Contents for November 21, 2022

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Naimah Hassan, FF Alumn, In Memoriam

1. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at University of Iowa, Iowa City, thru Nov. 26 

2. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at White Box, Manhattan, opening Dec. 7

3. Mira Schor, Coreen Simpson, FF Alumns, selected for 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman Awards

4. Guerrilla Girls, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, in Miami, FL, Nov. 29 – Dec. 23

5. GOODW.Y.N, FF Alumn, now online at Glamour.com

6. Alicia Hall Moran, FF Alumn, now online at WBUR.org

7. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Manchester Art Gallery, UK, thru Dec. 31, 2024

8. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 29-Dec. 1

9. Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, at The Chocolate Dragon, Oakland, CA

10. Guillaume Bijl, FF Alumn, at Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, Nov. 29-Dec. 3

11. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, to receive Art Icon 2023 award, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, Jan. 19, 2023

12. Martha Rosler, FF Alumn, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Manhattan, opening Dec. 8

13. Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, thru Jan. 22, 2023

14. Kenneth King, FF Member, now online at Youtube.com and more

15. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Dec. 3

16. Sha Sha Higby, FF Alumn, in Bolinas, CA, Nov. 25-27, and more

17. David Cale, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

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Naimah Hassan, FF Alumn, In Memoriam

Please visit this link, which contains a short video of Naimah giving one last lesson to the world, and a beautiful text by Steve Epstein, her love and art partner:

https://kadampalife.org/2022/11/14/naimah-hassan-the-life-and-death-of-a-modern-kadampa-practitioner/?fbclid=IwAR3ZMbRWHebj60GYYmeTGJs1ER43qPuyi_VWVOihknyMl_asLYmtLCQzEI4

Thank you.

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1. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at University of Iowa, Iowa City, thru Nov. 26 

Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to announce that the University of Iowa will be holding a special program to celebrate the legacy of the artist Ana Mendieta. Inaugurating the new Ana Mendieta Gallery in the Visual Arts Building is the solo exhibition Ana Mendieta: Universal Energy, accompanied by an opening reception and film screening with the Mendieta family on the late artist’s birthday, November 18. 

Mendieta earned her B.A. from the University of Iowa, later acquiring her M.A. in painting, and M.F.A in Intermedia. She remains one of the most influential artists to pass through the University of Iowa, pioneering the Intermedial world of performative and video art. Mendieta’s best known body of work, the Silueta Series (1973-80), consists of earth-body pieces that merge her body with the surrounding landscape. Mendieta reestablished bonds with the land, exploring themes of exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. 

In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta® created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled “siluetas,” are fugitive and potent traces of the artist’s inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.

The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong & Co., recently catalogued and digitized the entirety of Mendieta’s moving image works, discovering that the artist remarkably made more than 100 in the ten-year period in which she worked in the medium. The groundbreaking exhibition of her moving image works, Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, was organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota in 2014, and has since travelled to several institutions worldwide, including NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. Mendieta’s work has been the subject of six major museum retrospectives, the most recent of which, Ana Mendieta: Traces, was organized by the Hayward Gallery, England, in 2013, and travelled to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, and the Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic. Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972–1985 was organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., in 2005 and travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; and Miami Art Museum, Florida.

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2. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, at White Box, Manhattan, opening Dec. 7

White Box in collaboration with 2B&C and Project59,Inc. presents a New York premiere exhibition PEREMOGA /victory/ukr., opening December 7, 2022 at 6 pm. On the cusp of a new year, this show focuses on the main gears of the Ukrainian victory: Courage, Love for the Land, Friendship, Collaboration, Support, Strength, Freedom, Democracy, and International Law. It shows the artists’ wartime transformations, which call over and over for reassuring the fundamental value of human life. This show examines life-affirming themes and honors the Ukrainian/American collaboration, a mutual effort in the fight against Russia’s aggressive invasion of Ukraine. 

Ukrainian women artists presented in the show, Olia Fedorova (Kharkiv), Darya Koltsova (Kharkiv), Maria Kulikovska (Kerch, Crimea), Natalia Lisova (Vinnytsia), and Maria Proshkowska (Kyiv), belong to the generation which was born and raised in independent Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Russian occupation of Crimea and military invasion of the Donbass happened when they just started to enter adulthood. These tragic events and the following Russian violence shaped their artistic perspectives. All five women artists are well known in Ukraine and are now becoming renowned throughout Europe. 

Art and War are mutually exclusive concepts: creation and destruction. War deteriorates life, stifles creativity, eliminates lightheartedness, and suppresses playfulness in art. This show explores the variations of wartime art  and the shifts in perception during the war.

Ecological performances of Natalia Lisova turned into stirring declarations of love for the land. The artworks of Maria Proshkowska call for defense. Olia Fedorova addresses aggressors in a direct manner and investigates the possibilities of restoration. Maria Kulikovska, a Ukrainian refugee from occupied Crimea, examines the scope of the tolerable. In addition to leading a global art effort in support of people in Ukrainian cities and villages who live in danger, Daria Koltsova performs a Lullaby to hundreds of children killed in this war.

The etymological meaning of the word victory varies depending on language and culture. Pobeda in Russian literally means after a tragedy. The Latin word victory means to conquer. Chinese shengli means to succeed. The Ukrainian term for victory, PEREMOGA, is a combination of the words over and ability: beyond the possible. The conflict in Ukraine is an example of unimaginable resistance: the outnumbered Ukrainian army heroically confronts a massive Russian aggression. The stoic defiance has not waned for many months.

The war is a predominantly a masculine conflict, from male majority of militaries to phallic shapes of cannons and rockets. The Russian attack on Ukraine has been led by the twisted ambition of a psychologically damaged male ruler. The combat literally and symbolically pertains to men while women inevitably belong to the anti-war movement. This exhibition presents a fearless response of five young Ukrainian women artists to the atrocities of wartime. Their artworks partake in the global effort to thwart the Russian invasion and put an end to this war.

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3. Mira Schor, Coreen Simpson, FF Alumns, selected for 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman Awards

Please visit this link:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/anonymous-was-a-woman-2022-grants-1234646794/

Thank you.

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4. Guerrilla Girls, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, in Miami, FL, Nov. 29 – Dec. 23

Russell Craig, the Guerrilla Girls, Glenn Kaino, Reginald O’Neal, Chire Regans, Sherrill Roland, Dread Scott; plus Rosa Naday Garmendia, Jessica Helsinger, Judith Mistor, Emily Velez Nelms, and Kellen Stuhlmiller, selected from the open call.  

During Miami Art Week (November 29-December 3), artworks addressing mass incarceration and failures of the U.S. justice system will patrol the streets of Miami Beach via truck-mounted digital billboards and stationary billboards throughout the city. This public art intervention is the result of 8×5, a project named in recognition of the size of an average prison cell, organized by the non-profit Art at a Time Like This. Launched in Miami on June 13th, 8×5 will return to Florida during Miami Art Week when an international audience gathers together to attend art fairs, museum exhibitions and special events. 8×5 is a multi-city project traveling across the US in 2023. 

This iteration of 8×5 will feature a diverse range of artists, from those who are internationally known for political art such as Glenn Kaino, Dread Scott and the Guerrilla Girls to artists with firsthand experience of the incarceration system, including Russell Craig, Sherrill Roland and Kellen Stuhlmiller, a young man currently awaiting trial at a Miami detention center. Miami artists/activists, including Chire Regans, Judith Mistor, Jessica Helsinger, Rosa Naday Garmendia and Emily Velez Nelms add local power to the mix.  Bringing change through numbers, Art at a Time Like This approached students at University of Miami School of Law to research data and case law, adding statistics to the signage to provide a searing look at the current criminal justice system.

Reginald O’Neal contributes his haunting painting, My Father, Lil Pat, and Our Ancestors, 2021, a homage to generations of his family spent behind bars (currently on view at the Rubell Collection). It can be found as a stationary billboard, located across from FTX Arena. In Little , viewers will encounter a map of the US turned upside down, a commentary by Rosa Naday Garmendia on how mass incarceration threatens our notions of democracy. At the same time, mobile digital billboard trucks will circulate through South Beach and Wynwood, bringing the artworks directly to audiences.  Dread Scott juxtaposes an image of a burning Capitol Building, accompanied by the statement, “America Needs Prisons. We Don’t Need America,” while Glenn Kaino steals a line from Diogenes–“Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves?”–a sly reference to the irony of punishing some while leaders go free. Chire Regans creates a portrait of Marissa Alexander, whose case impacted Florida mandatory sentencing laws. Judith Mistor conveys the emotions buried beneath the debates with her image of a totemic sculpture locked in a cage. 

By interjecting these issues into an art-viewing experience, 8×5 raises awareness about a broken justice system, hopefully inspiring the crowds in Miami to engage in debate and take action. 

Roundtable Discussion : On December 3rd at 2PM, the Perez Art Museum Miami will host a roundtable discussion organized by Art at a Time Like This addressing this vital issue that is viewed by many as the greatest crisis facing the U.S. at this time.  Participating voices include Russell Craig, Chire Regans and Reginald O’Neal and Exchange for Change director Kathie Klarreich. 

See the exhibition:

The artworks are presented on mobile billboard trucks on November 29, 30, and December 1st and 2nd. Be on the lookout for our trucks in Miami Beach, Wynwood and Design District!

Two works will also be present at static billboards at the following locations: NE 2nd Avenue and NE 8th Street across from the FTX Arena and SW 12th Avenue and Flagler Street in Little Havana. 

Art at a Time Like This is a non-profit arts organization that provides platforms of free speech for contemporary artists. The current project, 8×5,, seeks to provoke conversations around the problems and inequalities of the judicial system and pose alternatives to the state of mass incarceration in the U.S. Launched in March 2020,  ATLT has presented 15 online exhibitions including artists from Hong Kong,  Ukraine, Afghanistan and Mexico,  plus 4 public art interventions.  

Art a Time Like This received recognition and support from the Art for Justice Fund, For Freedoms, the Barton Family Foundation,  the law firm of Willkie Farr, Jorge Mora and the Mimi Saltzman Family Foundation to produce 8×5.

Special thanks to Bakehouse Art Complex, Locust Projects, Fountainhead Residency, Spinello Projects, Cristin Tierney Gallery,  the Perez Art Museum Miami and University of Miami School of Law, especially Marni Lennon, Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono  and students and students Law students Courtney Davis, Laura Leira, Brandi Griffin, and Josianne Griffin

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5. GOODW.Y.N, FF Alumn, now online at Glamour.com

Please visit this link:

https://www.glamour.com/story/body-type-trend?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=glamour

Thank you.

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6. Alicia Hall Moran, FF Alumn, now online at WBUR.org

Please visit this link:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/11/17/ica-family-ball-jason-alicia-moran?fbclid=IwAR0EX6bYAl9MfStfkYwjZJK4aukcgm2LMripLO_HwEL-NgvAuJmtZxTVedI

Thank you.

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7. Suzanne Lacy, FF Alumn, at Manchester Art Gallery, UK, thru Dec. 31, 2024

Please visit this link:

https://manchesterartgallery.org/event/suzanne-lacy-uncertain-futures/

Thank you.

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8. Penny Arcade, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, Nov. 29-Dec. 1

International performance legend Penny Arcade breaks new artistic ground – yet again

https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/p/penny-arcade/

The performance artist, poet, writer, videographer/documentarian, experimental theatre artist and artist advocate has contributed to new art forms every decade since the 1960’s and maintains a constant presence on the world stage.

At 72 years of age and with 54 years as a professional artist Penny Arcade is not showing sign of slowing down any time soon

Her latest work after touring Longing Lasts Longer to over 47 cities in over 206 performances is to reinvent the memoir. In The Art of Becoming Penny and her longtime collaborator of 30 years former architect and video producer Steve Zehentner are creating an episodic musical memoir, the first episode has 6 new songs by Penny and texts drawn from her much anticipated memoir.

November 29, 30th and December 1st at Joe’s Pub 7pm

Episode #3 Superstar Interupted will see its first presentation

Since 1985 Penny Arcade has developed her work in front of live audiences 

– Live Action Performance 

Now people say “But Penny all your work is memoir!” 

But you see in my work I only write about what has made me the same as other people – the experiences I share with humans in society- This show is about what made / makes me different – its about my life. It is a really good story.

This has the whole East Village 60’s , Downtown Theatre, Stonewall, Max’s Kansas City, Warhol and The Factory, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Iggy etc and tells the story why i left NY in 1971 when my career was taking off. 

https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/p/penny-arcade/

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9. Eddy Falconer, FF Intern Alumn, at The Chocolate Dragon, Oakland, CA

The Chocolate Dragon, 5427 College Ave in Oakland, is exhibiting 16 of my creature paintings, now through end of the year. Stop by for a bit of art with your sweets, or sweets with your art. There are original watercolors or you can buy prints of some of them

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10. Guillaume Bijl, FF Alumn, at Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, Nov. 29-Dec. 3

Meredith Rosen Gallery is pleased to present a historic exhibition of Guillaume Bijl’s Installation:Casino at Art Basel Miami Beach. First exhibited in 1984 at Friends Society of S.M.A.K, Ghent, Bijl restages one of his earliest “Transformation-installations” of a casino, including the employment of fictional croupiers at the opening. This incisive installation garners new meaning with Bijl’s placement of the psychological drives of gambling directly within the locus of a contemporary art fair.

Since 1979, Guillaume Bijl (b. 1946 Antwerp, Belgium) has contended with the status of exhibition space. His “Transformation-installations” are built on a fictional premise wherein the art space is no longer of use to the public and rented out to a more functional business, i.e. a Car Dealership (Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, 1984); Supermarket (Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2002); Shooting Range (Appollohuis, Eindhoven, 1985); or a Futon Store (New Museum, New York, 1989). Bijl has also realized fictive commercial booths such at art fairs in Europe such as a “Mirror Stand” (FIAC Paris, 1988, collection Centre Pompidou); “Lamp Stand”(Art Basel, 1984, collection SMAK) and “Gold-Buying Stand”(Art Cologne,1989, collection Centre Pompidou).

Bijl’s work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including the Paris Biennial (1982), Kunsthalle Bern (1986), Belgian Pavilion – Venice Bienniale (1988), New Museum, New York (1989), Documenta 9, Kassel (1992), Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2007), 11th Lyon Biennial (2011), Istanbul Biennial (2013) and Manifesta 11, Zürich (2016). Recently he has taken part in the following projects: Beaufort (2018), the Adriaen Brouwer year, Oudenaarde (2018), Play, Kortrijk (2018), Power to the People, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018), the Bruegel year, Dilbeek (2019), Centre Pompidou, Shanghai (2021), Halle Verière, Meisenthal (2022). 

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11. Jenny Holzer, FF Alumn, to receive Art Icon 2023 award, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, Jan. 19, 2023

Please visit this link:

https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/art-icon-2023-jenny-holzer-2/

Thank you.

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12. Martha Rosler, FF Alumn, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Manhattan, opening Dec. 8

This winter, Mitchell-Innes & Nash will present an exhibition of feminist art by Martha Rosler centered on her work from the 1960s and 70s. martha rosler: changing the subject… in the company of others, on view from December 8, 2022, through January 21, 2023, will present photomontages, videos, and sculpture that deepen the understanding of Rosler’s feminist landscape—one that feels increasingly relevant today. It is the artist’s first solo show in New York since her exhibition Irrespective at the Jewish Museum (2018).

The works on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash exemplify what might be called a kaleidoscopic approach to feminism and politics. Countering the persistent idea that political and feminist expressions are separate and unconnected, Rosler insists that what concerns women is inescapably political and, in turn, that political art can be-must be-feminist.

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13. Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, at New-York Historical Society, Manhattan, thru Jan. 22, 2023

The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming

Through January 22, 2023

Even after 300 years, Salem’s witch trials remain a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history. This new exhibition asks: In moments of injustice, what role do we play?

New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street

Please visit this link:

https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/salem-witch-trials-reckoning-and-reclaiming

Thank you.

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14. Kenneth King, FF Member, now online at Youtube.com and more

My interview with BBC reporter Basil Wraithbone –I spill the beans about the childhood experiences that led me to become a performer, writer, and to make character movies. It’s just over 9 minutes. Here’s the link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkK_nWUKlhg 

When I was first introduced to Andy Warhol, I asked him what he did. In his dreamy whispery voice he replied, “I make a movie a day.” Huh? Oh…

Additional movies and videos on my YouTube channel: Kenneth King Media:

www.youtube.com/channel/UC-iah2fbVd0rJw6H021ZHcw/videos 

Tiz’ the Season — here’s a Holiday Gift Idea: give one of my five, very different, and economical novels, available in paperback and all digital e-book formats from Amazon and the publisher Club Lighthouse Publishing. Info, synopses, and links are on my website: kennethkingmedia.com.

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15. Susan Newmark, FF Alumn, at FGD Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Dec. 3

Small Works: A Group Exhibition

November 25 – December 18

Opening Reception: December 3, 5:30–7:30

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16. Sha Sha Higby, FF Alumn, in Bolinas, CA, Nov. 25-27, and more

Sha Sha just returned from Japan and will share some images of her trip on Friday Nov. 25 from 4 to 5 pm. Come and Enjoy! Also on your way over or back to Bolinas stop in at the Throckmorten Theatre lobby in Mill Valley and she has a large exhibition of her work. It should also be open on the first Tuesday in December 5:30pm.

Recent Performance in 2021

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/669220354

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17. David Cale, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/theater/sandra-review.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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