Contents for April 1, 2019
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1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at Pier 94, Manhattan, April 5-6
2. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, receives Best Documentary Film award, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2019
3. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at R&R Taproom, Woodstock, NY, April 7
4. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, thru July 31
5. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alum, now online
6. Jonathan Berger, FF Alumn, at MiArt 2019, Milan, Italy, April 4-7 and more
7. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Redcat, Los Angeles, CA, April 4-6, and more
8. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, April 7
9. Britta Wheeler, FF Alumn, at the Bishop Collective, Manhattan, April 4
10. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Randall’s Island Park, May 2-5
11. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC, Canada, opening Apr.12
12. Sydney Blum, FF Alumn, now online at tatamagouchelight.com
13. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at artefuse.com
14. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL, opening June 8
15. Natalie Bookchin, FF Alumn, at Parsons, Manhattan, April 3
16. Edward M. Gomez, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, in Hyperallergic, now online
17. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at La MaMa, Manhattan, April 1, and more
18. Angela Lorenz, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, April 4
19. Brendan Fernandes, Doreen Garner, Shaun Leonardo, Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumns, at Recess, Brooklyn, April 17
20. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, receives 2019 Max Beckmann Prize
21. David Everitt Howe, FF Alumn, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, April 11-12
22. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at The Unspace, Brooklyn, thru April 4
23. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, now online at artpractical.com
24. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, thru Sept. 9
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1. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, at Pier 94, Manhattan, April 5-6
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers is sponsoring a series of public talks in association with their fair. On Friday, April 5 from 3:30 to 4:30, artist Martha Wilson will be interviewed by art critic, journalist and curator Jarrett Earnest. Over the past four decades, the pioneering feminist artist Martha Wilson has created innovative photographic and video work that explores her female subjectivity through transformational self-portraits and “invasions” of other people’s personae. For this AIPAD Talk, she offers a rare opportunity to see her new work in the context of her signature work.
On Saturday, April 6, Artbook and Distributed Art Publishers and Verlag für Moderne Kunst
invite you to a book signing for
“The Two Halves of Martha Wilson’s Brain” published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst
Martha Wilson book signing 5-6 pm
Booth 629, The Photography Show presented by AIPAD
Pier 94
711 12th Avenue
NYC 10019
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2. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, receives Best Documentary Film award, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2019
Please visit this link:
https://www.aafilmfest.org/single-post/2019/03/31/57th-AAFF-Awards
thank you
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3. Bob Goldberg, FF Alumn, at R&R Taproom, Woodstock, NY, April 7
Next Sunday (April 7) from 6:00-8:00 pm, I’ll be playing solo at the R&R Taproom in Woodstock NY, a fine establishment featuring quality food and drink and friendly ambience along with quality entertainment. I’ll be playing solo accordion (some originals, some unoriginals) and probably singing a number or two.
So if you’re in the Hudson Valley, come and celebrate spring with some tunes. And if you’re not, then tell your friends who are. See you there!
R&R Taproom
104 Mill Hill Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
https://www.facebook.com/events/2357847150912973/
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4. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, thru July 31
Lorraine O’Grady: Addison Gallery of American Art
Harlem: In Situ
March 30 – July 31, 2019
Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce Harlem: In Situ, including work by Lorraine O’Grady, at Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA.
Harlem is as much a place as a myth. Throughout the 20th century, this northern Manhattan neighborhood has been written into history as many things; however, in this context, Harlem is ultimately and unceasingly, a black creative mecca, a place whose rich social and cultural fabric has been woven out of the abundance of people of African descent worldwide who have come together in its streets, salons, parks, restaurants, and clubs, influencing generations of artists, musicians, and writers. Harlem: In Situ explores the depth and complexity of this renowned neighborhood, highlighting the work of some of the most important visual artists working from the late 1920s through today. Initially inspired by the Addison’s trove of Harlem street-photography, which includes significant bodies of work such as Harlem Document (1935) by Aaron Siskind, Harlem Heroes (1930-1960) by Carl van Vechten, Harlem, USA (1975-1979) by Dawoud Bey (a three-time Elson Artist-in-Residence at Phillips Academy), 1920s-1950s (Harlem) by Lucien Aigner, and The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1984) by Roy DeCarava, this show also includes prints from the collection by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, James Lesesne Wells, and Vincent D. Smith, as well as several key works by nearly a dozen artists, working across time and media, including Charles Alston, Jordan Casteel, Aaron Douglas, Miatta Kawinzi, Alice Neel, Lorraine O’Grady, and Kehinde Wiley, that will come to the Addison as loans from sister institutions. These artists and their works investigate the legacy and trajectory of Harlem, which encompasses mass migration, opulence, cultural renaissance, depression, demise, empowerment, pride, and gentrification.
Press Inquires
press@alexandergray.com
Alexander Gray Associates
Alexander Gray Associates is a contemporary art gallery in New York. Through exhibitions, research, and artist representation, the Gallery spotlights artistic movements and artists who emerged in the mid- to late-Twentieth Century. Influential in cultural, social, and political spheres, these artists are notable for creating work that crosses geographic borders, generational contexts and artistic disciplines. Alexander Gray Associates is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.
