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 | 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 | District of Columbia
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 | Dia Bridgehampton, 23 Corwith Avenue, Bridgehampton, New York, 11932
Liliana Porter, The Task (detail), 2024. © Liliana Porter. Photo: Don Stahl

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

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

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $20

Friend of Member – $25

Non-Member – $30

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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 | 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 | 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 | District of Columbia
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 | 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 | 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 | District of Columbia
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 | 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*

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

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New York, NY | Deborah Remington Exhibition Talk with Peeky Berenson
2024-09-27 15:30 - 17:00 | 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 | 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 | 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

Not a member? Join today!

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 | 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.

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New York, NY | MeetAT at Morgan Lehman Gallery
2024-10-22 17:30 - 19:00 | 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!

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Greenwich, CT | Artist & Curator-Led Tour: 'The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita'
2024-10-25 18:00 - 19:00 | 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.

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Los Angeles, CA | Tour of 'Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism' with Catherine Taft at The Brick
2024-10-29 16:45 - 18:00 | The Brick, 518 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90004
Meech Boakye (1997- ), Untitled (Biomaterial Research), 2020. Roundup contaminated wild violets, wild onions, purple dead nettle and dandelions suspended in gelatin bioplastic. Courtesy of the artist. Meech Boakye (1997- ), Untitled (Sloppy Bondage Test), 2021. Cherry blossom wild yeast loaves. Courtesy of the artist.

Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of The Brick in its new home in East Hollywood! With Catherine Taft, Deputy Director and Curator of The Brick (formerly LAXART), we will explore Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, one of over 70 exhibitions and programs supported by The Getty as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. This inagural exhibition at The Brick, where a pivotal institution in Los Angeles’ art scene embarks on its next chapter, explores the interwoven histories of feminst and environmental thought and platforms a wide array of contemporary artists expanding the boundaries of these fields in the 21st century.

About the Exhibition: Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, on view through December 21, 2024, is inspired by four decades of ecofeminist thought and action in art. Ecofeminism is a theoretical and activist movement that locates critical connections between gender oppression and the exploitation of natural resources. In the U.S., it developed from the environmental, anti-nuclear, and feminist movements in the late 1970s and 1980s; in addition to their primary concerns around the subordination of nature and women, ecofeminists sought to resist racism, homophobia, and the capitalist patriarchy. As quickly as the movement was developed, artists began adopting an ecofeminist position, producing ambitious, often site-specific work that addressed the systemic subjection of women and the environment.

Life on Earth uses ecofeminism as a both a lens and departure point, bringing together eighteen international artists and collectives who present new methodologies for thinking-with our natural environment in the twenty-first century. These artists challenge anthropocentric notions around both gender and ecology to call for new positions that embrace communality, intersectionality, mythmaking, joy, and reparative action. Installations, mixed-media sculptures, video and performance art address themes including social ecologies, the commons, indigenous cosmologies, deep time, witchcraft, hydrofeminism, plant knowledge, science fiction, and speculative futures, among other threads. Participating artists include Alliance of the Southern Triangle (A.S.T.), Alicia Barney Caldas, Meech Boakye, Carolina Caycedo, Francesca Gabbiani, Masumi Hayashi, Institute of Queer Ecology, Kite, Leslie Labowitz Starus, Maria Maea, Otobong Nkanga, yétúndé olagbaju, Alicia Piller, Aviva Rahmani, Tabita Rezaire, Yo-E Ryou, Emilija Škarnulytė, and A.L. Steiner.

About The Brick: The Brick is a nonprofit visual art space that promotes developments in contemporary culture through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. It was founded as LAXART by art historian and curator Lauri Firstenberg in 2005, LAXART was created as a platform for emerging and under-recognized talent in Los Angeles. Evolving under the directorship of Hamza Walker, who took the helm of the organization in 2016, The Brick has expanded its mission to encompass thematic exhibitions that engage with a range of local and international artists at every stage of their careers. Through a range of free, accessible offerings, The Brick contextualizes contemporary art both socially and discursively.

