Art on Paper Fair featuring Story Gathering Boxes and other work by Mary Beth Edelson

and work by Mikayla Patton and Erica Lord

September 4-7, 2025
Pier 36 299 South St Downtown Manhattan New York Friday, September 5: 11am—7pm Saturday, September 6: 11am—7pm Sunday, September 7: 11am—6pm **** At Art on Paper, Accola Griefen will present an edition of Edelson's important print "Some Living American Women Artists / The Last Supper," for which the original collage is owned by MoMA. Also on view will be silver gelatin prints with hand work from the 1970’s that picture early performance work, wall collages, and participatory work in the form of a selection of the artist’s Story Gathering Boxes. "I began collecting personal stories in the Story Gathering Boxes from gallery-goers in 1972 because I was interested in breaking down traditional barriers set up between the public, art space and works of art. In addition to inviting people to participate in writing stories for the boxes, a place to sit, linger or have conversation is also provided by situating the boxes on a table with stools ..... The configuration and scale of the boxes was inspired by sacred ancient Egyptian canopic chests that held the organs of the pharaoh." - Mary Beth Edelson About the Artist: Mary Beth Edelson (1933-2021) is an originator of feminist art practice who was also engaged in other forms of political activism throughout her life. Edelson’s art production consists of diverse media including collage installations, photography, painting, drawing, performance, participatory art, earth body works, land art, and her now iconic posters from the 1970’s, such as Some Living American Women Artists / The Last Supper (Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY). Mary Beth Edelson’s work has been featured in over 150 books and has been widely reviewed and exhibited in the United States and abroad including a retrospective exhibition at Malmo Konstmuseum in Sweden and inclusion in the influential, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, which traveled to LA MOCA, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Vancouver Museum, and MoMA PS1. Edelson was a founder of Heresies Magazine and WAC (Women’s Action Coalition). In 1994 Edelson produced Combat Zone: Campaign Hq. Against Domestic Violence, sponsored by Creative Time. Her work is in the collections of museums including the Guggenheim, New York, NY; MoMA, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Walker Art Center, MN and Malmo Konstmuseum, Sweden among many others. The estate of Mary Beth Edelson is represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art. ***** Recent work by Mikayla Patton will also be on view. About the Artist: Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose creative work intimately engages materials such as recycled handmade paper, porcupine quills, glass beads, and natural elements to create sculptural objects and installations. Through her studio practice, Patton employs Lakota methodologies and adornment practices to explore themes of healing, growth, and renewal. Patton holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is enrolled in the MFA program at Bard College. She has exhibited her work nationally at venues including Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, Landmark Arts in Lubbock, All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis, and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. This year her work is on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum, the North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Al Held Foundation in Boiceville. Patton’s work is included in public collections such as the Denver Art Museum, the Tia Collection, the Atka Lakota Museum, the North Dakota Museum of Art, and The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. She is a 2024 Forge Project Fellow and a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow. Her studio practice has also been supported by the Ucross Foundation, the Native Arts and Culture Foundation, First Peoples Fund, the Harpo Foundation, the Indian Arts Research Center, the RAiR Foundation, and her community. Patton is currently based in Pennsylvania. "I am interested in exploring Indigenous intimacies, personal narratives, and the transformative power of repurposing materials. Through the interplay of recycled paper-making and earth elements, I create sculptural objects that utilize my Lakota knowledge of being, adornment, and artistic methodologies. I aim to address shared themes of healing, growth, and renewal. I collect and combine glass beads, porcupine quills, leather, fabric scraps, sinew, plant dyes, inks, and nylon thread. These materials are embedded, woven, and pierced through the paper, creating poetic fragments of adornment. The identifiable materials I use help to harness their energies, further emphasizing the connection between my work and the land it represents. One recurring subject in my work is the concept of traveling trunks, reflecting on the functionality and protection of such utilitarian containers. My people once heavily relied on traveling across the Great Plains in connection with Maka (Mother Earth). These objects unify our relationship to land while acknowledging the complexities of self, creating a visual dialogue between vulnerability and protection." - Mikayala Patton