Artist Talk and Gallery Walkthrough
Join us for an artist talk and gallery walkthrough in our current exhibition Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory. Artist Chie Fueki will be joined by curator David A. Ross for an in depth look at her current installation which deals with issues of place, memory, and longing in ways that are complex both technically and philosophically.
Free | RSVP Recommended
Light Refreshments provided
Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund (2024), UMOCA’s Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2026), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2004). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,TX; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; San Francisco MOMA, CA; UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; and Orlando Museum of Art, FL. She is represented by D.C. Moore Gallery, NY and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles.
David A. Ross (b.1949) is the Chair of MFA: Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He founded this program after a long career in Art Museums. In 1972 he was Curator of Video Art at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. Following that he was Deputy Director at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Chief Curator and Associate Director at the Berkeley Art Museum, Director of The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been on the jury and organizing committee of a number of major exhibitions including the Carnegie, the Salon Nacional de Bogotá, International and the Venice Biennale. In addition, he has served on grant and award selection committees for the National Endowment for the Art, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Tiffany Foundation. He currently serves on the board of the Emily Harvey Foundation.
