Goings On | 12/26/2023 - Franklin Furnace

Contents for December 26, 2023

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1. Brian Buczak, FF Alumn, at Ortuzar Projects, Manhattan, opening Jan. 5, 2024

2. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, at MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, thru Feb. 26, 2024

3. Agnes Denes, Naeem Mohaiemen, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, named to ArtReview’s Power 100 2023

4. Xandra Ibarra, Stella Waitzkin, FF Alumns, at San Jose Museum of Art, CA, thru April 21, 2024

5. Xandra Ibarra, Asia Stewart, FF Alumns, at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Jan. 6, 2024

6. Xandra Ibarra, FF Alumn, at Fragment Gallery, Manhattan, thru Jan. 7, 2024

7. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, March 1-2, 2024

8. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Short

9. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com

10. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, opening Jan. 13, 2024

11. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 12, 2024

12. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at The University of Puget Sound, WA, opening Jan. 8, 2024 and more

13. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, now online

14. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Creative Pinellas Art Gallery, Largo, FL, thru Jan. 14, 2024 and more

15. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, now online in Israel and South Korea

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1. Brian Buczak, FF Alumn, at Ortuzar Projects, Manhattan, opening Jan. 5, 2024

Please visit this link:

https://www.ortuzarprojects.com/exhibitions/man-looks-at-the-world

Thank you.

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2. Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumn, at MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, thru Feb. 26, 2024

Please visit this link:

https://theweek.com/museum-exhibits-winter-2023-2024?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Thank you.

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3. Agnes Denes, Naeem Mohaiemen, Cecilia Vicuña, FF Alumns, named to ArtReview’s Power 100 2023

Please visit this link:

https://artreview.com/power-100/

Thank you.

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4. Xandra Ibarra, Stella Waitzkin, FF Alumns, at San Jose Museum of Art, CA, thru April 21, 2024

Xandra Ibarra at San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA)

Exhibition: Encode/Store/Retrieve

December 8, 2023 – April 21, 2024

“Encode/Store/Retrieve” looks to artists working in low-tech forms over the course of the digital age to provide us strategies for navigating our changing memory ecosystem. The artworks—primarily from SJMA’s collection, half of which are on view for the first time (including 3 recent acquisitions)—are organized into three thematic groupings inspired by a model of memory that bridges cognitive and computational processes: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Exploring biological, geological, cultural, and institutional scales of memory, the artists brought together here highlight the expanse of our memory ecosystem, the life cycles of memory, and its material fragility.

Featured artists include: Wallace Berman, Val Britton, Jim Campbell, Enrique Chagoya, Chryssa, Binh Danh, Steven Deo, Bruce Hasson, Xandra Ibarra, Dinh Q. Lê, Darlene Nguyen-Ely, Margaret Nielsen, Harold Paris, Beverly Rayner, Analia Saban, Katherine Sherwood, Rose B. Simpson, Stephanie Syjuco, Stella Waitzkin, and Xiaoze Xie.

Curated by Juan Omar Rodriguez

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5. Xandra Ibarra, Asia Stewart, FF Alumns, at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, opening Jan. 6, 2024

Xandra Ibarra at A.I.R. Gallery

Exhibition: Free Expression and the Inexpressible

January 6 – February 4, 2024

Free Expression and the Inexpressible brings together eighteen contemporary artists staging connections between the personal and political dimensions of expression and inexpressibility. Through strategies that range from the discursive and polemical to the affective and abstract, they interrogate the edges of this freedom, mine its history, and posit new ways of thinking about what we can and cannot express. The artworks in Free Expression and the Inexpressible not only frame a deeply rooted and ongoing crisis, but also participate in an equally long legacy of resistance, imagination, and transformation. As visual, experiential, and affective provocations, they offer a vision of freedom in an unfree world, and new precedents for how we might make choices in conditions not of our choosing.

Featured artists include: Maura Brewer, Elaine Byrne, Abigail Raphael Collins, Avram Finkelstein, Mari Claudia García, EBB / ЭББ, Michelle Hartney, Clareese Hill, Jordan Homstad, Xandra Ibarra, Chuqiao (Chloe) Li, Melissa Ling, Katrina Majkut, Lydia Nobles, Viva Ruiz, Diana Schmertz, Asia Stewart, Max Bowens and Valerie Werder

Curated by Aliza Shvarts

Please visit this link:

https://www.airgallery.org/

Thank you.

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6. Xandra Ibarra, FF Alumn, at Fragment Gallery, Manhattan, thru Jan. 7, 2024

Xandra Ibarra at Fragment Gallery (NYC)

Exhibition: Following The Body

November 18, 2023 – January 7, 2024

Following The Body includes work by artists who express and challenge the body as politics, with a specific focus on Queer bodies and their identity formation, the Black and Brown body, bodies in religious cults, as well as body modification as self-identification. Included works highlight the themes: the method, which might be simply described as showing ‘presence through absence,’ presented in this exhibition, is an active dialogue with the ‘exposed body.’

Featured artists include: Felipe Baeza, Antonius-Tin Bui, Debra Cartwright, Carlos Casuso, Kevin Claiborne, Giulia Crețulescu, Dagnini, Nicolo Gentile, Xandra Ibarra, Hamed Maiye, Carly Mandel, Tamara Santibañez

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7. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Joe’s Pub, Manhattan, March 1-2, 2024

Please visit this link:

https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2024/p/pamela-sneed/

Thank you.

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8. Yoko Ono, FF Alumn, Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Short

“XMAS” came early!

It is with great pleasure ElectroLeague would like to thank the Academy for including “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko” on the 96th Oscars® Shortlist for Best Animated Short. We are humbled by all the love and support!

Dave Mullins ElectroLeague

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9. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com

Please visit this link:

https://hyperallergic.com/862799/the-best-art-books-of-2023/

Thank you.

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10. Paul Zelevansky, FF Alumn, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, opening Jan. 13, 2024

To the Great Blankness mailing list:

“Roadside Vernacular Architecture”

An installation by Paul Zelevansky at FiveMyles

January 13, 2024

5:30-8PM.

Also, please join us for a performance and conversation on Sunday, January 28, at 4:00pm.

FiveMyles

558 St. Johns Place

Brooklyn, NY 11238

(718) 783-4438

Gallery hours: Thursday to Sunday, 1-6pm.

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11. Dara Birnbaum, FF Alumn, at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manhattan, opening Jan. 12, 2024

Please visit this link:

https://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/542-dara-birnbaum-four-works-accountability/

Thank you.

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12. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, now online

On Wonder:

A performed lecture at the MIT Museum

This two-part event guided by artist, magician and researcher Jeanette Andrews took place at the MIT Museum on September 20, 2023. The evening began with the Boston / MIT premiere of Andrews’ “In Plain Listen,” which uses a Morse-code-based musical notation system to create a musical score depicting the secret of one of the oldest pieces of magic in history purely in music form, performed in tandem with the original magic effect. MIT PhD student Valerie Chen accompanied on cello. “In Plain Listen” was originally commissioned and funded by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston. Andrews then presented pieces from her repertoire and was joined by Professor of Anthropology Graham M. Jones and Professor of Computer Science Arvind Satyanarayan in a conversation about magic, culture and visual communication. Co-produced by MIT Anthropology, @MITCSAIL, @MITMuseumOfficial, and the @MITDesignAcad. Supported by Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

Please visit this link:

https://www.jeanetteandrews.com/mit-talk

Thank you.

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13. Beverly Naidus, FF Alumn, at The University of Puget Sound, WA, opening Jan. 8, 2024 and more

Beverly Naidus, who was never prone to making one-of-a-kind artist’s books, has just made another one (she blames the time she spent as an artist’s assistant and publicist at the Franklin Furnace in 1979-81 as the cause of this recent flourishing). Sometimes seeds take a long time to germinate.

Her artist’s book, The Arduous Adventures and Atypical Activism of Abby Williams Hill, Alliteratively Abbreviated was commissioned by the Collins Library and focuses on the life of plein-air painter and social justice advocate, Abby Williams Hill, a former resident of Tacoma, WA and Laguna Beach, CA. The exhibition will open to the public January 8th-April 30th, 2024.

Another one-of-a-kind artist’s book by Beverly Naidus was purchased by the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in 2021, a book based on the research of Dr. Chris Schell, a Black urban ecologist (now at UC Berkeley) who looks at the relationship between urban coyotes, gentrification, and fear of the OTHER. That book, “Whose Streets?” is on permanent display in the Cynthia Sears artist’s book collection.

Please visit these links:

https://blogs.pugetsound.edu/collinsunbound/the-world-through-abbys-eyes-exhibit-january-8-2024-april-30-2024-collins-library/

https://www.biartmuseum.org/artists-book-collection/

beverlynaidus.net

@utopias4all on IG

https://www.facebook.com/utopias4all

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14. Babs Reingold, FF Alumn, at Creative Pinellas Art Gallery, Largo, FL, thru Jan. 14, 2024 and more

Dear Friends, I’m delighted to share

Creative Pinellas

“Arts Annual 2023”

extended to January 14, 2024

Creative Pinellas Art Gallery

November 9 – January 14, 2024

12211 Walsingham Rd. Largo, FL 33778

Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10 – 5pm

727-582-3600

On exhibition is work from

“Skin Tree and Vessel” and “Double Vessel” series.

and

I’m excited to announce my upcoming solo exhibition:

“Under My Skin”

SPAACES Art Gallery

February 2 – March 16

Opening reception: February 2, 5:30 – 8:00

Artist Talk: February 15, 6 – 8pmSPAACES Art Gallery

2051 Princeton St. Sarasota FL 34237

Open Thursday – Saturday 11 – 3pm or by Appointment

941-552-8298

On exhibition is work from

“Luna Window”, “Skin Tree and Vessel” and “Double Vessel” series.

and

Yale School of Sacred Music Presents

“Biophilia: In Excelsis”

March 27 – May 3, 2024

Curated by M Annenberg

Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Miller Hall 406 Prospect St. New Haven CT

Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 12 – 4pm

Reception at 5:30 pm on the 27th, with panel following, special guest Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Director, NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies and artists Krisanne Baker, Susan Hoffman Fishman and Eleanor Goldstein, moderated by M. Annenberg.

Twenty two artists participate M. Annenberg • Krisanne Baker • Lois Bender • Walter Brown • Diane Burko • Janet Culbertson • . Cameron Davis • Noreen Dean Dresser • Danielle Eubank • Susan Hoffman Fishman • Eleanor Goldstein • Kathy Levine • Angela Manno • Cristian Pietrapiana • Elisa Pritzker • Lisa Reindorf • Babs Reingold • Ann Shapiro • Simon Spicer • Steven Siegel • D J Spooky • Suzanne Theodora White Excerpt from Eleanor Heartney’s essay on “Biophilia: In Excelsis””How may art support a wholistic vision of the natural world? That question drives the artists in this exhibition. They are inspired by biophilia, literally the love of life, and draw on developments in environmental science, biology, politics and media to help us understand the interconnections that make up the web of life. Aware that facts alone are often insufficient to persuade a jaded public to act, these artists present their visions using some of art’s most potent tools, among them beauty, metaphor, symbolism and visual poetry.”

Please visit these links:

https://babsreingold.com/skins-and-vessels/

https://spaaces.art/exhibitions/

https://babsreingold.com/luna-window/

Thank you.

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15. Irina Danilova, FF Alumn, now online in Israel and South Korea

I am taking part in the international art project and exhibition Art and Nomads, Flying Over the Borders in Jerusalem and South Korea.

Please visit these links:

https://youtu.be/ERJ7xRipnWQ?si=AocZhLCQcpQhrjL1

https://www.spatial.io/s/ArtandNomads_International-Multimedia-Exhibition-65754f9459d29d0853dcb04d?share=6833473390250532579

https://www.spatial.io/s/ArtandNomads_International-Art-Exhibition-6572d149842fed2b093129a9?share=6041245840069407178

http://www.artplatformon.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Arts2&wr_id=9

http://www.artplatformon.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Arts2&wr_id=10