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Delphine Seyrig, Robert Indiana, Duncan Youngerman, Ellsworth Kelly, Orange, Jack Youngerman, and Agnes Martin on the roof of 3-5 Coenties Slip, New York, 1958. Photograph by Hans Namuth. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate.
Talk | THE SLIP: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
Presentation and Signing with author Prudence Peiffer
October 6, 2023, 6 pm - 7 pm
$5 Members | $16 Adults (Nonmembers) | $12 Seniors | Free for Students, Children
Join us for a reading and presentation by author Prudence Peiffer following the recent release of her book The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever, the never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. Recently reviewed by The New York Times, THE SLIP delves into six visual artist biographies, tenderly researched with an interpretive mood that echoes the debate on a philosophical approach to art making, with “a neighborhood-eye view of art history” (Walker Mimms, New York Times, 2023). Peiffer’s publication includes profiles of several Parrish permanent collection artists – Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, and Jack Youngerman, alongside Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Delphine Seyrig, and Lenore Tawney. Peiffer will read excerpts from the book and discuss several of the artists, their works, and historical photo references.
About THE SLIP
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art.
Now, for the first time, Prudence Peiffer pays homage to these artists and the unsung impact their work had on the direction of late twentieth-century art and film. This remarkable biography, as transformative as the artists it illuminates, questions the very concept of a “group” or “movement,” as it spotlights the Slip’s eclectic mix of gender and sexual orientation, abstraction and Pop, experimental film, painting, and sculpture, assemblage and textile works.
About Prudence Peiffer
Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is the Director of Content at MoMA, New York. She received her Ph.D from Harvard University; following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books online, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications.
Support for Friday Nights at the Parrish Art Museum is provided by The Corcoran Group.
Talk | THE SLIP: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
Presentation and Signing with author Prudence Peiffer
October 6, 2023, 6 pm - 7 pm
$5 Members | $16 Adults (Nonmembers) | $12 Seniors | Free for Students, Children
Join us for a reading and presentation by author Prudence Peiffer following the recent release of her book The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever, the never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. Recently reviewed by The New York Times, THE SLIP delves into six visual artist biographies, tenderly researched with an interpretive mood that echoes the debate on a philosophical approach to art making, with “a neighborhood-eye view of art history” (Walker Mimms, New York Times, 2023). Peiffer’s publication includes profiles of several Parrish permanent collection artists – Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, and Jack Youngerman, alongside Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Delphine Seyrig, and Lenore Tawney. Peiffer will read excerpts from the book and discuss several of the artists, their works, and historical photo references.
About THE SLIP
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art.
Now, for the first time, Prudence Peiffer pays homage to these artists and the unsung impact their work had on the direction of late twentieth-century art and film. This remarkable biography, as transformative as the artists it illuminates, questions the very concept of a “group” or “movement,” as it spotlights the Slip’s eclectic mix of gender and sexual orientation, abstraction and Pop, experimental film, painting, and sculpture, assemblage and textile works.
About Prudence Peiffer
Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is the Director of Content at MoMA, New York. She received her Ph.D from Harvard University; following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books online, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications.
Support for Friday Nights at the Parrish Art Museum is provided by The Corcoran Group.
