NYAB Events - 47 Canal (291 Grand St.)

47 Canal (291 Grand St.) - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for 47 Canal (291 Grand St.). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Xavier Cha “Untitled (Caretaker)”
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- 2023-10-18 - 2023-11-11
Through blurred glimpses, a performer is seen moving alone through a dance studio. Limbs appear and disappear in the video frame, and for a moment, a body is reflected on a mirrored wall. There is the...More »
Elle Pérez  “guabancex”
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- Media: Photography
- 2023-09-09 - 2023-10-07
A boxer balances like a crane against a white wall, his left glove lifted in parallel with its corresponding leg. He’s turned away from us, concealing almost his full anterior, and yet the composition...More »
Emmanuel Louisnord “Desir Ashes of Zion ”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2023-05-06 - 2023-06-10
Emmanuel Louisnord Desir’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, “Ashes of Zion”––a reference to the remains of a destroyed Kingdom of Heaven––continues his exploration of the interconnectedness of...More »
Wang Xu “a garden has feelings”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2022-10-20 - 2022-11-23
47 Canal presents “a garden has feelings,” Wang Xu’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, comprising 33 new works which are carried by the question of how to “overcome separateness, achieve union, and...More »
Martin Beck “Last Night”
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- Media: Film
- 2022-09-08 - 2022-10-01
Artist Martin Beck presents Last Night, a film work based on the songs played by musical host David Mancuso on June 2nd, 1984, at one of the last parties at the 99 Prince Street location of the seminal...More »
Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho “wings becoming”
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- Media: Installation
- 2022-04-15 - 2022-05-21
“Jolted in flight, a flock of fire-bodied butterflies, like the color behind eyelids, flicker across the black screen. They overwhelm the darkness as they gather, pile, and separate. As ambering whispers...More »
Michele Abeles . Josh Kline,  Stewart Uoo   “blue monday ”
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- 2022-01-15 - 2022-02-19
“blue monday” is a group exhibition featuring works by Michele Abeles, Josh Kline, and Stewart Uoo. Time is pulled tightly into focus in Michele Abeles’s series of street photography, titled Watches...More »
Nolan Simon  “Polyamory”
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-10-29 - 2021-12-18
The concept of “envelopment,” as explored in Derek P. McCormack’s book Atmospheric Things, describes substances like air, for instance, not as immaterial, but as a relational substance. In “Polyamory,”...More »
Lyndon Barrois Jr. and Kahlil Robert Irving   “Dreamsickle ”
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- Media: Installation
- 2021-09-10 - 2021-10-23
“What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?/… Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet? … Or does it explode?”––Harlem, Langston Hughes Kahlil Robert Irving and Lyndon...More »
Cici Wu “Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness)”
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- 2021-06-25 - 2021-07-30
Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness) is a prelude on the dissolution of light. For her second solo exhibition at 47 Canal, Cici Wu begins an embarkation on the imagining and reconstruction of a proto-cinema....More »
“친구” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2021-05-14 - 2021-06-12
친구 implies a familiarity, as well as a closeness in age. The designation, though casual in nature, is not immediate. “친구” marks the third collaboration between 47 Canal and Commonwealth and Council and...More »
Stewart Uoo “used”
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- Media: Installation
- 2021-02-11 - 2021-03-20
Discovering new interests, says Stewart Uoo, can be melancholy, when it suggests saying goodbye to others. What, the artist wonders, determines when something feels over? More importantly, what makes a...More »
Antoine Catala “Alphabet”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2020-10-15 - 2020-11-21
“In the 16 years I have lived in the US, I have met very few happy Americans. Yet this is the place that generates most of the tools behind our modern modes of communication.”––Antoine Catala Alphabet,...More »
Michele Abeles “October”
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- Media: Painting
- 2020-08-27 - 2020-10-03
The mass market Halloween decor seen within many of the photographs in this exhibition will be familiar to most. Produced between October 20–November 1 of last year, the compositions offer mirrors of sorts....More »
Trevor Shimizu “Landscapes”
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- Media: Painting
- 2020-02-20 - 2020-03-22
While still an art student, Trevor Shimizu visited Bonnard, the Museum of Modern Art’s 1998 presentation of the French post-impressionist. He left the exhibition feeling disillusioned by painting and decided...More »
“Every Crack, Every _ _ _ _” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2020-01-10 - 2020-02-09
Every Crack, Every _ _ _ _ explores the optics of the overlooked. Many of the exhibition’s artworks share an engagement with the thematic of landscape, presenting visual fields that are detached from...More »
Yason Banal, Sky Hopinka, and Cici Wu “Miffed Blue Return”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2019-10-30 - 2019-12-20
MIFFED BLUE RETURN is an exhibition of moving image installations by Yason Banal, Sky Hopinka, and Cici Wu, each of which addresses the unstable currents that link remembrance, place, and aftermath. ...More »
Janiva Ellis “Tip Drill”
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-09-13 - 2019-10-20
There is an inconvenient level of dread when you suppress the desire to have physical space reflect mental space. Renovating comes with the seductive promise of harmony. Renovators are driven by the goal...More »
Wang Xu “Overtime Gift”
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- Media: Sculpture - Video installation
- 2019-06-28 - 2019-08-03
Overtime Gift, Wang Xu’s first solo exhibition at 47 Canal, is a multilayered investigation into the role and significance of public art. While conducting research in Queens, New York; Monterey Park, California;...More »
Josh Kline “Climate Change: Part One”
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-04-27 - 2019-06-09
47 Canal presents Climate Change: Part One, the beginning of the fourth chapter in Josh Kline’s science-fiction cycle. In his new installation, Kline continues to utilize the vocabularies and strategies...More »
Nolan Simon “Other People”
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-03-01 - 2019-04-07
The toes of a New Balance sneaker touch a studio floor. The figure’s foot is extended, but without strain. The body rests outside the frame. Another painting depicts a similar step, but this foot wears...More »
“Pastoral (Grind and Drone)” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2019-01-17 - 2019-02-24
The artworks in Pastoral (Grind and Drone) address the passage of time, the inevitability of being put out to pasture, and the resignation that comes from seeing the world differently. In a manner...More »
Martin Beck “I wish it would never get dark”
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-11-14 - 2019-01-13
Martin Beck’s third exhibition at 47 Canal, titled I wish it would never get dark, brings into dialogue five bodies of work that, through a variety of approaches, explore ways in which time informs value,...More »
Ajay Kurian “Nine Flags”
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- Media: Painting
- 2018-10-26 - 2018-11-09
Ajay Kurian’s Nine Flags consist of nine wall-mounted sculptures based on the dimensions of the U.S. flag. Departing from its familiar stars and stripes, these flags feature distorted tessellations reminiscent...More »
Danielle Dean “Bazar”
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-09-16 - 2018-10-21
Danielle Dean’s first solo exhibition at 47 Canal builds from her recent presentation at Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France, where she premiered her short film Bazar (2018). The...More »
Mitchell Algus “Sculptures and Paintings”
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2018-07-05 - 2018-08-03
“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.” — Georges Bataille (1927)More »
“The White Noise Mixtape” Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2018-06-27 - 2018-08-03
An edition of 45 reclaimed 60 minute cassette tapes featuring the works of writers, musicians, sound artists, and comedians available for listening and purchase at 47 Canal, as well as streaming online....More »
“Tailbone” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-06-02 - 2018-06-29
Curated by Tenaya Izu and Henry Murphy Deborah Anzinger American Artist Jorge Guillen Baseera Khan LuLu Meng Mark Pieterson Patrice Renee Washington Identity has been co-opted as qualifier;...More »
Cici Wu  “Upon Leaving the White Dust”
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- Media: Photography
- 2018-04-18 - 2018-05-27
Waking up in the morning, I find myself in a field of white dust. From night to dawn, between loving and being loved, two sides in a coin toss, both ends of a rope, I wandered. At least there are plural...More »
Elle Pérez “In Bloom”
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-03-01 - 2018-04-08
Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho “Mother Holding Taobao Child”
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- 2018-01-13 - 2018-02-18
In the early years of the Chinese online retail platform, Taobao (launched in 2003), a man in a rural village in China bought a computer and taught himself the language of e-commerce. He opened a Taobao...More »
Antoine Catala “Everything is Okay”
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- 2017-10-29 - 2017-12-17
Everything is Okay An opera of the everyday about small digital images used in electronic communication Do you use emojis when: ❑ a you are sad and lonely? ❑ b you feel your friends...More »
Trevor Shimizu “Selected Video Works: 2000 - 2013”
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- Media: Video installation
- 2017-09-09 - 2017-10-08
Trevor Shimizu has produced numerous video works while working on his paintings. The six video works presented here follow roughly, the arc of a person’s life from their mid-twenties into early middle...More »
Amy Yao “Weeds of Indifference”
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- 2017-09-08 - 2017-10-08
Janiva Ellis “Lickshot”
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- 2017-06-30 - 2017-07-30
Leidy Churchman, Mike Cloud and Tyler Dobson “Elements of XXX : Part II”
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- Media: Installation
- 2017-05-18 - 2017-06-25
What do you do when you are on the ground, against the wall, on all fours? What do you feel when you are on the ground, against the wall, on all fours?More »
