Contents for April 1, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Richard Serra, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Marian Zazeela, FF Member, In Memoriam
1. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Spoke Gallery, South Boston, MA, opening May 23
2. GOODW.Y.N., FF Alumn, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, April 9
3. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
4. Terry Berkowitz, elin O’hara slavick, Raul Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Jane’s Room, Manhattan, opening April 13
5. Roger Shimomura, FF Alumn, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 26
6. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, at Stars, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 11
7. Billy X. Curmano, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, at Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, April 5
8. Louise Bourgeois, Willie Cole, LoVid, Jean Shin, FF Alumns, at South Street Seaport, Manhattan, opening April 25
9. Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, at La MaMa, Manhattan, April 4-21
10. Alice Eve Cohen, FF Alumn, at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 21
11. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at Bibeau Krueger, Manhattan, thru May 4
12. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumns, at UNDER St. Mark’s Theater, Manhattan, May 10
13. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at Craig Starr Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 8
14. James Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at discopie.com
15. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, at Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, thru July 15 and more
16. Judy Dunaway, FF Alumn, at Sisters Brooklyn, April 7
17. Babs Reingold, FF ALumn, at Yale School of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT, thru May 3
18. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France, thru Aug. 25 and more
19. Arlene Rush, Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at Elga Wimmer PCC,. Manhattan, thru May 1
20. Aline Mare, FF Alumn, at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 3
21. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, now online at OTDowntown.com
22. Jo Andres, FF Alumn, at Issue Project Room, Manhattan, May 11
23. Suzy Lake, FF Alumn, at Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, thru May 4
24. Barbara Nitke, Veronica Vera, FF Alumns, live online, April 4
25. Patricia Hoffbauer, Jon Kinzel, Yvonne Rainer, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, April 14-May 12
26. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, live online, April 1
27. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publications
28. Candida Royalle, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
29. Doug Sadownick, FF Alumn, now online at open.substack.com and more
30. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Poetry Lounge, Pittsburgh, PA, April 6
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Richard Serra, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/arts/richard-serra-dead.html
Thank you.
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Marian Zazeela, FF Member, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/marian-zazeela-artist-dead-1234701465/
Thank you.
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1. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Spoke Gallery, South Boston, MA, opening May 23
A solo exhibition by Jay Critchley at Spoke Gallery, South Boston, MA.
Democracy of the Land: Patriotism
May 12 to June 28, 2024
Thurs, May 23, 6-8 PM, opening reception & panel
Contact: Jay Critchley: reroot@thecompact.org
Longtime Provincetown multidisciplinary and performance artist, writer and environmental activist Jay Critchley takes a deep dive into his singular, penetrating work with his historic exploration of the roots of American identity and the occupied landscape and its mythology in his upcoming solo exhibition, Democracy of the Land: Patriotism, at South Boston’s Spoke Gallery (The gallery is a program of SPOKE).
The exhibition will run from May 12 to June 28. Reception 6-8pm Thursday, May 23rd with an accompanying hybrid panel discussion. Gallery, reception and panel discussion free and open to the public.
SPOKE and its Gallery are located at 844 Summer Street, South Boston MA 02127. More info about SPOKE: www.SpokeArt.org
Jay is a longtime resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts and the shifting dunes,
landscape and the sea are his palette. His environmentally focused work has utilized locally-sourced sand, Christmas trees, fish skins, plastic tampon applicators washed up on beaches, pre-demolition buildings, condoms and the American Flag and selected sites.
His work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Ireland, Scotland and Columbia.
Jay’s artist residencies include: the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain; CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; Havestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NYC;
Milepost 5, Portland, OR; and Harvard University where he also lectured.
His movie, Toilet Treatments, won an HBO Award and he recently gave a TED Talk: Portrait of the Artist as a Corporation. His 2015 survey show at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum traveled to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. He has received awards from the Boston Society of Architects and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC for his environmental projects.
Jay recently was the keynote speaker at the UK Conference on Menstruation and Sustainability at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and at the Nuffield Conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Jay was honored by the Massachusetts State Legislature as an artist and founder and director of the Provincetown Community Compact, producer of the Swim for Life, which has raised $6M for AIDS, women’s health and the community since 1988.
