Goings On: posted week of April 08, 2019
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1. Renate Bertelman, FF Alumn, at Venice Biennale 2019
2. Elise Engler, FF Member, at Frosch and Portmann, Manhattan, opening April 11
3. Pope.L, Javier Téllez, FF Alumns, now online at observer.com
4. Cathy Weis, Jon Kinzel, Simone Forti, Andrea Kleine, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, April 28-June 9
5. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at whitehotmagazine.com
6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Luis Camnitzer, Papo Colo, León Ferrari, Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Félix González-Torres, Pablo Helguera, Shaun “El. C.” Leonardo, Raphael Montañez Ortíz, FF Alumns, at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, April 11-September 29
7. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, in Artforum, April 2019, and more
8. Shaun Leonardo, Henriëtte Brouwers John Malpede, FF Alumns, receive 2019 A Blade of Grass Fellowships for Socially Engaged Art
9. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA, April 8 and more
10. Helen Varley Jamieson, FF Alumn, online at upstage.org.nz , April 12
11. Naomi Dagen Bloom, FF Member, at First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR, thru April 28
12. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, April 14, and more
13. Ann Meredith, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Robert Maplethorpe, Joan Snyder, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Grey Art Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 23
14. Nina Yankowitz, FF Alumn, at The Smithsonian, and more
15. We Make America, at Battery Park, Manhattan, April 27
16. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, at The Box, Los Angeles, opening April 13
17. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY opening May 11
18. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at Lyles & King, Manhattan, opening April 12
19. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, at City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn, thru April 10
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1. Renate Bertelman, FF Alumn, at Venice Biennale 2019
Renate Bertelman, FF Alumn, at the 2019 Venice Biennale, the first woman to represent Austria.
Opening Biennale Arte – Austrian Pavilion 2019
Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Oficine800
Fondamenta San Biagio 799
30133 Giudecca
Italy
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2. Elise Engler, FF Member, at Frosch and Portmann, Manhattan, opening April 11
Elise Engler’s Diary of a Radio Junkie; 1237 Days of Waking Up to the News opens at Frosch and Portmann, NYC on Thursday April 11, 6- 8PM. Engler began Diary of a Radio Junkie on November 22, 2015, with the idea of illustrating the very first headline she heard on the radio in the morning and posting the image to Twitter and Instagram on the same day. The single headline morphed into multiple ones soon after the 2017 presidential inauguration, when the news cycle intensified. She began to curate her choices, reflecting her perception of what was going on in the world. For the past 1237 days, her obsession with the news, radio, and drawing have come together. She has been living out her dream, “broadcasting” daily as a radio-artist/journalist with radio journalists whose stories she has responded to respond in turn, liking or following or sharing, acknowledging her presence in their world. All of the drawings/ paintings, including 11 done by guest artists (who filled in when Engler took a brief holiday) and new ones, as the exhibition proceeds, will be on exhibition until May 19. There is an accompanying audio component.
Diary of A Radio Junkie; 1237 Days of Waking Up to the News
Opens April 11, 2019, 6 to 8PM, Frosch and Portmann, 53 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002
HOURS: Wed – Sun, 12 – 6, through May 19
http://www.froschportmann.com
https://twitter.com/Drawitall
https://www.instagram.com/msdocumentrix
https://eliseengler.com
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3. Pope.L, Javier Téllez, FF Alumns, now online at observer.com
Please visit this link:
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4. Cathy Weis, Jon Kinzel, Simone Forti, Andrea Kleine, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, April 28-June 9
Announcing the Spring 2019 Lineup
April 28 – June 9, 2019
Cathy Weis Projects is proud to announce the Spring 2019 Sundays on Broadway lineup. This season, curator Cathy Weis is joined by guest curators Emily Climer, Jon Kinzel, Melanie Maar and Vicky Shick.
April 28 Eva Karczag & Vicky Shick + Cathy Weis – curator: Cathy Weis
May 5 Allegra Fuller Snyder + Laurel Atwell – curator: Jon Kinzel
May 12 Doug LeCours + Daniel Lepkoff & Sakura Shimada + Kota Yamazaki – co-curators: Emily Climer & CW
May 19 Andrea Kleine + Bessie McDonough-Thayer + Leslie Satin & David Botana – curator: Vicky Shick
May 26 Simone Forti & Cathy Weis – curator: CW
June 2 Blaze Ferrer + Nikima Jagudajev + Edie Nightcrawler – curator: Melanie Maar
June 9 Walter Dundervill & Iki Nakagawa + Luis Malvacías & Jeremy Nelson + the return of Shorties – co-curators: Emily Climer & CW
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
All events begin at 6:00 pm – doors open at 5:45 pm.
No reservations. No late seating.
$10 suggested contribution.
For more information, please visit cathyweis.org.
Sundays on Broadway 2019 is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC.
LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.
For more information about this and other events,
visit our website at cathyweis.org or email us at info@cathyweis.org.
Copyright (c) 2019 Cathy Weis Projects. All rights reserved.
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Cathy Weis Projects, 537 Broadway, #3, New York, NY 10012
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5. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at whitehotmagazine.com
Here are two articles I’ve written about women artists tackling interesting subjects. Both shows took place outside of New York City.
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/at-riverside-gallery-in-hackensack/4215
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/tx-at-satellite-art-fair/4189
100 CHINESE DOLLS BY MAO LI AT RIVERSIDE GALLERY IN HACKENSACK
and
ELIZABETH AXTMAN’S “DARK MEAT” OPENS IN AUSTIN TX AT SATELLITE ART FAIR
Mark Bloch
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6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Luis Camnitzer, Papo Colo, León Ferrari, Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Félix González-Torres, Pablo Helguera, Shaun “El. C.” Leonardo, Raphael Montañez Ortíz, FF Alumns, at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, April 11-September 29
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY WITH MAJOR PERMANENT COLLECTION EXHIBITION
CULTURE AND THE PEOPLE:
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, 1969-2019
A two-part exhibition of selections from the Permanent Collection and a historic timeline that reflects on the pioneering history of El Museo
PART I | April 11 – September 29, 2019
(Press Preview: April 10, 2019, 10am – 12pm)
PART II | June 11 – September 29, 2019
(Press Preview: June 10, 2019, 10am – 12pm)
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, El Museo del Barrio will present Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969-2019, a two-part exhibition featuring selections from the Permanent Collection and a timeline contextualizing the history of the institution with related archival materials. Curated by Susanna V. Temkin, El Museo’s Curator, and co-organized by Noel Valentin, El Museo’s Permanent Collection Manager, the exhibition will reflect on the institution’s activist origins and pioneering role as a cultural and educational organization dedicated to Latinx and Latin American art and culture.
Opening April 11, 2019, the first part of the exhibition is comprised of more than 120 artworks by nearly 80 artists from the collection, whose work offers a multitude of perspectives related to core aspects of El Museo del Barrio’s legacy. The second part of the exhibition opens June 11, 2019, which unveils a chronological timeline of the institution’s history. The opening coincides with the Museum Mile Festival on June 11, 2019. Both sections will be on view through September 29, 2019. The exhibition borrows its title from an essay penned by one of the Museum’s founders and its first director Raphael Montañez Ortíz, who outlined his concept for the institution in a 1971 article published in Art in America.
“The founding of El Museo del Barrio in 1969 was originated by Puerto Rican educators, artists, and activists under the mission of presenting, preserving, and promoting their art and culture” says Patrick Charpenel, El Museo’s Executive Director. “Fifty years later, we recognize the importance of this pivotal historical moment and commemorate this act of cultural resistance. With Culture and the People, we continue to rewrite the history of the United States to include the broad spectrum of cultural and historical contributions by Puerto Rican, Latinx, and Latin American communities.”
In addition to the two part-exhibition Culture and the People, El Museo will initiate a cycle of exhibitions dedicated to the Museum’s Permanent Collection in 2020. The cycle will focus on specific works from the collection, including room-size installations and in-depth bodies of work, enabling El Museo’s curators to work directly with artists, scholars, and conservators to uncover new research and grant further public access to the Museum’s Permanent Collection.
