doing that again.’ Then Bobby came up really happy and said ‘I think it’s really good. I think you should do it again.’ I said ‘OK’ because I always say OK. —Edgar Oliver
At the Pyramid, Ann, John Jesurun, and John Kelly rubbed elbows with They Might Be Giants, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and 3 Teens Kill 4, who shared a stage with performers like Ethyl Eichelberger, John Sex, Tabboo!, Hapi Phace, and Lady Bunny. By offering a home to obscure, genre-defying and unpolished acts, the Pyramid played a crucial role in shaping the city’s underground cultural scene for decades to come.
It was so comfortable at the Pyramid in terms of straight-and-gay mix, a peaceful gathering of sexuality. When I walked into the dressing room at the Pyramid, there was instant companionship. If you weren’t happy at the Pyramid, you weren’t alive. —Hapi Phace
The oral history is introduced and contextualized with narrative commentary by the authors. The book also features many previously unpublished photos by Lynn M. Grabowski—who captured the performers and spirit of those early days—as well as other photographers, snapshots from the personal collections of performers, and flyers and ephemera from the Brian Butterick Collection of the Howl! Arts Archive.
I felt right at home at the Pyramid…[it] allowed me the opportunity to not only showcase other performers, but to perfect the art of out-heckling even the most obnoxious assholes who occasionally attempted to interrupt my harangues. —Lydia Lunch
By 1985, Bobby and his team had produced thousands of original performances and ushered in a time of intense creativity in the East Village. Sadly, addiction, AIDS, and other perils of human existence brought Bobby (and so many others) down; the story of his downfall also marks a remarkable rebirth underway by 1986, and with Brian Butterick and Sister Dimension at the helm, the club flourished. There followed many innovative incarnations, and finally in 2021, the Pyramid closed permanently.
Though the venue was no longer the hotspot of its early years, its closure prompted an outpouring of reminiscence and mourning for a bygone era, amid a broad renewed interest in the art and culture of 1980s New York. “We Started a Nightclub” is an insider’s look at the cultural history of the East Village in the early 1980s. The project, which began in 2006, represents the only in-depth exploration of the Pyramid’s origins.
The sense was that it was ground zero of the East Village, the most important club in the most important neighborhood in New York City for art-making at the time. It might have been Carnegie Hall for how good it felt. —Holly Hughes
17.8 x 24 cm | 7 x 9 4/9 inches | 416 pages, 143 color and b&w, flexibound
ISBN 978-88-6208-816-9 | $55 | €50 | £45
Preorder:
https://www.damianibooks.com/en/products/6208816
https://someseriousbusiness.org/
For further information contact: Susan Martin, Some Serious Business, 310-975-9970
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8. S.K. Duff, FF Alumn, receives 2024 New Jersey State Council individual artist grant
I have just learned that I will be receiving one of the 2024 NJ State Council on the Arts individual artists grants in the field of Interdisciplinary Art. I had entered once before in the field of painting and didn’t get a nibble and I said to Chuck that “Purist Painters don’t see this work as painting, but I do” — With my usage of drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, SUMI-E, etc. many don’t read the images as painting! There’s no canvas, linseed oil, turpentine and oil paint and they are not conventional shapes (however shall we frame them?)…. I said that I’d switch categories (and I felt good about that) and here we are! S. K. Duff
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9. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/arts/design/yoko-ono-tate-modern.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thank you.
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10. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, at Tate Britain Reading Rooms, London, UK, Feb. 24 and more
Saborami: Expanded facsimile edition
Cecilia Vicuña
Preorder now
https://bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/saborami-an-expanded-facsimile-edition/?mc_cid=58a1dcd14b&mc_eid=42ef6015a6
‘How many artists are there? Choose where you want to work, choose. Invent your task, do it! All together to destroy reactionary ideas, bourgeois ideology, individualism, solemnity, all white, European, capitalist ways of existence!’
– Cecilia Vicuña, Saborami, 1973
Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led Beau Geste Press. It was one of the first artistic responses to the violence of the fascist junta.
In recent years, Vicuña has gained increasing renown, including a retrospective at Kunstinstituut Melly and installations at the Guggenheim and Tate Modern. Saborami is one of her most important works, made at a turning point in her life and career, and reverberating through to the present day. Though the book is highly regarded, it has also been hard to access. This new, expanded facsimile edition remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance.
Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the British conceptual art practices of the 1960s and 1970s, Saborami is part of an exilic and internationalist tradition. Years ahead of her time, Vicuña outlines an eco-socialist and feminist vision in the face of defeat.
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s original publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition contains a new introduction by art historian and curator Amy Tobin and poet and writer Luke Roberts. It includes rarely seen archival material from Vicuña’s time in London, such as contributions to the feminist newspaper Spare Rib, commentary from BBC coverage, and her role in Artists for Democracy in Chile and other solidarity campaigns.
Cecilia Vicuña is an internationally renowned visual artist and poet. Born in Chile in 1948, she lived in England between 1972 and 1975. After a period in Bogota, Colombia, she settled in New York City, where she lives and works today. Her New and Selected Poems were published by Kelsey Street in 2018. At the Venice Biennale in 2022 she won the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement.
Luke Roberts, author of Home Radio (2021), is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London.
Amy Tobin, author of Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation (2023), is Associate Professor in History of Art and Curator at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge.
Launch events for Saborami
Saturday 24 February, 2024, 1–5pm
Tate Britain Reading Rooms
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Free but booking required. Book here. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/saborami-with-cecilia-vicuna?mc_cid=58a1dcd14b&mc_eid=42ef6015a6
Cecilia Vicuña will be joined in the Tate Reading Rooms by Amy Tobin, Luke Roberts, Nisha Ramayya and Will Rowe for a discussion, performance and poetry readings.
The event will be accompanied by a display of material from the Beau Geste Press (BGP) from Tate Library’s collection.
Tuesday 27 February, 2024
5.30–7.30pm
Newnham College, Cambridge
Free and open to all. More information/RSVP. https://www.cvc.cam.ac.uk/events/saborami-launch-a-performative-poetry-reading-with-cecilia-vicuna/?mc_cid=58a1dcd14b&mc_eid=42ef6015a6
Join Cambridge Visual Culture to celebrate the publication of a new edition of Saborami with Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña.
What did you do… (2024)
Order a poster:
https://bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/what-did-you-do-2024/?mc_cid=58a1dcd14b&mc_eid=42ef6015a6
What did you do… (2024) is a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. Any proceeds from this project will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Participating artists include: Hamja Ahsan, Banu Cennetoğlu, Jesse Darling, Jeremy Deller, Falgosh Collective, Dora García, Marianne Keating, Rosalind Nashashibi, Prem Sahib, Tai Shani, Sofia Niazi, Anne Tallentire, and Rosa-Johan Uddoh.
The first poster was produced by Book Works to mark the workplace day of action to #standwithgaza, and is now available to buy in our shop.
Publishers and booksellers who would like to display one in solidarity can also email us for a PDF version.
About us
Book Works is a leading contemporary arts organisation with a unique role as makers and publishers of books.
Established in 1984, we are dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects. Book Works consists of a publishing and commissioning department; and a studio specialising in binding, box-making and multiples.
Studio
The Book Works Studio offers a specialist bespoke service for a range of clients, from artists, designers, galleries, and businesses. We provide binding solutions, develop prototypes and specialise in unique book artworks, boxes, and portfolios. We have an extensive archive, and offer tailored educational events, and bookbinding courses. The Studio generates income from clients and is self-sufficient.
Publishing
Book Works Publishing is dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects and include publishing, a lecture and seminar programme, exhibitions, the development of an online archive, and artists’ surgeries and workshops.
Our audience is vital to our work. The process of engaging and developing our audience is initiated with our commissioning programme, and driven through all aspects of our activities, particularly our public programme of events, our workshops, artists’ surgeries and education activities, and through our interest in collaborating with other organisations and libraries. Our programme of commissions is diverse, and reflects our commitment not just to work with cultural workers from all backgrounds, but to invest in networks and programmes that engage, and develop and create new artistic voices.
