Contents for October 31, 2022

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1. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at St. Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco, CA, thru Jan. 27, 2023

2. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA, thru Nov. 7 and more  

3. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, now online at JohannaDrucker.substack.com

4. Kenneth King, FF Member, new movie now online at youtube.com/watch?v=AxF2dwWQz4c

5. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Mason-Scharfenstein Museum, Piedmont University, Demorest, GA, thru Nov. 29

6. Guerrilla Girls, Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumns, live online with M2M, Nov. 1

7. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Olympia Gallery, Manhattan, thru Dec. 17

8. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, Nov. 5

9. Paulette Richards, FF Alumn, forthcoming new publication

10. Robert Ayers, FF Alumn, at Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT, opening Dec. 10

11. Iris Rose, FF Alumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, Nov. 13

12. Terry Berkowitz, Jim Costanzo, Marie Christine Katz, Joseph Kosuth   Marshall Reese & Nora Ligano, Barbara Rosenthal, elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumns, at WhiteBox, Manhattan, opening October 31

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1. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, at St. Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco, CA, thru Jan. 27, 2023

Beatrice Glow: The Collection of the EoS10^15 takes up residence at Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation

Saint Joseph’s Arts Society | 1401 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

October 25, 2022 – January 27, 2023 | Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, an incredible non-profit that celebrates the arts in all its forms, presents Beatrice Glow: The Collection of the EoS10^15. Artist Beatrice Glow interrogates the visual languages of luxury and power derived through the exploitation of botanical life and inequitable trade networks. Her ongoing project, The Collection of the EoS10^15, features the catalog and virtual smoking room of a fictional private family collection of the near future, in which the mysterious quadrillionaire legacy named Empire of Smoke (EoS 10^15) has self-enriched through centuries investing in businesses related to airborne substances, from tobacco to gunpowder, and vape culture to bioweapons.

For her residency at Saint Joseph Arts Foundation, Glow is installing EoS10^15’s hauntingly luxurious fictional artifacts in the Apothecary and Vestry spaces that include a range of hand-embroidered textiles, scent experiences, videos, as well as VR-sculpted and 3D-printed objects that blur the boundaries of fact and fiction.

The evolving installation will be on view through January 27, 2023 and will be part of the FOG Design + Art Fair (January 19-22, 2023). A portion of the proceeds will go towards paying Shuumi Land Tax.

A series of guided tours will take place over the coming months. If interested, please send an email via hello@floatinglibrary.org to receive further info.

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2. elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumn, at Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA, thru Nov. 7 and more  

elin o’Hara slavick has a solo exhibition, Catharses / Antidotes, at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California – opening October 24 until November 6. Catharses / Antidotes is a series of 200 text paintings of terrible things said to her and others, with corresponding retorts. Slavick’s work is also included in Family Tree, an exhibition about trees with her 3 sisters, Susanne, Sarah, and Madeleine, opening at the Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, October 24 – December 2.

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3. Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, now online at JohannaDrucker.substack.com

Hello friends!

Here’s what Johanna Drucker says about my work in “Organic Intelligence: Recent Drawings by Julie Harrison,” a newly published article from her Substack series JD: ABCs. Drucker is the author of dozens of books including her most recent, Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters From Antiquity to the Present.

“Julie Harrison’s recent Brain Series drawings are … more alive than we might imagine any static image could be. You don’t so much look at these drawings as watch them.”

For the complete illustrated article, please go to “Organic Intelligence: Recent Drawings by Julie Harrison” here:  https://johannadrucker.substack.com/p/organic-intelligence 

Thanks,

Julie

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4. Kenneth King, FF Member, new movie now online at youtube.com/watch?v=AxF2dwWQz4c

Halloween is always magical–autumnal colors, festive decorations, and the thrill of dressing up and becoming another character! To celebrate, my new movie Halloween Showdown at Happy Valley is now on my YouTube channel: Kenneth King Media. Here’s the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxF2dwWQz4c 

The gang is back as Halloween kicks into high gear at this madcap retirement village! Basil Wraithbone, BBC reporter, has returned to query the seniors about identity politics while undercover Russian oligarch, Boris Badenough, schemes to take over the property and steal all the assets. Feisty 150-year old Ole’ Grandpa, actresses Katherine Heartburn and Tallulah Bankhead, along with construction worker Buddy, zany Cockney TV fanatic Randy Pincer, and the cook, Foo Chi, accelerate the shenanigans. (I play all the characters!)

During these trying pandemic times, comedy has become a necessary provocation and changing voices fun challenge—how else would I be able to write and act eight characters in seventeen minutes?! Thank goodness for YouTube–our express digital performance highway.

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5. Joni Mabe, FF Alumn, at Mason-Scharfenstein Museum, Piedmont University, Demorest, GA, thru Nov. 29

Joni Mabe will be displaying her art installation at the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum, Piedmont University in Demorest. The show entitled, “I ain’t no hick from Habersham”, will open Thursday Oct. 27, 5-7pm. Dedicated to the memory of Loretta Lynn, Jessica Nash will perform a tribute to the late great singer at the opening reception. The Public is invited.