Parking: The Brick recommends parking on Western Ave (metered), or on the side streets adjacent to The Brick.

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Washington, DC | Tour of 'Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault' at the Phillips Collection
2024-11-12 15:00 - 16:30 | The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, 20009
Sam Gilliam, April, 1971 [detail], Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 x 2 1/2 in., The Phillips Collection, Bequest of Mercedes H. Eichholz, 2013

Join curator Renee Maurer on a one-hour guided tour of The Phillips Collection, exploring Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault plus access to the exhibition Creative Aging. In connection with Breaking It Down‘s examination of the history of collecting at the Phillips, inseparable from its founding mission of using the arts to support healing and community-building, the tour will introduce us to the museum’s current cutting-edge education programs.

About the exhibition:

The Phillips Collection, from its inception, has focused on creating what founder Duncan Phillips called “units”: groups of works of art that represent key aspects of an artist’s vision or spirit. Leaders in championing the independent-minded artist, Duncan and Marjorie Phillips gave many their first museum exhibitions and acquisitions. This presentation offers a deep dive and new take on several artists who are cornerstones of the collection, including Georges Braque, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, Sam Gilliam, Paul Klee, and Georgia O’Keeffe, alongside a growing collection of works by trailblazers of our time, including Sean Scully, Sylvia Snowden, Renée Stout, Joyce Wellman, and more.

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San Francisco, CA | Walkthrough of Forms Unbound: Peter Young and Maren Hassinger at Gallery Wendi Norris
2024-11-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Gallery Wendi Norris, 436 Jackson St, San Francisco, California, 94111, United States
[L] Peter Young, #5 – 1967, 1967, Acrylic on canvas, 144 x 72.25 inches (365.76 x 183.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. [R] Maren Hassinger, Untitled Vessel (Small Body), 2021, Stainless steel wire rope on steel armature, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. Photo by Adam Reich.

Join ArtTable for a walkthrough of Forms Unbound: Peter Young and Maren Hassinger at Gallery Wendi Norris, along with an overview of the gallery’s program. Installed across two venues—Gallery Wendi Norris, and Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, located across the street in the historic carriage house at 38 Hotaling Place—Forms Unbound pairs fluid wire and fiber-based sculptures by Maren Hassinger (b. 1947) with monumental dot paintings by Peter Young (b. 1940). Young and Hassinger have followed parallel journeys in life and art: both raised in Los Angeles, they launched their careers in New York, where the art world was dominated by Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. As the works on view in Forms Unbound demonstrate, each artist developed new visual vocabularies and practices to mark their own departure from the limiting influence of formalism. Bringing these two artists into dialogue, this exhibition explores the limits—and possibilities—of abstraction and minimalism. Our tour will focus especially on Hassinger’s work; reshaping industrial materials like steel wire rope into forms that appear organic or handmade, and melding natural materials with the manmade, Hassinger contemplates the relationship between the earth and our human world. Juxtaposed with Young’s monumental paintings, the full impact of Hassinger’s large-scale sculptures is fully felt in the carriage house space, where viewing the works becomes an immersive experience.

Enjoy conversation and a glass of wine following the tour!

Accessibility note: There no stairs leading into or within the main gallery space and Carriage House. Limited seating is available for guests who need.

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Maren Hassinger (b. 1947, Los Angeles) has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race. Wire rope has played a prominent role in Maren Hassinger’s artistic practice since the early 1970s when, as a sculptor placed in the Fiber Arts program at UCLA, Hassinger used the material to bridge the gap between the two disciplines. The artist often takes a biomimetic approach to her material, whether bundling it to resemble a monolithic sheaf of wheat or planting it in cement to create an industrial garden. Within the past five years, Hassinger has been commissioned to make work for Sculpture Milwaukee (curated by Ugo Rondinone), Dia Bridgehampton, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Aspen Art Museum. Her work is currently installed at Dia Beacon and at Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton. Hassinger will be honored with an upcoming two-person survey alongside Senga Nengudi at IVAM, Valencia, as well as participation in an upcoming exhibition at The Met. Hassinger is the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum, NYC, among others.

