chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. ) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. ). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Anonda Bell “Biophobia”
Anonda Bell’s exhibition Biophobia features work inspired by when the artist first immigrated to the United States from Australia. “I found myself engaged in numerous conversations about all the deadly...More »
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Elizabeth Tisdale “My Metro Lite”
My Metro Lite brings together a collection of Elizabeth Tisdale’s “city- influenced and city-themed” works from the past seven years. These works, both serious and whimsical, touch on the issue of ‘My...More »
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Jonny Star “The Undone Ritual”
Jonny Star presents The Undone Ritual, her first solo exhibition in New York. Star has, in the past participated in various group exhibitions in the City, as well curating two international group exhibitions...More »
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“(Contained): chaNorth Residency” Exhibition
chaNorth, chashama’s Upstate New York Artist Residency, presents the group exhibition titled (Contained), featuring the work of chaNorth 2016 residents, alumni and visiting artists. Through the use of...More »
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Linda Byrne & Maggie Dubris “Vanishing Oceans Project”
Every level of the ocean is filled both with life and the detritus of man. Beyond our runoff of chemicals, oil, radioactive waste, and garbage, the noises we create are devastating populations of ocean...More »
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“Textured Vocabulary” Exhibition
“Textured Vocabulary” brings together artists reinterpreting and recycling found materials to build a vocabulary that is both deeply personal and abstract; creating strong abstracted expressions by reinterpreting...More »
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Tomoko Terashita Exhibition
Tomoko Terashita’s drawings have no meaning. Her pencil line sometimes looks as if it is trying to say something to the spectator or has some meaning, but it doesn’t. Always, there is no meaning. Black...More »
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Tanya Minhas “The Shapes of My Heartbreak”
In her ephemeral wall drawing installation The Shapes of My Heartbreak, outsider artist and painter Tanya Minhas will use acrylics and ink to draw her repetitive artwork directly onto the walls and window...More »
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Angeles Cossio “Re(x)”
In the photographic series Re(x), viewers encounter imagery that is pulled directly from the exhibition space itself. Starting at sunrise, Cossio begins with a blank sheet of photographic paper placed...More »
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Sam Montgomery “44 Daughters Collection”
44 Daughters was conceived by Sam Montgomery. His Outsider artwork ranges from handmade dolls to pottery and three-dimensional art made from found objects. The 44 Daughters is a project that began when...More »
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Red “Touching in the Underground”
The artist Red focuses on creating art through pyrography (wood burning). She feels that her art comes to life in a more organic way when she burns it as opposed to painting it. Red hopes to move what...More »
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Takuma Tanaka Exhibition
Takuma Tanaka’s paintings are inspired by RAKUGO, a form of traditional Japanese storytelling. One of the stories often told, ATAMA YAMA, is about a man who sprouts a cherry blossom tree from his head. Takuma...More »
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Katrina Majkut “In Control”
“In Control” defies the traditional medium and subjects of cross-stitch and instead responds to the increasing debates and turmoil over women’s reproductive rights and safety. Historically, embroidered...More »
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Sara Jones “Ropes Fragments Drafts
Sara Jones’s work is rooted in an investigation of the ways that memory and psychic resonances are deeply embedded in built space (more specifically, the spaces we inhabit: making the familiar unfamiliar,...More »
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Kate Lawless Exhibition
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Eunjin Kim “Monuments for the Rejected”
“All of the wood pieces in this exhibition are filled with agony. They were originally scaffolding used in construction sites to build the present of New York City. However, they were thrown away after...More »
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Doron Sadja “Closer Before We Touch”
Open hours: 11am-6pm The world premiere of Doron Sadja’s “Closer Before We Touch”, a free site-specific sound art installation will be open daily to the public at Chashama 266, a storefront gallery...More »
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“441 Studio Artists Exhibition”
curated by Jin-kang Park chashama presents the work of artists from our 441 studios. This exhibition is presented in tandem with the chashama 441 Open Studios event. More »
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Jester of the Peace and Barbara Ann Michaels “Love Letter Lounge”
Welcome to Love Letter Lounge, a participatory performance installation about Love by Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace. Write love letters of joy or loss to your flames present, past, and future,...More »
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Syd Glasser “Perfect Models”
Perfect Models is a preview exhibition of Syd Glasser’s latest series of life-sized, mixed media portraits of women. Working from carefully selected live models and photographs, the imagery is suggestive...More »
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Ewelina Bochenska “Say That Things Are Structures, Stars Before Our Eyes.”
