CURRENT EXHIBITS [337]

Poems about wayward dogs, loose figurations in low light, a large wall painting about a Roman toga. Maybe some ukulele or electric guitar. Doodles, sketches, funny faces, nocturnes.    Josh Thorpe makes installations, paintings, drawings, music, and texts. He teaches writing at University of Toronto and works at a heritage architecture firm. Recent work includes exhibitions or special project...   [more]

Opening: May 31st   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

A painter and draftsman by calling and choice, Gerard Ellis establishes an interesting dichotomy between the practice of painting and social critique. His pictorial work is highly expressive and vigorous for those who directly or indirectly participate in the multiple strata of the contexts of which this artist speaks. The violence, corruption and lack of willpower characteristic of our times are ce...   [more]

Time Equities Inc. Art-in-Buildings is pleased to announce the newest exhibition in the lobby of the 55 5thAvenue Office Tower, Jay Shin: Doublerama and Adagiorama. Please join us for an opening celebration with the artist on Wednesday, June 12th from 5-7pm. Jay Shinn’s site specific illuminated wall painting, Doublerama, challenges the viewer’s experience of the lobby space by confounding the geometry of the...   [more]

Opening: June 12th   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Aicon Gallery New York is proud to present The Happy Servant, an exhibition of recent works by Salman Toor. Toor’s paintings are an eclectic mix of the exhausted categories of old and new, where inspiration from Old Master painting techniques meld seamlessly with imagery from South Asian mass-media and popular culture, including graphic paintings from local Lahore cinema billboards and contemporary ad...   [more]

Opening: May 10th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The exhibition looks back though the history of post-independence Indian and Pakistani photography, from its early modernist interpretations through today, presenting a vast panoramic view of South Asia's complex past, present and future.   [more]

Opening: May 10th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Regina Silveira (b.1939) was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and is currently based in São Paulo. In the 1950s she began her artistic training under the tutelage of expressionist Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, studying lithography and woodcut, as well as painting. Renowned for her parodic explorations of space through geometric constructs, Silveiraʼs work is celebrated for both its conceptual ri...   [more]

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present The Cathara Insurgent Women vs The Theocratic Republic Gaia Beings, a multi-media exhibition by Elektra KB. The show will open on Wednesday, May 29th and continue through June 22, 2013. There will be performances by Elektra KB and Nicolas Uloa on Wednesday, June 5th and Saturday, June 15th, with exact times to be announced.Elektra KB’s work is set e...   [more]

Opening: May 29th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present The Lonely Sea and The Sky, a group exhibition of paintings and works on paper. The opening will be Wednesday, June 5th from 6-8PM and the exhibition is on view until June 23rd.The title of the exhibition derives from the poem “Sea Fever” by English poet John Masefield and explores the idea of the sea as a release from the usual ties and bonds of life....   [more]

Opening: June 5th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This exhibition will include approximately 63 drawings and paintings by self-taught Alabama artist Bill Traylor. Traylor began making art near the end of his life, and his works are notable for their flat, simply defined shapes and vibrant compositions in which memories and observations relating to African American life are merged. Traylor is recognized as one of the finest American artists of th...   [more]

Opening: June 11th   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Bill Traylor (c. 1854–1949) forged a personal iconography of recurring characters and subjects. They exhibit the artist’s photographic memory by recalling images, sounds, or movements with clear precision. In their protean nature, these subconscious fragments return in multiple drawings, forming interrelated sequences in a single feature that offer significant parallels with cinematic production an...   [more]

Opening: June 11th   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

The exhibition is sponsored in part by Joyce Berger Cowin, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions, and Laura and Richard Parsons. Lectures and symposia are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.   [more]

Opening: June 11th   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM

For Mika Rottenberg's current exhibition at Magasin 3, she produced an impressive and arresting group of sculptures — cast resin and hand-painted textures that seem to have been ripped from the walls of one of her film sets. These sculptures reference an iconic tactility that is key to all of her films and installations. Since Gallery 2's program is committed to encouraging alternative modes fo...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Andrew Kreps gallery is pleased to present The Book of Hours, Christian Holstad’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which will feature sculpture, installation and drawings in an immersive installation. Enhanced by sound works by Martin Maugeais the show takes as its point of departure the religious devotionals of the same name.  Books of Hours are often characterized as the “bestsell...   [more]

Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present Hito Steyerl’s first exhibition with the gallery, which will feature the singular film work In Free Fall, 2010.  Incorporating a trio of works - After the Crash, Before the Crash and Crash – In Free Fall employs the setting and characters of an airplane junkyard in the Californian desert to tell the story of the current economic climate. The space of...   [more]

Opening: May 23rd   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

An Unsolicited Proposal Program winning exhibition. Submitted Proposal:Artist Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen tells the story of an unexplained laughter epidemic that began in the town of Kashasha in Tanganyika in central Africa in January 1962, spanning six months, and contaminating and incapacitating hundreds. The epidemic began with in a classroom, possibly the result of a joke, and quickly spiraled...   [more]

Opening: May 22nd   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM