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New York, NY | Madison Square Park Tour of Shahzia Sikander's "...havah, to-breathe, air, life"
2023-05-01 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10010, United States
Join us on Monday, May 1 at 5 pm for an artist-guided tour of Havah . . . to breathe, air, life, on view simultaneously in Madison Square Park and on the rooftop of the Appellate Division Courthouse through June 4. The tour will be led by artist Shahzia Sikander and Brooke Kamin Rapaport—Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator.

Special thanks to Truth Murray Cole for spearheading this event!

Admission:

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Member Guests – $25

Public – $30

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

ArtTable’s Artist Talks are made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Images: Shazia Sikander. Photo by Yasunori Matsui

About the Artist

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1969, Shahzia Sikander took up the traditional practice of miniature painting during Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s military regime, at a time when the medium was deeply unpopular among young artists. Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, where she received rigorous training from master miniaturist Bashir Ahmad. She became the first woman to teach in the Miniature Painting Department at NCA, alongside Ahmad, and was the first artist from the department to challenge the medium’s technical and aesthetic framework. Sikander’s breakthrough work, The Scroll, 1989–90, received national critical acclaim in Pakistan, winning the prestigious Shakir Ali Award, the NCA’s highest merit award, and the Haji Sharif award for excellence in miniature painting, subsequently launching the medium into the forefront of NCA’s program, which brought international recognition to this medium within contemporary art practices. The artist moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the CORE Program of the Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

About the Curator

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is deputy director and Martin Friedman chief curator at New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, which she joined in 2013. She was commissioner and curator of the 2019 United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty/Liberta. A major catalogue published by Gregory R. Miller accompanied the Venice exhibition. At Madison Square Park Conservancy, 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 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 of contemporary art 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.

New York, NY | Tour of Wendy Red Star's "Our Side" at Sargent's Daughters
2023-05-02 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Sargent’s Daughters, 179 East Broadway, New York, New York, 10002
Please join us at Sargent’s Daughters gallery for a tour of Our Side—the third solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), b.1981, Billings, MT) at the gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Spring 2023 release of Red Star’s monograph Bíilukaa, published by Radius Books and featuring interviews with the artist, members of her extended family, and scholars. The book’s title, Bíilukaa, is in reference to what the Apsáalooke (Crow) call themselves: Our Side.

Our Side builds upon Red Star’s research into historical photographs of Apsáalooke individuals and objects, with the artist drawing on both her personal collection and works held in museums and archives across the country. Red Star notes: “Since the time I left the Crow reservation I have encountered my tribe’s material culture in every city I have exhibited or occupied. It is incredible that so much of my community’s history and material culture is kept in the vaults of these institutions hundreds of miles away from their source.”

The exhibition includes two distinct bodies of work; the first are photographic prints originally produced for Bíilukaa, reimagined as a dynamic installation in the gallery. The second consists of large-scale unique collages, which layer photographs on top of fabrics typical of Apsáalooke regalia.

Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, MT) lives in Portland, OR. Red Star has exhibited at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), both of which have her works in their permanent collections; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France), Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Bignan, France), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Hood Art Museum (Hanover, NH), St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN), and the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL).

Her work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX), the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), the Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY), San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX), The Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), and the British Museum (London, UK).

She served as visiting lecturer at Yale University (New Haven, CT), the Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA), the Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia), Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), CalArts (Valencia, CA), Flagler College (St. Augustine, FL), and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO). In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Her first career survey exhibition “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth” was at the Newark Museum in New Jersey through May 2019, concurrently with her first New York solo gallery exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters. In the fall of 2022, Red Star had a solo project with the Public Art Fund titled Travels Pretty, on JCDeaux bus shelters across Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; and New York, NY. Red Star’s monograph Delegation was co-published by the Aperture Foundation and Documentary Arts in May 2022, which was named one of Vanity Fair’s best art books of 2022 as well as Time Magazine’s best photography books of 2022.

Red Star is currently exhibiting at the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), the Utah Museum of Fine Art (Salt Lake City, UT), Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE).

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Image: Wendy Red Star | Strawberry Chief (ishkóoshiite), 2023. Fabric and archival pigment prints mounted on gatorboard, 44 x 44″

About the Tour LeaderChristine Nyce is a curator and writer originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is based in New York, where she is a Gallery Associate and Curator with Sargent’s Daughters gallery. She holds a BA in Art History from Williams College and a MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.About the GallerySargent’s Daughters was founded in 2014 on the Lower East Side by Allegra LaViola. The gallery takes its name from the painter John Singer Sargent, who was an innovator working in a traditional medium. Accordingly, the gallery interest is in artists whose work combines the same qualities of tradition and cutting edge. In addition to exhibitions by represented gallery artists, Sargent’s Daughters creates collaborations as a platform for exploring new conversations within a wider context and presents a strong program of primarily women artist, often highlighting overlooked artists working outside the established gallery world. The gallery has a history of granting young artists their first exhibition opportunities, placing works in major museums, and producing catalogues to further the dialogue of the artists’ work. Gallery exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, ARTFORUM and Art in America, among other national and international publications.

National | Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: "Memory Map" at the Whitney Museum of American Art
2023-05-03 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
See below to register for either the 4:00 PM or the 5:00 PM tour group.

Join Laura Phipps, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Caitlin Chaisson, Curatorial Project Assistant, for a tour of the first New York retrospective of groundbreaking artist, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation). Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map brings together nearly five decades of Smith’s drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures in the largest and most comprehensive showing of her career to date.

Smith’s work engages with contemporary modes of making, from her idiosyncratic adoption of abstraction to her reflections on American Pop art and neo-expressionism. These artistic traditions are incorporated and reimagined with concepts rooted in Smith’s own cultural practice, reflecting her belief that her “life’s work involves examining contemporary life in America and interpreting it through Native ideology.” Employing satire and humor, Smith’s art tells stories that flip commonly held conceptions of historical narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant culture. Smith’s approach importantly blurs categories and questions why certain visual languages attain recognition, historical privilege, and value. Across decades and mediums, Smith has deployed and reappropriated ideas of mapping, history, and environmentalism while incorporating personal and collective memories. The retrospective will offer new frameworks in which to consider contemporary Native American art and show how Smith has led and initiated some of the most pressing dialogues around land, racism, and cultural preservation—issues at the forefront of contemporary life and art today.

See the Whitney’s website for full exhibition support acknowledgments.

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Admission$25 ArtTable Members$35 ArtTable Member Guests*Please note that we have waiting lists for BOTH tours: click on the register buttons to add your name!*

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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About the Curators

Laura Phipps is an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been at the Whitney since the summer of 2009, and her recent projects include Virginia Overton: Sculpture Gardens, Open Plan: Andrea Fraser and a group show of emerging artists Flatlands. She has also co-curated a project with Michele Abeles and the permanent collection exhibition Test Pattern. Laura has assisted with numerous museum exhibitions including 2010, the Whitney Biennial, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, Singular Visions, Wade Guyton OS, Sinister Pop, and Jeff Koons: A Retrospective.

She has served on the grant selection committee of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, as a visiting critic for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and Smackmellon Studio Program, and as a guest curator at the Kentler Drawing Center, Brooklyn. Prior to the Whitney, Phipps worked in the curatorial department and director’s office of the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth. She received her MA, Art History at Hunter College, CUNY and BFA, Studio Art and BS, Psychology from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

Caitlin Chaisson is curator and critic based in New York, and holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College. She currently works at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

From 2016–2019, she served as the Director and Curator of Far Afield, an initiative that supports regionally-connected artistic and curatorial practices. She has also held positions and contracts at The Drawing Center (New York City), e-flux (New York City), Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), AKA Artist-Run Centre (Saskatoon), and the Anvil Centre (New Westminster). Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, and Frieze, among others.

Image: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Vanishing American, 1994. Acrylic, newspaper, paper, cotton, printing ink, chalk, and graphite pencil on canvas, 60 1/8 × 50 1/8 in. (152.7 × 127.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Dorothee Peiper-Riegraf and Hinrich Peiper in memory of Arlene LewAllen 2007.88. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Deborah Dunner
2023-05-04 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Guarisco Gallery, Four Seasons Hotel 2828 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia, 20007
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter in May BreakfastTable with Debrah Dunner, founder and owner of Aesthetica Art Services and Washington, D.C. and Regional Representative for Freeman’s Auction. Debrah will speak about her specialization in Fine Art, Decorative Arts, and Contemporary American Craft appraisals, and a wide range of art related services including advising, consulting, investments, sales, consignments, collection management, and artist management. Also, fun note: Debrah assisted in cataloging the personal collection of the artist Sam Gilliam, a highlight of her career!.Prior to starting her own business, Debrah worked as the Assistant Curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, the Craft and Decorative Arts branch of the national museum. While employed at the Renwick, Debrah assisted in the creation of numerous exhibitions and scholarly publications including the monumental 40th anniversary exhibition 40 Under 40: Craft Futures, and the internationally recognized exhibition WONDER. As of January 1, 2020, Debrah became the Washington, D.C. Regional Representative for Freeman’s Auction, based in Philadelphia, PA. Established in 1805, Freeman’s is the oldest auction house in America, and one of the country’s first family owned businesses. Serving the Washington, D.C. region including all of Maryland and Northern Virginia, Debrah represents Freeman’s by facilitating consignments and servicing customers with any art related needs.

This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for member guests and non-members.

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Image: Deborah Dunner, courtesy of the speaker.

Thank you to ArtTable member Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.

*Postponed* National | "Face to Face" at International Center of Photography with stefa marin alarcon
2023-05-04 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | International Center for Photography (ICP), 79 Essex Street, New York, NY, 10002
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Join International Center of Photography (ICP)’s stefa marin alarcon for a tour of Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth, Face to Face features more than 50 photographs by Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie, and two films by Tacita Dean, with bracing, intimate, and resonant portraits of compelling cultural figures including Maya Angelou, Richard Avedon, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Didion, David Hockney, Miranda July, Rick Owens, Martin Scorsese, Patti Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, and John Waters.After the tour, you will be led to the Between Friends exhibit to walk through at your own pace. This exhibit includes portraits of and by well-known figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Between Friends also calls attention to many women photographers from ICP’s collection, including Lotte Jacobi, Nell Dorr, Consuelo Kanaga, and Barbara Morgan.Optional post-tour activities:• At 6:00 PM, Late Night ICP is hosting a free book event in the Library to celebrate the launch of ”A Humanist Vision: The Naomi Rosenblum Family Collection.” This publication honors the trailblazing legacy in photography and scholarship created by historian Naomi Rosenblum. More information. First-come, first-served seating.• Cash bar available in the downstairs café.Please review ICP’s Health & Safety guidelines and see the ICP site for funding acknowledgements for the exhibition.

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*PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED*

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

About the Docent

stefa marin alarcon (they/them) is a vocalist, composer, educator, and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY. Through their transdisciplinary practice, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits & displaced who are yearning for a sense of home.They have worked with NYC cultural institutions like International Center of Photography, Museum of the Moving Image, The Center for Fiction and Housing Works and are a 2022 Queer|Art|Prize Recent Work winner for their cinematic ritual opera, Born With An Extra Rib. Read more about their work at www.stefalives.com

Image: Thelma Golden, Photo by Catherine Opie. Scott Rudd events for ICP.

Dallas, TX | "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art" at the Kimbell Art Museum with Jennifer Casler Price
2023-05-10 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, 76107, United States
Join ArtTable at The Kimbell Art Museum for a guided tour of Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art led by Curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American Art, Jennifer Casler Price.

An exhibition of nearly 100 rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries depicts episodes in the life cycle of the gods, from the moment of their birth to resplendent transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. Created by masters of the Classic period (A.D. 250–900) in the spectacular royal cities in the tropical forests of what is now Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, these landmark works evoke a world in which the divine, human, and natural realms are interrelated and intertwined. Lenders include major museum collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America, with many works on view for the first time in the U.S., including new discoveries from Palenque (Mexico) and El Zotz (Guatemala).

“Mind-blowing”– New York Magazine

“Totally riveting”– The New York Times

“A magnificent show”— The New Yorker

For more information on the exhibition click here.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $20

Member Guests – $30

Public -$35

If you are a current Kimbell Museum member, please email programs@arttable org to book your registration

Thank you to Heather Reichstadt for initiating this program, and Louky Keijsers Koning for coordinating.

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Image credit: “Whistle with the Maize God Emerging from a Flower.” Maya, Mexico Late Classic period, 600–900 Ceramic with pigment, 8 1/8 x 2 in. (20.7 x 5.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979, 1979.206.728

About the Curator:

Jennifer Casler Price has held the position of curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American Art at the Kimbell Art Museum since 1993. She has a Master’s Degree in Chinese Art History and a Certificate in Curatorial Studies from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. In her position at the Kimbell, she is responsible for the areas of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian, African and the Art of the Ancient Americas – which represent half of holdings of the permanent collection.

During her tenure at the Kimbell, she has curated major exhibitions of Buddhist sculpture, Chinese antiquities and Imperial porcelain, Japanese ukiyo-e painting and Samurai armor, Egyptian antiquities, Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist painting, Mughal painting, African and Oceanic sculpture, Maya and Wari art, a retrospective on Louis Kahn, the architect of the original Kimbell building, and the couturier Cristobal Balenciaga. More recently, she organized: Queen Nefertari’s Egypt; Buddha, Shiva, Lotus, Dragon; and The Language of Beauty in African Art; and is currently preparing for a spring 2023 exhibition Lives of Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (co-organized with the MET). In 2012 she curated the Kimbell’s 40th Anniversary exhibition in the iconic Louis Kahn building and in 2013 she supervised the re-installation of her collections in the Renzo Piano Pavilion. She has made nearly thirty acquisitions covering the range of all the fields she curates. In addition to these duties, Jennifer contributes to publications, conducts docent training, lectures frequently to share her expertise, and has led patron tours to China, Japan, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Turkey, Cuba, Peru, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, and Croatia. Jennifer carried out a six-year term (2015 – 2020) as a Commissioner on the Fort Worth Public Art Commission, serving as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Commission during her tenure. She has been a member of AAMC (Association of Art Museum Curators) since 2001 and has served as Membership Committee Co-Chair, Advocacy Task Force co-Chair, Prize Committee member, and in 2020 participated in the Mentorship Program as a mentor to a junior curatorial colleague. She is a founding member and serves on the Steering Committee for the ACAA (American Curators of Asian Art). Jennifer lives in Fort Worth with her husband, Steven Price, and has a daughter Zoë, who is a sophomore at Emory Universit

New York, NY | Guided Tour of “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at the New Museum
2023-05-13 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Join ArtTable at The New Museum for a tour of a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi), bringing together over one-hundred works from across her twenty-five-year career. The tour will be led by New Museum teaching artist, Yasmeen Abdalla.ArtTable had the chance to interview Mutu in 2014 in partnership with artnet. This tour brings us full circle to see the significant development and accomplishment in her career since that time.Representing the full breadth of Mutu’s practice, the presentation will encompass painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance. Mutu first gained acclaim for her collage-based practice exploring camouflage, transformation, and mutation. She extends these strategies to her work across various media, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references. “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” will trace connections between recent developments in the artist’s sculptural practice and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. At once culturally specific and transnational in scope, Mutu’s work grapples with contemporary realities, while proffering new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.This exhibition is curated by Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator, and Vivian Crockett, Curator, with Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant.

See the New Museum website for full funding acknowledgements for the exhibition.

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Image: Wangechi Mutu, “In Two Canoe” (2022). “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

About the Teaching Artist:

Yasmeen Abdallah is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, incorporating civic engagement through creative reuse as a central point in her practice. She is interested in ephemera; aftermaths; and the stories told, and secrets kept by imprints and objects that speak to our contemporary culture. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts with distinction from Pratt Institute, and Bachelor’s degrees from University of Massachusetts, Boston in Studio Art with honors, and in Anthropology (emphasis in Historical & Collaborative Archaeology, including field schools with Hassanamesit Woods and the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation); with a Minor in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies.

She has been a visiting artist and speaker at institutions including Columbia University Teaching College; El Barrio Art Space, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Parsons School for Design; Pratt Institute; Sarah Lawrence College; and University of Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Art in Odd Places; the Boiler; Bronx Art Space; Bullet Space; Chashama; Cornell University; Ed Varie; Elizabeth Foundation; La Bodega; Open Source; Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space; Nars Foundation; PS122 Gallery; and Spring Break Art Show.

* WAITING LIST * New York, NY | Guided Tour of The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Fair
2023-05-15 15:30 (America/New_York) | TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, New York, 10065, United States
Please join us for a guided tour of TEFAF. Established in 1988, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) is widely regarded as the world’s preeminent organization for fine art, antiques, and design. This year, TEFAF celebrates its eighth year in NYC, hosting 91 galleries from 14 countries with blue-chip offerings of modern European and contemporary art and design. Our guide will focus on women-owned galleries and female artists on display at the historic Park Avenue Armory. Following the tour, we invite members and their guests to join us at the oyster and champagne bar on the upper level for pay your own way drinks.

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

New York, NY | Gallery Tuesdays at Salon Zürcher "11 Women of Spirit"
2023-05-16 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | ZÜRCHER GALLERY, 33 Bleecker Street, New York, New York, 10012
Join ArtTable for the 28th Edition of SALON ZÜRCHER, hosted by Zürcher Gallery founder Gwenolee Zurcher. A distinguished group of 11 women artists show their work in the space on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Femmes d’esprit was an 18th-century French term that referred to independently-minded female painters, writers, and intellectuals, routinely under-recognized by their male contemporaries and publics.

Between their two locations, Zürcher New York / Paris has hosted 27 fairs. The May 2022 edition of 11 Women of Spirit (Part 5) was featured in Hyperallergic with a special review by Ela Bittenncourt and was mentioned as a must-see satellite fair in the New York Times and Timeout. Zürcher Gallery is located in the East Village, within walking distance of the New Museum, the Lower East Side, and TriBeCa gallery districts.

In keeping with the spirit of artistic salons, 11 Women of Spirit involves the presence of the following 11 participating artists:

Bettina BlohmPetey BrownSue CollierFukuko HarrisNancy ManterVictoria PalermoSacha Floch PoliakoffJo Ann RothschildSonita SingwiJenny TangoApril Vollmer

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: Bettina Blohm | Spanish Moon, 2021 oil on linen 65 x 50 in / 165,1 cm x 127 cm

Gwenolee Zürcher Encouraged by Joan Mitchell, Gwenolee Zürcher cofounded Zürcher Gallery in New York and Paris in 2003. Read more on Hyperallergic.

National | NADA Panel | Building Networks of Opportunity for Women-Identifying & Non-Binary Arts Professionals
2023-05-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 535 West 22nd Street, 4th Floor, 535 West 22nd Street, New York, New York, 10011
ArtTable is delighted to join New Art Dealers Alliance for their “NADA Presents” series. This panel will explore how the arts community can better support women-identifying and non-binary arts professionals through mentorship, visibility, and resource sharing. Jessica Porter (Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable) will speak with HC Huỳnh (Deputy Director of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts), Carolyn Ramo (Executive Director Artadia), and Victoria Rogers (Founder of Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums) about the benefits of these types of programs, and their experiences in creating positive change through active support systems in the art world.

NADA Presents takes place at 535 West 22nd Street, 4th Floor. All programs are free and open to the public. Capacity is limited, and guests will be seated on a first come first served basis.

NADA New York and NADA Presents are both wheelchair accessible. An ASL interpreter will be present at all NADA Presents programs, and recordings of each NADA Presents program will be available online following the event.

Admission:

Complimentary registration: we have 10 tickets reserved especially for ArtTable members: click below to book yours! Your email address will be shared with NADA.

When the reserved seats are taken, please come to the event and join the public seating.

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

National | ArtTable Reception & Tour at VOLTA New York
2023-05-20 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Volta New York 2023, 125 West 18th Street, New York, New York, 10011
Please join us for a brunch reception and tour with Cristina Salmastrelli at VOLTA New York!

Take advantage of this great opportunity to meet your fellow ArtTable members during Frieze Week in New York City. Enjoy a delicious array of brunch items while mingling with your fellow members.

VOLTA New York’s “A Female Focus” spotlight highlights artist Natalie Collette Wood, represented by Vellum Projects; Asako Tabata, represented by SEIZAN Gallery; Dana Sherwood, represented by Galerie Heike Strelow; and Chellis Baird, represented by FORMAH. Be sure to keep your eye out for them!

Your ticket covers general access to the fair, access to the brunch reception, tour, and refreshments.

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Admission:

ArtTable Members – $55

ArtTable Member +1 Guest – $120

Additional Guest -$50_________________________

Non-Members – $75

Non-Member’s Guest – $50

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

About VOLTA

VOLTA debuted in New York in 2008 to support ambitious international galleries to participate in the art markets’ major cities. Now, VOLTA returns to present over 50 international galleries at our 2023 edition May 17 – 21 at the Metropolitan Pavilion.

“Beginning as an art fair collaboration between dealers and their friends in Basel, VOLTA has built up a reputation as a gallery favorite. Purposefully planned during Frieze New York, it’s ideal to hit both. “ VOLTA Art Fair fosters galleries in staging ambitious solo and group presentations, refining the experience to its essential elements: the artists and their work. This focus on compelling visual statements by up-and-coming and established artists cultivates a vibrant and approachable environment of discovery for the engaged collector.

Image: VOLTA New York, Courtesy of VOLTA

DC | MeetAT Doyle Bar & Lounge
2023-05-23 17:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Doyle at The Dupont Circle Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20036
Come meet current ArtTable members and invite interested guests to join us over happy hour at the last event of the season before the summer break from programming! We’ll meet at Doyle Bar & Lounge. Designed by the renowned Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Doyle is a warm, club-like bar with panoramic views of Dupont Circle. We encourage members to bring friends and colleagues to engage over refreshments and conversation and to learn more about ArtTable and our lively and active chapter in the Washington, DC region.

