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Making Their Mark is a major exhibition showcasing the works of more than 80 of the most significant women artists from the last eight decades. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art and Curator of the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the exhibition marks the first public viewing of the Shah Garg Collection: a groundbreaking body of work by women collected by Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg.

Making Their Mark includes historic and contemporary artworks by Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Firelei Báez, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, Sonia Gomes, Sheila Hicks, Jacqueline Humphries, Mary Heilmann, Charline von Heyl, Joan Mitchell, Julie Mehretu, Elizabeth Murray, Howardena Pindell, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Joan Semmel, Joan Snyder, Amy Sillman, Mary Weatherford, and Anicka Yi, among many others.

Making Their Mark introduces a broader audience to the mission of the Shah Garg Foundation, located in the historic former home of DIA Chelsea at 548 West 22nd Street. The Foundation is committed to championing the work of women artists, from the modern era through the present day, with Making Their Mark introducing its curatorial vision to the public for the first time.

The evening will begin with an informal reception at 6 PM and progress to the exhibit tour at 7 PM.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $20
• Member Guests – $30
• Public – $35

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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.

Thank you to Cara Blumstein for her assistance with this event!

Images: Install Views – Credit Tom Powel Imaging, Courtesy Shah Garg Foundation.
Cecilia Alemani, Courtesy of the High Line. Photo Liz Ligon.

About the Curator

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York. In 2022, she curated The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. In 2018, Alemani served as Artistic Director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires. In 2017, she curated the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Cecilia’s full bio is available here.

Join us for a tour of “My Neighbor’s Garden” with artist Sheila Pepe on November 9 at Madison Square Park. Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator, will introduce the artist and her first outdoor exhibition. “My Neighbor’s Garden,” places colorful and optimistic canopies of crocheted material, as well as unexpected materials including paracord, shoelaces, outsize rubber bands, and climbing vines, and extends from the park’s extant physical structures such as light poles. In the months preceding the exhibition, Pepe gathered novice and expert crocheters at her Brooklyn studio for crochet sessions towards the fabrication of the project. Pepe will speak about the project, offer insights into the collaborative process, as well as situating the exhibition within the context of her career as a whole. The event will wrap up with a Q&A.

Press coverage of the exhibition:

• The New York Times
• NY1 News
• WNYC
• The Brooklyn Rail 
• WFUV and the What’s What Podcast

Special thanks to Truth Murray-Cole for spearheading this event!

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $15
• Member Guests – $25
• Public – $30

Not a member? Join today!

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: Sheila Pepe, Crane, Madison Square Park.
Sheila Pepe, photo by Rachel Stern.

About the Artist

Sheila Pepe was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1959. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Pepe received a BA from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven; a BFA in ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist’s mother taught her to crochet in the 1960s. Pepe discovered women artists who were a generation or two older and associated with the feminist art movement–Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, and Nancy Spero–as a crucible to launch her sculptural investigations. www.sheilapepe.com

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.

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:

• ArtTable Members – $15
• Member Guests – $25
• Public – $30

Not a member? Join today!

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.

You won’t to miss the opportunity for an artist-guided tour of a botanical wonderland with Miya Ando! Imagine a world where time is not measured in months, days, and hours, but in flowers. Flower Atlas envisions this unique concept. In this artistic creation, the year 2023 is represented by 365 signature flowers, each blooming on a different day somewhere on Earth. Curated by Kendal Henry at Brookfield Place.

Special thanks to Brookfield Place for welcoming the ArtTable Community!
Venue Sponsor: Brookfield Properties
Commissioning Entity: Arts Brookfield

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $10
• Member Guests – $20
• Public – $25

Not a member? Join today!

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.

Image: Miya Ando Flower Atlas. Image by Fadi-Kheir. Courtesy of Brookfield Place

About the Artist

Miya Ando is a Japanese/American artist based in New York. Her art is rooted in the dialectic coexistence of Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of natural phenomena. Her work is part of many public collections such as: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, as well as in numerous private collections. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA; the Asia Society Museum, Houston, TX; the Noguchi Museum, New York, NY; Savannah College Of Art and Design Museum, Savannah, GA; the Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY; and The American University Museum, Washington DC. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; and Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY. Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, and has produced several public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall sculpture built from World Trade Center steel for Olympic Park in London to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, for which she was nominated for a DARC Award in Best Light Art Installation. Ando was also commissioned to create artwork for the historic Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Most recently, Ando received the 2023 Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission. The site-specific commission Flower Atlas Calendar will premier at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place, New York, NY in July 2023.The artist holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, studied East Asian Studies at Yale University and apprenticed with a Master Metalsmith in Japan. www.miyaando.com