Nov
29
7:00 PM19:00
Oct
30
6:30 PM18:30
The Immigrant Artist Biennial - Closing Reception and Panel Discussion
Artist Talk
Main Gallery
Oct
24
6:00 PM18:00
Jun
21
6:00 PM18:00
May
17
6:30 PM18:30
Mar
22
5:00 PM17:00
Nov
9
6:00 PM18:00
Jun
22
6:30 PM18:30
Ming-Jer Kuo & Rowan Renee: 'Memento Mori'
Please join us for an exhibition walkthrough and discussion with artist Ming-Jer Kuo & Rowan Renee on June 22, at 6:30pm in the NARS Project Space.
Memento Mori: The Approachable Shining Stars, a long-term project by Ming-Jer Kuo, focuses on the cemeteries of New York City. The series is an exploration of negative space within an urban area. Viewing and then abstracting tombstones in some of NYC’s mass graveyards, as seen from the viewpoint of the heavens, results in images that are intended to mimic astronomical photographs as they reflect the territory of death. The work is also meant to feature an often unnoticed aspect of the metropolitan life while, at the same time, emphasizing gigantic area of urban space occupied by the living.
Ming-Jer Kuo (born in Taipei, Taiwan) is a New York-based artist. He had worked as an environmental engineer for eleven years and came to New York for art. Kuo graduated from MFA Photography, Video and Related Media at School of Visual Arts. He is a recipient of NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in NYC, a member of The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts Studio Program in NYC, a recipient of Paula Rhodes Award for Exceptional Achievement in NYC, and was awarded as Honorable Mention of Taoyuan Creation Award in Taiwan. Kuo’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows of EFA 20|20 Gallery in NYC, Gallery Sejul in Seoul, Chashama Space in NYC, QCC Art Gallery in NYC, NARS Foundation in NYC, Gallery 456 in NYC, Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ, New York Hall of Science in NYC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in NYC and The 2 Gateway Center Gallery in Newark, NJ.
www.mingjerkuo.com
Rowan Renee (b. 1985, West Palm Beach, Florida) is a genderqueer artist currently working in Brooklyn, NY. Their work addresses intergenerational trauma, gender-based violence and the impact of the criminal legal system through image, text and installation. They have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Smack Mellon (2021), Five Myles (2021), Aperture Foundation (2017), and Pioneer Works (2015), with reviews in publications including VICE, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times. They have received awards from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, the Harpo Foundation and the Jerome Hill Foundation, and have been an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Book Arts, NARS Foundation, Red Bull Arts and the Textile Arts Center. In 2022, they will be the second Artist-in-Residence at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, their project Between the Lines, supported by We, Women Photo, runs art workshops by correspondence with LGBTQ+ people currently incarcerated in Florida. Their installation, No Spirit For Me (2019), was included in the critically acclaimed exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, curated by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood at MoMA PS1.
Apr
21
6:00 PM18:00
Louis Bouvier & Andrew Woolbright: Yet another drifting pile of meaning
Je pensais justement à la machine qui imprime les mémoires #16, 2022, Oil, watercolor, graphite and wooden pencil on paper.
21 x 24 5/8 inch
Please join us for an exhibition walkthrough with artist Louis Bouvier and Andrew Woolbright on April 21, at 6pm in the NARS Project Space.
Louis Bouvier will discuss his exhibition ‘Yet another drifting pile of meanings’ in conversation with Andrew Woolbright.
Through multiplication of visual strata, Bouvier proposes an interpretation of anachronistic “montage”. By establishing a horizontal reading of art history and its canons, he frees the references from the tyranny of linear time. Combining different eras and following no precise system, he creates a new multidimensional vision which question the modern idea of categorization. In the entanglement of photo-realistic drawings and hybrid sculptures Bouvier transforms the conventional temporal periodization by deploying, in his installation, a peculiar vision on history and archeology. The exhibition combines a multitude of media and techniques: metal, bronze, casting, wood, plaster, watercolor, 3d printing, lead, graphite, oil, wooden pencils—this proliferation create new points of contact that, if given the chance, can elaborate a new constellation of links.
Louis Bouvier draws his inspiration from a multitude of sources such as history, archeology as well as alternative movements and cultures. His career, which began professionally in 2010, has led him to present his work in Quebec, Canada, the United States, and Europe. He has participated in numerous international residencies: Banff Center (Alberta), PILOTENKUECHE (Germany), and NARS foundation (Brooklyn). Supported on several occasions by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, he exhibited in various artist centers and private galleries: Center Clark (Montreal), L'Écart (Rouyn-Noranda), Caravansérail (Rimouski), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton), Maison des artistes francophone (Winnipeg), Gallery Nicolas Robert (Montréal), Blouin Division (Montréal) Projet Pangée (Montréal) and Helmut (Leipzig). Bouvier holds a master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM.
Oct
7
6:00 PM18:00
Restraining Nature - Artist Talk with Shay Arick
Please join us for a discussion with artist Shay Arick on October 7th, at 6pm in the NARS Main Gallery.
The talk will focus on Shay’s recent project titled, Second Nature. Arick started practicing a new method of sculpting during the Covid-19 pandemic while he was quarantined in the mountains in Israel. He collected flowers and weeds from the fields nearby, dried them, and later cut the stems, connected leaves, and assembled the various parts into new kinds of “engineered” plants.
Shay Arick is an Israeli visual artist based in Brooklyn. Arick is a recipient of Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Arts Award and the Eileen Cooper Award For Creativity, the America-Israel Award For Excellence in Sculpture and is a HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Artist Grant recipient, among others. He received support through many residencies and fellowships, including The International Sculpture Center, MASS MoCA, Kadist Art Foundation, Wassaic Project, Residency Unlimited, NARS Foundation, The Watermill Center Summer Residency, Ox-Bow, and New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. His work has been shown in venues such as Haifa Museum Of Art (Haifa),Y Gallery (New York), Watermill Center (New York), San Francisco International Arts Festival, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), SOMarts (San Francisco), Subterranean Arthouse (Berkeley), Ground For Sculpture (New Jersey), ZiZspace (Tel Aviv), Binyamin Gallery (Tel Aviv), Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), OnSpace (Beijing), Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) among others.
Mar
23
8:00 PM20:00
Jesus Benavente: I'm Not Dancing, I'm Struggling to Survive
Friday March 23, 8 PM
Marking the closing of Alina Grasmann’s exhibition Paper Town, Jesus Benavente transforms the gallery into a party scene, replete with balloons, lights, and dance music. I'm Not Dancing, I'm Struggling to Survive is a a performance installation that chafes gatherings and policing in our city streets against the Americana of Grasmann’s paintings. Filmed and found footage of recent marches, protests, and police surveillance and activity are projected around the quiet and unassuming town of Agloe, NY, the kind of town in whose name our cities are policed, black bodies, gunned down, and immigrants deported. This performance installation stages the distance between two competing images of America and its current socio-political reality, which feels like the end of a party, and invites you to dance.
Benavente is interested in parties as a celebratory events that mark transitional stages in life, such as such as birthdays, weddings, going away/retirement parties, and even funerals, while also containing a sense of sadness and loss for what preceded it. Here party lights are replaced by flashing police sirens; white balloons slowly deflate on the floor; dance songs are intercut with anti-protest sound cannons; and singalongs become protest chants. The setlist, bookended by sad love songs, is composed of everything from hip-hop to doo-wop and serves to narrate the nation’s current state of affairs, ranging from cultural appropriation to police brutality. Dancing, Benavente posits, be it in the streets of the club, its political and emancipatory potential, is a means of survival and finding happiness in such a period of political transition and upheaval. The sense of anxiety, ambiguity, and danger each of the artist’s work poses, is undercut by a sense of the possible and energy of people in the street and bodies on the dance floor.
Mar
23
7:00 PM19:00
Umber Majeed: Atomi Daamaki Wali Mohabbat (The Atomically Explosive Love)
2017- ongoing , Animation/ Lecture Performance, 27:04
ATOMI DAAMAKI WALI MOHABBAT (THE ATOMICALLY EXPLOSIVE LOVE)
Of Tongues and Hands closing performance lecture
Atomi Daamaki Wali Mohabbat (The Atomically Explosive Love) is a multi-chapter animation and lecture performance that chronicles the history of nuclear power in Pakistan, the first ‘Muslim nuclear state’. Umber uses state and familial archives to intersect specific historical moments, starting with the successful nuclear tests performed in the 1990s to the conception/destruction of a military-state monument, Chaghi Monument Hill. Chaghi is a motif, location, and historical moment that is reconstituted within religious-state logic and in digital space. The interface is used as a reflexive canon to view this recent past, the images of the monument, moment of the blast, and associations of nation looming, haunting in the present. The green screen represents Islamic orientalism, Pakistani nationalism, as well as a projection space for the populist imagination. Using flora as a metaphor for embedded violence, the script narrativizes the nationalizing of flower, beauty, and love. This is a technique deployed by state propaganda and the narration is written through the lens of a fictional populist contemporary Urdu poet, inspired by an actual poem written by a patriarchal academic from Punjab University, Pakistan. The character is a reflection on how science, culture, and religion all intersect in mainstream populism in Pakistan; state propaganda has penetrated into the aesthetic and content of the everyday. The reading through the female (herself), allows for a queering and alternative historicizing of South Asia in an age of global nationalist uprisings.
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Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Her art training in Pakistan, New York, and Lebanon has activated a mapping of her cultural hybridity to negotiate tactics of sociality as an American born and raised, Pakistani-descent Muslim, woman of color. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016 and graduated from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan in 2013. In July 2017, she completed the HWP fellowship at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Lebanon. Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America, and Europe. Recent group exhibitions include; ‘The Divided Self’, The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2012), ‘Ornate Activate’, Shirin Gallery, New York (2015), and “The Museum: Within and Without”, The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia (2015), “welcome to what we took from is the state”, Queens Museum, New York (2016), and 'Promises to Keep', apexart, New York (2017). Her work has been acquired by several private collections, including the Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection at the Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon, India.
Jan
19
7:30 PM19:30
Keren Anavy & Valerie Green/Dance Entropy: Utopia
presents
January 19, 7:30 pm
Free and open to the public
In collaboration with visual artist Keren Anavy, Dance Entropy Artistic Director Valerie Green explores the idea of an internal Utopia through dance and visual art in her newest evening-length work.
Anavy is an alumna of the NARS Foundation International Artist in Residency program and a recent recipient of the Asylum Arts Grant. She is turning her large-scale paintings into 10-foot cylindrical pillars to be used throughout the piece.
The pillars act as an extension of the internal world, constantly forming barriers, spaces, and other environments for the dancers to both react to and orchestrate. This dynamic art installation is in perpetual motion, being constantly built and dismantled.
The dancers’ internal Utopia explorations are unique. They might experience pain, chaos, compassion, suffocation, release, and intimacy. In a particular subtext, they feel opposing forces of safety/unsafety. These internal explorations manifest in solos, duets, and group sections.
Acting as both props and set, Anavy’s painted pillars contribute to Utopia’s striking energy and challenge the viewer’s conception of how art, dance, and design interact with and influence one another.
Performed by: Emily Aiken, Caitlyn Casson, Erin Gio, Kristin Licata, and Richard Scandola
"Anavy's site-specific environments cue us in on the realm that lies just beyond the traps we've set for ourselves. The images
ask of us, what do we see, and from where we see, why are such worlds not possible?” -James Diaz, Anti-Heroin Chic
Collaborators
Keren Anavy, Visual Artist
Martyn Axe, Broadway Composer (Previous collaboration: Impermanent Landscape)
Deborah Erenberg, Costume Designer (Previous collaborations: Riptide, Hinge, Inexplicable Space, Succession)
Joe Levasseur, Lighting Designer (Previous collaboration: Impermanent Landscape)
Utopia has been/is scheduled to be
performed at:
Dixon Place
NARS Foundation
APAP Booking Festival
Green Space
Movement Research
Dec
19
2:30 PM14:30
Lieselotte Fontrodona/Stefani Kuo: Absence
presents
Lieselotte Fontrodona/Stefani Kuo: Absence
December 19, 5 pm
ab·sence /ˈabsəns/
noun
the state of being away from a place or person
an occasion or period of being away from a place or person
the nonexistence; lack of; deficiency
failure to attend or appear when expected
Join us on December 19 for Absence, a collaboration between New York-based artist Stefani Kuo and Dutch artist-in-residence Lieselotte Fontrodona.
Stefani Kuo will be performing in Lieselotte Fontrodona’s sculpture installation space on Tuesday 19 December 2017 at 5pm.
A piece of what it means to be defined by absence, to be the object and its border, to be the backbone and yet have no dimensions, Absence began in Berlin when Fontrodona and Kuo first met and has flourished into two separate artists’ work colliding as one
Oct
26
7:00 PM19:00
Hair Drive by Mira Dayal
presents
Hair Drive by Mira Dayal
October 26, 7-8 pm
On October 26th, Mira Dayal will be present in the gallery to lead a hair drive, in which she and an assistant will be collecting the language and material of hair. Visitors can expect to complete a brief survey and participate in a hair-gathering process. Please bring your comb or brush.
