Blackston - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Blackston. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Wayne Herpich “Further Notice”
Blackston presents Further Notice, Wayne Herpich’s second solo exhibition at Blackston. In a review of Herpich’s first solo show at Blackston in Art In America, critic Faye Hirsch wrote of the artist’s...More »
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James Case-Leal “First Light”
Blackston presents First Light, James Case-Leal’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Included in this exhibition are selections of the artist’s work that represent a phenomenology of light through...More »
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Hanneline Røgeberg “Off the Bone”
Blackston presents Off the Bone, Hanneline Røgeberg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. What happens when an artist approaches a painting without plan or method, working against her skill, letting...More »
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Eugenio Espinoza “Diorama”
Blackston presents Diorama, Eugenio Espinoza’s second solo exhibition at Blackston. Since the late 1960s, Venezuelan-born Espinoza has perpetually challenged, explored, subverted and also embraced...More »
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“Vessels” Exhibition
Blackston presents Vessels, an exhibition featuring ceramic works by artists Polly Apfelbaum, Ivin Ballen, Lynda Benglis, Sean Bluechel, Guy Corriero, Joanne Greenbaum, Roger Herman, Matthias Merkel Hess,...More »
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Reuben Cox “Topical Songs”
Blackston presents Reuben Cox’s Topical Songs, a solo exhibition of new photo-based works by the artist. Cox’s second solo show at the gallery includes new archival abstract and representational inkjet...More »
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“Spectral Haze Event Horizon” Exhibition
Blackston announces Spectral Haze Event Horizon, a group exhibition organized by James Case-Leal. More »
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Amy Feldman “High Sign”
In the front space of the gallery — of which the walls and ceiling have been painted dark gray - Feldman presents recent large gray-scale, acrylic on canvas paintings which employ her preferred palette....More »
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“Bathers” Exhibition
Taking Paul Cezanne’s The Bathers as an example of work that embarked on new territory in its still life and landscape genre, and in many ways signified a point of departure with tradition, this exhibition...More »
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Joe Sola “American Sex Room and Other Works”
Blackston presents American Sex Room and Other Works, Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Joe Solas solo exhibition of paintings and a sculptural installation project. Joe Sola received his BA from...More »
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Patric Keesey “Partial Recovery”
Blackston presents Partial Recovery, Patrick Keesey’s second solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at the gallery. Keeseys exhibition is comprised of a selection of mid-sized abstract oil on panel...More »
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Wayne Herpich “New Vision Display”
Blackston presents New Vision Display, Wayne Herpich’s first solo exhibition in New York. Herpich’s highly original, accomplished, rigorous and dense mid-sized oil paintings employ a rich use of color...More »
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Eugenio Espinoza “Going Blind Faith”
Blackston presents Going Blind Faith, Eugenio Espinoza’s first solo exhibition in New York. In this exhibition Espinoza presents recent sculptural works that embody the artist’s interest in using...More »
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Rachel Beach”Long Standing”
Blackston presents Long Standing, Rachel Beach’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, September 8th from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition runs through Sunday,...More »
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Casey Reas “ULTRACONCENTRATED”
The US debut of new software installations by the Los Angeles based artist Casey Reas. ULTRACONCENTRATED is his first New York solo exhibition in over five years. The show features live computational...More »
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Diana Puntar “The Milky Way…Get Your Orgone On”
Blackston presents The Milky Way…Get Your Orgone On, a solo exhibition by Diana Puntar. This exhibition is the culmination of Puntar’s multifaceted, four-year investigation of various utopian inventions...More »
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Hanneline Røgeberg “Never Odd or Even”
Blackston presents Never Odd or Even, Hanneline Røgeberg’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Røgeberg’s exhibition includes four large-scale oil paintings that resist clear assignation to abstraction...More »
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Linda Matalon "echo echo"
Blackston presents echo echo, Linda Matalon's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Matalon's exhibition presents a range of two-dimensional works where spatial relationships, temporal associations...More »
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Shawn Kuruneru "The Object is Freedom"
Blackston presents The Object is Freedom, Shawn Kuruneru's first solo exhibition in New York City. Reverting back to an extremely basic form of drawing -- using dot marks that cover entire surfaces...More »
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Shawn Kuruneru "The Object is Freedom"
Blackston presents The Object is Freedom, Shawn Kuruneru's first solo exhibition in New York City. Reverting back to an extremely basic form of drawing -- using dot marks that cover entire surfaces...More »
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Agnes Barley "Shadow Structures"
Blackston presents Shadow Structures, New York City-based artist Agnes Barley's first exhibition of paintings at the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, September 9th from 6 to...More »
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Amy Feldman "Dark Selects"
Blackston presents Dark Selects, Brooklyn-based artist Amy Feldman's debut exhibition of paintings in New York City. Feldman composes striking images by employing a limited number of pictorial elements...More »
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Justin Adian "Come and Take It"
Blackston presents Come and Take It, Justin Adian's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Adian's latest series of abstract, shaped, protrusive oil paintings on canvas tightly stretched over foam...More »
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Glynnis McDaris "In time and with water"
Blackston presents In time and with water, a solo exhibition of new photographs, video and sculptural works by Glynnis McDaris. Drawing from the artist's own symbolic visual vocabulary, McDaris presents...More »
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Group show "Simultaneity"
Blackston presents Simultaneity, a group show featuring works by Brooklyn-based artists Ryan DaWalt, Rachel Howe, Shawn Kuruneru, Jeffrey Scott Mathews and Meghan Petras. A reception will be held for...More »
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Joe Sola "The Senior Discount"
