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Gallery Cubed presents NEA: Network of Extraordinary Artists

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue and 119th Street
New York, NY

Through March 14, 2020

Andy Van Dinh, Canada
Through November 8

GALLERY CUBED (GC) is a portable pop-up, a 4 x 8 foot gallery in a box. The franchise kit includes hidden electrical power, easily replaceable parts, and manageable, stackable, flat-pack, space-saving, interlocking panels that are easy to assemble. Anyone can put together the pieces to make a sturdy, load-bearing exhibition space appear out of thin air. GC’s mission is to empower communities and artists through the transformative power of a sustainable art experience. More art for more people for less money.

Inside of the walls of GALLERY CUBED, Nathan Rayman presents his curatorial project, NEA: Network of Extraordinary Artists. The NEA supports international artists applying for the O-1 US Visa or Green Card by offering them opportunities to fulfill specific requirements—exhibitions, publications, panel participation, etc.—that prove their “extraordinariness” to immigration authorities. Like HEHG’s exhibition, The Extraordinary, the NEA is populated through an open call put out by GALLERY CUBED and selected by a jury of established arts workers.

The NEA will present a series of six solo exhibitions beginning on October 16, 2019 and rotating through March, 2020. The NEA began in 2019 and serves as an inclusive, generative network at a time when the US’s original NEA (the National Endowment for the Arts) is at risk of being dismantled and money is more often channelled through the secondary art market. In this environment of dwindling support and funding for art production, the NEA calls into question the metrics used to obtain the status of an “extraordinary” or “successful” artist. How is this lofty goal made even more difficult for non-residents? How can we re-imagine existing structures so that they might yield a more inclusive dividend of success rather than creating competition, scarcity, and rejection?

Artist Tour & Panel Discussion
part of The Extraordinary

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue and 119th Street
New York, NY

November 13, 6:30-8:30pm

Katherine Bradford, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, 2nd Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

October 30, 7pm

Katherine Bradford is a New York artist represented by CANADA, a New York gallery which has just relocated from the Lower East Side to Tribeca. This past season she had a solo shows at CANADA, Haverkampf Gallery in Berlin and Campoli Presti in London. Up ahead are shows in Paris and Tokyo.

She began to paint while living in Maine and then moved to NYC in the 80’s. In 1985 she found a studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn where she continues to work today.

Bradford received a Guggenheim in 2011 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2012. She has also received a Pollock Krasner Grant and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

She was Senior Critic at the Yale School of Art from 2016-2017 and has been on the faculty of the Skowhegan School (2009) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1995-2014).

Last season Bradford was part of the Superman show at the Chrystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas. The year before she had a solo show at the Modern Museum in Fort Worth Texas and was part of Prospect 4, the New Orleans Biennial.
Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, and the Dallas Museum of Art among others.

She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA from Purchase College, NY.

Writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Workshop with Morgan O’Hara
part of The Extraordinary

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue and 119th Street
New York, NY

November 2, 2-4pm

Allen Ruppersberg, Zabar Visiting Artist Lecture

Hunter MFA, Second Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

October 23, 7pm

Since the late 1960s, with works included in such seminal exhibitions of Conceptual Art as Live in Your Head/When Attitudes Become Form at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland and Seth Siegelaub’s infamous One Month in New York, Allen Ruppersberg has been among the most visually inventive and intellectually inquisitive artists to emerge from the movement. Over his long career, his work has explored the slippages of language, the weight and unreliability of memory, and the strangeness of photograph and the mechanically reproduced image. From his early Picture of Dorian Gray, which presents Oscar Wilde’s story of painting, artistic influence, and life and death copied out in long hand across 20 six-foot square canvases, to The Singing Posters: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, the beat poet’s groundbreaking poem spelled out phonetically and printed in block letters across over 200 vibrantly colored commercial advertising posters, interspersed with advertisements for fairs and festivals and concerts, his work has intertwined reading and looking, and probed ideas of authorship and voice. Ruppersberg’s ongoing examinations of image, language, and memory are most often pursued through the materials of American vernacular culture: commercial advertising posters, old magazines, album covers, found films, and postcards drawn from a storehouse of materials he has collected over decades.

Allen Ruppersberg currently lives and works in New York and Santa Monica, California. Recent solo exhibitions include Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2018); traveling to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in 2019; Air de Paris, Paris (2016); Plug In Institue of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada (2016); Skirball Culture Center, Los Angeles (2015); Greene Naftali, New York (2014); MFC-Michèle Didier, Paris (2014); Greengrassi, London (2014); Wiels, Brussels (2014); and The Art Institute of Chicago (2012). His work is in the collections of numerous museums internationally, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York.

ABOUT THE JUDITH ZABAR VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM

In November 2007, Hunter College received a generous commitment to establish the Judith Zabar Visiting Artist Program Fund. The Fund has allowed Hunter to bring a series of internationally recognized artists to campus to work directly with students in the MFA program, in master classes, critical seminars, and private tutorials, providing students with the unique opportunity to interact with top practitioners in the field. Zabar Visiting Artists also present public lectures where they discuss their work, engage in conversation with members of Hunter’s faculty, and with Hunter’s broader student community and the general public. Past Zabar artists have included: Vito Acconci, Janine Antoni, Julie Ault, Robert Barry, Dawoud Bey, Tania Bruguera, Mel Chin, Peter Doig, Nicole Eisenman, Rochelle Feinstein, Charles Gaines, Alfredo Jaar, Joan Jonas, Martin Kersels, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Lockhart, Robert Longo, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Christian Marclay, Kerry James Marshall, Tracey Moffatt, Matt Mullican, Wangechi Mutu, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Elizabeth Peyton, Paul Pfeiffer, William Pope L., Walid Ra’ad, Yvonne Rainer, Doris Salcedo, Shahzia Sikander, Michael Smith, Frances Stark, Fred Tomaselli, Nari Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, and Stanley Whitney.

MFA and BFA Open Studios and Silent Auction

Hunter MFA Studios
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

October 25, 6-9pm

We are excited to announce the Fall 2019 MFA & BFA Open Studios and Silent Auction, which will take place on Friday evening at 205 Hudson Street, 6-10pm. A Hunter tradition that dates back more than 25 years, the event showcases the artwork and studios of more than 130 artists working at 205 Hudson. The evening will also include special performances and site specific installations, as well as an exhibition featuring second-semester students in the MFA program. A highlight of the evening is the Silent Auction, an opportunity to collect artwork by emerging artists at Hunter College. All proceeds benefit the MFA Student Organizing, MFA Thesis Exhibition, and the BFA Program.

Workshop with Immigration Lawyer and O-1 Visa specialist Eric Shaub part of The Extraordinary

Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Avenue and 119th Street
New York, NY

October 29, 6:30-8:30pm

Eric Shaub, Attorney at Law (NY, NY) has more than twenty years of experience with the exclusive focus on immigration for artists. Eric will be on site to to host a workshop that outlines protocols of the O-1 Visa and offer his expertise as a legal mentor. www.artistvisamentor.com/about

Ronny Quevado, MFASO Lecture

Hunter College
Silberman Building, Room 217
2180 3rd Avenue
New York, NY

October 16, 7pm

Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981, Guayaquil, Ecuador) works in a variety of mediums including sculpture and drawing. Quevedo’s work was included in the recent Whitney Museum’s exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Solo exhibitions include Every Measure of Zero, Upfor Gallery, Portland (2019); Field of Play, Open Source Gallery, NYC (2019); the sixth man, James Fuentes Gallery (2019); no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime, Queens Museum (2017); Home Field Advantage, Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education, Bronx, New York (2015); and Ulama, Ule, Olé, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami (2013). He is a recipient of a Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists and A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art. He has participated in residencies at the Triangle Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Kala Art Institute, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Project Row Houses, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and Smack Mellon. Quevedo received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013 and BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003.

Sandra Valenzuela, Art is a Service:
Mathias Goeritz, Bauhaus & Visual Education in Mexico

Hunter North, Room 1527
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY
October 16, 7pm

Georgia Sagri, MFASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, 2nd Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

October 9, 7pm

Georgia Sagri, (*1979, Athens, GR) lives in Athens and New York. She holds a cello
diploma, a BA from the School of Fine Arts, Athens and an MFA from Columbia
University, NYC. From 2016 until 2019 she was the Visiting Professor of
Performance at Zhdk, Zurich, Art and Media Department in Switzerland. She was
recently appointed to create and run the first and new Performance studio at the
School of Fine Arts in Athens.

At the center of Sagri’s practice lies the exploration of performance as an ever-
evolving field within the social and visual life, interconnected, though distinct, from
the dialectics of representation in theatre, music and dance. In addition to
performance works her artistic output comprises writing, sculpture, video, installation
and drawing. Most of her work is influenced from the ongoing engagement in political
movements and struggles, on the issues of autonomy, empowerment and self-
organization.

She was participant-artist at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel with the pubic
performance and sculptural manifestation Dynamis. Her first institutional solo show,
curated by Adam Szymczyk, ran under the title Mona Lisa Effect at Kunsthalle Basel
over the spring of 2014. Her first monograph catalogue was published by Sternberg
Press under the title Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I following her two oeuvre solo
exhibitions Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig and Georgia
Sagri and I at Portikus curated by Christina Lehnert.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions i.a.: The Eccentrics (2016)
Sculpture Center, NY, curated by Ruba Katrib; Secret Surface Where Meaning
Materializes (2016), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Ellen
Blumenstein; Bread and Roses (2016) Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, curated by
Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz; What People Do for Money (2016) Manifesta
11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by
Christian Jankowsky and the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), curated by Carolyn
Christov-Bakargiev. Her work has been presented at the Biennale de Lyon (2013),
ProBio, Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, NYC (2013) and the Whitney Biennial,
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (2011).

Her work has been shown internationally in public institutions including the Museum
of Modern Art, NYC, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, KW, Berlin, Arnolfini,
Bristol, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Deste Foundation, Athens
(1st Prize for the performance In the Shop Window, 2001) and in private galleries
including Anthony Reynolds, London; Melas/Papadopoulos, Athens; Lars Friedrich,
Berlin; Team, NYC; Murray Guy, NYC; Real Fine Arts, NYC; Andrew Roth, NYC;
Circus, Berlin; Terri and Donna, Miami and Central Fine, Miami.

In 2009 Sagri founded the audio-only magazine FORTÉ (www.magazineforte.com)
and SALOON, an ongoing nomadic curatorial project.

Field trip to Henry with Nancy Shaver

Stefanie Bürkle: Workshops of Knowledge

Hunter College, Kossak Lecture Hall
695 Park Avenue, Room 1527 North Building
New York, NY

October 2, 6pm

Stefanie Bürkle is an artist and a professor of fine art at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. She studied scenography in Paris and fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her artistic practice ranges from painting and photography to video and installation. In addition to highlighting the connections between art and science, her art and research focus on a critical examination of urban space, exploring topics such as construction sites and facades, architecture as scenography, and theme parks and tourism. Her recent contribution to the Kunsthalle Rostock exhibition features wallpaper that replicates the facade of the Palast der Republik, to represent her belief that the building had become a two-dimensional surface onto which questions about German identity and history were being projected. In an interview, Ms. Bürkle said the exhibition came at “exactly the right time” to take stock of both the regimeʼs utopian intentions and its grimmer realities. “Iʼm against cutsefying it, and against nostalgia for the G.D.R., which was a brutal dictatorship that destroyed people,” she said. “The identity of the G.D.R. is not contained in this building alone. It came from all kinds of other things.”(New York Times June, 7th 2019).

Studio+Laborartory: Workshops of Knowledge is currently on view at the National Academy of Science Washington DC. “Be it artistic works or scientific discoveries, the end results are all that generally remain visible of the creative process. What happens behind closed doors in the laboratory or studio tends to be just as invisible as it is mysterious. Stefanie Bürkle chose to delve into these sites of creativity, using large and medium-format analogue cameras to photograph scientistsʼ laboratories and artistsʼ studios in Berlin.”

Free and open to the public. ID required. Please enter at Hunter West Building Main entrance and present this invitation to security. Passage way to North Building on Third Floor.

Chelsey Pettyjohn, Water in the Canyon

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

October 4 – 26
Opening Reception: October 4, 6:30pm – 9pm

Pettyjohn’s work engages a specific collection of self-made archetypes and iconography. The themes that present themselves reveal personal history: childhood fragility, sexuality, the fragmentation of dreams. Working in large scale paintings and ceramic sculptures, her solitary figures are twisted in their physicality, sometimes violent in their pose. Yet they appear discerning; purposeful or even gleeful in their isolation. What translates is a type of ‘lonerism’, a wariness paired with conflicting desire. Pettyjohns figures study the juxtaposition of the delicate and grotesque – how indeed, a smile can bite. She is interested in articulating the human experience in all its innocence and brutality.

Chelsey Pettyjohn (b. 1989, Overland Park, KS) holds a BFA from Parsons the New School for Design and a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. She has shown her work locally and internationally; recent exhibitions include a solo show at Tennis Elbow (Brooklyn, NY) as well as group shows at Kapp Kapp (Philadelphia, PA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), and Foxy Production (New York, NY). She lives and works in New York.

Carmen Hermo, MASO Lecture

Hunter MFA Studios, 2nd Floor Flex Space
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY

September 24, 7pm

Join Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art the Brooklyn Museum, for an exploration of her recent curatorial projects, including the curatorial collective of the current exhibition Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall.