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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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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

Non-Member – $25

* 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 | 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.

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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.

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:

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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

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

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Public – $30

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Virtual | Meet the 2024 ArtTable Fellows
2024-07-18 12:00 - 13:15 (America/New_York) | Maryland
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!

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:

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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:

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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

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) | Maryland
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.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

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New York, NY | Studio and Private Collection Visit with Michele Oka Doner
2024-06-25 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
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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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:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $15

Non-Members – $20

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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.

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.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $25

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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.

Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2024-06-17 15:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Maryland
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 | Walkthrough of Mika Tajima: Super Natural at the Hill Art Foundation
2024-06-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
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

Member Guests – $20

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.

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:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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New York | Private Collection Visit with Lesley Heller
2024-06-11 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Maryland
Detail of a work by Devan Shimoyama in the private collection of Lesley Heller.

ArtTable invites you to a special evening at the Murray Hill, Manhattan home of noted gallerist, curator, advisor, and artists’ career coach Lesley Heller. Heller’s tour of her wide-ranging personal collection will include contemporary works by Carl Ostendarp, Alexis Rockman, Judy Pfaff, Ernesto Neto, and Delano Dunn. Works by Ron Gorchov, Helen O’Leary, and Devan Shimoyama—each of whose careers Heller has played a significant role in launching or championing—will also be highlighted. Join us to celebrate the start of summer and mingle with fellow ArtTable members after the tour in a beautiful, art-filled setting!

Address will be provided to confirmed attendees shortly before the visit.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, Benefactor Member – $45

Friend of Executive, Circle, Patron, Benefactor Member – $50

This program is currently only open to ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Membership Levels. To upgrade your membership contact membership@arttable.org.

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.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $25

Friend of Member – $30

Non-Member – $35

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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: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960
2024-05-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
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:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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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.

Baltimore | Curator-Led Tour: Recent Acquisitions at The Walters Art Museum
2024-05-17 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Maryland
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:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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New York | Curator-Led Tour of MAD About Jewelry
2024-05-06 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Arts & Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY, 10019, United States
ArtTable members and friends are invited on an exclusive curator-led tour of the 2024 edition of MAD About Jewelry, the Museum of Arts & Design’s annual survey and sale of the most exciting contemporary jewelry. At MAD, jewelry is valued as an art form; it is the only museum in the U.S. to dedicate gallery space both to special jewelry exhibitions and to its own collection of modern contemporary jewelry. In addition to furthering MAD’s educational mission, MAD About Jewelry supports the careers and ongoing creative development of the leading creators featured in the exhibition.

Following our tour with Bryna Pomp, Curator of MAD About Jewelry, we will have the opportunity to meet the featured artists, learn about the creative and technical processes that go into their work, and even have the opportunity to acquire our own handcrafted pieces.

Tour Rates, including Museum Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Public – $25

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Virtual Workshop | Parenting in the Artistic Labor Market: Results from ArtTable’s Pay Equity Survey
2024-05-01 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
9 am PST / 10 am MST / 11 am CST / 12 pm EST

VIRTUAL | Parenting in the Artistic Labor Market

Since the fall of 2022, ArtTable has conducted a survey to better understand compensation—and compensation inequity—in the arts, with a particular focus on gender and compensation. At this collaborative workshop, Dr. Gillian Gualtieri will present on parenting in the artistic labor market. Then, attendees will collaboratively respond to the presentation and begin to build solutions and suggestions that will be incorporated into our published findings and circulated among members. The solution is not individual, but, rather shared. In this third workshop of ArtTable’s Pay Equity Initiatives, we hope this program will be a collaborative effort in informing our continued research.Add your voice to this important conversation!

The Impact Initiatives Fund supports ArtTable’s annual fellowship program, Career RoundTable events, this Pay Equity project, as well as various mentorship opportunities at the organization. Please consider a contribution to this fund with your registration.

Admission:

Complimentary with optional donation

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After registration, you will receive an email containing the Zoom link.All virtual programs offer live automatic closed captioning.

