“You are Cordially Invited”: The Art and Influence of Robert Blanchon
Tuesday January 26, 2010
6:30 - 8:30 PM
A Panel Discussion in conjunction with
You Make Me Feel [Mighty] Real: The Work of Robert Blanchon
with
Sasha Archibald, independent writer and curator
Mary Ellen Carroll, artist and manager of the Robert Blanchon Estate
Laura Parnes, artist and Momenta Art founder
Nelson Santos, artist and Visual AIDS Associate Director
Ginger Brooks Takahashi, artist
moderated by Amy Sadao
RSVP: 212 992-9018 or [email protected]
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Third Floor
70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
The Fales Collection at New York University in collaboration with Visual AIDS present
an event discussing Robert Blanchon as a conceptual artist whose work expands and reiterates many of the themes of 1990s art. Through brief presentations and “interviews” with panelists we will explore Blanchon’s connection to artists as well as emerging trends in contemporary art. Throughout his career, from parodies of the art world to AIDS agit-prop to cerebral, minimalist photography, Blanchon gleaned from art history in order to make his own crucial intervention, and taught his students to do the same.
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About Our Panelists:Sasha Archibald was the director of the Robert Blanchon project from 2003 - 2005. She has worked as an editor at the art magazines Cabinet and Modern Painters, and worked closely with the artist Fred Wilson on a collection of his writings; she is also the co-editor of a book of doodles by US Presidents and the curator of several exhibitions, most notably "Air Kissing: Contemporary Art about the Art World." She has an interdisciplinary humanities MA degree from NYU, as well as a degree in Museum Studies, and was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2005.
Ginger Brooks Takahashi (b. 1977) lives in Brooklyn, NY, maintaining a social, project-based practice. She is co-founder of LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. She received her BA from Oberlin College, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, and was a resident artist at Smack Mellon, 2008-9. Selected exhibitions & Public Programs: Shared Women at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007; Exile of the Imaginary at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2007; and Locally Localized Gravity at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2007. She has presented public projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2008; documenta 12, Kassel, 2007; Art Metropole, Toronto, 2007; and with Ridykeulous at The Kitchen, NY, 2007.
Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist living and working in Houston, Texas and New York City. She is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Pollack/Krasner Award. She was awarded a fellowship from the Pennies from Heaven Fund, for her contribution to New York City as a visual artist for work that is advanced, experimental, and socially visionary. Carroll teaches architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and in fall 2010 will realize in that city the project prototype 180, an aggregate land art piece in which she will invert an acre of land and the domestic structure that is on it. It will make architecture perform as a conceptual work of art. Her work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the ICA, London; Museum fur Volkerkunde, Munich; the ICA, Philadelphia; MOMUK, Vienna; and the Renaissance Society, Chicago. It also resides in numerous public and private collections. Carroll’s long awaited monograph to be published by Steidl/Mack this spring and resembles a work of conceptual art and its organization reflects Carroll’s method of working, with subject categories (Mistakes, Boredom, Lies, Resemblance, Pleasure, Temporality, Affect, and so on) providing a system by which her art may be organized. Carroll is also the executor of the Robert Blanchon Estate.
Laura Parnes is an artist whose work engages strategies of narrative film and video art to blur the lines between storytelling conventions and experimentation. Laura Parnes has screened and exhibited her work widely in the US and internationally, including Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY; Turin GLBT Film Festival, Turin, Italy; Schroeder Romero, NY; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; Cinematexas, Austin, TX; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; John Connelly Presents, NY; Vtape, Toronto; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA Affiliate, NY; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; and Brooklyn Museum, NY. Her solo exhibitions include Alma Enterprises, London; Locust Projects, Miami; Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA; Participant Inc, NY; Deitch Projects, NY; and in a two-person screening at The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Parnes has been awarded residencies including the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at the Montalvo Arts Center; the Wexner Center; Cuts and Burns Residency at The Outpost; and Harvestworks. Her work has received the support of the Experimental Television Center and the New York State Council on the Arts. Parnes has held teaching positions at New York University, The New School, and Bennington College. She is a co-founder of Momenta Art, an alternative space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Nelson Santos is an artist and arts worker living and working in New York City. He holds a BA in Photography and a BS in Graphic Design from San Jose University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a graduate of the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program. His work has been exhibited widely including: Art in General, Zola Leiberman, The Bronx Museum, Bodybuilders & Sportsman, Longwood Gallery, Envoy Gallery, Schroeder Romero/Winkleman Project Space, Monya Rowe Gallery, Chashama Gallery, and Arts in Odd Places. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, and C International Contemporary Art Magazine. Santos has been an instructor at institutions including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Indiana University Northwest, and DePaul University. From 2005-2009 he was a contributing writer for The Journal of Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. For his work as an art AIDS activist he was knighted by The Imperial Court of New York in 2008. Santos has also worked as the Associate Director of Visual AIDS since 2000 producing countless critically-acclaimed exhibitions, events, and artists editions effecting change in the fight against AIDS, and specifically, guiding the Robert Blanchon Estate Project from 2002-2009.
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