Contents for May 27, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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- Luis Alfaro, Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, Sharon Hayes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Adam Pendleton, Fred Wilson, Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumns, receive 2024 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards
- Supermrin, FF Alumn, at PS122 Gallery, Manhattan, opening June 1
- Terry Berkowitz, Jim Costanzo, Raul Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Jane’s Room, Manhattan, opening May 30
- Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
- Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Center for Art, Research and Alliances, Manhattan, June 1-Aug. 11
- Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty, FF Alumns, receive 2024 National Theater Project Creation and Touring Grant
- Circus Amok, FF Alumn, June performances in NYC
- Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, now streaming on PBS.org
- Laura Bernstein, FF Alumn, at Essex Flowers Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 23
- Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, opening June 6
- Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, opening June 19, and more
- Claire Fergusson, FF Alumn, at Studio 606, Manhattan, June 14-16
- Paula Barr, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, thru June 28
- Alexander Viscio, FF ALumn, at galerie michaela stock, Vienna, Austria, opening June 7
- Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, at David Peter Francis, Manhattan, opening June 8
- Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Changolife Arts Gallery, Beacon, NY, opening June 8, and more
- Martha Wilson, Saul Ostrow, Sur Rodney Sur, FF Alumns, at Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies Conference 2024, Manhattan, June 3-5
- Liz Magic Laser, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
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1. Luis Alfaro, Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, Sharon Hayes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Adam Pendleton, Fred Wilson, Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumns, receive 2024 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards
Please visit this link:
https://www.artsandletters.org/awards
Thank you.
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2. Supermrin, FF Alumn, at PS122 Gallery, Manhattan, opening June 1
Aliens
Colonial Narratives Through Plant Migration and Bio-Art
Artists: Supermrin, Adam Vackar
Curator: Isabella Indolfi
Exhibition Dates: June 1 – 23, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 6-8 pm
Viewing Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1- 6 pm and by appointment
Eradicated, discriminated against, declared illegal and invasive: Plants, like humans, are victims of violent, colonial, and capitalistic cultures, and if they could speak, they would be able to tell the recurrent history of expropriation and domestication. The way humans perceive, act and legislate on the plant kingdom clearly reflects xenophobic sentiments toward their own species.
The exhibition “Aliens” offers a perspective on the politics of land and nature through two artists, Adam Vackar and Supermrin, who work with plants as their subject, medium, and primary source of inspiration as a way to explore concepts of domination and migration.
The history of the invasive Giant Hogweed of Eastern Europe and the history of the American manicured lawn separately convey ideologies of invasion and, juxtaposed, show how our concept of nature is shaped by colonial narratives.
Czech artist Adam Vackar’s documentary film, photographs, and installations delve into the complexities of human interaction with the Giant Hogweed, an invasive species originating from the Caucasus. Challenging the traditional perspective on migrating plants and the narrow-minded human approach to these organisms, the works trace this plant’s migration from Central Asia to Eastern Europe to the Americas. By analyzing the political eradication campaign directed against the Giant Hogweed, Vackar shows how the same rhetoric of invasion and illegality have been extended to living beings more generally —be they humans, animals or plants— that appear dissimilar, inconsistent, or otherwise opposed to the dominant system in a delimited environment.
US-based Indian artist Supermrin (Mrinalini Aggarwal) brings her latest project, FIELD, a bio-art project operating at intersections of sculpture, performance, bioethics, and arenas of urban space. Supermrin’s sculptures are made from waste lawn-clippings that she boils, washes and cooks in her kitchen to create a translucent, biodegradable bio-plastic, akin to a vegan leather. Supermrin’s artworks convey a sense of temporality, transience, and grotesque subjectivity, offering a plant-based perspective on a rewilded future. The FIELD project tells how manicured urban lawns convey an outdated American Dream, emblematic of capitalism and racism, that in a time of climate change are also symbolic of ecological destruction. Through FIELD Supermrin reflects on her own alienation, anxiety, and migrant identity in the face of climate collapse.
At the PS122 Gallery, visitors will be embraced by a natural environment that screams for justice. Aliens, be they creatures from outer space or from our world, become the means through which we see the other, mirrored in ourselves.
This exhibition is supported in part by the National Recovery Plan of the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Special thanks to Residency Unlimited (NY) and lower_cavity.
Gallery hours
Thursday – Sunday
1-6 pm + by appt.
PS122 Gallery is free and open to the public and inclusive of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, LGBTQIA+ identity, and class. Conveniently located on the ground floor of the 122 Community Center in the East Village of Manhattan near several public transportation lines, PS122 Gallery provides wheelchair accessibility through the 122CC main entrance, as well as wheelchair accessible water fountains and all-gender restrooms.
#ps122gallery #ps122 #eastvillage #paintingspace
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Our mailing address is:
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New York, NY 10009
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3. Terry Berkowitz, Jim Costanzo, Raul Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Jane’s Room, Manhattan, opening May 30
Biennial Means Necessary II opens May 30th, 2024, 6-9pm, Jane’s Room, 78 Jane St, NY, NY.
Artists Include: Terry Berkowitz, Luis Buñuel, Jim Costanzo, Martin Durazo, Karen Eliot, Andrea Frank, Juan Carlos Granados, Despo Magoni, Teemu Maki, Ferran Martin, Lindsey Nobel, Max Presneill, Miguel Rodriguez Sepulveda, Jorge Rojas, S & P Stanikas, Riiko Sakkinen, Gitte Saetre, Roberto Visani
Portmanteau=a word or phrase blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel (from ‘motor’ and ‘hotel’) or brunch (from ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’)
Biennial=(an event) lasting for two years or occurring every two years; biennale, the Italian word for “biennial” and a term used to describe an international exhibition of contemporary art, stemming from the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale. (The English form, “biennial”, is also commonly used to describe these art events.)
By any means necessary= attributed to three sources, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X
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4. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
In Brutal Ordeals, a Performance Artist Embodies the Oppressed
Thank you.
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5. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Center for Art, Research and Alliances, Manhattan, June 1-Aug. 11
Announcing Javier Téllez: Amerika
June 1-August 11, 2024
CARA’s Summer 2024 exhibition, Javier Téllez: Amerika, is Javier Téllez’s (b. 1969, Venezuela; lives and works in New York) first institutional solo exhibition in New York City in nearly two decades. The exhibition showcases a newly commissioned film installation AMERIKA, alongside a series of works related to the film, as well as a selection from a never-before-exhibited atlas of photographic images cropped and collected by the artist from illustrated magazines and books over the past twenty years.
This solo exhibition centers around the film installation AMERIKA, commissioned by CARA. Drawing from cinema histories and vaudeville, Amerika mobilizes reenactment, fiction, and metaphor to respond to the ongoing exodus of millions of Venezuelans from their home, motivated by continued violence and socioeconomic collapse.
Téllez produced AMERIKA in collaboration with Andreina Arias, José Díaz, Luisandra Escalona, Leonardo Masa, Nazareth Merentes, Jesus Ramirez, Omar Ríos, and Mariana Vargas—a group of Venezuelan refugees currently living in New York. Téllez, himself an immigrant from Venezuela who has been living in New York since 1993, worked with these non-professional actors to produce a short film inspired by the work of Charlie Chaplin—the iconic actor and filmmaker who challenged authority and social control in his work, advocating for social justice and human rights. Téllez and his collaborators reenact scenes from these films to question power, hegemony, and intolerance toward the other through a collectively developed script that uses narrative to highlight the shared concerns and experiences of migrant communities. Amerika portrays and condemns the abuse of power in totalitarian regimes, and renders both the gravity of loss and the necessity of hope that comes with fleeing one flawed paradise in search of another.
Javier Téllez, AMERIKA. Production still: Pablo Monsalve.
Additionally, CARA will present for the first time an archive of photographic images cropped and collected by the artist from illustrated magazines and books that explore archetypal representation of subjects like masks, mirrors, cinema screens, taxidermy, waxworks, miniatures cities, maps, dollhouses, Bunraku, and skulls. Téllez’s rigorous collecting practice generates a working library of references that record how certain visual metaphors, tropes, and references reemerge in the production of cinema and storytelling.
This exhibition is curated by CARA’s Senior Curator Rahul Gudipudi and produced by Agustin Schang, with assistance by CARA’s team.
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6. Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty, FF Alumns, receive 2024 National Theater Project Creation and Touring Grant
We got a big grant for Nefa for the big version of our Franklin Furnace project and wanted to share the news:
https://www.nefa.org/news/twelve-theater-ensembles-receive-national-theater-project-awards
Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty
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7. Circus Amok, FF Alumn, June performances in NYC
Circus Amok presents:
“THE DOUBLE, or, The Wisdom of the Owl.”
in your park
June 1-23, 2024 !
All Shows are Free! Free! Free!
Saturday, June 1
Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn
2:00pm & 5:00pm
Myrtle Avenue side, at the base of the Staircase
Sunday, June 2
Coming soon!
Friday June 7
Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens
6:00pm
Broadway & Vernon Blvd
Saturday, June 8
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
4:00pm
6th Ave & 44th Street, in the center ellipse
Sunday, June 9
South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2:00pm & 5:00pm
Berry Ave between Broadway & South 6th
Friday, June 14
Tompkins Square Park, East Village
6:00pm
East 7th Street & Ave A
Saturday, June 15
McGolrick Park, Greenpoint
4:00pm
Driggs Ave & Monitor Street, center of park.
Sunday, June 16
Travers Park, Jackson Heights
4:00pm
34th Ave & 78th Street
Friday June 21
Coming soon!
Saturday, June 22
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
2:00pm & 5:00pm
Enter at 9th Street and Prospect Park West
Cross the Park Road and down the hill to the circle of trees.
Sunday, June 23
Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn
2:00pm & 5:00pm
Specific Location coming soon!
Always check https://www.instagram.com/circusamok/ or our https://www.facebook.com/circusamok
for late-breaking location changes and weather updates!
All shows are Free !
Circus Amok’s 2024 season is made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts,
The New York State Council for the Arts, The Department of Cultural Affairs,
the NYC Department of Transportation, and audiences like yourself.
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8. Alison O’Daniel, FF Alumn, now streaming on PBS.org
Dearest cast, crew, supporters, mentors, friends and family –
It is my great pleasure to announce that The Tuba Thieves has begun its national US broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS.
Here is how you can watch it:
Streaming
We invite you to stream the film on PBS.org and the PBS app. The Tuba Thieves will be available to stream beginning at 10pm ET on May 20. When the film is live, audiences can watch by going to the film webpage (a new ‘Watch’ button will appear there): https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-tuba-thieves/
Or downloading the PBS app on their phone, Smart TV or TV-connected device (like Roku or Apple TV).
In the meantime, you can send people to the trailer.
https://youtu.be/drv6UKiv6GY?si=7eLazFEo3KybTUi8
Here is an interview I did with Rachel Kolb, a fellow d/Deaf storyteller, for this release. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/to-film-with-your-ears-reinventing-cinematic-language-with-the-tuba-thieves/
In one segment of the interview, Rachel asked me about viewing activities:
Could you talk about your use of balloons at past screenings for this film? Are there any other activities you’d suggest for audiences as they watch?
The balloons are offered to all audience members as a way to access the soundtrack of the film through touch. The latex membrane of a balloon is very sensitive and soundwaves pass along the surface in incredible detail. The balloon is a throwback and homage to the ingenuity of historical Deaf audiences that would gather in Deaf clubs and watch movies together.
I don’t have any other activity suggestions for watching. My preference is that the audience plays the film on a good monitor with good sound and gives into the narrative logic of the film.
Go in with no expectations, try not to be distracted or walk away, trust the film and your experience while watching, and be open to the way it unfolds. In the film, a high school marquee has the following statement on it: “There is no mathematical logic here. Watch this like you would look at the sea, the stars, or a landscape.” This is my instruction or guidance for viewing.
The Tuba Thieves will be available free for streaming for 3 months, and it is easy to see the film without having to go through a lot of signing up shenanigans. I hope you enjoy it and share it with friends and family.
with love,
Alison O’Daniel
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9. Laura Bernstein, FF Alumn, at Essex Flowers Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 23
Dear Friends and colleagues,
I am excited to invite you to my exhibition “The Curse of St. Vitus and The Rat-Catcher.”
https://essexflowers.us/LAURA-BERNSTEIN-THE-CURSE-OF-ST-VITUS-AND-THE-RAT-CATCHER
The opening reception is this Friday, May 24th, 6-9pm in the front room at Essex Flowers Gallery, 19 Monroe Street, NY, NY.
In the back room, the mania fades to an in-between space with Camilla Padgitt-Coles’ “Disco Nap”
https://essexflowers.us/CAMILLA-PADGITT-COLES-DISCO-NAP
Both exhibitions will be on view Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm and by appointment through Sunday, June 23rd.
There will be a performance June 15th on St. Vitus Feast Day.
Thank you to friends and colleagues for all the support and conversations leading up to this show.
Hope to see you there!
Yours,
Laura
Laura Bernstein
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10. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, opening June 6
You are invited to the California Jewish Open
Please join me at the California Jewish Open, an exhibition presented by The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Selections from the Primary Traces series will be showcased in an installation.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/234
California Jewish Open
Show dates: 06/06 – 10/20/2024
Opening reception: Thursday, 06/06, 5 – 6:30PM
How are artists looking to the many aspects of Jewish culture, identity, and community to foster, reimagine, hold, or discover connection?
The California Jewish Open brings together the work of forty-seven artists reflecting on their connection to Judaism, the world, and their own history. Through a wide range of media, including paintings, sculptures, interactive video games, video works, photographs, and more, the California Jewish Open illustrates some of the myriad ways in which these artists’ Jewish identity informs their connection to the world at large—and offers a window into the universal human need for connection in all its complexity.
The exhibition is organized around four sections that explore connection with the Earth, other humans, the past/future, and the divine. These subthemes provide platforms to present different, and sometimes conflicting, viewpoints on wide-ranging topics. The inevitable friction that emerges is reflective of a core piece of Jewish culture: a belief in dialogue, debate, and questioning as a meaningful way of sparking discussion. The exhibition aims to offer visitors opportunities to open themselves to varied expressions of creativity that reflect thriving Jewish life in the past, present, and future.
This exhibition is guest-curated by Elissa Strauss, artistic director of LABA Bay Area, a Laboratory for Jewish Culture and author of the upcoming book When You Care.
“The various ways these artists explore connection—and the inevitable friction that emerges when bringing them into conversation with one another—is reflective of a core piece of Jewish culture: the belief in dialogue, debate, and questioning as a fertile source for sparking discussion and attempting to understand the world. This process is something Jews have long thought of as holy work.”
— Elissa Strauss.
Taken as a whole, the Contemporary Jewish Open offers space for these artists to reflect on the myriad ways in which their Jewish identity informs their practice, their thinking, their belief systems, and their connection to the world at large. In creating a platform for these artists, The CJM aims to provide visitors the opportunity to open themselves to various expressions of creativity that reflect thriving Jewish life in the past, present, and future.
About The Contemporary Jewish Museum
For over thirty years, The CJM has engaged audiences and artists in exploring contemporary perspectives on Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas. In 2008, The Museum opened a new building designed by internationally renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. Inspired by the Hebrew phrase l’chaim (“to life”), the building is a physical embodiment of The CJM’s mission to welcome all to explore the evolving, dynamic Jewish life of today through art, culture, and dialogue. In doing so, The CJM aspires to foster healthy Jewish identities, enrich the communities The Museum serves, and combat intolerance of all kinds.
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Open Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
http://www.RichardAlpertArtist.com
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11. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, opening June 19, and more
A new show: “The Blued Trees Symphony” will be included in an upcoming exhibition titled “Co-inhabitation” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The exhibition, organized jointly by our Institute and the Center for Cultural Exchange between China and Foreign Countries, is scheduled to open the 19th of June.
A new blog post: “Ready or Not, Time’s Up?”
https://www.avivarahmani.com/blog
New press (or somewhat new): 7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
https://www.thecollector.com/women-artists-fighting-climate-change
A new video clip: The Work Of Art In the Age of Planetary Destruction, is a book I was asked to contribute to which came out earlier this year. Recently, I was asked to produce a short follow-up video that could be used to promote the book. Here is clip “Studio Tour” I created last month, early in the morning before leaving Vinalhaven Island for Manhattan Island (only about a sixth of the whole studio is represented in the video – a drop in the bucket of what was impacted all along the Maine coast).
A new Gulf to Gulf conversation: Fossil Fuels, Research and Higher Education
(and click here for an article relevant to the Gulf to Gulf discussion)
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/louisiana-state-university-oil-firms-influence
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12. Claire Fergusson, FF Alumn, at Studio 606, Manhattan, June 14-16
Collage Art Show
Claire Eleanor Fergusson and Vera Langer Campion, 939 8th Avenue, Studio 606, Manhattan (Between 55-56th Sts.)
917-841-8603 text/talk
212-586-1814
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13. Paula Barr, FF Alumn, at National Arts Club, Manhattan, thru June 28
I will be showing Pinky Roses, a new work, where I have combined
painting and photography in one piece. See info below – thank you.
Paula Barr
The 32nd Annual National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition
On view in the Trask Gallery, May 23 – June 28
The Roundtable Exhibit features work by Roundtable Committee
members and their guests. This exhibit brings together established and
emerging artists, offering them an opportunity to share their aesthetic
explorations and latest accomplishments. The works encompass a variety
of genres and materials.
The NAC’s exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Saturday and
Sunday, Weekends, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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14. Alexander Viscio, FF Alumn, at galerie michaela stock, Vienna, Austria, opening June 7
Alexander Viscio DROP OUTS at the Roulette Wheel
08.06. – 4.9.2024
Opening: 07.06.2024, 6 – 9 PM
Performance by Alexander Viscio 6 – 7 PM
Location: galerie michaela stock, Praterstraße 17, 1020 Vienna, Austria
The interplay between words and visually perceptible object configurations is a recurring theme in Alexander Viscio’s conceptual art. His constructions assume diverse forms throughout his oeuvre, initially connecting closely with the body, then evolving into installations that transcend the body and become objects, ultimately transforming words into spatial elements.
In his latest work, Roulette Wheel, Viscio’s body once again becomes an integral part of the performance during the opening night. The sculpture represents a Manhole cover that serves as a Roulette wheel where Alexander Viscio attempts to get the ball into its center from underneath, creating a dynamic interaction between body and object.
DROP OUTS at the Roulette Wheel marks Viscio’s third solo show at galerie michaela stock. The exhibition title is a hybrid that refers to the sculpture (Vehicles for Another Landscape/ VAL), and the wallpaper installation The DROP OUTS on an opposite wall. Three large pieces of paper drape over a brick wall where the statements, Sprawling Green Pastures, Under Deep Blues Skies, Over Friendly Yellow Facades confront the viewer. The three statements are drawn upside down and cut in order to drop out right side up to expose the brick wall though the empty spaces of the words.
Artist Statement:
Drawing from sources such as the human body, organic materials and found detritus, the work recalls processes of decomposition, decay and transformation. Their meanings however go beyond this natural order of violence and destruction to a level of intellectual dispatch that is sustained in the language we use to order, define and make sense of our lives. This is apparent by using glass to present materials in conflict and unison and presenting them as medical slides. In this manner the alchemic processes of crystallization and decomposition of form is evident, creating a transformative dynamic and exposing the performative properties in the objects.
Since 1981 the work has incorporated my own active presence in challenging the public’s awareness and relationship to space and the space they share with my work. For the most part, the sculptures are designed in association with my body size and weight where-by I am inside these sculptures operating as the mechanism that make the sculpture move in erratic behaviour, becoming vehicles for another landscape or VAL.
By exploiting the malleability of language, literary conventions and American colloquialisms are manipulated in order to consider them not only as objects themselves that can contain ulterior content in physical form but architectural structures that contain the viewer(s) as content as well. Alexander Viscio
I have linked the press images as follows:
Image 1 : Roulette Wheel, 2024
Performance platform (Acrylic on wood with steel bolts, Ø 250 cm, glass ball Ø 7cm) Courtesy: Alexander Viscio / gallery michaela stock
https://www.galerie-stock.net/wp-content/uploads/viscio_sob_roulette-scaled.jpg
Image 2 : Twins, (Cracker twins Rorschach test), 2024
Foam rubber and acrylic fastened with stainless steel screws to wood frame 150 x 130 x 4 cm. Courtesy: Alexander Viscio / gallery michaela stock
https://www.galerie-stock.net/wp-content/uploads/viscio_twins-scaled.jpg
Image 3 : Rough Cuts on the Hi C’s, 2023
Foam rubber bolted to wood on pedestal 147 x 47 x 47cm Courtesy: Alexander Viscio / gallery michaela stock
https://www.galerie-stock.net/wp-content/uploads/viscio_hi-Cs-scaled.jpg
And here you will be redirected to the event page of our gallery website.
https://www.galerie-stock.net/en/exhibitions/alexander-viscio-drop-outs-at-the-roulette-wheel/
Kind regards and sunny greetings from Vienna,
galerie michaela stock
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15. Pat Oleszko, FF Alumn, at David Peter Francis, Manhattan, opening June 8
Pat’s Imperfect Present Tense
June 8-July 20, 2024
Opening: Saturday June 8, 6-8pm
David Peter Francis is pleased to present Pat’s Imperfect Present Tense, New York-based artist Pat Oleszko’s first exhibition with the gallery, and first solo show in New York City since 1990. The exhibition re-surfaces pivotal performances, inflatables, and videos from 1972 to the current day, foregrounding the artist’s life-long endeavor towards absurdity.
Working in disregard for any and all divide, Oleszko’s practice bleeds into everything— this survey of works pulls largely from decades-deep hordes of worn-sculptures from the artist’s extensive oeuvre. These costumes appear as the attractors in performances as well as characters in her video works, further seducing the viewer through a rigorous and developed language of pun populating Pat’s planet.
Oleszko arrived at using herself as her armature early on. The artist described a “eureka moment” following consistent inevitable collapses of her early sculptural work, realizing that the body could be used as a platform to stand up to the challenge, where no proper welds were necessary. Her use of her own body as the work’s conduit emerged equally her own performance origins as a burlesque dancer. Works like The Handmaiden (1975) instrumentalize humor, poking and prodding while simultaneously situating itself amongst feminist critiques of power and sexual dynamics— the exaggeration of our cultural obsession (and fear) surrounding sex. In the same way that a garment or costume is a holder for the body, the self as vessel provides fertile ground for play and/or debasement of human civilization as a whole, whatever the particular butt of the joke may be.
Following her awarding of the Rome Prize in 1998, Oleszko spent a night in jail for the very work for which she was awarded: her role as spectacular sculptress provocateur— this time incarnated as The Nincompope, a facsimile of the papacy paraded through the streets of Vatican City to the ire of the polizia. Through Pat’s play, we can begin to grasp a consequence of comedy—the result is either neglected entirely or is placed at the forefront. It could be a failure to assimilate or, it could be freedom.
Pat Oleszko (b. 1947, Detroit) received her BFA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since the early 1970s, she has staged exhibitions and performances at institutions such as Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Kitchen (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Performance Space 122 (New York), Museum of Contemporary Craft (now Museum of Art and Design, New York), P.S. 1 (Queens), Lincoln Center (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Civitella Ranieri (Umbertide, Italy), Neuberger Museum (Purchase), Rauschenberg Foundation (Captiva), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.), and King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (New York); amongst others. She was the recipient of the Rome Prize in 1998, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990. Oleszko lives in works in New York City.
For more information, please contact gallery@davidpeterfrancis.com
David Peter Francis
35 East Broadway #3F
New York, NY 10002
(646) 669-7064
gallery@davidpeterfrancis.com
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm
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16. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Changolife Arts Gallery, Beacon, NY, opening June 8, and more
Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, is presenting two exhibitions this summer.
“Urban Cuba/ Cuba Urbano”. a solo show of mixed media photography of contemporary walls, murals, street art, billboards and graffiti of Cuba. Culled from two trips to Cuba in 2013 and 2018, Palaia photo-documents urban surfaces and then manipulates, transforms and re-arranges the images to create three dimensional sculptural one-of-a-kind photographs.
The works incorporate archival color photographs, paint, spray, found objects, wood, metal, gravel, faux cement , collage all mounted on either Polystyrene,
Sheetrock, Homasote or plywood.
Changolife Arts Gallery located in the Ethan Cohen KuBe Arts building complex at 211 Fishkill Ave. Beacon, NY
Changolife Arts gallery specializes in art about Cuba.
Gallery hrs: Saturdays 1-6pm and by appt. 646-382-3383 changolifearts@gmail.com www.Changolifearts.com
opening June 8, 4-8 pm
ps. This show will be featured in the June Hyperallergic magazine, review by Taliesin Thomas.
and
Albany Center Gallery Presents “PiecedTogether.” A three person show which includes Franc Palaia, Cris Ortiz and Wenda Habenicht.
This exhibition brings together three different visual approaches found in our daily lives that are assembled through different perspectives and mediums.
The show focuses on the familiarity that surrounds us, but configured in a unique way that may be unknown to some.
Albany Center Gallery,
488 Broadway , ground floor
Albany NY Tues-Sat 12 – 5pm
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17. Martha Wilson, Saul Ostrow, Sur Rodney Sur, FF Alumns, at Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies Conference 2024, Manhattan, June 3-5
CPAL Conference 2024
The Artworks – The Archives – The Assets
One More Week!
For digital access contact: inquiries.cpal@gmail.com
Day #1 – The Artworks Deals with the complex challenges—both tangible and intangible—of housing and ownership of artworks from a legacy management perspective. Proposes strategies for locating and optimizing the storage of artworks, handling copyright with other legal issues, and the specific treatment of artworks across multiple mediums.
Doors open 8:45am
All panels include a 15-minute Q & A at the end.
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
9:15am – 9:30am CPAL Conference Opening Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies
9:35am – 9:50am Keynote speaker – Phong Bui, Artist, Writer, Independent Curator. Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail
10:00am – 11:30am Physical Storage – The Elephant in the Room – You can’t keep it all!
Moderator: Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies
Francis Greenburger, Founder and Co-Curator, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham
Cameron Sterling, Content Advisor for Individuals and Organizations, Living Photographic LLC
Lia Gangitano, Executive Director, Participant Inc.
Alice Aycock, Artist, Sculptor
11:40am – 1:10pm Digitization Storage – Database Systems and Vintage Mediums
Moderator: Nicholas Martin, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections
Katie Carey, Head of Growth, Artwork Archives
Mary Engel, Founder/Director APAG – Director, Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive
Carol Parkinson, Executive Director, Harvestworks
1:10pm – 2:10pm Lunch Presentation – Katie Carey, Head of Growth, Artwork Archives
2:10pm – 3:40pm Transfer of Ownership – Copyrights, and Appraisal
Moderator: Amelia Brankov, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm
Sarah Kirk Hanley, Independent Curator, Critic, and Expert Appraiser, Robert Kipniss Legacy Project
Katarina Feder, VP Business Development Artists Rights Society / Co-founder Arsnl Art
Saul Ostrow, Consultant to the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation
3:45pm – 4:00pm Testimonial – Magda Salvesen, Executive Director, Jon Schueler Foundation
4:05pm – 4:15pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
Day #2 – The Archives Surveys and assesses current institutional art archive systems while investigating how contemporary artists can best access available resources and how materials are treated over time. Explores the rapidly increasing pace of archive expansions with best management practices.
Doors open 8:45am
All panels include a 15-minute Q & A at the end.
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
9:15am – 9:30am CPAL Conference Summary – CPAL Progress – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies
9:35am – 11:05am Institutional and Private Archives
Moderator: Dan Cameron, Independent Curator
Brittany Webb, Ph.D., Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Charlotta Kotik, Curator, formerly curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
Kyle Croft, Executive Director, Visual AIDS
Kenta Murakami, Director, Ortuzar Projects
11:15am – 12:45pm Inclusionary Practices – Accessibility & Considerations for Best Practices (Revising parameters for current historical records considering the mounting numbers of artists, collections, and content.)
Moderator: Ferris Olin, Ph.D., Founder of Institute for Women and Art, Margery Somers Foster Center: A Resource Center and Digital Archive on Women, Scholarship and Leadership at Rutgers University.
Nicholas Martin, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections
Sur Rodney Sur, Writer, curator, archivist co-executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate
Heather Gendron, Director, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
12:50pm – 1:45pm Lunch
1:50pm – 3:20pm Artist-Constructed Archives – Case Studies
Moderator: Monika Fabijanska, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser
Martha Wilson, Artist and Founding Director Emerita of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Rena Segal, President of the George and Helen Segal Foundation (Artist, daughter of George Segal)
Essye Klempner, Director of Programs & Partnerships EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
3:25pm – 3:40pm Testimonial
3:45pm – 4:00pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
Day #3 – THE ASSETS Examines artists’ assets, what is accumulated over time, and the redirection of these assets towards legacy. Beyond artworks and archives, how do foundations, family members, dealers, and lawyers address the entirety of an artist’s output and assets in order to develop and continue the legacy?
Doors open 8:45am
All panels include a 15-minute Q & A at the end.
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
9:15am – 9:30am CPAL Conference Summary – Future Forward – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
9:35am – 11:05am The Critical Year – When the Tax Axe Falls
Moderator – Amelia Brankov, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm
Christopher Wise, Vice President, Fine Art, Risk Strategies
Caryn B. Keppler, Esq., Partner, Pierro, Connor & Strauss, LLC
Sarah Kirk-Hanley, Independent Curator, Critic, and Expert Appraiser, Robert Kipniss Legacy Project
11:15am – 12:45pm Executors of Estates; Family Members and Outside Experts
Moderator – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Maggie Wright, Director, The Easton Foundation
John Crawford, Manager of Ralston Crawford Estate
Diedra Harris-Kelley, Co-Director, Romare Bearden Foundation
12:50pm – 1:50pm Lunch – Presentation
2:00pm – 3:30pm Strategies for Managing Assets, Legacy, and Succession
Moderator – Christina Hunter, Ph.D. Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation
Christopher Wise, Vice President, Fine Art, Risk Strategies
Lissa McClure, Executive Director, Woodman Family Foundation
Susan Fisher, Director, Kaish Family Art Project
3:35pm – 3:50pm Testimonial – Conference Round-Up – Ted Berger, Arts activist, Co-Creator of Cultural Council Foundation’s Artists Project, Executive Director Emeritus, NYFA, and Director of NYCreates & Monika Fabijanska, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser
3:55pm – 4:10pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
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