Exhibitions

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.

MINUS SPACE presents the exhibition Michael Brennan: Floating Weeds. This is the Brooklyn, NYC-based artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery since 2006 and it premieres a suite of new paintings that continue his decades-long investigation into the traditions of gestural and geometric abstraction.

Higher Pictures restages Carla Williams’ Princeton University Bachelor of Arts thesis exhibition from 1986. The seventy-two intensely personal self-portraits included here were made between 1984 and 1986, two years after Williams began studying photography at age 17. Her professor Emmet Gowin called it the best thesis show in his thirty-six years of teaching. Only a handful of the works have since been exhibited or published. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Williams’ images are at once tender and wise, awkward…

Out of the inventory and onto the wall. This expansive group exhibition is a celebration of the artworks/artists represented by the gallery.

Platform Project Space (20 Jay Street, 319) presents Colin Brant: Mountains Like Rivers an exhibition of landscape paintings by Brant, inspired by a 13th Century Buddhist poet who walked alone through the mountains of Japan. On view through December 16, 2023.

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce A Hair’s Breadth, an exhibition of new work by New York Member Tomoko Amaki Abe. Through glass sculpture, works on paper, and video, Abe reflects on the ephemerality of humans and the endurance of nature, while also interrogating the ways in which the fragility of the aging human body might mirror the vulnerability of our natural environment in the face of climate change. This is Abe’s second solo exhibition at A.I.R. In the exhibition,…

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Garden Drawings, an exhibition of new work by Alum Member Marcia Neblett. This is Neblett’s second solo exhibition in New York City. The Garden Drawings began during the pandemic in 2021, when Neblett was invited by the curators of Virginia MOCA to take part in a collaborative exhibition with twelve regional artists who were each partnered with local food experts, ranging from farmers and chefs to authors and advocates. Neblett was partnered with a…

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Invasive Species: Of Natives and Strangers, a solo exhibition by Sandra Erbacher. Employing an interdisciplinary, research centered approach, Erbacher seeks to compare and contrast the discourse on invasive species in the natural sciences with the media rhetoric surrounding immigration. Invasive Species brings together a wealth of historical and contemporary images, text, and ephemera to explore how fears surrounding foreign flora and fauna echo anxieties about immigration and disease and the rise of xenophobia. Materials…

Superfine (126 Front Street) presents Arianna Santoriello Growing Glorps: Wooden and Woven artwork. Drawing inspiration from the organic shapes and movement found in the Finnish countryside, she explores the lively relationship between the land, wind and sky. The Glorps are made from wood, connecting them to their origins in the earth. As they sway in the wind and reach for the sky, they present abundance and dance in life’s forward movement.On view through January 28, 2024.

Anne Wu: There Is No Far and No Near is Wu’s first major solo exhibition in New York City. The exhibit features sculptural installations that weave through the gallery’s existing architecture. The sculptures present a series of thresholds composed of the artist’s signature materials: brightly painted wood, polished decorative stainless steel, plastic packing rope, incense sticks, and cast objects.

Frank WANG Yefeng: The House of the Solitary extends from a series of video animations created by Frank WANG Yefeng in the summer of 2020 and reimagined as an uncanny domestic installation for this exhibition, combining poems, 3D rendering, texts sculpted in VR, and distorted soundtracks of airline on-hold music. Sparked by the artist’s unexpected and prolonged lockdown experience in Berlin, the exhibition quietly remarks on the mental paradigm shifts caused by the global isolation of the 2020 pandemic.

Lisha Bai’s piecework fabric curtains are inspired by bojagi, traditional Korean wrapping cloths constructed from a variety of different fabrics, as well as quiltmakers from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, whose compositions defy their materiality. For Bai, the technique of joining different fabrics together is a visual metaphor for piecing together influences. The imagery is often an homage to artists who work deftly with light and color and self consciously engage with the traditional idea of paintings as windows. Bai lives and…

Gallery GAIA (79 Hudson Avenue) presents SILVER and GOLD exploring the magical luminosity of Silver and Gold on multi-media creations.The artists will give you their magic and beautiful light to illuminate the darkness surrounding us, bringing joy and sparkles into your eyes and soul. On view through December 30, 2023. ARTISTS: Alaiyo Bradshaw, Rene Magnanti, Bill Pangburn, Tara Sabharwal, Christian LeGars, Ursula Clark, Jackie Lima, Esther Grillo, Jane Dell, Larry Dell, Neddi Heller, Monique Denoncin, James Howard Collins, Mary Jane…

Center For Cuban Studies/Cuban Art Space (20 Jay Street) presents Celebrating Paper: Affordable Art from Cuba a group exhibit of works on paper by several of Cuba’s best artists— drawings, prints, posters, handmade books, photographs. On view through January 14, 2023.