Contents for July 11, 2022
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1. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Culture Lab, Long Island City, NY, July 28-31
2. Todd Ayoung, E. F. Higgins, Kazuko, Sol Lewitt, Nancy Spero, FF Alumns, now online at Hofkabinett, Linz, Austria
3. Seung-Min Lee, FF Alumn, at Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL, thru Aug. 20
4. Lillian Ball, Alicia Grullón, FF Alumns, at Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY, Jul. 21-Oct. 29
5. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at CONVERGENCE International Performance Art Festival, Tipperary, Ireland, July 15-16
6. Mai Endo, FF Alumn, at Las Cigarreras Centro Cultural, Alicante, Spain, July 14-Sept. 12
7. Helen Xinan Ran, FF Intern Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, opening July 14
8. Nicole Eisenman, FF Alumn, at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, thru October 23
9. Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumn, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com
10. Christy Rupp, FF Alumn, at Rough Draft Books, Kingston, NY, July 11
11. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, opens July 15
12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club, NY, July 21
13. Ann P Meredith, FF Alumn, in The Rainbow Connection, Fire Island, NY, July 18-30
14. Priscilla Stadler, FF Member, summer news
15. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online at ArtilleryMag
16. Eidia House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, July 14-Aug 13
17. Sergina, FF Alumn, at Spill Festival, Ipswich, UK, July 14
18. Russett Lederman, FF Alumn, receives Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2022
19. Alina Bliumis, Jeff Bliumis, FF Alumns, at The Opening Gallery, Manhattan, opens July 13
20. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, online at CUNY Queens College, July 12
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1. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, at Culture Lab, Long Island City, NY, July 28-31
Taken by Artificial Surprise
Performance and installation series by Jeanette Andrews exploring magic, surprise, and machine learning to debut at Culture Lab LIC
On View: Thursday, July 28 – Sunday, July 31, 2022
Performances: 7:30 pm (Approximately 20-30 minutes)
Cost: Free (reservation required)
Reservation: https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/taken-by-artificial-surprise
Location: CultureLAB LIC: 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, New York, NY 11101
Jeanette Andrews presents a performance and installation series exploring the relationships between magic, machine learning, and surprise. It welcomes you to step inside a thought experiment – a Turing Test of sorts. The performance aspect of this work highlights historic pieces of magic presented alongside magic developed with the help of AI with varying levels of surprise, and participants might find themselves a bit unsure as to which may be which.
In 1950, pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing wrote the seminal paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” He drew inspiration from Victorian-era parlor games to imagine his own parlor-style amusement, the imitation game. This inspired the now-famous Turing Test and utilized the question, “can a machine take us by surprise?” as a way to investigate artificial / computational intelligence. Taken by Artificial Surprise explores historic parlor magic to examine hierarchies of surprise and the human creation of surprise as compared and contrasted to that of machines. What might performances of the seemingly impossible demonstrate about the capabilities and limitations of both machine learning and the human mind? Andrews invites participants to think about what constitutes the experience of surprise itself and whether surprise is a unique, defining factor of human consciousness. The work also highlights how the mechanisms to create surprise lie deep within the gaps of lived and learned experience and are perhaps made using the ontological commitments and sense data of robust personal and cultural experiences. The work may also provoke questions as to whether a computer or a human is capable of producing more surprising results. Andrews also notes that, “this project was inspired by my time as an Affiliate at metaLAB (at) Harvard. During this time I was fortunate to have encountered a diversity of ideas and research, and discourse with metaLAB members also greatly assisted the ideation process.” This work is made possible by Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
The Artist:
Jeanette Andrews (1990) is a New York City-based artist, magician, and researcher. Andrews’s work focuses on the development of interactive magic and sensory illusions via performance, sculpture, installation, and audio. Over 27 years of specialized study and technical training in parlor and sleight-of-hand magic has now afforded her a distinct perspective on crafting experiences with nuanced, surreal visuals and on designing objects that function completely differently than they appear. Her research-based process centers around phenomenological philosophy, contemporary cognitive science, and physics. Work is rooted in highlighting astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible. Themes have included invisibility, impossible objects, the relationship between scent and magic, unseen communication, and how illusions can construct reality. Andrews works closely with museums and galleries to recontextualize magic within the cultural arts and explore this craft as a performance art medium. She has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, including her 2020 work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen,” which was later commissioned as a site-specific work for the Quebec City Biennial. Further site-specific works for numerous museums and galleries include the Elmhurst Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art and International Museum of Surgical Science. Andrews is also an acclaimed speaker, presenting with the Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas Week, Fortune 500 companies, and universities and conferences across the country. She is an artist-in-residence for CultureLab LIC and has held residencies at High Concept Labs in Chicago and The Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles. She is an Affiliate of metaLAB (at) Harvard. Illusion is Andrews’s life’s work and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS, and the New York Times.
