Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2017

Fall Open Studios 2017

Opening Reception: Friday, November 10, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, November 11, 1–8pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art presented by the 36 artists and curators from 22 countries currently in residence. Twice a year only, ISCP offers the public access to the inner sanctum of artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and share one-on-one conversations. In these current times, spaces for open discourse are more important than ever—we invite the public to engage in dialogue about contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe. Concentrated in a three-story loft building on the edge of Bushwick, ISCP has supported the creative advancement of residents for over twenty years, with a robust program of private individual workspaces and professional benefits.

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary will also be on view during Open Studios. Concrete Truth considers vital questions around fact and image-making. The exhibition presents recent lens-based works positioned at the boundary of art and the documentary. It takes stock of documentary art work produced in the last few years, highlighting the various ways artists represent political and social realities in an age of global disinformation. Artists in the exhibition include Edgardo Aragón, Eric Baudelaire, Paolo Cirio, Maryam Jafri, belit sağ, and Krista Belle Stewart. The exhibition is curated by Kari Conte.

Artworks for the 2017 ISCP Benefit Auction will be available for viewing in the Project Space.

Open Studios participating artists and curators: Knut Åsdam (Norway), Elaine Byrne (United States/Ireland), Naomi Campbell (United States/Japan), Paolo Cirio (United States/Italy), Lourdes Correa-Carlo (United States), Alexis Dahan (United States/France), Cem Dinlenmiş (Turkey), Constant Dullaart (The Netherlands), Deborah Edmeades (Canada), Christian Falsnaes (Denmark), Carolina Falkholt (Sweden), Søren Thilo Funder (Denmark), Doreen Garner (United States), Camilo Godoy (United States/Colombia), Jude Griebel (United States/Canada), André Hemer (New Zealand/Germany), Mark Hilton (United States), Jess Johnson (Australia/New Zealand), Marte Danielsen Jølbo (Norway), Eli Kerr (Canada), Maria Lalou (Greece/The Netherlands), Antonia Low (Germany/United Kingdom), Lucy McKenna (Ireland), Elisabeth Molin (Denmark), Anna Nykyri (Finland), Mathias Pöschl (Austria), Liutauras Psibilskis (United States), Pia Rönicke (Denmark), Katharina Schilling (Germany), Lisa Seebach (Germany), Fuyuka Shindo (Japan), Anne de Vries (The Netherlands), Anu Vahtra (Estonia), Raul Valverde (United States/Spain), Entang Wiharso (United States/Indonesia), and Shuhei Yamada (Japan).

Temporary tattoos designed by residents Cem Dinlenmiş and Jess Johnson will be provided free by Tattly, and a limited edition by Cary Leibowitz will be available for purchase.

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors: ACC – Asian Cultural Council; Aisho Miura Arts; Alfred Kordelin Foundation; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst; Australia Council for the Arts; The Beckett Foundation; BKA – Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Kunst und Kultur / Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria; Canada Council for the Arts; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; Creative New Zealand; Danish Arts Foundation; Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; The Fulbright Foundation in Greece; Hasselblad Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; James Wallace Arts Trust; The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Knud Højgaards Fond; Mondriaan Fonds; National Endowment for the Arts; The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Yoko Ono; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.; Rubicon Gallery; Danna and Ed Ruscha; SAHA Association; Senate Department for Culture and Europe; Toby Devan Lewis Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland; and Alice and Lawrence Weiner.

This program is supported, in part, by Arrogant Swine; Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Consulate General of Finland in New York; Consulate General of Sweden in New York; Google; Greenwich Collection, Ltd.; Lagunitas Brewing Company; Materials for the Arts; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; and Tattly.

ISCP thanks the members of the Director’s Circle for their generous support: Anne Altchek, Janet Brief Ezersky, Karyn Issa Greenwald Ginsberg, Ellen Rachlin, Lori Reinsberg, Tracey Riese, Laurie Sprayregen, and Teri Volpert.

