Contents for June 06, 2022
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace/Pratt Institute, Live at the Library VII exhibition, panel discussion, live online, June 7
1. Mendi + Keith Obadike, FF Alumns, receive New Music USA 2022 Creator Development Fund award
2. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, in Artforum, now online
3. Clifford Owens, FF Alumn, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan
4. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
5. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, June events
6. Heng-Gil Han, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, live online, June 16
7. Matthew Geller, FF Alumn, new public artwork, Wing Luke Elementary School, Seattle, WA
8. Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, thru Jan 16, 2023
9. Joseph Nechvatal, Rhys Chatham, FF Alumns, at Musée du quai Branly- Jacques Chirac, Paris, France, June 8-Sept. 11
10. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA, thru June 22 and online
11. Kathy Grove, FF Alumn, at La Linea, Nogales, AZ, thru Aug. 1
12. Alan Sondheim, FF ALumn, receives Marjorie C. Luesebrink Lifetime Achievement Award
13. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, selected as Epicenter NYC artist of the week
14. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Alumn, now in ArtistProfile.com.au
15. Ann Meredith, FF Alumn, at Trinity Courtyard, Manhattan, June 8 and more
16. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at As-Is Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 11
17. Circus Amok, Jennifer Miller, Tom Murrin, Johanna Went, FF Alumns, at Artists Space, Manhattan, opening June 11
18. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Orlando City Hall, FL, June 10-17
19. Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estéz Raful Espejo Ovalles now online on youtube.com
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace/Pratt Institute, Live at the Library VII exhibition, panel discussion, live online, June 7
46: Artists’ Books: A Panel Discussion with Artists, Scholars, and the Public
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Virtual Opening & Guided Tour
46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022
June 7, 2022
6:00pm- 7:00pm ET
Please join us for a free public panel discussion about artists’ books in relation to the new exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022. This panel brings together three artists whose work is featured in the exhibition: Elly Clarke, George Ferrandi, and Xinan (Helen) Ran, to share their experiences in self-publishing books and cross-disciplinary practice, and discuss the role of artists’ books in the creation of dialogues and engagement. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Johanna Bauman, Head of Digital and Special Collections and Curator of Artists’ Books at Pratt Institute Libraries. There will be an opportunity for Q&A with the audience.
Visit the full virtual exhibition here.
Panel Members + Bios
Johanna Bauman
Moderator
Johanna Bauman is the Head of Digital and Special Collections and Interim Head of Collection Management at the Pratt Institute Libraries where she oversees the operation and maintenance of Pratt’s extensive Circulating Collections, Special Collections, Digital Collections, and Archives. She began curating the Libraries’ artists’ book collection in 2018 and has worked closely with faculty in the School of Fine Art to build a collection to support the teaching of the history and making of artists’ books at Pratt. She holds an MA and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Virginia, where she specialized in medieval and Renaissance garden history and theories of art.
Elly Clarke
Panelist
Elly Clarke is an artist interested in the performance and burden (‘the drag’) of the physical body and object in a digitally mediated world. She explores this through photography, screengrabs, video, music, writing, community-based projects and #Sergina – a multi-bodied, border-straddling drag queen who, across one body and several, sings and performs online and offline about love, lust and loneliness (and data discharge) in the mesh of hyper-dis/connection. Clarke’s work has been shown at venues that include Kiasma, Helsinki; Galerie Wedding, Berlin; mac Birmingham; the Banff Centre and the Lowry, Salford Quays.
Now, in collaboration and sometimes competition with her alter ego #Sergina, Clarke is doing a practice-led PhD at Goldsmiths London, examining the ‘Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age’, in which she is proposing drag as a potential mode and method of resistance to the feedback loop of bodies and data, and the constant tracking and tracing of identities in a capitalist surveillance context.
Xinan (Helen) Ran
Panelist
Xinan (Helen) Ran was born in Yakeshi, China and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Hunter College MFA candidate and received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2017. She is an Ox-Bow Summer Fellow (2016) and the co-founder of Tuft Love (@tuft.love)
Apart from her studio practice, she is an art educator and aspires to be a designer for new theaters. Past collaborations include Shout Alone Theater Company’s Chasing Light (2015), The Moonfish and The Knife (2018) and assisted works produced by Castillo Theater, All Stars Project in New York.
George Ferrandi
Panelist
George Ferrandi is an American artist interested in experimental approaches to narrative, often working with communities to collaborate on building and performing events that tell a story. Since the pandemic, she’s been focusing on more intimate actions that can still make us feel connected, like sending things in the mail.
George produces George’s Lovely Variety, a monthly subscription art situation. And she is the founder of Jump!Star, an initiative that looks to the eventual transition of Earth’s North Star as a locus for better seeing ourselves on the planet in the present.
46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022, the 7th Annual Live at the Library exhibition collaboration with Pratt Institute, is curated by Fang-Yu Liu and Nicole Rosengurt and presented in honor of Michael Katchen, Senior Archivist, Franklin Furnace, in partnership with Pratt Institute Libraries and support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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1. Mendi + Keith Obadike, FF Alumns, receive New Music USA 2022 Creator Development Fund award
Please visit this link:
https://newmusicusa.org/newsroom/2022-creator-development-fund-awardees/
Thank you.
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2. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, in Artforum, now online
Artforum International celebrates Coco Fusco. A still from the artist’s video Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word (2021), currently on view in the Whitney Biennial, is the cover of the current issue. The publication also features two reviews of the biennial that foreground Fusco’s work. Read more here:
Hilton Als examines Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word in relation to loneliness
Jace Clayton discusses the impact of Fusco’s video meditation on the pandemic
Additional Press
Highlighted in Holland Cotter’s review for The New York Times
Named a favorite work by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker
Featured in Brian Kelly’s review for The Wall Street Journal
Interviewed by Allison Meier for The Art Newspaper
Included among Maximilíano Durón’s standout works in ARTnews
More information on Coco Fusco
More information on the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
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3. Clifford Owens, FF Alumn, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan
Greetings!
I hope this message finds you well.
I’m reaching out to share some good news: the Whitney Museum of American Art has acquired Anthology (Senga Nengudi) (2011) for the permanent collection!
Massive thank you to Christopher Y. Lew, the curator of Anthology, and the generosity of patrons and collectors for making this possible. I am overjoyed!
Clifford
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4. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
Join Emerson Collective for the interventions of world-renowned artists Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, and Jenny Holzer across Los Angeles during the Ninth Summit of the Americas to raise awareness about our climate crisis and its global impact.
The Earth’s rapidly changing climate is an emergency with potentially irreversible and catastrophic consequences. As global leaders convene in Los Angeles for the Ninth Summit of the Americas, temporary works by renowned artists Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, and Jenny Holzer will pop-up throughout the city. These larger-than-life interventions and temporary structures are monumental in scale and indelible in statement: We must act to save our changing climate.
In community with the artists, Emerson Collective is proud to present these three moving interventions that raise our collective consciousness and demand both our attention and our action. The time to act is now. We cannot wait. For details: http://www.climateactions.emersoncollective.com and https://www.climateactions.emersoncollective.com/jenny-holzer
Thank you.
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5. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, June events
Less than a month after its May 17, 2022 publication date, my memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham University Press/ Empire State Editions) is receiving very positive responses – online, in the media and word of mouth.
Here are some upcoming in-person (NYC) and virtual events, along with recent Broadcast/Podcasts and Published Author Interviews.
In the fall, it would be great to arrange book events throughout the country…please let me know if you would be interested in hosting an event!
Grateful for your support of the book. Happy Almost Summer!
Upcoming Events
Wed. June 8, from 5-7pm
In-Person Book Signing, Meet & Greet,
Yu & Me Books Info/Event Page https://www.yuandmebooks.com/events/our-laundry-our-town?fbclid=IwAR17nEA0GAMrtZHohA6fzuX_FTTOBGRcYij4OSyt9lMiMKVPFv798x-EvsA
44 Mulberry St, Chinatown, Manhattan
Only Asian American female-owned indie bookstore in NYC!
Sunday, June 12, from 3-4:30pm
In-Person Book Reading
with Musical Guest, Skyler Chin (my cousin!)
21 Pell Street Community Center, Chinatown, Manhattan
Facebook Info/Event Registration Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/580557746722819
Sat, June 25, from 2-3pm
Virtual and In-Person NYPL Author Talk
Hudson Park Branch
66 Leroy Street, West Village, NYC
NYPL Event Registration link: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/06/25/author-talk-alvin-eng-memoir-our-laundry-our-town-my-chinese-american
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6. Heng-Gil Han, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumns, live online, June 16
Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) V: Virtual Curator Talk
Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 7-8pm.
