Art Omi
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⌛️ TOMORROW, AUG 24 | 5-7 PM - ART OMI: MUSIC IN THE BARN ⌛️ // Tomorrow is your chance to experience an evening of experimental sound presented by the 2024 Art Omi: Music Residents! For over two weeks, our Musicians-in-Residence have worked on collaborative pieces informed by their collective artistic and cultural experiences. This showcase of traditions and genres from an international cohort of musicians and composers will meld into a beautiful soundscape that’s bound to leave you feeling inspired!
The Art Omi: Music 2024 Cohort is:
🎶 Shasha Chen | China/U.S.
🎶 Amine Dhouibi | Tunisia/U.S.
🎶 Ana Gamboa | Ecuador/Argentina
🎶 Yeji Kim | Republic of Korea
🎶 Olivier Marin | France
🎶 Amelia Ray | U.S./Finland
🎶 Ben Richter | U.S.
🎶 Ana Paula Santana | Mexico
🎶 Michael Sarin | Canada/Argentina/U.S.
🎶 Adriana Tampasis | U.S.
🎶 Chao Tian | China/U.S.
🎶 Fay Victor, Alum-in-Residence | U.S.
🎶 Eli Wallace | U.S.
Art Omi: Music is led by Program Director Jeffrey Lependorf.
🔗 RSVP for Music in the Barn and read more about the residents on our website. Attendance is free, advanced registration is appreciated.
📸 Pictured is Andres Marino (left) and Miss Olithea (right) performing at last year’s Music in the Barn event.
📡 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝟸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 AT WAVE FARM THIS WEEKEND 📡 // Join Wave Farm () this Saturday, August 24th at 1 PM for a durational performance by artists-in-residence Fabian Lanzmaier () and Andreas Zißler , who met and collaborated with Art Omi: Music residents this past week during the Omi Improvisors Orchestra performance! Wave Farm is excited to mark the final summer performance of their residency season with 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝟸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴.
𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝟸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 is a live performance/installation with two parabolic speakers, binaural microphones, radio transmission, and a synthesizer. Together they form an audio-feedback loop, open to the sounds of the environment. A performer/musician equipped with binaural microphones, is interacting with the audio-field of the highly directive speakers.
In the performance, Lanzmaier and Zißler actively blur the lines between performer, listener, musician, and landscape, turning the whole ecosystem of the site into an instrument. The sounds picked up by the binaural microphones provide an audio stream from the “perspective” of the performer which will be broadcasted for the radio audience on .7fm and wavefarm.org/listen.
🔗 Register to attend the live performance and Art Park Tour at ’s link in bio
📸Photo 1 and 3: Adam T. Deen ()
🌀ART OMI UPSTATE BENEFIT: AUCTION PREVIEW 🌀// The countdown is on for the Art Omi Upstate Benefit taking place in one month on Saturday, September 21 from 5:30-10 PM at The Caboose () in Hudson. Honoring Elena Mosley, Founder and Executive Director of Operation Unite New York (), and artist Tschabalala Self (), the Art Omi Upstate Benefit aims to raise $150,000 towards our local arts education programs, renowned international artist residencies, and the Sculpture & Architecture Park, free to 40,000 annual visitors. Here’s a sneak peek of just a few of the one-of-a-kind items and experiences up for auction in support of this goal:
🖼️ Tschabalala Self, Seated Woman in Yellow on Spiral Seat #2
Generously Donated by Honoree Tschabalala Self
🌾 Discover Museum Insel Hombroich () Art and Architecture Park Near Dusseldorf
Generously Donated by Oliver Kruse
🥂 Exclusive tour and decadent dinner for four at the new Klocke Estate Distillery ()
Generously Donated by John Frishkopf
🎨 Annie Bielski (), NM
Generously Donated by Annie Bielski and SEPTEMBER Gallery ()
🌃 Stay in Historic Montreal Loft
Generously Donated by Isabelle Autones and Francis J. Greenburger
🍽️ Private Dinner Party by HAEMA () with paired wine for eight at Fulton & Forbes ()
Generously Donated by Rachel Merriam of Fulton & Forbes, HAEMA Hospitality, and Gavin Berger
⛵️ Private Hudson River Sail Abroad the Apollonia
Generously Donated by the Schooner Apollonia
🏺Sarah Mijares Fick (), Becoming
Generously donated by Sarah Mijares Fick
⬇️ Full description of each item in the comments!
🔗 Purchase tickets to the Upstate Benefit at the link in our bio.
📡 TOMORROW! OMI IMPROVISORS ORCHESTRA ON WAVE FARM WGXC 📡 // On August 20 from 3-4 PM, tune in for a performance by the Art Omi: Music residents, being broadcast live on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, a non-commercial, listener-supported station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley operating out of studios in Hudson and the Wave Farm Media Arts Center in Acra.
The 2024 Art Omi: Music fellows—performing as an improvising orchestra—will create a continuous hour of new music using a variety of techniques and instruments. The performance can be heard via live stream at wgxc.org, where it will also be archived shortly after the broadcast to listen to at any time.
🔗 Listen in at the link in our bio.
📸 Pictured are 2022 Art Omi: Musicians at the Wave Farm Media Arts Center in Acra. Photo: Alon Koppel ()
🔺NATHAN YOUNG: TUNE IT OR DIE! 🔺 // On view in the Newmark Gallery is a new body of work by Nathan Young (Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee, ) that includes scores and a set of reimagined flags, inspired by the iconography of the Native American Church and symbolism of peyotism, a medicine and sacrament in the church. Central to the project is a new series of event scores titled Tune It Or Die! (2024). Musicalizing both motorcycles and dirt bikes, their revving engines will become a new noise piece, continuing Young’s interest in Indigenous sonic agency and in unnerving frequencies with insurrectionary potential. The exhibition in on view through September 3, 2024.
🔗Plan your visit at the link in our bio.
📸Installation view: Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die!, Art Omi, 2024. Courtesy of Art Omi. Photo: Gregory Carideo ()
🎶 SAT, AUG 24, 5-7 PM | MUSIC IN THE BARN 🎶 // Join us for an informal concert of new, experimental music created during the course of the 2024 Art Omi: Music Residency. Musicians from a multitude of traditions and genres from around the globe combine their approaches for novel and unforeseeable results!
This event is open to the public and free to attend.
🔗 RSVP on our website.
📸 Pictured are Art Omi: Music Residents at the 2023 Music in the Barn event.
📢 APPLY NOW! ARCHITECTURE, ARTISTS, AND WRITERS 2025 RESIDENCIES OPEN CALL 📢 // Applications are now open for the 2025 sessions of the Art Omi: Architecture, Art Omi: Artists, and Art Omi: Writers residency programs!
Through a competitive jury process, residents are invited to attend Art Omi's residencies at no cost to themselves, apart from travel. Residents have the time and space to hone their own craft while making connections with artists from around the globe and living in a vibrant community. Abundant, catered meals and comfortable, beautiful lodgings are provided on Art Omi’s bucolic campus located in New York’s Hudson Valley, two hours north of New York City. Art Omi is home to the Sculpture & Architecture Park situated amidst 120 acres of fields and forests and offers Architecture and Artists residents dedicated studio space in our Studio Barn.
📐Art Omi: Architecture is the first residency program of its kind in the nation, inviting ten early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a two week residency in May and June. Art Omi: Architecture aims to nurture experimentation at the intersection of architecture, art, and landscape.
🎨Art Omi: Artists invites artists from around the world, representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices, to gather for four weeks in June and July to experiment, collaborate, and share ideas. Concentrated time for artistic practice is balanced with the stimulation of creative community and critical appraisal.
📚Art Omi: Writers hosts authors and translators for two weeks to one month throughout the spring and autumn. The program’s strong international emphasis provides exposure for global literary voices and reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is essential to Art Omi’s mission.
❗𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗯𝘆 𝟭𝟭:𝟱𝟵 𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧. There is no fee to apply to the open call.
🔗 Apply at the link in our bio!
🥫ONE WEEK LEFT TO BRING HOME A WARHOL TO BENEFIT ART OMI! 🥫// Don’t miss your opportunity to add a Warhol to your collection and support Art Omi!
We’re thrilled to be a part of ‘Philanthropy Factory,’ a new Warhol Foundation () initiative that provides an opportunity for recent grantees to benefit from the sale of Warhol works from the Foundation’s collection. Select Warhol works are now available for immediate purchase on a first-come, first-serve basis for a limited time on the Foundation’s eBay for Charity platform ( / ), with all proceeds going directly to grantees. The sale runs until Tuesday, August 20, 2024.
