He was lifelong member of the Yates Baptist Church and loved God and his country. In his spare time, Dean enjoyed antiquing, painting, making baskets and caning chairs, but most of all, he enjoyed spending time with his family. A funeral service will be held on Thu. Main St. Burial will be in the Lynhaven Cemetery with full military honors.
Please light a candle or share a memory of Dean at: www. Kenneth J. Heinz, 65, of Middleport passed away Nov. He was born Sept. Kenny was an accomplished artist, enjoyed watching movies and going to the Lockport YMCA to watch boxing tournaments.
Kenny had a big heart and loved to socialize. In addition to his parents, Kenny is predeceased by his sister-in-law, Tina and niece, Debbie. He is survived by his brother, Dennis, along with several cousins and many friends.
Private interment will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. To share a special memory of Kenny, please visit: www. Ronald W. Ronald graduated from Lyndonville High School and he enjoyed everything that had to do with sports. He also enjoyed his cats and doing crossword puzzles. Most of all, Ronald enjoyed the time spent with his loving companion, Lisa Thompson. Also surviving are several aunts, uncles, and nieces and nephews.
There are no calling hours. A memorial service will be held in June of and will be announced closer to the date. Please light a candle or share a memory of Ronald at: www. Bonnie Joyce Rosenbaum, 62, of Albion passed away on Mon. Rosenbaum was born Oct. She enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren and raising dogs and tropical fish.
Bonnie is survived by her husband, Alan H. There will be no visitation. Services will be held privately at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Please leave a condolence, share a story, or light a candle at: www. Marion Schwenk, 88, of Kendall passed away Nov.
Private services at the convenience of the family. In , Shirley graduated from Lyndonville High School and on August 27, , she married Todd Underwood and together they raised two children, making their home on the Ridge. She worked for the former Fisher-Price, Baxter and lastly for the family business, Underwood Electronics. Shirley enjoyed gardening, camping, reading and feeding her chipmunks. Most of all, She enjoyed spending time with her family.
Shirley is survived by her husband of 38 years, Todd A. Besides her parents, she is predeceased by a brother, William Green and a sister, Marilyn Eisenhauer. Burial will be in Acacia Park Cemetery. Box , Albion, NY Please light a candle or share a memory of Shirley at: www.
Paul E. Moden, 63, of Medina, entered into rest unexpectedly on Mon. Born Aug. Paul graduated from Medina High School in the class of Shortly after graduating he joined the U.
A hard worker, Paul drove semi truck for many years. He worked for Elpay Farms and was known to be able to fix just about anything. Most of all Paul enjoyed spending time hunting, fishing and racing with his grandchildren.
Calling hours will be held on Thu. Ray R. Hartman, 92, of Albion died Nov. Prior to the ministry, Ray was an engineer for the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. He was an excellent mechanic and also worked with his brother-in-law as an apiculturist or beekeeper.
Ray was a kind, gentle and caring man and will be greatly missed by many in the community. There will be no prior calling hours. Private services and interment will be held at the convenience of the family. To share a special memory of Ray, please visit: www. Josette M. Lauze, 78, of Lyndonville, NY, passed away on Mon. Her short texts range from inflammatory to personal and relate to issues like feminism, poverty, and AIDS, or to no issues at all.
The only way I could write was by pretending to be any number of people. That gave me enough shelter to show what inevitably was personal, but also to have the content be for and about others—since I was busy being somebody else.
Link: For an article about Jenny Holzer in Interview magazine, click here. This march at the site, led by the prominent architect Philip Johnson, proved to be a seminal moment in the history of the landmarks preservation movement. Just fifteen months later, the demolition began. I love industrial archaeology—they call it industrial archaeology—bridges, aqueducts, the glass and iron railroad stations in England.
I felt that the architectural profession—not just a few architects—but the profession owed it to their own history to do something about it. It was equivalent to the late Nineteenth Century train sheds of Paris, which, by the way, Napoleon III called les parapluies de Paris, the umbrellas of Paris, which they were.
This duality gave great vitality to the experience of entering and going through Penn Station. Link: To read an oral history from Diana Goldstein, click here. Link: To read an oral history from Norval White, click here. These objects serve as personal signifiers of identity, while also exploring the greater economic structures at play in culture and consumption.
They are digitally printed images on fabric sheets that I cut out and sew onto a plush foam base. A Still Life is a genre of painting as well as an anthropological artifact.
Link: To read an interview with Lucia Hierro in Flaunt magazine, click here. Link: To watch a video interview of Lucia Hierro, click here. He created a visual language not only as something to enjoy, but as a means of spreading messages about global and social issues.
A number of his works include powerful visual statements about safe sex, AIDS awareness, apartheid, climate change and even the dangers of our increasing addiction to technology. Haring began his career as a graffiti artist, carrying his black marker with him everywhere, and creating simple cartoonish and surreal drawings outdoors for everyone to see. Beginning in , he made thousands of chalk drawings on empty black spaces in the subways.
Because he worked without permission on public property, he learned how to draw rapidly and with an economy of lines so he could finish an image before being caught by patrolling police. He showed up one day with ladders and paints and completed the mural in one day. Unfortunately, the popular mural warning against the use of the addictive narcotic, crack, suffered from three decades of decay. However, it has been restored and very recently reclaimed its bright colors and important proclamation.
Also in , Haring opened his Pop Shop on Lafayette Street in Soho where inexpensive items like mugs, posters, and t-shirts bearing his art were sold. He believed this was an appropriate extension of his opposition to the traditional view that art should be restricted to expensive galleries and museums and should be made accessible to all people. Here, he has eschewed the traditional use of canvas and instead bought rolls of relatively cheap oaktag paper to work on. Individuality speaks for the individual and makes him a significant factor.
Art is individuality. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. Link: To see the website of the Haring Foundation, click here. Link: To see the article about Keith Haring from Tate museum, click here. There he began producing cartoon-like pictures of crudity and violence giving rise to a new artistic vocabulary called Neo-Expressionism. This return to figuration permitted charged—often satirical—political content, reflective of a divided, war-weary nation in a year of presidential impeachment.
Some painters of the abstract movement — my colleagues, friends, contemporaries — refused to talk to me. Link: For a biography of Philip Guston on artnet , click here. They wear gorilla masks to maintain individual anonymity and to direct focus on the issues. Originally, they organized to challenge collectors, curators, dealers, and critics for their exclusion of women artists from mainstream institutions and publications.
Membership in the group has been replenished over the years. As their reputation has grown, the Guerrilla Girls, still wearing their masks, have taken up issues beyond the art community. This poster visually represents the stark pay gap between men and women.
Link: For an article about the Guerrilla Girls from the Tate museum, click here. Link: For a video interview with the Guerrilla Girls, click here. Green surrounds her subjects with overgrown fields and forests of vibrant color and defies presumptions of where people of color belong in urban settings. Green often invites her subjects to choose the setting for the photoshoot from among their favorite parks or even in their own lovingly planted gardens, another subversion of the perceived disconnect between people of color and Nature.
When I first started talking about the concept, one of my former classmates asked me how this work would differ from images of slavery. The fact that that was his only framework for imagining black people in nature was exactly what stirred me to make my first portraits. In , she created the Just Above Midtown JAM , a West 57 th Street art gallery and creative workshop dedicated to African American and other artists of color with limited opportunity elsewhere. The Food initiative brings together gardeners, farmers, food preparers, community wellness staff, and artists to teach local students and young mothers why and how fresh foods advance healthy living.
Such educational outreach allows participants to take these new skills back to their home communities, spawning sustainable, citizen-operated food initiatives that will improve public health, provide employment, and stimulate local economies. Linda Goode Bryant is working in Partnership with Gracie Mansion to provide content for the Greenhouse, including seasonal grade tours, student camps, and onsite training for communities on healthy cooking, eating, and lifestyles.
Garden programs will be accompanied by select artist projects and workshops. Hell no. But I figured it out. Creating what we need. Through the disappearance and regeneration of the candy spill, the installation embodies the cyclical nature of time, and the ways that specific histories wane and recur in our collective memory. In this work, visitors are invited to take a piece of candy and eat it, and the pile is continually restocked to maintain its approximate ideal weight.
