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Tamara Johnson: No Your Boundaries Curator-Mentor: Renaud Proch February 13 – March 23, 2016 Opening Reception Saturday, February 13, 6-8PM

ARTIST STATEMENT I work to tease out potent meaning from overlooked fragments of the home, ordinary nuances of exterior architecture and un-monumental mishaps of a place. Through sculpture, performance and installation, my work utilizes a wide range of materials—from pigmented silicone rubbers to concrete—to recreate underutilized objects and situations into venues for participation and contemplation. Always teetering on the border between the tragic and humorous, my work takes what we know as familiar, such as a water hose, and distorts its function into an uncanny fossil of the real. Tamara Johnson was born in Waco, Texas in 1984. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and the Rhode Island School of Design with a Sculpture MFA in 2012. Her work is a mash-up of sculptural making, choreographic landscapes and performative actions in the public/nonpublic. Most recently, she has exhibited her work at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; The Lot LIC, Long Island City, NY; Judith Charles Gallery, New York, NY; Rooster Gallery, New York, NY; Microscope Gallery, NUTUREart and Black Ball Projects, all in Brooklyn, NY; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY; CR10 Arts, Hudson, NY; Eastfield College Gallery in Dallas, TX; Find & Form Space in Boston, MA and Philip Bloom Gallery in Nantucket, MA. Johnson’s Backyard Pool, 2014, was honored at the Public Art Network Year in Review 2015. This is Johnson’s first solo show in New York.

Support for this exhibition is provided in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

#Tamara Johnson #CUEart #art #NYC #Texas

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Athena LaTocha: Curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith November 7 — December 19, 2015 EXTENDED THROUGH January 14, 2016 Opening reception: Saturday, November 7th,  6-8pm

Featuring work by Curator-Mentor, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in the Project Space ARTIST STATEMENT By reducing the palette, I center the imagery on dynamic gesture and atmosphere that recall the powerful forces of nature and the human impact upon the world. My images begin with my memory of Alaska—specifically the irony between vast magnitudes of raw nature and the impact of industrial development upon nature.I work rigorously between large and small scale. Incessant questioning and doubt play a large role in how I work in a repetitive, serial mode. Working aerially with my images on the floor, I am interested in being inside the image rather than the outside as an easel painter. I use intuitive processes and chance operations to tear down and rebuild landscape iconographies, turning to unwieldy and unorthodox tools to assist with this approach. Tools such as cracked rocks, concrete bricks, and reclaimed automobile tire shred—which I pick up off the sides of highways—are favored over traditional painting and drawing tools. The steel radial from the tire shred literally cuts and bites through the medium and into the support, while it conceptually cuts into the metaphorical landscapes.Athena LaTocha, born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1969, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and MFA from Stony Brook University, NY in 2007. After completing her studies, she apprenticed in bronze finishing at the Beacon Fine Art Foundry in Beacon, New York and furthered her work in printmaking at the Art Students League of New York from 2008 to 2013. In 2013, LaTocha was the recipient of the prestigious Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida. She was also awarded a fellowship and residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and is currently artist-in-residence at chashama, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York.Her work has been collected and exhibited by the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, South Dakota; Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska; the Chicago Bulls, Chicago, Illinois. She has exhibited at St. Ann’s and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn; Gallery SENSEI, New York; and Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York.The artist gratefully acknowledges chashama for providing the space to create this new work.

CURATOR Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is one of most acclaimed American Indian artists of today.  Smith has had over 110 solo exhibits and offered more an 225 lectures in the past 40 years and has done printmaking projects nationwide.  Over that same time, she has organized and/or curated over 30 Native exhibitions, lectured at more than 200 universities, museums and conferences internationally, most recently at 5 universities in China. Smith has completed several collaborative public art works such as the floor design in the Great Hall of the new Denver Airport; an in-situ sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco and a mile-long sidewalk history trail in West Seattle and recently, a new terrazzo floor design at the Denver Airport.

