Past Events
Exhibitions
HOMAGE
Are we addicted to scroll culture by design? Edward Bernays, an American advertising pioneer heavily influenced by the Bauhaus, believed geometric shapes and patterns could influence human emotions by urging individuals to support specific products and causes. The artists in HOMAGE draw inspiration from the geometric principles of Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and the New Bauhaus, incorporating algorithmic elements into their work. HOMAGE showcases a collection of work that uses both AI narratives and handmade techniques to categorize and place us within…
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Opening Reception
Opening Reception: La Lucha Continues
A group exhibition of Cuban artists with works ranging from contemporary to folk art. Plus vintage posters, books, and more! Featuring: Alicia Leal Sandra Dooley Marlys Fuego Mabel Poblet Rocia Garcia Linet Listre Isabel De Las Mercedes Julia Valdez Elsa Mora
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Opening Reception
Opening Reception: EARTH CELEBRATION
An installation by Ursula Clarke. The artist will celebrate the earth by creating an Installation inside of Gallery Gaia. With nature as the key focus of both the artist and the gallery, the installation melds ideology and personal aesthetic with hand-built application. Reception: Thursday, April 6 from 6 - 8pm
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Closing Reception, Performance
Closing Reception + Performance: Some of my brothers are sisters, some of my sisters are mothers, and all of my mothers are fathers, too
A group of works curated by Sheila Pepe, selected by a strategy of Wittgenstein's "family resemblances". There will be a brief performance by Zachary Fabri at 6:45 followed by a closing reception.
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Opening Reception
Opening Reception: Movement in the Colors
Loop of the Loom is excited to announce that they will be featuring the weaving of former Advanced Class student Sujean Park, in the art show ‘Movement in the Colors’. Through weaving on long warps continuously, she underwent a spiritual journey in the process of SAORI weaving, which began with many experiments and explorations. Here we will be able to share what she has discovered through her weaving for years. If you want to know what makes SAORI weaving is…
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Screening
Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: Luminous Dreams
Dumbo's monthly, international video art exhibit projected on the Manhattan Bridge. Luminous Dreams is a collection of works from 7 light and video artists from across the US, and beyond. Represented are the arts of Lumia, Lasers, Liquid Light Shows, Video Synthesis, VJing, and AI Video. The collection showcases both analog and digital approaches to the creation of contemporary kinetic visual art. Featuring: Steve Pavlovsky (Liquid Light Lab; NYC), Claudio Salvador (Visual Brewer; Buenos Aires), Christopher Short (Neon Captain; Santa…
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Talk
Online Artist Talk: Lodestar
MINUS SPACE is excited to present the exhibition Lynne Harlow: Lodestar, which premieres a suite of new sculpture in glass by the Providence, Rhode Island-based artist. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery since 2007. For her exhibition Lodestar, Lynne Harlow presents a configuration of new small-scale, glass artworks, which are cast from molds taken of specific rocks collected by the artist at personally-resonant sites in the United States and Europe, such as Downeast, Maine; Cape Cod,…
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Exhibitions
Neil Winokur: Nature
Neil Winokur, an artist known for his deadpan studies of objects, humans, and dogs, took his camera outdoors to document the flora and fauna of his new suburban neighborhood. Being Neil Winokur, he then went indoors and photographed other objects. Each 5x7" print bursts with hypersaturated color. Oh, and not everything is real. But that is Neil Winokur's Nature.
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Performance
Itziar Barrio and Seth Cluett: Particle Matter
Particle Matter is an audiovisual work created in collaboration with composer and sound designer Seth Cluett that Smack Mellon will present as a live performance activation in conjunction with Itziar Barrio’s solo exhibition, did not feel low, was sleeping. A materialist investigation into matter and multitudinous manifestations of the micro, Particle Matter approaches its subject in a rhizomatic fashion, utilizing the language of the montage–the dialectical technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of moving images and sounds–to explore the forces catalyzing…
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Exhibitions
Erica Newton: Sleeper is a Player
Sleeper is a Player showcases new small works on plaster and large paintings on canvas by current DUMBO Artist-in-Residence Erica Newton (MFA 2022). In these works, Newton interrogates the dynamics of material and image memory, grappling with the thresholds of landscape and built environment, internal and external life.