Mimicking the color scheme of the American flag, the work references the newspaper USA Today, a widely circulated daily journal that is generally regarded as following a practice of reductive journalism, making the news convenient and easily digestible. Link: For information about a different version of this work by Felix Gonzalez Torres at the Hammer Museum, click here.
He then adds another hybrid layer of pop culture lyrics rendered in his self-designed lettering style. I would commission them to make parts of my sculptures because they had skills I did not. I would hear how beading saved their lives, how dancing, how drumming stopped them from doing drugs and alcohol.
These designs were ceremonial, owned, and passed down.. These artists were instead encouraged to paint with earthy pigments on natural materials such as hide or bark.
The belief was that art by Native artists could only sell if it was recognizably Native in its content and material, simultaneously exotic and traditional. Deeply concerned by the destructive effects of climate change on the natural world, Freelander captured natural wonders in resin, steel, and concrete, offering artistic durability to threatened resources.
Geologic thinking offers an alternative to the climatologically destructive anthropocentric viewpoint, asserting the ultimate [im]permanence of us, and of Earth. I traveled to Antarctica and Iceland recently — both during the summer seasons — to explore the emotional implications of climate change on those landscapes. I was really excited about making a sunrise or a sunset that would be here physically forever.
The ice caps will melt, we will die, and our bodies will decompose, but our iPhones and the climatological damage imparted by them will last forever.
Their inevitable presence in the fossil record will come to signify humanity, and we will be immortalized through our discarded technological artifacts. How can I express my deep appreciation and awe for these landscapes without destroying them? How can I communicate to them my love, my respect? By becoming as vulnerable as possible, I hope to convince the Arctic of my genuine intentions, despite my participation in climate change as a carbon-consuming member of contemporary society.
Link: For an article in Peripheral Vision Arts , click here. Since , Fougeron has photographed century-old industrial steel production, new economy green roof builders, and artisanal family trades like baking, printing, and hand-made bedding.
Her images highlight the skills and dedication of the laborers to the small businesses that have traditionally offered immigrants financial opportunities and a first-step toward American citizenship. It was moving, because these are often family businesses, with rarely more than 30 employees, many of who have been working for these companies for decades.
The owners are closely linked with the workers… The workers have an incredible pride in what they do and a camaraderie among themselves.
You can feel it. Fougeron decided to cover photographically each trade in four different ways. Her compelling portraits focus on the working people; her striking landscapes place the project geographically; her environmental pictures are both informative and reflective; and her close-ups are simply beautiful abstractions. Together it adds up to a remarkable artistic document of Port Morris and Hunts Point. A World with Two Sons. In , she received a fellowship from the John D.
She looks at the lives and contributions of indigenous people and the diverse migrants continuing to shape the cultures that together define America. In addition to any reference to climate change the viewer might conjure, Small American Fires depicts the sophisticated slash-and-burn land management of Native Americans ignored by the traditional historical record.
When you do that, you can then understand who you are in relation to other people. That, I think, is where the hope lies: the idea that you are seeing yourself in something that is not you, which is a pretty powerful notion. Often intended for an audience of people with disabilities, these works reflect the nuance and vibrancy of these communities.
And so the start for me was like, how can I at least add my experience to some of the narratives and representations that are out there, and kind of start building connections from there.
So, what are points of connections between my experience and the experience of other disabled people. What are points of connection between my experience and the experience of non-disabled people.
Link: To watch a video of Shannon Finnegan explaining her artistic practice, click here :. Fazlalizadeh creates portraits of women, girls and people experiencing discrimination to inform viewers about the effects of such behavior.
That is of use to people who are marginalized. I want to make work for our society, to move it to be a better place.
In the Hoods series, Edmonds steps beyond the explicit and even intimate depiction of black bodies which is the hallmark of his other photography projects, and instead serves up blackness by implication only. With only a hoodie visible here, Edmonds confronts viewers with its heavily-burdened symbolism by exposing how reactions come from first impressions rooted in racial coding.
The hooded solitary figure becomes a mirror for the viewer to contemplate his or her own assumptions and bias. The shape of Irreducible, Irreducible recalls a raft built by black boys on a Lake Michigan beach in White beachgoers threw stones at the boys, insisting that they had crossed the line of the segregated beach, starting a riot.
