GalleryGRRRLS 2020 Archive
Welcome to the GalleryGRRRLS 2020 Archive. Scroll thru to see 2020s gallery hopping!
GalleryGRRRLs is gender inclusive - all folks are welcome
Hey GalleryGrrrls!
I was hoping to schedule a GalleryGrrrls trip to the MET and honestly, it felt wrong. There are a lot of factors for an in person meetup and the traditional way of GalleryGrrrls does not work with new realities of in person visiting. So, with that said, this will be the last official GalleryGrrrls.
GalleryGrrrls was slated to end this year anyway for a different art viewing and discussion series so, rather than start that in January as planned, It will be starting in September. It is an exciting new project (full details on September 1st, but spoiler alert it will be called Gallery Goers) BUT i have one last MeetUp for August.
♡ It has been great seeing art with all you GalleryGRRRLS ♡
Lets spend the afternoon at Socrates Sculpture Park for their exhibition MONUMENTS NOW
Date: Sunday, August 30th
Meet Time: 2pm @ at the entrance
End time: 4pm : Refreshments after :)
Platform: IRL social distance viewing: Masks Required
RSVP: Meetup.com/GalleryGrrrls
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Hey GalleryGrrrls!
This month was worse than June, but! Still want to check out some art with you all
(August date is already planned tho! August 30th! Details coming soon ♡ )
Most 2020 Graduate exhibitions were put on to an online platform for a virtual exhibition (aka: a website). Masters of arts, graduate exhibitions are art start scouting events and flocked to by large and small curators alike. They are pretty problematic in the over academic-ization of the art world/art market, furthering success gaps of those who can’t, don’t or won’t consider graduate school. however, many artists find community and are able to experiment with their voice in a school setting better than they can in the “real world”. a very difficult conundrum.
this has been a thing since the 1660s in Paris and the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture “Salon” shows. It got kicked back into the discourse and grey market in the late 80s and early 90s with the rise of a graduating class of an MFA class from goldsmiths university known as the YBAs.
We will be checking out some exhibitions and artists from
Date: Sunday, June 26th
Time: 2 pm
Platform: Google Meet link will be posted at 1 pm :)
RSVP: Meetup.com/GalleryGrrrls
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Hey GalleryGrrrls!
This month was tough. Sorry to be soooo last minute.
(I’ll give more notice for July ♡ )
BUT saw that Hank Willis Thomas’ Unity sculpture is on the way from central Brooklyn to Foley Square. So there is time to squeak in some Art Along the Way to the Queer March.
This piece is was commissioned as part of the Dept of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art, which brings up some interesting thoughts are the arts and gentrification.
Two articles I recommend reading are
“An Artists’ Guide to Not Being Complicit with Gentrification” (2017) from Hyperallergic
The Fine Art of Gentrification (1984) Deutsche & Gendel Ryan October
Locations:
Unity: map here
March: map here
Date: Sunday, June 28th
Time:
11am-12pm @ sculpture (it doesn’t take an hour to look at one sculpture so leaving sometime to run late, discuss, reflect, and to generally just not rush about)
12pm: head over to Foley Square.
(I’m going to take the 4/5, but walking over the bridge is also an option.)
Full Disclosure:
Art: Outdoors and social-distant compliant: masks on and stay 6ft apart
March (optional) masks on- but not 6ft apart
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Hey GalleryGrrrls!
This month GalleryGRRRLS will be checking out Public Art Fund's installation commission of Farah Al Qasimi's Back and Forth Disco. Qasimi's series of 17 photographs will be installed throughout 100 bus shelters citywide. Let’s check them out. (Note: Although these are bus shelters, walking and biking are recommended transportation to see them)
Outdoors and social-distant compliant: Masks on and stay 6ft apart :)
At about 4:00-4:30 PM I will be checking out ones in Boerum Hill , but check out the ones closest to you!
Locations: https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/backandforthdisco_extended/#section_1
Date: Sunday, May 24
Time: Visit the artwork anytime during the day! (see above)
Zoom happy hour: 5:30pm to share photos and discuss bus stop finding adventures.
(password will be sent the day of)
RSVP: Meetup.com/GalleryGrrrls
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Hey GalleryGrrrls!
So this month is a little non-traditional for gallerygrrrls and involves no real or virtual museums - instead, fictional.
Grab your popcorn for a horror film about the horrors of the art world, Velvet Buzzsaw. This camp-style thriller and satirizes grotesque of the high-end gallery market. Josephine an up and coming gallerist, a friend of art critic Morf, stumbles upon paintings which are as troubled as their depictions.
We will be watching together on Netflix Party, an extension that allows folks to have a chat alongside the movie. In addition to movie commentary, I think it would be fun to hear about your favorite fictional art world characters. (For example, I am a big fan of Bette Porter from Showtime's The L-word)
trailer: https://www.netflix.com/title/80199689
FINE PRINT: you do need a Netflix account, and to add the Nexflix Party extension to Chrome browser. I'll send the party link to all RSVPs at 6pm :)
Netflix party: https://www.netflixparty.com/#intro
Time: 6pm.
RSVP: Meetup.com/GalleryGrrrls
Reminder: there is no fee associated with gallerygrrrls :)
Disclaimer: I have no personal or professional relationship with Netflix,
just thought it would be fun to watch together.
It's 2020 yall and what a time. Since there is there is a pandemic, and art institution calendars are changing drastically, we're going digital this month! So no need to venture any further than your smartphone or computer. (Folks outside NYC- y'all are welcome to pop in to the chat!)
I have a few different digital experiences for you to check out (online) and then I will have a chatroom set up (probz a google hangout unless i can find something a bit better), from 10pm-2pm on March 21st to talk about them :)
In the 90s and the "dot-com" boom, digital art was at its infancy, but is definitive pillar of genre that is considered "New Media" (as opposed to traditional media like painting and sculpture, starting primarily with video art) and has now evolved to encompass AR/VR and gearing up for another 5G evolution.
NOTE: MANY OF THE WORKS IN THE DIGITAL EXPERIENCES BELOW ARE FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE.
Digital Experience 1: The New Museum: First Look: Artists’ VR
-This the first time the New Museum curated an exhibition for the internet only. AR/VR are the newest additions to the New Media family. There are some media requirements for this one see further details on their webpage
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/artists-vrDigital Experience 2: Women on the Edge
-First: This digital zine is very near and dear to GalleryGrrrls. Co Curator and Organizer Amber Dennis was hugely instrumental to the founding of GalleryGrrrls <3
Second: Digital Zines came into the new media fold in the early 2000s.
https://womenontheedge.online/2020/02/07/3/Digital Experience 3: David Zwirner: The Viewing Room
The viewing room is also a newbie to the sphere. This is a way for galleries to get in on digital space. this one is with the galley's presence at Art Basel. (this will be the first time an art fair has a viewing room, high end galleries have had digital viewing rooms since about 2017)
https://www.davidzwirner.com/viewing-room?view=upcomingDigital Experience 4: Google Museums
Woah, okay, when google Museums originally came out, the art world was in a tissy. lots of talk about how "museums are going to be a thing of the past" which is ironic... because they are collections of things from the past...
-im going to check out the Guggenheim Bilbao -but check out any museum of your choosing and i'm really excited to hear your thoughts
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=enDigital Experience 5: The Archive.
This is one of my favorite Archives to date, and has a lot to do with my own personal archival research. Not guna lie the search feature isn't great, so your best off just scrolling and choosing that way.
-Im checking out the 1961 exhibition on Futurism but choose anyone you want and leme know your thoughts!!
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/history
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Hey GalleryGrrrls!
Here is the Plan for February!
Meet at the Noguchi Museum at 2:45pm
(From midtown - its the N/W to Broadway in Queens to the Q104 bus)The Brendan Fernandes performance starts at 3:00pm
Check out the rest of the Museum from 4-5Pm
Drinks at Château le Woof after
RSVP: Meetup.com/GalleryGrrrls
Note: Bus fare is $2.75 and
Admission to the Noguchi Museum is $10
Reminder: there is no fee associated with gallerygrrrls :)
Hey GalleryGrrrls!
mark your calendars for January 16th at 6pm!
first! some gallerygrrrls updates:
all events will now be posted here at maryoleary.nyc.
Thank you to Feminista Social Club for being home for the past two years ♡speaking of two years, GalleryGrrrls turns two this year! come celebrate at Molly Shebeen Pub on January 16th at 9:00p.m.!
♡ thanks for checking out art with me ♡
alright onto Gallery Grrrls 23: Hello Good-bye
there is a lot going on in the photo-world in 2020. we will be saying hello to new kids on the block fotographiska and saying good-bye to aperture foundation's chelsea location. (i was hoping that the new ICP building would be open, but alas, that is a gallery trip for another day.)
Here's the plan:
Date: January 16th
Time: 6pm.Meet at 6:00pm Aperture Foundation closing reception, i am excited to see”The New Black Vanguard”
Then walk down to 24th to catch the M23 bus crosstown
Then check out Fotographiska - i am excited to see Tawny Chatmon "Inheritance" and Ellen von Unwerth "Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women"
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Drinks at Molly Shebeen Pub after (about 9pm) to celebrate GalleryGrrrls’ birthday!!
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RSVP: Meetup.com/GalleryGrrrls
Note: Bus fare is $2.75 and admission to fotographiska is $28
Reminder: there is no fee associated with gallerygrrrls :)