Goings On: posted week of November 11, 2019
CONTENTS:
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
2. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, now online at Inabsentia.it
3. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, opening Nov. 16
4. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at Neue Galerie, Manhattan, Nov. 21
5. Jodie Fink, FF Alumn, at Fine Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, thru Dec. 13
6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at Albion College, MI, thru Dec. 3
7. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, at Finsbury Park Station, London, UK, Dec. 1
8. Joe Lewis, FF Alumn, at Galerie No Nada, Oaxaca, Mexico, thru Dec. 7
9. Roberta Allen, Mariella Bisson, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Scott Pfaffman, FF Alumns, at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, thru Dec. 15
10. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
11. Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, in The New York Times, now online.
12. Erin Markey, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
13. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at SVA, Manhattan, thru Nov. 29
14. Miriam Schaer, Micki Spiller, FF Alumns, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, thru Feb. 1, 2020
15. Elana Katz, Marilena Preda-Sânc, FF Alumns, at NYFA, Brooklyn, thru Dec. 20
16. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
17. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, Nov. 15
18. Alicia Grullon, FF Alumn, at The Block Gallery, Manhattan, Nov. 14
19. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, at Luchtundfire, Manhattan, Nov. 13
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1. Coco Fusco, FF Alumn, now online at Hyperallergic.com
Please visit this link:
https://hyperallergic.com/524977/coco-fusco-casts-trump-as-a-heartless-tin-man/
thank you.
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2. Adrianne Wortzel, FF Alumn, work in Inabsentia.it
The Sentient Thespian, a new short film by Adrianne Wortzel. has been selected for inclusion in “In Absentia” as part of the THE WRONG, a series of screenings, events and exhibitions sponsored by Semiosphera: Francesca Giuliani and Lino Mocerino: IN ABSENTIA, (http://www.inabsentia.it/gallery/the-sentient-thespian/). The Sentient Thespian was produced in Wortzel’s 2018-19 residency at ThoughtworksArts, supported by ThoughtworksArts, the Consortium for Research and Robotics at Pratt Institute, and Reach Robotics in Great Britain.
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3. Michelle Handelman, FF Alumn, at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, opening Nov. 16
IDOL WORSHIP
curated by Emily Colucci
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 6-8PM
Michelle Handelman’s IRMA VEP, THE LAST BREATH
in an exhibition on role models, muses, mentors and filth elders.
Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Exhibition Dates: November 16 – December 29, 2019
Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun, 12 – 6pm
Please join us
Idol Worship
Curated by Emily Colucci
Rebecca Baldwin, Loren Britton, Anna Campbell, Liz Collins, Alexandria Deters, Jamison Edgar, Jason Elizondo, Cara Erskine, Caroline Garcia, Patty Gone, Kris Grey, Tatyana Gubash, Michelle Handelman,Tenaya Izu, Aaron Krach, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, Emily Lombardo, Helina Metaferia, Sophia Narrett, Jennifer Quinones, Brice Peterson, Gwen Shockey, Pacifico Silano, Anna Skarbek, Tiffany Smith, Ariella Tai, and Conrad Ventur
Organized by guest curator Emily Colucci, the group exhibition Idol Worship celebrates the ongoing cultural, social and political significance of role model adoration as an essential survival strategy. Self-identifying women, in particular, are often overlooked as figures to be emulated, exempt from the label of “genius” so readily bestowed upon men. Partially inspired by John Waters’s Role Models, a pseudo-autobiography through his influences or “filth elders,” the exhibition will emphasize work that presents women and women-identifying role models as sources of possibility, creativity, courage, self-fashioning and sometimes, transgression. While teens’ fanatical impulse to paper their bedroom walls with imagery of their favorite stars is seen as merely an adolescent phase, Idol Worship asserts how the identification with role models is especially significant for those alienated from dominant social institutions, whether the biological family, history, or mainstream culture. Colucci’s proposal was selected through a curatorial open call for emerging curators, and the exhibition will include a combination of emerging artists chosen from another open call, as well as established artists selected by the curator.
Smack Mellon’s exhibitions are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Robert Lehman Foundation, Iorio Charitable Foundation, Select Equity Group Foundation, many individuals and Smack Mellon’s Members.
Smack Mellon’s programs are also made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with generous support from The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc., and Exploring The Arts. In-kind donations are provided by Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.
Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas family and Two Trees Management.
Copyright (c) 2019, Michelle Handelman Studio, All rights reserved.
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4. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at Neue Galerie, Manhattan, Nov. 21
A Weimar Era cabaret in the Neue Galerie
JOHN KELLY’S DEBUT at the NEUE GALERIE on NOV 21st!
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John Kelly at Café Sabarsky
I will making my debut at the fabled Café Sabarsky (https://www.neuegalerie.org/content/cabaret-cafe-sabarsky) at the Neue Galerie (https://www.neuegalerie.org/) , 1048 Fifth Avenue, NY on Thursday, November 21st.
Dedicated to performances that celebrate modern interpretations of Austrian and German Cabaret, and the genre’s commitment to questioning social mores through humor, storytelling, and wit, the café is exquisitely appointed with Wiener Werkstätte designs, including lighting fixtures by Josef Hoffmann, furniture by Adolf Loos, and a magnificent Bösendorfer grand piano.
The evening begins with a prix-fixe dinner at 7 p.m., followed by a cabaret performance at 9 p.m. in the intimate setting of the Café. The combined cost is $150 ($75 dinner, $75 performance).
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5. Jodie Fink, FF Alumn, at Fine Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, thru Dec. 13
Hi all,
The Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present Reprocess featuring the work of two New Jersey artists, Jodie Fink and Robert Lach. Each artist has their own unique vision of the environment and use of found/recycled materials. Whether replicating biological forms or manipulating fragments of life into new creations, these artists are whimsical in their approach delighting the viewer. This exhibition celebrates the artist’s connection with nature using natural materials. The artists have processed a waste substance; a discarded roll of tape, a branch, or a found functionless tool, into something that can used and appreciated again. Intrinsically the found objects may not have worth or meaning, but assembled and repurposed, these sculptures take on new meaning and aesthetic value. We invite you to leave the mundane world and fill your eyes and imagination with the assemblages.
The exhibition runs from November 7 through Dec 13, 2019, with the opening reception on November 7 from 5 to 7pm. The show will be part of JC Fridays on December 6, 5 to 7pm.
St. Peter’s University
Fine Arts Gallery
Mac Mahon Student Center
47 Glenwood Avenue, 5th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Artist Contact –
Jodie Fink:
Website: http://www.jodiefink.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jodie.fink.5
IG: https://www.instagram.com/finkjodie/
Robert Lach:
Website: http://www.robertflach.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/robert.lach.129
IG: https://www.instagram.com/robertlach3568/
Looking forward to seeing you at the opening!
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6. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo, FF Alumn, at Albion College, MI, thru Dec. 3
Caminata
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo with Albion
I am happy to share news about Caminata, the three-month pilgrimage that I have been pursuing in Albion, Michigan, as part of the Philip C. Curtis Artist Residency at Albion College.
An exhibition documenting some aspects of this experience will be on view at the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center during November 2 – December 3, 2019.
The Caminata exhibition includes a projection of The Great Blizzard of 1978, a card by Maggie LaNoue to which she has kindly let me into her illustration of the historic snow storm in town. The vestment and cap I wear in the card were designed and made by Susan Heisler.
Another component of the show is that of two audios, one entitled Albion A-Y, inspired by Linda Mary Montano’s piece for which she read the names and last names of the inhabitants of a town straight from a telephone book. In the case of Albion A-Y, I asked vocalist Ikpemesi Ogundare to sing the names of each one of the streets in Albion in gospel, rap and opera style. Sound Engineer is Christopher Pride. In addition to being played in the gallery, Albion A-Y will be broadcasted from the tower at the Science Building at the College, and through the PA system on Superior St., the main thoroughfare in downtown Albion. Dates to be announced soon.
The second audio, In Albion’s Words, is an hours-long compilation of voices from Albion talking about their home place, what was, what is and what they envision for this postindustrial town, which has been referred to as “The Little Detroit.” Sound engineering for this audio is in charge of Geoffrey Jones. A selection of personal items, one for each person I met and recorded, serves to accompany In Albion’s Words.
In the exhibition as well, is a series of printed articles that have been part of Albion Through My Eyes, the weekly column that I have been writing for The Recorder, a local newspaper.
And in the spirit of gratitude, and since I see the world as my atelier, I have gifted my art studio space at Albion College to some of the young artists part of Kids at Hope, a program founded and directed by Mr. Harry Bonner.
This exhibition and its programming are my very modest but big thank you to the beautiful town of Albion and its inspiring peoples. Nicolás
About Caminata:
In September of 2019 I, Nicolás, relocated from the Bronx, New York, to Albion, Michigan, to engage in a cultural pilgrimage focused on walking, meeting people of all backgrounds and walks of life, and being in community. This exhibition seeks to document some of the many aspects of this embodied journey, almost all of which will remain as lived experiences.
Caminata combines all of my previous expertise and skills in art-making, teaching, public speaking, organizing people, healing, producing participatory workshops, writing for newspapers as well as academic publications, and creating multidimensional and transdisciplinary experiences where art and the day-to-day often walk side by side.
Caminata (c) 2015 Nicolás Dumit Estévez
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7. Ann-Marie LeQuesne, FF Alumn, at Finsbury Park Station, London, UK, Dec. 1
SAVE THE DATE
Taking the Bus
The 22nd Annual Group Photograph
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
Finsbury Park Station
Dec 1st – 2 pm
Join us on a vintage Routemaster bus for a trip beginning at Finsbury Park Station. Our driver will be Joe Kerr, co-author of BUS FARE. We will film you as a bus security camera would, entering and leaving the bus at various locations nearby. Further information to follow. All welcome!
www.amlequesne.com
www.vimeo.com/annmarielequesne
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8. Joe Lewis, FF Alumn, at Galerie No Nada, Oaxaca, Mexico. Dec. 7
Underground Railroad/ Ferrocarril Subterráneo
NO NADA OAXACA
Joe Lewis
“Underground Railroad/ Ferrocarril Subterráneo,” works for this exhibition were developed from a chance discovery of a few articles in the press about how US custom and border agents were using x-ray technology to detect smuggled people and contraband hidden in trucks and shipping containers. The images posted in one Reuters piece, “Mexico steps up raids on migrant-smuggling trucks, uses giant X-Ray,” were very disturbing and reminded me of images portraying the physical distribution of African slaves in slave ship cargo holes.
The Underground Railroad was a system of secret routes and safe houses that dotted the American landscape in the 19th-century, used by those of African descent fleeing North to free states or Canada to escape bondage. In Texas, the Underground Railroad ran south into Mexico, which had abolished slavery in 1829, and allowed runaway slaves and indigenous peoples into their country, refusing to send either group back to the Texas territories; and protecting them from salve hunters. Numerous border towns along the Rio Grande River, especially in the state of Coahuila, Piedras Negras, San Fernando de Rosas (present-day Zaragoza), Ciudad Acuña, and Nuevo Laredo became first destinations for runaway slaves.
Modern-day relationships between the smuggler and the smuggled are not precisely the same as those between the runaway slaves, their owners, and slave hunters. Still, the contemporary economic realities of the former – menial labor, living in challenging urban and rural environments, lack of legal protection in an underground commercial subculture, etc., have distinct similarities. For example, human trafficking or continuously forced servitude to the cartels have a symbiotic, if not direct, relationship to the historical nature of indenture.
The irony of this story is that human traffickers and smugglers may now be using the same routes to bring people and contraband into the United States that runaway slaves and indigenous peoples used to escape into Mexico. The connection between these cultures, their struggles for self-determination, cultural equity, and justice, past and present, continue unabated.
Galerie No Nada
Hidalgo 1204 esq. Xicotencatl, El Centro, Oaxaca
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9. Roberta Allen, Mariella Bisson, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Scott Pfaffman, FF Alumns, at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, thru Dec. 15
The Kentler Flatfiles in 58 Works
Guest Curator: David Houston
Curator’s Talk: Saturday, Nov. 9, 4pm
Reception: Nov. 9, 5-7pm
ARTISTS: Golnar Adili, Roberta Allen, David Ambrose,Tomie Arai, Kate Beck, Mildred Beltré, Ernst Benkert, Emily Berger, Mariella Bisson, Noah Breuer, Stephanie Brody -Lederman, Herbert Brün, Juan Carlos, Phillip Chen, Grace DeGennaro, Karni Dorell, Elizabeth Duffy, Judith Egger, Paul Goss, Joan Grubin, Keiko Hara, Marietta Hoferer, Nene Humphrey, Hannah Israel, John Jacobsmeyer, Mary Judge, Tamiko Kawata, Jirí Kornatovský, Fabio Leao, Luce, Bettina Magi, Peter Matthews, Jim Napierala, Florence Neal, Janell O’Rourke, Ayumi Ohira, Yuke Otomo, Scott Pfaffman, Carol Prusa, Sherae Rimpsey, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Doris Schlapfer, Robert Sestok, Yasu Shibata, Kamran Taherimoghaddam, Hugh Williams
A brochure with an essay by David Houston accompanies the exhibition.
November 9 – December 15, 2019
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm – Exhibitions & Events are open free to the public
Kentler International Drawing Space | 353 Van Brunt Street, (Red Hook), Brooklyn, NY 11231
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10. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
Please visit these links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/arts/design/dread-scott-louisiana-slave-revolt.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/us/a-slave-rebellion-rises-again.html
thank you
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11. Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, in The New York Times, now online.
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/arts/music/lou-reed-andy-warhol-tape.html
thank you.
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12. Erin Markey, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/theater/review-dr-rides-american-beach-house.html
thank you.
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13. Ray Johnson, FF Alumn, at SVA, Manhattan, thru Nov. 29
BOB BOX SVA
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS | FLATIRON PROJECT SPACE
133 W 21 STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10011
OPEN MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, 9 AM TO 6 PM, NOVEMBER 7TH-29TH
Please join us for BOB BOX SVA, wherein Bob Warner will share the contents of thirteen boxes given to him by Ray Johnson at SVA’s Flatiron Project Space, one box at a time with the help of a few guest un-boxers, and immerse visitors in the complex network of Ray Johnson’s art. The opening reception will take place at the Flatiron Project Space, Thursday, November 7th from 6-8 pm.
For more information on Ray Johnson’s Bob Boxes please read Holland Cotter’s review for the New York Times and the Special Edition of Esopus Magazine on the Bob Boxes.
THE RAY JOHNSON ESTATE
34 E 69TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10021
T 212 628 0470
WWW.RAYJOHNSONESTATE.COM
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14. Miriam Schaer, Micki Spiller, FF Alumns, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, thru Feb. 1, 2020
Please visit this link:
http://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/pdf/2019-2020-exhibitons/hand-and-i-media-kit-v4.pdf
thank you.
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15. Elana Katz, Marilena Preda-Sânc, FF Alumns, at NYFA, Brooklyn, thru Dec. 20
Please visit this link:
https://www.experimentalproject.ro/migration.html
thank you.
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16. Agnes Denes, FF Alumn, in The New York Times, now online
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/arts/design/agnes-denes-the-shed-review.html
thank you.
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17. Warren Lehrer, FF Alumn, at Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, Nov. 15
Warren Lehrer FF Alum
Performance Friday November 15th 7 pm
Flushing Town Hall
$5/FREE for Members, Students & Teens
Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/352949085659048/
Flushing Town Hall http://www.flushingtownhall.org/events
Performance/reading/conversation based on Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, a memoir in short visual poems written by muckraking journalist and poet Dennis J Bernstein, and typographic visualizations by pioneer designer/author Warren Lehrer. An ensemble of readers, musicians and performers will join this multimedia presentation that includes animation and projection of select pages from the stunning/award-winning new book.
Lehrer and Bernstein will be joined by actress, playwright, sound artist Judith Sloan, composer/violist Andrew Griffin (currently on Broadway in Ain’t Too Proud), soprano Alicia Waller, composer/pianist Dominic Frigo, vocalist/actor Emily Wexler. Frigo composed music for four of the poems, turning them into song. Andrew Griffin composed and recorded the animation soundtracks.
“Brilliant and Beautiful.” Pulitzer Prize winner author, Alice Walker.
“A masterpiece of poetic visualization.” Johanna Drucker, Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Bernstein & Lehrer are Lennon & McCartney of Vis Lit.” Steven Heller, Design Historian
Other news for the Five Oceans Project and Warren Lehrer:
Radio, reviews and exhibitons and awards.
Radio and Press: Warren Lehrer on Design Matters Podcast. Click Here to listen now
Review in Los Angeles Review of Books Los Angeles Review of Books
If you missed Lehrer and Bernstein on WNYC Click here to listen
Exhibition – final two weeks through November 23 at City Lore
One of the recipients of this year’s STA 100 Awards
BUY THE BOOK
Visit the website: https://fiveoceansinateaspoon.com/
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18. Kazuko Miyamoto, Howardena Pindell, FF Alumns, at EFA Studios, Manhattan, opening Nov. 16
Soft and Wet Publication Launch & Conversation
featuring Kazuko Miyamoto, Howardena Pindell, Judy Blum Reddy, and Sadia Shirazi
Saturday November 16, 2019 5:30-7:00pm
Please join us at EFA for the closing event and launch of Soft and Wet, a publication reflecting on the exhibition of the same title curated by Sadia Shirazi. The evening will feature readings of excerpts from the Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States (1980) catalog by Kazuko Miyamoto, Howardena Pindell, and Judy Blum Reddy. The curator will read excerpts from the newly commissioned texts for the publication it accompanies, followed by a conversation with the speakers about “Third World Women Artists” in the 1970s and 80s and the linkages with Soft and Wet.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and early arrival is recommended
Participants:
Kazuko Miyamoto is a preeminent feminist figure of minimalism, and a pioneer of a new and radically warm brand of rigorous abstraction, introducing handmade, irregular, and intimate elements that both modulated the movement’s unforgiving visual language and advanced it, by critique. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Miyamoto moved to New York in 1964, studied at the Arts Student League, and assisted Sol LeWitt, she helped produce and execute his open cube sculptures and early wall drawings. Miyamoto’s work has shown in numerous institutions and galleries, both domestically and internationally, including Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria; Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture, New York; A.I.R. Gallery, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary, New York; among many others, and is represented by Exile Gallery, Berlin.
