The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to host a book signing for Lost and Found, New York-based artist Sally J. Han’s first monograph. The catalogue spans Han’s recent practice and is published by Fortnight Institute. The artist will be present and books will be available for purchase.

FLAG’s spring exhibitions—Ian Mwesiga: Beyond the Edge of the World, Graham Little, and Spotlight: María Berrío—will also be on view.

Tuesday April 30, 6-8 PMFLAG | 545 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to host a book signing for Lost and Found, New York-based artist Sally J. Han’s first monograph. The catalogue spans Han’s recent practice and is published by Fortnight Institute. The artist will be present and books will be available for purchase.

FLAG’s spring exhibitions—Ian Mwesiga: Beyond the Edge of the World, Graham Little, and Spotlight: María Berrío—will also be on view.

Tuesday April 30, 6-8 PMFLAG | 545 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001

Artist Panel Discussion

As part of the exhibition Friends & Lovers, FLAG will host a panel discussion featuring artists Marilyn Minter, Aliza Nisenbaum, Billy Sullivan, and D’Angelo Lovell Williams, moderated by Glenn Fuhrman.

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Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, Shreveport, LA) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Minter earned a BFA in 1970 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and later obtained an MFA in 1972 from the Syracuse University, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Marilyn Minter, LGDR, New York, NY (2023); Marilyn Minter, Lehmann Maupin, Beijing, China (2021); Marilyn Minter, Montpellier Contemporain (Mo.Co), Montpellier, France (2021); Marilyn Minter: Smash, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT (2021); Fierce Women, The Cube, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA (2020); Nasty Woman, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah GA (2020); among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2023); Selected Parkett Editions 1984-2017, David Zwirner, New York, NY (2022); Color Code, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2022); Women Painting Women, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (2022); among others. Minter is in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among many others. Minter has been an honoree of awards and grants such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1998); Visual Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts (1992); Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (1989); among others.

Aliza Nisenbaum (b. 1977, Mexico City, Mexico) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Nisenbaum studied psychology at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, from 1997-99, and earned a BFA in 2001 and an MFA in 2005 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. Recent solo exhibitions include Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido, Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2023); The Ones Who Make it Run, Delta Terminal C, LaGuardia Airport, Delta Airlines x Queens Museum, LaGuardia Airport, NY (2022); AQUÍ SE PUEDE (HERE YOU CAN), Atrium Project, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (2021); Aliza Nisenbaum, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (2020); Flora, Drawings by Aliza Nisenbaum, Anton Kern Gallery, NY (2020); among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Reflections on Perception, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (2022); Picturing Motherhood Now, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2021); 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2020); Nine Lives, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2020); among others. Nisenbaum is a current Artist-in-Residence at the Queens Museum and has attended residencies at the Minneapolis Institute of the Art, Minneapolis, MN (2017); Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2015-2016); SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Institute for Contemporary Boston, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; Tate Britain, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among others.

Billy Sullivan (b. 1946, Brooklyn, NY) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Sullivan received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 1968 and was awarded a degree in English Literature and Painting in 1988 from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Solo exhibitions include studio visit, kaufmann repetto, New York, NY (2023); Billy Sullivan: Flower & Birds, The Madoo Conservatory, Sagaponack, NY (2021); muses, kaufmann repetto, Milan, Italy (2019); Love Letters, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2018); Billy Sullivan, Montverdi Art Gallery, Sarteano, Italy (2016); Summer Diaries, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY (2015); among others. Recent group exhibitions include Like a Good Armchair: Getting Uncomfortable with Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (2023); Friends and Strangers, Over the Influence, Hong Kong, China (2021); Flora & Fauna, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX (2020); Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (2020); among others. Sullivan was an honoree of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

D'Angelo Lovell Williams (b. 1992, Jackson, MS) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Williams received a BFA from the Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, in 2015, and an MFA from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 2018. They participated as an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2018. Williams has had four solo exhibitions with Higher Pictures in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020; the 2020 exhibition, Papa Don't Preach, was presented in collaboration with Janice Guy at her gallery in Harlem, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Trust Me, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2023); Intimate Strangers, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY (2023); Contemporary Visions: 30 Years of Highlights, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Young Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin Bocuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL (2021); On The Road: Chocolate Cities, TONE, Memphis, TN (2021); among others. Williams has published with the International Center of Photography and MACK.

Glenn Fuhrman is a co-Founder and co-Managing Partner of Tru Arrow Partners (New York, NY) and is the Founder and CEO of Virtru Investment Partners (New York, NY). Prior to launching Tru Arrow and Virtru, he co-Founded MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and served as its co-Managing Partner from 1998-2019. Mr. Fuhrman is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Modern Art, and The TATE Americas Foundation; he is a Board member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y in NY and the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. He is also on the board of Gagosian Gallery. In 2008, Mr. Fuhrman founded The FLAG Art Foundation, currently celebrating its fifteenth anniversary year.