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Exhibitions
philosophicalinvestigations
Platform Project Space will present philosophicalinvestigations, a nine-artist exhibition curated by Franklin Evans, from April 21 - May 30, 2023. Featuring Pedro Barbeito, Kristopher Benedict, Tony Bluestone, Steve DiBenedetto, Joanne Greenbaum, Elana Herzog, Joyce Kozloff, Hanneline Røgeberg, and Mie Yim. Philosophicalinvestigations brings together artworks that reveal the bold, disruptive process of their creation even in their finished state. These modes of investigation in the studio embrace reflection, reconsideration, contradictory assertions, addition, cancellation, and switchbacks.
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Opening Reception
Opening Reception: philosophicalinvestigations
Platform Project Space will present philosophicalinvestigations, a nine-artist exhibition curated by Franklin Evans, from April 21 - May 30, 2023. Featuring Pedro Barbeito, Kristopher Benedict, Tony Bluestone, Steve DiBenedetto, Joanne Greenbaum, Elana Herzog, Joyce Kozloff, Hanneline Røgeberg, and Mie Yim. Philosophicalinvestigations brings together artworks that reveal the bold, disruptive process of their creation even in their finished state. These modes of investigation in the studio embrace reflection, reconsideration, contradictory assertions, addition, cancellation, and switchbacks.
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Special Event
DUMBO Open Studios 2023
DUMBO Open Studios 2023 will take place on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23. Visitors will see work from artists who have worked in DUMBO for decades, as well as those participating in artists residency programs. Neighborhood cultural powerhouses will also host open houses, extended hours, and special events. Plan your weekend with our neighborhood map and curated guides, or buy your tickets for a guided Open Studios Art Walk.
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Exhibitions
Elvira Clayton: Ritual Cloths
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Ritual Cloths, an exhibition by 2022–2023 Fellow Elvira Clayton. The exhibition will include a group of textile-based works, a small installation, a sound piece, and a performance by Clayton on the exhibition’s opening night. This is Clayton’s first solo show in New York City. Ritual Cloths is a textile-based series and part of Clayton’s ongoing project Cotton and Rice. The project explores the largest recorded slave auction in U.S. history by paying homage to…
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Exhibitions
Asia Stewart: dreamgurl
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce dreamgurl, an exhibition by 2022–23 Fellow Asia Stewart. dreamgurl features a series of self-portraits that explore the production and reproduction of sexually explicit images. This is Stewart’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In dreamgurl, Stewart offers up abstracted flesh for consumption. She invites audiences to be unashamed about their voyeurism as they move through the gallery and delight in eyeing (and occasionally fingering or trying on) the collaged pieces. Yet, in this…
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Exhibitions
Zini Lardieri: Medusa Remembers
GALLERY I Comprised of photo sculptures and collages, Medusa Remembers is New York Member Zini Lardieri’s first solo exhibition at A.I.R. Embracing Medusa as a symbol of female rage and power, Lardieri weaves together conceptual threads of memory, birth, death, blood, and doubling to tell a new story: a story that celebrates the still hidden, unknown, and disparaged “blood mysteries'' of menstruation, lactation, and menopause.
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Opening Reception
Opening Reception: New Exhibitions at A.I.R.
Join A.I.R. for the opening of three new exhibitions, including a performance by Elvira Clayton at 6:45 pm. GALLERY I Zini Lardieri: Medusa Remembers A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Medusa Remembers, an exhibition of photo sculptures and collages by New York Member Zini Lardieri, an activist and mixed media artist. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at A.I.R. GALLERY II Elvira Clayton: Ritual Cloths A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Ritual Cloths, an exhibition by 2022–2023 Fellow Elvira…
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Special Event
Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop: After Hours DJ Set
Join the Adams Street Library for a night filled with music to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop in New York. This event will take place after normal library hours, featuring a live DJ, food and drinks. Adams Street Library is collaborating with Legacy, a record store famous in Dumbo for its chill vibes, sense of community and of course its vinyl records. Come experience the library like you never have before!
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Performance
the body shows itself
In conjunction with her solo show dreamgurl, Asia Stewart will perform a durational work at A.I.R. Gallery on Saturday, April 29th and Sunday, April 30th from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. Titled the body shows itself, Stewart’s performance offers audiences that very thing: access to her body. Stewart will grant gallery visitors the opportunity to photograph any part of her body with an instant film camera in a one-on-one setting. Stewart has devised the following rules to govern the performance: Visitors cannot…
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Exhibitions
rE-ordering architecture: making machine and material kin
rE-ordering architecture: making machine and material kin is an exhibition of digitally fabricated clay columns. Each column in this show presents a new “order”—a seed or fragment of a future entwinement between architecture and environment. Each of the four columns was digitally fabricated by 3D printing clay, a process which requires reconsidering anthropocentric notions of authorship, precision, and control. Featuring work by Shelby Doyle; Frank Melendez and Nancy Diniz; Kelley Van Dyck Murphy; and Jonathan A. Scelsa with Greg Sheward.
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Exhibitions
Carri Skoczek: FACES
FACES comprises a selection of vibrant oil pastel portraits from the daily drawing series Carri Skoczek began in 2019. The portraits are of people she admires, past and present, including artists, musicians, chefs, designers, filmmakers, and friends.
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Screening, Special Event
Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: Digital Fairy Tales, Myths of Brazil
LIGHT YEAR 97: Digital Fairy Tales, Myths of Brazil brings together a diverse selection of stories and characters from Brazil’s folk history. Contributing artists come from all over the world, with an emphasis on Brazilian creators. This mix of perspectives adds depth and archetypical resonance by tapping into universal axioms of folk and fairy stories. Only a few more Light Year events remain—the project will end at 100.
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Poetry Reading
Poetry reading co-curated by Tenaya Nasser-Frederick and Erica Newton, whose work is currently on view for the exhibition Sleeper is a Player.
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Special Event
Friends of Adams Street Library Book Sale
The Friends of Adams Street Library are hosting a Book Sale to raise funds for the Adams Street Library. All proceeds will go to the Adams Street Library to support programming and resources for our community. The Sale will be held outside on Adams Street between Plymouth Street and John Street. Get some fresh reads and help your library all in one go! (The Adams Street Library will be accepting donations of gently used or new books at the Library…
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Performance
“Before and After, What the Witches Nose Knows that Andy Warhol’s Nose Doesn’t Know”
“Before and After” is Part 6 of an ongoing performance and writing project, created by Kay Turner and begun in 2012, with a lecture performance series on fairy-tale witches at A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn. Turner’s What a Witch series expands witch pedagogy to include witch embodiment performativity. Her performances expose the witch’s negative, abject history as fabricated by men and use communal ritual to reverse its effects. “Before and After” was first performed by Turner at A.I.R. in 2017. Lardieri…
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Artist-led Tour: Lodestar
MINUS SPACE is excited to present the exhibition Lynne Harlow: Lodestar, which premieres a suite of new sculpture in glass by the Providence, Rhode Island-based artist. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery since 2007. For her exhibition Lodestar, Lynne Harlow presents a configuration of new small-scale, glass artworks, which are cast from molds taken of specific rocks collected by the artist at personally-resonant sites in the United States and Europe, such as Downeast, Maine; Cape Cod,…
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Exhibitions
Love Fest
Group show celebrating Platform Project Space's fifth anniversary and the collaborative spirit between artists that makes the program possible. Participating artists include: Lauriston Avery, Jennifer Coates, Carl D’Alvia, Jared Deery, Alyssa Fanning, Steve Hicks, Jennifer Macdonald, JJ Manford, Patrick Neal, Margaux Ogden, Erika Ranee, Michelle Segre, Jennifer Sirey, Paul Whiting
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Opening Reception
Opening Reception: Linger
Opening reception of “Linger,” a series of works by New York Studio School Artist-in-Residence Yiting Zhao. Taken from observations in her day-to-day life, Zhao’s paintings depict her apartment, studio, and locations she frequently passes. The title stems from the artist’s process of lingering with her paintings, emphasizing color to provoke an intimate aura and building intricate textures with various densities of paint.
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