Recent commissions
Includes new projects with: Ayo Akingbade, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Bouchra Khalili, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Samia Malik, Harun Morrison, Sofia Niazi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, FF Alumn, and Jimmy Robert, Prem Sahib, Derica Shields, and Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn. Our current Open Submission is Arrhythmia, guest edited by Katrina Palmer, and has commissioned new work from Andrew Colarusso, Roy Claire Potter, Kamwangi Njue, and Alice Walter.
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11. Michael Bramwell, FF Alumn, at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, May 23
Please visit this link:
https://www.mfa.org/event/symposium/new-discourses-on-folk-and-self-taught-art
Thank you.
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12. Hidemi Takagi, FF Alumn, at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, thru May 24
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Opens
Exhibitions Celebrating Gallery Aferro
Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty
Le’Andra LeSeur and Anna Parisi: Bearing Witness
Kay Reese: 50 Million African Trees
Hidemi Takagi: IDENTITIES
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
February 23, 2024 – May 24, 2024
Opening Reception February 23, 6:30–8 PM
Daylight Hours Preview 4–5 PM
Summit, NJ —The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ) will present exhibitions that celebrate the Newark-based arts organization Gallery Aferro, which recently closed its doors after 20 years. Founded by visionary artists and changemakers Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox, Gallery Aferro was a platform for the exchange of ideas in service of advancing human dignity and beauty, with a focus on visual arts as the vehicle. The Art Center’s first-floor galleries will showcase a range of media by past fellowship recipients from Aferro.
VACNJ’s Main Gallery features the exhibition Gallery Aferro: Dignity and Beauty—guest-curated by Edwin Ramoran—that showcases works by Katrina Bello, Anjali Benjamin-Webb, Ruth Borgenicht, Amy Faris, Krystle Lemonias, kara lynch, Bud McNichol, Lisette Morel, and Steve Rossi. They are a select group of alumni from fellowships that directly served specific cohorts with support, space, and opportunities. Within this progressive, creative community, the Lynn and John Kearney Fellowship for Equity was awarded to women of color, while the Sustainable Arts Fellowship was for artists who are parents. The artwork presented here addresses themes of family, loss, memory, and place. At times visually somber, the work exhibited embodies the central message in Gallery Aferro’s mission statement for the advancement of “human dignity and beauty.”
Concurrently, the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Gallery will feature video and performance ephemera in the exhibition Le’Andra LeSeur and Anna Parisi: Bearing Witness. This exhibition examines the act of bearing witness to oppressive and debilitating systems, particularly those faced by women of color. LeSeur and Parisi, recipients of Gallery Aferro’s Lynn and John Kearney Fellowship for Equity, address themes of Blackness, gender, and self-representation. Both artists reclaim lens-based media to dismantle stereotypes and interrogate power structures while creating a space for reflection and healing. In the face of traumatic experiences and oppressive systems, the artists bring beauty, empathy, and healing to bear in their practice.
The Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I will highlight a selection of digital collages in the exhibition Kay Reese: 50 Million African Trees. This work is inspired by the struggle and achievements of Kenyan activist and Nobel prize winner Wangarĩ Maathai, the first Black African woman to win the Nobel Prize for the Environment. Featuring fractured imagery and contrasting colors, these works celebrate Maathai’s planting of 50 million trees and her fight for Kenyan women’s rights. Working in a Surrealist vein, Reese, who is an alumna of Gallery Aferro’s Lynn and John Kearney Fellowship for Equity, intends to emotionally impact viewers while connecting to local environmental issues.
The Art Center’s Stair-gazing Gallery presents photography by Hidemi Takagi, a 2022 recipient of the Sustainable Arts Fellowship. She is a community photographer, visual artist, and social practitioner who documents diverse community members in an ongoing photography installation project that explores issues related to mixed-race identities. Takagi began this project during the COVID-19 pandemic and initially focused on her own family but has since expanded the project to include portraits of diverse individuals in New York City as well as Bayonne, New Jersey; Miami, Florida; and Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan. By interviewing her subjects and encouraging them to wear attire that reflects their cultural backgrounds, Takagi investigates the public and private sides of racial identity.
