A cloak of red, slow as a Carpathian rock

River Valley Arts Collective: Brigitta Váradi
curated by Marisa Espe
Al Held Foundation (Boiceville, NY)
April 13 – June 9, 2024

Interwoven

Bob's Gallery, Bushwick, NY, 
Curated by Sammy Bennett and Weihui Lu
Feb 2-Mar 10 2024, Open Sundays, 1-5 p.m
Opening reception Friday, February 2, 6-9 pm

We are not Meant to Be Seen - Angela, the project is supported by the Civitella Raniery Foundation.

“Interwoven”,  a desire to weave together the multiplicity of voices in our community, a celebration of our varied identities and histories, and the shared desire to make room for and listen to each other. True community is complex, and not always easy. It is multi-generational, small red satin breucci made by a mother for her daughter. It is the wound of estrangement, of the loss of a shared language across immigrant generations. It is the understanding that illness and pain take their time and build their walls, in a system that has not made allowance for them, never-mind support. Perhaps it is the understanding of each other’s wounds, and the desire to help heal them, that makes community. Through our presence, our patience, and our touch, we hope to stitch together a new—and gentler—way to be interwoven. - Sammy Bennett & Weihui Lu 

Artists: Amir Badawi Annette Hurr Brigitta Váradi Clare Hu Defne Tutus Georgia Lale Isis Davis-Marks Jeanne F. Jalandoni Kat Ryals Katherine Yaochen Du Katrina Slavik Lena Schwartz Lexy Ho-tai Linda Sok Margie Neuhaus Melika Abikenari Nick D'Ornellas Ophelia Arc Sammy Bennett Scott Walker Yasmeen Abdallah Zuriel Waters

Visiting Artist Lecturer and critics, Ithaca College, NY

Saltonstall Fellowship

Saltonstall Fellowship, November 2023

Transborderart Fellowship

TransBorder Art Fellowship, Residency Governors Island, NY, September 2023.

September 23, 2023 #406A Colonels Road, Fellow Resident Brigitta Varadi Solo Shows, Hunia

Artist Talk, Geary

Please join us for a closing reception and artist talk with featured artist, Brigitta Varadi this Saturday, July 29th at 2pm. 
Varadi will talk about her project, Permission To Be, Hunia, which explores a largely unknown, ethnically and linguistically distinct people, the Carphato-Rysyns. The Carphato-Rysyns live in remote villages in the Carpathian Mountains of East Central Europe and have a unique and compelling history. She will also discuss their immigration to work in Pennsylvania's steel mills and coal mines (1880-1920).
The project is a continuation of Varadi’s investigation into disappearing traditions. Varadi explores the Carpatho-Rusyns' through her work Hunia, which was a traditional wool coat that was at the center of the Carpatho-Rusyns' mountain lives. Brigitta draws attention to this small ethnic group, while evoking her memories of many childhood Summer stays with her great-grandfather in Tyushka, a small mountain village in Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
Hunia was made and the performance segments were filmed in different outdoor locations on MacDowell's grounds. #MadeAtMacDowell @Macdowell1907

Article, NYFA

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These insights were shared as part of “Writing & Talking About Your Work,” a presentation Varadi gave in partnership with NYFA and the Office of the Arts, City of Alexandria.
Compiled by Amy Aronoff, Senior Communications Officer. Read Full Article, click here

Geary gallery, Who's to say I am awake; are you?

WHO’S TO SAY I AM AWAKE; AREY OU? 

CURATED BY TARA FOLEY

JUNE10TH-JULY 30TH 2023

Who’s To Say I Am Awake; Are You? asks the question about the state of consciousness today. What is currently rising to visibility from our unconscious minds?

For Carl Jung, consciousness is like a small island in the ocean of the unconscious, while the unconscious is part of the primordial condition of humankind. Jung explains various methods for uncovering the contents of the unconscious, talk therapy, dream analysis and art making.

The works of these 19 artists explore the conscious and unconscious mind, sleeping and waking states, inner and outer worlds, things we see and don't see, what we hide and what we show the world. Art holds the implicit power to awaken, stir and provoke through the innumerable ways that it charts the unknown; through representations of buried and hidden histories alongside meticulously mapped and dissected versions of reality. Artworks manifest slices of reality that are deliberately not at the forefront of consciousness in order to push the unforeseen forward.

Featuring work by:

Paul Anagnostopoulos, Aisha Tandiwe Bell-Caldwell, Theresa Daddezio, Mark Joshua Epstein, Tara Foley, Henry Klimowicz, KK Kozik, Kirstin Lamb, Marta Lee, Loraine Lynn, Azikiwe Mohammed, Lucha Rodriguez, Kat Ryals, Saki Sato, Nikko Sedgwick, DARNstudio, Brigitta Varadi, Erik White, Jack Wood

Interview, NYFA

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Interview by Ya Yun Teng, Program Officer, Immigrant Artist Resource Center (NYC)This post is part of the ConEdison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter #157. Read Full Interview, click here.

Workshop: Writing and Talking about your work, presented by NYFA

For more details and how to register

NYFA is pleased to present this free online workshop in partnership with the Office of the Arts, City of Alexandria, which will cover the key written and verbal elements essential for communicating about your creative practice. Whether you’re working in the visual, literary, or performing arts disciplines, being able to speak and write about your work effectively unlocks opportunities. Yet, it can be a difficult and intimidating process to distill everything you do into a few simple words. Register, click here

Presenter and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow Brigitta Varadi knows this firsthand, and is here to walk you through the process–drawing upon both her empathy as a fellow artist and experience as a Residency Director at ChaShaMa North. 

MacDowell Fellowship

Link to MacDowell ProfileMacDowell Fellow, February 2023 Interdisciplinary Art-Multimedia Installation

2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Category

Awarded 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Category. 

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has awarded 92 New York-based artists a total of $616,000 in grants as part of its 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. The 36-year-old fellowship program, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Selected from an applicant pool of 3,572, the artists represent five disciplines that were selected for this year’s round of grants: fiction; folk or traditional Arts; interdisciplinary work; painting; video or film. Please click here for the list of all the fellows and finalists of the 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship.

Cladogram: 2ND KMA International Juried Biennial

Exhibition runs: July 11 – September 19, 2021

Special Event: Lunch with Cladogram Artists, Tue, Jul 27, 2021 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Tickets: Click here

Katonah Museum, 134 Jay Street, Katonah, NY 10536

Cladogram: 2^ND KMA International Juried Biennial, juried by Yasmeen Siddiqui, brings together artists working in written and visual media. A cladogram is a branching diagram that shows relationships among different species and their history of evolution. Similarly, this exhibition will include work that engages with personal or family history, explores the ways in which historical objects and ideas are organized, categorized, and displayed, and challenges the dominant narrative of history and art history. With Cladogram, the KMA presents a broad range of contemporary work created by artists based locally, regionally, and from 21 countries around the world, in an effort to build networks of artists internationally. Yasmeen Siddiqui is a curator, essayist, lecturer and founding director of Minerva Projects, which supports interdisciplinary artists. 

On Repetition And Depth

Looking Forward While Looking Back:

On Repetition And Depth

Curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen

May 1 - 14, 2020

The new iteration of Looking Forward while Looking Back: On Repetition and Depth, presents the works of NARS Alumni Brigitta Varadi, Ellen Bleiwas and Ren Zi.

The works of these artists are deeply rooted in an infinite search for interiorness, for the unseen, and the ritualistic. They exist in a permanent threshold –a constant tension between movement and stillness, between the inside and the outside, between the other and the self.
Through repetitive, meditative gestures, these artists shape and create works that encourage slowness, sensory perception and the exploration of the various meanings of life.

As our daily lives have become spaces of repetition and pause, the practices of these artists lead to a perspective in which our daily actions can become generative, even magical.

Museum of Arts and Design, MADMuseum

MAD Museum

Museum of Arts and Design - MAD Artist Studio Program, Artist-in-Residence

Every Tuesdays from February-July 2019

The Artist Studios program hosts artists and designers daily in open studios. Artists-in-residence receive space and support to develop new work and expand their practice, while welcoming dialogue with the public about their processes, materials, and concepts.

Founded in 2008, the program has provided studio space and financial support to over 160 artists-in-residence working in a range of interdisciplinary media.

#MADArtistStudios

Visit the studios on the 6th floor of MAD, Tuesday through Sunday between 10 am and 5 pm, and until 8:30 pm on Thursdays.

Funding

The Artist Studios program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Principal support for the MAD Artist Fellowship is provided by Marcia Docter. Additional funding is provided by The New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship Program.

  

Dot Conference

DOT CONFERENCE

Opening Thursday May 23rd, 5:30-8pm
The Yard, Williamsburg, 33 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222
 

Curated by Kirstin Lamb
On view 9am-4:30pm (M-F) and by appointment / May 20th - August 15th, 2019

Spring Break Art Show

The Passionate Shepherd, installation W-36 Booth 

Curator: Chashama

Artists: Colby Cannon Welsh, Elizabeth Tisdale, Brigitta Varadi

SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC, 2019

FACT AND FICTION 

OPENING NIGHT: Tuesday, March 5th 4pm - 8pm

REGULAR SHOW DAYS: Wednesday - Monday, March 6th-11th, 11am - 7pm

LIGHT YEAR ARTS, Manhattan Bridge Public Art Video Projection

Markings-Solo Show at the Westbeth Gallery, NYC