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DC | Invisible Women: The Rediscovery of Historical Women Artists in Florence

Image: Violante Beatrice Cerroti, Autoritratto (Self-Portrait), 1735, detail, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

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The Italian Cultural Institute invites ArtTable members to celebrate International Women’s Day, with a conversation on Invisible Women: The Rediscovery of Historical Women Artists in Florence. Spots for this event are limited and reserved for ArtTable members only.

Florence is home to great masters of Italian Renaissance art such as Botticelli, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo but few people know that the city nourished women artists as well. Through the joint efforts of Italian museums such as the Uffizi and the US organization Advancing Women Artists, these often-forgotten women are now being rediscovered and their works restored and exhibited once more.

Join us and conservator Elizabeth Wicks for a talk focusing on Plautilla Nelli, Artemisa Gentileschi, Violante Siries Cerroti and Violante Ferroni, and the fascinating journey of their rediscovery and conservation.

Video preview: Youtube

Thank you to the IIC, Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

PA | Helen Frankenthaler on Paper

Image: Helen Frankenthaler; Fiesta, 1973. Acrylic on paper. 22 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (56.5 x 76.8 cm).

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The Arthur Ross Gallery invites ArtTable members for a reception and tour of Frankenthaler on Paper with the exhibition’s curator, Lynn Marsden-Atlass.

This exhibition presents ten unique paintings on paper and fourteen prints by Helen Frankenthaler that date from the 1970s to the 1990s. These rarely seen paintings on paper reflect her painterly process and were considered by the artist equal to her large-scale paintings. Renowned for her soak-stain abstract paintings, Helen Frankenthaler played a seminal role in both Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. With a career spanning six decades, she is considered one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century.

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Thank you to Heather Moqtaderi and Lyn Marsden-Atlass.

DC | MeetAT Happy Hour

Image: Ben’s Next Door

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Come MeetAT!

This is a networking event for art professionals looking to share ideas, contacts, information, resources, provide introductions and make new connections with tons of influencers and like-minded people residing in, or visiting the Washington, DC area.

Members, friends, non-members- all welcome!

Ben’s Next Door is known for its upscale Southern Cuisine, including their signature Chicken & Waffle, Shrimp, and White Cheese Grits, Crispy Skin Salmon, and Jumbo Lump Crab Cake.

Getting there: Shaw-Howard University Metro; Street Parking

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Thank you to La’Tasha Banks.

POSTPONED: DC | Chapter Leadership Award Ceremony and High Tea Honoring Kim Sajet

Image: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project

In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.

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In recognition of her significant achievements as the first woman director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, ArtTable DC honors Kim Sajet with the 2020 Chapter Leadership Award. Please join us in celebrating this occasion with high tea at the University Club of Washington. Dr. Johnetta Cole, our 2018 recipient will present the award to Ms. Sajet.
High tea includes light fare, dessert, tea and champagne.

As the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet (pronounced Say-et) has been exploring new ways to place personal experience and creativity at the center of learning and civic awareness. Not just a place to see famous Americans, the museum explores identity as a social construct that has been shaped in equal measure by opportunity and ability, prejudice and fear. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video and performance, Sajet aims to bring history alive.

Before her current appointment, Sajet was the president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the vice president and deputy director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the director of corporate relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Before arriving in the United States with her family in 1997, she served first as curator and then as director of two Australian art museums from 1989 until 1995.

Born in Nigeria, raised in Australia and a citizen of the Netherlands, Sajet brings a global perspective to the position. She earned a master’s degree in art history from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree in business administration from Melbourne University Business School in Australia, a bachelor’s degree in art history from Melbourne University and a graduate diploma in Museum studies from Deakin University in Australia. She has completed arts leadership training at the Harvard Business School, the Getty Institute and National Arts Strategies. In addition to 20 years of arts management experience, Sajet has written a number of scholarly publications, curated exhibitions and spoken at academic symposia around the world. Her current interests include the June 2019 study of identity politics, role-playing in online virtual worlds and the significance of celebrity in American history. She is also the host of the Portrait Gallery’s new podcast series, “Portraits,” exploring themes of art, history and biography.

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Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Caitlin Berry, Alexa Kaye and Maria Sancho-Arroyo for organizing this program.

POSTPONED: NOCAL | ArtTable New Member Happy Hour at Bonhams’ New SF Location

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ArtTable is kicking off spring early with a special happy hour welcoming new and potential ArtTable members! Hosted by our friends at Bonhams, members and guests are invited to come and view the newly-opened Bonhams gallery space, enjoy their exhibition on view, and meet new and potential members.

All are invited to bring a guest who would like to learn more about ArtTable membership and its benefits and connect with members of the Northern California chapter.

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Thank you to Amelia Manderscheid, VP Senior Director in Contemporary Art, Bonhams

We are closely monitoring the developments concerning the Coronavirus, (COVID-19) and will follow any suggested protocols from the CDC or any other governing body as they relate to our events, programs and travel opportunities.

NY | MeetAT at RYAN LEE Gallery for ‘Sandy Skolgund: Winter’

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This program is free and open to members, prospective members, and guests. Advance registration required.

ArtTable’s MeetAT networking program continues in February! This month we are hosted by the RYAN LEE Gallery whose fantastic exhibition, Sandy Skolgund: Winter, is currently on view.

ArtTable MeetATs are a free member-hosted event for existing and potential ArtTable members from all sectors of the art world to mingle and engage with each other in a casual atmosphere. Come solo or bring a guest to this lively gathering that encourages new friends and trusted colleagues to get to know one another better. Without a formal program, everyone is free to network and engage in conversation.

Winter, an exhibition of new work by the conceptual photographer Sandy Skoglund. Winter—ten years in the making—is a multifaceted project that includes sculpture, installation, and photography. Portions of Skoglund’s immersive tableau will be on view in the gallery, along with its final photographic iteration.

Also on view in Ryan Lee’s sister gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, will be a celebratory exhibition of prints by women artists spanning nearly 125 years: Revolutionary by Nature: Master Prints by Women Artists, 1898 – 2020. The exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States.

Thank you to ArtTable member Whitney Godfrey Hardin, Director, RYAN LEE Gallery and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program

NATIONAL | The Armory Show Brunch

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Join ArtTable and Nicole Berry, Executive Director, The Armory Show for our annual brunch at the Armory show! This is a great event to meet members and friends from across the country while enjoying delicious breakfast refreshments in the Armory VIP lounge.

Tickets to this event cover access to the show, early private access to the VIP lounge, and breakfast!

The Armory Show is New York City’s premier art fair and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts.

The Armory Show was founded by four New York gallerists – Colin de Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris – who sought a platform to present and promote new voices in the visual arts. In its 25 years, The Armory Show has stayed firm to its mission while establishing itself as an unmissable art event set in the heart of New York City.

DC | Spanish Ambassador Residence in Washington D.C.

Image: Spanish Ambassador Residence

This program is at capacity. Please email dc@arttable.org to be added to the waitlist.

Join ArtTable DC for a visit to the art collection at the Spanish Ambassador Residence followed by a seated lunch hosted by the Spanish Ambassador’s wife, Mrs. Sol Oyarzum de Cabanas.

Until the late 1990s, the residence of the Spanish Ambassador was the magnificent Beaux-Arts mansion located in the 16^th street and designed by renowned American architect George Oakley Totte. When built, in 1922, it was part of a project conceived to develop the surrounding area as the center of social and diplomatic life in Washington, DC. The building is today the Cultural Center of the Spanish Embassy.

In 1996, the government of Spain commissioned Rafael Moneo, Spain’s most celebrated architect and winner of the 1996 Pritzker Architecture Prize (the profession’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize) to build a new residence in Foxhall road.

The addition of the Moneo building makes this stretch of Foxhall an architectural oddity, in a distinguished sort of way, for directly across the street is the Kreeger Museum, designed by Philip Johnson in 1963. Johnson was the first Pritzker laureate, back in 1979.

The embassy reflects some of Spain’s more characteristic architectural traits in the use of bricks for the external walls and in the colorful Andalusian tiles that decorate the greenhouse-like patio extension that sits on the house’s southern façade.

Inside, numerous paintings and works of art represent the best of the Spanish artistic tradition, from Royal portraits to Flemish tapestries as well as some paintings by today’s most recognized Spanish Contemporary artists.

This program is for ArtTable members only.

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Thank you to Mrs Sol Oyarzum de Cabanas and his excellency the Spanish Ambassador.

NY | The Aesthetics of Femininity through the Ages at The Winter Show

Image: Max Colby. Cadmium Wilt. Crystal and plastic beads, sequins, found fabric, trim, fabric flowers, polyester batting, thread. 12 x 12 x 16”. 2018.

This event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.

ArtTable, in collaboration with the Winter Show, invites guests to investigate the aesthetics of femininity throughout the ages in antiques, fine and decorative arts. Touching on examples included in this year’s show, we’ll be engaging dealers, scholars, writers and experts in a lively panel to explore expressions and appearances of femininity. How has the feminine been employed by makers and designers of the past? We’ll be breaking down cliches and contemplating how feminine aesthetics reflect periodical trends and power structures. This conversation will be moderated by Elissa Auther, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Elissa Auther is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Previously, she was the Windgate Research Curator at MAD and Visiting Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, where her teaching focused on the intersection of craft and contemporary art. She has published widely on a diverse set of topics, including the history of modernism and its relationship to craft and the decorative, the material culture of the American counterculture, and feminist art. Her monograph, String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (University of Minnesota Press), focuses on the broad utilization of fiber in art of the 1960s and 1970s and the changing hierarchical relationship between art and craft expressed by the medium’s new visibility. Auther is also an accomplished curator. Her exhibitions include West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977, Pretty/Dirty, the retrospective exhibition of the painter and photographer Marilyn Minter, and Improvisational Gestures, a survey exhibition of the sculptor and performance artist Senga Nengudi. Her most recent exhibitions for the Museum of Arts and Design include Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro and Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Design of Vera Neumann. A feminist public intellectual, Auther founded and co-directed for ten years the program “Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics,” which focused on issues of women and gender through the lens of creative practice.

Panelists:

Max Colby, artist

Through lush, detailed work in embroidery and textiles, Max Colby reframes traditional notions of domesticity, power, and gender through a queer and non-binary lens. Colby has exhibited internationally including Jane Lombard Gallery, Wave Hill, and Museum Rijswijk. Colby’s work has been featured in the Huffington Post, NBC Out, Gay City News, and The Evergreen Review, among others. They were recently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, The Wassaic Project, MASS MoCA and a Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Artists’ Fellow. Born in West Palm Beach, Colby received their BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. They live and work in Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Feld, Managing Director; Director, Furniture & Decorative Arts, Director, American Decorative Arts, Hirschl & Adler

Elizabeth has just celebrated her 20^th anniversary at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, where she serves as Managing Director as well as Director of American Furniture and Decorative Arts. Since 1999, she has curated six furniture and decorative arts exhibitions for the gallery, all with extensive accompanying catalogues, as well as five exhibitions of the work of contemporary artist MacArthur grant recipient Elizabeth Turk, one of the gallery’s represented living artists.

Elizabeth served as the Chairman of the Winter Antiques Show Dealers’ Committee for six years and is a regular lecturer on the subjects of furniture, decorative arts, and the art market in general.

Gabriella Picone, Director of Communications, R&Company, and founder of Idda Studio

Gabriella Picone is a New York-based artist working in painting, textiles, and ceramics. She is currently the Director of Communications at R & Company, the renowned design gallery based in New York City. She plays an integral role in the conception and promotion of numerous exhibitions, international fairs, and projects for the contemporary and historical artists represented by the gallery, all bridging fine art and collectable design. Prior to her current role, she worked at leading New York creative agency Black Frame developing branding and marketing strategies for a range of art, design and fashion clients including Lindsey Adelman, MoMA PS1, Jean Nouvel, David Kordansky Gallery, Nike, and RxArt. She has also worked with Frieze Art Fair and was part of the inaugural team to launch the first Frieze Art Fair in New York. She continually maintains her own studio practice as a painter and is the founder of idda studio, an emerging design studio that specializes in fabric artworks for women that are both wearable and sculptural.

NORTHWEST | An Evening With the Founders of Wa Na Wari

Image: The Founders of Wa Na Wari. Photo by Susan Fried.

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The Northwest Chapter of ArtTable invites you to join us for an evening of conversation and art with the founders of Wa Na Wari. Wa Na Wari is a center for Black art and culture in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood, sited in a 5th-generation Black-owned home.

Co-Founder Inye Wokoma is the 2019 recipient of the 2019 Neddy at Cornish Grand Prize. Current Artists include Amir George, Abroad and Abound, Shurvon Hayes, In The Presence of Black Art: Healthy and Happy Mandala, Ronald Hall, Selected Works, and Jaleesa Johnson, Being/Conjured. Appetizers, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.

“Two of us, Inye Wokoma and Elisheba Johnson, are Black artists directly impacted by Seattle’s displacement and affordability crisis. Inye Wokoma’s grandmother is 93 years old and living with Alzheimers. As the guardian of her estate she has been fighting on her behalf to maintain ownership of the homes she and her husband worked their entire lives for. Elisheba Johnson, born and raised in Seattle, has a job with the City of Seattle and still cannot afford to live in the city. Their stories are reflective of what the housing crisis looks like for Black artists in Seattle. Two of us, Jill Freidberg and Rachel Kessler, are white artists using art and stories to challenge white supremacy, especially as it is expressed through gentrification and displacement.”

Thank you to Elisheba Johnson.