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5. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alum, now online
Two new publications re Barbara Rosenthal online:
Barbara Rosenthal’s March-April column, A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK, is in the current issue of RAGAZINE. The title is “FLYING HIGH, LYING LOW: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF AN INTERNATIONAL ART CAREER.
https://www.ragazine.cc/2019/03/barbara-rosenthal-a-crack-in-the-sidewalk-4/
and
Barbara Rosenthal’s novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (Deadly Chaps Press, NYC) is reviewed by Bill Creston in the current issue of HOME PLANET NEWS:
http://homeplanetnews.org/6-R-BillCreston.html
The novel itself is available from Printed Matter, at the NY store, and online:
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/47573
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6. Jonathan Berger, FF Alumn, at MiArt 2019, Milan, Italy, April 4-7 and more
VEDA will be present at MiArt 2019
EMERGENT section, Booth E05
with Jonathan Berger’s solo presentation
from April 5 to April 7, 2019
preview: April 4, 2019
currently on view
at VEDA (Florence) | Fugitive of the State(less) | Dominique White
next
at Frieze New York | Frame Section | Booth F20 | Amitai Romm’s solo presentation | May 2
at VEDA (Florence) | Amitai Romm solo show | May 24
at LISTE | Aviva Silverman’s solo presentation | June 10
Veda
Borgo Pinti 84r
Florence, Fi 50121
Italy
info@spazioveda.it
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7. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Redcat, Los Angeles, CA, April 4-6, and more
I Fly! or How to Keep the Devil Down in the Hole
Los Angeles Poverty Department
WORLD PREMIERE
Thu. April 4 – Sat. Apr 6
The Los Angeles Poverty Department, also known as LAPD, collaborates with residents of Skid Row to create provocative performances that confront vital issues and ask urgent questions. Their new piece addresses the meaning of “Public Safety.” What is a low-income neighborhood of color to do, targeted by the police, with lethal outcomes? What to do beyond despair, beyond protest? How does a neighborhood de-colonize public safety?
Over many years Skid Row has emerged as a neighborhood that puts heads and hearts together and evolves practices that create public safety through joyous communal activity and collective problem solving. These positive values and practices are celebrated, analyzed, and mused upon, using music and theater in LAPD’s newest performance.
We are happy to invite you all to come and see our new performance: I FLY! or How To Keep The Devil Down In The Hole. We have a big community cast: our 15 super LAPD actors accompanied by the wonderful LA Playmakers from our own community Central City Church of the Nazarene Praise and Worship Team who have brought everyone to their feet at our Festival For All Skid Row Artists for many years and the Skid Row Drummers! So, get ready! Get your tickets now and help us get out the word!
If you reserve online in advance you can get a discount ticket price if you use the code word: LAPD.
More information about the Project PUBLIC SAFETY FOR REAL here.
Calendar exhibit / projects / talks / movies
LAPD’s new Performance – April 4, 5, 6, 2019 at 8:30 PM
I Fly! or How to Keep the Devil Down in the Hole.
REDCAT theater
Call the REDCAT box office at 213-237-2800.
Exhibit – April 11 through June 15, 2019
Visions of Freedom and Independence
Studio 526 Arts Center – group art exhibit featuring the works of over 50 Skid Row neighborhood artists.
Skid Row History Museum and Archive
Open: Thu. Fri. Sat. 2-5pm
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, April 11: 6-8pm
Free Movie Nights at The Museum
Friday, April 19, 7pm
15 to Life – Filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza
Runtime: 1 hr. 26 min. (2017)
Does sentencing a teenager to life without parole serve our society well? The United States is the only country in the world that routinely condemns children to die in prison.
15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story follows Young’s struggle for redemption, revealing a justice system with thousands of young people serving sentences intended for society’s most dangerous criminals.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive
250 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Open Thu, Fri, Sat 2-5pm
and by appointment
Tel. 213-413 1077
info@lapovertydept.org
Mailing address:
POB 26190
Los Angeles, CA 90026
www.lapovertydept.org
LAPD FB page
LAPD twitter
“Serenity” by James Michael Newman
EXHIBITION – VISIONS OF FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, April 11: 6-8pm
in conjunction with DTLA Artwalk, featuring live painting by Studio 526 artists, music and performances.
Creative I Art Workshops
– Saturdays 3-5pm 4/13, 4/27, 5/4, 5/18, 6/1
Writing Workshops
– Thursdays 2-4pm 4/18, 4/25, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30, 6/6
Artist’s Panel Discussion – Saturday 5/4 6-9pm
Zine Fest + Performances – Thursday 5/9 6-8pm
Open Mic/ Poetry Reading – Thursday, 6/13 6-8pm
Los Angeles Poverty Department is pleased to announce the opening of the Skid Row History Museum and Archive’s new exhibition: VISIONS OF FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE a Studio 526 group art exhibit featuring the works of over 50 Skid Row neighborhood artists from Studio 526 Arts Center, working in a variety of media from painting to sculpture and multimedia art. Many of the works have been created specifically for this exhibition. Arts are “vital to the improvement of the human condition,” says artist James Michael Newton. “Society cannot exist without art,” adds another studio artist Mariana Valles. This exhibit is both an overview of current studio work, and an opportunity to explore visions of freedom and independence under community control. In addition to artwork on the walls, the exhibit will include workshops, collaborations with sister community groups, an open mic, and musical performances throughout its time at the museum.
