Calico - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Calico. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Caroline Burghardt “Slip Plane”
Calico presents Slip Plane, featuring recent works on paper by Caroline Burghardt. The presentation will showcase a selection of collages, paintings, and prints. Burghardt’s current practice is primarily...More »
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“Calicornucopia 8” Exhibition
Calico presents the 8th edition of our annual end-of-year / small works / affordable art show: Calicornucopia. Small works by artists from NYC and beyond will be on display in this salon-style exhibition....More »
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Christian DeFilippo Exhibition
Calico presents an exhibition of recent works by Christian DeFilippo. DeFilippo is inspired by patterns, the natural world, other artwork he sees, and the constant display of images, shapes, colors, and...More »
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“Calico Re-Launch 2019” Exhibition
Calico is excited to announce a new format for 2019! In its 7th year of exhibitions, Calico has kept a focus on local emerging artists by hosting an array of solo exhibitions, collaborative events, themed...More »
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“Calicornucopia 7” Exhibition
Calico presents the 7th edition of our annual end-of-year / small works / affordable art show: Calicornucopia. Approximately 100 artworks by over 30 artists from NYC and beyond will be on display in this...More »
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Lauren Silberman “The Opposite of Salt is Water”
Calico presents The Opposite of Water is Salt, a solo exhibition of recent photography and installation work by Lauren Silberman. There is a contradiction that exists in the desert about an hour east...More »
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“Brixtape” Exhibition
FPOAFM Nomadic Art/Craft Collective presents Brixtape, an exhibition of bricks and music. Merging the participatory spirit of a mixtape traded to a friend with the bluntness of a brick thrown through...More »
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“PICNIC” Exhibition
PICNIC is a group exhibition referencing an artist interview project of the same name. Started in March 2015, PICNIC is an online platform to share artists’ work and studio practices through a series of...More »
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“Surfaces” Exhibition
This exhibition brings into conversation the work of five artists: Richard Bottwin, Takuji Hamanaka, Magda DeJose, Andrew Kennedy, and Joanne Ungar. They work in a variety of mediums, both through individual...More »
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Hannah Hill and Hannah Aizenman “Field for Ballads”
Calico presents Field for Ballads. This is the first of several exhibitions chosen from the gallery’s 2017 “Call for Curatorial Proposals”. Local artist and curator, Frank Schellace, has organized this...More »
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Damion Silver “Configurations”
Calico presents Damion Silver’s first solo exhibition in NYC. Damion Silver was born and raised in central Connecticut and now lives in Northern Massachusetts. Predominantly self-taught, he has developed...More »
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Jon Legere “Flotsam”
Calico presents Jon Legere’s third solo exhibition in NYC. Legere is a Bermudian mixed media artist currently living in Brooklyn. He works with video, paint, collage, photography, performance, and...More »
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Steph Becker, Kate Nielsen and Libby VanderPloeg Exhibition
Calico presents new works by three local artists: Steph Becker, Kate Nielsen, and Libby VanderPloeg. Illustration is the common thread among the three, yet each artist employs a different degree of that...More »
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Amanda Browder “Chromatic Hi-Five! ELECTRIC TAILGATE”
Calico presents a solo exhibition of work by Greenpoint-based artist, Amanda Browder. Chromatic Hi-Five! ELECTRIC TAILGATE brings a new twist, and an explosive party, to a piece that has been influenced...More »
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Adams Puryear “Secret Wars 4.1”
Adams Puryear utilizes the Internet’s frenzied visual clutter and embraces the absurdity of culture’s information overload. Working with a diverse range of materials, found objects, and visual references,...More »
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“Studiomates” Exhibition
The Calico exhibition space is located within the larger “Calico Studio” space, which also currently provides working studio space to five artists. For Calico’s “summer show” we present recent work by...More »
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Robert Raphael “Foreign/Domestic”
Foreign/Domestic features recent works by Brooklyn-based artist Robert Raphael. Raphael’s ceramic-based work draws on the complex history of decorative art, a tradition that intersects and runs parallel...More »
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Allison Maletz “Game”
Game is a series of watercolor paintings examining interspecies relationships that playfully celebrate hunter and prey / game and play. Life-sized paintings reveal creatures on display, mid narrative,...More »
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Michael Hambouz “Pretty in Pink”
- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2016-02-19 - 2016-03-26
For his solo exhibition at Calico, Michael Hambouz creates a new experimental body of work to navigate and resolve recent experiences with loss and disappointment. Through meditative multi-staged techniques...More »
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“CALICORNUCOPIA 4” Exhibition
Calico presents the fourth installment of CALICORNUCOPIA. This year-end salon style exhibition features dozens of local and national artists. The gallery will be filled with small works priced $300 or...More »
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Deirdre McConnell & Anna Mayer “Real Road”
Calico Gallery present Real Road, an exhibition that brings together the sculptural work of Deirdre McConnell and Anna Mayer. Drawing on her interest in the potential and the limitations of human connection,...More »
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David B. Smith “Seeing Backwards”
For his solo exhibition at Calico, David B. Smith revisits a collection of 60s and 70s pop-culture metal lunch boxes he inherited from his father and has used in performances, sculptures, photographs,...More »
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Colin Ruel, Eric Lee Bowman and Jon Legere Exhibition
Colin Ruel is a self-taught artist originally from the fishing village of Menemsha on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. He now lives and paints in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His recent work strives to reclaim...More »
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Robert daVies, Kenichi Hoshine, Ted McGrath Exhibition
Robert daVies is a semi-nomadic mixed media artist born in Southern England in 1976 and currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His works of graphite on paper involve illustrative portraiture that gets...More »
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“Mediums” Exhibition
Eight Artists Respond to Consultations with Psychic Hank Hivnor by Creating New Work in their Chosen Medium. For the group exhibition Mediums, curator and multimedia artist Michael Hambouz enlisted...More »
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“The Pre-Vinylite Society Show Card Show” Exhibition
The Pre-Vinylite Society Show Card Show explores show card writing as a significant facet of advertising and sign painting history by featuring work from sign painters, card writers, and sign enthusiasts...More »
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“Calicornucopia 3” Exhibition
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“Post and Lintel” Exhibition
Recent work by David S. East is centered on architectural and design references revolving around issues of urban planning, architectural ornament and design as signifiers of our cultural history. The works...More »
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“Friend of a Friend” Exhibition
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“Rare Forms” Exhibition
Rare Forms brings together new works by three New York based artists. Themes of oddity and abstraction of form are prevalent throughout this presentation of 2D and 3D works. Sculptural pieces by Adams...More »
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“Sequence and Seriality” Exhibition
A sequence is an ordered list of objects. Seriality, the quality of succession in a series, a social construct taking form in labels, either imposed or voluntarily adopted. Sequence and Seriality is...More »
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“Calicornucopia” Exhibition
Approximately a hundred pieces to choose from will be shown by more than 30 artists from Brooklyn and beyond. This salon-style exhibit features a wide variety of small works priced $300 or less - everything...More »
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“Crowd Control” Exhibition
Jersey City based Kirkland Bray neatly organizes groups of anonymous figures amongst serene, mildly abstract backdrops. Bray’s “Gatherings” involve works of oil on found materials occasionally including...More »
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“#throwbackthursday / #flashbackfriday” Exhibition
Throwback Thursday: When you put a picture from a “while” ago on your social media sites. -Urban Dictionary Instagram™ and other social medias are flooded at the end of each week with “nostalgic” images...More »
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“On/Off Acid” Exhibition
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“Disorderly Orderly” Exhibition
The title for this exhibition at Calico is derived from The Disorderly Orderly, a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Jerry Lewis. As an orderly...More »
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“Static” Exhibition
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"Color Corrupted" Exhibition
Someone once said that fashion designer Stephen Burrows “stretches a rainbow over the body.” In the spirit of that metaphor, one could say that Hyun Jung Cho, Alicia DeBrincat, LJ Lindhurst, and Wilson...More »
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Thomas Buildmore, Allison Maletz, and Charles Wilkin "Born Again"
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-02-08 - 2013-03-01
Calico presents "Born Again", featuring works by Thomas Buildmore, Allison Maletz, and Charles Wilkin. Each artist takes something from the past - a concept, an image, a sound - and recontextualizes or...More »