Book Launch & Conversation with artist Lindsey White
Thursday, February 13, 7pm

2nd Floor Flex Space, 205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013

A presentation on the state of arts academia from the Bay Area and beyond followed by a discussion with Sara Greenberger Rafferty

On the occasion of the second printing of What? Is? Art?, by Lindsey White and Anonymous, The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present a presentation, conversation, and book launch with San Francisco-based artist and educator Lindsey White. White will be joined in conversation by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Professor of Art and Ruth Stanton Chair, Hunter College Department of Art and Art History.

What? Is? Art? (Colpa Press, 2024) is a collection of photographs made on the pandemic-empty campus of the San Francisco Art Institute, where White taught for over a decade as an Adjunct, Assistant, and Associate Professor and Photography Department Chair. The final class of SFAI art students graduated in the summer of 2022 and the institution promptly closed. SFAI was one of the last exclusively fine arts schools in the United States, and its closure reflects not only the transitional moment such schools face, but also their fight for survival. What? Is? Art? also includes writings by nine professors who teach in private art schools or public art departments across the country. The texts and images memorialize and contemplate the complexity of arts education in this protracted moment of instability while cementing the importance of building collective support systems within institutions.

About the Artist
Lindsey White is an artist living and working in San Francisco, CA. She has exhibited at venues such as SFMOMA; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen; Bolinas Museum, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; ACME, Los Angeles; White Columns, New York; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Oregon; Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL; Locust Projects, Miami; San Francisco International Airport Museum; and Museum Bärengasse, Zurich. 

White taught in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2010, serving as Department Chair from 2015 to 2022, before serving as Director of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. White was a co-founder of the para-curatorial experiment Will Brown, which realized projects with institutions such as U.C. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; di Rosa, Napa; Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University; and KADIST, San Francisco. White’s projects have been featured in the New York Times, Frieze, Art Forum, The New Yorker, KQED Arts, SF Chronicle, and Contemporary Art Daily. Her book, What? Is?Art? was recently released by Colpa Press.

ROOTS / ROUTES
Wednesday, October 9, 7pm

2nd Floor Flex Space, 205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013

Join us at 205 Hudson's Flex Space on Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm for a lecture presented in conjunction with current exhibition Andrea Blum: BIOTA. The presentation will cover Blum's works made for public spaces throughout the United States and Europe beginning in the 1970s, as well as more recent works including sculpture, video, and digital images. A conversation with exhibition guest curator Jenny Jaskey and a Q&A will follow the talk.

The lecture will be held in the 2nd floor Flex Space at the Hunter MFA Building (205 Hudson Street), which is accessible by elevator through both the gallery and the main building entrance. Staff will be present to guide visitors. For questions about accessibility, please email hcag@hunter.cuny.edu. A recording of the this event will be available on the exhibition website following the discussion. 

Andrea Blum: BIOTA is on view through October 26, 2024.
205 Hudson Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6pm. All Hunter College Art Galleries events are free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Andrea Blum (b. 1950, New York) has been engaged in the discourse between art and architecture since the 1970s. She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (2021); La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain (2012); Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands (2004); and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (1999), among others. Blum has designed numerous public commissions, including for the University of Pennsylvania (2018); Mudam, Luxembourg (2008); and the 51st Venice Biennale, Italy (2005). She was set designer for a Gaetano Donizetti Opera, commissioned by Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris (2013), and in 2005 was named Chevalier, Order of Arts and Letters, by the French Minister of Culture. Blum has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Graham Foundation Fellowship, SJ Weiler Award, Art Matters, NYSCA and NEA Fellowships, and a Design award from the American Institute of Architects. Blum holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. ​​Blum taught in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College for over thirty years and retired in 2023 as Associate Chair of Studio.

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This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Foundation To-Life Curatorial Workshop Fund, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, the Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts, the Red Painters Fund, Jill Brienza, Agnes Gund, The Katcher Family Foundation Inc., and other private donors. The publication has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Estate of Tony Feher, and a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

Distortions Symposium I
September 9, 2023

2nd Floor Flex Space, 205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Moscow Conceptualism began as an alternative underground art world in the late Soviet Union. Its unofficial status shaped its artistic methods and theoretical framework. The exhibition includes original objects, archival materials, and working models of original artworks, alongside new projects created by Moscow Conceptualists in collaboration with art and art history students and faculty at Hunter College. Thus, Distortions is an experiment in intergenerational and cross-cultural collaboration. It aims to transform the gallery into a two-month long forum exploring how existing artworks can be activated to create new living situations, and how documents can be used beyond the preservation of the past. 

