Contents for April 06th, 2026
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace’s 50th Birthday JUBILEE, Friday, Apr 10, 2026 at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
1. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com and ArtNews.com
2. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, now online in San Francisco Review of Whatever, and more
3. Xandra Ibarra, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, thru Aug. 2, and more
4. David Khang, FF Alumn, at Centre A, Vancouver, BC, Canada, opening April 18
5. Agnes Denes, Leon Golub, Wayne Hodge, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, FF Alumns, now at The New Museum, Manhattan
6. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, May 28
7. Kumi Korf, FF Alumn, at Chandler Fine Art, Alameda, CA, thru may 31
8. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Skid Row History Museum & Archive, Los Angeles, CA, opening April 25
9. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
10. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at Bronx River Art Center, April 18
11. Galinsky, FF Alumn live, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, April 9
12. Helen Lessick, FF Alumn, at Creative House Gallery, Inglewood CA, April 25
13. Claudia DeMonte & Ed McGowin, FF Alumns, at Eric Firestone Gallery, Manhattan, thru May 2
14. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Résidence Huet-Repolt, Brussels, Belgium, opening April 18
15. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, now online at BombMagazine.org
16. Blaise Tobia, FF Alumn, new publication now online
17. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at Mana Center, Jersey City, NJ, April 18 and more
18. Ingólfur Arnarsson, FF Alumn, at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland, thru Dec. 22
19. Eve Biddle, FF Alumn, at Sargent’s Daughters, Manhattan, Apr. 2-May 2 and more
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace’s 50th Birthday JUBILEE, Friday, Apr 10, 2026 at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Join us for a once-in-50-years celebration honoring Franklin Furnace’s Golden Anniversary.
Hosted by Brooklyn Academy of Music, this special evening brings together avant-garde artists, curators, collectors, aficionados from every decade of Franklin Furnace’s history. Friends old and new are invited to an unforgettable night of art, music, conversation, and dancing.
The evening begins with walkthroughs of the commemorative exhibition curated by Patrick Pardo & Raul Zamudio, “Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace 1976—2026,” followed by a giant dance party with free drinks, light snacks, and music by DJ Gerb.
Schedule
6:30–6:55 PM Curators’ walk-through @ BAM Opera House, Devitre Lounge (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
7:00-7:25 PM, Curator’s walk-through @ BAM Strong, Rudin Gallery (651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn)
7:30–10:30 PM, Dance Party @ BAM Strong 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Colorful attire – Dress fabulous
Save your spot! Free with RSVP
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1. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com and ArtNews.com
Please visit this link:
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Thank you.
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2. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, now online in San Francisco Review of Whatever, and more
Hello friends,
I’m proud to show my recent sculptures and paintings in 大大膽 Da Da Daam, a special joint presentation by Chinese Culture Center and Edge on the Square for the upcoming San Francisco Art Fair April 16-19 at Fort Mason.
Tickets here: https://sanfranciscoartfair.com/ For a preview of available works, please contact Yuan Yuan Zhu, Director of Galleries and Programs at CCC, at yuanyuan@cccsf.us.
I’m also in the San Francisco Review of Whatever, Issue 3.
What a delight to have been invited to contribute a visual spread for this delicious new print publication!
Please visit https://sfreview.org/ for a list of stores where you can buy your copy, or order online.
Thank you!
Alice Wu
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3. Xandra Ibarra, Betty Tompkins, FF Alumns, at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, thru Aug. 2, and more
On April 16, 2026 at 8pm, artist Xandra Ibarra performs Nude Laughing live at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In this performance, the artist uses endurance-based laughter and her nude body to uncover the vexed relation racialized subjects have not only to their own skin, but also to their entanglements with whiteness and white womanhood. As she laughs and fills a nylon cocoon with paradigmatic “white lady accoutrements” including blonde hair, ballet shoes, furs, pearls, and fake breasts, Ibarra visualizes and embodies the skein of race, negotiating the simultaneous joys and pains of subjection, abjection, and personhood.
Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias La Chica Boom, is from El Paso and Juarez, on the United States–Mexico border, and is currently based in Oakland. She works across performance, video, and sculpture to address the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects.
See more work by Ibarra and 11 other contemporary artists in the exhibition “Subvert, Repair, Reclaim: Contemporary Artists Take Back the Nude.” https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/subvert-repair-reclaim
Artworks by Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Nona Faustine, Derek Fordjour, Xandra Ibarra, Maya Jeffereis, Gisela Charfauros McDaniel, Joiri Minaya, Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano, Cato Ouyang, Katherine Sherwood, Betty Tompkins, and Salman Toor.
The Museum is committed to accessibility for all visitors. If you need accommodations for you to attend, please reach out to access@mfa.org or 617-267-9300
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4. David Khang, FF Alumn, at Centre A, Vancouver, BC, Canada, opening April 18
We are excited to announce our next exhibition at Centre A, Butterfly Dreams by David Khang! We are delighted to work with David again after his solo exhibition How to Feed A Piano in 2008.
From early experiments inspired by La Monte Young’s Compositions 1960 to his striking performances in Los Angeles and Mexico, this exhibition showcases Khang’s exploration with Monarch butterflies over two decades, weaving together performance, sculpture, and photography. Khang often produces work that brings together incongruous and dissonant elements. While the Monarch butterfly is universally viewed as a signifier of beauty, military signifiers are inseparably woven together in Khang’s works with the butterfly motif, intended to evoke unsettled reception. Khang submits that formal aesthetics and beauty without context separates and elevates art above the everyday; site-specific or site-responsive art practice imbeds itself and lays bare the political, social, and cultural context of the everyday from which the art is produced.
Opening Reception: Sat April 18, 6–9 PM; performance @7:30PM
Panel Discussion: Sat May 7, 2 PM
Exhibition Duration: April 18 – May 30, 2026
Location: #205-268 Keefer St. (2nd floor of the Sun Wah Centre)
Gallery Hours: Wed–Sat, 12–6 PM
Artist Bio:
David Khang’s interdisciplinary practice is informed by education in psychology, theology, dentistry, and law. Khang uses language and his body as materials to interrogate the intersecting relationships between gender, race, class, and species. By site-specifically deploying non-native languages and incongruous materials, Khang evokes dissonant readings towards re-imagining of poetics and politics.
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5. Agnes Denes, Leon Golub, Wayne Hodge, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, FF Alumns, now at The New Museum, Manhattan
Please visit this link
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibition/new-humans-memories-of-the-future
Thank you.
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6. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, May 28
Please visit this link:
https://www.the8thfloor.org/newevents/lax
Thank you.
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7. Kumi Korf, FF Alumn, at Chandler Fine Art, Alameda, CA, thru may 31
Kumi Korf has a solo print exhibition entitled “Park Stroll” at Chandler Fine Art, in Alameda, California, through May 31, 2026. Link: https://chandlersf.com/exhibitions/
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8. LAPD, FF Alumns, at Skid Row History Museum & Archive, Los Angeles, CA, opening April 25
Hotels in Crisis (Again)
Opening April 25, 2026, 5-8pm at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive
The Skid Row History Museum & Archive, a project of Los Angeles Poverty Department, is pleased to announce the opening of Hotels in Crisis (Again), an exhibition that looks at the past, present, and future of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels in Skid Row. In the 1970s, at a time when residential hotels, were being demolished throughout Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles and the Community Redevelopment Agency made the bold choice to save and renovate the 60 single room occupancy hotels in Skid Row. Now, many of those hotels have again fallen into disrepair, and one non-profit owner of 29 hotels, Skid Row Housing Trust, has gone bankrupt. This project excavates this history, addresses the current situation and assesses what’s now needed to make the Skid Row Hotels into decent, truly affordable housing.
The exhibition has been developed by artist and civic designer Rosten Woo in collaboration with the Los Angeles Poverty Department and draws on the archival resources of our Skid Row History Museum & Archive. The museum’s holdings include extensive documentation of the original formation of Skid Row Housing Trust, a nonprofit housing corporation that was created to maintain the existing SRO housing in the Skid Row neighborhood. The archival records also show the history of crises that have affected this housing model. The exhibition makes visible the recent history of housing in Skid Row, and the testimonies of residents who have seen these developments firsthand. Hotels in Crisis (Again) goes on to share details on what led to the demise of Skid Row Housing Trust and the current crisis in SRO housing, before finally looking to the future and new models for tenant empowerment that may be developed in the face of this collapse.
While the final form of the exhibition will open on April 25, 2026, this exhibition has been developing in what Woo calls a “learning in public” format, wherein he has created public conversations that allow members of the Skid Row community to comment, ask questions, and hear from experts. Post conversation, insights are incorporated into the exhibition— making “learning in public” visible. The first event, Living with Landlords, held in November 2025 and presented by UCLA’s Critical Planning Journal, discussed tenants rights and the role of community organizing in advocating for fair housing. Our December 10, 2025 “Hotels in Crisis: Then and Now” presented little-seen archival materials of historic Skid Row, and allowed community members to learn about previous SRO housing crises. A panel on January 28, 2026 SROs – the end of Skid Row Housing Trust looked to the more recent past, hearing from experts who have studied and written reports by Claire Knowlton, on the collapse of Skid Row Housing Trust, and by Mard Tousignant, of Enterprise Community on the challenges of supportive housing providers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Both reports were commissioned by The Hilton Foundation. A March 11 panel, What to Do? featured experts from a range of housing and advocacy organizations, including CD14 councilmember Ysabel Jurado and representatives from Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Community Action Network, and the Skid Row Action Plan’s Permanent Housing Resident Council. The event invited SRO tenants to discuss the current conditions of their residencies, and to begin to imagine solutions.
An upcoming panel on April 15, 2026, What if we owned it? What if we ran it? Next steps for SROs will explore bold and exciting solutions to the current crisis in the SRO housing model. Justin Szlaza, founding director of the Future Communities Institute, will envision a pathway to resident ownership; Jenny Scanlin, CRA/LA and Chief Development Officer at HACLA; representatives of Venice Community Housing and Amanda Spiva wit the LA Tenants Union will present models for resident governance. As with the previous panels, Woo plans to incorporate insights from this discussion into the final design of the exhibition. Ultimately, the final exhibition of Hotels in Crisis (Again) shares a roadmap of how SRO housing got to the current crisis, helps visitors understand that crisis, and invites them to participate in imagining better solutions for housing going forward.
The April 25 opening will feature a 30 minute performance by the Los Angeles Poverty Department addressing the same concerns, and created by our Skid Row resident – in the know performers.
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9. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at Bronx River Art Center, April 18
Chronicles of Grace: Exploring the Aging Body
Curated by Lizzy Alejandro @lizzydimps
Featuring Aiki, Darlene Aschbacher, Sandra Ayala, Vanezza Cruz, Jill Danenberg, Jessica Lagunas, Juanita Lanzo, Lauréne Praget, Arlene Rush, and Sima Schloss, this exhibition brings together older women artists, ages 40 to 85, whose work explores the complexities of aging.
rsvp https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chronicles-of-grace-artist-talk-tickets-1986283105237?aff=oddtdtcreator
Artist Talk Saturday, April 18 , 5-7:00
On view: March 28 – April 25, 2026
Bronx River Art Center | 1087 East Tremont
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11. Galinsky, FF Alumn live, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, April 9
“Poetry in New York,” Thursday, April 9, 8-9pm at Book Club Bar, 197 E. 3rd St NYC
Every six weeks Galinsky gathers 10 incredible New York and national spoken word Poetry Artists to kick five minutes each at the infamous downtown Book club Bar! This is a curated event come check out 10 super diverse poets, kicking their work in a fast crisp evening, of poetics, rage, and joy! Show starts at 8 PM sharp and ends at 9:15 PM Book club Bar 197 E. 3rd St. between Avenue a and Avenue B in alphabet city Manhattan
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12. Helen Lessick, FF Alumn, at Creative House Gallery, Inglewood CA, April 25
Helen Lessick launches her new work, STJr: In Service of Art, on Saturday April 25 at The Creative House Gallery in Inglewood, California from 1 to 3pm PST. This 64-page book explores the continuing life and art of Sidney Tuggerson Jr., a Black outsider artist graduating from a segregated school in central Florida, through his enlisting in the military, service in Vietnam and beyond, through PTSD and collaboration with other veteran artists. Mr. Tuggerson, now 81 and still working, will be present. The book will be available for purchase; the event is free to the public. For more information: SidneyTuggersonJr.com.
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13. Claudia DeMonte & Ed McGowin, FF Alumns, at Eric Firestone Gallery, Manhattan, thru May 2
Claudia DeMonte and her husband, Ed McGowin, are both in COUPLES exhibit and Eric Firestone Gallery, 40 Great Jones Street, NYC, 10012, March 29-May 2, 2026
https://www.ericfirestonegallery.com/exhibitions/couples
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14. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, at Résidence Huet-Repolt, Brussels, Belgium, opening April 18
Peter Downsbrough
LIEN/S – LINK/S
Opening • Saturday, April 18, 2026, 17 h
” With the word, one takes part in a dialogue, a discourse on its precise meaning.(…) The word for me is an object. It has both a precise and a vague meaning. It is a universe one is confronted with. But there is no obligatory way of reading.“ Peter Downsbrough
From the early 1970’s onward, Peter Downsbrough worked in the wake of minimal art, at the intersection of conceptual and concrete art, exploring the notions of “position” and “framing.” Drawing on an extraordinarily restrained vocabulary composed essentially of straight lines, words, and word fragments, Downsbrough produced an oeuvre of immeasurable conceptual richness and material diversity that includes sculpture, photography, films and audio works, and works on paper. His artistic interventions are always discreet, whether in exhibition spaces, books, or public settings.
Always open-ended, his art invites viewers to see for themselves – to observe closely not just the artwork itself, but also and especially its immediate surroundings, its specific place in space and time – his true subject.
Peter Downsbrough was born in 1940 in New Jersey. He was based in Brussels since 1989, where he died in 2024.
LIEN/S-LINK/S has been conceived as an exploration of links between various aspects of the work, between some places, and between some friends of the work.
The exposition is organized in partnership with Art Brussels where it is part of the Off and VIP programmes.
After the opening on April 18, the exhibition will be accessible:
By appointment on Sunday, April 19,
Thursday and Friday, April 23 & 24,14h – 18h,
Saturday and Sunday, April 25 & 26,11h – 18h,
By appointment, between April 27 and May 10.
Appointments: contact@residencehuetrepolt.org
Résidence Huet-Repolt
Rue du Relais 42
1170 Bruxelles
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15. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, now online at BombMagazine.org
Please visit this link:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2026/03/30/curtis-mitchell-by-saul-ostrow
Thank you.
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16. Blaise Tobia, FF Alumn, new publication now online
Please visit this link to the online edition of Blaise Tobia’s publication “Gender Studies”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xboZ3WG0V2Ag_86upSHll6BzUq3AIuNt/view
Thank you.
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17. Anne Sherwood Pundyk, FF Alumn, at Mana Center, Jersey City, NJ, April 18 and more
April 18: Artist’s Talk and Opening
Friends,
I have two art events on the same day, Saturday, April 18th: an artist’s talk on the North Fork and the opening of a group show at the Mana Center in Jersey City.
For the artist’s talk I will be joined by Franklin Hill Perrell and Rainer Gross at Holy Trinity Church Gallery, Greenport, NY, as part of my current solo exhibition there, Getting Lost on Purpose, which closes on Sunday, April 19th.
Artist’s Talk Details:
Saturday, April 18, at 3:30 pm
Holy Trinity Gallery, 768 Main Street, Greenport, NY
Exhibition Dates: On view through April 19
Rainer Gross, who curated the show, wrote about the work:
“The printing process has the uncanny ability to fuse layers into a fascinating flatness where only the pigmented overlapping color tones create dimensions of depth and space – bringing some colors forward and throwing others to the back. These prints, based on years of studio experimentation, are a rare culmination in the evolution of Anne’s work. They stand on their own. I congratulate her on this remarkable achievement.”
Gianna Volpe, of WLIW-FM’s “Heart of the East End” interviewed me about the show.
Later the same day is an opening for a traveling installation of Pierogi Gallery’s Flat Files, which includes my recent work in both the flat files and in the related exhibition. I will be attending the open studios event for the show on May 17th.
Opening Details:
Opening Reception: Saturday April 18, 2026. 5–7pm
Spring Open Studios: Sunday May 17, 2026. Noon–6pm
The PIEROGI Flat Files on The Road
at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
hosted by Monira Foundation
888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, Ground Floor Galleries
Exhibition Dates: April 18 to September, 2026
Pierogi’s traveling Flat Files will be on view at Mana Contemporary Jersey City for an extended stay. They will house portfolios of original works by 350 artists with a selection of works displayed in the gallery. Access and participation, on the part of both artists and viewers, was the original and remains the central idea of the Pierogi Flat Files. With this exhibition, we hope to broaden the viewing experience and to bring the audience back to an in-person, visceral viewing where they can see and hold original artworks in hand.
I hope you can join me!
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18. Ingólfur Arnarsson, FF Alumn, at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland, thru Dec. 22
Ingólfur Arnarsson
… just a shell.
22 January – 22 December 2026
i8 Grandi, Marshall House, Reykjavík
The second iteration of Arnarsson’s yearlong show is now on view. The exhibition will continue to change throughout 2026, and a new text by Lani Yamamoto will accompany each shift in the presentation.
i8 Gallery is pleased to announce … just a shell., a year-long exhibition by Ingólfur Arnarsson at i8 Grandi. The presentation opened on 22 January and will be on view until 22 December 2026. Arnarsson’s first exhibition with i8 Gallery, an untitled presentation of paintings, opened thirty years ago in January 1996.
Throughout the year at i8 Grandi, the artist is making architectural modifications to the exhibition space through additions and alterations, while the inclusion of a set of drawings serves as a constant in each transformation. Arnarsson’s drawings are built up through layered crosshatching of hard-leaded pencil lines, creating a field of subtle irregularities. Continuously evolving with the addition of new works and interventions, each iteration will be accompanied by a new text by Lani Yamamoto.
Arnarsson’s exhibition is the fifth year-long presentation at i8 Grandi, following Ragnar Kjartansson (2025), Andreas Eriksson (2024), B. Ingrid Olson (2023), and Alicja Kwade (2022). Spanning far longer than traditional museum or gallery shows, i8 Grandi’s programming focuses on concepts of space and time. The sustained duration of the annual format allows artists to consider how time affects their work, and the fluidity encourages audiences to revisit the changing installations.
For further information on Ingólfur Arnarsson please contact Geneva Viralam at Geneva@i8.is.
Ingólfur Arnarsson’s works are characterised by their simplicity, clarity, precision, and reductive form. He studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in Reykjavik, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Alongside his artmaking, Arnarsson has worked as a curator and Fine Arts teacher at the University of Fine Arts in Reykjavík. In 1992, Donald Judd invited him to a residency to work on a permanent installation at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, USA.
Ingólfur Arnarsson (b. 1956, Iceland) lives and works in Reykjavik. The following institutions have held solo exhibitions of his work: The Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2018); ASÍ Art Gallery, Reykjavik (2014); and Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (2013). His work has also been showcased in group exhibitions at the LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland (2022); Tbilisi History Museum and Contemporary Art, Georgia (2019); National Gallery of Iceland (2016); Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (2008); and the Drawing Center, New York, USA (2007). A new publication, with text by art writer and curator Gavin Morrison, tracing four significant exhibitions of Arnarsson’s career was released in February 2024.
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19. Eve Biddle, FF Alumn, at Sargent’s Daughters, Manhattan, Apr. 2-May 2 and more
Hi all,
I’m super happy to announce my solo presentation is now open in the Viewing Room at Sargent’s Daughters. We will have an artist’s reception on April 23rd, I’d love to see you there!
April 2 – May 2, 2026
Reception Thursday, April 23rd, 6-8pm
370 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
My work is still on view at 125 Maiden Lane as part of the Art in Buildings program too!
Cheers,
Eve
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