
Special Event
Special Event
Silent Walk with Artist Phoebe Osborne
In recent years, 2021–2022 A.I.R. Fellow Phoebe Osborne has generated distinctive works that follow the incommensurable currents of transing and the care it generates. As the latest outcome of this practice, Across this really tall field again in the dark brings drawing, lip syncing, and vibratory residue to act as storytellers, gathering seemingly fragmented details and lacing them together as a stealth walk in the night. The walk will begin and end at A.I.R. Gallery, however where we go in…
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Opening Party | Sounds About Riso 4.0
Join us for the opening night of Sounds About Riso 4.0! RSVP is highly encouraged but not necessary. In addition to getting a first look and opportunity to shop the showcase, there will be drinks, food, and great music! Over 170 artist submissions, totaling to 200+ works!
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Opening Reception | The Dissolution caus’d by Fire is in all Bodies
Smack Mellon presents a group exhibition featuring works by Leah Beeferman (with soundtracks by Byron Westbrook, Olli Aarni, and Bryce Hackford), Mimi Park, and Charisse Pearlina Weston, in addition to a photographic print by Paul Strand. This exhibition accompanies a large-scale commission by Luba Drozd in Smack Mellon’s main gallery, The Tenacity of a Fluid Trace. Both exhibitions take their titles from a historical text written in 1743 by Francesco Serao detailing his observations of Mount Vesuvius shortly after a…
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Opening Reception | Luba Drozd: The Tenacity of a Fluid Trace
In her first major solo exhibition in NYC, Luba Drozd presents a sprawling installation comprising construction materials and motors attached to piano strings and tuned to various frequencies, using the tension between these materials to produce a complex sonic landscape that unfolds across the main gallery space. The installation explores links between empathy, humanity, and the primordial composition of the universe through the artist’s deep investigation of matter.
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Drink & Draw: Life Drawing and Riso Demo
Join Lucky Risograph for a super fun drink & draw night! They will have an arrangement of random objects on top of the risograph as still life for participants to sketch from, and everyone gets to take home a risograph zine of all the drawings at the end! Participants can join virtually through zoom, or in-person at Lucky Risograph's studio.
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Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: Ultra-Shorts and NFTs
As the world continues to go digital, we see changes in all aspects of life: attention spans shorten, viewing habits, global markets, banking, even the art market--are all reacting to these seismic shifts. Light Year 90: Ultra-Shorts and NFTs explores these uncharted areas between video art, new types of digital works, short films, and commerce. What is an Ultra Short? We define an Ultra Short as any type of video content up to 90 seconds in length. What about the…
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Listening Party and Artist-Led Tour
An intimate tour of the current exhibitions, led by exhibiting artists Luba Drozd, Leah Beeferman, and Mimi Park. First, Drozd will lead attendees through her solo exhibition, The Tenacity of a Fluid Trace, in which she employs elements of Smack Mellon’s unique architecture to produce various tonal frequencies for a complex visual and sonic installation. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience the exhibition from an embodied perspective, accompanied by a talk with the artist detailing her process, research, and…
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Opening Reception: Pareidolia, Haus of Bongba, and Social Portrait
Pareidolia is an exhibition of new abstract oil on canvas paintings by A.I.R. Adjunct Member Jane Swavely. Haus of Bongba features a new body of work from New York-based designer/artist Jongbum Kim. Social Portrait is the first U.S. presentation of Finnish artist Katriina Haikala’s ongoing Social Portrait project.
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Reconfigurations Opening Reception
Reconfigurations brings together photographs by five artists, who have reshaped historical photographs into new, contemporary narratives.
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Tropospheric Painting Opening Reception
Laurel Shute’s painting practice is about transferring the natural environment into a flat painting, with the colors and shapes expressive of capturing the feeling of being in relation to the Sun and Earth.
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Lucky Risograph Open Studio Hours
Drop by Lucky Risograph studio to check out their printing in progress and browse their selection of affordable prints and books! Lucky Risograph is a POC-owned print, design studio, and publisher based in DUMBO. Primarily working through the medium of risograph printing, they create a wide variety of printed matter ranging from postcards to art books. Since their establishment in 2018, they have continued to incorporate risograph’s eco-conscious and affordable nature into their everyday practice, working with diverse artist communities…
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Triangle Residency Program Fall Open Studios
Triangle is excited to announce its Fall Open Studios featuring Laurie Kang, Iona Roisin, Kim Brandt, and Adelita Husni Bey at 20 Jay Street #317 and #318. Triangle is a visual arts residency in New York founded in 1982, providing a life-changing working environment for committed artists through studio-based opportunities to experiment and create new work; shared community with other artists that lasts a lifetime; introduction of curators and other experts to the work at crucial times; cultivation of new…
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Fall 2022 Open Studios
Join Smack Mellon on Friday, Nov 18 for the first day of Fall 2022 Open Studios alongside the opening receptions for their upcoming exhibitions! Open Studios continue on Saturday, Nov 19, 1–6 PM. Meet and check out the studios of their current artists-in-residence: Gi (Ginny) Huo, Miatta Kawinzi, Kiyan Williams and New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows Joseph Liatela, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, and Ogemdi Ude.
