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2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Brooklyn Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Bred 2 Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Curated by Martha Wilson Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Featuring: Clifford Owens (Oct 16) Dynasty Handbag (Oct 17) Pablo Helguera (Oct 18) Lighting Design by Lenore Doxsee RUN TIME: Approx 1hr (no intermission) DATES: OCT 16—18 at 7:30 & 9pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Season Sponsor Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. #BROOKLYNBRED BAM Fisher 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL About the Show MARTHA WILSON Curator, Performer (A Forum for Performance Art, Oct 16) Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director who over the past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976 she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion, and preservation of artist books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works. She is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery in New York and has received fellowships for performance art from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Bessie and Obie awards for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression, a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts, a Richard Massey Foundation-White Box Arts and Humanities Award, and in 2013 received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Photo: Martha Wilson by Christopher Milne 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL England, 2014), Anthology: Clifford Owens (Museum of Modern Art Clifford Owens: PS1, 2011—12), and Perspectives A Forum for 173: Clifford Owens (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2011). His Performance Art group exhibitions include Radical Presence: Black Performance in THURSDAY, OCT 16 Contemporary Art (Contemporary Arts Museum, 2012), Greater New Conceived by York 2005 (Museum of Modern Art Clifford Owens PS1, 2005), Freestyle (The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001), and the Performed by traveling exhibition Performance Now Amanda Alfieri (2013—14). He studied at the School Renee Cox of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mason Shaun Leonardo Gross School of Visual Arts Rutgers Clifford Owens University, and the Whitney Museum Martha Wilson Independent Study Program. Owens was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Additional support for this performance Museum in Harlem, and he attended provided by Agnes Gund the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has received SPECIAL THANKS numerous grants and fellowships My sons, Inti Owens and Joaquin including the William H. Johnson Owens, my mother, Betty Owens, Prize, Art Matters grant, a Louis Tiffany Agnes Gund, Christopher Y. Lew, Comfort Award, New York Foundation Daniella Rose King, Lizzie Gorfaine, for the Arts Fellowship, the Rutgers RoseLee Goldberg, Esa Nickle, AC University Ralph Bunche Distinguished Hudgins, Bernard Lumpkin and Graduate Fellowship, and from the Carmine Boccuzzi, Michael Maxwell, New York Community Trust, the Todd Rosenbaum and family, Elia Alba Lambent Foundation. Publications, and Alex Flores, Dawit Petros, Sarah reviews, and interviews about his Riesman, Matthew McNulty, Martha work include The New York Times, Art Wilson, Shaun Leonardo, Amanda +Auction, The Village Voice, Modern Alfieri, Renee Cox, Terry Adkins, and Painters, Art in America, Artforum, Barbara DeGenevieve. The New Yorker, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, The Drama Review, Greater New York 2005, Performa: CLIFFORD OWENS New Visual Art Performance, Artist, Performer Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, and Why Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in Art Photography? He has written for numerous group and solo exhibitions. exhibition catalogues, The New York His solo exhibitions include Better the Times, Artforum, and Performing Arts Rebel You Know (Home, Manchester, Journal. Owens has lectured widely 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL about his art practice. He has been visiting artist faculty and a guest critic RENEE COX at the School of the Art Institute of Artist, Performer Chicago, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Renee Cox is a New York-based Yale University, Harvard University, photographer and mixed-media Princeton University, New York artist who is known for her seminal University, and the University of North presentation of Afro-futuristic Carolina, Chapel Hill. His project, photography. Cox was born in Jamaica “Anthology,” was the subject of a and later moved to New York where solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 and the she received a degree in film studies source for his first book. Owens has from Syracuse University. Cox spent recently completed “Seminar,” a project