Contents for November 13, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Louise Neaderland, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
1. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, new publication now available
2. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, at Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro, NJ, thru Dec. 20
3. León Ferrari, Liliana Porter, FF Alumns, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, opening Nov. 20
4. RoseLee Goldberg, Shirin Neshat, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
5. Peter Cramer, Sur Rodney Sur, Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 19
6. Katie Cercone, GoodW.Y.N, FF Alumns, in 1st Annual West Chelsea Festival of Art, Manhattan, thru Dec. 10
7. Becca Blackwell, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
8. GoodW.Y.N., FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Dec. 14
9. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at The Gallery at Argosy Books, Manhattan, opening Nov. 18 and more
10. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Main Library, Miami, FL, opening Dec. 4 and more
11. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL, thru Dec. 31
12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, November 16th
13. Lisa Moren, FF Alumn, at The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD, opening Dec. 14, and more
14. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at P P O W Gallery, opening Nov. 17, and more
15. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Creative Pinellas Art Gallery, Largo, FL, thru Dec. 31
16. Sarah H. Paulson, FF Alumn, at Next Stage Arts Gallery, Putney, VT, opening Nov. 19
17. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at Movement Research, Brooklyn, Nov. 15
18. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Nov. 25 and more
19. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at NewArtExaminer.net
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Louise Neaderland, FF Alumn, In Memoriam
Please visit this link:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/louise-neaderland-obituary?id=45047702
Thank you.
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1. Ichi Ikeda, FF Alumn, new publication now available
The Relationship of Art to the Natural Environment. An American environmental activist wrote: “Standard art history will mention the shift from the early land art of the 1960s to environmental art, such as that of Ichi Ikeda.”
His “Ichi Ikeda 50 Earth Arts: Earth Art Creates Future Earth,” a book featuring 50 of Ikeda’s earth art projects around the world, has just been published and co-authored with photographer Tatsuro Kodama. Through Ingram, the largest distributor in the U.S., the book is now available at Amazon.com and other well-known bookstores in the U.S. and Europe, including Barnes & Noble.
Please visit these links:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/4906858805
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1144323366?ean=9784906858804
The relationship between global environmental issues and art is one of the most pressing and most important themes for all people. I urge you to read it.
Earth Art, which confronts the global environmental crisis head-on, will lead the way in creating an art culture that will revitalize the human society of the future!
Ichi Ikeda uses water as his main medium. Water is a choice that strongly connects Ikeda to a global movement involved with water rights, and broader environmental issues. Ichi Ikeda expresses these concerns with a true spirit of innovation and exploration, and he does not abandon the public in so doing. His projects involve communities of volunteers, and build forums for discussing social and environmental issues and concerns. His community activism, public performances, and interactive installations are all part of “Ikeda Water”. Ikeda Water includes projects like Water Piano, Water Mirror, Earth-Up-Mark, United Waters, the Big Hands Conference, the Manosegawa River Art Project, the Water Market Project, 80,000 Liter Water Box and Yakushima Island. Sustainability can guide us to understanding the resilient and integrative capacities inherent to nature. Nature’s structures are procreative interactive living designs – a response to the many forces of variability and diversity that come together in nature. All these living elements, ourselves included, are mutually connected.
Kodama’s photographs are witness to the moment in the actions, interventions of Ikeda’s art. With a modest and sharp consciousness, Kodama captures with a sense of the moment, of the event of the art action. An example is Seven Gatepoles – the original conception and the re-creation of first growth forest stumps – these tree stumps are the guardians of water. The 5 Greenscapes extend more ambitious linkages to the environment, give a hand to place, and our place in all this nature. (John K. Grande)
Ichi Ikeda
For more than 25 years, Ichi Ikeda has developed artworks strongly connected to global environmental issues, especially those related to water. In 1991, he was the first Japanese artist to be invited to the main stage of the 21st Sao Paulo Biennial. 1995, he was selected as one of the “12 Artists of the World” for the UN 50th Anniversary Art Calendar. In 1996, he organized “Asia Edge 1996/Tokyo” to promote a new network image of the Asia Pacific Art Net concept, In 2008, he was invited to a seminar on the environment at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where he proposed “Water’s-Eye: Water’s Eye View” as a new perspective on the social and natural systems, which was well received by people from various fields. Born in Osaka in 1943. Graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering with a Master’s degree in Polymer Chemistry.
Tatsuro Kodama
Active as an amateur photographer since the 1980s, Tatsuro Kodama won first place in the 1984 Japan Camera Annual Awards and third place in the 1985 Photo Contest Magazine Annual Awards. In 1990, he led a local “movement against the construction of a golf course. In 1997, he met the master of Earth Art, Ichi Ikeda. And his two-year documentary photography project was highly acclaimed. Since then, he has participated in 28 art projects in 26 cities in Japan and abroad, including Asian countries, India, Canada, and Italy.
Thank you.
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2. Gabriel Martinez, FF Alumn, at Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum, Glassboro, NJ, thru Dec. 20
Layers of Authenticity, Group Exhibition
Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum
Paul Anthony Smith, Gabriel Martinez, Steven Earl Weber, Maria Dumlao, Eric Toscano
On view thru December 20, 2023
301 High Street West
Glassboro, NJ 08028
In this group show five artists create work by altering imagery pulled from print, the internet, and their own photography. Utilizing unique processes of production, they reveal authentic and insightful statements about our current political and social landscape and the ambiguousness and misconceptions of historical events, places, and people. Gabriel Martinez is based in Philadelphia of Cuban descent. His work expresses feelings of displacement experienced with immigration and explores the complexities, incongruences, and significance of Cuba’s contemporary cultural, political and social climate.
Please visit this link:
https://sites.rowan.edu/artgallery/exhibitions/layers_of_authenticity.html
Thank you.
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3. León Ferrari, Liliana Porter, FF Alumns, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, opening Nov. 20
Argentina: What the Night Tells the Day
opening November 20, 2023, 6:30 PM
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
Milan, Italy
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Thank you.
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4. RoseLee Goldberg, Shirin Neshat, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
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Thank you.
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5. Peter Cramer, Sur Rodney Sur, Jack Waters, FF Alumns, at The Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 19
Allied Productions / Le Petit Versailles will participate in Printed Matters’ One Day Zine Fair November 19 Sunday 11am – 6pm
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in conjunction with the exhibition Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines.
Please visit this link:
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/copy_machine_manifestos_artists_who_make_zines
Allied/LPV will present works by Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Kate Huh, Ethan Shoshan, Uranus Comics, Sur Rodney Sur, Grrrr, Dale Corvino, Nicholas Vargelis,
Diseased Pariah News, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective, whet, Fag Rag as well as Allied archival posters and ephemera.
Thank you.
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6. Katie Cercone, GoodW.Y.N, FF Alumns, in 1st Annual West Chelsea Festival of Art, Manhattan, thru Dec. 10
Hip Hop Yoga: A Healing Workshop
11/12 12-5pm Penthouse* 508 West 26th 12fl.
Rsvp on Eventbrite via http://www.westchelseafestival.info/
Healing workshop open to the public including yoga, music & dance!
12-1pm Led Yoga Class with Katie. Bring your mat, water & loose fit clothing
1-2pm Circle Work, Intention Setting & Dance Activations with Fanny Perez & Jessica Trovato
2-5pm Music-making with Sun God Shaman
Pop-Up Exhibition & Artist Market 11/15 12-9pm
Penthouse* 508 West 26th 12Fl.
Participating Artists: Marcus Glitteris, Olive Hui, Katie Cercone, Isabelle Schneider, Eva Mueller, Anna Augustsson, Stephanie McGovern, Koetsu Kakinuma, Destiny Santana, Maiko Kasai, Tom Cocotos, Uta Brauser, Beth Galton, PMS, Brian Soigne´Wilson.
Artist Vendors: Claire Fleury “Curious Orange,” Bri Frei, Midheaven Or Nah, Kelly’s Golden Rose, Tail, Sunshine Monie El, Gitzuz Jewls NYC, King Addonis, Marcus Glitteris, Elf of NYC, Condor Multicolor, Hors Dvorse
Performances: Elf of NYC, Condor Multicolor, Jew Bitch Honey, Sun God Shaman, Michelle Joni, Mental Stamina, Catherine Chen, Jamie Leo
Performance Salon 11/18 12-5pm
Spirit de Art Gallery 547 W 27th St #209
November 18TH Hosted by Or Nah
A curated selection of edgy music and performance art presented salon-style. Performances by PaperBoyPrince, Bri Frei, Or Nah, Chris Carr, Sunshine Monie El, Fran Flaherty, Tail, Fanny + Clau Perez, Kelly Shaw Nyala, Nicole Zaray, hosted by Or Nah.
Represent: An Intergenerational Feminist Dialogue
11/19 12-2pm Penthouse* 508 West 26th 12fl.
What do we want from Feminism and how can we achieve it? A contemporary consciousness raising circle led by 1970’s feminist art pioneer Nancy Azara alongside Emily Harris & Katie Cercone. Following the circle will be a performance by Samantha Sea Sea @samantha_sea_sea and an artist talk by Grace Roselli @gracerosellistudio
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Performance Salon 11/21 6-9pm
Penthouse* 508 West 26th 12th Fl.
A radical, sexy, femme-centered performance salon curated by Or Nah. Julia Sinelnikova @or_acle presents a light art, poetry and movement performance alongside their hand-cut iridescent resin ‘Fairy Organs’ hanging light sculptures. An ethereal array meant to create a portal for dreaming and transcendence. Channeling the ancient and ever-present feminine energies of Lilith. Liquid light projection by Metagasm @lauramagicweyl & a performance by @vvvalentina. Artist and Queer Folklorist Kay Turner @kay__turner presents a sing-a-long art herstory lesson titled Spurning Fertility/Smashing the Tchotchkes: An Art History Lesson.
Art Party / Wake Up Chelsea?! 11/25 2-6pm *Caelum Gallery* 508 W 26 St.
Performances by:
Morgan Lappin @morgan_jesse_lappin
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Maa Shiyah @maashiyah
Nikki Da God @nikkiphillip
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Rae Noir @rae_noir
Isis Swaby @isisswaby
Please visit this link:
https://audiomack.com/Swaby/song/crystal-baby-manifesto?share-user-id=13437823
GoodW.Y.N @goodw.y.n9
Please visit this link:
https://www.instagram.com/goodw.y.n9/
Ronit Levin Delgado @ronitlevindelgado
Please visit this link:
https://www.ronitlevindelgado.com/
& a film by Ken Anderson @andersonenvy @lordsofthedrift
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Just A Moment / Closing Party 11/26 3-9pm Penthouse* 508 West 26th 12fl.
Official close of the festival and art exhibition with an installation by Eva Mueller.
Performances by:
Stephanie Vézina @exc.inc_art
https://www.instagram.com/exc.inc_art/
KalebTank @tank.tank.tank.nyc
Please visit this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxeYJAAm_xMPwP01Nna1RdTNBz-056oS/view?usp=sharing
ElectricDjinn @electric_
Please visit this link:
https://www.electricdjinn.com/
Djinn OliveHui @pineappleo
Please visit this link:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/olivehui/shop
Xhosa @xhosamusic
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GoodW.Y.N @goodw.y.n9
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https://www.instagram.com/goodw.y.n9/
Trans/Local: Film Screening
12/1 12-2pm Spirit de art Gallery* 547 W 27th #209
In person at Spirit de art Gallery + on Zoom
Films by:
Narcissister
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Elisa Garcia de la Huerta & Francisca Arentsen
Please visit these links:
http://www.vimeo.com/franciscaarentsen
Noelle Lorraine Williams
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http://www.noellelorrainewilliams.com/home.html
Laura Weyl
Please visit this link:
https://www.laurakimmelnyc.com/
Maria Buyondo
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Bibi Flores
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Qinza Najm & Rebecca Goyette
Please visit these links:
https://www.rebeccagoyette.com/
Thank you.