For more information visit artcenternj.org
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13. Nyugen Smith, FF Alumn, selected for Pratt>Forward 2024
Can’t wait to get started in March and grateful to all the wonderful mentors who have so generously said yes to participating in Pratt>Forward this year. Mickalene Thomas without you this would not be happening. Thank you for your trust, grace and wisdom
For #prattforward updates, see @prattfineart on Instagram #lovemyjob
Repost from @prattfineart
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Yesterday we welcomed the twelve artists selected from an open call to participate in Pratt>Forward 2024. We are excited to get started in March and are grateful to Silver Arts Projects and Lilly Christina for partnering with us!
Link in bio to see more!
Launched by Pratt Fine Arts in 2021 in partnership with Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, Pratt>Forward connects creative thought leaders with emerging artists to support them in navigating the art world and building their own opportunities and communities. Now in its third edition, Pratt>Forward, through the generous support of Silver Art Projects and Silverstein Properties, this fully funded program will provide participating artists with studio space in the World Trade Center in March as part of a month-long program.
P>F24 Artists:
Ty Allen
Ferguson Amo
Alexander Brewington
Jose Duran
Nazli Efe
Bianca Fields
Liu Kincheloe
JP (Jermaine) Powell
Jonathan Sánchez Noa
Nyugen E. Smith
Victoria Walton
Shihori Yamamoto
The selected artists include Pratt graduates as well as other emerging artists working in interdisciplinary and community-minded ways with media such as drawing, painting, performance, sculpture, video, and more.
Pratt>Forward is co-directed by Mickalene Thomas and Fine Arts Chair Jane South and coordinated by Yasmeen Abdallah
Thank you to our amazing Core Mentors:
Derrick Adams, Elizabeth Ann Lamb, Emily McElwreath, Jose Parla, and Jasmine Wahi
Nyugen Smith
Pratt>Forward
For more information, please visit
https://www.pratt.edu/art/fine-arts/community-programs/prattforward/
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14. Colette, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, now online at YouTube.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_BvuLVkEE&t=295s
Thank you.
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15. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Sperone Westwater, Manhattan, opening March 1
William Wegman
Favorite Models
Sperone Westwater, New York
1 March – 20 April 2024
Sperone Westwater is pleased to present “William Wegman: Favorite Models,” a show of eight 20” x 24” Polaroids taken between 1989 and 2007.
Spanning over 35 years of work with the large format Polaroid camera, this solo exhibition highlights the specific talents of Wegman’s favorite models: Fay, Batty, Chip, Penny and Candy. Fay demonstrates her impressive concentration, Batty her effortlessly flexible posability, Chip his knack for looking fashionable, Penny her classical perfection and Candy her ability to be just one of us. In the introduction to the 2017 book William Wegman: Being Human, William A. Ewing explains that “people cognizant of Wegman’s stature in the art world may not be fully aware of the scope of his interests in photography, and it often comes as a surprise to see how over the years his work has dealt with so many subjects and genres.” Wegman’s images explore a wide range of topics from art and artists to fashion and philosophy. “The impressive panoply of interests aside, much of Wegman’s collaborative work, though far from all of it, might be resumed under the venerable photographic traditions of the portrait and the nude. In both genres the photographer borrows from strategies and techniques with deep histories,” says Ewing. In the 2014 exhibition “Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves,” historian Ann-Janine Morey thought about “what it means to be human, and about how that meaning might shift across times and places.”
Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1943, William Wegman received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work has been exhibited extensively in both the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1982); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1988); Whitney Museum of American Art (1992); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001); and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002). The retrospective “William Wegman: Funney/Strange” was held at the Brooklyn Museum, and traveled to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2006-07). Other surveys include the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (2012); Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA (2017); Shelburne Museum (2019). In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized “Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism.” “William Wegman: Being Human,” an international touring exhibition of his large-format Polaroids, traveled to venues including Palais de L’Archevêché, Arles; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand; MASI, Lugano; Photomuseum den Haag, The Hague; and Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea (2018-21). Wegman’s work is in many important public collections including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Since his first exhibition at Sperone Westwater in 1990, Wegman has exhibited regularly at the gallery (1992, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2022).
