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Thursday, June 21 –  Friday, July 27, 2012
 

“Retrospective of S–”

A project by Jonathan Safran Foer and Sam Messer

Fredericks & Freiser, 536 West 24th Street, New York, NY, 10011 MAP
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce Retrospective of S–, a project by writer, Jonathan Safran Foer and artist, Sam Messer. S– is a fictional painter created by Safran Foer. Her life is played out in 10 wall texts written by Safran Foer and ten corresponding paintings curated by Sam Messer. The paintings, which accompany the descriptions are by different artists and parallel the significant changes that S– experiences throughout her life.

S–’s biography begins in 1964 when she is 14 and ends in 2010 when she is 60. During this time S–’s life goes through many twists and turns, from having no money and living in a 5 story walkup, to receiving critical acclaim as an artist and reacting to public approval. The artists in the role of S– chronologically include: Francesca Lo Russo, Josephine Messer, Judith Linhares, Njideka Akunyili, Caitlin Cherry, Chie Fueki, Rochelle Feinstein, Natalie Frank, Jackie Gendel, and Jennifer Packer.

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of many works including, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals, and New American Haggadah.

Sam Messer is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver. He is the Associate Dean, Yale School of Art. Mr. Messer will be a 2012/13 Artist in Residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program in Brooklyn, NY. He is also currently designing creatures for a feature film based on Noah.

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“Undergraduate Work from the School of Art,” Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, SEP 1, 2011 – JUL 31, 2012
“Shakespeare & the Law” at the Yale Law Library, Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, FEB 15 – AUG 15
“An Architect Drawing,” Pratt Institute, Main Building, FEB 16 – SEP 15
“Sabbath of History: William Congdon, Meditations on Holy Week,” The Knights of Columbus Museum, FEB 22 – SEP 16
“The God of Our Idolatry”: Garrick and Shakespeare, The Lewis Walpole Library, MAR 12 – JUL 31
“Art in Focus” Student Guide Exhibition: “The Technical Examination of Early English Panel Painting,” Yale Center for British Art, APR 13 – DEC 9
“[Your Name Here]: The Ex-Libris and Image Making,” Robert B. Haas Family Library, MAY 1 – AUG 17
Curators’ Talk for Taos Contemporary, Metropolitan State University,, MAY 31 – AUG 11
“Guided by the Brush,” Joan B. Mirviss Ltd, JUN 7 – AUG 3
Steinberg, Saul. The New Yorker. New York, 1945-2000. (Harold, William, Robert, Tina, David, Eds.), YU Contemporary Art Center, JUN 16 – AUG 10
Yale Summer Cabaret – “50 Nights: A Festival of Stories,” Yale Cabaret, JUN 20 – AUG 19
“Retrospective of S–,” Fredericks & Freiser, JUN 21 – JUL 27
“Family Doctor by Grant Wood and Works by Other Mid-20th-Century American Artists,” Sterling Hall of Medicine, JUN 22 – SEP 17
“Maternity Care in Pictures: A Portfolio of 31 Teaching Charts Showing Safe Maternity Care, 1939,” Sterling Hall of Medicine, JUN 22 – SEP 17
“WWII Food and Nutrition Posters,” Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, JUN 22 – SEP 17
Early Modern Dance/Noyes Rhythm Workshop, Noyes School of Rhythm, JUN 24 – AUG 5
“Four Solos” Exhibition, Skylight Gallery, JUN 25 – AUG 4
“Still,” Frith Street Gallery, JUN 29 – SEP 15
White Pines Productions Summer Residencies, The Elkins Estate, JUL 2 – JUL 29
Celluloid West, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, JUL 2 – SEP 22