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An exhibition that combines Alfred Leslie's Hoboken Ovals painting with his groundbreaking Pixel Scores. A legendary artist for seven decades, this is Leslie's fourth exhibition with the gallery. On view through March 11, 2023.

In this exhibition, the gallery is presenting a selection of its favorite artworks from the gallery inventory. Featuring work from Jim Naughten, Max de Esteban, David Trautrimas, Doug Keyes, Katie Shapiro, Ken Rosenthal, Doug Fogelson, Tessa Bunny, and Leah Schretenthaler.

To Tire of Grace is a site-specific performance/installation that explores motherwork. Artist Mandy Cano Villalobos sits alone in a tightly enclosed display case before a trough of domestic detritus. She meticulously sorts through discarded toys, underoos, kitchen utensils, clothing scraps, plastic jewelry, broken gadgets, and candy wrappers, threading each item onto long, thin cords. As she progresses in her labor, these cords accumulate an ornamental appeal that verges upon sacred beauty. At the same time, Villalobos’ Sisyphean toil contradicts the…

The Cuban Art Space will be presenting En La Lucha!, a group exhibition celebrating Cuban women artists and their work during International Women's Month. Participating artists include Jaquelín Brito, Yamilys Brito, Sandra Ceballos, Sandra Dooley, Regina Fernandez, Flora Fong, Aimee García, Karang (Karyna Alonso),  Alicia Leal, Marucha (María Eugenia Haya), Elsa Mora, Marta Maria Pérez Bravo, Sandra Ramos, Zaida del Río, Ileana Sánchez-Hing and Julia Valdes. The gallery will also showcase textiles, vintage posters, and books from Cuba.

A group exhibition by Sheila Pepe, featuring works selected by a strategy of Wittgenstein's "family resemblances".

Smack Mellon presents did not feel low, was sleeping, premiering Itziar Barrio’s multidisciplinary trilogy Material (2016-2023) as a site specific installation in the main gallery space. The exhibition comprises film based projects A Demon that Slips into Your Telescope While You’re Dead Tired and Blocks the Light; ROBOTA MML; and Particle Matter alongside a new series of sculptures, some of which are robotic.

Smack Mellon is pleased to present multidisciplinary artist ann/drew gayle’s second solo exhibition in NYC. just a moment comprises gayle’s recent series of flat ceramic sculptures, formed using logics of simple mathematics and patterning techniques employed with Polymer clay. The artist draws from a wide array of inspiration including candy making, M.C. Escher, wallpaper and textile designs, and Conway’s Game of Life–an interactive game based on a mathematical equation that determines cellular automation and the potential for livelihood. The works’ candy-colored palettes…

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian artist and professor at the Bauhaus from 1923-1928. In 1939, Moholy-Nagy founded the Institute of Design in Chicago, today known as the Illinois Institute of Technology. Moholy-Nagy wrote several books including Painting, Photography, Film (1927) and Vision in Motion (1947). In 2003, the Moholy-Nagy Foundation was created to foster and share knowledge about the artist’s life and work. In 2016, he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New…

Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries, an exhibition of new paintings by Susan Bee, is the artist’s tenth solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition centers on paintings depicting figures—particularly women—engaged in battle with demons, dragons, and other beasts, inspired by medieval mythology. Bee transmogrifies these icons of devotion into prescient myth: their stories presage the end-time fears and social injustices that plague our more secular times.

In Welcome to Li’l Wolf, 2022–2023 Fellow Amy Ritter turns her focus inside her childhood home for the first time, taking the visitor on a trip through the mobile home park where she grew up and where her parents continue to live. Through video, sculpture, and photography, Ritter offers the audience a glimpse into her father’s life by investigating the spaces he inhabits and explores her white working-class family’s connection to the American Dream.

2022–2023 Fellow Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand deploys the figure of the coyote—a resilient, displaced pack mammal—as her skeletal muse in innocence is cheap, but ten dollars lasts forever, an exhibition of sculptures. Panning away from the victors, Shojae-Chaghorvand centers the frame instead on the subjects we vilify: she depicts and dissects an anthropomorphized animal’s endless, cartoonish hunger and suffering—the tethers that jerk around desire and pain.

Loop of the Loom is excited to announce that they will be featuring the weaving of former Advanced Class student Sujean Park, in ‘Movement in the Colors’. Through weaving on long warps continuously, she underwent a spiritual journey in the process of SAORI weaving, which began with many experiments and explorations. Here we will be able to share what she has discovered through her weaving for years. If you want to know what makes SAORI weaving is different from other…

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce dreamgurl, an exhibition by 2022–23 Fellow Asia Stewart. dreamgurl features a series of self-portraits that explore the production and reproduction of sexually explicit images. This is Stewart’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In dreamgurl, Stewart offers up abstracted flesh for consumption. She invites audiences to be unashamed about their voyeurism as they move through the gallery and delight in eyeing (and occasionally fingering or trying on) the collaged pieces. Yet, in this…

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Ritual Cloths, an exhibition by 2022–2023 Fellow Elvira Clayton. The exhibition will include a group of textile-based works, a small installation, a sound piece, and a performance by Clayton on the exhibition’s opening night. This is Clayton’s first solo show in New York City. Ritual Cloths is a textile-based series and part of Clayton’s ongoing project Cotton and Rice. The project explores the largest recorded slave auction in U.S. history by paying homage to…