Special Event

Higher Pictures Generation presents the first-ever exhibition of color photographs from Susan Meiselas’ series Carnival Strippers (1972–75). The artist will be present. From 1972 to 1975 Meiselas followed traveling carnivals in the Midwest and New England each summer, photographing the women who performed striptease and interviewing them, the show managers, and paying customers. Carnival Strippers is praised for its nuanced and honest presentation of the women both on stage and off. The complexity of the series and Meiselas’ dedication, at…

The BHM show grants the viewer front row access to Black culture. Art is subjective, and that is the beauty of what this year’s BHM show will display: our freedom of expression in various forms. Being Black we tend to face many obstacles in our day to day. These same obstacles are what grant us creative freedom of expression. We continue to use this consistent pressure to create diamonds effortlessly. Participating artists: BLK@D, Th4nks4Nothing, Michael Graham, Todd Johnson, Bianka Cypriano,…

How Can I Be Nobody is a site-specific solo exhibition combining elements from Victoria-Idongesit Udondian’s recent collaborative projects that include woven textiles, sculptures, and sound, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in New York City.  Streaming Surface unites various aspects of Moko Fukuyama’s multidisciplinary practice that spans filmmaking, sculpture, and installation, addressing topics of labor, subjectivity, and constructed realities.

Join Smack Mellon for an in-person tour of current exhibitions led by exhibiting artists, Victoria-Idongesit Udondian and Moko Fukuyama, and moderated by Smack Mellon’s Curator, Rachel Vera Steinberg. The artists will discuss the process of creating their respective installations as well as the conceptual, cultural, and political ideas that drive their work. Victoria-Idongesit Udondian will address the social process of weaving her large-scale textile sculptures in tandem with the historic and ongoing links between immigration and labor. Moko Fukuyama will…

Klompching Gallery is pleased to present Land Revisited, an exhibition of artworks, utilizing the landscape as a thematic link between five artists pursuing very different creative photographic interventions—both in terms of their use of the medium, and their treatment of/relationship to the natural environment. The exhibition is on view from March 9–April 30, 2022. Exhibiting artists: Helen Sear, Doug Fogelson, Samin Ahmadzadeh, Odette England, and Dora Somosi

On Saturday, April 23, and Sunday, April 24, from 12–6 PM, more than 100 artists across DUMBO will welcome the public into their studios and workspaces for DUMBO Open Studios. Visitors will see work from artists who have worked in DUMBO for decades, as well as those participating in artists residency programs, including the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, BRIClab, New York Studio School, Smack Mellon, and Triangle. Artists in the community include: Alexandra Bell, Alexi Worth, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, Peter Drake,…

Smack Mellon is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program. The exhibition presents the artwork of students who participated in the 2021-2022 session of Art Ready, Smack Mellon’s arts mentorship program for NYC public high school students interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts. This year, students worked with professional artists who specialize in drawing, sculpture, graphic design, architecture, textile art, and social practice. Included in the show will be…

Photoville Festival 2022 will kick off with an Opening Day Community Celebration, featuring workshops, family programming, evening projections, and Smorgasburg.

Criers is a sequence of mostly unglazed ceramic sculptures depicting crying heads. Sometimes the clay of the sculptures is unfired, ready to dissolve back into unshaped materiality; sometimes it is fired, where expression has become petrified; sometimes a face or tear is tangible with stone; sometimes transformed into a glazed shard. Clay, as the primary material for these sculptures, emphasizes crying as radically elemental and acutely physical. In crying, the body is laying claim to the event. Sometimes, the clay…

Brooklyn native Craig Anthony Miller, aka “CAM,” is a DUMBO-based fine artist and designer disciplined in mixed mediums, collage, and (branding) graphics.