Baltimore | Curator-Led Tour: Recent Acquisitions at The Walters Art Museum
2024-05-17 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | New York
Local to Baltimore or in town for AAM? Reconnect with ArtTable friends between conference sessions at The Walters Art Museum, located less than a mile from the Baltimore Convention Center. This exclusive, 90-minute tour with Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, covers two of her exhibitions: Reflect and Remix: Art Inspiring Artists and New on the Bookshelf: The Creative Power of Women. These exhibitions explore the visual and material resonances between works of art separated by time in the Walters collection, as well as highlighting new acquisitions that celebrate the contributions of women to the book arts.

Admission:

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960
2024-05-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | New York
Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, March 22, 2024–April 20, 2025. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Rick Coulby.

Meet ArtTable in DC for a curator-led tour of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960 with Dr. Marina Isgro, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hirshhorn’s opening on October 4, 2024, Revolutions places the work of 19 contemporary artists in dialogue with that of 117 artists who worked between 1860 and 1960: the century that introduced Modernism and abstraction, and led up to the Hirshhorn’s establishment by Congress in 1966. An audio guide by Katy Hessel—part of her Museums Without Men series—accompanies the exhibition, highlighting the women represented in Revolutions, whose work completes and complicates art historical narratives they were frequently written out of. Revolutions‘ dialogue between living artists—including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, and Catherine Opie—and their 19th- and 20th-century counterparts—such as Berenice Abbott, Mary Cassatt, and Alma Thomas—reveals the resonance and relevance of these earlier works in our contemporary culture.

Program admission:

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Admission to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and to all its exhibitions, tours, and other public educational programs is free of charge. Any charge or request for contributions is unrelated to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

About the Curator

Marina Isgro is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn and was the lead curator of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960. At the Museum, she has also curated Laurie Anderson: The Weather; John Akomfrah: Purple; and OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, forthcoming in September. Prior to joining the Hirshhorn, Marina was Nam June Paik Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play. She received her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Princeton University.

New York, NY | Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | A Conversation with the Artist and Laura Hoptman of The Drawing Center
2024-05-30 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St, New York, New York, 10013
Joan Jonas, Untitled, 2015. Ink, 22.4 x 30 in (57 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photo Credit: Pierre Le Hors

ArtTable is honored to present a conversation between Joan Jonas and Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, exploring the artist’s exhibition Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. Curated by Hoptman, The Drawing Center’s exhibition is the first major retrospective to focus on Jonas’ substantial body of works on paper. Jonas and Hoptman will discuss the centrality of drawing to the artist’s practice, documenting her process and tying together her work in sculpture, performance, and recorded media. The works on view in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral focus on the natural world, a lifelong source of inspiration for Jonas. This is a rare opportunity to witness a legendary figure in postwar and contemporary art interpret the evolution of her practice through over 300 of her drawings.

Following this 40-minute conversation, attendees will be able to explore the exhibition on their own. The Drawing Center will remain open until 6:00 PM.

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This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Courtney Maier Burbela and Paula Longendyke of Joan Jonas Studio for coordinating this program.

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Time-Based Media at the National Portrait Gallery
2024-06-12 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | National Portrait Gallery, 8th & G Streets NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Expand your understanding and appreciation of time-based media on this special tour for the ArtTable community, led by Dr. Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. As the pace of technological innovation continues to accelerate, so too will the quantity of art produced within this precisely defined, yet expansive category: time-based media, or art that reveals itself to the viewer or over time, encompasses film, audio, computer, and slide-based works. As the National Portrait Gallery and its peer institutions build their collections in time-based media, they are confronted with complex questions regarding the interpretation, installation, and conservation of these works, as well as the opportunity to define best practices for future generations of scholars. Dr. Ickes’ tour will cover highlights of the National Portrait Gallery’s acquisitions in time-based media, as well as explore how her Smithsonian colleagues have been grappling with these issues.

Program admission:

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New York, NY | Walkthrough of Mika Tajima: Super Natural at the Hill Art Foundation
2024-06-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | New York
Installation view: Mika Tajima: Super Natural. Hill Art Foundation, May 3–July 26, 2024. © Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Matthew Herrmann.

ArtTable community members are invited on a walkthrough of Mika Tajima: Super Natural in the galleries of the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea, overlooking the High Line. With Astrid Hill, Founder of Monticule Art Advisory and the Vice President of the Hill Art Foundation, and Sarah Needham, Executive Director of the Hill Art Foundation, we will explore a selection of Tajima’s recent work in a diverse and inventive range of media, from textiles and thermoformed paintings to sculpture in blown glass and stone. Curated by Mika Yoshitake, Super Natural highlights Tajima’s investigation of the complex relationships humans have with technology, the built environment, and one another, as well as her interest in making the invisible visible through works of art.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

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Non-Members – $25

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About the Hill Art FoundationThe Hill Art Foundation is a public exhibition and education space that presents rotating exhibitions and ongoing arts education programs. Opened in 2019 in a custom-built 7,700-square-foot space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, the Foundation is free and open to the public. Exhibitions include works on loan from the Hill Collection, as well as collaborative projects with leading artists, collections, and institutions. The Foundation was founded by J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, collectors and philanthropists based in New York. The Foundation offers year-round educational programming for New York City high school students through three unique programs: Teen Curators, HAF Educators, and Teen Summer Fellows.

Astrid Hill is the President and Founder of Monticule Art Advisory, a full-service art advisory based in New York, which focuses on placing works by living artists with collectors with whom she has established long-standing relationships. She also serves as Vice President and Curator of Emerging Artists at the Hill Art Foundation. She works closely with artists, collectors, and the gallerists who represent these artists. She is Chair Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Apollo Circle group, a member of the International Director’s Council (IDC) and Education Committee at the Guggenheim Museum, Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA). Astrid received a BA from Brown University and received her Master of Arts from Christie’s Education in the History of Art and the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary.