Peter Young (b. 1940, Pittsburgh) grew up in Los Angeles and studied at Pomona College for two years before moving to New York in 1960. Young’s paintings have continuously defied categorization since his early New York years showing with Leo Castelli and Richard Bellamy. He has been described variously as the first post-modernist painter, as well as a minimalist and an abstract surrealist. From the beginning, his paintings have addressed the rigid formal criteria of minimal art that prevailed in the 1960’s. Following his first two solo exhibitions in 1967 and 1970 at the Noah Goldowsky Gallery, Young then exhibited at Richard Bellamy’s Oil & Steel Gallery in Tribeca in 1984. Through Bellamy’s interest in Young’s work, it came to the attention of then P.S.1 Director, Alanna Heiss, and in 2007 the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center dedicated a comprehensive survey exhibition to the artist’s work, accompanied by a monograph, focusing on the period between 1963 and 1977. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Guggenheim, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; as well as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom; Rolf Ricke, Cologne; and Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany. Peter Young’s work is featured in collections, including the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; the American University, Washington D.C.; the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; University of Texas, Austin; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

About Gallery Wendi Norris: Gallery Wendi Norris is a leading international art gallery with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The gallery holds decades-long relationships with 20th-century luminaries such as Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Wolfgang Paalen, Remedios Varo, and Alice Rahon, artists whose nomadic and visionary practices interrogated the aesthetic, scientific, and philosophical movements of their times. The gallery also represents María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Chitra Ganesh, Julio César Morales, Ranu Mukherjee, Eva Schlegel, Peter Young, and other contemporaries, artists whose work similarly flows across disciplines, continents, and generations as they speculate on the present moment. Opened in 2002, Gallery Wendi Norris remains committed to its founding principles of rigorous programming, development of artists’ legacies, public accessibility, and cultural significance. To those ends, the gallery hosts visiting academics, sponsors artist talks, and publishes highly-researched books with original contributions from international scholars. The gallery actively supports artists in engaging new audiences through influential commercial, biennial, and institutional collaborations. Pioneering an offsite exhibition model in 2017, the gallery produces public-facing artworks and shows wherever they might reach the widest viewership and provide the deepest impact. Working in concert with major museums, private collectors, and innovative curators, Gallery Wendi Norris builds enduring, well-represented collections for its respected array of international clients.

Brooklyn, NY | Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Dieu Donné
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Dieu Donné, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bldg 3 / 63 Flushing Ave, Suite 602 (6th floor), Brooklyn, New York, 11205
Join ArtTable for an immersive experience at Dieu Donné, where artists create unique handmade paper artworks in collaboration with an expert team. This event includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the Brooklyn-based hand papermaking studio, a live demonstration by a Master Papermaker, and an opportunity to learn about different hand papermaking techniques. Discover exclusive works made in collaboration with Dieu Donné by artists including Howardena Pindell, Diana Al-Hadid, Melvin Edwards, Glenn Ligon, Lynda Benglis, and more.

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Accessibility Note: The closest walk-in entrance to the building is through a turnstile, followed by a few stairs. If you require a wheelchair- or walker-accessible entry, please let ArtTable know, and they will provide detailed campus directions from Dieu Donné. Seating will be available to those who need it during our visit.

ArtTable extends a special thank you to Angelica Semmelbauer for coordinating this visit.