Gillian Gualtieri, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, where she teaches classes in the sociology of art, race and ethnicity, gender, organizations, and culture. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and a postdoctoral fellow at New York University. In 2018, Gillian received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Gillian has published research on symbolic compliance and sexual harassment on college campuses (in Sociological Forum), inequality in the art world (Poetics; SNAAP Report), and racial and gender inequality in fine dining (Social Problems; Poetics). Gualtieri is the lead researcher on ArtTable’s Survey on Working in the Arts. Gilliangualtieri.com

San Francisco | Curator-Led Tour of Zanele Muholi: Eye Me at SFMOMA
2024-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Installation view of Eye Me: Zanele Muholi (SFMOMA, 2024); photo: Don Ross

Meet ArtTable at SFMOMA for a curator-led tour of Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, the photographer’s acclaimed first major exhibition on the West Coast. On this hour-long tour, Sally Martin Katz, SFMOMA’s Curatorial Associate for Photography and a co-curator of Eye Me, will cover major works across more than two decades of Muholi’s career. Read more about this unmissable show in The San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook and KQED.

About the exhibition: A self-described visual activist, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Umlazi, South Africa) uses the camera to explore issues of gender identity, representation, and race. Often photographing their own body or members of their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, Muholi calls attention to the trauma and violence enacted on queer people while celebrating their beauty and resilience. Activism is central to Muholi’s artistic practice, from their early work contending with the dangers of being queer in South Africa to their more recent work embracing their own blackness and gender expression. This exhibition brings together photographs from 2002 to the present alongside the artist’s latest explorations in painting and sculpture. The first major exhibition of Muholi’s work on the West Coast, it provides the opportunity for Bay Area audiences to experience the full range of the artist’s expansive project. —SFMOMA.org

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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Sally Martin Katz is a curator based in San Francisco. Since 2017 she has been working in the photography department at SFMOMA. Concurrently, she is a PhD candidate in Art History, specializing in History of Photography, at the Sorbonne. As an independent curator, she guest curated the Louis Stettner retrospective at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid (2023) and Barcelona (2024) and was the editor of the exhibition catalogue, and also guest curated A Moment in Time: Iconic Images by Harry Benson at the Southampton Arts Center, New York (2023). She has co-edited several books, including American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (2021) and snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks (2019). In Paris, she worked at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Louvre. She received a BA in Art History and French Literature from Brown University, as well as an MA in Art History and MFA in Photography from the Sorbonne.

New York | Responsible Transacting in the Art Market with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
2024-04-30 08:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Patterson Belknap, 1133 6th Avenue (24th Floor), New York, New York, 10036, United States
This was the first program in our three-part Art Law Series sponsored by Patterson Belknap. Join us in Miami Beach for the next installment in December 2024, followed by a Los Angeles event in early 2025!

The art market has undergone exponential growth across the last 10 years, both in terms of volume and value. The old ways of purchasing and selling art via handshakes are now becoming increasingly rare as a wave of new players enter the art market and the value of works skyrockets. Art transactions have consequently become more complex, introducing a range of legal risks and issues which require each party to become equipped with a more thoughtful and better-informed approach to a transaction.

This panel will provide an overview of the channels for purchasing art—at auction, from a gallery, or through a dealer or advisor—and how each comes with its own unique considerations and potential challenges. We will cover the basics of building relationships within the marketplace, understanding how transactions are structured, and issues that may arise on each side of the transaction. Our discussion will also include best practices for conducting due diligence not only for the works themselves but also on the parties engaged in the transaction. This panel will be geared towards private individual collectors, art dealers, and independent advisors in addition to arts professionals working in galleries and museums.

This event will begin with a networking reception including a light breakfast, with Kosher for Passover menu options. We will reserve time at the end for audience questions.