Curators Heng-Gil Han, Jennifer McGregor, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles will share their reflections on SDSS
To RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shared-dialogue-shared-space-sdss-v-virtual-curator-talk-tickets-356600631087
This spring Korea Art Forum (KAF) produced the third-year iteration of Shared Dialogue, Shared Space, (SDSS) a series of one-day interactive art initiatives presented for free in NYC Parks. Curators Heng-Gil Han, Jennifer McGregor, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles brought together a total of 14 emerging and mid-career artists and artist/music groups to create participatory works and performances across 2 public parks in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan, and Maple Playground in Flushing, Queens. On Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 7-8pm, join the curators for an online forum reflecting on the spring 2022 SDSS projects.
Learn more about artists’ projects, which ranged from public performance, drawing and printmaking workshops, augmented reality experiences, participatory installations, textile crafts, to printed comics. Ask each curator for their reflections on the events and the type of community engagement that happened. The curators will also share the summaries of their essays, which will be published in the forthcoming 2022 SDSS catalogue. Participating artists included Stephanie Alvarado, Arantxa Araujo, Ana Paula Cordeiro, Gina Goico, Alicia Grullón, Cody Herrmann, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Rosamond S. King, David Younghwan Lee, Lily & Honglei, LuLu LoLo, Priscilla Marrero, and Eunhae Park, with music by the Afro-Polka Ensemble featuring Marty Ehrlich-flute, Jerome Harris-guitar, and Maciek Schejbal-percussion.
Since 2020, Shared Dialogue, Shared Space has broadened channels of communication between the contemporary art world and immigrant communities in New York City, advancing the artists’ creative endeavors of engaging the public. Focused on the expansion of public access to the artists’ creative work, the project fosters dialogues between the audience and artists, exploring a wide range of subject matters and the multidimensional role of art in the processes of cultural production and social change. The SDSS program aims to connect immigrant communities and underserved ethnic enclaves to visual arts and culture through language access and participatory art activities. The activities are offered to populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) free of charge with translation services in English, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish at local parks embedded in the community.
The full 2022 Spring SDSS program, which incorporated three in-person events at local parks in both Inwood and Flushing, and a virtual artist talk will conclude with this curatorial talk on Zoom livestreamed on Facebook (and disseminated on YouTube afterward) on June 16 from 7-8pm, and a quadrilingual catalogue including artist interviews, curatorial essays, and observer’s reflections to be published soon. For updates check www.kafny.org, or email hhan@kafny.org.
Founded in New York 2013, Korea Art Forum (KAF) is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art, serving to advance indispensable values of art’s connectivity, relevance, and equity to create a peaceful world and enhance people’s quality of life and well-being. KAF’s goals are to stem root causes of inequality found in the contemporary art field and build an aesthetic framework that enables the creation of a peaceful world of coexistence, cooperation, and shared prosperity. Operating at the intersection of the visual arts and humanities, KAF annually produces interrelated projects—Commissions, Exhibitions, Forums, and Publications—to bring together all people from the art world and beyond to share dialogues, serving to build an interconnected peaceful world and support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. KAF’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) is made possible in part with funding from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ) and administered by LMCC. WQXR is the media partner of Korea Art Forum presenting Shared Dialogue, Shared Space.
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7. Matthew Geller, FF Alumn, new public artwork, Wing Luke Elementary School, Seattle, WA
Please visit this link:
https://matthewgeller.com/work#/centipenty/
Thank you.
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8. Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, at MoMA PS1, thru Jan 16, 2023
Peter Cramer , Jack Waters as founders of the performance collective POOL and Le Petit Versailles Garden are featured in a new exhibition at MoMA / PS 1.
Opening Jun 2, 2022–Jan 16, 2023
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5461
Life Between Buildings is “Inspired by the history of community gardens in New York City, Life Between Buildings explores how artists have engaged the city’s interstitial spaces—“vacant” lots, sidewalk cracks, traffic islands, and parks, among others—to consider the politics of public space through an ecological lens. Bringing together select archival materials and artworks from the 1970s through the present day, the exhibition looks beyond a history of artists transforming buildings (such as MoMA PS1) to how they have engaged the spaces in between, turning negative spaces into sites for common life: gardens, installations, performances, and gatherings.
Beginning in the 1970s, at a moment when New York City faced a severe fiscal crisis, grassroots groups across New York City began converting lots into community gardens. This coincided with artists’ efforts to think beyond the confines of the studio, gallery, and museum as sites for their work. At certain moments, these histories intertwined: artists made work in conversation with, and sometimes directly joining, community efforts to rethink the cityscape, recovering space towards creative, communal, and ecological ends. By repurposing liminal and overlooked sites, these groups and artists ask us to rethink how life—human and non-human—can grow in a city where space has become increasingly scarce and nature progressively imperiled.
Artists: Tom Burr (b. 1963), Mel Chin (b. 1951), Danielle De Jesus (b. 1987), Niloufar Emamifar, Becky Howland (b. 1951), David L. Johnson (b. 1993), Gordon Matta-Clark (b. 1943, d. 1978), Margaret Morton (b. 1948, d. 2020), Aki Onda (b. 1967), Poncili Creación (est. 2012), POOL (Performance On One Leg) (est. 1981), Matthew Schrader (b. 1984), jackie sumell (b. 1973) & The Lower Eastside Girls Club (est. 1996), Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948).
A number of programs, performances, and collaborations accompany the exhibition.
Peter Cramer
PO Box 20260
New York, New York 10009
917 803 0501
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9. Joseph Nechvatal, Rhys Chatham, FF Alumns, at Musée du quai Branly- Jacques Chirac, Paris, France, June 8-Sept. 11
Joseph Nechvatal’s a-life virus-modelled animation Viral Venture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dlXV3K2C4 will be exhibited in the Micro Mondes show at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris from June 8th to Sept 11th. Viral Venture was made in collaboration with Stephane Sikora and Rhys Chatham.
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10. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA, thru June 22 and online
Beverly Naidus’s artist’s book, WHOSE STREETS?, a project inspired by the research of Dr. Chris Schell, urban ecologist, is currently on exhibit at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. To learn more about her artist’s book, visit: https://blogs.pugetsound.edu/sciencestories/whose-streets/
And to learn more about the exhibition, visit:
https://www.biartmuseum.org/exhibitions/boundless/
Boundless
Co-Curators’ Statement
by Cynthia Sears and Catherine Alice Michaelis
Boundless celebrates the visionary ideals of the artist’s book which often challenge, in the best of ways, our preconceived notions of what a book can be. Boundless explores the vast field of artist’s books, but also the thinking of book artists. Each work reveals the mapping and laying bare of uncomfortable, surprising, or unexplored terrain.
We see this literally in Mare Blocker’s Flight to Mars, 1989, where a Mare-like figure shoots out of a cannon, leaving Earth’s atmosphere and zooming toward a red planet. Another artist seeks to correct the historical record of the U.S. and affirm the dignity of Black trans lives with the flip book Mary Ann Waters is a Free Black Woman, by Kadin Henningsen. Kitty Maryatt’s re-creation of the pivotal 1913 publication La prose du Transsibérien, celebrates visionary book artists of the past and helps keep a vanishing print technique alive. Colette Fu dynamically captures, through photos and pop-ups, the ethnic minority people of China whose lives and cultures are rapidly changing.
Artist’s books clamor for our attention through structural engineering, color, medium, and content. Many direct our attention to important social and environmental issues, such as climate catastrophe. Nansen’s Pastport, by Anneli Skaar, was inspired by Fridtjof Nansen’s refugee passport for stateless persons following WWI. Skaar’s deluxe version has a bronze Nobel Prize, designed from the medal given to Nansen in 1922. It serves as a reminder of the life-saving role his passport held for nearly half a million people. Skaar’s reimagined passport for climate refugees, bound in salmon skin, is designed with beautifully rendered cyanotype images originally collaged from U.S. banknotes. A copper engraved print of a world map is held inside a folio covered in bright orange life vest material. Our Social Skin is a series of ten books shaped as clothing by Robin Holder. They consider U.S. federal holidays and question whom they represent. The conflicts they contain are quickly evident. Holder begins with New Year’s Day, portrayed as a party dress with text reading, “You can never be too rich or too thin” and lists many of the harmful ways female-identified persons are pressured to conform to unrealistic ideals of beauty. She ends the series with a child’s onesie, decorated in a Christmas theme with a tag hanging from the bottom asking, “What would Jesus buy?”
