2018 Grant Program
1/13/2018
Tree of Life is pleased to announce that information about our 2018 Grant Program is now online. Please visit the Grant Program link on our website to download the Grant Application Guidelines and the Grant Application Form for the Individual Artist Grant. We also suggest that you visit our Contact page to join our mailing list (if you haven’t already) in order to receive updates regarding our Grant Program and to ask any questions that are not answered in our downloadable materials. Applications may be submitted between February 15 and April 3, 2018.
1/13/2018
Tree of Life is pleased to announce that information about our 2018 Grant Program is now online. Please visit the Grant Program link on our website to download the Grant Application Guidelines and the Grant Application Form for the Individual Artist Grant. We also suggest that you visit our Contact page to join our mailing list (if you haven’t already) in order to receive updates regarding our Grant Program and to ask any questions that are not answered in our downloadable materials. Applications may be submitted between February 15 and April 3, 2018.
Roberta Allen at Minus Space
10/30/2017
Roberta Allen, Tree of Life 2017 Grantee, will have a solo exhibition, Some Facts About Fear, at Minus Space from November 4 to December 23, 2017.
10/30/2017
Roberta Allen, Tree of Life 2017 Grantee, will have a solo exhibition, Some Facts About Fear, at Minus Space from November 4 to December 23, 2017.
Minus Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Image: City of Dying Dreams (detail), wood, 47 x 36 x 32 in. overall, 2017
Alyce Simon: Atomic Art at LASM
7/14/2017
Tree of Life co-founder Alyce Simon is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge. Curated by Elizabeth Weinstein, the exhibition features seventeen sculptures from Simon's Tree of Life series and four paintings from her Spatial Painting series. Alyce Simon: Atomic Art will be on view from July 1, 2017 to February 18, 2018.
7/14/2017
Tree of Life co-founder Alyce Simon is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge. Curated by Elizabeth Weinstein, the exhibition features seventeen sculptures from Simon's Tree of Life series and four paintings from her Spatial Painting series. Alyce Simon: Atomic Art will be on view from July 1, 2017 to February 18, 2018.
2017 Grantees
6/29/2017
Tree of Life is pleased to announce the five artists who were selected to receive the Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. The Grantees are:
Roberta Allen, New York, NY
Judith Braun, New York, NY
Carl Hazlewood, Brooklyn, NY
Judith Simonian, New York, NY
Victoria Wulff, New York, NY
Additional information about the artists and their projects will be posted to the website in July.
Image: Judy Simonian, Ferry Boat, acrylic on canvas, 58 x 72 in., 2017
6/29/2017
Tree of Life is pleased to announce the five artists who were selected to receive the Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. The Grantees are:
Roberta Allen, New York, NY
Judith Braun, New York, NY
Carl Hazlewood, Brooklyn, NY
Judith Simonian, New York, NY
Victoria Wulff, New York, NY
Additional information about the artists and their projects will be posted to the website in July.
Image: Judy Simonian, Ferry Boat, acrylic on canvas, 58 x 72 in., 2017
Gelah Penn on Vasari 21
6/5/2017
Gelah Penn, Tree of Life 2016 Grantee, was featured on Vasari 21 website in an interview by Ann Landi.
6/5/2017
Gelah Penn, Tree of Life 2016 Grantee, was featured on Vasari 21 website in an interview by Ann Landi.
2017 Grant Program
1/24/2017
Tree of Life is pleased to announce that our Grant Program is now open for application. Please visit the Grant Program link on our website to download the Grant Application Guidelines and the Grant Application Form for the Individual Artist Grant. We also suggest that you visit our Contact page to join our mailing list (if you haven’t already) in order to receive updates regarding our Grant Program, and to ask any questions that are not answered in our downloadable materials. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2017.
1/24/2017
Tree of Life is pleased to announce that our Grant Program is now open for application. Please visit the Grant Program link on our website to download the Grant Application Guidelines and the Grant Application Form for the Individual Artist Grant. We also suggest that you visit our Contact page to join our mailing list (if you haven’t already) in order to receive updates regarding our Grant Program, and to ask any questions that are not answered in our downloadable materials. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2017.
John Mendelsohn at 57W57Arts and 490 Atlantic
1/5/2017
John Mendelsohn, Tree of Life 2014 grantee, will have a solo exhibition, Dream Garden, at 57W57ARTS from January 6-February 17, 2017. He will also participate in a three-person exhibition at 490 Atlantic from January 14 - March 5, 2017.
1/5/2017
John Mendelsohn, Tree of Life 2014 grantee, will have a solo exhibition, Dream Garden, at 57W57ARTS from January 6-February 17, 2017. He will also participate in a three-person exhibition at 490 Atlantic from January 14 - March 5, 2017.
57W57ARTS
57 West 57 St. #1206
New York, NY
490 Atlantic
490 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
Image: Dream Garden 5, colored sand, acrylic and latex enamel on terry cloth over canvas, 24 x 18 in., 2016
Pat Oleszko at Brandeis University
12/14/2016
12/14/2016
Fool for Thought
Tree of Life 2016 grantee Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself—and doesn’t mind if you laugh. With elaborate handmade costumes and props, she utilizes the body as armature for ideas in an array of lampoons that call her audience to action. From the personal to the political, her performances and installations ceremoniously exorcize through humor. Hoisting an enormous burning bra on the exterior of the Women’s Studies Research Center, the exhibition Fool for Thought highlights costumes and performances from a wild variety of events including Hello Folly: The Floes & Cons of Arctic Drilling, Oldilocks and the Bewares, Stalking Walking Topiary and The Pat and the Hats. Oleszko, self-identified as the Fool in question and the questioning Fool, fans the flames with rousing absurdity and maintains that she who laughs, lasts.
November 21, 2016 - March 3, 2017
Artist's Lecture and Reception: January 25, 2017
Kniznick Gallery
Women's Studies Research Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
2016 Grantees
6/13/2016
Tree of Life is pleased to announce the five artists who were selected to receive the Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. The Grantees are:
Ann McCoy, Brooklyn, NY
Pat Oleszko, New York, NY
Gelah Penn, Brooklyn, NY
Linda Carmella Sibio, Joshua Tree, CA
Nancy Youdelman, Clovis, CA
Additional information about the artists and their projects will be posted to the website in July.
Above Image: Pat Oleszko, Darwin’s Nightmare Pa’t Two: The Half-AstroNuts Dilemma, cardboard, wood, tyvek, plastics, tape, fabric, 12 x 10 x 16 feet, 2013
6/13/2016
Tree of Life is pleased to announce the five artists who were selected to receive the Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. The Grantees are:
Ann McCoy, Brooklyn, NY
Pat Oleszko, New York, NY
Gelah Penn, Brooklyn, NY
Linda Carmella Sibio, Joshua Tree, CA
Nancy Youdelman, Clovis, CA
Additional information about the artists and their projects will be posted to the website in July.
Above Image: Pat Oleszko, Darwin’s Nightmare Pa’t Two: The Half-AstroNuts Dilemma, cardboard, wood, tyvek, plastics, tape, fabric, 12 x 10 x 16 feet, 2013
Jane Terry at UFVA
6/13/2016
Tree of Life 2015 grantee Jane Terry's short film, Stations, will be screened at the 2016 University Film and Video Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The UFVA is an international organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. The theme of this year's conference is Content Creation in the 21st Century. The film is supported in part by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.
6/13/2016
Tree of Life 2015 grantee Jane Terry's short film, Stations, will be screened at the 2016 University Film and Video Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The UFVA is an international organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers. The theme of this year's conference is Content Creation in the 21st Century. The film is supported in part by a grant from the Tree of Life Foundation.