Please join William Corwin for a discussion on abstraction with artists Bosiljka Raditsa, Elizabeth Yamin, Pooneh Maghazehe, and Nicole Mourino.

Thursday, April 4 – 6:30 pm

Corwin, curated our current exhibition Accommodating the Object with Raditsa and Yamin whose sources are parallel, but vary dramatically in execution. The panel is joined by painter Mourino and sculptor Maghazehe whose works also look at immediate sources and "found objects" but find a different path. Corwin notes in his essay for the exhibition "Of the many trajectories abstraction can follow, those alloyed with certain elements of figurative painting have a unique capability to trigger memory and recognition in the viewer."

We hope you will come early to view Accommodating the Object and stay for the panel discussion.

Please join us on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 6:30pm for our event curated and hosted by Alvin Eng, Asian American Night: Celebrating U+ME - Painting, Poetry, and Artistic Dialogue in Chinatown. Asian American artists will reflect on the dialogue in painting and poetry by Milton Resnick and Matthew Wong in the current exhibition U+ME: Paintings and Poetry by Milton Resnick and Matthew Wong, as well as celebrate intergenerational, interdisciplinary collaboration in Chinatown. We hope you can join us for this closing week, pre-Lunar New Year event.

Featuring

YUCHEN CHANG

BING LEE

LANIE LEE

STEFANI MAR

HELEN OJI

SIYAN WONG

Curated and Hosted by Alvin Eng

Artist/Panelists

CHANG YUCHEN works in an interdisciplinary manner — writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. By constantly entering and exiting each medium, she strolls against the category of things, the labor division among people. She is currently in residence in the Artist Studio Program at Smack Mellon.

changyuchen.com

BING LEE is founding member of Godzilla -Asian American Arts Network, Epoxy Art Group and Tomato Grey. His public art installations include the Canal Street (NYC) and Kowloon Tong (Hong Kong) subway stations among others. He initiated the ongoing project "Pictodiary" in 1983 and has committed to making iconographic journal daily as his significant portrayal of work.

www.bingleestudio.com

LANIE LEE is a Chinese American artist, born and raised in the Bronx. She received a Pollock-Krasner grant and had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Alpha Hills paper making in Japan, and Mass MOCA. She has been in numerous exhibits, including P.S. 1 and the Basement Workshop. In 2022-23, her solo exhibition “Passages Through Time,” was on view at the New York Public Library’s Hudson Park branch. https://lanie212.wixsite.com/arts

STEFANI MAR, artist/designer, explores materials and forms to examine current and perennial obsessions. Born in Seattle, WA, attended art school (CCAC), graduated from UC Berkeley. Living/working in NYC since 1980, artworks include drawing, painting, sculpture, installations shown in galleries, museums and in public spaces. Design works include clothing, textiles and costumes––including a long-term association with Ping Chong & Company.

HELEN OJI is a sansei (3rd generation Japanese American) who is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Her work blends Asian, American and European visual traditions and explores the synergy of gesture, paint, color, and shape. After earning her MA degree in Art (Painting) in California, she moved to New York City in 1976 where she currently lives and works.

https://www.helenoji.com

SIYAN WONG sees the power of portraiture to share the human experiences. A self-taught painter, an immigrant, and a workers' rights lawyer, her experiences inform her artistic vision. Her solo exhibition in Fall of 2023, “Lives of Three Canners: New York’s Chinese Elderly Immigrants,” was on view at the 456 Gallery in Manhattan. Her art is fiscally sponsored by NYFA and publicly funded. Learn more at www.siyanwong.com

Bing Lee, Stefani Mar and Helen Oji currently have work on view in the group exhibition, “GODZILLA:
Echoes from the 1990s Asian American Arts Network,” at the Eric Firestone Gallery thru March 16, 2024.

