Contents for March 3rd, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. kyle b. co., FF FUND Recipient 2024-25, at Center for Performance Research, Mar. 16-May
2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, at Mark O’Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, Mar. 7-9
3. Ken Dewey, FF Alumn, at Music Bienniale Zagreb, Croatia, April 89
4. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at Five Points Art Center, Torrington, CT, thru April 12
5. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Trans-Pecos, Ridgewood, Queens, NY, March 1, and more
6. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Mar. 12-13, and more
7. Marlon Riggs, FF Alumn, now online at GayCityNews.com
8. Helen Varley Jamieson, FF Alumn, live online at upstage.org.nz, March 8 and more
9. m burgess, Carlos Motta, Yali Romagoza, FF Alumns, at Monira, Jersey City, NJ, opening March 8
10. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, thru Mar. 28
11. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF ALumn, at Baruch College, Manhattan, opening March 10, and more
12. Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumn, new publication
13. Susan Mogul, Nao Bustamante, FF Alumns, at LACE, Los Angeles, CA, March 6
14. Ida Applebroog, FF Alumn, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, March 4-May 29
15. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, opening Mar. 7
16. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
17. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, at Kingston Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY, Apr. 6-Oct. 5
18. Victoria Engonopoulos, Halona Hilbertz, Vernita Nemec, FF Alumns, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru March 22
19. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, online with Morbid Anatomy, March 3, and more
20. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 6
21. Marko Lando, FF Member, now online at www.marcolando.org
22. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1060879571
23. Cynthia Carlson, Lucy Lippard, Adrian Piper, Mimi Smith, FF Alumns, at Duane Thomas Gallery, Manhattan thru April 11
24. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, now online at ArtMatters.buzzsprout.com
25. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, at The Brooklyn Museum, ongoing
26. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 28, and more
27. Christo & Jeanne Claude, FF Alumns, now online at GlassTire.com
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1. kyle b. co., FF FUND Recipient 2024-25, at Center for Performance Research, Mar. 16-May 18
Upcoming FUND performance, Kyle b. co., FF FUND 24-25 @Durationality
“Critical Race Therapy: Treatment 1 / The Rhythm Treatment” at Center for Performance Research @CPRNYC
https://www.cprnyc.org/events/open-lab-with-kyle-b-co-orientation-1pm
Orientation: March 16
1on1 sessions: March 23, March 30, April 6, April 13, May 1, May 18 (advanced RSVP required).
Detailed schedule below.
Description of the project:
Critical Race Therapy (CRT) was developed as a way to provide a space to address, imagine and understand race as an object/lens in our experience within a space of conversation that is not punitive or dictated by trauma. The first treatment of CRT centers around sound and feeling, Treatment 1/The Rhythm Treatment (T1). The performance is structured like a therapy session, taking place in a private 1 on 1 setting for 45 minutes to 1 hour, ideally for multiple sessions. Together we build sample packs of a participant’s responses and develop “race songs” with that participant.
Learn more at CRTT1 – Orientation, which will include a performance presentation, process demonstration, and group medi(t)ation. Cookies will be served. Featuring Isaac Silber.
Those who attend Orientation will have priority access to a limited number of 1-on-1 sessions of Treatment 1 (CRT T1) / The Rhythm Treatment before the calendar opens to the general public. Treatment 1 will focus on sound and feeling in relationship to race – come make “race songs” with Kyle b. Co.
Private sessions run about 1 hour. Participants may remain anonymous and will receive a recording of their songs. Previous participants are welcome to return.
Orientations:
Sunday, March 16, 1 – 2pm EDT
Sunday, March 16, 3 – 4pm EDT
At Orientation, you will have the opportunity to sign up for these individual sessions on the following Sundays:
1on1 Session Treatment 1, between 11:30 A.M. and 5:30 P.M.
Sunday, March 23
Sunday, March 30
Sunday, April 6
Sunday, April 13
Sunday, May 11
Sunday, May 18
1on1 Sessions must be signed up for in advance. Same day sign-up is not available. Attendees of orientation will be given priority for sign up.