Blackston presents "The Senior Discount", Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Joe Sola's solo exhibition of new video work, paintings and drawings. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery has...More »
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Christina Hejtmanek "Pour the Sun Upon the Ground"
Blackston presents "Pour the Sun Upon the Ground", Christina Hejtmanek's second solo exhibition with the gallery. In her latest presentation of work Hejtmanek displays abstracted large-scale C-print...More »
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"Summer Group Show" Exhibition
Drawing inspiration from the inveterate traveler and author Paul Bowles, "You Have Left Your Lotus Pods on the Bus" addresses artists who are using a geographic location as subject or collaborator. The...More »
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Franck Salzwede "The Star Wept Rose"
Blackston presents "The Star Wept Rose", a solo exhibition of new acrylic on board monochrome paintings by artist Franck Salzwedel. Salzwedel utilizes both precision and intuition in applying layers...More »
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Patrick Keesey "Fragments & Refractions"
Blackston is pleased to present "Fragments and Refractions", Patrick Keesey's solo exhibition of new drawings and paintings. Building on Keesey's interest in the relationship between seeing and marking,...More »
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Rachel Beach "Gather-er"
Blackston presents "Gather-er", an exhibition of new large and mid-scale sculptures by Rachel Beach. Beach's first solo show at Blackston comprises one large-scale grid-like sculpture constructed of reclaimed...More »
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"Painted Pictures" Exhibition
"Painted Pictures" explores the oblique and unexpected connections that take place in thinking about painting and photography together, to see how--if possible --the selection of works in the show can...More »
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Mark Ohe "Music in CMYK"
The exhibition comprises posters designed for a wide range of independent musicians and bands, many of which were associated with the Matador Records label. Most of the posters presented in the show were...More »
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Davide Balula "Wall to Wall"
Blackston presents Wall to Wall, a solo installation of new photographic work by French artist Davide Balula. Throughout Balula's art making practice -- which includes sound installation, performance,...More »
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Justin Adian "Afterglow"
Blackston presents Afterglow, Justin Adian's first solo exhibition in New York of oil on canvas paintings. Adian's abstract, shaped, protrusive oil paintings on canvas tightly stretched over foam engage...More »
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Pia Dehne "Eve of Destruction"
Blackston presents "Eve of Destruction," an exhibition of recent oil paintings by Pia Dehne. In Eve of Destruction, Dehne continues her exploration of camouflage and mimicry as it exists in both man-made...More »
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Reuben Cox "Bagatelles"
In Cox's latest series of C-Print photographs, explosions of smoke are generated by detonating black powder (traditional gunpowder) and photographed with manual shutter release and high-powered flashes...More »
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Julia Dault "Total Picture Control"
Physical negotiations are paramount in Dault's three-dimensional practice, particularly those between the recalcitrance of her industrial materials and her desire to marshal them into unexpected forms....More »
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Frank Webster "In the Landscape of Extinction..."
Webster's recent large-scale acrylic on canvas paintings, watercolor and pencil studies of landscapes featuring abstracted architectural structures and natural elements found in urban settings further...More »
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"Unnaming of Parts" Exhibition
Philosophy has long been tied to the world of sculpture, often through the exploration of propositions: tension and suspension, truth and falsehood, and earthly versus ethereal dualities. Unnaming of...More »
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Tina Hejtmanek "Day Without a Name"
Blackston (formerly Bespoke Gallery, 2004 - 2009) presents its inaugural exhibition Day without a Name, featuring new photographic works by Tina Hejtmanek. For this series Hejtmanek captures expansive...More »
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Patrick Keesey "Recent Drawings"
The exhibition features over forty abstract small scale ink on paper drawings. Keeseyʼs drawings explore the tension between seeing and marking, and the fundamental balance and imbalance of these processes...More »
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Christy Bush "Jackson"
The photographs in "Jackson" explore the terrain of adolescence as navigated by one self-possessed male teenager over the course of several years. Rather than a chronological depiction of the subject’s...More »
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Glynnis McDaris "Surfaces"
The photographs in Surfaces explore the diverse topography of interior spaces and subjective definition of domesticity. McDaris’s eloquent tableau intersects subtle, atmospheric and mildly abstracted scenes...More »
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Franck Salzwedel "From Here to the Moon"
Bespoke Gallery presents From Here to the Moon, a series of paintings by artist Franck Salzwedel. This is Salzwedel's second solo exhibition at Bespoke Gallery. The 20 X 16 inch acrylic on board color...More »
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Cameron Fuller "Non-Euclidean Zones"
Fuller’s Non-Euclidean Zones presents a full transformation of Bespoke Gallery’s physical space into a graphic two and three-dimensional urban environment fashioned primarily from masking tape, cardboard...More »
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Joe Sola "New York Mega Millions and Other Works"
Bespoke presents the second solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Joe Sola, New York Mega Millions and other works, which features new watercolor paintings and In the Woods (2008), a short video...More »
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Katja Stuke "Could Be"
Bespoke Gallery presents Could Be, Katja Stuke's first solo exhibit with the gallery. The photographs in Could Be were taken by Stuke of video camera footage she previously captured on city streets...More »
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Rachel Beach "History Repeating"
Beach’s work combines equal parts painting and sculpture. In this exhibit the artist displays groupings of stand alone and wall-mounted painted and wooden veneer sculptures which reference, incorporate...More »
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Pia Dehne "Country Life"
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Nick Haymes "Recent Photographs"
In his second solo exhibition with the gallery Haymes presents color photographs of his two children that employ the use of long exposures to reveal precise abstractions of their features. The images convey...More »