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EXHIBITIONS

Extra Taste at INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS
2.10–4.21.2024

Textures of Feminist Perseverance at The James Gallery
Thu, Feb 15, 2024 – Fri, Jun 7, 2024

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A light without shadow (virtual exhibition), Artist Alliance Inc.

Represented by Ulterior Gallery

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ART BREAK AT THE GETTY - APRIL 2021

Click here to watch a recording of the talk.

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LIKE DRIVING AT NIGHT: A PROCESS-BASED, LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH TO TEACHING ARTISTIC RESEARCH ACROSS DISCIPLINES
- written by Dylan Gauthier and Jen Mazza, from DeGruyter's Teaching Artistic Research

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A do-si-do double chapbook for the end of the world! A Week in Late Capitalism / Ancient Capitalistic Proverbs balances gravity and levity as pushback against the dehumanizing day-to-day realities of a world governed by commercial exchange. Featuring paintings by Jen Mazza. (from Blush)

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Andre Gregory Artist Alliance Books Borges Cats Collage Courbet Della Bella Digital Drawing Eric's brain Etruscan Mirrors Exhibitions Film fragment Francis Bacon Gullar Jessica Laser Lispector Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Malevich materiality Matisse painting Paintings Paulus van Liender Perec Pierre Menard Poetry Press Proust Reviews and Writings Robert Duncan Studio The Finch The Getty The Knockdown Center Thoughts Tibor de Nagy Travel Venice Virtual Walter Benjamin Watson Library Yale Center for British Art

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Russian croissants and coffee on the beach. My fir

Russian croissants and coffee on the beach. My first time here all summer! 3 more weeks no studio, maybe I should spend more time at the beach? 🤔⛱️🐚

The very strange and mysterious Ker-Xavier Roussel

The very strange and mysterious Ker-Xavier Roussel. Last day! Thanks to @margaretvmurray at Michael Werner Gallery

Dry run of my new morning commute to the new Pratt

Dry run of my new morning commute to the new Pratt grad studios in Brooklyn Navy Yard. Definitely good on the smell of sea air and the dramatic weather.

Damson jam day 🐝

Damson jam day 🐝

Week 3 without the studio, but went to visit the n

Week 3 without the studio, but went to visit the neighborhood just to reconnect with Essex market as I was missing all my market people and the tasty coffee. The news is 3 more weeks out unfortunately 😬

Closed up studio today for a construction mandated

Closed up studio today for a construction mandated building closing. Hopefully only 3 weeks! If I owe you some quality time, reach out, otherwise kitty and I will be sharing margaritas and listening to Joni Mitchell

Summer greens and blues

Summer greens and blues

Ah, it’s that magical light again. #manhattanhen

Ah, it’s that magical light again. #manhattanhenge

I am thrilled to announce that what started off as

I am thrilled to announce that what started off as great conversation and became a great collaboration is now going to the next level! Save the date for my upcoming show in January.

I’m really looking forward to working with @ulteriorgallery and the fabulous @tt_mega and excited to be showing alongside so many artists I have come to admire! 🍾🥂✨💫

(And I even love the crazy elevator that opens to the street!)

Repost from @ulteriorgallery • Happy last day of

Repost from @ulteriorgallery
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Happy last day of Pride Month! 🌈✨

Jen Mazza, the artist new to Ulterior Gallery, will be having her first solo exhibition n January 2025. January symbolizes a new beginning, and we are excited to welcome Mazza to the gallery and to present her new paintings in new year.

This image is an example of one of Mazza’s earlier paintings, titled “Red Letter #7” (2007). Mazza painted this series when she created figurative images as her main subject—focusing on bodies and small objects. She explains, “The materiality of the figurative painting crosses over directly into my current practice, and the verb ‘queering’ is one I respond to in terms of ‘queering the pitch,’ trying to embody something in terms of otherness.” This depiction of fingers holding open a page in a book has had emotional resonance for many.

More coming up in 2025!

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Jen Mazza “Red Letter #7” 2007
Oil on linen, 6 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches (16.8 x 22.2 cm)

@jen_mazza #jenmazza #redletter #painting #painter #newvoice #hand #book #figurative #figuration #pride #pridemonth #queering

RIP Françoise Hardy 💔 #francoisehardy #franço

RIP Françoise Hardy 💔
#francoisehardy #françoisehardy

With so much going wrong it is so exciting when th

With so much going wrong it is so exciting when things go right. I want to celebrate the fact that my favorite people (and one non-person)had the best day yesterday!

One of the lovely things about teaching what I do at Parsons is getting to know my amazing teaching partners, which I can count as my dearest friends.

I am so happy for you @ericdeanwilson !!!
Congratulations to you and to the dashing and stylish Jacob @gayfortherapy on your marriage yesterday! 🥂🍕

And congratulations to my brother Chris and my fabulous sister in law @bonnie_irene on their new house and the completed move out of their apartment. And to their lovely kids Weston and Ruby, who will have their own private rooms for the first time! 🏡🍾🎉

And last but not least, congratulations to my talented friend Jessica and her loyal sidekick Ruthie on closing on their new home in LA. @sirthomasw I am looking forward to sitting up here with you sometime soon! 🐶☀️

Repost from @jamesgallerygc “I am nature,” sa

Repost from @jamesgallerygc

“I am nature,” said Jackson Pollock.

But no, that is not quite right, actually we have it from Lee Krasner, who relates the following to interviewer Dorothy Seckler:

“When I brought Hofmann up to meet Pollock and see his work, Hofmann's reaction was – one of the questions he asked Jackson was, do you work from nature? There were no still lifes around or models around and Jackson’s answer was, “I am nature.” […] Well, with the knowledge that I am nature and try to make something happen on that canvas, now this is [my] real transition that took place.”

I’ve been thinking about how to paint, even just how to see nature without engaging in forms of mastery. I am thinking about ways to acknowledge that landscape painting is and always has been merely an extension of history painting. And yet, as was Krasner at the moment recounted above, I am thinking about myself as the bearer of both nature and culture.

The Waves: There is a dedication page at the beginning of the first modern Atlas by Abraham Ortelius. It is written in Latin. Using the original characters from this page and following the awkward line breaks of the Ortelius original I typeset certain transitional passages from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.

Portent: Paintings of a certain size are pretenders to the heroic. Resisting either masking my hand or engaging in AbEx “gestural fireworks” (as my former professor Lauren Ewing called them), I am more interested in close attention, labor and materiality.
@ulteriorgallery

The exhibition is on view at the James Gallery through June 7, 2024

Artists: @sonyablesofsky @lynkeeart @ani.liu.studio @tinyscissors @sarah_ahmad_art @meemeebye @dina_weiss @artelliemurphy @nataliegmoore @ashleyminnerart @deborahmesapelly @jen_mazza @fay.ku @rheak @martinekstudio @saraegj @laaang

Organizers: @aai_nyc @jwaynberg
@dina_weiss @thegraduatecenter
@jamesgallerygc

Photo credits: Brad Farwell

This show is such a pleasure! One more day to see

This show is such a pleasure! One more day to see Michelle Grabner and B. Wurtz - closes Friday @laurelgitlen
And don’t miss work by New School grad Sam Linguist on the 6th floor!
@bwurtz4 @michelleagrabner @samlinguist

Last day! Fantastic show curated by @moyradavey wi

Last day! Fantastic show curated by @moyradavey with works by Alix Cleo Roubaud, Justine Kurland, Shala Miller, Francesca Woodman, Carla Williams and photos and video by Davey. I’m excited to read the newly translated Alix Cleo Roubaud: a portrait in fragments, having only encountered her journal some years ago and been left wondering and wanting to know and see more. #alixcleoroubaud

Campus buildings at the New School are closed and

Campus buildings at the New School are closed and students have been arrested this morning. This is the scene that would have greeted arriving police officers. Were these students actually blocking dorm access? Kerrey Hall has multiple entrances. Were they indeed blocking the dorm or is this simply the university responding to students not moving their occupation to a location both out of the way and out of sight? I regret not having seen for myself.
#thenewschool #parsonsproud ???

Update: So it seems as if students made human chains last night to temporarily block access. Knowing the level of stress and precarity my freshman are experiencing right now, I feel this was not a good choice. But now students are blocked from accessing buildings and the cafeteria by the administration itself, which is not merely an inconvenience. And 40 plus sleepy students, some of them still in their PJ’s are arrested. They were told they if they left they could avoid arrest, none were permitted to leave.

Students can make good and bad choices, all of us can, what educators do is educate. No police needed.

#Frieze plus #julesdebalincourt #CeliaPaul #Leon

#Frieze plus
#julesdebalincourt
#CeliaPaul
#LeonKossoff
#RichardArtschwager
#alexkatz
#AnselmKiefer
and…at #nada
@jule_korneffel

A little more wisteria 🌿

A little more wisteria 🌿

So many great shows right now! #robertmoskowitz @p

So many great shows right now! #robertmoskowitz @peterfreemaninc
@tortora_studio @ulteriorgallery
Paul P and Martin Wong @ppow.gallery (last day)
And Mary Carlson @kerry_schuss_gallery (last day)

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Exhibitions

A light without Shadow, Artist Alliance Inc. (virtual exhibition)

Represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery

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Writings

Senzaporta at Printed Matter

The Finch (currently offline)

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