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16. Nancy Azara, Susan Bee, Janet Goldner, Susan Happersett, Kumi Korf, Warren Lehrer, Marianne R. Petit, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Miriam Schaer, Buzz Spector, FF Alumns,at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland, opening May 18
Gracefield Arts Center
https://www.dgculture.co.uk/venue/gracefield-arts-centre/
Dumfries, Scotland
Exhibition of New York book art with guest Scottish artists…
Make your travel plans now!
May 18– June 29, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 2-4 pm
Curator: Maddy Rosenberg
Participating Artists: Golnar Adili, Desirée Alvarez, Rosaire Appel, Nancy Azara, C Bangs, Susan Bee, Don Burmeister, Maureen Cummins, Donna Maria de Creeft, Deborah Adams Doering & Glenn N. Doering/DoeProjekts, Evelyn Eller, Anne Gilman, Janet Goldner,
Susan Happersett, Kumi Korf, Warren Lehrer, Despo Magoni, Max Marek, James Martin, JoAnne McFarland, Agnes Murray, Florence Neal, Marianne R. Petit, Maddy Rosenberg, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Susan Rostow, Miriam Schaer, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Buzz Spector, Mary Ting, April Vollmer, Ellen Wiener, Dasha Ziborova
Guest Scottish Artists: Hugh Bryden and Linda Mallett
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17. Suzanne Anker, Richard Serra, Donald Sultan, FF Alumns, at 52 Walker, Manhattan, and online thru Mar. 8
Friends Seminary Contemporary Art Preview
Reception
Thursday, February 22, from 6-8 PM
Viewing
Friday, February 23, from 10 AM to 6 PM & Saturday, February 24, from 10 AM to 1 PM
Gallery
52 Walker (52 Walker Street, New York City)
Online @ Artsy
View & bid online beginning Thursday, February 22
Visit artsy.net/friends-seminary
Online bidding closes on Friday, March 8 at Noon EST
Friends Seminary’s unique history connects it to the art culture of the City; the School has educated the children of renowned artists, many of whom live in the surrounding neighborhoods. In our dedication to making Friends affordable for all families, proceeds from the 2024 Contemporary Art Auction contribute to the Artists for Artists Fund, an endowment that helps fund financial aid for children of practicing artists.
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Beijing Art and Technology Biennale, the Daejeon Biennale 2018, Korea, The Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe | ZKM, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the JP Getty Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts in New York, where she continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Laboratory.
Suzanne Anker
https://www.suzanneanker.com/
SVA Bio Art Lab
https://bioart.sva.edu
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18. Dick Higgins, FF Alumn, now online
Free digital book available: Centamore and Xatrec 2023 Call It Something Else. Something Else Press, Inc. 1963–1974
In 1966, FF Alumn Dick Higgins wrote a score titled Intermedial Object #1. He intended this piece to be the first of a series that never materialized. Because it exceeded the conventional limits of any one medium or platform – including that of publishing – the Something Else Press aligned with the concept of intermedia. We might even call it the example of intermedia par excellence, going so far as to think of the Something Else Press as the Intermedial Object #2 that Higgins never deemed it necessary to name.
Alice Centamore and Christian Xatrec prepared this magnificent exhibition catalog for the exhibition they organised at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid. Anyone interested in intermedia, Fluxus, Something Else Press, or Dick Higgins will want to read this book.
You can download it here from this Academia page:
https://www.academia.edu/114594809/Call_It_Something_Else_Something_Else_Press_Inc_1963_1974
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19. Deirdre Lawrence, FF Member, at The Grolier Club, Manhattan, Feb. 29-May 11
A new exhibition of contemporary artists’ books at the Grolier Club celebrates hundreds of years of communication through real and imagined languages.
Thanks,
Deirdre Lawrence
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20. Kenneth King, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Ki Smith Gallery, Manhattan, thru Mar. 31
My Andy Warhol “Screen Test” at Ki Smith Gallery
Years ago Andy Warhol at his Silver Factory made many “Screen Tests,” which have now been digitized; forty-one of them are being shown in the first gallery exhibition at the Ki Smith Gallery, 170 Forsyth Street, NYC, between 2/24-3/31, curated by Greg Pierce, Director of Film & Video at The Andy Warhol Museum.
https://gothamtogo.com/category/ki-smith-gallery/
Kenneth King
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21. Grace Roselli, FF Alumn, live online March 4
Hello,
I’m delighted to be doing a Pandora’s BoxX panel discussion hosted online by ATOA (Artists Talk On Art) with artists Nicole Awai, Cheryl Donegan, Carla Gannis, Maria Elena Gonzalez and Claudia Hart. Please join us for an open discussion on ageist and sexist constructs in the contemporary art world.
https://www.atoanyc.org/upcoming-programs
Monday, March 4th, 7-8:30pm EST
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86314194491
Password: 737066
Pandora’s BoxX Project: a photographic portrait series documenting and celebrating the changing face and profound cultural influence of womxn artists and art practitioners (inclusive of trans; non-binary; gender-queer, and female individuals) over the past six decades.
https://www.pandorasboxxproject.com/
Warmly,
Grace
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22. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT, opening Mar. 27
I’m thrilled to have my work included in this excellent exhibition curated by Marcia Annenberg!
Yale School of Sacred Music Presents
“Biophilia: In Excelsis”
March 27 – May 3, 2024
Curated by Marcia Annenberg
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Miller Hall 406 Prospect St. New Haven CT
Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 12 – 4pm
https://ism.yale.edu/event/biophilia-excelsis-art-exhibit
Reception at 5:30 pm March 27th, with panel following, special guest Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Director, NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies and artists Krisanne Baker, Susan Hoffman Fishman and Eleanor Goldstein, moderated by M. Annenberg.
Twenty two artists participate
M. Annenberg • Krisanne Baker • Lois Bender • Walter Brown • Diane Burko • Janet Culbertson • . Cameron Davis • Noreen Dean Dresser • Danielle Eubank • Susan Hoffman Fishman • Eleanor Goldstein • Kathy Levine • Angela Manno • Cristian Pietrapiana • Elisa Pritzker • Lisa Reindorf • Babs Reingold • Ann Shapiro • Simon Spicer • Steven Siegel • D J Spooky • Suzanne Theodora White
Excerpt from Eleanor Heartney’s essay on “Biophilia: In Excelsis”
“How may art support a wholistic vision of the natural world? That question drives the artists in this exhibition. They are inspired by biophilia, literally the love of life, and draw on developments in environmental science, biology, politics and media to help us understand the interconnections that make up the web of life. Aware that facts alone are often insufficient to persuade a jaded public to act, these artists present their visions using some of art’s most potent tools, among them beauty, metaphor, symbolism and visual poetry.
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23. Laura Lappi, FF Member, at Firetti Contemporary, Al Quoz, Dubai, thru Apr. 26
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am excited to announce the opening of my solo show Metamorphosis at Firetti Contemporary!
The opening reception is on Sunday, February 25th, from 7-10 pm.
The exhibition is open from February 26th to April 26th, 2024
Firetti Contemporary
Al Quoz 1, Street 8
Alserkal Avenue, Unit 29
Dubai
Gallery Hours: Monday to Sunday – 11 am – 7 pm
The inaugural solo exhibition of Laura Lappi in the MENA region, titled “Metamorphosis,” will be open to the public from the 26th of February. Lappi’s work draws inspiration from the grandeur of ancient basilicas, cathedrals, and medieval Scandinavian wooden structures.
Her exploration delves into the profound significance of these monumental buildings, which have historically shaped our communities and continue to exert a profound influence on our way of life. The sheer scale of her creations, often exceeding human dimensions, immerses viewers in a mystical geometric language that transports them into a sacred space. Here, spiritual auras reminiscent of the architectural structures that serve as her muse come to life.
More info about the exhibition at Firetti Contemporary:
I am also delighted to inform you that Firetti Contemporary has published the first catalogue of my works, which is now available for purchase. More info at Firetti Contemporary:
My work for this exhibition has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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24. Marilyn R. Rosenberg, FF Alumn, now online at NYArtistsCircle.com
Hello
The Imaginarium includes the work of 30 visual artists including Marilyn R. Rosenberg, see two places on the page, the work and bio.
Circle quote- The Imaginarium is fantastical, magical, unreal, visionary, unlikely, fictitious, phantasmagoric, invented, otherworldly, oddly narrative, mythic, bizarre, uncanny and/or impossible.
See the visual poem –
https://nyartistscircle.com/curated-shows/the-imaginarium-universe-of-the-mind
Marilyn RR
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25. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at La Mama Galleria, Manhattan, opening March 2
Debra Pearlman’s work will be included in Every Woman Biennial at La Mama Galleria opening March 2 1:00-4:00 through March 24th. The gallery, located at 47 Great Jones, is open Wednesday through Sunday 1:00-7:00
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26. Linda Stein, FF Member at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 5
Feminism! Protection! Sexuality!
The Art of Linda Stein
March 5 – May 11, 2024
Opening Reception
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
6-8 PM
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 12-6PM
Anita Shapolsky Gallery
152 East 65th Street
(Bet Lexington and third ave)
New York City
212.452.1094
AnitaShapolskyGallery.com
Main gallery 1
This solo exhibition will highlight Stein’s works from stages of her 6-decade career.
Gallery 2
The Previous Female Generation:
The Art of Lynne Drexler, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Carol Hunt, Buffie Johnson, Jeanne Miles, Louise Nevelson, Jeanne Reynal, Ann Ryan, Nancy Steinson, Yvonne Thomas & Charmion Von Weigand.
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27. Yael Kanarek, FF Alumn, at Central Synagogue, Manhattan, opening Feb. 29
My new exhibition “Toratah: The Artistry of Transformation” opens officially on Thursday February 29 after the “Songs of Toratah” album release concert at Central Synagogue. Big thank you to the Central community for such an amazing process and for all the help. We hope you can come celebrate Toratah with us.
Link for info:
Yael Kanarek
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28. Rory Golden, FF Alumn, now online
On the Assault, Facebook, & Getting Shaved at the Kitchen
I said I would back things up and this is where I landed: 2014 and the assault. I wrote about it here in 2021 when I made public the video from a 2016 performance at Dixon Place Lounge….
Read the whole newsletter here:
https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=d5e0160404c5336cebd1ded3e&id=ef3ae60362
Thank you!
Rory Golden
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29. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, at The Drawing Center, Manhattan, opening March 6
Please visit this link:
https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/joan-jonas?mc_cid=33778aeff5&mc_eid=e26d385775
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30. Richard Alpert, FF Alumn, at Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA, opening March 22
Museum of Northern California Art
In Flux: Recalibrating The Unknown
Show dates: 03/21 – 05/12/2024
Opening reception: Friday, 03/22, 5:00 – 8:00PM
Earshot, by Richard H. Alpert, is featured in an exhibition called IN-FLUX: recalibrating the unknown. This exhibition is a joint project of the San Francisco Artists Alumni (SFAA) organization and the Museum of Northern California Art and was curated by Jeremy P. H. Morgan, who is a member of SFAA.
With the 2022 closure of the San Francisco Art Institute as a backdrop, this exhibition has invited artists to consider the role of art as a means of revealing possibilities within the current dynamic fusion of social, environmental, economic, and epidemiological challenges.
The exhibition is divided into two parts: individual artworks (in the form of object or time-based work) and a collaborative site-specific installation at MONCA.
Museum of Northern California Art
900 Esplanade
Chico, CA 95926
www.sfartistsalumni.org/influx
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