STUDIO TRAVELER

WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS GROUP TRIP New York, New York April 4 to 7, 2013

The Warwick is expecting individual group members to arrive the morning of the 7th. If your room is not yet ready, bags can be checked with the front desk.

We are to gather on the 53rd Street side of the Museum of Modern Art lobby across from the admissions desks anytime after 12:30 p.m. If you are a member please remember to bring your membership card.

Important: If you are to arrive later than 12:50 p.m., please be in touch, 336.312.5654 or [email protected].

Thursday, April 4 12:50 p.m. Tour of Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd, NYC

If you wish to travel by taxi to our next stop please be in ‘our’ meeting area in the lobby no later than 2:40 p..m.. For those who wish to walk, please allow 15 minutes transit time.

3:00 p.m. Tour of Playing With Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass, Museum of Art and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NYC

If you wish to travel by taxi to our next stop please be in the lobby no later than 4:35p.m. For those who wish to walk, please allow 20 minutes transit time.

5:00 -6:00p.m. Private collection tour and cocktails

Friday, April 5 Please gather in the lobby as early as 9:00 a.m. and no later than 9:10 a.m. to allow for loading time. The bus will depart promptly at 9:25 a.m. to allow for the hour transit time to Westchester for our scheduled 10:30 a.m. arrival time.

9:00 a.m. Depart from the lobby of the Warwick Hotel, 65 West 54th, NYC

10:30 a.m. Tour of the collection of Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, Westchester, NY

11:45 a.m. Lunch at The Village Social, 251 East Main Street, Mt. Kisco, NY

1:00 p.m. Depart for Queens, NY

2:00 p.m. Studio visit with Leonardo Drew, Queens, NYC

4:00 to 5 :00 p.m. Tour of Nancy Dwyer: Painting and Sculpture, 1982-2012, Fisher Landau Art Center, 38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, NY

6:00 p.m. Estimated return to the Warwick Hotel, 65 West 54th, NYC

Saturday, April 6

If you wish to travel to the Whitney by taxi please be in the Warwick lobby no later than 10:35. If you are a member please remember to bring your membership card.

11:00 a.m. Tour Jay de Feo: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, NYC

Please gather in the lobby no later than 12:45 for travel by taxi to Trestle on Tenth.

1:15 p.m. Lunch at Trestle on Tenth, 242 Tenth Avenue, NYC

We will walk to the Marianne Boesky Gallery in the adjacent block.

2:30 p.m. Gallery and collection visit with Marianne Boesky, 509 West 24th, NYC

If time permits we have also visit other galleries in Chelsea.

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Opening of Lauren Jones Worth at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, #303 210 11th Avenue, NYC

If you wish to join us for a casual group dinner please be in touch, 336.312.5654 or [email protected].

10:00 p.m. After opening celebration at 230 FIFTH, 230 5th Avenue, NYC

Inventing Abstraction 1910 1925 Leah Dickerman curator The show opens with The Chart 350 plus works 1912 Picabia, Kandinsky, Delauney notable for its mixed media including not photography and ‘new’ media but music, dance, needle point, poems… Women well represented Recommended approach: immerse yourself Closes 4/15

Playing with Fire MAD is a center for the collection, preservation, study, and display of contemporary handmade objects in a variety of media, including: clay, glass, metal, fiber, and wood. Formerly American craft museum/museum of contemporary crafts Edward Durell Stone/ Brad Cloepfil

This year, MAD celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of the American Studio Glass movement with Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass, which will feature more than 100 works of glass from the collection, as well as promised gifts, and additional contemporary works on loan. Ever since 1962, when a legendary workshop led by renowned glass artist Harvey Littleton demonstrated the potential of glassblowing as a medium available to individual artists, artists and designers have continually pushed the material in new directions and used the complex, fragile, and highly versatile nature of the material to create an astonishing diversity of works.