PART I | April 11 – September 29, 2019
Organized in thematic sections, Culture and the People features selections from the Permanent Collection that explores the legacy of El Museo del Barrio through the concepts of Roots, Resistance, and Resilience. In Roots, artworks will be presented that address El Museo’s formation within the social and political context of 1969, and its relationship with the artists and local community of El Barrio (East Harlem). This section will also take a more expansive perspective to cultural roots, through works that reference colonial and indigenous ancestries.
In direct response to the Museum’s activist origins, the section devoted to Resistance includes artworks related to protest, gestures of solidarity, dictatorship, and exile. Created in homage to national heroes and fallen martyrs, as well as commemorating specific events, these pieces address historical political grievances and relate to contemporary events such as the ongoing border crisis.
The final section, Resilience, recognizes El Museo’s ongoing commitment to its mission. In this section, works related to the construction and expression of self- identity will be displayed, alongside images that reflect a sometimes subversive or humorous method of survival. This section will culminate with a presentation of artworks that speak to personal and collective resilience, as well as the continuation of cultural traditions.
Each section will feature artists of diverse cultural backgrounds and generations, and will range from indigenous art and artifacts to contemporary paintings and installation art. A number of the pieces on view will relate to multiple sections, inviting audiences to recognize echoes and dialogues between the pieces on display. The exhibition will feature new acquisitions as well as artworks that have never been publicly presented, in addition to artworks familiar to El Museo audiences.
“Since its first donation of La estampa puertorriqueña [The Puerto Rican Print] print portfolio in 1971, El Museo has grown its collection to over 8,000 artworks that span across the Americas, in both time and place,” notes Temkin. “The works included in this 50th anniversary exhibition address themes that are critically bound to El Museo’s historical legacy, ranging from political advocacy and education to a recognition of indigenous origins and a perseverance of identity and traditions.”
Featured Artists (list in formation as of March 5, 2019 and subject to changes)
Adál, Ignacio Aguirre, ASCO, Myrna Báez, Diógenes Ballester, Tony Bechara, Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Tania Bruguera, Roger Cabán, Rodríguez Calero, Luis Camnitzer, Martin Chambi, Papo Colo, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Felipe Dante, Margarita Deida and Piedro Pietri, Ana de la Cueva, Milagros de la Torre, Perla de León, Bartolomé de las Casas, Marcos Dimas, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Rafael Ferrer, León Ferrari, Antonio Frasconi, Coco Fusco, Carlos Garaicoa, Domingo García, iliana emilia garcía, Arturo García Bustos, Flor Garduño, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Beatriz González, Félix González-Torres, Muriel Hasbún, Pablo Helguera, Ester Hernández, Gilberto Hernández, Carmen Herrera, Lorenzo Homar, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Jaar, Ivelisse Jiménez, Charles Juhász- Alvarado, Shaun “El. C.” Leonardo, Rodrigo Lobos, Richard A. Lou, Miguel Luciano, Antonio Maldonado, Carlos Marichal, Hiram Maristany, Antonio Martorell, Héctor Méndez Caratini, Raphael Montañez Ortíz, Arnaldo Morales, José Morales, Marta Moreno Vega, Rachelle Mozman, Francisco Manuel Oller y Cestero, Pepón Osorio, César Paternosto, Dulce Pinzón, Miguel Rio Branco, Rubén Rivera Aponte, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Félix Rodríguez Báez, Freddy Rodríguez, José A. Rosa Castellanos, Fernando Salicrup, Juan Sánchez, Jorge Soto Sánchez, Taller de Gráfica Popular, Rubén Torres-Llorca, Nitza Tufiño, Rafael Tufiño, Patssi Valdez, Vargas-Suárez Universal, Rigoberto Torres, and the Young Lords Party.
PART II | June 11 – September 29, 2019
Complementing the Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio will open a second display tracing the historical and cultural trajectory of the institution since 1969.Expanding on previous research about El Museo’s institutional past, the presentation will reveal different moments in the Museum’s history as it relates to its leadership and staff, its various locations, and key exhibitions and programs throughout its first five decades. Archival documentation including photographs, posters, invitations, exhibition catalogues, and other ephemera will supplement a detailed timeline to further illustrate and contextualize critical moments in the museum’s history.
ABOUT EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
El Museo del Barrio, founded by a coalition of Puerto Rican educators, artists, and activists, is the nation’s leading Latino/Latinx and Latin American cultural institution. The Museum welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of these communities through its extensive Permanent Collection, varied exhibitions and publications, bilingual public programs, educational activities, festivals, and special events.
The Museum is located at 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street in New York City, and open Wednesday to Saturday from 11:00am – 6:00pm, and Sunday from 12:00 to 5:00pm. Admission is suggested.
To connect with El Museo del Barrio via Social Media, follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. For more information, please visit http://www.elmuseo.org.
PRESS CONTACTS:
Rose Mary Cortes, El Museo del Barrio
T: 212-660-7102 | E: rcortes@elmuseo.org
Claire Hurley, Resnicow + Associates
T: 212-671-5169 | E: churley@resnicow.com
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7. Helène Aylon, FF Alumn, in Artforum, April 2019, and more
LESLIE TONKONOW Artworks + Projects
We are pleased to share news and recent press.
… Aylon’s “Elusive Silver” paintings of 1969-73, presented in all their mystical glory here-in her first solo gallery outing in New York since 1979, when she exhibited at the Betty Parsons Gallery and 112 Workshop-are a testament to her liberation and her increasing self-knowledge. … While many of her male contemporaries were producing coolly detached demonstrations of painting’s limits, Aylon, like Eva Hesse and Dorothea Rockburne, pursued the limitless, the infinite.
Read the full review in the current issue of Artforum.
In Conversation: Helène Aylon with Monika Fabijanska in The Brooklyn Rail, March 2019
… Creating the elusive silver paintings I was still in my religious mode looking for an invisible presence, a mystical female presence. Silver paintings were changeable but they were elusive-they only change with the position of the viewer. Reinhardt’s notion of change probably had influence on me …
Read the full interview here: https://brooklynrail.org/2019/03/criticspage/Helne-Aylon-with-Monika-Fabijanska
Deconstructing God Through a Feminist Lens, a lecture by Helène Aylon, will take place on Sunday, April 7, 2019, at the Institute of Sacred Music, at Yale University, New Haven, CT at the Conference: New Perspectives on Jewish Feminist Art.
See more information here: https://ism.yale.edu/event/conference-new-perspectives-jewish-feminist-art-united-states
Work by Helène Aylon is currently on view in By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York (through May 12, 2019).
LESLIE TONKONOW Artworks + Projects
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212 255 8450
tonkonow.com
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8. Shaun Leonardo, Henriëtte Brouwers John Malpede, FF Alumns, receive 2019 A Blade of Grass Fellowships for Socially Engaged Art
A Blade of Grass is pleased to announce our 2019 cohort of A Blade of Grass Fellows for Socially Engaged Art as well as a new partnership with Los Angeles-based social practice funder SPArt!
Artists Kevin Bott, Ras Cutlass, Daresha Kyi, Shaun Leonardo, Tara Rynders, Monica Sheets, and collectives House/Full of Blackwomen and John Malpede, Henriëtte Brouwers, and Rosten Woo will join the growing body of artists that A Blade of Grass supports through direct project funding, research, content, and public programs.
2019 also marks the first year of a three-year partnership between A Blade of Grass and SPArt to offer the A Blade of Grass-SPArt Fellowship for Los Angeles, a new fellowship supporting Los Angeles-based projects.
A Blade of Grass is also proud to be working in partnership with David Rockefeller Fund to offer the A Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellowship in Criminal Justice for the fourth consecutive year. This fellowship examines the transformational roles artists play in a criminal justice context.
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9. Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, at Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA, April 8 and more
A very special Wierdo Night!
Monday, April 8th
8PM, Zebulon
Tickets!
its on a MONDAY!
April 8th Weirdo Night we will be (unofficially) screening a dream video short pilot I have been werqink on with Amanda Verwey for two long american years. I humbly request your presence for this monuentous occasion!!!!!!
It stars Dynasty Handbag, Maria Bamford, Cole Escola with production design by Peggy Noland. Directed by myself and Casey Rupp. Many other talented people worked on this, but who can remember?
