7pm - 9pm September 18th, 2009
Panelists explore how the economic crisis has affected art, its production and display. Are we experiencing a paradigm shift, and if so, what is the impact? Has the collapse emancipated or restrained the production of art?
Josh Baer (Writer and Art Adviser, Baerfax Newsletter), Richard Flood (Chief Curator of the New Museum), Anton Kern (Gallerist, Anton Kern Gallery), Alexandra Peers (Writer, New Yorker and Wall Street Journal)
Moderator: Peter Duhon (Director of programming, ATOA, and Director of Art Comments)
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$7 General Public
$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
Artist in Conversation: Janaina Tschäpe
7pm - 9pm September 25th, 2009
New York based Brazilian and German artist, "Janaina Tschäpe shares her forename with a Brazilian water goddess, and, not coincidentally, her photographs and performances-to-video feature sumptuously organic, watery, distorted female figures," writes Frieze. Janaina Tschäpe deftly exploits and subverts notions of identity and reality in her work. Janaina Tschäpe will give a presentation concerning her work, followed by a conversation with Peter Duhon (Director of Programming, ATOA, and Director of Art Comments), and Q&A with audience.
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$7 General Public
$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
Discourse and Practice: Aporias of Perfection
7pm - 9pm October 2nd, 2009
German curator Lukas Baden and panelists will discuss new contemporary keywords alongside traditional terms and their affects on non-discursive practices. For example, 'Deskilling' versus 'Perfection' and, aesthetics of the 'New Poor,' a new form of arte povera developing, independent of the recession.
Moderator: Lukas Baden,
Panelists: TBA
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$7 General Public
$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
Past Dreams and Future Visions: The South Bronx art scene in the 21st Century
7pm - 9pm October 10th, 2009
The Bronx art scene has emerged, submerged and changed many times over the last 30 years. Each time it has been a model for coordinated community artistic efforts ripe with great art, beauty and expression and not surprisingly coupled with the infighting and rivalries associated with any family. Past dreams and future visions exemplified by select consortium of artists, alongside with what makes an art scene grow, coalesce, dissolve and survive. An effort will be made to reveal the general aesthetic trends that have come from this often forgotten Borough of New York.
Moderator: Barry Kostrinsky, Founder of Haven Arts, a Municipal Arts Society's recipient of a certificate of merit in 2006, Barry is an artist, curator, collector and supporter of the South Bronx arts scene.
Panelists: Joe Lewis (Dean of Alfred University's School of Art and Design), John Ahearm (Artist), Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (Artist, Curator), Tim Rollins (Professor at SVA and recently exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennale), Holly Block (Director of Bronx Museum)
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$7 General Public
$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
Theory and Practice: Encaustic Painting Today
7pm - 9pm October 30th, 2009
This panel consists of encaustic artists and people involved in the world of encaustic art, who will explore the growing popularity of encaustic painting over the last 15-20 years, and address the question of what in the climate of the arts and the times, has revived the use of this ancient medium amongst contemporary artists, when for so long it was used only occasionally, at best.
Moderator: Ellen Koment (Artist)
Panelists: Richard Frumess, (artist, founder and owner of R&F Encaustic Paints), Nancy Azara, (encaustic sculptor, and author), Michael David (artist)
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$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
She: Visions of Women by Taiwanese Artists
7pm - 9pm November 13th, 2009
This panel explores the curious phenomenon in recent contemporary Taiwanese art; the leitmotif of feminine imagery found within the diverse and distinct practices of Taiwanese artists based in the U.S.A. Their artist perspectives are varied and complex. Fay Ku for example, deals with the females place in Taiwanese Society. Wheras Nien Nien Yang draws surrealist organic presences that appeal to the eye with their gold leafed surface that reveal broader implications than superficial beauty.
Moderator: THALIA VRACHOPOULOS
Panelists: Jonathan Goodman (artist), Nien Nien Yang (artist), Fay Ku (artist), Wong-Kai Wang (artist)
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$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
Artist in Conversation: Robert Lazzarini
7pm - 9pm November 20th, 2009
Robert Lazzarini, who exhibits with Deitch Projects in New York, and whose work was recently presented at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, challenges normative perspective and perception via pictorial distortion and reconfiguration which demands for the spectator to reexamine their notion of spatial potentiality, and the shift of meaning that occurs with all objects through the experience, often violent, and decay thrusted upon them. Not surprisingly, The New York Times recently wrote, "one of America’s most exciting young artists." Robert Lazzarini will give a presentation based on his work, followed by a conversation with Peter Duhon (Director of programming, ATOA, and Director of Art Comments), and Q&A with audience.
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$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
NY Portraits: Artists with Disabilities
7pm - 9pm December 4th, 2009
This panel discussion begins with the introduction of the NY Portraits project by artist and panel moderator Gordon Sasaki. Over the past few years, he has been compiling a collection of portrait photographs of New York City artists with disabilities. The series explores these artists at an intimate and individual level. Simultaneously building on the tradition of portraiture while challenging issues of representation and stereotype of the disabled.
Moderator: Gordon Sasaki, (artist)
Panelists: Diana Naftal (artist), Ralph Mindicino (artist), Laura Ferguson (artist)
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$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
SuperCraft: The New Insider Folk Art
7pm - 9pm December 11, 2009
'Supercraft: The New Insider Folk Art' is an article written by Noah Sudarsky for the NY Press, January 28, 2009. In the article, Noah Sudarsky coins the term Supercraft. What does this mean? What is the definition of Supercraft? Who are some of the practitioners of of this art form? “The current worldview calls for a kind of frugality, resourcefulness and outsider inventiveness,” says Sudarsky. “My name for this trend is “Supercraft,” Noah Sudarsky has written for The Village Voice, NY Press, Whitehot Magazine and many other publications. The artists on the panel are referenced by Noah Sudarsky as practitioners of Supercraft. (see http://www.nypress.com/article-19327-taking-a-craft.html)
Moderator: Noah Sudarsky (writer)
Panelists: Don Porcella, (artist), Orly Cogan, (artist), David McFadden (curator, Museum of Art and Design)
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