New York, NY | Artist Talk: Deborah Druick in Conversation with Sasha Phyars Burgess

July 15, 2024 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Deborah Druick (b. 1951), Absent, 2023, signed, titled, and dated on back. Diptych; Flashe paint on linen. Each: 40 x 30 in (DD8811). Image courtesy David Nolan Gallery

ArtTable invites you to David Nolan Gallery on the Upper East Side for a special viewing of BODIES: Ray Yoshida, Christina Ramberg, Deborah Druick featuring Deborah Druick in conversation with Sasha Phyars Burgess, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow for Creative Arts. This talk will be moderated by writer and critic Julie Baumgardner.

About the exhibition:

BODIES brings together three intergenerational artists united by their strong interest in pattern, design, figuration, and the human body. Collectively, their work is informed by the human experience and the politics around the representation of the human form, as well as by popular culture.

The work of Ray Yoshida (1930-2009), Christina Ramberg (1946-1995), and Deborah Druick (b. 1951) strays from the overarching influence of Abstract Expressionism that especially dominated Yoshida and Ramberg’s generations. Their commitment to formal principles instead lends itself to careful studies of the body that crop it or focus on its minute details. Their mutual interest in the human body is more physiological than illustrative, a commitment that is further demonstrated by their works’ compositional strength which reflects more than just raw emotion.

The influence of popular culture in the form of cartoons and comic books manifests in defined lines and weighty figures for whom a world beyond the canvas does not exist. Like the panels of a comic book, these spaces are contained, unlike the Abstract Expressionist tendency to imply the brushstroke’s extension well beyond the space of the canvas.

All three artists bring their investigations into so-called low art to a high plane that questions our perceptions of the world around us. They do not shy from depicting “private” body parts or “negative” human conditions, like isolation. They employ style for study’s sake, deeply informed by the very principles of art as observation and as a translation of what it means to be human.

The exhibition viewing and cocktail reception beginning at 5:00 PM. The Artist Talk will begin at 5:30 PM.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Our sincere thanks to Alaina Simone for coordinating this program.

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David Nolan Gallery

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New York, NY | Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet Tour with the Artist & Curator at the New-York Historical Society

July 23, 2024 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beatrice Glow (b. 1986), Tecumseh Caesar (b. 1990), *Revolutions to Love Our More-Than-Human Relatives*, 2023

Meet ArtTable at the New-York Historical Society for a tour of Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, co-led by the artist and Rebecca Klassen, New-York Historical’s Curator of Material Culture. This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

About the exhibition: Drawing on research into New-York Historical’s vast Museum and Library collections, artist-in-residence Beatrice Glow reckons with the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam from local and global perspectives. Working in conversation with a group of culture bearers, artists, and scholars whose heritages were impacted by the Dutch colonial enterprise, Glow is creating a series of seven parade float maquettes that envision an alternative commemoration. The small VR-sculpted and 3D-printed sculptures will be complemented by Glow’s interpretations of decorative arts collection objects, such as embroidered textiles and gilded baby rattles that reflect ideas of social and cultural power.

Project participants: Raul Balai, Tecumseh Ceaser, Deborah Jack, Nancy Jouwe, Chief Vincent Mann, Michaeline Picaro Mann, Wim Manuhutu, Brent Stonefish, Teresa Vega

Your reservation includes admission to the New-York Historical Society prior to the tour. The Museum is open from 11:00-5:00 on Tuesdays.

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About the Artist

Beatrice Glow is a New York and Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes examinations of archives and collaboration with culture bearers and researchers in the creation of sculptural installations, textiles, emerging media, and olfactory experiences to envision a more just and thriving world guided by history. An American of Taiwanese heritage, she works in the service of public history with the goal of awakening care and empathy about the impacts of colonialism and the necessity of bridging diasporic and indigenous solidarities. She interrogates historical forms of visual and material culture as a means to reimagine a more socially and environmentally thriving world. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at New-York Historical Society and Baltimore Museum of Art, amongst others. Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Yale-NUS College, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, the Fulbright Program, and many more.

About the Curator

Rebecca Klassen is curator of material culture at the New-York Historical Society. She has curated and contributed to such exhibitions as Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, Art for Change: The Artist & Homeless Collaborative, and the Gallery of Tiffany Lamps.

New York, NY | Chakaia Booker: Shaved Portions Installation Viewing and Artist Talk

July 11, 2024 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Image Credit: Alexandre Ayer, Diversity Pictures, for Garment District Alliance

Meet ArtTable in Midtown for a viewing of Chakaia Booker’s Shaved Portions before heading over to the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for a talk with the artist. Presented in New York as part of the Garment District Alliance’s public art program, Shaved Portions was originally commissioned for the Oklahoma Center for Contemporary Art and previously exhibited at Washington University in St. Louis. A sculptor, painter, and photographer, Booker is widely known for her use of repurposed materials, like the rubber tires cut up and rewoven to construct Shaved Portions. The interwoven, branching structure of the installation exemplifies Booker’s ability to push the limits of abstraction, using unconventional media to evoke interconnectedness in the natural world and in society.

Program Itinerary:

5:00–5:40 pm: Chakaia Booker in conversation with artist Phoebe Collings-James at Shaved Portions (installed on Broadway between West 39th and West 40th Streets)
5:40–6:00 pm: Move to EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (an 8-minute walk); cocktail reception
6:00–6:30 pm: Chakaia Booker in conversation with Essye Klempner, Director of Programing and Partnerships at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Program Admission:

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David Nolan Gallery

24 E 81st St, 4th floor
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This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Alaina Simone for coordinating this program.

Chakaia Booker (born 1953 Newark, NJ) is an internationally renowned and widely collected American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works from recycled tires and stainless steel for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces. Booker’s works are contained in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the US, in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Booker was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Recent public installation highlights include Millennium Park, Chicago (2016-2018), Garment District Alliance Broadway Plazas, New York, NY (2014), and National Museum of Women in the Arts New York Avenue Sculpture Project, Washington DC (2012). Chakaia Booker is represented by David Nolan Gallery.

Image Credit: Alexandre Ayer, Diversity Pictures, for Garment District Alliance

New Windsor, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Arlene Shechet: Girl Group at Storm King Art Center

July 19, 2024 | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Arlene Shechet, *Rapunzel*, 2024. Aluminum, stainless steel, paint, 20 ft. x 11 ft. 5/8 in. x 8 ft. 13/16 in. (609.6 x 336.8 x 245.9 cm). Courtesy of the Artist and Pace Gallery. Photo by David Schulze

Explore one of this year’s most notable exhibitions with ArtTable during Upstate Art Weekend! Join us at Storm King Art Center for a private tour of Arlene Shechet: Girl Group with Eric Booker, Associate Curator at Storm King and co-curator of the exhibition. Surrounded by the stunning landscape of the Hudson Valley, we will encounter six monumental sculptures, created by Shechet in aluminum and stainless steel for Storm King’s exhibition. Painted in subtle gradations of color that evoke the impact of light and the elements of nature on manmade objects, Shechet’s towering sculptures interrogate the overwhelmingly masculine history of their genre. Girl Group continues in Storm King’s indoor galleries, where smaller ceramic works from Shechet’s Together series illustrate the artist’s iterative process of making and reshaping the forms she would ultimately express on a monumental scale.

Please note: ArtTable will gather at 12:00 PM to allow adequate time to walk to the exhibition site prior to the 12:30 PM tour. Admission to Storm King Art Center is included with registration.

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David Nolan Gallery

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Girl Group Performance: Arlene Shechet x Annie-B Parson

Friday, July 19, 6:45–8:45 pm

Extend your Upstate Art Weekend experience with an interactive evening performance on the grounds of Storm King. Tickets are available here; performances repeat on July 20, Sept. 27, and Sept. 28.

Image credit: Storm King Art Center

New York, NY | Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral | A Conversation with the Artist and Laura Hoptman of The Drawing Center

May 30, 2024 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Joan Jonas, Untitled, 2015. Ink, 22.4 x 30 in (57 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photo Credit: Pierre Le Hors

ArtTable is honored to present a conversation between Joan Jonas and Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, exploring the artist’s exhibition Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. Curated by Hoptman, The Drawing Center’s exhibition is the first major retrospective to focus on Jonas’ substantial body of works on paper. Jonas and Hoptman will discuss the centrality of drawing to the artist’s practice, documenting her process and tying together her work in sculpture, performance, and recorded media. The works on view in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral focus on the natural world, a lifelong source of inspiration for Jonas. This is a rare opportunity to witness a legendary figure in postwar and contemporary art interpret the evolution of her practice through over 300 of her drawings.

Following this 40-minute conversation, attendees will be able to explore the exhibition on their own. The Drawing Center will remain open until 6:00 PM.

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This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Courtney Maier Burbela and Paula Longendyke of Joan Jonas Studio for coordinating this program.

Ridgefield, CT | Curator-Led Tour of Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years

June 21, 2024 | 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

*Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years* (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, January 21 to August 11, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Jason Mandella

Join us for an art-filled summer Friday in Ridgefield, Connecticut! Amy Smith-Stewart, Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, will lead a tour of Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years for ArtTable community members and their guests. The Aldrich’s exhibition—Hollowell’s first survey and first solo museum show on the East Coast—features paintings, works on paper, and multimedia works, several of which have not been publicly exhibited before. Drawing inspiration from Judy Chicago, Hilma af Klint, Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, and Neo-Tantric painting, Hollowell’s deeply feminist art explores how the body relates to themes of temporality, identity, freedom, and parenthood. Read more about the exhibition in Artnet and Vogue.

Admission to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is included with program registration. Please note, program participants are responsible for their own transportation to/from The Aldrich.

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Time-Based Media at the National Portrait Gallery

June 12, 2024 | 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Expand your understanding and appreciation of time-based media on this special tour for the ArtTable community, led by Dr. Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. As the pace of technological innovation continues to accelerate, so too will the quantity of art produced within this precisely defined, yet expansive category: time-based media, or art that reveals itself to the viewer or over time, encompasses film, audio, computer, and slide-based works. As the National Portrait Gallery and its peer institutions build their collections in time-based media, they are confronted with complex questions regarding the interpretation, installation, and conservation of these works, as well as the opportunity to define best practices for future generations of scholars. Dr. Ickes’ tour will cover highlights of the National Portrait Gallery’s acquisitions in time-based media, as well as explore how her Smithsonian colleagues have been grappling with these issues.

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960

May 28, 2024 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, March 22, 2024–April 20, 2025. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Rick Coulby.

Meet ArtTable in DC for a curator-led tour of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960 with Dr. Marina Isgro, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hirshhorn’s opening on October 4, 2024, Revolutions places the work of 19 contemporary artists in dialogue with that of 117 artists who worked between 1860 and 1960: the century that introduced Modernism and abstraction, and led up to the Hirshhorn’s establishment by Congress in 1966. An audio guide by Katy Hessel—part of her Museums Without Men series—accompanies the exhibition, highlighting the women represented in Revolutions, whose work completes and complicates art historical narratives they were frequently written out of. Revolutions‘ dialogue between living artists—including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, and Catherine Opie—and their 19th- and 20th-century counterparts—such as Berenice Abbott, Mary Cassatt, and Alma Thomas—reveals the resonance and relevance of these earlier works in our contemporary culture.

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Admission to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and to all its exhibitions, tours, and other public educational programs is free of charge. Any charge or request for contributions is unrelated to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

About the Curator

Marina Isgro is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn and was the lead curator of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960. At the Museum, she has also curated Laurie Anderson: The Weather; John Akomfrah: Purple; and OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, forthcoming in September. Prior to joining the Hirshhorn, Marina was Nam June Paik Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play. She received her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Princeton University.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Rose B. Simpson’s “Seed” at Madison Square Park

June 20, 2024 | 9:30 am – 10:30 am

This tour with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, explores the current project in the Conservancy’s field-leading program of contemporary public art. In Seed, Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, b. 1983) presents a circle of seven steel figures, each eighteen feet tall, surrounding a female form in bronze. The steel figures protect and support the central figure, while simultaneously looking to the past, the present, and the future. While this tour will cover Simpson’s work in Madison Square Park, additional figures are installed in Inwood Hill Park in upper Manhattan, marking the Conservancy’s twentieth anniversary as well as its first public art collaboration with a public New York City park.

Of her installations in each park, Simpson says: “While I am there with my work, I have the opportunity to guide through reminders. Maybe my work is about the displaced Indigenous residents who had thousands of years communing with that ground—a heuristic relationship that shaped their culture. Maybe it’s about the act of being in that space, gendered. Maybe it’s about the feeling of communing in a public space, about safety, about the feeling of anonymity that comes from an immense crowd, the clench of protective identity and the need to exhale.” While Seed is Simpson’s first solo exhibition of public art in New York, her work can also be seen in the 2024 Whitney Biennial as well as collections including the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, LACMA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2023, President Biden appointed Simpson to the Board of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Admission:

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About the Curator:

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, where she is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists including Diana AI-Hadid, Tony Cragg, Abigail DeVille, Leonardo Drew, Teresita Fernandez, Maya Lin, Josiah McElheny, Martin Puryear, Erwin Redl, Arlene Shechet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. She was commissioner and curator of the 2019 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty/Liberta. She is the founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park colleagues launched in 2017. Rapaport was a curator in the contemporary art department at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. She sits on the boards of three artist-endowed foundations and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.

David Nolan Gallery

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Baltimore | Curator-Led Tour: Recent Acquisitions at The Walters Art Museum

May 17, 2024 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Local to Baltimore or in town for AAM? Reconnect with ArtTable friends between conference sessions at The Walters Art Museum, located less than a mile from the Baltimore Convention Center. This exclusive, 90-minute tour with Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, covers two of her exhibitions: Reflect and Remix: Art Inspiring Artists and New on the Bookshelf: The Creative Power of Women. These exhibitions explore the visual and material resonances between works of art separated by time in the Walters collection, as well as highlighting new acquisitions that celebrate the contributions of women to the book arts.

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