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Guided Tour of Hollyhock House with Abbey Chamberlain Brach

November 30, 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am

This is a bespoke tour for only ten people: don’t miss your chance for this behind-the-scenes tour with Hollyhock House Site Director & Curator Abbey Chamberlain Brach—book your ticket today!

“Now, with a radical client like Miss Barnsdall, a site like Olive Hill, a climate like California, an architect head on for freedom, something had to happen… So this Romanza of California came out on Olive Hill.” —Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography, 1943

Heiress Aline Barnsdall (1882-1946) created a revolutionary life: a feminist, traveler, single mother by design, supporter of experimental Chicago theatre, close friend of Emma Goldman, early patron of The Hollywood Bowl, and champion of revolutionary causes. Barnsdsall commissioned an equally iconic home from Frank Lloyd Wright, intended to be the center of an Olive Hill arts complex. Barnsdall gifted Hollyhock House and Barnsdall Park to the City of Los Angeles in 1927, and it was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

“Hollyhock House has inspired generations of artists, architects, and designers. It is a harbinger of California Modernism and designed by Wright in response to the region, capturing the drama of Hollywood and embracing building traditions of the American southwest.” —Hollyhock House Education

Thank you to ArtTable Board Vice-President, Felice Axelrod!

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Image: Stan Ecklund, Courtesy City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

Abbey Chamberlain Brach is Site Director & Curator at Hollyhock House, part of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She manages interpretation, restoration, and preservation, including a major restoration of the Residence A guest house begun in 2017. From 2012 to 2018, Abbey worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of the decorative arts and design department—contributing to exhibitions on twentieth-century design dialogues between California and Mexico, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Peter Zumthor’s design for LACMA.

Abbey earned her master’s degree in American History at the University of Delaware, while working in the curatorial department at Winterthur Museum. She served as the Curator & Director of Education at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and the Assistant Education Coordinator for the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, operating El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park and Casa de la Guerra.

National | Philadelphia, PA | Artist-Led Tour of Chelsey Luster’s “Finding Home” Philadelphia

October 10, 2023 | 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Join ArtTable for an artist talk and exhibition tour with Chelsey Luster! Luster’s immersive solo exhibition “Finding Home” at Vox Populi Gallery tells the stories of their models’ safe spaces through mixed-media paintings, text, and film. Each model’s individual story informs the creation of these imaginative havens that come together to form a physical safe space. The exhibition acts as a place of healing for black and queer people and the respective communities. Luster highlights their identity and perspective through the luminescence of black skin with fluorescent undertones and the vibrance of queerness through shimmering overlays of glitter. Other materials, such oil and acrylic paints, fabric, glue, market on paper, wood panels, found objects, and canvas, come together to materialize these idyllic realms.

“At the beginning of my practice, I focused on self-portraiture and explored the lack of security and safety as a Queer Black woman through depictions of unsettling bathroom scenes in “The American Bathroom” series. This body of work critiqued our failed incarceration system and the unhinged violence I experienced along with others in my community through large-scale erie-colored oil paintings on wooden panels. I developed creative programming and community building with other Queer, Women, and Black-led organizations and community leaders through talks, fellowships, and residencies that allowed me to collaborate on performances and discussions on Black and Queerness with regards to self-autonomy, community discussions, and collage workshops that welcomed people of all artistic backgrounds to create work that explored identity. Through this work, I shared the universal feeling of wanting to feel safe with individuals of all backgrounds. Through the relationships formed and stories I heard during the creation of “The American Bathroom” series, I knew that our stories could not end with trauma and violence. I discovered that creating a sacred space within myself and others in my community leads to healing, peace, and safety. This inspired my current project “Finding Home.” “

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Image: Chelsey Luster. Luster, 20″ x 30″, 2023

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

Chelsey Luster is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and educator from Baltimore, Maryland. Luster’s visual art work explores the complexities of safe spaces in Queer and Black culture through mixed medium paintings and installations. Luster is a Vox Populi member and has been awarded the Mural Arts 2022 Black Artists Fellowship and the 2021 Center for Emerging Artists fellowship. Luster is the Exhibition Manager at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens and has independently curated multiple art exhibitions with art institutions in Philadelphia including IceBox Project Space, Da Vinci Art Alliance, William Way LGBT+ Center, and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Luster holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.

WAITING LIST | Guided Tour of “Judy Chicago: Herstory” at the New Museum

October 13, 2023 | 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Judy Chicago, Through the Flower 2, 1973. Sprayed acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in (152.4 x 152.4 cm). Collection Diane Gelon. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Donald Woodman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Judy Chicago is scheduled to make a cameo appearance for ArtTable members at an exclusive tour of “Judy Chicago: Herstory”! This comprehensive exhibition celebrates Judy Chicago’s iconic six-decade career. It showcases the diversity of her artistic contributions, spanning a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. This multi-faceted approach reflects Chicago’s versatility as an artist and her commitment to pushing the boundaries of traditional artistic practices.

The “City of Ladies” exhibition-within-the-exhibition is a unique concept that brings together artworks and archival materials from more than eighty artists, writers, and thinkers. This juxtaposition allows visitors to explore the connections and dialogues between Chicago’s work and the creative contributions of other women throughout history.

“Judy Chicago: Herstory” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, Margot Norton, Chief Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (former Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum), and Madeline Weisburg, Assistant Curator.

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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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Featured Image: Judy Chicago, Through the Flower 2, 1973. Sprayed acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in (152.4 x 152.4 cm). Collection Diane Gelon. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Donald Woodman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Artist photo (below): Judy Chicago 2023 by Donald Woodman.

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

About the Artist

Judy Chicago‘s contributions to feminist art and her exploration of women’s history and culture have left a lasting legacy in the art world, inspiring generations of artists and pushing the boundaries of traditional artistic practices for over sixty years.

Chicago’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Throughout her career, Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production. She has become a symbol for people everywhere, known and respected as an artist, writer, teacher, feminist and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and women’s right to freedom of expression. In 2018 Chicago was named both one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” and a 2018 “Most Influential Artist” by Artsy Magazine. In 2019, she received the Visionary Woman award from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery (Washington DC), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Getty Trust and Getty Research Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nevada Museum of Art, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and over twenty-five university art museums such as Brandeis, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, UCLA, Canterbury (New Zealand) and Cambridge (UK). judychicago.com

Tour of Candice Lin’s “Lithium Sex Demons In The Factory” with Summer Guthery

October 14, 2023 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory Candice Lin

Canal Projects introduces “Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory,” the inaugural New York solo show for Los Angeles artist Candice Lin. Our tour will be hosted by Artistic Director Summer Guthery. This project, a collaborative effort between Canal Projects and the 14th Gwangju Biennale, involves the recreation of a lithium battery factory as a site-specific installation. This endeavor seamlessly extends the artist’s persistent exploration of themes of globalization, intricate trade networks, the nature of materials, and the dynamics of labor.

Canal Projects is a nonprofit, women-led contemporary art institution dedicated to supporting forward-thinking international artists at pivotal moments in their careers. Through production, exhibition, research and interpretation of this work they foster artistic practices that challenge and reflect the current moment.

Candice Lin has gained recognition for her innovative use of diverse materials: from tea and cactus tinctures to fungi and deceased bats—accentuating their unique characteristics, such as scents and flavors. Lin repurposes presentation techniques commonly linked with anthropology and natural history, investigating their colonial narratives. Her work has been exhibited at Portikus, Frankfurt (2018); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017); Bétonsalon—Center for Art and Research, Paris (2017); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2017); New Museum, New York (2017); SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2017); Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016); and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013), among others. She is the recipient of several residencies, grants, and fellowships, including a California Community Foundation Award (2014), Fine Arts Work Center Residency (2012), Frankfurter Kunstverein Deutsche Börse Residency (2010), and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2009).

Thank you to ArtTable NY Chapter Member Diana McClure for initiating this program.

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Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10
ArtTable Member Guests – $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: Candice Lin, Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory, 2023. Installation view, 14th Gwangju Biennale (Apr 7 – Jul 9, 2023). Commissioned by the 14th Gwangju Biennale and Canal Projects. Image courtesy the artist, François Ghebaly Gallery and the Gwangju Biennale Foundation. Photo: glimworkers.

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

About the Curator

Summer Guthery is the Artistic Director of Canal Projects, a new non-profit organization in New York City’s Soho neighborhood. Prior to this she was the Director of JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space focusing on emerging and underrepresented artists and the Curator of Performance and Public Programming at LAXART in Los Angeles. In 2013 & 2011 she was the Assistant Curator of Performa Biennial 2013 & 2011. Her writing can be seen in Frieze, Artforum, ArtReview, and Art in America. Guthery received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

New York | Tour of Ebony G. Patterson’s “…things come to thrive…” at New York Botanical Garden

September 22, 2023 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Ebony Patterson detail of "...things come to thrive..."

Join Vice President for Exhibitions and Programming at New York Botanical Garden, Joanna L. Groarke, to usher in the first day of fall at one of New York City’s gems! Experience the beauty of gardens through the eyes of celebrated contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson. Known for her lavishly-detailed mixed media installations, Patterson brings her signature style to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and New York Botanical Garden landscape and galleries in a major site-specific exhibition featuring provocative displays of art and nature. Patterson’s work explores entanglements of race, gender and colonialism while inviting visitors to contemplate their own relationships with gardens and the natural world. ArtTable members and guests will enjoy a bespoke, guided tour of the work, rain or shine, as much of it is viewable from indoors. Please note we have limited spots available. Book yours today!

SUBWAY DIRECTIONS

B, D, or 4 trains to Bedford Park Blvd. Station. Take the Bx26 bus east to the Garden’s Mosholu Entrance OR walk eight blocks down the hill on Bedford Park Blvd (20 min). Turn left onto Southern Blvd. and walk one block to Mosholu Entrance.

2 train to Allerton Ave. station. Walk three blocks west on Allerton Ave. Turn left on Bronx Park East and walk two blocks to Waring Ave. At the park entrance, walk up the small hill leading directly to the Garden’s East Gate.

Visit the NYBG website for directions by car, accessibility information, and visitor policies.

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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.

Images: Detail of Ebony G. Patterson things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting (2023) in the Palms of the World Gallery of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (NYBG Photo).

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

Ebony G. Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. She received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Patterson has taught at the University of Virginia; Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts; has served as Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky; and was the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been featured in biennials worldwide including Liverpool (2021), Athens (2021), São Paulo (2016), and Havana (2015). Her work is in the collections of institutions including 21c Museum and Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC; the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Studio Museum in Harlem; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Patterson is Co-Artistic Director, along with curator Miranda Lash, of Prospect.6 New Orleans, slated to open in Fall 2024.

Joanna L. Groarke is the Vice President for Exhibitions and Programming at New York Botanical Garden where she has led a team that develops exhibitions, interpretive materials and publications, and public programming integrating NYBG’s multidisciplinary mission areas of science, education, and horticulture. Her service to NYBG extends over 10 years, having previously worked as Director of Public Engagement & Library Exhibitions Curator, Curator of Interpretive Content for Public Engagement, and Interpretive Specialist. She has more than 15 years of experience creating exhibitions, events, and audience development programs for institutions including the Irish Arts Center and Tufts University Art Gallery. She will bring to her new role extensive experience in innovative, visitor-centered exhibition and program development, purposeful strategy and business planning, and building talented, motivated teams.

Her strength in program planning and implementation is complemented by her involvement with the American Alliance of Museums as a Board Member & Program Co-Chair for the National Association for Museum Exhibition. In 2018, she was awarded the Gold Davey Award for Best User Experience for the Georgia O’Keeffe Interactive Guide. Groarke holds a bachelor of arts in sociology from The College of William and Mary and a master of arts in Art History from Tufts University.

National | Artist-Led tour of “Flower Atlas” with Miya Ando

September 12, 2023 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

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

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

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

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

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

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

Washington, DC | Curator-led tour of “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions” National Portrait Gallery

September 19, 2023 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Queen Liliʻuokalani_Harris & Ewing Studio (active 1905–1977) 1908 Gelatin silver print 37.4 × 28.8 cm (14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.) National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Aileen Conkey

Join co-curators Taína Caragol and Kate Lemay for an exclusive tour of “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions” at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery! “That single year launched the United States on a path that would end with the annexation of Hawaii, intervention in Cuba, and the invasions of Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam—profound geopolitical changes resulting from U.S. domination during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) and the Spanish-American War (April to August 1898), now often referred to as the War of 1898.”—Maya Wei-Haas, The Smithsonian Magazine.

Portraiture is part of how we represent ourselves, and how we memorialize our historic public figures from the heroic to the problematic. 125 years after this extensive series of conflicts, the U.S. continues to grapple with its imperial legacy. The Smithsonian exhibition revisits these representations from multiple, culturally-complex perspectives, “and recognizes that the Smithsonian Institution’s collecting practices legitimized the imperial project.”

