NYAB Events - The Active Space

The Active Space - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The Active Space. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“REACTIVATOR” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2015-05-28 - 2015-06-14
REACTIVATOR is a group survey of the past and current building residence at The Active Space and their affiliates. For over 7 years, this building has welcomed artists from all stages of their creative...More »
“New Voices” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-08-15 - 2014-09-07
The show features work by twenty-seven artists and is curated by the NYTAS Founder and Director Pema Rinzin with co-curators Kevin Connolly Gillespie and Max Fenton. The exhibition brings together the...More »
“Odds and Ends” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other - Other
- 2014-04-11 - 2014-05-04
“Thick With Cold” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2014-03-22 - 2014-04-13
“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating...More »
“EF2 (epic fail 2nd edition)” Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2014-03-14 - 2014-04-05
Things fall apart. Entropy is the one constant in a changing and unpredictable world. The artists in this exhibition deal with the notion of structures—both natural and manmade—their instability and inevitable...More »
“Outside(r)” Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture
- 2014-02-22 - 2014-03-09
In 1972, Roger Cardinal coined the term “outsider art” as an English synonym for art brut, meaning “raw art” or “rough art”, a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art made outside...More »
“Transitions v.2” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-01-18 - 2014-02-02
Apologies for the crappy photo, it’s hard to get everything in focus at that small scale! i wanted to make a piece that captured my feeling about impending ecological catastrophe using american consumer...More »
“Awkward x 2” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-01-10 - 2014-02-09
Rebecca Norton and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe started to collaborate as Awkward x 2 in the summer of 2010. The Awkward rule is that the painting isn’t finished until neither artist is sure who did what. Awkward...More »
“A Little More to the Left” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-12-14 - 2014-01-05
As narcissism in our culture becomes ever more pervasive, as evidenced by the ubiquity and popularity of the “selfie”, the portrait in turn becomes something worth reflecting upon. Rather than a contrived...More »
Lauren Carly Shaw “Twice Removed”
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-11-22 - 2013-12-08
This interactive exhibit highlights the compelling interplay of traditional new art yoked with modern technology. Wherein the investigation of form through drawing and sculpture is amplified by the addition...More »
“Transitions v.1” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-11-16 - 2013-12-01
From the start of life, we begin to die; Transition between parent and child, or one force to another (Shinto Imai), a blue tarp as a metaphorical dividing line between self and other (Elizabeth Riley)....More »
“Antithesis” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Other
- 2013-10-25 - 2013-11-24
Guest curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, the exhibition will take place at Active Space in Bushwick, NY and features sixteen artists working with expanded notions of sculpture. While many words have been...More »
“You Are My Sunshine” Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2013-09-21 - 2013-10-13
You Are My Sunshine will transform the gallery into an menagerie of greenery, a literal and metaphorical portrayal of the seeds of creation coexisting with, and within, the lives of artists. Some of the...More »
Steven Charles “Things That Fell Out of My Pocket”
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2013-05-31 - 2013-06-30
Differing from his well known visual style, these works consist of a diversity of materials that span synthetic fur, pom poms, corks, food, knives, glitter, and seemingly endless layers of paint. Each...More »
“Ressurecton” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2013-05-03 - 2013-05-24
“RESURRECTION” – a revival from inactivity and disuse; “it produced a resurrection of hope” resurgence, revitalization, revival, revivification – bringing again into activity and prominence; “the revival...More »
"Tracking Signals High and Low" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2013-04-05 - 2013-04-29
Project 59 develops multi-year projects on a global scale and within a unifying theme, investigating alternative means for different kinds of connectivity; analyzing the relation between potential and...More »
Brian Matthew "The Weight of All My History"
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-03-01 - 2013-03-31
“The Weight of All My History,” explores aspects of power, violence, aggression and economics whileinvestigating how these subjects form patterns of interaction and new concepts. Brian Matthew explores...More »
"Brural: Peripheral Vision" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Sculpture
- 2013-01-18 - 2013-02-24
Initiated by Project 59, Inc. in 2011 program BRURAL connects Brooklyn and Ural region of Russia to establish cultural dialogue between artists and curators through collaborative projects, to compare and...More »
"The Quantum Effect" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2012-11-30 - 2012-12-29
There are three questions that occur to anyone who looks at a work of art: What?...Why?...How? The work of art has a purpose in informing our view of the world, and perhaps, if it is successful enough,...More »
"algo différent" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2012-11-09 - 2012-11-30
Algo is from the Spanish language meaning ‘something’ and différent is French for ‘different.’ The title represents the aesthetic and conceptual diversity within this group show, featuring four artists...More »
Sebastian Vallejo "Salvoconducto"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-10-19 - 2012-11-25
In this exhibition, the artist deals with notions of identity and re-presentational conflicts. The works mingle between figuration and abstraction, religious codes and natural phenomenology; sculpture...More »
"Game On" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2012-09-14 - 2012-10-12
From 2010-2011, Alan and Michael Fleming began living apart for the first time in their history as twin brothers. Stretched between New York and Chicago, they were forced to redefine their practice and...More »
"Active Space Salon Exhibition"
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2012-08-10 - 2012-08-10
This exhibition features the work of Active Space Tenants as well as past artists and contributors. We are putting our 1500 sq ft gallery to good use by filing it floor to ceiling! Artists were also encouraged...More »
Deborah Brown "Freewheeling"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-06-01 - 2012-07-01
In "Freewheeling," Deborah Brown exhibits paintings of car salvage lots, cement factories, and detritus from the landscape of Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. The new work enters the domain of fantasy,...More »
Criminy Johnson “Dreaming Without Sleeping”
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-02-24 - 2012-04-20
“Dreaming Without Sleeping” allows viewers to glimpse the artist’s view of our waking world: a bent, slightly pessimistic and occasionally hostile place populated by animals and people who are often reluctant...More »