TANEY RONIGER

THE MYYRMÄKI DRAWINGS

JANUARY 5-21, 2023

Taney Roniger is a visual artist, writer, and curator based in New York. A painter for many years, she has recently turned to drawing, finding it to be the most direct visual expression of the intelligence of the human body. Her work has been shown in a number of venues here and abroad, including: Robert Henry Contemporary, Lesley Heller Workspace, Sperone Westwater, The Islip Art Museum, and StandPipe Gallery in New York; the Contemporary Arts Center and The Front in New Orleans; and the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Her awards and honors in the visual arts include three Yaddo fellowships, a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and a traveling fellowship from the Stacey Sussman Cavrell Memorial Foundation. Since 2012, she has been a contributing writer at The Brooklyn Rail, for which she served as Guest Editor in December 2017. Her writing has also appeared in Interalia, Hyperallergic, Whitehot Magazine, Big Red & Shiny, Transverse, and On-Verge. In 2016 she was a finalist for the Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant in short-form non-fiction. Over the last ten years she has organized numerous arts-related symposia, among them Thingly Affinities: Rethinking Aesthetic Form for a Posthumanist Future, Beyond Kandinsky: Revisiting the Spiritual in Art, Strange Attractors: Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence, and Stop the Interrogation, a critical look at nonsense language in the visual arts. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, where she teaches in the Fine Arts Department and Honors Program.

A survey of Taney Roniger’s essays:

IN PRAISE OF FORM: TOWARDS A NEW POST-HUMANIST ART

A SILENT MATTERING: ON ART, CRISIS, AND THE URGENCY OF THE REAL

STOP THE INTERROGATION: A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR A MORE MODEST ART

ART AND THE SYMBIOCENE: A CASE FOR RADICAL OPTIMISM

YOU ARE THEREFORE I AM: FROM DUALISM TO ALLOCENTRISM (AND WHAT ANY OF IT HAS TO DO WITH ART)