Solo exhibition on view June 14 - July 31 at Mitchell Algus Gallery.
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Stephen Andrews featured on Canada’s The Globe and Mail
Toronto artist Stephen Andrews has been working with paint for 15 years, but has good reason for not calling himself a painter.
Read MoreCecelia Condit featured on Detroit Metro Times
Drop everything if you've never seen this work of video art from 1983 by Cecelia Condit. Possibly in Michigan is twelve minutes long, and wow, it's really something.
Read MoreKen Gonzales-Day solo show reviewed in the LA Times
Ken Gonzales-Day's work is instructive but far from didactic. It's a history lesson taught through the framing of holes in the record and by collapsing the space between different times and places. It disturbs in direct proportion to its importance, and it does disturb.
Read MoreMiguel Luciano mentioned on BLOUIN ARTINFO
On an East Harlem sidewalk in the early 1960s, a 15-year-old encounters a globetrotting Magnum photographer. He hands the young man his camera. The young man becomes a photographer.
Read MoreSteven Andrews’s solo show reviewed on Inside Toronto
As a kid, local artist Stephen Andrews knew having your work displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) was the seal of approval he thought all established artists should have.
Read MoreSteven Andrews’s solo show reviewed in Canada’s National Post
On the floor, in a corner at the meeting of two otherwise blank walls, conspicuously trying to not draw attention to itself, is a little chunk of Stephen Andrews’ pottery.
Read MoreCarmen Papalia featured on BBC News
Blind artist Carmen Papalia didn't like using a white cane to get around, so he swapped it - for a marching band.
Read MoreKen Gonzales-Day mention in the Daily Breeze
If the images on display in the Torrance Art Museum’s latest photography exhibit cause people to gaze with curiosity or take a second look, that’s OK.
Read MoreJames Cobb featured on San Anotonio Express News
James Cobb thought he would quietly slip in and out of Sala Diaz. As it turns out,“Tooky Jelly,” a solo exhibit of digital works on metal by Cobb currently at the Southtown gallery, has generated considerable buzz, particularly for what the artist describes as “such a little, tiny show.”
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Artforum reviews Ernst Fischer: 18%
Artforum's Lara Attalah reviews Ernst Fischer's "18%" exhibition now being held at CUE.
"While Hito Steyerl defends the poor image, Ernst Fischer explores the other end of the spectrum, namely, what happens when you overwhelm a photograph with information?..."
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CUE's "If It's Not Work It Must Be Play." Featured in The Huffington Post!
"A shot of reality is being offered at the under Cue Foundation under the leadership of Cevan Castle, a public programming fellow who has organized a six-part series of talks entitled, "If it's Not work It Must Be Play." "
Read MoreCUE Art Foundation Announces New Executive Director
The Board of Directors of CUE Art Foundation is pleased to announce that Dena Muller has been appointed as Executive Director. Muller will build on the ten year old organization's record of high quality exhibitions and other services to artists of all ages, while strengthening the organization's roots and developing new programming in response to a rapidly-shifting environment. Muller is an accomplished executive who has facilitated growth through mission-based initiatives for nonprofit arts organizations for more than fifteen years. She brings extensive experience in increasing organizational resources through the development of new programs, audiences and revenue platforms. Founding board member, artist Gregory Amenoff says, "The Board of Directors and staff look forward to working with Dena. Her leadership will be vital to developing a new strategic plan for the next phase of CUE's life." Interim Director Beatrice Wolert-Weese will continue in her capacity as Associate Director to assist Muller in leading CUE.
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Painters' Table interviews Alfredo Gisholt
"Unabashed in his embrace of the history of painting, Gisholt paints timeless, poetic worlds where the everyday and the grand tradition of painting merge."
Brett Baker interviews Alfredo Gisholt for Painters' Table.
Heidelberg Project Director to speak at Creative Time Summit
Jenenne Whitfield, Director of the Heidelberg Project, will speak at the Making a Place panel at the Creative Time Summit. The panel will address place-making, a term which has swept grant- making organizations as well as city governments hoping to use the arts to make cities more “vibrant.” What are productive models to consider when thinking about the making of place through culture? What are its limitations?