Participating artists and art groups:
Yuri Albert (born 1959 in Moscow, lives and works in Cologne)
Collective Actions (active 1976-present)
Gnezdo (active 1974-79)
Sabine Hänsgen (born 1955 in Dusseldorf, lives and works in Bochum, Germany)
Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949 in Pechenga, Russia, lives and works in Moscow),
Victor Skersis (born 1956 in Moscow, lives and works in Bethlehem, PA)
Nadezhda Stolpovskaya (born 1959 in Moscow, lives and works in Cologne, Germany)
SZ Group (active 1980-84, 1989, 1990)
Vadim Zakharov (born 1959 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, lives and works in Berlin, Germany).

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This exhibition and publication were made possible by the generous support of the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, Clarissa Bronfman, Andrew and Christine Hall, Linda Macklowe, Katia Ilina, and the Prospect Hill Foundation.

Thursday, March 28
Performance at 7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm

Hunter College MFA Program Flex Space, Room 200
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013

Free and open to the public

_.Scheduled(VariableRatio):secondary-conditioned-immediateReinforcement(s)-handlerSearch1_DrillAndPracticeVERSION2.exe, is an interactive experiment in operant conditioning to articulate the structure of intimacies inherent in behavioral training.

In a training session for a human puppy and her handler, positive and negative reinforcements are enacted in a circle between audience members and the performer. Engaged together through a system of exchange, they mutually agree on how to choreograph the giving and receiving of a reward. As rewards and punishments offer potentially precarious and playful communication, this choreographic transfer of power is an act of BDSM. Through this temporary relationship, called “pick-up play,” viewers witness a visceral dance that asks questions about how consent is communicated, what qualifies as violence, and how desire can manifest.

_.Scheduled(VariableRatio):secondary-conditioned-immediateReinforcement(s)-handlerSearch1_DrillAndPracticeVERSION2.exe is part of holloway’s ongoing Chambers Series (2017–present), which is comprised of performance scores and their partner publications that illustrates a series of BDSM acts.

shawné michaelain holloway uses sound, video, and performance to shape the rhetoric of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited at institutions internationally, including the New Museum, New York; Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki; The Kitchen, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Arts,London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. holloway teaches digital publishing theory and practice in the New Arts Journalism department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her books (- - -), i'd lie if i could even, and no separation were published in 2018 as part of the TOO OFTEN IN THE DARK series, an ode to bondage, refusal, and wild women. holloway is also a sex educator, teaching classes and writing about intersectional approaches to exploring our bodies and our kinks.

Saturday, March 23
2–3:30 PM

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013

Free and open to the public

Detailed verbal descriptions and selected touch objects will provide an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to experience the exhibition. This tour will focus on the dynamic artworks and themes put forward by the artists and curators.

RSVP is requested. For more information or to RSVP please email j.soto@eyebeam.org or call (347) 378-9163.

Saturday, March 2
2–3 PM

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013

Free and open to the public
ASL interpretation will be provided for this tour

Curator-led walkthrough of Refiguring the Future with Heather Dewey-Hagborg.

Friday, February 15
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Performance at 7:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Hunter College MFA Program Flex Space, Room 200
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013

This Platform Life (a command line memoir)

In Her Interior and Petra will perform This Platform Life (a command line memoir). This Platform Life is a memoir, looking back to look forward at a life lived in the futurepast, platform stacking, stratifying, and avatar jumping, where the flesh in all its porosity leaks data into the dataocean to become a multiplicity in univocity. Hyperleaping from platform to platform and avatar to avatar, exhuming zombie shells and webbing, messily.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

In Her Interior
Formed in 2015, In Her Interior co-creates and performs live works of spoken, sung, and recorded text and video within site-specific installation environments. As two of the four co-founders of cyber-feminist group VNS Matrix (est. 1991), da Rimini and Barratt have contributed to critiques of gender and technology for over three decades. Her Eyes Were As Black As Coal… is a new work by the Australian collective, on view in Refiguring the Future.

Petra
Petra (aka Waste Heat) is a Milwaukee-based sound artist & DJ whose ambient/techno mixes are really taking off in the Midwest and beyond. This is the first time they have performed live with In Her Interior, and in New York, although they have collaborated on sporadic philosophy gigs together.

