Art Raffle Fundraiser
Art + Food + Mezcal + Music
The Cooper Union School of Art | 41 Cooper Gallery | Saturday, November 4th | 6-10pm
"On September 7th, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck the southern part of Mexico; twelve days later another earthquake of 7.1 magnitude shook Mexico City and its surrounding areas. These two powerful earthquakes killed hundreds, toppled buildings and destroyed communities.
We want to support reconstruction efforts by raising $20,000.
We’ve collected over a hundred works of art generously donated by an amazing group of artists (see list below). These artworks will be on display November 4th at The Cooper Union School of Art.
For every donation of $200, you will receive one artwork to be raffled at 8 pm at the event + letterpress printed poster and drinks provided by Bruxo Mezcal. For donations of $25, you will receive a ticket to the event and a letterpress printed poster.
We appreciate donations of any amount. Please make donations to through this YouCaring page listed below:
Donate to YouCaring ReconstruiMx and to purchase tickets
All proceeds will be directed to communities impacted by the earthquakes in Mexico. We are working with Mexican artist Omar Barquet who is involved in relief and rebuilding efforts in the community of El Jicarero, in the state of Morelos through the collective Los Carpintruenos; artist Maria Thereza Alves, who is working with the Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico and the director there, Genaro Amaro Altamirano, who has been helping to deliver food and medicine directly to affected populations in Valle de Chalco; as well as artist Cristian Pineda Flores working with Centro Cultural Bacaanda asentada en Juchitan, region del Istmo, Oaxaca.
This event is organized by Alumni of The Cooper Union School of Art: Alva Mooses, Mauricio Cortes & Felipe Baeza in collaboration with The Mexican Cultural Institute in NY, Bruxo Mezcal and Insa Korean BBQ & Karaoke.
Special thanks to/Muchas gracias a: The Cooper Union School of Art for providing the space, MCINY, Bruxo Mezcal, Adriana Farmiga, Emmy Mikelson, Mariana Garibay Raeke, Joe Riley, Gina X. Moreno-Valle, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Marcela Flórido, Aurora De Armendi, Sonja Gandert, Latinx Spaces, The Brooklyn Rail, Nathlie Provosty and to all the artists that answered our call and gave us work and all of you willing to donate to make this possible.
Funds raised will be directed to: Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico | Los Carpintruenos | Casa Cultural Bacaanda
Artworks contributed by: Constanza Alarcón Tennen, Kim Altomare, Selva Aparicio, Doug Ashford, Camille Atley, Firelei Baez, Felipe Baeza, Omar Barquet, Ana Benaroya, Julia Bland, Daniel Boccato, Keiran Brennan Hinton, Jacob Broussard, Jordan Casteel, Cristobal Cea, Lea Cetera, Cecile Chong, Lauren Chun, Drea Colfield, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Mauricio Cortes, Dionisio Cortes, Dionisio Cortes Ortega, Claudia Cortinez, Corydon Cowansage, Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Gabrielle D’Angelo, Edi Dai, Kenturah Davis, Aurora De Armendi, Maria De Los Angeles, Marie de Testa, Jessica Dickinson, Teto Elsiddique, Florencia Escudero, Sarah Faux, Marcela Flórido, Francis Gallardo, Hope Gangloff, Mariana Garibay Raeke, Laura Genes, Kayla Gibbons, Daniel Ginsburg, Glenn Goldberg, Manuela Gonzalez, Christina Graham, Alteronce Gumby, Heidi Hahn, Josephine Halvorson, Josephine Heilpern, Phoebe Helander, Pablo Helguera, Camille Hoffman, David Humphrey, Endy Hupperich, James Hyde, Alex Jackson, Tomashi Jackson, Daniela Jacobs, Haley Josephs, Clare Kambhu, Tommy Kha, Byron Kim, Jenny Kim, Cindy Kim, Matt Kleberg, Jesse Kreuzer, Doron Langberg, Wes Larios, Wyatt Lasky, Rejin Leys, Marie Lorenz, Eric Mack, Jill Magid, Lyndsey Marko, Leslie Martinez, Carlos Martinez, Simone Meltesen, Jennifer Meridian, Sam