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Long walk from the F train

November 1–December 1, 2024

Over the last 40-plus years, more than two hundred Visual Artist AIRspace residents have occupied the Abrons studios. Long walk from the F train is a group exhibition featuring select Visual Artist AIRspace Residency alumni, ranging from the program's first cohort in 1980 to the present. Non-linear and non-exhaustive, this exhibition does not tell the history of the residency program—instead, it is a collective memory of being in residence.

Featured artists include Willie Birch (1980-1981), Baseera Khan (2016-2017), Girl (Chitra Ganesh, 2002-2003 + Simone Leigh, 2005-2006), Oji Haynes (2023-2024), Yoko Inoue (2000-2002), William Jung (1980-87), Emily Manwaring (2022-2023), Alan Ruiz (2016-2017), Juan Sánchez (1980-1987), Tuesday Smillie (2018-2019), Ho Tam (1998-1999), Mary Ting (1986-1987), and Lynne Yamamoto (1995-1996).

Curated by Curatorial AIRspace Residency Alumni Joshua Lubin-Levy and Camila Palomino

Opening Reception: November 1, 6–8pm. RSVP encouraged but not required.

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Ho Tam, Hair Cuts, 1999 (film still). Courtesy of Ho Tam.

About the Curators

Camila Palomino

Camila Palomino is a curator, researcher, and writer from Queens, NY. Her research is invested in aesthetic and political relationships between urban infrastructures and memory. Camila has organized exhibitions and programs at Abrons Arts Center, Hessel Museum of Art, SculptureCenter, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. Camila was the co-editor of the fifth issue of Viscose Journal, “Retail,” which focuses on the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics. From 2021 to 2022, Camila was Curator in Residence at Abrons Arts Center.

Joshua Lubin-Levy

Joshua Lubin-Levy is a scholar, dramaturg, and curator. He is the Director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal. He received his doctorate from the Department of Performance Studies, New York University (2020). He previously held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, and Abrons Arts Center, and taught at Eugene Lang, The New School, Pratt, New York University, and Princeton. He was also 2016–2017 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Independent Studies Program.

Funding

This Exhibition is made possible through the generosity of The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.