Judith Hopf, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Jeanette Mundt “Elements of XXX: Part 1”
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- 2017-04-12 - 2017-05-14
What do you do when you are on the ground, against the wall, on all fours? What do you feel when you are on the ground, against the wall, on all fours? ❧ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Judith...More »
“Mosquitoes, Dusts, and Thieves” Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration
- 2017-01-12 - 2017-02-12
We escaped from yesterday to complete a mission of seeing the world from a point of view of three. It was a hot and windy night. We were unknowingly forced to meet. All working together, we wanted this...More »
Michele Abeles “Zebra”
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- 2016-10-27 - 2016-12-18
Ajay Kurian “The Dreamers”
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- Media: Photography
- 2016-09-10 - 2016-10-16
Trevor Shimizu “New Work”
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- Media: Painting
- 2016-06-24 - 2016-07-30
Babies can’t see the cute stuffed animals and imagery on their mobiles and play mats very clearly. Most objects are blurry to newborn babies and can only be seen 8-15 inches away. The cute, friendly objects...More »
Josh Kline “Unemployment”
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2016-05-03 - 2016-06-12
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Gregory Edwards “Bathers”
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- 2016-02-26 - 2016-04-03
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Stewart Uoo “Curtains”
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- Media: Photography
- 2016-01-16 - 2016-02-14
“Two Steps Forward” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Film
- 2015-12-10 - 2015-12-20
organized by Debra Singer and Margaret Lee Young Jean Lee’s two first films were screened in an otherwise empty gallery; a sparse yet domestic screening environment in which to take in Lee’s disquieting...More »
Young Jean Lee Exhibition
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- Media: Film
- 2015-11-18 - 2015-12-13
Writer/director Young Jean Lee, thus far known primarily for her work in theater, presents her two first short films. In both films, she explores a question that has run throughout all her work: “How do...More »
Tyler Dobson “A World Without Tears”
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- 2015-09-25 - 2015-10-25
Eirik Sæther “INNESTEMME”
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2015-06-25 - 2015-07-25
Joseph Heffernan & Sadaf H. Nava “Battery”
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2015-05-27 - 2015-06-04
Battery is a two-night performance by Sadaf H. Nava and Joseph Heffernan on May 27 and June 4, marking the opening and closing of their residency at the gallery space. The sound of melodrama is the...More »
Martin Beck “The thirty-six sets do not constitute a sequence.”
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- Media: Photography
- 2015-04-16 - 2015-05-17
Martin Beck is an artist based in New York. He will have a solo exhibition at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna in 2016. Recent exhibitions include Program at the Carpenter Center for the...More »
Alisa Baremboym “Conflict (process)”
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- Media: Photography
- 2015-03-01 - 2015-04-05
Nolan Simon “Portraits”
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- Media: Photography
- 2015-01-08 - 2015-02-15
Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho “Leak Light Time Heat”
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- 2014-11-08 - 2014-12-21
Like many other people, Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, who have been collaborating for several years, are based between two or more distant places, meaning that whether they like it or not, they are separated...More »
Antoine Catala “New Feelings”
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- 2014-09-28 - 2014-11-02
Antoine Catala (born in 1975, Toulouse France) lives and works in New York and has exhibited extensively both in the US and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include: Heavy Words, curated by Florence Derieux...More »
BFFA3AE “DTR”
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- Media: Photography - Digital - Performance Art
- 2014-06-26 - 2014-08-03
Blink, Blur, Change Self, Charm Person, Chill Touch, Confusion, Displacement, Dream, Emotion, Ethereal Jaunt, Fabricate, Flare, Freedom, Gentle Repose, Glitterdust, Hold Person, Identify, Illusory Script,...More »
Anicka Yi “Divorce”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2014-04-30 - 2014-06-08
A series of exhibitions examining the forensics of loss and separation was conceived in 2013. Synthesized by 3 individual chapters in different times and places: 3 acts in someone’s life, 3 stages of proceedings,...More »
Trevor Shimizu “Again”
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- 2014-02-28 - 2014-04-06
Gregory Edwards Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-01-17 - 2014-02-23
“you are a master of life and you make life work for you…from this moment on you accept only positive, neutral and happy thoughts and feelings…you reject all undesired thoughts.” YOUR WHOLE LIFE IN...More »
Ajay Kurian “Proleptic”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2013-11-06 - 2013-12-22
During the 1940s, the creation of the bomb was our modern Faustian story, those writing it bothbrilliant and complicated personalities. Its inception signaled our newfound responsibility and stewardship...More »
Josh Kline “Quality of Life”
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- 2013-09-03 - 2013-10-13
Youth is the ultimate commodity in a society of dying people. The human body is capable of producing youth. But not after you’re 21. Not for you. Inside your body, youth is a nonrenewable resource. Outside...More »
“KAYA III” Exhibition
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- 2013-07-02 - 2013-08-04
Here’s a simple game that two people can play. Meet your friend someplace outside in a big city. Then choose a path. The path should be circular, which means you can follow it and end up where you...More »
Amy Yao “Skeletons on a Bender”
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- Media: Photography
- 2013-05-22 - 2013-06-23
Michele Abeles "English for Secretaries"
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- Media: Photography
- 2013-04-18 - 2013-05-19
John Finneran "Goin' Home"
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2013-02-27 - 2013-04-07
A year ago I started listening to an album called Goin’ Home. The band-leader was a saxophone player named Albert Ayler. I had heard of him before I heard him play, but I didn’t have any reference for...More »
Tyler Dobson "Winter"
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- Media: Installation
- 2013-01-23 - 2013-02-24
Xavier Cha Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2012-11-30 - 2013-01-13
“There’s nothing… there seemed like there was something and it could be lifted off, but it’s just me and I’m still here.” “I have a lot of ocular damage, like those clouds. I have some really consistent...More »
Martin Beck "Presentation"
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- Media: Prints
- 2012-10-19 - 2012-11-17
Once you know what you want to present, you’ve got to figure out how to organize it. There will probably be several feasible alternatives. The main thing is to be sure to state at the beginning of your...More »
Shimon Minamikawa "Less the color, a month from Tokyo"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-09-05 - 2012-10-07
Q: Do you have a daily routine and if so, can you tell us a little about it and when in NYC, does it change? A: In Tokyo, usually I am going to same cafe or restaurant almost everyday. Cibot, Hato,...More »
Stewart Uoo "Life is Juicy"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2012-06-22 - 2012-07-22
Stewart Uoo lives and works in New York. In 2010–12 his work has appeared in group exhibitions at William, New York; Kunsthall Oslo, Norway; Elaine MGK in Switzerland and White Columns, New York. He attended...More »
Nolan Simon "Paintings"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-05-17 - 2012-06-17
…paintings which hang on walls, naturally. Though, at the moment, a week before the show opens, this isn’t strictly true of my paintings. My paintings are currently strewn around my studio....More »
Alisa Baremboym "Abundant Delicacy"
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2012-04-04 - 2012-05-13
Our internal mechanisms form machines of production and preservation. We mirror the internal process with external obsessions of maintenance. The boundary between exterior and interior is blurred and porous. We...More »
Antoine Catala "I See Catastrophes Ahead"
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- Media: Digital - Media Arts
- 2012-02-22 - 2012-03-25
This show is about the in-between stage, when words, images and the material world unite. A metamorphosis, operated by humans with the help of machines. More »
Trevor Shimizu "Late Work"
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- Media: Photography
- 2012-01-05 - 2012-02-12
Trevor Shirnizu was born March 30. of Japanese born Americanized parents. Like President Obama, he is from humble Hawaiian beginnings. Hawaii. a tourist destination in the mid-‘50s. was popularized by...More »
Josh Kline "Dignity and Self-Respect"
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2011-11-04 - 2011-12-18
Hard work is often its own reward in the creative sector. You become your job, putting your career on like it's a skin graft. Paid positions are scarcity commodities in 2011. Behind those zombie fossils,...More »
Anicka Yi Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation - Media Arts
- 2011-09-21 - 2011-10-23
Sous-Vide's framing percepts resemble neurological scripts [synesthetic tourettes]: What color is Wednesday? Is the flavor of fava bean a prickly, pointed sensation, like laying a hand on a bed of nails?...More »
Amy Lien/Enzo Camacho "Café by the Ruins  "
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- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2011-07-14 - 2011-08-14
 The three components of this exhibition:   A set of ten photographs documenting the consumption of a traditional Filipino dish, champorado -- a chocolate rice porridge topped with cream and dried fish,...More »
"Triple the End" Performance
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- Media: Performance Art
- 2011-07-08 - 2011-07-08
Impressions of the prologue: alpha, beta, gamma, Malpasian corn dance, the repetition of Jörg Schlicks – Sonne/Busen/Hammer – three midnight modes in Graz, triple the end and the epilogue. A monster in...More »
Gregory Edwards "Edwards Gregory"
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- Media: Installation
- 2011-05-25 - 2011-07-10
This and That The material world surrounds us in such a way that we have no choice but to accept it in the same way that one accepts the rest of nature. And there are certain motifs that are so ubiquitous...More »

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