Contents for August 07, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Simone Forti, FF Alumn, receives The Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award, Venice Biennial 2023
2. Aaron Burr Society/Jim Costanzo, Terry Berkowitz, Marie Christine Katz, Raúl Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Proyectos Raúl Zamudio, Manhattan, opening Aug. 12
3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, now online at LeslieLohman.org
4. GOODW.Y.N., FF Alumn, now online with PerformVu.com
5. LizNBow, FF Alumns, at MoCA, North Miami, FL, thru Aug. 32
6. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at Traffic Zone Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 7-Sept. 8
7. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY, thru Sept. 2, and more
8. Danny Georges, FF Alumn, at Studio Judy G, Watsonville, CA, opening Aug. 12
9. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 9
10. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, at Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz, NY, Aug. 9, and more
11. Sam Kaplan, FF Member, at Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY, opening Aug 17
12. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Aug. 25-26
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1. Simone Forti, FF Alumn, receives The Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award, Venice Biennial 2023
Simone Forti, FF Alumn, received The Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award in July of 2023.
Ewan McGregor & La Biennale Di Venezia on their motivation for the award:
“Simone Forti has compiled a body of work – from performance, drawing, film, video, photography, installation, and texts—that is astonishing in its range and singular in its vision. An innovator in multiple mediums and expert dance improviser, Simone Forti’s art has often combined elements of movement, sound, and objects into new and surprising hybrid articulations – work that has been as seminally influential in the development of post-modern dance as it has been revelatory to minimalism.
Self-defining as artist or movement artist rather than being bound to the conventions and orthodoxies of ‘choreographer’, Forti has moved freely and seamlessly between creative worlds, wildly mixing disciplines and in doing so, championed the primacy of body, or rather ‘thinking with the body’ as a force for experimentation, play and (re)invention…”
Thank you.
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2. Aaron Burr Society/Jim Costanzo, Terry Berkowitz, Marie Christine Katz, Raúl Zamudio, FF Alumns, at Proyectos Raúl Zamudio, Manhattan, opening Aug. 12
we make history not money
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio
78 Jane St.
NY NY 10014
https://www.proyectosraulzamudio.com/
I Sing the Body Electric
Aug. 12-Sept. 12
opens Aug 12, 6-9 pm
Thank you.
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3. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, now online at LeslieLohman.org
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel publishes his essay for the exhibition INDECENCIA with Leslie Lohman Museum of Art:
Thank you.
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4. GOODW.Y.N., FF Alumn, now online with PerformVu.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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5. LizNBow, FF Alumns, at MoCA, North Miami, FL, thru Aug. 32
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at Traffic Zone Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Aug. 7-Sept. 8
Curated by Doug Beube and Harriet Bart.
Traffic Zone Gallery presents the group exhibition, Banned, an international exhibition inviting artists to consider the banned book. Books have been banned in the United States since the 17th century. Book banning is the most widespread form of censorship in the United States, with children’s literature being the primary target. Book bans in schools increased by 28% in the first half of the 2022-23 academic year according to Pen American. Controversy over banned books continues today as a widespread form of global censorship. Artists in the exhibition: Harriet Bart, Julie Baugnet, Doug Beube, Vesna Kittelson, Steven McCarthy, Jon Neuse, Erica Spitzer Rasmussen, Cathy Ryan, CB Sherlock, Mickey Smith, Elysa Voshell, Karen Wirth.
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading” – Isaac Asimov
What:
An international exhibition inviting artists to consider the banned book.
Where:
Traffic Zone Gallery at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art
250 3rd Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Parking:
Metered parking on Washington Avenue, and public parking in Ramp C.
When:
August 7 – September 8,, 2023
Gallery Hours: M-F, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
And by appointment: text Jon Neuse 612-201-3386
Public reception:
August 12, 2023, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Information:
http://www.trafficzoneart.com/
Thank you.
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7. Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, at Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY, thru Sept. 2, and more
Franc Palaia, FF Alumn, is included with three wall works in two group shows this Aug-Sept.
“The 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop” show at the Albany Center Gallery
488 Broadway, Albany NY 518-462-4775
Gallery Hrs: Tues-Sat 12-5pm
I have one wall piece in the 14/C Jersey City Artfair Annex exhibition, at 150 Bay St Jersey City. NJ Gallery hrs: Sat and Sunday 12-6pm
Thank you.
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8. Danny Georges, FF Alumn, at Studio Judy G, Watsonville, CA, opening Aug. 12
Men in Nature / Taking Off
New work by Danny Georges and Judy Gittelsohn.
Cousins, Danny and Judy grew up together in Portland, Oregon. They spent their childhood rambling amidst the suburbs of Portland and the shores of Cannon Beach. Separately, they became practicing artists. They both recently relocated from densely populated places to more rural homes. Danny lives in Walden, New York, and Judy lives and works in Watsonville, California.
Studio Judy G is an Art Gallery and Judy’s painting and teaching studio.
Studio Judy G
430 Main St.,
Watsonville CA
Artists’ reception
Saturday, August 12th
3 pm – 6 pm
Event hours and by appointment thru October, call for info, 650 248-5381.
See my other work in the show at
http://yourdocumentsplease.com/dgart/watsonville2023/
See more about Judy’s work and Studio Judy G at
instagram @studiojudyg
Daniel Georges
instagram @danielgeorgesstudio
Thank you.
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9. Debra Pearlman, FF Alumn, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, opening Sept. 9
Roundabout
Debra Pearlman
How do the power struggles inherent in the games we play as children affect us in adulthood? What separates followers from leaders, the confident from the hesitant? Surveying recent art by Debra Pearlman, this exhibition explores such questions in works built around images of children at play in public spaces—like boys desperately clinging to an old-fashioned roundabout—that resonate emotionally, politically, and art-historically.
Historian and critic Nancy Princenthal writes in the show catalogue, “All that glitters is pitch dark in Debra Pearlman’s photo-based paintings, where joy rains down in buckets, along with sorrow and shame, each state mitigated by an innocence that is itself cast in doubt. . . . Whether by framing or cropping, or by simple circumstance, she seldom pictures children looking at the camera—that is, at us. Partly that is out of caution and a reluctance to violate privacy. But primarily the choice is of forgoing identity the better to focus on iconic postures and gestures that reveal internal experiences, even when they involve public or social encounters.”
Events during the exhibition:
Sat, Sept 9, 5:30 – 8pm Opening Reception
Sun, Sept 17, 4:00 – 5pm Panel Discussion with Nancy Princenthal and David Ebony
Sun, Oct 1, 4:00 – 5:30pm Poetry Readings tba
Artist bio:
Debra Pearlman is an artist based in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, New York Public Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Smith College Museum, among others. She is the recipient of The Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, a grant from The Peter S. Reed Foundation, a Special Editions and an Individual Artist Grant from the Lower East Side Print Shop, and a grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Art. Pearlman received an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts.
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.
Directions: Take 2,3,4 or 5 trains to Franklin Ave., walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Turn left into St. Johns Place. Walk 1/2 block to FiveMyles.
Hanne Tierney
Director
347-534-6776
FiveMyles
558 St Johns Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Thank you.
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10. Doug Skinner, FF Alumn, at Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz, NY, Aug. 9, and more
Happy August! A show of original artwork from my comic book “Shorten the Classics” will be on display at the Elting Memorial Library, in New Paltz, NY, throughout August. The library is at 93 Main St.; you can find out more at:
https://www.eltinglibrary.org/calendar-1#/events/CfTDW9TVqo/instances/UptBVItgU3/
I’ll be giving a reading there on Wednesday, August 9, at 7 pm. I plan to read from my published and upcoming books, and to sing a couple of songs. I’ll be joined by Tom Keener, a fellow alumnus of the NYC performance scene.
Off in someplace called “California,” Black Scat Books has published “A Concise Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.” I was one of 24 contributors who wrote gags for this dubious reference work. You can find it on Amazon.
Again, Happy August! Doug Skinner
Thank you.
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11. Sam Kaplan, FF Member, at Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY, opening Aug 17
Bethany Arts Community
40 Somerstown Road
Ossining NY 10562
Pop Up Exhibition
Samuel Kaplan
Winter/Summer
A Collection of Figurative Landscapes
Opening Night Reception
Thursday August 17, 2023, 6-8 pm
Thank you.
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12. Aviva Rahmani, FF Alumn, at Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Aug. 25-26
Live and streaming performances of Blued Trees, an opera about ecocide, will take place August 25th and 26th at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
These events will be previews, presenting 5 pieces from the work-in-progress for final production. Buy tickets directly from the gallery by clicking on the day you can attend. Watch our progress on Instagram @bluedtrees.
Learn more about the project: https://www.bluedtrees.com/
Thank you.
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