Sarah Needham has been the Executive Director of the Hill Art Foundation since 2018. Previously she was a Program Officer at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation where she oversaw the arts and education portfolio. From 2008-2012, Needham worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she held a variety of roles in public relations and development and helped to organize the campus’ first-ever public art initiative. Needham holds a B.A. in Art History from Williams College and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She serves on the Board of Directors for Danspace Project and is a member of the Education Committee at the Guggenheim Museum.

Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2024-06-17 15:00 - 15:30, 2024-09-23 15:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | New York
12 pm PT / 1 pm MT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET

Welcome new ArtTable members! Please join us for a virtual orientation session where you will meet other new members and learn how to take full advantage of all the ArtTable community has to offer. This program is free and open to all ArtTable members.

Whether you are new to our community or have been a long-time member, there’s no wrong time for a refresher course! Connect with other members in a casual and relaxed online environment and learn more about what our community is all about.

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(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)

Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

Can’t join us for this new member orientation? Don’t worry, we host virtual orientation sessions every 3 months! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Rose B. Simpson's "Seed" at Madison Square Park
2024-06-20 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10010, United States
This tour with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, explores the current project in the Conservancy’s field-leading program of contemporary public art. In Seed, Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, b. 1983) presents a circle of seven steel figures, each eighteen feet tall, surrounding a female form in bronze. The steel figures protect and support the central figure, while simultaneously looking to the past, the present, and the future. While this tour will cover Simpson’s work in Madison Square Park, additional figures are installed in Inwood Hill Park in upper Manhattan, marking the Conservancy’s twentieth anniversary as well as its first public art collaboration with a public New York City park.

Of her installations in each park, Simpson says: “While I am there with my work, I have the opportunity to guide through reminders. Maybe my work is about the displaced Indigenous residents who had thousands of years communing with that ground—a heuristic relationship that shaped their culture. Maybe it’s about the act of being in that space, gendered. Maybe it’s about the feeling of communing in a public space, about safety, about the feeling of anonymity that comes from an immense crowd, the clench of protective identity and the need to exhale.” While Seed is Simpson’s first solo exhibition of public art in New York, her work can also be seen in the 2024 Whitney Biennial as well as collections including the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, LACMA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2023, President Biden appointed Simpson to the Board of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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About the Curator:

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, where she is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists including Diana AI-Hadid, Tony Cragg, Abigail DeVille, Leonardo Drew, Teresita Fernandez, Maya Lin, Josiah McElheny, Martin Puryear, Erwin Redl, Arlene Shechet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. She was commissioner and curator of the 2019 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty/Liberta. She is the founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park colleagues launched in 2017. Rapaport was a curator in the contemporary art department at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. She sits on the boards of three artist-endowed foundations and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.

Ridgefield, CT | Curator-Led Tour of Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years
2024-06-21 15:45 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street Ridgefield, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 06877, United States
Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, January 21 to August 11, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Jason Mandella

Join us for an art-filled summer Friday in Ridgefield, Connecticut! Amy Smith-Stewart, Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, will lead a tour of Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years for ArtTable community members and their guests. The Aldrich’s exhibition—Hollowell’s first survey and first solo museum show on the East Coast—features paintings, works on paper, and multimedia works, several of which have not been publicly exhibited before. Drawing inspiration from Judy Chicago, Hilma af Klint, Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, and Neo-Tantric painting, Hollowell’s deeply feminist art explores how the body relates to themes of temporality, identity, freedom, and parenthood. Read more about the exhibition in Artnet and Vogue.

Admission to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is included with program registration. Please note, program participants are responsible for their own transportation to/from The Aldrich.

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POSTPONED: Los Angeles, CA | Visit to Studio Daniel Canogar
2024-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Studio Daniel Canogar, 652 Mateo St, Unit 304, Los Angeles, California, 90021
Daniel Canogar, Dynamo [detail], Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai, 2020. Temporary sculptural LED screens, computers, generative custom software, real-time data, metal structures. Image courtesy Studio Daniel Canogar.

Please note: this program has been postponed. An email announcement will be made once a new date has been selected.

Join ArtTable for a visit to Studio Daniel Canogar in the Arts District of Downtown LA. Our conversation with the artist and Stacie Martinez, Los Angeles Studio Director, will cover Canogar’s practice and recent projects, as well as the dynamic partnership between Canogar and Martinez. This conversation will explore the creative process behind Canogar’s multimedia works—which range from generative animations on LED screens to metalwork and mosaic—as well as the collaborations and challenges involved in displaying these works internationally.

Parking Info (address below): There is street parking on Mateo and Jesse, and surrounding streets, or a parking lot for $5/hour on the corner of Jesse / Mateo. The door code to the building will be provided upon RSVP.

Admission:

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About Studio Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar’s works are are often driven by a custom-designed algorithm that gathers real- time data via the internet. The final outcome of these artworks is often hypnotic and varies across different media including generative animations on LED screens, metal works, recycled- glass mosaics, or wallpaper. Many of the artworks are an attempt to integrate generative art into the history of art, as they explore unexpected aesthetic influences, such as postwar Abstract Expressionism, Performance, and Op Art from the 1960s, among others. Canogar has created permanent public art installations for Nike World Headquarters (Beaverton, OR), the Sobrato Foundation (Mountain View, CA), Tampa International Airport (Tampa, FL) and the Novartis Pavilion (Basel, Switzerland), among others. He currently exhibits with bitforms gallery in New York, Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt, and Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid. He has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries across the world, including Reina Sofia Art Museum, Madrid; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA and Art Vault at the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM. His work will be included in a forthcoming exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Digital Witness,” curated by Britt Salveson as part of the Pacific Standard Time initiative.

