Contents for July 25, 2022
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Claes Oldenburg, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at The Brooklyn Museum, July 28
2. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
3. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumn, awarded 29th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
4. Charles Yuen, FF Alumn, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, opening July 30
5. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, opening Aug. 4
6. Mark Bloch, Ray Johnson, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
7. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, thru Aug. 20, and more
8. Alison Knowles, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
9. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at Outtakes Media, and more
10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, receives Best Short Documentary, Spring 2022 Roma Shorts Film Festival
11. Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, FF Alumns, receive 2022 Elaine Stewart Career Achievement in Professional Theatre Award
12. Circus Amok & Jennifer Miller, Tom Murrin aka The Alien Comic, Johanna Went, FF Alumns, at Artists Space, Manhattan, thru Aug. 20
13. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, online at Cooper Beech Institute, Aug. 20
14. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, receives NYSCA/NYFA Music/Sound Fellowship 2022
15. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, July 30
16. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, receives Grand Jury Award for Best Arts Film, Auntyland Film Fest
17. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online at College Art Association
18. Laura Bernstein, Rebecca Pristoop, FF Alumns, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, July 30
19. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, announce new publication
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Claes Oldenburg, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/18/arts/claes-oldenburg-dead.html?smid=url-share
Thank you.
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1. Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, at The Brooklyn Museum, July 28
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
My first new performance persona in 40 years is starring in a film! It’s not really a performance document. Rather, it’s what happened when a performance couldn’t have a live audience due to Covid. It turned into an artwork on its own!
“Greetings and Theses” will have a one-night, live-only (no stream) debut at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, July 28, 7–8:30 pm. I would love to share it with you and hope you can join me and the panelists for a special evening.
For more on this film event, see the dedicated Brooklyn Museum page, “An Evening with Lorraine O’Grady,” linked here:
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/an_evening_with_lorraine_ogrady_july_2022
See you there!
My best,
Lorraine
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2. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, now online at BrooklynRail.org
Please visit this link:
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/07/artseen/Pamela-Sneed-ABOUT-time
Thank you.
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3. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, FF Alumn, awarded 29th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Charles Yuen, FF Alumn, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, opening July 30
Charles Yuen: Between Here and Now
July 30 – August 28, opens on July 30, 4 – 6 pm.
Pamela Salisbury Gallery
362 1/2 Warren St., Hudson, NY
https://pamelasalisburygallery.com/
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5. Susan Mogul, FF Alumn, at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, opening Aug. 4
“What becomes a Legend most?”
Susan Mogul will have her first solo museum exhibition – a major survey of her work at the:
Zacheta National Gallery of Art
pl Malachowskiego 3
00-916 Warszawa, Poland
Opening: Thurs August 4th at 6 PM
August 4th – October 30 2022
Special Screening: Prosaic Portraits, Ironies & Other Intimacies (1991,46 min.)
Friday August 5 at 6 PM
This personal documentary by Susan Mogul chronicles her everyday interactions
with artists, intellectuals, and those she meets by chance in Poland and
Czechoslovakia shortly after the Berlin Wall came down.
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6. Mark Bloch, Ray Johnson, FF Alumns, now online at BrooklynRail.org
https://brooklynrail.org/2022/07/artseen/PLEASE-SEND-TO-REAL-LIFE-Ray-Johnson-Photographs
PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs
The Morgan Library & Museum
June 17–October 2, 2022
New York, NY
By Mark Bloch
Here is my take —in the current issue of the Brooklyn Rail —on the current Morgan Library Ray Johnson show of 4000 photographs that he took the last three years of his life—and other photographs of him and by him and about him that were part of his work prior to that. They provide an interesting “snapshot” of a fascinating artist on the way to his death in 1995.
Some of you may remember that Real Life was the name of a magazine in the 80s and 90s (and longer?) edited by Thomas Lawson. The Morgan curator Joel Smith saw that zine’s title as a paradoxical metaphor for what Ray was up to when he instructed correspondents and others to “Send to Real Life.”
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7. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Artists Space, Manhattan, thru Aug. 20, and more
Quite by accident recently I discovered that 4 of my works are on view at 3 downtown locations: 2 at Artist’s Space, and 1 on display at each Printed Matter space. If you’re out and about, you might like to see them. These are what’s displayed:
Artist’s Space
11 Cortlandt Alley, Tribeca (through Aug 20)
in the two vitrines on the first floor, near the entrance.
