Past Events

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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…

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…

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.

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

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…