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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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Cris Gianakos: Works on Mylar 1983-1989
A two-part solo exhibition of mid- and large-format artworks on mylar from the mid-1980s by the renowned NYC-based artist Cris Gianakos (b. 1934). This is Gianakos’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Online Artist Talk: Thursday, January 26, 7-8 PM EST Exhibition Tour with Artist: Saturday, February 25, 3-4 PM
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d’Ann de Simone: textilis mnēmosynē
An exhibition of three-dimensional collages by d'Ann de Simone. The work brings together bits of found fabric, often acquired at garage sales and primarily made by women. The collaged textiles re-weave these fragments into a collective narrative, embedded in the text of the art.
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15th A.I.R. Biennial: Friend of the Artist
Taking an open-call format, the exhibition, curated by Eriola Pira, asks artists to invite the public into their webs of relation, love, and mutual support. The works in Friend of the Artist offer intimate glimpses of individual friendships, as well as considerations of collaboration, community, and solidarity in artmaking and life.
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Cris Gianakos: Works on Mylar 1983-1989
Opening reception for the solo exhibition of Cris Gianakos, featuring artworks on mylar from the mid-1980s by the renowned NYC-based artist.
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Tomi Faison: First As Tragedy, Then As LARP
Tomi Faison, First As Tragedy, Then As LARP unfolds through two of the artist’s recent works that combine cold, filmic realism with the fantastic and unhinged performativity of the increasingly politicized world.
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Emily Clayton: Hydra
Spanning drawing, painting, photography, and documentary video, Clayton uses the formal immediacy of painting and the intimacy of autobiography to consider class structures, power dynamics, and formations of subjectivity. Installed on and around the main gallery’s central columns, Hydra will feature new, large-scale, double-sided works on paper mounted to steel frames. Opening Reception: Saturday, January 21, 6–8PM
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Duvet
Duvet is a group of artists, movers, and friends merging friendship and form building. As a part of the 15th A.I.R. Biennial, Friend of the Artist, five of the members of Duvet will be presenting a two-hour performance based on their ritualized authentic movement practice.
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Alfred Leslie
An exhibition that combines Alfred Leslie's Hoboken Ovals painting with his groundbreaking Pixel Scores. A legendary artist for seven decades, this is Leslie's fourth exhibition with the gallery. On view through March 11, 2023.
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Allison Gildersleeve and Tracy Miller
Platform Project Space presents a two-person exhibition of Allison Gildersleeve and Tracy Miller's work, who paint their surroundings by overlaying the repetition of their days into a single frame. Tables littered with beer cans, coffee cups, salt shakers, and berry baskets tell a story of domestic delirium. Gildersleeve’s and Miller’s work is the antithesis of still life; instead, their paintings are full of restless agitation and the volatile nature of daydreams.
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But How Do We Split the Check?
But How Do We Split the Check? focuses on the work of photographers Shawn Bruce and Christopher Jackson, two talented NYC transplants, as they use their lens to capture the light and dark side of New York. Coming from the world's of commercial photography and theater, respectively, each of them brings a singular approach to their art
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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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Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: The Wind That Makes No Sound
Curated by Lee Wells, projecting videos on the Manhattan Bridge. Featuring artists Yorgo Alexopoulos, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Motomishi Nakamura, and Amelia Winger-Bearskin. On view for one night only. Best viewed from Pearl Street Triangle.
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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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Peer Review: Volume I Publication Launch
Peer Review is an experimental publication of reviews for artists by artists. Our mission is to organize thoughtful, text-based investigations of the artist being reviewed. For the official publication launch, two cohort members of Peer Review: Volume I, Juliana Cerqueira Leite and Fernando Pintado, will read their reviews of other artists in the cohort followed by a Q&A with the artists and the organizers.
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Artist Talk with d’Ann de Simone
In conjunction with her solo exhibition textilis mnēmosynē, d’Ann de Simone will present an artist talk focused on her current body of work.
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Ellyn Weiss: Rage Births Riot
National Member Ellyn Weiss presents a new body of work, including paintings in dye, ink, and spray enamel on raw canvas, in Rage Births Riot. The series began in the fall of 2021, immediately after the Supreme Court allowed the Texas abortion ban to take effect; it reflects the artist’s continuing rage at this unprincipled attack on the basic human rights of American women and their families. The rawness of the work matches the rawness of the anger.
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Lauren Simkin Berke: Travelogue
In Travelogue, Alum Member Lauren Simkin Berke presents a new body of mixed media work on paper, in both flat and folded forms. Begun during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the series follows two people as they travel, at first to known places, and then to places created from the artist’s imagination. Travelogue explores the capacity of the human mind to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time—and to find a way to travel the world while…
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Bonam Kim: GOOD JOB WELL DONE
GOOD JOB WELL DONE is an exhibition of sculptures by New York Member Bonam Kim. In the eight works on view, Kim constructs miniatures of spaces that she has inhabited, including her Brooklyn apartment, the South Korean classroom of her childhood, and the embassy office where she had to renew her visa during the pandemic. By manipulating scale and taking a bird’s eye view perspective, Kim reclaims power over the past and present, and invites the viewer to navigate the…
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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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Winter Salon
In this exhibition, the gallery is presenting a selection of its favorite artworks from the gallery inventory. Featuring work from Jim Naughten, Max de Esteban, David Trautrimas, Doug Keyes, Katie Shapiro, Ken Rosenthal, Doug Fogelson, Tessa Bunny, and Leah Schretenthaler.
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Container Shift
NYSS Projects @ DUMBO is pleased to present Container Shift, curated by Artist-in-Resident Erica Newton (MFA 2022), on view from February 16 – March 19. Exhibiting Artists: Lazar Bozic Christopher Forgues Irina Jasnowski Pascual Em Joseph Mariko Makino Mallie Sanford Vanessa Thill Jake Tobin Anna Witenberg Scott Vander Veen
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Travelogue: An Improvisational Drawing Workshop
In conjunction with their solo show, Travelogue, Lauren Simkin Berke will facilitate a drawing workshop, leading participants through the process of creating their own doodled figures, and imagined or remembered environments for the newly drawn figures to explore. Lauren Simkin Berke is based in Brooklyn. They received an M.F.A. in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in 2003, and a B.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2001. Berke works as a freelance illustrator, and teaches…
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Emily Clayton and Leigh Ledare in conversation
In conjunction with Emily Clayton’s solo exhibition, Hydra, Smack Mellon will host a conversation between the artist and Leigh Ledare. The two artists will discuss the work on view through the lens of the archive, autobiography and cultural subjectivities.
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To Tire of Grace
To Tire of Grace is a site-specific performance/installation that explores motherwork. Artist Mandy Cano Villalobos sits alone in a tightly enclosed display case before a trough of domestic detritus. She meticulously sorts through discarded toys, underoos, kitchen utensils, clothing scraps, plastic jewelry, broken gadgets, and candy wrappers, threading each item onto long, thin cords. As she progresses in her labor, these cords accumulate an ornamental appeal that verges upon sacred beauty. At the same time, Villalobos’ Sisyphean toil contradicts the…
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En La Lucha!
The Cuban Art Space will be presenting 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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