CURRENT EXHIBITS [363]

Bortolami Gallery is pleased to announce now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern, a group exhibition curated by artist Tom Burr. This exhibition will mark the first occasion that Burr takes on the role of curator. It will include work by Kaucyila Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Dan Graham, Ull Hohn, Hilary Lloyd, Sarah Lucas, Gordon Ma...   [more]

Opening: September 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Room X at Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present “Piece of blue and other proxies” an installation of new work by artist Kristen Jensen.  A small neck vase, a spill, and a bottle of beer are some of the objects laid out for the viewer that fluctuate between representation and abstraction. The artist’s desire for control and perfection is challenged by both the unpredictability of the medium an...   [more]

Entitled “The High Line”, Diane Drescher’s solo show of plein air paintings opening at the Bowery Gallery on October 2, 2012, transforms views of the historic freight rail line on Manhattan’s West Side into a lyrical art of simplified forms and strong chromatic harmonies. As a plein air painter, her methodology is rooted in a response to sensations experienced through close observation of...   [more]

BravinLee programs is pleased to present Miners, new paintings by Philip Akkerman. BravinLee programs has exhibited Philip Akkerman since 1993. Akkerman's work is entirely self-portraiture but limitation leads to a stunning diversity. Painting variations of the same subject repeatedly for his entire career, Mr. Akkerman searches for something different each time, exploring all possibilities that paint, th...   [more]

BravinLee programs is very pleased to present a new work on paper by Guy Richards Smit. Mr. Smit mines his brooding absurdism as a performance artist, front man, artist and filmmaker. In his many guises, Mr. Smit is a provocateur with the heart of Jean Seberg and the soul of Pat Cooper. Over a decade ago, merely playing one of his Grossmalerman videos had the effect of ending a dinner party at John...   [more]

BravinLee programs is very pleased to present Dianna Frid's one-of-a-kind books "The Waves" and "The Comets" (both 2011). These works are constructed through Frid's signature process where stitching and the integration of mixed media merge to produce tactile sequences that foreground visual pleasure. Thematically, "The Waves" is an exploration of Virginia Woolf's declaration that in her eponymous bo...   [more]

Brennan & Griffin is pleased to announce Manhattan, an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Weatherford on view from September 9 - October 14, 2012. Weatherford's work for nearly a decade has been an ongoing exploration of specific California landscapes as source material for her paintings. Subjects have included cliffs in Malibu, a sea cave on Pismo Beach, and a vine cluster near the artist's stud...   [more]

Opening: September 9th, 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

Each year, BRIC presents an exhibition of promising, emerging artists selected exclusively from our online Contemporary Artist Registry, the oldest and largest registry of Brooklyn’s visual artists. This, the fifth edition of the Registry show, will focus on artists pursing a wide array of three-dimensional formats, and whose work acts to transform and activate the physical space around them. By...   [more]

Opening: September 12th, 2012   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: October 4th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This group exhibition, named after Carlos Monsivais' book of the same title, takes the work of Mexico's renowned photojournalist, Enrique Metinides, as a departure point and complements it with the work of contemporary artists who also capture the human experience in the metropolis. The photographs and video-based works provide a glimpse into the emotions and events that run rampant in cities where m...   [more]

A forum and test site for new ideas, BRONX LAB engages audiences in topics relevant to our surrounding communities. Through different social media platforms as well as hands-on activities, viewers will be asked to interact with the exhibition's main themes and exercise their critical views. Drawing primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, BRONX LAB's first exhibition will look at the explo...   [more]

Inspired by Gil Scott-Heron's famous song-poem from 1970 that detected a wave of cultural changes imperceptible to the mainstream, revolution not televised features works by contemporary Cuban artists from the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection, with additional works from The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection; Alice Kosmin Private Collection, and Jane Wesman Private Collection. Featured artist...   [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]

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

This exhibition presents a survey of the twenty-five-year career of Jean-Michel Othoniel (French, born 1964), from his first intimate, enigmatic works made of sulfur and wax to his recent large-scale, colorful glass sculptures. Working with these mutable materials, he has fashioned a poetic visual language to explore themes surrounding the body, beauty, desire, and metamorphosis. The title My Way re...   [more]

Opening: August 17th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM