SEASON ONE
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Season ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified
Chapter Four: Feb. 20 – Mar. 17, 2019
arms ache avid aeon: A Symposium takes place Sat. March 2, 1-4 p.m. for more info, please go here.
SEASON ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Chapter Three
Season ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified
Chapter Three: Jan. 18 – Feb. 10, 2019
arms ache avid aeon: A Symposium
arms ache avid aeon: A Symposium
Saturday, March 2, 2019, 1-4 p.m.
Beeler Gallery (60 Cleveland Ave., entrance on E. Gay Street)
The event is free and open to the public. Free parking.
In conjunction with Beeler Gallery’s current season, arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, an afternoon gathering of conversations, critical dialogs and knowledge production in collaboration with the members of queer art collective fierce pussy – Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka. The artists and Gregg Bordowitz, Jill H. Casid, Jonah Groeneboer, Alhena Katsof, Thomas J. Lax, Elisabeth Lebovici, Ian Ruffino, and Jo-ey Tang.
Galleries
Season One
Oct. 2, 2018 – March 17, 2019
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Opening: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018
Artists’ tour with Jo-ey Tang, Director of Exhibitions: 5:30 p.m. Reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Beeler Gallery dedicates Season ONE to the individual art practices of the four original core members of fierce pussy, the New York-based queer art collective – Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yamaoka.
SEASON ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Chapter Two
Season ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified
Chapter Two: Nov. 28, 2018 – Jan. 6, 2019
SEASON ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Chapter One
Season ONE
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified
Chapter One: Oct 2 – Nov 16, 2018
Launch
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Launch: Sunday Nov. 4, 2018 as part of Downtown Art Sunday.
Now: Housed at CCAD Packard Library after Nov. 4, 2018
In the 1970s, American artist Elaine Sturtevant (1924 Lakewood, OH – 2014 Paris, France) began operating an art practice in which she meticulously copied selected works of her male colleagues, as a critique of the culture of the art world in which she was working.
The collaborative research and book acquisition project second shelf (2018-20), initiated by Brussels-based, German artist Heide Hinrichs, explores those influence of that culture on the library of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium, and asks how alternative canons can be generated in the library. The core of the project is the formation of a new collection of books in the library of the Royal Academy that document the work of artists – women, of gender spectrum, queer, and of color – and related theoretical text. This collection of books are also simultaneously acquired through Beeler Gallery’s initiative with Packard Library at Columbus College of Art & Design, and at University of Bristol, UK.
Part of this process of raising awareness is thinking about the creative networks that libraries make evident (and sometimes conceal), and about the economy of art and of publishing. This is being explored through institutional relationships and through the second shelf ‘mirror site’ at the Beeler Gallery and CCAD Packard Library.
Event
Day With(out) Art
Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 | 12-6 p.m.
Screening on a looping presentation
Beeler Gallery screening room
In solidarity with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art, Beeler Gallery presents ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS, which highlights the impact of art in AIDS activism and advocacy today by commissioning compelling short videos from six inspiring community organizations and collectives—ACT UP NY, Positive Women’s Network, Sero Project, The SPOT, Tacoma Action Collective, and VOCAL NY. The program represents a wide range of organizational strategies, from direct action to grassroots service providers to nation-wide movement building, while considering the role of creative practices in activist responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis. This event is free and open to the public.
Event
Tyler Coburn: Richard Roe
A reading and the unveiling of an orchid.
Richard Roe is a multi-part work, comprising an orchid hybrid named by New York-based artist Tyler Coburn and a “memoir” of a legal person. The project builds on a convention particular to Singapore, wherein orchid hybrids are named after politicians and celebrities—in effect, as a means of cultural diplomacy.
Concert
Mx Justin Vivian Bond
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 | 8 p.m.
Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St., Columbus, OH)
“A gender-bending, truth-telling illusionist. The best cabaret artist of [their] generation.” — Hilton Als, The New Yorker
Beeler Gallery presents the first Midwest concert by the queer legend and Tony-nominated Mx Justin Vivian Bond at the historic Southern Theatre. Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans activist and trans-genre artist living in New York City. They are invited by the queer art collective fierce pussy, whose work is on view in arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified at Beeler Gallery.
Event
Downtown Art Sunday 2018
Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018 | 12 – 6 p.m.
Timed to daylight-saving Sunday, this event brings together downtown art spaces for a day of art with special programming.
Angela Meleca Gallery, Appendix, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus Museum of Art, Cultural Arts Center, Hawk Galleries, OSU Urban Art Space, and OAC Riffe Gallery. At Beeler Gallery, programming includes the launch of a book acquisition initiative called second shelf and a Harlem Renaissance prose and poetry reading.
The event is free and open to the public. Coffee provided by Brioso Coffee. Media sponsor: Columbus Underground.
Special programming details for all venues can be found on Downtownartsunday.org
Season One Events
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As part of arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, Beeler Gallery works closely with the artists to conceive public events, to contextualize their practices and affinities.
Additional Events
Season One
Season One includes additional programming informed by the intersection of art and politics, the 2nd edition of An Art Book Affair, and the Visiting Artist & Scholars Series organized in collaboration with CCAD’s Graduate Studies program and CCAD’s Schools of Studio Arts and Design Arts.
An illustration by Henri Mondor for Paul Valery's 1935 book Sea Shells
Event / Publication Launch
The Daily Gentrifier FLYOVER FLYER (Columbus Edition)
Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018 | 2 p.m.
Dushko Petrovich, artist, writer, and Chair of New Arts Journalism at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, is launching The Daily Gentrifier FLYOVER FLYER (Columbus Edition), a publication featuring writing on the current state of art and gentrification in Columbus by local artists, writers and curators, including Marisa Espe, Daniel Marcus, Left Handed Sophie, MINT art collective, James Payne, Liz Roberts, and Maritt Vaessen.
The publication is free. The event is free and open to the public.