Messer, Amaryllis Moleski, Nuria Montiel, Alva Mooses, Moris, Sophy Naess, Mateo Nava, Tiffany Navarro, Rebecca Ness, Tammy Nguyen, Sarah Nicholls, Kent O'Connor, Iliana Ortega, Leticia Ortega, Ernesto Ortiz Leya, Laimah Osman, Amy Pryor, Estefania Puerta, Andrea Reynosa, Joe Riley, David Rios Ferreira, Halsey Rodman, Julia Rooney, Kate Ruggeri, Ilana Savdie, Lauren Seiden, Audrey Snyder, Victoria Sobel, Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, Nicholas Steindorf, Odessa Straub, Maya Strauss, Martyna Szczesna, John Szlasa, Karen Tepaz, Emmy Thelander, Martha Tuttle, Juana Valdes, Conrad Volle, Pedro Wainer, Theres Wegmann, Blair Whiteford, Tim Willson and Caroline Woolard. "
1/12/17
I am showing a video at the following:
Screening Night
Amanda Friedman
Jane, Grace, and Emily
Saturday, January 14th, 5-7pm
MILLER, 17 Essex Street, New York 10002
Throughout Amanda Friedman's first solo show at the MILLER, she has been working with Lauren Anderson in the gallery at night. Together, they made a video from within and with the space of the exhibition, playing with lights and reflections. What they have generated activates the installation, and pushes Friedman's idea of time-based painting.
Anderson and Friedman have also invited several artists they are in conversation with to screen their short videos. The screening will begin at 5:30pm and features: Lauren Anderson and Amanda Friedman, Josh Brand, Heather Anne Halpert, Kate Ruggeri, and Alina Tenser.
6/21/16
CULTURE
10 Years at Roots & Culture Pt. 2
Curated by Marcel Alcalá, Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Kate Ruggeri, & Lauren Taylor
Featuring work by: Lex Brown, Sara Condo, Olivia Coran, Chelsea Culprit, John Edmonds, Kirk Faber, Cullen Faber, Anneli Henriksson, Rosé Hernandez, Brandon Drew Holmes, Brook Hsu, Dani Levine, & Elle Perez
With Anaïs Daly "50 Bathroom Keys" in the Yr It! Gallery
At Roots & Culture 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.
Opening Reception June 25th, 5-8pm
Through July 23rd
Seven years ago, it was the end of a crazy, wild summer at Ox-Bow (School of Art in Saugatuck, MI) when Eric, then head chef, asked me to intern at Roots. I didn't even flinch.
At the time I lived down the street from the gallery, next to my favorite hole in the wall (for greasy late night chow) Super Sub, where customers order from behind bullet-proof glass. It’s uncanny that Eric loved the place even more than I did, frequently ordering 100-piece trays of chicken wings for after-opening parties. I couldn’t believe that anyone else I knew actually went there. And that’s what Roots has always been to me: a haven for everything I love.
While galleries often see young art students as a nuisance—guzzling up free booze and clearly not there to buy anything– Eric embraced us. Roots is first and foremost, dedicated to young, emerging artists. A lot of galleries like to claim that, but Roots takes great pride in showing work that is fresh, curious, and inspired. Roots wants to be different, and is different.
I remember one year, helping install the gallery’s booth at the MDW fair, and we were blasting a new mixtape of Eric’s. Another gallerist walked by and said, “Looks like you guys are having fun.” We were. We were always having fun.
And though we had fun, I don’t want to discredit the fact that Roots has not only survived ten years as a gallery, but thrived. Its impact and contribution to the Chicago art scene is without question.
Everything about the space feels inspired and it’s been a pleasure to watch all of Eric’s brain children come into the world. Roots’ passion is infectious.
When I left Chicago two years ago for grad school, I had to adapt to a new community. And now I return to the Roots crew. As past interns and friends of R&C, half of us still in Chicago, half of us elsewhere, we hope this anniversary exhibition continues the gallery’s lineage. And as always, we had fun working together.