CLOSING WEEKEND EVENTS FOR AXIS MUNDO: QUEER NETWORKS IN CHICANO L.A.
ZINE FAIR, PANEL DISCUSSION, T-SHIRT MAKING AND RECEPTION 

Saturday, August 18, 1:00–7:00 PM
Free and open to the public

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Entrance on south side of Canal Street between Hudson and Watts

1–7PM / Zine fair
The Bettys, Discipline Press, Luna Rio, Precog Magazine, Cósmica, Sula Collective, and 3 Dot Zine

2–3:15PM / Panel discussion
Joey Terrill, Rudy Garcia, Tamara Santibanez, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed

4PM / T-shirt making workshop with Joey Terrill

6–7PM / Closing Reception

PERFORMANCE NIGHT: Keith Lafuente and ray ferreira
in conjunction with Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. followed by a conversation with Emmy Catedral

Thursday, August 2nd, 7:00 PM
Free and open to the public

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Entrance on south side of Canal Street between Hudson and Watts

Performances by ray ferreira and Keith Lafuente, followed by a brief conversation moderated by Emmy Catedral.

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz and was organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and is organized as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI). The presentation at the Hunter College Art Galleries has been organized in collaboration with Chief Curator Sarah Watson and Exhibitions Manager Jenn Bratovich. 

Programming organized by Hunter College Axis Mundo fellows Mathew Galindo, Khari Johnson Ricks, and Joseph Shaikewitz. 

BIOGRAPHIES

EMMY CATEDRAL is an artist working in performance and installation with things made with paper, including books. She also makes work as The Amateur Astronomers Society of Voorhees and The Explorers Club of Enrique de Malacca. Emmy was born in Butuan, and raised in Iloilo City and Queens, NY. She is the Coordinator of Fairs & Editions for Printed Matter, Inc. 

RAY FERREIRA w h e n a m i blaqlatinx from occupied Lenape lands called New York, N Y: the illegitimate EEUU. An o t the r Corona, Queens a spacetimemattering a materialdiscusive (dis) continuity: [the Caribbean, the Greater Antilles, Hispañola, the Dominican Republic —> Corona, Queens] : history. 

w h e n a m i a performer of sorts aka multidisciplinary artist aka polymath. She stays playin : the dance between materiality<->language through her body w h e n a m i where histories are made and remade. She plays with iridescence, text, rhythms (aka systems), to cruise a quantum poetics. Englishes, Spanishes, and other body languages spiral, dance, and twirl to create a banj criticality: that turnup w/the grls; that swerve past white cishet patriarchy. wh e n ami

She can be located museum educating at the Studio Museum in Harlem, as well as floating through other museum education departments. In addition, she lead teaches at the Octavia Project (a summer institute for teen girls and nonbinary youth), and freelances for various artists. w h e nam i Other intersections of space|time|matter include residencies at the Institute for Electronic Arts and EmergeNYC, performances at the Segue reading series, Dixon Place, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and slightly different performances in Femmescapes: Vol 2 and The Felt: Issue 4. whenami She engaged in a durational performance to obtain an expensive piece of paper (an MFA in Studio Art) from Hunter College. 
 

KEITH LAFUENTE (b.1992) is a multidisciplinary artist, often working with the body to unravel identity and articulate desire. Straddling the mundane and the theatrical, Lafuente's work reenacts dominant tropes and reconfigures them into something more intimate and possibly more absurd. He also performs under the stage name Mahal Kita, which translates to "I love you" in Tagalog. Lafuente currently lives and works in NY.

Visual AIDS Talk + Tour of Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.

Tuesday, July 17, 6:30 PM

Free and open to the public
Invite friends on Facebook here

205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Entrance on south side of Canal Street between Hudson and Watts

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is the first exhibition of its kind to excavate histories of experimental art practice, collaboration, and exchange by a group of Los Angeles based queer Chicanx artists between the late 1960s and early 1990s. To highlight the New York iteration of Axis Mundo, Visual AIDS and the Hunter College Art Galleries host a guided talk and tour with an intergenerational group of creatives who knew artists highlighted in the exhibition or have been influenced by the artworks included in the show.

The Visual AIDS Talk + Tour of this landmark exhibition, curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, will center the work of artists lost to AIDS-related complications with reflections by Simon Doonan on Mundo Meza (1955–1985) and Aldo Hernandez on Ray Navarro (1964–1990). To explore the intersections of art, AIDS and activism in the exhibition, the tour will also include comments by J. Soto, Lauren Argentina Zelaya and Alexandro Segade.

As noted in the AIDS Activism(s) section of the exhibition: “The devastation of the AIDS epidemic was acutely felt by intersecting Latinx and queer artist communities. In the face of government neglect, many artists politicized their practices, often taking inspiration from their earlier participation in gay and lesbian and Chicano rights movements. Working within community and advocacy groups, artists sought to raise awareness and educate through quickly produced and accessible mediums such as video and print material. Many artists memorialized those lost to the disease, while others took up their own mortality and disability as content for their work through abstraction and conceptual distance.”
 

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz and was organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and is organized as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI). The presentation at the Hunter College Art Galleries has been organized in collaboration with Chief Curator Sarah Watson and Exhibitions Manager Jenn Bratovich. 

Speaker Biographies

Simon Doonan is a writer, bon-vivant, window dresser extraordinaire and fashion commentator who has worked in fashion for over 35 years. Doonan has won many awards for his groundbreaking and unconventional window displays, including the CFDA Award. In 2009, he was invited by President and Ms. Obama to decorate the White House for the Holidays. Doonan describes his relationship with Mundo Meza: “I met Mundo in 1979. We became boyfriends for a couple of years, after which we remained close pals. We were also creative collaborators, working together on various window displays and videos.”

Cuban-American Aldo Hernández and Chicano Ray Navarro both honed their commitments to society through artistic projects in California and then re-located to NYC. Hernández landed jobs with MoMA and Creative Time, and while visiting LA in 1988 was introduced to Navarro at latin gay party Vasilon through a mutual friend from MoCA where Navarro worked. That June, Navarro moved to NY where they became close friends, AIDS activists, and Art+Positive collaborators until Navarro’s death in November 1990. During that summer, Hernández had begun DJing at the Clit Club & MEAT, where he melded a passion for the groove with graphics and photography as he dove into a life long calling of the sonic & visual. It was an urgent vital time in both their lives that remains powerfully conveyed through Navarro’s incisive art & writings focused on young queers of color.

Alexandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose multimedia science fiction performances exploring queer futurity have been presented at the Broad Museum, REDCAT and LAXART, LA; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Time-Based Arts Festival, Portland, Oregon; Movement Research/Judson Church, Park Avenue Armory, NYC, and Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, NY. Since 2001, Segade has worked in the collective My Barbarian on exhibitions, videos and performance projects at venues including the New Museum, MoMA, The Kitchen, Participant Inc., NY; Museo El Eco, Mexico City; the Hammer Museum, LACMA, MoCA, Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, LA; the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Performa 05 and 07. Segade’s recent writing has been published in Yale’s Theater Journal and artforum.com, and he is cohost of the podcast Super Gay! 

J. Soto is a queer brown transgender interdisciplinary artist, writer, and arts organizer. His collaborative writing project, "Ya Presente Ayer" can be found in Support Networks, Chicago Social Practice History Series (University of Chicago Press). His recent writing can be found in Original Plumbing and Apogee Journal: Queer History, Queer Now Folio and American Realness 2018: Reading. A Chicano raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, J. is interested in sex as an embodied way of learning queer history, the impact of AIDS on queer communities of artists and feeling loss through a racialized lens and through the portrayal of sensual bodies in Axis Mundo. 

Lauren Argentina Zelaya is a cultural producer, curator, and museum educator based in Brooklyn, NY. As Assistant Curator of Public Programs at Brooklyn Museum, Zelaya curates and produces Target First Saturdays and other free and low-cost public programs that invite over 100,000 visitors a year to engage with special exhibitions and collections in new and unexpected ways. Lauren is committed to collaborating with emerging artists and centering voices in our communities that are often marginalized, with a focus on film and performance and creating programming for and with LGBTQ+, immigrant, and Caribbean communities. Recent projects she presented include Cuerpxs Radicales: Radical Bodies in Performance and Black Queer Brooklyn on Film. Known and respected equally for her nail art and her fierce commitment to bringing art and culture to the people, Lauren was named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2018.

Tour and Open House with Axis Mundo curators and artists at 205 Hudson Gallery
Saturday, June 23, 2018, 3–6 PM

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano LA at the 205 Hudson Gallery
 

AXIS MUNDO: QUEER NETWORKS IN CHICANO LA
An exhibition of work by a collaborative network of over 50 LA-based queer Chicanx artists produced through the 1960s to 1990s

Curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz

Hunter College Art Galleries: 205 Hudson Gallery & Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
June 22–August 19, 2018

Opening Reception for Axis Mundo
Thursday, June 21, 2018, 6–9 PM
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013
Entrance on the south side of Canal Street between Hudson and Watts