Films by James Scott, Etchings by David Hockney
June 19 – July 27, 2019
Reception: Wednesday, June 19th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
David Hockney’s series, Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy with screenings of James Scott’s Love’s Presentation (1966).
Having a Private Adventure Embodies My Idea of Home — Morgan O’Hara
Morgan O’Hara – Courtesy of Invisible Habitat
As a child I could go anywhere and was able to explore. I had to ride eighteen miles on the train to get to school, and many times I would get off the train instead of going to school and wander around, exploring the mountains and small villages. I had many private adventures. In some way, having a private adventure embodies my idea of home. When I am exploring something new that I don’t understand and nobody interferes—that is home.
My art, the practice of doing it and not necessarily the finished work, has always been my home. The working process has always calmed me. My practice is like a companion, and I am grateful for this. Many people have to go through terrible times and don’t have a way to calm and stabilize themselves. I feel fortunate to have my art practice.
Morgan O’Hara teaches as Invited Artist in Tübingen
Conceptual artist from New York is guest lecturer at the University in the summer of 2019
Morgan O’Hara teaches in the summer semester of 2019 as an “Invited Artist” at the University of Tübingen.
Conceptual artist Morgan O’Hara will work as an “Invited Artist” at the University of Tübingen in the coming weeks. The American offers the workshop “Life and Meaning” for students of all faculties. Every year, the University invites internationally renowned and innovative artists to Tübingen with the “Invited Artist” concept to provide students with insight into the contemporary art of different cultures. The university welcomed O’Hara on Monday with a reception.
Morgan O’Hara, born in Los Angeles and raised in Japan, lives in New York today. As a conceptual artist, she has dedicated herself to performative drawing and social practice. In so-called “live transmissions”, she records movements and sounds simultaneously with both hands in real time, like a seismograph. “Above all, I am interested in the human perception of time and space,” says the artist.
With her first exhibition Morgan O’Hara appeared in 1978 in Switzerland. Today her works are represented in public collections such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the British Museum or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Wall drawings are in Macau (China), Kobe (Japan) and Amsterdam. For her artistic achievements, she has received several awards, including the Lee Krasner Award for her life’s work, named after the American painter Lee Krasner. O’Hara also teaches drawing and the “psychology of creativity” at art schools in the US, Europe and Asia.
Morgan O’Hara is the second artist to come to Tübingen as an Invited Artist. In the summer of 2018, photo artist Mohammad Ghazali from Tehran conducted two workshops with students from Tübingen and designed an exhibition for the museum of the university . Within this framework, the first volume of a new publication series of the university, “Invited Artist” was published. What traces the commitment of Morgan O’Hara in Tübingen leaves, the summer will show.
Still from Portrait of David Hockney courtesy of the Metrograph
Two Screenings Only
On Monday, July 1, and Sunday, July 7, the Metrograph will be screening director James Scott’s Love’s Presentation as part of its program of short films portraying artist David Hockney in his various intersections with the cinema.
“Love’s Presentation finds the artist at work on his series of etchings, illustrating the homoerotic poetry of the Egyptian writer C.P. Cavafy; David Hockney’s Diaries offers a guided tour through three years of Hockey’s photo diaries, revealing both the inner workings of his compositional approach and portents of projects to come; while Portrait of David Hockney invites the viewer into Hockney’s home and studio, so to better understand the peculiar qualities of light that he seeks to distill in his work.”
These screenings will play as part of the Metrograph’s larger celebration of its new 4K restoration of A Bigger Splash, the 1974 documentary from director Jack Hazan.
The 11th edition of Tribeca Art + Culture Night is here!
June 18, 2019
Tribeca Art+Culture Night kicks off the summer with its 11th edition tour of neighborhood arts spaces on June 20 from 6 to 9.
