Contents for September 2nd, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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1. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at youtube.com and more
2. Ann Meredith, FF Member, now online at GOmag.com
3. Charles Yuen, FF Alumn, at JJ Murphy Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 4
4. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Sept. 11 and more
5. Howardena Pindell, FF Alumn, at Fridman Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 3
6. Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, now online at nytimes.com
7. Purgatory Pie Press, FF Alumns, at Art on Paper, Manhattan, Sept. 5-8 and more
8. Elaine Angelopoulos, Leon Golub, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Vitaly Komar, Komar & Melamid, Les Levine, Alexander Melamid, Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, FF Alumns, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 3-Nov. 27
9. Nicole Eisenman, Katya Grokhovsky, Guadalupe Maravilla, Susan Newmark, Hidemi Takagi, Dannielle Tegeder, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 4, 2024-Jan. 26, 2025
10. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Sid Jacobson JCC, Greenvale, NY, Sept. 1-Dec. 1
11. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, memorial service at Judson Church, Manhattan, Sept. 21
12. Moe Angelos, Holly Hughes, FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 7
13. Susanna Cook, Simba Yangala, FF Alumns. at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 14
14. Christen Clifford, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 12
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1. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at youtube.com and more
Barbara Rosenthal tribute to Júlia KLANICZAY, the co-founder of Artpool Arts Resources Center, Budapest. English with Hungarian subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=KW9c7SDG6tc
Barbara Rosenthal, in a stationary shot, seated in her usual white butterfly chair in front of the gray flat files in her studio, narrates her gratitude to and admiration for Júlia KLANICZAY, the co-founder of Artpool Arts Resources Center, Budapest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artpool_Art_Research_Center, possibly the greatest collection in Europe of Avant-Garde art in all media. Rosenthal tells of her 1996 experiences in person there giving a talk and presenting work by invitation of this most generous person, who picked her up with filmmaker Bill Creston and three children at the Budapest train station in a snowstorm, housed them in the vacant mansion of a diplomat, and organized for everything, including a journalist.
Barbara Rosenthal’s video was produced to honor Júlia on her 70th birthday, in a tribute curated by archivist Dóra Halasi and Artpool Co-founder Gyorgy Galantai on June 11, 2024 in the project and a small exhibition that opened on 24 May 2024 in the exhibition space of Artpool Art Research Centre (33-35 Szabolcs Street, KEMKI, Building D). It has been extremely important and timely that many artists in the collection responded to Dóra’s call because Júlia and György Galántai , who founded Artpool from nothing, are being written out of its history by “Dávid Fehér, the head of the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – and “temporarily” also head of the Artpool department for two years – wants to see the founders of Artpool excluded, and to this end he considers the discrediting of the founders in front of the staff and the restriction of their work to be acceptable” according to their email of July 30.
NOTE: If you would like to help keep their legacy, please, write directly to the Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. László Baán: laszlo.baan@szepmuveszeti.hu
(cc: artpool@artpool.hu).
Information about some of the physical and media work by Barbara Rosenthal in the Artpool collection can be found here:
https://artpool.hu/Rosenthal/index.html
https://www.artpool.hu/G80/Rosenthal.html
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2. Ann Meredith, FF Member, now online at GOmag.com
Thank You GO Magazine for choosing me as one of your 100 Women We Love Class of 2024!
I’m truly honored… https://gomag.com/issue/pride-2024/ Ann Meredith
From GO Magazine: “Ann P Meredith is the ultimate Renaissance Woman. For almost 55 years, the artist, writer, director, producer, fine art photographer, and filmmaker has forged channels for others to be heard. She’s the founder of Swordfish Productions Pictures & Theatrical, a company that produces motion pictures, feature films, documentary productions, exhibitions, performances and installations. [continued]”
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3. Charles Yuen, FF Alumn, at JJ Murphy Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 4
CHARLES YUEN: Frequency Surfing
September 5 – October 5, 2024
Artist Reception: Wednesday, September 4 6-8 PM
JJ MURPHY GALLERY is pleased to present Charles Yuen’s solo exhibition “Frequency Surfing,” opening Wednesday, September 4, 2024, from 6–8 PM. The show runs from September 5 through October 5. Gallery hours: Thursday–Saturday, 12–6 PM.