ArtLab interviews Carmen Papalia
ArtLab, a blog focused on the intersection of art and science, featured an interview with Carmen Papalia, as a part of the Conversations with Artists series.
Manhattan Sideways features CUE!
Manhattan Sideways explores the treasures of the side streets and documents each and every place.
"From all of the galleries that we have explored through Manhattan Sideways, we have gathered that making it as a visual artist in NYC is no small feat. No matter how you define success, it is incredibly difficult to gain the exposure, capital, and community necessary to survive in this city and continue to create without the right connections. Enter CUE Art Foundation, a visual arts center dedicated to building the careers and resources of emerging young artists. CUE offers exhibitions, housing, and educational programs for aspiring creative professionals; in turn, they have gallery shows and educational programs for the public. CUE has worked with painters, sculptors, high school students, and writers alike for over a decade now. Overall, CUE Art Foundation provides many vital and necessary, though scarcely available, services to underrepresented artist communities and the public."
Upcoming artist Margaret Cogswell lectures at New York Studio School
Margaret Cogswell is a New York-based, mixed-media installation artist. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009; NYFA grants 2007, 1993; and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, 1987, 1991.
Read MoreCultural Weekly features The Heidelberg Project
On the east side of Detroit, about two miles from downtown, you’ll find some of the roughest and most down trodden neighborhoods in the city – those most often referenced in the national media as the worst of the worst. Fair? Perhaps, but we’ll leave that question in the hands of others.
Read MoreHyperallergic reviews Goddess Clap Back
WHAT IS HIP HOP FEMINISM?
by Jillian Steinhower
Short answer: it’s awesome. And it’s currently on view at Cue Art Foundation.
Curated by Katie Cercone, the exhibition Goddess Clap Back: Hip-Hop Feminism in Art brings together various artists who, in their work, subvert the tropes of mainstream hip-hop: the unabashed consumerism and celebrity worship, the heteronormativity, the machismo bordering on misogyny. This is hip-hop, queered. The ideas and visuals given form by these artists are not only refreshing — they’re necessary.
That all may sound heady or self-serious or depressing, but some of the best work in the show — including pieces by Kalup Linzy and Rashaad Newsome — has a light touch. One of my favorite finds in this vein was Michelle Marie Charles, who makes videos that would probably be as at home on a website like College Humor (if the humor were more diverse) as they are in a gallery. The two I saw — “Explicit and Deleted” (2012) and “Naturally Nandie” (2013) — are both spoofs, the former of your average hip-hop song and video, the latter of hair tutorial videos.
I’ll admit, a spoof of a hip-hop video filled with women dancing around doesn’t sound all that new; yet given that we live in a day and age when these things are considered acceptable — clever and funny, even! — let’s not underestimate our need for such work. Plus, the greatness of “Explicit and Deleted” (above) isn’t only in the video: it’s in the combination of images and words. Here’s the first line of the chorus: “Girl, I love you so / for all your emotional attributes such as your titties.” Add to that the fact that nearly everyone in the video is cross-dressing; Charles’s crazed face as the leading man surrounded by boobs and booties; the interjection of a 25-second incisive social commentary; and the purposefully low production values, and it all adds up to a pitch-perfect satire.
“Naturally Nandie” is similarly successful, though I suspect fewer people will be familiar with its original subject matter. Charles plays a woman offering a tutorial on how style your hair in an up-do, but about halfway through, things get weird: she starts talking about “interactive” hairstyles and placing war action figures on her head. “I’m gonna add this guy who looks a little bit like Jesus — he looks a little bit like what Jesus would look like if he had weapons,” she says comfortably. Is she improvising or working from a carefully written script? Either way, Naturally Nandie soldiers on unfazed.
Goddess Clap Back: Hip-Hop Feminism in Art continues through August 10 at Cue Art Foundation (137 West 25th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan).