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Image: Karen Kilimnik. Switzerland, the Pink Panther Sellars & Boris & Natasha & Gelsey Kirkland in Siberia, 1991. Courtesy Karen Kilimnik, 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Spruth Magers, Berlin, London

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Join ArtTable NY for an exclusive after-hours look at the latest exhibition from The Brant Foundation Art and Study Center, Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation.

The Brant Foundation is pleased to present the second exhibition at its New York City space, Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation, featuring over 20 artists integral to its collection. The selected sculptures, installations, and other works oscillating between painting and object represent the multifaceted practices of the artists on view, offering visitors the opportunity to encounter artists who have been collected in depth by Brant Foundation founder Peter M. Brant over the past 50 years. With a focus on sculpture and installation, The Brant Foundation pays tribute to the history of its East Village space, formerly the longtime studio of artist and sculptor Walter De Maria.

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Thank you to Sarah McNaughton and Sabrina Marsalisi for organizing this program.

Image: Installation view: Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, The Shed, New York, October 9, 2019 – March 22, 2020. Photo: Dan Bradica.

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Join ArtTable NY for a curator led walk through of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates at The Shed with Emma Enderby, senior curator at The Shed.

Agnes Denes rose to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a leading figure in conceptual, environmental, and ecological art. A pioneer of several art movements, she creates work in a broad range of mediums, utilizing various disciplines—science, philosophy, linguistics, ecology, psychology—to analyze, document, and ultimately aid humanity. Denes turns her analysis into beautiful, sensual visual forms, poetry, and a philosophy that she has developed over the course of her career.

This comprehensive survey exhibition, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, brings together over 150 works spanning her 50-year career. The exhibition includes a comprehensive look at her important series the “Philosophical Drawings” (1969 – 80), “Map Projections” (1973 – 79), and “Pyramid Series” (1970 –); her realized monumental public works, including the iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982); as well as a presentation of unrealized works. The Shed has also commissioned a number of works that both expound and expand on the ideas that have been ever present throughout Denes’s career. Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Agnes Denes The Ghost of Nautlus

Image Credit: MAY STEVENS. Forming the Fifth International, 1985. Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 120 inches. Courtesy of Arts Student League and Ryan Lee Gallery.

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Program is free and open to members and guests, advance registration required. 

ArtTable’s MeetAT networking program continues in November! This month we are hosted by the Arts Student League whose fantastic exhibition, Post-War Women, 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.

Postwar Women is The Art Students League’s first exhibition to explore the vital contributions of these alumnae on the international stage. On view at The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery from November 2 to December 1, 2019, Postwar Women challenges the misperception that great art produced by women artists is somehow an exception rather than the rule. Curator Will Corwin investigates the history of innovative art academies like The League that promoted democratic ideologies, which in turn created artistic opportunities for women of all social classes.

Thank you to Will Corwin, Curator, Arts Student League and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program.

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ArtTable’s professional empowerment series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. Past sessions topics have included, Art Market Legal Basics with Katie Wilson-Milne and John Koegel, Public Speaking with Michaela Ablon, Everything You Wanted to Know About Social Media But Were Afraid to Ask with Robin Cembalest and many more!

Session 11 with Kerry C. Zaroogian

What we’ll be discussing:

• Employees, independent contractors and interns
• Exempt versus non-exempt and overtime
• When you need a written agreement
• Family leave and benefits
• Termination considerations, including restrictive covenants

KERRY C. ZAROOGIAN is an associate in Outten & Golden LLP’s Executives and Professionals Practice Group and its Financial Services Practice Group in New York.  She represents employees, partners, consultants and freelancers in the negotiation and drafting of employment, severance, independent contractor, international assignment and restrictive covenants agreements.  She also counsels individuals and groups of individuals with respect to employment-related issues such as lift-outs, restructurings and corporate transactions.  Ms. Zaroogian has experience working with individuals in a wide array of industries—including finance, tech, healthcare, entertainment, and luxury retail—and with employees of companies of all sizes—from large, public conglomerates to small start-ups.

Prior to joining Outten & Golden, Ms. Zaroogian represented individuals and small businesses in employment matters and litigations at Sapir Schragin LLP.  Ms. Zaroogian received her B.A. from Brandeis University and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, where she served on the Editorial Board of the Northeastern University Law Journal and interned at another plaintiff-side employment law firm in New York City and the Legal Unit of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s New York office.

Ms. Zaroogian is the Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s New Lawyers Practice and Skills Committee, a leader of City Bar’s New Lawyers’ Council and a member of the City Bar’s Council on the Profession.  She is also an active member of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section.

Many thanks to ArtTable NY’s Professional Empowerment Committee: Sarah McNaughton, Elileen Jeng-Lynch, Jacqueline Towers-Perkins, Louky Keijsers Koning and Katherine Wilson-Milne. 

Image: Hadieh Shafie, Turn No 11. Ink, Acrylic and pencil on mat board, 12 inch in diameter, 2019

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Join ArtTable for an evening with the artists of A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists presented by the Center for Human Rights in Iran and curated by Shirin Neshat, an internationally renowned, Iranian-born, New York-based artist whose work includes film, video and photography.

A Bridge Between You and Everything features nearly 100 works—paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and video—by both established and emerging artists, who began working after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. 

“At a time when the Western world is shining a spotlight on women’s issues and equality, it’s vital that we use this moment of the public imagination to empower dialogues from women and immigrant artists who have, and likely still continue to experience forms of repression, both in the extreme and every day,” curator Shirin Neshat said.

“This exhibit showcases the richness of contemporary Iranian art and the ability of these women to communicate vital and universal themes of identity and gender through their artistic vision,” added Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Participating Artists: 

Afruz Amighi is an Iranian-born artist who completed her BA in political science at Barnard College at Columbia University, before going on to complete her MFA at New York University. She was the inaugural recipient of the Jameel Prize for Middle Eastern Contemporary art awarded by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2009. Afruz’s work draws heavily upon Iranian architecture for both its forms and concepts. Working with a wide variety of materials, including textiles and steel, the mainstay of her practice involves the interplay between light and shadow. Through the manipulation of light, she creates imagined sanctuaries for the purpose of both reflection and escape.  In 2011, Afruz was granted a fellowship in sculpture by the New York Foundation for the Arts and in 2013 her work was commissioned for the 55th Venice Biennale. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; (New York, NY); the Houston Museum of Fine Art (Houston, TX); the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK); and the Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY), among others. In 2018, she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. Afruz currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Roya Farassat is a painter and sculptor born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She moved to New York prior to the Islamic revolution and received a BFA in painting from the Parsons School of Design. The themes of oppression, solitude and identity animate both her paintings and sculptures, welded on steel. In an earlier body of work from the series, A Mirror Has Two Faces, she paints abstracted and symbolic portraits of women in veil and frames them in ornamental elements as seen in compositions familiar to the history of imperial Persian painting. Roya challenges the cultural expectations of her heritage with humor and investigates the identity of women and their silent resistance, living under the scrutiny of a patriarchal society. These paintings have been reviewed by The New York Times and exhibited widely in the United States including at The Edward Hopper House (Nyack, NY); The Queens Museum (Queens, NY); The Taubman Museum 9Roanoke, VA0; Leila Heller Gallery (New York, NY); The Center for Book Arts (New York, NY); and most recently the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Roya currently lives and works in New York.

Shahrzad Changalvaee is a sculptor and visual artist. Born in Tehran, Iran, she received her BA in Visual Communications from Tehran University and her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2015. Working across installation, sculpture, photography, performance and video, her practice responds to time and space, using found images and footages in adjacent to artist-made and primary materials. Through structures that are mostly temporal, fragile and fragmented, she constructs narratives that question local/global, information/anecdote, language/communication and alienism/exoticism. Shahrzad’s work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions in Iran, the UAE, Britain, Canada and the U.S. Notable shows have been held at The Chimney (Brooklyn, NY), Soho20 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) and the O Gallery (Tehran, Iran). In 2011 Shahrzad was introduced as the runner-up for the Magic of Persia Award.  She currently is a member and co-director of Bon-Gah Collective in Tehran. Shahrzad lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Nazanin Noroozi works predominantly in the medium of printmaking, but also incorporates painting and alternative photographic processes, exploring new ways to represent the ideas of collective memory, longing and diaspora. She invites the viewer to look into broken narratives through various juxtapositions of personal and family archives, landscapes, found imagery and lo-fi graphics. These works are a riff on the voyeuristic pleasures of looking at strangers’ personal archives and at the same time recalling a sense of ambiguity and fragility that the analogue world of the recent past carried. Nazanin’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including at the Museum of Russian Art (Jersey City, NJ); Noyes Museum of Art (Atlantic City, NJ); Prizm Art Fair (Miami, FL); and Columbia University (New York, NY). She is the recipient of NYFA IAP Program 2018, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts fellowship, MASS MoCA Studio Residency 2019, and the winner of  “Selection of a New Generation” award in Iran. She is the editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Nazanin received her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute in 2015 and her MA in Art History from Tehran University of Art in 2012.  She currently lives and works in New York City. 

Bahar Sabzevari is an Iranian artist exploring identity through self-portraiture, narrative painting and video art. In her most recent series of self-portraits, she questions Iranians’ tendency and obsession to praise the past. Why do we romanticize Persian history which is so far from the realities of our contemporary life? Integrating Persian motifs, religious details and characters into her self-portraits, Bahar explores the concept of nostalgia and creates illusions of a lost age of glory. Her earlier self-portraits focus on contemporary Iranian society. In the “Bad Girls” series, Bahar explores the paradoxes she has experienced, being a woman caught between the restrictions of the Islamic cultural regime and everyday existence living in modern times. Born in Shahroud, Iran, Bahar received her MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2018. Notable exhibition venues include FIAC Art Fair (Paris, France); Leila Heller Gallery (New York, NY); Galerie RX (Paris, France); Kamil Art Gallery (Monte Carlo, Monaco); Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France); and a solo show at the Watson Institute, Brown University (Providence, RI). Bahar has been the recipient of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Residency in Beijing, China summer of 2017. She lives and works in New York.

Hadieh Shafie is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In her works the occulting of text can be traced back to her childhood and adolescence growing up in post-revolutionary Iran, where the influence of books on political and social affairs was highly scrutinized and policed by the newly established government. Books, poetry and music were conversely also a means of mental escape for her from the subsequent years of political turmoil during the Iran-Iraq war. In 1983 she immigrated to the USA. Her work is included in prominent public collections namely the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK); The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH); Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE); The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art (Winter Park, FL); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The Davis Museum (Wellesley, MA); The British Museum (London, UK); and The Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY). Hadieh holds an MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 2017, she was nominated for the “Anonymous Was A Woman” Award.

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Thank you to Lauren Poehl, Director of Development, Center for Human Rights in Iran and Lucy Oakley, Head of Education and Programs, Grey Art Gallery for organizing this program.

Image: Edith Halpert at the Downtown Gallery, wearing the 13 watch brooch and ring designed for her by Charles Sheeler, in a photograph for Life magazine in 1952. She is joined by some of the new American artists she was promoting that year. Credit: Photograph © Estate of Louis Faurer

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Join ArtTable NY for a curatorial walk through of Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art at The Jewish Museum with Rebecca Shaykin, Associate Curator, The Jewish Museum.

The Jewish Museum will present Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, the first exhibition to explore the remarkable career of Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970), the influential American art dealer and founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York City. A pioneer in the field and one of New York’s first female art dealers, Halpert propelled American art to the fore at a time when the European avant-garde still enthralled the world. The artists she supported — Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, and Charles Sheeler key among them — became icons of American modernism. Halpert also brought vital attention to overlooked nineteenth-century American artists, such as William Michael Harnett, Edward Hicks, and Raphaelle Peale, as well as little-known and anonymous folk artists. With her revolutionary program at the Downtown Gallery, her endless energy, and her extraordinary business acumen, Halpert inspired generations of Americans to value the art of their own country, in their own time.

The exhibition, on view at the Jewish Museum from October 18, 2019 through February 9, 2020, will feature 100 works of American modern and folk art, including paintings, sculptures, and prints by artists such as Davis, Lawrence, O’Keeffe, Kuniyoshi, Shahn, and Sheeler, as well as Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Max Weber, and Marguerite and William Zorach, among others, and prime examples of American folk art portraits, weathervanes, and trade signs. Along with major artworks that were exhibited at and sold through the Downtown Gallery, highlights from Halpert’s acclaimed personal collection of both modern and folk art, reassembled for the first time since its landmark sale in 1973, will also be on view.

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Thank you to Randy Rosen, ArtTable NY Program Committee Member, for organizing this program.