Goings On: posted week of November 25, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Martha Wilson, Marina Abramović, Jenny Holzer, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero, FF Alumns, at 192 Books, Manhattan, Dec. 4
2. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, November news
3. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, now online
4. Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumn, in Hyperallergic, now online
5. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alder & Co., Germantown, NY, opening Nov. 30
6. Helga Fassonaki, FF Alumn, November news
7. Terry Braunstein, FF Alumn, at El Camino College Gallery, Torrance, CA, thru December 11
8. Howardena Pindell, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
9. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, December events
10. Susan Leopold, FF Alumn, at FIT, Manhattan, thru Jan. 5, 2020
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1. Martha Wilson, Marina Abramović, Jenny Holzer, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero, FF Alumns, at 192 Books, Manhattan, Dec. 4
Wednesday, December 4 at 7PM
Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (Thames & Hudson, 2019)
Nancy Princenthal and Martha Wilson
Please join 192 Books and Thames & Hudson for a conversation between Martha Wilson and Nancy Princenthal on her new book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s.
“If we are going to talk about sexual violence, we will have to come to terms with what it is. That is harder than it seems,” art writer and author Nancy Princenthal writes on the opening page of her new book, Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s. “Tricky to define, sexual offenses are even more difficult to depict. … The pioneering women artists who explored sexual violence in the seventies had a wide-open arena, and plenty to say.”
The 1970s were a time of deep divisions and newfound freedoms. A new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice, galvanized by The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique, the civil rights movement, and the March on Washington. Fired up by women’s experiences and the climate of revolution, bold women artists and activists, including Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramović, Adrian Piper, Suzanne Lacy, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer, started a conversation about sexual violence that continues to this day.
Some of them worked unannounced and unheralded, using the street as their theater. Others managed to draw support from the highest levels of municipal power. Along the way, they changed the course of art, pioneering a form that came to be called, simply, performance.
In Unspeakable Acts, Princenthal takes on these enduring issues and weaves together a new history of art and performance, challenging readers to reexamine the relationship between activism and art, and how the lessons of that turbulent era can be applied today.
Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer whose book Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. A Contributing Editor (and former Senior Editor) of Art in America, she has also written for The New York Times and elsewhere. Princenthal has taught at Bard College, Princeton University, and Yale University, and is currently on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts.
Questions about identity have underscored the forty-year-long career of Martha Wilson, a feminist performance artist who emerged as part of the nascent downtown New York scene in the 1970s. She founded and continues to direct Franklin Furnace, a non-profit institution based in New York that preserves avant-garde, ephemeral, and political work.
192 Books 192 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011
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2. Norm Magnusson, FF Alumn, November news
A few little bits for the holiday season:
Another month to see my exhibition, “kuh-myoo-nih-kay-shun” up now at the cma gallery at Mount Saint Mary College (MSMC). Preview it here: https://namatcmaatmsmc.blogspot.com
Check out my new actor’s reel, pulled together from 3 actual movies and one audition tape I liked. (They offered me the role!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8GflX-lC0. (The therapist scene is from “Antarctica”, which is not released yet; it’s a peculiar and beautiful film.)
Remember that art makes a wonderful gift! You can go shopping here: https://availableart2019.blogspot.com
Happy Holidays to everyone a youse!
xoxonorm
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3. Liza Lou, FF Alumn, in The New Yorker, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-art-of-crafts-at-the-whitney
thank you
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4. Edward M. Gómez, FF Alumn, in Hyperallergic, now online
November 19, 2019
Dear art lovers and media colleagues:
My article about the exhibition Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other, which is now on view at Wrightwood 659, in Chicago, has been published in HYPERALLERGIC.
This exhibition at this new arts center, which is housed in a historic building that was renovated by the Japanese architect Tadao Andō, will be on view through Dec 14, 2019.
