Date: Monday, May 1, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm Pacific / 4:00 pm Eastern / 9:00 pm Greenwich
Join us for Art Worker May Day: Observing Art Labor and Capital, a virtual panel event organized by Lee Painter-Kim and hosted by CUE on Zoom in honor of May Day.
Liv Schulman, La Desaparición (The Disappearance)
Money Has No Smell
CLOSING RECEPTION AND FILM SCREENING:
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
6:00 – 8:00 pm (screening to begin at 6:15 pm)
137 W. 25th St, NYC [map]
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CUE and ACOMPI present a screening of La Desaparición (The Disappearance), a film by artist Liv Schulman, followed by a closing reception to celebrate the artists and curators. In the film, Schulman (Argentinian, b. 1985) travels to the triple frontier—a tri-border area along the junction of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay—where she exchanges Argentine pesos for Brazilian reales for Paraguayan guaraníes until the money disappears due to the cumulative effect of commissions from currency exchange.
Drawing upon the themes present within the exhibition, the film highlights the fickle fungibility of value, offering a space for further reflection on the social construct of money on a global scale.
After the screening, drinks will be served. We encourage guests to join us at any time throughout the evening. Attendance is free and open to all; RSVPs are requested.
Read more about the exhibition here.
About the Participants
ACOMPI is a New York City-based, globally focused curatorial practice founded by Jack Radley and Constanza Valenzuela. The name ACOMPI derives from the Spanish word acompañado, meaning “in company.” ACOMPI highlights interdisciplinary practice and collaboration, and serves as a youth-oriented, community-ingrained platform to expand the intersection of independent curatorial practice and site-responsive public engagement. ACOMPI celebrates narratives of immigrants, youth, and artists working in interdisciplinary means not satiated or supported by the current market.
Recent projects by ACOMPI include: Ocultismo y barro, Miriam Gallery (Brooklyn, New York); Mariana Parisca: Corriente, Más Allá (Bogotá, Colombia); Crispy Tostones: Oro, Pari Passu Gallery in collaboration with Sabroso Projects (Queens, New York); Transient Grounds in collaboration with NARS Foundation on Governors Island; Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris, Home Gallery (NYC); Shanzhai Lyric: Canal Street Research Association in collaboration with Wallplay; and “What Can NYC Art Museums Do For Immigrants?” a colloquium at NYU Steinhardt. ACOMPI’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, New York Magazine, artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, Elephant, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. They can be found at @acompi.nyc.
Artist Talk + Closing Reception:
In the Shadows by Fereidoun Ghaffari
Saturday, July 9th, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
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Join us for a closing reception and talk with artist Fereidoun Ghaffari marking the conclusion of his debut solo exhibition, In the Shadows, at CUE Art Foundation. The artist will be joined by exhibition mentor and Publisher/Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail Phong Bui as well as visual artist and filmmaker Shoja Azari.
Years in the making, this exhibition represents the first time Ghaffari has invited a public audience to witness the outcomes of his private and solitary practice. This conversation will locate the artist’s work within a broader history of self-portraiture, and address the meaning of his longstanding process of painting himself based on sight alone, stripped bare of any markers that might suggest a particular culture, space, history, or ethics.
After the conversation, guests are invited to join us for a closing reception with light refreshments to celebrate the artist and the exhibition. Attendance is free and open to all; RSVPs are requested.
Read more about the exhibition here.
About the Participants
Fereidoun Ghaffari was born in Tehran, Iran. He studied painting at the University of Art in Tehran, earning a BFA in 1998 and an MFA in 2002. In 2003, he attended a special studies program at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. He returned to Tehran in 2004 and taught in universities there until 2006, when he moved to New York and enrolled in the New York Academy of Art, attaining his second MFA in painting in 2008. In 2013, Ghaffari had a solo show of self-portraits at the Tarahan-Azad Gallery in Tehran. His group exhibitions include EDGE (Emkan Gallery, Tehran – 2018); In Between, Contemporary Iranian Art (MANA Contemporary, Jersey City – 2017); VISAGE: Image of Self (O Gallery, Tehran – 2016); and SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence (National Museum Academy of Fine Arts, New York – 2015). Ghaffari lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail, and Rail Curatorial Projects. He has organized more than sixty exhibitions since 2000, and has been named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture” by Brooklyn Magazine. Bui has been a Curatorial Advisor at MoMA PS1, as well as a senior critic in the MFA programs at Yale, Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania. He has taught graduate seminars in the MFA programs for Writing and Criticism and Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. He has received numerous awards and has served as a board member of many organizations. Bui lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Shoja Azari was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1958. As a teenager, Azari experimented with short films, and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution involved himself in underground culture – literature, theater, and politics. After moving to New York in 1983, he received a Master’s degree in Psychology from New York University. In his work, Azari confronts broad themes of gender, politics, and piety, drawing inspiration from and re-interpreting religious icons. Azari’s work has been exhibited globally, with solo shows throughout Europe and North America. He has participated in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, at museums such as Germany’s Haus der Kulturen and the MUSAC in Spain, and at art fairs including Art Basel, Switzerland, ARCO, Spain, and Art Dubai. His works are in the permanent collections of various museums and foundations, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in the United States, and the Farjam Collection in the UAE. He lives and works in New York.
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Exhibition Walk-through with Mo Kong and Steffani Jemison
Thursday, June 13, 2019
6:30pm - 7:30pm
FREE
Please join CUE Thursday, June 13th at 6:30pm for a public walk-through of Making A Stationary Rain On The North Pacific Ocean with artist Mo Kong and curator Steffani Jemison. Blurring fact and fiction, art and science, truth and near-truth, the artist turns the gallery into an immersive installation exploring a not-so-distant future in which China and the United States are in the midst of a political Cold War, echoed externally by an atmospheric antagonism rendered by climate change that has turned China and the U.S. into the hot and cold centers of the world.
Kong and Jemison will be available for questions after the walk-through.
Mo Kong is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher born and raised in Shanxi, China, and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. They received their MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. They have had solo exhibitions at Artericambi Gallery, Verona and Chashama, NY, and their work has been included in exhibitions at the Queens Museum, NY, and the RISD Museum, RI. They have participated in fellowships and residencies at the Triangle Arts Association, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MASS MoCA Studio Residency, the Vermont Studio Center, Gibney Performance Center, and Chashama. Their work was featured in the book Brand New Art from China by Barbara Pollack and has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, the Wall Street International, The Round, and more.
Steffani Jemison’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including MASS MoCA, Nottingham Contemporary, Jeu de Paume, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Drawing Center, LAXART, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and others. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kadist. Jemison has completed many artist residencies and fellowships, including the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, Rauschenberg Residency, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Studio Museum in Harlem AIR, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jemison holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University New Brunswick.
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