Opening Reception: Nov 10, 2017, 6–9pm

Open Hours: 1–8pm

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Pia Rönicke, The times, 2017-ongoing, 16mm HD digital file

Shuhei Yamada, studio installation from ISCP Fall 2017 Open Studios. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Andre Hemer, studio installation from ISCP Fall 2017 Open Studios. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Antonia Low, studio installation from ISCP Fall 2017 Open Studios. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Elisabeth Molin, studio installation from ISCP Fall 2017 Open Studios. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Entang Wiharso, studio installation from ISCP Fall 2017 Open Studios. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

Event
November 3–November 20, 2017

2017 ISCP Benefit Auction

Bidding opens Friday, November 3, 3pm
Bidding closes Monday, November 20, 8:45pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program announces the 2017 ISCP Benefit Auction and a new limited edition by Joseph Kosuth. Conducted exclusively through Artsy, the auction offers a range of affordable contemporary art works by established and mid-career artists, including ISCP alumni. Thirty-three international contemporary artists are joining ISCP’s mission by donating all auction proceeds. The funds raised will support the program, and pay to bring artists and curators from areas of the world that do not have significant cultural infrastructural funding.

Click here to browse the Benefit Auction powered by Artsy. Bid now to support international contemporary art and the community of artists and curators fostered by ISCP.

Featured in the ISCP benefit auction is a new edition by Joseph Kosuth made of paint on cast aluminum, a Paul Laffoley collage with his energetic combination of visual and theoretical references, a deftly executed Walter Robinson painting of pulp fiction novel imagery, and a Polly Apfelbaum monoprint made from cut dogwood branches. Other works include a David Reed color study, in which he inscribes his approaches to color, light, composition, and brushstrokes, and a glass sculpture by Miya Ando, capturing a cloud at 1/2640th of its actual scale, amongst many others. An experience lot, a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is provided by Karen E. Jones, art history professor and independent curator.

Participating artists include:

Miya Ando, Polly Apfelbaum, Hector Arce-Espasas*, Kim Beck*, Michel de Broin*, Xiaowei Chen*, Peggy Cyphers*, Sylvia Eckermann*, Dennis Lloyd Elliott, Raque Ford*, Dylan Gauthier*, Celia Gerard, Terike Haapoja*, Curran Hatleberg, R. Jameson, Wanda Koop*, Paul Laffoley, Ronnie Landfield, Firoz Mahmud*, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani*, Jenny Perlin*, David Reed, Walter Robinson, Todd Schroeder, Travis Somerville*, Raphael Soyer, karen elaine spencer*, Susan Weil, James Welling, Mia Westerlund Roosen*, and Martha Wilson.

*ISCP Alumni

The 2017 ISCP Benefit Committee: Yng-Ru Chen (Chair), Patricia L. Brundage, Celia Gerard, Cristina Gómez, Karen E. Jones, Karen Karp, Cary Leibowitz, Susan McCaffrey, Sara Raza, Lena Saltos, Kevin Schwartz, Masako Shiba, Herb Tam, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

View the works in person during Fall Open Studios on Friday November, 10, 6-9pm and Saturday, November 11, 1-8pm, and by appointment.

Limited editions made exclusively for ISCP, ‘Comparing—compiling—classifying—contradicting,’ 2017, by Joseph Kosuth, and Self-esteem 5 cents, 2016, by Cary Leibowitz, are available for purchase here.

Generous donations to the auction have been made by the artists as well as Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Arjomari LLC; Betty Cuningham Gallery; Cross Contemporary Art; David Zwirner, New York; Dennis Lloyd Elliott; ELLEPHANT; Exhibit320; Higher Pictures; Kent Fine Art; Laney Contemporary Fine Art; Maus Contemporary; Ota Fine Arts; Peter Blum Gallery; P.P.O.W. Gallery; Arlene Richman; RYAN LEE Gallery; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Sears-Peyton Gallery; Simon Preston Gallery; and Sundaram Tagore Gallery.