Yuen, who is of Chinese and Japanese descent, was a founding member of the activist group Godzilla, which successfully protested against the lack of Asian American artists in the 1991 Whitney Biennial. His large painting “Jug Boy” (1994), which features a human figure trapped inside a decorative urn, was one of the standouts of the recent historical show about the art collective at Eric Firestone Gallery.
The “surfing” in the title of the new show is a playful allusion to Yuen’s Hawaiian roots while also reflecting his interest in both physics and science fiction. Yuen’s paintings combine abstraction with figuration. There is a narrative or symbolic aspect to his work. In a sense, Yuen develops his own personal or subjective world. This world often features non-human characters who appear to arise from the earth and look like astronauts or deep-sea divers. It also includes such elements as atomic symbols, wave patterns, arms and hands, ladders, mushrooms, circles, planets, birds, and insects. All combine to create cosmic ideograms that poetically evoke not only visible forces in the world but also invisible frequencies, such as microwaves, radio waves, and magnetic rays, that impact our lives in unforeseen ways. As Yuen observes, “The identifiable things in my paintings are really signposts to describing the invisible relationships and components that surround them.”
In “Sherpas” (2024), three wide white figures with large symbols on their chests appear against a greenish-yellow background, while the planet Saturn floats around them. “If As” (2023) features a single larger figure, a smaller group, and brown circular shapes that appear to be illuminated by radiant light. “Shoulder Assist” (2023) depicts a figure sitting on another’s shoulders. The supportive figure has very long arms that provide balance. The figures appear to be underground, as evidenced by the multiple thin, colored ladders that lead up to trees that sit above the surface. Colorful circles float within the space. As with all of Yuen’s paintings, there are radical shifts in scale. The narrative is deliberately open, cryptic, and mysterious, yet, at the same time, suggestive enough to engage us in attempting to decode the symbolic world the artist masterfully creates.
Charles Yuen has had numerous solo exhibitions of his work, most recently at LaiSun Keane, Boston, 2023; Pierogi, Brooklyn, 2022; and Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2022. His work has been included in group shows, including “Godzilla: Echoes from the 1990s Asian American Arts Network,” curated by Jennifer Samet at Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, 2024. His work has been reviewed in Two Coats of Paint, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and the Boston Globe. Yuen has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship as well as a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. He has a BFA degree from the University of Hawaii and an MFA degree from Rutgers University. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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4. David Wojnarowicz, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, Sept. 11 and more
MoMA NY: 7:00 pm Wednesday, September 11, 2024
“A Film Evening for David Wojnarowicz” will feature significant film works by David Wojnarowicz including A Fire in My Belly along with a selection of his memorable screen roles, archival rarities, and contemporary works that engage with David’s legacy.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art: 5:30 pm Friday, September 13, 2024
“Each and Every Gesture Carries a Reverberation” featuring David’s work and a performance by musician Ben Neill (originally presented in collaboration with David at The Kitchen in 1989).
New York Aids Memorial: 5:00 pm Saturday, September 14, 2024
“David Wojnarowicz 70th Birthday” featuring a reading of The Waterfront Journals, the band Rimbaud Hattie, and a candle-lit procession from the New York City AIDS Memorial to the LGBTQ Memorial in Hudson River Park (organized in collaboration with P·P·O·W & VISUAL AIDS).
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5. Howardena Pindell, FF Alumn, at Fridman Gallery, Manhattan, opening Sept. 3
As we enjoy the last days of summer and prepare to open an exciting new season, I would like to invite you to preview our upcoming exhibition:
Curated by J.E. Azmi (f/k/a James Bartlett), A Treatise on Color: Vols. I-IV features historical and contemporary artists –– those firmly in the canon (Carrie Mae Weems, Howardena Pindell, Julie Mehretu, Lorna Simpson, Seydou Keita, Isaac Julien), and those gaining appreciation of collectors and institutions. The exhibition inaugurates the gallery’s secondary-market practice and is the first in a series of multi-century, multimedia collaborations with Azmi.
