The Morgan Lehman Gallery, Sara Jimenez Fevered Tropics November 17 - December 23 Reception for the Artist: November 17, 6-8pm

Sara Jimenez Fevered Tropics November 17 - December 23 Reception for the Artist: November 17, 6-8pm Sara Jimenez: Fevered Tropics, 2022 (installation view) Morgan Lehman is pleased to present “Fevered Tropics,” an exhibition of recent mixed-media works by Sara Jimenez. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Jimenez investigates the nature of transcultural relationships and memory through installation, collage, sculpture, and performance. As a Filipinx-Canadian artist, Jimenez is especially interested in ideas of origins and home, loss and absence, from which she creates visual metaphors that allude to mythical environments and reimagined artifacts. The artworks on display use as their source material imagery from early 20th Century American colonial text books written about the Philippines. The main piece in the exhibition, “Tainted Siege” (2017), is part of a series of hanging paper sculptures made from painted and collaged inkjet prints from these texts. In “Tainted Siege,” the black and white sections are sourced from the colonial photos while the bright red sections are painted and collaged contemporary tourist postcards of the islands. The form of “Tainted Siege” was inspired by tropical canopies, overgrown vines, Spanish moss, and theatrical stage props of “the tropics.” In making this series, the color of the sculptures shifted from greens to bright reds. Jimenez was imagining a color that signaled poison and caution, which came from her line of questioning, ‘What would the color of the landscape be if the trauma of the past were visible?’ This led her to envision these vibrant collaged hanging pieces as radioactive, powerful, entities with agency. She imagined these entities as absorbing and regenerating all written and unwritten histories, as opposed to being passive backdrops of recorded events. The collages are made from the material scraps that accumulate from Jimenez’s process of making the sculptures. These collages often employ a lattice structure or porous patterned boundary on the surface.  In other instances, they take the form of fantastical and disorienting fragments of landscapes, such as in “Fevered Tropics” (2020) and “Roots Burrow” (2021). In regards to their chromatic sensibility, the works refer to the exaggerated, overly saturated sunset trope of travel postcards of ‘foreign places,’ and use hues that are seductive while also signaling danger.   "Fevered Tropics" had the honor of curatorial consultation from writer and curator Re’al Christian.    Sara Jimenez received her BA from the University of Toronto (2008) and her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design (2013). Exhibitions include El Museo del Barrio, BRIC Gallery, Cornell University, Miriam Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and Smack Mellon. Jimenez has performed at The Dedalus Foundation, The Glasshouse, and Dixon Place, among others. Artist residencies include Brooklyn Art Space, Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace, Vermont Studio Center, the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Yaddo, BRICworkspace, Art Omi, Project for Empty Space, LMCC’s Workspace, and Bemis (upcoming). Jimenez is the recipient of the Cecily Brown Fellowship. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Selected awards and grants include NYFA’s Canadian Women's Artist Award, Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create Grant, and BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize. www.morganlehmangallery.com | 212-268-6699 | Tues - Sat 11-6  ‌  ‌  ‌

Morgan Lehman Gallery | 526 West 26th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001

Getty Images and BAFTA announce new Official House Photography Partnership

LONDON , Nov. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, today announced that it has been newly appointed as Official House Photography Partner by BAFTA, the world-leading arts charity for the film, games and television industries.

The multi-year global agreement will see Getty Images’ award-winning entertainment photographers and editors delivering exclusive high-quality content from BAFTA’s full programme, encompassing some of the biggest and most high-profile events in the UK and international cultural calendar.

Highlights include the EE BAFTA Film Awards, BAFTA Television Awards and BAFTA Games Awards as well as its year-round programme of master-classes, festivals and events with emerging and established talent to celebrate creative excellence and inspire the next generation.

As the Official House Photographer Partner, Getty Images will shoot exclusive positions such as roaming red carpet, to behind the curtain including the winners’ conferences.

Getty Images’ extensive event expertise will ensure that images from the red carpet hit customers’ feeds in record time, often landing exclusively on Gettyimages.com around the world in as little as 30 seconds.

In addition to capturing the glamour of upcoming events, Getty Images will also exclusively represent and license all BAFTA still photography, to include its extensive archives, portraiture and all newly co-created photography from future BAFTA events. Getty Images has long been the go-to for quality image licensing, and this agreement will ensure that the BAFTA Archive content is more accessible than ever.

Claire Rees, Director of Photography at BAFTA, said: “When looking for an in-house photography partner, Getty Images really impressed with their ability to deliver unmatched capabilities to seamlessly cover and distribute content from our events to a global audience. Getty Images has become synonymous with quality event coverage, and their expertise in the representation and distribution of content made them the ideal photography partner for BAFTA.”

