Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects | New York

05/11/2022

“Agnes Denes: Another Confrontation” presented by CIRCA on electronic billboards throughout the world every night at 8:22 pm during the month of May! It is on view here in NYC at 1540 Broadway near Times Square. In words and images Denes tells the story of her iconic Land art piece “Wheatfield: A Confrontation” (through May 10), and “Tree Mountain: A Living Time Capsule,” (through May 20). A questionnaire about the future of humanity will be on view through May 31. The answers will be buried in a time capsule to be opened in 1,000 years. CIRCA is a London-based digital art and culture platform.

For more information about locations, how to answer the questionnaire, and growing your own AR wheat field visit circa.art. Image: “Agnes Denes: A Confrontation” at Picadilly Lights, Picadilly Circus, London

05/09/2022

Saya Woolfalk

Head over to The Rudin Family Gallery at BAM Strong in Brooklyn to experience Saya Woolfalk's immersive "Floating World of the Cloud Quilt." The monumental digital projection-based installation creates a unified space constructed thorugh 15 years of archival material from Woolfalk’s "Empathic Universe."

"Floating World of the Cloud Quilt" is currently on view through June 11, and is open Wednesday through Saturday, 1–6 PM.

This immersive, analog-digital projection installation quilts together the real and imagined.

05/09/2022

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects | New York updated their business hours.

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects | New York updated their business hours.

04/06/2022

Betsy Kaufman Puts Pressure on Geometric Abstraction

Now that Betsy Kaufman's current exhibition has been extended through April 15th, it is a perfect time to read Ela Bittencourt's very thoughful review via Hyperallergic on "Betsy Kaufman: 14 Sculptures, 1 Painting," now on view in our space at 401 Broadway, Suite 411, this Thursday - Saturday, and next Thursday - Friday (11AM–6PM).

Kaufman's sculptures can go from orderly to helter-skelter, making them seem like willful renegades from an industrial assembly line.

03/03/2022

Betsy Kaufman's current show "14 Sculptures, 1 Painting" is now on view in our gallery space at 401 Broadway, Suite 411. We are open Thursday–Saturday 11AM–6PM, and by appointment, through April 2.

Masks and IDs are required to enter the building. Press 4 on the panel situated on the north wall of the lobby to access the next available elevator.

http://tonkonow.com/kaufman_fourteensculptures.html

04/22/2021

The Future is Fragile—Agnes Denes flies the flag for Healing Arts above Tate Britain

Happy Earth Day! The is currently flying a flag by Agnes Denes with the message "The Future is Fragile, Handle with Care," an urgently essential reminder through the current pandemic and ongoing climate crisis affecting us all.

The flag is flying above the Tate in relation to "the launch of a global 2021 Arts & Health Campaign: a “call to action” launched by the World Health Organization, the nomadic social enterprise Culturunners, and a coalition of cultural partners to counter the mental health crisis of isolation, anxiety and bereavement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic."

Denes' majestic intervention also marks the launch of The Future is Unwritten Artist Response Fund

03/10/2021

Amy Cutler's 'A Narrative Thread' at MMoCA paints a resilient picture

The Capital Times just featured this great article on Amy Cutler's solo exhibition "A Narrative Thread" at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. "Amy Cutler: A Narrative Thread" opens to the public on March 12th, and will be on view through May 16th.

The Brooklyn painter's new exhibition, "A Narrative Thread," opens at MMoCA after pandemic postponements. The free museum reopens March 12.

11/06/2020

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects — Intersect Chicago: the future of SOFA

Intersect Chicago 2020 opened today, and will be online through November 12. Our virtual booth features beautiful work by Tracey Baran, Dean Byington, Amy Cutler, Betsy Kaufman, Charlotte Moorman, Laurel Nakdate and Saya Woolfalk! Take a look at our presentation through the link below!

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects specializes in contemporary art across all media along with works on paper from the 1960s to the present. Since its inception in 1997, the gallery has been committed to working with important but under-exposed artists who emerged in the 1960s and 70s, while concur...

10/16/2020

The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II

Agnes Denes's "Wheatfield" is named as one of T Magazine's "25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II." This seminal work accompanies many amazing contributions to the use of art as protest in recent American history. Read through the article below!

09/01/2020

The Black Women Artists to Have on Your Radar

Saya Woolfalk is featured on Marie Claire Magazine as one of their "Black Women Artists to Have on Your Radar." Read the article via the link below!

08/14/2020

What Ecofeminist Artists Learned from Indigenous Cultures

Works by Agnes Denes and Helène Aylon are a part of “ecofeminism(s),” the group show at Thomas Erben Gallery slated to reopen September 8. Read an Art in America review mentioning works by both artists via the link below!

