Contents for May 09, 2022
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Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Mary Suk, FF Alumn, at Green Space Studio, Astoria, Queens, May 13-14
2. Dolores Zorreguieta, FF Alumn, launches new online webseries of art videos for kids
3. León Ferrari, FF Alumn, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, thru Aug. 29
4. Aricoco, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumns, at Chelsea Market Gallery, opening May 14, and more
5. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, opening June 10
6. Coco Fusco, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
7. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, online with Primary Information, May 9
8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Trinity Church, Manhattan, May 11 and more
9. Nancy Azara, Rachel Frank, Kristin Jones, Aviva Rahmani, Priscilla Stadler, Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumns, at ecoartspace, Brooklyn, thru June 4
10. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, May 20
11. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, presented globally by CIRCA, thru May 31
12. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Chase Contemporary, Manhattan, thru May 29, and more
13. Todd Alcott, R Sikoryak, FF Alumns, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, May 12
14. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, at Hauser & Wirth, Manhattan, thru July 29
15. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
16. Marty Pottenger, FF Alumn, selected as Finalist, Maine Literary Awards 2022
17. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, receives Best Documentary Short Award, Florida Indie Film Festival
18. Heidi Hatry, FF Member, at SVA Gramercy Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 19
19. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, at Postmasters Gallery, Manhattan, May 19
20. Brahna Yassky, FF Alumn, at East Hampton Library, NY, May 24
21. Bob Holman, FF Alumn, at Howl! Gallery, Manhattan, May 13
22. Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, FF Alumns, at St. Mark’s Church, Manhattan, May 11
23. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, at Galerie Lelong & Co, Manhattan, opening May 13
24. Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin Amen, FF Alumn, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 12
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Rumiko Tsuda, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit these links:
https://sparrowny.com/blogs/in-memoriam/rumiko-tsuda
Thank you.
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1. Mary Suk, FF Alumn, at Green Space Studio, Astoria, Queens, May 13-14
Dear ones,
Please pardon the self promotional message. I am performing on May 13th & 14th as part of the Take Root Series held at Green Space Studio: https://www.greenspacestudio.org/ Your presence would be greatly appreciated. The link to purchase tickets is here:
https://danceentropy.networkforgood.com/events/33257-take-root-may-2022
I’m premiering a new work that has been retitled since first being programmed:
Life on the Hyphen (or How Not to Korean American — A Cautionary Tale about a Work in Progress: Part 1 – America)
Part dance theater, part monologue, part low-rent TED talk, the work is an excavation of memories of growing up in the 1970’s & 80’s in a small town. Written and performed by yours truly on a shared bill with Ensemble InterTwining.
Much love to you all. Hope to see you soon.
Mary
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2. Dolores Zorreguieta, FF Alumn, launches new online webseries of art videos for kids
We are happy to announce that the webseries I am an artist! is live!
I am an artist! is a series of art videos for kids. Available on YouTube, these 6 to 8 minutes videos are divided into four different age categories, each labeled with its own distinctive color and age group for easy navigation. The creator of the series, artist and educator Dolores Zorreguieta, shares techniques, tools and projects in a clear, instructive and engaging way. The videos showcase the work of a diverse range of artists of varied backgrounds and abilities, some underrepresented, some highly popular -all reinforce the idea that art comes from everywhere and is something we all can make and enjoy as a lifelong gift. Please join us in the new adventure I am an artist!!
On May 5, 2022, the first season of 12 videos in English became available on YouTube. In the following three months the content of these videos will be supplemented with additional information, tips and insights via Instagram and Facebook. The I am an artist! website is also available.
Dolores Zorreguieta and film producer Hebe Tabachnik, are working in partnership to make this dream possible and to make it last. We want to thank artist and writer Luz Fernández de Castillo, Director of LF Ediciones and President of Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo, for her generous contributions which were instrumental in the launching of I am an artist!. We are also deeply grateful to Harley Spiller and Jorge Zuzulich for their advice and friendship, and of course to Jose Gamboa and Juan Tallo for their quiet help which cannot be measured.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on Instagram and Facebook. By July we aim to finish the Spanish version of the first 12 videos, and by late August we hope to upload the second season. To be able to do so, we need your support: you can make a contribution by contacting us at info@123iamanartist.com and can also help by subscribing to our platforms and spreading the word. Please share this labor of love with the kids in your life. Get in touch anytime – we would love to hear your thoughts and your ideas!
Our mission
Through instruction, storytelling and reflection, I am an artist! celebrates art as a transformative force that needs to be part of every child’s education. Art is an invaluable vehicle for self discovery and community building. I am an artist! is a portal into shared experiences that go beyond art techniques into the heart and soul of humanity. I am an artist! aims for a more empathetic understanding of how children access knowledge. Art making is an ideal place to address complex issues like migration, community, justice and identity, and has been proven to be an effective instrument against violence and intolerance, not only in society but within the foundation of precious children’s minds. “Ms. Dolores” “Ms. D” “Ms. Z” – however she is called in public schools across New York City, Dolores Zorreguieta is unafraid to tackle serious issues with sensibility, candor, compassion, humor – and ART!.
I am an artist!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfv0mCzdtyUXWUXBTrYs1w/videos
https://www.123iamanartist.com/
https://www.instagram.com/123iamanartist/
https://www.facebook.com/123iamanartist
info@123iamanartist.com
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3. León Ferrari, FF Alumn, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, thru Aug. 29
Please visit this link:
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/OvW2k6Q
Thank you.
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4. Aricoco, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumns, at Chelsea Market Gallery, opening May 14, and more
Chelsea Market Gallery: May 14 – June 6, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 14th with walking tour 5-6p + APAHM “Sunset Celebration” 5-8p ($40 tickets on sale here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apahm-sunset-celebration-aapi-art-food-and-small-businesses-tickets-328816327487
Pearl River Mart SoHo: May 18 – August 28, 2022
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 18th from 6-8p
Presented in partnership with the Asian American Arts Alliance and Pearl River Mart, I am curating a group exhibition, Soft Solidarity (SoS) for Asian Pacific American heritage month (APAHM) in May at two sites in downtown Manhattan. The shows explore the urban sociological concept of soft solidarity during a tumultuous time of anti-Asian sentiment and violence during the on-going pandemic. Six women-identifying artists who share a love for contemporary art and traditional craft delve into how seemingly contrasting attributes can exist simultaneously—softness and strength, pliability and power, delicacy and danger.
Please join is at the Chelsea Market exhibition tour on Saturday, May 14th and the open reception at Pearl River Mart gallery in SoHo on Wednesday, May 18th to support our asian community. The Chelsea Market event includes a special APAHM “Sunset Celebration” with food and drink. Tickets are available for purchase at the link above.
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5. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, FF Alumn, at Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, opening June 10
Mesophotic Sanctuary | Solo Exhibition
June 10 – August 26, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 5-9p
The Delaware Contemporary, 200 S Madison St, Wilmington, DE 19801
You’re invited to an imaginary underwater immersion at my solo exhibition at The Delaware Contemporary, presented in partnership with the Delaware Children’s Museum. Mesophotic Sanctuary examines a “middle light” marine ecosystem and the implications of its destruction, and erosion due to consumer behavior and imperial capitalism. This multimedia art installation challenges the public to wildly re-envision the future of the planet and how communities can develop sustainable strategies inspired from nature’s adaptability and perseverance.
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6. Coco Fusco, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/arts/design/covid-memorials-grief.html?searchResultPosition=1
Thank you.
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7. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, online with Primary Information, May 9
Virtual Panel Discussion on
Michael Asher’s
“Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979”
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Andrea Fraser, Cameron Rowland, and Hamza Walker
May 9, 6:30 PM EDT
Please join us for an online panel discussion on Michael Asher’s Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979, which we published in facsimile form in October 2021. The panel will include the book’s original editor Benjamin H.D. Buchloh alongside artists Andrea Fraser and Cameron Rowland. It will be moderated by Hamza Walker, Director of LAXART.
The panel will take place over Zoom on May 9 at 6:30 PM EDT.
register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s3WW6nr2TCCKJ1osN6opkQ
Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979 is an essential document of a decade of formative work by Michael Asher. Originally published in 1983, the book presents 33 works (plus an additional work from 1983-1985 inside the dust jacket) through the artist’s writings, photographic documentation, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements, and other ephemera.
Initiated by Kasper König, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979 was originally co-published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and was largely shaped by Asher’s close collaboration with Buchloh, who succeeded König as editor of the press in 1977.
Buy: https://primaryinformation.org/product/writings-1973-1983-on-works-1969-1979/
For more information or press inquiries, please contact James Hoff at james@primaryinformaiton.org.
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh is currently the co-editor of October. Between 2005 and 2021 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art in the History of Art and Architecture department at Harvard University. He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 and Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art, both published by the MIT Press. In 2007, he received the Golden Lion for Contemporary Art History and Criticism at the Venice Biennale. Between 1977 – 1987 he was Editor of the Press at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where he worked on publications with Michael Asher, Dara Birnbaum, Jenny Holzer, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula, among others.
Andrea Fraser is an artist whose work investigates the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural institutions, fields, and groups. She is Professor at the UCLA Department of Art. Retrospectives of her work have been presented by the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013), the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2015), the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, and MUAC UNAM Mexico City (both 2016). Her recent books include 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics (2018, co-published by the CCA Wattis Institute, Westreich/Wagner Publications, and MIT Press) and Andrea Fraser Collected Interviews 1990-2018 (2019, A.R.T. Press and Koenig Books).
Cameron Rowland is an artist in New York. Rowland’s work relies on a materialist critique of racial capitalism, attending to institutions of subjection as well as their refusal. Their work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Établissement d’en face, Brussels; Kunsthalle Freiburg, Switzerland; Artists Space, New York; and Essex Street / Maxwell Graham, New York.
Hamza Walker is Director of LAXART, a nonprofit art space in Los Angeles, and an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to joining LAXART in 2016, he was director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, a non-collecting contemporary art museum in Chicago. Recent exhibitions at LAXART include Kandis Williams/Cassandra Press’ The Absolute Right to Exclude (2021) and Postcommodity’s Some Reach While Others Clap (2020). Exhibitions at the Renaissance Society include Teen Paranormal Romance (2014), Suicide Narcissus (2013), Several Silences (2009), Black Is, Black Ain’t (2008) and New Video, New Europe (2004). Walker also co-curated (with Aram Moshayedi) the 2016 iteration of Made in L.A. He has won the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement (2004) and the Ordway Prize (2010) for impact on the field of contemporary art.
Primary Information is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that receives generous support through grants from the Michael Asher Foundation, Empty Gallery, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Greenwich Collection Ltd, the John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation, Metabolic Studio, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the Orbit Fund, the Stichting Egress Foundation, VIA Art Fund, The Jacques Louis Vidal Charitable Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Wilhelm Family Foundation, and individuals worldwide. Primary Information receives support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, and Teiger Foundation through the Coalition of Small Arts NYC.
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8. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Trinity Church, Manhattan, May 11 and more
Open Mic Under the Stars, hosted by Galinsky and Trinity Lower East Side, Thursday May 11th, 8pm, FREE
Bring your best performance art, song, comedy, drama, and any other form of performing to this wonderful night under the stars in the East Village. Sign up at the event for a five minute slot! 8-9:30pm, FREE, Trinity Church, 602 East 9th Street at Avenue B
The Galinsky Brothers Comedy Improv one night only! Saturday May 14th, 8pm, at the East Village Playhouse
The Galinsky Brothers are relentlessly funny with their observational and confessional theatrics, while being brutally honest storytellers and performers. Sometimes seemingly sweet and innocent, sometimes diabolical, the Galinsky Brothers hold no hostages in their audience fueled comedy, with robust scene and character development that touches on: relationships, family, politics and anything an audience is willing to provide as fodder for their drama and comedy. Joined by improvisational grand master Katha Cato and off the wall actress singer Julia Jade Duffy, this is a show that will lift you with its absurdity and its risk taking! $10 in advance, $20 at the show, 7:30pm doors 8pm curtain, East Village Playhouse, 340 East 6th Street between 1st and 2nd Ave. tix http://www.galinskybrothersmay14.eventbrite.com
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9. Nancy Azara, Rachel Frank, Kristin Jones, Aviva Rahmani, Priscilla Stadler, Chin Chih Yang, FF Alumns, at ecoartspace, Brooklyn, thru June 4
ecoartspace presents Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Including more than fifty artists from the New York City region working in painting, sculpture, video and installation addressing environmental issues Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York—Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats will be on view at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center May 7—June 4, 2022, including over fifty artists who are members of ecoartspace, an international platform for artists addressing environmental issues. The exhibition’s title, “Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats,” found inspiration in the show’s largest artwork, Claire McConaughy’s painting Fragile Rainbow (2021). In her words, McConaughy’s sanguine waterscape addresses “interconnection, loss, transformation, and hope.” Her title is especially relevant for this heterogeneous exhibition of artworks by ecoartspace members based in the New York City region whose paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations evoke “connection, loss, transformation, and hope.” These artists are especially conscious of our indebtedness to living beings in our midst and human beings’ obligation to appreciate and protect organic and inorganic matter alike. Ordinarily, human beings, especially urbanites, find it difficult to situate themselves as embedded in their habitat. This exhibition aims to inspire visitors to view one’s environment as habitat and to realize one’s contribution to habitat. When we walk in the woods, we become part of the forest. To create this sensorial experience, works were selected that amplify habitats’ various voices from birds to bladderwrack, clouds, cochineals, compost, coral reefs, cows, deer, flowers, fungi, human beings, jellyfish, knotweed, lichens, mangroves, metals, minerals, mugworts, mushrooms, plastic, rainbows, rivers, roots, rust, seeds, shells, soil, the sun, rivers, trees, watersheds, and worms. Idyllic landscapes stride landscapes riddled with plants eager to migrate and unpredictable outcomes. Similarly, imagery evoking bleached corals find resolution in a biomorphic sculpture meant to substitute for coral reefs. Artists: Elizabeth Albert, M. Annenberg, L.C. Armstrong, Nancy Azara, Jeannine Bardo, Jude Norris – Bebonkwe, Lois Bender, Jean Brennan, Michele Brody, Diane Burko, Pamela Casper, Margaret Cogswell, Elisabeth Condon, Katie De Groot, Kate Dodd, Rosalyn Driscoll, Eliza Evans, Rachel Frank, Alice Garik, Tessa Grundon, andrea haenggi, Mara Haseltine, Kristin Jones, Natalya Khorover, Jennifer Kotter, Laurie Lambrecht, Rita Leduc, Stacy Levy, Lenore Malen, Claire McConaughy, Lauren Rosenthal McManus, Emmy Mikelson, Patricia Miranda, Seren Morey, Carol Padberg, Tracy Penn, Aviva Rahmani, Leah Raintree, Laziza Rakhimova, Bonnie Ralston, Lisa Reindorf, Eleni Smolen, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Priscilla Stadler, Linda Stillman, Mary Ann Strandell, Debra Swack, Sandra Taggart, Kate Temple, Deborah Wasserman, Riva Weinstein, Linda Weintraub, Stephen Whisler, Marion Wilson, Chin Chih Yang, Millicent Young Exhibition Dates: Saturday, May 7 to Saturday, June 4, 2022 Public Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7, 3-5pm Public Closing Reception: Saturday, June 4, 4-6pm Organized and Produced by ecoartspace Programs: be at the shore is all we ask (high-tide), a performance by andrea haenggi and bladderwrack May 7, 2022, 3-5pm During the opening reception, performers 20 minutes away at the Marsha P. Johnson State Park will meet and communicate with bladderwrack through dance. They will walk in procession with bladderwrack to the gallery where visitors are invited to “tenderly” take one of the bladderwrack and bring them back to any shore in New York City with help of a guided written prompt. The event will be live-streamed in the gallery. Walking The Bomb, a performance by Stephen Whisler May 7 and June 4, 2022, 3-5pm Walking The Bomb is a performance including a handcrafted wood and sheet metal sculpture, a human scale version of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Dressed in a dark grey suit with a white shirt, the artist walks the streets towing The Bomb behind him. Ecology Extended: A Conversation May 22, 2022, 1-3pm Ecology Extended is an interdisciplinary collaboration between artist Rita Leduc, ecologist Dr. Rich Blundell and the temperate montane ecosystem of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Leduc and Blundell will present and extend outward their phenomenological, conversational, relational, and ecological process. After sharing the project’s artistic output to date, they will engage in an open dialogue and conclude by welcoming the public into the conversation. ABOUT Sue Spaid Cincinnati-based philosopher Sue Spaid, Ph. D., has been active in the artworld as a collector, curator, art writer, university lecturer, and museum director since 1984. The author of five books on art and ecology, Spaid’s most recent monograph is The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World (2020), published by Bloomsbury Academic. In 2017, Spaid curated “Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017,” a sixty-year survey of artists’ ecological efforts throughout Europe, accompanied by a book of the same name, published by Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen. In 2013, her traveling exhibition “Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses, and Abandoned Lots,” funded by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, concluded its tour at the American University Museum and Arlington Arts Center. While Curator at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1999-2002), she authored the book Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies that accompanied the 2002 exhibition she co-curated with Amy Lipton (1956-2020), former east coast curator of ecoartspace. https://suespaid.info ABOUT ecoartspace ecoartspace was conceived in 1997 by Patricia Watts in Los Angeles as a venue where visitors could learn about the principles of ecology through immersive environments created by artists. That year she published one of the first websites with a directory of artists addressing environmental issues. In 1999, Watts partnered with east coast curator Amy Lipton (1956-2020), combining forces working from both coasts while operating under the nonprofit umbrella of SEE, the Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, a 501c3 fiscal sponsor. 2019 marked 20 years that Watts and Lipton curated art and ecology programs, participating on panels and giving lectures internationally. Combined, they curated over 60 art and ecology exhibitions, many outdoors, collaborating with artists to create site-specific works. They have worked with hundreds of artists from across the country, and internationally. Starting in 2020, ecoartspace became an LLC membership organization based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.ecoartspace.org ABOUT WAH Center September 8, 1996, Yuko Nii purchased a New York City Landmark Kings County Savings Bank and also on the National Register of Historical Places, and founded the non-profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, aka WAH Center, based upon her “Bridge Concept.” That concept envisions a multifaceted, multicultural art center whose mission is to coalesce the diverse artistic community, and create a global bridge between local, national and international artists, emerging, mid-career and established artists, and artists of all disciplines. Thus through the international language of art we come to understand each other to create a more peaceful and integrated world. The WAH Center is a force for peace and understanding and its concept is incorporated in its acronym: “WAH” in Japanese means “peace” or “harmony” or “unity.” The WAH Center is located at 135 Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 6pm. Admission is Free. For more information visit www.wahcenter.net or call 917-648-4290 or 917-974-6096 or email: wahcenter@earthlink.net Press contact: Patricia Watts, founder/curator ecoartspace tricia@ecoartspace.org 310 704 2395
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10. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, at Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, May 20
Book Signing
Friday, May 20, 6-8pm
Join Nancy Azara and friends for an evening book signing and live performances.
Votives: Sculptures, Nancy Azara at the Carter Burden Gallery, 548 West 28th Street, #534, New York, NY 10001. Tel. (212) 564-8405
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11. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, presented globally by CIRCA, thru May 31
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
Agnes Denes
Another Confrontation
Presented Globally by CIRCA
May 1 – May 31, 2022
Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation
Picadilly Lights, Picadilly Circus, London
Each night during the month of May, at 8:22 pm local time, CIRCA, the London-based digital art and culture platform, will present 3 new works by Agnes Denes on electronic billboards throughout the world.
Denes first rose to international attention in the 1970s, creating work influenced by science, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, ecology, and psychology, to analyze, document, and ultimately aid humanity. Her theories about climate change and life in an ever-changing, technologically-driven world demonstrate a deeply prescient understanding of society today.
Another Confrontation debuts two videos created by the artist for CIRCA as well as a questionnaire highlighting Denes’s focus on ecology, her fears for our present environment, and hopes for future survival in the following three acts:
May 1 – 10, 2022
Wheatfield–A Confrontation, 1982
An act of protest, Denes planted an expansive wheat field in a landfill in lower Manhattan in 1982, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center and facing the Statue of Liberty, as a comment on the mismanagement of world hunger, food, waste, energy, commerce, trade, land use, and economics.
May 11 – 20, 2022
Tree Mountain–A Living Time Capsule, 1992–96
The man-made mountain was conceived by Denes in 1982. Measuring 420 meters long, 270 meters wide, 38 meters high, it was planted with 11,000 trees by 11,000 people from all across the globe at the Pinzio gravel pits near Ylojarvi, Finland in 1996. A living time capsule, the land upon which Tree Mountain is planted cannot be touched for 400 years.
May 21 – 31, 2022
Questionnaire and Time Capsule
A new global survey inviting the public to answer 11 questions set by Denes concerning humanity in the year 2022. Submitted responses will be buried in a time capsule to be opened in the year 3022, a thousand years from now.
Click here to view the Questionnaire
“Agnes Denes is a pioneer who alerted the world to humanitarian and environmental issues when very few people were paying attention.” said Josef O’Connor, Artistic Director of CIRCA. “Pushing boundaries once again, we are honored to be marking the 40th anniversary of Wheatfield–A Confrontation with Another Confrontation, combining video with augmented reality to present her timely message on a global stage and introduce her prophetic legacy to a new generation.”
CIRCA and Piccadilly Lights have commissioned an Augmented Reality wheat field to commemorate the 40th
anniversary of Denes’s best known public artwork Wheatfield—A Confrontation. Expanding the experience into mobile devices, a special collaboration with Meta Open Arts has enabled the development of an AR-generated wheat field by AR Outdoor Media Company, Darabase, with the advanced camera filter enabling global Instagram users to tap and grow their very own augmented wheat field.
Click here to step inside the AR wheat field
https://www.instagram.com/ar/708428807069417/
CIRCA Screen Locations:
20:22 BST – London, Piccadilly Lights
20:22 CET – Berlin, Limes, Kurfürstendamm
20:22 PST – Los Angeles, Pendry West Hollywood
20:22 ACT – Melbourne, Fed Square
20:22 UTC – Milan, Luxottica, Piazzale Cadorna
20:22 EST – New York, Luxottica, Times Square
20:22 KST – Seoul, COEX K-Pop Square
Works by Agnes Denes are currently on view in The Milk of Dreams, the main exhibition at the 2022 Venice Biennale, described by critic Ben Davis as “majestically intelligent … laying out the progression of tools that have shaped human consciousness since the Stone Age in a fantastic hieroglyphic chart.” They can also be seen in Chapter 5IVE, Het HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands (May 7 – September 25, 2022) and Balance: Environment and Society in Swiss Art of the 70s and 80s, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland (May 14 – July 31, 2022).
LESLIE TONKONOW Artworks + Projects
401 Broadway, Suite 411
New York, NY 10013
212 255 8450
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12. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Chase Contemporary, Manhattan, thru May 29, and more
FF Alumn FRANC PALAIA will have several works in an expansive Richard Hambleton Retrospective exhibition at Chase Contemporary at 413 W. Broadway Soho NYC from May 5 – 29th. Opening on Thursday May 5 from 5-8pm. Palaia is the only other artist included in this retrospective show which spans 3 gallery spaces. His works incorporate his Hambleton shadow photographic imagery.
Hours: T – S 11-6pm info@chase contemporary.com Francpalaia1@gmail.com
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Franc Palaia will present a solo show at Hudson Beach Glass gallery – 162 Main St Beacon NY. from May 14 to June 8, 2022. Opening Saturday May 14 from 5-8pm. The show is entitled “Wall Works”. The installation consists of about two dozen simulated wall works that look like a contemporary urban archaeological site. www.Hudsonbeachglass.com
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13. Todd Alcott, R Sikoryak, FF Alumns, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, May 12
Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show at The City Reliquary!
Live readings and projections of graphic novels, cartoons, and more from a wide range of authors and artists.
Featuring:
Todd Alcott
Julia Alekseyeva
Maria Hoey
Michael Kupperman
Jeremy Nguyen
Sanika Phawde
Hosted by R. Sikoryak.
The show will be followed by a book signing.
This is an all-vaccinated event.
At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Times: 7:30pm door 8:00pm show
Tickets: $10 Pre-Sale and $12 Day-Of
https://withfriends.co/event/14329018/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows
Bios:
Todd Alcott was a screenwriter for many years, and now works as a graphic artist. He has designed and published a tarot deck, The Pulp Tarot, and has a new book titled Ephemera: The Cultural Mashups of Todd Alcott. He is now working on a “graphic memoir” of his life with his abusive father. Instagram: @toddalcott
Dr. Julia Alekseyeva is an assistant professor at UPenn and the author-illustrator of the award-winning Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (Microcosm, 2017). She publishes graphic essays on themes as varied as philosopher Walter Benjamin, the George Floyd protests, Jews with Christmas trees, 1968 protest movements, and Russian formalism in Jewish Currents, The Nib, World Literature Today, Lilith, The Paper Brigade, and elsewhere. www.jalekseyeva.com
Maria Hoey along with her brother Peter create the Eisner-nominated comic series, Coin-Op. Their first graphic novel, Animal Stories, a 6-story collection of inter-connected stories about animals and people, was published by Top Shelf Productions in March, 2022. coinopbooks.com
Michael Kupperman is an award-winning artist and writer whose work has appeared in outlets such as The New Yorker, Fortune, The New York Times, Nickelodeon Magazine, Forbes, Playboy, Heavy Metal, McSweeney’s, DC, Marvel, Vice, Saturday Night Live, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and five of his own books. His most recent was All the Answers, published in 2018 by Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Muire and son Ulysses. michaelkupperman.com
Jeremy Nguyen is cartoonist and illustrator, whose cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker magazine. www.jeremywinslife.com
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, cartoonist and reportage artist based in Jersey City. Sanika makes comics to process her life and document instances of emotional connection, and conversations people have over meals. www.sanikap.com
R. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and the author of Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn & Quarterly). Sikoryak’s comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and more. He’s presented his live comics performance series, Carousel, around the US and Canada. Instagram: @rsikoryak
More info: https://carouselslideshow.com
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14. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, at Hauser & Wirth, Manhattan, thru July 29
Please visit this link:
https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/36801-cindy-sherman-1977-1982/
Thank you.
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15. Cindy Sherman, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
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16. Marty Pottenger, FF Alumn, selected as Finalist, Maine Literary Awards 2022
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17. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, receives Best Documentary Short Award, Florida Indie Film Festival
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18. Heidi Hatry, FF Member, at SVA Gramercy Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 19
Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art
May 10-28, 2022
Opening Reception
May, 19th
6:00-8:00 PM
SVA Gramercy Gallery
209 E 23rd St.
New York, NY – 10010
Pre-registration required at
https://sva.edu/events/ancestral-echoes-a-decade-of-bio-art
Curated by Suzanne Anker and Tarah Rhoda
Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art is a ten-year survey of artworks commemorating the inauguration of SVA’s Bio Art Laboratory, one of the first of its kind in a Fine Arts Department in the United States. In this unique laboratory, artists work with the tools of science to make art. Ranging from faux leather made from bacteria to microscopic images revealing the unseen, issues concerning climate change and sustainability are the focus of this practice. This exhibition brings together the work of current students, alumni, and visiting artists engaged with these processes and concepts. Drawing on both experimental media and new technologies, artists since the 1980s have turned their attention to working with biologically related concepts and materials. Whereas traditional art practices turn their attention to aesthetic attributes of color, line, and form, Bio Art expands such considerations to engage with the philosophical concerns concerning the alteration of nature, both environmentally and in scientific laboratories.
“Myotomato”, a group project produced by SVA students and its consultants in 2016, for the competition Bio Design Challenge, created a speculative protein-rich tomato which could deliver nutrients to humans without the need for consuming meat. This project, presented at the Museum of Modern Art received an award and has traveled to numerous exhibition sites. Other work in the exhibition include an array of works by the pioneers of Bio Art including Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, Paul Vanouse, and Jennifer Willet among others. Alumni include Steph Mantis, who appears in a commercial for B&H Photo, and Carolyn Angleton who has gone on to be a speaker at many international conferences. Current students include Nick Delcastillo who has developed a technique for organic taxidermy, Chong Xu whose work combines the integration of biology with technology, and Sining Zhu who presents a fragile suit laden with human cells as they disappear from existence.
Participating Artists:
Carolyn Angleton, Suzanne Anker, Caro Arevalo, Reid Arowood, Heather Barnett, Clare Benson, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Crystal Wai Man Chan, Nicole Condon-Shih, Tori Deetz, Nick Delcastillo, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Scarlet Ding, Emma Fasciolo, Hannah Fitzgerald, Pablo Garcia Lopez, Heide Hatry, Kathy High, Rae Hsu, Yihe Huang, Priscilla Jeong, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Shirley Li, Jessica Maffia, Steph Mantis, Sabrina Merayo Nunez, Tarah Rhoda, Joana Ricou, Henry Sanchez, Kun Kyung Sok, Ernesto Solana, Orkan Telhan, Paul Vanouse, Natalie Waldburger, Darya Warner, Jennifer Willet, Chong Xu, Grace Zhang, and Sining Zhu among others.
Suzanne Anker is a Bio Art pioneer, visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Her work has been shown at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Daejeon Biennale, Korea; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, Germany; the Center for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany; the Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Her books include The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, co-authored with the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Laboratory.
Tarah Rhoda is an artist and educator based in NYC, where she runs the School of Visual Arts’ Bio Art Lab, a BSL-1 laboratory that provides artists with the tools of biotechnology and fosters creative applications. Her recent art practice explores the physical principle of wetness as a metaphor for empathy, social permeability and the challenge of recognizing our fluid selves blurring at the edges. She received her BFA (2010) and MFA (2020) from SVA and also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her work has recently been exhibited in New York, Denver, Detroit, Toronto, Mexico City, Lisbon, Berlin, Amsterdam, Eindhoven and featured in National Geographic, the Guardian, and CBSNews.
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19. G. H. Hovagimyan, FF Alumn, at Postmasters Gallery, Manhattan, May 19
Event by Gh Hovagimyan and Stephen Zacks
Postmasters Gallery 54 Franklin St. NYC
I am very happy to announce there will be a book launch for G.H. Hovagimyan: Situationist Funhouse at Postmasters Gallery at 54 Franklin Street in TriBeCa on May 19th, 7–10 pm.
“G.H. Hovagimyan is an absurdist, a strategist, a serial collaborator, and nothing short of a cultural icon in the world of contemporary art, particularly as it relates to how artists have adopted the digital technological tools of our times, adapting them in his work for critique of art, popular culture, and social engagement.
Situationist Funhouse is a joyride through this history. The journey Stephen Zacks so meticulously documents and describes is not only an incredibly comprehensive ride through G.H.’s life work to date—Hovagimyan adopted G.H. as an acronym in the 1990s as a kind of gesture of personal rebirth and to ease others’ difficulty with his last name [pronounced ho-va-GIM-yan]—it also serves as a document that tracks a particular view on the alternative contemporary art scene of New York from the 1970s to the present day.”
Where: Postmasters, 54 Franklin Street in Tribeca
When: May 19, 2022, 7–10 pm
Books will be for available for sale, and Hovagimyan and Zacks will be on hand to sign as well as to discuss the process of documenting 50 years of the artists’s work, placing the work in its sociological context, and telling stories from his most adventurous, critical, and entertaining projects.
If you cannot make it to the event, the book can be purchased at https://goffbooks.com/product/situationist-funhouse
Also on view in the gallery will be NFT art pioneer Olive Allen, Welcome to the Metaverse, occupying all 4500 square feet of the gallery space. The exhibition spans sculpture, installation, video and NFT artworks, deconstructing the emergence of how immersive experiences are reshaping 21st century life. Olive Allen has created several new large-scale projects that transform the gallery into an experiential playground, works that question how digital experience can be translated into the real world, radically altering how we see and interact with art, and ultimately connect with cultural communities both on and offline.
https://www.postmastersart.com/…/olive22_direct.html
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20. Brahna Yassky, FF Alumn, at East Hampton Library, NY, May 24
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21. Bob Holman, FF Alumn, at Howl! Gallery, Manhattan, May 13
HOWL! PRESENTS
the EDGY issue
Live Mag! 18
a reception
Friday, May 13th, from 7 to 9pm, 2022
Please join the Publishers, Contributors and the Howl! Family for a party celebrating Live Mag! An Art and Poetry Journal.
Featuring Andrei Codrescu
with Ama Birch, Elizabeth Guthrie, Bob Holman, Vincent Katz
Art by Gail Thacker, Luigi Cazzaniga
Hosted by Lori Ortiz, Ilka Scobie, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
At the Gallery, 6 East 1st Street, NYC
Subscribe! https://store.livemag.org
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22. Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, FF Alumns, at St. Mark’s Church, Manhattan, May 11
{EAU} Event for the celebration of Anthology’s Union
@ St. Mark’s Church / The Poetry Project,
entry @ 11th St. / 2nd Ave (in the Parrish Hall)
Wednesday, May 11th, 8pm – 11pm. * suggested entry $5 ~ $10* {cash}
Musicians, performers, artists & projections:
“is, was & will be” ~ 27 aphorisms for Jonas ~ video by Eros & Sylvarnes (5 min)
Julia Santoli & Tamio Shiraishi ~ voice, electronics, sax ~ with Eros slides (15 mi)
Marianne Shaneen & Zach Layton ~ poetry & 17-string bass
with Scott Kiernan, live video (10 min)
Guy Maddin film: The Eye Floats Like A Strange Balloon. . .
soundtrack by Masami Tomihisa (5 min)
Masaaki & Jumbo Theatre
(Masami Tomihisa, Aki Goto, Macrae Semans) ~ voice, synth, guitar, keyboards
with Lary 7 ~ magic lantern projections (15 min)
Wah Together (Church Version: Shhh Together) ~ voice, guitar, bass, drums (20 min)
Voice of the Essential Workers ~ live & remote feed (10 min)
Robert Mizaki ~ A Fragment of Dissous Frankenstein ~ video (5 min)
Victoria Keddie ~ modular synth ~ with slide visuals (15 min)
MV Carbon ~ cello & electronics ~ with Scott Kiernan, live video (15 min)
Laura Ortman ~ amplified violin (15 min)
Vampÿrates with Kamikaze ~ synth, samples, voice, video
(Richard Sylvarnes, Bradley Eros & Kamikaze Jones) ~ Bela & Rabbit’s Moon (20 min)
organized by Bradley Eros & the union committee of Anthology Film Workers* UAW 2110
Doors @ 7:45 / Show begins @ 8:15 * pay what you can / no one refused entry
EAU de Cinema <> the scent of solidarity / the odor of community / the perfume of resilience
Essential Scents for Essential Cinema! / Essential Cinema for Essential Workers! EAU! Oh! O!
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23. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, at Galerie Lelong & Co, Manhattan, opening May 13
Alfredo Jaar
The Temptation to Exist
May 13 – June 25, 2022
Opening reception: Friday, May 13, from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Artist-led exhibition walkthrough in conversation with Carlos Basualdo:
Saturday, May 14, 4:00pm in the gallery. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-walkthrough-with-artist-alfredo-jaar-with-carlos-basualdo-tickets-330872868657
Galerie Lelong & Co., New York is pleased to announce THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST, a solo exhibition by Alfredo Jaar. For over four decades, Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956, Santiago, Chile) has used photography, film, installation, and new media to create compelling works that examine complex socio-political issues and the ethics and limits of representation. The exhibition is constructed in two moments with two major installations, both presented in the U.S. for the first time. A newly commissioned work by the artist is concurrently on view in the Whitney Biennial (through September 5, 2022).
This exhibition is dedicated to Letizia Battaglia (b. March 5, 1935 – d. April 13, 2022).
Artist-led Exhibition Walkthrough
Saturday, May 14, 2022
4:00pm to 5:00pm
In the gallery
Join the artist in conversation with Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as they hold an exhibition walkthrough of the show.
Limited spots available, please register in advance.
Selected Exhibitions
A Logo for America, 1987
Alfredo Jaar: The Structure of Images
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois
Through July 3, 2022
Whitney Biennial 2022 “Quiet As It’s Kept”
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
Through September 5, 2022
Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022
Hamburg, Germany
May 20 – September 18, 2022
This is not America’s flag
The Broad
Los Angeles, California
May 21 – September 25, 2022
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24. Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin Amen, FF Alumn, at Van Der Plas Gallery, Manhattan, opening May 12
Showroom Exhibition
The 10 Ton Show: Group Exhibition
May 12th – June 5th, 2022 | Opening Reception: May 12th, 6 PM – 8 PM
The 10 Ton Show is a group exhibition in the Van Der Plas Gallery ShowRoom that features the work of artists and legends Konstantin Bokov, Alejandro Caiazza, Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin Amen, Christopher Hart Chambers, Tomas Del Balso, Al Diaz, Devon Marinac, Jason McLean, Clayton Patterson, Sinclair The Vandal, Kevin Wendall, and Antony Zito. Van Der Plas Gallery | 156 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
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