"'Second Sundays" Program for April 2011: Guided Tour of On

“SECOND SUNDAYS” PROGRAM FOR APRIL 2011: GUIDED TOUR OF ON BECOMING AN ARTIST BY CURATOR AMY WOLF AND VISUAL ARTIST CARY LEIBOWITZ WHAT On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960, on view at The Noguchi Museum through April 24, 2011, presents a comprehensive survey of Isamu Noguchi’s most important artistic relationships with influential figures in art, dance, architecture and design. Guest curator Amy Wolf will be joined by visual artist Cary Leibowitz in leading a guided tour of the exhibition, discussing the artists who befriended, collaborated with, and supported Noguchi early in his career. Mr. Leibowitz will offer his artist’s perspective on the artworks on display. WHEN Sunday, April 10, 2011 3 pm WHERE The Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Road (between Vernon Boulevard and 10th Street) Long Island City, New York 718-204-7088 Sunday shuttle-bus service is available between Manhattan and the Museum. Information: 718-204-7088, or www.noguchi.org ADMISSION Free with Museum admission. $10 adults; $5 senior citizens and students with valid ID; free for children under 12 and New York City public high-school students with valid ID. CARY LEIBOWITZ Cary Leibowitz is a New York-based artist and member of the “Abject Art” movement. Formerly known as “Candy Ass,” (a moniker he dropped in 1996), he describes his work as “late 20th-century gay Dada.” Mr. Leibowitz’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions including Bad Girls, at The New Museum of Contemporary Art; In A Different Light, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; and Two Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, at the Jewish Museum, New York. Solo exhibitions include, Gain! Wait! Now! (2001), Stop Copying Me Stop Copying Me (2002), and I Love Warhol Piss Paintings (2007), among many others. Mr. Leibowitz’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Hirshhorn Museum, The Jewish Museum, the Peter and Eileen Norton Collection, and the Robert J. Shiffler Foundation. Mr. Leibowitz studied architecture at Pratt Institute and interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He received his MFA in painting from the University of Kansas in 1987. Mr. Leibowitz is a recipient of an award in the Visual Arts Fellowship in 1991 and a grant from Art Matters in1994. AMY WOLF Amy Wolf, who has been an independent art dealer and curator for twenty years, has organized a number of exhibitions that combine historical and contemporary art. These have included, in addition to On Becoming an Artist, The Muse (2004, Leslie Tonkonow Art + Projects, New York City), about artists’ muses, and Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, developed under the auspices of the Public Art Fund (1999, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York City), among others. Ms. Wolf has also worked to uncover the careers of unsung women artists through writing, lecturing, and curating such exhibitions as Following Tradition: Contemporary Art in Needlework by Xenobia Bailey, Amy Berk and Judith Flaxman (2003, Kraushaar Galleries, New York City); Significant Others: Artist Wives of Artists, 1910–1950 (1993, Kraushaar Galleries, New York City); and the New York Society of Women Artists, 1925 (1987, ACA Galleries, New York City). As an art dealer, she has handled important collections of twe ntieth-century art, including those of artist and collector Albert Eugene Gallatin. Ms. Wolf received her B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania and her M.B.A. from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, with a focus on arts administration. EXHIBITION On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960, explores the connections between Noguchi (1904–88) and some forty figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and theater. The exhibition integrates artworks and documentary materials to examine Noguchi’s relationships with such figures as artists Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Frida Kahlo; designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller; architects including Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Kahn, and Richard Neutra; and dancers and choreographers Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, and Merce Cunningham, among many others both famous and less well-known. In so doing, it provides a unique portrait of the art world at critical points during the twentieth century. It remains on view through April 24, 2011. THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM Designed by Isamu Noguchi and occupying a renovated industrial building dating from the 1920s, The Noguchi Museum exhibits a comprehensive selection of the artist’s works in all mediums, displayed in a series of indoor galleries and the sculpture garden. Together, this installation and the Museum’s special exhibitions expand the context for Noguchi’s work and illuminate his influential legacy of innovation. * * * For press information, contact Elise Merriman at Jeanne Collins & Associates, LLC, New York City, 646-486-7050, or [email protected].