The VIP preview is on Tuesday, September 3, 6-8pm. RSVP here. In the meantime, please enjoy an online viewing room for this innovative exhibition.
With best wishes,
Iliya Fridman | Founder
Fridman Gallery | 169 Bowery NYC 10002
+1 646 345 9831
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6. Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, FF Alumns, now online at nytimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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7. Purgatory Pie Press, FF Alumns, at Art on Paper, Manhattan, Sept. 5-8 and more
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8. Elaine Angelopoulos, Leon Golub, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Vitaly Komar, Komar & Melamid, Les Levine, Alexander Melamid, Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, FF Alumns, at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Manhattan, Sept. 3-Nov. 27
Focus Group: Work by 33 artists on U.S. elections, politicians, and power dynamics
Ronald Feldman Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of posters, prints, drawings, paintings, videos, objects and/or mixed media by the following artists:
Elaine Angelopoulos, Joseph Beuys, Nancy Chunn, Nancy Chunn/David McDevitt, Chuck Close, Shepard Fairey, Rico Gatson, Leon Golub, Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, Jenny Holzer, Robert Indiana, Ilya Kabakov, Deborah Kass, Vitaly Komar, Komar & Melamid, Les Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Chris Lord, Alexander Melamid, David Opdyke, William Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Andres Serrano, Ben Shahn, Federico Solmi, Nancy Spero, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, William Wegman, and Lou Woehrle.
United by their assertive, sometimes insistent, political messages, the fifty-two works by thirty-three artists included in this exhibition offer a select and lively perspective on American elections, politicians and social power dynamics. Spanning more than five decades, the works not only refer to political subjects and social issues specific to their time, but also resonate with ideological and humanistic themes amazingly relevant today.
This exhibition invites the viewer to compare and contrast many visual strategies that explore issues of racism, demagoguery, oppression, war, climate change, among others. Some artists employ tools such as satire, propaganda, and the portrayal of newsworthy events or utopian ideals. Others utilize more iconic subjects—such as U.S. presidents, Uncle Sam, the Oval Office, and Old Glory—to celebrate, examine, and critique American governance and policy.
Some noteworthy inclusions are:
a. Ben Shahn’s limited edition print Vote Johnson from 1964, which depicts Barry Goldwater when Lyndon B. Johnson was running against him for VP. This work inspired Andy Warhol to create Vote McGovern in 1972, with its giant, green-faced image of Richard Nixon. Deborah Kass then picked up the mantel in 2016 when she created Vote Hillary, with a similarly large portrayal of a raging Donald Trump. This exhibition is likely the first time that the above three works have been shown together.
b. A never-exhibited work by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison entitled The Seven Lagoons, which concisely summarizes their major opus exploring sustainability and the impact of global warming. Pioneers in ecological art, the artists created works focusing on earth-based solutions to human problems decades before this subject was part of the art world and, later, part of popular consciousness.
3. Land of the Stupid by Nancy Chunn, a painting depicting the 2000 presidential election which includes a silhouette of nine Supreme Court Justices telling voters to “Get Lost!”
Gallery viewing hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 1pm – 5pm, or by appointment.
For more information, contact Cat Zhou at (212) 226-3232 or catherine@feldmangallery.com
Ronald Feldman Gallery
31 Mercer St New York, NY 10013
212.226.3232
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9. Nicole Eisenman, Katya Grokhovsky, Guadalupe Maravilla, Susan Newmark, Hidemi Takagi, Dannielle Tegeder, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 4, 2024-Jan. 26, 2025
More than Two Hundred Artists Selected for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition
The sweeping group show celebrates the diversity of Brooklyn’s creatives and the Brooklyn Museum’s rich history of championing the borough’s artists.
On view October 4, 2024–January 26, 2025
The Brooklyn Museum is proud to announce the selection of more than two hundred artists for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, which will open on the occasion of the Museum’s 200th anniversary. This extensive group show highlights the remarkable creativity and diversity of Brooklyn’s artistic communities. Reflecting on a rich history of fostering creativity and championing artists of all backgrounds, the Museum’s bicentennial is an opportunity to honor the borough’s artistic heritage while looking ahead to its bright and creative future. Artists were selected through a collaborative effort led by esteemed Artist Committee members Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli, all of whom are Brooklyn Museum Artist Trustees. The selection process consisted of two phases: invitations from the Artist Committee and a public Open Call that garnered nearly 4,000 applications.
“For years artists have been asking us to organize a big Brooklyn artists exhibition, and now we’ve done it!” says Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum. “Brooklyn has more artists than anywhere, and we are thrilled to expand the ways we support the excellence of our incredible borough.”
The artworks selected for the exhibition reflect Brooklyn’s vibrant and dynamic art scene, spanning a wide range of artistic disciplines including drawing, painting, collage and assemblage, video, multimedia, installation, and sculpture. Throughout the exhibition’s run, a series of public programs will highlight selected artists whose practice involves performance.
Showcasing a snapshot of Brooklyn’s creative output over the past five years, the artists in this exhibition explore and challenge contemporary themes that resonate both locally and globally, such as migration, cross-cultural exchange, identity, history, and memory. The presentation also highlights collective care, healing, joy, solidarity, uncertainty, and turbulence, intertwined with material experimentation.
Together, these works paint a rich portrait of what makes Brooklyn uniquely “Brooklyn”: a borough teeming with a vast diversity of people, vibrant and pulsing with energy and activity. The exhibition celebrates the inventiveness and innovation of Brooklyn’s artists, connected by mutual love and respect as collaborators, neighbors, friends, and family.
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is organized by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli, and coordinated by Sharon Matt Atkins, Deputy Director for Art; Lauren Bierly, Senior Exhibition Project Manager; and Jennie Tang, Special Exhibition Administrator; with support from Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art; Carmen Hermo, former Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; and Catherine Morris, Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
With tremendous gratitude, we thank the Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees for their visionary support and commitment to the breadth of Museum and city-wide celebrations as we embark on our 200th year. It is with appreciation to them and the supporters of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition that we are honored to present the works of local artists who make our community what it is today.
Sponsored by UOVO
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10. Dee Shapiro, FF Member, at Sid Jacobson JCC, Greenvale, NY, Sept. 1-Dec. 1
Dear Friends,
I will be showing some earlier work at the Sid Jacobson, JCC, 300 Forest Drive, Greenvale, NY (across from the Nassau County Museum) opening September 1 to December 1, 2024.
Hope you can come by.
Warm wishes,
Dee
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11. Nancy Azara, FF Alumn, memorial service at Judson Church, Manhattan, Sept. 21
Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,
We are writing to inform you of a memorial service to honor the life and legacy of Nancy Azara. Nancy’s contributions to the art world and her passionate advocacy for feminist ideals have left an indelible mark on our community.
The memorial will take place on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at Judson Memorial Church. We will gather to celebrate Nancy’s life, share memories, and reflect on the profound impact she had on all of us.
Details of the Memorial Service:
- Date: September 21, 2024
- Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
- Location: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012 (enter at 239 Thompson St.)
We invite you to join us in remembering Nancy Azara and her extraordinary journey. Your presence would mean a great deal as we come together to honor her memory.
Please RSVP by September 10, 2024, to assist us with the arrangements https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMCb7W0-6571z1NmvaaUUWuExFJghT9anN7qyUYlL3WONVmQ/viewform
In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made to a Scleroderma foundation or a charitable organization that is meaningful to you.
For further information or inquiries, feel free to contact Nana Olivas at olivas.nyc@gmail.com or Darla Bjork at darlabjork@gmail.com.
