Tag: Exhibition Tour

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

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

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

Program Registration:

• ArtTable Member – $30
• ArtTable Member with FAMSF membership – $15
• Friend of Member – $35
• Nonmember of ArtTable – $40
• Nonmember of ArtTable with FAMSF membership – $20

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

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

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

Program Registration (includes admission):

• ArtTable Member – $20
• Friend of Member – $25
• Non-Member – $35

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

Enjoy conversation and a glass of wine following the tour!

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

Program Registration:

• ArtTable Member – $15
• Friend of Member – $20
• Non-Member – $25

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

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

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

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

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

Program Registration:

• ArtTable Member – $15
• Friend of Member – $20
• Non-Member – $25

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Join us at Bortolami Gallery for a tour of Deborah Remington‘s exhibition Mirrors with Director of the Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts and ArtTable member Margaret Mathews Berenson. Following our exclusive tour, Bortolami Gallery will graciously host a reception for attendees.

Margaret Mathews Berenson, better known as Peeky to her contemporaries at ArtTable, has been an ArtTable member for nearly three decades. She joined the Program Committee immediately after becoming a member, later serving as co-chair of the committee with gallerist, Julie Saul. Peeky also served on the Board of Directors from 2007 to 2011 and as Board Secretary from 2009-2011. She co-chaired the 2008 Luncheon honoring Vishakha Desai, President and CEO of Asia Society, and actively participated in countless trips, tours, and luncheons.

Since 2010, she has been Director of the Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts. Mirrors is the second solo show for the artist at Bortolami and coincides with the publication of a major monograph for the artist published by Rizzoli / Electa. The book represents a long-overdue survey of the work of yet another under-recognized woman artist: a renegade in every sense of the word – and who well deserves critical attention. 

Program Admission:

• ArtTable Member – $10
• Friend of Member – $15
• Non-Member – $20

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Nearly five years after the emergence of COVID-19, we live and work in a world transformed by the pandemic and the interrelated political and social crises it brought into high relief. The transformative power of creative experiences in helping human beings process trauma has never been clearer, and yet arts organizations still struggle to regain their footing, both financially and operationally. The growing field of arts in health, bolstered by innovative collaborations across academia and the private sector, provides essential new frameworks for measuring and articulating the societal value of the visual arts to consumers, funders, and healthcare professionals. ArtTable’s conversation will bring together experts in research, museum education, and artist partnerships to imagine a sustainable and equitable future for our communities and the vital organizations that serve them. Attendees will hear from leaders in the arts in health field and come away from this conversation with new frameworks for investigating and articulating the tremendous societal value of their work. 

Taking place at NYU’s Wasserman Center, a convenient 3-minute walk from Manhattan’s Union Square, this engaging talk will be followed by a networking reception with light refreshments. Registration closes Monday, October 14—don’t miss your chance to join us for this special professional development opportunity!

Read below to learn more about our panelists:

• Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Transdisciplinary Artist, Educator, and Community Builder; member of the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities
• Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab | Director, NYU Drama Therapy Program | Editor, Drama Therapy Review
• Cris Scorza, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American Art
• Moderator: Julia Hotz, Journalist and Author of THE CONNECTION CURE (Simon & Schuster)

About the Annual Leadership Series: This signature ArtTable program was initially launched in 2016, and since its inception, the series has fostered engaging conversations among prominent women and nonbinary professionals. It has provided a platform for these influential voices to discuss the most pressing and relevant topics within our industries.

Program Admission:

• ArtTable Member – $35
• Friend of Member – $45
• Non-Member – $55

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Please note, registration for this event closes on Monday, October 14, at 4:00 PM. We are unable to accommodate walk-in registrations for this event.

Join us in Westchester County for a tour of No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor with exhibition curator and ArtTable member Alva Greenberg. Following our exclusive tour, the Hudson River Museum will graciously host a reception for attendees. Our heartfelt thanks to Alva Greenberg; Laura Vookles, Chair of the Curatorial Department at the Hudson River Museum and Board Member of ArtTable; and Masha Turchinsky, Director and CEO of the Hudson River Museum and former Board Member of ArtTable for organizing this program.

About the exhibtition: “Clothing conveys impressions of social background, economic status, and ethnicity. Much like physical features, it serves as a powerful tool for self-expression and understanding others. Our inclination to categorize people based on their attire also shapes our reactions to them. How often do we subconsciously assign meanings to clothing that may not truly represent the wearer?

The altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies disrupts our automatic responses by challenging perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs, and portraiture itself. Free from physicality, these works compel us to confront our assumptions, as well as the ever-growing societal tendency to compartmentalize people, behavior, and social media that increasingly rules our thinking. What does it mean to deconstruct a garment by unraveling it, burning it, or transforming it into another material? What does clothing symbolize when there never was, or will be, a body inside?”

Program Admission:

• ArtTable Member – $15
• Friend of Member – $20
• Non-Member – $25

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