DIRECTIONS:

By NYC Ferry: The Brooklyn Navy Yard stop is a 10-15 minute ride on the Astoria line, either from Wall Street (take the northbound/90th Street-bound ferry 1 stop to the Brooklyn Navy Yard) or from East 34th Street (take the southbound/Wall Street-bound ferry 1 stop to the Brooklyn Navy Yard). Dieu Donné, in Building 3 at the Navy Yard, is a 12-minute walk from the ferry stop (see map below).

Bus/Subway: Please see below for directions provided by Dieu Donné, as well as a map of Dieu Donné’s section of the Brooklyn Navy Yard campus.

Philadelphia, PA | Curator-Led Tour: 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love' at The Barnes Foundation
2024-11-18 15:30 - 16:45 | The Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130, United States
Mickalene Thomas. Afro Goddess Looking Forward, 2015. Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel. © 2024 Mickalene Thomas

Join ArtTable for a tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love on the East Coast debut of this major international survey of Thomas’ work. Meet us in the galleries of the Barnes Foundation, where ArtTable member Nina Diefenbach, The Barnes’ Senior Vice President and Deputy Director for Advancement will provide an introduction to the exhibition. At 3:45, our 60-minute tour with Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator at The Barnes, begins.

About the exhibition: Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international tour focused on the work of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas (American, b. 1971), whose influences range from 19th-century painting to popular culture. All About Love is co-organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, and The Broad, Los Angeles, and in partnership with the Barnes and Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse. The Barnes presentation of All About Love showcases a selection of vivid artworks—paintings, collage, photography, video, and site-specific installation—that celebrates Thomas’s distinctive artistic practice from the late 2000s to the present day. Her work is characterized by spectacularly staged, rhinestoned, large-scale painted tableaux and bold, intimate compositions, decisively foregrounding Black femininity in abundant realms of visual pleasure, agency, and kinship. Whether in imaginative dialogue with canonical works from the history of art or playfully reckoning with popular culture, Thomas’s exuberant portraits offer an empowered vision of beauty and desire, formulated through a sensual, Black feminist lens. The Barnes presentation is curated by independent curator and scholar Renée Mussai.

About the Artist: Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is one of today’s most influential artists. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Thomas completed her MFA at the Yale University School of Art in 2002 and a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2003, and soon became known for her large-scale acrylic paintings of Black women in states of leisure and repose. Her confident and assured subjects are often depicted in domestic interiors from Black America, claiming the agency of womanhood while deconstructing the art historical canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Award–nominated co-producer, curator, educator, and mentor to many emerging artists. Thomas’s work has become an undeniable force within the contemporary art world and an indispensable inspiration to younger generations of artists. She lives and works in New York.

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New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane at Madison Square Park
2024-11-19 09:30 - 10:30 | Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10010, United States
Nicole Eisenman (American, b. France 1965), Fixed Crane, 2024. Crane, bronze, plaster, wire, and various additional materials. Approximately 12 feet x 12 feet x 102 feet. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

This tour with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, explores Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane, the current project in the Conservancy’s field-leading program of contemporary public art.

About the exhibition: Nicole Eisenman – one of the most influential artists working today — assembles a monumental public project for Madison Square Park that destabilizes familiar heroic objects associated with human achievement. Fixed Crane features a toppled industrial crane embellished with handmade sculptural objects. The work marks a significant moment in Eisenman’s practice, expanding her explorations of the twentieth-century concept of the “readymade,” created in 1916 by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp to elevate everyday, mass-produced objects to the status of an artwork, and pushing the boundaries of her work in figuration. The project is part of the milestone twentieth anniversary of Madison Square Park Conservancy’s art program.

Parkgoers can walk around the deflated machine, a mighty symbol of construction prowess and urban growth that now rests impotently on the park’s Oval Lawn. Rather than reach valiantly into the sky, the once imperious 1969 Link-Belt crane has capsized, provocatively challenging our notions of betterment. Turned on its side, the operator’s cab reaches nine-feet high; the tracks extend up twelve feet, and the boom stretches ninety feet. The artist upends an Edenic refuge from the city by placing a rusted relic of presumed advancement center stage. Eisenman questions cycles of progress in public space: how powerful cranes build skyscrapers–and, lately, “supertalls”–like those near Madison Square Park. In recent months, a towering wisp of an 860-foot-high structure has risen to eclipse views of the Empire State Building from in and around the park. Eisenman critiques New York City’s impulse for ever higher ascension, which advances some lives and compromises others, and alludes to how the human condition may be endangered by ongoing urban construction.

At the apex of the cab is a diminutive explorer. The figure is a symbol of surrender or of occupation. Sculptural bandages placed on the crane’s boom are there to heal the fallen apparatus. A large foot wearing a Birkenstock sandal adjacent to the engine, is footloose no longer, an unexpected culprit as the kicker who capsized the crane. Visible through a small portal is a tableau of a solitary seated female figure, draped in a shawl, and bathed in the soft light of a chandelier. She sits before a small cast-iron stove. She is now a vision (or a squatter), a glowing soul who recently found a haven for a wiener roast, skewering a sausage with a stick. The crane’s original counterweight and interior mechanisms become benches for seating as the artist daylights what was once hidden in the machine’s interior. Viewers can look at the fallen crane–once a commanding, necessary force for building, but now in stasis.

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About the Curator:

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

*CANCELED* San Francisco, CA | Curator-Led Tour of Mary Cassatt at Work at the de Young Museum with Emily Beeny
2024-11-19 16:00 - 17:15 | de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, California, 94118, United States
Mary Cassatt at Work, Legion of Honor, 2024. Photo by Gary Sexton.

Join ArtTable for a tour of Mary Cassatt at Work with Emily Beeny, PhD, Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the de Young Museum. The largest exhibition of Cassatt’s work in the US in decades, Mary Cassatt at Work was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the support of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

About the exhibition: Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was in fact a modernist pioneer. Her paintings, pastels, and prints are characterized by restless experimentation and change. Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’s invitation in 1879, and quickly emerged as a key member of the movement. Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, Cassatt produced many images of “women’s work” — knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants. These images suggest parallels between the work of art making and the work of caregiving. The exhibition calls attention to the artist’s own processes of making — how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create radical art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.

Accessibility note: Wheelchairs and lightweight portable stools are available from Coat Check or the Admissions counter on a first come, first-served basis. A Photo ID must be provided to ensure items are returned prior to leaving the museum.

Program Registration:

ArtTable Member – $30

ArtTable Member with FAMSF membership – $15

Friend of Member – $35

Nonmember of ArtTable – $40

Nonmember of ArtTable with FAMSF membership – $20

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VIP Access Passes | Miami Art Week 2024
2024-12-02 09:00 - 2024-12-08 18:00 | District of Columbia
PC: Untitled Art

ArtTable VIP Access Passes for fairs taking place during Miami Art Week are now live and available to all ArtTable members for purchase! To secure your pass, login to the member portal and select your preferred available pass option. Participating fairs and remaining pass types indicated below; we look forward to seeing you in Miami in early December!

Participating Fairs:

Art Basel Miami Beach

UNTITLED

NADA Miami

SCOPE Art Show

Design/Miami

Red Dot Miami

Spectrum Miami

VIP Access Pass Levels Available:

Platinum Level – $170

Gold Level – $150

Silver Level – $135

Bronze Level – $125

Copper Level – $100

General Access Level – $85

West Palm Beach, FL | Private Tour of The Bunker Artspace
2024-12-02 14:00 - 16:30 | The Bunker Artspace, 444 Bunker Rd, West Palm Beach, Florida, 33405, United States
Image credit: The Bunker Artspace – The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody

*Registration for this event is at capacity. To join the waitlist, please click Register Here.*

To gather our members and kick off a very busy arts week, we will gather in West Palm Beach for visits to two private collections.

