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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:

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.

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

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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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)
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

Member Guests – $15

Non-Members – $20

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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

Friend of Member – $20

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)
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

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 | 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.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

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New York, NY | Studio Visit with Lily Wong
2024-08-08 17:15 - 18:30 (America/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.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

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Non-Member – $25

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PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this program closes at 4:45 PM on Tuesday, August 6.

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.

Program Admission (includes full admission to LongHouse Reserve):

ArtTable Member – $25

Friend of Member – $30

Non-Member – $35

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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

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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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)
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:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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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.

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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

Friend of Member – $32

Non-Member – $40

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

ArtTable Member – $30

Friend of Member – $35

Non-Member – $40

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New York, NY | Studio Visit with Helina Metaferia
2024-09-12 17:30 - 18:30 (America/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:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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

Los Angeles, CA | MeetAT at Pace Gallery featuring 'Torkwase Dyson: Here'
2024-09-19 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Pace Gallery, 1201 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90019
Image credit: Pace Gallery

You’re invited to our upcoming MeetAT networking event on September 19, graciously hosted by Pace Gallery’s Los Angeles location in Mid-Wilshire. Enjoy light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and making new connections.

Exhibition on view: Torkwase Dyson: Here

Pace Gallery Los Angeles will present an exhibition of new paintings by Torkwase Dyson as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide Participating Gallery Program.

The show will further explore ideas about the environment, architecture, infrastructure, and black space that are central to the artist’s practice. In her work across painting, sculpture, performance, film, and drawing, Dyson uncovers continuities between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture through a language of abstract, poetic forms. Her two- and three-dimensional abstractions grapple with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined, and negotiated—particularly by black and brown bodies—to examine histories of human geography and black spatial liberation strategies

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries, founded by Arne Glimcher in 1960. Holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko, Pace has a unique history that can be traced to its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements. Now in its seventh decade, under the leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher and President Samanthe Rubell, the gallery continues to nurture its longstanding relationships with its legacy artists and estates while also making an investment in the careers of contemporary artists, including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, Robert Nava, Adam Pendleton, and Marina Perez Simão. Pace advances its mission to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences and collectors around the world through its exhibitions of both 20th century and contemporary art and scholarly projects from its imprint Pace Publishing. Today, the gallery has eight locations globally, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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 one guest with them at this time)

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*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:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2024-09-23 15:00 - 15:30 (America/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.

Not a member? Join today!

(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!

Washington, DC | MeetAT at HEMPHILL
2024-09-26 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | HEMPHILL Artworks, 434 K STREET NW, Washington, DC, 20001
You’re invited to our upcoming MeetAT networking event on September 26, graciously hosted by Mary Early, Director at HEMPHILL. Enjoy light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and making new connections.

HEMPHILL was founded in Washington DC in 1993. The exhibition schedule features modern & contemporary art in all media by artists ranging from emerging to mid-career to modern masters.

HEMPHILL’s Fall 2024 season opens with an exhibition of new paintings by Rush Baker IV (American, b. 1987). Baker’s abstractions interleave the visual ephemera of Civil War-era photography, maps, and print media with layers of pigment, resin, and a contradiction of translucent and solid materials. Baker received a BFA from The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in 2009, and an MFA from Yale University in 2012. Baker is a recipient of the 2024-25 Grant Wood Fellowship at The Grant Wood Art Colony of the University of Iowa.

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*

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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

Friend of Member – $15

Non-Member – $20

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New York, NY | Walkthrough of Jordan Casteel: Field of View at the Hill Art Foundation
2024-10-01 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Hill Art Foundation, 239 10th Avenue 3rd Floor, New York, New York, 10001, United States
Installation view: Jordan Casteel: Field of view. Hill Art Foundation, September 13–November 23. © Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.

ArtTable community members are invited on a walkthrough of Jordan Casteel: Field of view in the galleries of the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea, overlooking the High Line. Our tour will be led by Sarah Needham, Executive Director of the Hill Art Foundation, accompanied by intern Endie Hwang, who is an alum of the Foundation’s Teen Curators program. Field of view is curated by Lauren Haynes, 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Awardee, Head Curator of Governors Island Arts, and Vice President at the Trust for Governors Island.

About the exhibition: Compositions that span the last decade are sourced from the environments Casteel inhabits and presented against the backdrop of the Foundation, overlooking 10th Avenue and the High Line. The exhibition brings together key loans and four monumental portraits from the Hill Collection, two of which are promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to trace the lineage of a site within a site. Casteel’s figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes will be accompanied by original scholarship by curator Lauren Haynes.

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.

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.

New York, NY | ArtTable's Annual Leadership Series | Arts in Health: Thriving Communities, Sustainable Organizations
2024-10-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New York University, Wasserman Center for Career Development, 133 E 13th St, New York, 10003
Nearly five years after the emergence of COVID-19, we live and work in a world transformed by the pandemic and the interrelated political and social crises it brought into high relief. The transformative power of creative experiences in helping human beings process trauma has never been clearer, and yet arts organizations still struggle to regain their footing, both financially and operationally. The growing field of arts in health, bolstered by innovative collaborations across academia and the private sector, provides essential new frameworks for measuring and articulating the societal value of the visual arts to consumers, funders, and healthcare professionals. ArtTable’s conversation will bring together experts in research, museum education, and artist partnerships to imagine a sustainable and equitable future for our communities and the vital organizations that serve them. Attendees will hear from leaders in the arts in health field and come away from this conversation with new frameworks for investigating and articulating the tremendous societal value of their work.

Taking place at NYU’s Wasserman Center, a convenient 3-minute walk from Manhattan’s Union Square, this engaging talk will be followed by a networking reception with light refreshments. Registration closes Monday, October 14—don’t miss your chance to join us for this special professional development opportunity!

Read below to learn more about our panelists:

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Transdisciplinary Artist, Educator, and Community Builder; member of the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities

Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab | Director, NYU Drama Therapy Program | Editor, Drama Therapy Review

Cris Scorza, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American Art

Moderator: Julia Hotz, Journalist and Author of THE CONNECTION CURE (Simon & Schuster)

About the Annual Leadership Series: This signature ArtTable program was initially launched in 2016, and since its inception, the series has fostered engaging conversations among prominent women and nonbinary professionals. It has provided a platform for these influential voices to discuss the most pressing and relevant topics within our industries.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $35

Friend of Member – $45

Non-Member – $55

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Please note, registration for this event closes on Monday, October 14, at 4:00 PM. We are unable to accommodate walk-in registrations for this event.

Meet Our Panelists

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and community builder based in Brooklyn, New York. The daughter of Thai and Indonesian immigrants, her practice spans sculpture, large-scale murals, installation, and public art campaigns. Through defiant storytelling, her work brings forth colors, patterns, textures, histories, and rituals to amplify marginalized voices. Amanda has investigated how to create liminal spaces that can serve as conduits for healing and transformation. She is a 2024 New York City Artadia Awardee, a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Visual Arts and Civic Practice Artist in Residence with Poster House and the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

In 2022, she transformed Lincoln Center’s campus with GATHER: a series of monuments and rituals that examined how ceremony, sound, and textiles can inscribe new meaning to memory and foster unexpected belonging. As artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights, Amanda’s art series celebrating the resilience of the AAPI community, I Still Believe in Our City, reached millions in New York City and worldwide through reclaiming billboards, bus shelters, subway tunnels, buildings, and the cover of TIME Magazine. Her work has been shown at the Cooper Union, Times Square, Lincoln Center, and recognized by The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, and the Guardian. She has received support from the Sloan Foundation, the Café Cultural Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her work is held in permanent collections at the Museum of the City of New York, the Goldwell Open Air Museum, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Chinese in America, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2023, she was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities where she advises the President on how art can foster community well-being.

Nisha Sajnani, PhD., RDT-BCT

Dr. Sajnani is a co-founding, co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, established as a collaboration between the WHO Regional Office for Europe, NYU Steinhardt, Culturunners, and Community Jameel, with a mission to measurably improve lives through the arts. She is also Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Drama Therapy at NYU Steinhardt and on faculty with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma where she lectures on the role of the arts in global mental health. Sajnani is a global leader in a growing movement to advance understanding of how engaging in the arts can support people of all ages in living longer, fuller, and healthier lives.

She leads the Jameel Arts & Health Lab – Lancet Global Series on the health benefits of the arts, in collaboration with the WHO. Recent publications include a commentary for the National Endowment for the Arts on realizing the potential of the artists, arts therapists, and arts organizations as partners in clinical and public health in our homes, schools, and communities, a co-edited ebook on the psychological and physiological benefits of the arts, a Howlround article on teaching theater in times of crisis, and the first WHO policy brief on the role of the arts in supporting the mental wellbeing of people who are forcibly displaced. She is the principal editor of Drama Therapy Review and serves on the editorial boards of The Arts in Psychotherapy and the Journal of Applied Arts & Health.

Cris Scorza

As the Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Scorza provides vision, leadership, and strategic direction for the Museum’s education program. She oversees interpretation and educational content; public programs and academic engagement; social impact and learning aligning school, youth, and family programs; and access and community programs. In addition, she plays an active role in Whitney’s Latinx initiatives and evolving Spanish-language bilingual efforts. Scorza creates programs for diverse communities that incite inquiry, build self-esteem, foster an interest in art history, and respond to a contemporary culture centered on equity and inclusion.

She has worked in renowned institutions such as the New Museum, MoMA, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. At MCASD, Scorza and her team implemented a variety of programs tailored to the surrounding community, including collaborations with artists and arts organizations in the U.S./Mexico border region, leadership development for teens with an emphasis on social justice, and cutting-edge work with combat troops recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has curated social practice exhibitions and community-centered collaborations at MCASD, such as Oscar Romo: Recovered Stream (2020); To-Do • A Mending Project (2019); and Sanctuary Print Shop (2018). As an arts administrator, she developed and managed a range of exhibitions, including Photography in Mexico: Selections from the Collection (2013); Alvaro Blancarte: Marking the Present (2015), DELIMITATIONS: A Survey of the 1821 United States-Mexico Border (2016); and Papel Chicano Dos: Works of Paper from the Cheech Marin Collection (2016). She has also authored essays on Las Hermanas Iglesias, Ramiro Gomez, John Valadez, and Daniel Guzman.

Scorza has served on professional and civic committees, including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Art Advisory Committee and the San Diego Civic Youth Ballet Diversity and Inclusion Advisory. She is also an adjunct professor at Baruch College, CUNY, in the Arts Administration Masters Program. Scorza, born in Mexico City, studied painting at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has a B.A. in arts administration and art history from Baruch College, CUNY, an M.A. in leadership in museum education from Bank Street College of Education, and a Diversity and Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University.

Julia Hotz, moderator

Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is her first book.

Washington, DC | Tour of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2024-10-22 16:30 - 17:45 (America/New_York) | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St., NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20566
Following an introduction by Alexa Kaye, Director of Major & Leadership Gifts at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, our tour with a Friends of the Kennedy Center volunteer guide will explore its visual arts collection, its interdisciplinary community engagement programs, and its long history of championing the arts’ vital role in American civic life. Following the 75-minute tour, join us for Dutch Treat drinks at the Kennedy Center’s Roof Terrace Restaurant, hosted by Jessica L. Porter, the Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable.

Visual art spans the entire Kennedy Center campus, from performance and reception spaces to the REACH, the Kennedy Center’s innovative home for community programs and its first expansion since it opened in 1971. Reflecting its role as the National Cultural Center and a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, the Center is home to over 88 works of art, presented as diplomatic gifts from 36 countries and counting and displayed in the Center’s grand public spaces. Throughout the REACH’s indoor and outdoor performance and education spaces, designed by architect Steven Holl, works by Roy Lichtenstein, Deborah Butterfield, and Joel Shapiro welcome audiences and invite cross-pollination between the visual arts, theatre, dance, and music. The interactive exhibition Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy, the newest addition to the Kennedy Center campus, explores the importance of the arts to the Kennedy Administration’s diplomacy and its vision for the civic life of the United States. Art and Ideals also covers the establishment, design, and construction of the Kennedy Center and highlights many of the incredible performances that have graced its stages over the past five decades.

Accessibility Note: Given the vast size of the Kennedy Center campus, guests are advised to wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to walk for the better part of an hour. While there may be some stairs on the tour route, the tour guide can adjust the itinerary to an accessible route. The tour will make multiple stops, with seating available at some of the stops.

Program Admission:

ArtTable member: $15

Friend of member: $20

Not-yet-member: $25

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New York, NY | MeetAT at Morgan Lehman Gallery
2024-10-22 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Morgan Lehman Gallery, 526 W 26th St 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, New York, New York, 10001, United States
You’re invited to our next MeetAT networking event on October 22, graciously hosted by Sally Morgan Lehman, Founder and Director of Morgan Lehman Gallery. Join us for an evening of light refreshments and engaging conversations with fellow ArtTable members and new connections.

Morgan Lehman Gallery, founded in New York City in 2005 by Sally Morgan (née Oberbeck) and Jay Lehman, specializes in promoting the work of emerging and mid-career American artists working in a wide spectrum of creative media. In addition to representing its roster of artists, the gallery collaborates on exhibitions and projects with creative practitioners across the globe. Morgan Lehman has mounted the first New York exhibitions for artists such as Frohawk Two Feathers, Bret Slater, John Salvest, Paul Wackers, and Andrew Schoultz.

For this event, the gallery will feature the work of Naomi Kawanishi Reis and Hilary Irons. Reis, a transcultural visual artist, seeks out ephemeral moments of beauty and magic in everyday life. Her work, rooted in folk craft traditions, uses simple materials such as paper, fabric, blades, and brushes. Hilary Irons, a painter based in Maine, focuses on landscapes that fuse natural and imaginative elements, with a strong sense of color and pattern.

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 one guest with them at this time

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Greenwich, CT | Artist & Curator-Led Tour: 'The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita'
2024-10-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Second Floor, Greenwich, Connecticut, 06830
Kumi Yamashita, Arc, 2014. Carved wood, single source light, shadow. 30 x 13 x 2 inches. Photo by Erik Maahs.

Join ArtTable at the Greenwich Library’s Flinn Gallery for a tour of The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita co-led by the artist and Leslee Asch, exhibition curator, Flinn Gallery chair, and member of ArtTable.

About the exhibition: Kumi Yamashita transforms simple materials into astonishing works of art. Discussing her shadow art and the elusive nature of light, she explains, “I sculpt using both light and shadow. I construct single or multiple objects and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).” In addition to Yamashita’s Light & Shadow series, the exhibition features provocative portraits crafted by meticulously winding a single, unbroken sewing thread around thousands of small galvanized nails. Yamashita’s body of work showcases an astounding range of materials and techniques.

Learn more about her practice in this interview with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

About the Artist

Kumi Yamashita was born in Takasaki, Japan. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Her solo exhibitions have been held at prestigious venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Roswell Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, and Kent Gallery in New York City.

Yamashita has also participated in group exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre, the CODA Museum in the Netherlands, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Honolulu Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Liverpool Biennial, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Scottish Parliament, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları in Istanbul, and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan. She continues to exhibit her work internationally.

Her art is featured in both private and public collections, including the Microsoft Art Collection, New Mexico History Museum, American Express, Birmingham Museum of Art, Thoma Art Foundation, Le Meridien Shenyang, Otsuma University, Seattle City Light, Tokyo’s Akiru Medical Center, Osaka’s Namba Parks Tower, Stellar Place at Sapporo JR Tower, Boise Art Museum, and Hamada Children’s Art Museum.

Yamashita has received several awards and grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Artist Trust GAP, and China’s Crystal Kirin Award. She has participated in residencies at RAIR (Roswell Artist-in-Residence), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Millay Colony. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, New York.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Courtney Maier Burbela for organizing this program.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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