Contents for April 25, 2022
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1. Seung-Min Lee, Michael Smith, FF Alumns, at Essex Flowers, Manhattan, thru May 21
2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, live online with New York University, April 26
3. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at InstituteOfRadicalImagination.org
4. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, at Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain, thru
April 28
5. Adam Pendleton, RoseLee Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Jason Moran & ALicia Hall Moran, Barbara Hoffman, Joan Jonas, Lorraine O’Grady, Cindy Sherman, Lynne Tillman, FF Alumns, at Performa 2022 Spring Gala, May 25
6. Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, FF Alumns, now online at Conjunctions.com
7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, May 1
8. Nao Bustamante, Carmelita Tropicana, Marga Gomez, FF Alumns, at Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx, May 6 thru June 11
9. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, now online at hyperallergic.com
10. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, now online at HudsonValleyOne.com
11. Dan Kwong, FF ALumn, at Casa 0101 Theater, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 15
12. Arantxa Araujo, Alicia Grullón, Rosamond S. King, LuLu LoLo, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, at Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, April 30
13. Todd Alcott, FF Alumn, new book published
14. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, in Venice, Italy, thru November
15. Barbara Hammer, FF Alumn, online with Electronic Arts Intermix thru May 30
16. Yvonne Meier, FF Alumn, receives Lawther/Graff No Violence Award, 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival
17. Clara Perlmutter, FF Intern Alumn, now online in The New York Times
18. Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 4
19. Ellen Fisher, Salley May, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, May 29
20. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Sperone Westwater, Manhattan, May 5-June 18
21. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, At Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY, thru May 14
22. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, receives trademark for the term “Homo Futurus”
23. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Blue Table Post, Brooklyn, extended thru May 15
24. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, at Culture Lab, Long Island City, opening April 30
25. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, live and online, Paris, France, May 7
26. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, receives Grand Prix, Osten Biennale of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia
27. Alice Eve Cohen, FF Alumn, now online at ClevelandJewishNews.com
28. Mary Beth Edelson, FF Alumn, at David Lewis, Manhattan, opening April 26
29. Jerry Kearns, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumns, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, April 28
30. Jaguar Mary X, Yali Romagoza, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumns, at Emergenyc 2022
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1. Seung-Min Lee & Michael Smith, FF Alumns, at Essex Flowers, Manhattan, thru May 21
ill-suited: Seung-Min Lee and Michael Smith
April 22-May 21, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday April 23, 5-8pm
Essex Flowers is pleased to announce “ill-suited”, a two person show of Seung-Min Lee and Michael Smith curated by Rufus Tureen. The show consists of two videos, prompted by a drawing made on a tyvek coverall by Seung-Min Lee. The resulting videos, created in tandem with a brief overlap, explore the alienation, fatigue and violence of the last two years.
Lee’s work challenges notions of whiteness, power relations and the “normal” American identity and often incorporates a material imbued with symbolism. Michael Smith’s work adopts and subverts an array of corporate media structures: in many of his videos he plays “Mike”, an average guy trapped in his own mediocre privilege, exposing the hollowness of the American Dream. Both artists use comedy to avoid didactic politics in favor of a space where
the audience grapples with their own perceptions.
The exhibit will include a series of live performances on Saturday evenings.
April 30th: 6pm Shaun Krupa, 7:30pm Monica Palma
May 7th: 6pm Eleanore Pienta
May 21st: 6pm Michael Smith and Rufus Tureen, followed by a closing reception for the artists.
Note: Due to the rise in COVID-19 cases the Gallery requests masking indoors and proof of vaccination.
Essex Flowers
19 Monroe St
New York, NY 10002
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2. Martha Wilson, FF Alumn, live online with New York University, April 26
Announcing “Staging the Self: Martha Wilson’s Journals”
Tue, April 26, 2022
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Join us to celebrate the publication of Journals (Michele Didier, 2021), a selection of Martha Wilson’s writings spanning from 1965 to 1983. Wilson will discuss the importance of her journals to her artistic practice, through an examination of the selections in the book, as well as those used in a 2015 exhibition at the Fales Library.
She’ll be joined in conversation by Nicholas Martin, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections. This event is presented in Zoom. Live closed captioning will be available.
Register via this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/staging-the-self-martha-wilsons-journals-tickets-322563184167
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3. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at InstituteOfRadicalImagination.org
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, at Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain, thru
April 28
María Alós and Nicolás Dumit Estévez in Madrid, Spain at “Street Art Madrid 2000–2018” / Conde Duque Cultural Center
https://www.condeduquemadrid.es/actividades/exposicion-arte-en-la-calle-madrid-2000-2018
South Room / February 28 to April 28 / Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. /Sundays and holidays from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. / Closed Monday
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Madrid has experienced a transformation of its public space, a gradual change whose implications have gone unnoticed by many of its citizens.
The appearance of urban art and its consolidation in certain Madrid neighborhoods raise the hypothesis of a possible improvement or regeneration of the city through small ephemeral interventions.
The objective of the exhibition Arte en la calle. Madrid 2000-2018 is to make known a partially unknown Madrid cultural heritage , and contextualize it within the urban landscape of the city.
The exhibition aims to recognize the contribution that, since the beginning of the 21st century, numerous artists have made to the city of Madrid, intervening with actions and leaving more or less obvious traces in its streets.
The information produced reflects the importance of the interventions in the city, in its space and its architecture. For the first time it is possible to recognize the patterns that link each of the works with the place where they were carried out, understand the intensity of the actions and their presence in the neighborhoods through the relationships between technique, dimension, situation, visibility and architectural support.
Madrid is an excellent model to illustrate the transformations of the city and the role played by ephemeral artistic interventions, which respond to different modes of production and intentions.
The enormous proliferation of spontaneous art in the streets of Madrid reveals the presence of an active group of artists who use the city for their explorations of space, communication, and relationships with the public.
With the exhibition Art in the street. Madrid 2000-2018 demonstrates the transformative capacity of urban art and makes visible a high-quality artistic heritage with important implications for the future of the city.
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5. Adam Pendleton, RoseLee Goldberg, Agnes Gund, Jason Moran & ALicia Hall Moran, Barbara Hoffman, Joan Jonas, Lorraine O’Grady, Cindy Sherman, Lynne Tillman, FF Alumns, at Performa 2022 Spring Gala, May 25
Marc Glimcher & Fairfax Dorn, Gala Co-Chairs
Rashid Johnson, Board Chair
Richard Chang, Board President
and RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director
Invite you to the Performa 2022 Spring Gala honoring Adam Pendleton on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of his Performa Biennial Commision “The Revival”
With guests of honor
Joan Jonas
Lorraine O’Grady
Co-Hosts
Wendy Fisher
Julie Mehretu
Pace Gallery
Patrons
Agnes Gund
LGDR
Roya Sachs
Committee
Defne Ayas, Todd Bishop, Carla Chammas & Judi Roaman, Karsten Ch’ien, Adrienne Edwards, Liam Gillick, Barbara Hoffman, Dakota Jackson, Michi Jigarjian, Joyce Liu, Clare McLaughlin, Jason Moran & Alicia Hall Moran, Shirin Neshat, Job Piston, Yvonne Rainer, Thaddeus Ropac, Jordan Roth & Richie Jackson, Cindy Sherman, Lynne Tillman, Nicola Vassell, Carrie Mae Weems
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
6:30 Cocktails
A short Julius Eastman concert
7:30 Dinner
Recalling “The Revival”
99 Scott Studio
99 Scott Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
Dress Code
Black & White
Gala will be held outdoors, and all guests will be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccine.
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6. Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, FF Alumns, now online at Conjunctions.com
“Omnipresence,” my collaboration with Tracie Morris, is now on-line at Conjunctions (from the Fall issue, “States of Play”). Thanks to editor Bradford Morrow: “This extraordinary collaboration between the great Tracie Morris and Charles Bernstein … will, I promise, rearrange your mind in a satisfyingly revolutionary way. It certainly did mine when I first read it in manuscript.” & here’s Tracie (full note at link): “. . . Dark/Deep play was embedded in the atmosphere of the year it took us to write ‘Omnipresence’ (June 2020–June 2021). Whether confined by quarantine or being in the commons, we sought to incorporate the clear-eyed affirmations of those seeking freedom, equality, justice, safety, wellness, and care.”
https://www.conjunctions.com/…/charles-bernstein-c77
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7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF ALumn, at Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, May 1
Growing a Green Heart
Sunday, May 1, 2022
2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Van Cortlandt Park 6142 Broadway, NY, 10471
This event is FREE and RSVP is required. To RSVP: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E342387&id=108
Led by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
With Priscilla Marrero, John Butler, Caroline Davis, and Center for Art Education and Sustainability (CAES)
Set aside some time on a Sunday afternoon to disconnect from busyness and reconnect with the ecosystem you are a part of! Join us for “Growing a Green Heart”, a three-hour experiential community gathering-walk-movement-drawing workshop at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where participants are invited to become ONE with its ecosystem, and thus for us to develop deep connections with it that can lead to advocacy for our borough’s green areas and for the future of Tibbetts Brook.
In this experience, participants will engage art as a transformative process, leading them back into Nature and while highlighting the personhood of rivers, trees, and fields, to name a few.
“Growing a Green Heart” encompasses:
walking in ways that develop mindful awareness and focus
moving our minds-bodies away from technology and with our immediate surroundings
engaging in performative exercises that seek to move participants from empathy to compassion for Nature, but also to awaken Nature within us.
At the end of the session, participants will be invited to join in a plant-based meal.
We hope you’ll join us in this transformative experience….and let your heart turn green like the Park! This event is appropriate and open for all ages.
This will be an in-person, socially distanced event following COVID safety protocols. Tickets are limited to allow for appropriate distancing, so while this is a free event, registration is required.
In order to allow for the cultivation of awareness and immersion, we ask that you please commit to attending the entirety of the three-hour program.
Growing a Green Heart is an experience conceived by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, combining choreography, pedagogy, and performance art, resulting in a multidisciplinary engagement to be presented with CALL, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance, The Interdependence Project, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. This project is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. This project is also made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Bronx Council on the Arts.
Nicolás will be working with Argenis Apolinario and Geoffrey Jones to document this experience in photograph and video.
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8. Nao Bustamante, Carmelita Tropicana, Marga Gomez, FF Alumns, at Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx, May 6 thru June 11
Curated by Bronx-based artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
Bronx River Art Center Presents:
ROCKING THE MARKET
An Exhibition of Performance Art by Three Queer Latina/x Artists from New York and California
Nao Bustamante, Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gomez
Curated by Bronx-based artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
May 6 – June 11, 2022
Opening Reception May 12th 6:30 – 9:00pm
Nao Bustamante Performing Live at 7:30pm
In ROCKING THE MARKET three queer Latina/x performance artists, Nao Bustamante, Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gomez, experiment with food through performance, video, audio and written art forms.
Click here to RVSP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rocking-the-market-exhibition-events-tickets-323301261777
Food embodies life in all of its manifestations and nuances. Taste is the idiom the tongue usually remembers even when native languages have been suppressed, surrendered, hybridized, slowly forgotten or eradicated. Food is political — encompassing non-human animal rights, eco-activism, veganism, vegetarianism, food justice, and hunger. These food “conversations” include what is eaten and who gets to eat on our generous, but exploited planet. Forget sexuality, politics and religion; they are all contained in any given dish. Buen provecho.
Nao Bustamante’s intimate dialogues with flour, water, and salt, while baking bread during the isolating Covid pandemic is an act of reclaiming somatic connections in her West Coast kitchen; the act of which ultimately transforms into the likes of an 80’s discotheque. In a podcast, Carmelita Tropicana talks to us about her obsession with food while simultaneously using humor as a weapon to decolonize a number of food items that are no longer associated with their actual birthplaces. Marga Gomez shares the script for a Cuban Mojito, a drink that has been so utterly gentrified that she has to argue against a white-washed recipe that calls for vodka instead of Caribbean rum, because the latter is “…too dark.” Any way you experience it, be certain that this exhibition will not prompt you to fast.
ROCKING THE MARKET refers to two interpretations of “to rock.” In the case of a baby, it means security and comfort for the newborn, as we move them gently from side to side. However, it also points to an iconoclastic reading, which expresses shaking something to the core of its foundations until the house crumbles like a coffee cake. Likewise, this exhibition delves into food and eating as it pertains to immigration, hybridization, memories, indigeneity, and appropriation within the context of the United States. ROCKING THE MARKET‘s understanding of the “Market” is that of the elite establishment propagating oppressive and outdated systems overdue to be rocked by a furious public. Once these systems are broken down there will be hope for regeneration.
This exhibition finds its home in the South Bronx, a place that houses the biggest produce market in the U.S. and yet is where the majority of our neighbors experience a food apartheid on a daily basis. The three cult figure artists in ROCKING THE MARKET stir a cast iron cauldron of ingredients in their performance and comedy that spices up the presentations!
Along with the exhibition, there will be a series of live actions including Hamburger Hands by Nao Bustamante to be performed live during the opening on May 12th. In June, Carmelita Tropicana will do a performance for children and families involving fruits and vegetables, while Marga Gómez will join us online with a cabaret style comedy. Check our website in late May for updates and more information.
This exhibition is dedicated to the late José Esteban Muñoz.
— Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
This exhibition is a prelude to INDECENCIA! opening at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art this coming Fall.
Click here to RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rocking-the-market-exhibition-events-tickets-323301261777
COVID-19 vaccination proof requirements have expanded to include younger children and to require full vaccination:
Children: Children ages 5 to 11 are now required to have proof of vaccination for the public indoor activities. They must show they have received at least one dose of a vaccine.
Full Vaccination: People 12 and older participating in public indoor activities are now required to show proof they have received two vaccine doses, except for those who have received the one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Starting January 29, 2022, children ages 5 to 11 must also show proof of full vaccination.
Attendees will also be required to be masked.
This program is made possible with support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, including the Bronx Delegation. Additional support is from Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, the NYS Council on the Arts with support from Governor Kathy Hochul and the NYS Legislature including Senator Luis R. Sepúlveda. Foundation support is from Con Edison: The Power of Giving, BronxCare Health System, New York Community Trust and private donors.
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9. Chun Hua Catherine Dong, FF Alumn, now online at hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Patricia Miranda, FF Alumn, now online at HudsonValleyOne.com
Please visit this link:
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2022/04/21/patricia-mirandas-lace-and-fabric-works-at-jane-st/
Thank you.
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11. Dan Kwong, FF ALumn, at Casa 0101 Theater, Los Angeles, CA, thru May 15
Dan Kwong’s new stageplay, “Masao and The Bronze Nightingale”, has its World Premiere at Casa 0101 Theater in historic Boyle Heights, Los Angeles on April 22. The 3-act play was adapted from a short story by Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara and written and directed by Kwong. (he will also perform in the production from May 6 to closing on May 15)
It’s 1946. In the aftermath of WWII, formerly-incarcerated Japanese Americans returning to L.A. are shocked to discover Little Tokyo has become “Bronzeville”, an African American community with a thriving jazz scene. When a rebellious Japanese American jazz musician from Boyle Heights falls for an ambitious Bronzeville jazz singer, the ripple-effect of their inter-racial romance causes upheaval in every direction as the Japanese, Black and Mexican American communities react and the young lovers are forced to confront things they’ve never before faced.
The fictional story is based on actual historical events, situations and people, and filled with period music from the mid-1940s.
Runs April 22 to May 15 with performances at 8PM Fridays & Saturdays and 3PM on Sundays. Co-presented with the Japanese American National Museum.
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12. Arantxa Araujo, Alicia Grullón, Rosamond S. King, LuLu LoLo, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, at Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, April 30
The Earth Is No Land, featuring performances by Arantxa Araujo, Alicia Grullón, Rosamond S. King, LuLu LoLo, and Priscilla Marrero.
Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles for Korea Art Forum. This program invites creatives to leave no trace and to generate no objects or physical byproducts, encouraging the artists and their audiences to imagine different relationships with the Earth.
Saturday, April 30, 12 noon to 4 PM
Inwood Hill Park
W 218th St & Indian Rd.
New York, NY 10034
For more Information:
Presented with Korea Art Forum as part of Shared Dialogues. Since 2020, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space has broadened channels of communication between the contemporary art world and immigrant communities in New York City, advancing the artists’ creative endeavors of engaging the public. Focused on the expansion of public access to the artists’ creative work, the project fosters dialogues between the audience and artists, exploring a wide range of subject matters and the multidimensional role of art in the processes of cultural production and social change.
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13. Todd Alcott, FF Alumn, new book published
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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14. Susan Kleinberg, FF Alumn, in Venice, Italy, thru November
“LEAP!” playing along the beautiful canal of the Chiesa dei Greci, near San Marco –
In conjunction with the Venice Biennale, opening April 20, through November.
“LEAP!” Video Link:
As you turn to walk along the Fondamenta Osmarin, past San Marco, heading toward Ocean Space at San Lorenzo and the exceptional Chiesa dei Greci, look right, just in front of the bridge, beyond the Madonna.
“LEAP!” is playing In the large window of ENDAR – Fondamenta dell’ Osmarin, Castello 4963
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15. Barbara Hammer, FF Alumn, online with Electronic Arts Intermix thru May 30
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and the Estate of Barbara Hammer are making Hammer’s 2001 personal documentary My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities available to view through May 30th. As the artist writes, this timely video “centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine.”
The Hammer Estate writes: “The current news is full of Ukraine and the Ukrainians who claim it as home. However, many people in the world admit they know little of either. The video, made in 2001, provides a glimpse into the people who were struggling at that time for identity in a divided and economically depressed country.
“Following her natural curiosity and love of adventure, Hammer went to Ukraine in 2000 to trace her roots and find family members. As with most of her work, Hammer wanted to uncover hidden histories, so she sought out information about anti-Semitism and homophobia among Ukrainians. Hammer discovered that old political, societal and cultural barriers were collapsing but without new ways to replace them. Fast forward to 2022 and we see ruin, death, renewed poverty, and destruction, but we also see strong people fighting for their country and their future. There will be many more questions for others to research and art to be made, but we felt it important to show this film now.”
Watch here: https://fifty.eai.org/video-features/barbara-hammer-my-babushka
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16. Yvonne Meier, FF Alumn, receives Lawther/Graff No Violence Award, 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival
WE WON!!!! We received Lawther/Graff No Violence Award at The 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival
In a culture that too often uses images of violence to entertain and inform, this prize is awarded to the film that best engages the audience while meeting the challenge of “No Violence Depicted”! Sadly, timely isn’t it? Thank you, Ann Arbor Film Festival and the team, thank you, Matthew Graff and Leslie Lawther! We’ll carry on this honor.
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17. Clara Perlmutter, FF Intern Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/style/shaved-heads.html?referringSource=articleShare
Thank you.
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18. Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 4
Apropos Lawrence Weiner
Marian Goodman Gallery, May 4-June 11 2022
opening May 4, 6-8 pm
with a film screening at 5 pm daily
24 W. 57th Street Manhattan
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19. Ellen Fisher, Salley May, Cathy Weis, FF Alumns, at WeisAcres, Manhattan, May 29
Sundays on Broadway
at long last!
May 15th and May 29th at 6pm
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
NYC
Here we go with two fabulous Sundays on Broadway shows in May 2022.
May 15th: Molissa Fenley, Jon Kinzel, Mariana Valencia
May 29th: Martita Abril, Wally Cardona, Ellen Fisher, Salley May
More details coming soon but save those dates.
WeisAcres
537 Broadway, #3
All events begin at 6:00 pm.
For more information, please visit cathyweis.org
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20. William Wegman, FF Alumn, at Sperone Westwater, Manhattan, May 5-June 18
William Wegman
Writing by Artist
Curated by Andrew Lampert
5 May – 18 June 2022
Sperone Westwater is pleased to present William Wegman: Writing by Artist, a show of texts, drawings, paintings, early photographs, and videos by the artist dating from the early 1970s to the present, many shown here for the first time. This solo marks Wegman’s seventh at the gallery and coincides with Primary Information’s book of the same name, edited by exhibition curator Andrew Lampert and published in April 2022.
Installed on two floors of the gallery, Writing by Artist offers a wide range of entry points into the artist’s universe. Spanning five decades, the works in this exhibition all hinge conceptually and pictorially on writing and language, including games, puns, and palindromes—incorporating words in one form or another. In some instances, the text is simply a caption or a few handwritten words. In others, prose delightfully unravels in surprising forms—Wegman types absurd non-sequiturs on Princess Cruises stationary, witty annotations are scribbled onto a curator’s essay, and words are deliberately mistranslated, reworked, and fictionalized in graphite and ink on paper.
Featured also are the artist’s early photographic works, dating back to the three years he lived in Los Angeles from 1970 to 1973. During this time, Wegman became closely associated with such artists as Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and Allen Ruppersberg, with whom he shared both a sense of irreverence towards conceptual art and, more importantly, a sense of humor. Poking holes in the stuffier, more academic, East Coast version of conceptualism, Wegman and his LA colleagues used paint, drawing, video, and photography in ironic ways, often paired with language, to turn didactic formalism on its head. Turning away from handcrafting objects, Wegman utilized domestic, readymade props and banal subjects close at hand. He sometimes used video to improvise short performances— staged vignettes in which expectations are reversed, and puns and homonyms are pursued to absurd conclusions. In one 1972 photograph, the artist is seen jumping away from a pile of his clothes, scattered nearby on the studio floor. The accompanying type transforms the scene: “For a moment, he forgot where he was and jumped into the ocean.”
William Wegman: Writing by Artist will be on view from 5 May – 18 June 2022. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, 5 May from 5 to 7pm.
For sales inquiries, please contact Maggie Waterhouse, maggie@speronewestwater.com.
For press inquiries, please contact Natasha Wolff, natasha@speronewestwater.com.
William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943 and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work has been exhibited extensively in both the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1982); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1988); Whitney Museum of American Art (1992); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001); and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002). The retrospective “William Wegman: Funney/Strange” was held at the Brooklyn Museum, and traveled to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2006-07). The Bowdoin College Museum of Art presented “William Wegman: Hello Nature,” a major survey of over 100 nature-related works by the artist in various media (2012), which traveled to Artipelag, Värmdö, Stockholm, Sweden (2013). “William Wegman: Improved Photographs,” a survey exhibition, was held at the Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA (2017). In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized “Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism,” an exhibition of the early 70s work of Wegman and his fellow Los Angeles artists. The Shelburne Museum organized “William Wegman: Outside In,” a comprehensive survey in 2019. “William Wegman: Being Human,” an international touring exhibition of his large-format Polaroids, traveled to venues including Palais de L’Archevêché, Arles; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand; MASI, Lugano; Photomuseum den Haag, The Hague; and Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea (2018-21). Wegman’s work is in many important public collections including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Wegman had a solo show at 121 Greene Street, an alternative space in SoHo, in 1990 and solo exhibitions at Sperone Westwater in 1992, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2022.
Andrew Lampert is a New York-based artist, writer, archivist, and primary in the firm Chen & Lampert. His works have been internationally exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Film Festival, Getty Museum, Toronto International Film Festival, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among many other venues. He has edited books on Tony Conrad, Manuel De Landa, George Kuchar, and Harry Smith. Lampert was formerly Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives, where he preserved hundreds of films and videos and co-programmed public screenings. His videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.
The book William Wegman: Writing by Artist was edited by Andrew Lampert and published in April 2022 by Primary Information. The first collection to focus on Wegman’s lengthy and deeply funny relationship to language, the book is filled with over 300 previously unknown and wildly entertaining texts, drawings, and early photographs spanning the early 1970s to the present.
Sperone Westwater | 257 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
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21. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, At Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY, thru May 14
Please visit this link:
https://www.buffaloartsstudio.org/events/crystal-campbell-viewfinder/
Thank you.
Crystal Z Campbell
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22. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, receives trademark for the term “Homo Futurus”
Barbara Rosenthal (FF Alum) was granted a Registered Trademark for the use of the term “HOMO FUTURUS.” https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90304917&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch
“I first coined this term in my Journal in 1982, when it occurred to me that the next hominid would be genetically engineered. (I bought stock in Biogen at that moment, too.) Then eMediaLoft.org published “Homo Futurus (Blank Book)” in 1984 because I wanted to claim the term and publish a book with that title, but hadn’t created content yet. The blank book has one page of text, like game rules, instructing the recipient to use the pages as they wish, and send it back, or onward. I had 200 copies printed, and sent it to artists, scientists, etc. The most interesting responses came from the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who wrote me “agreeing” that the next hominid is indeed a blank book, and Paul Zelevansky, with whom an interchange of similarly echoing images filled two copies.
