Goings On: posted week of June 24, 2019
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1. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at City Winery, Chicago, IL, June 25
2. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, at Brattleboro Museum, VT, thru Sept. 23
3. Barbara Hammer, FF Alumn, in Artforum, Summer 2019
4. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, in UC Press journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, now online
5. Peculiar Works Project (Ralph Lewis, Catherine Porter, Barry Rowell), Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at 222 Bowery, Manhattan, June 27-30
6. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at brooklynrail.org
7. Stephen Holman, Aline Mare, FF Alumns, at Coagula Curatorial/Lisa Derrick Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, opening July 22
8. Joni Mabe, FF ALumn, at Rabun County Civic Center, Clayton, GA, Aug. 2-3
9. Claes Oldenburg, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, June 23, 2019
10. Jennifer Monson, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, June 23
11. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Susan Eley Fine Art, Manhattan, opening June 26
12. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, now online at amny.com
13. John Ahearn, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, FF Alumns, in The New York Times, now online
14. Lorraine O’Grady, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, at Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, thru Oct. 13
15. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, in The Hague, The Netherlands, June 30, July 6-7
16. Bob Holman, FF Alumn, at PS122 Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 30
17. Vito Acconci, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening July 11
18. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at WAAM, Woodstock, NY, June 30
19. Sol LeWitt, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, opening June 28
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1. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at City Winery, Chicago, IL, June 25
Penny Arcade Brings Longing Lasts Longer To City Winery Chicago
After touring for almost 5 years to 40 cities around the globe
Penny Arcade will be making the long awaited debut of her work in Chicago
Longing Lasts Longer is a refutation of nostalgia and a rock and roll comedy with a live mixed soundtrack of over 100 song loops from some of the best pop music of the past 60 years
Its about the gentrification of ideas! It is culture criticism you can dance to!
https://citywinery.com/chicago/penny-arcade-6-25-19.html
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2. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, at Brattleboro Museum, VT, thru Sept. 23
Please visit this link:
https://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2019/06/05/dona-ann-mcadams-performative-acts/
thank you.
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3. Barbara Hammer, FF Alumn, in Artforum, Summer 2019
Please visit this link:
https://www.artforum.com/print/201906/barbara-hammer-79910
thank you.
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4. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, FF Alumn, in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, UC Press, now online
“Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual and Performance Cultures in San Francisco Strip Clubs, 1960s-1970s” by Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (UC Press)
In the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in San Francisco, although cross-dressing continued to be criminalized. This article documents queer Latina/x visual and performance cultures of San Francisco’s strip club industry during this critical moment. It employs visual and performance analyses that draw from ethnographic interviews and archival research about three Latinas who performed as exotic dancers during this period, two of whom were out transsexuals: Roxanne Lorraine Alegria, Vicki Starr, and Lola Raquel.
To read the abstract and article, visit: http://www.gigiotalvaro.com/news-events/
To purchase the journal issue, visit: https://lalvc.ucpress.edu/content/1/2/58
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5. Peculiar Works Project (Ralph Lewis, Catherine Porter, Barry Rowell), Sol LeWitt,
Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at 222 Bowery, Manhattan, June 27-30
Peculiar Works Project(Ralph Lewis, Catherine Porter, and Barry Rowell) is pleased to announce Afterparty: The Rothko Studio, a site-specific immersive performance in and around the former studio of legendary painter Mark Rothko.
Afterparty: The Rothko Studioruns Thursday through Sunday, June 27-30, with performances on Thursday – Saturday at 7:00 pm and 8:30 pm, and Sunday at 5:00 pm and 6:30 pm. Performances take place at 222 Bowery (between Prince & Spring Streets), NYC. Tickets are $50 (table seating includes lite fare), $25 (balcony standing includes a beverage), $40/$20 (seniors/students), and $100 (VIP seating includes a themed gift), and go on sale June 3rd at www.peculiarworks.org.
Built in 1884 for the YMCA as the Young Men’s Institute, 222 Bowery is renowned for the many now-famous artists who lived, worked, and played in this landmarked gem. The building’s former gymnasium is significant for having been Rothko’s studio, where he painted the infamous “Seagram Murals” commissioned by The Four Seasons Restaurant in 1957. Afterparty will explore this pivotal moment for downtown artists, peeling back their stories to reveal multiple layers of NYC history before the former studio is converted into commercial space later this summer.
Peculiar Works Project’s creative team is designing an intimate, promenade journey through the historic architecture and artistic legacy of the building. Along the way, multi-disciplinary performances will reinterpret the legendary art parties attended by artworld luminaries-Jasper Johns, John Giorno, William S. Burroughs, Eve Hesse, Jonas Mekas, Lynda Benglis, Roy Lichtenstein, LeRoi Jones, Diane DiPrima, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, and more-against the backdrop of Rothko’s struggle between achieving success and selling out. Audiences and performers will sit around a table together in the paint-splattered space and experience a theatrical conjuring of artistic ghosts whose impact echoes till this day.
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6. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at brooklynrail.org
Mark Bloch has written an article for the Brooklyn Rail about Mary Bauermeister’s recent show at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Mary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy
Text only follows below. For the complete illustrated article please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/06/artseen/Mary-Bauermeister-Live-in-Peace-or-Leave-the-
Galaxy
Best known for her intricate and enigmatic multimedia assemblages, Mary Bauermeister (b.1934), long defied categorization. She matured amidst Pop and Minimalism but instead echoed explorations of the very personal and a multi-layered maximalism.
Beginning in the early 1960s, her unique text strategies of visual poetry and other conceptual practices cemented her seminal role within the Fluxus community, which championed experimental poetry, music, intermedia, and Happenings. Before moving to New York, her studio in Cologne, Germany became the meeting point for a number of artists defining the era including Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, John Cage, Christo, Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, and Nam June Paik. She became an influential figure in vital discussions between European and US artists at the time. Bauermeister later married Stockhausen, an influential composer of electronic and serial music, in 1967, with whom she had two children before they divorced in 1972.
This exhibit spans six decades, highlighting Bauermeister’s consistent use of writing throughout her career, with new and vintage selections from several specialty areas, each of which employ text: drawings, constructions, rare early light boxes, and stone reliefs. But most prominently, this exhibition features her breathtakingly dreamy lens box constructions. Twenty of those and three of her reliefs, all made from tiny stones collected on seven beaches around the world, are her two trademark pursuits. Both have been exhibited at Michael Rosenfeld before, but this exhibition-Live in Peace or Leave the Gallery-is her first solo presentation with the gallery.
Bauermeister was in attendance for the opening, which she conceived as a Happening, a nod to the Fluxus era. She filled the gallery with helium balloons bearing the message “Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy,” bobbing against the tall ceilings with her unique hand-made pencils (which she began producing in the late 1960s) suspended magically from them on ribbons. Not tools to make art, the pencils are works of art themselves-hand-colored and crafted in varying lengths and widths that she referred to as symbolic “memor[ies] of a predigital epoch.” Also placed on pedestals strategically throughout the gallery, the pencils create fantastic magical landscapes, with all proceeds from their sale benefitting The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, dedicated to addressing early childhood development, art and creativity.
In addition to the twelve pencil tableaus and the floating balloons, the gallery is filled with dozens of serene, mystical works to be explored: three stone works that form carefully constructed mandalas (enhanced with commentary), two examples of her early backlit light sheet (verbal) experiments, three pieces in which embellished frames (covered with lettering) provide the art, one historic well-labeled “primary structure” work, thirteen ink and/or marker compositions on paper with painted wood adhered and twenty of the lens boxes.
Bauermeister incorporates the glass, lenses, stones, and other unconventional materials, both natural and manmade, into the boxes and language into every work in the show. Through scribbled stories, double meanings, humor, games and visual puns, Bauermeister began to utilize text in her work as early as 1961 and continues vibrantly today in her eighties, allowing personal feelings, doubts and anxieties as well as a spiritual perception of nature to find their way into her art. Her command of materials conveys confidence while the words raise questions and uncertainties, inviting the viewer to restore balance.
Three pen-and-ink works on paper, Title Drawing No. 1, 2 and 3, (all 2019) greet visitors. They resemble ocean waves, wood grain or other organic patterns, ethereally constructed out of delicate lettering in large, medium and small sizes, using upper- and lowercase alphabets. Hypnotic phrases and sentence fragments meander horizontally. Elsewhere, we see earlier examples of the wavy text pieces from 1979 and then 2015. She seems to have perfected it in these elegant 2019 works. Their undulating sine waves draw us in to read or look. Eventually, the words and little squiggles begin to register, revealing a stream of consciousness autobiography, unfolding as interference pattern about Bauermeister’s early years in New York: close encounters with Hans Hoffman, Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning and Marcel Duchamp; recollections of Miles, Monk, and Martin Luther King. One verbal constellation says: “10 blocks north of Jasper Johns who’s American flag painting I had seen in the Amsterdam Stedlijk Museum… 1962 June… when I saw this exhibition of American art… Leslie and Stankiewicz and Jasper and Bob’s ‘Monogram’… I knew: where this is called Art, I want to be…”
As looking turns into reading, these 2019 works telling stories about the early 1960s, we learn her works once displayed on Great Jones Street were reviewed in the New York Times by writers who then became personal friends. Later, we see a lens box is dedicated to that same writer. These pieces and this exhibit create a personal, gossipy, political, and whimsical self-portrait of her moment and her network: 2D and 3D visual poetry by a master.
The airy works are grounded by the copious lens box constructions: painted wooden mini-worlds sporting inscribed surfaces, dense with a vocabulary of objects-clear glass balls, whole or sectioned opaque spheres, and layered glass dividers-that create a myriad of optical effects to disorient us. Frequent bursts of text continually unite everything in the gallery as part of a whole. Bauermeister invites us into her process, offering variations on several themes that form a continuum of this gifted, unorthodox communicator.
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7. Stephen Holman, Aline Mare, FF Alumns, at Coagula Curatorial/Lisa Derrick Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, opening July 22
Join us for a summer art exhibition on Chung King Road as
GODDESSES AND GODS takes up TWO galleries:
Coagula Curatorial AND Lisa Derrick Fine Arts
FEATURING THIRTY FOUR ARTISTS:
Regina Argentin • Clive Barker • Jean-Pierre Boccara • Lili Bernard
Rick Castro • COOP • Aleka Corwin • Sequoia Emmanuelle
Mike Vegas Dommermuth • Sandra Equihua • GERMS • Maria Gkinala
Sophía Gasparian • Golgo • Brian Grillo • Stephen Holman • Louis Jacinto
Shaelin Jornigan • Lizz López • Eva Malhotra • Aline Mare • Pres-One
Rosie One • Parris Patton • Eva Polonkai • Stephen Seeymayer
Kim Seltzer • Melinda R. Smith • James Stanford
Kayla Tange • Rodriel Trammell • David Van Gough
Stefanie Vega • J. Michael Walker
Join us this Saturday Night JULY 22 for a reception to honor the artists
6-9 PM
961 and 974 Chung King Road
in Chinatown of course!
There will be live Music by Marty Goldstandard and the Gold Standard
PLUS a Deejay set by SPIRITS OF THE NIGHT
The exhibit runs thru July 20
Galleries are open THU FRI SAT 1-6 PM
AND by appointment!
Special thanks to our refreshment sponsor TOPO CHICO
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8. Joni Mabe, FF ALumn, at Rabun County Civic Center, Clayton, GA, Aug. 2-3
16th Big E Fest & ETA Competition, Aug. 2-3, 2019, Rabun County Civic Center, Clayton, GA.
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9. Claes Oldenburg, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, June 23, 2019
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/arts/design/claes-oldenburg-archives-getty.html
thank you.
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10. Jennifer Monson, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, June 23
Please visit this link:
thank you
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11. Vernita Nemec, FF Alumn, at Susan Eley Fine Art, Manhattan, opening June 26
Susan Eley Fine Art
46 West 90th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10024
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm and by appointment
“ON THE ROCKS”
An open juried Summer group show of contemporary artworks features depictions of majestic mountain ranges, rocky crags, bluffs, peaks, hills, steep cliffs and monoliths.
June 26 – August 29, 2019 | Opening Reception: June 26, 2019
Participating artists:
Seongmin Ahn, Leandro Artigala, Francesca Azzara, Pat Badt, Kristian Battell, Katrina Bello, Oli Berg, Daniel Bohman, Karin Bruckner, Travis Childers, Jerome Clark, Michael Eade, Hank Ehrenfried, Carole Eisner, Anna Feld, Astrid Fitzgerald, Deborah Freedman, Tom Gaines, Donald Groscost, Benjamin Guffee, Ellen Hermanos, James Isherwood, Gary Kaleda, Jessica M Kaufman, Melanie Kozol, Sophia Krupsha, Chase Langford, Kyunglim Lee, Jackie Leishman, Wendy Letven, Zack Lobdell, Karl Lorenzen, Samantha Morris, Vernita Nemec, Nazanin Noroozi, Ron Paras, Maria Passarotti, Brian Rattiner, Karrie Ross, Alicia Rothman, Jeffrey Rothstein, Liz Rundorff Smith, Naomi Schlinke, Nancy Simonds, Steve Singer, George Smith, Kate Snow, Miriam Stern, Barbara Strasen, Ellen Sturm Niz, Mary Tooley Parker, Shira Toren, Emily Weiskopf, Deborah Weiss
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12. Lady Pink, FF Alumn, now online at amny.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.amny.com/news/nyc-graffiti-lady-pink-1.32473858
thank you.
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13. John Ahearn, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, FF Alumns, in The New York Times, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/arts/design/el-museo-del-barrio.html
thank you.
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14. Lorraine O’Grady, Cindy Sherman, FF Alumns, at Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, thru Oct. 13
Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
June 22 – October 13, 2019
Alexander Gray Associates announces Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, including work by Lorraine O’Grady, curated by Tom Eccles and Leigh Ledare, at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference- a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute-that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the twenty-eight participants and secured the collaboration of ten psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure- an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and the biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O’Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence; historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection from the Ektachrome Archive; journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time. During this charged period of the AIDS crisis and the formation of Queer Nations, Harris took intimate photographs of his friends, such as Isaac Julien, John Akomfrah, Marlon T. Riggs, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Glenn Ligon, bell hooks and others-together with images of lovers, boyfriends, self-portraits, landscapes, and now-closed nightclubs.
Alexander Gray Associates
Alexander Gray Associates is a contemporary art gallery in New York. Through exhibitions, research, and artist representation, the Gallery spotlights artistic movements and artists who emerged in the mid- to late-Twentieth Century. Influential in cultural, social, and political spheres, these artists are notable for creating work that crosses geographic borders, generational contexts and artistic disciplines. Alexander Gray Associates is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.
Alexander Gray Associates
510 West 26 Street, New York NY 10001 United States
Telephone: +1 212 399 2636
Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
www.alexandergray.com
info@alexandergray.com
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15. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, in The Hague, The Netherlands, June 30, July 6-7
Peter Baren, FF Alumn, gives both a lecture on 30 June and performs on 6 / 7 July during Project ID / In Between Identities , The Hague, The Netherlands.
Produced by Performancesite in association with VestAndPage and Marilyn Arsem:
25 June to 7 July 2019
The Hague, The Netherlands
Project ID In-Between Identities is a temporary creative community project aiming to face artistically the issue of the crisis of identity, working in performance art through personal and the societal conceptions of individuality. In a 10-days intensive Residency Class, P.s. Den Haag provides for a space to develop solo and collective performances under the tuition of artist duo VestAndPage together with Marilyn Arsem, to be presented during the weekend July 5 – 7, 2019 in a public event. A collective performance opera, solo and collaborative performances by the participants and additional invited international artists, as well as lectures and an Study Movie Room, happen in the centre of The Hague at the former school building De Helena, Stichting Ruimtevaart, Maakhaven and De Barthkapel, a suggestive old convent chapel.
For detailed information please go to https://www.performancesite.nl/project-id/
ABOUT PROJECT ID IN-BETWEEN IDENTITIES
By Marilyn Arsem and VestAndPage
Stuart Hall outlines in the essay “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” (1990) that modern identities are no longer fixed but emerge as “unstable points of identification or suture, which are made within the discourses of history and culture.” In his words, life stories are not determined exclusively by class, race, gender, and religion, but instead there is a mixed ancestry; an identification with diversity in countries, traditions, values and beliefs. While the raised global interactions are causing a re-evaluation of traditions and lifestyles, an awareness of individual and collective change springs from the urgency to find new modes of shaping our identities and life stories. Performativity as a language calls for continuous transformation and functions as a form of social action, while contemporary performance art as a logical art form shapes, communicates, confirms and honours the value of differing life stories in multiple contexts.
DATES & VENUES
Residency Class tutored by VestAndPage & Marilyn Arsem: Tuesday, June 25th – Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
Evening lectures and artist talks at Stichting Ruimtevaart: Friday, June 28th and Sunday, June 30th, 2019, 7-10pm
Study Movie Room at Stichting Ruimtevaart: Friday July 5th (12-6 pm) – Sunday, July 7th (12-11 pm) 2019
Collective performance opera at Maakhaven: Friday, July 5th, 2019, 8-11 pm
Live performance program at De Helena and De Barthkapel: Saturday 6 July – Sunday, 7 July 2019, 7-11 pm
In a 10-days intensive Residency Class, P.s. Den Haag provides a space to develop solo and collective performances under the tuition of artist duo VestAndPage together with Marilyn Arsem, to be presented during the weekend July 5 – 7, 2019 in a public event. A collective performance opera, solo and collaborative performances by the participants and additional invited international artists, as well as lectures and an exhibition, happen in the centre of The Hague at the former school building De Helena, Stichting Ruimtevaart, and De Barthkapel, a suggestive old convent chapel.
Participating Residency artists: Danielle Brans (NL), Carmen Lafran (DE/IT), Andrea van Gelder (NL), Albert Smith (South Africa), Hsiang-Yun Huang (Taiwan), Gamze Ozturk (Turkey), Ingrid Adriaans (NL), Lise BOUCON (FR/UK), Fay Burnett (UK), Tess Martens (Canada), Philemon Mukarno (Indonesia/NL), Larysa Bauge (BY/NL), Yvette Teeuwen (NL), Carol Montealegre (Bogotá/ Colombia), Yuki Kobayashi / 小林勇輝n (Japan), Diogo Angeli (Brazil), Carole Novak (FR), Emilio Rojas (US), Oozing Gloop (UK).
Participating Artists Project ID.
Andrigo & Aliprandi (IT), Peter Baren (NL), Larysa Bauge (BY, NL), Jessica van Deursen (NL), Daz Disley (UK), Kirsten Heshusius (NL), Fenia Kotsopoulou (UK), Miranda Meijer (NL) ), Sara Simeoni, (DE), Marcel Sparmann (DE), and Yvette Teeuwen (NL).
Peter Baren [NL] lecture:
SILHOUETTES LIKE SHIVERING ANCIENT FEELINGS. The presentation will be larded with fleeting examples from my performance practice. They are witnesses of ever changing identities between social actions and behavior outlet.
Evening lectures and artist talks at Stichting Ruimtevaart, The Hague
Friday, June 28th, 7:00-10:00 pm
7:00 PM: Hsiang-Yun
8:00 PM: Mohammed Al-Jaf
9:00 PM: Marilyn Arsem
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Sunday, June 30th, 7:00-10:00 pm
7:00 PM: Sanne van Driel
8:00 PM: Peter Baren
9:00 PM: Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage)
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16. Bob Holman, FF Alumn, at PS122 Gallery, Manhattan, thru June 30
Dear Friends + Colleagues,
I’m really excited to have taken on the role of Director at PS122 Gallery. For those of you that have some interesting proposals, consider our space as an opportunity to realize them.
We’re looking forward to the second of four performances by the Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup as part of The Book, a collaborative installation and performance project-featuring text, image, and dance-created by Steve West, Stefanie Nelson and Bob Holman.
This is the first of our #SummerCamp programming and just a taste of what’s to come in the yearlong season that kicks off in September.
Kind regards,
-Ian Cofré, Director
PS122 Gallery
150 First Avenue, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10009
p 646 908 7666
e director@ps122gallery.org
s @ps122gallery
www.ps122gallery.org
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17. Vito Acconci, FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, opening July 11
Please Join Us for the Opening of
The Watchers
Thursday, July 11
from 6 to 8pm
The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street
(between 5th and 6th Aves.)
The Watchers, an exhibition that focuses on the multi-faced nature of surveillance and privacy in contemporary society, and the subsequent production and obscuration of information and news, will be on view at the Foundation’s exhibition space, The 8th Floor, in New York City from July 11 through October 12, 2019. Artists in the exhibition include Vito Acconci, American Artist, Elaine Byrne, Lieven De Boeck, Anne Deleporte, Hasan Elahi, Karin Ferrari, Orkhan Huseynov, Pedro Lasch, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Arnold Mesches, Trevor Paglen, and Amie Siegel.
The Watchers is loosely organized as a narrative about surveillance, presenting examples of stalking, sousveillance, fortified borders, facial recognition technology, as well as proposals for World Trade Center Memorials in cities across the world. Artworks featured in the exhibition that cite oppressive uses of tracking devices are juxtaposed with artistic manipulations of surveillance that model political agency and resistance. The exhibition sets the stage for dialogue examining the relationship between the technologies used to produce surveillance and the construction of news media.
For more information on the exhibition and to read a full press release, please click here.
The 8th Floor is open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm.
Please email info@the8thfloor.org for any gallery and tour inquiries.
the8thfloor.org
Join the conversation with hashtags
#RubinFoundation, #The8thFloor,
#TheWatchers, and #ArtandSocialJustice
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18. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, at WAAM, Woodstock, NY, June 30
Norm Magnusson will perform at WAAM, 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY on June 30 beginning at 3 pm. Thank you.
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19. Sol LeWitt, FF Alumn, at Printed Matter, Manhattan, opening June 28
Exhibition organized by Emanuele De Donno
June 28 – September 29, 2019
6-8 PM
Printed Matter is pleased to present Book as System: The Artists’ Books of Sol LeWitt, organized by curator and editor Emanuele De Donno, with the collaboration of the LeWitt Estate. The exhibition surveys the varied and historically significant publication practice of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt through a near-complete presentation of book works drawn from the expansive research of Giorgio Maffei Archive and VIAINDUSTRIAE archive in connection with private collections. On occasion of the show Printed Matter is very pleased to issue a facsimile reprint of LeWitt’s iconic Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour (1977), co-published with Primary Information (Read more here)
Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, June 28, 6-8PM.. A roundtable discussion will take place Saturday, June 29, 5PM
Known primarily as an installation artist and sculptor, LeWitt also produced many dozens of artists’ books starting in the late 1960s—often in association with gallery shows—until his death in 2007. LeWitt was among the first wave of conceptual artists who helped to establish a new radical framework for the publication-as-artwork, and his exemplary approach was instrumental in charting out the reaches of the medium. Drawn to the format for its broad accessibility, LeWitt explored notions of seriality and permutation, seeing the page as a rich site for experimental sequences of line, color, geometric forms and, later on, photographic images which often took on a parallel approach to exhaustively documenting common objects and surroundings.
The exhibition starts with LeWitt’s 1967 Serial Project No. 1 (Aspen magazine) and features iconic publications across his career, including his submission to the legendary Seth Siegelaub-produced project known as the “Xerox Book”, and his contributions to the bulletin of Amsterdam-based gallery Art & Project. The extensive presentation of more than 75 book works—including octavo paperbacks, staple-bound booklets, and folio sets—lends insight into LeWitt’s interests across conceptual, minimal and post-minimal art, and his return to series and systems across various material forms.
Book as System includes the execution of Wall Drawing 350, a suite of three outlined isometric forms (trapezoid, parallelogram, triangle), realized with black crayon.
We are pleased to make an extensive selection of nearly 50 publications, exhibition cards and ephemeral works available for purchase. A PDF of for-sale items is available on request— please write to news@printedmatter.org with inquiries.
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