Curator/Host

ALVIN ENG is a native NYC playwright, memoirist, performer and educator. His memoir, OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN, was published by Fordham University Press. THREE TREES, the first of Eng’s Portrait Plays series of historical dramas about artists, was published by No Passport Press. He is currently developing a solo acoustic punk raconteur performance piece, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN. Honors include Fulbright Specialist and NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships, LMCC grants. Eng’s works have been seen Off-Broadway, as well as in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. www.alvineng.com

A Possible Epic of Care: Poetry Reading with Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz

Please join us for another special evening of poetry at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation. Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz, two renowned poets, will be reading from their new collaborative poem A Possible Epic of Care, published by Black Widow Press. The poets will be introduced by curator and Program Director, Alex Paul Chapin, and the reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Vincent Katz, born in New York, is known for his work as a poet, critic, curator, and translator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016), Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015), Understanding Objects (Hard Press, 2000), Cabal of Zealots (Hanuman Books, 1988), and co-author, with Anne Waldman, of Fantastic Caryatids (BlazeVOX Press, 2017). He is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, which received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He has curated exhibitions on Black Mountain College and Rudy Burckhardt and co-curated a retrospective of the films of Isabelle Huppert at Film Forum in New York City. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in Apollo, Art in America, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. From 2010 to 2021, Katz curated "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" series at Dia:Chelsea in New York City. More info via vincentkatz.net

Andrei Codrescu, born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, emigrated to the United States in 1966. He is the author of numerous books, poems, novels, and essays, including Too Late for Nightmares (Black Widow Press, 2022), Visul Diacritic (Editura Nemira, 2021), No Time Like Now (Pitt Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Art of Forgetting: New Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016), Jealous Witness (2008), It Was Today (2003), and his debut, License to Carry a Gun (1970), which won the Big Table Poetry Award. He also received the National Heritage Award in 2017 and the Ovidius Prize for Literature in 2006. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books and Ideas. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s "All Things Considered". He taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University. More info via codrescu.com

Geoffrey Dorfman, a trustee of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, is a painter and writer on cultural history, in particular — but not limited to — Modernism and Modern Art. He has authored several articles for Artforum. He received a Henry Ward Ranger Prize from the National Academy of Design in 2006 and an NEA grant for art criticism. This year a solo exhibition of his latest work was held at the Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Portland, ME. A feature length film on him, Painting: The Way Of It,” is accessible on Vimeo, and also on Youtube.

David Reed lives in New York City. His paintings combine concepts and techniques used in traditional representational painting with the philosophical and expressive possibilities of recent abstract painting. Sometimes his paintings combine disparate elements that typically do not fit together. His most recent solo exhibitions include shows at Gagosian, Basel (2022), Gagosian, NY (2020 and 2017); Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany (2019); and Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2018).

More details here.

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents Soft Power: Jennifer Samet in conversation with Susan Reynolds on The Feminine in Abstract Painting. This event will be hosted at 87 Eldridge Street on Wednesday, June 28 at 6:30pm. Please RSVP using the Eventbrite link.

Jennifer Samet is a New York City-based art historian, curator, and writer who specializes in contemporary and post-war painting. She is a Director of Eric Firestone Gallery and a faculty member at the New York Studio School. Samet is the author of the column “Beer with a Painter” in Hyperallergic Weekend Edition. Susan Reynolds is the Executive Director of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation.

The Feminine in Abstract Painting was curated by Jennifer Samet and Andrea Belag for the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation. The exhibition continues through July 15.
The exhibition is supported, in part, by public Funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Link to stream live recording here.

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents an evening of music with the Leslie Pintchik Trio. Please join us on Wednesday, June 21. The concert will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets are available online now for $20 (+ fees) or $25 at the door the day of the concert. Seating capacity is limited to 50.

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

7:00 pm

Before embarking on a career in music, jazz pianist and composer Leslie Pintchik was a teaching assistant in English literature at Columbia University, where she also received her Master of Philosophy degree in seventeenth-century English literature. She first surfaced on the Manhattan scene in a trio with legendary bassist Red Mitchell at Bradley's, and in the ensuing years Pintchik formed her own trio which performs regularly at New York City and East Coast jazz venues that have included Jazz At Kitano, Bar Next Door, the Blue Note, Cornelia Street Cafe, 55 Bar, Smalls, Knickerbocker Bar and Grill, Alvin and Friends Restaurant, Scullers Jazz Club and the Side Door, among others.

Her CD You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl! reached number 4 in the country for radio spins on JazzWeek, and also remained in the top 10 for five weeks. Two tracks from Pintchik’s CDs were included in the soundtrack of Orson Welles' final movie, The Other Side of the Wind (released in 2018).

"A crafty, lyrically minded improviser and a compelling composer..."

—The New Yorker

"...a composer of emotional depth and effortless lyricism... "

—DownBeat Magazine

"Leslie Pintchik's music has a magical draw to it.... Her pieces...have a way of registering and resonating both with the pleasure center of the brain and the heart... Getting lost in this music is simply a joy. (4 1/2 stars)"

—AllAboutJazz.com

Video Links:
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiUcppKTkR8
Private Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK4qfGaihYU
https://www.lesliepintchik.com

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents “To Whom the Shoe Fits,” an evening of performances by Ensemble Pi that explore the essence of the creative process through words, music, dance and images.

Wednesday, May 24
7 - 9pm

This event is anticipated to be a special evening exploring the essence of the creative process through words, music, dance, and images. The event features excerpts of letters from abstract expressionist painter Pat Passlof to her students about their craft. These are paired with musical responses from composers Sofia Gubaidulina, Augusta Read Thomas, Laura Kaminsky, and Kaija Saariaho. Performing the pieces along with Ensemble Pi will be guest artists Lucy Shelton (voice and narration), and Stefanie Larriere (dance). Ensemble Pi players: Moran Katz, clarinet; Alexis Gerlach, Cello; Idith Korman, Piano; Airi Yoshioka, violin.

Sofia Gubaidulina: Dancer on a Tightrope for violin piano and dancer (20m)
Augusta Read Thomas: Scat for flute, cl, violin, cello, and piano (10m)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Visions von Hildegard for voice (4m) 
Kaija Saariaho: Mirrors for flute and cello (7m)
Kaija Saariaho: Prelude for piano (7m)
Ursula Mamlok: Polyphony no 1. Clarinet (4m)  
Improvisation 

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents a reading by the poet Lee Ann Brown. She will be introduced by the poet Charles Bernstein. Please join us on Thursday, May 18. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets are available online now for $7 (+ fees) or $10 at the door the day of the reading. Seating capacity is limited to 50.

Thursday, May 18, 2023

7:00 pm

Lee Ann Brown is author of over seven books of poetry including her most recent Oh You Nameless and Unnamed Ridges (1080press, 2022), a collaboration with Bernadette Mayer. She is a mother, partner, sister, daughter, reader, singer, player and winner of a New American Poetry Series Award for her first book Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1989), selected by Charles Bernstein, a Fence Modern Poets Award, a Lord Nose Award, an Acker Award and the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship.

In 1989, Brown founded Tender Buttons Press, which is dedicated to publishing experimental poetry by women and other gender expansive beings. She currently lives in New York City, where she teaches at St. John’s University, and was recently the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge. 

Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein recently retired from being the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2019 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American prize for lifetime achievement, given on the occasion of the publication of Near/Miss. Bernstein was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo from 1990 to 2003, where he co-founded the Poetics Program as well as the Electronic Poetry Center. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, All the Whiskey in Heaven, was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein was published in 2012 by Salt Publishing, and most recently Topsy-Turvy, published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press.

Bernstein is the editor of several collections, including: American Poetry after 1975 (Duke University Press / special issue of boundary, 2009), Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford, 1999), The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof, 1990), and the poetics magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, whose first issue was published in 1978.

He has collaborated with painters Susan Bee, Mimi Gross, Amy Sillman, Francie Shaw, and Richard Tuttle on several artist's books and projects. In 2001, he curated Poetry Plastique, with Jay Sanders, a show of visual and sculptural poetry at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. He has writtern libretti for Ben Yarmolinsky, Anne LeBarron, Dean Drummond, and Feryneyhough.

NYNME Presents: Toy(s)

Join us at 7pm on Monday, May 1st for an evening of thrilling works performed by the world-class musicians of the New York New Music Ensemble.

Tickets will be on sale exclusively via https://www.nynme.org/

$20 general/$10 students and seniors

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation presents a panel discussion on the possibilities of abstract painting and the feminine from an aesthetic viewpoint.

The discussion will be moderated by co-curator and participating artist of the exhibition The Feminine in Abstract Painting, Andrea Belag, in conversation with artists Pam Glick, Clare Grill, Erika Ranee, and co-curator of the exhibition Jennifer Samet.