This project has been developed with the support of Franklin Furnace FUND 2024-25, Center for Performance Research, Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, and Caldera Arts
Artist bio:
Kyle b. co. is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer, educator, and baker based in Brooklyn, NY. They are a 2024-25 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient, a 2023 Smack Mellon Hot Pick, and were short-listed for the 2025 Creative Capital award in visual arts. They have received a RISCA Merit Fellowship in 3-D Arts and a Providence Arts, Culture, and Tourism Public Art Fellowship. Their work has found kinship at Hera Gallery, RISD Museum, Buoy Gallery, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Westbeth Gallery, Lucas, Lucas, and Grace Exhibition Space, among other spaces. Their practice engages with the task of mapping the present as a method of document and engagement with form. They work with materials of culture and personal history to make monuments of possibility. The matrices that hold an image may not be visible ‘til named. Their practice is one of futurity as they seek what can be sensed, not what is known. In various ways, they try to grasp at the transmission/translation of a feeling. Feeling(s) as a concept is unclear in its relationship to time. When did the feeling begin? Has the feeling ever stopped? Will you have this feeling again in the future? Their work spans both objects/installation and performance, the distinction between mediums not being that important. Their work is about feeling (&) connection(s).
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2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, at Mark O’Donnell Theater, Brooklyn, Mar. 7-9
CounterPointe12:
new work by women choreographers and their collaborations with artists
Mar 7-9, 2025
Fri, Mar 7 at 7:30pm
Sat, Mar 8 at 4pm and 7:30pm
Sun, Mar 9 at 4pm
General Admission: $30
Students+Seniors: $20
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nortemaarforcollaborativeprojectsintheartsinc/1497773
All tickets must be purchased in advance.
The Mark O’Donnell Theater at The Entertainment Community Fund
160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn
Directions by Subway:
A, C, G Train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn. 2, 3 Train to Hoyt Street
Featuring new collaborative works by:
Ava Desiderio and Elisabeth Condon
Deborah Lohse and Micki Watanabe Spiller
Juliette Rafael and Christina Massey
Magali Johnston-Viens and Florencia Escudero
Anna Antongiorgi and Cynthia Reynolds
Margaret Wiss and Amy Talluto
Julia K. Gleich and Nicole Cherubini
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3. Ken Dewey, FF Alumn, at Music Bienniale Zagreb, Croatia, April 89
Lecture
https://www.mbz.hr/en/2025/program/09-04/the-first-happening-in-zagreb
Happening
https://www.mbz.hr/hr/2025/program/09-04/mo-ot-roach-for-the-city-of-zagreb
entire MBZ program
https://www.mbz.hr/hr/2025/program
Thank you.
Janka Vukmir
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4. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, at Five Points Art Center, Torrington, CT, thru April 12
Solo Exhibition
I Am My Mother’s Savage Daughter
Reception, Friday, February 28, 6-8pm
Five Points Art Center, Torrington CT
February 28 – April 12, 2025
Artist Talk Friday, March 28, 6:30pm
If you are in the Torrington CT area, please join me to see my new monumental works- alongside several other fabulous exhibitions at the space. I would love to meet up then, or another time- reach out!
Five Points Art Center, 33 Main Street, Torrington, CT 06790
Hours Tues-Sun 1-5pm and by appt
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5. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Trans-Pecos, Ridgewood, Queens, NY, March 1, and more
Hello!
After three and a half years in New Haven, CT I’m excited to be based in NYC again. See me perform on these upcoming line-ups:
SLAMDANCE garage Closing Party
March 1, 4:30 – 10:30 pm
Trans-Pecos
9-15 Wyckoff Ave
Ridgewood, NY 11385
$15 advance, $20 door
Deep Listening
March 9, 6:30 – 9 pm
Parkside Lounge
317 E Houston St
New York, NY 10002
$10 advance, $15 door, $5 students
Thank you.
Justin Allen
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6. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Mar. 12-13, and more
Dear Friends,
Weill Boy / Brecht Girl / Eisler Mann – 2 performances at Joe’s Pub on March 12th & 13th at 7pm. There are still terrific seats available!