ArtTable will be one of the first to experience The Bunker Artspace, the new home of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, located in a historic Art Deco building in downtown West Palm Beach. Featured work includes over three hundred leading modern and contemporary artists, from Lynda Benglis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Betye Saar, Mickalene Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Cy Twombly. Many of these works entered the DeWoody Collection early in an artist’s career, a testament to DeWoody’s vision as a collector and curator. The Collection has been the subject of exhibitions at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach and the Parrish Museum in Southampton, among others. Our guide will take us through the space, highlighting stories about the history of the collection.

After the tour, ArtTable member Eileen Ekstract invites us to her home (fifteen minutes from The Bunker Artspace) for a cocktail reception. We will also be treated to a viewing of Eileen’s private collection, featuring works by Alison Zuckerman, vanessa german, Jessie Makinson, and Lisa Roy.

This program is open to ArtTable members and their guests. Space is limited, so we encourage you to reserve your spot early!

Program admission:

ArtTable Member: $55

Friend of Member: $65

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Parking will be available immediately in front of The Bunker and across Webster Avenue (at the intersection with Bunker Rd).

Miami Beach, FL | ArtTable's Art Law Series, Part II | Panel Discussion & VIP Lounge Reception at Untitled Art
2024-12-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Untitled Art Miami Beach, Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida, 33139, United States
Image credit: Untitled Art Fair

From Purchase to Patronage: Stewarding Your Growing Collection

With generous support from Private Client Select, SRI Fine Art Services, and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, ArtTable presents an engaging discussion of the roles of steward and patron that the collector assumes upon purchasing a work of art. This second program in ArtTable’s Art Law Series, appropriate for new and seasoned collectors alike, covers multiple dimensions of stewardship each collector must consider to ensure the long-term integrity and care of works of art. Meticulous planning for insurance, shipping, and protection from natural disasters is paramount to maintaining the physical safety of the collection, but the collector’s actions following the sale—ascertaining holding periods, loaning works to museums, and exploring the resale market—must also be conducted diligently, with the sustainability of the artist’s career in mind. This panel brings together experts from the insurance, shipping, legal, and curatorial fields to cover collectors’ contractual, financial, and ethical responsibilities to the artists they work with, setting up all participants for success.

Speakers include:

Barbara Chamberlain, Director, Art Services, Private Client Select

Amani Lewis, Artist and Co-Founder, Artists First Collective

Shamim Momin, Curator; former Director of Curatorial Affairs, Henry Art Gallery; and co-founder, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division)

Melissa Osterwind, President, SRI Fine Art Services

Moderator: Samantha Anderson, Attorney, Art and Museum Law, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Program Itinerary:

4:00–5:00 PM: Panel Discussion, Untitled Art Podcast Lounge

5:00 PM Onward: Networking Reception, Untitled Art VIP Lounge

Join us on the beach as the sun sets, and connect with friends and colleagues between stops on your busy Miami calendar! Please note that seating is limited for the panel discussion – we encourage you to arrive early to secure your seat.

Registration for this program includes a pass to Untitled Art Miami Beach.

Program Registration:

ArtTable Member – $45

Friend of Member – $55

Non-Member – $65

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

About the Panelists

Barbara Chamberlain has more than 25 years of experience in private, public, and corporate collections, museums, and galleries, plus knowledge of library and archival science. She started her career managing works of art in a contemporary art gallery in New York City, after which she was assistant curator of The FORBES Magazine Collection, and the registrar at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida. Since 2008, she has provided collections management and care, risk management, and claims support services to hundreds of Private Client Select (formerly AIG Private Client Group) policyholders with private collections, museums, and/or foundations. Today, Barbara is also a member of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS) Board of Directors and an Executive Board member of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery. Barbara earned a BA in Art History and Psychology from Smith College and an MA in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University where she now teaches the first course in private collectors, collections, and museums.

Amani Lewis is a Miami-based artist, known for their powerful explorations of identity, community, and social justice. Amani holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where they graduated in 2016 with a focus on painting and printmaking. Amani has been featured in several prominent exhibitions, including “Amani Lewis: Subjective Nature” at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, “It’s from the light that we are found, blessed and guided” at Lévy Gorvy Dayan (2021), “Amani Lewis: Nothing Remains the Same” at Salon 94, and “Unapologetic WomXn” at The Venice Biennale in 2024. Their work often combines vibrant color, photography, and mixed media to challenge narratives around marginalized communities. Amani’s work has been extensively covered by publications such as Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, and The New York Times, which have praised their ability to combine social activism with artistic expression. As co-founder of Artist First Collective, Amani is dedicated to advocating for artist-friendly business models, ensuring transparency, and providing resources that support artists in their studio practices.

Shamim M. Momin currently lives and works in New York. She is the former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry Art Gallery. In this role from 2018-2024, she has overseen the Curatorial Department, and organized numerous exhibitions, including the museum-wide group exhibition In Plain Sight, as well as major commissions by Tala Madani, Gary Simmons, Kelly Akashi, Donna Huanca, Diana Al-Hadid, and others. Prior to joining the Henry, she was director, curator, and co-founder of LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), a nonprofit public art organization committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects. Previously, Momin served for more than ten years at the Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curating the 2004 and 2008 Whitney Biennials and overseeing the Contemporary Projects series. Momin was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art for Williams College for the 2007 and 2008 Semester in New York program, and is currently Affiliate Professor of Art at the School of Art, Art History and Design, University of Washington. [Photo credit: Stefanie Fink]

Melissa Osterwind, President at SRI Fine Art Servives, joined the SRI team in 2013 and brings over two decades of financial management and operations experience to our table. Prior to SRI, Melissa was the Controller at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and oversaw their $1.6 billion expense budget. In addition to her extensive managerial experience and financial expertise, Melissa is visionary team builder. She has guided SRI through record growth; doubling the staff, storage footprint and gross sales over the past decade. She recently navigated SRI through the Covid-related shutdowns without layoffs or furloughs. Melissa is currently a Trustee at The Bronx Museum of Art and Project for Empty Space. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University, with a concentration in finance.

Samantha Anderson (Moderator) is an Attorney in Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler’s Art and Museum Law practice. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Anderson served as in-house counsel to an international Art Advisory, and Sotheby’s auction house where she was Vice President in their Fiduciary Client Group. Ms. Anderson advises clients on a broad range of issues in the Art industry including transactional matters such as private sales and consignments, as well as commissions of art, artist representation, and various estate, planning and philanthropic matters surrounding complex collections, including valuation issues. Ms. Anderson is a frequent speaker on Art Law topics and holds various leadership and board positions. She teaches Law and the Arts at both Columbia University and Cardozo School of Law.

Dallas, TX | MeetAT at Cris Worley Fine Arts
2024-12-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Cris Worley Fine Arts, 1845 E Levee St #110, Dallas, Texas, 75207
You’re invited to our next MeetAT networking event on December 11 in Dallas, Texas, graciously hosted by Cris Worley, Owner and Director of Cris Worley Fine Arts. Join us for an evening of light refreshments and engaging conversations with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members.

Cris Worley Fine Arts is a contemporary art gallery established in 2010 in Dallas, TX. Cris Worley Fine Arts is dedicated to promoting innovative work by contemporary artists at various stages of their careers. The gallery’s dynamic approach to fostering artistic growth includes the presentation of compelling exhibitions, and collaborations with public institutions, professional art organizations, and collectors, both locally and internationally.

For over two decades, Cris Worley has contributed to national art dialogues as a gallery director participating in art fairs, as a guest juror for numerous exhibitions, and as an esteemed art advisor. As a charter member of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, Cris Worley has played a vital role in the vigorous growth of the Dallas arts community, encouraging the evolution of contemporary art collections.

