Momenta Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Momenta Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Justin Randolph Thompson “Moldy Figs”
Momenta Art presents a solo-exhibition by Justin Randolph Thompson in collaboration with Bradly Dever Treadaway and Jason Thompson. For the past ten years, Thompson has created an ambitious and far-reaching...More »
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“Momenta Art Spring Benefit 2015”
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“Any Size Mirror is a Dictator” Exhibition
Any Size Mirror is a Dictator is an accumulative process-based dance-opera. Exploiting dramaturgy and symbolic interactionism drawn from social and political theory, relational aesthetics, and performance-as-art,...More »
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Kathleen White “(A) Rake’s Progress”
The exhibition, (A) Rake’s Progress, is comprised of the complete polymorphichrome drawings produced by Ms. White outdoors in the summer of 2009. The cycle of pastels on paper, a progression numbering...More »
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Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen “Space Fiction & the Archives”
The exhibition presents a short film titled 1967: A People Kind of Place and an archive of various documents and artifacts that are related to the undergoing immigration policy reform in Canada. The project...More »
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“To Shelves” Exhibition
The act of self-portraiture is a performative self-creation both for the artists and their potential audience. While there is a tendency to dismiss the gaze turned toward the self as narcissistic navel...More »
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David Antonio Cruz “alwaysagoodtime”
Cruz’s work draws from 1950’s Americana, classic films and fashion, as well as historical events to present a psychologically-charged, shifting, and unnamed space. Informed by queer, diasporic Latino experience,...More »
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“Bolivia Existe” Exhibition
This exhibition provides a perspective on contemporary art practice in Bolivia. Artists residing in La Paz and Santa Cruz present an explosion of work that is connected aesthetically and politically to...More »
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“Nu Age Hustle” Exhibition
Nu Age Hustle is a group show featuring 9 artists working in video, fabric, installation and performance. Drawing equally from elements of “New Age” and Pop culture (hip hop, fashion, and e-commerce) these...More »
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“Burying the Lede” Exhibition
Newspapers are still with us, but the public role of at least the printed version is greatly diminished. We have effectively left the era of the printed page in which newspapers covered the land like rain....More »
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Chloë Bass “The Bureau of Self-Recognition”
The Bureau of Self-Recognition is a single installation capturing the results of a long term conceptual project. From October 2011 through December 2012, Chloë Bass performed as the Bureau of Self-Recognition:...More »
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Rosemarie Padovano "That Fell on Deaf Ears"
The exhibition includes two videos Paloma and Please Touch and a concurrent screening of her new video Chroma. Her work invites communication between the senses through imagery and sound. The three separate...More »
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Oasa DuVerney "“The MYLFworks Revenge”
In her new four-channel video, the artist plays a fictional character, the MYLF: a domestic caretaker with hints of both mother and sex worker. By combining these roles, DuVerney addresses social inequalities...More »
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"Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange" Exhibition
Posse Comitatus is an ongoing collaboration between Mark Tribe and Chelsea Knight, two artists whose work explores the intersection of performance and politics. In 2011 Knight and Tribe set out to investigate...More »
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"Occupy Your BFF"
We face a crisis of culture in which our deepest values have been hijacked for private gain. The arts sector acts as an unregulated tax shelter for collectors while some wealthy board members abuse their...More »
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Mark Tribe "Rare Earth"
Tribe uses video, performance and print media to examine the aesthetic dimensions of political action. His latest project explores the function of landscape as a symbolic setting for paramilitary combat...More »
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"Video 2012" Exhibition
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"Broken Homes" Exhibition
The exhibition Broken Homes presents physical and metaphorical ruptures in domestic spaces. Some of the work in Broken Homes addresses the physical nature of home, the structures and detritus that create...More »
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"Mobility" Exhibition
Vending carts can be seen both as platforms for personal expression and alternatives to mass consumerism. Like the art viewing experience, they encourage a more personal transactional space. The artists...More »
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"J.Pasila / Peter Scott" Exhibition
Presented in a three-day show at Momenta Art's new space, in the interim between its raw state and a renovation before programming resumes in the fall, the photographs of J. Pasila and Peter Scott convey...More »
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"Video 2011" Exhibition
Marianna Ellenberg Jan 20-30 Special Event Sunday, Jan 30th at 3pm Chelsea Knight Feb 3-13 Special Event Sunday, Feb 6th at 3pm Amelia Saul Feb 17-27 Special Event Sunday, Feb 20th at 3pm Erik...More »
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"Winter Break" Exhibition
On the heels of the season that is both the most sacred and the most secular in US culture, Momenta Art is pleased to present Winter Break, an exhibition of recent paintings by four artists who approach...More »
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Nina Lola Bachhuber "Nachtschatten"
Oscillating between cool abstraction and uncanny figuration, Bachhuber’s work shows sensitivity to materials expressed in an unsettling aesthetic. Surfaces of actual materials as well as layers of possible...More »
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"Intangible Interferences" Exhibition
Intangible Interferences examines the temporal/spatial dynamics of resistance and depolarization in the relationship between politics, economics, language, and existence. By exploring the subtle forces...More »
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"Momento Benefit 2010" Preview Exhibition
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The Arbitrariness of Signs Exhibition
In the representational but surreal realm are works like Jane Benson's constructivist look at nature, Anne Deleporte's photo fresco, Karl Erickson's latch-hook pillows, Shana Moulton's reflections on the...More »
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Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly Exhibition
Mariam Ghani has exhibited her work in video and installation internationally, including at the Sharjah Biennial, the Liverpool Biennial, the Tate Modern, the National Gallery in DC, transmediale in Berlin,...More »
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Sari Carel "Cast & Bridge"
Sari Carel will present Cast & Bridge, a video in which a camera meanders through a deserted architectural structure set in Israel that hosts myriad forms of deterioration and neglect. The piece is...More »
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"Untreated Strangeness" Exhibition
One ought to remember that all cultures impose corrections upon raw reality, changing it from free-floating objects into units of knowledge. The problem is not that conversion takes place. It is perfectly...More »
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The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness "Less Me More Z"
Momenta Art presents Less Me More Z, the first solo exhibition of work by The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness (SAIC). Over the past seven months, SAIC conducted a series of workshops...More »
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Hunter Reynolds "Real Love: Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hunter"
Momenta Art presents an exhibition of new work by Hunter Reynolds, his first solo exhibition in New York in five years. Since 2001 Reynolds has experienced a series of life-altering events: 9/11, substance...More »
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Preview of Momenta Art Benefit 2009
Momenta Art presents its fourteenth annual benefit to support its ongoing mission to exhibit the work of emerging and underrepresented artists. A ticket guarantees you a work of art and entrance for two...More »
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Mira Schor "Suddenly,"
These works mark a departure in Schor's work, from the depiction of language as image to the suggestion of its lack in a space where we expect to see it. "Suddenly," marks the moment when personal loss...More »
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"The Mood Back Home: Inspired by Womanhouse" Exhibition
The Mood Back Home developed from discussions between two artists/new mothers, Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence, about the landmark project Womanhouse, created in 1972 by a group of CalArts students and their...More »
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"Infinite Possibilities" Exhibition
Momenta Art presents Infinite Possibilities, a group show of environments, images or objects that promote or encourage transformations. More »
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"Recent Acquisitions" Exhibition
Momenta Art is pleased to present screenings of recent works added to its video library, including work by Neil Beloufa, Brendan Fernandes, Antoni Muntadas, and Diane Nerwen. The gallery's video library...More »
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Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager "Cloud Cuckoo Land"
Cloud Cuckoo Land (2008) is a collaborative video and sculptural installation by Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager. The lead roles are played by Moskowitz and Trager with Joan Jonas, Robert Janitz, and...More »
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Shaun El C. Leonardo & Clifford Owens "Some things we do together…"
Momenta Art is pleased to present a collaborative performance series by Shaun Leonardo and Clifford Owens entitled Some Things We Do Together. These artists share an interest in conflict as a means...More »
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Brendan Fernandes "Exhibition"
The work of Brendan Fernandes approaches the issue of culture as something endlessly deferred, with roots that may be pulled but never unearthed. The artist – whose family is Indian from the former Portuguese...More »
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"Working Title" Exhibition
Momenta Art is pleased to announce the opening of Working Title, a group show that explores the role-playing that goes hand in hand with having an occupation. Though each of the four artists presented...More »