Then when I filled my own blank book copy, using personal and cultural images and edited journal-text to convey ideas about personal and cultural values that would go into such a creature, Visual Studies Workshop Press published that as “Homo Futurus” in 1986, at which time I created “Homo Futurus Wall Work,” shown at the Carlo Lamagna Gallery on 57th St in 1989, a jpg of which was in the August 2020 Whitehot: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/inspiration-confluence-or-rip-off/4691
Since the 1980s I have used the term as a pseudonym and sold some things under it as a brand. It has its own website: homofuturus.net, the books are still in print and on sale as books, CDs and Audio Cassettes at Printed Matter: “Homo Futurus Blank Book)”: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/1174
“Homo Futurus” https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/2449
and the 41 prints in the suite are available through eMediaLoft.org
When I coined the term “Homo futurus,” there were no other uses of it, as my library research discovered, except one deep in one line of a German text. But lately, I’ve been seeing the term as the notion has been occurring to other people (sometimes spelled “futuris,” which I had thought of (and have notes about) but rejected as not in keeping with usual naming protocol). So — I decided to apply for trademark because it has been coming into contemporary parlance.”
Barbara Rosenthal
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal
Artsy / Saatchi Art: https://www.saatchiart.com/barbararosenthal
Artsy / Denise Bibro Gallery: https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbara-rosenthal
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BRartistNYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barbara.rosenthal1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbararosenthal_emedialoft/
Books & Video Sales: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/artist/641
Website: http://www.barbararosenthal.org/
Studio: eMediaLoft.org, 463 West St, enter 744 Washington St., New York, NY 10014
Studio Email and Phone: eMediaLoft@gMail.com +1-646-368-5623 (voice and voicemail, no texts)
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23. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Blue Table Post, Brooklyn, extended thru May 15
Susan Newmark
ART OF REPAIR
work on paper/recent series
March 11 – May 15
Blue Table Post
67 Dean Street (between Smith and Boerum Place)
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Email savannah@bluetablepost.com to set up a time to view the exhibition
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24. Micki Spiller, FF Alumn, at Culture Lab, Long Island City, opening April 30
Long Island City Artists (LIC-A) and Culture Lab LIC announce a Queens Fine Art Spring Art AFFAIR with opening events scheduled on April 30th, 2022. Live music by Affinity on the outdoor stage at 5pm, followed by Tilted Axes, (an orchestra of guitarists and percussionists), and closing the evening will be Vin Scialla & Brooklyn Raga Massive playing until 9:30pm Art Exhibition on view April 28 – May 30, 2022.
LIC-A and Culture Lab LIC present a unique art fair experience, “A Queens Fine Art Spring AFFAIR”, with opening events starting at 5pm on Saturday April 30th, 2022 at Culture Lab LIC, 5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. A carefully curated showing of artwork by over 180 diverse local artists will take over more than 10,000sq ft of the large waterfront art center in LIC. The afternoon will kick off outside with live music, beer and other festivities. Come by the gallery to meet the artists between 6-8pm. Participating artists will be available and excited to talk about their artwork.
Queens is home to the largest and most diverse artists community in NYC. This event will serve as a platform for the Queens artists community to share their artwork with the general public. For those interested in collecting art, art fairs are an excellent place to begin one’s journey to see a high quality mix of artwork. Visitors will be able to view a wide range of high-quality visual art work in a short period of time including photography, editioned prints, textiles, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, mixed media and more. Come meet artists, socialize with the art community, and have a good time!
For more visuals/information, please contact Norma Homberg or Jon Garfield at info@licartists.org
The Queens Fine Art Spring AFFAIR joins several other
NYC Art Fairs during the month of May, including:
NADA New York (May 5-8)
Future Fair (May 5-7)
TEFAF New York (May 6-10)
Frieze New York (May 18-22)
LIC-A and Culture Lab LIC are non-profits supporting the
arts and local artists. Any proceeds from the sale of art at
this event will go directly to the artists.
Participating Artists include: Kimberly Abbott, Catherine Abrams, Heather Abshire, Gloria Adams, Joanne Agabs, Asano Agarie, Gabriela Aleksova, Ellen Alt, Nelson Alvarez, Tony Andrea, Bonnie Astor, Carl Auge, Daniel Aull, Marianne Barcellona, Raul Barquet, Aileen Bassis, Romen Baulin, Jaime Bautista, Christine Bent, Leah Berlt, Katherine Blackburne, Suzanne Bonser, Faycal Bouguir, Patricia Bouley, Ashley Bravick, Emily Bromberg, Evan Brown, Nancy Bruno, Xan Cambeiro, Carol Cannon, Elaine Chao, Irene Christensen, Amanda Christianson, Bianca Clark, Michael Coffino, Ann Cofta, Charles, Compo, Douglas Condon, Michael Connors, Robert Convery, Marilee Cooper, Christian Cortes, Carol Crawford, Ying Cui, Jan Davila, Dawn DeVito, Adrian DiMetriou, Rosanne Ebner, Ryoko Endo, Lilian R Engel, Jean Foos, Julia Forrest, Amelia Foster, Pauline Fotopoulos, Eric Friedmann, Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart, Pat Gallo, Honglip Gang, Jake Genen, Nancy Gesimondo, Sarbani Ghosh, Annona Giam, Tina Glavan, Michelle Goguen, Yona Goldfaden, Kenny Greenberg, Naomi Grossman, Kelly Han, Amir Hariri, Steven Harris, Remeeka Harris, Phoebe Hawkins, Nancy Lee Hendley, Alex Henkin, Javier Hernandez-Miyares, M.C.Hewlett, Miho Hiranouchi, Lori Horowitz, Jack Howard-Potter, Meg Hun, Issa Ibrahim, Amanda Ioco, Na Ji, Joane Buteau Dumont, Traci Johnson, Ken Jones, Kaiser Kamal, Zebun Kamal, Rebecca Kanfer, Paul Katcher, Grace Kerr, Susan Kiefer, Angela Kim, Karen L. Kirshner, Jin Ko, Natalia, Koren Kropf, June Kosloff, Saori Kurioka, Pilar Lagos, Brooke Lambert, Veronica Lawlor, Donna Levinstone, Jonathan Lev, Jane Levy, Parvaneh Limbert, Robert Lobe, Gilly Lugo, Nancy Macina, Ellen Mandelbaum, Beverly Marcus, Leda Maria, Donnelly Marks, Kristen Martin-Aarnio, Carlos Mateu, LisaMaria Maya, Gail Meyers, Nancy Miller, Bruce Minson, Puneeta Mittal, Andrea Morganstern, Claudia Mulet, Claire Mundey, Timothy Mutzel, Francesca O’Malley, Sonia O’Mara, Becca Olinger, Damien Olsen, Michael Padwee, Teresito Paez, Eduardo Palma, Suzanne Pemberton, Cristian Pietrapiana, Mark Pinckney, Alejandro Pinzon, Jorge Posada, Cj Priester, Michael Quintero, Eleanor Rahim, Emilia Ramos, Jessica Rechner, Joan Reutershan, Robert Roher, Megan Roper, Margit Rott, Dirk Rowntree, Justin Rozdom, Janet Rutkowski, Lori Sanford-Ross, Tiana Santaella, Elinore Schnurr, Robert Schultheis, Jim Schutte, James Seffens, Dea Segatto, Jency Sekaran, Marci Senders, Jacqueline Sferra Rada, Meryl Shapiro, Michael Sheng, Rebecca Sherman, Derek Smith, Micki Spiller, Christopher Spinelli, Ellen Stedfeld, Alacia Stubbs, Hisayasu Takashio, Akemi Takeda, Therese Tan, Sharon Taylor, Rachel Towle, Preston Trombly, Daniel Trouillot, Yelena Tylkina, Rouska Valkova, Roussina Valkova, Linda Vigdor, Sandra Vucicevic, Marilyn Walter, Thomas Watkiss, Kaili Woop, Fulvia Zambon and Megan Faye Zimmerman.
Long Island City Artists, Inc (LIC-A) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts advocacy organization founded by artists and incorporated in 1986 in Long Island City, New York. LIC-A founded the LIC Open Studios Annuals in 1985 and has continued to support artists in the community through exhibitions, special events, community outreach and publicity. Over the past five years, LIC-A managed dozens of open-call exhibitions at the Plaxall Gallery in LIC, produced grant-funded exhibits which traveled through Queens, created regular shows in Chelsea and, most recently, collaborated with a gallery in Bushwick.
Culture Lab LIC is a 501(c)(3) formed to bring accessible high-quality art of all genres to our community, and to support local artists by providing rehearsal, performance, exhibition space, as well as a robust residency program. Culture Lab LIC is dedicated to upholding, equity, diversity and inclusion across all our platforms. Operating out of a 12,000 square foot art center, Culture Lab LIC hosts two fine art galleries, a 90-seat theater, classroom space, and an 18,000 square foot outdoor venue, made possible by the generous donation of space from Plaxall Inc. www.culturelablic.org
This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by
Flushing Town Hall.
www.licartists.org @licartists www.culturelablic.org @culturelablic
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25. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, live and online, Paris, France, May 7
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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26. Joseph Kosuth, FF Alumn, receives Grand Prix, Osten Biennale of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia
Joseph Kosuth to receive the Grand Prix for Lifetime Achievement
by the Osten Biennale of Drawing, Sopje, 2022
Mario Baratto Lecture Hall, Ca’ Foscari University
Dorsoduro 3246, Venice, Italy
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 11am – 1pm
Congratulations to Joseph Kosuth on being awarded the Grand Prix for Lifetime Achievement by the Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje. The Biennial of Drawing (organized by Osten Skopje, North Macedonia) nurtures contemporary drawing in its widest definition. The Biennial opens the possibility of moving the conventional boundaries, both in terms of the use of drawing techniques and materials, as well as in terms of creative freedom of expression.
Joseph Kosuth, one of the pioneers of Conceptual and installation art, has initiated language-based works and appropriation strategies since the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art.
For information about the Osten Biennale please visit osten.mk
For information about Joseph Kosuth please visit skny.com
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27. Alice Eve Cohen, FF Alumn, now online at ClevelandJewishNews.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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28. Mary Beth Edelson, FF Alumn, at David Lewis, Manhattan, opening April 26
Mary Beth Edelson: A Celebration
April 26 – June 4, 2022
57 Walker Street, New York, NY
Opening reception April 26, 6 – 8 pm
Tribute evening, May 17, 6 – 8pm
David Lewis is pleased to present Mary Beth Edelson: A Celebration. Marking the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and the one year anniversary since Edelson’s passing in April 2021.
Mary Beth Edelson: A Celebration is a dedication to the artist’s groundbreaking contributions to art history, and encompasses a range of media from throughout Edelson’s important career, emphasizing the breadth and scale of her formidable achievement.
The exhibition presents four distinct bodies of work across the whole of Edelson’s career, from earliest collages and iconic Woman Rising photographs (1970s) through the rarely-seen monumental painting In Exile (1989). Edelson’s largest and most ambitious work links Goddess imagery to Hollywood and superheroine archetypes (such as Wonder Woman) as well as historical events, above a postmodern tour of painting styles and histories, ranging from classical Chinese landscape painting to the Pattern & Decoration movement. At the center of In Exile is a meticulously crafted Gayatri Yantra, (Gayatri being the Mother Goddess to all Vedas), a sacred symbol encompassing the divine lotus and the sacred numbers associated with the primordial syllable Om. The large-scale painting serves as the greatest extension of Edelson’s meditation not only upon the Goddess archetype, upon which her fame and reputation were built, but also—an aspect of her achievement that is less well known—her consideration of these archetypes and energies in history and as active (and sometimes activist) elements in contemporary history and life.
Included as well are examples of the iconic Woman Rising series (Dematerializing / Trans-DNA and Burning Bright) (1975/1973), as well as early collages in which the poetic ingenuity of Edelson’s ways of making can be clearly seen, formal strategies and combinations that are suggestive of the image, ideas, and ambitions that she would develop throughout her long career. Throughout the space, linking the framed individual works, are arrangements of Edelson’s fantastical wall collage: at once a portrait practice, a bestiary, a zoology, cosmology, an art-historical dream and revision (Sandro Boticelli’s Birth of Venus), both accessible and arcane, arranged here to suggest the simultaneously flowing and soaring nature, the iconographic exactness, sudden wit, and energetic vastness of Edelson’s vision.
Mary Beth’s work has been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of major institutions including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Malmö Kunstmuseum and the Tate Modern.
For press inquiries please contact Kim Donica at kd@vidoun.com
To attend the Mary Beth Edelson tribute please rsvp at rsvp@vidoun.com
For all other inquiries please contact us at info@davidlewisgallery.com
David Lewis
57 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
+1 212 966 7991
www.davidlewisgallery.com
info@davidlewisgallery.com
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29. Jerry Kearns, Lucy Lippard, FF Alumns, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, April 28
Dear friends,
Come to Printed Matter bookstore at 231 11th Ave Thursday April 28, 5 p.m. to hear Lucy Lippard, Anne Turyn, Yana Foqué, Jeff Khonsary, and myself talk about Tense, a collaboration between Lucy and me, done in 1984, only recently published.
Lucy will also be talking about her novel I See/You Mean.
Bring your mask and would love to see you.
Best,
Jerry
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30. Jaguar Mary X, Yali Romagoza, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumns, at Emergenyc 2022
Welcome to our 2022 EMERGENYC Artists! This year, EMERGENYC has 2 wonderful cohorts moving through the program together, one in-person and one online. We are excited to have 28 new artists join us this year and are eager to have an international, interdisciplinary, intergenerational virtual program!
Artists’ bios:
https://emergenyc.org/participants/
In-Person Cohort:
Autumn Newcomb, Aviya Hernstadt, Catherine Chen, Cristina Bartley Dominguez, Josiah Vasquez, Jovon Outlaw, kc jackperson, Maira Duarte, Mobéy Lola Irizarry, Naisha Solomon, Parker White/Honey Bundy, and Yali Romagoza
Led by George Emilio Sánchez
Virtual Program Cohort:
Aitor Flores, Alexa Vasquez, Arantxa Araujo, Ching-In Chen, Dimple Shah, Dora Selva, Ikpemesi Ogundare, Ivonne Navas, Jaguar Mary X, Júpiter, Marilou Mariko, Monet Clark, Nina Terra, Raquel Karro, Rosina Ivanova, and viento izquierdo ugaz
Facilitated by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
First launched in 2008 at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute—and now housed at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange in collaboration with Abrons Arts Center—EMERGENYC offers varied entry points into art and activism, prioritizing process, discovery and reflection, and fostering a brave space for experimentation, risk-taking and community-building. Through in-person and virtual annual programs, EMERGENYC encourages participants to take interdisciplinary leaps, mix styles and traditions, and develop incisive new work at the intersection of performance and politics. Over the years, EMERGENYC has activated a strong network of artivists—in NYC and beyond—who have built solidarity across differences, challenged dominant narratives through cultural resistance, and engaged in artistic world-making together.
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