Contents for July 29th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Nancy Azara, FF Member, In Memoriam
1. Every Ocean Hughes, Autumn Knight, Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumns, named inaugural 2024 Trellis Art Fund Grantees
2. Glenda Hydler, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library of the Performing Arts
3. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, at The Shed, Manhattan, Aug. 9-10
4. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, now online at Vogue.com
5. Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at Unitarian Universalist Church, Belfast, ME, July 30
6. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Blue Hill Library, Maine, Aug. 3
7. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Aug. 1
8. Bradley Eros, Jeanne Liotta, Aline Mare, FF Alumns, at Various/Artists, Manhattan, thru Aug. 15
9. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at whitehotmagazine.com
10. Paul Lamarre & Melissa Wolfe, FF Alumns, at EIDIA House, Brooklyn, Aug. 2
11. Elaine Angelopoulos, FF Alumn, at Ruby/Dakota, Manhattan, thru Sept. 6
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Nancy Azara, FF Member, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/arts/nancy-azara-dead.html
Thank you.
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1. Every Ocean Hughes, Autumn Knight, Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumns, named inaugural 2024 Trellis Art Fund Grantees
Candida Alvarez | American Artist | Ja’Tovia Gary | Jorge González Santos
Every Ocean Hughes | Autumn Knight | Young Joon Kwak | Lorraine O’Grady
Paul Pfeiffer | Ronny Quevedo | Alison Saar | Shizu Saldamando
On behalf of the Board of Advisors, it’s my great pleasure to announce our inaugural cohort of Trellis Art Fund Grantees. Please join me in congratulating these artists!
We founded Trellis to serve as the “keep going grant” that provides artists the necessary funding and guidance to reach the next stage of their careers. These artists will receive a $100,000 unrestricted grant paid over two years. Two of our twelve grants are reserved for artist parents with children under twelve, in recognition of the particular challenges working parents face, and this year we are pleased to award those grants to: Ronny Quevedo and Shizu Saldamando.
I would like to thank our anonymous jury, as well as our Board of Advisors – David Evans Frantz, Marcela Guerrero, Arlene Shechet, Akili Tommasino, and Eugenie Tsai – for setting the direction of our work. Additionally I’d like to acknowledge the 157 artists from around the country who were nominated and applied. Witnessing the excellence of this pool, in particular the varied and vital ways artists are working today, was humbling and inspiring. Finally, a profound thank you to the many arts professionals, artists and friends who have helped us reach this point today.
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2. Glenda Hydler, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library of the Performing Arts
I am pleased to announce that the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City is acquiring my dance collection from both New York and California. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance. The Foundation will be digitizing all my dance photography and it will be accessible through the Internet as well as to be viewed by visiting the library in person.
All photographs, negatives, color slides, fliers, programs, correspondence, dance drawings and personal mementoes will be included as part of my dance collection and can be accessed through the Jerome Robbins Dance Collection. My photographic work from Dance Kaleidoscope, 1985-1996, Lewitzky Dance Company, The Mary Jane Eisenberg Dance Company/Shale, 1985-1994, and other dance companies that I photographed from 1985-until the late 90’s will be included as well as recent dance work in New York.
If anyone has additional questions, feel free to contact me at:
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3. Nile Harris, FF Alumn, at The Shed, Manhattan, Aug. 9-10
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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4. Liliana Porter, FF Alumn, now online at Vogue.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.vogue.com/article/liliana-porter-the-task-dia-bridgehampton-interview
Thank you.
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5. Judith Sloan & Warren Lehrer, FF Alumns, at Unitarian Universalist Church, Belfast, ME, July 30
Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer perform with Najla Said
July 30th in Belfast Maine
7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church 37 Miller Street, Belfast, Maine
Acclaimed Palestinian-American and Jewish-American playwrights and performers Najla Said and Judith Sloan present a new work in-progress Imperfect Allies: Children of Opposite Sides The performance explores Najla and Judith’s relationship as colleagues and friends, using tools of art, diplomacy, and listening in order to work for justice and peace and an end to the carnage in Gaza. Najla and Judith join award-winning author/designer Warren Lehrer in his multimedia presentation of two new book projects. Jericho’s Daughter is Lehrer’s anti-war, feminist reimagining of the biblical tale of Rahab, the Canaanite “harlot” who lived in a mud hut inside the outer brick wall of Jericho. Riveted in the Word is an electronic book based on the true story of a historian’s hard-fought battle to regain language after a massive stroke.
Reservations here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJ8YCvt9rttwkM0xJeaFy1u7sn4zfpiCQlfTnPuMx1BL1QKg/viewform
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6. Warren Lehrer FF Alumn, at Blue Hill Library, Maine, Aug. 3
Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn
August 3 in Blue Hill Maine
Blue Hill Library
7 pm
5 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill, Maine
The Maine Launch of the two stunning and provocative new books written
and designed by author/artist/visual literature pioneer Warren Lehrer features
multimedia performance/readings by Lehrer with Palestinian-American
actor/author/activist Najla Said (daughter of Edward Said) and actor/author/
activist Judith Sloan (Lehrer’s life partner), followed by Q&A and book signing.
for reservations please visit this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUwGNFAmWxPxnyWfbJbq2aS5p6-Z4Fd51_mbJAC-1ktRV4RQ/viewform
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7. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, Aug. 1
Galinsky hosts and curates 10 poets, each doing 5 minutes of spoken word and/or poetry. Book Club Bar boasts great coffee, tea, wine and spirits. August 1, 8pm, 197 E. 3rd St. NY “Poetry in New York” Show starts at 8 and runs to 9:30pm in a festive environment. Come early browse books… meet poets… enjoy a fun community. Featured performers this month include: Rubeen Salem, Caragh Donley, Oliver Baer, Mary King, Anna Carlson, Andrew Einhorn, Topaz Winters, Nichole Currier, Sam Hageman and Ian McFarland. IG: @galinskynow
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8. Bradley Eros, Jeanne Liotta, Aline Mare, FF Alumns, at Various/Artists, Manhattan, thru Aug. 15
Just Step Sideways
July 25 – Aug 15
Opening Reception, July 25, 6-8pm
Various/Artists
19 Essex St. NY NY 10002
Sudden Sway
Francisca Benítez
Martin Beck
Liz Wendelbo
Garret Linn
Eros/Collaborations
James Beckett and André Avelās
“When what used to excite you does not
Like you’ve used up all your allowance of experiences
Head filled with a mass of too-well-known people…
Just step sideways from this world today
Just step sideways round this place today
Just step sideways round this world today
Just step outside this grubby place today”
– The Fall, Just Step S’Ways (1982)
A rolling index of how to get lost, run adrift, walk in someone else’s shoes and so on and on…
Sudden Sway | Klub Londinium offers you four psycho tours around the city you thought you knew…”hypnostrolls” for London circa 1990
Francisca Benítez | Many textures underfoot prepare sites of dissent
Eros/Collaborations | A body maps irrepressible futures of the lost labyrinth: The ELVES of hystèry are hidden behind every new façade
Liz Wendelbo | Via Negativa, “the study of what not to do” evoked through scent of burnt candle wax — inverted shadows flicker on a cavern wall
Garret Linn | A dream state abstraction of Hong Kong – the ur Chinatown
Martin Beck | Crossroads of a counterculture no more…all the waypoints between Haight-Ashbury and Drop City
James Beckett and André Avelās | Some spectacular views as the ceiling caves in
Other performances and events to coincide with the show TBA in the coming week
See you there,
Scott & Bradley EmojiEmoji
EmojiEmojiEmoji ~ I’ll be showing my body maps of the EV/LES with various collaborations* from the 80s & 90s
*(((including Jeanne Liotta / Circle X / Brian Frye / Aline Mare / Lary 7 & others))) with slides, videos & sound. <> BEEmoji
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9. Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumn, now online at whitehotmagazine.com
Joseph Nechvatal has written a book review of Bite Your Friends by Fernanda Eberstadt for Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art here: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/your-friends-by-fernanda-eberstadt/6499
Harley Spiller (he, his)
Ken Dewey Director
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10. Paul Lamarre & Melissa Wolfe, FF Alumns, at EIDIA House, Brooklyn, Aug. 2
THE NEA TAPES Documentary
THE ARTISTS’ Battle for Free Expression in the Arts
PRODUCTION STILLS of the ARTISTS
As assembled by EIDIA, Melissa P. Wolf and Paul Lamarre
for the film THE NEA TAPES and Archive
Closing Reception 6-8pm, Friday August 2nd
Plato’s Cave @ EIDIA House, 14 Dunham Place, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11249
July 11 to August 2, 2024
Hours: 1-6pm Wednesday – Saturday
Contact: eidiahouse@earthlink.net
As THE NEA TAPES DOCUMENTARY is currently experiencing renewed interest, you are invited to PLATO’S CAVE (the Cave) for the 32nd exhibition from the EIDIA House Studio. Plato’s Cave had its formal launch in 2009. This special summer salon will feature 21 digital Glycee photographs in color and black and white—11”x14” and 13”x19” taken over the six year period of film production of THE NEA TAPES documentary created from 1995 to 2001. These are never before seen images of some of the individuals selected from hundreds interviewed and photographed by Lamarre and Wolf for the film. (See total list below.)
The documentary will be screened during the exhibition run. Throughout the film production EIDIA traveled cross-country (to nearly all 50 States) where some 300 interviews were recorded addressing the proposed dismantling of the National Endowment for the Art.
Along with THE NEA TAPES doc having numerous presentation and acquisitions (to the present day) this ‘representation’ of the project after 30 years will give the viewers a significant pause for reflection. “Sadly not much has changed.” stated one prominent museum curator. It is as if the ‘Art World’ has intentionally chosen to forget this period of history.
As the art world spins once again into a morass perhaps EIDIA House has the answer. In this era when censorship abounds internationally vis-a-vis Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram we revisit a ‘fulcrum, point of origin’ for such behavior now in 2024. THE NEA TAPES is a document of a ‘questioning’ sensibIlity, reviewing a time that cannot be recreated or repeated because its of a very specific time. The project records a world that is not like any other and documents a slice of a time when the art world knew it was at a precipice —its future at stake.
THE NEA TAPES is an “oral history” of the 1990s arts funding “culture wars”—increasingly worthy of preservation. There are 54 voices in the 60 minute film, edited from 300 interviews recorded across the US from 1995 to 2001. The film tells the story of diverse arts community support for America’s federally funded arts and humanities. It was the mandate of this film that this passionate oral and visual history be documented and retained. THE NEA TAPES provides an engaging platform for debate.
“This is a pretty good government that can fund its dissenters, that has the self-assurance to know that all voices can be heard in a democratic society.”
Tim Robbins, actor / director, as quoted in THE NEA TAPES
“It was frustrating.. I recognized pretty early on it was a political game, maybe not in the first year but once I had gotten some response from some congressman on both sides of the aisle that said; Oh yes don’t worry I am ‘with’ you, but then they didn’t vote with me. Then I realize there was something else going on.”
Jane Alexander Chairperson of the NEA 1993-1997
EIDIA is a transdisciplinary artist duo based in New York City who collaborate under the name EIDIA (1983 to present.) Lamarre was living at the Chelsea Hotel to create THE CHELSEA TAPES film and Wolf became camera person and editor. And true they also create work individually. They are co-directors of EIDIA House—a meeting place and forum for artists, scholars, poets, writers, architects and others interested in ‘idée force’ the arts as an instrument for positive social change.
We look forward to seeing you. Contact EIDIA House: eidiahouse@earthlink.net EIDIA House / Plato’s Cave
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THE NEA TAPES PARTICIPANTS TOTAL
Assembled in 1999 revisited May 2023 and updated according to THE NEA TAPES film
contractual releases, signed by all participants. (276 to 300 total participants)
Floyd Abrams – Attorney (“Sensation” Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Edward Albee – Writer
J.B. Allen – cowboy / poet, Whiteface, Texas
Jane Alexander – Actress / Former Director of the National Endowment For the Arts, Washington DC
Oscar Alvarado – Artist
Gregory Amenoff – Artist / Educator
Grimanesa Amoros – Artist
Maxwell L. Anderson – Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
Marilyn Andrews – Accountant, Amana Iowa
Suzanne Anker – Artist / Educator
Katya Apekina – Artist (featured in NEA PSA)
Bill Arning – Director, White Columns
Anne Arrasmith – Artist / Co-director and Founder of Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama
Edward Asner – Actor
Ron Athey – Artist, Performance Artist
Tanya Augsburg – Performance Art Scholar, Arizona State University
Margaret C. Ayers – Executive Director, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Josh Baer – Art Dealer / Publisher Baer Faxt
Kenneth Baker – Art Critic, The San Francisco Chronicle
Kathleen Bailer – Director of Art Barge School, Amagansett, New York
Jennifer D, Bates – Basketweaver, Chairperson, California Indian Basketweavers Association
Graham W.J. Beal – Director of Detroit Institute of the Arts
Eddie Becker – taped in Washington DC
Gabriele Becker – Program Director, Goethe House
Lynda Benglis – Artist / Educator
Amir Bey – Muiti-media Artist, Astrologer and Curator
Greta Billinger & Carolyn Coleman
Michael Blackwood – Filmmaker
Holly Block – Executive Director, Art in General
Maryanna Bock – Artist & Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Portland, Maine
Jef Bourgeau – Artist & Director of Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Michigan
Charlie R. Braxton – Poet / Playwright, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Ellen Brooks – Photographer / Educator
Wayne Rocand Brown – Musician / Nashville, Tennessee
Robert T. Buck – Former Director, Brooklyn Museum
Bobby Byrd – Poet / Publisher Cinco Puntos Press
Mary Carpelan – Basketweaver/ Shasta-Cohiulla, California Indian Basketweavers Association
Adelina Casseus – (featured in NEA PSA)
Schuyler G. Chapin – Commissioner, City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs
Alan Chartock – CEO, WAMC Radio
Farai Chideya – Author, Radio Commentator
June Choi – Executive Director, Asian American Arts Alliance
Noam Chomsky – Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
Cecilia Clarke – Executive Director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Chuck Close – Artist
Andrei Codrescu – Writer / Editor of Exquisite Corpse, New Orleans, Louisiana
Vernita N. Cognita – Artist
David Cole – Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Esperanza Cortes – Artist
Anna Sue Courtney – Puppeteer, Huntsville, Alabama
Emilio Cruz – Artist / Educator / Musician
James Cryer – Writer, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Arthur C. Danto – Writer, Critic
Douglas Davis – Artist / Educator / Writer
Lisa Corinne Davis – Artist / Educator
David Dean – Director, Printed Matter
Andre Dekker – Visual Artist, Amsterdam
Jane Delgado – Executive Director, Bronx Museum, New York
Kathie deNobriga – Co-director / Alternate Roots, Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia Andre Dekker – Artist, The Netherlands
Donna De Salvo – Curator at Large, Wexner Center for the Arts
Jenny Dixon – Director, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Nicholas Drake – Disabled Person / Artist / Writer, Charleston, South Carolina
Rev. Priscilla Dreyman – Executive Director, Spiral Arts, Inc., Portland, Maine
Matthew Dudin (NEA PSA)
Sandra Edwards – President, Childesign, East Hampton, New York
Shannah Ehrhart – Assist. Director Visual Arts, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York
Arthur Eisenberg – Legal Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
Gail Elston – Lawyer for the Arts
Helene Erenberg – Marketing Director / Theatre in the Square, Cobb County, Georgia
Jonathan F. Fanton – President, The New School for Social Research
Carol L. Farrell – Co-Artistic Director, Figure of Speech Theatre, Portland, Maine
John J. Farrell – Co-Artistic Director, Figure of Speech Theatre, Portland, Maine
Jane Farver – Director of Exhibitions, Queens Museum of Art
Dewey Fattorusso – (NEA PSA)
Richard Feigen -Owner/Director, Richard Feigen Co.
Ronald Feldman – Owner / Director, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc.