Link: For a Document interview with Torkwase Dyson, click here. Davies was a participant in the first statewide march, when gays and lesbians from across the state of New York converged in Albany for two days to argue for recognition, legal rights, and civil protection.
It came just two years after the historic juncture of the Stonewall Riots. Unlike early homophile organizations such as Mattachine, the GLF sought to bring about collective — not only sexual — liberation by dismantling existing social structures and institutions, not integrating within them.
Link: For information about Diana Davies from the Smithsonian website, click here. Link: To read an article about Diana Davies from Medium , click here. Beckett, Beckett Fine Art Ltd. After watching television news coverage of the September 11, attacks at home in Toronto, artist JOHN COBURN felt compelled to witness the devastation firsthand and to see whether his artwork might be of some emotional support to the recovery effort.
He arrived in the U. The drawing warmed the hearts of personnel at the perimeter of the World Trade Center site and aided Coburn in bypassing various barricades.
Using pen and ink, he sketched the valor, generosity, and warmth that he witnessed on the streets of lower Manhattan in the fall and winter following the attacks. Of special note are drawings of the wrought iron fence ringing St. Coburn became friendly with many recovery workers and volunteers at the Chapel during that time. Coburn eventually returned to Canada and resumed his life and work there.
Working with partners, he published his drawings along with inspirational quotations in the form of a book titled Healing Hearts. His goal was to present a copy to the families of the nearly 3, people killed on September 11, The Museum later acquired a copy of the book. However, the drawings he had made in New York in and survived. Many are damaged or burned at the edges but the subject matter of each remains clear.
Prior to becoming damaged, the drawings were exhibited on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The next morning — something miraculous happened. Link: For the Healing Hearts website, click here. Colomba subverts that status quo by painting them as the primary focus of viewer attention. I was so surprised, and I thought, If it made me happy to see people who looked like me in these settings, maybe it would make other people happy as well.
Link: To read an article about Elizabeth Colomba in Vogue magazine, click here. The brownstones were converted into the Magnolia Tree Earth Center with nature programs for school children, activities for seniors, a vegetable garden, and a research library. This convulsive event coincided with the first day of school for these thirteen-year olds. In a span of minutes, the world they would inherit changed irrevocably if unknowably.
The mass death toll at the World Trade Center haunted the cityscape in myriad forms including candlelight vigils, urgently photocopied Missing Person fliers, sidewalk shrines spreading outside local firehouses and police stations, and the disfigured skyline of lower Manhattan. At every turn, these middle schoolers confronted evidence of public grief, shock, and anxiety; of surging patriotism and reactive compassion; of conflicting calls for score-settling on behalf of nearly three-thousand innocent victims.
Guided by two Calhoun teachers, the students were encouraged to take stock of this unfolding aftermath. Like Lawrence, they coupled their collage constructions with succinct prose captions. Moore Gallery to mark the ten-year anniversary of the attacks. The attacks also put to test their own emerging humanitarian values and aspirations for social justice. She had planned to hold arts workshops for immigrants but found that most of those who attended sought help finding jobs, legal aid or opportunities to learn English.
For Cycle News, women wearing green vests and helmets ride around the borough on customized neon yellow bikes and distribute illustrated pamphlets containing important information for immigrants, especially those who are undocumented, describing their rights and available public services. The materials were created with the cooperation of Kollecktiv Migrantas, a Berlin based artist collective, and are based on images and stories obtained in participatory workshops in the community.
Link: To watch a video interview with Tania Bruguera for the Tate museum, click here. After Andrews became involved with feminist groups, he created his Sexism series to explore similar oppressions of women and the uneven distribution of power by gender.
The white male figure in Sexism 8 covers himself with the colors of the American flag and carries weapons of brutality in apparent defense of his right to power. But we got it from somebody and we pass it on to somebody so that little stretch that we ran is just a link in a chain that goes both ways.
To him, using his brush and his pen to capture the essence and spirit of his time was as much an act of protest as sitting-in or sitting-down was for me. I can see him now: thinking, speaking, articulating what needs to be done and in the next few moments trying to make real what he had been contemplating. Black Republicans who share strongly conservative views can paradoxically appeal to white racists as exceptions that prove their so-called rules.
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