Stacie Martinez is the Los Angeles Studio Director for Daniel Canogar. Prior to this she was director at Los Angeles galleries Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Philip Martin Gallery, and Christopher Grimes Gallery. She began her career as Curatorial Associate at the Orange County Museum of Art, and was Program and Panel Co-Chair for the Southern California Chapter of ArtTable from 2016-2018.

New York, NY | Studio and Private Collection Visit with Michele Oka Doner
2024-06-25 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New York
Associated throughout her life with Miami—where her 1.25-mile bronze and terracotta intallation A Walk on the Beach is seen by millions of Miami International Airport travelers each year—the multimedia artist and writer Michele Oka Doner also maintains a studio and personal art collection in SoHo, Manhattan. ArtTable is delighted to invite you to join Michele in the singular space where she collects her inspirations and makes much of her work. Her experimentation is boundless: in addition to creating over 40 public and private installations, she works in video, textile, and print; makes artist books and functional art; and produces prints and drawings. A deep curiosity about natural phenomena unites the work she has created throughout her five-decade career, and continues to challenge and inspire. The author or subject of eight books, Oka Doner has been recognized by NYSCA, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the United Nations Society of Writers and Artists. She is an alumna and receipeint of an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan, and her work is included in the collections of the Louvre, the V&A, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and university museum collections across the globe.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Michele Oka Doner’s studio is located in SoHo, Manhattan. The exact address will be shared with attendees shortly before the program.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

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Baltimore, MD | Curator-Led Tour of Joyce J. Scott: Walk A Mile in My Dreams at the Baltimore Museum of Art
2024-06-27 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | New York
Joyce J. Scott, Joyce’s Neckace (detail). Image courtesy Baltimore Museum of Art.

ArtTable community members are invited on a special tour of Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams, led by Cecilia Wichmann, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art and co-curator of the exhibition. Best known for her virtuosic use of beads and glass, Joyce J. Scott’s works across all media beguile viewers with beauty and humor while confronting racism, sexism, ecological devastation, and complex family dynamics. For five decades, Scott (born Baltimore, MD, 1948) has upended hierarchies of art and craft, insisting that artistic expression is that “extra inch of life” that nourishes the soul even in the most challenging circumstances. Co-organized with the Seattle Art Museum and developed in close collaboration with the artist, this comprehensive career retrospective reveals the full breadth of Scott’s utterly unique vision through nearly 140 objects, from her woven tapestries and soft sculpture of the 1970s to her audacious genre-defying performances of the 1980s, and her ascendancy as a sculptor of astonishing social force and formal ingenuity.

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New York, NY | Chakaia Booker: Shaved Portions Installation Viewing and Artist Talk
2024-07-11 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Address: 323 W 39th St, New York, New York, 10018
Image Credit: Alexandre Ayer, Diversity Pictures, for Garment District Alliance

Meet ArtTable in Midtown for a viewing of Chakaia Booker’s Shaved Portions before heading over to the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for a talk with the artist. Presented in New York as part of the Garment District Alliance’s public art program, Shaved Portions was originally commissioned for the Oklahoma Center for Contemporary Art and previously exhibited at Washington University in St. Louis. A sculptor, painter, and photographer, Booker is widely known for her use of repurposed materials, like the rubber tires cut up and rewoven to construct Shaved Portions. The interwoven, branching structure of the installation exemplifies Booker’s ability to push the limits of abstraction, using unconventional media to evoke interconnectedness in the natural world and in society.

Program Itinerary:

5:00–5:40 pm: Chakaia Booker in conversation with artist Phoebe Collings-James at Shaved Portions (installed on Broadway between West 39th and West 40th Streets)

5:40–6:00 pm: Move to EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (an 8-minute walk); cocktail reception

6:00–6:30 pm: Chakaia Booker in conversation with Essye Klempner, Director of Programing and Partnerships at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

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Non-Member – $25

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This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Alaina Simone for coordinating this program.

Chakaia Booker (born 1953 Newark, NJ) is an internationally renowned and widely collected American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works from recycled tires and stainless steel for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces. Booker’s works are contained in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the US, in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Booker was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Recent public installation highlights include Millennium Park, Chicago (2016-2018), Garment District Alliance Broadway Plazas, New York, NY (2014), and National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Avenue Sculpture Project, Washington DC (2012). Chakaia Booker is represented by David Nolan Gallery.

Image Credit: Alexandre Ayer, Diversity Pictures, for Garment District Alliance

New York, NY | Artist Talk: Deborah Druick in Conversation with Sasha Phyars Burgess
2024-07-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | David Nolan Gallery, 24 E 81st St, 4th floor, New York, New York, 10028
Deborah Druick (b. 1951), Absent, 2023, signed, titled, and dated on back. Diptych; Flashe paint on linen. Each: 40 x 30 in (DD8811). Image courtesy David Nolan Gallery

ArtTable invites you to David Nolan Gallery on the Upper East Side for a special viewing of BODIES: Ray Yoshida, Christina Ramberg, Deborah Druick featuring Deborah Druick in conversation with Sasha Phyars Burgess, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow for Creative Arts. This talk will be moderated by writer and critic Julie Baumgardner.

About the exhibition:

BODIES brings together three intergenerational artists united by their strong interest in pattern, design, figuration, and the human body. Collectively, their work is informed by the human experience and the politics around the representation of the human form, as well as by popular culture.