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7. Becca Blackwell, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
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8. GoodW.Y.N., FF Alumn, at The 8th Floor, Manhattan, Dec. 14
Please visit this link:
https://www.the8thfloor.org/upcoming-events/goodwyn
Thank you.
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9. Doug Beube, FF Alumn, at The Gallery at Argosy Books, Manhattan, opening Nov. 18 and more
Friends,
My solo exhibition, “A Survey of Zoom +/-“ at The Gallery at Argosy Books in New York City opens to the public on November 18th. Please note that everyone is welcome to attend a reception for the artist on Saturday, Dec 2 from 2-5 PM. Full information below.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Doug
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Doug Beube
A Survey of Zoom +/-
The second in a solo exhibition series of contemporary artists whose work resonates and finds inspiration from maps.
Doug uses the vocabulary of cartography and the printed word to take the familiar – a globe, a phonebook, a postcard – and reorient our experience of meaning through stop motion animation, collage, and sculpture.
November 18, 2023 – January 6, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 2PM – 5PM
Curated by Ken Buhler and Laura Ten Eyck
116 East 59 St, New York, NY ∙ 212-753-4455
Please visit this link:
For more information: Contact Laura Ten Eyck
To access the gallery take the elevator to the second floor.
Thank you.
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10. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Main Library, Miami, FL, opening Dec. 4 and more
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Thank you.
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11. Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, at Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL, thru Dec. 31
Claudia DeMonte, FF Alumn, work is included in: 35 Years-35 Artists at the Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, thru Dec. 31, 215 W Superior Street.
Please visit this link:
https://jeanalbanogallery.com/upcoming-exhibitions/
Thank you.
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12. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Book Club Bar, Manhattan, November 16th
Galinsky, FF Alumn, hosts “Poetry in New York” at Book Club Bar, November 16th, 8-10pm
“Poetry in New York” – Galinsky hosts 10 pre-booked poets, each doing 5 minutes with a provocative, fun and lively vibe! The series has been running at the East Village’s Book Club Bar (197 East 3rd St. by Avenue B) going on 3 years now and draws a fun diverse crowd in an incredible venue. Full bar, coffee, tea, all ages, and this is not an open mic.
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Thank you.
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13. Lisa Moren, FF Alumn, at The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD, opening Dec. 14, and more
Peale Museum
Chamber of Wonders: Artwork by Lisa Moren with Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 14
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The oldest museum in America, The Peale Community Museum in Baltimore presents “Chamber of Wonders” where an artist and marine biologist have collaborated to present a delightful multi-media exhibition opening December 14. Several galleries will display a series of hands-on installations that tell the invisible stories of living microbes under the surface of the Chesapeake Bay. The artworks explore the social and poetic relationship between humans and non-humans, especially invisible critters affecting our everyday lives. Photography, drawings, and objects with hand-made assemblages are integrated in experimental multi-media forms of live microbes, augmented reality [AR] and animation that’s informed live conditions streaming in from the nearby Chesapeake Bay water.
Visitors will see animated Chesapeake Bay microbes, talk to real bioluminescent ones and experience how artists use live Bay conditions [data] to tell stories in several installations. Projects include “Under the Bay” presented for the first time as a mixed reality project and “What is the Shape of Water?” where viewers are invited to talk to ancient microbes or ask questions such as ‘what is the shape of water?’ and the excited critters will answer in turbulent shapes of blue light! New and related works will also be on display, including screenings of short films and a documentary by the artist and scientist on the topic.
This family friendly exhibition will challenge and delight curious citizens and experts of all ages. To listen to the project podcast, download the AR app or
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Panel
Chamber of Wonders: Emerging Strategies Under the Bay in AR\XR
Thursday, January 18, 2024
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
In conjunction with the Chamber of Wonders exhibition, join panelists for a fascinating discussion. This art, philosophy and science panel will include:
Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff, Associate Research Professor, IMET (marine biologist and panelist)
https://www.umces.edu/tsvetan-bachvaroff
Dr. Jane Bennett, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University (philosopher and panelist, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Duke University Press)
https://politicalscience.jhu.edu/directory/jane-bennett/
Lee Boot, Director of the Imaging Research Center, UMBC (artist and panelist).