-KR
5/26/16
on fire review in art practical
my sculpture "hero" is featured
5/20/16
- screening/performance night, as part of the exhibition partners: yale painting & sculpture mfa 2016
abrons art center 05/25/16
7pm
featuring:
tommy coleman
sam davis
nate flagg
tomashi jackson
raza kazmi
cindy ji hye kim
virginia lee montgomery
kate ruggeri
alex stevens
masha vlasova
jayeon yi
4/29/16
- partners: yale painting & sculpture mfa 2016 exhibition
at abrons art center 04/29/16 - 06/05/16.
opening reception april 30th, 6-8pm.
curatorial advisors:
anoka faruqee (director of graduate studies, painting & printmaking)
michael queenland (interim director of graduate studies, sculpture)
"partners café has karaoke on sundays, $1 beers on thursdays and a simpsons pinball machine. there is artwork by the mysterious moist '99, an anne frank mural, and tom of finland posters. there are laser lights, a stripper pole, pool tables, drag shows, revolving seasonal decor, all a stone's throw from the yale school of art.
we are friends and relations, peers and collaborators, lovers, detractors, colleagues, accomplices... partners."
4/15/16
- review of on fire in art in america by ross simonini
burn book: on fire by jonathan griffin
4/5/16
- performing in run bambi a new work by lex brown at the yale cabaret with lex brown and aarica west, april 7-9th, performances at 8 and 11pm
run bambi is a new work exploring some-bodies’ bodies, now and in a speculative future. donald trump would say, 'it’s a movement' – a poem in character sketch, song, rap, and text – a spastic movement about identity and moving through time – a movement within this body of mine (it’s black, it’s woman, it’s whatever) – a body saying, 'drawing the moon is as easy as tracing the floor with national pride.' "
tickets available at yalecabaret.org
2/17/16
- on fire by jonathan griffin, available now through paper monument.
"artists’ studios have been burning down for centuries. in paper monument's newest publication, on fire, author jonathan griffin asked ten contemporary artists how they recovered after their studios went up in flames. talking to them, he gained surprising insights into their working methods, their relationship to their chosen profession, and their reasons for making art.
on fire includes writing on matthew chambers, anthony pearson, christian cummings, catherine howe, erik van lieshout, jp munro, william j. o’brien, kate ruggeri, john riepenhoff, and brendan fowler."
available here
2/1/16
- double dip, yale school of art, painting & printmaking thesis exhibition
february 15-24, opening reception: february 20th, 6-9pm.
yale school of art's green gallery
1156 chapel street, new haven, ct
5/14/14
- interview with bad at sports: how we work
3/30/14
- “tropical depression” at lvl3, showing new work with nicholas rummler, laura newlon & kate o’neill. opening reception sat. april 5th, 6-10pm, 1542 n. milwaukee ave, 3rd floor in chicago. show runs until may 4th
- i’ll be pursuing my mfa in painting at yale school of art this fall
- i have a drawing in the summer forum fundraiser & auction at tusk
2/17/14
- “outdoors” at living room gallery, 1530 w. superior, chicago, il, opening march 7th, 6-9pm. featuring work by ryan duggan, keith herzik, damon locks, ethan d’ercole, and myself.
1/4/14
- mike kloss & kate ruggeri “the vision collection” at the university of st. francis’ rialto city center gallery on view from february 3 through march 15, 2014. reception sunday, march 9th, 3-5PM at 25 e. van buren, joliet, il.
11/10/13
- i have an opening november 15th at carrie rowland gallery in richmond, va. chris zacher will also be showing new video work.
6/18/13
- happy to be attending three residencies this summer/fall
acre, session 1: july 10-21
harold arts, august 17-24
ox-bow, joan mitchell fellowship, september 1-october 5
4/25/13
- i have a drawing in roots & culture’s 7th annual fundraiser. bids can be placed online, or in person on may 4th.
2/24/13
- solo show, “kate at the rainbo” at rainbo club, march 7th-april 7th
1/29/13
- solo show, “ultimate boon”, now up at ebersmoore until feb. 8th. 2013. open hours fri-sat, 12-6pm or by appointment.
- review of “ultimate boon” in chicritics by georgina ruff
- featured in artinfo’s emerging column ”painter-sculptor kate ruggeri finds heroism in humble materials” by allison meier