Panelists:

Anne-Laure Allehaut, Counsel, Patterson Belknap

Alana Ricca, Managing Director, Schoelkopf Gallery

Aubrey Catrone, Owner & Consultant, Proper Provenance, LLC

Moderated by Andrea Zorrilla, Founder, AMZ Art Advisory + Appraisals LLC

Event Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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Our sincere thanks to Samantha Anderson of the Art Law Group at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP and Andrea Zorrilla of AMZ Art Advisory + Appraisals LLC for coordinating this event.

Anne-Laure Alléhaut is Counsel in Patterson Belknap’s Art and Museum Law practice. Anne-Laure started her career at Skadden Arps in M&A before serving as a Senior Vice President of Sotheby’s legal transactional team, negotiating many of the auction house’s most complex and high value transactions while also overseeing Sotheby’s advisory, appraisal and valuation departments.

Anne-Laure brings 18 years of law firm and in-house experience to the art industry and draws on her broad and deep experience to advise her clients with speed and efficiency. Her client base includes private collectors, galleries, estates, start-ups, art dealers, museums, advisors and financial institutions. Anne-Laure is a graduate of Université Paris X, Nanterre and Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. She received her J.D. and LL.M. from Cornell University.

Alana Ricca is Managing Drector at Schoelkopf Gallery in Tribeca, a leader in the field of American art from 1875 to the present day. She oversees day-to-day management of the gallery with a focus on sales, business development, and client relationships, and plays a crucial role in the strategic planning and project management of art fairs, exhibitions, and programming. An expert in 20th-century American Art, she holds specific knowledge in works of art created in the late 20th century and has catalogued, researched, and written extensively on post-war art.

Alana holds a B.A. in Russian and Eurasian Studies from Colgate University. She is Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice-compliant and completes USPAP-compliant appraisals. Alana is a member of ArtTable and speaks Russian, Spanish, and Italian.

Aubrey Catrone is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects. With an art gallery and academic research background, Catrone founded Proper Provenance, LLC to provide her clients with the tools, not only to historically contextualize art but also to shed light on attribution and legal title within the international art market.

Catrone has researched artworks paintings, artefacts, works on paper, prints, and sculptures spanning the fourth century B.C.E. to the twenty-first century C.E. She has been cited as a guest expert in ARTnews and on the History Channel. Catrone has also published her scholarship in a variety of publications including RICS Journals and the Journal of Art Crime.

Andrea M. Zorrilla, AAA is the founder of AMZ Art Advisory & Appraisals, a Miami-based appraisal and advisory service dedicated to Modern & Contemporary Latin American fine art in addition to the Latinx and Caribbean diasporas. She is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, and is distinguished with being one of four Certified Members of AAA specialized in the field of Latin American art in U.S.

Prior to establishing AMZ Art Advisory & Appraisals LLC in 2022, Andrea held the role of VP, Specialist of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s New York. Andrea currently serves on the National Programming Committee of ArtTable. She is also a member of the Young Collectors Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami. She is a graduate of Villanova University with a BA in Economics and Spanish Language & Literature and received her Master of Arts with Distinction in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York / University of Manchester, England.

New York | Guided Tours of the Whitney Biennial
2024-04-17 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Maja Ruznic, The Past Awaiting the Future/Arrival of Drummers, 2023. Oil on linen, 99 1/2 × 151 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (252.7 × 384.8 × 6.4 cm). Collection of the artist. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy Karma. Photograph by Brad Trone.

ArtTable is thrilled to invite you on a guided tour of the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing. Now in its 81st edition, the Biennial—the longest ongoing survey of contemporary American art—shifts the culture and shapes art history with each presentation. Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes, the exhibition features 71 artists; the performance program is organized with Taja Cheek and the film program is organized with Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.

Select 11:30 AM or 12:30 PM at the registration link below to sign up for your 60-minute tour with one of the Whitney’s Teaching Fellows. Please Note: 12:30 tickets are now SOLD OUT.

Tour Rates, including Museum Admission:

ArtTable Members – $45

Member Guests – $50

Non-Members – $55

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2024 Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony - New York
2024-04-16 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Maryland
People of all gender identities are allies in supporting women and nonbinary professionals’ leadership in the arts, and everyone is welcome to attend our Benefit events.

ArtTable invites you to celebrate our New York Benefit celebrating 2024 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts honoree Linda Goode Bryant and New Leadership Award honoree Niama Safia Sandy.

Distinguished social activist, gallerist, and filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant is renowned for her groundbreaking initiative, Just Above Midtown (JAM), established in 1972. Through JAM, Bryant pioneered a commercial gallery showcasing Black artists and artists of color, emphasizing artistic freedom. JAM was celebrated in the Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 retrospective Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, which united works made throughout JAM’s fourteen-year tenure with a series of special performances, installations, and activations across New York City.

Niama Safia Sandy‘s work as a cultural anthropologist, curator, producer, multidisciplinary artist, and educator delves into the human story, often centering on stories of the Global Black diaspora. She currently hosts and produces FOR/FOUR, a weekly conversation series featuring Black women and non-binary persons in the arts. Niama recently co-founded The Blacksmiths, a coalition of culture workers forging support for Black liberation against racism in the academy and at presenting institutions. Through The Blacksmiths, Niama produces resources and events engaging communities, activists, and artists to close the gaps in opportunities for Black creators, curators, and administrators on the global stage.Reserve your ticket now for a sparkling Benefit evening at the Upper East Side’s Bohemian National Hall—a gathering of ArtTable’s vibrant community of professionals in recognition of Linda Goode Bryant and Niama Safia Sandy.

Can’t join us in New York? Support ArtTable by making a donation today, by purchasing an advertisement or message in support of our honoree, or by purchasing a Mentorship ticket that will allow an ArtTable Fellow or Affiliate Member to attend the benefit. Benefit Co-Chairs

Benefit Co-ChairsValerie Cassel OliverKayla G. ColemanKendal HenryLolan Ekow Sagoe-Moses

Cocktail Reception

Tuesday, April 166:30 PM – 8:30 PMCelebration, Drinks, and Bites

HonoringDistinguished Service to the Visual Arts AwardeeLinda Goode BryantSocial activist, Gallerist, and FilmmakerAndNew Leadership AwardeeNiama Safia SandyCultural Anthropologist, Multidisciplinary artist, Independent Curator, and EducatorWith Special Remarks bySophie BaeFellow at the Capital One Art ProgramArtTable Fellowship AlumnaAndValerie Cassel OliverSydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary ArtArtTable Board MemberAndAnne DelaneyVisual Artist and Co-Founder, Lambent FoundationClick here for more information on the event, the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts and New Leadership Awards, and honorees Linda Goode Bryant and Niama Safia Sandy.

New York | Studio Visit with Heide Fasnacht
2024-04-05 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | 4 White Street, 4 White Street #4A, New York, New York, 10013
Heide Fasnacht, “Lake Gloriette” (blue), 2023. Mixed media on wood panel, 48” x 60″. Courtesy of the artist.

Join ArtTable for a Friday evening tour of Heide Fasnacht‘s Tribeca studio, hosted by the artist. Since starting her career in the late 1970s, Fasnacht has focused her output on a variety of media over the years, focusing on sculpture, photography-based work, and drawing as distinct fields of inquiry and as complementary modes of expressing common themes. Over the past six years, she has returned to her first medium of painting, incorporating photography and collage into mixed-media works that pay special attention to the relationship between the environment and the human body and psyche.

While Fasnacht’s work has long been compared to that of Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter, and Sigmar Polke, it is distinguished by its translation of two-dimensional sources into sculpture and openness to abstraction in form as well as in meaning. Represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art, MFA Boston, and many other institutions, Fasnacht’s next New York exhibition is Anywhere But Here, a four-person exhibition opening May 8 at Project: ARTspace.

This talk is made possible by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, with special thanks to Kelly Cahn for coordinating.

Please note, the studio building does not have elevator access.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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MeetAT Networking Event at FORMah Gallery
2024-04-01 18:15 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | FORMah gallery, 42 Allen St, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Rescheduled from February 13, 2024

You’re invited to our upcoming MeetAT networking event on Monday, April 1, taking place at FORMah Gallery on the Lower East Side. Gallerist Maryana Kaliner will introduce guests to the current exhibition, Connected to All There Is: Rachel Rubinstein. Enjoy light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and making new connections.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and their guests*

*each member is allowed to bring a single guest with them at this time

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Los Angeles | Private Tour of The Getty Center with Ellen Greenberg
2024-03-15 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889; Oil on canvas; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 90.PA.20.

Demystify Art at The Getty Center

Enjoy walking through time from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century and “peek behind and beyond the canvas” as Ellen Greenberg, art historian, guides you through the spectacular collection at The Getty Center in Brentwood. You’ll see the highlights of the museum and be wowed and amazed with the stories she’ll tell you about how artists have impacted history and yet still relate to our current, everyday lives. Be titillated by Titian. Baffled by Bernini. Rembrandt revealed. Monet mastered. Van Gogh verified. These are among the groundbreaking artists that will be featured on the tour. In this 90-minute tour, find out why there are so many nudes in Renaissance Art— and so many dead bugs, wilted flowers and skulls in Dutch paintings! And why is the Virgin Mary always depicted wearing red and blue during the Renaissance and Baroque periods? What were the inspirations for Impressionism? You’ll never look at art the same way again!

Your guide will be Ellen Greenberg. Ellen’s interests and expertise have been inspired by interior design, fashion design and production and costume design in her early years to museum touring and unique travel journeys as owner of Quick Culture. Ellen has been an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and has guest lectured at UCLA. She holds Docent Program certificates at both The Getty Center and LACMA—and is the author of Inside Chocolate, a pictorial art book published by Abrams Books (formerly Harry N. Abrams) New York. Notables Ellen has toured range from Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General, to Max Getty, J. Paul Getty’s great-grandson. Her studies continue at The Getty Research Institute.

This tour will depart from the Museum Atrium Entrance.

Please Note: The fee to park at The Getty Center is $25.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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Special thanks to Jane Glassman for coordinating on behalf of ArtTable.

Philadelphia | Tour of (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now at Moore College of Art & Design
2024-03-08 15:45 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Galleries at Moore – Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, 19103
Installation view of (Re)Focus: Then and Now, with art by Miriam Schapiro, Mary Beth Edelson, Joan Snyder and Alice Neel. Photo: Jack Stawowczyk.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a very special curator-led tour of (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now at Moore College of Art & Design in downtown Philadelphia. With Judith K. Brodsky, Judith E. Stein, and Diane Burko, three of the original Focus team, we will explore this two-part installation.:

(Re)FOCUS: Then commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts: FOCUS, a citywide festival highlighting women in the arts which took place across multiple Philadelphia venues in 1974. Curated by Brodsky and Burko, who brought the original FOCUS to life in 1974, (Re)FOCUS: Then reunites works by the 81 artists represented in the original exhibition, including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Alma Thomas, and Moore College graduate Alice Neel.

(Re)FOCUS: Now—curated by Gabrielle Lavin Suzenski, Director of the Galleries at Moore; Denise M. Brown, Executive Director of the Leeway Foundation; and Isa Isioma Matisse of The Future is Us Collective—explores themes of social justice, gender identity, equity, and power present in the recent work of Philadelphia-based artists, several of whom are Moore graduates. Over fifteen multidisciplinary visual artists, educators, and performers are represented, including Wit López, Atisha Fordyce, and Moore faculty member Li Sumpter.

Learn more about the exhibition in recent coverage from WHYY News and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Like the original FOCUS, (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now at Moore College of Art & Design is part of a citywide arts festival: Re(FOCUS) 2024, happening through May 31 at over 30 venues across the Philadelphia area. The Colored Girls Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are just a few of the institutions hosting Re(FOCUS) 2024 exhibitions and events—we encourage ArtTable members to visit!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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Our sincere thanks to Judith Stein for coordinating this tour for ArtTable.