Warm Regards,
Darla Bjork and Nana Olivas
https://www.judson.org/directions
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12. Moe Angelos, Holly Hughes, FF Alumns, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 7
Holly Hughes presents an excerpt of a rant in progress Indelible in the Hippocampus is the Laughter, which asks the question: How it is that after fifty years of feminist fury, sexual violence is still the rule, not the exception?
A comedy.
Holly Hughes (they) is a writer, performer, and professor. Her works like The Well of Horniness, Preaching to the Preveting and The Dog and Pony Show have been performed widely to both applause and dismay. She is currently a professor at the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design.
Moe Angelos’s latest version of This Used to Be Gay, her personal travelogue of the lower East Side, starring the queer domestic version of Steve Reeves. Wear your most comfortable shoes and prepare to laugh loud enough to damage the plaster.
Moe (she) is a founder of the Five Lesbian Brothers, co author of Five Brothers Four Plays, and a core member of the Builder’s Association, lead by Marianne Weems.
https://dixonplace.org/performances/the-ho-mo-show-09-07-24/
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13. Susanna Cook, Simba Yangala, FF Alumns. at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 14
La Fusión is a raucous cabaret that brings together such legendary downtown performers as Flamenco dancer Maria Elena Anaya, Star of the screen and stage Lisa Haas, Comedian Moira Cutler, Afro-dancer Simba Yangala, Performance artists Felice Shays and Alexandra Pinel, Drag King Mistah Coles and the inimitable Susana Cook.
Susana Cook is a playwright, director and performer from Buenos Aires, Argentina based in New York City since 1992. She’s the author of downtown classics Dykenstein, Hamletango, 100 Years of Attitude, Non-Consensual Relationships with Ghosts, Run! it’s getting ugly, 100 years of attitude and Conversations with Humans. She performed in most of her shows with some of the women performing tonight at the La Fusion Cabaret. Tonight it’s a special reunion.
Simba Sandra Yangala is a happy choreographer, dancer, chantress and progressive educator who speaks more than three languages. She is the Artistic Director of JungleDom Network, through which she has produced many dance theater works. Her first off-Broadway production at Dixon Place, The Little Refugee From Zaire, was supported by a Franklin Furnace commission with a cast of 16 performers. Shortly thereafter, she established the Kamutshima Dance Troupe.
https://dixonplace.org/performances/la-fusion-09-14-2024/
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14. Christen Clifford, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan, Sept. 12
Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.
MEET THE AUTHORS
Sini Anderson is an award-winning feminist film maker, producer, and queer/class activist who lives in NYC. In 1994 Sini Anderson and friend Michelle Tea founded Sister Spit and Sister Spits’ Ramblin’ Road Show. After three years of hosting a weekly, all-girl open mic Anderson and Tea decide to take the show on the road. Packing two vans with 12 queer artists they zig zagging across the United States and Canada for six weeks performing 40 shows! The tour was such a hit, they did it again for another 3 years. Sister Spit was signed to Mercury Records and released their first of 3 albums, I Spit On Your Country. In 2000 Sister Spit released their final album, Greatest Spits, on the radical queer & feminist label, Mr. Lady Records & Videos. Ultimately, Sister Spit would tour with over 50 queer artists and have been wildly credited with creating a queer literary scene that still thrives 20 years later. Anderson was a lead curator and eventually the co-artistic director for The National Queer Arts Festival, she has served as president of the board of directors for The Harvey Milk Institute in SF and co-chair of the board of directors for The Queer Cultural Center.Her first feature-length film, The Punk Singer, a documentary about Kathleen Hanna, premiered at SXSW in 2013 and was acquired by IFC Films. In 2014, The Punk Singer received a theatrical release in 121 American cities and has screened around the world. Anderson won the Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) the ARCA Best Director Award at Distrital Film Festival in Mexico City and several more.
Neil Goldberg is a New York based visual artist who is at work on his first book of writing, an experimental memoir. His video, photo, and mixed media work has been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of the City of New York, and other institutions nationally and internationally. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Siena Art Institute, among others. Since 2013 he has taught at the Yale School of Art.
https://dixonplace.org/performances/experiments-disorders-09-12-24/
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