“Painting to me is an exhilarating and violent form of thought. I think of the cosmic dust and the origins of it all. I become Prussian blue, violet, shades of grey and black; I paint the abyss and the...More »
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Jc Lenochan “The Last Classroom : a Reference Laboratory”
Jc Lenochan will use installation and performance as an interactive research based laboratory to engage the public in discussions surrounding pedagogical issues such as racial mythology, ethnological hybridity...More »
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“Salvaged” Exhibition
Melissa Lockwood collects off-cut fabrics from garment manufacturing factories. This is an exhibition of garments made from fabrics that other designers threw away. More »
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Superuschi “du weißt, ich liebe das Leben (You Know, I Love Life)”
How do you love life? For artist and curator Jonny Star, the question - let alone the answer - is never stable. After all, our ideas of what constitutes love and life are deeply personal and exist in a...More »
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Guang Zhu “An Aquarium of Equations”
Guang Zhu’s art practice is founded in the versatile world of exploratory research and computer art. She works with mathematical equations and computer code to create charismatic abstract simulations....More »
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Traci Horgen “Luxuria Barbarica”
Luxuria Barbarica is an installation of 250 5-color screenprints on paper. This work is the product of the artist’s interest in creating extravagantly ornate environments using the low-tech process and...More »
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Len Jenkin “American Notes”
Len Jenkin is a self-taught artist, who’s also a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His art is influenced by a career in storytelling, stage design, and directing. The paintings are mysterious narratives,...More »
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Jesse Neuman “live sound installation”
Jesse Neuman’s working band, WOLF FACE, is a collective who explore sound and improvisation within the structure of songs. Their debut album, “The World has Time to Bloom” features compositions and improvisation...More »
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Jo Firestone “Comedy Club”
Comedy Club is a very tiny comedy club where anyone can come in and perform for a very attentive audience of thirty baby dolls. The baby dolls will laugh and coo at your very funny jokes. Even if the jokes...More »
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Rachel Mica Weiss “Submit/Submerge”
Submit/Submerge is a solo exhibition by sculptor and installation artist Rachel Mica Weiss. Drawing upon the archaic imagery of seafarers, Weiss’ sculptures interweave brightly colored rope, elaborately...More »
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Odele E. Zhang “menacing BUTT SPACES”
menacing BUTT SPACES is the title of Odele’s second solo exhibition following the series of “lost” animals in the her previous series shown in Shanghai in December 2012. All the paintings in the current...More »
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Saul Robbins "How Can I Help? - An Artful Dialogue"
How Can I Help? - An Artful Dialogue presents a psychotherapy office environment in a chashama storefront exhibition space, located at 266 West 37th Street (at 8th Avenue) in New York City. This unique...More »
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Caroline Bergonzi "Essentials"
Essentials serves as the kickoff to a very busy month for Caroline Bergonzi. Following the exhibition, Bergonzi will launch her book Caroline Bergonzi Creative Odyssey and hold a second solo exhibition...More »
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Jae Kyung Kim "Liberty in the Forest"
Liberty in the Forest is an exhibition of mixed media paintings and installation by Jae Kyung Kim. Her paintings are a visceral expression of her thoughts and emotions. Her drawings and paintings explore...More »
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"Endless" Exhibition
Endless features the work of six contemporary artists working in new media and sculpture. As we all represent the generation of the Millennial, digital experience is inherently related to any or all of...More »
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Kellie Murphy "At What Price"
At What Price is a project Kellie Murphy has contemplated for quite some time with a fair amount of apprehension and perhaps for good reason. At What Price addresses many of the uncomfortable concerns...More »
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Anne Dushanko Dobek "Promises Promises III"
Stop by, meet the artist, view a prototype installation, and donate: drop off your used crinolines and petticoats! Signed posters will be available. Each day, the artist will be adding to the window...More »
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Culmulus Nimbus Collective "PROject PROject"
PROject PROJect is an interactive video installation in which the viewer may navigate the gallery space through the agency of a portable projector. Suspended panels of plastic will dissect the space into...More »
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L. Gabrielle Penabaz "Til Death Do You Part – Marry Yourself!"
