Contents for June 30th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace’s 50th Anniversary commemorations begin July 4, at Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan
Weekly Spotlight: Alex Mari, Franklin Furnace 2023 XENO Prize recipient, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, July 18
1. Ann Meredith, FF Member, at Gifford House – Wilde Playhouse, Provincetown, MA, July 3
2. Francheska Alcantara, David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumns, named 2025 Latinx Artist Fellows
3. Shirin Neshat, Josh Baer, FF Alumns, now online at the baerfaxtpodcast.com
4. Glenn Belverio, FF Alumn, now online at InterviewMagazine.com
5. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, thru Nov. 9
6. Judy Giera, FF Intern Alumn, at Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, opening July 11, and more
7. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, to receive 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal
8. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1096369274
9. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
10. Melissa Wolf & Paul Lamarre, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, NY, opening July 3
11. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at https://www.squarecylinder.com/2025/06/jacques-villegle/
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Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace’s 50th Anniversary commemorations begin July 4, at Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan
FF RISING: Pre-Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of Franklin Furnace July 4 (Fri) – July 19 (Sat), 2025 | Open Thu–Sun, 3:00 PM–6:00 PM Venue: 360° [JINGUMAE] Softtown Aoyama 1F, 3-1-24
Jingumae Shibuya-Ku Tokyo Japan 150-0001 www.360.co.jp
Franklin Furnace (FF), founded in 1976 by artist Martha Wilson with the mission to collect and preserve artists’ books, will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year. In commemoration, Gallery 360° in Tokyo, Japan is pleased to present this special exhibition.
FF RISING will introduce the history of Franklin Furnace, a storied arts institution that is still relatively unknown in Japan. The exhibition highlights FF’s pioneering and continued work in supporting and archiving the work of emerging international avant-garde artists working in artists’ books, performance art, and other time-based avant-garde art forms
A live bilingual storytelling event will be held at the gallery on Tuesday, July 8, 3-6pm, featuring FF’s current director Harley Spiller and art historian and Tokyo resident Edward Madrid Gómez, who will share stories and insights from FF’s many interactions with Japanese artists over the decades. We warmly invite you to join us!
https://360.co.jp/exhibition-jp/current-2
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Weekly Spotlight: Alex Mari, Franklin Furnace 2023 XENO Prize recipient, at Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, July 18
“Rapture-trap” on July 18, 2025, 7pm.
Grace Exhibition Space, 182 Loisaida Ave, New York, NY
Rapture-trap is an endurance project examining the breaking of intergenerational trauma. Through performance and installation, I visually map the cycles of disruption and the intentional labor of healing to denounce the trap of passive savior-rapture. Inspired by my chronic health illnesses as a qtbipoc, I use my corporeal body that experiences exercise intolerance to navigate the installation. Every fall alters the ‘genetic’ composition of the sculptural landing below. These perpetual alterations reveal how unhealed traumas are passed down over time. The ultimate form is determined by physical and mental stamina and/or assistance as a critique of uninclusive systems. The repetition of resilience and recovery represents the speculative work across generations: healing ancestral past, present, and future.
Artist Bio:
Alex Mari (they/she) is an interdisciplinary performance artist from Atlanta. They have an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta and are an upcoming Ph.D student in Art, emphasis in Art Education, at the University of Georgia in Fall 2025. They have shown work across Atlanta, including MINT Gallery, Whitespec, Echo Contemporary, The Goat Farm, and Mason Murer Fine Art. She’s performed in the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival and in Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival and made several other appearances in NYC and Seattle. They’ve also performed or shown work internationally in Berlin, London, Monrovia, Puri, Fez, and notably at the Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing. They have been awarded prizes from Franklin Furnace, Burnaway, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They are a previous Fellow at Emory University’s Arts and Social Justice Fellows Program, Artist-in-Studio Resident with The Creatives Project in Atlanta, and KODA lab in NYC. Their body of work seeks to stimulate rupture through narrative, duration, becoming-other, ritual, objects and tasks, video, installation, and digital ephemera.
Alex Marie is the inaugural recipient of the XENO for Performance Art. The XENO PRIZE for Performance Art supports new work by an early-career LGBTQ+-identifying performance artist working in one of the 26 United States where, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, laws and policies restrict gender-affirming care. States include: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, ND, NH, OK, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WY.
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1. Ann Meredith, FF Member, at Gifford House – Wilde Playhouse, Provincetown, MA, July 3
SPECIAL
An Acclaimed Feature Film and
Award-Winning Theatre Project by
Artist Writer Director Producer Ann P Meredith
SCRIPTED PERFORMANCE
July 3rd 2025 – 400-600pm
GIFFORD HOUSE – WILDE PLAYHOUSE
6 Carver Street Provincetown, MA 02657
Since 1970 Swordfish Productions has been creating Award Winning Art, Film, Photography & Theater
+1.917.806.9078 annpmeredith7@gmail.com
specialfilm@gmail.com www.annpmeredith.com
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2. Francheska Alcantara, David Antonio Cruz, FF Alumns, named 2025 Latinx Artist Fellows
We are thrilled to announce the 15 artists who have been awarded the 2025 Latinx Artist Fellowships by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF)! Each artist fellow receives $50,000 in unrestricted funding to support their creative work, as well as opportunities to participate in public programs co-hosted by USLAF.
The 2025 Latinx Artist Fellows are:
Francheska Alcántara @francheskaalcantarastudio
Richmond, VA / The Bronx, NY
Santa C. Barraza
Kingsville, TX
Barbara Carrasco @barbara.carrasco.98
Los Angeles, CA
Marie Romero Cash @mccash_
Santa Fe, NM
Marcus Xavier Chormicle @chormicle
Las Cruces, NM
Yanira Collado @yanira_collado
North Miami, FL
David Antonio Cruz @cruz_art
New York, NY
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez @nancyfriedemannsanchez
Lincoln, NE
Frances Gallardo @_frances_gallardo_
Ithaca, NY
Angel Lartigue @sub_scientist
New York, NY
Tony Cruz Pabón @tony_cruz_pabon
San Juan, PR
Yelaine Rodriguez @yelaineartspace
Bronx, NY
Shizu Saldamando
Los Angeles, CA
Nitza Tufiño @nitzatufino
South Orange, NJ
Kathy Vargas
San Antonio, TX
The 2025 Latinx Art Fellowship cohort was chosen to reflect the broad range of practices and experiences within the Latinx art community. The 2025 Latinx Artist Fellows were selected by a jury from nearly 200 nominees recommended by invited external nominators with Latinx art expertise.
The U.S. Latinx Art Forum was formed in 2015 as the only national organization exclusively dedicated to Latinx visual art and art history, and is committed to supporting the creation of a more equitable art world by championing artists and arts professionals dedicated to Latinx art through research, studio practice, pedagogy, and writing.
#LatinxArtistFellowship #LatinxArt #Latinx #contemporaryart #artists #art #arthistory #museums
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3. Shirin Neshat, Josh Baer, FF Alumns, now online at the baerfaxtpodcast.com
An all-new episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast is out today, featuring acclaimed visual artist Shirin Neshat! Recorded from her studio in Brooklyn, tune in as Neshat shares her experiences as an artist-in-exile from her early days in New York City to her globe-spanning multimodal practice today; her thoughts on how the art market has evolved and changed alongside her work; and, the process of putting together her newest retrospective show at The Parrish Art Museum, Born of Fire. The Baer Faxt Podcast: Born of Fire with Shirin Neshat is out now on all platforms and thebaerfaxtpodcast.com
Click here to listen:
https://www.thebaerfaxtpodcast.com/e/the-baer-faxt-podcast-born-of-fire-with-shirin-neshat
Thank you
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4. Glenn Belverio, FF Alumn, now online at InterviewMagazine.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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5. Barbara Kruger, FF Alumn, at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, thru Nov. 9
Barbara Kruger
Another day. Another night
Fechas: del 24 de junio al 9 de noviembre de 2025
Comisaria: Lekha Hileman Waitoller
Patrocinador: Occident
El Museo Guggenheim Bilbao presenta la primera panorámica exhaustiva de Barbara Kruger en España, una ambiciosa exposición que reúne más de cuatro décadas de radicales exploraciones de la artista en torno a las imágenes, el lenguaje y el poder. Patrocinada por Occident, Barbara Kruger: Another day. Another night. brinda un análisis en profundidad de cómo el trabajo de la artista, muy arraigado en la comunicación de masas y el comentario cultural, sigue evolucionando en la era digital.