“Weeks”
Photographs by Barbara Rosenthal. Writings by Hannah Weiner. Hannah asked me to take photos off the TV news for this book. We hunkered on her bed, with the TV at the foot of it, and put the news on, and I shot 35mm frames, processed the film, made the prints, etc. She wrote poetry. It was published by Xeoxial, in several editions. The cover in this jpg is from the second edition, which has better tonal range in my photos than the first edition here in the vitrine.
“The Book of Revelation”
Physical Book Cuttings by Barbara Rosenthal. Writings by Hannah Weiner. During a distressing dry spell for the late poet Hannah Weiner, I bought a horizontal version of the black blank hardbound books I keep my Journal in, and, using an X-acto for crisp cuts and a straight-edge for rough slices, cut each page into revealing patterns and presented it to her. She began using it immediately, and it subsequently became The Book of Revelations so-named by Hannah because parts of each page are revealed. When the manuscript was published, it was painstakingly recreated by Marta Werner in sans serif font.
https://jacket2.org/feature/hannah-weiners-book-revelations
Printed Matter / St. Marks
38 St. Marks Place, East Village
in the vitrine to the left of the door, across from the sales counter
“Seventy-five Plant Jokes”
Riddles, design and construction by Barbara Rosenthal, with illustrations by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Edition of 12. Cleverly boxed, folded and bound to keep the answer secret till you’re ready, and one to a leaf, easily removable if you want to put one or two in your pocket and try on your friends. The piece can also be opened as a gorgeous round spread like a cake. Witty puns and funny takes, all involving the plant kingdom, sans Homo Sapien.
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/52181
Printed Matter / Chelsea
231 Eleventh Ave, Chelsea
right on the sales counter
“Old Address Book”
Rosenthal has taken her own outdated address book and photocopied it for all the world to see. It is a simple concept with a strangely intimate, even voyeuristic, appeal. This edition of 100 is a companion to her a 3D-Photo-sculpture from this Project: “Old Address Book / Totem and Taboo,” a folding totem pole of her wiro-bound enlargements of these pages.
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/1175
Barbara Rosenthal
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rosenthal
ARTSY / Saatchi Art:
https://www.saatchiart.com/barbararosenthal
ARTSY / Denise Bibro Gallery: https://www.artsy.net/artist/barbara-rosenthal
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BRartistNYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barbara.rosenthal1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbararosenthal_emedialoft/
Books & Video Sales: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/artist/641
Website: http://www.barbararosenthal.org/
Studio: eMediaLoft.org, 463 West St, enter 744 Washington St. or 55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014
Studio Email and Phone: eMediaLoft@gMail.com +1-646-368-5623 (voice and voicemail, no texts)
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8. Alison Knowles, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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9. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at Outtakes Media, and more
Greetings,
Outtake Media with Charlotte Robinson interviews actress Dale Dickie and me at the Provincetown International Film Festival. I premiered a short, CHEEKY – NFT-DANCE.
https://voices.outtakeonline.com/2022/06/veteran-filmmakers-talk-at-ptown-film.html
My play, Bound East for Easter Rebellion, was presented at the International Conference of Eugene O’Neill in Boston on July 9, 2022. It honors two radical Centennials, 1916-2016: Eugene O’Neill’s debut play in Provincetown, Bound East for Cardiff, and Ireland’s Easter Rebellion. The play imagines a meeting of Eugene O’Neill with rebel Padraig Pearse. http://www.jaycritchley.com/oneillirish-rebellion.html
I had the privilege of introducing and co-curating a show of the work of an unknown Provincetown Portuguese artist at Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.
The Alternate Realities of Michael J. Andrews
The former town hall custodian explores local and celestial visions in his paintings
By Abraham Storer May 25, 2022
Provincetown Independent
“I don’t claim to be an artist,” says Michael J. Andrews, sitting in an easy chair at his Provincetown condo. “There are artists out there, like Mrs. Packard, or all these other artists in town. Those people are fantastic. But Jay Critchley actually seems to think that I’m an artist.”
Jay Critchley
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10. Kathy Brew, FF Alumn, receives Best Short Documentary, Spring 2022 Roma Shorts Film Festival
Kathy Brew’s FOLLOWING THE THREAD won Best Short Documentary at the Spring 2022 Roma Shorts Film Festival. Here’s the link to the Roma Shorts Film fest info.
https://romashorts.com/winners-spring-2022/
And to the film.
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11. Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver, FF Alumns, receive 2022 Elaine Stewart Career Achievement in Professinal Theatre Award
Please visit this link:
https://www.athe.org/page/22_stewartawardees
Thank you.
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12. Circus Amok & Jennifer Miller, Tom Murrin aka The Alien Comic, Johanna Went, FF Alumns, at Artists Space, Manhattan, thru Aug. 20
Dear Friends,
I hope this finds you well. I want to encourage you to see the current exhibition at Artists Space, Attention Line which is on view through August 20th.