Smith uses humor and satire to examine myths, stereotypes and the paradox of American Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of American society. Her work is philosophically centered by her strong traditional beliefs and political activism. Smith is internationally known as an artist, curator, lecturer, print-maker and professor. She was born at St. Ignatius Mission on her Reservation and is an enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana. She holds 4 honorary doctorates from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mass College of Art and the University of New Mexico. Her work is in collections at the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Walker, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum for World Cultures, Frankfurt, Germany and  Museum for Ethnology, Berlin. Recent awards include a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation to archive her work; the 2011 Art Table Artist Award; Moore College Visionary Woman Award for 2011; Induction into the National Academy of Art 2011; Living Artist of Distinction, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, NM 2012; the Switzer Award 2012; Woodson Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award, Santa Fe 2014; National Art Education Association, Ziegfeld Lecture Award 2014. In 2015 she received an honorary degree in Native American Studies from Salish Kootanai College, Pablo, MT. 

In addition to her role as Curator-Mentor for this exhibition, CUE Art Foundation is proud to honor Smith and her contribution the greater contemporary art world at the 2015 Gala & Benefit Auction.

#Athena LaTocha #Jaune Quick-to-See Smith #CUEart #art

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Social Medium: Art-Making with Social Media Tuesday, September 29, 6:30-8pm

How do artists use their social media accounts as art mediums and platforms through which to produce work? What alternative purposes, if any, might online galleries and “Instagram residencies” serve artists, particularly emerging artists?

To consider these topics, join CUE for a conversation with yulangrant and Camilo Godoy, two multidisciplinary artists utilizing social media to create work that responds to contemporary discourse.

Bios: Yulan Grant is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist from Kingston, Jamaica. A creative positioned between Caribbean and American culture, her work interrogates ideas of identity, notions of power, perceived histories, and the entanglements that happen within these topics. Grant is interested in the role that new media plays in artistic practices and the dialogue they hope to create.

yulangrant.tumblr.com | Instagram: @yu_who

Camilo Godoy was born in Bogotá, Colombia and currently lives in New York. He received a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 2012 and a BA from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts in 2013. Utilizing a multidisciplinary art practice, his work is concerned with examining the construction of political and social meanings. Godoy was a 2012-2013 Queer Art Mentorship fellow; a 2014 EMERGENYC fellow at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU; a 2014-2015 Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Printshop; and is currently a 2015 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Godoy’s work has been presented at venues such as La Mama Galleria, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Donaufestival, Krems; and Mousonturm, Frankfurt, among others.

camilogodoy.com | Instagram: @camilogodoy

#CUEart #Yulan Grant #Camilo Godoy #art

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Tyree Guyton

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Country, Home: Curated by Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell September 5 — October 10, 2015 Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 6-8pm

Country, Home, curated by Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, is a group exhibition of work by differing immigrant and first-generation American artists, exploring the particular tensions and challenges of these culturally and socially under-recognized groups. No one immigrant/immigrant-born artist experience is exactly alike, and this exhibition embraces that reality and translates it into visual narrative form. The exhibition includes work by Elnaz Javani, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Michael Borek, Alejandra Regalado, Golnar Adili, Adela Andea, chukwumaa, and Jerry Truong.

#CUEart #Art #NYC

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Mira Burack: from the bed to the mountain at CUE Art Foundation, May 2 - June 5, 2015.

#Mira Burack #CUEart #art

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Revisiting Ryan and Trevor Oakes’s 2011 exhibition at CUE, curated by Lawrence Weschler. 

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Art is the playground of the physical world.

Light is the medium of all visual art.

Any piece of visual material—art, nature, literature—that might spark awe in the mind will come through

the gates of the eyes.

—The Oakes Twins

Since birth we've been visually and tactilely focused. As kids we gravitated toward games that involved spatial play such as juggling and unicycling. As growing artists, we spent much of our time observing aspects of the physical world that we found commanding, such as noting that a bumble bee flies in a path of coiling figure 8's. We have always liked order and systems, and we're methodical.

Early on, for subject matter in our art, we tended toward the investigation of center points. Centrally oriented clusters where things collected, or from which they dispersed, seemed to be everywhere in the physical world—from atoms to the human embryo to city centers to planetary bodies. Their abundance gives them significance, and we chose to focus much of our early art around the investigation and creation of center points.