Kruger lleva más de 50 años planteando al público el reto de tomar conciencia de las estructuras de poder que dan forma hoy a nuestras identidades, deseos y creencias. Haciendo seña de identidad de la negrita tipográfica, llamativas yuxtaposiciones de imágenes y textos y unas dimensiones monumentales, Kruger ha desarrollado un lenguaje visual que se inspira en los medios de comunicación para insistir en la reflexión crítica. Utilizando el lenguaje de la publicidad, pero subvirtiendo su intención, su trabajo expone los mecanismos de persuasión, consumo y control que impregnan la vida contemporánea.
Esta exposición reúne obras que recorren toda su carrera: sus primeras composiciones con imágenes y textos (paste-ups), mensajes impresos en vinilo a gran escala, videoinstalaciones, intervenciones sonoras y piezas de ubicación específica creadas expresamente para el Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. A medida que avanzamos por las salas, el arte de Kruger va desplegándose en los suelos, paredes y pantallas, sumergiéndonos en un ambiente visual y sonoro cargado de intensidad. Su obra no solo pide ser contemplada, sino que induce a experimentar, afrontar y cuestionar.
En diálogo con la propia historia lingüística y cultural de Bilbao, Kruger ha creado obras en español y euskera que exploran cómo la lengua determina quiénes somos y cómo nos relacionamos. En sus propias palabras: “El lenguaje es una fuerza poderosa… y nos define”. En una época en que la información es incesante y la verdad parece cada vez más inestable, el arte de Kruger nos anima a reducir nuestro ritmo, leer con atención y pensar en profundidad. Con un sentido de urgencia, ingenio y precisión formal, nos recuerda que las imágenes hablan, y lo mismo debemos hacer nosotros.
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, Abando,
48009 Bilbao, Bizkaia
Tel.: 944 35 90 80
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6. Judy Giera, FF Intern Alumn, at Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, opening July 11, and more
Hello everyone-
Amongst the precarity and vitriol of our current moment, I am deeply grateful to find myself with support that allows my work as an artist to continue and be seen. After being quietly focused in the studio over the past few months, I have some upcoming shows and news I’d love to share with you.
I am thrilled to open my next solo exhibition, Devastating, at the NARS Foundation on July 11, with a reception from 6-8pm. The show, curated by Noam Parness, runs through August 6 in their Main Gallery. Featured in the exhibition are 12 new paintings and three new sculptures made over the last year.
I’ll have work on view in two group exhibitions this summer. Opening July 2 is Incarna, a four-person exhibition at High Noon Gallery. The exhibition is co-curated by High Noon’s Director, Jared Linge, and artist and writer Clare Gemima. One of my most ambitious wall sculptures to date, plus a few other wall works, will be shown alongside the work of KC Crow Maddux, Reuben Paterson, and Benedict Scheuer. Opening June 24 is Turned and Turning Still at The Painting Center. This group show includes one of my 2023 wall sculptures alongside tactile work from an extensive survey of contemporary artists.
This Fall, I’ll head upstate for an artist residency; I am excited to participate in ChaNorth, ChaShaMa’s upstate artist retreat. And finally, through my work at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, I was thrilled to briefly chat with Raquel Willis for her Afterlives Podcast.
Please scroll down for more information, including additional images and links. I hope you’ll have a chance to join me for an opening or visit the exhibitions. And don’t be afraid to be in touch; this moment is wild and horrifying, and I am here always for the people in my life. Now more than ever, our community and our artistic expressions will be one of the only constants by our side through the darkest of moments.
With much appreciation,
~Judy~
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7. Alfredo Jaar, FF Alumn, to receive 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal
Alfredo Jaar to receive 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal
Galerie Lelong, New York is pleased to announce that Alfredo Jaar is the recipient of the 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal. Jaar will be celebrated during a free public outdoor celebration on Sunday, June 29th featuring activations of his work and open studios with MacDowell’s artists-in-residence.
The Medal is awarded annually to an artist whose body of work continues to provide impact and inspiration to other artists and to the public. Jaar receives this honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions to American culture in the field of “Visual Arts.” His poetic photographs, films and elaborate installations confront the greatest socio-political issues of our time, including genocide, the displacement of refugees, war, corruption and economic inequality. Jaar joins a notable cohort of past Medal recipients in the field of Visual Arts including: Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Gaines, Edward Hopper, Betye Saar, Nam June Paik, Kiki Smith, and Jasper Johns, among many others.
“I am deeply honored to receive this award, following in the footsteps of so many extraordinary intellectuals who have inspired me throughout my career. I am truly moved and humbled,” said Alfredo Jaar.
