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our collective fabric // the microbiome Pop-Up Exhibition
October 27,2023 - November 3, 2023
Hunter College North 933
EMPHERA
June 22,2023 - June 25, 2023
Stella Adler Center for the Arts, The Jimmy Theater
65 Broadway, Manhattan, NY
Group Show
Tappeto Volante
May 7,2023 - June 18, 2023
4-7 pm
126 13th Street, Brooklyn, 11215, NY
Ask A Parasite?
Jayne Raper Lab at Hunter College
Civic Art Lab: a laboratory for art, design, and sustainability
Nov 6, 2022
The Brooklyn Public Library
Everyone is welcome here: Artist-Led Experience
Oct 24, 2021
1 -5 pm
Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn NY 11238
Art As Social Action: 10 Years of Social Practice Queens
The Queens Museum
March 24, 2021- July 25, 2021
New YorkFoundation of the Arts
Invincible Beings
The First Presbyterian Church of the City of New York, Feb 1-14, 2021
our collective fabric // the microbiome
Floor Grootenhuis, Kelly Eckenrode, Sara Fresard, and Jessica Das
Civic Art Lab: a laboratory for art, design, and sustainability
Virtual Symposium: February 6th, 2021
The WeeklyWeekly Presents: Homeward Bound
Opening Night: November 13, 2020
Virtual Exhibition
Flushing Meadows, Corona
Performing June 11th Art as A Tool of Resistance: Resistance Theater
Performing June 25th heart2heart : Building Shared Identities
On view Conversations with Tate III in Creative Mischief 2017
at National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128
Open May 18 - June 13
On view Gestures, Junctures, Questions and Quotes curated by Paul D'Agostino
at Sideshow Gallery, 319 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, New York
Open April 7-30, 2017 Fri thru Sun 12-6pm
Opening Friday April 7th 6-8
Closing Saturday April 29th 6-8
Untitled (Empathy) (2017), performance, mirror and stickers
On view in Chance Encounters: Cubism, Dada and Surrealism
Godwin Ternbach Museum, Queens, New York
Jan 30th - March 18th 2017
The Unseen (2017), performance intervention, transparencies, gallery map and magnifying glasses
On view Protecting our Nature and our Sacred Land,Oak Flat
Queens Museum, New York
Feb 12 - Mar 5, 2017
"Untitled" (2016 - ongoing), photographs, emphemera, audio, conversation and performance
Collaboration with Erin Turner
On view Atlas [Index] Archive, Queens College Art Center
Curated by Adriana Pauly
Oct 17th - Dec 9th, 2016,
Queens, New York
On view in "Dining with Vultures" curated by Sarah Fritchey at Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, New York
Open May 15–28, 2016 Thu 12-6pm, Fri & Sat 12-9pm
Conversations with Tate (2016), photographs, performance and audio
On view in Creative Mischief at the National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128
Open May 19-29 2016 Mon-Sun 11am-6pm
self portrait (2010), diptych, cotton rag inkjet print & acrylic, 15x20x2in (38x51x5cm)
Opening reception Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6pm
This collaboration between Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts and Queens College
is a milestone to introducing art, design and art history to our community.
Opening of Material Archive - curated by Adriana Pauly
Monday 28th of March - 1st April 2016 and participate in vulnerability part 2 (2014- )
Experience my latest piece Jetez La - J'étais Lá (2015)
@National Academy Museum & School opening Friday 15th of May 6-9pm
on view until the 24th of May
Opening Reception of Solo Show 20th November 2014 6-8pm @National Academy School New York City
Unframed Opening Reception 16th August 2014 @FiveMyles Gallery Brooklyn
Showing a site specific rendition of Invisible Presence
Follow the process of Vulnerability Part 2 on
instagram: fgrasa
twitter: fgrasa
#underwhere #vulnerabilitypart2
SAVE THE DATE!
Reviews Clio Art Fair
vulnerability part 1 - reflections, lithography, 118"x25"(300x64cm), 2014
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Was on show at Sonia Gechtoff Gallery, New York
January 21st - March 1st 2014
This is the first part of a new body of work Valuables
Valuables - Part 1, lithography, 9x10 in (23x25cm), 2013
On the Relativity of Distance (and some of its
consequences): American and Italian Art, 1963-
2013
October 2 – November 7, 2013
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 5:30 – 8:00pm
New York, NY (September 16, 2013) – On the Relativity of Distance features the
art of important American and Italian artists who created work between the mid-
1960s through the mid-to-late 1970s, including Ed Ruscha, Richard Pettibone,
Pino Pascali and Alighiero Boetti (see full listing below), as well as National
Academy students and faculty who were influenced or affected by the aesthetic
ideas of those periods.
The exhibition opens October 2 and will run through November 7, 2013 at the
National Academy School, located at 5 East 89th Street and Fifth Avenue. The
opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 3, 2013. The exhibition is
free and open to the public. For information, contact 212.996.1908.
The show has been curated by National Academy faculty member Filippo Fossati
and the director of the National Academy School, Maurizio Pellegrin. “The work
in this show is linked by the natural consequences and the influential impact which, as
is often the case in history, begins with a radical shift in language, in the collective
consciousness and, consequently, in the way that art is made wherein the process
becomes more relevant than the final result,” states Fossati.
“This exhibition is in part due to the aftermath of work made at the school through
a series of theoretical classes,” states Pellegrin. “Its aim is not to be an exhaustive
study of a specific period in art, but more of an ‘unconventional’ contribution that
portrays the changes in ideas and materials of art of our time.”
Featured are works by the following artists and National Academy faculty and
students:
Giovanni Anselmo - Ingo-Heinrich Appel - Robert Arneson - Cristina Avello - John
Baldessari - Alighiero Boetti - Alexander Calder - Vittoria Chierici - Christo - Pirro
Cuniberti - Holland Cunningham - Roshanak Elmendorf - Daniele Galliano - Marco
Gastini - Piero Gilardi - Gianfranco Gorgoni - Floor Grootenhuis - Gary Kuehn - Karen
Lindsay - Nicus Lucà - Piero Manzoni - Alfredo Martinez - Nadia Martinez - Fausto
Melotti - Jeffry Mitchell - Paolo Mussat Sartor - Richard Nonas - Dennis Oppenheim -
Giulio Paolini - Pino Pascali -Paolo Pellion - Giuseppe Penone - Richard Pettibone -
Gianni Piacentino - Nicola Ponzio - Emilio Prini - Carol Rama - Man Ray - Ed Ruscha
- Salvo - Mario Schifano - Judith Shea - Ayumi Shibata - Nancy Spero - Caryl Stern -
William Villalongo - Gilberto Zorio
Floor Grootenhuis
Vulnerability, 2010
worn underwear
118” x 12” x 6”, (cm. 300 x 30 x 15)
Collection of the artist
Vulnerability is an invitation that I continue to extend to all the women I know to contribute their unwashed underwear. This is an on-going process of investigating shared womanhood, intimacy, body, shame, sexuality and beauty. I received envelopes from places as varied as Europe, Africa, Asia, America and Australia. The crux of the work lies in the process and dialogue generated in gathering the material, while the installation serves as the actual documentation.
Although my art references the feminist movement of the 60’s and 70’s, it differs in that it emphasizes the celebration and empowerment of womanhood.
In my work, I like to play with everyday, commonplace materials. I invite the viewer to re-consider their relationship to objects we all know well, an evolution of Duchamp’s concept of “Ready-mades”.