For this event, the gallery will feature present their eighth solo exhibition of oil paintings by Paul Manes. The exhibition entitled, Into the Woods, opens Saturday, November 16, and will be on view through December 28. Whether it be the differing color palettes of the landscape images or the wall of rain or the bowls falling upon one another, Manes’ new works seem to be a random smattering of subjects across his oeuvre. Yet, in this new show, the artist invites us to see how his subject matter has been affected through his own experiences.Manes’ new work reflects his own physical move from New York City to Colorado a decade ago. Manes traded the concrete jungle for a sky of stars, and that location shift has changed his subject matter. In this new show, Manes has moved from the sky to the landscape, where he interacts with different elements and environments that he sees every day. Many of the works depicted reflect images of meadows and plants, and Manes’ large canvases and use of perspective allow for us all to step into this world he lives in daily. Every new painting acts as a window into another world – one where we get to see landscapes through the lens of the artist. Suddenly, we are alongside Manes on his motorcycle ride from home to the studio through the Colorado mountains.

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 prospective members*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

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New York, NY | Holiday MeetAT at DC Moore Gallery
2024-12-11 17:30 - 19:30 | DC Moore Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, New York, New York, 10011, United States
You’re invited to our upcoming Holiday MeetAT networking event on December 11, graciously hosted by DC Moore Gallery. Enjoy light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members, and making new connections right before the holiday season!

Founded in 1995, DC Moore Gallery represents nationally and internationally known contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation; important estates and foundations including those of Charles Burchfield, Romare Bearden, Robert De Niro, Sr., David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker, Jane Wilson and George Woodman; and specializes in the sale of major 20th century American painting, sculpture, and works on paper, including Modernism, Magic Realism, African American, Social Realism, and Abstract Expressionism. The gallery organizes fifteen to twenty exhibitions a year and publishes significant catalogues and books, with essays by distinguished historians and critics. As a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) the gallery subscribes to the highest standard of connoisseurship and scholarship.

This Holiday Party MeetAT will also include a raffle for your chance to win items ArtTable prizes and additional generous contributions from Kendra Scott, BLICK Art Materials, and Gourmet Gift Baskets.

On View at DC Moore GalleryRomare Bearden: Paris Blues/Jazz and Other WorksNovember 14, 2024 – January 11, 2025

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 prospective members*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

With this free event, ArtTable would like to thank all its members for a wonderful year! We appreciate any contribution you can make to help us continue to create opportunities for connections like these. Please kindly add a fully tax-deductible donation in support of ArtTable and our mission to empower, engage, and foster the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts!

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San Francisco, CA | Guided Tour of 'Amy Sherald: American Sublime' at SFMOMA
2024-12-12 16:00 - 17:15 | SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (detail), 2018; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia. Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Join ArtTable at SFMOMA an exclusive guided tour of Amy Sherald: American Sublime with Auriel Garza, Curatorial Assistant, Painting & Sculpture.

About the exhibition: Amy Sherald: American Sublime invites you to breathe. Come and be taken in by the colors, shapes, and forms painted by one of America’s defining contemporary portraitists. This exhibition presents nearly 50 of Amy Sherald’s luminous paintings, including her iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, poetic early works, and new works on view for the first time. Sherald’s artworks convey the quiet power in everyday people and invite viewers to participate in a more complex debate about accepted notions of American identity. In the spirit of great American artists like Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, and Kerry James Marshall, Sherald’s works reframe our understanding of American culture. American Sublime is organized thematically, with each gallery presenting a crucial idea in her work and explaining her detailed approach to making paintings. Learn more about Sherald’s central themes.

Accessibility note: SFMOMA offers gallery stools, wheelchairs, and canes at the Coat Check on Floor 1 as you enter at 151 Third Street. Benches are installed at several points in the galleries.

Program Registration (includes admission):

ArtTable Member – $20

Friend of Member – $25

Non-Member – $35

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