This event accompanies the exhibition Material Metaphors, a solo show by Mira Dayal of work made with and about hair, up through November 3rd at NARS Foundation.
*Hair will not be cut.
Jun
14
7:00 PM19:00
Artist Talk: Knutte Wester
presents
Artist Talk with Knutte Wester
June 14, 7-9 PM
NARS is pleased to welcome back Knutte Wester for an artist talk and presentation of his artistic practice, including clips from his latest film A Bastard Child. Paintings for the film were made during his 2015 residency.
A Bastard Child recently premiered at prestigious IDFA in Amsterdam and Hot Docs in Toronto and is scheduled to premiere in the US later this fall.
Wester is a Swedish artist educated at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He works with sculpture, drawing and film, always with a documentary approach. His work as been exhibited internationally, and is currently on view at Varbergs Konsthall. He is represented by Gallery Andersson/Sandström.
May
19
6:00 PM18:00
Katya Grokhovsky “The Future is Bright (in progress)”
Katya Grokhovsky, The Future is Bright (One Fine Day), 2017
Entrée/Encore
presents
presents
Katya Grokhovsky, "The Future is Bright (in progress)"
May 19, 6-8 pm
NARS Foundation is pleased to present residency alumna Katya Grokhovsky’s “The Future is Bright (in progress)”, a one night mixed media installation, accompanied by artist talk and discussion with curator and art critic Audra Lambert as part of its Entree/Encore public events series. “The Future is Bright” is an ongoing long-term multidisciplinary project, which explores disillusion, migration, identity, re-discovery and the failed utopian promise of ideology through the narrative of Grokhovsky’s only surviving 92 year old grandmother, who was a veteran of World War II and a former member of Communist party in Ukraine. The project investigates formation and de-construction of migrant self through an extraordinary story of survival, humanity and legacy.
*“The Future is Bright” project is supported by Asylum Arts.
Katya Grokhovsky was born in Ukraine, raised in Australia and is based in Brooklyn, NY. She is an artist, independent curator, educator and a founding director of Feminist Urgent. Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a BA (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Grokhovsky has received support through numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Studios at MASS MoCA, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, WY, SOHO20 Gallery Lab Residency, BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, VOX Populi AUX Curatorial Fellowship, Residency Unlimited, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, NARS Partial Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center International Summer Residency, Asylum Arts Grant, Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, APT (Artist pension trust) Membership, Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant, NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Chashama space to create grant, NYC, Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, and others. Her work has been exhibited extensively nationally and internationally.
Audra Lambert is an independent curator and art critic, born in New Orleans, based in New York, NY. Founder of Antecedent Projects (2014), a sustainable urban curatorial consultancy investigating site-specific heritage and cultural regeneration, she has curated exhibits with CoLab-Factory, White Roof Project, Flux Art Fair (2015-16) and (most recently) with the New York City Parks Dept's Arsenal Gallery (2017). Lambert is co-founder of social justice nonprofit alt_break art fair, and she has worked with NY-based art nonprofits More Art and Friends of Material for the Arts, NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs. She has coordinated art installations and performances with artists such as Dread Scott, Autumn Ahn, and Sari Carel. She is Editor-in-Chief of ANTE. media outlet, covering contemporary fine art, design, & culture, and her writing has appeared in D/Railed Mag, Americans for the Arts, Artefuse and Quiet Lunch. She holds a BA, Art History & Asian Studies from Saint Peter's University and is currently completing her MA thesis at the City College of NY (CUNY).
Entrée/Encore is a series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances, launched in Fall 2016, which presents our artists and curators-in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. Whether it is former residency artists who return to NARS to share how their practice has developed since and new work, or current artists presenting ongoing projects, this initiative provides artists a critical environment to experiment with or contextualize multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Apr
28
6:00 PM18:00
Bat-Ami Rivlin & Corsin Billeter | Re:Re
Entrée / Encore
Presents
Re:Re | Bat-Ami Rivlin and Corsin Billeter
April 28, 2017, 6-8 pm
Presents
Re:Re | Bat-Ami Rivlin and Corsin Billeter
April 28, 2017, 6-8 pm
Re:Re: is a collaboration between artists Bat-Ami Rivlin and Corsin Billeter. The project explores different aspects of digital space and the implication of that space’s seamless integration with day to day physical life. This one-night exhibition is an experiment of connectivity and fragmented elements of communication and presence, touching on notions of digital space mimicking physical space and vice verse.