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National | Virtual Lunch & Learn: Understanding the Gender Pay Gap in the Arts
2023-05-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT

Welcome to our Virtual Lunch & Learn Series! We’re looking forward to seeing you at our complimentary lunchtime professional development series on Wednesdays this spring—join us from wherever you happen to be.

How are we addressing the gender pay gap in our industry as a whole, and in each of our organizations? Is there progress being made, and what are the current challenges? On May 24, please join ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director, Jessica L. Porter, in conversation with sociologist Dr. Gillian Gualtieri, who specializes in the relationship between race, gender, organizations, and culture, and is the lead on ArtTable’s ArtTable Survey on Working in the Arts.

Dr. Gillian Gualtieri’s cross-disciplinary scholarship examines the field of cultural production in its widest sense: how art is made and valued; and how taste, gatekeeping, and criticism shape prestige. Gualtieri looks at who is operating in these spaces and how systems of racial, gender, class, and national inequality shape the field.

A widely-published scholar, she has studied art and craft as categories—examining where ideas of creativity and function intersect in American fine dining and food writing, and how innovation across and within artistic practices in general is starting to destabilize the traditional hierarchies between art and craft.

Gualtieri is most recently a co-author of “Campus Connections for Creative Careers: Social capital, gender inequality, and artistic work,” in Poetics 96 (2023). This analysis of the data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) examines how social capital in college supports more successful post-graduation job searches—but found there are disparities between men and women in their access to social capital and the impact of social capital and its ability to confer career advantages. A recommendation for focused networking and mentorship in the arts is one of the possible calls to action from the study. This is impactful research for post-secondary educators and those who are working with early-career colleagues to consider some of the deeper systemic issues at play as we work toward equity in our professions.

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

About Gillian Gualtieri
Gillian Gualtieri, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College. 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 PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research broadly considers the relationship between race, gender, organizations, and culture. Gillian has published research on symbolic compliance and sexual harassment on college campuses (in Sociological Forum), the intellectual development of the theoretical concept of institutional logics (in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management) and the gender dynamics of the western literary canon (published in Gender Issues). gilliangualtieri.com

About Jessica Porter
Jessica Porter is ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director. She joined ArtTable as the ED in 2018, after 4 years on the Board of Directors and 8 years of membership. In this role, she is responsible for developing the long-range strategy of ArtTable, providing leadership and oversight in fundraising to meet financial goals, and directing communications and brand management to enhance the success of the organization. She oversees and provides leadership to the staff and the membership as a whole, expanding and educating through research, programs, and communications. In 2020 she was the first to assume the name of ArtTable’s founder, Lila Harnett, and became the Lila Harnett Executive Director.
Prior to this role, she was the Executive Director of New York Artists Equity Association, Inc (NYAEA) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1947 by artists and art patrons with the mission to promote opportunities for artists. It operates Equity Gallery, an art space located on the Lower East Side of New York City.
In 2001, Porter launched Porter Advisory, working with galleries and other organizations as an independent curator, creating exhibitions in alternative spaces and advising artists on unique opportunities and career advancement. From 2006 to 2017, Porter founded and directed Porter Contemporary, a Chelsea art gallery, where she was responsible for the overall strategy, business development and market growth, marketing, communications, and talent acquisition.
She has spoken as an expert on CNBC about art collecting and investment of emerging artists, to the Harvard Business Women’s Association about starting an art collection, and has participated in panel discussions on such topics as art and music, women in the art industry, art and social justice, contemporary visions of Picasso and art collecting. She is also a lawyer.
Porter’s natural networking skills, combined with strategic event planning and social marketing, have made her a leader in the growth of her own businesses as well as other organizations. Porter demonstrates a commitment to providing guidance and opportunities to other women as part of the Leadership Advisory Board for the Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s annual Women of Distinction Fundraiser and as a Board Member and former Vice President of Membership at ArtTable. She also enjoys coaching little league softball and serving as a supporter and role model to girls in sports. Porter has a Bachelor’s in Art History and French Language and Literature from the University of Delaware and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland.

National | Guided Tour of the Hammer Museum with Ann Philbin
2023-05-25 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hammer Musem, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 90024
Join ArtTable for a tour of the Hammer Museum with Director Ann Philbin!The Hammer Museum’s completion of a 90-million dollar renovation this March is the most recent step in a more than 20-year transformation of this Los Angeles institution, which Ann Philbin has overseen since becoming its director in 1999. This major capital campaign has allowed the museum to add visibility, expand its galleries, showcase its collection, and build community and public spaces. The Hammer Museum is one of three public arts institutions of the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, and is one of the most influential museums in the country.

ArtTable Members $10
ArtTable Guests $15
Public $20

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Image: Hammer’s new entrance at Wilshire and Westwood. Photo by Eric Staudenmaier.

Ann PhilbinAnn Philbin began her career in New York as an independent curator at the Ian Woodner Family Collection and then was an art dealer at the Curt Marcus Gallery. Philbin served as director of The Drawing Center in New York from 1990 through 1999, where she curated exhibitions of works on paper. She the moved to Los Angeles, where she has been the visionary Director of The Hammer Museum for the past 24 years. Philbin was recognized in ArtReview’s “Power 100” eight times, and has been included on Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA500 list. She has received the rank of Officier in National des Arts et des Lettres from the French Consulate of Los Angeles, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

New York, NY | Gallery Tuesday | Marilyn Minter at LGDR with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
2023-05-30 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | LGDR Gallery, 3 East 89th Street, New York, New York, 10128
Join us for a tour of Marilyn Minter’s newest exhibition led by curator and LGDR Gallery partner Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. Spanning three floors and six gallery spaces, this ambitious show is Minter’s first solo exhibition in New York since her celebrated retrospective Pretty/Dirty at the Brooklyn Museum in 2016–17.

It introduces several new bodies of work, including portraiture, and highlights Minter’s daring fifty-year exploration of beauty, representation, autonomy, and desire through a feminist, sex-positive perspective. A jaw-dropping display of jewel-toned paintings comingle with sculpture, video, photographs, and prints.

Minter approaches some of her now familiar themes with a critical, fresh eye and fearlessly tackles the art-historical canon by reinterpreting traditional genres such as bathers, odalisques, and portraiture.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

About the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn has helped shape the art world both directly as curator of three art galleries and indirectly as the host of salons where artists of all stripes have met and begun surprising collaborations. Greenberg Rohatyn studied art at Vassar and NYU before becoming a private curator and advisor, making connections between prospective patrons, including hip-hop legend and filmmaker Jay-Z, and up-and-coming artists. She continued to forge such connections through her salons, and nurture and advise artists whose potential she recognizes. Her gallery, Salon 94, has three locations and is known for showcasing artists of wildly different styles and backgrounds; Greenberg Rohatyn is known for seeking out artists for the variety and range of their work. She chairs the board of Performa, a performance art biennial, and is part of the selection committee for the Frieze New York Art Fair. In 2014, Artfair named her one of the 25 most important women in the art world.

Image: Marilyn Minter. About Damn Time, 2023.

New York, NY | Tour of Martine Gutierrez "ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS" at Ryan Lee Gallery
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Ryan Lee Gallery, 515 W 26th St floor 3, New York, New York, 10001, United States
Join ArtTable to ring in pride month as we visit Ryan Lee Gallery for a guided tour of ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, a daring new body of work by artist Martine Gutierrez. Our tour guide will be Partner and gallery Co-Founder Mary Lee.

