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LLM Artist Fellowship: In Conversation #2

Nov 02 - Nov 02, 2020

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Arantxa Araujo (@arantxaaraujo) #LLMArtistFellow 2019-2020 is a Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is multidisciplinary, feminist, and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which often include new media, video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance. Araujo’s work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, Chashama Space, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, Art in Odd Places in NYC; RAW, Miami Art Week; Semel & Huret & Spector Gallery, Boston; and SPACE Gallery & Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh; in Mexico, at El Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC and in the Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada.

Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art award recipient (2020/19), BAC grantee (2020), LMCC grantee (2019) and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships, including Creative Capital taller (2018), ITP Camp (2018, 2019) and EMERGENYC (2017). Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from the Mexican Government Institution CONACYT (2012). She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College.

Join @arantxaaraujo, Heather Marie Scholl (@heathermariescholl), and Fernando Vieira (@fernandovieirausa) with curator Richard Morales (@urbanmoral) Monday, November 2, 6-8 PM for the second in a series of four virtual public programs spotlighting the third cohort of the Museum’s Artist Fellowship. RSVP 🔗 in our bio #LeslieLohmanMuseum

Images:
1. Arantxa Araujo,”DAR a Luz”, 2018 📸Kolin Mendez
2. Arantxa Araujo, “POLVO”, 2020 📸Vicios Ocultos
3. Arantxa Araujo, “lutxa”, 2020, 📸Wei Chao
4. Arantxa Araujo, “Yerma”, 2019
5. Arantxa Araujo, “140 Mujeres, 14 Días”, 2018 📸Alex Romania
6. Arantxa Araujo, “lutxa”, 2020, 📸Wei Chao
7. Arantxa Araujo, “CuerpXs de Luz”, 2019 📸Wei Chao
8. Arantxa Araujo, “Cabeza(s) de Mujer(es)”, 2018
9. Arantxa Araujo, “POLVO”, 2020 📸Araujo
10. Arantxa Araujo, “Igneous Affair”, 2018 📸Javier Sanchez

Heather Marie Scholl (@heathermariescholl) #LLMArtistFellow 2019-2020 uses embroidery, mixed media, installation, writing, and education to confront legacies of violence. Using the intimacy of her own story she addresses whiteness, gender, and trauma. Harnessing the disarming effects of craft and heirloom embroidery, her work reveals alarming truths, with an insistence of self-reflection and transformation.

Her series “Whitework” (2015-present) uses whitework embroidery to address white women's roles in white supremacy through home and wearable objects. This work is building to a fully recreated home environment, with education and transformation at the forefront (📸 1-5). Her work also addresses the more personal aspects of her own trauma and emotional landscape. Building from folk art and surrealist traditions, to create a new mythology. She is currently working towards the completion of “The Resurrection of a Victim”, a recreated chapel environment with altar cabinets and triptychs that tell her story of abuse and redemption (📸 6-9).

Learn more about Scholl’s work by visiting heathermariescholl.com.

Join @heathermariescholl, Arantxa Araujo (@arantxaaraujo), and Fernando Vieira (@fernandovieirausa) with curator Richard Morales (@urbanmoral) Monday, November 2, 6-8 PM for the second in a series of four virtual public programs spotlighting the third cohort of the Museum’s Artist Fellowship. RSVP via 🔗 in our bio #LeslieLohmanMuseum

Images:
1. Heather Marie Scholl, “The Heroine’s Veil”, 2016, 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
2. Heather Marie Scholl, “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness” (F), 2018 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
3. Heather Marie Scholl, “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness” (B), 2018 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
4. 5Heather Marie Scholl, “The Throne of Equality, or the Invisible Journey”, 2017 📸 Kris Graves @themaniwasnt
5. Heather Marie Scholl, “Whitework” piece in progress, 2020
6. Heather Marie Scholl, “My Inner Twins”, 2016
7. Heather Marie Scholl, “Her pain was life”, 2018
8. Heather Marie Scholl, “The Door”, 2020, Woodworking by Mindy Otten-Chen @mchotten1
9. Heather Marie Scholl. “Incessant Deaths”, 2020
10. 📸 of Heather Marie Scholl, 2020

We are thrilled to officially announce artist Chitra Ganesh’s (@chitraganeshbkny) installation, “A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask”, the fourth iteration of #QueerPower, our annual site-specific commission, is ON VIEW now through October 2021. Congratulations Chitra 💥

Ganesh’s installation wraps the exterior windows of the Museum with imagery of queer protest, survival, knowledge, and joy. Her drawings shift temporality, grounding possible futures in an honest acknowledgment of our present moment, including images of those trans and gender-nonconforming people who have been violently murdered this year, as well as historic queer and trans activists, and those lost to COVID-19. This installation extends the artist’s ongoing commitment to femininity and social formations that are overlooked or excluded from mainstream discourses around queerness and race.