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Howardena Pindell studied painting at Boston University and Yale University. After graduating, she accepted a job in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, where she remained for 12 years (1967-1979). In 1979, she began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where she is now a full professor. Throughout her career, Pindell has exhibited extensively. Notable solo-exhibitions include: Spelman College (1971, Atlanta), A.I.R. Gallery (1973, 1983, New York), Just Above Midtown (1977, New York), Lerner-Heller Gallery (1980, 1981, New York), The Studio Museum in Harlem (1986, New York), the Wadsworth Atheneum (1989, Hartford), Cyrus Gallery (1989, New York), G.R. N’Namdi Gallery (1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, Chicago, Detroit, and New York), Garth Greenan Gallery, New York (2014), and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2015).
Pindell often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. She cuts canvases in strips and sews them back together, building up surfaces in elaborate stages. She paints or draws on sheets of paper, punches out dots from the paper using a paper hole punch, drops the dots onto her canvas, and finally squeegees paint through the “stencil” left in the paper from which she had punched the dots. Almost invariably, her paintings are installed unstretched, held to the wall merely by the strength of a few finishing nails. The artist’s fascination with gridded, serialized imagery, along with surface texture appears throughout her oeuvre. Even in her later, more politically charged work, Pindell reverts to these thematic focuses in order to address social issues of homelessness, AIDs, war, genocide, sexism, xenophobia, and apartheid.
Judy Blum Reddy lives and works in New York. Blum received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and has exhibited internationally since the 1970s. Most recently she has exhibited at CCS Bard, 2019; the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, 2015; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016; Villa Vassilief, Paris, 2016; Dak’Art Biennale of African Contemporary Art, Senegal, 2016; Station Independent Project, New York, 2015; 33 Orchard, New York, 2016; FIAC, Paris, 2016; Clark House Initiative, Bombay, 2014-16; Asian Cultural Centre, Gwangju Biennale, 2016; and Art Dubai, 2015. Reddy’s work is included in public collections at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Fond National d’Art Contemporain and Centre National d’Art de Grenoble, France.
Sadia Shirazi is a writer, art historian, curator and sometimes architect based in New York. Her reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, MoMA post, C Magazine, The Funambulist, Jadaliyya and ArteEast and she has written monographic essays on Zarina and Jessica Vaughn. Shirazi has curated exhibitions internationally including Three days in the desert at the Lower East Side Printshop (2018), welcome to what we took from is the state at the Queens Museum (2016), and 230 MB/Exhibition Without Objects at Khoj Artists’s Association in Delhi (2013). Her work has been shown at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Performance Space New York and the Devi Art Foundation. Shirazi holds a MArch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA from the University of Chicago. She is the Instructor for Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP), teaches at The New School and Cooper Union, and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University.
This event is presented with support from ICI and Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Thanks also to A.I.R. Gallery.
Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI is a hub that connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaboration.
The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University was established in 1996 in response to student interest combined with the University’s commitment to global excellence. It provides a space in which research and public programs, with a focus on community and intercultural studies, are made accessible to faculty, students, and the New York community within a broad, rigorous international and comparative framework.
The A/P/A Institute at NYU produces programming, publications, exhibitions, new research, and a long-running artist-in-residence program, attracting leading academics and practitioners. The Institute’s multiple archival collection initiatives have also continued to build a foundation of, and preservation and access to, important historical documents and previously overlooked materials for present and future researchers and students.
Located in Greenwich Village, the Institute serves the community highlighting research, cultural production, and scholarship on contemporary issues facing Asian/Pacific American communities, and provides a nexus for scholars, community leaders, and artists who are working on advancing scholarship in the field and bringing theory into practice.
During the event, an A/P/A representative will be present with copies of DIRECTIONS TO MY HOUSE By Zarina Hashmi with Sarah Burney for purchase.
“Memory is the only lasting possession we have,” begins Zarina Hashmi, the A/P/A Institute at NYU’s 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence. In the pages that follow, the artist writes about her life for the first time-her family’s experience during the 1947 Partition of India, her long career as an artist, and the many cities that she has called home. The book includes never-published material, and chronicles the artist’s travels and life around the world through a collection of essays, poems, artworks, and personal photographs. More information on the publication can be found here.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
SOFT AND WET
Curated by Sadia Shirazi
On view until November 16, 2019
EFA Project Space is pleased to present Soft and Wet, curated by Sadia Shirazi. The exhibition features works by Arooj Aftab, Beverly Buchanan, Crystal Z Campbell, Caroline Key, Ana Mendieta, Andy Robert, Julie Tolentino, Zarina, and Constantina Zavitsanos.
The exhibition cites Prince’s 1978 single, “Soft and Wet” and Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, which was co-curated by Ana Mendieta, Kazuko Miyamoto, and Zarina at A.I.R. Gallery in 1980. These citations serve as reference points to help us locate fleshy, formalist impulses in the practices of contemporary artists that echo those of artists from the 1970s. Working through sound, vision, vibration, touch, and breath, the artists in Soft and Wet activate multi-sensory responses that move beyond the linguistic registers of a singular voice and questions of individuated agency dominating discourses of representational art. The artists turn their formalism towards questions of flesh, fugitivity, and consent in relation to the nation-state, neoliberal capitalism, and the medical-industrial complex, while stretching formalism beyond the assumption of hegemonic subjects as the sole inheritors of its legacy. The works in this show are experiments in, and explorations of, what it means “to consent not to be a single being” as Édouard Glissant writes. The artists in Soft and Wet think with and through one another, invoking the artist whose song gives the exhibition its title, to feel out the contours of other ways of being in relation. They join him in saying-We’d be so lost, in our mouths, the best, I feel it everyday (every way).
PRESS INQUIRIES:
JP-Anne Giera, Program Manager
EFA Project Space
212-563-5855 x 233 | jpanne@efanyc.org
EFA PROJECT SPACE
323 W. 39 Street, 2nd Floor, NYC
between 8th & 9th Avenues
Hours: Wed – Sat, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM
www.projectspace-efanyc.org | projectspace@efanyc.org
Accessibility Note: EFA Project Space is located at 323 W. 39th Street, 2nd Floor, between 8th and 9th Avenues, in Manhattan. The building is wheelchair accessible, with two accessible elevators in the lobby. Guests are asked to sign in in the lobby, but no ID is required for entry. Nearest accessible subway station is 42nd Street/Port Authority, 1 block north on 8th Avenue.
EFA Project Space is committed to nurturing an intergenerational environment, and we encourage ‘kid noise’ at our events. Please feel free to notify us of any accessibility needs by email projectspace@efanyc.org, or phone at (212) 563-5855 x 233.
EFA Project Space, launched in September 2008 as a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary arts venue founded on the belief that art is directly connected to the individuals who produce it, the communities that arise because of it, and to everyday life; and that by providing an arena for exploring these connections, we empower artists to forge new partnerships and encourage the expansion of ideas.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) is a 501 (c) (3) public charity. Through its three core programs, EFA Studios, EFA Project Space, and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, EFA is dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice. The SHIFT Residency is produced in 2019 with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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19. Alicia Grullon, FF Alumn, at The Block Gallery, Manhattan, Nov. 14
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As many of you know, I am one of the selected artists of the inagural AIM Residency Program Alums from the Bronx Museum in Tribeca. I have been working in the studio since July and will be there until the end of the year.
Our Open House-as part of the Fall 2019 edition of Tribeca Art & Culture Night-is this Thursday November 14, from 6 to 8 pm, at The Block Gallery (80 White St.) in Tribeca. I’ll be showing a mini retrospective of photographic works and video.
The group show will be on view until December 13, you can visit from Wednesday-Friday, 12-6pm. If you can’t make it to the Open House and would like to do a studio visit, please email me to coordinate, I’m happy to show you around!
Open House: Thursday, November 14, 6-8 pm
The Block Gallery, 80 White St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Group Show: Thursday, November 14-Friday, December 13, 2019
Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 12-6pm
The Block Gallery, 80 White St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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