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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

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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.”

Please see the Museum’s Visitor Page for Health, Safety, and Accessibility information.

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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.

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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.

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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!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25
ArtTable Member Guests – $35
Public – $40

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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.

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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.

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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.

Philadelphia, PA | Old City Art Tour & “Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America”

June 10, 2023 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Please join ArtTable in Philadelphia, PA for a private tour of the exhibitions on view at Twelve Gates Arts and Pentimenti Gallery with remarks by Christine Pfister, Director at Pentimenti Gallery, and Aisha Zia Khan, Executive Director & President/Founder at Twelve Gates Arts.

Make a day of it! After the tour, we encourage attendees to visit Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, a collaborative exhibition by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. We are pleased to be able to provide attendees with discounted general admission to the museum shows! Attendees will retrieve their tickets at Pentimenti and Twelve Gates Arts during their complimentary lunch.

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11:00 am – 1:00 pm Old City Art Tour

WHAT SURVIVES IN THE ARCHIVE OF INDENTURE? | Group Exhibition
NAZRINA RODJAN – NICHOLAS DORNELLAS – SARAH ROHANI DREPAUL
SHARIFA KHAN – VANESSA GODDEN
TWELVE GATES ARTS, 106 NORTH SECOND ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106

Twelve Gates Arts invited curator Suzanne Persard for a group show of women and nonbinary artists. What survives in the archive of indenture? Remnants of Another investigates the traces of memory among artists of Indo-Caribbean and indentured Indian descent from Suriname, Trinidad, and Guyana. Juxtaposing historical and family archives alongside photography and film, these multidisciplinary artists rework temporalities of diaspora and self to create a new visual archive of genealogy. Remnants of Another traverses the contours of memory among indentured descendants, refracting the violence of the colonial archive through queer and feminist re-imaginings of ancestral selves, kinship and diaspora.

REKINDLED PROMISE | Group Exhibition
CHELSEA KAIAH – MELISSA LEANDRO – CHAU NGUYEN
BRIAN SINGER – TANEKEYA WORD
PENTIMENTI GALLERY, 145 NORTH SECOND ST. Philadelphia, PA 19106

Pentimenti Gallery invited five artists, four of them women, who draw inspiration from the challenges we face while living in America today. The selected artworks were created through the lenses of artists of different backgrounds and different concerns, such as climate change, immigration, material culture, and America’s complex past. These cultural critiques aim to turn a mirror on what modern America is versus what it purports itself to be.

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm “Rising Sun”

RISING SUN: ARTISTS in an UNCERTAIN AMERICA

20 artists respond to the critical question: Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy? A collaborative exhibition by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Installations by 20 celebrated artists explore themes of equality, free speech, and other tenets of democracy. In a time when perspectives in the U.S. are radically disparate, we invite you to explore how art inspires us to reflect on, challenge, and expand our own lived experiences. Artists include: Shiva Ahmadi, John Akomfrah CBE, La Vaughn Belle, Tiffany Chung, Lenka Clayton, Petah Coyne, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Demetrius Oliver, Eamon Ore-Giron, Alison Saar, Dread Scott, Rose B. Simpson, Sheida Soleimani, Renée Stout, Mark Thomas Gibson, Dyani White Hawk, Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Willis, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Saya Woolfalk.

Be part of this transformative exhibition at two historic museums within walking distance of each other:

African American Museum in Philadelphia
701 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118-128 North Broad Street | Philadelphia, PA 19102
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ArtTable members $25
Member guests $35
Public $40
Pricing includes entry to both museums, complimentary lunch, and both galleries.
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Image: Rekindled Promise | CHELSEA KAIAH – MELISSA LEANDRO – CHAU NGUYEN – BRIAN SINGER – TANEKEYA WORD.

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

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

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

New York, NY | “Gego: Lines in Space” at LGDR

June 28, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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

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

Thank you to Julia P Herzberg, PhD for coordinating this program.

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

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New York, NY | Gallery Tuesday | Marilyn Minter at LGDR with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn

May 30, 2023 | 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Join us for a tour of Marilyn Minter’s newest exhibition led by curator and LGDR Gallery partner Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. Spanning three floors and six gallery spaces, this ambitious show is Minter’s first solo exhibition in New York since her celebrated retrospective Pretty/Dirty at the Brooklyn Museum in 2016–17.

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

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

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About the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn

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

Image: Marilyn Minter. About Damn Time, 2023.

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Dallas, TX | Curator-Led Tour of “If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future”

June 14, 2023 | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

© Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York.

Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the critically-acclaimed exhibition “If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections from the Nando’s Art Collection.” Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, this exhibition at the African American Museum of Dallas features some of the most notable South African artists including Zanele Muholi, Claudette Schreuders, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, Igshaan Adams, Stephen Hobbs, Vivien Kohler, Anastasia Pather, Penny Siopis, William Kentridge, and Samson Mnisi. After the tour, we’ll enjoy Spier South African wines—courtesy of Nando’s—discuss, and network.

The exhibition brings together paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photography as visual documentation of forgotten images and histories. These works were all created in South Africa between 1948 and 2020, and while they are bound by a specific time and place, they chronicle universal issues that touch us all: love, loss, and hope for a better future.

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

Enjoy this Dallas Morning News article about Farrell and the exhibition.

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

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About the Curator:

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

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

New York, NY | Gallery Tuesdays | Ruby Rumié “Us, 172 Years Later”

June 13, 2023 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Join ArtTable and Nohra Haime for a tour of “Us, 172 Years Later” by Ruby Rumié at the Nohra Haime Gallery. The project is based on the 19th Century Chorographic Commission in Colombia that includes the inhabitants of the Caribbean coast which were missing in the original scientific study. Rumié puts together one hundred people from the Caribbean region whose unique characteristics share the passion and commitment for their trade, and express in a special way their taste and the value they place on the food from this region, as food is one of the most relevant cultural elements. Rumié inserts the women as a type who were not included in the original Commission due to gender and race.

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

Special thanks to Julia P. Herzberg, PhD.

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

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

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