Til Death Do You Part – Marry Yourself! is an experiential installation and performance piece which offers individuals the unique opportunity to get married – to themselves! Caricaturing the cliché, quickie...More »
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L. Mylott Manning "700 Spools of Thread (Keep it Together)"
Over the course of 6 days, Manning will transform this storefront gallery into a jungle of thread and fabric, featuring the artist entwined in hundreds of spools of thread, constantly fed into a gradually...More »
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R. Justin Stewart "Distorting"
Distorting (a messiah project, 14C) is a sculptural installation inspired by R. Justin Stewart’s research into the Jewish concept of the messiah After two years of research into the Jewish concept...More »
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Dara Malina "Hysteria Project / Beautiful Women Eating Cake"
February 13, 14, 15, 17 @ 6pm & 7pm February 18, 19 @ 4pm, 5pm & 7pm Female Hysteria, it has been said, was discovered by the Doctor Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital in late nineteenth-century...More »
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Tai Hwa Goh "Lull"
Tai Hwa Goh is interested in the irony and contrast between fragility of prints on paper and concrete architectural element as vulnerable human being and monumental layers of his history. Window, an elements...More »
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Rebecca Sherman "Nite Light"
Rebecca Sherman’s Nite Light showcases an abstract cityscape of mixed media paintings and digital projections amongst an illuminated led installation with a soundtrack produced by Estelle Bajou. This hybrid...More »
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Jennifer Wroblewski "Party Dresses for the New Year New You"
In an extravagant, wholehearted homage to the familiar forms of fashion and the associated joys of holiday window shopping, 266 W 37th will be temporarily converted into an illuminated workspace where...More »
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Jess Hale "365 Drawings"
Jess Hale committed to adding a new drawing or illustration to her blog ( http://blog.jesshale.com/ ) everyday for one year. The purpose was to overcome a 5 year post-graduate drawing block. These daily...More »
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Mario Zecca "Cultural Hysteria"
The artist will be working live in the gallery, creating new site works. Random acts of recorded sounds and acoustic live music will also be performed by the artist. Referencing the overwhelming deluge...More »
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Elizabeth Donsky "Animal Vegetable Mineral"
Animal Vegetable Mineral references the infinitely changing natural world in large- and small-scale works on paper: inks, watercolors, oils, encaustics, and digital prints. Amidst the sequins, tulle, buttons,...More »
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Mia Roman Hernandez "Goddess"
This body of multimedia work celebrates the Goddess or Divine Feminine within each person and understands this entity to be a source of beauty and strength. In her collection, Mia hopes to showcase timeless...More »
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Jesse Fuchs and Drew Kariolic "Mauna Kea, A Fusion of Traditional and Digital Gameplay"
Mauna Kea is a collaboration between non-digital game designer Jesse Fuchs and digital artist Drew Kariolic, an interactive exhibit which combines the two forms in a synthesis of cerebral abstraction and...More »
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Matthew Farrell "Tailored"
An installation with a sized piano within a shaped room in the Garment District of New York City. [programmer's note: filled with mystery] This exhibit is supported in part by an award from the National...More »
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Adrian Jevicki and Matthew Mahler "Spirit in a Waste"
Spirit in a Waste is a multi-media dance installation examining the language of image-based relationships in an environment of media immersion. The performance, structured as a series of media rituals,...More »
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“FAME SPA Mind Salon” Installation
April 16, 17 & 18: 9am – 11am: by appointment ** 11am -1 pm: walk-ins welcome 1pm – 7 pm: by appointment ** FAME SPA Mind Salon seeks to discover whether it is possible to cause or transmit a...More »
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Doug Garth Williams "The Society for Self Surveillance"
The creation of a fictional organization known as the Society for Self Surveillance from March 25th through 29th, will question whether pervasive surveillance in New York is a true threat to liberty, or...More »
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Fanny Allié “tête-à-tête”
“tête-à-tête” is a site-specific installation in the chashama Garment District window. A series of 24 handmade sculptural heads made out of papier-mâché, are on display. All the heads were based on the...More »
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Yejin Yoo "Guest House"
Word Cards Using watercolor as medium, each work is a small card sizing 2.5”x1.25”. These cards are non-representative auto drawings, ambiguous in-between forms moving away from what is graspable. They...More »
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Aksel Stasny, Joe Schroecker "Gruss aus Wien"
Two photographers endeavor to connect the world with Austrian culture and kindness - using only a small, delightful snow globe. By Placing the Viennese symbol into foreign contexts and landscapes during...More »
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Carda Burke "The Strangler Fig Strikes Back"
The Strangler Fig Strikes Back is an installation of drawing, sculpture and sci-fi memories. Inspired particularly by tales in which a magical or spiritually enhanced tree plays a part, the artist will...More »
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Miranda Maher "1000 Coordinates of Violence"
Threatening information is often literally kept at a distance: we focus on how many years, decades or centuries have passes since the event; or how many miles, countries or continents there are between...More »
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Susan C. Dessel "Optimists"
Dessel’s installation OPTIMISTS reflects the inadequacies of our healthcare system and at the same time suggests the enduring hopefulness of individuals. Situating OPTIMISTS in the heavily foot-trafficked...More »
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Liz Filardi "Rehabilitation/Redemption"
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Deniz Ozuygur "Self High Five Machine"
Chashama announces "Self High Five Machine," an installation by Deniz Ozuygur at chashama 266. In her piece Ozuygur examines her grade-school memory of the high five as the ultimate symbol of acceptance...More »
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Yoonhye Park "Bodies of Pyongyang"
Bodies of Pyongyang is a performance art installation where twenty girls wearing North Korean schoolgirl uniforms perform behind the glass walls at chashama Windows. The artist seeks to stimulate dialogue...More »
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Les Joynes and Tom Bogaert "Form Laboratory"
We live in a sea of detritus – orphaned objects are all around us and each has a discoverable narrative. Objects cast off onto the street (trash, recyclables, litter) produce orphans of form. Their reading...More »
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"Yard Sale: New Footfalls... " Performance
A performance & visual art installation brought to you by THEATER TAS The performance Yard Sale: New Footfalls... based on Kaca Celan's play New Footfalls (a remake of Samuel Beckett's Footfalls)...More »
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"Ghost Paintings" Exhibition
Maine artist Janice L. Moore exhibits her latest series, "Ghost Paintings", which can be seen from the street throughout the exhibit. For any questions about the exhibit or the work call (917) 453-3792...More »
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"Model For Collective Memory + Women's Work" Exhibition
Eve + Bowie is a collaborative team that lives and works in New York City and Providence, RI. More »
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Colin Gee "Studies for Portrait and Landscape (Across the Road)"
The Studies for Portrait and Landscape (Across the Road) series develops moments/scenes extracted from an original screenplay. Each of these moments depicts a character confronting a critical choice, and...More »
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"Golden Ages" Performance
A stylized presentation of Cairo's golden age by Sherrine Azab. Conceived and Directed by Sherrine Azab Performers and Collaborators: Andrew Geske, Amanda Raleigh, Kirsten Hopkins, Bruise Kneece Costume...More »
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Erin McMonagle "Factotum"
Factotum explores the life of Marlene – the silent secretary in the Fassbinder film "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" – after she ends her employment with Petra, and imagines Marlene opening her own...More »
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CoLAB Members' Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2009-02-09 - 2009-02-21
The show will consist of the works by the CoLAB members Sarah Schmerler (writing, pedagogy); Cynthia Ruse (photos/sculptural installation), Annette Taconelli (performance and related sculptural objects),...More »
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Brian Wondergem "Tortured Sleep"
Loosely based on Henry Fuseli's painting 'the Nightmare', Brian Wondergem's installation piece, 'Tortured Sleep' uses homemade fishing poles and various found items to insinuate a ghastly scene. The wooden...More »
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Richard Torchia "Paradise Pictures"
By suggesting both a movie studio and what might appear as random, optical phenomena, Paradise Pictures frames the effects of urban tree shadows to explore the tensions between nature and culture that...More »
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"TRESpass" Perfomance
"TRESpass" is a project by Modern Dance Awareness Society. Curiousity is an investment that drives us beyond the familiar: familiar ideas, familiar relationships, familiar bodies and a familiar world....More »
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Panoply Performance Laboratory "The Silviculture Museum"
A miniature museum about tree farming, colonialization, immigration, and cultural identity is opening October 13th in midtown Manhattan. Featuring rows of miniature pine trees, video in Mandarin and English,...More »
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Kinko the Clown "Kinko for President"
With "Kinko for President," Kinko the Clown stands for change...spare change. It's time to put a real clown in the White House -- Kinko for President! More »
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"Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting" Exhibition
The ghost of socialism isn’t dead. Instead, it lives on in a unique social experiment-exchange taking place for one week only in the heart of Chelsea, at the chashama Performance Window. Inspired by...More »