The program includes exhibitions, performances, curator-led tours, walkthroughs, talks and workshops, and the event spotlights contemporary art, design, fashion, dance, music and crafts, as well as popular and less well-known locations in Tribeca (including spaces typically closed to the public). At each venue, attendees can interact directly with directors, curators and artists, who are present all evening to introduce their work.
Some highlights:
-150 rarely seen drawings by Leipzig school artist Neo Rauchfeatured in the first ever US exhibition devoted to his works on paper (The Drawing Center)
-David Hockney’s C.P. Cavafy-inspired etchings and screening of his creative process in the film “Love’s Presentation” by James Scott (Anita Rogers Gallery)
Join artist Morgan O’Hara for Live Transmission, a drawing method in which she tracks the trajectory of movement in real time. For this program, O’Hara will take participants through basic scribble exercises that will prepare them for their own exploration of drawing. No drawing experience is necessary.
Meet in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Rain location is the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby.
This event is free with Museum admission. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign-up begins 30 minutes before each workshop. Designed for adult participants, but children ages 12 and above are welcome if accompanied by an adult collaborator.
Morgan O’Hara. LIVE TRANSMISSION: movement of the Corps de Ballet of the English National Ballet rehearsing Act 2 of Giselle, London studio. 2009.
Morgan O’Hara has been tracking how she spends each and every minute for the past 47 years, recording daily reports in small notebooks as part of an ongoing series called “Time Studies.” This careful documentation, complete with monthly summaries and annual reports, is being shown with the “Letter Press Editions” she has been making since 1978 and a selection of “Silverpoint Drawings” made on watercolor paper with black gesso. The artist also currently has solo shows in New York at Magdalena Keck through May 13 and at Mitchell Algus Gallery through June 2, collectively presenting six separate bodies of work.
Solo exhibition of works by George Negroponte on view at Anita Rogers Gallery
April 16, 2019
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting When Love Comes To Town, a solo exhibition of works by George Negroponte. On view are his mixed media paintings completed over the last several years using house paint, spackle, gesso, wallpaper, dirt, enamel, inventory circle labels, and spray paint on canvas, as well as found objects from the surrounding woods. Negroponte’s works on paper, first begun in Sweden in 2008, were set aside for a decade and resumed this past year in collaboration with his wife, Virva Hinnemo. These small and evocative compositions include truncated shapes, veil-like mists, vehement and nuanced marks, unusual color, and punctuated holes. While all the works are marked by an indeterminable amount of paint, some are diptychs with tree fragments and found objects. Negroponte takes pains to tackle the unlikely reconciliation of incongruent parts.
Though many of SoHo’s art galleries have been replaced with shops during the past two decades, the neighborhood still has plenty to peruse, from multimedia installations to Photorealism masterworks, from graffiti art to rock-and-roll photography.
Figurative and abstract artists from the 20th and 21st centuries—emerging, midlevel, and posthumous—are the focus of Anita Rogers Gallery. “When Love Comes to Town,” an exhibit of recent drawings and paintings by abstract artist George Negroponte, runs through April 27. Beginning June 19 is a selection of films by artist/director James Scott, whose “A Shocking Accident” won the 1982 Oscar for Best Live-Action Short Film; works and recorded readings by David Hockney will complement the films. Solo shows featuring Morgan O’Hara, Robert Szot, and William Scott are also scheduled for later in 2019.
Works and recorded readings by David Hockney will complement screenings of James Scott films at an upcoming show at Anita Rogers Gallery. Image: Fresh on the Net/Flickr
“When Love Comes to Town,” an exhibition of mixed-media paintings by George Negroponte, is at the Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo through April 27. Created over the last several years, the works use house paint, Spackle, gesso, wallpaper, dirt, enamel, inventory labels, and spray paint on canvas, as well as found objects from the woods surrounding his house in Springs.
The show will also include works on paper, first begun in Sweden in 2008 and then set aside for a decade before being revisited this past year in collaboration with his wife, the artist Virva Hinnemo.
The 11th edition of Tribeca Art + Culture Night is here!