ISCP is extremely grateful to City Winery, Christie’s, Lisa Conte, Shake Shack, and Jennifer Wright for their support of the auction.

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Walter Robinson, Nightmare House, 2016, acrylic on paper, 9 × 12 in. (22.86 × 30.48 cm)

Polly Apfelbaum, Dogwood, 2012, woodblock monoprint, 12 × 12 in. (30.48 × 30.48 cm)

Terike Haapoja, 20151018_the fall, (from the 'Gravitation' series), 2017, photograph printed on paper, 23¹³/₁₆ × 19⁵/₈ in. (60.45 × 49.78 cm)

James Welling, 0549, 2016, inkjet print, 23⁵/₁₆ × 15¹/₂ in. (59.18 × 39.37 cm). Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York / London

Miya Ando, Kumo (Cloud) 3.3.1, 2017, glass, 3 × 3 × 3 in. (7.62 × 7.62 × 7.62 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

Exhibition
October 24, 2017–February 16, 2018

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary considers vital questions around fact and image-making. The exhibition presents recent lens-based works positioned at the boundary of art and the documentary.

During the last two decades, visual artists have revitalized documentary practices, facilitated by digital technologies and modes of circulation. Documentary approaches help us bear witness to both individual and collective realities, often using found footage, biographical narratives, textual documents, and historical reenactments. The artists in Concrete Truth respond to times of crisis by interweaving documentary practices, aesthetics, and ethics. Several artists in the exhibition employ documentary formats as a strategy to construct counter-narratives, in works that deal with a range of concerns including the histories of Indigenous peoples, the role of media in political conflict, internet ethics, the abuse of governmental power, and archives and copyright issues.

Artists in the exhibition include Edgardo Aragón, Eric Baudelaire, Paolo Cirio, Maryam Jafri, belit sağ, and Krista Belle Stewart.

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary takes stock of documentary art work produced in the last few years, highlighting the various ways artists represent political and social realities in an age of global disinformation. Among the works on view is a video by Krista Belle Stewart that combines 1960s documentary footage of the artist’s mother at the beginning of her career as British Columbia’s first Aboriginal public health nurse with her mother’s recent testimonies of the trauma she endured as a child in an Indian Residential School. Paolo Cirio’s installation and algorithm obfuscates the 15 million mugshots made public on internet databases for corporate profit. Photographs of the independence ceremonies of African nations are the subject of Maryam Jafri’s work, specifically the ways these images have been illegally copyrighted by stock agencies and digitally “colonized.” Using landscape as a sign of the political climate, Eric Baudelaire traces the story of a young man from his troubled home in the Parisian suburbs to Syria, where he joins ISIS. Edgardo Aragón’s critical cartography and video of everyday conditions in Cachimbo, Mexico, demonstrates the crippling effects of foreign power. The amnesia of both public and personal memory—framed by a bombardment of contentious media images in Turkish politics—shapes belit sağ’s activist artwork.

Daily screening times of Eric Baudelaire’s work Also Known As Jihadi: 12pm, 2pm and 4pm

Tuesday, December 12, 2017: Paolo Cirio and Julia Powles will discuss Cirio’s work Obscurity and data protection.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018: belit sağ, Tomáš Rafa and Siddhartha Mitter will present work and discuss Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary.

This exhibition is curated by Kari Conte, Director of Programs and Exhibitions.

This program is supported, in part, by Greenwich Collection, Ltd., National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Opening Reception: Oct 24, 2017, 6–8pm

Open Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12–6pm

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Paolo Cirio

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Edgardo Aragón

Edgardo Aragón, Mesoamerica. The Hurricane Effect, 2015, HD video, color, and sound, 16:20 min. Courtesy of the artist

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary

Maryam Jafri, Detail of 'Getty vs. Ghana,' 2012, eight black and white prints and four framed texts, 14.37 x 9.68 in. (right) and 13.29 x 9.72 in. (left). Courtesy the artist