Upcoming Events

Loop of the Loom presents Yutaka Obuchi: Cloth of Time「時を刻む布」a month-long event featuring Yutaka Obuchi, a renowned Japanese Bengala dyeing artisan. Delve into the profound link between historical dyes, fabric, and humanity through Obuchi's intricate artworks, which pay homage to ancient mineral-based color extraction methods. Immerse yourself in workshops and talks where Obuchi shares the legacy of Japanese textile art with New York City. On view through October 5, 2023.

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce The Last Garden, an exhibition of new paintings by New York Member Joan Snitzer. Taking inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch’s 1510 triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, Snitzer queries how small-scale moments might accumulate to create expansive worlds. This is Snitzer’s sixth solo exhibition at A.I.R. Anchoring The Last Garden is an immersive, twelve-panel painting displayed across the gallery’s back wall. Like Bosch, Snitzer paints on wood panels. But, unlike Bosch, she creates entirely abstract…

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Process is Life, an exhibition of brushstroke compositions by founding member Blythe Bohnen (1940–2022). Painted between 1968 and 1972, these compositions unite Bohnen’s art-historical interest in examining the mechanics of the painted gesture with her metaphysical interest in impermanence, memory, and renewal. Bohnen sought to slow down and analyze the process of painting by recording sequences of discrete brushstrokes of varying sizes onto paper or canvas, organized by imaginary grids. She allowed the painted…

The FRESH 2023 Annual Photography Exhibition is co-curated by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching.

Cuban Art Space presents Art of Revolution. An exhibition showcasing the artistic essence of the Cuban revolution through a collection of vintage posters, artworks, and photographs. On view through November 15, 2023.

This fall, Smack Mellon presents its annual Close Readings exhibition series, which launched in 2022. In this series, Smack Mellon presents a new commission by an under-recognized, early- to mid-career artist in Gallery One, accompanied by an exhibition in Gallery Two that employs the central commission as the curatorial framework. This program extends our support for interdisciplinary artists by fostering dialogues around their practices, in addition to facilitating the realization of ambitious, site-specific projects. Smack Mellon presents a new commission by Jessica…

Featuring artists: dean erdmann, fields harrington, Rebecca Shapass   Delving deeper into the themes introduced by Jessica Segall’s installation, the upcoming exhibition in the back gallery brings together the works of artists dean erdmann, fields harrington and Rebecca Shapass. It focuses on the intricate interplay between humanity’s historical resource extraction constructs, the resulting ecological landscape, the nuanced subtleties of addiction, and the intriguing alignment of queer desires within the realms of environmental preservation and ecological fetishism. The title is an homage to…

Aegir Boardworks presents The Photography of Mike Spears. Mike Spears is a longtime DUMBO resident whose photography captures a candid edge to his subjects. A surfer and skater, he brings an insider's eye to concrete waves and the beaches of the Atlantic, with a sense of humor and eagerness to push boundaries at play in each of his pictures. On view through March 5, 2023.

Gallery GAIA presents Durga Kainthola: Factory Reset. Keen on experimentation, Kainthola reworks images, giving them a new incarnation to the original artwork, whether drawn from Indian or Western, taking it beyond the lexicon of time and space. They employ a hybrid mix of styles – ranging from impressionist to surrealist, classical to folk, digital to collage, and modern to the style of Indian miniatures. On view through October 29. 2023.

New York Studio School Dumbo Studios presents Group Show Arm's Length curated by artist Paula Querido as part of the New York Studio School Dumbo Residency. On view through October 26, 2023.

Platform Project Space presents Pattern Language. Over the past four years, Kenji Fujita, Fawn Krieger, and Medrie MacPhee have been seeking to create new ways of working with rupture and wholeness in a time of cultural and political upheaval, continuously redefining boundaries as a strategy of adaptation and relocation. On view through November 4, 2023.