NURTUREart - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for NURTUREart. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“(Im)perfection” Exhibition
Curated by Project Curate with Simone Cuoto NURTUREart presents (Im)perfection, a group exhibition curated by Project Curate students of Juan Morel Campos High School with Simone Cuoto and featuring...More »
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“The Department of Human and Natural Services” Exhibition
NURTUREart presents The Department of Human and Natural Services, a group exhibition curated by Mariel Villeré and featuring artists Nancy Nowacek, Allison Rowe, Li Sumpter, and the Environmental Performance...More »
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Brett Wallace “Working Conditions”
Working Conditions, a solo exhibition by Brett Wallace, investigates the consequences and implications that new technologies such as artificial intelligence and algorithm-driven platforms have had in restructuring...More »
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Gabo Camnitzer and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco “Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences”
Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, is a collaboration by Gabo Camnitzer and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, that uses the avatar of the child to reflect upon current modes of spectatorship...More »
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“Voices Through Lenses” Exhibition
“Your voice matters. I’m going to say it a thousand times.” —Felicita “Felli” Maynard, Artist- in-Residence at P.S. 147. NURTUREart presents Voices Through Lenses, a group exhibition featuring analog...More »
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“Object Intimacies” Exhibition
Curated by Jane Cavalier and Nicole Kaack NURTUREart presents Object Intimacies, a group exhibition curated by Jane Cavalier and Nicole Kaack and featuring artworks by Wesley Chavis, Mira Dayal, Andrew...More »
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Melissa Sclafani “Crowd Control”
NURTUREart presents Crowd Control, a solo exhibition by Melissa Sclafani. Crowd Control is an immersive installation with sculpture and light projection. Created in response to the ongoing detention of...More »
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Christie Neptune “Unpacking Sameness”
NURTUREart presents Unpacking Sameness, a solo exhibition by Christie Neptune. Neptune uses photography and filmed performance to unpack and dismantle the social and psychological constructs of race in...More »
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“(Social) STATUS: UPDATE” Exhibition
Curated by students from Juan Morel Campos High School with Allison Peller Featuring artists: Tyler Bohm, Maria De Los Angeles, Wojciech Gilewicz, Kay Gordon, and Yeimi Salazar Every year, NURTUREart...More »
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Laura Bernstein “Becoming Beast”
NURTUREart presents Becoming Beast, a solo exhibition of sculpture and a multi-channel video installation by Laura Bernstein. In the style of cabinets of curiosity and natural history museum dioramas,...More »
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Bang Geul Han “Ugly Feeling”
NURTUREart is grateful to present Ugly Feeling—a solo exhibition by Bang Geul Han that claims space to represent both highly personal experiences and overtly public manifestations of sexism, misogyny,...More »
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“Call and Response” Exhibition
Curated by Kelly Rae Aldridge Call and Response explores how we speak to our machines and how our machines speak through us. The pulse of communication, measured in clicks, clips, and sound bites,...More »
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“Leader in Me” Exhibition
Leader in Me by Fifth Grade Students of P.S. 147 with Walter Cruz, 2017-2018 artist-in-residence at P.S. 147 “I woke up in a pile of color.” —José, age 11 Leader in Me is a group exhibition featuring...More »
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“Relative Material” Exhibition
Curated by Janna Dyk “I wonder, parenthetically, whether I too deal thus in autobiography and call it fiction?” —Virginia Woolf Relative Material examines a spectrum of gestures by seven artists...More »
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Kyoung eun Kang “1402 Seok-Dong”
NURTUREart presents 1402 Seok-Dong, a solo exhibition by Kyoung eun Kang. Kang enshrines routine and subtle interactions into delicate monuments. Her works, which reveal the universal in the particular,...More »
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Jon Henry “Stranger Fruit”
Stranger Fruit was created in response to the murders of African American men due to police violence. Referencing the Pietà—the Virgin Mary holding the body of the dead Christ—I photographed mothers and...More »
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“Voices Need Heroes” Exhibition
Curated by students of Juan Morel Campos High School with PJ Gubatina Policarpio NURTUREart presents Voices Need Heroes curated by Project Curate with PJ Gubatina Policarpio and featuring artworks by:...More »
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“The Archive of Affect” Exhibition
Curated by Culture Push, The Archive of Affect includes work by Olaronke Akinmowo, Chloë Bass, Lise Brenner, Sarah Dahnke, Liz Linden & Jen Kennedy, and Worker’s Art Coalition. (Descriptions below.) The...More »
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Saul Chernick “FRAMEWERK”
