The Foundation supports the preservation, exhibition, and publication of works by the abstract-expressionist painters Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof.
The primary aim of the Foundation is the preservation, exhibition and publication of works by the abstract-expressionist painters Milton Resnick (1917-2004) and Pat Passlof (1928-2011) and other painters working out of that tradition.
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation was established for the preservation, exhibition and publication of works by the abstract-expressionist painters Milton Resnick (1917-2004) and Pat Passlof (1928-2011) and other painters working out of that tradition. The Foundation will have its headquarters in Milton Resnick’s former studio and home at 87
Eldridge Street in the lower east side of Manhattan. The building will have exhibition spaces and be open to the public. The soaring second floor, the former main sanctuary
of the synagogue, where Resnick painted his signature works in the 1970s-90s will be maintained mostly as a showplace for Resnick’s own work. Rotating exhibitions will be hosted as well as
lectures, poetry readings and other events. The mezzanine floor, overlooking the sanctuary, will
have the preserved small studio in with Resnick made works on paper after ill health made large-scale painting impossible for him.
Operating as usual
Opening reception for Jake Berthot: The Enamels, Curated by Geoffrey Dorfman tomorrow, Saturday, April 2nd from 12-5pm
Jake Berthot
Untitled, 1986
enamel on paper
30 x 22.5 inches
Courtesy the Estate of Jake Berthot and Betty Cuningham Gallery
This is the final week to view Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions, curated by Eric Brown. The exhibition closes this Saturday, February 26th.
As young painters they both reacted against the predominant movement of their day that proliferated downtown New York City, where both painters lived and had studios. Freilicher painted representational works during the height of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. And Nozkowski reacted against the large-scale canvases of Color Field and Minimalism of the 1960s and 1970s, in favor of small easel-sized paintings. Freilicher and Nozkowski’s transmutations of the quotidian into the painterly have much to teach us about attention and improvisation.
Foundation hours are Thursday- Saturday 11am-6pm.
Milton Resnick
Inverness, 1974
oil on canvas
40 x 36 inches
On this day in 2002, a poem from Milton Resnick.
MRPPF will have a limited number of John Yau's latest book from Ownidawn, ‘Genghis Chan on Drums’ for sale during the reading.
Please join us on Thursday, February 24. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. Yau will be introduced by poet, Anselm Berrigan.
John Yau is poet, art critic, freelance curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions.
He was the recipient of the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize. In 2021, Yau was awarded the Rabkin Prize for excellence in visual arts journalism. His most recent book of poems is Genghis Chan on Drums (Omnidawn, 2021). He wrote the first monograph on Thomas Nozkowski (Lund Humphries, 2017) and contributed an essay to Jane Freilicher: Paintings (Taplinger Publishing Company, 1986), edited by Robert Doty. He recently finished a monograph on Joe Brainard that will be published by Rizzoli in the fall of 2022.
Anselm Berrigan's books of poetry include Zero Star Hotel, Something for Everybody, Come In Alone, and most recently Pregrets, published by Black Square Editions in 2021. He's the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail, editor of What is Poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009), & co-editor of Get The Money: Selected Prose of Ted Berrigan, forthcoming in 2022 from City Lights Books.
"Our concern thus is not with influences nor artistic sources located in experience, but with shared ways of looking that Freilicher and Nozkoswki achieved independently. This show is a marriage made in heaven, for it reveals true correspondences between her figurative works and his abstractions. The net effect is to make Freilicher’s pictures look more abstract, and Nozkowski’s more figurative."
Read the full review by David Carrier in [email protected].
Link in Bio.
Images: (1.) Jane Freilicher, Study in Blue and Gray, 2011. Oil on linen, 20 x 20 inches. Collection of Susan and Barton Winokur. (2.) Installation view of Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions.
Due to inclement weather MRPPF will be CLOSED today, Saturday, January 29.
Milton Resnick and Jacob Lawrence pictured together at the Academy of Arts and Letters, on the occasion of Resnick's induction on May 21,1997.
Photograph by Dorothy Alexander.
https://www.facebook.com/hyperallergic/posts/10159683293979812
Curated by Eric Brown, this exhibition at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation in New York is on view through February 26.
"Into the 1980s, Passlof was still making gorgeous abstractions like Isoceles (1980) by accumulating thousands of discrete marks, but around 1990 representational forms (human figures, horses, centaurs) suddenly began to emerge from her brushy fields of color. These motifs inevitably, yet startlingly, convert her field of marks into grounds for her figures. This phase is represented in the survey by two paintings: a 1995 landscape, in which three horses (one, perhaps two, with riders) share the space with a tree and a large red cloud, and an untitled painting from 1995–96, featuring a dozen or so centaurs distributed across a turbulent field of dirty pink strokes."