In addition to the music of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Hans Eisler, this concert program also includes songs by Ivor Novello, Harry Warren, Charles Aznavour, and Joni Mitchell. Mila Henry is our Music Director / Pianist, and Jordan Rutter-Covatto has written some gorgeous music arrangements for our ensemble – piano, cello, clarinet / saxaphone, and guitar.
It’s a vocally challenging program, so I’m dutifully working daily to get these songs into my voice and bones. We’d love to see you there!
TICKETS (https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/j/john-kelly/) FOR JOE’S PUB
SOME OTHER NEWS:
I cancelled my Residency in Venice with the EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION, because of my current (through July) residency at PAINTING SPACE 122. Since I’m paying for the studio, I decided it’s crucial that I utilize this time and space.
The JOHN KELLY PERFORMANCE website is being re-designed from the ground up, a long-overdue professional identity and necessity.
I’ve also been utilizing my own graphic design skills to create a bunch of social media ads for the concert, scroll on ~
> > > TICKETS (https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/j/john-kelly/) FOR JOE’S PUB
Please stay well in these challenging times.
I remain yours,
~ John
DONATE (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/john-kelly-performance)
Donations to John Kelly Performance made through Fractured Atlas are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Follow the link to make a secure online donation or get information on how to donate by check.
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7. Marlon Riggs, FF Alumn, now online at GayCityNews.com
Please visit this link:
https://gaycitynews.com/panel-marlon-riggs-tongues-untied-black-queerness/
Thank you.
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8. Helen Varley Jamieson, FF Alumn, live online at upstage.org.nz, March 8 and more
online performances happening on international women’s day, saturday 8th – all the info is here: https://upstage.org.nz/?event=and-now – 4 cyberformances & a book presentation!
Helen Varley Jamieson
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9. m burgess, Carlos Motta, Yali Romagoza, FF Alumns, at Monira, Jersey City, NJ, opening March 8
Please visit this link:
https://www.studios-efanyc.org/exhibitions?mc_cid=c41fde4668&mc_eid=6ef67dbea7
Thank you.
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10. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, at Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, thru Mar. 28
Hector Canonge, solo exhibition “Fuentes Pluridiversas” at Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, through March 28th.
After completing the presentation of LATITUDES, the annual International Festival of Performance Art of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and presenting the exhibition on performance art, “Acciones Pluriversales”, Hector Canonge continued with his residency at Centro de la Cultura Plurinacional, CCP, in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The well known center under the tutelage of the Fundación Cultural del Banco Central, FBCB, opened its 2025 Contemporary Arts program with a survey exhibition of Canonge’s work influenced by performance art. The artist’s solo exhibition, “Fuentes Pluridiversas” reflects on notions of identity, memory and origin as a commision for the Bicentennial of Bolivia (1825-2025). The exhibition includes a selection of performance art projects, corporeal drawings, textual narratives, in-situ installations, photographic documentation, drawings and videos. As the CCP commemorates the country’s Bicentennial Celebrations, Canonge’s work draws inspiration from issues about representation accentuated by notions of plurinacionality, pluri-diversity and pluri-culturalism in a world that questions notions of decolonization and historical revisions in the Western Hemisphere.
Online conference March 19th, 7 PM
More information: www.hectorcanonge.net
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11. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF ALumn, at Baruch College, Manhattan, opening March 10, and more
I am pleased to be the Spring 2025 Visiting Artist at the New Media Artspace at Baruch College in Manhattan, NYC. My solo exhibition “Unfolding Connections” curated by Dennis Delgado opens March 10th at Baruch College New Media Art Space. Monday, March 10th – May 1st at Baruch College Newman Library, 151 E 25th St, New York, NY 10010
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, April 2nd, 6 – 7:30p at Engelmen Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10010
Stay tuned for opportunities to see the exhibition both virtually and in-person with me!
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12. Naeem Mohaiemen, FF Alumn, new publication
Please visit this link:
https://solidaritydefended.org
Thank you.
