Artist News: October Part II
Fall is officially here and NYFA Affiliated Artists across the country are busy sharing their work.
We invite you to enjoy the season and check out the following exhibitions, screenings, readings, and performances! Remember to let us know what you think on social media by tagging us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
Things to do & see in NYC:
Sylvie Courvoisier (Fellow in Music/Sound ‘13)
Sylvie Courvoisier, joined by Mark Feldman, will be performing at John Zorn’s Ultimate Bagatelles Marathon, an unprecedented 10-hour concert presenting over 100 different pieces from John Zorn’s expansive new book of music.
When: October 22, 2016, 2:00 PM
Where: National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Mary Ting (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘01, ‘07)
Join FiveMyles for a benefit exhibition with the opportunity to support a roof renovation and take home a piece of artwork by Mary Ting or other donating artists.
When: Exhibition open from October 19 to October 23, 2016; FiveMyles Benefit: October 23, 2016, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: FiveMyles, 558 St Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Ellie Irons (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts ‘15)
Ellie Irons is presenting her in-progress paper “Vegetative Resistance” at the Chance Ecologies Symposium as part of Chance Ecologies: Queens, an exhibition of artworks and research projects dealing with the wild growing landscapes found around Queens.
When: Chance Ecologies Symposium: October 23, 2016; Exhibition: October 8 – October 30, 2016
Where: Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368
Ronna Wineberg (Fellow in Fiction ‘04)
Wineberg will be doing a reading from her new collection of stories, Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life with Donna Baier Stein at KGB Sunday Night Fiction.
When: October 23, 2016, 7:00 PM
Where: KGB Sunday Night Fiction, 85 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003
Tessa Hughes-Freeland (Fellow in Film ‘01)
Learn about the various methods and techniques of creating collaged films in the upcoming Found Footage & Collage Film Workshop with Tessa Hughes-Freeland. Register Here.
When: October 29th, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Where: Film-Makers’ Cooperative, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016
Caren Canier (Fellow in Painting ‘85, ‘90)
The Painting Center presents Canier’s Town and Country: Paintings in the Project Room. Her pieces, executed in mixed media including collaged photographs and paint, are musings about the way people inhabit the landscape, rural or urban.
When: Opening: November 3 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM; Exhibition Dates: November 1 – November 26, 2016
Where: The Painting Center (Project Room), 547 West 27th Street #500, New York, NY 10001
Takuji Hamanaka (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘11)
Takuji Hamanaka is showing two of his recent works with Owen James Gallery at Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2016.
When: November 3 – November 6, 2016
Where: The Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
Joshua Fried (Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work ‘95, ‘01) and Hans Tammen (Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts ‘09)
Fried’s, aka RADIO WONDERLAND’s, SEiZE THE MEANS record release party is happening at Trans-Pecos in Ridgewood, featuring performances by him and other special guests including Hans Tammen.
When: November 7, 2016 from 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Where: Trans-Pecos 915 Wyckoff Ave, Ridgewood, NY
Annie Ferdous (Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts ‘15)
Rabindranath Tagore’s dance opera Land of Cards, choreographed by Annie Ferdous, combines traditional Bangladeshi dance and Tagore’s originals songs with English dialogue. It’s now shown at Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn. Buy tickets here.
When: November 12, 2016, 7:00 PM
Where: Kumble Theater, One University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) (Sponsored Project)
ACAW brings together leading New York and Asia-based art institutions, museums and galleries for cutting-edge exhibitions, innovative projects, provocative dialogues, and networking opportunities.
When: A slew of different events, all at different times! Through November 18, 2016
Where: More places than we can count! Click here for a full calendar.
Rosebud Ben-Oni (Fellow in Poetry 14’)
Borders and Identity: The Poetics of Place with Rosebud Ben-Oni is a workshop running from October- November that explores the dynamics existing within and arising out of different kinds of borders not only geographical but also racial, ethnic, sexual, familial and linguistic. Students will write and share work, drawing inspiration from various poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Tara Betts, Eduardo C. Corral, Ocean Vuong and Cornelius Eady.
When: Ongoing classes from October to November. Click here to see all class dates.
Where: Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
China Marks (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘05,’11)
Time Traveler, a solo exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, features Marks’ recent books, broadsides, and text-based drawings produced in thread and fabric using an industrial sewing machine and a computerized embroidery machine.
When: Now through December 17, 2016
Where: Center for Book Arts, 8 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001
Get out of town to see:
Keliy Anderson-Staley (Fellow in Photography ‘08)
Gallery Aferro presents The Newark Tintypes, which showcases Keliy’s work from the past decade.
When: October 21 – November 12; Opening Reception: October 21, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Gallery Aferro, 73 Market Street, Newark, NJ 07102
China Marks (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘05,’11)
Radiant Messenger: Drawings by China Marks, a major solo exhibition of over 50 of her drawings from the last three years, opens at the Foosaner Art Museum. On October 22, Marks will give an artist’s talk. She is also the guest curator of Transformers: Recontextualizing Our Material Culture, a museum exhibition at the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts in Melbourne, Florida on September 17 through December 17, 2016.
When: October 22, 2016 – January 7, 2017
Where: Foosaner Art Museum, 1463 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, FL 32935
Carlyle Brown (Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting ‘89)
As our planet comes to a critical moment in the human impact on its environmental evolution, Carlyle Brown & Company is compelled to give voice to this particular perspective through the production of Finding Fish, with performances continuing through October 29.
When: October 6 – October 29, 2016. Thursdays – Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Sundays at 7:00 PM
Where: Illusion Theater, 8th floor, 528 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Duston Spear (Sponsored Project)
Duston Spear is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her short film Swirl (Past) will be screened at The Outlet Dance Project’s Day of Dance on October 30 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, and at Dairy Arts Center as part of the 13th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema on the same day at 7:00 PM.
When and Where: October 30, 2016, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Grounds For Sculpture, 80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton Township, NJ 08619. Tickets for admission to Grounds for Sculpture are required.
October 30, 2016, 7:00 PM at Boedecker Theater, Dairy Arts Center, 590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Diana Mara Henry (Sponsored Project)
On the Lower East Side: Paintings by Noel Oard Mapstead and Photographs by Diana Mara Henry is now on view in Newport, Vermont. Mapstead and Henry’s art documents the young hip art scene of New York’s Lower East Side in the mid-1980’s.
When: Now through November 15, 2016
Where: The 99 Gallery and Center, 316 Main Street, Newport, VT 05855
Judith Bernstein (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘88)
If you happen to be in London this fall, check out Judith Bernstein’s work in Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, an exhibition comprising over forty female artists from around the world.
When: October 7, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Where: The Photographers’ Gallery, 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW, United Kingdom
Judith Bernstein is also featured in Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, an expansive exhibition including more than two hundred works of portraiture.
When: April 27, 2016 – February 12, 2017
Where: Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014
Amy Bennett (Fellow in Painting ‘06, ‘10)
Bennett’s exhibition, Small Changes Everyday at Richard Heller Gallery closes this Saturday.
When: September 10, 2016 – October 22, 2016
Where: Richard Heller Gallery, 2525 Michigan Avenue B-5A, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Amy Bennett (Fellow in Painting ‘06, ‘10)
The group exhibition, Spotlight #2, featuring one of Bennett’s paintings opens next week at Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Sweden.
When: October 27,2016 – November 6, 2016
Where: Galleri Magnus Karlsson, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
New Issues and Releases to Enjoy at Home:
Judith Bernstein (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘88)
Judith Bernstein’s work is featured in King Kong Issue 2 among works of other legends such as Cindy Sherman and AA Bronson. Her new artist book Dicks of Death: Judith Bernstein has also been released, including her graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings.
NYFA Congratulates:
China Marks (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘05,’11)
What: Several recent drawings of China’s were featured on Inspirational 1, an online art journal by John Hopper, which can be found here. Also, a 182-page exhibition catalogue of China Marks—Nowhere/Everywhere, a sixty-drawing survey of her drawings at the Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, in the Fall of 2015, is finally available for purchase on LULU.
eteam: Hajoe Moderegger / Franziska Lamprecht (Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ‘16)
What: eteam will publish their new art novel, OS Grabeland. Read the review on BOMB Magazine which also includes newly edited video footage of them working on the project.
Still have time to consume more art? Check out more Artist News on NYFA Current.
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Image: China Marks (Fellow in Printmaking/ Drawing/ Artists Books ‘11)
