Artist Talk, Geary

Please join us for a closing reception and artist talk with featured artist, Brigitta Varadi this Saturday, July 29th at 2pm. 
Varadi will talk about her project, Permission To Be, Hunia, which explores a largely unknown, ethnically and linguistically distinct people, the Carphato-Rysyns. The Carphato-Rysyns live in remote villages in the Carpathian Mountains of East Central Europe and have a unique and compelling history. She will also discuss their immigration to work in Pennsylvania's steel mills and coal mines (1880-1920).
The project is a continuation of Varadi’s investigation into disappearing traditions. Varadi explores the Carpatho-Rusyns' through her work Hunia, which was a traditional wool coat that was at the center of the Carpatho-Rusyns' mountain lives. Brigitta draws attention to this small ethnic group, while evoking her memories of many childhood Summer stays with her great-grandfather in Tyushka, a small mountain village in Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
Hunia was made and the performance segments were filmed in different outdoor locations on MacDowell's grounds. #MadeAtMacDowell @Macdowell1907

Geary gallery, Who's to say I am awake; are you?

WHO’S TO SAY I AM AWAKE; AREY OU? 

CURATED BY TARA FOLEY

JUNE10TH-JULY 30TH 2023

Who’s To Say I Am Awake; Are You? asks the question about the state of consciousness today. What is currently rising to visibility from our unconscious minds?

For Carl Jung, consciousness is like a small island in the ocean of the unconscious, while the unconscious is part of the primordial condition of humankind. Jung explains various methods for uncovering the contents of the unconscious, talk therapy, dream analysis and art making.

The works of these 19 artists explore the conscious and unconscious mind, sleeping and waking states, inner and outer worlds, things we see and don't see, what we hide and what we show the world. Art holds the implicit power to awaken, stir and provoke through the innumerable ways that it charts the unknown; through representations of buried and hidden histories alongside meticulously mapped and dissected versions of reality. Artworks manifest slices of reality that are deliberately not at the forefront of consciousness in order to push the unforeseen forward.

Featuring work by:

Paul Anagnostopoulos, Aisha Tandiwe Bell-Caldwell, Theresa Daddezio, Mark Joshua Epstein, Tara Foley, Henry Klimowicz, KK Kozik, Kirstin Lamb, Marta Lee, Loraine Lynn, Azikiwe Mohammed, Lucha Rodriguez, Kat Ryals, Saki Sato, Nikko Sedgwick, DARNstudio, Brigitta Varadi, Erik White, Jack Wood

Markings-Solo Show at the Westbeth Gallery, NYC

Contemplating OTHER: I know you are, You know I am

Gallery Route One

Invited Artists: Alice Escott, Linda Guenste, Brigitta Varadi,
Curated by Patricia Watts
Thursday, December 21 through Sunday, January 28
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 21, 3 - 5 PM, Artists' Talk, 2:30 - 3 PM
Salon: Sunday, January 28 4 to 5 PM

In Contemplating OTHER, three artists reflect on human-animal relationships. Selected by Curator
Patricia Watts, artists Alicia Escott, Linda Guneste, and Brigitta Varadi examine how our human
relationship with animals has dramatically altered over time. As world populations continue to rise
and as wild spaces are reduced due to human encroachments, our heightened interactions with
animals expand our awareness of both ourselves and other. As individuals, our consciousness of the
boundaries between humans and animals ultimately determines our own fate as a species. Having
become dependent on animals for psychological and nutritional needs, human beings don't often
know where the self ends and the other begins.

Press: Marin Arts, Arts and Culture Guide , Ecoartspace, Marin Magazine, Sonoma Index-Tribune, SFGate, San Francisco Eventful

Bare Root

A group exhibition presenting eleven artists whose work explore rural environments and the points where nature and the man-made intersect. Exhibition curated by Catherine Bowe.

Wexford County Buildings
​23rd October - 1st December 2017 
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​Exhibition Reception:
Friday 20th October at 6.00pm at Wexford County Council Buildings, Carricklawn

Guest Speaker: Curator, Anya von Gosseln

All welcome, refreshments and food served.

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​The Arts Department of Wexford County Council in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre are delighted to present Bare Root, a group exhibition exploring rural and farmyard environments, and the points where nature and the man-made intersect. Situated in the County Buildings, Bare Root features the work of artists including Frank Abruzzese, Michael Canning, Els Dietvorst, Michael Fortune, Janet Mullarney, Rosie O’Gorman, Helen Robbins, Blaise Smith, Brigitta Varadi, Michael Wann and Katie Watchorn.​

Download brochure:Bare Root (pdf)

Press:Irish Times, Wexford County Council Art Collection

SOHO20

For over 40 years, SOHO20 has been supporting the work of women in the arts, and we invite you to help us celebrate! SOHO20 is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 from 6-9PM, we will be hosting a benefit auction at our gallery space and Studio 10, both located in the 56 Bogart building in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Both an artwork auction and party, this event will be a celebration of our first, very successful year in the heart of the emerging Brooklyn art scene, and will also support our programming for the year to come.

SOHO20 Gallery + Studio 10
56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn NY, 11206

On the occasion of our very first benefit auction in our new gallery space, we will be honoring Martha Wilson.

Martha Wilson (b. 1947) is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae. She began making these videos and photo/text works in the early 1970s while in Halifax in Nova Scotia, and further developed her performative and video-based practice after moving in 1974 to New York City. In 1976 she founded and continues to direct Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion and preservation of artists’ books, installation art, video, online and performance art, further challenging institutional norms, the roles artists play within society, and expectations about what constitutes acceptable art mediums. She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and an Obie Award and a Bessie Award for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression. She is represented by P•P•O•W gallery in New York City.

What if we got it wrong?

Opening Reception: Friday 16th September, 2016, 5pm -10pm

What If We Got It Wrong? is a touring group exhibition of 15 Irish or Irish-based artists engaged in issues of climate change produced by the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the lead up to the international COP21 Climate Conference in Paris in December 2015. What If We Got It Wrong? - as the performance-poet Lemn Sissay asks us - in measuring progress by levels of industrialisation, expansion and accumulation? A focal point of the exhibition is the ice and waters of the Arctic, veritable barometers of the catastrophic effects of this ‘progress’, with a further important strand being geopolitics and its direct links to questions of energy and biodiversity. Video and multi-media installations, photography, works on paper and canvases bring the complexities and implications of climate change to the fore in works by Emily Robyn Archer, George Bolster, Mark Clare, Alice Clark, Blaise Drummond, Seamus Dunbar, John Gerrard, Andrew Kearney, Susan Leen, Ruth Le Gear, Christine Mackey, Anna Macleod, Selma Makela, Seamus Nolan, Softday and Brigitta Varadi. 

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with essays by Nora Hickey M’Sichili (Curator), Frank McDonald, Darragh McKeon and Katherine Waugh. 

What if We Got it Wrong? toured during 2016 to F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge, N. Ireland; Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford; Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton and finally will show at West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen opening on the 29 October.

LSC Gallery hours: Monday to Saturday 11am - 4pm.

More info: Leitrim Sculpture Centre

(Contained) | chaNorth Residents, curated by Lauren Smith

September 8 – September 17, 2016

266 W 37th Street
New York, NY
(between 7th and 8th ave.)

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 8th, 6-8pm

Through the use of painting, sculpture, found objects, and performance, (Contained) examines those tensions which arise from internal and external limitations. Residents and alumni of chashama’s chaNorth Residency address the concept of “containment,” in dialogue with time, space, and identity. The exhibition features work by Meredith Walker, Sophie Bortolussi, Gian Luigi Braggio, Donna Cleary, Timothy Lee, Margaret Lee, Lanelle Pintal, Peter Fulop, Bill Pagano, Brigitta Varadi, Lauren Smith, and Katya Grokhovsky.

About chaNorth
chaNorth is chashama’s New York State artist residency aimed at providing a nourishing, focused environment for emerging artists and writers, as they continue their committed practices. The program offers an opportunity for 5-6 emerging artists to remove themselves from the typical demands of daily life and immerse themselves in a creative live/work space for four weeks. chaNorth is located on five acres of sprawling meadow, adjacent to hundreds of acres of undeveloped woods in the scenic Hudson Valley. 

What if we got it wrong

What if we got it wrong?  

In association with Centre Cultural Irlandais and the Wexford Arts Centre

A group exhibition presenting fifteen artists whose work explores the impacts on the environment of our society and globalised economy. 
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Wexford County Council 
10th June - 29th July 2016

 

​Exhibition Opening
guest speaker French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault 
Thursday 9th June at 11am. 

ArtSlant Juried Winner

'Noel Ruana' has been selected as a Juried winner in the Painting Category of the ARTslant 1st 2016 Prize. HUGE THANKS to Jurors: Lynnette Miranda and Nathaly Charria! 

PAINTING: Brigitta Varadi, Noel Ruane, 2015; Abstract: Trixie Pitts, A little Rain, 2016; Mixed Media:Amin Roshan, Ancestors, 2013; Drawings:Terry Arena, Feed:Chives, 2015; New Media: Carolyn Frischling, Quidditas #selfie III., 2016

Lynnette Miranda is a latina curator and writer from Miami, FL. She has six years of experience working at leading art institutions such as MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, ART21, and Creative Time. In 2015, she coordinated three art conferences, including The Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum at the Venice Biennale, and ART21’s Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art + Education at the Park Avenue Armory. She received an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2012, she has curated exhibitions at ACRE Projects, Mana Contemporary Chicago, and Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space. Miranda is also the founder and director of MAKE-SPACE.NET, an artist-run online platform and curatorial initiative that explores the practices of experimental contemporary artists through an intersectional lens. She regularly writes about contemporary studio methodologies on MAKE-SPACE.NET, and has previously written for Hyperallergic and this is tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine. Miranda has recently been selected as the 2016-2018 Curator in Residence at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO. 

Nathaly Charria is a consultant, curator, and art world connector with a decade of experience in Miami, Los Angeles, and New York. She heads Natology Project. From developing and marketing artists, niche and luxury brands to producing and curating exhibitions, collections, and editorial content, her diverse background is custom-tailored for each client. Charria has been a part of building influential artists such as FriendsWithYou, Millie Brown, and David Jay. She has also worked, in various capacities, with American Express, Volkswagen, Sanrio. Charria's recent collaborators include Pulse Art Fair, Rocket In My Pocket, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami Design District, and The Standard Hotel. 

Sugar and Scale and all things frail

Gemma Tipton review on Exhibition ' Et Si On S’Était Trompé?/What If We Got It Wrong?, curated by Nora Hickey M’Sichili director of  Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI) in Paris.

Irish Times, 4th November 2016 

In conjunction with the Semaine des cultures étrangères

Et si on s’était trompé ?

Artists:

George Bolster, Mark Clare, Alice Clark, Blaise Drummond, Seamus Dunbar, John Gerrard, Andrew Kearney, Susan Leen, Ruth Le Gear, Christine Mackey, Selma Makela, Anna Macleod, Seamus Nolan, Emily Robyn Archer, Softday (Sean Taylor & Mikael Fernstrom), Brigitta Varadi. 

This exhibition presents some sixteen artists whose work explores the impacts on the environment of our society and globalised economy. Et si on s’était trompé ? What if we got it wrong ?, as the performance-poet Lemn Sissay asks us (see below), in measuring progress by levels of industrialisation, expansion and accumulation. The ice and water of the Arctic, veritable barometers of the catastrophic effects of this “progress”, form one of the key elements of this exhibition. A further important strand is geopolitics and its direct links to questions of energy and biodiversity. Video and multi-media installations, photography, works on paper and canvases bring the complexities and implications of climate change to the fore in the lead up to the United Nations Conference in Paris. This exhibition is curated by Nora Hickey M’Sichili, director of CCI and will tour to Ireland in 2016.

In partnership with the Finnish Institute, Raimo S will be screened and presented by Nestori Syrjälä and Antti Majava on the evening of the vernissage. A Breakfast talk will take place on 26 September at 11am in the presence of the artists and La Ruche qui dit Oui ! who distribute weekly baskets of local produce. Book now. Watch performance-poet Lemn Sissay peforming “What if we got it wrong?” Read Darragh McKeon’s essay, specially commissioned by CCI to accompany the exhibition. In conjunction with this exhibition, CCI and the Skellig Foundation are organising "Skellig Sessions - 2015” Climate Change: Thinking about Solutions – a series of talks and discussions in November chaired by Lara Marlowe, The Irish Times correspondent in Paris. 

This exhibition is part of the annual Week of Foreign Cultures organised by FICEP (Forum of foreign institutes in Paris) of which the CCI is a member. The theme for 2015 is “Our environments”; for details of the full programme running from 25 September to 4 October 15, check the FICEP website: www.ficep.info

Images: Anna McLeod et Blaise Drummond

Press:

News Art Today , LE CURIEUX DES ARTS , Slash/Paris

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MarkingS

Opening Reception 5 pm 10th April 2015,

Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co.Leitrim

Exhibition runs until Monday 27th April 2015.