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Fall 2022 Open Studios
Smack Mellon Fall 2022 Open Studios continues. Meet and check out the studios of their current artists-in-residence: Gi (Ginny) Huo, Miatta Kawinzi, Kiyan Williams and New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows Joseph Liatela, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, and Ogemdi Ude.
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New Work: Genesis Baez and Jenny Calivas
Interventions in the landscape and performances with community conjure communion with both the self and kin, both real and imagined, past and present. Baez’s work exists in a diasporic universe, tracing the invisible threads that tether her to people dispersed throughout the world and time. Calivas’s ritual self burials elongate time and facilitate a reclaimed communion with the self. View the work at 20 Jay Street #309C.
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DUMBO Tree Lighting
The DUMBO Improvement District is thrilled to sponsor the 16th Annual DUMBO Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. Tree Lit at 5:30 pm Sharp! - TREE LIGHTING. With a countdown led by our very own Alexandria Sica! - SANTA CLAUS. All the way from the North Pole, in a fabulous setting generously created by West Elm. Photobooth from our friends at Self Portrait Project. - CALYPSO MUSIC. From Brooklyn-based steel drum band Jah Pan. - CHRISTMAS COVERS. By Curtis J. Social and…
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Eamon Goodman, Laurel Atwell, and Erica Newton
New York Studio School (NYSS) Projects residents take the opportunity of the First Thursday event to showcase work in their community. This event brings together the work of Eamon Goodman (sound), Laurel Atwell (video), and Erica Newton (painting) in the exhibition space. Erica is a painter and current resident at the NYSS projects @ DUMBO space. She received her MFA from the New York Studio School in May 2022 Eamon Goodman is a musician, sound designer, and installation artist based…
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Shop the Studios
Just in time for the holidays, 35 artists in DUMBO will open their studios to the public to sell their art on Saturday, December 10, 12-4pm. Organized by the DUMBO Improvement District and Art in DUMBO, Shop the Studios is an opportunity to connect directly with artists working in DUMBO, Brooklyn, explore their studios, and take home an original artwork priced for the holidays. Shop the Studios is organized in coordination with the DUMBO x Brooklyn Flea Holiday Market in…
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DUMBO Public Art Tour
Join us to celebrate the latest projects from the Downtown Brooklyn and Dumbo Art Fund. See the works, and hear from artists Sherwin Banfield, Joseph Morris, and Owen Trueblood about their pieces and process. Sherwin Banfield, Sky's the Limit in the County of Kings is a sustainable sonic sculptural tribute dedicated to the legacy of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. Born and raised in Brooklyn, B.I.G.'s musical frequency is rooted in American, Jamaican and African rhythms. A true Diasporic sound,…
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Zeph Farmby Mural Unveiling Celebration
Join a celebration for the unveiling of an iconic mural located on the 5th floor of Time Out Market New York by Zeph Farmby, a multi-disciplined artist, activist, and educator based in Brooklyn. Music by MORESOUPPLEASE.
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Triangle Winter Open Studios
Triangle will hold their Winter Open Studios in February. Students from the Clermont Ferrand School of Fine Arts (ESACM) will present a group exhibition of their current work, and visitors will be able to tour fields harrington's open studio. All guests will be required to wear masks, if you have any questions, please contact mail@triangleartsnyc.org.
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Opening Reception: Orderly Chaos
The New York Studio School is pleased to present Orderly Chaos, a group exhibition curated by Artist-in-Residence Yiting Zhao feauring the work of sixteen painters. The works selected are painted from observation in a practice of painting that, as one artist observes, is “like putting in order the chaos in front of the painter.” The works in Orderly Chaos emphasize color, form, texture, surface, and other formal elements that indicate the experience of working from life. The visual languages specific…
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Artist-led Tour: Emily Clayton & Tomi Faison
Join Smack Mellon for an intimate artist-led tour with the exhibiting artists of their exhibitions on view: Emily Clayton, Hydra and Tomi Faison, First As Tragedy, Then As LARP.
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Opening Reception for New Exhibitions
A.I.R. Gallery will hold an opening reception for three new exhibitions. Gallery I will feature GOOD JOB WELL DONE, an exhibition of sculptures by Bonam Kim. Travelogue, a new body of mixed media work on paper by Lauren Simkin Berke, will be in Gallery II. On view in Gallery III will be Rage Births Riot, an exhibition of paintings by Ellyn Weiss.
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Opening Reception: En La Lucha
The Cuban Art Space presents 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.
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