During the run the exhibition there will be arts programming throughout the exhibition, including an Artist’s Panel Discussion, weekly writing workshops, multimedia art workshops hosted by Creative I (a community arts group and sister to Studio 526), a Zine Fest, and a final Open Mic and Poetry night.
Exhibition
April 11 through June 15.
Thur, Fri, Sat: 2pm-5pm.
Skid Row History Museum and Archive – A project of The Los Angeles Poverty Department
250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
The People Concern’s Studio 526 is a creative studio platform in LA’s Skid Row neighborhood, rooted in the conviction that equitable access to arts and cultural spaces is a fundamental human right, essential for everyone. The studio encourages long-term participation as artists develop their individual voices, share artwork, inspire each other, build a healthy community together and make creativity a continuous, restorative part of their lives. Studio 526 includes a visual art and music studio, and regular workshops ranging from creative writing to yoga. Studio 526 is made possible by The People Concern, one of Los Angeles County’s largest social services agencies. http://www.thepeopleconcern.org/Studio526
About Free Movie Nights at The Museum
Every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, at 7pm, we screen movies about issues that are important to our Skid Row and downtown community at the #skidrowmuseum.
Free movie screenings, free popcorn, free coffee & free conversations.
Friday, April 19, 7pm Screening 15 to Life
by Filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza
Runtime: 1 hr. 26 min. (2017)
Does sentencing a teenager to life without parole serve our society well? The United States is the only country in the world that routinely condemns children to die in prison. This is the story of one of those children, now a young man, seeking a second chance in Florida. At age 15, Kenneth Young received four consecutive life sentences for a series of armed robberies. Imprisoned for more than a decade, he believed he would die behind bars. Now a U.S. Supreme Court decision could set him free. 15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story follows Young’s struggle for redemption, revealing a justice system with thousands of young people serving sentences intended for society’s most dangerous criminals.
Special thanks to POV – PBS. We won’t be screening a movie on April 5, due to our performances of I FLY! Or How To Keep The Devil Down In The Hole at REDCAT theater.
About Los Angeles Poverty Department
Based in the Skid Row neighborhood since 1985, Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is the first ongoing arts initiative on Skid Row, a non-profit arts organization that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks which express the realities, hopes, dreams, and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row. LAPD has created projects with communities throughout the US and in The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Bolivia.
LAPD’s Skid Row History Museum and Archive is an exhibition /performing arts space curated by LAPD. It foregrounds the distinctive artistic and historical consciousness of Skid Row and functions as a means for exploring the mechanics of displacement in an age of immense income inequality, by mining a neighborhood’s activist history and amplifying effective community strategies.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive programming, including the exhibitions, is made possible with the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Support the work of the LAPD! Your donation helps us to continue our group devised performances, our annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists, our biennial Walk the Talk parade and the Skid Row History Museum and Archive – for creating social change.
Phone / Fax:
213-413-1077
Email: Info@lapovertydept.org
Skid Row History Museum & Archive
250 South Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012 – 3605
Open Thu Fri Sat 2-5pm
Mailing Address Los Angeles Poverty Department
PO Box 26190, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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8. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, April 7
In conjunction with our current exhibition,
Distance: Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni
we are pleased to present:
Walk Through with Artist
Shaun Leonardo
Sunday, April 7, 2019
12:00-1:30 pm
RSVP 718-937-6317 or rsvp@dorsky.org
All exhibitions and events are free and open to the public
Final Weeks! Exhibition Closing
Sunday, April 7th
Exhibition Artist Shaun Leonardo will lead a Walk Through tour of
Distance: Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, Curated by Steve Locke and Betsy Alwin. The exhibition was organized around the concept of “distance”-̶ physical, chronological, intellectual, emotional and geographic. All Skowhegan alumni share the experience of distance from their unique summer spent at the Skowhegan campus. Leonardo will discuss the works by artists of varying ages, cultural backgrounds, and locations, highlighting the diversity of materials and techniques of contemporary art practices encompassed under the single rubric of works on paper.
Shaun Leonardo’s multidisciplinary work negotiates societal expectations of manhood, namely definitions surrounding black and brown masculinities, along with its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. His performance practice is participatory in nature and invested in a process of embodiment, promoting the political potential of attention and discomfort as a means to disrupt meaning and shift perspective.
Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a current Smack Mellon artist-in-residence, as well as a recipient of support from Creative Capital and Guggenheim Social Practice. His work has been presented in galleries and institutions, nationally and internationally, and recently featured at The Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, Recess, and VOLTA NY.
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs gratefully acknowledges the support of Sara and Joseph Bedrick whose generosity helps enable our programs and exhibitions.
D O R S K Y G A L L E R Y | Curatorial Programs is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization that presents independently-curated exhibitions of contemporary art. Working with curators, writers, and art historians, DGCP aims to illuminate and deepen the public’s understanding and appreciation of issues and trends in contemporary art.
For further information, please contact Karen Dorsky at (718) 937-6317, via email: kdorsky@dorsky.com or visit our website: www.dorsky.org.