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13. Susan Mogul, Nao Bustamante, FF Alumns, at LACE, Los Angeles, CA, March 6
My new film features my female art pals- mostly based in LA- talking about their mother’s creative influence upon them. “Tell Me About Your Mother” will be screened with some of my other women centered films at LACE, Los Angeles, Mach 6 at 7 pm
An intergenerational panel will follow the screening.
https://welcometolace.org/lace/video/lace-screening-room-tell-me-about-your-mother/
Thank you.
Susan Mogul
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14. Ida Applebroog, FF Alumn, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, March 4-May 29
Ida Applebroog
You what?
March 4 – May 29, 2025
“Applebroog pursues issues that transcend gender – issues of innocence and vulnerability, of self-knowledge and mortality. She does not want us to forget the reality of mass murders and political terrorism or to accept nuclear weapons as a fact of life. Applebroog does not offer solutions. Rather, she makes us see what’s there – the poignancy, the devastation, and the potential for goodness. This is political art of the highest order.”
Ruth Bass, excerpt from Ordinary People, ARTnews (May, 1988)
In a post-truth era, with surging racism, chauvinism, sexism, transphobia, and other alarming trends, Ronald Feldman Gallery announces an exhibition of work by Ida Applebroog (1929-2023). Finding inspiration from an expansive psychological perspective, this acclaimed artist is known for her razor-sharp explorations of contemporary life. Her art transforms current events into human events by employing carefully selected examples of individual lives as representations of collective society – in short, an inside-out versus clinical (outside-looking-in) approach. By presenting emotionally-charged “mid-situations” – narratives with undefined beginnings and ends, and, later on, loaded juxtapositions – Applebroog masterfully empowers viewers to use their hearts and minds to “finish” the work by determining the meaning for themselves. Singular and affecting, Applebroog’s art offers a space for visceral experiences as a path for engaging with a spectrum of issues, and a doorway into the diverseness of the human psyche.
You what? focuses on work created by the artist in the 1980s and early 1990s – a fascinating period of development and maturation into greater scale and complexity. During this time, Applebroog had eight solo exhibitions at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, who represented her work between 1981 and 2005, featuring it in a total of twelve solo exhibitions.
In Shake (1980), Applebroog depicts a decisive moment: the meeting of two well-dressed couples who are framed by curtains, as if seen through a window or on a stage. Classic for its voyeurism and “instant coffee” style of drawing (intentionally minimal and generic), the work is augmented by a shadow panel which echoes the subjects’ formality and constraint. Another vellum work, Not This Time (1982), composed like a comic strip with multiple frames in a long row, is not an action sequence: the image of a woman seated beside her suitcase is carefully repeated seven times. The text “I’d better not” and “Not this time” suggests tentativeness and doubt, while the repetition clearly describes the event as a recurring pattern. Does this silent struggle represent the very real limits of oppression and abuse that one can endure?
Several large paintings are included in the exhibition. Rainbow Caverns (1987) is among the first the artist imagined as a combination of several paintings united into a single work. Here, a solo, duo and trio of figures are repeated three times, respectively, each on their own predella-like panel. They join a giant female body builder, posing in profile, in surrounding a domestic scene of a matronly woman knitting in an armchair. Surrealistically, the floor around this central image morphs into a corn field occupied by a flock of birds. Camp Compazine (1988), with its large side panels extending out from the wall, is Applebroog’s first example of a 3-D composition. Immediately grabbing the viewer’s attention, is a homunculus trapped in the mouth of a giant, calling to mind Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son. A pair of executives, who look to be mirror images of each other, a young man seated on a stool but facing away, and a protester carrying a sign reading “GOD” complete the periphery, and in the center is a gang of turkeys. Landscape is incorporated almost as a parody; the fields are not nostalgic places where people coexist within the harmony of nature, but rather emotional terrain.
In the artist’s first catalogue, her friend and dealer Ronald Feldman writes: “Applebroog’s ability to get us to project [ourselves] into her work is exceptional. She sets the stage; we are the players. Drawn in to figure out what’s going on, we soon realize that what’s going on is us. We are more directly participants and less observers than in the roles provided for us by Vermeer or Rembrandt. Our excitement is provided through direct self-discovery rather than through an unraveling of the secrets of the personages in the paintings. As we enter Applebroog’s work our breath becomes more present and frightening. We realize we are hiding secrets not only from each other but, more importantly, from ourselves.”