Re:Re: is presented as the closing event for the exhibition Low Res: Spatial Politics in the Cloud.
Bat-Ami Rivlin (*1991) is an Israeli artist based in New York City. Rivlin received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY in 2016. She participated in numerous group exhibitions in the New York City area, including 'Within a Circuit' at NARS Foundation, 'The Tide' at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, to name a few. Rivlin's work was featured in a Solo Show at the Arts Letters & Numbers Residency, Upstate NY.
Corsin Billeter (*1991) lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland and the digital realm. He studied at the School of Visual Arts, NY and the Zürich University of the Arts, where he got his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts in 2016. He was part of several group exhibitions in Zürich and New York and was a finalist for the Start Point Prize 2015 at the National Gallery in Prague, CZ.
Entrée/Encore, a new series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances at NARS Foundation, presents artists and curators in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. This public program contextualizes multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Feb
24
6:00 PM18:00
Nooshin Rostami | Within a Circuit
Nooshin Rostami, Within a Circuit performance/installation
Presents
Within a Circuit by Nooshin Rostami
Friday, February 24, 6-8pm
NARS Foundation is pleased to present Nooshin Rostami’s Within a Circuit, a performance installation as part of its Entree/Encore public events series. Within a Circuit, made during her six-month residency, is consistent with the undercurrents shaping Rostami’s practice, which involves mapping the fine lines between seemingly paradoxical notions such as human versus machine, static versus fluid and stability versus uncertainty.
Nooshin Rostami is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. She was born in 1986 in Shahroud, and raised in Tehran, Iran. Rostami received her MFA from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2011. She has widely exhibited and presented her work in solo and group settings in the United States, Iran, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Canada. Rostami’s work has been featured in number of publications such as Baumtestquarterly, Jadaliyya and Ajam Media Collective. Her research interests pertain to politics of geography, identity, and gender. In her work she embodies themes often inspired by personal narratives through mediums of performance, installation, drawing and painting.
Feb
21
6:00 PM18:00
Artist Talk: Cecilia Enberg
(Green-Wood Cemetery), 2016
Presents
Artist Talk by Cecilia Enberg
Tuesday, February 21, 6-8pm
NARS is pleased to welcome back residency alumna, Cecilia Enberg, as part of its Entree/Encore public event series.
A talk about patterns, repetitions, and associations, Enberg will present her work, including her 2016 project at NARS, and her most current work at the Carlton Arms Hotel.
Cecilia Enberg is a visual artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a B.Sc in Multimedia and 2014/2015 she took a postgraduate course at the Royal Institute of Art with a printmaking project. SHe is an active member of r a k e t a, an interdisciplinary and collaborative project that experiments within art, design, architecture and digital media.
Interested in the junction between new technology and traditional craftsmanship, Enberg works in various media, such as printmaking, needlework, and photography. Cecilia explores the similarities between recurring everyday events and decorative patterns: “The things we do everyday create patterns in our lives. We seem to have a need to organize and structure our reality, as an attempt to make sense of it. Patterns give us meaning. To understand is to see patterns!”
Entrée/Encore is a series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances, launched in Fall 2016, which presents our artists and curators-in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. Whether it is former residency artists who return to NARS to share how their practice has developed since and new work, or current artists presenting ongoing projects, this initiative provides artists a critical environment to experiment with or contextualize multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Nov
29
6:00 PM18:00
Chinese Photography and Contemporary Art
Presents
Chinese Photography & Contemporary Art
Tuesday, November 29th | 6 - 8pm
Join NARS Curators in Residence He Guiyan and Gu Chenlin and invited guest, Deng Yan, for presentations and discussion of Chinese contemporary art, providing an overview its development, key artists and institutions over the past three decades.
He Guiyan | Deputy Director of Department of Art History & Director of the Contemporary School of Arts, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Gu Chenlin | Director of Artistic Department & Curator, Shanghai Photographers Association
Deng Yan | Lecturer, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University
Presented in partnership with Academy of Literary and Art, ChinaFederation of Literary and Art Circles (ALAC), the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
Entrée/Encore is a series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances, launched in Fall 2016, which presents our artists and curators-in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. Whether it is former residency artists who return to NARS to share how their practice has developed since and new work, or current artists presenting ongoing projects, this initiative provides artists a critical environment to experiment with or contextualize multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Sep
19
6:00 PM18:00
Democracy Soup by Guy Ben-Ari
Entrée/Encore
presents:
presents:
Democracy Soup by Guy Ben-Ari
September 19, 6pm
Guy Ben Ari, (AiR '13) kicks of NARS' new public program Entrée/Encore, a series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances which presents our artists and curators-in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. Whether it is former residency artists, like Ben Ari, who return to NARS to share how their practice has developed since and new work, or current artists presenting ongoing projects, this initiative provides artists a critical environment to experiment with or contextualize multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Guy Ben-Ari's talk will center around his Democracy Soup book, recently published by Meta Meta Meta LLC. This book presents 51 black and white reproductions from a series of ink drawings on vellum that the artist began in 2015. This series of works is based on imagery which originates in the visual world of politics and campaigns, through the lens of news media. Ben-Ari selects images of presidential candidates, hand gestures, televised debate backdrops, U.S. electoral maps, and official White House press material, using them as a starting point for his drawings. Vellum is a surface that inherently resists the act of mark making, repelling the ink in such a way that creates unpredictable textures and patterns. In using this technique, Ben-Ari is able to insert an element of randomness into the process of production. As the ink is applied, the figurative elements often become less legible and increasingly abstract.
Entrée/Encore is a series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances, launched in Fall 2016, which presents our artists and curators-in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. Whether it is former residency artists who return to NARS to share how their practice has developed since and new work, or current artists presenting ongoing projects, this initiative provides artists a critical environment to experiment with or contextualize multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Aug
23
6:00 PM18:00
Artist Talk with Brigitta Varadi
Keith Nolan Photography, MARKINGS at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland; Supported by Leitrim Sculpture Centre Fellowship and Artist in Residence Programme, Arts Council of Ireland, Leitrim County Council Art Office
In Partnership with Textile Arts Center, and The Wassaic Project
Presents
Artist Talk by Brigitta Varadi
Tuesday, August 23rd at 6pm
Brigitta Varadi’s work explores how memory can inform our present day perspectives and artistic expressions. Working with different type of natural fibres like wool and linen and using textile techniques such as dyeing, felting and sculptural manipulation, Varadi searches for pattern and repetition of gesture that relate to the invisible and everyday rituals of working life and the constructed environment. The process reflects the essence of her work, an erosion of memories through repetitive action till all that remains is the action itself.
Hungarian-born Brigitta Varadi divides her time between New York and Co.Leitrim, Ireland. Her latest solo shows were held at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2015), Ireland, Serbian Church Gallery (2015) Hungary, Textile Arts Centre (2014) New York. Brigitta is a recipient of numerous awards, residency and fellowship programs. She has awarded grants from Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland Artists in Prison Scheme Award, Leitrim County Council Arts Bursary, Culture Ireland Award. Brigitta was acknowledged for her contribution to the arts of Ireland by the President, Mary Mc Alesse, 2008.
She has participated in residencies at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2014), Textile Arts Centre, Brooklyn, NY (2014), ChaNorth, Chashama, New York( 2013), CAC-Woodside, Troy, New York (2012) in the USA. She is the recipient of the Leitrim Sculpture Centre Fellowship (2015), LOCIS, Europian Cultural Program between Sweden, Poland and Ireland(2014) and TRADE (2011) Fellowships, Ireland and KulttuuriKauppila, Finland (2006).
Currently she is the Education Fellow at the Wassaic Project and selected for the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. Brigitta's latest solo, GOLDENROD, a public intervention and pop-up tea shop was presented at the Ortega y Gasset Projects (2016.)
Entrée/Encore is a series of artists’ talks, discussions, and performances, launched in Fall 2016, which presents our artists and curators-in-residence in dialogue with the cultural community in NY and abroad. Whether it is former residency artists who return to NARS to share how their practice has developed since and new work, or current artists presenting ongoing projects, this initiative provides artists a critical environment to experiment with or contextualize multidisciplinary practices and perspectives within the languages of art and critical socio-political concerns.
Aug
19
6:00 PM18:00
Artist Talk with Liene Bosque
Entrée / Encore
Presents
Artist Talk with Liene Bosque
August 19, 2016 6-8 PM
Liene Bosquê’s working process includes imprint and mold making, through which she investigates the sensorial experience existing in architectural, urban and personal spaces. Using materials such as latex, Bosquê creates installations, sculptures, site-specific projects, as well as performance art, eliciting notions of temporality, fragility, memory and history – common themes in her practice.