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Image: Queen Liliʻuokalani;. Harris & Ewing Studio (active 1905–1977). 1908 Gelatin silver print 37.4 × 28.8 cm (14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.) National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Aileen Conkey.

Thank you to ArtTable member Laura Roulet for initiating this program.

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

About the Curators

Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2013 as the first curator for Latino art and history and her role was expanded to curator of painting and sculpture in 2015. Caragol has led the effort to increase the representation of Latino historical figures and artists at the museum, adding over 170 portraits to the collection and ensuring that Latino contributions to American history and art are interwoven through the museum’s exhibitions and permanent collection.

In 2014, she was the lead curator for “Portraiture Now: Staging the Self,” which examined the forces that shape identity–from friendships, to gender dynamics, and histories of migration–through the work of contemporary Latino artists. In 2015, she curated “One Life: Dolores Huerta,” exploring Huerta’s role as co-architect of the farm workers movement with César Chávez. She co-curated “The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now” (2017) and “UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar” (2018).

Previously, Caragol was the curator of education at Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she organized the museum’s symposium on Pre-Raphaelite art and led a program of talks with contemporary Puerto Rican artists. She was the Museum of Modern Art’s Latin American bibliographer from 2004-2007, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for Latin American Art in the United Kingdom: History, Historiography, Specificity, 1960 to the Present, an investigation led by the University of Essex (2007–2008).

Caragol earned her PhD in art history from the City University of New York. Her dissertation “Boom and Dust: The Rise of Latin American and Latino Art in New York Exhibition Venues and Auction Houses, 1970s–1980s,” examined the incubating role of New York City’s alternative museums and art spaces and market during the “Latin American art boom” of the late 1980s. Her essay on Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Barack Obama was published in The Obama Portraits in February 2020 (Princeton University Press / National Portrait Gallery).

Kate Clarke Lemay, Historian, joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2015. She is a Fulbright Scholar; a Presidential Counselor to the National WWII Museum; and the founding director of PORTAL, the Portrait Gallery’s scholarly center. Lemay also served as the founding coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. In 2019, Lemay curated “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence” to usher in the centennial of the U.S. American women’s suffrage anniversary. She published its eponymous catalogue with Princeton University Press which was awarded the 2021 Smithsonian Secretary’s Prize for Excellence in Research and the 2020 Amelia Bloomer Book Award from the American Library Association.

In 2017, Lemay’s first book Triumph of the Dead: American WWII Cemeteries, Monuments and Diplomacy in France was awarded the Terra Foundation in American Art publication grant. In 2018, she served as guest editor for The International Journal of Military History and Historiography. She has published essays on art and military history for the University of North Texas Press, Oxford University Press, The Strategy Bridge, Zócalo Public Square, Reviews in American History, and the Marine Corps University Press. Lemay’s research has been supported by a Terra Foundation in American Art predoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a fellowship in American Modernism at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and a fellowship from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Caen Mémorial Museum in France. Lemay served as the lead historian for the transformation of the museum’s landmark exhibition “America’s Presidents” (2017). Her other exhibitions include “Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image” (2017).

Before joining the National Portrait Gallery, Lemay was an assistant professor of art history at Auburn University Montgomery and visiting assistant professor of the history of modern and contemporary art at Brigham Young University. She earned a dual PhD in American art history and American studies from Indiana University (Bloomington).

New York | “Women Choose Women” at Frampton Co, Bridgehampton

August 18, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Ethel Schwabacher "Wild Honey" 1961 Oil on linen 84" x 70" (c) Estate of Ethel Schwabacher, courtesy of Berry Campbell

There’s still plenty of time to enjoy The Hamptons this summer! Join ArtTable at Exhibition The Barn—Frampton Co’s Fine Art space in Bridgehampton, New York. “Women Choose Women” spans the 1950s to today, including work by Lynne Drexler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Osborne, and Susan Vecsey. This exhibition is curated by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, co-founders of Berry Campbell, and Elena Frampton, principal of Frampton Co. Berry Campbell is known for bringing to light artists who were overlooked due to age, race, gender or geography, particularly women of Abstract Expressionism. Frampton Co focuses on contemporary art and design with emphasis on promoting emerging and undiscovered mid-career artists. We’ll enjoy a tour of the exhibition with Christine Berry & Elena Frampton, and then relax and network with a glass of Prosecco or seltzer, courtesy of the gallery.

