Stephanie DeManuelle Retrospective at Urban Studio, Yonkers NY

View this email in your browser Please join me at the Opening Reception for my Retrospective Saturday, March 18th 6-8pm Urban Studio Unbound/Warburton Galerie 16 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10701 Metro North train from Grand Central to Yonkers (26 minutes) walk one block up the hill from the station to the gallery Driving - Warburton Parking Garage at 45 Warburton Ave or street parking with meter until 8pm Shell Game XI, 65” x 42”, Oil on Canvas, 2003 *Header Images Riverbank #1, 42” x 30”, Oil Stick & Charcoal on Paper, 2021 (left) Riverbank #6, 42” x 30”, Oil Stick & Charcoal on Paper, 2021(right) Go to www.urbanstudiounbound.org/gallery-hours to plan your visit. Copyright © 2023 Stephanie DeManuelle Artist, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

The Minil Foundation Collection: The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hoops,

The Menil Collection Opens The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps March 24

 

Exhibition features recent and promised gifts that spotlight the Houston museum’s history of deep relationships with artists, highlighting the career of the Menil’s Founding Director Walter Hopps

 

Thursday, March 23, 10–11:30 a.m.: Press preview with Clare Elliott, Associate Research Curator, Rebecca Rabinow, Director, and special artist guests

 

 

HOUSTON—March 8, 2023—The Menil Collection is pleased to announce the opening of The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps on March 24, 2023. The exhibition features some 130 artworks by seventy artists, many of which are recent or promised gifts to the museum from Caroline Huber and the Estate of Walter Hopps. The show will explore the influential curatorial vision of the Menil Collection’s Founding Director Walter Hopps (1932–2005) and his appreciation for art from the 1930s to the early 2000s. The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps will be on view at the Menil from March 24–August 13, 2023 and coincides with the publication of Artists We’ve Known: Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection, which highlights works by fifty artists with whom the couple was close.

 

Artists Larry Bell, George Herms, and Ed Ruscha will participate in an Artist Talk at the Menil on Friday, March 24, 6–7 p.m. The conversation will explore the artists’ pivotal role in the 1960s Los Angeles art scene and their engagement with Hopps during these years. The following month on Thursday, April 13, 7–8 p.m., artist Robert Longo will visit to speak about his large-scale work Master Jazz, 1982-83, on view in the exhibition.

 

Once dubbed “the marvelous mad maven of modern art in America,” Hopps estimated that he had curated some 250 exhibitions in his fifty-plus year-long career. He started out in Los Angeles where, in 1952, he organized his first shows while still in college and a few years later opened the Ferus Gallery with artist Edward Kienholz. He was appointed director of the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena) in 1964 and went on to serve as the director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and as the curator of modern art at the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), both in Washington, D.C. Hopps met John de Menil while curating an exhibition on Jasper Johns for the Pasadena Art Museum in the late 1960s and met Dominique de Menil in 1971 at an opening for a Barnett Newman exhibition in New York City. In 1980, she invited Hopps to direct the museum she and John had built at Rice University and to join the board of the Menil Foundation. The following year, Hopps was appointed Founding Director of the Menil Collection, a museum that opened to public in 1987.

 

Rebecca Rabinow, Director, The Menil Collection, said, “The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps and the Menil Collection’s new publication Artists We’ve Known celebrate a promised gift of more than 500 works to the museum from Menil Foundation trustee Caroline Huber and the Estate of Walter Hopps. While Director of the Menil, Hopps worked with Dominique de Menil to curate landmark exhibitions of artists Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Kienholz, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol. She deeply valued his ‘infallible eye’ and ‘understanding of current trends.’ Two years after the museum opened, Hopps relinquished his directorial role so that he could return to his true love: working with artists and curating exhibitions.”

 

Clare Elliott, Associate Research Curator, The Menil Collection, said, “This exhibition explores the achievements of one of the most talented and influential curators of the 20th century. The wide scope of Hopps’s interests and his embrace of artworks across forms and styles are demonstrated in the range of movements and media on display. On view are artists like Jay DeFeo, Sam Gilliam, and William Eggleston, as well as figures who remain underrecognized today like Gretchen Bender, Louis Faurer, and Carroll Sockwell.”

 

The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps opens with a room dedicated to artwork showcased in the early years of the Los Angeles-based Ferus Gallery, a gathering spot for young Californian artists like Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Jay DeFeo. Ferus also brought artists active in New York, such as Jasper Johns and Barnett Newman, to the West Coast and was the first gallery to show Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can paintings. While still active at Ferus, Hopps began curating exhibitions at the Pasadena Art Museum, including New Paintings of Common Objects, the first museum survey of Pop Art in 1962, and the first museum exhibition of Frank Stella in 1966.

 

The exhibition celebrates Hopps’s lifelong interest in photography, which was reignited when he met William Christenberry, who in turn introduced him to two foundational figures in American photography, William Eggleston and Walker Evans. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Hopps drew attention to emerging artists such as Gretchen Bender, Robert Longo, and Haim Steinbach. Subsequent sections of the show highlight the retrospectives Hopps organized at the Pasadena Art Museum focused on three pioneering figures of Dada and Surrealism: Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and Kurt Schwitters. It concludes with a selection of work by Robert Rauschenberg, a friend for nearly fifty years.

 

The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps is organized by Clare Elliott, Associate Research Curator.

 

A related publication, Artists We’ve Known: Selected Works from the Walter Hopps and Caroline Huber Collection, highlights fifty works from the couple’s personal collection that have been gifted to the Menil, many of which will be on view in this exhibition. The book is available for purchase at the Menil Collection Bookstore and online atmenil.org/bookstore. 

 

About the Menil Collection

Philanthropists and art patrons John and Dominique de Menil established the Menil Foundation in 1954 to cultivate greater public understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, culture, religion, and philosophy. In 1987, the Menil Collection’s main museum building opened to the public. Today, the Menil Collection consists of a group of five art buildings and green spaces located within a residential neighborhood in central Houston. The Menil remains committed to its founders’ belief that art is essential to human experience and fosters direct personal encounters with works of art. The museum welcomes all visitors free of charge to its buildings and surrounding green spaces.menil.org

 

Funding

Major funding for this exhibition is provided by Lea Weingarten. Additional support comes from Henrietta Alexander; Eddie and Chinhui Allen; Anne Levy Charitable Trust; Suzanne Deal Booth; Clare Casademont and Michael Metz; Angela and William Cannady; Hilda Curran; Barbara Davis; Janet and Paul Hobby; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; Linda and George Kelly; Mary Hale Lovett McLean; Susan and Francois de Menil; Betty Moody; Carol and David Neuberger; Leslie and Shannon Sasser; Mark Wawro and Melanie Gray; Leslie Field and Morris Weiner; Nina and Michael Zilkha; and the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

 

The Artist Talk series is generously supported by the Cockrell Family Fund.

 

Image Caption

Jerry McMillan, Walter Hopps, Jerry McMillan Wants to See You, 1965. Photograph, 16 × 19 1/4 in. (40.6 × 48.9 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps. © Jerry McMillan. Courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery

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South Hamptons E-news letter for March.

March is here and in honor National Women's History Month, we are excited to celebrate the many local women artists in our current exhibition, East End Collected7. To learn more about their work and what inspires them, please join us for our upcoming programming of panels, films, and studio workshops. We are also excited to partner with AIA Peconic for a screening and panel, of Gray Matters which explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.  Please tour our virtual 3D gallery HERE where you can learn more about the art and artists of East End Collected7. Here's what’s on for this week as SAC! Studio: Figure Drawing Workshop Friday March 10 @ 1 PM Working from a live model, artist Linda Capello will guide students through the basics of figure drawing using a variety of mediums. Talk: Curator Tour  Friday March 10 @ 3PM East End Collected7 curator Paton Miller will offer a tour of his own studio in Southampton.    LEARN MORE + REGISTER In celebration of Women's History Month, join us March 23rd @ 6PM for a screening of the documentary Gray Matters about architect and designer Eileen Gray, followed by a brief panel discussion featuring local architects. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications.  But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling. Reflection panel led by AIA Peconic President Lori K. Beppu, AIA who will be joined by AIA architect members Pamela J. Glazer, AIA and Viola G. Rouhani, AIA. Co-presented by Southampton Arts Center and AIA Peconic, a chapter of The American Institute of Architects. Proudly sponsored by Pella. Licensed architects are eligible for two learning units for attending this program. Join Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Jazz Fest on March 25, as we present Will Bernard Quartet for an evening of jazz! The concert will begin at 7 PM. Guitarist Will Bernard, a Berkeley, CA native and Brooklyn NY transplant studied guitar and piano from an early age with Dave Creamer, Art Lande and Julian White later developing an interest in classical music composition. He received a degree in music from UC Berkeley where he studied with Andrew Imbrie and others. He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble, who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made three albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book. LEARN MORE + REGISTER Janet Culbertson (b. 1932) grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She loved nature, canoed through the Allegheny Mountains, and raised baby owls and released them into the wild. Janet Culbertson has been a using art as activism for years. Common themes in her work include global warming, extreme weather, overpopulation, and the diminishment of the earth. Her work is fueled by the constant news barrage of both natural and/or contrived disasters of the day. When possible she takes trips to experience first-hand the sustaining power of nature amidst the evidence of humanity's destructive impact.  I feel that art, whether beautiful or provocative, can be a force for creating a greater ecological awareness of our threatened world.  Her first exhibition was called Elegy to Nature, an eco series inspired by tankers wiping out coastal life and oil companies dumping oil waste into the sea. Soon after completing Elegy to Nature, she took a course at The Foundation for Mind Research which introduced her to Joseph Campbell's monomyth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1948). Culbertson in response, created a Mythmaker suite of drawings (1973-76) that chart the course of a woman's struggle to follow her own path through a maze of seemingly insurmountable hurdles presented by male-dominated society. During the seventies she had four one-woman shows in New York City at the Lerner Heller Gallery; received a C.A.P.S. New York State drawing award and exhibited in a number of group and museum shows; proposed and worked on the HERESIES Ecology Issue #13 along with a group of other concerned women. In 1987, Culbertson began a series of billboard paintings contrasting the beauty of nature with our destruction of it. She searched for beautiful sites as well as the ubiquitous polluted areas–to paint, to photograph and to absorb. She was invited to have solo shows at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, the University of Nebraska, the University of Bridgeport, Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA., (her home town), The Museo de Los Ninos in Costa Rica, The Accola-Griefen Gallery, NYC and more recently, a forty-year retrospective, "Paradise Gone" at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. Janet's work can be viewed in our current exhibition East End Collected7.  DISCOVER THE EXHIBITION Looking for more at SAC?

