EXHIBITIONS
C. Finley
SINCE FOREVER
AMR presents a bold and colorful solo show of C. Finley’s art with many works harkening back to the artist’s early, provocative, lesbian-forward career when she began her exploration of imagery, mythology and symbolism prevalent in her work today.
Opening: October 17, 2024; 6 - 8pm , with artist talk at 7pm.
OCTOBER 17 — DECEMBER 1, 2024
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6-8pm / Opening Reception
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AMR Art Dumbo
53 Bridge Street, ste. 706 (7th fl), Brooklyn, NY 11201Open by Appointment
+1 (929) 813 0891
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Finley, Founder and Curator of the Every Woman Biennial is known for her elaborate paintings and intense use of color, monumental murals, multi-disciplinary collaborations, and her activism through urban art interventions, including her acclaimed Wallpapered Dumpsters. As the creator of the Every Women Biennial—formerly the Whitney Houston Biennial, 2014 to 2021, she exhibited over 1,200 female-identifying and non-binary artists in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The result was an interdisciplinary explosion of art hung salon style. By presenting such a rich variety—from paintings to performances, sculptures and flash mobs—the Every Women Biennial is a social practice artwork in itself. In an exceptionally radical act for such a grand-scale exhibition, not a single artist who submitted work was turned away—no one was rejected. Her art and public works produce the conditions needed to change our world, encouraging other artists to create alongside her in spaces defined by vibratory beauty where all are welcome to glimpse the utopia that is already present, that we need only lean into.
Finley has shown internationally and her work has been featured in the The New York Times, La Repubblica, Dazed, Fast Company, Women’s Wear Daily, LALA, and more.
Liz Liguori
// SPECIAL PROJECT
WHERE WE MEET
SEPTEMBER 5—
OCTOBER 18, 2024
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5:30pm September 24, 2024
Staniar Gallery, Lexington, VA. -
Staniar Gallery
Washington and Lee University
204 W Washington Street
Lexington, VA 24450
Liz Liguori (b. 1979) is a contemporary New York-based artist whose work explores the infinite expressions of light. With process and experimentation as her touchstones, her work blends traditional art-making methods with original technologies developed by the artist.
Since first developing her art-making process in 2011, Liguori has been using light and photochemistry to challenge the assumptions and conventions of art.
Comprising all new works, Where We Meet explores light as painting and sculpture.
Curated by Annabelle Rinehart at Staniar Gallery
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Liguori invented a technique of “painting” with light and photochemistry and fabricated equipment to produce large-scale works spanning over ten feet. Liguori’s “light paintings” use a cameraless darkroom process in which she exposes photosensitive paper with a single-frequency light source. Liguori manually bends and manipulates the light, using modifiers—such as prisms, diffraction gratings, water, glass lenses, and even broken bits of vintage technology—to create compositions of chance and magic that explore the essence of the photographic medium in the manner of abstract expressionism. Each print records an ephemeral moment of light moving through space, revealing truths about nature often unseen by the human eye.
Liguori started experimenting with hand-held light manipulation during her early career as a lighting designer in the NYC Nightlife scene. Her live, one-of-a-kind laser performances took the dance floor experience to a new immersive level. Her extensive background as a photographer, along with her academic pursuits in creative technologies, contribute to the distinct multi-disciplinary flavor of Liguori’s work.
In a return to her Nightlife roots, Liguori has recently integrated live performance into her “light painting” process, collaborating with musicians including Suso Saiz, Nathan Davis, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Liguori’s most recent sculptural work utilizes a parabolic mirror outfitted with a sound induction system to translate audio frequencies (through water) into an optical waveform.
Liguori’s work has been presented in New York City at the La MaMa Galleria, 222 Bowery Art, Lazy Susan Gallery, Haven Arts, and Fridman Gallery. Other selected exhibits include Abakus Projects (Boston, MA), The Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Jordan Faye Contemporary (Baltimore, MD), The Gallery at Serenbe (Palmetto, GA), Science Museum of Western Virginia, and The Armory Gallery (Blacksburg, VA). Liguori’s artwork is highlighted in the book The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Artists in Locale, to which she also contributed an essay on her process. She holds an MFA in Creative Technologies from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a BA in Studio Art from Drew University.State University and a BA in Studio Art from Drew University.
Miriam Cabessa
MAKING OF A DREAM
JULY 11—
AUGUST 15, 2024
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July 11th from 6-9pm
7pm, Artist talk moderated by journalist and author, Anya Kamenetz
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AMR Art Dumbo
53 Bridge Street, ste. 706 (7th fl), Brooklyn, NY 11201Open by Appointment
+1 (929) 813 0891
A special presentation of new artworks by Miriam Cabessa opened on July 11th with an artist talk moderated by journalist and author, Anya Kamenetz.
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Miriam Cabessa is an Israeli American painter, winner of the 2022 Israeli Ministry of Culture Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Arts.
Her works are held in the collections of the British Museum in London, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, Texas State University, Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles, America University Museum in Washington DC, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among many others.
Cabessa was born in Morocco, raised in Israel and maintains studios in New York and Tel Aviv. Cabessa’s slow action painting has been internationally recognized since 1997 when she represented Israel at the Venice Biennale.
Over the past two decades, she has abstained from using brushes, opting to make marks with objects and her body. Her imagery ranges from organic to mechanistic with surfaces that are both haptically handmade and digitally serene.
Miriam Cabessa's work has been shown extensively in the U.S., Europe, and Israel in solo and group exhibitions, and is held in international private and public collections.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS2023 Lifetime Achievement Award in Visual Arts, Israel Ministry of Culture
2022 The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv
2001 International Studio & Curatorial Program, sponsored the NY Cultural
Corporation Commission
1995 Arts Prize for Young Artists, Ministry of Arts and Science
1995 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
1994 Scholarship from the American Israeli Cultural Foundation
1990 Scholarship from the American Israeli Cultural Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONSThe British Museum, London, UK
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, U.S.A
American University Museum, Washington DC, U.S.A
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, U.S.A
Frederick R Weisman Art foundation, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A
Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection, Israel
The Vera & Arturo Schwartz Collection of Contemporary Art at the Tel Aviv Museum
Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
Knesset Israel (Israeli Parliament) Collection