Contents for May 5th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Lara Salmon, FF FUND 2024-25 recipient, at Brief Histories, Bowery, Manhattan, May 7-17
1. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La MaMa, Manhattan, May 6
2. Franklin Furnace’s Hidden In the Stacks Panel Discussion archival recording, now online
3. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, at 49th Buenos Aires International Book Fair, Argentina, May 6
4. Eddy Falconer, FF Alumn, now online at FranklinFurnace.org
5. Asia Stewart, FF Alumn, at Westbeth Gallery, Manhattan, May 10, and more
6. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, at Cannes Film Festival, France, May 20 and more
7. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, live online with San Francisco Artists Alumni, May 5
8. Sharon Hayes & Brooke O’Harra, FF Members, at Artists Space, Manhattan, May 9
9. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, now online with Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
10. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, online course with School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, June 3-July 1
11. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at mcusercontent.com
12. Nadja Verena Marcin, FF Alumn, at Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany, thru May 24, and more
13. Melissa Wolf & Paul Lamarre, FF Alumns, at Eidia House, Brooklyn, thru May 10
14. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Olympia, Manhattan, opening May 9, and more
15. Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, in New York Newsday, April 17
16. GH Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, at Emily Harvey Foundation, Manhattan, May 16-17
17. Ann Meredith, FF Member, now online at Youtube.com
18. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1079576291
19. Rosemarie Chiarlone, FF Alumn, at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach, thru Aug. 3
20. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at MoMA, New York
21. Bill Gordh, FF Alumn, at Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Manhattan, June 7
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Weekly Spotlight: Lara Salmon, FF FUND 2024-25 recipient, at Brief Histories, Bowery, Manhattan, May 7-17
PULSE unfolds daily between May 7-17, at Brief Histories (115 Bowery, NYC) from 2-4pm.
A tribute to the diamond of chronic pain feedback, PULSE addresses the sharp loop between trauma, sensation, perception, and biological memory. Through controlled currents, the artist seeks to interrupt and rewire the entrenched circuitry of her nervous system, disrupting pathways that have long fused body to suffering.
Each day, visitors are invited to activate the work by engaging a pressure matrix mounted on the gallery wall. This touch sends an electrical signal into the artist’s body, momentarily unsettling her internal landscape. Across the room, a solar panel turns sunlight into a parallel intervention. Human touch and solar light-two gestures of care-work in tandem to spark brief, destabilizing chaos in the artist’s nervous system, opening the possibility of temporary relief of pain and new neural paths.
Hardware engineer for the project: Erika Erlandson Johnson
Artist bio
Lara Salmon is a performance and visual artist whose practice is grounded in the lived experience of chronic pain and unseen disability. Through physically demanding actions performed by a body with limits, she invites audiences to reflect on civic empathy and radical care. Based in Los Angeles, Lara has spent significant time living and working across the SWANA region, shaping her work’s nuanced perspective on global duty.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, including presentations at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, The Wende Museum of the Cold War (Los Angeles), SomoS Arts, and the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin). She has participated in residencies in Beirut, Berlin, and Marrakech.
Lara holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. She received the Grand Prix at the 2021 Larnaca Biennale in Cyprus for her performance saline dissonance, and is a 2024 Franklin Furnace FUND recipient. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Space on Space, and other outlets. She has been shortlisted for a Fulbright and Creative Capital.
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1. Lois Weaver, FF Alumn, at La MaMa, Manhattan, May 6
A Spring Cleaning/Seed Planting Care Cafe
a free event created by Lois Weaver and hosted by Kim Ima
May 6 , 2025, 5-7pm
Community Arts Space at La Mama
74A East 4th Street. New York, NY 10003
https://www.lamama.org/care-cafe/
“…even in a damaged world, imaginative action and natural growth working together can still generate a kind of salvation. ” -from ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ by Jean Giorno
It’s officially spring! Some blossoms have come and gone and our trees are showing off a new shade of green but for a lot of us it is hard to feel the hope and renewal associated with this glorious season. For our next Care Cafe we are wondering how small acts of spring cleaning and seed planting might refresh and sustain us? Especially now, with all that is happening in our country and in the world.
