Nyehaus - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Nyehaus. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Alan Scarritt “PRISM BREAK”
Conceptual art is a visual medium. This statement seems blindingly obvious if it weren’t for the massive armies of artists out there that bore me silly, or worse don’t even engage my curiosity enough to...More »
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Laddie John Dill “Elementary”
In 1969, Laddie John Dill began making “Light Sentences:” colored sections of glass tubing filled with gases of varying intensities, illuminated by gas and ignited by electricity. Argon, neon, helium,...More »
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Peter Alexander "New Resin Works"
NYEHAUS presents an exhibition of new resin works by pioneering California-based Light and Space artist, Peter Alexander. Tim Nye recently sat down with Peter in his studio to discuss the artist’s exceptional...More »
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Steve Burtch "White Night"
Even the subtlest addition of pigment to pure color can radically change its intensity, but rarely does it increase the intensity. Add light to the palette of pigments and color theory becomes anachronistic....More »
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Terry Allen Exhibition
The inner life of any true artist has the traits of three essential characters: children (they are innocent), criminals(they break rules), and the insane (they inhabit another world). Artaud lived this...More »
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Ron Cooper "Lightworks"
Nyehaus presents Ron Cooper: Lightworks. Ron Cooper is a few years younger than the light-saber wielding Jedi warriors, James Turrell, Doug Wheeler and Robert Irwin. Irwin speaks about the distinction...More »
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Paul Kos "Allegories & Metaphors, 1969-2012"
allegory, noun \aləˌgôrē also -fər\ the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; also: an instance (as in a story or painting) of...More »
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Mike Kelley, and Richard Prince "Hoodwinked"
“So the Emperor went along in the procession under the splendid canopy, and all the people in the streets and at the windows said, ‘How matchless are the Emperor’s new clothes! That train fastened to his...More »
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Sonia Gechtoff "The Ferus Years"
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Tony Berlant "Extended Ecstasy"
On a recent visit to Tony Berlant’s studio two very poignant remarks stand out from our conversation that took place wandering through his studio surrounded by the body of work that is being exhibited...More »
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"Olson, Olson, Recine and Associates" Exhibition
Nyehaus has turned over their office tower to corporate America’s most savage and litigious law firm: Olson, Olson, Recine and Associates. Partners include Steve Olson, Alex Olson, Bob Recine and their...More »
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Larry Bell, John McCracken, and Peter Alexander "Square Dancing"
Disciples of Apollo: The powers of the eye much like the brain are under utilized. A group of artists from Southern California in the 60s set out to coax the eye to reach its full potential; at least in...More »
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"Bella Pacifica" Exhibition
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Abstraction found a unique vocabulary. The mid-century avant-garde was composed of a cadre of extraordinarily gifted and energetic artists, each with a distinct personal...More »
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Brian Wills "Paintings"
Nyehaus presents Brian Wills: Paintings. In order to penetrate the work of Brian Wills lets back up to the years leading up to Wills’ frontal assault in to life as a painter. Historically for instance,...More »
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George Herms "Five Decades of Madness"
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"Swell: Art 1950-2010" Exhibition
Curated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro. This survey of art inspired by surf and beach culture will open to the public on July 1st at Nyehaus, Metro Pictures and Friedrich Petzel Gallery and will include...More »
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John Altoon "The Astonishing Works of John Altoon"
The exhibition at Nyehaus brings together 11 paintings and a boatload of drawings. The artistic purge that these two means of expression satisfy have a symbiotic symmetry. Altoon was very prolific, releasing...More »
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Patrick Van Caeckenbergh "The Bare Thought"
The Flemish artist Patrick Van Caekenbergh (1960-) is an encyclopedist. He muses about man's place in the world and works upon the idea that man is a domesticated animal trying relentlessly to order chaos....More »
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Ken Price "Sculpture and Drawings, Works from the 1960's and 1970's"
In 1960, Ken Price first exhibited his eccentric mound and egg-shaped ceramic objects at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. These sensual little objects with surfaces that include everything from low-fired...More »
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Laddie John Dill "Contained Radiance"
Laddie John Dill (LJD) is a central figure in the group of artists known as “Light and Space,” albeit a few years younger. Within the context of Southern California in the late 60s, Dill quickly pushed...More »
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"California Maximalism" Exhibition
California Maximalism: Sticking a Spike into the Vein of Memory Quite a squad of soldiers has been holding the front line of Maximalism for the last 50 odd years. With the exception of that prick /...More »
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Peter Alexander "Resin Works 1965 – 2009"
The inaugural exhibition will be resin works by the Los Angeles artist, Peter Alexander. Nyehaus will present a number of exhibitions focusing on Southern California artists in the 2009 / 2010 season including...More »
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Jay Batlle "Cutting Out the Middleman"
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Craig Kauffman "Wall Reliefs from the 1960s"
Craig Kauffman, a central card holding member of the Light and Space group imbedded in Southern California beginning in the mid 60s, like many of his counter parts (Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Larry Bell,...More »
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Alexis Rockman "Half-Life"
Rockman’s new body of work playfully mines the rich history of post-war American painting. The Color Field movement took the idea of biomorphic painting and made it inorganic. Artists of that era worked...More »
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"Table Tennis Champions put Rirkrit Tiravanija's Ping Pong Table to the Test" Exhibition Matches
Nyehaus will present exhibition matches by some of the sports most unlikely professionals in conjunction with the Rirkrit Tiravanija: Reflection exhibition. Learn how to develop your third–ball attack,...More »
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Rirkrit Tiravanija "Reflection"
Nyehaus presents works by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Ririkrit's work while socially provocative, avoids the mind numbing didacticism in which many of his fellow artists engage. Foundation 2021's collection...More »
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RothStauffenberg "It is not about YOU, It is about THEM"
THE HOUSE | On Frozen Time and Differing Spaces A Project by Adina Popescu Mark Z. Danielewski's book House of Leaves begins with the measuring of a house that ends up being larger in the inside than...More »
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Joe Zucker "Plunder from 1977-2008"
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Christopher Orr Exhibition
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Djordje Ozbolt Exhibition
Nyehaus presents new works by Djordje Ozbolt. For the Yugoslavian born artist’s first solo show in New York City, Ozbolt uses very little to restrain the vast arsenal of techniques, genres, pop culture...More »