The work of Ray Yoshida (1930-2009), Christina Ramberg (1946-1995), and Deborah Druick (b. 1951) strays from the overarching influence of Abstract Expressionism that especially dominated Yoshida and Ramberg’s generations. Their commitment to formal principles instead lends itself to careful studies of the body that crop it or focus on its minute details. Their mutual interest in the human body is more physiological than illustrative, a commitment that is further demonstrated by their works’ compositional strength which reflects more than just raw emotion.

The influence of popular culture in the form of cartoons and comic books manifests in defined lines and weighty figures for whom a world beyond the canvas does not exist. Like the panels of a comic book, these spaces are contained, unlike the Abstract Expressionist tendency to imply the brushstroke’s extension well beyond the space of the canvas.

All three artists bring their investigations into so-called low art to a high plane that questions our perceptions of the world around us. They do not shy from depicting “private” body parts or “negative” human conditions, like isolation. They employ style for study’s sake, deeply informed by the very principles of art as observation and as a translation of what it means to be human.

The exhibition viewing and cocktail reception beginning at 5:00 PM. The Artist Talk will begin at 5:30 PM.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Our sincere thanks to Alaina Simone for coordinating this program.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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Virtual | Meet the 2024 ArtTable Fellows
2024-07-18 12:00 - 13:15 (America/New_York) | New York
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET

Please join us for a virtual meet & greet with the 2024 ArtTable Fellows! This year ArtTable was able to award 16 fellowship positions to emerging professionals throughout the country, all thanks to generous donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations. The fellows will discuss their projects and their experience with the ArtTable Fellowship Program so far. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet our current fellowship cohort and learn more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program and the opportunities it provides to emerging professionals.

Through the generous support of individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies, ArtTable has supported 183 women-identifying and nonbinary fellows, partnered with a total of 98 leading art organizations nationwide so far, and dispersed over $665,000 since the Fellowship’s inception.

Registration for this program is free and open to all, with a suggested donation of $15.00 to continue to support the program. We hope to see you there!

CANCELLED Fort Worth, TX | Curator-Led Tour of Surrealism & Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940
2024-07-18 15:45 - 16:45 (America/Chicago) | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, Texas, 76107
Kenny Rivero, Olafs and Chanclas, 2021. Oil on canvas. 72 x 72 inches. Collection of Michael Sherman. © Kenny Rivero. Photograph by Ed Mumford, Courtesy of the Artist and Charles Moffett, New York

Join ArtTable Fellowship alum María Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, on a private tour of her current exhibition. Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940, on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth until July 28. As the Modern’s first exhibition exploring art of the Caribbean and the African diaspora from an intergenerational perspective, Surrealism and Us includes more than 80 works dating from the 1940s through the present, exploring the history of Caribbean Surrealism, the Affrosurreal in American art, and global interpretations of modernism.

Exploring themes developed in Suzanne Césaire’s essay “1943: Surrealism and Us,” Ortiz’s exhibition features a multi-media selection of work by Belkis Ayón, Firelei Báez, Romare Bearden, Nick Cave, Aimé Césaire, Hew Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Ana Mendieta, Wangechi Mutu, Naudline Pierre, Betye Saar, Kara Walker, and other artists who examined the histories of Black resistance and the European avant-garde for their own creative purposes.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $20

Member Guests – $25

Public – $30

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New Windsor, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Arlene Shechet: Girl Group at Storm King Art Center
2024-07-19 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Storm King Art Center, 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, New York, 12553
Arlene Shechet, Rapunzel, 2024. Aluminum, stainless steel, paint, 20 ft. x 11 ft. 5/8 in. x 8 ft. 13/16 in. (609.6 x 336.8 x 245.9 cm). Courtesy of the Artist and Pace Gallery. Photo by David Schulze

Explore one of this year’s most notable exhibitions with ArtTable during Upstate Art Weekend! Join us at Storm King Art Center for a private tour of Arlene Shechet: Girl Group with Eric Booker, Associate Curator at Storm King and co-curator of the exhibition. Surrounded by the stunning landscape of the Hudson Valley, we will encounter six monumental sculptures, created by Shechet in aluminum and stainless steel for Storm King’s exhibition. Painted in subtle gradations of color that evoke the impact of light and the elements of nature on manmade objects, Shechet’s towering sculptures interrogate the overwhelmingly masculine history of their genre. Girl Group continues in Storm King’s indoor galleries, where smaller ceramic works from Shechet’s Together series illustrate the artist’s iterative process of making and reshaping the forms she would ultimately express on a monumental scale.

Please note: ArtTable will gather at 12:00 PM to allow adequate time to walk to the exhibition site prior to the 12:30 PM tour. Admission to Storm King Art Center is included with registration.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $25

Friend of Member – $30

Non-Member – $35

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Girl Group Performance: Arlene Shechet x Annie-B Parson

Friday, July 19, 6:45–8:45 pm

Extend your Upstate Art Weekend experience with an interactive evening performance on the grounds of Storm King. Tickets are available here; performances repeat on July 20, Sept. 27, and Sept. 28.

Image credit: Storm King Art Center

New York, NY | Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet Tour with the Artist & Curator at the New-York Historical Society
2024-07-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at W 77 Street, New York, New York, 10024
Beatrice Glow (b. 1986), Tecumseh Caesar (b. 1990), Revolutions to Love Our More-Than-Human Relatives, 2023

Meet ArtTable at the New-York Historical Society for a tour of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, co-led by the artist and Rebecca Klassen, New-York Historical’s Curator of Material Culture. This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

About the exhibition: Drawing on research into New-York Historical’s vast Museum and Library collections, artist-in-residence Beatrice Glow reckons with the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam from local and global perspectives. Working in conversation with a group of culture bearers, artists, and scholars whose heritages were impacted by the Dutch colonial enterprise, Glow is creating a series of seven parade float maquettes that envision an alternative commemoration. The small VR-sculpted and 3D-printed sculptures will be complemented by Glow’s interpretations of decorative arts collection objects, such as embroidered textiles and gilded baby rattles that reflect ideas of social and cultural power.

