January FAWC Friday
Friday, January 10, 2025
5-9 PM
5 pm
Farm-to-Table Food with
Delicious Living Nutrition
Music by DJ J-Boom
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 pm
Artist talk and reading with
Artist Judy Pfaff and Writer Paul Yoon
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
7:30 pm
Pop-up bookshop with East End Books
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Printmaking activity with
Printmaker Vicky Tomayko
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
Gallery activation with
Visual Arts Fellow Dani Levine
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Open studios with select Fellows
9 pm
End of Event
About Our Visiting Artists
Referenced by critics as a pioneer of installation-art, this oft-cited label for the sprawling career of Judy Pfaff provides an introductory sense of Pfaff’s legacy, but proves limiting to the ever-changing work she has been making for decades and still today. Born in London in 1946, Pfaff received a BFA from Washington University Saint Louis (1971), and an MFA from Yale University (1973) where she studied with Al Held. Her work spans across disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture to installation, but is perhaps best described as painting in space. These spatial paintings inhabit and transform their environments, becoming ad hoc homes for viewers and the artist. Drawing upon a wealth of spiritual, botanical, and art historical imagery, Pfaff’s installations simultaneously and without contradiction reference the austerity of a cathedral and the temporality of a mandala. Like a mandala, the life of Pfaff’s work is brief and burning, deconstructed and sections discarded after a show comes down. Each installation considers the specific spatial geometries of the room, the ceiling, the street out the window, so that no two shows are ever alike. This tenacious generosity Pfaff offers her viewers, in which she and her crew labor for months or years for shows that last days or weeks, sets Pfaff apart from colleagues in other disciplines who can rely on sales of discrete objects. Refusing to give narrative meaning to her work, this urgent and ferocious need to labor for the visual and tactile is remarkable in an era where language dominates artistic activity. She exhibited work in the Whitney Biennials of 1975, 1981, and 1987, and represented the United States in the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal. Her pieces reside in the permanent collections of MOMA, Whitney Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. She is the recipient of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (2014), the MacArthur Foundation Award (2004), and the Guggenhiem Fellowship (1983). Pfaff lives and works in Tivoli, New York.
Paul Yoon is the author of five works of fiction, including, most recently, The Hive and the Honey, which won The Story Prize. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The Best American Short Stories. He lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Dani Levine is an artist and educator living in Astoria, NY. Mixing pigments, binders, and other found materials, her alchemical practice questions assumptions about craft and abstraction. In recent paintings, she converses with queer-feminist aesthetics to explore themes of chance, agency, and resilience—ideas that recur throughout her work. As an educator and lecturer at schools such as Pratt Institute, Princeton University, and Boston University, she aims to expand conversations about color as material, linking its history and contemporary uses to narratives of trade, science, and sociocultural ideas. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Select honors include exhibitions at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, My Pet Ram, The Alfred Museum, SOLOWAY, and The Abrons Arts Center. In 2023, she was selected to be Artist in Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who lives in Truro, MA. A past Fine Arts Work Center Fellow and the current manager of FAWC’s printshop, she leads workshops for Fellows, facilitates projects, and works to maintain and improve the printmaking experience at FAWC. Tomayko also teaches silkscreen at Cape Cod Community College. Her work can be seen locally at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.
In the Gallery
Dani Levine, MENACE, Pigments, aluminum, hide glue, acrylic dispersions and oil mediums, on paper pulp ground. 72 inches x 64 inches, 2024
Join current FAWC Fellow, Dani Levine for a paint-making workshop highlighting various techniques used in her practice. Topics will include tailoring oil medium recipes and mixing pigments with water-based binders such as acrylic dispersions, hide glue, cellulose, and gum arabic. Following the demonstration, participants will have the opportunity to make watercolors and work hands-on with egg tempera.
The Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery are accessible facilities in compliance with ADA guidelines.
If you require assistance accessing these venues, please call the Fine Arts Work Center at 508-487-9960 ext.101 before your visit.
Sponsored partly by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, Mass Development, and Provincetown Tourism Fund.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Provincetown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
