CURRENT EXHIBITS [354]

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce "Into the Calm" a solo exhibition of recent work by Josef Hoflehner. This is Hoflehner's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing in the grand photographic tradition of landscape photography, Hoflehner captures an unexpected pause, a collective exhale in these richly tonal black and white photographs. Each image is reduced to its' compositional es...   [more]

Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present Jutta Koether's first exhibition with the gallery, The Fifth Season, from May 2nd to June 16th with a reception for the artist on May 2nd from 6 to 8pm. The Fifth Season will include seven large-scale paintings and one small-scale painting.  Integral to the exhibition is a second installment of her work The Seasons, which is currently on view at The Whitney Bienni...   [more]

Opening: May 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Janice Nowinski has never shied from confronting the past—her investigations have ranged from Old Master works to the tradition of painting the still life—but in her newest body of work she risks a more personal and somewhat confessional approach. A collection of snapshots from a summer idyll with a complicated friend instigates many of the works in the show. Shrouded, distant and ambivalent in m...   [more]

Sydney Jay Mead was born in St. Paul Minnesota, July 18th, 1933 but spent only a few years there before moving to what would be the second of many homes throughout the western United States prior to graduating from High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1951. After serving a three year enlistment in the U.S. Army, Syd Mead continued on to the Art Center School in Los Angeles, (now the Art Ce...   [more]

Opening: May 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Brennan & Griffin is excited to present Michele O'Marah: Videos 1997 - 2002 an exhibition of the artist's first three video pieces: For Those About To Rock (1997), White Diamonds/Agent Orange (2001), and Valley Girl (2002).  This selection of works and selected hand-made props used in the videos will be displayed in the gallery and offer a survey of O'Marah's early development of examining...   [more]

Opening: June 10th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

INTER. Act, Reciprocity in Media, curated by Changhak Choi, as part of the Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Program, will examine the modern reciprocal relationship that can take place between ubiquitous multimedia technology and human emotion in both physical and virtual reality, through the work of interactive media artists. The work exhibited in INTER. Act by Brooklyn artists Sue G. Syn, and Hway...   [more]

Opening: January 9th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Globalization creates unexpected relationships and contrasts in contemporary art. This series focuses on the significance of exhibiting a variety of works in a pluralistic art world. Inspired by salon-style hanging, most commonly attributed to the Salon de Paris held during the 18th and 19th centuries; Broadway Gallery NYC continues this legacy with a contemporary and fresh outlook. Following a tr...   [more]

Opening: June 7th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This exhibition presents a group of works by Emilio Sanchez from The Bronx Museum of the Arts Permanent Collection, together with related archival material and a special interpretive project by Bronx-based artist Laura Napier. All the works depict commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With a colorful palette and rigorous architectural design, these works depict the bodegas an...   [more]

Body Parts features thirty-five objects that represent individual body parts in ancient Egyptian art from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, many of which will be displayed for the first time. While traditional exhibitions of ancient art focus on reconstructing damaged works, this exhibition uses fragmentary objects to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical...   [more]

Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 11 American cities and towns, including New York, Chicago, Oakland, Birmingham, and New Orleans. Fr...   [more]

Opening: January 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919 is an exploration of the early journalistic career of American writer and women’s rights advocate Djuna Barnes (1892–1982). Though best known for her modernist novels and plays, including Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), Barnes spent the period between 1913 and her departure for Europe in 1921 living in New York’...   [more]

Opening: January 20th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin features fifteen iconic works by nineteenth-century French master Auguste Rodin, selected from the Museum's collection by British artist Rachel Kneebone and shown alongside eight of her own large-scale porcelain sculptures. The exhibition, Kneebone’s first major museum presentation, will highlight the artists’ shared interest in the representation of mourning, e...   [more]

Opening: January 27th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Playing House is the first in a series of installations that aim to engage visitors with the Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms. Artists Betty Woodman, Anne Chu, Ann Agee, and Mary Lucier have been invited to place site-specific artwork in eight of the Museum’s historic rooms, which have been interpreted by curators over the years to illustrate how Americans of various times, economic levels, and...   [more]

Opening: February 24th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, pos...   [more]

Opening: March 16th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The fourth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant–based artist Heather Hart. Hart built a large-scale structure titled The Eastern Oracle for display in the Museum’s fifth-floor rotunda. She describes the work as “an independent rooftop, removed from its house, and dropped from the sky to live its own life in a new context. A rooftop can refer to home, s...   [more]

Opening: April 13th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This exhibition highlights the nearly fifty-year career of ceramicist Edward Lycett (American, 1833–1910), creative director of the Faience Manufacturing Company from 1884 to 1890. The range of works illustrates Lycett’s talent and adaptability to stylistic changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as his vision for Faience, a company based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, th...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM