Contents for August 4th, 2025
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Robert Wilson, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Fang-Yu Liu, FF Alumn, at Thomas VanDyke Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Aug. 9
2. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, now online at CurveMag.com
3. Christine DeFazio, FF Intern Alumn, at Stable Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, August 2025
4. Dona Ann McAdams, John Killacky, FF Alumns, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtsSNis_Bj0
5. John Allen, FF Alumn, at Arena Arts Initiative/Galli-Curci Theater, Margaretville, NY, opening August 9
6. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1105889379
7. Jane Goldberg, Sarah Safford, FF Alumns, at Independence Plaza, Manhattan, Aug 29
8. Eidia House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 30
9. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, new publication
10. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
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Robert Wilson, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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1. Fang-Yu Liu, FF Alumn, at Thomas VanDyke Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Aug. 9
In Currents: Migration, Memory and the Making of Home
Thomas VanDyke Gallery
434 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
On view: August 9th to August 23rd, 2025
Opening Reception: August 9th, 6-9PM
Closing Reception: August 23rd, 4-6PM
Thomas VanDyke Gallery is pleased to present In Currents: Migration, Memory and the Making of Home, a group show featuring works by 11 Taiwanese artists based in both the US and Taiwan.
Positioned within shifting cultural, political, and emotional landscapes, In Currents examines how personal and collective histories converge through migration, memory, and transformation. The exhibition poses the ever-so-topical question of “What does it mean to be Taiwanese?” As Taiwan’s repute has been largely pigeonholed by its uncertain political status, the exhibition carries on with the uncertainty and offers a new path for the reimagination of being Taiwanese. With Taiwan as the core, the exhibition, however, provides capacity for audiences of all backgrounds to reflect on their own identities, both the making and the evolution of them.
The exhibition is part of Taiwan on the Moon, a transnational curatorial project conceived during the Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. In response to the absence of a national pavilion representing Taiwan by name, the project centered around the construction of a grassroots Taiwanese Pavilion, first exhibited at the Setouchi Triennale in April. The centerpiece, which prints the image of Taiwan onto an inflatable moon sculpture, proposes a new way to envision Taiwan.
In Currents serves as the latest chapter of Taiwan on the Moon, bringing together 11 Taiwanese artists whose works draw from both personal and collective experiences of cultural exchange. Spanning a diverse array of media—including video, installation, photography, textiles, performance, objects, and artist books—each piece offers a nuanced perspective on the evolving questions of identity, memory, and belonging. Through personal stories, historical narratives, and reflections on migration, the exhibition captures the complexity and resonance of this island’s cultural landscape.
Artists
Ching-Wei Wang (Way) 王淨薇
Chia Yun Wu 吳家昀
Cindy I-Hsin Cheng 鄭宜欣
Entung Liu 劉恩彤
Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh 謝宣光
Kang Hua Chang 張剛華
Pou-Ching Tsai 蔡咅璟
Ruo Tong Zhao 趙若彤
Ying Chiun Lee 李穎軍
Yi-Ru Chen 陳怡如
Yu-Ching Wang 王俞晴
Curators
Fang-Yu Liu 劉芳妤
Man-Ling Cheng 鄭曼翎
Wei-Che Huang 黃威哲
Visual Designer
Meng-Chen Chung 鍾孟臻
Curatorial Support
Ping Ho 何苹
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2. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, now online at CurveMag.com
Please visit this link:
https://www.curvemag.com/articles/the-queer-gaze-of-dona-ann-mcadams/
Thank you
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3. Christine DeFazio, FF Intern Alumn, at Stable Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, August 2025
Portraits, Real and Imagined
August 2025
The Stable Gallery, Ridgewood New Jersey
Curated by Christine DeFazio Arts
Featuring:
Olga Correa @olgacorrea_art
Christine DeFazio @christinedefazioarts
Rita Flores @ritafloresart
Alice Mizrachi @am_nyc
Myrna Richards @myrnarichardsaka
John Zollo @portraitsnj
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
In creating a portrait the artist not only captures the likeness of the sitter, but expresses a bit of themselves. Portraiture is one of the oldest and most revered subjects of artistic production. This exhibition explores the genre of portraiture in a variety of media and styles. The portraits include representations that capture the likeness of an individual and others that emerge from the artist’s imagination. Olga Correa (Bronx, New York) is a fashion designer, aerosol artist,
and muralist. Christine DeFazio (Bogota, NJ) works in a variety of media including collage. Rita Flores (Bogota, NJ) creates Pop Art style portraits of celebrities, as well as sticker and wheatpaste art. Alice Mizrachi (Hudson Valley, New York and Miami, Florida) is an interdisciplinary artist who also works as a muralist. Myrna Richards (Maywood, NJ) creates mixed-media portraits. John Zollo (Ridgewood, NJ) creates highly detailed pastel portraits. In the upstairs gallery, there will be a selection of small and large scale collage art by Christine
DeFazio, including wheat paste collages. There will be a curator’s tour hosted by Creative Bergen, date tbd.
For more information contact: christinedefazioarts@gmail.com
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4. Dona Ann McAdams, John Killacky, FF Alumns, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtsSNis_Bj0
A dream project was making a documentary about photographer Dona Ann McAdams who was just awarded the 2025 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from The Vermont Arts Council. See our short on Vermont Public this week or on their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtsSNis_Bj0
Thank you.
John Killacky.
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5. John Allen, FF Alumn, at Arena Arts Initiative/Galli-Curci Theater, Margaretville, NY, opening August 9
I am in a drawing exhibition, On Paper, at the Arena Arts Initiative and the Galli-Curci Theater in Margaretville, NY with five other artists from August 9 – 24. The exhibition is curated by Brent Rumage and includes works of mine spanning 36 years, from 1989 – 2025. Artists reception Aug. 9, 4-6 pm with DJ Jaime Holguin/Enstereo. Thank you. John Allen
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6. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, now online at https://vimeo.com/1105889379
TO THE GREAT BLANKNESS
MAILING LIST:
“Earth in My Window”
PZ, JULY 30, 2025
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7. Jane Goldberg, Sarah Safford, FF Alumns, at Independence Plaza, Manhattan, Aug 29
DATE August 29, 2025
TIME 1:30PM
LOCATION Senior Center, 310 Greenwich St, Floor 2, New York, NY 10013
FREE! Just show up.
The Traveling Tap Museum is a mobile exhibition and set for presentations about tap dancing. In any location, the tap mat can roll out for “feets on” live performances by Jane Goldberg and some of her colleagues. The dancers tell anecdotal stories about the pictures, sing songs and perform classic and modern tap routines.
Jane will be joined by dancers Christina Carminucci (CTTI 2023-24), Tamangoh (CTTI 2025-26) and Sarah Safford
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8. Eidia House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 30
EIDIA HOUSE / PLATO’S CAVE
The Summer Fundraiser
FUNDING CUTS MAYHEM
July 3, – August 30, 2025
Summer hours: Wednesday – Saturday by appointment 646 226 6478
Hello Colleagues and Friends of EIDIA House & Plato’s Cave,
A new wrinkle. We need your help. We’ve just learned from colleagues at the ACRL, Association of College and Research Libraries and the ALA, American Library Association that the moratorium on acquisitions at the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute put in place as Trump came to office is probably going to be in place for the next 2 years!
Though in the pipeline for acquisition at the Getty last year and prior, this is a painful pause for the purchase of our massive project “the nea tapes.” The archive consists of “oral history” records, documentation, and 300 recorded interviews across the US from 1995 to 2021 about the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts (yes back then). We had hoped that by now the air would clear for the acquisition, but NO! This truly puts us in a financial bind.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!
Here’s how you can help. These artists have donated works for the cause.
Click the link, scroll through—choose what you desire and email us your choice: eidiahouse@earthlink.net. We will US Postal to you ASAP once we have your payment.
Go to eidia.com, click the ‘DONATE’ button. Be sure to provide your best ‘ship to’ address.
Come see the exhibit at PLATO’S CAVE
EIDIA HOUSE
14 Dunham Place
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11249 USA
Thank you for your continuing support!
Best to all in these challenging times,
Melissa Wolf / Paul Lamarre
EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Brooklyn, NY 11249
EIDIA.COM
646 226 6478
@EIDIAHOUSE
@bobs_world_the_film.
About PLATO’S CAVE @ EIDIA House Studio:
Since 2009 founders Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf have curated invited fellow artists to create installations and optional accompanying editions—currently 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.
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9. Jeff McMahon, FF Alumn, new publication
https://discover.bklynlibrary.org/item?b=12864198
Just published, the book with all of our lyrics for last year’s project. My (semifinalist) effort on p. 81. Jeff McMahon
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10. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at WhiteHotMagazine.com
Here is a book review by Mark Bloch of
Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings by Dick Higgins
Edited by Bonnie Marranca
Published by University of Michigan Press
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/scores-writings-by-dick-higgins/7074
Thank you!!
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