08/14/2020

- Did I Ever Have a Chance? - Viewing Room - Marc Selwyn Fine Art Viewing Room

Works by Helene Aylon will be on view in "Did I Ever Have a Chance?," a group show opening at Marc Selwyn Fine Art tomorrow, August 15. The exhibition focuses on contemporary and historical works by multigenerational artists who confront and challenge entrenched systemic inequities.

The exhibited works are also on the gallery's website viewing room, linked below.

08/14/2020

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects

If you haven't seen "Agnes Denes: Photos of the Mind 1969-2002," it is currently on view in our ADAA viewing room, linked below.

"It’s interesting that when I think of my photographs I see them as projects that supercede documentation. And they are not documentation, but another art form – a newborn development."

—Agnes Denes

Human Dust, 1969 , Human Dust, 1969 , Human Dust (2b), 1969 , Rice/Tree/Burial, 1977/2012 , Rice/Tree/Burial (Rice Planting - Horizontal) , Rice/Tree/Burial (Rice Planting - Vertical), 1977/2012 , Rice/Tree/Burial (Tree Chaining) , Rice/Tree/Burial (Burial of the Time Capsule) , Isometric Systems in...

08/13/2020

Helène Aylon, "two sacs en route: Nagasaki Flats," 1990 (detail)

08/13/2020

HELÈNE AYLON: TWO SACS EN ROUTE

The activist, ecofeminist, conceptual artist Helène Aylon was preparing a multimedia installation to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when she sadly died on April 6th of this year from complications of Covid-19. To honor the memory of this singular artist, and a project to which she was deeply committed, we are pleased to announce a modified, virtual presentation of the exhibition.

Please take a moment to experience "two sacs en route 1985-2020" virtually via the link below. The work in the exhibition stems from Helene's generative body of work stemming from her 1985 trip and actions in Japan, then to mark the fortieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

04/03/2020

Agnes Denes

The most comprehensive survey to date of works by Agnes Denes, originally scheduled to run through March 22, 2020, concluded on March 12 when The Shed was forced to temporarily close in consideration of the health and safety of its artists, audiences, and staff.

We are very pleased to announce a special presentation of selected installation views and individual images on our web site.

Initiated by The Shed's Senior Program Advisor, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Senior Curator Emma Enderby, and organized by Emma Enderby with Curatorial Assistant Adeze Wilford, the exhibition of more than 150 works created in a wide range of mediums from the 1960s to the present provided a broad overview of the artist's investigations in philosophy, mathematics, science, linguistics, psychology, ecology, and religion.

In addition to three major sculptural works, newly commissioned by The Shed, highlights of the exhibition included rediscovered video and film documentation of Denes's iconic Land Art works Wheatfield–A Confrontation (1982), and Tree Mountain—A Living Time Capsule (1992–96) for which she created a mountain with 11,000 fir trees planted in a mathematical configuration near Tampere, Finland.

Our deepest gratitude goes to the following individuals at The Shed who enabled the expansive presentation of works by this singular artist: Alex Poots, Chief Executive and Artistic Director; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Senior Program Advisor; Emma Enderby, Senior Curator; Adeze Wilford, Curatorial Assistant; Jesse Hamerman, Director of Exhibitions; Heather Reyes, Exhibitions Producer, William Hempel, Registrar, Elizabeth Berridge, Exhibitions Assistant, and Art Domantay.

03/06/2020

Independent, the Small-Scale Art Fair Antidote to the Armory Show, Stages a Soothing Opening in New York

The Independent opens to the public today. Please visit us on the 5th Floor mezzanine for a wonderful presentation of new and recent work by Saya Woolfalk! Our space is just up the stairs to the left of the main 5th Floor entrance. The fair is open today and tomorrow 12PM – 7PM, and on Sunday from 12PM – 6PM. See you there!

Some brief coverage below:

“The intimacy and scale is refreshing,” one dealer said.

01/22/2020

In 365-Day Instagram Project, Artist Laurel Nakadate Plays With Self-Exposure

Laurel Nakadate is currently re-performing "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears" for the year of 2020, 10 years after the original performance. You can follow on Instagram to keep up with the piece, and read ARTnews's coverage on the re-performance below:

She’s revisiting her 2010 series “365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears” in an updated form.

01/14/2020

Agnes Denes’s Idealistic Projects Refuse to Accept Apocalypse as Inevitable

Art in America's review of "Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates," read below!

One could speculate that the Shed’s figuring of Agnes Denes as an unclassifiable savant more in league with Renaissance humanists than with her direct contemporaries serves in part to bracket the q…

01/06/2020

Agnes Denes's Future Imperfect

"Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes’s art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today." - Louis Bury on Agnes Denes's current show at The Shed. Read the linked article of Hyperallergic!

11/08/2019

At 88, Agnes Denes Finally Gets the Retrospective She Deserves

Agnes Denes in The New York Times! Read the glowing review on her current show "Absolutes and Intermediates" at The Shed below:

She set out to change humanity. Now a superbly installed survey at the Shed charts this visionary artist’s 50-year journey.

11/07/2019

If the Earth Were a Hot Dog: A Conversation with Agnes Denes

"When I started, I wanted to evaluate human knowledge. I wanted to re-examine our thinking; and during this investigation, my art was born."

- Agnes Denes in conversation with Emma McCormick-Goodhart for frieze.

With a survey exhibition at The Shed, the visionary artist speaks to Emma McCormick-Goodhart about the importance of learning from nature

10/31/2019

Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due.

The Washington Post recently published a review on Agnes Denes's retrospective at The Shed that takes a quick look on that artist's immense body of work and resulting legacy:

Artist made pieces about climate change, decades before it was a mainstream topic.

10/30/2019

The Columbus Museum

The Columbus Museum

Thank you to the Ledger-Enquirer for the great write-up and video about Exhibit - Saya Woolfalk: Augmented Visionary Reality Outpost! Hear from the artist about how Pasaquan and Columbus native Alma Thomas inspired her work!
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If you haven't already, make plans to get to The Columbus Museum this weekend to check out this amazing exhibition where art meets science fiction in an alternate universe!

10/30/2019

LAND OF THE LIVING

If you haven't already, read Artforum's extensive article on Agnes Denes's work, which is also the cover story for October's print issue!

ASHES TO ASHES . . . Before the recent wave of disquisitions on our planet’s impending demise, there was Agnes Denes’s Book of Dust: The Beginning and the End of Time and Thereafter (1989). A heavily researched investigation of the death of all matter, written between 1972 and 1987, the book is ...

10/16/2019

"Model for Probability Pyramid – Study for Crystal Pyramid" (1976-2019), Commissioned by The Shed. Photo: Stan Narten

05/14/2019

We are pleased to announce that The Menil Collection just recently acquired the Amy Cutler painting "Semblance" (2019)! The work was a part of our most recent solo show of Amy Cutler's work "Points of Egress."

04/16/2019

Saya Woolfalk: Expedition to the ChimaCloud | Nelson Atkins

We are pleased to share that Saya Woolfalk also has a solo exhibition at the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. "Saya Woolfalk: Expedition to the ChimaCloud" is currently on view through September 1, 2019. The museum will also host an artist talk with Saya Woolfalk on the evening of May 9th. Information on the talk and related programming can be found via the link below:

Contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk’s body of work transports visitors into a fantastical world where they encounter a fictional race of women Woolfalk has created called the Empathics.

04/16/2019

Visionary Reality Outpost: Saya Woolfalk - John Michael Kohler Arts Center

We are pleased to share that Saya Woolfalk has a solo exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. "Visionary Reality Outpost" is currently on view through August 18, 2019.

Artist Saya Woolfalk (NY) works at the confluence of science fiction, anthropology, technology, and art to imagine a world that is simultaneously set in the future and the past. Her work considers hybrid identities, especially in relation to the contemporary transcultural influences occurring in a t...

04/13/2019

Drawn Together Again - The FLAG Art Foundation

Work by Amy Cutler is currently on view as part of The FLAG Art Foundation's survey of contemporary drawing "Drawn Together Again." Make sure to stop by before the show's closing date! (May 18, 2019).

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Drawn Together Again on view February 23–May 18, 2019 on its 10th floor. This survey of contemporary drawing focuses on the intimate act of drawing through the variety of traditions and practices artists employ. The exhibition of more than 120 artists ...

04/13/2019

Amy Cutler, “Points of Egress: New Drawings & Paintings on Paper” | Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects | Art in New York

Our current show of Amy Cutler's recent work as featured on Time Out New York!

Cutler’s surreal allegories on paper are executed with a jewel like precision that recalls Persian and Indian miniatures, and similarly evoke a world both exoti

04/13/2019

Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Helène Aylon

Laurel O'Neill Butler of Artforum gives a very informed and thoughtful write-up of our recent show with Helène Aylon:

In 1963, two years after Helène Fisch (née Greenfield) became widowed at age thirty, she was painting a mural for a community center when a newspaper reporter asked for her name. Spontaneously, she replied, “Helène Aylon,” offering a shortened Hebraic version of her first name for her last. T...

03/15/2019

Amy Cutler: Using Magical Materiality as Feminist Critique

Thanks to The Brooklyn Rail for this great write-up of Amy Cutler's recent work! Read it via the link below:

Amy Cutler has dedicated her career to the cultural subtexts associated with womanhood. She draws a network connecting history and mythology, revealing the guts of that animal-woman as a straw man other to an audience of power.

03/08/2019

Amy Cutler - "Semblance" (2019)

01/09/2019

Helène Aylon - "Drifting Pink" (1970)