Project participants: Raul Balai, Tecumseh Ceaser, Deborah Jack, Nancy Jouwe, Chief Vincent Mann, Michaeline Picaro Mann, Wim Manuhutu, Brent Stonefish, Teresa Vega

Your reservation includes admission to the New-York Historical Society prior to the tour. The Museum is open from 11:00-5:00 on Tuesdays.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $20

Friend of Member – $25

Non-Member – $30

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About the Artist

Beatrice Glow is a New York and Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes examinations of archives and collaboration with culture bearers and researchers in the creation of sculptural installations, textiles, emerging media, and olfactory experiences to envision a more just and thriving world guided by history. An American of Taiwanese heritage, she works in the service of public history with the goal of awakening care and empathy about the impacts of colonialism and the necessity of bridging diasporic and indigenous solidarities. She interrogates historical forms of visual and material culture as a means to reimagine a more socially and environmentally thriving world. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at New-York Historical Society and Baltimore Museum of Art, amongst others. Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Yale-NUS College, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, the Fulbright Program, and many more.

About the Curator

Rebecca Klassen is curator of material culture at the New-York Historical Society. She has curated and contributed to such exhibitions as Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, Art for Change: The Artist & Homeless Collaborative, and the Gallery of Tiffany Lamps.

Seattle, WA | Private Guided Tour of the Seattle Art Fair
2024-07-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Lumen Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, Washington, 98134
Image credit: Seattle Art Fair

Meet ArtTable at the Seattle Art Fair for a private tour with Charlie Manzo of Winston Art Group, covering a selection of new galleries and returning favorites.

About the Fair: Summer means time for the Seattle Art Fair! Seattle Art Fair is a one-of-a-kind showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest, and a leading destination for the best in modern and contemporary art. Experience presentations from 85 leading galleries from around the world—many new!—alongside captivating artist installations and public programming this July 25-28 at Lumen Field Event Center.

Tour Registration only: *

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

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* Current ArtTable members: instructions for accessing your complimentary Seattle Art Fair pass were emailed to you from membership@arttable.org on July 8 (June 27 for Circle, Patron, and Benefactor-level members).

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New York, NY | Artist Talk: Liz Collins, Lightning Wheel at Candice Madey
2024-07-31 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Candice Madey, 1 Freeman Alley, New York, New York, 10002
Liz Collins, Rainbow Mountains: Storm, 2024, Woven textile, 120 x 154 inches. Image courtesy Candice Madey.

Join ArtTable at Candice Madey on the Lower East Side for an Artist Talk with Liz Collins, exploring her exhibition Lightning Wheel (on view through August 2). Lightning Wheel features an exciting selection of new work from Collins, who was recently profiled by the New York Times and featured in the 2024 Venice Biennale. Collins’ work can also be seen in Weaving Abstraction—organized by the National Gallery of Art and set to travel in the coming months to LACMA, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottowa, and MoMA—among numerous other exhibitions.

About the Exhibition: Candice Madey is thrilled to announce the gallery’s second exhibition with Liz Collins, Lightning Wheel, presenting a series of new textile-based works that explore the artist’s distinctive and evolving symbology through recurring patterns and forms. Collins’s abstractions verge on the fantastical or energetic, suggesting the effects of extraordinary natural phenomena and a rapidly changing environment on the artist’s interior world.

As in Collins’s past work in textile, installation, drawing, and design, recent works employ a vibrant color spectrum that incorporates queer feminist sensibilities as well as references to twentieth-century abstraction in painting and in fiber. Reflecting the artist’s interest in Theosophist visual and spiritual traditions, the imagery investigates the idea that the occult movement is an esoteric predecessor of—or a link to—the origins of modern abstraction.

Central to the exhibition is a large-scale tapestry in which rainbows traverse sky and mountainscapes. The work is part of a series of woven landscapes entitled Rainbow Mountains that evoke the inner turmoil of an artist-activist in this contemporary moment–a consciousness at once hopeful, utopic, apocalyptic, and sublime. The exhibition’s title, Lightning Wheel, references one of several forms that reappear alongside lightning bolts, spheres, and cracked mirrors. Collins frequently crafts multiple iterations of her enigmatic compositions in different color combinations, materials, and fabrications in woven, embroidered, and embellished textiles, compounding and building her cosmology and iconographic vocabulary through repetition and the handmade.

Collins’s work powerfully testifies to artists’ agency in creating new worlds. By reconfiguring symbols, patterns, shapes, forms, colors, and textures, she seeks to better understand the human spirit in an uncertain and ever-changing ecosystem.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

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New York, NY | Studio Visit with Lily Wong
2024-08-08 17:15 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | New York
Lily Wong, Autumn Moon, 2021, acrylic on paper, 48 1/4 x 62 1/4 inches, 122.6 x 158.1 cm. Image courtesy Lyles & King.

ArtTable is pleased to invite you to explore Lily Wong’s process and current projects on a visit to the artist’s studio in Lower Manhattan.

Lily Wong (b. 1989 Seattle, USA) is a figurative painter whose work taps into the vulnerabilities and complexities of yearning. Personal and poetic, the protagonists in her work are made of experiences that extend beyond the physical. They are composed of sensations, moods, inarticulable interiorities, moving through dreamlike space and disoriented time. Color is its own character, a pulse in the circulatory system of the painting which is often a map of something beyond the depictive. Wong’s paintings probe at the way that literal and metaphorical fracturings influence the body’s relationship to memory, intimacy and desire.

Lily Wong’s studio is located in Lower Manhattan, a short walk from the World Trade Center. The exact address will be shared with attendees prior to the visit. Learn more about her practice in Juxtapoz and on the Cerebral Women podcast.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

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East Hampton, NY | An Afternoon at LongHouse Reserve
2024-08-09 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | LongHouse Reserve, 133 Hands Creek Rd, East Hampton, New York, 11937
Image courtesy LongHouse Reserve

Join ArtTable for a summer afternoon experiencing the gardens and sculpture installations at LongHouse Reserve, one of the most unique destinations in the Hamptons. Permanent collection works by Yoko Ono (pictured above), Toshiko Takaezu, and Willem de Kooning are joined by long-term loans of works from Ai Weiwei, Maren Hassinger, and Daniel Arsham. This summer’s special exhibition Full Circle: Toshiko Takaezu and Friends features works by Isamu Noguchi.

Our visit will include:

A docent-led tour of LongHouse Reserve’s serene landscape and outdoor exhibitions

A discussion of the current curatorial program with Carrie Rebora Barratt, Executive Director of LongHouse Reserve. A leading historian of American art, Barratt previously served as CEO of the New York Botanical Garden and Deputy Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ample time to explore LongHouse’s serene grounds on your own!

About LongHouse Reserve: LongHouse Reserve is a 16-acre integrated environment in East Hampton, New York, created by artist, collector and world-renowned textile designer and weaver Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020), serving the community with vast open space, programs in art, nature, and wellness, and providing a sanctuary for Long Island and beyond. The sculpture garden, featuring more than 60 outdoor works, encourages exploration and contemplation for new and repeat visitors alike. As of this year, the garden is fully open to the public for education and enjoyment, with a next chapter of activating Larsen’s home (a modernist structure based on the Shinto Shrine at Ise) and displaying the extensive craft and design collections.

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Los Angeles, CA | Curator-Led Tour: Simone Leigh at LACMA
2024-08-16 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90036
Simone Leigh, Martinique, 2022, courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, © Simone Leigh, photo by Timothy Schenck

Experience LACMA from an expert perspective on a curator-led tour of Simone Leigh. Naima J. Keith, Vice President of Education and Public Programs and a curator of the exhibition’s presentation at LACMA, will lead ArtTable’s exclusive tour. A leading curator and educator who previously worked at CAAM and the Studio Museum in Harlem, Keith was ArtTable’s New Leadership awardee in 2018.

About the exhibition: Simone Leigh, a traveling exhibition organized by the ICA Boston and co-presented in Los Angeles by LACMA and the California African American Museum, is the first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of this celebrated artist. LACMA’s presentation features approximately 20 years of Leigh’s production in ceramic, bronze, video, and installation, as well as works from her 2022 Venice Biennale presentation. Over the past two decades, Leigh has created works exploring questions of Black femme subjectivity and knowledge production. Addressing a wide swath of historical periods, geographies, and traditions, her art references vernacular and hand-made processes from across the African diaspora, as well as forms traditionally associated with African art and architecture. Accompanied by a major monograph, this exhibition offers visitors a timely opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of Leigh’s complex and profoundly moving work.

Program Registration:

Includes LACMA admission and parking validation

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Sag Harbor, NY | Tour of 'Are You Joking? Women and Humor' at The Church with Sheri Pasquarella
2024-08-23 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | New York
Installation photos of Are You Joking: Women & Humor at the Church, Sag Harbor. Photos by Joe Jagos.

Join us for a tour of Are You Joking? Women And Humor with Sheri Pasquarella, an ArtTable New Leadership awardee and Executive Director of The Church in Sag Harbor—one of the most dynamic new arts venues in the New York area.

About the exhibition: Curated by Sara Cochran, Are You Joking? Women and Humor features the work of 40 female-identifying artists across all media, including Nina Chanel Abney, Lynda Benglis, Katherine Bernhardt, Nicole Eisenman, Wendy Red Star, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, and Lisa Yuskavage. The goals are two-fold. The first is to counter the tired stereotypes and clichés about women not being funny or able to take a joke. The second is to illustrate the different forms and topics of humor in contemporary art from artistic jokes, political outrages, bodily functions and appearances, cultural stereotypes, and sex and death, to the absurd and surreal, puns and slapstick as well as poking fun at sacred cows of art and its institutions. This exhibition gathers works that are satirical, serious, sweet, self-deprecating, ironic, mocking, strange, surreal, angry, subversive, and even gross. It takes art off its pedestal and puts the viewer in a position to laugh or shake their head.

About The Church: Founded by April Gornik and Eric Fischl and opened in 2021, The Church is an interdisciplinary arts center housed in a deconsecrated church built in 1835. Its mission is to foster creativity on the East End and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village, championing new and traditional technologies through collaboration, education, and outreach. In addition to performances and visual arts exhibition, The Church hosts residencies for artist and writers and is home to publicly accessible arts and design library and garden.

Program Admission:

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Let’s make a day of it!

Also on August 23, at 3:30 pm, join ArtTable for an Artist Talk with Liliana Porter at Dia Bridgehampton, exploring her exhibition The Task and featuring Humberto Moro, Dia’s Deputy Director for Program. Click “Register Here” above to sign up for both events at a discounted rate:

ArtTable Member – $27

Friend of Member – $32

Non-Member – $40

About Sheri Pasquarella:

Prior to joining The Church, for 17 years Sheri owned and operated SLP, LLC, a NYC-based consultancy with service categories across the contemporary art ecosystem, including a popular art advisory for museum board members and legacy collectors. From 1998 – 2002 she was an Associate Director of Marlborough Gallery, NY and 2002 -2005 Director of Gorney Bravin + Lee gallery. In 2002, she conceived and co-founded the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a global 501c6 organization of which she is President Emerita. In 2020 she founded the SLP Women’s Group, a national network of female arts leaders; and in 2021 co-produced, with the Black Women in Visual Arts, The Convening.

From 2002 – 2019 she was on the Art Advisory Board of the Coalition for the Homeless and served as a consultant to that organization. Since 2019, she has been on the Board of Participant, Inc. From 2003 – 2012 she was Adjunct Faculty in the Art Market M.A. Program at SUNY FIT and delivered lectures on her research in the American art market and its culture at Yale University, Columbia University, and others. She holds a B.A. (Art History and Criticism) and a B.S. (Biology) from SUNY Stony Brook; did post-baccalaureate course work at Reid Hall, Paris; and in 2022 earned a certification in CORe Business Fundamentals from Harvard Business School online.

Bridgehampton, NY | Artist Talk: Liliana Porter in conversation with Humberto Moro at Dia Bridgehampton
2024-08-23 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Dia Bridgehampton, 23 Corwith Avenue, Bridgehampton, New York, 11932
Liliana Porter, The Task (detail), 2024. © Liliana Porter. Photo: Don Stahl

Join us for a tour of Liliana Porter: The Task at Dia Bridgehampton, led by the artist and Humberto Moro, co-curator of the exhibition and Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation. This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

About the exhibition: A prominent figure in the early Conceptual and feminist art movements, Liliana Porter contests the spaces between reality and fiction across a variety of media. Central to her long-standing research is the subject of time—which she perceives as nonlinear and dislocated—manifest in the artist’s early prints and photographic works from the 1970s, later images and installations from the 1990s incorporating found objects and collected figurines, and, most recently, her films and plays. By creating unexpected scenes that are both humorous and intriguing, Porter employs, almost as a sort of conceptual trap, playful strategies to reflect on political and otherwise contentious subject matter, as well as philosophical questions concerning time, reality, and representation. Liliana Porter: The Task is curated by Humberto Moro, deputy director of program, and Liv Cuniberti, curatorial assistant.

Program Admission:

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A note about accessibility, from Dia: Dia Bridgehampton’s galleries are not wheelchair accessible. A handout with images of and texts about the works located on the second floor is available upon request at the front desk or by clicking here. ADA service dogs are welcome. Pets, including therapy or emotional-support animals, are not permitted in the galleries.

Let’s make a day of it!

Earlier on August 23, join ArtTable for an a tour of Are You Joking? Women and Humor with Sheri Pasquarella, Executive Director of The Church in Sag Harbor. Click “Register Here” above to sign up for both events at a discounted rate:

ArtTable Member – $27

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Installation photos of Are You Joking: Women & Humor at the Church, Sag Harbor. Photos by Joe Jagos.

About Liliana Porter:

Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Originally trained in printmaking, Porter has evolved a practice that spans painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and, more recently, theater, the latter often developed in collaboration with artist Ana Tiscornia. In 1964, Porter moved to New York where she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo.

In the city, her work was first shown in institutions such as the Jewish Museum in 1964; Pratt Graphic Art Center in 1967; and the Museum of Modern Art in 1973. Between 1991 and 2007, Porter was a professor at Queens College, City University of New York. In 2008, Dia commissioned Porter’s first web-based work, Rehearsal, for the Artist Web Projects initiative. In 2017, her work was included in the 57th Venice Biennale: Viva Arte Viva and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which traveled in 2018 to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Pinacoteca, São Paulo. Recent surveys of her work have been presented at Artium Museoa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2017); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017–18), and traveling to El Museo del Barrio, New York (2018–19); and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (2023). Porter lives in Rhinebeck, New York. Image credit: Mor Charpentier

About Humberto Moro:

Humberto Moro is Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation where he oversees the exhibitions, publications and learning and engagement departments. He was previously Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, where he curated OTRXS MUNDXS, a large-scale survey of artists working in the city, and solo shows by Erick Meyenberg, Tania Pérez Córdova and Ugo Rondinone.

He was Curator of the 2021 Exposure section at EXPO Chicago; and from 2016-22, Adjunct Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, where he co-organized Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom and Points of Contact by Elizabeth Catlett, and solo exhibitions by Kenturah Davis, Glen Fogel, Alex Gardner, Oliver Laric, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Tom Burr, Yang Fudong, FOS, AES+F, Mark Wallinger, Isaac Julien, and Anna Maria Maiolino, among others. Moro has previously held curatorial positions at the Park Avenue Armory in New York and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Moro curated Other Situations, a project by Liliana Porter which included THEM, a theater play at The Kitchen, the reopening exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, and a publication. He was the recipient of the 2016 Estancias Tabacalera Research Award for Latin-American curators, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. Moro holds a BFA in painting from the Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato; and a MA in curatorial studies by the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York; and is part of the 2021 cohort of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). Image credit: Humberto Moro

New York, NY | ArtTable Annual Brunch at The Armory Show 2024
2024-09-06 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York, 10001
Reconnect with colleagues and friends at ArtTable’s Annual Brunch at The Armory Show! In addition to a delicious continental brunch, each registration for this event—a highlight of the ArtTable calendar—includes a day pass to The Armory Show for Friday, September 6.

Kyla McMillan, Director of The Armory Show, will join us as a special guest!

Registration:

ArtTable Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members – $47

ArtTable Members – $57

Guest of ArtTable member – $67

Nonmember – $77

ArtTable members receive special access to art fairs happening nationwide throughout the year. Not a member? Join or renew today!

ArtTable thanks The Armory Show and catering partner Cultivated for their generosity in welcoming us this year.

About The Armory Show: In 1994, four New York art dealers had the ambitious goal of creating a new art fair to support their artists and attract global attention. They succeeded. The result was a groundbreaking cultural moment that has become vital to the New York art market and beyond. While much has changed over the years, our ingenuity and ambition have not. The Armory Show is a galvanizing force in the art world and essential to New York’s cultural landscape.

Los Angeles, CA | Tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love at The Broad with Assistant Curator, Jennifer Vanegas Rocha
2024-09-11 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | The Broad, 21 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Image Credit: Mickalene Thomas, Din avec la main dans le miroir et jupe rouge, 2023. Rhinestones, acrylic, and glitter on canvas mounted on wood panel. © Mickalene Thomas

Join Jennifer Vinegas Rocha, Assistant Curator at The Broad, on an exclusive tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. This major 20-year survey of Thomas’ work was co-organized by the Hayward Gallery in London and The Broad, in partnership with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

About the exhibition: Debuting at The Broad with over 90 works made by the artist over the last 20 years, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international tour of this pioneering artist’s work. The exhibition highlights how Mickalene Thomas has mastered and innovated within several disciplines, from mixed-media painting and collage to installation and photography. The exhibition shares its title and several of its themes with the pivotal text by feminist author bell hooks, in which love is an active process rooted in healing, carving a path away from domination and towards collective liberation. Through her queries into pop culture and mass media, Thomas offers a reverberating demand for Black women to be seen and understood, and for viewers to become what hooks calls “practitioners of love.”

About Jennifer Vinegas Rocha: Jennifer Vanegas Rocha is Assistant Curator at The Broad where she has provided support to major special exhibitions and catalogue publications like William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows (2023) and Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody (2023). Most recently, she co-curated the collection exhibition, Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) with Ed Schad, Curator and Publications Manager. She received a Master of Arts in Art History from the University of California, Riverside. She was awarded the 2019-2020 UCR Gluck Fellowship and 2020-2021 UCR Family Learning Fellowship. She received her Bachelor of Art in Art History from California State University, Dominguez Hills where she was the recipient of the 2016 Winston Hewitt Art & Design Endowed Scholarship and the 2016-2017 CSUDH Praxis Student Fellowship.

Program Registration:

Includes admission to The Broad and to Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

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New York, NY | Studio Visit with Helina Metaferia
2024-09-12 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | New York
Installation view of Helina Metaferia’s 2022 solo exhibition, All Put Together, at Praise Shadows Art Gallery, featuring artwork from the By Way of Revolution series. Image courtesy the artist.

ArtTable is pleased to invite you to explore Helina Metaferia‘s process and current projects on a visit to the artist’s studio in Lower Manhattan.

About the Artist: Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies.

Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University’s Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia’s work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.

Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and MASS MoCA. She is currently a 2021-2023 artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City.

Helina Metaferia’s studio is located in Lower Manhattan, a short walk from the World Trade Center. The exact address will be shared with attendees prior to the visit.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Ashley Paulisick and Nicole Poletta for their assistance in organizing this program.

Program Admission:

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PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this program closed at 5:00 PM on Monday, September 9.

*CANCELED* Yonkers, NY | Curator-Led Tour of 'No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor' at the Hudson River Museum
2024-09-20 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York, 10701, United States
Rachel Breen. Shroud, 2018. Used white shirts, thread, and fabric. Courtesy of the artist.

Join us in Westchester County for a tour of No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor with exhibition curator and ArtTable member Alva Greenberg. Following our exclusive tour, the Hudson River Museum will graciously host a reception for attendees. Our heartfelt thanks to Alva Greenberg; Laura Vookles, Chair of the Curatorial Department at the Hudson River Museum and Board Member of ArtTable; and Masha Turchinsky, Director and CEO of the Hudson River Museum and former Board Member of ArtTable for organizing this program.

About the exhibtition: “Clothing conveys impressions of social background, economic status, and ethnicity. Much like physical features, it serves as a powerful tool for self-expression and understanding others. Our inclination to categorize people based on their attire also shapes our reactions to them. How often do we subconsciously assign meanings to clothing that may not truly represent the wearer?

The altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies disrupts our automatic responses by challenging perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs, and portraiture itself. Free from physicality, these works compel us to confront our assumptions, as well as the ever-growing societal tendency to compartmentalize people, behavior, and social media that increasingly rules our thinking. What does it mean to deconstruct a garment by unraveling it, burning it, or transforming it into another material? What does clothing symbolize when there never was, or will be, a body inside?”

Program Admission:

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New York, NY | Deborah Remington Exhibition Talk with Peeky Berenson
2024-09-27 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Bortolami Gallery, 39 Walker St, New York, New York, 10013, United States
Deborah Remington, Aldwych, 1973. Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery.

Join us at Bortolami Gallery for a tour of Deborah Remington‘s exhibition Mirrors with Director of the Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts and ArtTable member Margaret Mathews Berenson. Following our exclusive tour, Bortolami Gallery will graciously host a reception for attendees.

Margaret Mathews Berenson, better known as Peeky to her contemporaries at ArtTable, has been an ArtTable member for nearly three decades. She joined the Program Committee immediately after becoming a member, later serving as co-chair of the committee with gallerist, Julie Saul. Peeky also served on the Board of Directors from 2007 to 2011 and as Board Secretary from 2009-2011. She co-chaired the 2008 Luncheon honoring Vishakha Desai, President and CEO of Asia Society, and actively participated in countless trips, tours, and luncheons.

Since 2010, she has been Director of the Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts. Mirrors is the second solo show for the artist at Bortolami and coincides with the publication of a major monograph for the artist published by Rizzoli / Electa. The book represents a long-overdue survey of the work of yet another under-recognized woman artist: a renegade in every sense of the word – and who well deserves critical attention.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $10

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