SPOKE activates the transformative power of art to heal divisions, strengthen community, and drive social progress. We forge a common path of equity and civic engagement across Greater Boston through visual art, dance, poetry & spoken-word performance. Young people are essential contributors to all of our work. Creating together, we emerge with a deeper understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we share.
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2. GOODW.Y.N., FF Alumn, at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, April 9
Please visit this link:
https://www.cprnyc.org/events/open-lab-with-goodwyn
Thank you.
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3. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/business/graffiti-real-estate-gentrification.html
Thank you.
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4. Terry Berkowitz, elin O’hara slavick, Raul Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Jane’s Room, Manhattan, opening April 13
Biennial Means Necessary opening has been eclipsed to April 13, 6-9pm; it will consist of two parts, the first from April 13-May 12; part 2, May 18-June 16; apologies for the inconvenience in rescheduling. Part 1: Terry Berkowitz, Stuart Croft, Jeannette Doyle, Laura Elkins, Shahram Entekhabi, Fabian Freese, Marcus Glitteris, Noël Hennelly, Fabio Herrera, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Paul Loughney, Emma McCagg, Elin O’Hara Slavick, Julia San Martin, Sari Tervaniemi, Etienne Warneck
Biennial Means Necessary I
April 13-May 12
Opens April 13, 6-9pm
Jane’s Room
78 Jane St.
NY, NY 10014
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5. Roger Shimomura, FF Alumn, at Cristin Tierney Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 26
Please visit this link:
https://www.cristintierney.com/exhibitions/93-roger-shimomura-all-american/press_release_text/
Thank you
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6. Janet Olivia Henry, FF Alumn, at Stars, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 11
Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions
March 28—May 11, 2024
https://curate.la/events/29084
Janet Olivia Henry takes humor seriously, deploying play to destabilize and undermine the traditional value of everyday materials in order to open new apertures for activism and artmaking. For Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions, the artist presents an expansive new sculpture and several recent wall works, as well as drawings and a sculpture from the 1980s.
Wrought, the centerpiece of Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions, depicts a moment from Henry’s time in the 1990s drumming with Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), a feminist art-activist collective. The 45-inch by 45-inch diorama takes the shape of a multiroom building, inspired by Phyllis Kind’s gallery where the WAC Drums Corp rehearsed. Henry designed the space from equal parts memory and imagination. Using dolls, action figures, LEGOs, and other miniatures, Henry constructs a lively scene: A busy table hosts cupcakes and water bottles for over a dozen figures dressed up in leather jackets, pink faux fur, metallic shoulder pads, and all manner of art world finery, drums in hand. Storerooms are stuffed with tools and blueprints and a scaled-down replica of Duchamp’s urinal. A banner (drawn by comic book letterer Janice Chiang) lies half-painted. In one room, we find a miniaturized version of David Hammons’s Day’s End (2014-21) and a Louise Nevelson sculpture and a display with busts of Wagner and Bach. A wolf howls by a dumpster. Another snoozes in the office.
Wrought began in 2007. Henry starts with a narrative and slowly ideates, collecting objects, as well as digging through her archive that dates back decades. Pulling apart American culture in miniature, Henry works with this consumer miscellany as if it is a palette.
While it might be more straightforward to imagine narratives for some elements of Wrought, even if one doesn’t quite know the exact who or what, other objects have more private valances: a permanently displayed Christmas tree, for example, stands in for a tree Henry and her sister left up when her mother passed away. Other more whimsical interventions point towards the stagedness of the scene—a genie lamp hidden within a model of the gallery in the office area.
The wish-making lamp might be key: this is a hopeful commentary and critique, a clear-eyed historical reflection that doesn’t flatter idealized narratives and looks deeply into the human dynamics that have shaped and continue to shape the art world, mediated as it is by money, race, and gender. Wrought is alive with the energy of all the conviviality and conflict of togetherness, loaded with the hints of a past reality and the potentials of retelling it.
Henry’s practice reconfigures narratives without fixing them in place, and in every return to the past, something new is discovered or invented. Henry will present Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions (1982), the exhibition’s titular artwork. The diorama stages an opening, populated by figures coming to see the eponymous paintings. While most huddle, we might guess, chatting (few if any are looking at the art), off on the far right lurks a man by a cash register: a Wizard of Oz action figure stands in for famed gallerist Ivan Karp, welcoming visitors into the gallery where Henry and her work are on display.
While Henry often presents her stand-in as a painter, she doesn’t work with the medium other than as set pieces. She riffs on the value system of modernism, creating tongue-in-cheek tableaux that overturn convention. In wall works from this year, LEGO bricks appear almost like neo-concrete compositions, then plastered with her explosively dressed characters. And on a series of works-on- paper from the 1980s, Henry performs her own take on the high-modernist grid by covering 8.5” x 11” graph paper with idiosyncratic stamps, like those of folding chairs, palm trees, light bulbs, letters, or screws. Combined with precise color-pencil gradients, the compositions conjure places (Florence’s Backyard, for example) or concepts (The dialectics of isolation… sort of), and with winking irony uses off-the-shelf consumer images to toy with art history’s equally standardized conventions.
In Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions, Henry’s playful imagination combines activism and abstraction, critique and aspiration, inviting us to reflect on the objects and experiences that make up our everyday lives.
Janet Olivia Henry (b. 1947; East Harlem, New York) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Queens, New York. She was educated at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and received a fellowship in education from the School Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work was included in the important group exhibitions Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2022); Queens International 2018 at Queens Museum, NY; We Wanted a Revolution, Black Radical Women 1965-85, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY & Contemporary African American Museum, LA (2017); Bad Girls, New Museum, NY (1994); Artists-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (1981); and Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists in the United States at A.I.R. Gallery, NY (1980). Henry is a life-long educator and has worked at the New York State Council on the Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s education department, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, the Lower Eastside Girls Club, Children’s Art Carnival, and the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School.
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7. Billy X. Curmano, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, at Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, April 5
Opening reception for Soon Moon: An Eclipse Show
April 5, 2024, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Fairfax N. Dorn Courtyard
Free and Open to the Public
Visual Arts Center
2300 Trinity St
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-3713 / info@utvac.org
Getting Here: https://utvac.org/visit#getting-here
6pm – Performance by Billy X Curmano
An artist adventurer recalls solar, lunar, planetary alignment, the big river and I-35 at 75.
Hang on! Everything’s in motion. Our planet hurtles around the sun at about 67,000 mph with a 1,000 mph spin. The moon clocks in at about 2,288 mph and aligns precisely for the total solar eclipse. An artist adventurer rides into Austin from Minnesota on I-35 at 75.
Billy X spins tales from a life in performance. His mbira and signature “River Rap” tell the story of a source to gulf Mississippi River Swim. His 40-day juice and water fast in Death Valley ended with the first total lunar eclipse of the 2000’s, a harmonica, and coyotes.
Join in and share your own thoughts on the eclipse in a multi-log moderated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles.
Billy X Curmano is an award-winning independent artist and former McKnight Foundation Fellow that fuses the performative with more traditional objects. His work has been exhibited and collected extensively from the III Vienna Graphik biennale to New York’s Museum of Modern Art Library and the Malta National Collection. A 2,367.4-mile Mississippi River Swim from its source to the Gulf of Mexico, 3 days buried alive, a 40-day desert fast and sojourn to the Arctic Circle are among his more eccentric environmental performances.
Amused journalists have dubbed him, “The Court Jester of Southeastern Minnesota” with comparisons to P.T. Barnum, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and even… a happy otter.
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8. Louise Bourgeois, Willie Cole, LoVid, Jean Shin, FF Alumns, at South Street Seaport, Manhattan, opening April 25
The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition
Fanny Allié
Tania Alvarez
Lisha Bai
Kim Beck
Lisa Beck
Naomi Ben-Shahar
April Bey
Capucine Bourcart
Louise Bourgeois
Julián Chams
Willie Cole
Liz Collins
Orly Cogan
Bonnie Collura
Melissa Dadourian
Alexandria Deters
Angelo Filomeno
Robert Forman
Christina Forrer
Sarah George
Iva Gueorguieva
Jeila Gueramian
Rachel Hayes
Heide Hatry
Elana Herzog
Camille Hoffman
Scott Hunt
Sara Jimenez
Robin Kang
David Kramer
Juliet Karelsen
Tamara Kostianovsky
Meg Lipke
Kandy G. Lopez
LoVid
Emil Lukas
Fabian Marcaccio
Ray Materson
Suchitra Mattai
Erin Leann Mitchell
Wangechi Mutu
Christopher Myers
Mary Tooley Parker
Nereida Patricia
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Courtney Puckett
Jacqueline Qiu
Joy Ray
Elaine Reichek
Michael Sylvan Robinson
Allison Reimus
Louise E. Schwartz
Jean Shin
David B. Smith
Sagarika Sundaram
Melissa Webb
Amy Wilson
Jonas Wood
Natalie Collette Wood
Woolpunk
Sarah Zapata
Curated by Karin Bravin & John Post Lee
61 artists, over 100 artworks and ten site-specific installations
Essay by Christian Viveros-Fauné
207 Front Street (South Street Seaport)
April 25, 12-3pm / 4-8pm (Invitation only)
April 26 – May 12, 12-7pm (closed Mondays)
Free and open to the public
Not wheelchair/stroller accessible
The Golden Thread: New Adventures in Textile Art by Christian Viveros-Fauné (excerpt):
Among the oldest forms of human technology, weaving was invented some 27,000 years ago in the Paleolithic era. Commonly accepted notions of textile or fiber art arrived eons later, in the 1950s, when pioneering creator-craftsfolks began expressively binding fibers into nonfunctional objects. Ancient in origin but utterly modern in its uses, textile art has flourished mightily since then—but perhaps at no time like today.
The exhibition The Golden Thread shines a light on a group of exemplary artists who have made of the radical use of textiles their frequent or dedicated métier. Hailing from different parts of the U.S. and beyond, their wildly varied artworks occupy four floors of a landmark 18th century warehouse previously used to store, among other period wares, bails of cotton and bolts of fabric arriving and departing New York’s South Street Seaport. Repurposed by the exhibition’s organizers, Karin Bravin and John Lee—longtime New York dealers and champions of textile art—the building’s 10,000 square feet have been marshaled to array both discrete objects and commissioned installations.
The exhibition brings together over 60 artworks by 59 international artists and artist collectives that treat textiles as a medium perfectly tailored to our distracted and anxious times. As befits a showcase rather than an exhaustive thematic or historical survey, the artworks featured in The Golden Thread run the gamut—from foursquare pictures to three-dimensional artworks, from freestanding sculptures to editioned rugs, from hanging tapestries to immersive environments.
Christian Viveros-Fauné, Brooklyn, 2024
207 Front Street is one of the oldest buildings in the South Street Seaport, built in 1797. It is an outstanding example of mercantile architecture, with a twelve-foot diameter hoist wheel, peaked roof, Flemish Bond brick facade, and heavy timber floor framing. This 10,000. sf. building was owned by some of the most prominent mercantile families in New York City history. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, 207 Front Street has never before been open to the public. Special Thanks to Seaport Associates LP & Belle Harbour Capital LLC.
The Seaport.NYC
For the last 12 years BravinLee Editions has produced limited editioned, hand-knotted rugs designed by artists. The Golden Thread will include recent editions by Wangechi Mutu, Jonas Wood, Louise Bourgeois and will be debuting its newest rug edition, Original Sin by Willie Cole. BravinLee rugs are GoodWeave Certified. The GoodWeave label is the best assurance no child labor was used in the making of a certified product, and it also means your purchase supports programs that educate children and improve working conditions for adults in producer communities.
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9. Theodora Skipitares, FF Alumn, at La MaMa, Manhattan, April 4-21
The Four Lives
Magical puppetry, live music composed by Sxip Shirey, animated film and mythic storytelling celebrate the belief of Pythagoras that each of us lives four lives: as a mineral, a vegetable, an animal and a human. The audience travels through different environments, encountering worlds where humans are not the main attraction.
Conceived, Designed and Directed by Theodora Skipitares. Score composed by Sxip Shirey. Set Co-Design by Donald Eastman, Costume Design by Jan Leslie Harding, Puppetry Co-Direction by Jane Catherine Shaw.
Three weeks only
La MaMa E.T.C.
66 East 4th Street
April 4 – 21
Thursday thru Saturday 7pm
Sundays at 2pm
Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1014651
$25 Tickets; $20 Student/Senior Tickets (+$1 Facility Fee)
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10. Alice Eve Cohen, FF Alumn, at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 21
Alice Eve Cohen’s play, Hanna and the Hollow Challah, will be performed on April 21 at the PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works at Northwestern University https://purplecrayonplayers.squarespace.com/playground-1
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11. Sonya Rapoport, FF Alumn, at Bibeau Krueger, Manhattan, thru May 4
We are excited to announce Sonya Rapoport’s first solo exhibition in New York since 1981!
Sonya Rapoport: Digital Mudra features the computer-mediated “participation performance” Digital Mudra, originally shown in 1986 at KALA Art Institute, Berkeley. The exhibition includes original photo collages, a 35mm slideshow, and an interactive artist’s book and software publishing project with a floppy disk.
This piece grew from Rapoport’s fascination with the way meaning can be expressed through the hands, and suggests the existence of a secret gesture language which–analyzed by computer–can be used to decode subconscious patterns in human relationships.
Sonya Rapoport
Digital Mudra (1986-89)
Bibeau Krueger
March 28 – May 4, 2024
373 Broadway C09, New York, NY 10013
Open Thursday – Friday, 12 – 6pm
Bibeau Krueger is pleased to announce Sonya Rapoport: Digital Mudra (1986-1989), an exhibition presenting original photographs, 35mm slides, and an artist-published edition by Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015). This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City since 1981.
Read More at Bibeau Krueger https://bibeaukrueger.com/Sonya-Rapoport-Digital-Mudra-1986-89
Sonya Rapoport (American, b. 1923, Brookline, MA; d. 2015, Berkeley, CA) is considered a pioneer in new media. Rapoport used the personal computer in interactive gallery exhibitions as early as 1982 to explore what she called “soft material:” data about domestic spaces, sentimental objects, her shoe collection, and emotional states, subjects that she characterized as explicitly feminist. Rapoport’s tenacity in developing material methodologies for creating artwork in relation to the accelerated information age in which she lived included multivariate participant-based installations with an emphasis on pattern-finding and organizational similarities shared between humans and their data sets.
By cataloging human behavior, Rapoport analyzed the personal and the political through data, performance, and photographic media. Digital Mudra grew from Rapoport’s fascination with the way meaning can be expressed through gesture. She began with a set of photographs of participant’s hands derived from her computer-mediated performance Biorhythm (Works Gallery, San José, California, 1983), in which she gathered data about viewers’ personalities and emotional states. Searching for preexisting systems to categorize and decode these ambiguous gestures, she identified the mudra gesture language used in South Indian kathakali dance tradition, in which the positions of the hands and fingers translate to specific words or concepts that can be used to tell a story.
Anchoring the exhibition are thirty-five wall-mounted plexiglass frames arranged in an irregular grid pattern that relate to a poem, providing a visual sequence for photographs from Biorhythm. Each photograph is mounted in an acrylic shadow box and superimposed with a mudra that visually matches the gesture in the photograph. These are labeled with phrases that participants used to express how they were feeling, as well as translations of the mudras. This work was first exhibited in the computer-mediated “audience participation performance” Digital Mudra, at KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, in 1987, in which Rapoport worked with esteemed kathakali dancer K.P. Kunhiraman (1931-2014).
The current exhibition also includes a projected 35mm slide show featuring hand gestures clipped from newspapers in the mid-1980s. These images include world leaders and public figures, as well as comic strip characters, each matched with a mudra gesture. The juxtaposition of reportage of political violence and international conflict with bizarre or childish humor is both jarring and typical of Rapoport’s practice, which is both a serious attempt to create new systems of understanding of the human condition, and a lighthearted parody which pokes fun at itself. Rapoport offers the paranoid suggestion that there exists a secret gesture language which, analyzed by computer, can be used to decode subconscious patterns in human relationships.
The final element of the exhibition is an artist book and software publishing project Digital Mudra (diskette), (1988), which contains documentation of the interactive exhibition, an instructional booklet, thirty-five digital mudra cards, and a floppy disk with an interactive program that prompts viewers to select mudras and compose a poem. This reflects Rapoport’s active participation in early computer-networked creative communities, including Fine Art Forum and Art Com, which distributed Rapoport’s software. A related version of Digital Mudra was also published online in 1989, predating the World Wide Web.
Read More about Digital Mudra on the SRLT Website
Sincerely,
Farley Gwazda
Director, Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
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12. Peculiar Works Project, FF Alumns, at UNDER St. Mark’s Theater, Manhattan, May 10
Join us for this special memorial service on the 175th anniversary of
America’s Most Tragic Theatrical Event.
Friday, May 10, 2024 at 5:30pm EDT
UNDER St. Mark’s Theater
94 St. Mark’s Place, just east of 1st Avenue, NYC (directions)
Admission FREE
75 minutes
Please visit this link for full information and to register
https://www.peculiarworks.org/astorplace_2024.php
Thank you.
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13. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at Craig Starr Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 8
Please visit this link:
http://www.craigstarr.com/exhibitions/ray-johnson-paintings-and-collages-1950-66#tab:slideshow
Thank you.
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14. James Johnson, FF Alumn, now online at www.discopie.com
Good Morning,
I’ve recently revised and added to a couple of my web pages. That involved moving a couple of paintings from the Paintings page:
http://www.discopie.com/paintings.html
to the Gouaches page:
http://discopie.com/Gouaches/Gouaches.html
Also added a few new “Itinerants” paintings that make up an unplanned triptych. Stop by sometime.
Peace,
Jim
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15. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, at Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, thru July 15 and more
Hello friends!
I’m back from my residency in Norway in time to see green peeking through the New York earth. I had a hella productive time and will show new drawings at my upcoming SVAC show in Vermont. I’d love to see you at the opening this Saturday, March 30!
The show will be up until July 15, so you’ll have plenty of time to see it on your summer jaunts. Meanwhile, I’ll post some video walkthroughs on my Instagram page throughout the run.
Current: Solo show:
“Bodyscapes and Landforms: Drawings by Julie Harrison”
Southern Vermont Arts Center
Manchester, VT
March 30 – July 15, 2024
Group show:
“Viral Integration”
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
February 1 – December 15, 2024
Upcoming:
Solo show:
“Bodyscapes and Landforms: Drawings by Julie Harrison”
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Narrowsburg, NY
August 3 – September 15, 2024
Group show:
Wonzimer Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
September 13 – October 18
Please contact me for purchase inquiries and to see more work, I would love to hear from you. Visit my website at julie-harrison.com.
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16. Judy Dunaway, FF Alumn, at Sisters Brooklyn, April 7
Continuum Culture and Arts Presents
Soup & Sound
@ Sisters Brooklyn
9800 Fulton St.
Judy Dunaway
Sunday April 7 8 pm et
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17. Babs Reingold, FF ALumn, at Yale School of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT, thru May 3
Biophilia: In Excelsis Opens March 27
Yale School of Sacred Music
I’m pleased to be included!
Yale School of Sacred Music Presents
“Biophilia: In Excelsis”
March 27 – May 3, 2024
Reception 5:30pm March 27
Curated by M Annenberg
Miller Hall 406 Prospect St. New Haven CT
Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 12 – 4pm
https://ism.yale.edu/event/biophilia-excelsis-art-exhibit
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18. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, at Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France, thru Aug. 25 and more
Agnes Denes
Artistes et paysans. Battre la campagne
Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France
through August 25, 2024
RE/SISTERS
FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp
March 29 – August 18, 2024
Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
through March 31, 2024
The Irreplaceable Human: The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of Al
Louisiana Museum of Art
Humlebak, Denmark
through April 7, 2024
Extreme Tension: Art between
Politics and Society 1945-2000
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
through September 28, 2025
How is Life? – Designing For Our Earth Toto Museum, Kitkyushu, Japan
through October 3, 2024
…
LESLIE TONKONOW Artworks + Projects
401 Broadway, Suite 411
New York, NY 10013
Т. 212 255 8450
www.tonkonow.com
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19. Arlene Rush. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumns, at Elga Wimmer PCC,. Manhattan, thru May 1
Reflection in the Mirror (The Self- Portrait )
March 20 – May 1, 2024
Presented by Elga Wimmer PCC
526 W 26th St #310
New York, NY 10001
United States
The self-portrait genre has been a staple of the artist portfolio since the beginning of the visual arts. In Reflection in the Mirror (Self-Portrait), a group of contemporary artists utilize various media to show how they perceive themselves.
Aisha Tandiwe Bell
John Coplans
Eduardo Costa
Lydia Dona
Richard Humann
Arlene Rush
Carolee Schneemann
Haeri Yoo
In an age where the “selfie” is no longer something only an artist can do, but is now ubiquitous on social media, artists Carolee Schneemann, Eduardo Costa, John Coplans, Richard Humann, Haeri Yoo, Aisha Tandiwe Bell, and Arlene Rush present an array of uniquely psychological, and symbolic reflections on the self, as subject matter.
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20. Aline Mare, FF Alumn, at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 3
Please visit this link:
https://www.wonzimer.com/vibrant-matter-brilliant-fire
Thank you.
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21. Deb Margolin, FF Alumn, now online at OTDowntown.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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22. Jo Andres, FF Alumn, at Issue Project Room, Manhattan, May 11
ISSUE is pleased to co-present Jo Andres: Liquid TV (5/11)
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/jo-andres-liquid-tv-stephanie-acosta-laurie-berg-special-guests
a salon with SPRING/BREAK Art Show centered on performance works from the Jo Andres Archive. A performance lecture followed by a reception will take place at 32 Prince Street, hosted by Cuban American interdisciplinary artist Stephanie Acosta, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist Laurie Berg, plus special guests. Jo Andres: Before Your Eyes is the first expansive exhibition of the life and works of the artist, and will be on view between May 2nd-15th.
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23. Suzy Lake, FF Alumn, at Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, thru May 4
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24. Barbara Nitke, Veronica Vera, FF Alumns, live online, April 4
The Value of Porn’ an online panel discussion featuring myself and four brilliant women discussing sexuality, feminism and creativity freedom, will take place next Thursday April 4th at 6pm – 730pm EST
Organized and inspired by the artist Barbara Nitke, to coincide with ‘American Ecstasy’ her wonderful solo exhibition of emotional and intimate portraits of adult performers. Barbara Nitke photographed x-rated film sets on assignment though the 80’s and used the opportunity to create her own images and body of work.
I’m very excited to discuss her provocative work and help contextualize these debates.The event and her exhibition is hosted by Storage Archive gallery in New York City.
Follow link below to register:
Thank you
Veronica Vera
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25. Patricia Hoffbauer, Jon Kinzel, Yvonne Rainer, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, April 14-May 12
We are excited to announce the lineup for the 10th anniversary season of Sundays on Broadway.
Over the last decade, we have presented more than 150 artists over 120 events and welcomed nearly 5000 guests through our doors at WeisAcres.
Co-curators Owen Prum and Cathy Weis are pleased to announce another exciting lineup featuring new and in-process works.
April 14: Yvonne Rainer + Patricia Hoffbauer + Cristina Caprioli featuring Valley
Wanderer + Josie Bettman
April 21: Emily Coates, Emmanuéle Phuon, Irene Hultman & Yvonne Rainer + Tess Dworman + Savannah Lyons Anthony + video by CW
May 12: Jon Kinzel + Julie Mayo + Ella Dawn W-S + video by CW
May 19: Stephen Petronio + Mina Nishimura + Nami Yamamoto + Cayleen Del Rosario
Following the performance on May 19th, we will be hosting a dance party to celebrate a decade of dance, film, music and community. Details to come so stay tuned!
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
All events begin at 6:00 pm – doors open at 5:45 pm.
No late seating.
$10 suggested contribution.
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26. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, live online, April 1
Dear everybody,
You don’t have to leave home to hear & see us Monday, April 1st talking about challenging the Whitney Biennial before it was politically correct:
The Whitney Counterweight challenged the Whitney Biennial!
Hear about how Bill, Barnaby & Vernita did it!
Another Artists Talk On Art Virtual Event! Monday, April 1st, 7PM
Vernita Nemec (FF Alumn), Bill Rabinovitch & Barnaby Ruhe on Artists Talk On
Art virtual event:
April 1, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
Virtual Event | Hosted via Zoom
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86314194491
Password: 737066
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27. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, new publications
Happy Spring!
My translation of Charles Cros’s “The Science of Love” is now available from Wakefield Press. Cros, one of the most brilliant figures in 19th century Paris, partied with Rimbaud and Verlaine and developed the phonograph and color photography, among other things, before dying young
and broke. “The Science of Love” collects his major prose works, including prose poems, proto-science fiction, and an astounding plan from 1869 for communicating with other planets by light signals. There’s more info here:
www.wakefieldpress.com/products/the-science-of-love-and-other-writings
My translation of Théophile Gautier’s “A Filthy Letter” is also now available from Black Scat Books. Gautier was a novelist and poet, one of
the champions of Romanticism. In 1850, he visited Italy, and wrote his friends back home a rollicking “filthy letter,” packed with jokes, slang, obsolete words, literary allusions, puns, alliterations, neologisms, Spoonerisms, verses, outrageous metaphors, and Rabelaisianlists. It was published privately in 1890, and became a clandestine classic. Do look at blackscatbooks(dot)com.
And the 5th issue of TYPO is also out from Black Scat Books. I contributed an essay (“Typoglyphics”), a short story (“The Butler Bullion”), and a “Bilingual Acrostic Rebus.” And there’s wonderful stuff from 30 other contributors too.
And there are robins in the yard! Doug Skinner
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28. Candida Royalle, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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29. Doug Sadownick, FF Alumn, now online at open.substack.com and more
I’m excited to share with you my third podcast. This one features an analysis of the movie “All Of Us Strangers.” I shared some first intimations a few weeks ago here a while back and got a lot of responses. I want to tell you not to listen if you don’t want me ruin the movie for you. But if you are curious about getting a reading that sees the movie not as tragic but as celebratory, you are in for a treat. I don’t think there is anyone dead in the movie, but neither is anyone dead. It’s a living dream concerning a gay man learning how to enter into his psyche to find his missing other half. In order to engage in a night sea journey that wakes him the fuck up, he has to face and confront his inner parents of the gay mind and address their homophobia. In Jungian psychological terms, he is engaging in what is called “active imagination.”
In this podcast, I spitball some of my ideas that have been formulated in working with gay patients for the last 30 years. Just the other day, a very successful gay man came to me because his body was falling apart. He had an intuition that he needed to address his unfinished family business. This way of working sees the gay child as filled with promise and potential, a baby shaman. But that potential is crushed by erasure and neglect and often a lot of bullying. As the movie indicates, if we move to facing and befriending our gay crippled feeling kid, the mind opens up nothing short of an archetypal presence, the living embodiment of homosexual libido — i.e., Harry!
also
I will be publishing my third book in May, “Healing Gay Sex and Love: Group Therapy, Plato and All Of Us Strangers Come Together.” To get an advanced copy, write me at www.askdrdougphd.com
and
Franklin Furnace Performance:
Queer Rites, a performance by the Los Angeles-based artists’ group of the same name. took place on November 19, 1994, when Luis Alfaro, Sandra Golvin, Robin Podolsky, and Doug Sadownick came together to present their Franklin Furnace FUND piece at Performance Space 122, Manhattan. Their hour-long performance knit together their individual journeys in an exploration of serious and comic experiences of growing up gay and the resultant family turmoil. Queer Rites explored the powers to be gained through the cooperation of various demographics within queer communities via intelligent conversation aka “word music.” Queer Rites is described by the San Francisco Bay Times as “a victorious statement of personal truths by four culturally diverse artists.”
(Text by Eve Vishnick, FF Intern, Winter 2021)
please visit this link:
Thank you.
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30. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Poetry Lounge, Pittsburgh, PA, April 6
Live reading in Pittsburgh, Saturday, April 6, 7pm.
Barbara Rosenthal will read a segment of her novel WISH FOR AMNESIA at Poetry Lounge, 313 North Ave., Pittsburgh (Millvale neighborhood) (412) 337-4403 on Saturday, April 6, 7-9pm.
Rosenthal’s novel WISH FOR AMNESIA (Deadly Chaps Press, 2017, NYC) comprises 300 pages of surreal magic realism and 53 photos. It centers around Jack Rubin, the son of Holocaust survivors, who develops a Messianic Complex. His daughter, wife and her best friend, Jack’s magical artist-paramour and a taxi driver in Rome play out Rosenthal’s gripping, funny, solvable, political and existential literary puzzle. She will continue on with videotaping each segment she reads at various venues around the world to complete a running reading of the entire book. On April 6, she will read Chapter 32: Incident at the Northern Cove, a dawn encounter between the Italian taxi driver and Jack’s daughter, Jewel.
The others on the bill are Adriana E. RamÃrez, a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic, columnist, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh; Jesse Welch, a poet, father, and untalented juggler who co-founded the Nasty Slam, Pittsburgh’s head-to-head deathmatch slam; and a mystery guest.
In 1970, Barbara Rosenthal received a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and edited PATTERNS, the art-lit mag. “I would be very happy to connect/reconnect with current students or alumni and will be staying in Pittsburgh several days! Please FB message me:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/barbara.rosenthal1
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