Local Project - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Local Project . Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Saneun Hwang “Concrete Utopia”
Local Project presents Concrete Utopia, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist and graphic designer Saneun Hwang. Featuring digital prints of the artist’s photography, digital collages, and visual...More »
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“The New Flesh” Exhibition
As Part of our Emerging Curators Program we are very happy to present The New Flesh an exhibition curated by Arcade Projects. This exhibition explores a posthuman vision of embodiment. Who are we without...More »
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“Outside/Outsider” Exhibition
Outside/Outsider, the exhibition is organized in conjunction with LIC-A and Local Project in recognition of Mental Health Awareness month. The exhibition features work by an array of artists with a lived...More »
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“LUMINA” Exhibition
Curated by Tristen Demmett Local Project Art Space presents LUMINA, a group exhibition of site specific installations curated by Tristen Demmett. Lumina interprets the multitude of ways light can be...More »
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John Roach Exhibition
Frozen Words is an installation that uses immersive sound and glass objects to make an unlikely connection between an absurd work of 16th century literature, the ancient pseudo-science of alchemy, and...More »
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Anastasiya Gutnik “Symbiosis: A Story of Relationships”
Local Project presents a solo exhibition of new work by Queens Artist Anastasiya Gutnik. This new body of works comprised of drawings, sculpture, and installation celebrates interconnectedness of species...More »
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Jennie Thwing “Pest in the Garden”
Local Project presents a solo exhibition of new work by Queens Artist Jennie Thwing. Curated by Local Project Art Open Pest in the Garden is an installation featuring a cut-paper animation and wall...More »
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Juan Hinojosa “A Bad Hombre”
Local Project presents a solo exhibition of new works by New York City born Latinx artist Juan Hinojosa. Constructed from found objects, his complex works on paper and sculptures intimately challenge...More »
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Nicole Finley “Desiring Machines for Living”
“Desiring Machines for Living” - the first project of visual evidence of the “Space 101” series, an ongoing investigation of space by Trailer Park Test Projects. “Desiring Machines for Living” is based...More »
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Matt Scheffler and Makeda Flood “We Do Not Spring From Nothing”
Curated by Masha Bychkov and Jack Douglas With the works of Matt Scheffler and Makeda Flood More »
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Beatriz E. Rodriguez, Daniel A. Johnson and Ruyin Tsai”A City of One’s Own”
Curated by Olivera Jokiç Through photography, painting, and video the artists examine what it means to be visible and at what cost. In a city populated by millions, who are those we think we can live...More »
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Maria Liebana “Tres Marias, Donde esta mi Felicidad?”
In this installation of new works, Maria questions traditional notions of objectivity and the trustworthiness of perception. The life-size sculptures and ceramic self-portraits represent her identity as...More »
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“Hopscotch” Exhibition
Hopscotch brings together six artists whose works originate from a desire to dismantle creative, personal or social realms to in return constitute alternative modes of representation and comprehension...More »
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“The Unknown Variable” Exhibition
Curated by Yasmeen Abdallah and Kevin Dudley Emerging Curators program opens this Thursday with The Unknown Variable as the first of a series of exciting exhibitions. “Energy cannot be created nor...More »
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“Animaliashow” Exhibition
Having breath, having soul or living being. Somehow, human ego envies animal condition. They walk naked and mate without shame. They kill and eat without guilt. They live without worrying about anything...More »
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Cara Lynch “Love Tokens and Talismans”
Love Tokens and Talismans incorporates casts, found objects, and craft materials into jewel-like forms that reference sailor’s valentines, mourning jewelry, memoryware, kitschy trinkets, and historical...More »
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Sarah Frazier “Silent Witness”
Silent Witness is a collection of paintings exploring the imagined last moments of Tyrone Love, a young African-American male and friend of Frazier’s, who was gunned down in his Seattle neighborhood. Sarah...More »
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“Paradise in the City” Exhibition
Local Project Gallery presents Paradise in the City. This visually arresting exhibition explores the different perspectives of the idea of Paradise, from urban landscapes through abstract spaces, every...More »
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“Formations of My Shadow” Exhibition
Formations of my Shadow, is an art show created by four recent art graduates, taking place at Local Project Art Space located in Long Island City, NY. The show will consist of works ranging from paintings...More »
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“YOURSELF” Exhibition
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“Over The Bridge” Exhibition
Over The Bridge features over 20 artists from Fountain House Gallery working in a variety of media. This exhibition is about relating to the world outside of ourselves – both the immediate and familiar...More »
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“Sheherzade’s Gift” Exhibition
As part of our guest curatorial program, Local Project presents a group show of women artists working in a variety of media, curated by an independent curator and artist Jaishri Abichandani. One of...More »
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“Deep Breath” Exhibition
The action of print an image communicates ideas, is the mark of an artist’s voice. Printmaking is a visual language form, that carries a craft tradition that still relevant in the contemporary world. Deep-Breath...More »
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“Azul Deja Blue” Exhibition
The Art of Lizbeth “Azul Frida” Ortiz and Blue One Thirty. Lizbeth “Azul Frida” Ortiz graduated from HSPVA/Houston and attended Pratt Institute/NYC. She has developed a singular style by utilizing...More »
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“Queens Is Not New” Exhibition
4 person show as part of the LIC Arts Open. More »
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“Winter Secrets” Exhibition
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“Exquisite Collage” Exhibition
Like collage? Who doesn’t. Local Project did an end of the summer collage open call and selected 25+ artists to participate. We are very exited! More »
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“In My Borough” Exhibition
Local Project is happy to present this 8 installations by artists living in NYC. This artist present site specific projects around the idea of collaboration in a different setting such as a vitrine and...More »
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“Curate NYC 2013” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-11-01 - 2013-11-15
Local Project presents **Curate NYC** a month-long citywide festival of art exhibitions, and a permanent online showcase of New York City artists. This Friday November 1 at 7pm. The program builds exposure...More »
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“TURNED ON” Erotic Art Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-07-06 - 2013-07-21
A multimedia group exhibition invites the public to explore the artistic depths of sexuality. Curators Rebecca Memoli and Coralee Lynn Rose described the intent of the show, “We invite gallery visitors...More »
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“eL Paper Magazine – The DE-Tour Issue” Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2013-05-04 - 2013-05-19
Following the concept of drifting, as proposed by Situationist thinker and writer Guy Debord, (e)L Paper Magazine invited artists, writers, architects, and photographers to undertake their own detours...More »
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Pablo Garcia Lopez "Wider Than The Sky"
Over the last few decades neuroscience has contributed to the vision of the human brain as a mechanical object. In this site specific installation Pablo presents works that are framed by an organic and...More »
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"Kimonophilia" Exhibition
After 9 months of collaboration and mutual inspiration, Keith Pavia and Beatrice Schleyer are ready to showcase the results of this at Local project art space, a multifaceted intersections of painting...More »
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"Discover the Americas" Exhibition
Local Project presents El Descubrimiento de America/ The Discovery of the Americas, a group exhibition featuring the works of Renzo Ortega, Andrea Lira, Roger Carmona, Maria Jose Duran Steinman, Michael...More »
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DystoRpia Media Exhibition
An exhibition of interactive installations with a critical view of society as anti-utopian community of people abusing technology, and individually or collectively coping, or not being able to properly...More »
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"Paint is Thicker than Water" Exhibition
Paint is Thicker than Water is an exhibit of a family of artists. Alan Neider and Joan Fitzsimmons, the parental artists, met in art school, Washington University, St. Louis. Further studies and their...More »
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Jason Orrell and Brian Edgerton "Abstract Party"
Jason Orrell and Brian Edgerton present Abstract Party, a collaboration consisting of video and painting at Local Project in Long Island City, NY. The artists reimagine the genre of abstraction, examining...More »
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"The Unemployed Fortune Teller (Lady Luck meets her match in a rogue game of cards)" Exhibition
My collages and drawings are like excavations, revealing layers of narratives, personal and fabricated. Usually drawn on old books or found paper, my characters reveal themselves like ghosts of forgotten...More »
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"Timewrap" Exhibition
Since man is man, one of his main obsessions is time, his obsession is natural. Nature is full of time measurements,days, cycles, seasons. The real obsession of mankind relies on counting that time, assigning...More »
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Raul Rodriguez and Therese + Joel "Artificial Paradises"
The fundamental motivation of this project is to raise the idea of “city” as an artificial paradise. Without creating any judgment, it is a reflection of the reality of the spaces in which citizens live...More »
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Miguel Trelles & Amy Westpfahl "Velvet & Silk"
Velvet & Silk addresses the intersection of art, politics, and history as well as the interface of indigenous and popular culture in North American society today. Amy Westpfahl’s work addresses...More »
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Matti Havens "The Patriot Acts"
It is an election year and thoughts of politics and patriotism run high. We have seen important debates on immigration, the winding down of one war and the possibility of another, The Occupy Wall Street...More »
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"Artefacting in Detroit; the Aftermath of a Motor City" Exhibition
Artefacting in Detroit; the Aftermath of a Motor City, on exhibition at Local Project in Queens NY. Photography of the site specific installations “Elements of Post Industrial Power”, short video, flags...More »
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Antonio Ortuño “Escapes and Lies”
Escapee: A person who is distrustful or hides in fear of something or someone. Lie: An assertion that is the converse of what is known, thought, or believed. Continuing with my line of work, which...More »
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"You and Me" Exhibition
A show about the relationship between the photographer/artist to their subject, someone form their family, a friend or a total stranger,.. Expose in an open way, the story of both and the opportunity to...More »
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Ulysses Castellano "Reverse Apotheosis, Self-feeding Co-evolution"
Reverse Apotheosis PT1 is a media performance developed and performed by Artist Ulyssess Castellanos in a collaboration with Fluid New Media Lab. The sound elements will be a collaboration between Gabriel...More »
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Ryan DuBois and Tim Kellen "Short Order"
Short Order is a collaboration of black and white works by artists Ryan DuBois and Tim Kellen. The dark, sketchy and sometimes cartoon-like style of both artists invites viewers to peer into the minds...More »
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"Cold Womb" Exhibition
In this unique exhibition, the Push Pops will exhibit for the very first time footage from their two most recent performative sculptures ’Block Watching’ and ’Imaginary Picnic’ as a 5-channel installation...More »
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Brian Hogan “Observing : Shapes L.I.C.”
“Observing : Shapes L.I.C.”, is a collaborative show linking the art project “Today New York, Tomorrow the World” (a large installation painting) created by Brian Hogan with the surrounding L.I.C. neighborhood. After...More »
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Andrea Wolf and Sebastian Vargas "As Things Appear to Be"
"As Things Appear to Be" is a two persons show by Andrea Wolf and Sebastian Vargas, a multidisciplinary site-specific exercise that combines methods of sculpture, painting and video mapping projections....More »
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Sebastian Garcia Huidobro "Living Tissue -Tejido Vivo"
For his show Living Tissue (Tejido Vivo), Garcia has created a series of deformed digital portraits and other sculptures involving elements of water, light and fire. With a continued interest in re-working...More »
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Keith Pavia and Alex Roediger "Super Jumbo"
Local Project is presents an exhibition Super Jumbo, by The Dust art collective, Keith Pavia and Alex Roediger. Based out of Brooklyn, artist Keith Pavia, a fixture to the Outsider Art Fair and artist...More »
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Caleb Nussear and Brian Zegeer "Shell Game"
Employing cast-off materials from Long Island City’s streets in the production of a sculptural installation, Shell Game enacts a conversation with LIC.’s idiosyncratic urban geography. Characterized in...More »
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"Autosemblematic" Exhibition
The exhibition, autosemblematic, examines the current state of visual language by exploring the way nine contemporary artists deconstruct its various structural units using images and references from mainstream...More »
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"Random Poetry" Exhibition
A book on a shelf; only a thing among others. The aesthetic experience occurs when we read it. To perceive it is to ‘Remember.’ Every word has a story to tell. Who was the first one to name things? Do...More »
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Nancy Rakoczy "Dancing Weavings"