Excerpt from "Pat Passlof''s Abstraction Kept Evolving as New York, and its Art Scene Changed Around Her," a text by Raphael Rubinstein for on the occasion of Pat Passlof " The Brush is the Finger of the Brain at MRPPF.
Pat Passlof: Arcadian Visions — a selection of gouaches on paper from the 1990s .
Image: (1.) Third-floor installation view of Pat Passlof: Arcadian Visions (2.) Pat Passlof, Untitled, ca. 1990's, gouache on paper, 18 x 24 inches.
We are pleased to announce our next poet to present a reading at 87 Eldridge. John Yau will read and be introduced by poet Anselm Berrigan. Tickets on sale tomorrow at noon (EST).
We will have a limited number of John’s latest book from Ownidawn, ‘Genghis Chan on Drums’ for sale during the reading.
notes:
“At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, Genghis Chan on Drums is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing with aging, identity, PC culture, and stereotypes about being Chinese. Employing various forms, John Gay’s poems traverse a range of subjects, including the 1930s Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, the Latin poet Catullus, the fantastical Renaissance painter Piero du Cosimo’s imaginary sister, and a nameless gumshoe. Yau moves effortlessly from using the rhyme scheme of a sixteenth-century Edmund Spenser sonnet to riffing on a well-known poem-rant by the English poet Sean Bonney, and to immersing himself in the words of condolence sent by a former president to the survivors of a school massacre. Yau’s poems are conduits through which many different, conflicting, and unsavory voices strive to be heard.”
Tickets are on sale for our next concert at 87 Eldridge!
Continuing the 45th season of New York New Music Ensemble residency with the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, their second of three scheduled performances - Hidden Motives. will share music by Georg Friedrich Haas, David Froom, Hannah Lash, Max Grafe, and Bekah Sims’ New York Premiere- join Barlow commission with Crash Ensemble and Eighth Blackbird.
Tickets available exclusively through https://nynme.org
More info on our website
“Pat Passlof’s painting begins with the proposition, which is not always taken for granted, that a painting is made up by painting, as a poem is made up out of a series of words.”
Fairfield Porter on Pat Passlof's March Gallery exhibition in 1959.
"MEMORIES OF 10TH STREET: PAINTINGS BY PAT PASSLOF " closes this Saturday, January 22, at Eric Firestone Gallery.
Eric Firestone Gallery | 40 Great Jones Street, New York, NY 10012
Image:
Miss Julia, 1961
oil on linen
80h x 69w in
MRPPF resumes public hours today, Thursday, January 6th, with our current exhibitions:
Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
Milton Resnick: Veils of Isis
Pat Passlof: Arcadian Visions
The exhibitions continue through February 26th. Public hours are Thursday - Saturday 11am - 6 pm.
Image: (1.) Thomas Nozkowski Untitled (8-67), 2005, oil on linen on panel, 22 x 28 inches, Collection of Mark Pollack, New York (2.) Installation view of Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
Memories of Tenth Street: Paintings by Pat Passlof, 1948-63” is on view through January 22, 2022 at Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
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From left to right:
Purple Drawing, 1960
oil on linen
36h x 33w in
Cherokee, 1959
oil on linen
69h x 51w in
Mint, 1960
oil on linen
42h x 35w in
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Eric Firestone Gallery
40 Great Jones St.
New York, NY 10012
Pat Passlof
Untitled, 1952
oil on paper mounted to board
17 x 22 inches
Happy holidays from all of us at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation!
The Foundation is closing for the holidays on December 24 and will reopen with our current exhibitions on January 6, 2022.
We want to thank all of you who visited and supported the Foundation this past year.
Our shows in the 2020-2021 season included The One and the Many; Guy Goodwin: Mattress World; and Jane Freilicher & Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions along with selections of paintings by Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof. In the Painting Room, photographs by Midge Wattles, was a special tribute to Milton Resnick’s life and poetry.
We are excited about the new year as we continue to present new exhibitions and expand our programming.
We look forward to welcoming you back in 2022.
Image: 87 Eldridge Street by .w
"Jane Freilecher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions" exhibition catalog is now in stock and available to order online or pick up at the Foundation located at 87 Eldridge Street.
Curated by Eric Brown
November 5, 2021 - February 26, 2022
The exhibition is dedicated to Thomas Nozkowski whose early support was critical to Eric’s curation. The catalog features essays by Brown and Barry Schwabsky ()
Published by The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation © 2021
47 pages, 18 color plates
ISBN: 978-1-7337961-3-2
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