Putting it together has been a special process and it’s a show that champions a number of iconoclastic artists whose work actively reconfigures media, power, and public space, often through performative and highly self-invented means. We learned a great deal in the process of organizing it, and are so inspired by these artists, many of whom have existed in very specific subcultures and are not yet known to a broader public.
The artists include: Blaster Al Ackerman, Craig Baldwin, Ed Bereal, Circus Amok and Jennifer Miller, Vaginal Davis, Manuel DeLanda, James Luna, Tom Murrin (aka The Alien Comic), Tamio Shiraishi, Hannah Weiner, and Johanna Went.
As part of the exhibition, there are upcoming performances in Cortlandt Alley:
Tamio Shiraishi (saxophone improvisations) on Thu 8/4 at 6:30pm & Sat 8/20 at 1pm
And a new show by Circus Amok on Sat 8/13 at 2pm
Thanks so much & I hope you can visit.
Very best,
Jay
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13. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, online at Cooper Beech Institute, Aug. 20
Online Workshop with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles
August 20, 2022 10:00 AM – August 20, 2022 01:00 PM
To Register: https://copperbeechinstitute.secure.retreat.guru/program/breath-body-mind-elements-honoring-presence/?form=1&lang=en
Ideal For: All levels including beginners
A three-hour workshop with Nicolás. During this online retreat we gather to sample some of the core Breath-Body-Mind practices as developed by Dr Richard P. Brown and Dr. Patricia Gerbarg. These include shaking, painting the waterfall (from Master Robert Peng), and heart breath. These group exercises are interspersed with others to be carried out in pairs in breakout rooms, and focused on embodied and somatic approaches honoring deep listening and deep sharing. The session concludes with a top-down body scan, followed by coherent breathing. We will have the opportunity to ask questions, to voice thoughts and impressions about our experiences and to derive the potentials of the releasing, energizing, relaxing and calming sequences to which we will be introduced. This class is also a good springboard for those of us who would like to pursue Breath-Body-Mind trainings more in-depth.
Tuition:
$80 – covers all the expenses of the program and supports others who cannot afford to attend
$60 – covers most of the expenses of the program
$40 – covers some of the expenses of the program
Scholarships Available
In the spirit of generosity, we offer financial support for many of our programs.
https://www.copperbeechinstitute.org/scholarshipsfellowships
Awaken Everyday Blog
Writings to inspire mindfulness, contemplation and wholesome living, by Copper Beech master teachers, students and contributors.
https://www.copperbeechinstitute.org/blog
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14. Victoria Keddie, FF Alumn, receives NYSCA/NYFA Music/Sound Fellowship 2022
Victoria Keddie, was selected as a NYSCA/ NYFA Fellow in Music / Sound, 2022.
and upcoming:
Voice as Object, Object (h)as Voice
Field Kitchen Academy, Würsten- Buchholz, DE
August 7-24, 2022
New work premiere, Roulette Intermedia, Brooklyn NY
September 22, 2022
Echoes and Reflections
Acoustic Atlas, Cobi von Tonder
University of York, UK
Fall 2022
Køs Museum, Denmark
October 16, 2022 -February 28, 2023
Victoria Keddie, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY
November 12-December 21 2022
Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti
Limited edition record release
Fridman Gallery, Bowery, NYC
December 2022
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15. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, July 30
New date: Saturday, July 30!
Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show at The City Reliquary!
Presentations of graphic novels and comics as performed by the writers/artists with projected slides and music.
Featuring
Jennifer Hayden
Lisa Lim
Amy Reeder
Sofia Warren
Kriota Willberg
Yao Xiao
Hosted by R. Sikoryak.
The show will be followed by a book signing.
This is an all-vaccinated event.
At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Times: 7:30pm door 8:00pm show
Tickets: $10 Pre-Sale and $12 Day-Of
https://withfriends.co/event/14681919/carousel_comics_performances_and_picture_shows
There’s also a “Wonder Women” exhibit at the City Reliquary, which you can see before the show:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1aBK3udDg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Carousel Bios:
Jennifer Hayden is the author and artist of the Eisner-nominated breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits. Having just finished a graphic travel novella about her unhealthy relationship with France, she is currently at work on a graphic anti-cookbook called Where There’s Smoke There’s Dinner. https://jenniferhayden.com
Lisa Lim is a comic storyteller born and raised in Queens, New York. Her work has been featured in Guernica, PANK, The Rumpus, PEN America, and Mutha Magazine. Her short illustrated story, “The Hunger” was featured in an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Her work can be found at lisalimcomics.com.
