Dawoud Bey, Zabar Lecture – April 17, 7pm
Dawoud Bey, Zabar Lecture
Hunter MFA Studios, Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
April 17, 7pm
Alvin Lucier, “The Queen of the South” and Ron Kuivila, “Sparkline, with acceleration” – April 5, 7pm
Alvin Lucier, The Queen of the South
and Ron Kuivila, Sparkline, with acceleration
The Artists’ Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, NY
April 5, 7pm
Alvin Lucier, The Queen of the South (1972)
Drawing on the experiments of 18th century physicist and musician Ernst Chladni and 20th century physician Hans Jenny, Alvin Lucier’s The Queen of the South attempts a direct visualization of sonic vibration. In 1787, Chladni drew a violin bow along the edge of a brass plate sprinkled with a thin layer of sand. The vibrating surface bounced the granules into symmetrical forms—stars, waves, grids, and labyrinths—he termed “sound figures.” Nearly two centuries later, Jenny published the book Cymatics, which further explored and photographically documented the effects of sound vibrations on various substances. Lucier’s score calls for performers to sing, speak, or play electronic or acoustical instruments to activate responsive surfaces strewn with fine materials in order to make visible the effects of sound. The title is drawn from a figure in alchemy, which attempts the transmutation of one substance into another. The Queen of the South will be performed by Ron Kuivila.
Ron Kuivila, Sparkline, with acceleration (2003)
A spark is the visual analogue of a sound: it appears briefly and then disappears, leaving a trace in the memory. Curiously, the sound of a spark has no “body.” Instead of vibrating (pushing and pulling the air), it literally tears the air via a flow of electrons. For Sparkline, with acceleration, Kuivila records sparks as they jump across parallel wires and then plays back these sounds at a slowly increasing rate. Initially sounding five octaves below, the sound of the spark gradually accelerates until it is several octaves higher than the initial sound and stops.
This event is free, but advance registration is required and space is limited. Please RSVP here.
Performance: shawné michaelain holloway – March 28, 7pm
Performance: shawné michaelain holloway
part of Refiguring the Future
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor Flex Space
New York, NY
March 28, 7pm
Free and open to the public
_.Scheduled(VariableRatio):secondary-conditioned-immediateReinforcement(s)-handlerSearch1_DrillAndPracticeVERSION2.exe, is an interactive experiment in operant conditioning to articulate the structure of intimacies inherent in behavioral training.
In a training session for a human puppy and her handler, positive and negative reinforcements are enacted in a circle between audience members and the performer. Engaged together through a system of exchange, they mutually agree on how to choreograph the giving and receiving of a reward. As rewards and punishments offer potentially precarious and playful communication, this choreographic transfer of power is an act of BDSM. Through this temporary relationship, called “pick-up play,” viewers witness a visceral dance that asks questions about how consent is communicated, what qualifies as violence, and how desire can manifest.
Karen Tepaz, Loose Forms – March 29 – April 20
Karen Tepaz, Loose Forms
Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
March 29 – April 20
Thomas Hunter Project Space is pleased to present LOOSE FORMS, a solo exhibition by Karen Tepaz. This exhibition explores the expressive potential of object and the complex spaces that develop when form, texture and color are blended creating a new place between the blurred lines.
Tepaz continues her investigation of form and material while experimenting with the scale and presentation of her work. Tepaz works the balance between surface treatment and color selection and draws correlations from her influences of flowers, language the body and sounds of fluidity. Both the work and the viewer are free to shift and transform perspective at every angle as each form unfolds naturally, creating an environment for mindful contemplation.
Karen Tepaz, born in Los Angeles, CA, holds an M.F.A in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art and a B.F.A in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Sardine gallery, (Brooklyn, NY) CACTTUS gallery (Long Beach, CA), and group shows at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) The Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC (NY,NY), The Gallery ATLAS (Newburgh, NY), BOMB POP-UP (Brooklyn, NY), Basement Projects (Santa Ana, CA) among others. In 2018 Tepaz co-curated “Flat Touch” and “In Between the Lines” in Steuben Gallery at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY). Tepaz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Verbal Description + Touch Tour of Refiguring the Future – March 23, 2-3:30pm
Verbal Description + Touch Tour of Refiguring the Future with Museum Educator Paula Stuttman
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
March 23, 2-3:30pm
Free and open to the public
Detailed verbal descriptions and selected touch objects will provide an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to experience the exhibition. This tour will focus on the dynamic artworks and themes put forward by the artists and curators.
RSVP is requested. For more information or to RSVP please email j.soto@eyebeam.org or call (347) 378-9163.
NeON: Photography – Through March 31
NeON: Photography
March 8 – March 31
Opening Reception: March 8, 6-8pm
Hunter East Harlem Gallery is pleased to present a selection of photographs from the NeON Photography workshops. The exhibition will be on display in the hallways of HEHG.
NeON Photography is a citywide photography training in association with NYC Department of Probation’s Neighborhood Opportunity Network and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Participants receive professional photography training in classes designed to introduce students to the history of photography, technical skills, and the art of visual storytelling.
NeON Partner Organizations: Seeing for Ourselves, National Endowment for the Arts, Sigma Cameras, NYC Mayor’s Office, Neighborhood Opportunity Network, and NYC Department of Probation. The exhibition is made possible by NYC Department of Probation, Seeing for Ourselves, Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work and Hunter East Harlem Gallery.
Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931 – Through May 5
Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931
Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY
February 28 – May 5
At the invitation of the artist and educator Worth Ryder, Hans Hofmann traveled from Munich to teach at the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 and again in 1931. In the summer of 1931, Hofmann mounted his first exhibitions in the United States, in San Francisco at the Palace of the Legion of Honor and across the bay at Berkeley’s Havilland Hall. Ryder helped to organize the exhibitions, and he apologized in his short catalogue text for the Legion of Honor that the exhibition included only drawings rather than the artist’s paintings—“but,” he insisted, “in these drawings, so small in size yet so vast in scope, the greatest achievements of modern art are in solution.”
Hunter College’s exhibition, Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931 revisits Hofmann’s 1931 exhibitions and the drawings Hofmann showed, to show what Ryder saw as the solutions of modern art. Included in the Hunter installation will be some thirty works, all of which were included in the San Francisco and Berkeley shows, drawn from the holdings from the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust: portraits, figure studies, and landscapes, most completed in Europe in the late 1920s, alongside his students in Saint-Tropez, others realized on the West Coast, as he discovered the California landscape.
Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931 is organized by Hunter College MA students and Hofmann Research Fellows Mindy Friedman, Chika Jenkins, and Anna Tome, with Howard Singerman, professor and Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College. It is supported by a generous grant from the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust.
Rochelle Feinstein, Zabar Lecture – March 13, 7pm
Rochelle Feinstein, Zabar Lecture
Lang Recital Hall
Hunter North
68th Street and Lexington Avenue
New York, NY
March 13, 7pm
Rochelle Feinstein is a painter working across varied media, while fundamentally drawing upon the attitudes, attributes and conventions embedded in painting practices. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally, has written about art and artists; and has lectured at universities, project spaces and foundations throughout in the US and Europe.
Image of an Image, the 4th and final installation of Feinstein’s multi-venue retrospectives, is currently on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through March 3, 2018. During 2016-2017, her retrospectives were exhibited at 3 institutions, respectively titled, In Anticipation of Women’s History Month, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH, I Made A Terrible Mistake, Lenbachhaus Stadtische, Munich, DE and Make it Behave, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, DE. Her most recent exhibition of new works at Campoli Presti, London, Rainbow Room/The Year in Hate, was installed from October through December, 2018. Forthcoming (Ugly Duckling Presse, February, 2018) is Pls. Reply, a collection of magazine articles and personal writings that offer a broad scope of Feinstein’s engagement with painting and contemporary art and culture.
Her works are represented in numerous public and private collections, and have been featured in Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, TimeOut, Tema Celeste, ArtNews, Art in America, BOMB, Flash Art, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, and many other publications. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Anonymous Was A Woman. She was a recipient of a 2017-2018 Rome Prize Jules Guerin Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome. In June 2017, Feinstein became Emerita Professor of painting/printmaking, Yale School of Art. Yale University, Feinstein was born in the Bronx and lives and works in New York City.
Bill Dietz, Fumi Okiji, and Marina Rosenfeld on Radical Receptivity – March 17, 4pm
Bill Dietz, Fumi Okiji, and Marina Rosenfeld on Radical Receptivity
part of Marina Rosenfeld: Amplification
The Artists’ Institute
132 E. 65th Street
New York, NY
March 17, 4pm
Marina Rosenfeld will join Fumi Okiji and Bill Dietz for a conversation on radical receptivity. Fumi Okiji is an academic and vocalist whose work crosses critical theory, black feminist thought, and performance studies. Bill Dietz is a composer and writer who works on the genealogy of the concert and the performance of listening.
Laurie Simmons, Kossak Lecture – March 19, 10am
Laurie Simmons, Kossak Lecture
Hunter MFA Studios, Second Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY
March 19, 10am
