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Image: Alice Miceli Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, radioactive woods, Belarus, 2008

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Join ArtTable NY for a private curatorial walk through of Alice Miceli: Project Chernobyl at the America’s Society. 

This exhibition presents Alice Miceli’s Projeto Chernobyl (Chernobyl Project), a series of 30 radiographs produced in 2006–2010. Miceli developed a method of image making to document the enduring effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of April 26, 1986. Though gamma radiation continues to be present and to cause health problems and deaths in the area, it is invisible to the naked eye and to traditional methods of photography that have been used to document the region’s ruins. With Projeto Chernobyl, Miceli made this contamination visible via direct contact between the radiation and film, which was exposed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for months at a time. Both technically and conceptually complex, Miceli’s work questions our ideas of vision, memory, politics, and environmental issues.

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Diana Flatto is assistant curator, Visual Arts at the Americas Society, where she has co-curated Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl and assisted on Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For and Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking. Prior to that, she worked for over five years as a specialist at an auction house. She graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in art history and business, and earned an MA in art history with an advanced certificate in curatorial studies from Hunter College, where she co-curated exhibitions including Framing Community: Magnum Photos 1947–Present and Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Carolina Scarborough is Assistant Curator for Public Programs, Visual Arts at Americas Society, where she has realized all public programs related to the organization’s exhibitions including, Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl, Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For, and Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant:Trembling Thinking. At the Americas Society she also creates public programs to contextualize, educate and promote Latin American Art. She is also responsible for the donors, the Arts of the Americas Circle and fundraising of special public programs of the Visual Arts Department. Ms. Scarborough’s previous experience includes four years at Phillips Auction House as Latin American Art Specialist in the Latin American and Contemporary Art Departments, and four years as Sales Associate at the Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore. She interned and volunteered in prestigious museum and art institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Independent Curators International, International Center of Photography, and The Smithsonian Institution. Ms. Scarborough holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College.

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Thank you to Julia Herzberg, Independent Curator and ArtTable NY Programs Committee Member, and Carolina Scarborough, Assistant Curator, America’s Society, for organizing this program. 

 

Image: Yto Barrada. Untitled (After Stella, Rabat), 2017. Cotton, indigo, chamomile. 44 x 38 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery. Photography by Mark Waldhauser, courtesy Pace Gallery.

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Join ArtTable NY for a trip to the Neuberger Museum to see work by an internationally-acclaimed, Moroccan-French, multimedia artist and winner of the 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, Yto Barrada. Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art and ArtTable member, will lead us through this exhibition and the museum’s collection. 

Following our tour, catered lunch will be provided at the Museum.

How does one transmit political courage? Yto Barrada asks.

The Neuberger Museum’s 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, carrying an honorarium of $25,000, has been awarded to Yto Barrada, an internationally-acclaimed, Moroccan-French multi-media artist. In addition to the cash award, the exhibition, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden, will be presented for the first time in the United States.

Originally presented at the American Academy in Rome and expanded for the Neuberger Museum of Art, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden features recent work by Barrada, whose artistic practice weaves together family history and broader sociopolitical narratives, employing a variety of media, including photography, film, video, installation, sculpture, books, and hand-dyed textiles. The artist has long investigated gestures of resistance to structures of power and control. She has an abiding interest in mechanisms of displacement and dislocation, as well as questions of appropriation and authenticity.

Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden is co-organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art and the American Academy in Rome. Co-curated by Chief Curator Helaine Posner and Peter Benson Miller, Curator and former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy. A fully-illustrated, multi-essay catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Generous support for the Roy R. Neuberger Prize has been provided by Jim Neuberger and Helen Stambler Neuberger.

Yto Barrada, who was born in Paris and raised in Tangier, had her first solo exhibition in 2003 at the Galerie Polaris, Paris. Since then, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (2006); Venice Biennale (2007, 2011); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), among other venues. In 2011, she received Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year Award. According to Ms. Posner, Barrada’s wide-­-ranging intelligence and global perspective inform her work in a variety of media including photography, film, sculpture, and hand-­-dyed textiles. She creates aesthetically compelling images and objects and tackles serious sociopolitical and cultural issues leavened with humor.” Barrada now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Helaine Posner is Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York. Her exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum include Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden (0219), Leandro Erlich: Port of Reflections (2017), Louise Fishman: A Retrospective (2016), Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday (2014), Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels (2011), and Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary (2010), each accompanied by a monographic catalogue. From 1991-1998, she was curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts where she curated such exhibitions as Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (1998); Glenn Ligon: Skin Tight (1995); and Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: War and Memory (1994); among other projects.  Previously, she was Director of the University Gallery, University of Massachusetts/Amherst.

