July 18, 2016

Contents for July 18, 2016

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1. DISBAND (Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Diane Torr, Martha Wilson), Ann Magnusson, Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumns, at Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, opening July 23
2. Rae C Wright, FF Alumn, at Dixon Place, Manhattan August 4
3. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, now online at museemagazine.com
4. Donald Hải Phú Daedalus, FF Alumn, in Bath, IL, Aug. 5-6
5. Jodie Fink, April Ford, FF Alumns, at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, thru Aug. 14
6. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at Society of Illustrators, Manhattan, July 21
7. Beatrice Glow, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Harley Spiller, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumns, now online at artistsallianceinc.org
8. Stefanie Trojan, FF Alumn, in Frankfurt, Germany, July 18-22
9. Koosil-ja, M. Lamar, Aviva Rahmani, Peggy Shaw, FF Alumns, receive New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowships 2016
10. Beatrice Glow, FF Alumn, named 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence, Asian Pacific American Institute, NYU, Manhattan
11. Bryan Zanisnik, FF Alumn, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, opening Sept. 25
12. Papo Colo, FF Alumn, in The Village Voice, now online
13. Frank Gillette, FF Alumn, launches new website www.frankgillette.com
14. Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, July 15
15. Lawrence Weiner, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, July 15
16. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, July-August events, 2016
17. Edward Madrid Gómez, FF Alumn, now online at hyperallergic.com
18. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Museum of Club Culture, Hull, UK, July 23
19. Andrea Fraser, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, July 17
20. Pablo Helguera, Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, Dread Scott, FF Alumns, in The New York Times, July 18
21. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, in The Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA, opening Aug. 27
22. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, now online at api.newschinamag.com

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1. DISBAND (Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Diane Torr, Martha Wilson), Ann Magnusson, Xaviera Simmons, FF Alumns, at Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, opening July 23

“Danger Came Smiling” is an original group exhibition featuring artists who use music as a medium, subject, and reference point for feminist messages.

In “Danger Came Smiling,” art historian and published author, Maria Elena Buszek, brings together work by contemporary artists who use popular music as a medium, subject, and reference point for feminist messages. The show takes the title of an album by the unabashedly feminist punk band Ludus, led by artist Linder Sterling, whose career-emerging in the first wave of punk in the 1970s-is a pioneering example of the approaches at play in this exhibition. The show will be on view July 23, 2016 – Jan 1, 2017. Free public reception, July 23 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm with a VIP member preview from 5:00 – 6:00pm.

“By the late 1970s, visual artists like Robert Longo, Barbara Kruger, and Jean-Michel Basquiat joined bands, and musicians like DEVO, Talking Heads, and Ann Magnuson treated their music as performance art, blurring the lines between popular music and visual art in ways that have profoundly affected contemporary art ever since,” explains Buszek. Music and feminist activism are often associated with art student Kathleen Hanna’s work in starting the “Riot Grrrl” movement by way of her punk band Bikini Kill in the 1990s. This rich intersection of art, music, and activism will be explored more broadly in “Danger Came Smiling” through the work of artists who use punk, hip-hop, electronica, and jazz as part of their studio practice, and a reflection of their politics. The Franklin Street Works café will include an audio portion comprised of a “mixtape” relating to the items on display and eras under consideration in the exhibition.

Exhibiting artists: Damali Abrams, Alice Bag, DISBAND, Wynne Greenwood (A.K.A. Tracy + the Plastics), Eleanor King, Ann Magnuson, Shizu Saldamando, and Xaviera Simmons.

ABOUT MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
Maria Elena Buszek, Ph.D., is a scholar, critic, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado Denver, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art. Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press Books, 2006) and Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke, 2011). She has also contributed writing to the numerous, international exhibition catalogues and scholarly journals: most recently, essays in Dorothy Iannone: Censorship and the Irrepressible Drive Toward Divinity, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, and In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Buszek has also been a regular contributor to the popular feminist magazine BUST since 1999. Her current book project, Art of Noise, explores the ties between contemporary activist art and popular music.

ABOUT FRANKLIN STREET WORKS
Franklin Street Works is a not-for- profit contemporary art space and café whose mission is to manifest contemporary art projects in a professional and welcoming setting. Franklin Street Works aims to broaden community participation in the arts, contribute to a larger arts dialogue, and cultivate emerging artists. To date, the organization has exhibited the work of more than 250 artists, curated 22 original exhibitions, and organized approximately 120 programs, including talks, tours, and performances. Their work has received national and regional support, including a two-year grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and two matching grants from Fairfield County’s Community Foundation. Exhibitions have been recognized with positive reviews in major publications such as Artforum online, Art Papers, Modern Painters, Hyperallergic, Bomb blog, the Daily Beast, and artcritical.com.

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