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A Performative Dialogue Featuring Jacqueline Humphries and Felix Bernstein

A pair of images: Jacqueline Humphries and Felix Bernstein
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Oct 27, 2021
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  • Wed, Oct 27, 4:00 PM
  • Wed, Oct 27, 7:00 PM
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With jHΩ1:) as the set, vanguard painter Jacqueline Humphries, writer and performing artist Felix Bernstein, and special guests perform an improvised dialogue in our galleries. Two performances only.

Adapting a guided script written by Bernstein and employing improvisation, both artists will consider a range of topics such as mediated messaging, the influence of social and cultural design, iconography, branding as mark making, the shaping of culture by imagery and storytelling, repetition, impressions and influence, and acts of making and persuasion. Artist Gabe Rubin and composer/guitar legend Arto Lindsay join the supporting cast of creative players.

Gabe Rubin stands outside on a sunny day.

Gabe Rubin

Jacqueline Humphries stands in her studio.

Jacqueline Humphries. Photo: Martha Fleming-Ives.

Felix Bernstein stands against an ivy-covered wall.

Felix Bernstein. Image courtesy of the artist.

About the Artists

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Jacqueline Humphries lives and works in New York City. The artist’s recent solo exhibitions include presentations at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2020); Dia Bridgehampton, New York (2019); Greene Naftali, New York (2017, 2015, 2012); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2015); and Contemporary Art Center (2015) and Prospect.1 in New Orleans (2008). Humphries was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; among many others.

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Felix Bernstein is a writer and artist. Taking apart the formal parameters of essay and installation, he highlights structural impasses inherent in multimedia hybridity. His writing has been featured in  Art in America, Poetry Magazine, Spike Arts Magazine, Bomb, Mousse, May Revue, Bookforum, and Texte Zur Kunst. His films and performances with Gabe Rubin have been presented at MOCA Los Angeles, David Lewis Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, and Pilar Corrias Gallery.

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Gabe Rubin is a multidisciplinary artist from New York, NY. Rubin’s practice is rooted in music and theatrical performance with particular interest in the folk ballad, ballad opera, mummery, and the Great American Songbook. He received a BA in Bard College’s Film and Electronic Arts Program, where he and Felix Bernstein began their collaboration in performance and video installation. Rubin’s films have screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival and MIX NYC’s Queer Experimental Film Festival. He was a vocalist in Shelley Hirsch’s Book-Bark-Tree-Skin-Line for Blank Forms, New York, and performed in Jill Kroesen’s Collecting Injustices, Unnecessary Suffering at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016. He was featured in Soraya Zaman’s transmasculine photo series American Boys (Daylight Books) and in the talk series Backgrounds at Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Mark Godfrey with assistance from Associate Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Marcus and Curatorial Associate Kristin Helmick-Brunet. Organizational support for the exhibition is provided by Greene Naftali, New York; Modern Art, London; and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.

EXHIBITIONS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Bill and Sheila Lambert
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Crane Family Foundation
Mike and Paige Crane

THIS PRESENTATION MADE POSSIBLE BY
Girlfriend Fund
Greene Naftali, New York

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THIS PRESENTATION PROVIDED BY
Agnes Gund
Anonymous
Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins
Sandra and Leo DelZotto
Joyce and Chuck Shenk
Lisa Stein and Craig Colvin

FREE SUNDAYS POWERED BY
American Electric Power Foundation

LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
American Electric Power Foundation
Huntington

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ingram-White Castle Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
State Farm
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Karen Bell and Ben Maiden
Barb and Al Siemer
Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
The Wexner Family
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
American Electric Power Foundation
Adam Flatto
Mary and C. Robert Kidder
Bill and Sheila Lambert
L Brands Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Nationwide Foundation
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease
Arlene and Michael Weiss

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Carol and David Aronowitz
Michael and Paige Crane
Pete Scantland
Axium Packaging
Bocchi Laboratories
Fenwick & West LLP
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard
KDC/ONE
Nancy Kramer
M/I Homes
Voyant Beauty
Huntington
Lisa Barton
Regina Miracle International Ltd.
Washington Prime Group
Alene Candles
Fuel Transport
Russell and Joyce Gertmenian
Liza Kessler and Greg Henchel
Matrix Psychological Services
Paramount Group, Inc.
Ron and Ann Pizzuti
Joyce and Chuck Shenk
Bruce and Joy Soll
Clark and Sandra Swanson
Business Furniture Installations
CASTO
E.C. Provini Co, Inc.
Garlock Printing & Converting
Jones Day
M-Engineering
New England Development
Our Country Home
Performance Team
Premier Candle Corporation
ProAmpac
Steiner + Associates
Textile Printing
Andrew and Amanda Wise

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A view of three large abstract canvases hanging in the Wexner Center's galleries, with one canvas with red brushstrokes in the foreground and a green painting and multicolored painting in the background. The walls are white, the floors are wood and dark marble, and there is a glass and steel wall to the right.
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A Performative Dialogue Featuring Jacqueline Humphries and Felix Bernstein

Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday's Hours 10AM–6PM
  • Wed, Oct 27, 4:00 PM
  • Wed, Oct 27, 7:00 PM
Galleries

Free for all audiences with ticket

Click here to view our latest COVID-19 safety protocols.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688–3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Become a Member