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2. Todd Ayoung, E. F. Higgins, Kazuko, Sol Lewitt, Nancy Spero, FF Alumns, now online at Hofkabinett, Linz, Austria
Please visit this link:
https://dev.hofkabinett.at/back/derzeit.php?aus=76
Thank you.
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3. Seung-Min Lee, FF Alumn, at Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL, thru Aug. 20
Excited to have my video BIG WHITE, 2021 and the sculpture in the image above in a group show in Miami opening Fri July /8 !organized by @carlosrigau with some incredible artists and friends! Info below
Emerson Dorsch is pleased to announce, This is the time. And this is the record of the time PT3., a group exhibition curated by @carlosrigau with works by @jessicagispert , @nickklein____ @daft_seung , @teliottmansa , Karen Rifas, @irginsena , @matttaber37 and @andyvandinh . The exhibition will be on view from July 8th – August 20th, 2022.
The exhibition’s title cites FF Alumn Laurie Anderson’s 1982 song “From the Air,” which channels and distills a widely felt intuition that disaster is at hand. Itself, a pun on the expression conveying zeitgeist; the song expresses symptoms of and reasons for this intuition. There seemed to be, at the time, a loss of personal control over one’s own fate, much less the world’s. The speed and quantity of technology were faster than any one person could keep up with. While news of global crises just as quickly spread and, similarly, piled up.
Curator Carlos Rigau states: “It’s more convoluted, constructed, and more divisive than ever before. […] Both sides are using this political strategy… to basically make you choose one or another when in fact it’s both. The divisiveness has created a thick smoke screen that we can’t see through. Just as the art of the fifties was very much about post-Fascism – modernism tried to construct art as if there was no past. The moment we’re in now is utter confusion.”
Acknowledgments: @letter16press, @fulanoinc, @exilebooks, @logicartmiami and @lns_gallery
#newexhibition #emersondorsch #groupshow #dontmissout #contemporaryart #newworks #thisisthetime #mixedmedia #miami #nyc #littlehaiti #sculpture
Seung-Min Lee
Untitled, 2022
C stand, Tyvek suit, surgical mask with artist’s face printed
60 x 36 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Irgin Sena
51 six, 2021
Aluminum, graphite, watercolor on canvas, galvanized steel,
archival paper clay
6 X 6 X 11 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Matt Taber
Up In Flames, 2022
Watercolor and ink on paper
16.25 x 12.25 inches
Courtesy of the artist
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4. Lillian Ball, Alicia Grullón, FF Alumns, at Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY, Jul. 21-Oct. 29
Staller Center For The Arts, Stony Brook University
Staller Center’s Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery To Open Group Exhibition Of Environmental Artists
Connecting the Drops: The Power of Water
July 21 – October 29, 2022
July 21-30: Open every evening of the Stony Brook Film Festival,
August 22-October 29: Monday-Friday 12-4pm
and evenings of Staller Center performances and films.
Email ZuccaireGallery@stonybrook.edu to schedule a visit outside of regular hours.
Reception : Saturday, July 30, 6-8pm
Featured Artists: Lillian Ball, Betsy Damon, Erin Genia, Alicia Grullón, Courtney M. Leonard, Mary Mattingly, Jaanika Peerna
Opening at the Staller Center’s Zuccaire Gallery on July 21, Connecting the Drops: The Power of Water brings together seven women artists whose work focuses on environmental justice and the vital importance of water. In sculpture, drawing, beadwork, video stories and a computer game, the artists explore topics such as the Shinnecocks’ historical ties to water and whaling, community access to clean water, rising ocean levels and melting glaciers, carbon absorption by the oceans, and personal narratives around water. The Gallery will foster cross-campus collaboration, highlight issues faced by underrepresented communities, and visualize art and science in new artistic mediums.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425 | 631.632.7240 | ZuccaireGallery@stonybrook.edu | www.ZuccaireGallery.stonybrook.edu
The exhibition features a sculptural work with live plants, a room-sized interactive video game, drawings created with charcoal and melting ice, beadwork based in indigenous practice, and videos of water stories, among other works. All seven artists are internationally recognized artists who are committed to making a positive impact on the environment and their communities.
The exhibition will include an illustrated brochure with an introductory essay by Erica Cirino, a Long Island-based science writer, artist and activist, as well as a conversation with the seven artists about their work and collaborations.
For updated hours and events, please check the Gallery’s website: http://ZuccaireGallery.stonybrook.edu
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5425 | 631.632.7240 | ZuccaireGallery@stonybrook.edu | www.zuccairegallery.stonybrook.edu
Connecting the Drops: The Power of Water is supported in part by a Stony Brook University Presidential Mini-Grant for Departmental Diversity Initiatives. The 2022-2023 Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery schedule is made possible by a generous grant from the Paul W. Zuccaire Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Friends of Staller Center.
For further information, please call the Zuccaire Gallery at (631) 632-7240 or email
ZuccaireGallery@stonybrook.edu. The Gallery website is: http://ZuccaireGallery.stonybrook.edu. Find us on
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @ZuccaireGallery.
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5. Verónica Peña, FF Alumn, at CONVERGENCE International Performance Art Festival, Tipperary, Ireland, July 15-16
CONVERGENCE
International Performance Art Festival
Organized by Bbeyond and Live Art Ireland
Milford House, Tipperary, Ireland
July 15 – 16, 2022
For participating artists visit:
https://www.live-art.ie/home/news/
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6. Mai Endo, FF Alumn, at Las Cigarreras Centro Cultural, Alicante, Spain, July 14-Sept. 12
la Clausura del Cuerpo
with Mai Endo
July 14-Sept. 12
Las Cigarreras Centro Cultural
C. San Carlos, 78, 03013 Alicante, Spain
https://www.alicante.es/es/area-tematica/centro-cultural-las-cigarreras
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7. Helen Xinan Ran, FF Intern Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, opening July 14
I assisted with scenic and prop design for Cannabis, to open July 14th at La Mama! You can find out more about the Cannabis show here: https://www.lamama.org/shows/cannabis-2022
Thank you.
Helen Xinan Ran
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8. Nicole Eisenman, FF Alumn, at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, thru October 23
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Linda Mary Montano, FF Alumn, now online at InteriorBeautySalon.com
The Salon welcomes Monet Clark to NYC! And launches her video with Linda Mary Montano
To watch video: https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/moving-image-guests
FLYING BLIND, Raven Woman Monet Clark Interviewed by Chicken Woman Linda Mary Montano
Performance art icon Linda Mary Montano conducted an Art/Life interview of eco-feminist artist Monet Clark on Zoom in October of 2021, during Monet’s prolonged recovery from a relapse of the neuro-inflammatory disease ME/CFS and Environmental Illness. Topics include: Illness as Kundalini awakening, misogyny in the medical establishment, female Hollywood film tropes, the Völva, busting the Madonna/whore complex, the feminine principal, familial decolonization, holistic theory, in depth eco-feminist ideologies and more! It was recorded from opposite coasts with Linda in Upstate, NY, and Monet in a remote town in the arid, windy California desert. The interview’s audio was captured by a cell phone connection as Zoom visuals went in and out. The subsequent visual gaps Monet later filled with clips of her performance based photographic and video works and works of the other female artists discussed, to further elucidate the ideas presented.