The series continues Guiterrez’s exploration of identity across the cultural landscapes of gender, race and celebrity. In 17 new works, Gutierrez has transformed herself into a multitude of idols. Costumed by the barest of essentials, Gutierrez’s figure is the catalyst, reflecting dystopian futurism upon the symbols of our past. Through each metamorphosis, Gutierrez re-envisions a diverse canon of radical heroines who have achieved legendary cultural influence over thousands of years in both art history and pop culture.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: Martine Gutierrez. Cleopatra from ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, 2021.

Founded in 2013 by Mary Ryan and Jeffrey Lee, RYAN LEE gallery has established itself as a welcoming place of discovery and dialogue for art ranging from post-war art to the contemporary. Celebrating emerging and established artists and estates, the gallery takes a multi-generational approach to its programming, presenting innovative and scholarly exhibitions across all spectrums of art practices, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, and performance. The gallery takes chances on a wide variety of boundary-pushing artists; their work consistently transcends political, cultural, material, or technical boundaries. In addition, RYAN LEE has, throughout its history, demonstrated its long-standing interest and dedication to feminist, Black and Asian American, as well as queer narratives in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The gallery is led by partners of different generations and backgrounds with over six decades of combined experiences informing its unique approach.

Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989 Berkeley, CA) is a transdisciplinary artist, performing, writing, composing and directing narrative scenes to subvert pop-culture identity tropes—both personally and collectively intersectional to the discriminations of race, gender, class and nationality. Guiterrez examines advertising in order to hybridize the industry’s objectification of sex with the individual’s pursuit of self, satirically undermining the aesthetics of what we know. It is Gutierrez herself who executes every role—simultaneously acting as subject, artist, and muse. These complicated intersections are innate to Gutierrez’s own multicultural upbringing as a first generation artist of indigenous descent and as an LGBTQ ally. Her malleable, ever-evolving self-image catalogs the confluence of seemingly disparate modes, conveying limitless potential for reinvention and reinterpretation.

Berkeley, CA | Reading at the (Art)Table: "Also a Poet" by Ada Calhoun
2023-06-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Gilman Grill, 1300 Fourth Street, Berkeley, California, 94710
Join Northern California Chapter members for Reading at the (Art)Table as we discuss Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun. Explore memories, musings, and dig into the stories of Frank O’Hara, Peter Schjeldahl—the author’s father—and writer, Ada Calhoun.

“Brave, blistering… Fierce, dissonant, yet compelling.”—Washington Post

This program is free to attend and open to ArtTable members. Registration is required below.

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Image: Book cover of Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun.

New York, NY | Gallery Tuesdays | Tour of "Robin Coste Lewis: Intimacy"
2023-06-06 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Marion Goodman Gallery, 24 W 57th St, New York, NY, 10019
Join ArtTable at the Marian Goodman Gallery for a bespoke viewing of Intimacy, a moving-image and sound film by Robin Coste Lewis. We’ll meet Marian Goodman Gallery Managing Partner Emily-Jane Kirwan at 5:30 pm for a talk—and enjoy a glass of wine, courtesy of the gallery—and start the film at 6 pm.

A single-channel video projection with sound, the installation features projected images from a selection of 66 photographs representing a modern 20th-Century photographic archive depicting the Lewis family and their friends. The trove of portraits, discovered by Lewis approximately 25 years ago in the home of her maternal grandmother, Dorothy Mary Coste Thomas Brooks, are sepia, tintypes, color and black-and-white pictures that recount the history of the Lewis family and circle.

The Lewis family, along with millions of other Americans, fled the Southern States of America in the 20th Century as part of the Great Migration west, in search of a place devoid of racism, injustice, and white terrorism. With the upheaval of forced migration, and concomitant scattering of a family unit and dispersal of possessions, the existence of this deep collection of photographic images represents a distinctive vernacular collection, especially notable for its volume, rarity and joyful, private sentiment.

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ArtTable Members $10

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Image: Still from Robin Coste Lewis: Intimacy.

Robin Coste Lewis (b. 1964, Compton, California) is the former poet laureate for the city of Los Angeles, where she now lives and works. In 2015, her first book of poems, Voyage of the Sable Venus, which examined the fraught history of art, gender, and race, won The National Book Award in poetry, marking the first time a debut by an African American had ever won the prize in the Foundation’s history, and the first time a debut collection of poetry had won the award since 1974. The images in Intimacy also appear in her new book of poetry, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (2022), published by Knopf, which recently won an NAACP Award in Poetry and PEN Award in poetry.Lewis received her Bachelor of Art from Hampshire College in creative writing and comparative literature; a Master of Theological Studies degree in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University; a Master of Fine Art in poetry at New York University; and a PhD from the University of Southern Creative Writing and Literature Program. Lewis, who has taught at Hampshire College, Hunter College, Wheaton College, and the NYU MFA in Paris, is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. In 2021, she was the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and is currently a Ford Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at the Museum of Modern Art.

* WAITING LIST * New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Cecily Brown "Death and the Maid" at the Met
2023-06-07 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10028
Join ArtTable for an exclusive curator-led tour of “Death and the Maid” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; we’ll have access when the museum is closed to the public! For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s grandest and oldest themes. After moving to New York from London in the 1990s, she revived painting for a new generation alongside a handful of other artists—many of them also women—at the very moment critics were questioning its import and relevance. The first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home, “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” assembles a select group of some fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from across her career to explore the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas—symbolic depictions of human vanity or life’s brevity—that have propelled her dynamic and impactful practice for decades. The tour will be led by by the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Ian Alteveer.

Brown has work in public collections including The MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; The Tate, London, UK; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.

Please see The Met website for full exhibition acknowledgments.

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: Cecily Brown. Maid in a Landscape, 2021. Oil on linen. Private collection. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Genevieve Hanson.

Philadelphia, PA | Old City Art Tour & "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America"
2023-06-10 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | District of Columbia
Please join ArtTable in Philadelphia, PA for a private tour of the exhibitions on view at Twelve Gates Arts and Pentimenti Gallery with remarks by Christine Pfister, Director at Pentimenti Gallery, and Aisha Zia Khan, Executive Director & President/Founder at Twelve Gates Arts.
Make a day of it! After the tour, we encourage attendees to visit Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, a collaborative exhibition by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. We are pleased to be able to provide attendees with discounted general admission to the museum shows! Attendees will retrieve their tickets at Pentimenti and Twelve Gates Arts during their complimentary lunch.
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ITINERARY
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Old City Art Tour
WHAT SURVIVES IN THE ARCHIVE OF INDENTURE? | Group ExhibitionNAZRINA RODJAN – NICHOLAS DORNELLAS – SARAH ROHANI DREPAULSHARIFA KHAN – VANESSA GODDENTWELVE GATES ARTS, 106 NORTH SECOND ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106
Twelve Gates Arts invited curator Suzanne Persard for a group show of women and nonbinary artists. What survives in the archive of indenture? Remnants of Another investigates the traces of memory among artists of Indo-Caribbean and indentured Indian descent from Suriname, Trinidad, and Guyana. Juxtaposing historical and family archives alongside photography and film, these multidisciplinary artists rework temporalities of diaspora and self to create a new visual archive of genealogy. Remnants of Another traverses the contours of memory among indentured descendants, refracting the violence of the colonial archive through queer and feminist re-imaginings of ancestral selves, kinship and diaspora.

REKINDLED PROMISE | Group ExhibitionCHELSEA KAIAH – MELISSA LEANDRO – CHAU NGUYENBRIAN SINGER – TANEKEYA WORDPENTIMENTI GALLERY, 145 NORTH SECOND ST. Philadelphia, PA 19106
Pentimenti Gallery invited five artists, four of them women, who draw inspiration from the challenges we face while living in America today. The selected artworks were created through the lenses of artists of different backgrounds and different concerns, such as climate change, immigration, material culture, and America’s complex past. These cultural critiques aim to turn a mirror on what modern America is versus what it purports itself to be.

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm “Rising Sun”
RISING SUN: ARTISTS in an UNCERTAIN AMERICA
20 artists respond to the critical question: Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy? A collaborative exhibition by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Installations by 20 celebrated artists explore themes of equality, free speech, and other tenets of democracy. In a time when perspectives in the U.S. are radically disparate, we invite you to explore how art inspires us to reflect on, challenge, and expand our own lived experiences. Artists include: Shiva Ahmadi, John Akomfrah CBE, La Vaughn Belle, Tiffany Chung, Lenka Clayton, Petah Coyne, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Demetrius Oliver, Eamon Ore-Giron, Alison Saar, Dread Scott, Rose B. Simpson, Sheida Soleimani, Renée Stout, Mark Thomas Gibson, Dyani White Hawk, Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Willis, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Saya Woolfalk.
Be part of this transformative exhibition at two historic museums within walking distance of each other:
African American Museum in Philadelphia701 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts118-128 North Broad Street | Philadelphia, PA 19102_______________________

ArtTable members $25
Member guests $35
Public $40
Pricing includes entry to both museums, complimentary lunch, and both galleries. Not a member? Join today!

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Image: Rekindled Promise | CHELSEA KAIAH – MELISSA LEANDRO – CHAU NGUYEN – BRIAN SINGER – TANEKEYA WORD.

Aisha Zia Khan is Co-founder of Twelve Gates Arts, where as the Executive Director since 2009 she provides a platform for artists and diasporic audiences to present and experience contemporary art projects. Aisha has dedicated her career to curating innovative programs and exhibitions that bridge cultures, foster dialogue, and promote artistic diversity. She brings six years of experience as a Strategic and Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch to her work. With this expertise, she works towards the founding vision for 12G: a space as expansive and malleable as the artists it accommodates.

Aisha’s recently concluded Curatorial Residency in Penn’s Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) in spring 2023 (as part of the ASAM’s Sachs 2022 Grant) titled “The Third Space: Unfurling Diasporic Arts of South Asia”, consisted of a series of programs seeking to highlight Diasporic Arts of South Asia as a distinct, expansive, and emergent tradition within American contemporary art. This residency was not just a critical opportunity for ASAM to premier South Asian American arts in an examination of diaspora, ethnic identity, and immigration history, but also a culmination of her own work highlighting these aspects in artistic productions of diasporic artists.

Christine Pfister was born in Switzerland. Upon moving to the United States, she attended Christie’s Education at Christie’s New York, NY. As an accomplished Gallerist with over 20 years of curating exhibitions featuring local, national, and international artists at Pentimenti Gallery, Christine Pfister is an experienced gallerist, advocate, educator, and collections advisor. She has worked with museum curators, private collectors, and corporate clients located in the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe. She has also given many lectures and participated in panels. Lectures include the Barnes Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts, the American Association of Museums, and more.

SOLD OUT | ArtTable Tours | France: The Magic of Paris and Provence
2023-06-11 00:00 - 2023-06-19 23:59 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
There is no question that the art scene in France is alive and kicking its heels. The impact of Brexit has brought new and exciting art spaces across France that more than merit a taste of as the French would say a “soupçon” of the contemporary art scene in France.

ArtTable’s tour will begin in Paris and then we head south to Provence where we will visit museums, alternative spaces, galleries, artists’ studios, and private collections. France has been the inspiration to artists that have given birth to some of the most important artistic movements and their legacy has laid the foundation for artists for generations.

Highlights of The Itinerary

Paris

We could spend the entire time of the tour in Paris yet over the course of our 3 days in this magical city, we plan to get into the flow filled with contemporary art set within extraordinary settings. We will talk with gallerists, artists, curators, and collectors as we visit sites like La Bourse de Commerce or the Fondation Louis Vuitton or alternative art spaces like the recently formed Fiminco. Each day we will have time to enjoy the cuisine of Paris and reflect on our shared experiences.

Avignon

This wonderful walled city along the Rhone will be our first stop as we head south. While it is known for its famous Palais des Popes, there is also a burgeoning art scene which includes the collection of noted gallerist and collector, Yvon Lambert. We will have a tour of newly installed works from his collection. Our day will end with an evening stay at a chateau in the countryside which will provide closer access to a truly unique visit to Anslem Kiefer’s vast studio complex La Ribaute, a 40-hectare site with more than 70 installations by Kiefer along with the exhibition of works by guest artists.

Arles

Arles is a magical town and is one of the most lovely examples of life in Provence spanning the footprints of centuries of cultures. The presence of artists is legendary with Vincent Van Gogh having spent three of his most productive years here. His spirit has attracted many contemporary artists and is the home to one of the significant cultural destinations outside of Paris, LUMA. Created by the efforts of philanthropist Maja Hoffman, LUMA was created on the site of former railyards with many service barns being transported into exhibition spaces with the site being topped by a tower designed by Frank Gehry. Our hotel in Arles will be L’Arlatan, which was designed by the artist Jorge Pardo. Beyond Arles we will venture to Chateau La Coste roaming the hills dotted with large scale sculptures by some of the most important artists working today.

Suzanne Randolph, Tour Curator

The ArtTable tour to Paris and Provence will be curated by The ALIX Experience, a firm that connects women through luxury tours focused on cultural experiences. ALIX was created by Suzanne Randolph, an ArtTable member and established fine art advisor with Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts. Suzanne created ALIX as she traveled internationally on her own to keep abreast of the contemporary art market. As a solo woman traveler she realized that many women like herself could benefit from gathering together to share experience and lessen moments of loneliness as one travels for business and for leisure.

Suzanne loves France and looks forward to meeting ArtTable’s travelers!

Pricing

Member Total Price of Tour = $10,824

Cost of Travel ($9,999) + Required Arttable Donation ($825)

Non-member Total Price of Tour = $11,224

Cost of Travel ($9,999) + Required ArtTable Donation ($1225)

This tour is all-inclusive and includes luxury single-room accommodations, all meals plus wine and gratuities, museum entrance fees and other activity costs, local and international travel. Registration is open to ArtTable members + non-members at this time with pricing as outlined above.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOW SOLD OUT!*

New York, NY | Gallery Tuesdays | Ruby Rumié "Us, 172 Years Later”
2023-06-13 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Nohra Haime Gallery, 500A West 21st Street, New York, 10011
Join ArtTable and Nohra Haime for a tour of “Us, 172 Years Later” by Ruby Rumié at the Nohra Haime Gallery. The project is based on the 19th Century Chorographic Commission in Colombia that includes the inhabitants of the Caribbean coast which were missing in the original scientific study. Rumié puts together one hundred people from the Caribbean region whose unique characteristics share the passion and commitment for their trade, and express in a special way their taste and the value they place on the food from this region, as food is one of the most relevant cultural elements. Rumié inserts the women as a type who were not included in the original Commission due to gender and race.