https://art.umbc.edu/visual-arts-at-umbc/faculty-staff/lee-boot/
Lisa Moren, Professor of Art, UMBC (moderator, artist and panelist)
Music & Meditation
Sunday January 14, 2024
1pm and 2pm
In conjunction with the Chamber of Wonders exhibition, join Lisa Moren for a truly wondrous afternoon! A meditation session and musical event with vocalist, Bonnie Landers, will surprise and delight how a talented singer will improvise and react to the light emanating from the bioluminescent microbes. The dinoflagellate microbes in turn react to her voice. The improvisation will be this loop that unfolds.
https://www.thepeale.org/exhibition-chamber-of-wonders/
Exhibition Opens:
December 15, 2023 – February 4, 2024
Thursday-Friday: 3pm to 7pm
Saturday-Sunday: 10am to 4pm
Closed: December 24-31
The Peale Museum
225 Holliday Street
Baltimore, 21202
Phone: +1 667-222-1814
Email: info@thepeale.org
Exhibition Info: https://www.thepeale.org/exhibition-chamber-of-wonders/
Artist and Projects Info: https://www.lisamoren.com/
Artist Email: lisamoren@gmail.com
Thank you.
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14. Carolee Schneemann, FF Alumn, at P P O W Gallery, opening Nov. 17, and more
Dear Friends,
Please join us on Friday, November 17, from 6-8pm at P·P·O·W for the opening of Carolee Schneemann: Of Course You Can / Don’t You Dare.
The paintings, drawings, assemblages, and film on view highlight Schneemann’s visual investigation into gesture, movement, and materiality from 1957 through the mid-1960s. One of the highlights is the 1962 painting J & C, which Schneemann completed —as noted in her diary, pictured above—after finding a straw heart on Hudson Street on Nov. 2, 1962.
We are also pleased that Schneemann’s work is in multiple exhibitions this fall, from the Brooklyn Museum’s massive zine show to the Reina Sofia’s retrospective of Something Else Press. Details are below.
This winter, we are partnering with EAI to make a number of Schneemann’s films available for free on the organization’s website. We’ll let you know via Instagram when the material is up for screening!
Warmly yours,
Rachel Churner, director
Carolee Schneemann Foundation
Exhibitions
Of Course You Can / Don’t You Dare
P·P·O·W, New York
November 17, 2023 – January 20, 2024
The historic works in this exhibition highlight Schneemann’s explorations in multiple media while she both absorbed and resisted the work of her contemporaries as both inspiration and “anti-influence.”
and
Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines
Brooklyn Museum of Art
November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is the first exhibition dedicated to the rich history of five decades of artists’ zines produced in North America. This canon-expanding exhibition documents zines’ relationship to various subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk and street culture to conceptual, queer, and feminist art.
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Terra Abrecaminhos
SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo
Through January 21, 2024
Sesc Pompeia hosts Silhueta em Fogo | terra abrecaminhos, which combines a retrospective exhibition of Ana Mendieta’s art with a group show featuring works by twenty contemporary female artists whose works echo cultural, political, and spiritual aspects of Ana Mendieta’s artwork in their eco-feminine symbolism.
and
Call It Something Else: Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974)
Reina Sofia, Madrid
Through January 22, 2024
Call It Something Else: Something Else Press, Inc. (1963-1974) focuses on the books, projects, and activities of Dick Higgins’s publishing house Something Else Press and his theoretical notion of Intermedia, a term the publisher reappropriated to designate the heterogeneous and category-defying forms sustained by the Something Else matrix.
and
Extreme Tension: Art between Politics and Society 1945 until 2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, November 18, 2023 – September 28, 2025
and
Tate Britain, London, December 2023 – March 2024
Lacan Show: When the Artist Precedes the Psychoanalyst, Centre Pompidou Metz, France, December 31, 2023 – May 27, 2024
Thank you.