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $5-10, proceeds of which go toward future programming and events. You can reserve space using the Eventbrite checkout above. Please note there is a seating capacity of 50 + standing room. If you reserve a space and will not be able to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we can release more reservations.

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 6:30-7:30pm
87 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

[POSTPONED]

NYNME Presents: Clarity/Opacity

Join us Monday, February 6th at 7pm for an evening of thrilling works performed by the world-class musicians of the New York New Music Ensemble.

Program:
Jonathan Bailey Holland - The Clarity of Cold Air
James Diaz - Never Was the Way
Elliott Carter - Triple Duo

Tickets are on sale at https://www.nynme.org/events/clarity-opacity

$20 general/$10 students and seniors

NYNME Presents: BioDiversity

Join us Monday, December 12th at 7pm for an evening of thrilling works performed by the world-class musicians of the New York New Music Ensemble.

Program:
Katherine Balch - Speckled the Green and Blue
Christopher Biggs - BioDiversity
Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No.6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds 
Liza Lim - Bioluminescence

Tickets are on sale at https://www.nynme.org/events/biodiversity

$20 general/$10 students and seniors

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is pleased to present Idith Korman’s ‘Sound Paintings’ - music in response to Milton Resnick: 1980s, the program will feature works by Saariaho, Feldman, Cage, Ralli, and improvisation. Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 7:00 pm at 87 Eldridge Street.

Douglas Cardwell, percussion
Idith Korman, piano
Ittai Korman, double bass
Neta Rudich, violin

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is pleased to present a reading by the poet Anselm Berrigan. They will be introduced by Lee Ann Brown. Please join us on Thursday, September 29. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.

Thursday, September 29, 2022

7:00 pm

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is pleased to present a reading by the poet John Yau. They will be introduced by Anselm Berrigan. Please join us on Thursday, February 24. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.

Thursday, February 24, 2022

7:00 pm

Purchase Tickets Here

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.

Join us for an in-person panel discussion and book launch of Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective. Hosted by the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation at 87 Eldridge Street. 

The panel will be moderated by David Cohen, publisher and editor of artcritical in discussion with curator Rachel Rickert and painters Steve Hicks and Kyle Staver. 

The launch celebrates the most comprehensive publication to date on this exceptional American painter.

Saturday, November 13, 2021
4 - 6 PM
Panel discussion: 4:30 pm

Tickets, $15
Book, $45

Link to event tickets here. Link to book preorder here.

Please join us on Thursday, November 11 from 5-7pm for the opening reception of Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions, on view thru February 26, 2022, curated by Eric Brown. An exhibition catalogue will be published featuring essays by Brown and Barry Schwabsky. 

The exhibition comprises a selection of sixteen painting from the artists’ last decades. Many of the paintings are on loan from private collections and have not been publicly exhibited since they were painted. It is the first time the paintings of Freilicher (1924–2014) and Nozkowski (1944–2019) have been exhibited together.

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is pleased to present a reading by the poet Eileen Myles. They will be introduced by the artist and photographer Mary Manning. Please join us on Friday, November 5. The reading will begin at 6:30pm.

Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their 22 books include For Now; I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems; Afterglow and Chelsea Girls. Their 18-minute super-8 puppet road film, The Trip, can be seen on youtube. They showed their photographs in 2019 at Bridget Donahue, NYC. Eileen has received many prizes and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Artists. In 2020 they were elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.

Attendance will be limited and tickets must be purchased in advance through the website. In compliance with NYC regulations, all ticket holders must show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 upon entry.

Tickets available on Tuesday 10/12 via resnickpasslof.org/event-tickets.

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation is thrilled to present the return of NYNME featuring six world premieres and CD release of its new Micro Commissions program created in 2020 to continue its dedicated support for new music during Covid-19. Works by Nathan Shields, Flannery Cunningham, Ed RosenBerg III, Oren Boneh, Tyson Davis and Ben Zervigon. Tickets available here.

The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundations is pleased to present In the Painting Room, Photographs by Midge Wattles at 87 Eldridge Street. This exhibitions consists of photographs captured in 2013 before our extensive renovation took place. The images show the domesticity of the space and presence of Milton’s life spent at 87 Eldridge. Please join us for our first public day of the exhibition on Saturday May 15, 2021, 11am - 6pm.