Amy Reeder hails from the superhero/action world of comics, working with characters including Madame Xanadu, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Batwoman, and Moon Girl. You’ll also find her creating independent series like Image’s Rocket Girl…and if you look far back enough, you may even spot a Tokyopop credit in there. She also co-created the new Moon Girl for Marvel, who will soon be starring in her own cartoon series on Disney+. Amy draws interiors and covers, she writes, she colors, and she letters. To her, every part of the process is inextricably linked to relaying her ideas to an audience. instagram.com/amyreedercomics
Sofia Warren is a New Yorker cartoonist and author of Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator (Top Shelf Productions, 2022). She lives in Brooklyn. http://sofiawarren.com
Kriota Willberg is best known for Draw Stronger: Self-Care for Cartoonists and Visual Artists (Uncivilized Books). Her comic Silver Wire was nominated for a 2019 Ignatz Award. Once the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library, she’s now the AIR in The Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. http://kriotawelt.blogspot.com
Yao Xiao is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer from Tianjin, China based in New York City. She writes about home, memory and belonging with a dash of humor. http://www.yao.nyc
R. Sikoryak is a cartoonist and the author of Constitution Illustrated, Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (Drawn & Quarterly). Sikoryak’s comics and illustrations have appeared in he New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, and more. He’s presented his live comics performance series, Carousel, around the US and Canada. Instagram: @rsikoryak
More info: https://carouselslideshow.com
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16. Cheri Gaulke, FF Alumn, receives Grand Jury Award for Best Arts Film, Auntyland Film Fest
I am so honored to have received the Grand Jury Award for Best Arts Film for Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color from @auntylandfilmfest
Repost: We are proud to announce the Grand Jury Award winners for the 2022 Auntyland Film Festival. These films received the most combined judges’ and audience votes.
Best Romance Film: A Ring: A Short Film, dir. Ray Martell Moore, Monique A. Robinson @raymartell @niquerobinson
Best Society Film: Weep Not, dir. Lenore Thomas Douglas, Cheray O’Neal @weepnotfilm
Best Arts Film: Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color, dir. Cheri Gaulke, submitted by Jon Gann @cherigaulke
@jonganndc Best Environment & Animation Film: City Trees, dir. Kristin Reiber Harris @kristinharrisdesign
Best Global Film: Basurero, dir. Eileen Cabiling @basurerofilm @eileencabiling
Congratulations to all!
#AuntylandFilmFestival #Auntyland #WomenFilmMakers #WomenInFilm #Film #FilmFestival #IndependentFilm #FestivalWinners #AwardWinners #almathomas #miss almathomas
Cheri Gaulke
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17. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online at College Art Association
Please visit this link:
http://www.collegeart.org/news/2022/07/21/in-memoriam-jacki-apple/
Thank you.
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18. Laura Bernstein, Rebecca Pristoop, FF Alumns, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, July 30
The Moving Company and Friends present: Handle with Care, a one night event of performances featuring Kyoung eun Kang, Rebecca Pristoop, and C. Tai Tai.
Handle with Care offers glimpses into vulnerable spaces and private exchanges with objects, the self, and others. Finding ways to contend with external pressures through disarming acts of intimacy, these three performance works ask us to consider the freedom one can obtain through sharing the internal with others.
The event: http://fivemyles.org/calendar/2022/7/30/handle-with-care
The Moving Company and Friends: https://www.pristoopcuratorial.com/the-moving-company.html
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19. EIDIA House, FF Alumns, announce new publication
Hello Colleagues and Friends of EIDIA House, Plato’s Cave exhibit series. If you happened to be in the NYC art world of the 1980s & 90s you may have found yourself invited for a portrait during one of Tom Warren’s (20 plus) PORTRAIT STUDIO. And ergo you may now find yourself in this fantastic tome, “Tom Warren The 1980s Art Scene in New York” by Pulpo Gallery and Hatje Cantz. Over 160 artists are included.
https://www.eidia.com/platos-cave.html
A ‘top drawer’ book. Apparently the publisher used the best scanner on the planet. No small publication weighing over 5lbs.
Visit EIDIA House for your signed copy and see the Tom Warren installation for Plato’s Cave. Up to August 13th.
Exhibition: July 14 to August 13, 2022
Hours 1-6pm, Tuesday – Saturday (or by appointment)
For inquirers contact: Paul Lamarre
646 226 6478 eidiahouse@earthlink.net eidia.com @eidiahouse
Platos’s Cave at EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Located at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge, EIDIA House is easily accessible by car or train, the L, J, and M lines.
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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