This Week’s Must See Events: Yes, There Are Openings This Week!

Fred Tomaselli and Flag Foundation founder and collector Glenn Fuhrman will discuss Tomaselli’s work. Summer’s a good time to get caught up on artist talks and we expect this one to be more interesting than the average fare given that Tomaselli is such an interesting artist to begin with. He makes dazzling, abstracted collages and compositions that range from gorgeous to down right creepy.

If you see one art event this week make it this one! Jaimie Warren and a group of friends in handmade costumes, sets and make up will draw up on pop culture, internet culture, and art history to create a series of photographs and videos. The press release describes Warren as a digital age Cindy Sherman because she “camouflages herself”, but I’m not sure that makes sense. She’s more like a digital age George Kushar, who similarly loved camp, theatre, and pop culture, and always produced strange and wonderfully inventive work.

Every other summer the Bronx Museum of Art launches their Artists in the Marketplace Biennial (better known as the AIM Biennial). Each time the show launches we get really excited about the biennial—it’s a selective, prestigious program designed to help artists figure out the business of being an artist—and each time we’re disappointed.  But that’s not going to stop us from having hope! There are seventy-two emerging artists from the 2016 and 2017 AIM classes and some of them will be good. Check it out.

An evening of experimental music. Here’s what to expect:

Puce Mary, a musician whose work is described as dark, minimal, punk, live performance and collaborative.

Jonathan Borges and Shannon Kennedy of Pedestrian Deposit, whose work has been described as highly composed, abstract, experimental, contrasting and textural. Kennedy uses elements of the cello, violin and amplified, bowed and manipulated objects.

Bob Bellerue, a noise musician whose work has been described  as experimental electronic music, junk metal percussion ensembles and focused on resonant feedback systems.

In sum, difficult listening. Sounds like fun!

Another week another small press fair. And who would we be if we didn’t list them all! This one’s organized by Bomb Magazine and we recommend it because we love all publishers big and small. Plus they promise it will happen “Rain or shine. Unless it’s an absurd amount of rain.”

Participants are:

A Public Space
Apogee Journal
Belladonna* Collaborative
Black Sun Lit / VESTIGES
BOMB Magazine
Common Notions
Endless Editions
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Futurepoem
Inpatient Press
Litmus Press
n+1 / Paper Monument
OR Books
Pioneer Works
Printed Matter, Inc.
Restless Books
Tender Buttons Press
Verso Books
Wendy’s Subway
The White Review
Wonder

The press release tells us this show “explores themes of isolation, identity and connection – both physical and psychological – through intimate portrayals of recognizable spaces.” Sounds good, but that’s not why we’re recommending it. Basically, we think the paintings have a charming, personal feel to them, so we’d like to see them in person.