I want the Weirdo Night audience to be the first to see this thing before it gets ruined by Hollywood demons!
There will also be live performance by Cole Escola (all time favorite sick tiny comedy lord – At Home With Amy Sedaris, Difficult People), 12 time hula hoop world record holder Marawa The Amazing, animation by my sisterwife Amanda Verwey, and a special video treat by Maria Bamford. Plus I am working on some Elizabeth Holmes material and a song I wrote about a nightmare I had about eating a turkey sandwich.
Won’t you join us next Muntnday?
Copyright (c) 2019 Dynasty Handbag, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Dynasty Handbag
1425 1/2 Kellam Ave
Los Angeles, California 90026
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10. Helen Varley Jamieson, FF Alumn, online at upstage.org.nz , April 12
We have an event coming up in UpStage next friday April 12th. We’re part of a global project reading out letters people have sent to the earth about climate change & the ecological crisis. so in UpStage it will be a kind of digital jam session 🙂
here’s the info: https://upstage.org.nz/?event=letters-to-the-earth
thanks!
Helen
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11. Naomi Dagen Bloom, FF Member, at First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR, thru April 28
Ron Bloom has another show! It would be wonderful if you can find the time to come to First Unitarian Church some time between April 7 and 28. He’ll be there four Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Art Wall in the downstairs meeting room. And I will be with him in my knit red wiggler worm headdress
Recently reflections on migrants have been added to his subject matter and fabric inserts. As always, he will have with him a frame loom, tools, spun wool to answer questions you might have about creativity in the third age-his and yours.
Naomi Dagen Bloom
naomi.dagenbloom@gmail.com
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12. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, April 14, and more
ADRIANNE WORTZEL Events April 2019
SECOND SUNDAYS AT PIONEER WORKS
“The Sentient Thespian,” a short film by Adrianne Wortzel
Looped Preview Screening at:
PIONEER WORKS
159 Pioneer Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn
April 14, 4 to 7 pm
Pioneer Works will preview “The Sentient Thespian” a new film by Adrianne Wortzel along with an interactive demo of Puck, a featured player in the film. Visitors can manipulate this hyper-emotive robot thru its given interface. Demo orchestrated by the artists Theo Ferrin and Margot Guicheteau. Support provided by a ThoughtWorks Arts Residency, sponsored by the Consortium for Research and Robotics with additional support provided by Reach Robotics.
and
Mauser Eco House Residency, Costa Rica
April 1-April 30
Robot Time-Out At Mauser Eco House
At the base of a 100-acre organic farm, Mauser EcoHouse welcomes artists from all parts of the world to apply for residencies.
Project 1: SEE NO EVIL
A project of 365 works of savage pencil drawings superimposed over a diary text. The image subject matter is currently re-rendering images Albertus Seba’s Cabinets of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour 1734 – 1765. This collection displays formed theaters of the world sought to present an encyclopedic view of all knowledge by empirical first hand knowledge of specimens aimed at inspiring awe and wonder. Project to be published as a limited edition artist’s book by Weil Books in Spring 2020.
Project 2: THE ROBOT IN THE JUNGLE
Puck, the sentient thespian now shifts gears and enters into the phase of its next career. Tired of industrial environments, it seeks out the natural fauna and flora of the jungle with which to communicate. Details to follow.
Copyright (c) 2019 Adrianne Wortzel, All rights reserved.
URL: http://adriannewortzel.com
Our mailing address is:
Adrianne Wortzel
180 Park Row 19A
New York, NY 10038
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13. Ann Meredith, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Robert Maplethorpe, Joan Snyder, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Grey Art Gallery, Manhattan, opening April 23
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings, Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 is a long-awaited and groundbreaking survey that features over 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. Presented in two parts-at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art-the exhibition features artworks by openly LGBTQ artists such as Vaginal Davis, Louise Fishman, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Greer Lankton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Joan Snyder, and Andy Warhol. Art after Stonewall juxtaposes works-many of which elude categorization-and music with historical documents and images taken from magazines, newspapers, and television. The exhibition is organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.
#ArtafterStonewall #Stonewall50
Opening April 23, 2019, 6-8 pm
StartsWednesday, Apr 24, 2019
EndsSaturday, Jul 20, 2019
CuratorJonathan Weinberg, Tyler Cann, and Drew Sawyer
Organized byColumbus Museum of Art
TravelLeslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art: April 24-July 21, 2019; Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum: September 14, 2019-January 6, 2020; Columbus Museum of Art: February 14-May 17, 2020
Credits
Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 was organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Keith Haring Foundation, Inc. Additional support has been provided by Jeff Chaddock & Mark Morrow; Envisage Wealth; Tom W. Davis; Equitas Health; Prizm; Lynn Greer & Stevie Walton & the Women’s Collective; John & Michaella Havens and Parker Havens & Dean Panik, in honor of Barbara Havens; D. Scott Owens & Kevin Kowalski; Harlan Robins & Shawn Shear; Dickinson Wright PLLC; and John L. Wirchanski. Key sponsorship for the presentation at the Grey Art Gallery is provided by Deloitte. Generous funding is provided by the Charina Foundation and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Additional support is provided by Gregory C. Albanis and Richard Harrison; Agnes Gund; Robert E. Holmes; Stephen Figge and Ian Alteveer; the Abby Weed Grey Trust; and the Grey’s Director’s Circle, Inter/National Council, and Friends. Funding for the presentation at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has been received in part from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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14. Nina Yankowitz, FF Alumn, at The Smithsonian, and more
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the Smithsonian Institution’s Annette C. Leddy, curator of collections for Archives of American Art, has included my 1968-2016 letters, published artist books, concepts and sketches notebooks, photographs, catalogues, images, video documentaries, and slides, into their collection.
The Archives of American Art
Collection Nina Yankowitz 1968 – 2016
I am also honored to be included in the Smithsonian’s Oral History Program Collection. Curator and oral historian Liza Zapol invited, the esteemed art writer and historian, Christopher Lyon, to interview me about my life and artworks from earliest recollections through 2018. The link to the transcript is below.
Oral History Transcript
Christopher Lyon interview
with Nina Yankowitz, 2018
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-nina-yankowitz-17566#transcrip
‘The Archives of American Art’s collections are available to thousands of researchers who consult original papers, letters, drawing notebooks, photographs, slide scans, and historical oral transcript recordings at Archives of America’s research facilities.’
The audio transcripts of oral history interviews chronicle the great diversity of the American art scene, augmenting and refining our perceptions of individual artists, collectors, dealers, critics and curators.
“The following oral history transcript is the result of the recorded interviews with Nina Yankowitz May 1 – May 8, 2018. The interview took place at Yankowitz’ studio in New York, NY, and was conducted by Christopher Lyon for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution”.
-Liza Zapol
Liza Zapol, Oral Historian
Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
Annette C. Leddy, Archive Collection Curator
Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
Nina
Nina Yankowitz
vimeopro.com/userninay/art-nina-yankowitz
www.ninayankowitz.com
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15. We Make America, at Battery Park, Manhattan, April 27
KICK HIS ASS!
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 27, 2019
We Make America will launch two giant helium inflatables to mock the president and call for continued resistance to his divisive administration. Come watch as a Thanksgiving Day parade-sized, red, white, and blue high-heeled boot, inspired by the women’s marches and the new women in Congress, kicks an orange ass in the sky!
“Kick Ass” will float above Castle Clinton National Monument in Battery Park, facing the Statue of Liberty, from 10:00 am until 5 pm. Choreographed actions will take place from noon to 2 PM. Come chant, hold signs, take in great music and drumming, share a much-needed laugh, and get in the spirit to kick HIS ass in the next elections.
We Make America is a collective of concerned artists and activists. We have responded to the White House bully and his enablers with our own flavor of agitprop since the 2016 general election. We express our rage against injustice with humor and grace. Members will carry hand-painted kicking boots and other props created over the last two years. These include liberty torches, blue waves, pants on fire, soaring eagles, bloody hands, and protective shields. Come hold one of our props, or bring your own! Let’s turn our mass revulsion into revolution, and Kick Him Out!
wemakeamericanyc@gmail.com
FB: We Make America,
Instagram: @wemakeamerica, #wemakeamerica
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16. Barbara T. Smith, FF Alumn, at The Box, Los Angeles, opening April 13
Barbara T. Smith
The 21st Century Odyssey
April 13 – May 25, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday April 13, 6PM – 8PM
Screenings: Saturday, April 20 & Saturday, May 18
Panel with the artist: Saturday, May 11
For The Box’s fifth solo exhibition of Barbara T. Smith’s work, the focus will be on The 21st Century Odyssey, a two year-long durational performance that took place from September 26, 1991 to September 26, 1993. These dates correlate with the opening and the closing of Biosphere 2, located near Tuscon, Arizona, where her partner at the time, Dr. Roy Walford, was the interred physician. Smith took on the role of Homer’s Odysseus and traveled the world while Walford, confined inside the Biosphere 2 facility along with 7 other “Biospherians” for 2 years, was Penelope. For Smith, this work was an endeavor to attain a global consciousness while maintaining the connection between Biosphere 1 (the earth) and Biosphere 2. “I was holding Bio 2 in my heart and connecting, of course, with Roy as a vehicle of that connection.”
As part of this work, Smith traveled extensively internationally and domestically and considered every aspect of her life in this two year period, from the exotic to the banal, as part of the performance. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus struggles for ten years to get home to Ithaca after his battles in the Trojan War. Between 1992 and 1993, Smith traveled to India, Nepal, Thailand, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway; within the U.S., she went to Northern California, Hawaii and Seattle. En route, Smith created real-time performances with local citizens while transmitting images of these events via videophone and computer to Walford in Bioshpere 2 and a third key partner, the Electronic Café International, led by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz. The Electronic Café, where Smith often attended their trans-communication events, was an early cyber café with advanced telecommunication capacity. It was located at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA. Galloway and Rabinowitz collaborated in The 21st Century Odyssey, anchoring their three-way transmissions and archiving all of the early videophone communications Smith had with Walford.
The Box will present a comprehensive collection of both audio-visual materials, including videos, vintage equipment, and video phone transmissions, as well as more ephemeral artifacts: remnants from performances, clothing/souvenirs from her travels, and protective offerings given to Smith by friends and mentors.
Smith herself provides a poignant assessment of The 21st Century Odyssey:
It was a journey to establish a global consciousness for myself. I was carrying with me a thread of goodwill and openness, not trying to convince anyone of anything nor take anything from them, just to experience and learn. I was also embodying the myth of Odysseus … It was an art issue too. What is a durational artwork? What constitutes it? I think this is also about consciousness. To hold an art consciousness for a long and varied duration. I think that changes or enhances everything I did during that time.
On April 20 and May 18, there will be public screenings of The 21st Century Odyssey, a feature-length documentary film that Smith produced with Kate Johnson of EZTV in Santa Monica. On May 11, The Box will host a group panel discussion with the artist. Details and times to be announced.
Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931) has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area her whole life. She received a BA from Pomona College in 1953, and MFA in 1971 from University of California, Irvine where she was a founding member of F-Space with Chris Burden and Nancy Buchanan. Smith has been represented in historic survey exhibitions including Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? at Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (2009); WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (traveling exhibition 2008-09); Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016); and in several major exhibitions as part of Pacific Standard Time organized by the Getty (2011-12), including State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, CA and Bronx Museum, NY; and Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Recent notable exhibitions include Outside Chance, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Experiments in Electrostatics, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London, UK; Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Mommy, Yale Union, Portland, OR. In 2005, Smith had a retrospective The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Performances of Barbara T. Smith at Pomona College Museum of Art, CA.
For press or general inquiries email info@theboxla.com.
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17. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY opening May 11
COURTHOUSE GALLERY
1 Amherst Street, Lake George, NY 12845
Yura Adams
May 11 – June 14, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 4 – 6 pm.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm.
Works by Yura Adams stem from her intimate survey and imaginative observations of the natural world.
This interest in the natural sciences, as well as cultural and current events, has lead to a new body of work: Fast Earth.
She says: “I began this body of work last fall when I started thinking about the irrepressible power of nature. The study of Earth is at the center; a vision of Earth as it survives without humans.”
In this body of work, Adams mines her imagination and creates a visual language that is both poetic and urgent. The exhibit will combine paintings with a large wall installation.
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18. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at Lyles & King, Manhattan, opening April 12
Mira Schor, FF Alumn, Exhibition: Mira Schor California Paintings, 1971-1973 – April 12 – May 19, 2019
Opening Reception: April 12, 6-8pm
Lyles & King is proud to present “California Paintings, 1971-1973,” an exhibition marking the beginning of Mira Schor’s 50-year oeuvre. The majority of work has either not been exhibited since 1973 or not at all. Schor’s project was then and remains now to address issues of gender and experience, setting out as coherently as possible what it means to inhabit a female body and mind.
Schor painted the works in the exhibition while an MFA student at CalArts where she participated in the landmark Feminist Art Program created by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. Schor’s work in the program culminated in “Red Moon Room,” her painting installation in the legendary Womanhouse exhibition of 1972. Her visionary representations of female subjectivity and desire began in the late 1960s, preceding the publication of Linda Nochlin’s landmark essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists,” and were painted before artists such as Frida Kahlo and Florine Stettheimer became part of public discourse. Operating in what was then a nascent feminist movement, Schor took encouragement from works as diverse as Northern Renaissance Painting, Rajput painting, Japanese narrative scroll painting, Paul Klee, and from works by contemporary artists such as the Hairy Who.
Schor’s move to Southern California for her graduate studies was transformative. The direction of her life was shaped by the consciousness raising, art historical research, and collaborative focus of the Feminist Art Program. Her work was also deeply affected by the presence of Fluxus artists and poets, the landscape of Southern California with its huge scale, exotic plant life, its atmosphere steeped in cinematic history, and the deceptively casual aesthetic ambiance so generatively distinct from the New York artworld she had grown up in.
Schor’s early themes of sexual longing represented through the lens of a feminist critique of power culminated within the spectral landscapes of The Story Paintings (1972-1973). These major gouaches on paper depict the progression of a young woman through sexual adventure and historical awakening. Two triptychs detail Schor’s erotic quest in California landscapes marked by tall, dark cypress trees and the magnificent animistic thorny fronds of agave plants swaying in the breeze. A primal scene indebted to Leonora Carrington, “The Bear Triptych” shows a young woman in varieties of erotic entanglement with the wild animal. Seen alongside the more dystopic “Car Triptych,” which features a suspicious automobile placed illogically within the claustrophobic wilds, these two series find the young artist creating the mythology of her moment.
The eroticism represented by the young woman traversing these beautiful and perilous fields was real, but painting it, that is, speaking it, was a central concern of the artist. The narrative structure of The Story Paintings updated the hero’s journey to include the sexual politics of the feminist era. The heroine was on another quest altogether-the erotic impulse is sublimated to the level of language and artmaking. The Two Miras is an enduring representation of that duality, one patterned off the classical divide between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. In the last of her California works, Schor shattered the representational and narrative frame, detonating a mix of language, symbols, and painterly gesture, as if the consummation of sexual desire had liberated her engagement with the pictorial field. These works marked the first instance of Schor’s long engagement with language as image.
In the years since the California Paintings, Schor has become a widely respected artist and writer. Schor is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and she is a recipient of the 2019 Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as a feminist painter, art historian and critic. Her work has continued the directions established in the California Paintings, with a recurrent focus on the figure, on landscape as a source for form, on narrativity, and on representation of language both personal and political. “California Paintings, 1971-1973” is her second solo exhibition with Lyles & King.
For more information: http://www.lylesandking.com/mira-schor-california-paintings
Lyles and King 106 Forsyth Street Manhattan
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19. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, at City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn, thru April 10
The City Reliquary Proudly Presents
Psychic City: The Medium of Mediums!
Limited Run Exhibition Opens April 4- April 10
Solve all your problems! Guaranteed results! Explore the history of New York City psychics, mediums, and fortune tellers with this vast archive of handbills, flyers, and other ephemera collected by Harley J. Spiller (aka Inspector Collector). This exhibition – curated and designed by Parsons students – is a multi-sensory experience that allows visitors to ponder the past and seek their future. One visit will show you the way!
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