Tag: Exhibition Tour

Join ArtTable to ring in pride month as we visit Ryan Lee Gallery for a guided tour of ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, a daring new body of work by artist Martine Gutierrez. Our tour guide will be Partner and gallery Co-Founder Mary Lee.

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

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• Member Guests – $20
• Public – $25

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please see The Met website for full exhibition acknowledgments.

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

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

Join ArtTable at the historic National Arts Club on Gramercy Park to see the exhibit of their artist Fellows and meet artist JoAnne McFarland. The NAC Artist Fellowship program continues the Club’s over 120-year history of supporting the arts and artists.

JoAnne McFarland is a painter, sculptor, poet, and the Artistic Director of the Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn which exhibits works that focus on the intersection of language and visual representation. McFarland has artwork in the collections of The Library of Congress, The Columbus Museum of Art, The Department of State, General Electric, Ikon Corporation, and AT&T Corporation among others. Recent shows include: “Best & Brightest” and “The Indivisible Spectrum,” both at The Painting Center in New York City. She has also exhibited at June Kelly and A.I.R. Gallery, among other venues. A graduate of Princeton University, McFarland’s poetry collections include: Acid Rain, 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl, and Identifying the Body. Her latest multimedia collection, Pullman, will be published by Grid Books in 2023. McFarland has had fellowships at The BARD Graduate Center Library, and KALA Art Institute. McFarland’s traveling project SALLY, a collaboration with artist Sasha Chavchavadze, explores the histories of women whose lives have been marginalized, or forgotten.

The National Arts Club (NAC) was founded in 1898, admitting women on a full and equal basis from its inception. Renowned for its expansive American art collection, the Club owns works by Edward Potthast, Francis Mora, Ella Lamb, Charles Curran, Henry Watrous, Oscar Fehrer, Helen Turner and Will Barnet among many others. The National Arts Club is proud of its early recognition of innovative art media such as photography, film and digital media. NAC’s home since 1906 is the historic Samuel Tilden Mansion. 

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• ArtTable Members – complimentary
• ArtTable Member Guests – $10
• Public – $20
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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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Image: JoAnne McFarland by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Join ArtTable for the 28th Edition of SALON ZÜRCHER, hosted by Zürcher Gallery founder Gwenolee Zurcher. A distinguished group of 11 women artists show their work in the space on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Femmes d’esprit was an 18th-century French term that referred to independently-minded female painters, writers, and intellectuals, routinely under-recognized by their male contemporaries and publics.

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

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

Bettina Blohm
Petey Brown
Sue Collier
Fukuko Harris
Nancy Manter
Victoria Palermo
Sacha Floch Poliakoff
Jo Ann Rothschild
Sonita Singwi
Jenny Tango
April Vollmer

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• ArtTable Members & Guests – complimentary
• Public Admission – complimentary

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

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

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Please join us at Sargent’s Daughters gallery for a tour of Our Side—the third solo exhibition of Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), b.1981, Billings, MT) at the gallery. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Spring 2023 release of Red Star’s monograph Bíilukaa, published by Radius Books and featuring interviews with the artist, members of her extended family, and scholars. The book’s title, Bíilukaa, is in reference to what the Apsáalooke (Crow) call themselves: Our Side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the Tour Leader

Christine Nyce is a curator and writer originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  She is based in New York, where she is a Gallery Associate and Curator with Sargent’s Daughters gallery.  She holds a BA in Art History from Williams College and a MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

About the Gallery

Sargent’s Daughters was founded in 2014 on the Lower East Side by Allegra LaViola. The gallery takes its name from the painter John Singer Sargent, who was an innovator working in a traditional medium. Accordingly, the gallery interest is in artists whose work combines the same qualities of tradition and cutting edge. In addition to exhibitions by represented gallery artists, Sargent’s Daughters creates collaborations as a platform for exploring new conversations within a wider context and presents a strong program of primarily women artist, often highlighting overlooked artists working outside the established gallery world. The gallery has a history of granting young artists their first exhibition opportunities, placing works in major museums, and producing catalogues to further the dialogue of the artists’ work. Gallery exhibitions have been featured in The New York Times, ARTFORUM and Art in America, among other national and international publications.

Join ArtTable at The New Museum for a tour of a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi), bringing together over one-hundred works from across her twenty-five-year career. The tour will be led by New Museum teaching artist, Yasmeen Abdalla.

ArtTable had the chance to interview Mutu in 2014 in partnership with artnet. This tour brings us full circle to see the significant development and accomplishment in her career since that time.

Representing the full breadth of Mutu’s practice, the presentation will encompass painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance. Mutu first gained acclaim for her collage-based practice exploring camouflage, transformation, and mutation. She extends these strategies to her work across various media, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references. “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” will trace connections between recent developments in the artist’s sculptural practice and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. At once culturally specific and transnational in scope, Mutu’s work grapples with contemporary realities, while proffering new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.This exhibition is curated by Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator, and Vivian Crockett, Curator, with Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant.

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

Admission:

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

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

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

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About the Teaching Artist:

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