Since its inception in 1987, The Andy Warhol Foundation has been a stalwart advocate for freedom of expression, supporting work that is experimental and challenging in nature and from communities that have been historically marginalized.
🔗 Buy your Warhol today at the link in our bio!
🎞️ Artworks From Left to Right In Order of Appearance: Andy Warhol, Happy Bug Day, 1954. Offset lithograph on paper.14 x 9.375 in. Priced at $2,000.
Andy Warhol, Ali, Neiman and Andy Warhol, L.A.I.C.A., 1981. Poster. 35 x 21.5 in. Priced at $500.
Andy Warhol, 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue P***y By Andy Warhol,1954. Offset lithograph on Mohawk paper. 19.5 x 13.5 in. Priced at $4,000.
Andy Warhol, Hand With Flowers, c. 1957. Offset lithograph on paper. 14.25 x 10 in. Priced at $6,000.
Andy Warhol, Bodley Gallery Announcement, 1957. Offset lithograph on paper. 12.875 x 19.5 in. Priced at $1,600.
Andy Warhol, Wrapping Paper, 1959. Offset lithograph on paper, 29 x 23 in. Priced at $2,880.
Andy Warhol, Studies for a Boy Book, 1956. Offset lithograph on paper, 15.875 x 13.5 in. Priced at $2,000.
Andy Warhol, A la Recherche du Shoe Perdu by Andy Warhol Shoe Poems by Ralph Pomeroy, c. 1955. Offset lithograph on paper 19.625 x 12.875 in. Priced at $1,500.
All Images: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
👀 NEW IN THE PARK! JIMENEZ LAI: OUTCASTS FROM THE UNDERGROUND 👀 // Jimenez Lai () unearths intentionally obfuscated artifacts and the narratives they illuminate with the newly commissioned work Outcasts from the Underground. Inspired by the outdoor display of a local precast concrete manufacturer, the work is comprised of prefabricated concrete items designed to be buried, such as septic tanks, catchment basins, and basement staircases. Waste, seepage, and other matters below ground: these precast parts are the outcast characters we put to sleep the moment they are brought into life.
Lai stacks these building elements on top of one another, creating a towering assemblage of Duchampian readymades resembling an exquisite co**se, a Surrealist drawing exercise. By reversing the intended orientation of the everyday building materials that make up the work, Outcasts from the Underground prompts visitors to consider what forms, ideas, and energies might be invited into our realm by exposing that which is traditionally obscured.
🔗 Plan your visit at the link in our bio.
📸 Photos: Bryan Zimmerman (.z.workshop)
👋 WELCOME ART OMI: MUSICIANS 👋 // Art Omi is thrilled to welcome our 2024 Art Omi: Music Residents! Coming together from around the globe, this cohort of fourteen residents will spend two and a half weeks at Art Omi working collaboratively and improvisationally to explore their collective musical visions while broadening their cultural horizons.
🎶Sasha Chen | China/U.S.
🎶Amine Dhouibi | Tunisia/U.S. ()
🎶Ana Gamboa | Ecuador/Argentina ()
🎶Yeji Kim | Republic of Korea ()
🎶Olivier Marin | France
🎶Amelia Ray | U.S./Finland ()
🎶Ben Richter | U.S.
🎶Ana Paula Santana | Mexico ()
🎶Michael Sarin | Canada/Argentina/U.S. ()
🎶Adriana Tampasis | U.S.
🎶Chao Tian | China/U.S.
🎶Fay Victor, Alum-in-Residence | U.S. ()
🔗 Read more about these incredible musicians at the link in our bio!
🥂 NOW AVAILABLE! COCKTAIL HOUR TICKETS TO THE ART OMI UPSTATE BENEFIT 🥂 // Join us from 5:30-7 PM to toast our honorees Elena Mosley (), Founder & Executive Director Operation Unite New York, and artist Tschabalala Self () all while enjoying cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and live music from the Fay Victor Trio () in The Caboose’s () enchanting native garden! With the highly anticipated seated dinner with Chef LoBue () expected to sell out, the $125 Cocktail Hour tickets make it possible for more friends to join the festivities and support Art Omi.