Collectors Roundtable

As part of the exhibition Friends & Lovers, FLAG will host a collectors roundtable featuring Reuben O. Charles, II, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Glenn Fuhrman, and Bernard I. Lumpkin, moderated by Sarah Douglas, Editor-in-Chief at ARTnews.

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Glenn Fuhrman is a co-Founder and co-Managing Partner of Tru Arrow Partners (New York, NY) and is the Founder and CEO of Virtru Investment Partners (New York, NY). Prior to launching Tru Arrow and Virtru, he co-Founded MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and from 1998 thru 2019 served as its co-Managing Partner. Glenn is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Modern Art, and The TATE Americas Foundation; he is a Board member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the 92nd Street Y in NY and the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Glenn is also on the board of Gagosian Gallery. In 2008, he founded The FLAG Art Foundation, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary year.

Beth Rudin DeWoody is the daughter of the late real estate developer Lewis Rudin and the late Gladyce Begelman, and is a native of New York. Ms. DeWoody resides between New York City, Los Angeles and West Palm Beach. She is Chairman of The Rudin Family Foundations and Executive Vice President of Rudin Management Company. Ms. DeWoody also curated many shows for several different art galleries between New York City, New Orleans, and London. Ms. DeWoody has a private art space called The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach which opened in 2017 and displays works from her collection. Ms. DeWoody’s Board affiliations include Executive Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Life Trustee at The New School, Board Member of Empowers Africa, Desert X and Save A Child India, Inc. She is also on the Advisory Board at The Glass House in New Canaan, and the Board of Advisors at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as well as an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Ms. DeWoody is a Trustee Emeritus for The New York City Police Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board for New Yorkers for Children, Inc. She serves on the Parsons Board of Governors of the New School andis a Member of the Committee for the University Art Collection, and is on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her professional affiliations include charter member of New York Women Executives in Real Estate. She is Chairman of the Arts and Culture Committee of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY).

Bernard I. Lumpkin is a contemporary art collector, patron, and educator whose commitment to both emerging and established artists of African descent is part of a broader mission of institutional advocacy and support. Mr. Lumpkin sits on the Board of Trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mr. Lumpkin co-chairs the Education Committee and also serves on the Painting & Sculpture Committee. At the Museum of Modern Art, he serves on the Media & Performance Committee and is also Vice-Chair of the Black Art Council. Mr. Lumpkin advises public and private organizations on collecting and patronage, and participates in discussion panels at art fairs, auction houses, and universities. Mr. Lumpkin was educated at Harvard (A.M., Ph.D.) and Yale (B.A.), where he serves on the Task Force at the School of Art. The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection is the subject of a bestselling book —Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (DAP, 2020) — and a nationwide traveling exhibition which is currently on view at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

Reuben O. Charles, II is a businessman and philanthropist with over twenty-five years of experience, and is the founder of Citadel Firm, a facilities management and construction firm based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Charles’ profound, enduring love for visual arts developed in partnership with his wife, Kimberly, with whom he cultivated multiple relationships with emerging and early career artists, hosting salons and art-inspired social gatherings at their home, and patronizing programs that support the launching and expansion of artists’ careers. Mr. Charles and his wife co-founded The Charles Collection, which focuses on contemporary art from the Caribbean and African Diaspora, as well as other contemporary artists of color. The Collection will soon be on view in its permanent home in the historic Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Charles serves on the Board of Directors of Rebuild Foundation, an arts, education, and cultural development organization founded by artist Theaster Gates. He also serves on the DC Public Library Art Advisory Council and the Collection Committee for the Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art, for which he will also act as the chair for the museum’s upcoming exhibition of Simone Leigh’s Venice Biennale presentation. He previously served on the Board of Directors at the St. Louis Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO.

Sarah Douglas is a journalist and editor living and working in New York, NY. Douglas has been the Editor in Chief at ARTnews since 2014. Previously, she was culture editor at The New York Observer, where she launched its online platform Gallerist. Douglas spent six years as a staff writer at Art+Auction magazine and its website Artinfo.com. She has contributed to The Art Newspaper, The Economist, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The National, among other publications, writing about art, the art market, and the art world. Douglas has also participated in and led numerous panel discussions on topics ranging from art collectors’ estate planning to museum funding. In 2013, she received ArtTable’s New Leadership award.

As part of the exhibition Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, actor Vincent Piazza performs The Boxer, Part I, written by poet Gabriele Tinti, followed by a panel discussion with artists Alvin Armstrong, Angela Dufresne, and Caleb Hahne Quintana, moderated by FLAG’s Director Jonathan Rider.