Within the territory of center points, light in particular became a primary focus. Light bursting into a growing sphere from its source; the eye extracting an inverted spherical burst of light from the air, converging at the pupil; and space as it appears to shrink to a vanishing point on the horizon line are among the center-point phenomena present within light. Light, the eyes looking via light, and the space they ultimately take in, thus became the core of our artistic exploration.

#tbt #CUEart #The Oakes Twins #art

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Plátano Pride, 2006 Miguel Luciano, Puerto Rican artist. 

Pure Plantainum (2006) is a body of work that commemorates the plátano (green plantain), a stereotypical yet iconic symbol of Puerto Rican and Caribbean culture. In the Pure Plantainum series, actual plantains were plated in platinum. The objects boast a pristine, precious exterior, while the actual fruit decomposes within. They are presented like emblematic jewels that transform cultural stigmas into urban expressions of pride. (via miguelluciano)

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Open Field: Artist Networking Cocktail Hour

Wednesday, May 27th, 6-8pm $7 / free for members

Please join CUE for an evening of networking and socializing among artists, curators, critics, writers, and arts administrators. Attendees should bring business cards and their best elevator pitch to make a strong and lasting first impression. We’ll also be inviting special guests to encourage valuable connections for participants, so come ask questions, join forces with other artists, and enjoy drinks and refreshments on us! Featuring tacos from Tacombi and margarita specials.

Guests for the evening are: Jay Wegman, Director of Abrons Art Center; Rachel Steinberg, artist and curator, Gallery Director of Soho20; Yevgeniya Baras, artist, curator, co-founder of Regina Rex gallery; Krista Saunders Scenna, curator, co-founder and director of Ground Floor Gallery; and more!

Jay Wegman is the Director of the Abrons Arts Center and responsible for all aspects of the Center's curation, programming, and administration. Prior to joining Henry Street in 2006, he served as Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine for over a decade and was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC from 2004-5. He frequently serves on review panels for public funding and private foundations, and has served on the Bessie Award jury since 2012. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Yale University.

Rachel Steinberg is an artist, curator, and organizer based in Brooklyn, interested in digital and time based media, collaborative practices, as well as facilitating projects by emerging artists and curators. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and is currently the Gallery Director at Soho20 Gallery in Chelsea. From 2010-2015, Steinberg served as the Assistant Director at NURTUREart Non-Profit, where she was the founder and curator of the semi-annual video exhibition Videorover. She has also worked as a registrar at the Museum of Arts and Design. From 2012-2014, she was an active member and co-organizer of Trade School New York, an alternative education project based on a barter system. Steinberg also works as an independent curator, with recent projects in Brooklyn, NY and Strasbourg, FR.

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Yevgeniya has a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). Yevgeniya’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries in New York including: Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, Zurcher studio, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Allegra LaViola Gallery. She has also shown at Susanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit, MI; Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem; Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College; Real Art Ways Gallery in Hartford, CT; Adds Donna, Chicago, IL, and Jolie Laide, Philadephia, PA.  Yevgeniya was named a 2014 recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize and in 2015 she was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency. Yevgeniya’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum.

Five years ago Yevgeniya co-founded Regina Rex Gallery in Bushwick, NY. In the Fall of 2014, the gallery moved from Bushwick to Lower East side. Yevgeniya has curated and co-curated over twenty exhibitions at Regina Rex and other galleries in NY, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

Yevgeniya has been teaching painting, drawing, and art history for the past eight years to college students. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Institute of Pittsburg. She has guest lectured at Sarah Lawrence College and Tyler School of Art. Yevgeniya currently teaches at CUNY.

 Krista Saunders Scenna is an independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked for the ICA in Philadelphia, the Queens Museum, the Whitney Museum of Art and New Museum in various capacities. Scenna was a 2010-11 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellow. In addition to exhibitions at BRIC, NURTUREart and Lesley Heller Workspace, her curatorial portfolio also includes site-specific exhibitions in alternative forums such The Old Stone House, Vax Moto motorcycle garage, the DUMBO Arts Festival and SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2015.  Scenna also advises emerging artists as the co-founder and director of Ground Floor Gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn – a young gallery that connects underrepresented, local artists with new art buyers.

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Explore the details in Mira Burack's solo exhibition "from the bed to the mountain." Burack's work, evocative of both the home and nature, employs an array of materials, including feathers, plants, and paint.

In his essay "Collage and the Landscape of Familiarity," John McKissick writes: "Relocating from the city to the piñon and juniper high desert, Burack was stirred to reflect on place and domestication. In this new setting, with its remoteness, aridity, and mountain backdrop, Burack shifted from the ambiguity and formality of her most powerful past work and began to use her collage to conjure a landscape."

Mira Burack: from the bed to the mountain is on view through June 5, 2015

#CUEart #Mira Burack

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CUE is currently seeking Curatorial Project and Solo Exhibition proposals for our 2016 exhibition season!

ABOUT THE OPEN CALL

CUE Art Foundation is currently seeking Curatorial Project and Solo Exhibition proposals for the 2016 exhibition season. CUE’s Open Calls provide one deserving curator and one emerging artist the necessary resources to realize an innovative project/exhibition at CUE's storefront location in 2016.

A panel of established curators will select the winners of both Open Calls and serve as mentors to the finalists throughout the exhibition planning process. CUE provides institutional guidance, a stipend, shipping budget, and an accompanying exhibition catalogue featuring an essay written by a participant in CUE’s Young Art Critic Mentoring Program.

For more information or to apply, visit cueartfoundation.org/open-call.

#CUEart #Art

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Dylan Spaysky: taz closes TOMORROW. Don’t miss it, and we look forward to seeing you at CUE!

#Dylan Spaysky #CUEart #art #NYC

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An artist of CUE's former artist-in-residence program, Heidi Pollard, has work being shown in Key Project's current exhibition Runcible Spoon, on view through May 3.

Runcible Spoon

April 18 - May 3, 2015

Opening Reception: April 18, 2015, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Curated by Joan Mellon and Patricia Zarate

Hours: Saturday & Sunday from 1 - 5 PM

and by appointment

Key Projects is pleased to present Runcible Spoon, an exhibition featuring Carol Bruns, Steven Corsano, Rick Klauber, Jodie Manasevit and Heidi Pollard.

The word “runcible” was coined by Edward Lear in his best known poem, “The Owl and the Pussycat” (1871):

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

Although “runcible” is a nonsense word, Lear convinced people that such a thing exists. Nonsense, once it is seen as making sense, can have the power to prove there is a rightness to things we once thought absurd, a quality inherent in the work of Bruns, Corsano, Klauber, Manasevit and Pollard.

Carol Bruns achieves this alchemy in her small in size / large in concept three dimensional gold painted paper models—skewed, elegant visions of ordinary and imagined objects—made to be transformed into polished, gilded bronze. Artist/poet Steven Corsano, combining whimsical images with words about disappearance and death, jolts our senses in his ethereal mixed media works on paper bordered with tape as if to hold them down. Rick Klauber employs white cedar shims from a lumberyard—what he calls “found brushstrokes”— onto which, as if by command, he makes abstract strokes of paint scramble into place and find their rightful home. Jodie Manasevit’s meticulous and idiosyncratic drawings are made from a selection of pencil, colored pencil, gouache and watercolor. With her light touch of hand and intense focus, she creates imagined worlds that exist as places of thoughtful caprice. Painter and sculptor Heidi Pollard’s three dimensional work personifies her ability to perform a kind of magic using familiar materials to create objects which, like Lear’s runcible spoon, make us believe in the importance of their nonsensical existence, a feat that elicits involuntary smiles.

About the artists:

Carol Bruns graduated with a Fine Art degree from NYU in 1966. She studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League in New York and Academie de La Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Early in her career she exhibited at OK Harris Works of Art in New York City and has continued to show in New York and Atlanta. She has also worked on numerous commissions with NY architects and designers. Bruns’ sculpted figures search for different ways of being human. Her style of making is neither industrial-impersonal nor craft-laborious but invites the materials to engage in a living relationship, moment to moment in a claylike method of carving and adding. The work seeks its roots in modernism and primitivism in order to embody new and forgotten ways of perceiving and knowing.

Steven Corsano lives and works in New York City and East Hampton, NY. He describes his works on paper as, “poetic” and “exuberant and childlike renderings that often include language from dreams and texts; intuitive and soulful distillations of love, loss and the natural world.” Corsano has had one person shows at OK Harris in New York City (2014, 2012, 2009) and Boltax Gallery on Shelter Island (2011, 2009). He has also exhibited in group shows in the US and Ireland.

Rick Klauber approaches abstraction, gesture and geometric color in his ongoing work on canvas, paper, and Shim Paintings. Klauber is a lifelong New Yorker. He studied painting at Bard College and at the same time worked closely with Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell in their studios. Klauber has exhibited here and abroad and is in many public and private collections. He is represented by Howard Scott Gallery in New York City.

Jodie Manasevit is a painter based in Queens, New York. She uses drawing primarily to familiarize herself with ways of organizing space and to develop the forms and motifs which appear in her paintings—colorful, abstract work created with oil on canvas. Following a 2005 solo exhibition at the Worcester Museum in MA, Manasevit abandoned formal abstraction for work which mirrors her internal world of memories, dreams and imagination. She received her BS degree from CUNY and her MFA from Hunter College in 1985 and has been part of the adjunct faculty at Northeastern University since 2000. Before being represented by Berry Campbell in NY where she had a solo exhibition in July 2014, she was represented by Diacono Fine Arts in Boston.

Heidi Pollard lives and works in Albuquerque, NM. Her studio time is divided between making largely abstract paintings and making sculptural objects, mostly from cast-off materials gathered over time. Grants and residency fellowship awards include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts; CUE Art Foundation; and Roswell Artist in Residence Program. Exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid, John Davis Gallery, McKenzie Fine Art and Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NY; Transvagrant@Warschaw Gallery, Los Angeles; Horse Trader Curatorial Projects at Aqua Art Fair, Miami; NM Museum of Fine Art, University of NM Museum of Art, Outpost Performance Space, SCA Contemporary and 516 Arts, Albuquerque. Her work has been reviewed in Art New England and by Peter Plagens in Newsweek online.

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Mira Burack: from the bed to the mountain, opening May 2 at CUE!

#Mira Burack #CUEart #art

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Registration is now open for Summer School 2015!

As an extension of the ARTworks middle school program, we launched Summer School in July 2014. This free, intensive program provides 7th and 8th grade students from across New York City the opportunity to practice observational drawing and painting techniques, and prepare artwork for their portfolios, which are required for admission to specialized arts high schools. Weekly visits to art galleries and museums serve as inspiration for the students, while they develop their craft.

July 6th -17th 2015, Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm Location: CUE Art Foundation, 137 West 25th Street, NYC

This program is provided free of charge and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The class fills quickly so you are advised to apply early once registration has begun.

To apply, please send an email with parent and student names, school, grade, and contact phone number to Shona Masarin-Hurst, Programs Manager: [email protected]. Please write “Summer Program Registration” in the subject line; or call [phone].

#CUEart #NYC #Art

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Kalup Linzy “Art.Jobs.Lullabies” opens this Thursday, April 2nd from 6-8PM at 263 Bowery. #kaluplinzy #artjobslullabies http://ift.tt/1Dmok41

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Ken Gonzales-Day - Resistance, 2014

I visited the locations of the shootings in both Ferguson and Los Angeles—I felt visiting the sites was an important thing to do. For me, it was related to my earlier photographic project, Searching for California Hang Trees, in which I sought to visit and sometimes photograph historic lynching sites across California. Visiting the locations of these shootings was a very different experience, particularly because of the spontaneous memorials that have sprung up at the sites and the often personal mementos that are left behind. Ken Gonzales-Day

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