Posner is the author of a monograph on the artist Kiki Smith (Monacelli, 2005) and was United States Co-commissioner for the 48th Venice Biennale where she organized Ann Hamilton: Myein. She is the co-author of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (Prestel, 2007 and 2013). She was curator of a mid-career survey of the work of Lorna Simpson which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Miami Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006-7). Posner is the recipient of three AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Awards.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at Georgetown University and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C.

Getting to the Neuberger Museum of Art: 

Neuberger Museum of Art is located:

10 minutes from White Plains, NY

10 minutes from Greenwich, CT

45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan

Train Directions: 

Use the Harlem Line of the Metro-North Railroad to arrive in White Plains.

Taxicabs/ Uber are readily available for hire to Purchase College.

Please visit http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr for schedule and fare information.

Thank you to Randy Rosen, ArtTable Member, and Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art.

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

 

Image: Yayoi Kusama with Narcissus Garden, 1966

This event offers ArtTable members and friends the unique opportunity to view Yayoi Kusama’s Where the Lights in My Heart Goand Narcissus Garden at MoCA Westport, one week following the museum’s opening on September 22nd. To celebrate the museum’s opening and the first time these two works have been shown in tandem on the East Coast, members will hear directly from Amanda Innes, Executive Director, MoCA Westport, formerly the Westport Arts Center and enjoy a private after hours reception.

Throughout her career, Yayoi Kusama has developed a practice, which, though it shares affiliations with movements such as Surrealism, Minimalism and Pop Art, resists any singular classification. Born in Matsumoto City, Japan, in 1929, she studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s, and became well known in the avant-garde world for her provocative happenings and exhibitions. Since then Kusama’s extraordinary artistic endeavours have spanned painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, performance, film, printmaking, installation and environmental art as well as literature, fashion and product design. In 2016, Kusama received the Order of Culture, one of the highest honours bestowed by the Imperial Family in Japan. Kusama is the first woman to be honoured with the prestigious medal for drawings and sculptures. Kusama lives and works in Tokyo, where the Yayoi Kusama Museum opened in October 2017. Over the past decade there have been museum exhibitions of Kusama’s work enjoyed by millions of visitors in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. For more information on these installations see here.

Getting to MoCA Westport:
By Train: Directions from the Westport Train Station:
Taxis are readily available at the Westport Train Station.

We recommend: 
To Westport:
1562 Train leaving New York Grand Central at 5:46 PM, arriving at Westport at 6:53 PM

Return to New York: 
1591 Train leaving Westport at 8:28 PM and arriving at Grand Central at 9:51 PM
1595 Train leaving Westport at 9:22 PM and arrving at Grand Central at 10:46 PM

By Car: 
Connecticut I-95 exit 17:
From New Haven or New York, turn left off ramp, WAC is approx. 1.4 miles on right.
Merritt Parkway, exit 41:
From New Haven, turn right off ramp, 2 miles on left.
From New York, turn left off ramp, 1.8 miles on left.

Read this: “Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Mirror Room’ Will Alight in Connecticut This Fall”

Thank you to Amanda Innes, Executive Director, MoCA Westport, formerly the Westport Arts Center for organizing this event. 

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Image: Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Lagoon (2019), Thread, ink, graphite on tracing paper,19.5 x 24 inches. ArtTable’s MeetAT networking events for members and prospective members continues in September at Fridman Gallery. All ArtTable members, guests, and prospective members are encouraged to attend, network and enjoy work by ruby onyinyechi amanze and Wura-Natasha Ogunji 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. Founded in 2013, Fridman Gallery represents contemporary artists from around the world, featuring avant-garde exhibitions and performances in a variety of media, including visual and sound art. you are so loved and lovely is an exhibition of works in dialog by ruby onyinyechi amanze and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. The exhibition features new large-scale drawings and paintings, and a selection of small works created early in the artists’ careers. Since meeting in 2012 in Nigeria, amanze and Ogunji have engaged in an ongoing artistic exchange of writings, performances, conversations and shows in shared spaces. In addition to artworks, you are so loved and lovely includes excerpts from Drawing Memoir, a collection of written correspondences that chronicle the questions, quandaries, experiments and discoveries made in the artists’ studios and beyond. Thank you to ArtTable members Hilary Dvorkin, Director, Fridman Gallery and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program.