BROOKLYN FIRE PROOF 101 Richardson Street Brooklyn NY 11211
www.brooklynfireproof.com (718) 302-4702 katy@brooklynfireproof.com
Brooklyn Fire Proof and Ad Hoc Vox are pleased to invite you to
Double X Art, a round table discussion that will take place at the
gallery on July 18th at 7:00pm.
For Double X Art, Ad Hoc Vox has brought together a select group of
artists, curators, dealers, critics, and guests from related
disciplines to address the under-representation of women's artistic
practices. From WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at MOCA, to the
Global Feminisms show at the Brooklyn Museum, to June's Feminist Art
issue of Art in America , the spotlight is on feminist works. Seeking
diverse points of view and with no agenda other than to initiate
dialogue, Ad Hoc Vox would like to take advantage of this spotlight to
facilitate an in-depth conversation about the representation of women
in the arts. The discussion's participants are Phong Bui, Colby
Chamberlain, Dana Frankfort, Maureen Gallace, Elizabeth Huey, Paddy
Johnson, Deborah Kass, Wendy Olsoff, Danica Phelps, Katy Siegel, Lisa
Sigal, and Becky Smith. Colleen Asper will moderate the discussion,
which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Organized by Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley, Ad Hoc Vox is an
ongoing series of discussions and lectures without a fixed location
that addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary art.
www.adhocvox.com.
Phong Bui is an artist, writer, and curatorial advisor at P.S.1. His
numerous installations over the last two years have won him the Award
in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Eric
Isenbeurger Annual Prize for Installation from the National Academy
Museum. He is also Editor and Publisher of the monthly journal The
Brooklyn Rail, which offers critical perspectives on arts, politics,
and culture in NYC and beyond, as well as The Brooklyn Rail/ Blck
Square Editions, a publishing venture that focuses on experimental
poetry, fiction, prose meditation, artists' writings, interviews with
artists, and art criticism.
Colby Chamberlain is managing editor at Cabinet magazine and formerly
organized the public programs at P.S.1.
Dana Frankfort has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles (Kantor Feuer,
2006), Houston (Inman Gallery, 2007), and Brooklyn (Brooklyn Fire
Proof, 2005). Her first solo exhibition in Chelsea opens at Bellwether
on September 6th, 2007. This summer Frankfort's work will be included
in group-exhibitions at Zach Feuer Gallery, John Connelly Presents,
and Kantor/Feuer Gallery, with work featured in The Saatchi Gallery's
Abstract America in 2008. Frankfort graduated with an MFA from Yale
University, was a Core Fellow at The Glassell School of Art in
Houston, TX, and received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2006.
Maureen Gallace received her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the
University of Hartford in Connecticut and her MFA from Rutgers
University. She has had solo exhibitions around the world, including
shows at the Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Douglas
Hyde Museum, Dublin; Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui-shi, Japan; 303
Gallery, New York; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Michael Kohn Gallery, Los
Angeles; Maureen Paley Gallery, London; Gallery Side 2, Tokyo;
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice; and Johnen and Schottle, Cologne. A
catalog of her work with an introduction by Rick Moody was published
in 2005 by the Douglas Hyde Museum.
Paddy Johnson is the editor of Art Fag City, a popular art blog
focusing on emerging artists in New York. Her writing has been
featured in the New York Observer, FlashArt, artkrush, Art &
Australia, Flavorpill, NYFA Current, Fanzine and more, and she has
been linked to by publications such as The New York Times,
Boing-Boing, The Huffington Post, Gawker, artkrush, the Design
Observer, Make Magazine, and we-make-money-not-art.
Elizabeth Huey holds a B.A. in psychology from George Washington
University and studied painting at both the New York Studio School and
The Marchutz School before receiving her M.F.A. from Yale University
in 2002. Recent work features figures nestled within complex
landscapes intertwining institutional architecture with rambling
gardens and has focused on the intersection of trauma, insanity, and
spirituality; rife with sexual tension.
Deborah Kass is having a one-person show at Paul Kasmin Gallery in
September 2007. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern
Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, The
Jewish Museum, The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The Cincinnati Museum,
among others, as well as numerous public and private collections. She
is a Senior Critic in the Yale University M.F.A. Painting Program.
Wendy Olsoff is the co-founder with Penny Pilkington of PPOW Gallery,
which opened in the East Village in 1983. The gallery has had the
pleasure of working with such artists as Sue Coe, Nancy Spero, Carolee
Schneemann, Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Heffernan, David Wojnarowicz and
Dinh Q. Le among many others. PPOW, since its inception, remains true
to showing individual artists with an emphasis on figurative painting
and sculpture, and work with political and social content. Photography
has also always been a part of the gallery program.
Danica Phelps has lived and worked in NYC for 10 years where she has
made work about her everyday life. Often, this focused on her finances
while she draws everything she spends money on and uses the data to
create abstract color paintings and charts. Her drawings on the other
hand, are explorations of line, distortion, transparency, and temporal
shifts.
Katy Siegel received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College
and earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at
Austin. She is an Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism at
Hunter College, CUNY, and Contributing Editor for Artforum. Her wide
repertoire of publications include High Times, Hard Times:New York
Painting 1967 - 1975, Tillim: Art After Ideology, and Art Works: Money
(co-authored with Paul Mattick).
Lisa Sigal is having her third solo show in the fall of 2007 at
Frederieke Taylor Gallery in NYC. Her large-scale paintings play off
architecture, an interplay between the literal and the illusion.
Becky Smith is the owner and Director of Bellwether. In 1999,
Bellwether began as an artist run project founded by four artists in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn. In 2000, Smith became the sole owner of the
gallery and has remained the driving force and vision behind the
gallery ever since. Bellwether transitioned from Brooklyn in 2005 and
has been enjoying being a part of the vibrant community of galleries
specializing in contemporary art in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.
Bellwether has participated in The Armory Show since 2000 and the NADA
Fair since NADA began in 2001. Smith serves as an advisor to NADA and
has been a juror of the fair since NADA's inception.
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