“Achieving a BAFTA represents the very pinnacle of creative excellence in the British film, games and television industries,” commented Ken Mainardis, Senior Vice President of Content, Getty Images. “To partner with such a world-leading arts charity is a great honour, and we look forward to collaborating with BAFTA to bring our experience in capturing such globally beloved events to the BAFTA red carpet and beyond. Adding iconic imagery from BAFTA’s extensive and unique archive to our offering will once again extend our unrivalled ability to service the visual needs of our customers.”

For over 25 years, Getty Images’ team of content creators have worked tirelessly to create award‑winning imagery and video that allows customers to set themselves apart from their competition, while including a diverse set of experiences and perspectives throughout the content creation process. In addition to the partnership with BAFTA, Getty Images content creators are at every major entertainment event globally, from awards ceremonies to fashion weeks to film festivals, covering almost 70,000 entertainment events a year and partnering with major brands on creative content strategy.

About BAFTA:
BAFTA – the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film, games and television to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally. Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of learning events and initiatives – which includes workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes in the UK, USA and Asia – BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, inspires and nurtures new talent, and enables learning and creative collaboration. For more, visit www.bafta.org. BAFTA is a registered charity (no. 216726).

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Catch the Bronx Museum this season!!!

November 19, 2022  2pm-4pm Join us for a talk and book launch! Artist Abigail DeVille; Thelma Golden,Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem; Jane Ursula Harris, writer, curator, and art historian; and Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator, Madison Square Park Conservancy will be in conversation about DeVille’s work, the history of the artist’s practice, and the contexts in which DeVille’s work has developed over the last decade. Moderated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Director of Curatorial Programs at The Bronx Museum, this discussion is in conjunction with the catalogue launch of the artist’s survey Bronx Heavenswith essays by Jeng Lynch and Jadele McPherson, artist-scholar. A book signing will follow. RSVP  On View Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens On view through April 9, 2023 Spanning over a decade of work, Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens examines the myths and realities of local, familial and ancestral histories and the convoluted notion of freedom. This survey features DeVille’s rarely exhibited earlier works as well as new large-scale immersive installations and sculptures that transform the galleries into a cosmic space—taking us on a journey from the ancient past to an imagined future. The Bronx has served as a sanctuary for immigrant and migrant communities, including for the artist and several generations of her family who have lived in the area and were part of the Great Migration. DeVille’s work unearths forgotten narratives of communities of color and explores issues of identity, culture, and class. Learn More  Swagger and Tenderness: The South Bronx Portraits of John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres On view through April 30, 2023 Inspired and enabled by the people who live in the vibrant community where The Bronx Museum is located, local artists John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres have become world-famous for their portraits of their South Bronx neighbors. While museum-goers elsewhere have celebrated these renowned sculptures honoring Bronxites for four decades, this is the first time a large group of these artworks are exhibited together at home for the very people represented therein. Featuring over 60 portraits alongside archival materials from 1979 to the present, this major survey exhibition mirrors the creative and loving residents of the South Bronx whose personal stories and innovative aesthetics both reflect and shape culture internationally. Learn More  50th Anniversary Our Stories, Our Voices is a year-long series of exhibitions and public programs celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Bronx Museum. To mark this milestone we are celebrating the cultural wealth of our communities and bringing to light the stories, voices, and visions of artists seeking a more just and equitable world. Thank you to our generous supporters without whom our 50th Anniversary programming would not be possible. Anonymous; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Anne Delaney; Agnes Gund; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust; Sciame Construction, LLC; May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.; and the Bronx Museum’s Board of Trustees. Images: Portrait of Abigail DeVille, 2021, photo by John Edmonds. Thelma Golden, photo by Julie Skarratt. Brooke Kamin Rapaport, photo by Ellen Dubin. Jane Ursula Harris. Eileen Jeng Lynch, photo by Kevin Li. Installation view of "Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens," photo by Argenis Apolinario. John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, "Maria Greeting her Mother," 1987, oil on cast fiberglass. Courtesy of the artists. ©2022 Bronx Museum of the Arts | 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St | Bronx NY | 10456  #thebronxmuseum#fienartmagazine#fineartfn

Hayground School annual Local Artisan Fair holiday fair, Homegrown for the Holidays, Dec. 10, 2022, 10AM-3PM!

HOMEGROWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS:  LOCAL ARTISAN FAIR at HAYGROUND SCHOOL in BRIDGEHAMPTON   SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 2022, 10am-3pm HAYGROUND SCHOOL, 151 Mitchell Lane, BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY Hayground School is thrilled to welcome back our annual holiday fair, Homegrown for the Holidays, featuring over 30 local artisans and vendors who will be selling their locally-made products at Hayground School in Bridgehampton on Saturday, December 10 2022, from 10am to 3pm. This community event celebrates the small businesses, artists, designers and food purveyors who make the East End a unique center of creativity and innovation. Raffles, prizes, and cookies and cocoa from the student-operated Hayground School Kitchen will be on offer. Homegrown for the Holidays 2022 local participants include Illyrian Olive Oil Company, South Fork Bakery, Southampton Soap Company, and 8knots Shelter Island, to name a few. Proceeds from the event directly support the participating local vendors.   Homegrown for the Holidays also offers the community an opportunity to experience the magic of Hayground School. Founded in 1996 by local families, the Shinnecock Indian Nation, and progressive educators, Hayground School offers children ages 3 through 14 a hands-on education based on student-led inquiry, mentorship, and authentic endeavors in the arts, sciences and humanities. Hayground School’s 13 acre campus in Bridgehampton, NY, includes a multi-use classroom building, a culinary arts center, athletic fields, playscapes, edible gardens and free-roaming chickens.   Hayground School looks forward to welcoming all to Homegrown for the Holidays to kick off the holiday season and support the local community.    Instagram: @homegrownfortheholidays , @hayground_school Facebook: @HaygroundSchoolHomegrownForTheHolidays  #haygroundschool#fieartmagazine#fienartholiday

Kostabi Brothers Art Show in Manhattan Nov. 14, photos for Fine Art Magazine by Kevin Frest

 

A bautiful must see exhibition! Gianfranco Meggiato “The Breath of Form” 22 October - 4 December 2022

Gianfranco Meggiato “The Breath of Form” 22 October - 4 December 2022 A huge exhibition involving 14 monumental works set up in the centre of Pisa - one of which is located in Piazza Duomo facing the Leaning Tower as well as a personal exhibition of 11 sculptures in the Mediaeval Church of Santa Maria della Spina. Yet what exactly prompted me to stage this vast exhibition here in Pisa? Pisa and the Leaning Tower are renowned all over the world and can be seen as a universal symbol of resilience. This Tower, with its apparent instability, seems to be an ideal metaphor of the human condition, with the burden of its fragility, in a physical and spiritual sense alike, the malaise of living, our inconsistencies, our doubts, our limits and our pains. A continuous tendency towards transience and failure, yet despite the albeit inevitable heaviness of living, a perseverance to resist, stay upright, not to collapse. We are beings with an inevitably transient body, yet we are reluctant to accept in the depths of our consciousness the concept that everything comes to an end. In this context, in this dual reality, the only time we can possibly live in is the present which, nevertheless, itself flows and will never come back. In such a particular historical moment as our own times, Mankind, albeit “dangling dangerously”, must find the strength to continue living. Indeed, the very difficulties we are going through may even prompt us to think more deeply and help us grow. The exhibition outlines a path where questions are asked, without necessarily obtaining answers, questions that encourage us to reflect, to look inside ourselves. But why was “Respiro della Forma - The Breath of Form” chosen as the title of the exhibition? When creating my sculptures, I do not proceed in a rational and pre-ordained way using drawings or sketches. On the contrary, my approach is instinctive and impulsive, as if to detach the rational part. I work directly with wax without preparatory drawings. Inasmuch, I define myself as an ultimate terminal of an Energy which, passing through my hands, gives life to a co-creation with the artist. In my works, the void is just as important as the solid and even more so, since the important things in life are precisely intangible, the essential is invisible to our eyes – just like feelings, faith and dreams - you cannot see ideals or touch them physically, you can only experience them. This is how form, enhanced by its movement in space, in also including the void, almost seems to breathe and bring the sculpture to life. In the ultimate analysis, perhaps, the only thing that remains is beauty, the breath of a shape turning in space, daring to go beyond the finite, dancing in the dark, in spite of everything, as if always feeling to be only at the beginning compared to what is to be done, to continue making art and telling stories regardless... leaving everyone to find their own personal answers... Gianfranco Meggiato The exhibition, curated by Riccardo Ferrucci and Alessandro Romanini, promoted by Pisa City Council, with the patronage of the Tuscany Region, The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and The Scuola Normale Superiore. Is organised by the C.R.A. cultural association (Centro Collezione Arte), in collaboration with Casa D'Arte San Lorenzo. SEE THE VIDEO SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THE EXHIBITION #gianfrancoart#fineartmagazine#sculpturefineartfun