Contents for May 22, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Estera Milman, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Richard B. Woodward, FF Visionary, In Memoriam
1. Micki & Harley Spiller, Ilona Granet, Norm Magnusson, FF Alumns, grand opening of WHAM! Woodside Heights Art Museum, Queens, May 29
2. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
3. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at Pine Box Rock Shop, Brooklyn, May 30
4. Judy Giera, FF Intern Alumn, at Leslie-Lohman, Manhattan, June 5
5. Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at Greenwich Avenue & West 12th Street, Manhattan, June 10
7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, live online with Transart Institute, May 27
8. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, Twenty Summers, Provincetown, MA, June 2
9. Toni Sant, FF Alumn, publishes new art book
10. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at Untermyer Gardens, Yonkers, NY, May 30-July 25, and more
11. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, at Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford, Ireland, thru July 16
12. Guy De Cointet, FF Alumn, at Space Ten, Hawthorne CA, opening June 9
13. Laura Lappi, FF Member, at Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, FInland, opening May 25
14. David Reynolds, FF Alumn, in School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection
15. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, now online in Animot 13
16. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, at Roycroft, East Aurora, NY, thru June 19
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Estera Milman, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Alas we just heard the sad news that Estera Milman, who curated the 1992 Franklin Furnace traveling exhibition “Fluxus: A Conceptual Country,” passed away in 2021. Please visit these links:
https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2021/02/18/remembering-the-vision-of-estera-milman/
https://borislurieart.org/2021/curator-historian-estera-milman-deceased
Thank you.
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Richard B. Woodward, FF Visionary, In Memoriam
Richard B. Woodward (1953-2023)
Arts writer and longtime Wall Street Journal contributor dies, April 29, 2023 by WSJ Arts in Review Staff, May 4, 2023 5:01 pm ET
Rick Woodward was a rare breed. While his specialty was photography, he could write fluidly and insightfully on other topics—contemporary art, 18th-century British architecture, even the music industry. And he possessed a sensibility that was highly individual without being idiosyncratic. At the time of his death he was working on a book about photography and violence.
Here from 2022 is an article in Rick’s words:
Thank you, Franklin Furnace offers sincere condolences to Rick’s family and friends.
Thank you.
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1. Micki & Harley Spiller, Ilona Granet, Norm Magnusson, FF Alumns, grand opening of WHAM! Woodside Heights Art Museum, Queens, May 29
Have you heard about NYC’s newest community museum?
You’re invited to the grand opening, Memorial Day Monday, May 29, 2023, 12 noon
WHAM! The Woodside Heights Art Museum
Explore our inaugural exhibitions A Collaged History of Woodside Heights; Fruits of Woodside Heights & the world’s first sculpture court featuring artists’ signs!
Refreshments will be served!
Take the 7 local train to 52nd Street, Queens, & stroll 2 blocks to WHAM!
4148 54th Street Woodside NY (917) 553-4831
WHAM! is made possible in part with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.
Thank you.
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2. Sarah Schulman, FF Alumn, now online at NewYorker.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/letters-from-the-may-15-2023-issue
Thank you.
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3. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, at Pine Box Rock Shop, Brooklyn, May 30
Kicking off my birthday with this performance… Come celebrate Gemini season.
I’m headlining with a 15 min story.
You can bring a 5 min story for the open mic.
And we can hang out afterwards. Get pizza.
“Just One More Thing: A Storytelling Open Mic” at Pine Box Rock Shop
Tuesday, May 30
8:30 pm
12 Grattan Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(between Bogart St & Lt. Richard Nappi Way) (there’s street parking)
Just steps away from the Morgan Ave stop on the L train in East Williamsburg / Bushwick
Free
It’s a chill scene. Room for all of us.
A pub with a back room performance stage. Come Tawlk!
Thank you.
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4. Judy Giera, FF Intern Alumn, at Leslie-Lohman, Manhattan, June 5
On Monday, June 5 from 6:30-8:30, join us at the Leslie-Lohman for an evening of art, activism, voter education and awareness, and drag in partnership with Drag Out the Vote.
Drag Out the Vote: https://dragoutthe.vote/
Drag Out the Vote and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art bring together Elisa Crespo, Anne Lieberman, Judy Giera, and Chanel Lopez, with drag queen and DOTV national co-chair Brita Filter moderating. This constellation of speakers will discuss how civic engagement and political and cultural activism are woven into the fabric of drag and queer artistry. Brita Filter will be opening and closing the conversation with a drag performance.
Elisa Crespo (she/her), the Executive Director of the New Pride Agenda, is a transgender Latina, advocate, and former public servant who has fought to promote civic engagement and elevate the LGBTQIA+ community’s voice in halls of power.
Anne Lieberman (they/them) is an organizer, sport policy nerd and lifelong athlete. Anne serves as the Director of Policy and Programs for Athlete Ally—the leading nonprofit organization working to dismantle the structures of oppression that isolate, exclude and endanger LGBTQIA+ people in sport.
https://twitter.com/anneliebs?lang=en
Judy Giera (she/her) is a Brooklyn based visual artist and arts worker. Judy serves as the Collections Manager for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art where she oversees the care of roughly 25,000 objects amassed in the holdings of the only dedicated museum to queer art in the world.
Chanel Lopez (she/her) is the Deputy Director of LGBTQIA+ Affairs for Governor Kathy Hochul for the NYS Executive Chamber. Prior to this role, Chanel served as the Transgender Communities Liaison for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
https://www.transequityconsulting.com/blog/chanellopez
Brita Filter (she/her) is a world-renowned drag entertainer and political activist who uses her art and activism of drag to engage people in the political process. She is the National Co-Chair of Drag Out the Vote, has starred in Fusion TV’s reality series, Shade: Queens of NYC, and rose to international notoriety after competing on season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
RSVP:
https://leslielohman.org/calendar
Thank you.
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5. Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at Greenwich Avenue & West 12th Street, Manhattan, June 10
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters present
Weavers of the Daisy Chain Gang Chorus: Ties That Bond
June 10, Noon to Dusk. Rain date June 11.
NYC AIDS Memorial
76 Greenwich Ave at 12th Street.
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters invite you to participate in their activation of the NYC AIDS Memorial on June 10, 2023. Noon until Dusk.
We’re creating an all day event titled… Weavers of the Daisy Chain Gang Chorus: Ties That Bond,
a durational performance/installation in collaboration with NYOBS – our “queer- skinned kitchen band”. Beginning at noon, our ensemble will weave a tapestry of ribbons, sound, movement, music, and text throughout the Memorial site, evoking the tradition of springtime maypole celebrations.
https://www.nycaidsmemorial.org/weavers
We invite you to bring a photograph, drawing, poem, lightweight momento that acknowledges and commemorates those lost to, or living with, AIDS /HIV. Materials must be no larger than legal paper and easily attached to our “web” of red binding materials including ribbons, cloth, rope, etc. All submissions will be gifted to the NYC AIDS Memorial for their archives. If unable to attend on the day of event, please send your submission to
Allied Productions PO BOX 20260 NY NY 10009
For more info please contact us at peterandjack@alliedproductions.org
Thank you.
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7. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, live online with Transart Institute, May 27
On decentering art as an individual endeavor
A presentation by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles for Transart Institute
Saturday, May 27, 15:00 – 15:45 UTC
Free and registration required
To register please go to: https://form.jotform.com/203017522493045
It all came to be at the very height of the Covid pandemic, while we were surrounded by the wailing of ambulances in the South Bronx and waited expectantly for the Governor’s daily radio updates on the emergency situation in New York State. I would sit in the backyard to meditate on a rusty pink chair, and observe the downloads that I was receiving as to where to go next creatively. This marked the birth of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing, and also serving as a space where that which is not necessarily seen or manifested in tangible ways is seeded, nurtured and given room to grow safely. Examples of this include processes melding art, ritual, ceremony, rites of passage, and consciousness. Now in its third year, The Salon continues to challenge notions of art-making as an individual endeavor, to rethink the future of creativity as being collaborative, and to open up to the concept of building a network of joy within the arts. And similarly, it offers space to visionaries in an unusual confluence of fields and unprescribed ways of being and approaching life. But is it an artwork? In On Decentering Art as an Individual Endeavor, Nicolás will draw on The Salon’s herstory/history/theirstory to launch a conversation on cooperation, kindness, generosity, and care in the arts. Nicolás thanks Jeanne Criscola and Ely Center of Contemporary Art for their support.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively or through experiences where the quotidian and art overlap. He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally at venues such as Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05 and 07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, The Pontevedra Biennial, The Queens Museum of Art, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Princeton University, Rutgers University, The Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, The MacDowell Colony, Provisions Library, El Museo del Barrio, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. During the past seven years Estévez has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Montano and Estévez have also collaborated on several performances. Residencies attended include P.S. 1/MoMA, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He has received grants from Art Matters, Lambent Foundation, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Printed Matter and Puffin Foundation. Estévez Holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Estévez has curated exhibitions and programs for El Museo del Barrio, the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, Longwood Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts, New York; and for the Filmoteca de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain. Publications include Pleased to Meet You, Life as Material for Art and Vice Versa (editor) and For Art’s Sake. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 2011 Estévez was baptized as a Bronxite; a citizen of the Bronx.
https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com
Thank you.
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8. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, Twenty Summers, Provincetown, MA, June 2
FARMED x PTOWN is a live concert at Twenty Summers, Provincetown, by multi-disciplinary performer Truth Future Bachman with special guests Jay Critchley and Kristen Becker, is part of a concert and interview series inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Through a suite of songs and deep community partnerships, FARMED conducts interviews with leaders of grassroots movements. Highlighting revolutions happening all around us, the interviews are set to music by Truth Future Bachman and their company of singer/musicians.
https://www.20summers.org/season-ten/farmed
Thank you.
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9. Toni Sant, FF Alumn, publishes new art book
Enriqué Tabone is a UK-based Maltese artist whose works are known for their emotional depth and technical mastery. Toni Sant’s catalogue raisonné, published by Kite Group, provides a comprehensive overview of Tabone’s career, showcasing her diverse body of work and highlighting the evolution of her artistic vision. Through a selection of her sculptures and mixed media works, this catalogue offers a glimpse into the mind of an artist whose unique perspective and skillful execution have earned her a reputation as a leading figure in the Maltese art scene. It also includes an introduction to her life and career, and texts that elaborate on the themes and motifs that have been recurrent in her work. This book serves as an important reference for collectors, curators, scholars and art enthusiasts alike, and provides a testament to the enduring legacy of Enrique Tabone’s contribution to the world of art.
Enriqué Tabone: Catalogue Raisonné is also available in a limited collectors edition intended for display as a unique work of art. The artist has produced a book sleeve using her signature transparent plexiglass material. Each one of these sleeves contains a one-of-a-kind engraving created by Enrique Tabone from hand drawings made specifically for this version of the publication. The art object has been developed from motifs related to the 2023 Prestorjha exhibition, reimagining prehistoric female figurines in a contemporary context. While the art case is an elegant freestanding object, the engraved front panel may also be detached and admired separately.
Book available at https://www.kitegroup.com.mt/product/enrique-tabone-catalogue-raisonne/
For more about Enrique Tabone see http://www.enriquetabone.com
Thank you.
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10. Shelley Haven, FF Alumn, at Untermyer Gardens, Yonkers, NY, May 30-July 25, and more
Hi folks,
I invite you to visit my latest art happenings: Untermyer Gardens onsite classes, group exhibitions and a video collaboration. See details and links below!
Please follow me on Instagram or Facebook for updates. And share this news with interested folks!
Shelley
www.instagram.com/shelley.haven.art
@shelley.haven.art
https://www.facebook.com/shelley.haven
May 30, June 27, July 25 onsite art classes
Drawing and painting in the garden with Shelley Haven, Untermyer Gardens, 945 N. Broadway, Yonkers NY, May 30, June 27, July 25
Ongoing video collaboration
What is No More, YouTube, collaboration produced by Hendrik van Oordt, composition; Shelley Haven, images; Lotte van den Dikkenberg-Methorst, piano; Robert Roth and Andrea Jeromos, text. https://youtu.be/LkfJWAPBmqc
June 23 – July 23 an invitational group exhibition
Coming Together, The New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery, 154 Hartsville New Marlborough Road, New Marlborough MA https://nmmeetinghouse.org/calendar-1
Reception: Friday, June 23, 5-7pm. Open Fridays – Sundays, 11am – 4pm
June 1 early September an invitational group exhibition
Natural Abstractions, The Wartburg lobby, 1 Wartburg Place, Mount Vernon NY
Organized by Rosa Van Zandt, Pelham Art Center curator.
Through June 16 a Yonkers community group exhibition
14th Annual Yonkers Artists Showcase, Yonkers Arts Project Space, 216 Lake Avenue, Yonkers NY
Open Thursdays, 4-7pm, Saturdays 12-4pm (extended hours May 20-21)
Through June 4 an invitational group exhibition
A Way of Seeing, Gallery18 at the Riverdale Y, 5625 Arlington Avenue, Bronx NY
Open Sundays, 8am-5pm Mondays & Wednesdays 8am-8pm, Tuesdays & Thursdays 8am-9pm, Fridays 8am-6pm.
Curated by George Gutierrez. https://www.riverdaley.org/community/gallery18/
Thank you.
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11. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, at Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford, Ireland, thru July 16
THE ARDFINNAN TABLE
a small selection of works and photographs
from my journal
http://somewordsforlivinglocally.com
Can be seen in
This Rural
The Mill, Lismore Castle Arts
Lismore
County Waterford
20 May-16 July 2023
This Rural
Curated by Miriam O’Connor and
Paul McAree
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Brian Mac Domhnaill, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Ciarán Óg Arnold, Patrick Hogan, Erica Van Horn, Tom Keeley, Laura Fitzgerald, Michele Horrigan, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Ruby Wallis, Katie Watchorn.
Lismore Castle Arts: The Mill
Ballyin, Lismore, P51 E93A
20 MAY – 16 JULY 2023
Preview Saturday 20 May 2023, 4-6pm
Commonly characterised by a slower pace of life, pastoral landscapes, meandering roads and close-knit communities, rural life from afar may seem idyllic, tranquil, and quiet. The works produced by the artists in This Rural revel in this perceived stillness, untangling it in ways to reveal layers of densely matted undergrowth. Taking a slow, meditative approach, and informed by acts of watching, waiting, seeing – unexpected happenings and uncanny encounters are observed with intense curiosity and intrigue. In This Rural, personal and political narratives unfold in imaginative ways. The show brings together a generation of Irish and Ireland-based artists who are pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, from signalling an interest in film photography, to a slower, contemplative practice, exploring their familiar in dark, poignant and mysterious ways.
Seen through the eyes of artists such as Brian Mac Domhnaill, Patrick Hogan or Caoimhe Kilfeather, the rural is a place to marvel on, a place for the eye to linger that little bit longer. Vegetation, verges, village vistas – scenes that seem hardly worthy of attention are charged with opulent suspense. Artists Ciarán Óg Arnold and Samuel Laurence Cunnane introduce an intimate local, viewed through evocative portraits and habitual household routines, bringing the poetics and minutiae of daily life into play. Ailbhe Ní Bhriain unravels caches of glitchy hideouts, mysterious sanctuaries that feel strangely familiar and blissfully out of place. Laura Fitzgerald and Erica Van Horn have listened and watched with mischievous intent, rearranging exchanges and encounters through playful diaristic and newspaper configurations. Drawing inspiration from her agricultural roots, Katie Watchorn’s work takes design cues from the ubiquitous dockets and invoices which clutter farmers vehicle dashboards, animating them with emotive tales from home. Artists Michele Horrigan, Ruby Wallis and Tom Keeley identify a rural of unrest where benign landscapes of fields, roads and streets are transformed through gesture and movement into vexing agitators, sites where timely political issues are brought firmly into focus.
Join us on Saturday 20 May at 3pm at St Carthage Hall, to see Ways of Seeing: The albums of Francis Edmund Currey, curated by Sarah McDonald, followed by a walking tour to see This Rural at 4pm.
Thank you.
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12. Guy De Cointet, FF Alumn, at Space Ten, Hawthorne CA, opening June 9
Dear friends,
I am organizing a group exhibition with Space Ten Gallery that will open the 9th of June. The show ‘L.A. All-Stars’ will feature work by Wallace Berman, Ed Moses, Guy De Cointet, Larry Bell, Chris Burden, Raymond Saunders, and Bruce Conner, among others.
Everyone is invited!
Opening reception is 6/9/2023, 6 – 9 pm
Space Ten, 13703 Cordary Ave #10, Hawthorne, CA 90250
Robert Wilhite
Thank you.
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13. Laura Lappi, FF Member, at Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, FInland, opening May 25
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am excited to announce the opening of my solo show Palace Basilica at Gallery Sculptor in Helsinki!
Opening reception May 25th, 5-7 pm.
The exhibition is open through June 18th.
Palace Basilica
Gallery Sculptor
Eteläranta 12
00130 Helsinki
Finland
The inspiration for Laura Lappi’s upcoming exhibition are the grandeur of ancient basilicas, cathedrals, and medieval Scandinavian wooden structures. The sculptures comprise abstracted segments of various architectural structures, reminding of the sculptural properties of some of the world’s most renowned works of architecture. Through the series of sculptures Lappi addresses the topics of what these buildings and structures represent in our communities, since they are usually seen as the most expressive, the most permanent and the most influential and shape the way we live and think.
The exhibition has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse.
Thank you.
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14. David Reynolds, FF Alumn, in School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection
In the Garden, 1991 and Facings, 1986, artists’ books by David Reynolds, FF Alumn, are in the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Please visit:
https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3Ajfabc_1380
https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/node/85186
https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/taxonomy/term/40616
Thank you.
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15. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, now online in Animot 13
I am honored to have been invited to contribute both images and texts to Animot 13, “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” curated by Alice Benessia. In print and online in Italian. Now online in English.
Animot, The Other Philosophy is a twice-yearly journal published by the University of Torino.
Direct link to this issue (in English):
https://animotmagazine.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/animot-13_interno_eng_def-blank-page.pdf
Link to page that includes previous issues (in English):
https://animotmagazine.it/english-animot/
**Best to download PDF and read in two-page view mode
Cyrilla Mozenter
Thank you.
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16. Charles Clough, FF Alumn, at Roycroft, East Aurora, NY, thru June 19
CLUFFFALO GARDENS & GATES
are sets of components that uniquely engage the viewer in actively recreating art.
The Gardens are conventional rectangular paintngs. The Gates are shaped like stencils but have been used as paint applicators. For this exhibition there are 7 Gardens and 7 two-sided Gates. When Gates are placed in front of Gardens playful interactions occur. The number of combinations of Gardens & Gates is infinite—it becomes “the puzzle of every solution.” It also may be thought of as “passive” or “latent cinema” in which the viewer becomes the “animator” of the mise en scène.
Having developed this approach at the Roycroft, which is a National Historic Landmark commemorating the American Arts and Crafts Movement, I have come to understand it as a kind of schematic allegory in which the Gardens represent “Arts” and the Gates represent “Crafts” in a way that calls attention to and reifies the historic period.
CLUFFFALO GARDENS & GATES
Charles Clough’s Paintings: May 18-June 19, 2023
Castiglia Art Center
Roycroft Campus
21 South Grove Street
East Aurora, New York 14052
charlie@clufff.com 646-283-6964 https://clufff.com/
Thank you.
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