The Proposition - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Proposition. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Camille Iemmolo “The Write Back Super Heros Club And The Band Aid House”
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[0]- Media: Installation
- 2013-07-05 - 2013-07-31
The Proposition presents Chicago-based installation artist/sculptor, Camille Iemmolo. Camille’s work is clean, classic and simple, childlike but at times strangely provocative, light and airy, yet full...More »
Ricardo Chavarria “51 - 55”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2013-05-15 - 2013-06-23
The Proposition presents Ricardo Chavarria’s first New York solo exhibition. These new paintings explode beyond the physical boundaries of his former work, creating a new parameter in which improvisation...More »
Bedri Baykam "Framed Live Time and Space"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2013-04-03 - 2013-05-12
Bedri Baykam’s show at The Proposition features 7 double-sided empty frames installed hanging from the ceiling. Baykam says that these frames are not empty but rather "framed live time and space". The...More »
Megan Burns "Tricky Sphinx"
[0] [2]- Media: Painting
- 2013-03-02 - 2013-03-30
The Proposition presents, Tricky Sphinx, the fourth solo exhibition of oil paintings by Megan Burns. The original light saber from Star Wars was made of everyday materials the prop-makers had at hand:...More »
Mickalene Thomas "Décopolis: the talent of others"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2013-02-06 - 2013-02-24
Following her blockbuster solo show, Origin of the Universe, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and her two-venue exhibition, How to Organize a Room Around a Striking Piece of Art, at Lehmann Maupin Gallery,...More »
Allison Hawkins "Night Calling"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2012-12-19 - 2013-01-27
The Proposition presents, Night Calling, the third solo exhibition of works on paper by Allison Hawkins. Night Calling explores the creature and figure within the landscape.It is a mysterious landscape,...More »
Peggy Cyphers "Animal Spirits"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2012-11-15 - 2012-12-16
The Proposition presents Animal Spirits, a selection from the most recent paintings by Peggy Cyphers. After an eight-year hiatus, this will be Cyphers’ first solo show in the gallery’s new space.The gallery...More »
Derrick Adams & Michael Chuapoco "HILLMAN U A Dream Deferred; A Dream Fulfilled"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Fashion
- 2012-10-05 - 2012-11-11
A pop up featuring a collection of wearable pieces by multidisciplinary visual artist Derrick Adams set in a responsive display environment by industrial designer Michael Chuapoco. In his latest sculptural...More »
Lee Vanderpool "i:i:i"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting
- 2012-09-05 - 2012-09-30
The Proposition presents the first solo show by Lee Vanderpool, i:i:i. The paintings in i:i:i relate to the relationships that develop between paint and "i". Color acts as a stage, a ground from which...More »
"Itinerary" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2012-07-17 - 2012-08-18
The Proposition presents ITINERARY, a group show curated by gallery artist Dane Patterson. Organized on the occasion of the publication of Patterson’s curated art zine of the same name, ITINERARY features...More »
Evan Levine "After the Fact: Paintings for Coco"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2012-06-06 - 2012-07-14
The Proposition presents new work by Evan Levine in After the Fact: Paintings for Coco. Comprised of colorfully rich abstract paintings executed between 2011 and 2012, these works explore the potential...More »
Balint Zsako "Appetite"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2012-04-13 - 2012-06-03
The Proposition presents Appetite, by Balint Zsako, his second solo show featuring watercolor and ink works. Untitled (Appetite) describes the complexities of human interaction through a combination...More »
Kadar Brock, Jason Gringler, and Jim Lee Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2012-03-04 - 2012-03-08
Upon entering the studios of Kadar Brock, Jason Gringler, and Jim Lee, the Director’s immediate response was, “How did it get like THAT?” The ties that bind these artist’s works together are creative...More »
Kadar Brock, Jason Gringler, Jim Lee Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2012-03-04 - 2012-04-08
Upon entering the studios of each of these three artists, the Director’s immediate response was, “How did it get like THAT?” The ties that bind these artist’s works together as they struggle to assemble...More »
Ben Bunch “Twenty-First Century Freemasonry”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2012-01-21 - 2012-02-26
The Proposition presents “Twenty-First Century Freemasonry,” a show of new works by Ben Bunch. This is his second solo show with the gallery. Ben Bunch makes carefully handcrafted sculptures from light...More »
Mark A. Reigelman II "Twas the Night"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-12-23 - 2012-01-15
The Proposition is pleased to host, Twas the Night, a site-specific installation by Mark A. Reigelman II. Hand-cut ultra black seamless paper stripes toy with traditional holiday notions of wrapping...More »
Dane Patterson "Again, and Again, and Again"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-11-04 - 2011-12-18
The gallery presents Again, and Again, and Again, the fourth solo show of Dane Patterson. In this show, the artist continues to develop his eccentric and complex drawings while forging ahead into photography...More »