Curated by Saul Chernick and Moriah Carlson Participants are invited to complete their own visual responses independently or visit during an artist-led workshop at NURTUREart. Artist-led Workshop:...More »
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Ellie Krakow “Arm Armature”
NURTUREart presents Ellie Krakow’s solo exhibition, Arm Armature. Arm Armature began as an obsession with armatures: the hidden structures used to display ancient fragments in museums, to hold subjects...More »
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Vanessa Albury “Arctic, Future Relics”
Arctic, Future Relics is a solo exhibition by Vanessa Albury. In the summer of 2014, Albury traveled on a Barkentine sailboat around Svalbard, Norway and the Arctic Ocean, 10 degrees latitude south of...More »
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“Summer Flavors” Exhibition
Summer Flavors, curated by Molly O’Brien and presented in partnership with AHRC New York, features the work of Arte Moose Collective, including Denisha Brown, Fernando Cruz, Chad Deroche, Timothy McGillivary,...More »
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“Summer Anagram” Exhibition
Intro: Summer. The bright, careless expanse of time spent doing nothing. Vacationing in someone else’s home. Discovering there’s nowhere to get back to. Staying put because there is no money. Coal and...More »
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“Our Crazy Life” Exhibition
NURTUREart presents Our Crazy Life, curated by Project Curate with Sorry Archive, and featuring works by: boys, Christiana Cefalu, Lila Cohen, Campy Dicks, Ashley Garrett, Katya Grokhovsky, Miao Jiaxin,...More »
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“Dead Lands: Karkaot Mawat” Exhibition
Dead Lands engages with identity conflicts and their manifestation in contemporary work; the exhibition and its public programming will open this conversation to an international audience, focusing on...More »
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Justin Hicks and Steffani Jemison “Prime”
NurtureArt presents Prime, an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Steffani Jemison. Jemison is an artist and writer who uses transparency and opacity—in language, images, and marks—to test the limits...More »
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“Codes for Conduct” Exhibition
NURTUREart presents Codes for Conduct, featuring new commissions and site-specific installations by Essex Olivares, Madeline Hollander + Alexandra Lerman, Pakui Hardware, and Naomi Elena Ramirez, curated...More »
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Lior Modan “Wringing Lilies from the Pine Nut”
NURTUREart presents Lior Modan’s first solo exhibition in New York: Wringing Lilies from the Pine Nut. Modan’s eclectic paintings, sculptures and vacuum-casted prints are enigmatic, surprising and...More »
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Dustin London “Scared of Dying”
NURTUREart presents Dustin London’s solo show: Scared of Dying. In Dustin London’s new paintings pictorial space is something malleable, shifting, and subversive. Each composition is a finely calibrated...More »
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Jesse Harrod “Low Ropes Course”
NURTUREart presents Jesse Harrod: Low Ropes Course. Jesse Harrod’s artistic practice is guided by a fundamental commitment to exploring the dense political entanglements of material history, queer-feminist...More »
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“Sextant” Exhibition
NURTUREart presents Sextant, curated by Marco Antonini, featuring works by Keren Benbenisty, Jessica Cannon, Calum Craik, Maria Kondratiev, Andrea Nacciarriti, Igor Ruf, and Nikola Uzunovski. This...More »
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Davide Zucco “Deep Time”
NURTUREart presents Deep Time, Davide Zucco’s first New York solo exhibition, opening on the occasion of Bushwick Open Studios. In Zucco’s most recent body of work, metal surfaces transition from tarnished...More »
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“What It Was” Exhibition
Curated by Project Curate with Adam Parker Smith NURTUREart presents What It Was, curated by Project Curate and Adam Parker Smith, and featuring artists Avantika Bawa, Brent Birnbaum, Wyatt Burns, Stephanie...More »
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Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh “Upward Inflection”
NURTUREart presents Upward Inflection, an exhibition of new work by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, in his first solo presentation in New York. Through its complicated systems and slightly alien mechanics, Ó...More »
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“Rational Formal” Exhibition
Rational Formal is a collaborative curatorial project developed by Matthew C. Lange, Michelle Leftheris, Adam Ryder and Phoebe Streblow. Ideas for this exhibition emerged through sustained conversations...More »
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Gabriela Salazar “My Lands are Islands”
In this project Salazar continues her exploration of using the form of a simple machine (the wedge / shim) to perform its usefulness through allegorical “work”. Here, the wedges are made of a rudimentary...More »
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“Brain Scratch” Exhibition
Brain Scratch draws inspiration from Edwin Abbot’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a novel reflecting the limited capabilities of the mind. Through an interest in the digital and physical, this...More »
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Yasi Ghanbari “Yo! I’m Your C.E.O.”
Borrowing her title from a 1995 essay writing contest initiated by the ice cream company, Ben & Jerry’s in search of a new CEO, Yasi Ghanbari’s installation is an inquiry into the psyche of the consumer,...More »
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“Multiplicity” Exhibition
Multiplicity is an international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments and exposing the irresistible pull of the similarities—intercultural...More »
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“Videorover: Season 8 Part 1” Exhibition
This season’s video works explore the idea of video as installation, highlighting the immersive potential that time based media hold. Through audio and visual tools and using the body as a reference point,...More »
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“#ArtistsBeLike” Exhibition
Coming of age in a virtual world, we communicate in emoticons and images, through avatars and screen names. We sometimes have trouble distinguishing art from the rest of what we see online, where most...More »
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“To begin, at the beginning” Exhibition
This show is part of a trilogy of exhibitions involving emerging artists, and drawing upon literary tendencies and observations. To begin, at the beginning addresses the frequent, existential condition...More »
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Jenny Santos “The Thing That’s There but Isn’t”
But something seems amiss; we are directed into the structure with a sense of having exited instead. From here we are transported into a scenic production, bringing up a latent desire to seek refuge from...More »
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“One Trace After” Exhibition
One Trace After investigates a question that traditional, tidy exhibition narratives rarely consider: what can the visitor of a gallery see, experience, or know at any given instant? Rather than suggesting...More »
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“Videorover: Season 7” Exhibition
This season features a variety films and video works loosely connected by O’Brien’s invitation to consider “winter” (as a season and as an expanded notion) as overarching topic. The coldest of the seasons...More »
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Alina Tenser “Hip Openers”
For this exhibition, Tenser has created a body of work which draws from its own peripheral components. The essence of each medium informs the materialization of the rest, moving fluidly between object,...More »
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“The Psychic Triangle” Exhibition
Through various forms of design such as object making, resource extraction, and designed systems of power, humans have assumed an outsize role in shaping the natural world while simultaneously awakening...More »
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“On Hold” Exhibition
On Hold aims to alter our perception of daily occurring pauses, transforming anxiety-producing events into opportunities for reflection. Some of the works examine the ubiquitous intermissions in everyday...More »
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“The Indifference of Wisdom” Exhibition
The Indifference of Wisdom questions our social norms by looking for works that embody transgression. Identity, gender and authority roles, hygiene rituals, factory-produced poultry… Have you ever asked...More »
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“Videorover: Season 6” Exhibition
The sixth season of Videorover will showcase performance-inspired works made for the camera and to be presented on screen. The works in this exhibition are created using performance as a departure point...More »
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"Cashing Out" Exhibition
NURTUREart presents Cashing Out, curated by Petrushka Bazin Larsen – the first exhibition to use NURTUREart’s new Online Registry as a curatorial resource. Cashing Out features artists’ musings on our...More »
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"On the Golden Wire For Thirty-Four" Exhibition
Starting with the general idea of an exchange of content between artists, the initial focus of this project is put on the materiality of such content, rather than its possible meaning. The point of...More »
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"Welcome to the Real" Exhibition
This exhibition presents a selection of artworks privileging a sense of realness, tangibility and matter of fact -ness as departure (or arrival) point in their otherwise wide ranging visual and conceptual...More »
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Siobhan McBride "Never While You're Sleeping..."
McBride’s paintings expose a visual code of tangible fragments and delusions that kindle slippery and mercurial memories. Rooms, furniture, and landscapes feel familiar and strange, creating places you...More »
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"The Order of Things" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2013-01-04 - 2013-02-04
NURTUREart is pleased to present The Order of Things, curated by Jamillah James and featuring artists: Lisha Bai, Leah Beeferman, Ethan Greenbaum, Elisa Lendvay, Demetrius Oliver, Allyson Vieira, and Joe...More »
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"Videorover: Season 5" Exhibition
This exhibition celebrates the physical nature of video art through it’s relationship with objects. Whether depicting a time activated object or body, or the absence of an expected physical element, each...More »
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"The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal" Exhibition
Inspired by the work of Charles Burchfield, which investigated the ability of a work of art to transcend the constrictions of its own physicality, this exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists...More »
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Scott Lawrence "Monochrome"
Monochrome is a selection of quasi-monochromatic and deceptively understated works in which the artist’s ambivalence toward Minimalism is belied by just the right measure of whimsy and dysfunction. Using...More »
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"...Is This Free?" Exhibition
Historically relevant artworks, ephemera and publications will be presented side by side with contemporary work by emerging artists, including a series of project-specific artworks commissioned by NURTUREart....More »
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"Juxtacombo" Exhibition
Contemporary society is simultaneously liberating and suffocating. As curators approaching adulthood in the early twenty-first century, the Project: Curate! team has learned to cope with the chaotic surroundings...More »
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"Videorover: Season 4" Exhibition
As the potential of video continues to grow, increasingly this medium is no longer limited to documentation, but rather used to embody and catalog its own reality. In this context, Videorover’s ever-expanding...More »
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Anne Percoco "The Life Instinct"
Celebrating makeshift solutions, survival instincts, and the reuse of discarded material, Percoco’s work infuses practical works inspired by immediate necessity with playfulness and wit. Inspired equally...More »
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Arianna Carossa "Argo"
Can an object be alive? Moreover, would human presence be necessary to validate the life of something inanimate? Would that something even exist, without us? For her solo exhibition, Arianna Carossa...More »
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"Systemic Risk" Exhibition
In financial terms, systemic risk refers to a domino effect of cascading failures, leading to the total, irreversible collapse of an entire system or market. The artists in this exhibition work to reorganize...More »
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Svetlana Mircheva "Possible Exhibitions"
For this series, Mircheva strays from technology and automation to present a series of diminutive, some quite simple, other slightly inscrutable dioramas from an ongoing collection of imaginary gallery-size...More »
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"Videorover: Season 3" Exhibition
NURTUREart’s semi-annual video series, Videorover, is an ever-expanding forum for new and emerging video artists. While producing and sharing video is becoming increasingly easier, we believe that truly...More »
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"Re-telling" Exhibition
It might be that re-telling is implicit in art-making. There are some cases, however, in which it is revelatory. The four artists included in this exhibition conflate telling and re-telling – of histories,...More »
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"Portrait of a Soul" Exhibition
Portrait of a Soul will present visual artworks concerned with the transmission of spiritual energy by arranging a handful of works so as to form a “portrait” or description of that transmission. This...More »
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Jonathan Ehrenberg and Meredith James "We Are"
"In my videos, I layer rough materials like plaster, cloth, and cardboard to create a textured environment that resembles a three-dimensional, inhabitable painting. While my sets, characters, and plots...More »
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Ivan Argote "We Are"
“Our lives are constantly influenced by the forces of history, economy and politics. These forces saturate the environments we all live in. My works are questions about how we experience those forces,...More »
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"In Loving Memory" Exhibition
Is it possible to apply the strategies of a hunter-gatherer society to obtain specific, industrially produced goods? Artists Kristyna and Marek Milde went on a gathering mission for their installation...More »
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"Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Work of Art and Tragedy" Exhibition
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: the Work of Art and Tragedy endeavors to examine 21st century tragedy, disaster and renewal. The exhibition is an attempt to connect with contemporary artists who are also passionate...More »
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"VIDEOROVER: Season II" Exhibition
VIDEOROVER: Season II, the second installment of its semi-annual video series. VIDEOROVER seeks to present a wide range of works from artists locally and internationally who are all working to expand the...More »
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"Soft Power" Exhibition
Just as the political strength of an idea can be derived from its identification as ‘apolitical,’ the driving force of this exhibition was born out of the decision not to overlay a theme but to respond...More »
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Scott Kiernan "Once around the block (twice)"
Given a time where digital images reign in overabundance around our visual periphery and copyright laws hover over every creative endeavor, it’s difficult to imagine a computerized world in its infancy...More »
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"The Constructed Landscape" Exhibition