Please note, Cocktail Hour tickets do not include the Upstate Benefit's dinner or live auction. All proceeds go towards the Art Omi: Education Fund.
🔗 Purchase tickets at the link in our bio!
📸 Photos: Alex Staniloff. Courtesy of The Caboose
🥫BRING HOME A WARHOL TO BENEFIT ART OMI! 🥫// We’re thrilled to be a part of ‘Philanthropy Factory,’ a new Warhol Foundation () initiative that provides an opportunity for recent grantees to benefit from the sale of Warhol works from the Foundation’s collection. Select Warhol works are now available for immediate purchase on a first-come, first-serve basis for a limited time on the Foundation’s eBay for Charity platform ( / ), with all proceeds going directly to grantees. The sale runs until Tuesday, August 20, 2024.
Since its inception in 1987, The Andy Warhol Foundation has been a stalwart advocate for freedom of expression, supporting work that is experimental and challenging in nature and from communities that have been historically marginalized.
🔗 Buy your Warhol today at the link in our bio!
📸 Slide 4: Andy Warhol, Ali, Neiman and Andy Warhol, L.A.I.C.A., 1981. Poster. 35 x 21.5 in. Priced at $500.
Slide 5: Andy Warhol, Studies for a Boy Book, 1956. Offset lithograph on paper, 15.875 x 13.5 in. Priced at $2,000.
Slide 6: Andy Warhol, 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue P***y By Andy Warhol,1954. Offset lithograph on Mohawk paper. 19.5 x 13.5 in. Priced at $4,000.
Slide 7: Andy Warhol, Wrapping Paper, 1959. Offset lithograph on paper, 29 x 23 in. Priced at $2,880.
Slide 8: Andy Warhol, Bodley Gallery Announcement, 1957. Offset lithograph on paper. 12.875 x 19.5 in. Priced at $1,600.
All Images: © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
🖼️ NOW OPEN! SATURDAY CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS 🖼️ // Fall sessions are now open for Saturday Children's Workshops. During our weekly adventures in the Sculpture & Architecture Park, kids will discover and interact with new and familiar works and create their own artwork based on a weekly theme or material. The program will be held outdoors and in the Newmark Gallery. You won't want to miss a unique project each and every week!
🔗 Register for Saturday Children’s Workshop at the link in our bio.
🌟 CAMP OMI CELEBRATES 20 YEARS 🌟 // Helmed by Art Omi: Education Director Sasha Sicurella (), Camp Omi has quickly grown from a single tent with water and paint into a summer tradition beloved by local families and children, and praised by educators for its pedagogical innovation in arts education.
Founded in 2004, Camp Omi has welcomed over 7,220 happy campers ages 6-11, many of whom have returned in their high school and college years to work as Camp Counselors alongside Art Omi Teaching Artists. Starting in 2016 Camp Omi expanded to offer programming for preschoolers with the Artgarten summer camp, so even the littlest artists could flex their creative muscles.
Camp Omi has proved so popular that many years all sessions for camp are full within hours of registration opening. To ensure equal access to arts education for all, Camp Omi offers need-based scholarships. Looking for a way to support this incredible work? Your support of the Art Omi Upstate Benefit goes towards underwriting these scholarships, funding art supplies, and contributing to our popsicle fund! Purchase tickets or make a donation in lieu of attendance to ensure Art Omi can continue offering exciting art education opportunities for our community.
🔗 Visit the link in our bio to support Art Omi.
💃 ART OMI: DANCE SHOWING | SAT, AUG 3: 5-7 PM 💃 // This Saturday, join the 2024 Art Omi: Dance Residents for an evening of new and in-progress movement works. The Dance Showing features unique, collaborative pieces created in response to the grounds and studio spaces at Art Omi by our current cohort of eight dance and movement artists from around the world, including:
〰️ Sebastian Abarbanell | Germany
〰️ Ronya-Lee Anderson | U.S.
〰️ Leila Awadallah | Turtle Island/U.S./Palestine
〰️ Laura Coe | U.S.
〰️ Ryuta Iwash*ta | Japan/U.S
〰️ Moodzi (Abhijeet Mudgerikar) | India
〰️ Ellen Oliver | U.S.