Exhibition and Residency Fellowship supported by the Leitrim Sculpture Centre and the Arts Council of Ireland, Leitrim County Council.

Curator Sean O'Reilly 

The MARKINGS exhibition at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre gathers together and explores the different marks used by farmers to identify their sheep in the North West region. Works made with local wool are accompanied by a short video that explains the different markings, their meanings and symbolic use. Creating a dialogue with farmers and place the project opens on to a broader reflection concerning the signs and forms of identification humans use to identify animals, plants and territories. 

Brigitta Varadi is recepient of the Leitrim Sculpture Centre Fellowship Award 2015.

 

Please read more: Visual Artists Ireland & Leitrim Sculpture Centre

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Celestial Sunset

NARS FOUNDATION ANNUAL BENEFIT & SILENT AUCTION

Wednesday, April 22, 2014 - NARS Foundation, 201 46th Street, 4th Floor, Sunset Park, Brooklyn 

Partcipating Artists

Arenas, Jose Batt, Brian Beck, Caitlin Bochenska, Ewelina Bors, Chris Coleman Izzo, Ellen Cook, Andrea Cunningham, Colleen Daugherty, Shannon Dwyer, Jennifer Ewaskio, Annie Fragoudaki, Maria Gaither, David Gambier, Veronique Goh, Tai Hwa Grimyser, Jennifer Grokhovsky, Katya Hall, Ronald Ioannida, Ketta Jinno, Tadasuke

Jung, Saya Da Katsias, Staci Kazmierska, Karolina Kim, Jena H Kim, Jinhong King, Locke Klinghoffer, Rachel Kuehn, Frances Kuo, Ming-Jer Kwon, Jonghyun Largey, Kim Lee, Dong Hee Lee, Zaun Lund, Brian Miller, Tracey O'Neill, Joseph Oren, Ann Park, Jin Kang Revens, Marcie

Riley, Marcie Rivas, Jorge Schmidt-Hackenberg, Kadie Shimizu, Yoko Shin, Soyeon Smith, Krista Song, Zin Helena Stinemetz, Brian Sun, Haechang Tal, Lee Thailing, Eric Touron, Nicolas Treizman, Denise Van Eenoo, Cedric Varadi, Brigitta Wang, Yefeng Yeon Woo, Joo Yoon, Joo

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A Dyeing Art

Upcoming selected show 'A Dyeing Art' at the Spartanburg Art Museum, South Caroline 
September 29th, 2015 - January 14th, 2016

artists:
Heather Deyling, Xia Gao, Jeana Eve Klein, Maggie Leininger, Tasha Lewis, Carole Loeffler, Diane Ramos, Krista Svalbonas, Brigitta Varadi

Review by Debrecen Boglarka, HVG-Muerto

http://hvg.hu/hvgmuerto/20150304_Megjelent_a_Muerto_marciusi_lapszama

'in conversation'

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LOCIS Seminar

THE DOCK, CARRICK ON SHANNON, CO. LEITRIM
Friday 28^th and Saturday 29^th November 2014

The two-year Locis programme concludes at the end of November with a seminar on Saturday 29^th preceded the Friday evening before with a tour of the exhibition LOCAL by the five artists participating in the 2014 residency in Ireland and a talk about the historical context which underpins the work.

Chaired by critic and lecturer Declan Long the seminar on Saturday features – Natalia Cieślak; Dobrila Denegri ; Sarah Kim; Joanne Laws; Audrey Keane; Sam Moore; Sasa Nabergoj; Seamus Nolan; Joanna Sandell; Anik See; Dominic Stevens; Johan Thurfjell; and Aleksandra Wasilkowska.

The five artists who are taking part in this year’s Locis residency in Ireland – Johan Thurfjell, Julia Adzuki, Linda Shevlin, Brigitta Varadi and Karolina Żyniewicz introduce the background to their work and the resultant exhibition LOCAL.

see more details http://locis.eu/seminar/

LOCAL

http://locis.eu/locis-2014/ireland-2014/ 

An exhibition by Johan Thurfjell, Julia Adzuki, Linda Shevlin, Brigitta Varadi and Karolina Żyniewicz

'EXIT'

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