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Sag Harbor, NY | Tour of ‘Are You Joking? Women and Humor’ at The Church with Sheri Pasquarella
August 23 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join us for a tour of Are You Joking? Women And Humor with Sheri Pasquarella, an ArtTable New Leadership awardee and Executive Director of The Church in Sag Harbor—one of the most dynamic new arts venues in the New York area.
About the exhibition: Curated by Sara Cochran, Are You Joking? Women and Humor features the work of 40 female-identifying artists across all media, including Nina Chanel Abney, Lynda Benglis, Katherine Bernhardt, Nicole Eisenman, Wendy Red Star, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, and Lisa Yuskavage. The goals are two-fold. The first is to counter the tired stereotypes and clichés about women not being funny or able to take a joke. The second is to illustrate the different forms and topics of humor in contemporary art from artistic jokes, political outrages, bodily functions and appearances, cultural stereotypes, and sex and death, to the absurd and surreal, puns and slapstick as well as poking fun at sacred cows of art and its institutions. This exhibition gathers works that are satirical, serious, sweet, self-deprecating, ironic, mocking, strange, surreal, angry, subversive, and even gross. It takes art off its pedestal and puts the viewer in a position to laugh or shake their head.
About The Church: Founded by April Gornik and Eric Fischl and opened in 2021, The Church is an interdisciplinary arts center housed in a deconsecrated church built in 1835. Its mission is to foster creativity on the East End and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village, championing new and traditional technologies through collaboration, education, and outreach. In addition to performances and visual arts exhibition, The Church hosts residencies for artist and writers and is home to publicly accessible arts and design library and garden.
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- Friend of Member – $20
- Non-Member – $25
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Also on August 23, at 3:30 pm, join ArtTable for an Artist Talk with Liliana Porter at Dia Bridgehampton, exploring her exhibition The Task and featuring Humberto Moro, Dia’s Deputy Director for Program. Click “Register Here” above to sign up for both events at a discounted rate:
- ArtTable Member – $27
- Friend of Member – $32
- Non-Member – $40
About Sheri Pasquarella:
Prior to joining The Church, for 17 years Sheri owned and operated SLP, LLC, a NYC-based consultancy with service categories across the contemporary art ecosystem, including a popular art advisory for museum board members and legacy collectors. From 1998 – 2002 she was an Associate Director of Marlborough Gallery, NY and 2002 -2005 Director of Gorney Bravin + Lee gallery. In 2002, she conceived and co-founded the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), a global 501c6 organization of which she is President Emerita. In 2020 she founded the SLP Women’s Group, a national network of female arts leaders; and in 2021 co-produced, with the Black Women in Visual Arts, The Convening.
From 2002 – 2019 she was on the Art Advisory Board of the Coalition for the Homeless and served as a consultant to that organization. Since 2019, she has been on the Board of Participant, Inc. From 2003 – 2012 she was Adjunct Faculty in the Art Market M.A. Program at SUNY FIT and delivered lectures on her research in the American art market and its culture at Yale University, Columbia University, and others. She holds a B.A. (Art History and Criticism) and a B.S. (Biology) from SUNY Stony Brook; did post-baccalaureate course work at Reid Hall, Paris; and in 2022 earned a certification in CORe Business Fundamentals from Harvard Business School online.
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