Joni is the creator of the Everything Elvis Museum at the Loudermilk Boarding House and the Big E Festival in Cornelia. Her multimedia sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the South Bank Center in London, England, The Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii, The Ernie Wolfe Gallery in Los Angeles, and O.K. Harris Gallery in New York.

Her work is in the permanent collection of the High Museum and GA Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; Telfair Museum, Savannah; Morris Museum, Augusta; Mobile Museum, Ala; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

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6. Guerrilla Girls, Marisa Morán Jahn, FF Alumns, live online with M2M, Nov. 1

Artists on Public Art & Politics

Artists’ Conversation | Virtual

Tues Nov 1 (1-2:15 pm ET)  

A conversation on art, activism, and systemic change with the Guerrilla Girls, Marisa Morán Jahn, and Hank Willis Thomas hosted by Neysa Page-Lieberman and Jane M Saks. SpeakEasy is a special program on public art and collective action and part of Monuments 2 Movements (M2M) + Project &.

RSVP: https://allevents.in/online/artists-on-public-art-and-politics/10000415105932017 

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7. Yura Adams, FF Alumn, at Olympia Gallery, Manhattan, thru Dec. 17

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8. R. Sikoryak, FF Alumn, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, Nov. 5

Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show at The City Reliquary! 

Presentations of graphic novels, gag cartoons, and comics as performed by the writers and artists, with slide projections.

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9. Paulette Richards, FF Alumn, forthcoming new publication

Dr. Paulette Richards, Object Performance in the Black Atlantic forthcoming from Routledge in the summer of 2023. For more information, please visit this link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/object-performance-in-the-black-atlantic   

Thank you.

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10. Robert Ayers, FF Alumn, at Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT, opening Dec. 10

Friends in the Art World! And beyond it! I am more than thrilled to report that these two recent paintings ‘Pink Top Replacing Gold’ and (swipe left) ‘Coral Arc (Under Gray and Yellow’ will feature in a group show at Carol Corey Fine Art (carolcoreyfineart.com) in Kent, CT opening December 10. I know us grown-ups aren’t supposed to use this sort of language, but I can hardly express how excited I am.

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11. Iris Rose, FF Alumn, at Pangea, Manhattan, Nov. 13

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12. Terry Berkowitz, Jim Costanzo, Marie Christine Katz, Joseph Kosuth   Marshall Reese & Nora Ligano, Barbara Rosenthal, elin o’Hara slavick, FF Alumns, at WhiteBox, Manhattan, opening October 31

A WhiteBox Election Night Exhibition Series presented in collaboration with 2B&2C

White Box is pleased to present the topical and timely BALLOTS NOT BULLETS, showcasing 50 New York-based and international artists and performers opening on Monday October 31th, 6-8 PM. On Mid-Term Election Night November 8, join us for live performances from 6 pm to 12 am, or via live webstream: whiteboxnyFB.

Ballots Not Bullets is an international, mixed-media art exhibition that takes its cue from an eponymous quote by Abraham Lincoln during the Reconstruction period after his historic Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. His clarion call entailed pleading with all American citizens to vote and exercise democracy rather than resort to violence that had almost ended the burgeoning American experiment during the Civil War. Fast forward to the present-day, violent partisanship is not only more prevalent than ever, but democracy itself is under attack by those who believe that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate because it was “stolen” from them.  

White Box is pleased to present the topical and timely Ballots Not Bullets that will open on October 31th, with live performances on November 8 from 6 pm to 12 am, which will also be the day of the 2022 Midterm Elections. Ballots Not Bullets is an international, mixed-media art exhibition that takes its cue from an eponymous quote by Abraham Lincoln during the Reconstruction period after his historic Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. His clarion call entailed pleading with all American citizens to vote and exercise democracy rather than resort to violence that had almost ended the burgeoning American experiment during the Civil War. Fast forward to the present-day, violent partisanship is not only more prevalent than ever, but democracy itself is under attack by those who believe that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate because it was “stolen” from them.  

Doubt in government and its institutions intentionally cultivated by both domestic and foreign ideologues is not just exploiting the ubiquitous cynicism towards politicians but erodes the greater rule of law; for the incremental dismantling of democracy’s infrastructure, albeit already precarious, can lead to the slow introduction of authoritarianism in the form of those who see democracy as an impediment to their general will-to-power. Rising authoritarianism in the USA is no mere left-wing Internet conspiracy, as it has reared its ugly head in many facets of social life that we have taken for granted: among other things, the revoking of Roe vs Wade, gerrymandering, questioning of the Respect for Marriage Act that legally recognizes same-sex married couples, and to come full circle with Lincoln’s quote cited above, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 too has come under attack. Ballots Not Bullets, then, will address these concerns in an art exhibition that comes right at the moment when the USA will either uphold democracy or slowly succumb to authoritarianism, and either of these two possibilities is contingent on the 2022 Midterm Elections. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, ballots not bullets are more important than ever.

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