We proudly present Dancing Weavings at Local Project, an Interactive installation by Queens artist Nancy Rakoczy. Dancing Weavings cuts and weaves discarded plastic bags and transforms them into flowers,...More »
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Carla Torres "The Napkin Project"
For about a year and a half Carla Torres created one or two napkin drawings per day. Each napkin bears witness to the small moments she experienced throughout those idle but ultimately enriching subway...More »
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Rebecca Memoli "Decadence & Dirt"
Decadence & Dirt, a multi-media exhibition by artist, Rebecca Memoli, summons the sinful, the sinister, and those desires that are so often attempted to remain hidden. Decadence & Dirt, Memoli's...More »
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"Epidermis" Exhibition
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"Drop in the Bucket" Exhibition
Local Project is presents the group exhibit Drop in the Bucket. The exhibit uncovers the various drawing practices of each artist, incorporating elements of project planning, narratives, and abstraction...More »
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June Kosloff "Almost you & me"
Mixed media works by June Kosloff highlighting emotive primates.More »
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"FUNKTIONLUST" Exhibition
A group show curated by Repetti Gallery director Sam Farnsworth celebrates the psychological state of Funktionlust, or Flow, in the varied working practices of six emerging artists.More »
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Wyatt Nash and Jeff Thompson"Sketches and Loops: New drawings"
Having met in grad school, Wyatt Nash and Jeff Thompson went on to help found the Texas Firehouse, a gallery space in Long Island City, New York. While most of their work is quite dissimilar, they both...More »
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Trish Mayo and Stephen Sandoval "A Million and One Thanks" Exhibition
In an age where the media and people in general tend to focus on the negative in the everyday, artists Trish Mayo and Stephen Sandoval propose another approach by introducing their interactive, community-based,...More »
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"(UNIVERSAL) Art is No Object" Exhibition
Sebastian Vargas and Michael Zelehoski studied under the late Chilean sculptor Felix Maruenda and collaborated extensively during Zelehoski’s time in South America, ultimately helping to finish Maruenda’s...More »
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"The Wall Mural Program" Exhibition
The Wall Mural Program is focused on the practice of painting but we are open to new mural ideas. Each season two artists will be invited to paint a mural in our location.More »
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Maria Cabo & Jose Osorio "It's a Matter of Perspective"
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Domenick Di Pietrantonio "Burnt Bridges"
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"Vision" Exhibition
Vision is a multimedia exhibition on perceiving that which exists outside of the visual "reality". Visions begins at the point of premonition or foresight and goes on to explore the psychological immediacy...More »
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"The Victory of Public Photography" Exhibition
A few years ago The New York City deputy mayor wanted to install strict rules on "Street Photography" and filming, this included time limits that Photographers and filmmakers had on street corners, and...More »
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"Fluid - New Media Laboratory v.2" Exhibition
Fluid is a new media movement that focuses in the potential of emerging audiovisual artists, without consideration of gender or where they come from. Fluid in its second edition, will continue collecting...More »
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Ixrael "In Search"
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"Queens Sky" Exhibition
A "mail-art" exhibition of thoughts, feelings, impressions of the Queens Sky curated by Renzo Ortega.More »
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"Here's the Real Good News: Art Never Sleeps" Exhibition
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Sol Aramendi "There, where you are not"
Sol Aramendi is a New York based Argentinean artist working in new media, photography and video. Exhibition curated by Leandro VillaroMore »
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"Portraits- an Intimate Connection" Exhibition
In conjunction with the Armory Arts Week, Local Project is presenting the exhibition *Portraits "an Intimate Connection"*A selection of portraits by LP artists presenting the dialogue of portraiture...More »
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Seongmin Ahn "White Square"
Seongming Ahn's work combines classical geometric forms with her interests on architectural structures. The use of the walls and the floor simultaneously in these installations transforms regular two-dimensional...More »
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"Así Somos" Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2008-12-28 - 2009-01-16
Casa Ecuatoriana, in collaboration with Local Project, presents "Así Somos"(This is Us), an exhibition that highlights the works of Ecuadorian artists living and working in New York City. Through drawing,...More »