Ida Applebroog’s work has been the subject of many monographs and museum exhibitions, and is included in the most prestigious public collections in the U.S. and abroad. She was acknowledged as a genius when she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1998. In addition, she received an Honorary Doctorate from The New School University/Parsons School of Design in 1997, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association in 1995, among many other distinctions of excellence.
Gallery viewing hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 1pm – 5pm, or by appointment.
For more information, contact Cat Zhou at (212) 226-3232 or catherine@feldmangallery.com
Ronald Feldman Gallery
31 Mercer St New York, NY 10013
212.226.3232
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15. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH, opening Mar. 7
Please join me for the opening reception of our two-person exhibition:
UNBOUND
Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Amanda Love
Artist reception, Friday, March 7, 5 – 7 pm
March 7 through May 30
Art Access Gallery
540 S Drexel Ave, Columbus, OH 43209
With the work in this exhibition, Amanda Love and I challenge conventions to reveal human truths. We both use our materials in unexpected ways, creating a sense of a newly acquired and often uncomfortable reality.
The show is a point of departure for a number of events we will hold in the gallery during the exhibition. Please stay tuned for further details.
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16. Marina Abramović, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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17. Linda Montano, FF Alumn, at Kingston Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY, Apr. 6-Oct. 5
PERFORM YOUR LIFE : WORKSHOPS with LINDA MARY MONTANO: PRESENTED BY GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE.
WHERE: KINGSTON SHIRT FACTORY. 77 CORNELL STREET. KINGSTON NY . ROOM 113.
WHEN: 7 FIRST SUNDAYS . TIME: 3-5 . DATES: (APRIL 6, MAY 4 , JUNE 1, JULY 6, AUGUST 3, SEPTEMBER 7, OCTOBER 5. ) Come to all or some.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.
COST: Donations. BRING YOGA MAT or BLANKET. Just attend no registration necessary.
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18. Victoria Engonopoulos, Halona Hilbertz, Vernita Nemec, FF Alumns, at Viridian Gallery, Manhattan, thru March 22
HERSTORY: The Battle Continues
February 25 – March 22, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 27, 6–8pm
Closing Reception & Poetry Reading: Saturday, March 22, 4–6pm
Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad * Ayako Bando * Annaliese Bischoff * Jenny Belin * Denita Benyshek
Reneé Borkow * Ellen Burnett * Zoe Brown-Weissmann * Sabine Carlson * Marc Chicoine
Irene Christensen * Judith Christian * Diane Churchill * Tonia Cowan * May DeViney
d’Ann de Simone * Vassilina Dikidjieva * Victoria Engonopoulos * Steven Ferri * Beth Fidoten
Jodie Fink * David Fitzgerald * Debra Friedkin * Alan Gaynor * Elizabeth Ginsberg
Joshua Greenberg * Halona Hilbertz * Barbara Herzfeld * Miho Hiranouchi * K. Junko * Kozy
Bernice Sokol Kramer * AyAkA kyA * Angela M. LaMonte * Rosemary K. Lyons * Kathy Levine
Gail Meyers * Rick Mullin * Vernita Nemec * Kazumi Okamura * Toki Ozaki * Carol Paik * Petronia Paley
Alla Podolsky * Laura Rutherford Renner * Sai * Melissa Schainker * Kathleen Shanahan
Katherine Ellinger Smith * Dorothy Shaw * Meredeth Turshen * Ku Watanabe * Kat King
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” -Virginia Woolf
Viridian Artists is pleased to present “HERSTORY,” an exhibition of outstanding art by all genders, celebrating women. The show extends from February 25 – March 22, 2025, with an opening reception on Thursday, February 25, 6–8pm and a closing reception and poetry reading on Saturday, March 22, 4–6pm.
