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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Participating Residents

Paolo Cirio
belit sağ
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
Eric Baudelaire, Also Known as Jihadi, 2017, HD video, color, 5.1 surround, 99 min. Courtesy of Eric Baudelaire and LUX, London
Krista Belle Stewart, Seraphine, Seraphine, 2015, digital video and sound, 38:57 min. Courtesy of the artist

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

Related Events & Exhibitions

belit sağ, Tomáš Rafa and Siddhartha Mitter on Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary

January 23, 2018, 6:30–8pm
ISCP Talk

Ethics, Documentary, and the Internet: Paolo Cirio in conversation with Julia Powles

December 12, 2017, 6:30–8pm
ISCP Talk

Offsite Project
October 12, 2017–January 24, 2018

Cheon pyo Lee: Alibi of Autonomy

The International Studio & Curatorial Program announces ISCP Ground Floor alumnus Cheon pyo Lee’s residency and ongoing project, Alibi of Autonomy at El Museo de Los Sures.

The artist will organize a variety of activities in the space and continue his studio practice with weekly open hours. Over the course of three months, these activities will include a screening of videos on the subject of second languages in collaboration with Video Snack; an exhibition of design products intended to enhance childhood development; a collective mapping session with the Queens College MFA program, Social Practice Queens; and a food related program with the School for Poetic Computation. Lee’s residency will close with the premiere screening of videos​ and ​sculptures from his multi-year project, Alibi of Autonomy. Lee initiated this project in collaboration with writers Razmig Bedirian and Amir Ahmadi Arian, developing a book of short stories involving his collection of receipts from artist residencies in Basel and Swansea and considering topics of immigration and forms of invisible oppression. These stories serve​d​ as material for the Alibi of Autonomy​ ​video works and wearable sculptures that Lee produce​d​ during his residency.

Cheon pyo Lee (born 1980, South Korea) has a multidisciplinary practice that involves the creation of films and installations, and organizing curatorial projects with the curatorial collective, AGWF. AGWF’s projects address a variety of themes, and are stylistically marked with absurdity, play, and experimentation. Lee completed his undergraduate studies at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and his MFA at Yale University.

The events mentioned above will be announced periodically on this event page:

  • November 18 – December 2, 2017: Memories of Future Landscapes with works by Setare S. Arashloo, Shahrzad Changalvaee, Olivia Divecchia, Tara Homasi, Eunwoo Nam, Constanza Alarcón Tennen and Erin Turner. The Opening Reception is on Saturday, November 18, 6–8pm.
  • Saturday October 14, 5–8pm: Opening Reception of Impossible Child, a collection of child wares by Arthur Brum, Erik Gonzalez, and Diego Leclery. Impossible Child fosters autonomy in early childhood, promotes physical and spiritual risk-taking for young bodies and minds, and arms those in the earliest stages of development. On view through October 28, 2017.
  • November 11, 2017, 5:30pm and 7pm: VIDEO SNACK 6: Video as a Second Language, Lee hosts an evening featuring found and original videos, each under two minutes in length, on the theme “second language.” Short video works by twenty-six artists will be presented. Video Snack, the informal, thematic video screening series, is curated by Lauren Francescone and Zeynab Izadyar.
  • January 11, 2018, 6:30-8pm: Project closing of Alibi of Autonomy and readings by Razmig Bedirian and Amir Ahmadi Arian at 7pm.

This residency is coordinated by Juliana Cope, Director of Development and Programs Manager.

El Museo de Los Sures was founded by Southside United HDFC-Los Sures former Executive Director Ramon Peguero along with colleagues from Cornell University and Churches United for Fair Housing to preserve the history of the neighborhood’s residents.

This project is the ninth collaboration between Los Sures and ISCP. It is made possible in part, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. Cheon pyo Lee’s 2016 Ground Floor Program residency at ISCP was supported in part by Yoko Ono, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and New York City Council District 34.

  • Closing Reception: Thursday, January 11, 6–8pm
  • Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 11am–7pm
  • Location: El Museo de Los Sures, 120 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249

 

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Cheon pyo Lee
Cheon pyo Lee, The Rhinemaiden: A Shortness of Breath and a Taste of Ash, 2017, single channel HD video, 3:21 min. written by Razmig Bedirian, performed by Olivia Divecchia and Tara Homasi, cinematography by Uno Nam

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