“MacDowell is honored to celebrate Alfredo Jaar with the 2025 Edward MacDowell Medal,” said Chiwoniso Kaitano, Executive Director of MacDowell. “Over four decades, Jaar’s singular contribution to the world of visual arts has pushed the boundaries of our collective consciousness. His work at the intersection of art and social justice is more necessary than ever before. We look forward to Jaar joining our MacDowell community in celebration this summer in Peterborough, New Hampshire.”
Sarah Arison (President, Arison Arts Foundation and Board President, MoMA) chaired this year’s Medal selection panel, which included luminaries of the arts world including Michi Jigarjian, Connie Butler, Derrick Adams, Franklin Sirmans, Koyo Kouoh, Dahlia Elsayed, and José Parla.
“Our panel was unanimous in our decision to recognize Alfredo Jaar as one of the leading contemporary artists working today,” Arison said of the selection process. “His work is both innovative and uncompromising as it examines our relationship to the world and engages with some of the most urgent questions of our time.”
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8. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1096369274
DEAR GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
“HERE I AM”
PZ, JUNE 27, 2025
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9. Marcia Resnick, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/arts/marcia-resnick-dead.html
Thank you.
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10. Melissa Wolf & Paul Lamarre, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, NY, opening July 3
EIDIA HOUSE / PLATO’S CAVE
The 4th July Benefit
For Emergency Repairs to
The Deconsumptionists Art as Archive 48ft Trailer
From July 3 into August 2025
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday by appointment 646 226 6478
Aside from other EIDIA projects in tow, The Deconsumptionists Art as Archive (2009–) is now in need of repairs and ‘road-worthiness’. “To be is to do.” Immanuel Kant. What is to be done?, new roll-up rear door, breaks, lights, tires, a new paint job with signage and solar panel roof service and batteries.
Here’s how you can help us and improve your life. First come / first serve. Enjoy yourself—scroll down and up—choose what you want and go to eidia.com click the donate button – let us know your desire and your mailing address. It is yours as fast as EIDIA HOUSE can post it to you. And or if you are in ‘the hood’ near EIDIA HOUSE Studio just drop in for a coffee, water, wine and a chat—too, there is much more art to choose. Your life is improved.
Heading into the 16th year of Plato’s Cave, you are invited to participate in our annual benefit and visit the PLATO’S CAVE summer show—a group exhibition of many of the PLATO’S CAVE ARTISTS’ LIMITED EDITIONS with other artist colleagues and friend’s originals.
EIDIA HOUSE initiated PLATO’S CAVE Exhibitions in 2009 and planned only a 2-year run. Low and behold it is now 2025 and PLATO’S CAVE is still ‘at it.’ Who-knew? How was this accomplished, no clue just ‘blind faith’.
All the press releases for the past exhibitions can be accessed here: https://www.eidia.com/platos-cave.html
We have done our modest bit to support fellow artists and have extended that practice in a very substantial way by overseeing the Robert Allen Witz Estate—an ‘old friend’ about whom we made the film ‘BOB’S WORLD’ from 2017-2023. Sadly, Bob left us at age 86 in 2021 as filming went into post-production. BOB’S WORLD has received 20 festival awards.
We maintain the Bob Witz estate and his archive of over one thousand artworks which are now in climate controlled storage. Your ideas and referrals are appreciated as approaches are being made to galleries / institutions to take over this marvelous, amazing archive that we have ‘genuinely’ struggled to hold together. You can learn about Bob here: www.eidia.com/bobs-world.html
You can also request the 44-page press kit and link to the film short BOB’S WORLD.
For PLATO’S CAVE at EIDIA House founders Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf curate invited fellow artists who create installations and accompanying editions displayed in the underground ‘bunker’ space PLATO’S CAVE. EIDIA House does not function as an art gallery, but collaborates with other artists to create change with art—keeping within an ongoing discipline of Aesthetic Research.
Thank you for your continuing support!
Melissa Wolf / Paul Lamarre
EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Brooklyn, NY 11249
EIDIA.COM
646 226 6478
@EIDIAHOUSE
@bobs_world_the_film
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11. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, now online at https://www.squarecylinder.com/2025/06/jacques-villegle/
Please visit this link to John Held, Jr.’s new platform:
https://www.squarecylinder.com/2025/06/jacques-villegle/
Thank you.
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Goings On for Artists is compiled weekly by Rohan Subramaniam, Archive Intern, Summer/Fall/Winter 2024/2025
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