Ishida died in 2005, when he was still in his early thirties, cutting short a promising career. In his unusual paintings, which have been described as hallucinatory and surreal, he portrayed Japanese schoolboys and older men in the corporate workforce who became cogs in the wheel of an anxiety-causing industrial and social system that nurtured Japan’s post-World War II “economic miracle.”
Ishida’s art refers to the hard labor at the expense of personal self-fulfillment of the legions of factory and office workers, and paper-pushing managers, who fueled its success. He also evokes the soul-searching anguish that came after Japan’s later, speculation-driven economic “bubble” burst in the early 1990s, leading to a long period of uncertainty and stagnation.
Once encountered, Ishida’s pictures are hard to forget. Most of his images feature anonymous Everyman figures whose faces resemble the artist’s own. The 70 Ishida paintings on view now, in Chicago, represent about a third of the artist’s total known production of paintings.
This stunning exhibition was organized by Manuel Borja-Villel and Teresa Velázquez, respectively the director and the head of exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, where it was first seen earlier this year.
This survey of Ishida’s art is one of the most engrossing presentations of contemporary painting to have been shown in the United States in many years.
You can find my new magazine article here:
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this piece.
With best wishes…
EDWARD M. GÓMEZ
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5. Regina Silveira, FF Alumn, at Alder & Co., Germantown, NY, opening Nov. 30
Regina Silveira: Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown
Exhibition Dates:
November 23 – December 22, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 30, 2019, 3-6 PM
Quimera is described by the artist as a “visual paradox” in that the illusion of a single lit lightbulb casts a dark, looming shadow, instead of illuminating the space with light. For decades, Silveira has explored skiagraphia (the study of light and shadows) in her multidisciplinary practice. In many works, shadows are elongated and distorted, subverting their original reference points, and encouraging subversive interpretations. In Quimera, the uncanny paradox is illustrated through the impossible shadow of the lightbulb. The single, dangling lightbulb invites associations with the darkened interrogation room or perhaps even a torture chamber, alluding to the sense of foreboding in these spaces. Perception, for Silveira, is a malleable playing field, in which the artist’s imagination plays a critical role. In Quimera, light and darkness are simultaneously complementary and contradictory, destabilizing the viewer’s sense of space.
Alder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526
Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Alexander Gray Associates
Alexander Gray Associates is a contemporary art gallery in New York. Through exhibitions, research, and artist representation, the Gallery spotlights artistic movements and artists who emerged in the mid- to late-Twentieth Century. Influential in cultural, social, and political spheres, these artists are notable for creating work that crosses geographic borders, generational contexts and artistic disciplines. Alexander Gray Associates is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.
Alexander Gray Associates
510 West 26 Street, New York NY 10001 United States
Telephone: +1 212 399 2636
Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
www.alexandergray.com
info@alexandergray.com
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6. Helga Fassonaki, FF Alumn, November news
Hello friends!
Just finished an artist residency near the Taconic Mountains and heading to NYC to open for Purple Pilgrims (NZ) tonight (11/19) @ Union Pool, before embarking on a mini tour with nyc composer David Louis Zuckerman and a couple shows with Taji Ra’oof Nahl at Vox Populi in Philly (11/20) and Lola in Manhattan (11/21). Closing with the Root Cellar Bar in Greenfield, MA (11/22), and an early 2pm show at Kingston Artist’s Collective, NY before heading back to Los Angeles.
If you’re free/around, I’d love to see you at one of the shows!! Dates and links below
Peace
&love,
Helga
11/19 – Union Pool, NYC w/Purple Pilgrims, Brooks Ginnan, and Constant Smiles (I’m on first at 8:30pm)
11/20 – Vox Populi, Philly w/ David Louis Zuckerman and Taji Ra’oof Nahl, 8pm
11/21 – LOLA, NYC w/ David Louis Zuckerman and Taji Ra’oof Nahl, 9pm
11/22 – Root Cellar, Greenfield, MA w/David Louis Zuckerman, Jake Meginsky and Gloyd (Neil young, Ruth Garbus, Wendy Eisenberg, Donny Shaw, Andy Allen)
11/24 – Kingston Artist’s Collective, Kingston, NY w/David Louis Zuckerman and Matt Weston (2pm show!)
