CURRENT EXHIBITS [393]

Bortolami Gallery is thrilled to announce its re-opening after Hurricane Sandy with OUT OF THE BLUE, an impromptu exhibition including new works by represented artists and friends of the gallery. The exhibition will run from November 17th through December 22nd, with a reception on the evening of November 17th from 6 to 8pm. Due to the overwhelming destruction in the Chelsea gallery district, together wi...   [more]

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

Bortolami is pleased to present a recent body of work by Megan Marrin. These intimately scaled pieces are variously comprised of printed paper, resin, leather, and industrially produced accent shelves. Marrin uses imagery from the surfaces around her, predominantly her world. These can range from a vintage scarf extensively searched for, or rich sections of colored leather, to the artists wardro...   [more]

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

Lynn Kotula’s paintings draw you in with their apparent simplicity and directness.  At first glance they appear to simply concern themselves with objects on a tabletop, and the tabletop itself, carved in light. But give them more attention.  These paintings are animated by a lively conversation between color, shape and form – between squash and shell and the folded spaces of cloth, with peppers an...   [more]

Opening: November 10th, 2012   3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The Westside Highway runs along the Hudson River, separating a narrow strip of parkland called "the greenway" from the rest of Manhattan. A ramp takes you down to the park where the dark shadow of the elevated highway frames the light on the river and grass. Maybe it is this glowing vision that makes the place a favorite weekend destination for the local community to eat, drink and bask in the su...   [more]

Opening: November 10th, 2012   3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

BravinLee programs is very pleased to present our third exhibition of work by Charles Ritchie.  BravinLee first learned of Charles Ritchie’s astonishing work in 2007 on the website of the art collector Mickey Cartin. www.cartincollection.com Blake Gopnik wrote about Charles Ritchie’s work in the Washington Post (11/22/09):  “His observation is so evenhanded that he manages to strike a perf...   [more]

Opening: October 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For the past decade, Sandeep Mukherjee has made paintings on Duralene - a polymer film, that simulates the slick, luminous surface of celluloid. Using diverse tools ranging from brushes to concrete brooms, Mukherjee applies acrylic inks with broad, physical and rhythmic gestures of his hand and body. Mukherjee incorporates a variety of painterly techniques: addition, redistribution, and subtraction of...   [more]

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

BRIC has had a rich history of mounting exhibitions in such design disciplines as architecture, urban planning, and product and graphic design. Since the last design-focused show at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in 2000, Brooklyn has emerged as a center for innovative design, where pioneering projects are both developed and produced. The borough is also a destination for today’s most innovative thinkers. In...   [more]

Broadway Gallery 473 Broadway 7th FlNY, NY 10013November 16 - December 8
Reception November 20, 6-8 pmGlobalization 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 ce...   [more]

Opening: November 20th, 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]

Created during rehearsals for a production of Grease in 2002, at the Jane Addams Vocational High School, Bronx Portraits pairs the original shots with corresponding updates produced in May 2012. A fascinating study on how individuals physically change over time, Katzenstein's Bronx Portraits project is remarkable and enlightening as it attest to the importance that art plays in shaping the lives of...   [more]

Katzenstein was introduced to the noted jazz pianist and Bronx native Valerie Capers in 1994, when he photographed her for her album, Come On Home. This exhibition is a visual documentation of her musical life from 1995 to a recent live session at The Knickerbocker, the Greenwich Village club where she often performs. Capers was born in the Bronx, and after losing her sight at the age of six she...   [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