One of the beauties of a book is its intimate nature, and the power the viewer has to control the reading pace. Aimee Lee’s One Rhododendron Bush in May 2020 documents the early days of the pandemic. We turn the pages as Lee reveals a modest-sized rhododendron just outside her window, changing a little from day-to-day. Like many of us, Lee must look hard to see change in what has previously been taken for granted. Alisa Banks’ Emergence offers a different kind of meditative moment, one that comes with a candle embedded with a St. Michael medallion sitting between two books. Emergence examines cultural and personal truths. This is terrain not easily traveled, and to underscore that point, the viewer is tasked with how to take on two books at once.
The majority of works in Boundless are unique artist’s books, books found only in the Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Unique works by Beverly Naidus, Kathy Kuehn, Lucia Harrison, Karen Kunc, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Don Glaister, Halah Kahn, and many others, employ an intensive amount of hand-labor — painted, stitched, woven, collaged, carved, cut, dyed, and/or printed. Some artists, like Aimee Lee, begin by making their own paper.
Artist’s books can be highly experimental in materials or construction, including the tin art of Kathy Ross. Ross works from recycled materials to address climate change in Toast & Jam and issues of scarcity in Everything is About Everything.
Suze Woolf’s books document the bark beetle in many ways while noting a changing climate and dwindling forests. Her books employ sections of wood “written in” as the trees are chewed by bark beetles. Velma Bolyard made her own Shifu (paper woven into cloth), to create Bloodroot and Violet, a book boldly infused with the dyes made from these roots and flowers.
Just as the visions of many book artists lift us to broader ideas of what a book can be, so does this large-scale exhibition Boundless, with the inclusion of Troubling: Artists’ Books that enlighten and disrupt old ways of being and seeing, an installation of works curated by Tia Blassingame and Ellen Sheffield. Their focus on social and environmental justice works, many from the Cynthia Sears Collection, keep the spotlight right where our collective efforts need to be and stay focused — on equity, justice, and accountability.
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11. Kathy Grove, FF Alumn, at La Linea, Nogales, AZ, thru Aug. 1
FF Alumn Kathy Grove is exhibiting a series of 18 of her recent pigment prints at La Linea art space in Nogales, Arizona from May 21st to August 1st in an exhibition, Le Tre Amiche, along with photographs by Paula Wittner and wire sculpture by Nelda Barchers.
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12. Alan Sondheim, FF ALumn, receives Marjorie C. Luesebrink Lifetime Achievement Award
From the Electronic Literature Conference in Como, Italy, today:
I was at the conference by remote –
http://www.alansondheim.org/announcement.jpg
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Lifetime Achievement Award goes to
Alan Sondheim #ELOItalia Marjorie Luesebrink
– From Mark Marino on Facebook
This was incredible; I’m pretty much outside academia, and
hadn’t expected this! I put up the following in the Zoom chat
Working on the edge of identity, sememes –
influences – Vito Acconci, Clark Coolidge, Laurie Anderson, Son
House, Al Wilson, Adrian Piper,
Foofwa d’Imobilite
always the materiality of the body, the body as decoder
always working with others, programmers, dancers
distorting, collapsing body mappings
texts which corrupt themselves, editors which alter input
media – computers/writing, film, video, analog synthesizers,
acoustic instruments,
radio, vlf radio
my itinerant life –
Some sites – enjoy –
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/alan-sondheim/7261271/see-all?section=top-songs
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/broken-theory/
https://www.youtube.com/user/asondheim/videos
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13. Ann Rosen, FF Alumn, selected as Epicenter NYC artist of the week
My biggest news is that I’ve been selected as ‘artist of the week’ on the Epicenter NYC website this week! https://epicenter-nyc.com/featured-artist-ann-rosen/
The article showcases my work over the past five years, including my recent portraits of clients of HousingPlus, a non-profit organization that finds permanent shelter for formerly homeless women and their families and female veterans.
Make sure to follow @EpicenterNYC on instagram for more featured artists.
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14. Katya Grokhovsky, FF Alumn, now in ArtistProfile.com.au
Thank you @artistprofile for featuring my work and process in the new issue! Australia, out now in print and online, issue 59, https://artistprofile.com.au #artistprofile #artistprocess #artinaustralia
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15. Ann Meredith, FF Alumn, at Trinity Courtyard, Manhattan, June 8 and more
U R Invited Wednesday June 8th 2022 – 8:00-9:30pm
Ann P Meredith and Others – Open Mic
Trinity Courtyard 602 East 9th Street @ Avenue B
Ann will be reading from her New Play and Short Feature Film
O – The Murder of Christa McAuliffe & Judith Resnik
The NASA/President Ronald Reagan Challenger Disaster
Swordfish Productions Pictures & Theatrical www.annpmeredith.com
and
U R Invited Friday June 10th 2022 8:00- 10:00pm
Ann P Meredith and Others – Open Mic
Ann will be reading from her New Play and Motion Picture Feature Film
Forgotten Angels – A Matter of Honor
East Village Playhouse 340 East 6th Street @ 1st Avenue
Swordfish Productions Pictures & Theatrical www.annpmeredith.com
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16. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at As-Is Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, opening June 11
https://www.as-is.la/exhibitions/susanmogullegend
Susan Mogul’s “Sneak Peek” Opening
Saturday June 11th 2-5pm at As-Is Gallery in Los Angeles
In advance of this year’s career-spanning survey show at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland, veteran Los Angeles artist Susan Mogul offers local viewers a tantalizing preview in the exhibition “Susan Mogul: Sneak Peek” at as-is.la.
At least since the nineteen sixties when Norman Mailer cheekily titled his book of collected essays, Advertisements for Myself, writers and artists have acknowledged “self promotion” as a central part of the artist’s job and, perhaps even, of the artwork itself. Few, however, did so earlier or with greater gusto than Mogul. This attitude weaves in and out of Tales from the Mogul Archive, her 36 panel opus maximus which fills the gallery’s main space. “Self promotion” goes on to play an even greater role in What becomes a Legend most?, Mogul’s series of three strikingly beautiful semi-nude self-portraits with multi-lingual text on view in the entry gallery. These latter artworks are based on the mid-century ad campaign for “Blackglama,” featuring older women celebrities wrapped in the company’s mink coats, a campaign which is today best remembered for its hauntingly poetic tag line, “What becomes a Legend most?” Mogul poses this question at the top of each photograph and then proceeds to answer it at the bottom with a characteristic mix of self aggrandizement and self mockery: “Susan Mogul, the septuagenarian, anticipates her first solo museum exhibition.” As do we. “Susan Mogul: Sneak Peek,” at as-is.la, provides the perfect send-off for this highly accomplished if not yet sufficiently appreciated artist.
Text by Tom Jimmerson /Gallery Director as-is.la gallery
“Susan Mogul: Sneak Peek” runs from June 11 to July 23.
Artist’s reception Saturday, June 11 from 2:00 to 5:00pm at as-is.la.
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17. Circus Amok, Jennifer Miller, Tom Murrin, Johanna Went, FF Alumns, at Artists Space, Manhattan, opening June 11
Organized by Artists Space and Andrew Lampert, Attention Line considers the important ways that artists who generally operate outside the commercial confines of the visual art world can actively address and reconfigure media, power, and public space – through parody, exaggeration, confrontation, internalization, structured confusion, and the serendipitous nature of working out in the open. Rooted in late 1970s New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, San Antonio, Portland, La Jolla and elsewhere in the United States, Attention Line presents eleven iconoclastic artists who self-reflexively enact radical subjectivity within the urban environment. Taking form as visual art, media interventions, stage shows, mail art, and surreptitious public performances, these artists disrupt communication channels and the trafficking of cultural material by intervening in the pervasive flows of normalcy that underpin and uphold everyday consumer culture.
Each of these remarkably singular artists has carved out their own dynamic relation between form, culture, and their suspecting or unsuspecting public. Whether working between covert urban intervention and filmed documentation (Craig Baldwin and Manuel DeLanda), exaggerating and embodying notably troubled cultural stereotypes (James Luna and Vaginal Davis), accelerating and fracturing the commonplace logic of live performance to imbue material culture with energetic chaos (Johanna Went and Tom Murrin), skewering political and hegemonic power with dark comedic parody (Ed Bereal and Circus Amok), expressing their internal subjectivity as disjunctive projections in urban space (Hannah Weiner and Tamio Shiraishi), or self-distributing their kaleidoscopic output and invented personae through decidedly unconventional means (Blaster Al Ackerman and others), these artists each bring forth critical aspects of a largely untold, uniquely American history of tactical situationist artmaking.
Improvising saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi will perform in Cortlandt Alley and at Artists Space six times throughout the course of the exhibition. Performances will begin promptly and be brief, according to the following schedule:
Saturday, June 11, 6:30pm
Thursday, June 23, 6:30pm
Saturday, July 2, 1pm
Saturday, July 16, 1pm
Thursday, August 4, 6:30pm
Saturday, August 20, 1pm
New York’s legendary Circus Amok will present a new outdoor performance in Cortlandt Alley, commissioned by Artists Space as part of Attention Line on Saturday, August 13 at 2pm.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Canal Street Research Association with Rolando Politi will inaugurate a participatory alternate currency project.
The exhibition’s opening reception on Saturday, June 11th will feature a special music performance downstairs at 8pm by the New York band and performance ensemble Sugarlife.
For more information click here: https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/attention-line
Image description: large text at the top of the image reads “Attention Line” and below it, in smaller text, “June 11 – August 20 / Opening: Saturday June 11, 6pm / 8pm performance by Sugarlife / Blaster Al Ackerman / Craig Baldwin / Ed Bereal: Wanted for Disturbing the Peace.” Below the rows of texts, there is a color image of a monstrous figure outfitted with metal appendages, raised against a large sculpture resembling the American flag. Below the image the text continues: “Circus Amok and Jennifer Miller / Vaginal Davis / Manuel DeLanda / James Luna / Tom Murin (aka The Alien Comic) / Tamio Shiraishi / Hannah Weiner / Johanna Went.”
Exhibition Supporters
Lead support is provided by The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College.
Program support is provided by Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The David Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Imperfect Family Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Arison Arts Foundation, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.
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18. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Orlando City Hall, FL, June 10-17
The City of Orlando invites the Provincetown Community Compact to the commemoration of the June 12, 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre; a special strand of Prayer Ribbons will be installed at Orlando City Hall, Provincetown, MA. The Provincetown Community Compact has once again been invited by The City of Orlando, Florida to install the Prayer Ribbons memorializing the victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub Massacre outside Orlando City Hall. A private gathering will be held with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, City Commissioners and employees, LGBTQ+ leaders and the Pulse family for a minute of silence to remember the 49 victims of this mass shooting. Jay Critchley, director of the Provincetown Community Compact, will speak along with community leaders.
The Prayer Ribbons will be on public view outside Orlando City Hall from June 10-17, 2022.
At the time of the shooting the community of Provincetown felt a special kinship with the city of Orlando and an urgency to respond to such unimaginable gun violence against the LGBTQ community. To honor the victims, The Compact arranged a ceremony at Provincetown Town Hall where each person’s name was inscribed in gold on a black ribbon and added to the Prayer Ribbons, a project of The Compact and the Provincetown Swim for Life. An additional ribbon was dedicated to those injured.
In November of 2016, The Compact was invited by Frank Billingsley, Chief of Staff to Mayor Dyer to bring this strand of the Prayer Ribbons to the city of Orlando. They were installed at beautiful Leu Gardens at a gathering of families of the victims and then outside Orlando City Hall.
In the invitation to The Compact in 2016, Mayor Dyer writes: “The Prayer Ribbons were another reminder for our residents that communities around the nation were standing with us during a difficult time. Having the Prayer Ribbons return to Orlando would help our city continue the healing process and provide another way to celebrate the unity of our community and inclusive communities like Provincetown.”
The Prayer Ribbons were initiated in 1993 at the Provincetown Swim for Life to provide a visual witness to the swimmers and the community devastated by HIV/AIDS, each swimmer with their own personal images, hopes and fears. All are invited to inscribe the names of those they love on one of the five-foot long colored ribbons – and personal messages – to those they wish to celebrate in their lives, both living and deceased.
The Prayer Ribbons challenge us to live our lives more fully and joyfully. They create a visual statement that broadens and elaborates on Provincetown’s legacy as a community with an historic global reach of inclusion, and acknowledges that differences create richness.
The 35th Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, sponsored by the Provincetown Community Compact, will take place September 10, 2022. thecompact.org
https://thecompact.org/articles/2022/Prayer-Ribbons-Orlando-2022.html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MucItJEX5o
Jay Critchley
Founder & Director
Provincetown Community Compact
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19. Nao Bustamante, Nicolás Dumit Estéz Raful Espejo Ovalles now online on youtube.com
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