This piece is dedicated to late great video artist Dale Hoyt 1961- 2022
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10. Christy Rupp, FF Alumn, at Rough Draft Books, Kingston, NY, July 11
Please join Betsy Damon and me on Monday July 11, at Rough Draft Books 82 John St, Kingston NY from 5-7 for a celebration and book signing for both of our new books about our work as Ecoartists over the past decades (sorry it’s been so many decades I can’t remember exactly how many)!
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11. Eve Biddle, FF Member, at Williams College Museum of Art, WIlliamstown, MA, opening July 15
Hello beautiful peoples,
Horace Ballard has curated a spectacular solo show of my mom’s work with eight of my own pieces at the Williams College Museum of Art, opening July 15th.
I will be there along with practically everyone in my family and I’d love to see you there. Plus, Dad is releasing two books – one on me and him and one on Mom and Dad.
There are lots of NYC happenings upcoming including a new show opening at the Loft curated by Will Hathaway of Night Gallery, and an upcoming show at Davidson Gallery…. details will roll out through the year. <3
To Shape a Moon from Bone
Williams College Museum of Art
July 15 through December 22, 2022
Opening July 15th, 5 to 8 p.m
Let me know if you’re coming! <3
Cheers and love,
Eve
917.748.4801
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12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club, NY, July 21
Let’s get together
We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for Poetry In New York with Galinsky, Danielle Blau and Artist Anubis, July 21, 2022 at 7:30 PM.
Register soon because space is limited.
We hope you’re able to join us!
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13. Ann P Meredith, FF Alumn, in The Rainbow Connection, Fire Island, NY, July 18-30
Lesbian/Queer Artist/Performer Ann P Meredith
has been chosen to participate in The RAINBOW CONNECTION
A two week Workshop and Performance in Cherry Grove on Fire Island July 18-30th 2022
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14. Priscilla Stadler, FF Member, summer news
SLUDGE Project Receives Grant!
My new project will be funded in part by the Queens Council on the Arts’ New Work grant! SLUDGE uses creativity and intuition to engage with learning the science and history of Newtown Creek, a toxic waterway that divides Queens and Brooklyn, NYC. I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Professor Sarah Durand and her environmental science students from LaGuardia Community College/CUNY (City University of New York). It will offer a new way of investigating life “under the surface”.
The project will culminate with an exhibition of a new series of paintings I’ll make using water from Newtown Creek, and a discussion with scientists, artists, students, and environmental activists. The SLUDGE project encourages creative engagement with science and history, spreads interest about the Creek’s troubled history, and offers opportunities to get involved.
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Opening Saturday July 9 and continuing thru September 21
Space is limited, so if you’d like to come to the opening at this unique venue, please let me know <priscillastudio@gmail.com> so I can add you to the guest list! (Note: it’s a 3rd floor walk up.)
If you’d like to see the show at another time this summer, Connie Lee is glad to arrange your visit to her beautiful space, just email her at: connieleecdg@gmail.com.
About Living with Art:
Since 2020 Lee has curated Living with Art, a salon style exhibition space in a Harlem brownstone, connecting emerging and mid-career artists to each other and arts professionals. The salon provides a creative space for collectors to have a comprehensive experience with the artwork, artists and curator.
Featuring work by:
– Michele Brody, an installation artist who works with handmade paper produced from locally sourced natural detritus.
– Stacy Bogdonoff, a mixed media artist who explores themes of shelter and home.
– Alison Cuomo, an abstract painter. Her landscapes reflect the variation of colors and light found in nature.
– Cinzia Meneghello, a mixed media artist whose paintings illustrate imaginary environments.
– Priscilla Stadler, an interdisciplinary visual artist exploring nature below the surface.
– Susan Stair, an environmental artist with a mission to inform her audience about the benefits of trees in our daily lives and to cure plant blindness.
About the curator:
Connie Lee is an independent curator, public art leader, advocate for artists and cultural equity. During her six-year term, 2015 – 2021, as President of the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance, she developed a prolific public art initiative focused in the neighborhoods of Harlem and East Harlem. Lee facilitated dozens of public art installations in Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem Art Park, White Park, Eugene McCabe Field, Morningside Park, A Philip Randolph Square and public plazas.
Art Lives Here, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization that creates opportunities for under-recognized artists and provides access to art in communities that are often excluded by bringing quality public art installations, exhibitions, performances and educational programming to people where they live, work and gather with friends and family. Founded by Connie Lee with encouragement from the artists that she collaborates with.
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Stay tuned for our upcoming auction @fairshareartauction – great art at reasonable prices – all to raise funds in support of reproductive rights.
The auction launches July 26 on Instagram.
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15. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online at ArtilleryMag.com
Please visit this link:
https://artillerymag.com/jacki-apple-1941-2022/
Thank you.
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16. Eidia House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, July 14-Aug 13
Plato’s Cave at EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Brooklyn, NY 11249
646 945 3830
eidiahouse@earthlink.net
@eidiahouse
PLATO’S CAVE – EIDIA House presents
https://www.eidia.com/platos-cave.html
“Tom Warren: The 1980s Art Scene in New York”
Book Signing Thursday July 14, 2022 At Opening Reception 5-7pm
Exhibition: July 14 – August 13, 2022
Hours 1-6pm, Tuesday – Saturday (or by appointment)
“…it’s all pretty spontaneous.” he says, “I talk to them before I go behind the camera.
And I come out from behind the camera before I snap the shutter.”
“So they aren’t performing for you?”
“Well, I like to think they are performing for themselves.”
Anthony Haden-Guest essay, “Tom Warren: The 1980s Art Scene in New York”
Announcing its continuing exhibition initiative Plato’s Cave, with the 31st artist in this series since 2009. EIDIA House will exhibit its personal collection of Tom Warren’s “Portrait Studio” Photographs.
Long time friend and lauded East Village photographer Tom Warren has agreed to exhibit at Plato’s Cave in the EIDIA House space. The exhibition will have an opening reception along with book signing to celebrate the publication of the monograph on his work “Portrait Studio / Visual Journal” published by Pulpo Gallery and Hatje Cantz. “Tom Warren: The 1980s Art Scene in New York” is edited by Pulpo Gallery with text by Gregory de la Haba, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Helga Krutzler. (www.pulpogallery.com, www.hatjecantz.de)
For this exhibition Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf will present portraits selected from their own photography archive of two of Tom Warren’s “Portrait Studio.” Tom set up his first Portrait Studio with EIDIA during the exhibit of Food Sex Art the Starving Artists’ Cookbook at Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, in SoHo in 1992 and his second for their film The Nea Tapes, a fund-raising benefit hosted by Lombard Fried Fine Arts in 1995.
The art world of the New York City downtown scene in the 1980s was certainly smaller than now. Everyone seemed to know everyone. And the East Village was the art hub, that would quickly move to SoHo, Tribeca and Chelsea. Tom Warren and his “Portrait Studio” did indeed follow these migrations. Not surprisingly Wolf and Lamarre were photographed in a number of the events from the early 1980s into the 90’s. Tom had a marvellous way with his sitters. He brought out the ‘who you are’ with a click of the shutter. And whether you liked it or not, he did not let ‘your true self’ escape—it was not yours to say. Photographers in their own right both Wolf and Lamarre were consistently intrigued by Tom’s shooting style. He had a stealth ‘trigger finger.’
“Photography was the first thing I could do art-wise [which was everything). This began when I was 13 years old, it was 1967. I conceptualized the “Portrait Studio” as art writer Alan W. Moore invited me to have an exhibition at (ABC) “No Rio” in Manhattan’s Lower East Side (LES) 1981. My Portrait Studio is an attempt to offer “good likeness” to those who otherwise would not have the opportunity. The Portrait Studio (ongoing) began in 1981 and came to capture the players in the 1980s Art Scene of New York City. I used a large format studio View Camera (4 x 5 inch), with Polaroid Positive/negative or Kodak negative film. As part of my practice then and now I also carry and shoot with a 35mm small ‘Snapshot’ format camera for the substantial body of my photographic practice entitled ‘Visual Journal.’”
Tom Warren Please visit: http://www.tomwarren.com/
For Plato’s Cave, EIDIA House Inc., Co-Directors Melissa P. Wolf and Paul Lamarre (aka EIDIA) curate invited fellow artists to create an installation with (in some cases) an accompanying limited edition. EIDIA House functions as an art gallery and meeting place, collaborating with artists to create “socially radical” art forms—framed within the discipline of aesthetic research and “idée force”, the arts as an instrument for positive social change.
For inquirers contact: Plato’s Cave at EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place, Brooklyn, NY 11249
646 945 3830 eidiahouse@earthlink.net
eidia.com @eidiahouse
Located at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, EIDIA House is easily accessible by car or train, the L, J, and M lines.
Hours 1-6pm, Tuesday – Saturday (or by appointment)
EIDIA House is a 501c3 sponsorship of Fractured Atlas.
Tax-deductible contributions are accepted. Email: eidiahouse@earthlink.net
Visit: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/eidia-house
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17. Sergina, FF Alumn, at Spill Festival, Ipswich, UK, July 14
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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18. Russett Lederman, FF Alumn, receives Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2022
What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999
wins the UK’s prestigious Kraszna-Krausz
Photography Book Award
10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce that What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999, by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (Editor), has been awarded this year’s Krasna-Krausz Photography Book Award.
The annual Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, which celebrate excellence in photography and moving image publishing, recognize individuals or groups of individuals who, in the opinion of the judges, have made an outstanding original or lasting contribution to the literature of or concerning the art and practice of photography or the moving image. Two winning titles are selected; one in the field of photography and one in the field of the moving image.
10×10 would like to thank the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation and this year’s photography category judges: Dr. Lena Fritsch, Renée Mussai and Simon Roberts.
A public award event and a symposium of artist and editor presentations will take place on 5 October 2022 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Hosted by Fiona Rogers (inaugural Curator of the Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project), an international group of participants will discuss their books, the challenges and joys of developing a project for publication and their practice more broadly.
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19. Alina Bliumis, Jeff Bliumis, FF Alumns, at The Opening Gallery, Manhattan, opening July 13
The Opening Gallery presents Alina Bliumis Carrying the Weight, War Landscapes and Jeff Bliumis Vendors. The pieces are displayed in the new Walker Street gallery space, composing a landscape that enters into dialogue with the mission of the non-profit Luv Michael.
The initiative supports contemporary art and international artists, while it fosters cultural engagement and exchanges between the US and the globe. 25% of the proceeds will be donated to Luv Michael.org which is committed to enriching the lives of autistic adults.
Alina Bliumis: Carrying The Weight, War Landscapes
Carrying the Weight, War Landscapes is a watercolor-on-linen series, the locations were selected based on their historical significance and metaphorical representation in contemporary culture.
Each landscape immerses the viewer into tranquil scenery: a palette of green meadows frames the shallow red-colored waters of the Rubicon River (south of Ravenna, Italy), a starry night shines into the sea north of the Tsushima Island (Japan), a cool morning ghosty mist fills a Waterloo field (Belgium), a florid orange sunrise floods warm light over the Berezina River (Belarus), the mid-day sun beams over Golgotha rocky hill (near Jerusalem, Israel), a golden hour brings magical light to the sky over field-lines of Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna, Czechia), foliage of Mannahatta and clouds over Mahicantuck River (the Hudson River).
There is no visual reference to the dramatic historical events that took place at these locations: no Caesar or Napoleon with their armies, no horses or warships, no crucifixions, nor any ravages of war, no rebellious farmers. The geographical names bring metaphorical references to historical and personal battles: crossing personal Rubicons-a point of no return, meeting own Waterloo-encounter one’s ultimate obstacle, being gloomy at Austerlitz-unavoidable defeated, having “c’est la Bérézina”-a serious failure (in french), having own Golgotha-occasion of great suffering, battling their ghosts of Tsushima, Mannahatta and Mahicantuck – referring to their original Lenape names.
Jeff Bliumis: Vendors
Vendors, large-scale paintings of “flying vendors” at a Mediterranean beach as observed by Bliumis on a visit there. African refugees looking for work in Europe are often forced to cater to the affluent, thus inadvertently supporting conditions that contributed to their fleeing their home countries, which have become inhabitable due to war, poverty, severe weather, violence and more—all originating in some form of Western exploitation.
The vendors in Bliumis’s paintings emerge like apparitions from the sea (Morning Vendor), literally tethered to their ware of colorful inflatables. In a twist of logic, visually the vendors present excess and riches, wearing multiple hats and being “dressed” in layers of toys, yet underneath they are poor and without a license. Their clients will apply their habitual racist gaze (Sunbather’s Gaze)—they won’t ask about the vendors’ perilous journeys here, let alone contemplate the absurdity of their jobs. The plastic junk they are forced to sell will likely end up in the ocean, completing the ruthless cycle that contributes to refugees’ displacement in the first place. The Evening Vendor walks toward the ocean as if to disappear there with the sun. The vendors’ invisibility as people under their garish ware echoes our daily reality, which favors the pursuit of material desires over meaningful human encounters. Bliumis’s compositions tap into the seductive potential of color and shape—in painting as much as in any commodity. — by Sabine Russ
The Opening Gallery
42 Walker Street Manhattan
opening July 13, 6-8 pm
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20. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, online at CUNY Queens College, July 12
Guest Speaker about Archives at CUNY/QC public Zoom
The public is invited to the City University of NY / Queens College discussion with Barbara Rosenthal about the acquisition of her extensive archives of personal and art-related materials, on Tuesday, July 12 at 7pm on Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81667432381?pwd=buaySD8HnhQUW_hgeop2Swolsut-ib.1. The host archivist explained the program as: “I’m hoping to do a quick introduction at the top of the hour and then let Barbara Rosenthal talk about herself, her career, and her approach to her work for about fifteen minutes. After that, I’ll have a curated list of questions from students in the class prepared beforehand, and after we talk through those, we can open the floor to other questions from the students or the public audience. All questions will be curated by myself and head curator as they come through.”
Rosenthal’s archives are being collected from her studio at the rate of about 6 cartons and trunks a month, and at this point 30 have been delivered, comprising hundreds of thousands of items such as trunks of of Drafts, Mockups, Editing info, diagrams, printer & binder info, invoices, and from development and publication of editions of artist’s book Clues to Myself, Sensations, Homo Futurus, Soul & Psyche, the novel Wish For Amnesia (including the machine it was typed on), hundreds of videos, films, CDs and cassettes, wardrobe items, teaching materials, journalism, business cards, love letters, art correspondence, report cards, travel ephemera and project work books, etc. Yet to come are a trunk of the 87 Journals she has kept since age 11 and many other documents of private life and project development.
Barbara Rosenthal has retained almost every piece of paper she has touched a pen or pencil to, and It is hoped that making these materials available will yield understanding of the nature of a life in image/text/media art, and how an artist develops ideas from the moment life “plurps” an inspiration, though to creative and technical processes of fabrication, to the machinations by which it is exhibited and reviews it results in.
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