Read about Mohaiemen and the Creative Time Summit here.
30-Year-Old Folk Art Project Remains a Constant in a Changing Detroit | Curbed
The Heidelberg Project offers a different experience every visit. On a blindingly blue and gold fall day, the trees lining Heidelberg street carry heavy canopy, the leaves brown and gold and green and yellow.
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Detroit artist Tyree Guyton to represent U.S. in China exhibit | Crain's Detroit Business
Detroit artist Tyree Guyton and three others will represent the United States at China’s Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism this month.
Guyton, creator of Detroit’s famed Heidelberg Project and other found-object art installations, will contribute to an international discussion on how architecture and design act as catalysts for change and how they can make a place better for work and play.
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PIONEERING ARTIST TYREE GUYTON TO REPRESENT U.S. AT CHINA'S SHENZHEN BIENNALE | BLACKBIRD
An innovative platform for international exchange, the 2015 Biennale features a select group of 12 artists, architects and designers from around the world in an exhibition entitled “Re-Living the City.” Guyton, renowned for transforming his impoverished Detroit neighborhood into a two-block-long art installation, the Heidelberg Project, was chosen as one of just four U.S. participants. He was awarded funding to collaborate on a site-specific collage that addresses the role of architecture in existing, human-made environments.
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Naeem Mohaiemen contributes to e-flux exhibition
Read about the exhibition, Corruption: Everybody Knows… here.
Brash Stephens at ArtNxT, Tyree Guyton at U-Mich | The Detroit News
Decay and the impact of time, of course, have always figured in the work of Heidelberg Project founder Tyree Guyton, who has a show of new work at Gallery/DAAS, run by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Jerry Truong solo exhibition at Northwestern University
Jerry Truong’s “School Works” exhibition examines the political implications of the American educational system through large-scale blackboard-like paintings and sculptures that utilize objects typically found in a grade school classroom.
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Rachel Reese Named Associate Curator at Savannah’s Telfair Museums | BURNAWAY
Rachel Reese has been hired as the new associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Telfair Museums in Savannah. She has been communications manager at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center since 2013; her last day at the Contemporary is October 24.
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Open Call: 2016 Public Programming Fellow
OPEN CALL FOR 2016 PUBLIC PROGRAMMING FELLOW
CUE is currently seeking applications for the 2016 Public Programming Fellowship. The fellow will work with CUE staff to shape and realize a series of educational events produced in conjunction with CUE’s professional development program, Meeting Artists’ Needs.
In 2014 and 2015, our inaugural Public Programming Fellow, Cevan Castle presented if it’s not work, it must be PLAY: Discussions on the state of work in the arts. The successful candidate will continue this work of activating conversations, actions, and ideas that highlight artists as entrepreneurs, essential to our country’s culture and economy.
The fellow will curate and produce a series of (5) events and workshops to take place at CUE between August and December 2016. The selected fellow will receive an honorarium of $2,500, and a budget of $1,700 to divide amongst the participating program speakers. Applications from collaborative teams are allowed.
To apply for the program, please submit the following to shona@cueartfoundation.org with the subject line Public Programming Fellow-NAME by February 15, 2016:
+ Proposal (1-2 pages) outlining concept, breakdown of events, and proposed guest speakers.
+ CV and narrative bio
Announcing CUE's 2016 exhibition lineup + Open Call winners
CUE is pleased to announce the launch of a hybrid artist selection process featuring solo exhibitions curated by established artists, alongside a series of solo and group exhibitions selected by an annual Open Call. We are excited to announce CUE's 2016 exhibition lineup below!
NOMINATED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
+ Marilyn Lerner
Curated by Deborah Kass
+ Kambui Olujimi
Curated by Hank Willis Thomas
CUE's 2015 Open Call winners were unanimously selected by a jury comprised of Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art; Renaud Proch, Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI); and Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
SOLO EXHIBITION OPEN CALL
+ Tamara Johnson
+ Erin Dunn
+ Christina P. Day
CURATORIAL PROJECT OPEN CALL
+ Radical Plastic, curated by Rachel Reese
Radical Plastic features women artists who employ formal aesthetic languages to address more human contexts such as the body, gender, and domesticity, as well as certain domestic constructs—in particular the still life.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Becca Albee, Carolyn Carr, Catherine Czacki, Rachel Debuque, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Michelle Grabner, Mia Goyette, Ria Roberts, and Carolyn Salas.
In line with CUE’s commitment to providing substantive professional development opportunities, curators and panelists also serve as mentors to the exhibiting artists, providing support throughout the process of developing the exhibition. CUE’s exhibition program aims to present new and exceptionally strong work by under-recognized and emerging artists based in the United States, and is committed to exhibiting work of all media, genres, and styles from artists of all ages.
2016 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
February 13 – March 23, 2016
TAMARA JOHNSON
Curator-Mentor, Renaud Proch
Solo Exhibition Open Call
IMAGE Backyard Pool (2014)
April 7 – May 12, 2016
KAMBUI OLUJIMI
Curator-Mentor, Hank Willis Thomas
IMAGE In Your Absence the Skies Are All the Same (2014)
June 4 – July 9, 2016
ERIN DUNN
Curator-Mentor, Rujeko Hockley
Solo Exhibition Open Call
IMAGE Oceanic Dancer (work in progress)
July 16 – August 20, 2016
RADICAL PLASTIC
Curated by RACHEL REESE
Curatorial Project Open Call
IMAGE Rachel Debuque, Cacti-Smash (2013)
September 8 – October 15, 2016
MARILYN LERNER
Curator-Mentor, Deborah Kass
IMAGE Circled (2014)
October 29 – December 10, 2016
CHRISTINA P. DAY
Curator-Mentor, Cecilia Alemani
Solo Exhibition Open Call
IMAGE Travellers (2014)
Meet our 2015 Gala and Benefit Auction honorees!
Gregory Amenoff
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He is a founding board member of the CUE Art Foundation and served as the CUE Art Foundation's Curator Governor from 2002 to 2015. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for twenty years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts and was Chair of the Visual Arts Division from 2007-2013.
In 2011 he received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is one of the most acclaimed American Indian artists of today. Smith has had over 110 solo exhibitions and offered more than 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, and 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.
Robert Storr
Artist, critic, and curator. Mr. Storr received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1972 and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He was curator and then senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1990 to 2002, where he organized thematic exhibitions such as Dislocations and Modern Art Despite Modernism as well as monographic shows on Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, Max Beckmann, Tony Smith, and Robert Ryman. In addition, he coordinated the Projects series from 1990 to 2000, mounting exhibitions with Art Spiegelman, Ann Hamilton, and Franz West, among others. In 2002 he was named the first Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Mr. Storr has also taught at the CUNY graduate center and the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies as well as the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, New York Studio School, and Harvard University, and has been a frequent lecturer in this country and abroad. He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and writes frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), Frieze (London), and Corriere della Serra (Milan). He has also written numerous catalogs, articles, and books, including Philip Guston (Abbeville, 1986), Chuck Close (with Lisa Lyons, Rizzoli, 1987), and the forthcoming Intimate Geometries: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois.
Among his many honors he has received a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant, and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maine College of Art, as well as awards from the American Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, a special AICA award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Art Criticism, an ICI Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. In 2000 the French Ministry of Culture presented him with the medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and subsequently awarded him the status of Officier in the same order. From 2005 to 2007 he was Visual Arts Director of the Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. Mr. Storr was appointed Professor of Painting/Printmaking and Dean of the School of Art in 2006 and was named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean in 2014.
Josh Dorman mentioned in the New York Times
Read the article, "Anna Clyne, a Composer Who Creates With Images," here.
Josh Dorman in group show at Koplin del Rio
Read about Koplin Del Rio's group exhibition, Hypnagogia, here.
Dennis Congdon solo show at Zieher Smith & Horton
Dennis Congdon's solo show, Congeries, is on view at Zeiher Smith & Horton September 10-October 10, 2015.
Read about it here.
Josh Dorman at John Martin Gallery
Josh Dorman recently had a solo show at London gallery John Martin.
Read about it here.
Kate Manheim solo show at White Columns
Congrats to Kate Manheim on her recent solo show at White Columns.
Read about it here.
Robert Seydel solo show at Queens Museum
Robert Seydel's solo show at Queens Museum, The Eye in Matter, is on view July 19-September 27, 2015.
Read more here.
Stephen Andrews reviewed by artnet
artnet reviews a survey of Stephen Andrews's work on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Read here.
Sonya Blesofsky included in group show at ArtHelix
Former CUE artist-in-residence Sonya Blesofsky was included in group show Somewhere Between, at ArtHelix in conjunction with Bushwick Open Studios.
Read more here.
Oakes Twins Drawing Center residency reviewed by Observer
Observer reviews the Oakes Twins residency at The Drawing Center.
Read here.