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Gallery Cubed presents NEA: Network of Extraordinary Artists:
Yen Yen Chou

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

November 13 – December 4

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?

Speculative Architecture and the Commons
part of Robert Morris: Para-architectural projects

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E. 68th Street
New York, NY

November 23, 2-6pm

Essye Klempner, For The Birds

Thomas Hunter Project Space
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY

Through November 23

For the Birds is a presentation of ceramics and works on paper by Essye Klempner, Hunter College’s 2018 Artist-in-Resident.

Last summer, Klempner placed ceramic bird baths with nude figures bathing throughout New York’s private and community gardens. Referencing silent films such as “Ecstasy” with Hedy Lamarr, Klempner relies less on verbal language, and predominantly on the gesture of the actor. Using the minimal visual information provided from grainy film, Klempner completes the figure missing from the still shots. Other figures are acquired from photographs, such as a friend playing chess, or through observation of a lover bathing after a long work week.

Another body of work to be presented is sunprints, a camera-less photographic process by which Anna Atkins helped develop to identify plant life. Klempner considers the making of the work as being closer to the traditions of still life and en plein air painting, as the works are made outdoors with natural sunlight. She draws from the local-scale of material gathered through her walks in the city: fallen leaves from trees, weeds like Queen Anne’s Lace, and keys or coins collected in her pockets. Plexiglass is then used to firmly press the objects for closer contact with the light-sensitive paper, which is also included in the final viewing of the print with scattered mushroom spores.

These entities welcome us to the world growing in microbiomes of the urban condition.

Robert Morris: Para-architectural projects

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E. 68th Street
New York, NY

October 10 – December 1
Opening Reception: October 10, 7-9pm

Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to announce Robert Morris: Para-architectural projects at Hunter’s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery. Robert Morris, who died in November 2018, was an alumnus of Hunter College, and a member of the faculty for over 40 years. Hunter’s exhibition focuses on a series of large-scale drawings made by the artist in 1971, many of which were first shown in Morris’s infamous Tate Gallery exhibition of the same year. The Tate’s catalogue describes that exhibition as “a sequence of structures which, although they resemble in their uncompromised simplicity Morris’ earlier sculptures, invite physical participation of the public.” The interaction that Morris encouraged, however, ultimately resulted in visitor injuries as well as damage to the structures, leading to the closure of the exhibition only four days after it opened. In 2009, in collaboration with the artist, the Tate Modern reconceived the 1971 exhibition: this reinstallation, Bodyspacemotionthings, included newly designed versions of the participatory structures, but none of the drawings.

Tschabalala Self, MFASO Lecture

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

November 13, 7-9pm

Bryan Zanisnik, MFASO Lecture

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

November 6, 7pm

Bryan Zanisnik was born in Union, New Jersey and currently lives between Stockholm, Sweden and New York City. He received an MFA from Hunter College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has recently exhibited and performed in New York at MoMA PS1, Sculpture Center, and the Brooklyn Museum; in Philadelphia at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum; in Miami at the De La Cruz Collection; in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Photography; in Los Angeles at LAXART; and internationally at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna and the Futura Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. Zanisnik’s work has been widely featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, Modern Painters, Time Out New York, and the Village Voice. He has completed residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, the Macdowell Colony, the Art Omi International Artists Residency, and the Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China. Zanisnik is included in Art21’s award-winning documentary series New York Close Up, has been a featured guest on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC and is a contributing writer at Triple Canopy.

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