Although a 'scape' is a common fixture of our language today referring to the environments we occupy and create, the word landscape (from the Dutch landschap) first came into use during the 17th century,...More »
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"Videorover: Season I" Exhibition
Season I of Videorover presents a group of artists who, despite the diversity of their work, are all concerned with the reality disconnect that is specific to four-dimensional media. These artists have...More »
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"The New Intimists" Exhibition
From all sides, we’re encouraged to make our private lives more and more public, and to pay increasing attention to the private lives of others. However, the face that one presents in a “facebook” is by...More »
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"Duck and Decorated Shed" Exhibition
Learning from Las Vegas, where the dominant architecture is always of glitter, whether the shapes are obvious symbols of the delights awaiting within (a waterfowl restaurant in the shape of an enormous...More »
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Open Studio Exhibition
Peter Dobil has continued his truly unique performance/video/installation practice, using the summer to construct elements for future exhibitions. This is a unique opportunity to get an advance look at...More »
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"Idle Time/ Busy Mind" Exhibition
The NURTUREart Curatorial Students at Juan Morel Campos Secondary School curated an art exhibition that explores the story behind the making of art: the process made visible, the mental mapping, and the...More »
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"Unrealized: Conceptual Bushwick" Exhibition
Ever want to build a floating hot-tub full of milk and, pirate style, have it attack the Goodyear Blimp during the Superbowl? What about airlifting entire city blocks of Chelsea and depositing them along...More »
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"Who's Afraid of Ornament?" Exhibition
Is it really a Jaguar if it doesn't have the metal cat leaping from the hood? Can a pine tree be a called a Christmas tree even with no decorations? Is ornament always an unnecessary extra, a superfluous...More »
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"Human Scale" Exhibition
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels brought his 18th century audience into worlds of radically different scale. The Liliputians and Brobdignagians unsettled their understandably common view that our human...More »
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"Eternal Return" Exhibition
Calling upon Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of 'eternal return' for inspiration, the curators write "By applying Nietzsche's existential definition of a continuous return to every passing moment - thereby...More »
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"Collage: Collage" Exhibition
Curated by Jackie Klempay, Collage: Collage showcases nine contemporary artists who freely borrow, then deviate from art history to use collage as a tool for their own ends. Bringing together a diverse...More »
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"Plan B" Exhibition
"Plan B" is an investigation of the emerging artist response to the current economic crisis. Originating from a quasi-anthropological premise, the project began as a survey circulated to dozens of artists...More »
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"The 2009 Bushwick Biennial" Exhibition
The Bushwick Biennial is a collaborative exhibition of Bushwick-area artists hosted by NURTUREart Non-Profit, Pocket Utopia, English Kills, and Grace Exhibition Space. The directors of each space (Benjamin...More »
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"SOCIAL (VIRUS)" Exhibition
NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. presents SOCIAL (VIRUS), a group exhibition curated by Juan Morel Campos Secondary School students Amanda Holmberg-Perez, Christina Pena, Herman Pineda, Fernando Reyes Duran,...More »
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"Readings and discussion with Interface: Nature curator Nina Horisaki-Christens and artist Lisa Dillin" Talk
In conjunction with the exhibition Interface: Nature, curator Nina Horisaki-Christens and NURTUREart art will host an afternoon of readings and discussion. The theme will be the interaction of nature...More »
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"Interface: Nature" Exhibition
Cartesian philosophy holds that humans are separate from the rest of the world due to our seemingly unique communication and reasoning abilities. This idea has been perpetuated by Western culture and...More »
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"Patterns Of Growth" Panel Discussion
Throughout the afternoon and evening we will be screening a video detailing Amy Kupferberg's intensive creative process involved in creating her large-scale welded wax and paper constructions. More »
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"Patterns Of Growth" Exhibition
Spanning three generations of female artists, Patterns Of Growth attempts to trace a path of influence that began with pioneering artists like Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Alma Thomas, and continues...More »
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"Seen/Unseen" Talk
In the first part of the program, Bernard Flynn, a noted philosopher and professor who specializes in political philosophy, phenomenology, and the history of philosophy, will give a talk. A story reading...More »
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"Seen/Unseen" Exhibition
Blurring lines between observer and observed, the eight provocative emerging artists in Seen | Unseen cross typically taboo lines by openly photographing strangers, directly challenging and mocking surveillance...More »
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"Present Perfect Continuous" Exhibition
The present perfect continuous verb tense speaks of things that began in the past, continue into the present, and are still happening - actions rooted in the past that simultaneously create a sense of...More »
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"Demo Eco M.O." Exhibition
The earnest pursuit of environmental responsibility has even determined the opening night refreshments for this exhibition. Guests will "eat local" by sipping filtered rainwater and nibbling on sprouts...More »
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"Serial Meditations" Exhbition
The artists of Serial Meditations use the language of drawing and sculpture to investigate the meditative properties of repetition and seriality. It seeks to create a contemplative environment that offers...More »