NOTED NEW YORK ARTISTS DONATE WORKS FOR 2009 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS
NOTED NEW YORK ARTISTS DONATE WORKS FOR 2009 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS
Ten Noted New York Artists Donate Works to be Given to the Winning Filmmakers of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
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2009 Artist Awards Program sponsored by CHANEL
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Stephen Hannock, Clifford Ross, David Salle and Others Contribute Important Pieces to Winning Filmmakers
The Tribeca Film Festival today announced ten contemporary artists who will donate pieces to the Festival's 2009 Artist Awards Program sponsored by CHANEL. A work of art from each participating artist will be presented to a filmmaker whose film is selected as the winner in its respective category. The artists are some of the industry's most vibrant: Stephen Hannock, Clifford Ross, Robert Mangold, Hank Willis Thomas, Fritz Chestnut, Mickalene Thomas, Kalup Linzy, Tom Slaughter, SunTek Chung and David Salle. Clifford Ross will participate for a fourth year, and Steven Hannock will continue his participation for the eighth consecutive year. The Tribeca Film Festival, presented by founding sponsor American Express, takes place April 22 – May 3, 2009.
With art playing an integral role in CHANEL’s history, it is an honor for CHANEL to have the opportunity to support the Tribeca Film Festival and celebrate the artists of this year and years past. "CHANEL is incredibly pleased to continue its support of the Artist Program for the fourth consecutive year” says CHANEL Global CEO, Maureen Chiquet. “Just as Coco Chanel was a patron and friend of many emerging and well-known artists of her time, we are proud to continue this tradition through the Festival."
The artwork – consisting of paintings, prints and collages – will be publicly exhibited for the first time at the CHANEL Boutique in SoHo (139 Spring St.), from April 16th-29th, between the hours of 11-7 Monday-Saturday and 12-6 on Sunday, where New Yorkers and festival-goers can view the works before they are awarded at the Tribeca Film Festival awards ceremony on April 30.
The Tribeca Film Festival Artist Awards Program sponsored by CHANEL was created by Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal to celebrate New York artists and to honor lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
“The Artist Awards Program demonstrates the importance of artists supporting each other across all mediums,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival. “We are so pleased to have these ten respected artists continue the tradition of past participants who have not only supported the Festival but most importantly the filmmakers at Tribeca. We thank CHANEL for their dedication to the arts and are excited that the works will be on display in the CHANEL store for all to see during the Festival.”
“The Tribeca Film Festival is a classic New York City turn-on. It’s a vital and exciting brew of film and video from around the world - a launching pad for what will come next. TFF creates a cultural ferment that fuels everyone who comes in contact with it,” said artist Clifford Ross.
Following are the participating artists:
Fritz Chesnut - Chesnut was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1973 and raised in Santa Barbara, California. He received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1995 and his MFA from Rutgers University in 1997. Starstruck, his first solo exhibition, was presented at Bellwether in May of 2002. His paintings have appeared in exhibitions in New York City at White Columns, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Arena Gallery, the Dumbo Arts Center, in Buffalo at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and in Milan, Italy at Marella Arte Contemporanea. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out NY and Flash Art among others. Chesnut lives and works in New York City.
SunTek Chung - SunTek Chung received his BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 and went on to receive his MFA in Sculpture in 2002 from Yale University. After graduate school he was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. SunTek Chung has exhibited his work nationally and internationally since 1997. He has participated in group shows at Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany; Mouri Gallery, Tokyo; Massimo Audeillo and Art in General, New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Samson Projects, Boston and a project room at the MOMA’s PS 1 Contemporary Art Center. SunTek Chung is represented by Collette Blanchard Gallery in NY and Samson Projects in Boston.