50th anniversary of the Studio Glass as championed by Harvey Littleton Historical examples as well as more experimental video relating to production images Steffen Dam Matt Eskuche Clifford Rainey Ayala Serfaty Sandy Skoglund Closes 4/7

Brown/Diefenbach Collection

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #571 Yayoi Kusama, Blue and Green Infinity Net 1967 Carroll Dunham, Portrait (Red Head) Franz Ackermann, FORTEX III - The trail 2007 Tomma Meko Abts, 2006 Olafur Eliasson, Moss valley series 2002 Neo Rauch, Einbruch 2000 Nam June Paik Jazz Infonaut 1995

William Louis-Dreyfus

The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection was started in the early 1960s and is today comprised of more than 3,500 paintings, works on paper and sculptures. Art from the private collection, displayed in museum-quality exhibition space, has been loaned to institutions throughout the United States, England, Germany, France and Italy. Included among the artists are James Castle, Thornton Dial, Rackstraw Downes, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Red Grooms, Catherine Murphy and Bill Traylor.

Leonardo Drew 2009 WAM Show symbolically charged materials as cotton, rope, rags and rust

Arts Fuse Franklin Einspruch…race bears upon his work, its driving force is not so much identity as humanity. In his art…that humanity has two main expressions. The first is a sense of usage and wear, as he puts forms together from lovingly distressed materials that remind the viewer of cherished, weather-beaten objects, things that were preserved in harsh conditions but preserved all the same. The other expression is a concerted grappling with the history of large-scale abstraction

Nancy Dwyer 1982 to 2012 The Fisher Landau Center for Art is a private foundation located in Long Island City, Queens, in , United States. It offers regular exhibitions of contemporary art, open to the public from 12 to 5pm, Thursdays through Mondays. The center, established in 1991, was accessible by appointment only until regular public hours were established in April 2003. The 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2), three-story facility is devoted to the exhibition and study of the contemporary art collection of Emily Fisher Landau. The core of the 1,200-work collection is art from 1960 to the present, including important works by Ellsworth Kelly, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Susan Rothenberg, , and Matthew Barney. Once a parachute-harness factory, the building at 38-27 30th Street in Long Island City was transformed into galleries and a library by the late English architect Max Gordon, designer of the widely-admired Saatchi Collection in London, in collaboration with Bill Katz. A close friend and adviser to Ms. Landau, Mr. Katz also serves as curator for the collection. The center is appointed with furniture by Warren McArthur, a mid-20th century designer of whose work Ms. Landau has collected some 150 examples. Mrs. Emily Fisher Landau, the widow of Martin Fisher and now married to Sheldon Landau, is a principal in the real estate firm of Fisher Brothers. Mrs. Landau is a generous donor to other institutions, notably the Whitney Museum of American Art, where the fourth-floor galleries are named for her, and where she serves on the Board of Trustees. She has also served on the Painting and Sculpture Committee of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Board of Trustees of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. New York art world as a member of . Text driven

Closes 4/7

Jay De Feo First thing to know Jay is a woman Associated with Beats/very heavy process oriented The Rose 12 “ tall 8 years in the making 1958 to 1966

She began painting “The Rose,” originally called “Deathrose,” the same year. Its existence quickly became a local legend. The legend spread to New York when Dorothy Miller, after talent scouting for the Museum of Modern Art, included DeFeo in the 1959 exhibition “Sixteen Americans,” along with up-and-comers like Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Rauschenberg.

This retrospective is the definitive exhibition to date of the work of Jay DeFeo (1929–89). At the outset of her career in the 1950s, DeFeo was at the center of a vibrant community of Beat artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco. Although she is best known for her monumental painting The Rose (1958–66, now in the Whitney’s collection), which she spent eight years making and which later languished hidden behind a wall for two decades, DeFeo created an astoundingly diverse range of works spanning four decades. Her unconventional approach to materials and intensive, physical process make DeFeo a unique figure in postwar American art who defies easy categorization. The full breadth of her work will be presented for the first time in this exhibition of more than 130 objects. This astonishing array of collages, drawings, paintings, photographs, small sculptures, and jewelry will illuminate DeFeo’s courageous experimentation and extraordinary vision.

Marianne Boesky Lisa Yuskavage Takashi Murakami Ted Stamm