#FirstFriday: November Exhibitions We Love!

October 31, 2019 by

Highlighting exhibitions that feature the work of WSW artists, we share the shows near and far that make up our monthly must-see list.

New York


Golnar Adili

Tara Sabharwal (Studio Workspace ’16, Beisinghoff Residency ’17) , Barbara Beisinghoff (Artist’s Book Residency ’09), Alicia Henry (Public Art Residency ’17), Eloise Plamondon (Beiginghoff Residency ’17), Golnar Adili (Legacy Studio Residency ’15), and Anne-Marie Lavigne (Legacy Studio Residency ’16) will all be in a group show, In Between, at Women’s Studio Workshop. The show will be on view until December 20th.

Trudy Barnes, VI: 4, Photopolymer Intaglio, 2017

Trudy Barnes (Studio Workspace Residency ’18) will be part of a group exhibition, Solar Impressions Juried Exhibition, on view from November 16th – December 29th at Southampton Arts Center.

Clarissa Sligh (Artist’s Book Residency Grant ’88, ’04) has work in Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today at The Center for Book Arts. The show will be up from October 4th to December 14th.

Sarah-Anne Winchester

Sarah-Anne Winchester (Ceramics Intern ’19) will be a part of a group exhibition, The Cup, The Mug, on view from November 16th – December 14th at Main Street Arts.

Padma Rajendran (Ora Schneider Regional Residency ’18) will be part of a group exhibition, Up Next, at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild on view through December 1st.

Photographed by Rachel Stern

Carrie Moyer (Studio Workspace Residency ’95) will participate in Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe in Conversation with Jaime Desimone on November 2nd from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Skowhegan School of painting & Sculpture’s New York Location. Doors open at 6:00 pm, reception to follow.

Jayoung Yoon (Ora Schneider Regional Residency ’18) will be a part of a group exhibition, An Intricate Universe: A Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Alumni Exhibition, on view through November 23rd.

Tate Klacsmann (Studio Workspace Residency ’15) has work in the exhibition, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, at the Hyde Collection on display through December 4th.

Amanda Thackray, Image from: Museum of Arts and Design

Amanda Thackray (Artist’s Book Residency Grant ’09) is Artist in Residence at The Museum of Arts and Design. Visit her in the studio through January 31st, 2020.

Amanda Thackray (Artist’s Book Residency Grant ’09) has created a sculptural paper installation that will be on view at Plant Cure Brooklyn, curated by Maddy Rosenberg. The exhibition will be up until December 13th.

Lydia Rubio (Studio Workspace Residency ’98) will have work on view at The Center for Book Arts as part of The Traveling Artist: Journals by Lydia Rubio. There will be an artist’s talk on December 5th at 6:30 pm.


California

Photographed by Alec Smith

Kimi Hanauer (Artist’s Book Residency ’19) will be celebrating the release of her book, Calling All Denizens, with a potluck at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA from 2:00 – 5:00 pm on November 23rd. Feel free to bring a snack!


Texas

Sarah Fox

Sarah Fox (Parent Residency ’19) has a solo exhibition, Bruisers, on display at grayDUCK Gallery, featuring work created during her recent WSW residency. In this exhibition she uses the image of the “horse hybrid” as a way to examine gender norms and toxic masculinity. This exhibition is on display though December 20th and will include two puppet shows on November 16th at 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm.


New Jersey

Carlotta Origoni (Art-in-Ed Artist’s Book Residency ’18) will have her book, The Veil is Seen Only When It is Lifted, featured in the exhibition, Extra Bold, at Arts and Innovation Center. There will be an artist’s talk on November 14th at 4 pm and the exhibition will be on display until November 30th.


Pennsylvania

Pamela J Wallace

Pamela J Wallace (Ora Schneider Regional Residency ’12) is part of the group exhibition, Forging a Link – Metalsmiths Respond to the Mercer Collection, at the Mercer Museum on display through January 5th, 2020.

Amanda Thackray (Artist’s Book Residency Grant ’09) is part of the two person exhibition, Ideogrammatic, at Brick + Mortar Gallery on display through December 1st.


Vermont

Fafnir Adamites

Fafnir Adamites (Studio Residency Grant ’17) has an exhibition, Interfere (with), at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on display through March 7th, 2020. Adamites will be giving a corresponding artist talk on December 18th at 7:00 pm.

Lauren Pakradooni

Lauren Pakradooni (Beisinghoff Printmaking Residency ’15) has an installation at the Epsilon Spires Gallery opening November 1st.


Massachusetts

Rachel Frank, Garment for Rewilding Oysters, 2017

Rachel Frank (Artist’s Book Residency Grant ’10) is part of a group exhibition, In the Weeds: Art and the Natural World, at Wheaton College on display through December 12th.

Fafnir Adamites

Fafnir Adamites (Studio Residency Grant ’17) has an upcoming exhibition, Inheritance, at the Boston Sculptors Gallery. The opening reception is November 9th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm and the exhibition is on display from November 6th – December 8th.


Maryland

Kristina King (Studio Workplace Residency ’19) is featured in the 2nd Tri-Annual Maryland State Artist Registry Juried Exhibition on display through November 10th at the Maryland Art Place.


Connecticut

Fafnir Adamites

Fafnir Adamites (Studio Residency Grant ’17) is part of the group exhibition, Somewhere in the Sequence, on display at Real Art Ways on through late December. There will be an artist talk on November 23rd at 3:00 pm.


North Carolina

Blue Grid Trough, Eleanor Anderson

Eleanor Anderson (Chili Bowl Workspace Residency ’19) will be featured in the exhibition, (Un)Common Ground, on display through November 9th at Blue Spiral 1.


Arizona

Image from the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson

Rachel Frank (Artist’s Book Residency Grant ’10) has an exhibition, Thresholds, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. The show will be on display through December 29th.


Missouri

Zarina Hashmi (Artist’s Book Residency ’91) has an exhibition, Zarina: Atlas of Her World, at Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St Louis. The show will be on view until February 2, 2020.


Glasgow, United Kingdom

Libby Scarlett

Libby Scarlett (Art-in-Ed Artist’s Book Residency ’14) is part of the group exhibition, Time after [ () ] after Time, at The Briggait on display from November 4th-28th.


Florence, Italy

The Veil is Seen Only When It is Lifted by Carlotta Origoni (Art-in-Ed Artist’s Book Residency ’18) and published by WSW, has been selected for the AWDA- Aiap Women in Design Award. This is an international award for a women graphic designer, selected by the Italian association of graphic design. The ceremony will take place on November 9th at the Tepidarium del Roster.


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