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs | 718-937-6317 | info@dorsky.org | www.dorsky.org
HOURS: Thursday-Monday 11:00-6:00
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9. Britta Wheeler, FF Alumn, at the Bishop Collective, Manhattan, April 4
Britta Wheeler invites you to learn about the Childrens’ Institute of Fashion Art which will celebrate its inception at Bishop Collective, 143 Ludlow Street, Manhattan, this Thursday April 4 from 6-8 pm. rsvp@theCIFA.org
The Children’s Institute of Fashion Arts (the CIFA)
P.O. Box 827 New York, NY 10108
http://www.theCIFA.org
Copyright (c) The Children’s Institute of Fashion Arts
Our mailing address is: info@theCIFA.org
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10. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Randall’s Island Park, May 2-5
Doors of Perception, A project for Frieze NY in collaboration with the Outsider Art Fair
May 2-5, 2019
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Doors of Perception, A project for Frieze NY in collaboration with the Outsider Art Fair
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
Curated by Javier Téllez
A project for Frieze NY in collaboration with the Outsider Art Fair
May 2-5, 2019 Randall’s Island Park
NEW YORK, NY – The Outsider Art Fair is excited to announce The Doors Of Perception, a unique project in collaboration with Frieze NY curated by the artist Javier Téllez. The exhibition will feature over forty visionary artists from around the world, including works by Noviadi Angkasapura (b. 1979, Indonesia), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014, Ivory Coast), Henry Darger (1892-1973, USA), Janko Domsic (1915-1983, Croatia/France), Minnie Evans (1892-1987, USA), Guo Fengyi (1942-2010, China), Martín Ramírez (1895-1963, Mexico/USA), Judith Scott (1943-2005, USA), Melvin Way (b. 1954, USA), George Widener (b. 1962, USA), Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930, Switzerland), and Anna Zemánkova (1908-1986, Czech Republic), among many others. Works will be sourced through OAF participating galleries including Henry Boxer, Cavin-Morris, Creative Growth Art Center, Andrew Edlin, Carl Hammer, Galerie Pol Lemétais, Polysémie, Ricco/Maresca, SHRINE, as well as borrowed from private collections.
The Doors of Perception focuses on the visionary nature of art commonly known as outsider art, art brut, or self-taught art. The exhibition presents a large constellation of works made by exceptionally gifted artists from five continents, offering a panorama of art created on the margins of society. Whether psychiatric patients, self-taught visionaries, or mediums, each of the artists in the exhibition felt at some point in their life the need to create an artistic language of their own in order to reveal what they understood to be the true nature of things. Often disenfranchised because of their mental condition or social status and without any previous artistic training, many of the artists exhibited here dedicated their lives obsessively to the creation of complex visual representations, often after experiencing a life-changing epiphany. A meeting with a supernatural power-whether an encounter with the divine, spirits of the dead, or extraterrestrial beings-might have triggered this impulse to create. These remarkable events produced strong centrifugal forces that drove the artists from chaos to order, opening for them “doors of perception” to a transcendental reality that, in many cases, helped them survive their otherwise unstable life.
The artists included in the exhibition are, as Sol Lewitt described conceptual artists, “rather mystics than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” Their many artistic languages not only question our beliefs about madness and normalcy, but also subvert the notion of reality as we conceive it. The theme of transformation is recurrent in their works: the body is perceived as a multiple entity (Domsic, Fengyi, Charles Steffen, Carlo Zinelli), the human and the animal merge (Angkasapura, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Shinichi Sawada, Sava Sekulić), fantastic architectures grow as if they were part of the natural world (Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, William Hall, Marcel Storr), imaginary worlds are filled with extraterrestrial animal, plants, and minerals in dreamlike landscapes (Darger, Joseph Yoakum, Zemánková). Notions of inside and outside permeate so inner and outer are perceived as fluid entities with internal organs and bones made visible in portraits of the body (Angkasapura, Fengyi, Luboš Plný). Everything is represented in a state of “becoming,” so the boundaries between self and space collapse and a new understanding of reality arises, presenting us with a perception that is characteristic of mystic visions, hallucinatory states, and the delusions of psychosis.
The visionary artist perceives space in a mimetic manner, similar to the way that people living with schizophrenia experience depersonalization through assimilation to space, a phenomenon described with precision by the French writer Roger Caillois: “Space seems to be a devouring force. Space pursues them, encircles them, digests them … It ends by replacing them. Then the body separates itself from thought, the individual breaks the boundary of his skin and occupies the other side of his senses.”
Truly utopian, the visionary artists represent the world anew, so they often think of the future as a parallel dimension to the present (Hall, Prophet Royal Robertson, Widener, Wölfli). For them, time is a perpetual possibility, having invented codes to access a new consciousness beyond the flat world of appearances (John Devlin, Ionel Talpazan, Way, Widener). As William Blake wrote: “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.”
– Javier Téllez
About Javier Téllez:
For the past twenty years, artist Javier Téllez (b. 1969, Valencia, Venezuela) has been making films in collaboration with people living with mental illness. Both of Téllez’s parents were psychiatrists, so he grew up in contact with people affected by mental illness; it was natural that it would become the main subject of his work.
Throughout his career, Téllez has been interested in outsider art /art brut/ self-taught art and has been studying the subject for many years. Previously, he curated an exhibition at the Prinzhorn Collection (Heidelberg) that focused on the works of mentally ill artists that were loaned by the University of Heidelberg to the infamous exhibition Entartete Kunst (Munich, 1937). In his own work, Téllez reflects a sustained interest in bringing peripheral communities and invisible situations to the fore of contemporary art, addressing institutional dynamics, disability, and mental illness as marginalizing conditions. Téllez’s projects have often involved working in collaboration with people diagnosed with mental illness to produce film installations that question the notions of the normal and the pathological.
Téllez’s art has been the subject of many solo exhibitions at numerous venues including the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (2018); the San Francisco Art Institute (2014); Kunsthaus Zürich (2014); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2013); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2011); and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2005). His work has been exhibited at documenta, Kassel (2012); Manifesta7, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy (2008); Biennale of Sydney (2008); Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); Venice Biennale (2001, 2003); and the Yokohama Triennial (2001). Téllez’s work is part of many public collections including those of Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Kunsthaus, Zürich; National Galerie, Berlin; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999 and the Global Mental Health Award for Innovation in the Arts from Columbia University in 2016. Javier Téllez has lived and worked in New York since 1993.
Notes to Editors:
Frieze is the leading platform for modern and contemporary art for scholars, connoisseurs, collectors and the general public alike. Frieze comprises three magazines-frieze magazine, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week-and three international art fairs-Frieze London, Frieze Masters and Frieze New York. Additionally, Frieze organizes a program of special courses and lectures in London and abroad through Frieze Academy.
Frieze was founded in 1991 by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, with the launch of frieze magazine, the leading international magazine of contemporary art and culture. In 2003, Sharp and Slotover launched Frieze London art fair, which takes place each October in The Regent’s Park, London. In 2012, they launched Frieze New York, which occurs each May in Randall’s Island Park, and Frieze Masters, which coincides with Frieze London in October and is dedicated to art from ancient to modern. Frieze fairs are sponsored by global lead partner Deutsche Bank.
Founded in New York in 1993, the Outsider Art Fair is the original art fair concentrating specifically on self-taught art, and exhibits works by acknowledged masters, including James Castle, Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Martín Ramírez, Judith Scott, Bill Traylor and Adolf Wölfli, as well as contemporary figures like M’onma, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Frank Walter and George Widener. Quickly recognized for its maverick spirit, OAF played a vital role in building a passionate collecting community and broader recognition for outsider art in the contemporary art arena.
In 2012, OAF was acquired by Wide Open Arts, a company formed by gallerist Andrew Edlin. With its debut edition in 2013, the fair established the Curated Space and OAF Talks programs. The 2013 fair enjoyed rave reviews and more than tripled its previous attendance records. Propelled by this success, Wide Open Arts launched Outsider Art Fair Paris, which will return for its 7th edition in October 2019, helping to reinvigorate the city’s long tradition of recognizing and championing art brut and self-taught artists.
Press Contacts:
Frieze: Michelangelo Bendandi,
michelangelo.bendandi@frieze.com, T +44 203 372 6111
Outsider Art Fair: Nadine Johnson & Associates
evan@nadinejohnson.com, T +1 212-228-5555
New York
Metropolitan Pavillion
125 W. 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
View Fair
Paris
Atelier Richelieu
60, rue de Richelieu
75002 Paris
View Fair
Contact us
+1 212 337 3338
info@outsiderartfair.com
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11. Robin Tewes, FF Alumn, at Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC, Canada, opening Apr.12
NYC Women Willing The Distance April 13-June 8, 2019
Cynthia Karalla, Katia Santibanez, Robin Tewes, Susan Austad, Heide Hatry,
Opening Reception, Saturday APRIL 13 2-5PM
The works of five female artists, Susan Austad, Heide Hatry, Cynthia Karalla, Katia Santibanez and Robin Tewes, who live and work in New York City will make up the next exhibition at Headbones Gallery from April 12 to June 08. The public is invited to attend the opening reception of NYC Women Willing the Distance (with Julie Oakes) at Headbones Gallery, 6700 Old Kamloops Road, Saturday afternoon from 2 – 5 PM, April 13.
Each woman has a committed studio practice in New York sustained while juggling family, teaching and maintaining active and extensive exhibition schedules both in New York and internationally. Each has ‘gone the distance’. It is important to state the context, NYC, for it means they are working in the most sophisticated, and as yet unrivalled, art scene in the world and equally important to acknowledge gender as they contribute towards an ongoing evolution as women artists strive towards a more equitable positioning in the arts. The exhibition is amended (with Julie Oakes) who lived and worked in New York and still has a personal, artistic and political affiliation with these women.
Susan Austad’s studio is in the heart of Soho where she produces large-scale, multi-media, kinetic wall reliefs based on imagery from the cosmos. Austad and Oakes did their Masters degrees at NYU together. Using photographs of nebula, flocculent galaxies and magellanic clouds as her source material Austad creates pictures in watercolor on arches paper. She furthers her process by translating the visuals into relief: mesh, three dimensional structures covered in layers of paper, tinted and then enhanced in palette with kinetic lights. These mesmerizing pieces were included in Sympathetic Magic at Westbeth Gallery, NY, 2018 with impressive reviews. Headbones will show the `watercolors.
Heide Hatry is known for her performances, often translated into videos. The immediacy of performance is not lost in translation however because the content is so poignant. Her works eke narrative and association. She has used unusual mediums (pig skins, chicken eggs) to construct physical spaces, figurative sculptures and as performance props. Headbones Gallery will present her latest video, Politics. Hatry brings a feisty female perspective into poignant and pertinent focus. Having met through exhibitions, Hatry invited Oakes to contribute a story to her book Heads and Tales, Twenty-seven stories and Twenty -Seven Portrait, published by Edizioni Charta, 2009.
Cynthia Karalla is a photographer who uses not only a sharply honed technique to capture subject matter but often pushes the medium to another level as she manipulates the photographic itself. Oakes first met Karalla through their mutual interest in gender equality. Headbones will be presenting works from the series The Girls aka Cracked Ribs and Bleached where memory and spirit are revealed through ghostly shades and the wear of ages suggested through patina. I Ching explores repetitive constructs affected by chance, as in the Asian game of fortunes. Her latest series, The Developer Sketches move into a chemical origination of the imagery so that much like an abstract painting the gesture of the photographer comes into play.
Katia Santibanez was in the same studio building when Oakes was living in NYC and from then to today she has been working with hair-sized brushes to make sensuous compositions, often within a geometric composition. Her extreme attention to detail could be compared to miniatures of old but rather than depicting a tiny scene or portrait, her delicate strokes are testament to the care and facility of a human touch, personal and intriguing. The shapes are not gestural however but more like a pattern where each element is given equal due and is absolutely necessary to the whole. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York.
Robin Tewes, like many great feminists, concentrates on imagery often sourced from the home. She uses the architectonics of place to set the scene and then moves through narrative variance to reposition the point of view. These new works depict a country home where we are separated from the life inside but are able to realize by the changes that are seen from the exterior that there is more than one story, in fact the plot continually develops. Using a perspective with a human edge, Tewes grants to the ordinary and extraordinary an aura that lifts what could be deemed ‘mundane’ up to a phenomenal stature. Tewes and Oakes first met through the curator of Heidi Cho Gallery who introduced the two feminists and the relationship continues with each visit to the Big Apple.
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12. Sydney Blum, FF Alumn, now online at tatamagouchelight.com
The Tatamagouche Light
Friday, March 22, 2019
Arts and Entertainment Section
“Breaking Into The Local Scene-Tatamagouche Sculptor’s Work to be Displayed in Halifax, New York”
http://tatamagouchelight.com/breaking-into-the-local-scene/
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13. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at artefuse.com
Mark Bloch writes for ARTEFUSE about a painting show of three women at Elga Wimmer
https://artefuse.com/2019/03/15/painthree-at-elga-wimmer-pcc/
Lydia Dona’s exciting new paintings “Bold Assessments” and “Matter Above Memory” powerfully parlay oil, acrylic, enamel sign paint, and pigment into depictions of otherwise mysterious visible processes, combining mastery and confidence with a noble fragility to strike delicate balances. She achieves equilibrium between her lines and fields of color, transparent and opaque layers, between strikingly pure and muted colors, between forms evocative of both engineering and dribbles, and between areas of painted texture, some hurled, others coaxed with brushes expertly, the way Michelangelo chiseled David from a chunk of rock. Her marks and lines release overtones of imaginary clanging metal sounds, the pounding of throbbing internal organs or the white noise of life-sustaining spiritual processes just above and below the threshold of hearing.
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14. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL, opening June 8
CLAIRE JEANINE SATIN
SPHERES OF MEANING
Frost Museum of Art/Florida International University
Opening June 8, 2019, 4-7 PM through August 25,2019
10975 SW 17th Street
Miami,Florida
(305) 348-2890
Several my bookworks will be included in this exhibition
Particularly the work THE KHIPU BOOK based on the INCA artifact which was used for collecting taxes and census taking. It was possible that there were more conversational purposes for the Khipu. A primary cord of cotton or wool with secondary cords having knots along their lengths; the number and spacing denoting particular meanings.
Thank you
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15. Natalie Bookchin, FF Alumn, at Parsons, Manhattan, April 3
Natalie Bookchin
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 7pm
Theresa Lang Student Center
55 West 13th Street 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10011
Natalie Bookchin is an artist and filmmaker whose work exposes social realities that lie beneath the surface of life lived under the glare and the shadow of the Internet. Her critically acclaimed films and installations have been exhibited at MoMA, LACMA, PS1, Mass MOCA, the Walker Art Center, the Pompidou Centre, MOCA LA, the Whitney Museum, the Tate, and Creative Time. She has received numerous grants and awards, including from Creative Capital, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Durfee Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, among others. Bookchin is a professor at Rutgers University.
RSVP here.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/parsons-visiting-artist-lecture-series-natalie-bookchin-tickets-55296078058
*This event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis; we recommend arriving early.
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16. Edward M. Gomez, Yoko Ono, FF Alumns, in Hyperallergic, now online
Dear friends and media colleagues:
My article about the re-release of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Wedding Album has just been published in HYPERALLERGIC, the online arts-and-culture magazine.
You can find this new article here:
This unusual record album was originally released on the Beatles’ Apple Records label in late 1969, about seven months after the artists were married in Gibraltar. Immediately following their private, civil marriage ceremony in that British territory, they headed to Amsterdam, where they checked into the Hilton Hotel and held their first-ever, week-long “Bed-in for Peace,” a vivid, high-profile expression of their commitment to using their fame to call attention to the urgent need to find non-violent ways to resolve conflicts.
Now, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of John and Yoko’s marriage and of the original release of Wedding Album, this recording from an early, busy period of these artist-activists’ romantic and creative partnership has been re-released by the U.S.-based labels Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music.
My just-published article in HYPERALLERGIC describes the history of Wedding Album, its unexpected and innovative packaging, and its emergence now as an icon of the pop-cultural currents of its time.
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this article!
I send you all best wishes…
EDWARD M. GÓMEZ
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17. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at La MaMa, Manhattan, April 1, and more
Dear Friends and Folks,
A Spring update on personal happenings!
It’s been a long winter. We sadly lost dear colleagues including Barbara Hammer, Brian Butterick, Carolee Schneemann and Jonas Mekas. Jack and I had the pleasure to be in Barbara’s film Nitrate Kisses and worked for Brian at The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge when we (POOL) were dubbed the resident dance company there so its a bittersweet time for us.
We,NYOBS, perform this Monday April 1 at La MaMA for the wonderful tribute to Brian aka Hattie Hathaway. Join the event from Tompkins Square Park @ 6:30pm sharp and parade to La MaMa. https://www.howlarts.org/event/celebrating-hattie
Le Petit Versailles daffodils are slowing emerging as we prepare for our 22nd season of public events. Opening Day Celebration begins May 1 with our Beltaine dance around the maypole.
More specifics will follow asap. Join us!! http://alliedproductions.org/le-petit-versailles/
Jack Waters and I are delighted and honored to be recognized by PSNY at their May 4th benefit. It looks like quite an event! (There will be more affordable tixs available towards the end of April.)
Also,
I encourage people to join the alternative Pride Liberation March & Rally on June 30th!
It’s the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. More info here- https://reclaimpridenyc.org/
XOX, PETER
Peter Cramer
PO Box 20260
New YOrk New YOrk 10009
917 803 0501
(212) 529-8815
info@alliedproductions.org
http://www.alliedproductions.org/
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18. Angela Lorenz, FF Alumn, at Center for Book Arts, Manhattan, April 4
on Thursday April 4 I am actually the sole honoree at a gala at the Center for Book Arts. It is a party with edible art, creative cocktails, a live and silent auction (conducted by a Christies auctioneer), live music and a brief presentation by me.
At this year’s gala I am being honored for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of the Book. The party is from 6-9PM, and there is an after party as well. The Center for Book Arts is 28 W. 27th St. It was founded in 1974, the first center of its kind, since replicated in SF and Minneapolis, where people can rent time for letterpress printing, take classes or have exhibitions, with poetry broadside and chapbook publishing as well.
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19. Brendan Fernandes, Doreen Garner, Shaun Leonardo, Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumns, at Recess, Brooklyn, April 17
Join NADA in Supporting Recess
Join NADA in supporting Recess’s annual benefit, Beg, Borrow or Steal, April 17, 2019. Every guest walks away with a unique work of art. These works will be exhibited during the event, and guests will be assigned a piece at random when they arrive at Recess. But there is a catch; guests have the ability to “beg, borrow, or steal” in order to safeguard or swap their piece.
BEG BORROW OR STEAL
April 17, 2019
7-9pm
Recess
46 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
GET YOUR TICKET TO BEG BORROW OR STEAL 2019 HERE
Participating Artists
Alexandra Bell
Allison Janae Hamilton
Allison Kuo
American Artist
Amy Beecher with Corey Towers
Anastasia Warren
Brendan Fernandes
Cal Siegel
Camilo Godoy
Chioma Ebinama
Chloë Bass
Christine Sun Kim
Corin Hewitt
Cvlt Daddy
Dave Hardy
David Horvitz
Demian DinéYazhi’
Doreen Garner
Galeria Perdida
Gigi Gatewood
Ginny Huo
Hannah Buonaguro
Ian Bagukas
Ilana Harris-Babou
Jacolby Satterwhite
Janae Sumter
Jazzmint Dash
Jes Fan
Jules Gimbrone
Justine Kurland
Kalup Linzy
Katie Hubbard
Kerry Carrier
Kiana Honarmand
Kristina Bivona
Laura Bernstein
Lauren Halsey
Legacy Russell & Ernest Russell
Lex Brown
Manuel Molina Martagon
Matthew de Leon
Mika Tajima
Mira Friedlander
Molly Lowe
Molly Surno
Nancy Nowacek
Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Oscar Rene Cornejo
Paul Branca
Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall
Riitta Ikonen
Rudy Shepherd
Sara Greenberger-Rafferty
Sara Magenheimer
Shaun Leonardo
SOLO
Stephanie Nnamani
Tiffany Smith
Tova Carlin
Uri Aran
Xaviera Simmons
Željka Blakšić
(list in formation)
About Recess
Recess creates opportunities for artists to work in a public setting, initiating partnerships among artists and audiences. By welcoming radical thinkers to take risks as they address complex questions in real time with their public, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary creative practice.
Recess programs reimagine traditional studio, exhibition, and classroom platforms, offering artists, audiences, and program participants flexible frameworks in which to generate new works and ideas. Their emphasis on process grants Recess artists the agency to focus on a project’s development rather than its resolution and enables them to take on ambitious goals that evolve in dialogue with an inquisitive public.
Recess is always free and open to the public in order to foster an approachable environment for the meaningful exchange of images and ideas across disparate communities.
newartdealers.org
MISSION
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art.
CONTACT INFORMATION
newartdealers.org
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)
47 Canal Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002
t 212 594 0884
f 212 594 0883
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20. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, receives 2019 Max Beckmann Prize
Please visit this link:
http://www.artnews.com/2019/02/12/cindy-sherman-wins-2019-max-beckmann-prize/
thank you.
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21. David Everitt Howe, FF Alumn, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, April 11-12
Hi there!
After almost two years of discussions, it’s very exciting – and a little surreal – for me to announce that Alexandra Bachzetsis’ performance Escape Act is finally opening at Pioneer Works in, wow, a little over two weeks, at 8pm on April 11th and 12th. With eight performers and a tech team from all over Europe, the Middle East, and the US, this is a major production, making its US debut here in Brooklyn after a tour through Europe, at venues like the Centre Pompidou and HAU, Berlin. It also marks the first production of Pioneer Works’ new Performance department, which I am spearheading. So, it’s a significant event for many reasons.
Capacity is very limited but I hope you can come. Happy Spring! xDEH
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22. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at The Unspace, Brooklyn, thru April 4
The UnSpace, in collaboration with Help Ourselves and artist and educator Mary Lempres, is proud to invite you to UnTeaching: celebrating arts in education. Please join us as we celebrate the profound value of arts in education through free programing and accessible artworks. Teaching artists and educators will come together to create an inclusive, constantly evolving space where art and community intertwine to create something new.
Please join us as we share the artwork of fine artists and educators Nichole van Beek of the Pratt Institute, Ryan Dawalt of PS 352x, Deborah Dawson of Marquis Studios, Elise Deringer of Studio in a School, Cindie Kehlet of the Pratt Institute, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow of School of the Visual Arts, Anh Thuy Nguyen of Hudson Valley Community College, Hiromi Niizeki of Marquis Studios, Ciara Ruddock of Marquis Studios, Project Art, The Children’s Museum and Arts for All, Aparna Sarkar of Saint Ann’s School, Christine Sloan Stoddard of the Art Deco Society of New York, Jennie Thwing of Farmingdale State College and Margot Werner of LAND Studio and Gallery.
The UnSpace is open from 12-5 everyday, with free, daily special programs and workshops. To learn
more, please visit www.theunspace.com. All are welcome to join us on Saturday, March 30th from 5-7
for a Q&A with exhibiting and teaching artists, refreshments will be served.
UnTeaching
Celebrating arts in education
March 27th – April 4th
147 Front Street, Brooklyn NY
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23. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, now online at artpractical.com
FF Alumn Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa reviews Michael Richards show at Stanford Art Gallery
“Michael Richards’s Alchemical Performances of Blackness”
Michael Richards: Winged, a solo exhibition at the Stanford Art Gallery, offers a majestic display of the artist’s sculptural and embodied ruminations on the past, present, and future. Richards used his own body as casts for many of these works, transforming sculpture and performance into a shared expanded field. Curated by Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin, the exhibition functions as a choreographed performance space of ritual memory. One of Richards’s most known works, Tar Baby vs. Saint Sebastian (1999), is sculpted from his full body, posed in a standing, meditative posture while miniature planes referring to the Tuskegee Airmen pierce into him. Given the artist’s tragic death during the 9/11 attacks while working in his studio on the 92nd floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center, the work’s prophetic nature sets the tone for the exhibition…
To read the full review: https://www.artpractical.com/column/michael-richards-alchemical-performances-of-blackness/
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24. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, thru Sept. 9
Jenny Holzer. Thing Indescribable
Dates: March 22 to September 9
Curated by: Petra Joos, curator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, a survey of work by one of the most outstanding artists of our time. Sponsored by the Fundación BBVA, this exhibition features new works, including a series of light projections on the facade of the museum, which can be viewed each night from March 21 to March 30.
Holzer’s work has been part of the museum’s fabric since its beginnings, in the form of the imposing Installation for Bilbao (1997). Installed in the atrium, the work-commissioned for the museum’s opening-is made up of nine luminous columns, each more than 12 meters high. Since last year, this site-specific work has been complemented by Arno Pair (2010), a set of engraved stone benches gifted to the museum by the artist.
The reflections, ideas, arguments, and sorrows that Holzer has articulated over a career of more than 40 years will be presented in a variety of distinct installations, each with an evocative social dimension. Her medium-whether emblazoned on a T-shirt, a plaque, a painting, or an LED sign-is language. Distributing text in public space is an integral aspect of her work, starting in the 1970s with posters covertly pasted throughout New York City and continuing in her more recent light projections onto landscape and architecture.
Visitors to this exhibition will experience the evolving scope of the artist’s practice, which addresses the fundamental themes of human existence-including power, violence, belief, memory, love, sex, and killing. Her art speaks to a broad and ever-changing public through unflinching, concise, and incisive language. Holzer’s aim is to engage the viewer by creating evocative spaces that invite a reaction, a thought, or the taking of a stand, leaving the sometimes anonymous artist in the background.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
media@guggenheim-bilbao.es
jennyholzer.guggenheim-bilbao.es/en
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