Stephen Hannock – Hannock was born in Albany in 1951. From 1971 to 1986, he lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was apprenticed to Leonard Baskin until 1975. Considered one of the foremost contemporary landscape painters, Hannock’s best-known subject is the Connecticut River Oxbow, in western Massachusetts, represented in a series he’s been producing for more than a decade. His works are part of the public collections in a variety of museums nationwide, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. Hannock currently lives and works in New York City and Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Kalup Linzy - Kalup Linzy is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Linzy is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from Creative Capital, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Jerome Foundation, and Art Matters. His work has been featured in major exhibitions which include Frequency Thelma Golden's 2005 survey of emerging African American artists at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, and 30 Americans from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida. His work is also in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Robert Mangold - Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) studied at the Cleveland Art Institute before attending the Yale University School of Art and Architecture; he received both B.F.A (1961) and M.F.A. (1963) degrees from Yale. Since his first solo exhibition in 1964, Mangold's work has been the subject of one-person shows, traveling exhibitions and retrospectives exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including: Paintings 1964-1982 and Drawings and Prints at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1982), Robert Mangold: Paintings 1971-1984 organized by the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH with subsequent venues in New York, Texas and California (1984-86) and Robert Mangold: Painting as Wall, Werke von 1964 bis 1993 organized by the Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland and later traveling to Paris, Germany and Portugal (1993-95). The Museum Wiesbaden in Germany organized and exhibited Robert Mangold: Attic Series and Plane/Figure Paintings (1998-99) and on the occasion of that exhibition, a second and final portion of the catalogue raisonné of Mangold's work was published; the first portion of the catalogue raisonné was published in conjunction with the 1982 Stedelijk Museum exhibitions. Included three times in both Documenta, Kassel, Germany (1972, 1977, 1982) and in the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial (1979, 1983, 1985), Mangold's work has also been featured in the Venice Biennale (1993). In 2000, Phaidon Press published the over-300 page monograph Robert Mangold.
Clifford Ross - Clifford Ross began his career as a painter and sculptor after graduating from Yale in 1974 with a BA in both Art and Art History. In 1995, he turned his attention toward photography and other media. Frustrated by the lack of detail available with existing cameras, Clifford invented and patented the "R1" camera in 2002 and made some of the highest resolution large-scale landscapes in the world. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. “Outside Realism: Clifford Ross Photography”, a ten year survey of his work, is currently at the Austin Museum of Art and “Clifford Ross: Mountains and Sea” will open in May of this year at the MADRE/Museo Archeologico in Naples, Italy. His work will be the subject of exhibitions this year at Robilant +Voena Galleries/London and Milan, the Alain Noirhomme Gallery/Brussels, and Sonnabend Gallery/New York. He is currently creating a stained glass wall for the new Federal Courthouse in Austin, Texas, has been shooting his first new “Hurricane” photographs in eight years, and is developing “Harmonium Mountain: A Photographic Opera,” an imaginary landscape video based on one still image.
David Salle - David Salle's work helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. Major exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Stedelijk Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Castello di Rivoli and the Guggenheim Bilbao. A group of fifteen paintings will be shown at the Kestnergesellschaft Museum in Hannover Germany in March of this year. In 1986 Salle received a Guggenheim fellowship for theater design, and in 1995 he directed the feature film “Search & Destroy” starring Griffin Dunne and Christopher Walken. He is a long-time collaborator with the choreographer Karole Armitage, designing sets and costumes for many of her ballets. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Tom Slaughter – Tom Slaughter has had more than 30 solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Vancouver, Germany and Japan. He has worked as a print maker in collaboration with Durham Press for 20 years, and his editions are included in the collections of the MOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has published six illustrated children’s books including 123, One Some Many, Over Under, ADNC x3, and Eats. These books have been translated in seven languages. In spring 2009 the new book from the publisher Tundra Books will be available called Same Same. He also works with The New Victory Theater designing the posters for their 15 productions a year. His poster for the Obama campaign can currently be seen at the exhibition entitled Manifest hope in Washington, D.C. He lives and works in New York City.
Hank Willis Thomas – Hank Thomas Williams, winner of the first ever Aperture West Book Prize for his monographPitch Blackness (November, 2008), received his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and his MFA in photography—along with an MA in visual criticism—from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. His work was featured in the exhibition and accompanying catalog, 25 under 25: Up-and-Coming American. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Studio Museum in Harlem; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, New York; Artists Space, New York; Leica Gallery, New York; Texas Woman’s University; Oakland Museum of California; Smithsonian; Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.; Bronfman Center for Jewish Life at NYU; National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.; and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Among others. His work is currently on view in group shows at The High Museum, Atlanta and Museum of Fine Art, Houston.
Mickalene Thomas - New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, enamel and acrylic paint. Her depictions of African American women embody alternate notions of black female identity while exploring romanticized ideals of femininity, celebrity and sexuality. Thomas stages her figures amid a riot of pattern and color, creating a scene evocative of the Blaxploitation films and wood-paneled rec rooms of her 1970’s childhood. Thomas earned her MFA from Yale University in 2002 and, in 2002-2003, participated in the Artist-in-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has exhibited extensively and was included in the recent and critically acclaimed exhibitions “30 Americans” at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, FL; “Black Is, Black Ain’t” at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL; and “Greater New York 2005” at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. Her work may also be seen in prestigious public collections such as the Brooklyn Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago among others. She is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago and Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in various catalogues and reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NY Arts, Modern Painters, Whitewall, and Frieze among others.
About Chanel
The CHANEL commitment to the arts began with its founder Mademoiselle Chanel almost a century ago. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was a passionate patron and enthusiast of the arts. She supported and collaborated with artists of her time in the art, theatre, ballet and cinema worlds - including Jean Cocteau, Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso and Jean Renoir.
The House of CHANEL continues to uphold Mademoiselle Chanel’s tradition. Karl Lagerfeld has designed costumes for many visually influential films sustaining Coco Chanel’s precedent started in 1931 when she was contracted by MGM to design for Hollywood.
CHANEL has also collaborated with filmmakers such as Joe Wright, Luc Besson, Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski and Baz Luhrmann, to create original short films for the brand. CHANEL Boutiques across the country are deeply involved with their community by supporting Arts related organizations and helping them advance their artistic development. Additionally, the House has commissioned artists Joseph Stashkevetch, Peter Dayton, Ingo Maurer, Jean Michel Othoniel, Lalanne and Vik Muniz, to interpret CHANEL icons for works to be displayed in CHANEL Boutiques worldwide. CHANEL has also collaborated with artists to create original installations around new fine jewelry collections, most recently by Pierrick Sorin and Xavier Veilhan.
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CHANEL, the international luxury goods company, was founded in France by Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in 1924. The company, which is privately held, offers a broad range of luxury products, including Haute Couture, Ready-to-Wear, fragrance, cosmetics, leathergoods, accessories, Fine Jewelry and Watches, through a U.S. network of 24 boutiques and approximately 90 locations at select retailers. Haute Couture collections are presented exclusively in Paris. CHANEL maintains 151 boutiques and shops worldwide, including the legendary House of CHANEL on the rue Cambon in Paris. Under the guidance of designer Karl Lagerfeld, the House of CHANEL remains dedicated to luxury, fashion, style and image.
In 1993, CHANEL launched the CHANEL Fine Jewelry Collection and opened a worldwide flagship Fine Jewelry Boutique on 18 place Vendôme in Paris. There are 8 Fine Jewelry boutiques in the U.S. and 41 worldwide.
About Tribeca Film Festival:
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music and culture. The Festival’s mission is to help filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema and promote New York City as a major filmmaking center.
Tribeca Film Festival is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors. The Tribeca Festival has screened over 1100 films from over 80 countries since its first festival in 2002. Since its founding, it has attracted an international audience of more than two million attendees and has generated over $530 million in economic activity for New York City.
About the 2009 Festival Sponsors:
As Founding Sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival, American Express is committed to supporting the Festival and the art of film making, bringing business and energy to New York City and offering benefits that enhance the festival-going experience.
The Festival is pleased to announce the return of its Signature Sponsors: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Apple, Bloomberg, Brookfield Properties, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), Delta Air Lines, iShares, NBC 4 New York, RR Donnelley, Snapple, The New York Times, Telemundo 47 and Vanity Fair. The Tribeca Film Festival is also honored to welcome the following new Signature Sponsors: AMC, DIRECTV and Heineken.