several years working as a fashion about the pedagogy of performance photographer in Paris, later returning to art at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn; New York where she continued to work “Five Night’s Worth,” in conjunction over the years as a photographer for with Performa13 and the traveling several high-profile fashion magazines. group exhibition “Radical Presence: Contemporary Black Performance”; Cox has used her work to express her “The Kiss” in collaboration with concern and perspectives on social Legacy Russell at Danspace Project issues and religious imagery. One of in New York City; and “Photographs her most notably controversial pieces with an Audience: Philadelphia” and was a photograph titled “Yo Mama’s “Photographs with an Audience: Last Supper” exhibited in 2001. In Manchester.” Owens was born in this work, she recreated Leonardo Da Baltimore, MD in 1971 and lives and Vinci’s iconic “Last Supper” featuring works in NYC. her nude self, sitting in for Jesus Christ surrounded by black disciples. “Yo Mama’s Last Supper” has since AMANDA ALFIERI been referenced in several scholarly Artist, Performer publications and discussed in lectures around the world. Amanda Alfieri is a performance artist from Los Angeles. She received Finding the inspiration for her work her MFA from Columbia University from her own life experiences, Cox has in 2013. In 2008 she attended the used her own body to represent her Skowhegan School of Sculpture and criticisms of society and to celebrate Painting. In 2011 she was possessed and empower women. In 2006 Cox by Tupac Shakur, and in 2012 she was exhibited her series “Queen Nanny a semi-finalist in the casting process of the Maroons” at the Jamaican for the reality TV show Survivor. Biennale shown at the National Gallery of Jamaica. The body of work was awarded the Aaron Matalon Award, the highest honor given to any artist exhibited. One of the works from the 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL show, “Red Coat,” has traveled to museums as part of the Caribbean: SHAUN LEONARDO Crossroads of the World exhibition, Artist, Performer including the Perez Art Museum Miami (2014) and the Studio Museum in Shaun Leonardo, a Brooklyn-based Harlem (2012). artist originally from Queens, is a multidisciplinary artist who uses Cox has been featured in other modes of self-portraiture as a means to museum exhibitions including the convey the complexities of masculine Spelman Museum of Fine Art (2013), identity while questioning preconceived Wadsworth Atheneum (2008), Nasher notions of manhood. The portraits take Museum of Art at Duke (2006), the form of cutout paintings, drawings, Brooklyn Museum (2001), Institute of and sculptures, and are brought to Contemporary Art in Boston (1996), life through performance. He received and Whitney Museum of American Art his MFA from the San Francisco Art (1993), among others. Institute and has received awards from Skowhegan School of Painting and Cox’s work was recently featured in Sculpture, New York Studio School, “Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Contemporary Carribean Photography” Art Matters, New York Foundation as part of the Contact Photography for the Arts, McColl Center for Visual Festival (Toronto, Canada, 2014). Art, Franklin Furnace, and the Jerome Her latest body of work, “Sacred Foundation. His work has been Geometry,” consists of digitally presented in galleries and institutions manipulated black and white portraits internationally along with recent solo that display self-similar patterns. exhibitions in NYC, and is featured Executed with precision, the works in the current exhibition Crossing create sculptural kaleidoscopes of Brooklyn at Brooklyn Museum. the human body while exploring the elcleonardo.com power of symbols as elements of collective imagination. The inspiration for “Sacred Geometry” comes from PING WANG fractals, the centuries old mathematical Photographer, Digital Media Assistant concept used by many ancient African cultures. Ping Wang was born and raised in Beijing and lives and works in NYC. “Sacred Geometry” has also been the Wang is a recent graduate of the result of Cox’s embrace of the digital One Year Conservatory Program in world. Bridging the gap between the Photography at the New York Film old and new technology has brought Academy in New York City. His on new challenges and endless photographic works evidence a delicate possibilities. Work from the new series balance between Eastern and Western will be part of an exhibition in Miami visual culture, resulting in a personal later this year. style characterized by drama and restraint. His emotional sensitivity 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL drives him to focus on the subtleties of arts, and their points of intersection. light, architecture, and the moments When he’s not in school, he works that often go unobserved. as a freelance art handler and writer Who’s in New York.