The exhibition “Women Choose Women” derives its name and curatorial focus from a significant event at the New York Cultural Center in 1973. Curated by Lucy Lippard and a committee of female artists, this groundbreaking exhibition marked the first major display of women artists in New York. It left a profound impact not only within the art community but also in society at large. The 2023 exhibition, bearing the same name, follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, embodying a collaborative and effective approach. It firmly believes that advocating for women in the arts remains just as vital today as it was half a century ago.

Thank you to Courtney Burbela for her work on this event.

Transportation to Bridgehampton is self-serve:
Visit the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) website or Hampton Jitney website to book train or bus travel to Bridgehampton. (The train is approximately 2.5 hours from downtown Manhattan; bus and car vary according to traffic conditions. Please note that Friday evening commuter traffic can be heavy in the area.)
The gallery is a 5-minute walk from the train and Jitney stops.
Link to Google Maps

Detailed map of 141 Maple Lane Bridgehampton, NY 11932

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10
Member Guests – $20
Non-Members – $25

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Image: Ethel Schwabacher “Wild Honey” 1961. Oil on linen 84″ x 70″ (c) Estate of Ethel Schwabacher, courtesy of Berry Campbell.

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

About the Curators

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Elena Frampton founded Frampton Co on Cinco de Mayo 2015, following nearly two decades at the helm of a successful bi-coastal design practice and honing her craft at some of New York’s most prestigious interior design firms. Through a wholly-integrated approach, Elena makes sense of every space and brings out its spirit. Her knack for clever solutions that strike a balance between pragmatism and personality draws even the most cautious of clients into her process.

With an infectious enthusiasm for art and a rigorous understanding of design theory, she is an expert in creating consistently one-of-a-kind environments that transcend boundaries. Elena’s innate ability to shape space goes back to a childhood of balancing two worlds, between her maternal Mexican family in Los Angeles and the Midwestern farm on her father’s side. Her experience of navigating the desert landscapes of Arizona at college, with its bounty of interventions, inspires the construction of the layers and ‘reveals’ that characterize her design and curatorial practice. This, combined with her keen eye for detail, is key to the surprising combinations and unexpected applications that make her stand out as an unparalleled talent uniquely positioned in both the art and design worlds. Her curious nature and strong desire to forge connections fuels a constant search for new forms of creative expression. The vision culminates with Exhibition The Barn; the Bridgehampton gallery where she curates an ever-changing display of notable and under-the-radar works and her own original furnishings,
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Christine Berry and Martha Campbell opened Berry Campbell in the heart of Chelsea in 2013. The gallery has a fine-tuned program representing artists of post-war American painting that have been overlooked or neglected, particularly women of Abstract Expressionism. Since its inception, the gallery has developed a strong emphasis in research to bring to light artists overlooked due to age, race, gender, or geography. This unique perspective has been increasingly recognized by curators, collectors, and the press. Berry Campbell has been included and reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, Artnet News, Artnews, The Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.

New York | A Day Upstate: Rita McBride at Dia Beacon | Mother Gallery, Garage Gallery, Analog Diary

July 22, 2023 | 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

RITA MCBRIDE installation. Photo: Don Stahl

Join ArtTable members and guests for a day of art, walking, and networking during Upstate Art Weekend this July! It’s a perfect time to take a break from the city and connect with colleagues. Please note that this is a walking tour.

We’ll start the day at Dia Beacon, where Curator Alexis Lowry will guide us on a tour of “Rita McBride: Momentum.” McBride, renowned for her extensive body of work encompassing architecture, design, and public space, operates at the confluence of these disciplines. Her work predominantly revolves around creating expansive installations and large-scale works, and includes elements of performance, textual compositions, and smaller sculptural pieces. You’ll have a little time to explore other exhibits at Dia before joining the group on a shuttle to downtown Beacon.

We’ll enjoy a delicious (Dutch treat) lunch at a Main Street restaurant. Just a few minutes away on foot, we’ll tour “Reclaimed,” at Garage Gallery with Co-Founder Susan Keiser. The exhibit features work by Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Jaynie Crimmins, and Rinat Goren. “‘Women’s work’ is such a loaded term—loaded with seemingly impossible to dislodge assumptions about who does what in this world and what it’s worth. Said dismissively, these two short words have the power to devalue the lives and work of half the population. Still. But said authoritatively, joyfully, hopefully, it can refer to the unheralded artists who have long woven and embroidered seemingly worthless scraps of everyday life into entirely new vocabularies of expression.”

Our next stop will be “Chromazones” at Analog Diary with Founding Partner Katharine Overgaard. “This show celebrates the myriad compositional, technical, and narrative possibilities achieved through color—painted, drawn, poured, and sculpted—and draws unexpected and generative through-lines between otherwise disparate artists and their works. Chromazones is fecund, life-affirming, and curious.” Featuring artists Latifa Alajlan, Polly Apfelbaum, Michael Berryhill, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Julia Chiang, Martha Clippinger, Holly Coulis, Pam Glick, Tamara Gonzales, Clare Grill, Alteronce Gumby, Marcia Hafif, EJ Hauser, Andrew Masullo, John McAllister, Dan Miller, Ron Nagle, Ken Price, Julia Rommel, Sylvia Snowden, Emma Soucek, Tracy Thomason, Yukine Yanagi, and Kennedy Yanko.

To finish the day, we’ll join Founder Paola Oxoa at MOTHER Gallery for “I AM THE PASSENGER Pt II” featuring artists Lisa Beck, Trudy Benson, Seth Cameron, Mariah Dekkenga, Stacy Fisher, Rico Gatson, Russell Tyler, and Susan Weil. I AM THE PASSENGER is an intergenerational group exhibition of non-objective painting, in two parts—acting as a looking glass for perceiving our current moment in time and place within the lineage of non-objective painting. We relate to non-objective painting in both corporeal and immaterial ways. Non-objective painting wants to stir something. Non-objective painting connects with our bodies. Severe yet playful, non-objective painting is evidence of the artist operating within a greater movement of creation. We bear witness to the journey of artist as passenger when we stand in view of non-objective painting. Non-objective painting is about feeling and perceiving in the body, it’s personal, it’s universal. Organized by Trudy Benson, Paola Oxoa, and Russell Tyler. Stay and socialize at the Upstate Art Weekend reception at MOTHER, explore on your own in downtown Beacon, or wrap up the day!

If you plan to make a night (or weekend) of it, Upstate Art Weekend has so much to offer. The fourth edition of UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, July 21-24, 2023, includes 130+ participants located in Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. Visit upstateartweekend.org for details.

Thanks to Margaret Graham for spearheading this event, and to Courtney Maier Burbela and Racine Berkow for their assistance!

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ArtTable Members – $25
ArtTable Member Guests – $35
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Please note that all income from program fees goes towards program expenses and ArtTable’s internal costs for organizing programs.

Detailed Itinerary:

Meet us at Dia Beacon at 11:00 am
Dia Beacon is located adjacent to the Beacon train station, which is served by Metro-North Railroad trains from Grand Central Terminal and Poughkeepsie. Trains run hourly in either direction during museum operating hours. For train information, visit www.mta.info. New York residents dial 511, all others dial toll-free 877 690 5114. For detailed train, driving, and parking instructions, see the Dia Beacon website. Dia Beacon is an 8-10 minute walk (1/2 mile) from the Metro-North Beacon Station.

11:15 am-12:00 pm Dia Beacon guided tour of “Rita McBride: Momentum” with Alexis Lowry
12:00 pm-12:30 pm self-guided wander through Dia Beacon
12:30 pm board the Beacon Free Loop Shuttle to Main Street (6 min)
12:45-1:45 pm Dutch Treat/No Host lunch at a Main Street restaurant
2:00-2:30 pm tour of “Reclaimed” at Garage Gallery with Susan Keiser
2:45-3:15 pm tour of “Chromazones” at Analog Diary with Katharine Overgaard
3:30-4:00 pm tour of “I Am the Passenger Pt II” at Mother Gallery with Paola Oxoa
4:00 pm stay for Upstate Art Weekend Reception at Mother Gallery
Enjoy more Upstate Art Weekend activities, or head home via the Beacon Shuttle to the train or the Dia Beacon parking lot.

Image: RITA MCBRIDE. Photo by Don Stahl. Courtesy of Dia Beacon 2023.

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

Alexis Lowry is curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York, where she is responsible for exhibitions, commissions, and public programs across Dia’s sites and locations. Lowry also oversees acquisitions and the permanent collection. At Dia Chelsea, she has curated new projects by Lucy Raven, Rita McBride, and Kishio Suga. At Dia Beacon, she organized the first North American retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske’s work, as well as installations by Mel Bochner, Mary Corse, Charles Gaines, Barry Le Va, Lee Ufan, Robert Morris, Michelle Stuart, and Anne Truitt.

Prior to joining Dia, she was curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, and a freelance project manager for Creative Time, New York. She has recently contributed to publications for Art Monthly, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Orlando, The Drawing Center, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in addition to books produced by Dia. In 2021, Lowry was the first invited curator-in-residence at the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany. She is on the board of directors for the Triple Aught Foundation and serves on the advisory council of The Great Northern, Minneapolis. She received her PhD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2019.

Paola Oxoa (b. 1979 Medellin, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York, NY & Beacon, NY. Oxoa earned a BFA in experimental animation from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (Lakewood, CO). Working across media—themes of interconnectedness and transcendence permeate her work. Solo exhibitions include What the Thunder Said at Matteawan Gallery (Beacon, NY), Round Tripper at Stay Gallery (Denver, CO), The Mirror of Reason (2005) and TRUE LOVE (2004) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, where she was awarded a residency and named the #1 NEW PICK (2004-5). Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, NYLON, Art in America, Artillery Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, and The Denver Post, among other publications. Oxoa’s work is in the permanent collection of The Bass Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami, FL) and in prominent private collections.

Oxoa founded Mother, an artist-centered gallery, in the spring of 2018 in Beacon, NY. Oxoa has curated upwards of 25 solo, two-person, and group exhibitions at both gallery locations, off-site, and at significant art fairs including The Armory Show. Mother’s exhibitions have been featured or reviewed in publications including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Two Coats of Paint, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, and Whitewall. Oxoa was named one of six woman gallerists and curators defining the Hudson Valley art scene in 2019 by Chronogram Magazine. Oxoa serves on the board of the Children’s Museum of Arts in NYC.

Susan Keiser is a fine-art photographer and the cofounder of Garage Gallery, a contemporary fine arts gallery in Beacon, NY, exhibiting significant bodies of work by emerging and mid-career artists in a wide range of media. “Art needs space in the real world—a home in the heart of the community that’s larger than a studio but less rarified than a global gallery showroom. Artists need a place where they can find their audience without economic pressure—a point of entry between a phone app and a collector’s wall. Collectors need an environment that is welcoming and invites discovery, where they can always find a treasure to take home with them.”

Keiser’s photographic and curatorial work reflects her long experience in publishing, the arts, and horticulture. As Senior Editor at Oxford University Press she was responsible for establishing their academic and scholarly journals program in the United States, acquiring titles in fields ranging from cultural studies to financial economics and fine art to neuroscience.

Deeply involved in gardening and the natural world, she was Manager of the Rock and Native Plant Gardens at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY; Associate Director of the Garden Conservancy, Garrison, NY; and founder and principal of Greystone Gardens, Inc., a design-build firm working with private and corporate clients. Her gardens have been featured in the New York Times and Garden Design magazine, as well as in Japanese and German publications.

As an artist she has always been concerned with building large structures out of small units, entire worlds out of miniature elements. The recipient of an NEA grant she created site-specific installations commissioned by public and private institutions, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Rockefeller Center, New York, NY; and the International Design Conference in Aspen, CO. Keiser attended Pomona College and holds a BFA in painting from The Cooper Union and a diploma from The New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture.

Katharine Overgaard is a Founding Partner at Analog Diary (Beacon), and Director at Franklin Parrasch Gallery (New York). Her expertise lies in art writing and research, gallery and artist strategy, and collector and institutional relations. In spring 2022, she co-founded Analog Diary with fellow veteran art dealers Derek Eller, Abby Messitte, and Franklin Parrasch.

Analog Diary organizes exhibitions which reimagine what a gallery can show by collapsing boundaries and arbitrarily assigned categories. Analog Diary is a space where thinking about art without the mind clutter of an Instagrammable frame of reference is possible. Analog Diary is a Member of the New Art Dealers Alliance.

Overgaard has been an ArtTable member since 2022, was born and raised in Western Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley. She earned a dual major B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Drew University (Madison, NJ) and lives in Upper Manhattan.

National | “for the sake of dancing in the street” at OXY ARTS Los Angeles

July 20, 2023 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

LANDOXY—For the Sake of Dancing_Creator: Gina Clyne | Credit- Gina Clyne Photography Copyright- (c) Gina Clyne 2021

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

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

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

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

ArtTable Members $10
ArtTable Guests $15
Public $20

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

Hollyhock House

4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, 90027 + Google Map

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

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

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

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