HERSTORY: an exhibit dedicated to the experience, viewpoint, and history of women. The word “Herstory” was born in 1962, but not until feminism gained ground in the 1970s was the word elevated into common usage in Robin Morgan’s book, Sisterhood is Powerful. In 1987, March was designated Women’s History Month, but gender continues to be a bone of contention, as we are constantly reminded of the contest of power between entitlement and equality.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex in 1949, a response to women being considered less than men and in the 70s and 80s, Gloria Steinem became the voice of the feminist revolution. Others, like Jane Fonda, risked their careers by speaking out against the Vietnam War, and fighting for women’s rights, Native American causes, and climate action. Aretha Franklin, of powerful vocals and fearless activism, turned “Respect” into an anthem for women and civil rights. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress. Billie Jean King launched the Women’s Tennis Association, fought for equal pay, and paved the way for female athletes. Coretta Scott King fought for civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and peace. Katherine Graham took over The Washington Post after her husband’s suicide and led the charge on the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Diana Ross, singer, was a trailblazer for Black women in entertainment. Betty Friedan wrote of The Feminine Mystique. Angela Davis, scholar, activist, and former Black Panther, fought against racial injustice, mass incarceration, and economic inequality. Nina Simone’s music tackled racism, injustice, and the struggles of Black Americans. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. Dolores Huerta fought for farmworkers’ rights. More recently we have Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris who both ran for president and nearly won. Also, we must not forget Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg & Nancy Pelosi who was twice Speaker of the House of Representatives. There were so many other women too, whose names must not be forgotten.
And it was in 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that the Suffrage movement began, demanding legal and social rights for women, including the right to vote. She and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association, but by the late 19th century, they were already being faced with the opposition of churches, males, and businesses. In 1920, the 19th amendment finally granted women the right to vote and just last year, President Biden gave women equal rights by making the ERA the 28th amendment to the Constitution. The US finally joined the 85% of countries that include women’s equality in their constitution. Sadly, it will undoubtedly be lost again as President Trump seeks to overturn many women’s and citizen’s rights. Some have already been lost. It is hard to reconcile the fact that in the U.S., the country considered so powerful, so democratic and so correct, 300,000 minors are married, most of them young girls married to older men.
The art in this exhibit explores a wide variety of questions, doubts, remembrances, hopes, fears, and fury that women continue to have. In too many ways, women are still struggling to combat the gender gap. Feminism entered its fourth wave in 2012, epitomized by the MeToo Movement and similar developments focusing on the empowerment of women. Since then, the dilemma of gender has become much more complex, as gender fluidity and change are more commonly embraced, and with targeted discrimination occurring in these increasingly discussed avenues of identity.
The artists in this exhibit use a variety of media, themes, and representations. Victoria Antonopoulos, Steven Ferri, Marc Chicoine, Alla Podolsky and Denita Benyshek focus on the strength of females, some realistically, others more abstractly. Elizabeth Ginsberg, Rosemary Lyons, Annaliese Bischoff and Vernita Nemec use words and symbols in their images to accentuate women’s reality. Vassilina Dikidjieva and Ellen Burnett present and honor female dilemmas. Halona Hilbertz, Renee Borkow, Bernice Sokol Kramer, May DeViney and Meredeth Turshen offer other images of women. David Fitzgerald and Jenny Belin focus on appearance as a female concern. d’Ann de Simone, Gail Meyers, Zoe Brown-Weissmann and Kathleen Shanahan present “women’s work” and Debra Friedkin, the reality of women’s lives. Rick Mullin, Alan Gaynor, Diane Churchill and Sabine Carlson offer remembrances of women of accomplishment, and so many other artists offer tributes to the female in us all.
In many ways, we are still The Second Sex and battles remain to be fought: gender equality, pay equality, freedom of choice to name just a few. The equality of the sexes and the rights of women were being written about in the 18th century by men and women: Mary and John Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Judith Sargent Murray, and Daniel Defoe were just a few who wrote feminist literature, and in the 14th century Giovanni Boccaccio wrote De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for “Concerning Famous Women”), a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women.
In the art world too, female artists still struggle to gain recognition and value equal to that of male artists, as the Guerrilla Girls have so aptly demonstrated in their posters and actions, along with Barbara Kruger, Nancy Spero, Cindy Sherman, Frida Kahlo, Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, and many others.