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7. Terry Braunstein, FF Alumn, at El Camino College Gallery, Torrance, CA, thru December 11
Hello dear Friends,
Tomorrow night, an exhibition titled Layer Upon Layers opens tomorrow night (November 20th) at the El Camino College Gallery. Victor Raphael, a wonderful artist, and I have 6 pieces from two collaborative series that we have been working on for the past three years. Titled The Climate Change Series, and The Wall, the works combine our two artistic practices.
Exhibition dates: November 18–December 11, 1019 (Closed Nov. 28 for Thanksgiving)
Artists Talk: Tuesday, November 26th at 1PM (Victor Raphael will be speaking for both of us)
Address: 16007 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90506
Terry Braunstein
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8. Howardena Pindell, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/arts/design/new-york-galleries-what-to-see-right-now.html
thank you.
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9. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, December events
Hector Canonge, FF Alumn featured at NY Latin American Arts Triennial and presenting his initiative ESTADOS ALTERADOS (Altered States) worldwide.
Sunday, December 1, 3:30 – 6:30PM
Video Performance Screenings
ESTADOS ALTERADOS (Altered States)
Organized and curated by Hector Canonge, the program is a selection of Video Performance and Documentation projects that reflect of the present upheavals in many countries in South America. Ecuador fighting for social equality, Chile striking against neo-liberal regime, Argentina against its economic austerity, Brazil flighting for racial equality, Colombia involved in political fights and Bolivia facing its current coup d’etat and its deficit right wing christian extremist government.
ESTADOS ALTERADOS will be featured on December 1st as part of the NY Latin American Arts Triennial and later will travel to various cities and institutions around the world. Some of the presentations include:
December 1: Nueva York, Estados Unidos en el marco de la TRIENAL DE ARTE LATINOAMERICANO DE NUEVA YORK, Teatro LATEA.
December 5: Buenos Aires, Argentina – CENTRO CULTURAL PACO URONDO.
December 6: Berlín, Alemania – ORGAN KRITISCHER KUNST, OKK.
December 7: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia – MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO.
December 13: Bogotá, Colombia, – RED RIZOMAS, Facultad de Artes, Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá, ASAB.
December 14: Lima, Perú – GALERÍA LIMA ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO.
December 15: Santiago, Chile – Iniciativa CUBOSOMA en ESPACIO AILANTO.
LATINEMERICANES
progressive actions of my self and my discontents
Hector Canonge, continues with his exploration of the performative as catalyst instrument for the expository in contemporary visual arts. Drawn from his previous experimentations in dance theater, installation, photography and video, Canonge formulates a sensorial experience beyond the confines of space and time. LATINEMERICANES proposes to reflect on the following: the (dis)gendering of language, the (mis)construction of identity. and the (re)placement of Otherness based on recent cultural and socio-political upheavals in Latin America. LATINEAMERICANES borrows from the use of pronouns in English, the replacement of letters to avoid masculine generalizations in Spanish, and the ever more fluid constructions of identity, Self and Otherness. As a performance, the project develops through a series of actions that test the artist’s endurance and concentration. The installation consists of carefully crafted ephemera objects used during the execution of the performance plus photos and video documentation.
About the artist:
http://www.hectorcanonge.net
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10. Susan Leopold, FF Alumn, at FIT, Manhattan, thru Jan. 5, 2020
I’m in a group show that was curated by Anne Finkelstein. The opening reception is Tues. Nov. 26th from 6-8pm at the FIT- Art and Design Gallery. 227 west 27th (7th ave and 27th Street). The exhibition runs through January 5th, 2020. Susan Leopold
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