Peter Fend – Artist / Architect
William Ferris – Director / Center For the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi
Tom Finkelpearl – Director, Percent for Art Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC
Karen Finley – Performance Artist
Janet Fish – Artist
Dana Fleming – Arts Administrator, Blountsville, Alabama
Radney Foster – Singer / Songwriter, Nashville. Tennessee
Allen Frame – Artist / Educator
Susan K. Freedman – President, Public Art Fund
Lea Freid – Director, Lombard / Freid Fine Arts
Alan J. Friedman – Chair, Cultural Institutions Group, NYC
Rose (Roanna) Gatens – Historian / Educator, Belmont University Nashville, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Sieglinde Geisel – Cultural Correspondent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Olivia Georgia – Director of Visual Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Michel Gerard – Artist
Stefan Gerard – Founder, Gen Art
Sandra Gering – Owner, Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC
Frank Gillette – Artist / Educator
Judy Glantzman – Artist
Thelma Golden – Associate Curator, The Whitney Museum of American Art
Joanne Goldstein – (NEA PSA)
Leon Golub – Artist
Bernard Goodman – Artist
Claudia Gould – Director, Artists Space
Alexander Gray – Director, Art Matters
Richard Grebanier – Actor (NEA PSA)
Agnes Gund – President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art
Anthony Haden-Guest – Journalist
Neil Gursahani – Businessman (NEA PSA)
Jeffery Hart – Senior Editor National Review
Helen Harrison – Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York
Eleanor Heartney – Writer
Jeanne Hedstrom – Artist
Betty-Sue Hertz – Director, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx, New York
Kathy High – Video Artist / Editor, “Felix”
Clark L. Holt – Artist, Birmingham, Alabama
Budd Hopkins – Artist
Sterling Houston – Artistic Director Jump Start Theatre, San Antonio, Texas
Richard Howorth – Bookseller / Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi
Karen Humpherys (NEA PSA)
Valerie Jaudon – Artist
Cynthia M. Johnson (NEA PAS)
Thomas P. Johnson – Producing Director, The Old Creamery Theater, Amana, Iowa
Joan Jonas – Artist / Educator
Kim Jones – Artist
Thomas W. Jones II – Artistic Director / Jomandi Productions, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
Richard Kalina – Artist
Alex Katz – Artist
Jason Edward Kaufman – Journalist
Linda Kaufman – Professor, English, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Carmel Keoshey (NEA PSA)
Elaine A. King – Author & Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Kiuchi (NEA PSA)
Susan Kleinberg – Artist
Zoya Kocur – Artist / Educator
Christopher Kohan – President, Art Barge School, Amagansett, New York
Tony Korner – Publisher, Artforum, New York City
Trudy C. Kramer – Director, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York
Sali Ann Kriegsman – Former Executive Director, Jacobs Pillow
Ron Kuby – Lawyer, Civil Liberties, New York City
Martin Kunz – Director, New York Kunsthalle, New York City
Donald Kuspit – Historian, Critic
Yihai Yvonne Lai – Art Therapy (NEA PSA)
Corky Lee – Photographer
Ruby Lerner – Executive Director, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
Diane Lewis – Architect / Educator
Larry Litt – Writer / Performer
Howard Lofland (NEA PSA)
Robert MacNeil – Writer
Agusto Mann (NEA PSA)
Margaret Mathews-Berenson – Curator / Educator Mark Mazur – Student, Birmingham, Alabama
Martin Mawyer – founder, Christian Action Network
Mark Mazur – student Birmingham, Alabama
Bradley McCallum – Artist in Residence, New York Civil Liberties Union
John M. McCann – Consultant / The Bay Group, Washington DC
Jeff McMahon – Artist / Educator
Jonas Mekas – Filmmaker / Director, Anthology Film Archives
Alexander Melamid – Artist group Komar & Melamid
Klaus Metzser – Theatre Director, Sud House Tubingen, Germany
Laurie Michelson (NEA PSA)
Mark Crispin Miller – Professor, Media Studies New York University
Tim Miller – Artist
Mary Miss – Artist
David Moos – Curator, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
Robert C. Morgan – Educator
Edward Morgan Jr. – Director The Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Ron Morosan – Artist
Marilyn Murphy – Artist / Assoc. Professor of Art, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Patrick T. Murphy – Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Jerrold Nadler – U.S. Representative
Linda D.Navarro – Basketweaver/ Shasta- Cohiulla, California Indian Basketweavers Association
Victor Navasky – Publisher / Editorial Director, The Nation. New York City
Roy Nicholson – Artist
James Nicola – Artistic Director, New York Theatre Workshop, New York City
David Olsen – Artist / Educator, Los Angeles
Phyllis O’Neill – Executive Director, Portland Performing Arts, Portland, Maine
John O’Sullivan – Editor The National Review
Frank Oudeman – Photographer, The Netherland
Nam June Paik – Video Artist / Educator
Thomas I. Palley – Educator
Charles Parnes – Artist
Martin Paschall – Band Director / Henry County High School, Paris, Tennessee
Gladys Patlak (NEA PSA) or the Art Barge School, Amagansett, New York
Barbara A.B. Patterson – Professor / Priest, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Jill Pattiz – The Art Barge School, Amagansett, New York
Lewis Phillips (NEA PSA)
Katha Pollitt – Writer (on the occasion of the debate between The Nation Magazine vs. The National Review in Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1997)
Lucio Pozzi – Artist
Nancy Princenthal – Writer
Michael Rafkin – Artistic Director, Mad Horse Theatre, Portland, Maine
Edward Rashti – M.D. Houston, Texas
Carter Ratcliff – Poet / Art Critic
Megan Ratner – Writer
Barry Redlich – (NEA PSA)
Ruud Reutelingsperger – Artist, The Netherlands
Jesse Rhines – Filmmaker / Educator
Frank Rich – Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times
Lois S. Riggins-Ezzell – Executive Director, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
Robert Rindler – Dean, School of Art The Cooper Union
Tim Robbins – Actor
Walter Robinson – Artist / Writer
Geno Rodriguez – Director, Alternative Museum, New York City
Elizabeth Rogers – Independent Curator / Historian
Stephen F. Rohde – Attorney, President ACLU of Southern California
Tim Rollins & K.O.S. – Educator / Artist
Jonathan Martin Rosen – Artist
Rachel Rosenthal – Director, Rachel Rosenthal Company, Los Angeles, California
Andrew Ross – Director American Studies, New York University
David A. Ross – Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Robert A. Rothman (NEA PSA)
Catherine Saalfield – Video Maker / Writer / Aids Activist
Don E. Saliers – Professor of Theology / Director, M.S.M. Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Stephan Salisbury – Staff Writer, Philadelphia Inquirer
Ellen Salpeter – Director, Thread Waxing Space
Nancy Salmon – Arts and Education Associate, Maine Arts Commission
Ellen Salpeter – Director, Thread Waxing Space
Graciela I. Sanchez – Director, Esperanza Space, San Antonio, Texas
Juan Sanchez – Artist
Pauline Stella Sanchez – Faculty, Art Center Collage of Design, Los Angeles, California
Hope Sandrow – Artist
Cal Scaggs – Filmmaker
Gene Searchinger – Filmmaker
Andres Serrano – Artist
Michael Shaughnessy – Artist, Educator, Parent, Portland, Maine
Cynthia Shearer – Curator / Rowan Oak, Home of William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
Patterson Sims – Deputy Director for Education and Research Support, Museum of Modern Art
Leslie Singer – Video Artist, Administrative Director, Creative Capital
Forrester C. Smith – Writer and Fundraiser
Kiki Smith – Artist
John T. Smith II – Art Teacher, Birmingham, Alabama
Holly Solomon – Owner, Holly Solomon Gallery
Jeannette Sorrell – Music Director, Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, Cleveland, Ohio
Buzz Spector – Artist and Professor of Art
Nancy Spero – Artist
Wendy Steiner – Chairman, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Gabriele Stellbaum – Video Artist based in Berlin
Martha Stotzky – Curator of Education, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York
Sean Strub – President, Strubco / Founder, POZ Magazine
Carol Sun – Artist
Ameta Sutekno (NEA PSA)
Mary H.D. Swift – Managing Editor Washington Review
Judith Tannenbaum – Associate Director & Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Simon Taylor – Art Critic, Writer
Marina Temkina – Poet
Michael Thiemann (NEA PSA)
Terese Thonus (NEA PSA)
Pawel Tulin – Designer / Co-Founder, Disruptive Experience, New York City
Rev. Kenneth O. Turley – Minister, Swendenborgian Church, Maine
Lisa Tuttle – Artist / Curator, Co-Artistic Director / Arts Festival of Atlanta
Michael Uliche – The Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Geert Vande Camp – Visual Artist, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jess Marie Walker – Interdisciplinary Artist, Birmingham, Alabama
Kathy Wallace – Basketweaver, Board Member California Indian Basketweavers Association
Joan Waltemath – Artist
Tom Warren – Artist
John Weber – Art Dealer
David C. Webster – Executive Director, Very Special Arts Maine
Marianne Weems – Theater Director, President of Art Matters
M.K.Wegmann – Managing Director, Junebug Productions, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lawrence Weiner – Artist
Lawrence Wells – Writer / Publisher Yoknapatawpha Press, Oxford, Mississippi
Palmer D. Wells – Managing Director / Theatre in the Square, Cobb County, Georgia
David White – Director, Dance Theater Workshop
Betty Wilde – Associate Director, En Foco Elizabeth Williams – Theatrical Producer
Helene Winer – Owner / Director, Metro Pictures Gallery
Alden C. Wilson – Director Maine Arts Commission
Andy Wilkinson – Writer, Lubbock, Texas
Carlton Wilkinson – Photographer, Nashville, Tennessee
Elizabeth Williams – Theatre Producer, President Four Corners Productions, New York City
Fred Wilson – Artist and Educator
Martha Wilson – Director, Franklin Furnace, New York City
Dayton Wright – Artist / Jamestown, Tennessee
Lenore Wright – Art Barge School, Amagansett, New York
Susan Wyatt – Executive Director, Citizen Exchange Council / International Partners, New York City
Sidney R. Yates – U.S. Representative
Philip Yenawine – Educator / Author
Pat Zaborski – The Art Barge, Amagansett, New York
Donna Zigmund (NEA PSA)
Justyn Zoili (NEA PSA)
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11. Elaine Angelopoulos, FF Alumn, at Ruby/Dakota, Manhattan, thru Sept. 6
Ruby/Dakota is excited to announce Home is You, Right Now, a debut group exhibition of multi-disciplinary and multi-generational 21st century artists in conjunction with its opening day.
Inspired by the gallerist’s inner journey home – objectified as the image of an empty house – this collection of artworks speak to the double-sided nature of our conscious and unconscious drives that pull us toward homecoming, the body’s impulse to replay the past over and over, and the murky temporal space we all inhabit between childhood and adulthood.
Perhaps it is you, hidden inside the epidermic layers of tissue over thick Bristol paper, draped across your girlfriend’s body, all skin and also nothing, like pareidolia in the clouds. Youth always tries to find its shape. A self-portrait is always a map to the past, as if you had a choice to go back. As if staring into that gaping fish’s mouth, all toothless and gummy, in the nightmare you are just awakening from, startled and exhausted, offered you a portal.
Intricate, solitary, obsessive motions of string entanglements juxtapose sensual, romantic strokes in paintings steeped in vibrant color and unconscious desire, creating a haziness where what’s invisible might be more affective in your body than what’s visible, offering a language of sensation with an uncannily familiar quality.
With works hung like relics of a deemed-deranged teenage girl’s bedroom aligned in a gridlike formation, mimicking a white picket fence, Ruby/Dakota transforms itself structurally into a blatant symbol of middle-class American safety, an illusory, paradoxically romantic and deadening dream of home, located somewhere between aberration, fine art and fallacy.
Within distorted scales and exposed intimacy at various levels of subject matter, language and process, this collection asks us to look closely at ourselves beneath the veils of our projected selves in our memory-films playing on repeat.
Does you refer to Self or Other, and what happens in that parallax view between either/or? Where is home, if not in the physical object, and what is the cost of living in and for another’s organism, even at the risk of our own disappearance? The answer, the show offers, might have something to do with love.
-Rachel Nagelberg
inquiries: hannah@rubydakota.com
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