Happy to have donated this image, Winter Afternoon, to the NARS virtual benefit. I was an artist in residence there in 2015 and so much came out of it, projects that stayed with me for years, friendships, connections, and colleagues. The auction runs til May 29th. More info here : https://www.narsfoundation.org/2022-benefit/magali-duzant-winter-afternoon
Marble Hill Camera Club, May Mayhem
Earth Day over on The Luupe
Happy to have an image from my upcoming publication, A Tree Grows in Queens, included in The Luupe’s online Earth Day show.
Check it out here: https://theluupe.com/blog/2022/04/21/54-photos-and-a-gif-that-celebrate-our-glorious-earth/
Virtual Assembly
Thursday April 21st ( 6PM ET / 12AM CET ) I’ll be speaking with Shane Rocheleau about his beautiful new book, Lakeside, over on Virtual Assembly. Link to register is here.
Under the Sun and the Moon
Happy to start the year off in this show, Under the Sun and Moon over at Humble Arts Foundation. My image Blue Sun is included.
Studio Verde Residency
In October I had the immense pleasure of being in residence at Studio Verde in Umbria. I was able to focus on field work and writing time for my next book project, A Tree Grows in Queens, to be published in Fall 2022. image credit Maisie McNeice
Clearing The Air, Southampton Arts Center
Clearing The Air, curated by Jay Davis, is up at the Southampton Arts Center from September to December 2021. I have two cyanotypes in this big, beautiful group show out in Southampton, NY.
Theory of Blue, Syllabus Project
I wrote a syllabus on the color blue for Syllabus Project, a weekly publication that explores how a syllabus can become a creative tool.
From Here On Out conversation
I had the pleasure to speak with Jenica Heintzelman about her project Down a Stream for From Here On Out. We speak about research, experimentation, and edging around self portraiture. You can read it here.
Fade / Fail / Flow
Pink Dogwood
The first chapter, Pink Dogwood, of my forthcoming publication A Tree Grows in Queens, is now available for pre-order from Conveyor Editions via this link: https://www.conveyor.studio/shop/p/ce-21
PM Art Book Fair Studio Visit
Conveyor Editions. Studio Visit: Magali Duzant.
Join us for a preview of Magali's new zine, A Tree Grows in Queens, and learn about her process of working with image, text, and archives in the book format. Link coming soon via the Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair. February 27, 2021, 2pm EST. Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/98165630053
Image, Text, Ephemera class at Penumbra Foundation
This spring, I’ll be teaching the course Descriptive Systems : Image, Text, & Ephemera at Penumbra Foundation. The class runs on Saturdays from April 17 - May 22 from 2 - 5PM EST and is open to anyone, anywhere as we’ll be online! More info here : https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/imagetext
The Hours After
Friday, January 22, 2021 is the opening of The Hours After, a group show running every night from 6:00 to 11:59 PM through the 28th. I’ll be showing a new iteration of Live Stream Sunset over the course of the show. The exhibition is a part of Singapore Art Week.
Artists for Puerto Rico Fundraiser
I donated an 8 x 10 print, Palermo, to the Artists for Puerto Rico fundraiser. A share of the proceeds go towards continuing the mission of the organisation to assist in recovery efforts post Hurricane Maria.
Take What You Can't Get at ABC No Rio
I had the pleasure of creating the exhibition publication for Take What You Can’t Get at ABC No Rio.
Inspired by the role of artists as imaginators, and agitators, from the 1930s to the present day, Take What You Can't Get embraces our current moment of multilayered crisis (economic, racial justice, leadership, health) as an opportunity for artists to actively imagine a more desirable future. The exhibition's title addresses pre-existing artworld expectations of austerity and extreme inequality - that artists and art workers must take what they can get. The four projects, by three collectives and one artist, respond to the following questions: What do artists and art workers need now? What does our NYC community need now (and how can artists help)? What should we demand of our institutions - art or government? What does a more beautiful future look like? Projects take place both on-line and in New York City throughout the duration of the exhibition. Curated by Christina Freeman.
This is a link to the online interactive version of the publication.
Common Knowledge - Design in Times of Information Crisis at Kunstgewerbemuseum
Whole Queens Catalog will be on view this summer as part of Common Knowledge - Design In Times of Information Crisis, at Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden, Germany. The exhibition, a traveling version of the Bio 26 Design Biennial in Ljubljana, Slovenia opens July 4 and runs until November 1, 2020.
Instagram Live June 18th : NYPL Picture Collection
I’ll be taking over the NYPL Picture Collection’s instagram account from June 15 - 21 and on the 18th I’ll be doing a live stream to chat about how the Picture Collection played a huge role in the content and design of The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours.
Lenscratch Review of The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours
Lisa McCarty wrote a review of The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours for Lenscratch, I love the way that she closed, “In her pursuit of psychic services Duzant, or the narrator, is also searching for her voice as an artist, for self-possession, for future certainty….By the end of The Moon and Stars Can be Yours Duzant has extended this tradition, not by providing direct advice but by disclosing her own path toward living the questions perpetually, toward every day becoming.”
http://lenscratch.com/2020/06/magali-duzant-the-moon-and-the-stars-can-be-yours/
Dorothea Lange : Words And Pictures review
I had the immense pleasure to write about MoMA’s Dorothea Lange retrospective, Words & Pictures. I began writing about the show during NYC’s lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic ripping through the city. The piece was published as protests and marches blossomed across the country. I thought I knew Dorothea Lange’s work but this exhibition during this time in history underlined just how impactful her work and her photographic ideology were and still are.
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dorothea-lange-words-and-pictures