〰️ Richie Rodriguez | México
With Art Omi: Dance Program Director Christopher K. Morgan and Guest Mentor Jeremy D. Guyton.
This event is open to the public and free to attend. Advanced registration appreciated.
🔗 RSVP on our website!
📸 Pictured are 2023 Dance Residents Freeda Electra Handelsman, Alejandro Chávez Flores, Domokos Kovács, and Kenia Noriega performing at the 2023 Art Omi: Dance Showing. Photo: Adam T. Deen.
🍿TOMORROW! RILEY HO**ER: CRISIS CARNIVAL 🎡// Art Omi presents Riley Ho**er: Crisis Carnival, taking place July 27 from 3-8 PM. Part symposia and part variety show, a dazzling crew of artists, writers, and scholars will think through different strategies of collective response in times of crisis.
This event is in conjunction with Riley Ho**er’s first New York solo exhibition Body, Language. Talks and performances by ACCDNTL DRED, Sophie Becker, Zoe Brezsny, Nick Meehan, Mario Miron, Journey Streams, and YATTA are not to be missed!
Crisis Carnival is free and open to the public. Advanced registration appreciated.
🔗 RSVP to Crisis Carnival on our website
📸 Graphics by Riley Ho**er
💃 SAT, AUG 3 | 5-7 PM: DANCE SHOWING 💃 // Join us on Saturday, August 3 from 5-7 PM at the Studio Barns for an evening of new and in-progress movement works from the 2024 Art Omi: Dance residents. The Dance Showing features unique, collaborative pieces created in response to the grounds and studio spaces at Art Omi by our current cohort of dance artists from around the world. This event is open to the public and free to attend.
🔗 Read up on the 2024 Art Omi: Dancers on our website.
📸 Pictured are Adam Castaneda and Maxi Hawkeye Canion
Photo by Adam T. Deen
🎡RILEY HO**ER: CRISIS CARNIVAL | SAT, JULY 27 | 3-7:30 PM 🍿 // On the occasion of Riley Ho**er’s first New York solo exhibition Body, Language, Art Omi presents Crisis Carnival—part symposia and part variety show with artists, writers, and scholars to think through different strategies of collective response in times of crisis. The event will feature talks and performances by ACCDNTL DRED, Sophie Becker, Zoe Brezsny, Nick Meehan, Mario Miron, Journey Streams, YATTA, and more.
Crisis Carnival is free and open to the public. Advanced registration appreciated.
🔗 RSVP to Crisis Carnival on our website.
📸 Photo: Christian DeFonte exhibition view of Riley Ho**er: Body, Language
🩰 WELCOME THE 2024 ART OMI: DANCE RESIDENTS! 🩰 // Arriving today from all corners of the globe, the Dance Residents will embark on a unique three-week-long residency with an emphasis on experimentation, process, and collaboration.
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀-𝗶𝗻-𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟮 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟱-𝟳 𝗣𝗠 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗺𝗶: 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟯 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟱-𝟳 𝗣𝗠 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗺𝗶: 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴.
This year’s cohort of eight talented and daring dancers, movement artists, and choreographers join us from Germany, India, Japan, México, Palestine, and throughout the United States:
〰️ Sebastian Abarbanell | Germany
〰️ Ronya-Lee Anderson | U.S.
〰️ Leila Awadallah | Turtle Island/U.S./Palestine
〰️ Laura Coe | U.S.
〰️ Ryuta Iwash*ta | Japan/U.S
〰️ Moodzi (Abhijeet Mudgerikar) | India
〰️ Ellen Oliver | U.S.
〰️ Richie Rodriguez | México
Art Omi: Dance is led by Program Director Christopher K. Morgan with Guest Mentor Jeremy D. Guyton.
🔗 RSVP for the Dance Salon and Dance Showing and read more about the residents on our website. Attendance for both events is free, advanced registration is appreciated.
🎡RILEY HO**ER: CRISIS CARNIVAL | SAT, JULY 27 🍿// Art Omi presents “Crisis Carnival”—part symposia and part variety show in conjunction with the exhibition Riley Ho**er: Body, Language, the artist’s first New York solo exhibition currently on view in the Benenson Center. This event expands on the project’s themes with talks and performances by Accidental Dread, Sophie Becker, Nick Meehan, Journey Streams, YATTA, and more.
Body, Language features an installation of interconnected inflatable structures for sitting titled SIT(UATION), commissioned sculptures, printed matter, and vinyl “footnotes” at the scale of the building installed across the institution’s walls, ceiling, and floor. The inflatable forms—produced in collaboration with architect Nick Meehan—evolved from Ho**er’s publishing practice, and are calibrated for reading. The structure pushes back against the conservatism of the typical “museum bench,” in order to—as McKenzie Wark has written about the project—“suggest another space-time for another life.”
Crisis Carnival is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is appreciated.
🔗 RSVP on our website!
🛞 𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌: 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖊 𝕴𝖙 𝕺𝖗 𝕯𝖎𝖊! 🛞 // Nathan Young () premiered a new event score at Art Omi’s Summer Season Opening Party on July 6 featuring an engine revving performance. With a dirt bike at his side, Young musicalized the vehicle to craft a noise piece that now serves as the backdrop for his solo exhibition 𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌: 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖊 𝕴𝖙 𝕺𝖗 𝕯𝖎𝖊! on view in the Newmark Gallery until September 3.
🔗 Plan your visit to the exhibition at the link in our bio!
📸Photos: Christian Defonte ()
KIYAN WILLIAMS UNTITLED (FLAG FRY, 2024) // In Kiyan Williams performance, Untitled (Flag Fry, 2024), the barbecue is a social space and mise-en-scene through which the meaning of objects and modes of relation are transformed. Under the guise of a tour, viewers process to Vertigo—an installation of the artist’s sculptures—where performers Nile Harris, DonChristian Jones, and ms. Z Tye climb on, respond to, and interact with monumental sculptures using quotidian sound and movement that break down, glitch, and repeat over time. A live mix by Kumi James of looped and distorted diegetic sound interspersed with ambient music and quotes from performance artist Pope L. produce a soundtrack that marks the transformation unfolding.
In the culminating action, and with participation of the public, American flags are battered in egg yolk and seasoning and fried to a crisp. Williams creates a tactile and sensorial container through which the form and meaning embedded in structures of power are abstracted and made anew through quotidian, improvisational, dissonant, and participatory gesture.
📸 Photos: Kiyan Williams performance, Untitled (Flag Fry, 2024), on July 6, 2024 at Art Omi taken by Christian Defonte
☀️SUMMER SATURDAY CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS NOW IN SESSION 👩🎨 // Keep your kids engaged this summer through weekly Saturday Children’s Workshops at Art Omi! Kids ages 5-11 are invited to create projects inspired by our latest exhibitions and experience interactive art set amongst nature in the Sculpture & Architecture Park.
Saturday Children’s Workshops happen weekly from 10 AM-12 PM from July 6 to August 17!
🔗 Register for workshops on our website!
Kindly note, as a result of the county-wide power outage the Benenson Visitors Center, housing the exhibitions Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die!, Riley Ho**er: Body, Language, restrooms, and water-fill stations, will open on a delay tomorrow Monday, July 8 at 11 AM.
The Sculpture & Architecture Park will be open from dawn until dusk.
Thank you for your understanding.
The Benenson Visitors Center, which houses the exhibitions Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die!, Riley Ho**er: Body, Language, the Art Omi cafe, restrooms, and water-fill stations, is closed today due to a county-wide power outage. The Sculpture & Architecture Park remains open until dusk.
🖼️ SAT, JUL 13 | 1-4 PM: ART OMI: ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS 🖼️ // Explore the studios of the 2024 cohort of artists-in-residence at Art Omi, intermingled with pop-up performances, site-specific installations, and other creative activations. Open Studios offers an intimate glimpse into the work of 25 international artists from a range of disciplines and techniques—from painters to performance artists, sculptors to sound artists, you're invited to take a trip around the art world without ever leaving our Studio Barn!
This event is free to attend and open to the public. Advanced registration appreciated.
🔗 RSVP on our website
📸Pictured are visitors at the 2023 Open Studios event. Photo: Sara Wallach ()
𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪! 𝗦𝗔𝗧, 𝗝𝗨𝗟𝗬 𝟲 | 𝟱-𝟴 𝗣𝗠: 🧨𝙎𝙐𝙈𝙈𝙀𝙍 𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙔 🧨 // The countdown is on for the premieres of:
𝙂𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨: 𝙄𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙣
ᏒᎥᏝᏋᎩ ᏂᎧᎧᏦᏋᏒ: ᏰᎧᎴᎩ, ᏝᏗᏁᎶᏬᏗᎶᏋ
𝔹𝕖𝕠𝕞 𝕁𝕦𝕟 𝕂𝕚𝕞: 𝕆𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖𝕤
ᴊɪᴍᴇɴᴇᴢ ʟᴀɪ: ᴏᴜᴛᴄᴀꜱᴛꜱ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ
𝒦𝒾𝓎𝒶𝓃 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓂𝓈: 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝑔𝑜
𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌: 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖊 𝕴𝖙 𝕺𝖗 𝕯𝖎𝖊!
𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙀𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙎
🍳 6 PM | Get fired up for a BBQ with Kiyan Williams featuring special guests Nile Harris, DonChristian Jones, ms. z tye, and sound design by Kumi James.
🛞 7 PM | Get your engines revving for a noise performance musicalizing both motorcycles and dirt bikes from Nathan Young.
🎟️ The Summer Season Opening Party is free to attend and open to the public. Advanced registration appreciated.
🔗 RSVP on our website.
🖼️Curation: Sara O’Keeffe Art Omi Senior Curator, and Julia van den Hout Art Omi Senior Architecture Curator, with Guy Weltchek, Art Omi Curatorial Assistant
🛞💨 𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌: 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖊 𝕴𝖙 𝕺𝖗 𝕯𝖎𝖊! // Rev your engines for the opening of Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die in the Newmark Gallery. On Saturday, July 6 from 5–8 PM during the Summer Season Opening Party, Art Omi will premiere a new body of work by Nathan Young (Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee, ) that includes scores and a set of reimagined flags, focusing on pe**te, a medicine and sacrament in the Native American Church. Central to the project is a new series of event scores titled Tune It Or Die! (2024).
Musicalizing both motorcycles and dirt bikes, their revving engines will become a new noise piece, continuing Young’s interest in Indigenous sonic agency and in unnerving frequencies with insurrectionary potential. The work’s title comes from a patch rumored to have been worn by La Monte Young, the seminal minimalist composer, who Brian Eno described as “daddy of us all.”
The Summer Season Opening Party is free to attend and open to the public. Advanced registration appreciated.
🔗 RSVP for the Summer Season Opening Party at the link in our bio.
📸 Visual identity: Freer Studio ()
🔷🌀🔷 SAT, SEP 21 | ART OMI UPSTATE BENEFIT // You’re invited! Join us in honoring Elena Mosley, Founder & Executive Director of Operation Unite New York, and artist Tschabalala Self at The Caboose in Hudson as we raise funds towards our local arts education programs, renowned international artist residencies, and the Sculpture & Architecture Park, free to 40,000 annual visitors to ensure all people have equitable access to the arts.
The festivities begin at 5:30 PM with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and live music in The Caboose’s enchanting native garden. Dinner will be a sumptuous feast from wildly innovative Executive Chef Nicole LoBue of The Caboose and Kitty's, followed by a spirited live auction of unique experiences, hosted by Seaforth MacKenzie, all capped off with dessert and dancing!
🔗 Purchase tickets, become a business sponsor, or make a donation on our website!
📸 Image Artwork: Tschabalala Self, Seated Woman in Yellow on Spiral Seat #2, 2022. Colored pencil, acrylic paint, gouache, charcoal, graphite on archival inkjet print. 36”H x 28”W. Courtesy of Tschabalala Self Studio Inc.
Image Design: Freer Studio
☀️ SUMMERTIME AT ART OMI ☀️ // Summer has arrived at Art Omi and we are excited for this lively season! The Sculpture & Architecture Park is lush and vibrant with flora and fauna that complement the awe-inspiring works on view. Visit Art Omi this summer to experience more than sixty works of art and architecture and attend an exciting series of events.
Be sure to stop into the Benenson Visitors Center to catch the current exhibition on view in the Newmark Gallery and for restrooms, filtered water, and comfortable spots to rest. Our friendly Visitor Services staff will provide you with Art Omi insights to help you make the most of your trip!
🔗 Plan your visit on our website at the link in our bio.
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