Chitra Ganesh, "A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask" is on view now through October 2021. The windows are illuminated at night, so you can experience the installation 24 hours a day. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #ChitraGanesh

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1, 2, 4, 5. Chitra Ganesh, A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, 2020, site-specific QUEERPOWER public art installation, laminated vinyl prints. Photo: (c) Kristine Eudey. Courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

3. Portrait of Chitra Ganesh, by Kristine Eudey, 2020. Courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Only one hour to go before our virtual Gala & Art Auction begin. Here’s a #sneakpeak of the stop motion welcome animation by artist Greg Corbino (@g.corbino) the creative mastermind behind tonight's virtual underwater fantasy theme. Join us #TONIGHT 8-10 pm (EDT) to celebrate community leaders working at the intersection of the arts and social justice! The program features film, art, music, special guest appearances, and more! Corbino is a queer artist who makes immersive installations, sculptures, and performances. His work is deeply invested in nature, joy, and justice - and created entirely from recycled materials, which is to say trash but let's be honest - there's no such thing as trash. In addition to the animations, sets, extravagant merpeople, and sea creature costumes, Corbino has created dynamic Zoom backgrounds, masks and beards for all of our guests. Head to leslielohman.com to get your ticket now!

Can’t make it to the Gala? You can still show your support by bidding at our LIVE art auction and/ or making a donation. 100% of the gala & auction proceeds directly benefit the Museum and our programs. #LLMGala2020 #leslielohmanmuseum

[Video: stop motion animation, by Greg Corbino (@g.corbino), 2020]

Program alert🚨 The third cohort of the Museum’s vibrant Artist Fellowship will culminate in a series of four virtual public programs beginning Monday, October 26 from 6-8 PM. Each event will feature a short artists’ talk by three Fellows, followed by a discussion with a curator, art historian, or writer. Since its inception, the Artist Fellowship, led by director Ela Troyano, has centered queer artists of color from a wide range of cultural experience.

For the first event, the presenting artists include Sarah E. Brook, Evan Paul English (@evanpaulenglish), and Sarp Kerem Yavuz (@sarpkeremyavuz) with curator Jeanne Vaccaro (@whateverjeanne). Vaccaro is a writer, curator, and teacher whose work explores the intersection of aesthetics and the history and theory of trans and queer life. She is a postdoctoral fellow at ONE Archives at USC Libraries (@onearchives). Join the 2019-2020 #LeslieLohman Artist Fellows on OCT 26 and stay tuned for the following three events!

Happy #NationalComingOutDay! Peter Hujar’s photograph,” Gay Liberation Front Poster Image” (1970), which we exhibited in 2019 as part of “Art after Stonewall: 1969-1989”, was staged by the Gay Liberation Task Force to promote and encourage other queer people to come out in the post Stonewall-era at the inception of the modern Gay and Lesbian rights movement. It depicts "coming out" as leaving isolation and joining the community. Yet, we know coming out is not always safe or an act of community building, like Hujar's image suggests. "Art after Stonewall" curator Jonathan Weinburg writes about this image stating, “The image’s focus on conventionally attractive young people, some wearing the clothing of hippies and yippies, connects the GLF to the counterculture and the anti-Vietnam War movement. While the image refuses the popular stereotype of queers as effete and lonely, it also leaves the impression that gay liberation was primarily for the young, the white, and the cis-gendered.” As a community, we must acknowledge and actively work to dismantle racism, classism, colonialism, transphobia, and ableism. Coming out is a personal act reflective of our various intersections and circumstances. No one is less than because they are not out.

[image: Peter Hujar, 1934-1987, Gay Liberation Front Poster Image, 1970, Silver gelatin print, Collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum. Gift of the Peter Hujar Archive (@peterhujararchive), LLC, 2013.181.23]

Congratulations to Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny), our upcoming #QueerPower facade installation artist and filmmaker Shikeith (@shikeith), Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellow (cohort #4). Both Ganesh and Shikeith are recipients of the just announced, Art Matters 2020 Grant for artists or collectives working in contemporary art or performance (@artmattersfoundation). “Our grantees make art that is fully embodied; art that is not risk-averse; and art that subverts structures and questions the institution,” state Art Matters director Abbey Williams. Congratulation Chitra and Shikeith your work is so necessary and deserving!

To see a full list of grantees head to artforum.com/news (@artforum).

#SavetheDate. Ganesh’s #QueerPower facade, “A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask” is on view beginning October 18!

One of the most devastating aspects of 2020 is the unprecedented number of violence against trans and gender non conforming people, revealing the human cost, borne largely by Black trans women, of the stark racial and economic inequalities magnified by the conjoined pandemics of 2020. In her upcoming #QueerPower installation "A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask", Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny) grounds the future in an honest acknowledgment of our present moment, drawing largely from the social media profiles of each of trans and gender nonconforming people we have lost.

Chitra Ganesh, "A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask" is on view beginning October 18, 2020. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #ChitraGanesh

#SayTheirNames #BlackTransLivesMatter

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Alexa Negrón Luciano- Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, PR, 2-24-20
Yampi Méndez Arocho, age 19, PR, 3-5-20,
John Scott Devore-Scottlyn Kelly Devore, Age 51, GA, 3-12-20
Monika Diamond, age 34, NC, 3-18-20
Lexi “Ebony” Sutton, age 33, NY, 3-28-20 drawing
Ashley Moore, age 26, NJ, 4-1-20
Johanna Metzger, MD, 4-12-20
Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos, age 32, PR, 4-21-20
Layla Peláez Sánchez, age 21, PR 4-21-20
Nina Pop, MO, 5-3-20
Penélope Díaz Ramírez, age 31, PR, 4-13-20
Helle Jae O’Regan, age 20, TX, 5-6-20
Jayne Thompson, age 33, CO, 5-9-20
Tony McDade, age 38, FL, 5-27-20
Selena Reyes Hernandez, age 37, IL 5-31-20
Johana Joha Medina Leon, age 25, ICE custody, 6-2-20
Dominique Rem’mie Fells, PA 6-9-20
Riah Milton, age 26, OH, 6-9-20
Brian Egypt Powers, age 43, OH, 6-13-20
Draya McCarty, LA, 6-20-20
Brayla Stone, age 17, AR 6-25-20
Merci Mack, age 22, TX, 6-30-20
Tatiana Hall, age 22, PA 6-30-20
Shaki Peters, age 32, LA, 7-1-20
Bree Black, age 27, FL, 7-3-20
Summer Taylor, age 24, WA, 7-4-20
Marilyn Cazares, age 22, LA, 7-13-20
Queasha D. Hardy, age 22, LA, 7-27-20
Dior H Ova-Tiffany Harris, age 32, NY, 7-26-20
Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears, age 32, OR, 7-28-20
Elie Che, age 23, NY, 8-31-20
Isabella Mia Lofton, age 21, NY, 9-7-20
Aerrion Burnett, age 37, MO, 9-19-20
Mia Green, age 29, PA, 9-28-20
Felycya Harris, age 33, GA, 10-3-20

Get ready to bid on your new favorite work of queer art! Our @givergy gala art auction is LIVE! We have an exciting group of artworks including works by artists JEB (Joan E. Biren) (@jebmedia), Liz Collins (@lizzycollins7), Jordan Eagles (@jordaneagles), Chris Bogia (@chrisbogia), Carrie Yamaoka (@carrie.yamaoka), Gabriel Garcia Roman (@gbrlgrcrmn), Margaret Rose Vendryes (@mrvendryes), Conrad Ventur (@conrad.ventur), Cary Leibowitz, Deborah Bright (@dbrightnyc), David Antonio Cruz (@cruz_art), and many more! Get your bids in now, and check back often as new artworks are added before the big night of our virtual gala on October 20! Visit the link in our bio to start bidding and purchase your tickets. Remember, 100% of proceeds directly benefit the Museum.

Curious to learn more about the works at auction? Now through #gala night on October 20 we are featuring select artworks on our IG Stories.

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[image: Margaret Rose Vendryes, “Black Naomi”, Blackglam Legend Series, edition 2/5 2007. Courtesy the artist.]