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15. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Creative Pinellas Art Gallery, Largo, FL, thru Dec. 31
Dear Friends
I’m delighted to participate in
“Arts Annual 2023: Discovery”
at
Creative Pinellas Art Gallery
November 9 – December 31, 2023
12211 Walsingham Road. Largo, FL 33778
Exhibition dates: November 9 – December 31
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10 – 5pm
On exhibition is work from
“Skin Tree and Vessel” and “Double Vessel” series.
Please visit this link:
https://babsreingold.com/skins-and-vessels/
Thank you.
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16. Sarah H. Paulson, FF Alumn, at Next Stage Arts Gallery, Putney, VT, opening Nov. 19
“Dragon Land” (New Paintings by Sarah H. Paulson)
Opening Reception at Next Stage Arts Gallery:
Sunday, November 19th, 4-6pm
(exhibition runs through February 11th)
Next Stage Art Gallery
15 Kimball Hill Rd, Putney, VT
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“My art practice is rooted in the Performative. I believe that performance, in its sacred form, has the capacity to bring the human being closest to what it means to be human. This sentiment is at the heart of all my work, including my drawings and paintings.
Inner worlds, creatures, and dynamic communication emerge within my paintings. When working, I am interested in the moment when a mark on the page starts communicating with me, leading me to the next movement. I strive to wait, see, and listen for what the painting wants or asks.
The blank canvases, upon which this series of paintings began, were not actually blank: For hours, a small group of artists, dancers, writers, and musicians dipped their feet in pigment and walked, gestured, slid, and jumped on a paper-covered floor, leaving behind footprints and sweeping marks of color*. The footprint-speckled paper was later cut up into smaller pieces upon which I began making these imaginal landscapes.
Natural earth-based ink—made from various plants, riverbeds, nuts, and crushed rocks (to name a few)—is the primary medium of this series†. As I added multiple layers of pigment, I simply entered the minimal marks that were already there, looking for what wanted to be revealed. Imaginary beings, angels, guardians, animals and other primal elements surfaced out of the rich landscapes of color and texture.
It is my hope that these landscapes can speak to the viewer in a language that transcends the spoken word. Perhaps the painting has something to show you. Or perhaps you have something to say or ask the painting after your memory is sparked. Perhaps a painting will come alive before your eyes. Perhaps it will remain hidden, waiting for a different conversation.
Art teaches me with every brushstroke and every gesture.”
-Sarah H. Paulson
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* The blank canvases were created during the opening of the School of 3 Lights Artist Residency program in Whitefield, Maine (www.schoolof3lights.org). The final paintings were made in Putney, Vermont.
† The natural inks were made by Katherine West (who works under the name “In the Name of the Madrone”) and Laura Hepner.
Thank you.
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17. Charles Dennis, FF Alumn, at Movement Research, Brooklyn, Nov. 15
Greetings,
Next Wednesday November 15, 2023 my friends and collaborators Alex Romania and Stacey Lynn Smith are showing a work in progress screening of their film “Reckoning” at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn which I have had the pleasure of acting & dancing in.
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It’s going to be a fun evening.
I will be there and it would be great to see you there too.
Cheers, Charles
Thank you.
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18. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Nov. 25 and more
Please Join Me At Two Upcoming Exhibits:
House of the Tragic Poet
Three Artists
Deborah Everett – Nina Meledandri – Susan Newmark
Five Myles Gallery
November 25, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Reception Saturday November 25, 5:30-8pm
Closing January 7, 4-6pm
Public Hours: Thur – Sun, 1-6pm
Or by appointment, please email ruby@fivemyles.org
558 Saint Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Take the 2, 3, 4, or 5 train to Franklin Ave. in Brooklyn. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin, turn left on St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is located within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum on the other side of Eastern Parkway.
and
Small Works Show
440 Gallery
November 30, 2023 – January 5, 2024
Reception Saturday December 2, 4 – 6pm
440 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11215
Thurs, Fri 4-7pm | Sat, Sun 12 – 6pm or by appointment, please email info@440gallery.com
Take the F train to 7 Ave in Park Slope
Thank you.
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19. Mark Bloch, FF Alumn, now online at NewArtExaminer.net
Here is a new article about some recent art fair travels, in the New Art Examiner.
Thank you.
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