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Applebroog Award at Exit Art

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By ArtDeadline.Com
Jan 14, 2008 - 2:58:29 pm

New York, New York - Exit Art is pleased to announce the first biennial Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, established by art collector and Exit Art board member Richard Massey and the artist and Exit Art board member Ida Applebroog to nurture outstanding artists at critical points in their careers. This award was named after Ms. Applebroog to convey both the spirit of her work and Exit Art’s mission and to honor her for her accomplishments. For more than 25 years, Exit Art’s mission has been to support under recognized artists that consistently challenge cultural and artistic conventions. By establishing this award at Exit Art, Ms. Applebroog wishes to further that mission by providing a substantial monetary award to support such artists.

The first biennial 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art has been awarded to performance artist Rafael Sanchez. The award includes a $10,000 unrestricted grant and a solo exhibition in Exit Art’s project room.

Five artists were nominated by distinguished curators and artists to be shortlisted for panel consideration. The shortlisted candidates were: Boyce Cummings, New York; Jessica Lagunas, New York; Lauren Woods, San Francisco; Regina José Galindo, Guatemala; and Rafael Sanchez, New York. Artists of all disciplines, nationalities, sexes, and ages, and working in any medium were eligible for nomination.

Five panelists convened to choose the 2008 award recipient: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Curator at the Jersey City Musuem, Jersey City, New Jersey; Dean Daderko, Independent Curator, New York; Jeanette Ingberman, Co-Founder and Director of Exit Art, New York; Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, New York; and Sara Reisman, Associate Dean of Cooper Union, School of Art, New York, and Independent Curator.

The winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award is New York-based artist Rafael Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez (b. Newark, New Jersey, 1978) is a performance artist who often takes his work to the streets and other unconventional spaces. In his performances, Sanchez frequently subjects his body to extreme stress and pain to materialize ideas of memory, spirituality and endurance. In an early work titled Back to Africa (2000), Sanchez wandered around New Jersey in white face, carrying a suitcase and waiting for a bus that never arrived. In a more recent work, Calienté/Frio (2007) the artist traced the migration process of two women from Cuba to America during the 1960s. The artist, dressed in a light colored suit and hat and carrying a packed suitcase, submerged himself in a tub of water that alternated between near boiling and below freezing as interviews with the two Cuban women played in the background.

The Ida Applebroog Award will be presented to Rafael Sanchez at Exit Art’s EXPOSE 2008 Benefit Auction on May 1, 2008.

EXPOSE - EXIT ART BENEFIT AUCTION 2008

Tickets and Auction catalog now online: http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/support/special_events.html

Or to buy tickets on the phone please call 212-966-7745.

EXPOSE BENEFIT AUCTION
THURSDAY, MAY 1
6:30-9 PM AT EXIT ART
LIVE AUCTION 8PM

CHAIRS:
Ida Applebroog, Jenette Kahn and Richard J. Massey

ARTIST CO-CHAIRS:
Sanford Biggers, Patty Chang, Paul Pfeiffer, Wangechi Mutu

ARTISTS in the auction:
Joshua Abelow, Marina Abramovic, John Ahearn, Diana Al-Hadid, Allora & Calzadilla, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Suzanne Anker, Ida Applebroog, Augusto Arbizo, Madeleine Arthurs, Fia Backström, Larry Bamburg, Matthew Barney, Francisca Benitez, Mike Bidlo, Skip Blumberg, Gideon Bok, Carol Bove, Lowell Boyers, Meghan Brady, Sebastiaan Bremer, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kathe Burkhart, Karlos Carcamo, Brendan Carroll, Robert Chambers, Patty Chang, Sue Coe, Susanna Coffey, Seth Cohen, Ernest Concepcion, Fredo Conde, Cesar Cornejo, Guerra de la Paz, David Dempewolf, Shoshana Dentz, Daniella Dooling, Uri Dotan, R. Luke Dubois, Shannon Ebner, Nelson Fernando Figallo, Stacy Fisher, Lucy Fradkin, Natalie Frank, Carl Fudge, Kate Gilmore, Luis Gispert, Steven Gontarski, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Michael Goodson, Brent Green, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eric Guzman, Ann Hamilton, Jonathan Hartshorn, Peter Hildebrand, Fran Holstrom, Haavard Homstvedt, Becky Howland, Donna Huanca, David Humphrey, Alfredo Jaar, Butt Johnson, Joan Jonas, Jennie C. Jones, Matt Jones, Charles Juhasz-Alvarado, Deborah Kass, Jayson Keeling, Ellsworth Kelly, Khalif Kelly, Rosy Keyser, Fawad Khan, Terence Koh, Fay Ku, Sigalit Landau, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Sandra Lee, Shaun Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Miguel Luciano, Luke Fischbeck/ Lucky Dragons, Robert MacDonald, Mitchell Marco, Alfredo Martinez, Gabriel Martinez, Patrick Martinez, Megan McGinnis, Antonio Muntadas, Kymia Nawabi, Yamini Nayar, Joshua Neustein, Charlotte Nicholson, Nicoykatiushka, Glexis Novoa, Philippe Nuell, Ruben Ochoa, Rune Olsen, Sarah Oppenheimer, Yigal Ozeri, Anna Parkina, Dane Patterson, Philip Pearlstein, Danica Phelps, Meridith Pingree, Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, William Pope.L., Julian Pozzi, Mike Quinn, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Alan Rath, Fay Ray, Boryana Rossa, Ann Rowland, Christy Rupp, Lisa Ruyter, David Salle, Beverly Semmes, Seher Shah, Albert Shelton, Xaviera Simmons, Arthur Simms, Slavs and Tatars, Shinique Smith, Nancy Spero, Jansson Stegner, Do Ho Suh, Dan Tague, Mika Tajima, Javier Tellez, Christian Tomaszweski, Mette Tommerup, Eve K. Tremblay, Ultra Violet, Rafael A. Vargas Bernard, Gee Vaucher, Seth Weiner, Stephen Westfall, Robert Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, Saya Woolfalk, Chris Yockey, Heeseop Yoon.

EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue at the corner of 36th Street. Exit Art is open Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am – 6 pm; Friday, 10 am – 8 pm; Saturday, noon – 8 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5.