So please join us for a Spring Cleaning/ Seed Planting Care Cafe, where we can sit in a sunny room of care and possibly find the rest and regeneration we need to keep going.
May 6, 2025 from 5pm -7pm, at the Community Arts Space, 74 East 4th Street, NYC.
The Care Café asks us to turn up as we are, with no specific agenda, expectation, or discussion topic, simply asking the question: How can we maintain an attitude of care in an uncaring world? Set up like a conventional café with small tables and chairs, the Care Café acts as a temporary venue for community and conversation with some simple table activities set up within a framework of care. Just by entering the room, we acknowledge something of our own needs in the present moment and our desire to give and receive care.
You can RSVP here:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/performance/11633428
to let us know you are coming, but you can drop in anytime between 5-7 pm
We hope to be holding these Care Cafes monthly. Stay tuned for dates. https://www.lamama.org/care-cafe/
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2. Franklin Furnace’s Hidden In the Stacks Panel Discussion archival recording, now online
The archival recording of Franklin Furnace’s March 31, 2025 event, Hidden in the Stacks Panel Discussion at Pratt Library on March 31, 2025, is now at https://franklinfurnace.org/hidden-in-the-stacks-panel/ and also available on Franklin Furnace’s Vimeo account here: https://vimeo.com/1074668202?share=copy
Thank you very much.
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3. Anahí Cáceres, FF Alumn, at 49th Buenos Aires International Book Fair, Argentina, May 6
On May 6th at 7 pm, at the 49th Buenos Aires International Book Fair, Anahí Cáceres will participate in the meeting of authors from the El Zocalo Publishing Cooperative with the work “Neither Monarchs nor Starlings, Humans Who Migrate. Routes in Etymology” published with the support of Banco Santander/Mecenazgo-Buenos Aires
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4. Eddy Falconer, FF Alumn, now online at FranklinFurnace.org
Thank you to those who attended the Franklin Furnace LOFT event on April 22, 2025. The archival recording of Eddy Falconer’s films and the discussion with Patricia White, and audience Q&A, is now available in perpetuity here:
https://franklinfurnace.org/return-to-valhalla/
You can also find it on Franklin Furnace’s Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/1080840261
Thank you.
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5. Asia Stewart, FF Alumn, at Westbeth Gallery, Manhattan, May 10, and more
cat got your tongue (Presented with the Whitney ISP curatorial exhibition “a grammar of attention”) at Westbeth Gallery, Ramscale Penthouse (463 West St, New York, NY 10014), Saturday, May 10th, 1pm – 6pm
and
any experience with men and alcohol at JACK (20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238)
Thursday, May 29th, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Friday, May 30th, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Saturday, May 31st, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Saturday, May 31st, 9:00pm – 10:00pm
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6. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, at Cannes Film Festival, France, May 20 and more
Cheri Gaulke’s short documentary Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History can be seen in these upcoming film festivals: The American Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival, May 20 and Mendocino Film Festival, May 29-30. For more information see the film’s website https://oldgirlinatutu.com/home.
-Cheri Gaulke
Artist/Filmmaker/Educator/Activist
323-240-4745
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7. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, live online with San Francisco Artists Alumni, May 5
Richard H. Alpert in Conversation
with Jude Mooney
May 5th, 2025 at 10am PT (online)
Join us for our May Spotlight Talk featuring SFAI alum Richard H. Alpert (MFA 1973) in conversation with UNRULY curator Jude Mooney.
Alpert’s work reflects a deep engagement with sculpture, conceptual art, and interdisciplinary exploration, influenced by figures ranging from Richard Feynman to Marcel Duchamp. His career spans exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Japan, and in 1979 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture.
A major event in Alpert’s life — surviving a tragic explosion and fire that destroyed his San Francisco studio in 1986 — profoundly reshaped his artistic journey and perspective. His resilience and innovative spirit continue to inspire.
Alpert’s work has been widely collected and exhibited, and he remains a vital presence in contemporary art dialogue.
RSVP https://tinyurl.com/2zjpx55h
This talk is part of the programming for the exhibition UNRULY: North Bay Artists from the San Francisco Art Institute at the Museum of Sonoma County.
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8. Sharon Hayes & Brooke O’Harra, FF Members, at Artists Space, Manhattan, May 9
Sharon Hayes & Brooke O’Harra
Echo Chamber
Friday May 9, 7 and 9 pm
Both performances are free with RSVP
In collaboration with Frieze, Artists Space will present Echo Chamber, a performance proposal by Sharon Hayes and Brooke O’Harra. Echo Chamber is a live performance made with and in response to cassette recordings—commercial, archival and homemade—from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. The performance unfolds as a score for five performers and an installation of audio cassette players and microphones. Resisting the oversimplification of social discourse as an “echo chamber” reduced to ideology, the performance lingers with recordings of queer protest, LGBTQ oral histories, radio broadcasts and the artists’ personal audio collections from a 25-year span to find liberation in these echoes. Reverberating across political discourse from the McCarthy Era to the Trump Regime, Echo Chamber aims at the present moment and its confounding temporal orientations. Performers include Sharon Hayes, Greg Mehrten, Brooke O’Harra, Janice Owusu, and Pauli Pontrelli.
Biographies
Sharon Hayes is an artist who uses video, performance, sound and public sculpture to expose specific intersections between history, politics and speech, to unspool reductive historical narratives and to re-ignite dormant pathways through which counter-understandings of the contemporary political condition can be formed. In her work, she lingers in the grammars–linguistic, affective and sonic–through which political resistance appears. These examinations are central to her work: from her earliest video installation in 2003, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29, in which she re-speaks of each of the four audio tapes made by Patty Hearst and the SLA during her kidnapping, to her most recent work Ricerche: four, a two-channel video installation composed of footage from three group interviews with queer and trans elders in Philadelphia, Dowelltown, Tennessee and Los Angeles. Hayes’ practice is in conversation and acts in collective force and resonance with the heterogeneous field of actions, voices and practices that resist normative behaviors, complicit and unjust social agreements and proscriptive temporalities to open up new ways of being together in the world. Her work sustains a distinct and vital commitment to performance and to collaboration and is devoted to the radical possibilities of non-normative occupation of public space and in holding public space as a site for unpredictable and unregulated encounters.
Hayes has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at n.b.k. (Neue Berliner Kunstverein) in Berlin, Germany (2022), Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden (2019), Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York (2014), the Tanya Leighton Gallery in Berlin (2013), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2012), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (2012). Her work has also been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2013), the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the recipient of many awards and grants, including a US Artists Fellowship (2021), Pew Fellowship (2016), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), the Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2013), an Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2013), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (2007). She currently teaches in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
Brooke O’Harra (she/her) is a professional theater director and an artist. Current projects include an upcoming tour a large-scale performance project titled Be Holding with poet Ross Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, and the new ensemble Yarn/Wire (David Gaines, Yolanda Wisher and Ross Gay perform). Brooke is also the co-creator of a collaborative performance with artist Sharon Hayes called Time Passes. Time Passes is an 8-hour performance that uses the book-on-tape recording of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse as its spine. This show has had two iterations and will continue to be performed for a decade.
O’Harra begin her directing career in New Orleans LA in 1999 where she formed the experimental company The Theater of a Two-headed Calf with composer Brendan Connelly. That company moved to New York where Brooke directed all fourteen productions: including productions including the OBIE Award winning Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (2007 HERE Arts Center), It Cannot Be Called Our Mother but Our Graves a.k.a Macbeth (Soho Rep Lab 2008/9), Trifles (Ontological Hysteric Incubator 2010), and the opera project You, My Mother (2012 at La Mama ETC, 2013 in the River to River Festival). Brooke conceived, directed, wrote for, and performed in the Dyke Division’s live serial Room for Cream (Four seasons — 28 episodes) at La Mama, ETC 2008-10 and at the New Museum 2017. She wrote, directed and produced a nine-part research and performance project titled I am Bleeding All Over the Place: Studies in directing or nine encounters between me and you. The project began in April 2014 at the New Museum, NYC. Included is a large-scale performance title I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: A Living History Tour was performed at La Mama ETC in June 2016. Followed by several more one-night iterations through the Spring of 2019. The project culminates in a book of essays on directing titled Who is in the Room? (Routledge EDI Series released Sept. 2024). Brooke currently teaches Theater, Creative Writing and Performance at The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences.
Greg Mehrten has been making theater in New York and around the world since 1975. A two-time OBIE Award-winner, he is currently a Senior Artistic Adviser at Mabou Mines and is thrilled to be collaborating again with Brooke O’Harra and Sharon Hayes.
Janice Owusu is an actor and singer passionate about storytelling and bringing a voice to stories that have been left on the shelf for too long. She trained under Brooke O’Harra at the University of Pennsylvania and is excited to continue collaborating with both Brooke and Sharon.
Pauli Pontrelli (they/them) is an actor and creator. Performance credits include The Trees (Playwrights Horizons), The Visitor (The Public), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), House of Dance (Half Straddle). Film: Fry Day (Criterion Collection). Choreographer, marie it’s time by minor theater. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. @pauli.amorous
Accessibility
Artists Space is fully accessible via a wheelchair lift and automated door in front of the entrance on 80 White Street. The cellar gallery can be accessed via the ground floor elevator. Artists Space welcomes assistance dogs, and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. If you have any further questions about access please email info@artistsspace.org.
Supporters
Echo Chamber is produced in collaboration with Frieze. Artists Space Venue is generously supported by Stephen Cheng, Allan Schwartzman, and David Zwirner.
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9. Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, now online with Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Please visit this link:
https://collectie-in-het-park.middelheimmuseum.be/en/zoneoost/asbuthere
Thank you.
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10. Ed Woodham, FF Alumn, online course with School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, June 3-July 1
Hello all! You can take this School of Visual Arts class regardless of your national or global location!
Big Ideas: Conceptual Art 3.0 / with Ed Woodham
ONLINE / June 3 – July 1 / 5 sessions/ Tuesdays, 6-8pm
Participants will conceptualize, develop, create, and share simple, accessible, original works that combine methods from various creative techniques: observation, critical thinking, problem-solving, writing, performance, installation, and video.
For more information & to register, visit https://tinyurl.com/hv9jzfxd
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11. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online at mcusercontent.com
Dear friends,
I am happy to send out Studio Update 17 dealing with the restoration of my shaped monochromatic paintings. Doing this restoration work has not only taken me back to when these paintings were first made, but also allowed me to think about their future. Although these paintings were made in the 70s, their relevance and contemplative power stands.
Wishing you all a wonderful Spring and Summer.
All my best,
George
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12. Nadja Verena Marcin, FF Alumn, at Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany, thru May 24, and more
Gallery Weekend Berlin | Art Claims Impulse & Spazju Kreattiv
Group Shows in Berlin & Malta | Catalog & Press
NADJA VERENA MARCIN
Final Week of Zero Gravity (https://vimeo.com/156648320) at
Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions and System Failures (https://kreattivita.org/en/event/glitch-ontological-exhaustions-system-failures/)
Group Exhibition from March 14 – May 4, 2025
Spazju Kreattiv, Valetta (Malta)
With GLITCH: ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTIONS & SYSTEM FAILURES, Spazju Kreattiv becomes an amplifier for reflections on digitality & resistance, history & remembrance: aesthetic “disruptions” (glitches) challenge the audience to reflect on their technology-dependent society.
East German resistance is a model that shows how hegemonic narratives can be rewritten. Glitch Art—a powerful tool to deconstruct the technocratic, dictatorial, and repressive dimensions of neoliberal, communist, or capitalist systems—pushes us to the boundaries of our world, governed by surveillance, algorithmic dependence, and systemic exhaustion.
How old is the glitch? It has always existed. The Tractatus de Penitentia (1285) by Johannes Galensis introduces a subversive demon named Titivillus, the “patron demon of scribes,” who collected omitted, mumbled, and mispronounced words—especially those clerics who were said to have “stolen from God” during their morning prayers—which he preserved for their indictment at the end of days.
Marcin showcases her work Zero Gravity (Video, 2 mins, 2013 – watch video (https://vimeo.com/156648320) in which she floats in the space of a small jet over Tampa Bay in Florida, quoting fragments from Nietzsche’s text “God is dead”. Ironically, Marcin quotes the text in this day and age in which the consequences of lost religious belief have become apparent. The weightiness and emotionality of the text meet a voice enlightened by endorphins.
With her work, the artist alludes to the forlornness of humanity in a period of seemingly innumerable possibilities of consumption, in which a short feeling of happiness often takes the place of deeper contentment and a long-term orientation is lacking. For Marcin, the gravity of this text contradicts weightlessness – physical or mental as a human symptomatology.
Those interested in the work Zero Gravity can get in touch with the exhibition curator directly at kontakt@verena-voigt-pr.de.
Artists: Ruth Bianco, Joana Moll, Katrin Leitner, Nadja Verena Marcin, Michael Betancourt, Ian Keaveny, and Niklas Washausen
Curator: Verena Voigt
Sponsored by: Goethe Institut Malta, Deutsch-Maltesischer Zirkel, Valetta Cultural Agency, Valetta Design Cluster
Date: March 14 to May 4, 2025
Location: Spazju Kreattiv, Pjazza Kastilja, Valletta, VLT 1030 – Malta
READ EXHIBITION INFO HERE (https://kreattivita.org/en/event/glitch-ontological-exhaustions-system-failures/)
VIEW EXHIBITION CATALOG HERE (https://kreattivita.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Glitch-Ontological-Exhaustions-System-Failures-1.pdf)
WATCH ZERO GRAVITY VIDEO HERE (https://vimeo.com/156648320)
READ PRESS SUNDAY TIMES OF MALTA HERE (https://timesofmalta.com/article/exhibition-reflects-today-technologydependent-society.1106540)
Out Now: Exhibition Catalog for
Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions and System Failures (https://kreattivita.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Glitch-Ontological-Exhaustions-System-Failures-1.pdf)
Review in Sunday Times of Malta on March 14, 2025
Exhibition reflects on today’s technology-dependent society (https://timesofmalta.com/article/exhibition-reflects-today-technologydependent-society.1106540)
https://timesofmalta.com/article/exhibition-reflects-today-technologydependent-society.1106540
Experience OPHELIA (https://vimeo.com/262679276) at Post Eden (https://www.art-claims-impulse.com/en) (https://www.art-claims-impulse.com/en)
Group Exhibition during Gallery Weekend Berlin
May 2 to 24, 2025 | Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
Post Eden –
Contemporary video art with a critical gaze.
Presented by Gallery Art Claims Impulse for Gallery Weekend Berlin
Friday, May 2, Saturday, May 3, Sunday, May 4, from 12:00 – 20:00. On view till May 24, 2025.
At a time when screens have become the dominant lens through which we experience both intimacy and crisis, Post Eden—a contemporary video art exhibition—brings together a selection of powerful new works that question, reframe, and reimagine the current state of human progress. Curated by Gallery Art Claims Impulse, this exhibition presents works by renowned contemporary video artists Anna Anders, Mihai Grecu, Kathrin Hunze, Nadja Verena Marcin, and Jörg Piringer.
Rather than prescribing dystopia, Post Eden positions itself in the aftermath of an ideal that never fully materialised. These video works are less concerned with declaring decline than with exploring what emerges in its wake—spaces of friction, beauty, resistance, and transformation.
Anna Anders’ Old Days Clip reflects on the transition from professional identity to a less defined role in later life, questioning the societal invisibility and latent potential of aging through a quiet, poetic lens. Mihai Grecu’s Shockwave renders digital space as both spectacular and unstable—an aesthetic of echo and collapse.
The contributions by Kathrin Hunze, wellNet and Two legs or six: dec-ANT-structing social behavior, dissect patterns of control, cooperation and surveillance through immersive digital choreography. Nadja Verena Marcin’s Ophelia and Zero Gravity engage in feminist myth-making, combining art and philosophy to question the cultural systems that shape identity and desire.
Finally, Jörg Piringer’s Klangfarben des Zufalls explores the intersection of language, algorithm, and chance—creating audiovisual compositions where randomness becomes structure, and structure becomes open to chance.
Together, these works inhabit a liminal space between critique and imagination. They do not simply ask what went wrong, but how contemporary video art can render the complexity of our condition both visible and audible.
Post Eden offers a space of resonance for those seeking not just commentary, but the kind of abstraction and articulation that only art can create.
Art Claims Impulse, Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin
Dates: Friday, May 2, Saturday, May 3, Sunday, May 4, from 12:00 – 20:00. On view till May 24, 2025.
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12-6 pm
READ MORE ABOUT THE EVENT HERE (https://www.art-claims-impulse.com/en)
WATCH OPHELIA VIDEO HERE (https://vimeo.com/262679276)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact: Nadja Verena Marcin | nadja@kunstraumllc.com (mailto:Nadja@kunstraumllc.com%20)
Inquiries: Stephanie Sapper | s.sapper@gmx.de (mailto:s.sapper@gmx.de)
Website: https://nadjaverenamarcin.com (https://nadjamarcin.com)
Instagram: @nadjaverenamarcin (https://www.instagram.com/nadjaverenamarcin)
Bluesky: @nadjaverenamarcin.bsky.social (https://twitter.com/nadjamarcin)
Facebook: @nadjamarcin (https://www.facebook.com/nadjamarcin)
Hashtags: #nadjaverenamarcin
Images in order top to bottom:
Zero Gravity, 2013 © Nadja Verena Marcin & Bildkunst AG, Videography: Violetta D’Agata, sponsored by Aurora Aerospace & WARP Contemporary Art Platform; Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions and System Failures, Exhibition Catalog (c) Verena Voigt & Spazju Kreattiv, Malta, 2025; Exhibition reflects on today’s technology-dependent society, Review (c) Sunday Times of Malta on March 14, 2025; OPHELIA (Performance), 2018, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco © Nadja Verena Marcin & VG Bild-Kunst, Photography: Thomas Sparks
Copyright © 2025 NVM Studio, All rights reserved.
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13. Melissa Wolf & Paul Lamarre, FF Alumns, at Eidia House, Brooklyn, thru May 10
Hello Colleagues and Friends of EIDIA House, the Deconsumption Sales, and the Plato’s Cave Exhibition Series:
Alberto Casais exhibit BROKEN WINDOW THEORY is extended through May 10th
Drop by 14 Dunham Place, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11249
adjacent Williamsburg Bridge – a nice walk across
3 blocks from Peter Luger Steak House
1 block from Domino Sugar Park
Trains L, J, M.
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12 to 6pm
for appointment – 646 226 6478 – Paul
Visit https://www.eidia.com/platos-cave.html
for more details
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14. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Olympia, Manhattan, opening May 9, and more
Companion
Olympia opens my show Companion next Friday May 9 from 6-8pm.
I warmly invite you to attend.
Show dates: May 8 – June 21
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 6pm
41 Orchard, New York, New York
I will also be at Olympia the next day, Saturday May 10 from 12 – 2pm
Please stop by if you are in the city and can’t make the opening.
best,
Yura Adams
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15. Karen Shaw, FF Alumn, in New York Newsday, April 17
New York Newsday, April 17, 2025
Long Island
Karen Shaw, 83, Islip museum curator, conceptual artist.
By Frank Lovece
Special to Newsday
Karen Shaw, formerly of Baldwin, was a widely exhibited conceptual artist. And she herself may have been her greatest concept.
Born in the Bronx and raised there and in Jericho — an artist from childhood — she married at 18 and reared two children on Long Island while creating some of the most avant-garde art of her time.
Shaw died from cancer at home in upstate Holmes on March 27 at age 83.
In the mid-1970s, when her artwork first began appearing at such vaunted galleries as Urdang and OK Harris in Manhattan, “She was a feminist and raising a family,” said Mary Lou Cohalan, former director of the now-gone Islip Art Museum, where Shaw was senior curator for nearly 40 years.
Opened doors as curator
“And a lot of what she did took advantage of the materials she used as a housewife. She had a famous body of work called ‘Summantics’ that used ordinary things like supermarket flyers” to find hidden meanings in everyday objects.
As a curator, Shaw’s Islip shows were “widely regarded as among the most exciting and cutting-edge to be found in the region,” wrote Newsday in 2008. “Shaw’s singular gift is to find topics that are focused and clever, yet inclusive enough to spotlight a broad range of talents.”
Through it all she remained an activist, from Vietnam War protests in the 1960s and ‘70s to more recent work with the New Sanctuary Coalition, helping immigrant asylum-seekers find legal means to avoid deportation.
And she mentored many artists. At a Manhattan memorial after her death, “the place was crowded with friends and a whole bunch of people I didn’t know,” said one of her sons, David Shaw, of Brooklyn. “And these were all artists she had helped. And they emphasized to me how important her work at Islip was. She gave so many artists their first museum exhibition or first included them in shows, and they felt like they owed her so much.” Born Helene Karen Tobias on Oct. 25, 1941, she was the eldest child and only daughter of Jeanne and Emanuel Tobias. She attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan before graduating from Carle Place Middle/High School when her family moved to Long Island. She married Ronald J. Shaw in 1960 and moved to Flushing, Queens, and earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Hunter College in 1965.
Around 1968 the Shaws moved to Baldwin, and many years later they began splitting their time between a house there and a co-op studio in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, hard by art galleries there. Starting as a guest curator at the Islip Art Museum in 1981, Shaw soon became senior curator, a position she continued even after she and her husband left Baldwin for Chelsea in 2003.
Artist, teacher
While she could not display her own work at shows she curated, Shaw exhibited in solo and group shows at such venues as Franklin Furnace and P.S. 1 in New York; the Nassau County Museum of Art, Mills Pond Gallery and Anthony Giordano Gallery on Long Island; and museums and galleries across the country and worldwide. Her work is in the public collection of more than a dozen institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art.
As a visiting artist or adjunct professor, she taught at nearly 20 schools, including Princeton University, Chicago’s Columbia College, Philadelphia’s Moore College of Art & Design and Long Island’s Hofstra University and Southampton College. She won many awards and grants, and in April 1976 bested more than 3,100 other entrants in a New York Times contest to complete a Donald Barthelme short story.
With her family, “We did lots of traveling to the city, to galleries,” remembered her other son, Stephan Shaw, of Brooklyn,who said she urged her children to find their own paths. “She fostered our interests.We grew up independent-minded.”
In addition to her sons, she is survived by two brothers, Harris Tobias, of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Mitchell Tobias, of McLean,Virginia, and five grandchildren. Her husband died in 2020.
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16. GH Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, at Emily Harvey Foundation, Manhattan, May 16-17
Ranting in the Nu Moon
For Immediate Release
The Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway #2, New York, NY 10012
212-260-7530
May 16th & 17th
6pm
EHF
Will be presenting two evenings of video and live performance by the renowned Post-Fluxus artist GH Hovagimyan in collaboration with the “Atmospheric” artist Raphaele Shirley. The title is Ranting in the Nu Moon. Emily Harvey Foundation will screen several Video-Performance works done over a time period from 1977 to 2007. This will be followed by a live Post-Punk/Noise/Rant performance by GH in a space defining neon light sculpture created by Raphaele Shirley.
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17. Ann Meredith, FF Member, now online at Youtube.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/0erSqdKWs1M?si=AqeV9pVVJssCwHAw
Thank you.
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18. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1079576291
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
PZ, APRIL 29, 2025
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19. Rosemarie Chiarlone, FF Alumn, at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach, thru Aug. 3
Mapping Trajectories by Rosemarie Chiarlone explores the journey of an iconic structure from its original site to a new home. Beginning its life at the 27th Avenue crossing of the Miami River, the Wolfsonian Bridge Tender House is now a Miami Beach landmark, resting on the Washington Avenue sidewalk outside the museum. Blending poetry, painting, and typography, Chiarlone transforms the Bridge Tender House into a streetside canvas, filling the windows with large, abstracted, and vibrantly colored aerial maps. The project also includes a unique artist’s book, Tender, displayed in our lobby, and a newsprint tabloid with a poem that visitors can take home.
Artist Rosemarie Chiarlone explores the physical and psychological boundaries of human connection. Chiarlone’s artist books, works on paper, and installations often focus on the changing landscape of Miami.
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20. Mira Schor, FF Alumn, at MoMA, New York
Lyles & King gallery is thrilled to announce that the Museum of Modern Art has acquired four historic works by Mira Schor: Dress: House-tree-person-blue door (1977), Book of Pages (1976), Statement (1976), and Page, Letter (1976).
This important moment within Schor’s over 50-year oeuvre marks a fertile period of formal and conceptual exploration of gender, language, and interiority and represents a missing link in the history of feminist art. At CalArts from 1971-73, she participated in the Feminist Art Program at CalArts with Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, contributing to the Program’s historic Womanhouse project. She also encountered the nuanced anti-heroic thinking of the Fluxus movement. The conceptual approaches of Allan Kaprow, Allison Knowles, and Art & Language presented her with new models for uniting language, concept, and image. Creating these works while a professor at Nova Scotia School of Art & Design, Schor wrote dreams, memories, and intimate desires on translucent Japanese rice paper torn and formed into dresses, masks, fans, and a book. Paper and its material vulnerability were essential to the psychologically freighted work she was creating at the time. Ink would bleed through the layers rendering passages illegible and content lost while her pen created indexical imprints on underlying layers. Other words and sentences remained legible, depicting a young female artist questioning normative gender roles and pursuing self-actualization in a male-dominated art world. The movement between legibility and obscurity demonstrates her ambivalence towards confessional exposure and self-protection. The delicate paper, treated with medium to create translucency, forms archives of language. The intentional material fragility echoes Schor’s own sense of vulnerability at this time. The delicacy of the works was further defined by her antipathy towards commodifying the art object. Working between categories, she defined these artworks as “things.”
Schor currently has works on view at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, in Corps et âmes, curated by Emma Lavigne, through August 25, 2025. Her monumental, multi-canvas painting Sexual Pleasure (1998) will be exhibited at Art Basel Unlimited in June 2025.
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21. Bill Gordh, FF Alumn, at Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Manhattan, June 7
Please visit this link:
https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-bill-gordh-band-talking-to-the-moon
Thank you.
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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, Archive Intern, Summer/Fall/Winter 2024/2025
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