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Hi all, What's in your Backyard? Let me know!

Hi All, Happy Worm Full Moon at 7:40 Am EST. Wishing you awareness of the beauty, and healing in your  environment. Below images captured of the beauty surrounding me on 3/6/20 : Seals on a Sandbar, Cupsogue Beach,  Westhampton Beach 12:40 PM,  The Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek, Jupiter and Venus in Aries, my BackYard, and The  Full Moon Against a Darkened Sky. All images ©Jamie Forbes/SunStormArtsPub.Co.Inc. 

 Enjoy your day!

Seals on a Sandbar, Cupsogue Beach,  Westhampton Beach

                                       3/6/2023

The  Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek

Jupiter and Venus in Aries, my BackYard,

I, The Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek

II, The Worm Full Moon Rising over the Senix Creek

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Emilie Louise Gossiaux, presented by Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY) at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022, has been awarded the inaugural Pébéo Production Prize.

Emilie Louise Gossiaux and her Guide Dog, London. Courtesy of the artist and Mother Gallery. Emilie Louise Gossiaux, presented by Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY) at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022, has been awarded the inaugural Pébéo Production Prize.  The Pébéo Production Prize is a hybrid cash and in-kind materials award to an artist working towards an exhibition at an institution or non-profit organization in 2023/24. This year's prize will support multidisciplinary artist Emilie Louise Gossiauxtowards her first major solo exhibition at a large American institution, The Queens Museum, in the Fall of this year. Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989 New Orleans, LA and based in NYC) received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2014, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2019. Since losing her vision due to a traffic accident in 2010, Gossiaux’s altered experiences have influenced her practice's trajectory — drawing on inspiration from dreams, memories, and non-visual sensory perceptions. Gossiaux connects to landscape and body without sight. As such, her drawings and ceramics pertain deeply to bodily autonomy, exploring themes such as love, intimacy, and the interdependent relationships between humans and non-human species. Much of her work is inspired by the interspecies bond she has with her Guide Dog, London, and celebrates disability pride. Simultaneously, she disrupts the Anthropocene understanding of agency and the hierarchic ordering between humans and animals. Gossiaux's recent solo shows include Significant Otherness at Mother Gallery (New York, NY); Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY); and After Image at False Flag Gallery (New York, NY). Her participation in group shows, both domestic and internationally, include the Wellcome Collection (London, UK, 2022); 1969 Gallery (New York, NY 2022); The Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT, 2022); Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL 2022); MoMA PS 1 (New York, NY 2021); Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany, 2021); The Krannert Art Museum (Champagne, IL, 2021); The Shed (New York, NY, 2021); SculptureCenter (New York, NY, 2020); and The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, NY, 2018). This Exhibitor Prize is furnished by Pébéo — A benchmark in the field of graphic art, the Pébéo family business has specialized in creating colors for many years. Striking the balance between innovation and an educational approach, the company promotes development and creativity through the practice of art. Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Peanut Butter Licking (2022). Courtesy of the artist and Mother Gallery. Congratulations to all the winners of our 2022 Exhibitor Prizes, and thanks to our Premier Prize Partners— 21c Museum Hotels, CCA Andratx, Colección Solo, Pébéo, Vortic, and The Last Resort Artist Residency. For more information please visit our website.  #untitledart#mothergallerybeacon#fineartmagazine#fineartfun