Born in Cartagena de Indias, Rumié studied painting, drawing and sculpture at the Cartagena School of Fine Arts (1980-1982). From 1989 to 1996 she worked on hyperrealist painting. She then broke away from academia and pursued her work with a clear focus on social issues, both territorial and on patrimony, questioning her commitment as an artist to society. She has held important exhibitions in Colombia, Chile, the United States and France. She exhibited Hálito Divino (Divine Breath) and Tejiendo calles (Weaving Streets) at the Nohra Haime Gallery in New York and at NH Galería in Cartagena, Colombia. She participated in Art Paris and in the first Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias with her work Lugar común (Common Place). She was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center fellowship and Women Together from the United Nations (UN) for her anthropological, social and artistic works. Special thanks to Julia P. Herzberg, PhD.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

ArtTable Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: RUBY RUMIÉ. Us, 172 Years Later, 2022. Images of works.

Nohra Haime founded the Nohra Haime Gallery in 1979 a variety of modern and contemporary American and international artists that she has placed in important private and public collections. In 2011 she opened NH Galería in Cartagena, Colombia where she cofounded in 2014 the First International Contemporary Art Biennial. Nohra has curated many exhibitions and has written and published books.

Haime started writing for the art section of the Spanish Edition of Harper’s Bazaar in the 1980s, and later through her own publications on the diverse artists she has represented and worked with. She has equally juried several exhibitions and has been invited to lecture, give talks and participate in panels. In 2011, Nohra was awarded the Key to the City of Cartagena, Colombia. In 2013 she received the Jessica Cosgrave award from Finch College Alumnae Association in New York and was nominated in 2014 as one of the 100 Colombians by the 100 Colombians Foundation.

Dallas, TX | Curator-Led Tour of "If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future"
2023-06-14 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | African American Museum of Dallas, 3536 Grand Ave, Dallas, Texas, 75210
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the critically-acclaimed exhibition “If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections from the Nando’s Art Collection.” Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, this exhibition at the African American Museum of Dallas features some of the most notable South African artists including Zanele Muholi, Claudette Schreuders, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, Igshaan Adams, Stephen Hobbs, Vivien Kohler, Anastasia Pather, Penny Siopis, William Kentridge, and Samson Mnisi. After the tour, we’ll enjoy Spier South African wines—courtesy of Nando’s—discuss, and network.The exhibition brings together paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photography as visual documentation of forgotten images and histories. These works were all created in South Africa between 1948 and 2020, and while they are bound by a specific time and place, they chronicle universal issues that touch us all: love, loss, and hope for a better future.

The African American Museum, Dallas was founded in 1974 as a part of Bishop College. The Museum has operated independently since 1979. For more than 40 years, the African American Museum has stood as a cultural beacon in Dallas and the Southwestern United States. Located in Dallas’ historic Fair Park, the African American Museum is the only museum in the Southwestern United States devoted to the collection, preservation and display of African American artistic, cultural and historical materials that relate to the African American experience. Learn more at aamdallas.org.Enjoy this Dallas Morning News article about Farrell and the exhibition.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Public -$25

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Image credit: Zanele Muholi | Fisani, Parktown, 2016. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York.

About the Curator:

Laurie Ann Farrell is a globally-recognized curator, art historian, and writer. Farrell was Senior Curator at the Dallas Contemporary, and previously Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Department and Curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 2016 to 2019. From 2007 to 2016 Farrell was Executive Director of exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She started her career in 1999 at the Museum for African Art in New York, where she was the first Curator of Contemporary Art.

In 2006, she organized the American participation at the inaugural Trienal de Luanda with support and funding provided by the U.S. Department of State. Farrell received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize with artist Kader Attia in 2010, ArtTable New Leadership award in 2011, and Southeast Museum Conference 2015 Museum Leadership Award. Widely published, Farrell’s work has been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, African Arts, Vogue, CNN, the Detroit Free Press, the Washington Post, Artnews, Flash Art, and ArtForum. In 2020, Farrell led a conversation with Carrie Mae Weems and André Leon Talley for the RESIST COVID project.

Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2023-06-15 16:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm 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!

*Waiting List* New York, NY | National Arts Club Exhibition with Artist JoAnne McFarland
2023-06-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, New York, 10003
Join ArtTable at the historic National Arts Club on Gramercy Park to see the exhibit of their artist Fellows and meet artist JoAnne McFarland. The NAC Artist Fellowship program continues the Club’s over 120-year history of supporting the arts and artists.

JoAnne McFarland is a painter, sculptor, poet, and the Artistic Director of the Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn which exhibits works that focus on the intersection of language and visual representation. McFarland has artwork in the collections of The Library of Congress, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Department of State, General Electric, Ikon Corporation, and AT&T Corporation among others. Recent shows include: “Best & Brightest” and “The Indivisible Spectrum,” both at The Painting Center in New York City. She has also exhibited at June Kelly and A.I.R. Gallery, among other venues. A graduate of Princeton University, McFarland’s poetry collections include: Acid Rain, 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl, and Identifying the Body. Her latest multimedia collection, Pullman, will be published by Grid Books in 2023. McFarland has had fellowships at The BARD Graduate Center Library, and KALA Art Institute. McFarland’s traveling project SALLY, a collaboration with artist Sasha Chavchavadze, explores the histories of women whose lives have been marginalized, or forgotten. The National Arts Club (NAC) was founded in 1898, admitting women on a full and equal basis from its inception. Renowned for its expansive American art collection, the Club owns works by Edward Potthast, Francis Mora, Ella Lamb, Charles Curran, Henry Watrous, Oscar Fehrer, Helen Turner and Will Barnet among many others. The National Arts Club is proud of its early recognition of innovative art media such as photography, film and digital media. NAC’s home since 1906 is the historic Samuel Tilden Mansion.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – complimentary

ArtTable Member Guests – $10

Public – $20

NAC Members – add your coupon code at checkout for a complimentary ticket

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Please note that all income from program fees goes towards program expenses and ArtTable’s internal costs for organizing programs.

Please note that this event is *WAITLISTED.* Click the “register here” button to join the waiting list.

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: JoAnne McFarland by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

National | Virtual Lunch & Learn | Linda Selvin: Appraisers Association of America
2023-06-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT

We’re so happy to welcome Linda Selvin, the Executive Director of the Appraisers Association of America, to our Virtual Lunch & Learn Series! will discuss her journey to becoming the Executive Director of Appraisers Association of America, and share her experience working at the Association over the past decade. From gender equity in the industry/workplace, the value of professional associations, the importance of establishing industry-wide ethics and professional standards for appraisal practices, to the fluctuating values of art and property, she’ll be touching upon the changes she has witnessed throughout her career and sharing her vision of the future of the industry. There will be an open discussion after the interview, giving ArtTable members the opportunity to engage in dialogue and ask questions. Selvin will be in conversation with Kerry Gaertner Gerbracht. Special thanks to Regan Lynn Larroque.

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.

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Linda Selvin is the Executive Director of the Appraisers Association of America. Selvin began her career as the Gallery Manager of the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, and went on to become the Program Officer at the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, distributing funds internationally to artists of both merit and need. For 10 years, she served as the Executive Director of the New York Branch of the International Dyslexia Association. She is currently the Secretary of The Appraisal Foundation’s Advisory Council (TAFAC) based in Washington D.C. and a member of their Personal Property Issues Committee. Selvin is an Adjunct Instructor at New York University, Steinhardt School in the Visual Arts Administration graduate program and is a guest lecturer both nationally and internationally. She is a member of ArtTable and the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market (PAIAM).

New York, NY | "Gego: Lines in Space" at LGDR
2023-06-28 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | LGDR East 64th Street, 19 East 64th Street, New York, 10065
LGDR is pleased to welcome ArtTable to Gego: Lines in Space. The exhibition is the first to present Gego’s work at the gallery’s new flagship on 19 East 64th St. A leading figure of Venezuelan abstraction in the 1960s and ’70s, Gego (1912–1994) created multidimensional works that radically engage the properties of line and space. The tour will be led by LGDR Senior Partner, Emilio Steinberger. Presented in collaboration with Fundación Gego, Lines in Space will offer a concentrated survey of the artist’s works across media, including the constellated wire structure Chorro (1979/86), the six-part steel-and-bronze sculpture Cornisa I (1967), and her luminous watercolors, collages, and drawings.

This presentation follows those organized by Lévy Gorvy in New York (2015) and London (2016), continuing a long-standing relationship with the artist’s estate. Lines in Space coincides with a major retrospective of the artist’s work on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (March–September 2023), which traveled from Museo Jumex in Mexico City (October 2022–February 2023), and the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo (2019–20), and will continue on to the Guggenheim Bilbao (October 2023–February 2024). Thank you to Julia P Herzberg, PhD for coordinating this program.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

ArtTable Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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Please note that all income from program fees goes towards program expenses and ArtTable’s internal costs for organizing programs.

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: Gego Chorro. Bronze and stainless steel wire and acrylic base. 193 x 48 x 57 cm 76 x 18 7/8 x 22 7/16 inches. © Fundación Gego. Courtesy Lévy Gorvy.

* Waiting List * New York, NY | Behind the Scenes: The Whitney Conservation Studio & Works of Art on Paper Study Center
2023-06-29 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | The Whitney Museum of American Art, (Note: we are not meeting at the main entrance; see your confirmation email for details), New York, New York, 10014
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the Whitney’s Conservation Department with Executive Coordinator Heather Cox, and Curatorial Fellow and Supervisor of the Works on Paper Study Center, Scout Hutchinson. We will walk through the studios, see artwork in the process of being treated, discuss the role of conservation at the Whitney, and end with a tour of the Works of Art on Paper Study Center. Afterwards, you are welcome to visit the exhibition floors.

Founded in 2001, the Whitney’s conservation department engages in the preservation and long-term care of works of art in the Museum’s collection. Designed with a multi-faceted approach to conservation, the department embraces innovative approaches to the treatment and technical study of works of contemporary and modern art—including historical and scientific research, technical examination, and artist interviews.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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Please note that all income from program fees goes towards program expenses and ArtTable’s internal costs for organizing programs.

* Please note that this event is waitlisted! Click “Register Here” to join the list.

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

National | Hamptons Fine Art Fair Membership Meet & Greet
2023-07-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Southampton Fairgrounds, 605 County Rd 39, Southampton, New York, 11968
Explore Hamptons Art Fair and mingle with ArtTable’s own Membership & Development Coordinator, Audra Lambert, during Saturday’s fair opening hours. This informal meet and greet will allow you VIP access to the fair, as well as offer the chance to meet other ArtTable members and prospective members, ask questions to get to know what’s coming up soon with ArtTable, and to learn more about how to take advantage of your own membership.
Discover an extraordinary collection of modern and contemporary art at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair. Explore a record-breaking 130 galleries from 14 countries with over 800 artists on display, from emerging to blue chip, with museum-level works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Pollock, Motherwell, Rockwell, Katz, Condo, and Warhol. The famous Astor Place Cube, generously loaned by New York City, takes center stage at SculptureHamptons. There is ample on-site parking for your convenience, ensuring a hassle-free visit.
You will receive VIP fair passes with your (complimentary) registration: they include entrance to the opening night reception: Thursday, July 13 from 6-9:30 PM at Vernissage.
Please note that our limited VIP passes are available for ArtTable Members only. Not a member? Join today!
PLEASE REGISTER NO LATER THAN 6:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 12. WE ARE PROCESSING ALL FAIR PASSES ON THURSDAY MORNING IN TIME FOR OPENING NIGHT!

National | "for the sake of dancing in the street" at OXY ARTS Los Angeles
2023-07-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Oxy Arts, 4757 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90042
Join ArtTable for a tour of “for the sake of dancing in the street”—a group exhibition celebrating the interconnectedness of feminist and queer resistance in person at OXY ARTS Los Angeles. The exhibition features works by performance collaborative LASTESIS, Morehshin Allahyari, and Yasmine Nasser Diaz, in conversation with works by poet Ava Ansari and the Geochicas network, and documentation of resistance movements compiled by Caitlin Abadir-Mullally and Raja Bella Hicks. An original print by Entangled Roots Press is featured in the gallery space and available as a takeaway. Yasmine Nasser Diaz will speak about the exhibition. Meldia Yesayan, Director, and Frankie Fleming, Manager of Education and Community Engagement, will explain the unique mission of OXY ARTS as it relates to Occidental College and to the surrounding community. OXY ARTS is situated off-campus in a store-front building in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The exhibition and associated programming were conceived and organized in collaboration with OXY ARTS, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), and Yasmine Nasser Diaz.

Optional activities after the tour include staying for the gallery’s 6 pm screening of JOYLAND—an Urdu- and Punjabi-language film tackling gender and desire that was shortlisted in the Best International Feature Film category at the 95th Academy Awards, and won the Jury Prize and Queer Palm Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Attendees are also welcome to continue networking while enjoying a “no-host” meal at a nearby restaurant.

Please note there is limited street parking; details are available on the OXY ARTS website here.

ArtTable Members $10
ArtTable Guests $15
Public $20

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Image: LANDOXY-For the Sake of Dancing Installation. Creator: Gina Clyne. Photo Credit: Gina Clyne Photography Copyright (c) Gina Clyne 2021.

Meldia Yesayan. Meldia is the Director of OXY ARTS, the multidisciplinary arts programming initiative at Occidental College. She oversees all aspects of the programming and development of OXY ARTS, including organizing all exhibitions and programs at the OXY ARTS center, facilitating visiting artist residencies such as the Wanlass Artist-in-Residence program, initiating cross-departmental and interdisciplinary collaborations, creating opportunities for student-curated events, and engaging the Occidental community in socially conscious discourse with contemporary arts practices. She is also responsible for developing meaningful and sustained relationships with the Los Angeles area arts communities, including partnerships with local arts agencies, artists and institutions.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a visual artist whose work frequently occupies the domestic sphere to explore the boundaries of cultural identity. Staging familial memories in nostalgic recreations of home, her work nods to both tradition and technological change and is often deftly punctured by powerful feminist and social critique. Using a variety of media from collage and fiber etching to video and immersive installation, she mines personal archives to probe the nuances of third-culture identity, often drawing upon the frictions experienced between the individual and the collective.

Yasmine’s work was recently featured at the Getty Center and is included in the collections of LACMA, UCLA, and the Arab American National Museum. She is the recipient of the Harpo Visual Artists Grant, the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship, and the University of Michigan Efroymson Visiting Artist Residency in Ann Arbor, MI. Yasmine lives and works in Los Angeles.

Frankie Fleming oversees education and community programming at OXY ARTS. She works with students, community partners, and faculty on collaborations with the surrounding community, including running the Community Studio K-12 after school art program, organizing workshops, field trips and community events. Before joining OXY ARTS in 2019, Frankie was the Director of Education at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock and a Teaching Artist at Southern Exposure. She brings her experience in art education to OXY ARTS’ LAUSD after school art program and internship program, which launched in 2021.