This year, in the 5th incarnation of this exhibit, we have invited artists of all genders to participate as allies demonstrating support through their art about gender inequity and the importance of parity in every way between the sexes.
We encourage everyone to recognize the importance of art and culture to reflect our memories of the past and our wishes for the future. Viridian invites you to view this exhibit of moving artwork, and to experience how artists view the experience and reality of women in the world today. Come see the art, and on the last day of the show Saturday, March 22nd, come hear some of the artists read their poetry addressing the issues of sexual equality and the freedom that women are still striving to express.
“Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.” -Corita Kent
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12–6pm
For further information, please contact Vernita Nemec, Gallery Director or Jenny Belin, Assistant Director at viridianartistsinc@gmail.com.
Visit Instagram @viridianartistsinc, see us on Facebook & YouTube at Viridian Artists Gallery, or https://viridianartists.com.
RSVP viridianartistsinc@gmail.com
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19. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, online with Morbid Anatomy, March 3, and more
Greetings, music lovers! I’ll present a Zoom talk/concert about my book
“Music From Elsewhere” under the auspices of Morbid Anatomy, on Monday,
March 3, at 7pm. And it’s free! You can find more info at
morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/p/music-from-elsewhere
I’m also happy to announce that the 9th issue of TYPO is now out,
containing my translation of Alphonse Allais’s story “The Crocodile and
the Ostrich,” with a nice illustration by Caroline Crépiat. And there’s
more info at https://blackscatbooks.com.
Doug Skinner
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20. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, at Sean Kelly Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 6
Joseph Kosuth
Future Memory
Sean Kelly, New York
March 7 – April 18, 2023
Opening reception: Thursday, March 6, 6-8pm
“A work of art is a kind of proposition presented within the context of art as a comment on art.”
– Joseph Kosuth, 1969
Sean Kelly is honored to present Future Memory, a landmark exhibition celebrating the 80th birthday of Joseph Kosuth, one of the most influential and pioneering figures in conceptual art. This unique exhibition, his seventh with the gallery, distinguishes itself as a presentation about the work of Joseph Kosuth, rather than one conceived by him and features works from every decade of his career. Future Memory encapsulates Kosuth’s lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of art, meaning, and language. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 6, from 6-8pm.
Beginning with ‘One and Three Mirrors’ (1965) Kosuth established his lifelong commitment to investigating the production and role of language and meaning within art. Meaning is embodied in the relationship between the three parts that make up ‘One and Three Mirrors’, image, object and text. By placing a commonplace object, such as a mirror alongside its image and definition within an art context, two of Kosuth’s abiding influences, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Marcel Duchamp are strikingly clear. Wittgenstein’s contention that meaning is use is an abiding concern throughout Kosuth’s career as he continues to question the function of art; a question first posed by Marcel Duchamp. In the most recent work in the exhibition ‘The Question (G.S.)’ (2025) Kosuth continues his personal and philosophical reflection on time. Here he both begins and ends with a question positioned on a clock whose hands mechanically carry on, oblivious to the human lives and narratives beyond their measure.
Joseph Kosuth’s practice redefined the role of the artist, challenging traditional notions of art as object, artist as curator, language as art, and elevating the importance of ideas and critical thought. Future Memory highlights the continuity within his oeuvre and the profound impact of his inquiries into perception, memory, and the processes of thought. By employing language as both medium and message, Kosuth’s work continues to defy artistic boundaries, inviting viewers to rethink art’s place in culture and society.
Joseph Kosuth has influenced generations of artists, philosophers, and cultural thinkers. His work is featured in major private and public collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Tate Gallery, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Louvre Museum, Paris; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome amongst many others worldwide. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Louvre Museum, Paris, France; the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia; the Kunstmuseum, Thurgau, Wrath, Switzerland; Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia amongst others. He has also been invited to participate in numerous installations, museum exhibitions, and public commissions, including Documenta and the Venice Biennale on multiple occasions. In 2019 Kosuth installed a permanent public installation at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL and the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA.
To honor this milestone anniversary, Sean Kelly, New York, Sprüth Magers, London and Lia Rumma, Naples, are dedicating three unique solo exhibitions to Joseph Kosuth in 2025: Sprüth Magers, ‘The Question’, January 24–March 15, 2025; Sean Kelly, Future Memory, March 7 – April 18; and Lia Rumma, ‘The Question’, April 10 – May. These exhibitions collectively reaffirm Kosuth’s enduring international importance and the ongoing influence of his work worldwide.
For additional information on Joseph Kosuth please visit https://skny.com
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For all other inquiries, please contact Cecile Panzieri at Cecile@skny.com
Sean Kelly, New York
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
(212) 239-1181
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21. Marko Lando, FF Member, now online at www.marcolando.org
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22. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1060879571
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
“I’m sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea.” (Styx)
PZ, FEBRUARY 27, 2025
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23. Cynthia Carlson, Lucy Lippard, Adrian Piper, Mimi Smith, FF Alumns, at Duane Thomas Gallery, Manhattan thru April 11
Duane Thomas Gallery, New York, Tribeca
“Moving Targets” an exhibition on Lucy Lippard’s Feminist Essays on Women’s Art 1970-1993.
Duane Thomas Gallery is pleased to present “Moving Targets”, an exhibition that draws from Lucy Lippard’s newly published compilation of Feminist Essays (Sidelman and Co 2024) titled “moving Targets.” This dynamic exhibition expands on the concept introduced in Lippard’s collection of essays by incorporating pivotal feminist artworks that have shaped the trajectory of feminist art history. Central to the exhibition is the re-examination of three of Lippard’s most influential books: From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (1976), The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art (1995), and Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change (1984). These texts are woven together to form a conceptual framework that underscores the ongoing relevance of feminist thought in contemporary art.
“Moving Targets” which will open on February 28th 2025, delves into how feminist artists have continuously recalibrated the targets of mainstream art discourse, pushing the boundaries of representation, authorship, and politics. The exhibition re-engages Lippard’s iconic texts, amplifying their critical reflections on women’s contributions to art, as well as their continued disruption of the normative art historical canon. Through a curated selection of works by artists who align with or have been inspired by Lippard’s scholarship, the exhibition expands the conversation around feminist art practice—past, present, and future.
Featured Artists & Works The exhibition showcases a powerful group of artists whose work resonates with the feminist themes explored in Lippard’s writing. Their diverse practices are a testament to the persistence and evolution of feminist discourse in contemporary art:
Cynthia Carlson: Carlson’s Cozy Hang (1974) underscore her commitment to questioning the spatial and material boundaries traditionally imposed on women’s artistic expression.
Nancy Graves: Known for her intersection of sculpture and film, Graves’ Izy Boukir (1971) offers a meditative critique of technology and the patriarchal exploration of space, invoking themes of distance and belonging.
Shirley Pettibone: Pettibone’s early mixed-media works probe the gendered construction of power, drawing on archetypes of myth and memory.
Adrian Piper: The Mythic Being, 1973.
Barbara Zucker: Zucker’s Dark Huts (1973) channels organic abstraction, using repetitive shapes to investigate the intersections of body, space, and feminism..
Sue Coe: “Baby Killers,” 1983
Mimi Smith: “Slippers,” 1968
Brenda Miller: “Andromeda,” 1976
May Stevens: “Big Daddy with Hats,” 1971
Eunice Golden: “Cronus,” 1968
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24. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, now online at ArtMatters.buzzsprout.com
Julie Harrison was interviewed by Isaac Mann for his podcast ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. It’s been released in 2 parts: Part One https://artmatters.buzzsprout.com/1963366/episodes/16534807-52-with-julie-harrison
and Part Two https://artmatters.buzzsprout.com/1963366/episodes/16619643-53-with-julie-harrison-part-2
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25. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, at The Brooklyn Museum, ongoing
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26. Lucio Pozzi, FF Alumn, at Hal Bromm Gallery, Manhattan, opening Mar. 28, and more
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https://www.magazzino.art/visit/exhibitions/lucio-pozzi-qui-dentro-in-here
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27. Christo & Jeanne Claude, FF Alumns, now online at GlassTire.com
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