Exhibitions

Waiting for Water is a solo presentation by artist Shayok Mukhopadhyay spanning the entrance, stairway, and interior of Smack Mellon’s main gallery space. Employing two different styles of water-carrying vessels, this bifurcated installation examines the disparate material conditions of those prepared and unprepared to handle water shortages anticipated by the impending climate crisis. Here, Mukhopadhyay asks: how would waiting for water feel in Brooklyn?

Geomorphic Agents includes five painted and sculptural installations by interdisciplinary artist Reade Bryan, focused on regions that have been dramatically altered by man-made irrigation systems. In this new body of work, the artist combines layered batik paintings on silk organza juxtaposing root systems of desert flora, various linear irrigation maps, and contemporary architecture, mounted in metal frames, with the addition of one plywood sculpture that formally references entangled canal structures.

We, Women: The Power of We, the largest social impact photography project by women and gender nonconforming artists, is underway across the United States. It is currently being exhibited at Empire Fulton Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park and is on view 24/7 except for Tuesdays and Thursdays until further notice. The project unravels the legacy of power structures constructed and maintained through decades of “othering” through imagery. Further, We, Women showcases an inclusive approach to photography, demonstrating that agency and…

Organized by Jennifer Coates and featuring work by Colin Brant, Jennifer Coates, Nancy Diamond, and Cecilia Whittaker-Doe.

A three-dimensional layered painting installation by interdisciplinary artist Evan Paul English, who currently works and resides in Brooklyn. His current series of paintings, titled “Viewfound,” employs the use of vintage American floral textiles. Finding compositions within the fabrics and enlarging them to various size paintings, he integrates elements of figuration and self-portraiture. Through layering, distortion, enlargement, visual and spatial immersion, a new experience with a familiar motif arises, making space for contemplation and revelation.

An exhibit of self-taught artists in Cuba. Among the artists: Grupo Bayate and many others from Mella, Santiago de Cuba, Alejandrina Cué, Inciarte, Isabel de las Mercedes, Magnolia Betancourt, Sandra Dooley, and Wayacón.

Higher Pictures Generation presents an exhibition of mural-sized photograms by the Los Angeles-based artist Sheila Pinkel (b. 1941). Pinkelgraphs: The Murals and Cyanotypes works—two-dimensional representations of the photographic paper itself as a sculptural form—bridge the artist's earlier interests in painting and sculpture and her lifelong investigation of the physical properties of light. Pinkel earned her MFA from UCLA, where she studied with Robert Heinecken, and from 1986 to 2012 she was Professor of Art at Pomona College. Over the course of…

Featuring five distinct large-scale geometric sculptures clad with hand-painted glazed tiles, panels featuring photographs of New York City and Roman and Greek antiquities, and mirror-polished stainless steel, Rehearsal is an immersive experience for park goers to explore. Commissioned by Public Art Fund, Rehearsal is Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser’s public art debut. The structures range in height from seven to 13 feet and are encased in a balance of more than 1500 warm and cool-toned clay tiles that were hand-painted by…

An exhibition memorializing the life and work of Siegel, a late A.I.R. Member and artist known for her biographical mixed media installations and meticulously executed two-dimensional work. Curated by Kathleen Schneider and Nancy Storrow, the exhibition highlights the broad scope of Siegel’s distinctive body of work, focusing on artwork made during her decade-long association with the gallery.

Untitled (inflatable house, zip ties, blower) is a solo project by New York-based artist and 2020-2021 A.I.R. Fellow Bat-Ami Rivlin. Comprising an installation of found and surplus object sculpture, the exhibition investigates material agency through the notion of function. This will be Rivlin’s first solo exhibition with A.I.R. Gallery.

The Invisible Hand is a new film and installation by 2020-2021 A.I.R. Fellow Sky Olson. Olson’s wide-ranging practice brings together film, installation, and performance to reveal and resist the micropolitics of organizational culture, focusing on lives and experiences that are customarily relegated to the background. The Invisible Hand (2021) is an experimental documentary that foregrounds the usually invisible labor of a government building’s cleaning crew.