Norm Paris “The Wall Still Stands”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-09-15 - 2011-10-30
The gallery presents the first New York solo show by Norm Paris “The Wall Still Stands”. The following is an excerpt from the Director’s correspondence with the artist concerning his upcoming show...More »
"Summer Salt" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-07-06 - 2011-08-12
A group exhibition conceived & curated by INGRID DINTER. Thinking of things salty—summertime and salt spray in the air, or in one’s hair; or crusted skin from time spent at the beach; briny weather,...More »
"Spring Round Up" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-05-07 - 2011-06-26
This show will feature new work by the six artists that the gallery is currently representing, four painters and two sculptors. CONTROLLED CHAOS seems to be a phrase that can be applied to the work being...More »
"A Step Back Into The Future" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Furniture
- 2011-03-26 - 2011-05-01
Back when people smoked cigarettes and drank martinis with no awareness of negative consequences, James Mont was designing outrageous living rooms with sofas covered in exquisite densely textured fabrics...More »
Pavel Kraus and Megan Burns "Ancient Sci-Fi Update"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-01-22 - 2011-03-13
A dramatic setting anchored by an altar created from semi precious stone and neon glass by Pavel Kraus will set the stage for a group of pagan goddesses by painter Megan Burns. Together, they will create...More »
"Figures in the Dark: Redux" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-12-10 - 2011-01-16
Figures in the Dark was a group-show which I, Ronald Sosinski, Director, curated in our original East Village gallery in 1985. At the time, the gallery (E.M. Donahue Gallery) had a serious connection to...More »
Ben Bunch and Evan Levine "Entanglements"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-10-23 - 2010-12-05
Entanglements will be the first exhibition in our new space to present two contemporary artists currently represented by The Proposition: Ben Bunch and Evan Levine. The exhibition will feature Ben Bunch’s...More »
"4 Eccentrics" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-08-21 - 2010-10-17
4 ECCENTRICS will inaugurate a series of shows at the newly relocated Proposition. The series will germinate from a work chosen by an artist shown and collected from The Proposition’s previous Chelsea...More »
William S. Stone "The Rough Stuff"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Furniture
- 2010-06-01 - 2010-08-08
The gallery's inaugural show, The Rough Stuff, features veteran New York artist William S. Stone (in co-operation with James Fuentes LLC) and includes a section of the film Out of Our Minds (Tony Stone,...More »
"From The Vault +1" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-12-10 - 2010-04-23
The request was color and humor, the response is From The Vault +1. Ronald Sosinski, Director of The Proposition gallery, has culled “from the vault” four of the gallery’s strongest colorists tinged with...More »
Jonathan Rogers Clark "Transformation"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-10-01 - 2009-10-31
This series of paintings approaches ‘transformation’ as an alchemical process wherein magical artistry changes the essence of raw matter into valuable visual conceptualizations of an indefinable, even...More »
Balint Zsako "New Drawings"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2009-06-01 - 2009-09-30
Within these earlier works (2002-2007) as well as in his newest drawings at The Proposition, Zsako seamlessly blends his use of paint and ink in such a delicate fashion that the two media appear to coincide...More »
Dane Patterson "New Work"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2009-02-05 - 2009-03-07
Dane Patterson’s new series of graphite drawings is his third solo exhibition at the gallery. For this body of work, Patterson has expanded both the scale and content of his characteristically meticulous...More »
Ben Bunch "New Work"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-05 - 2009-02-28
In the project room The Proposition presents the intricately detailed small-scale sculptures of artist Ben Bunch. Bunch is interested in the intersection of craft and industrial fabrication. Consumer...More »
Allan D. Hasty & Parker Wolf "E2, W1"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography
- 2008-12-16 - 2009-01-31
E2, W1 is a collaborative exhibition of newly painted-photographs and preparatory sketches by Allan D. Hasty and Parker Wolf, commencing with a tree-tying performance by Allan D. Hasty and Parker Wolf...More »
Megan Burns "Virago"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-11-06 - 2008-12-13
"Virago" is New York-based artist Megan Burns' second solo exhibition of oil paintings. Inspired by the dually defined virago, (derived from the latin vir, meaning "a man," also the name Adam gave to Eve),...More »
"The Needle, The Paintbrush and The Knife" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2008-09-13 - 2008-11-01
Mother, father and son, they are a family of artists creating works that explore primitive narratives and tales of archetypal experience, subconsciously similar in themes (sex, mythology, bodily functions,...More »
Mike Park “Benign Zombies Series”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-01 - 2008-08-02
This show is held in the project room.More »
Allan D. Hasty "I Want Candy"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-01 - 2008-08-15
"Young people are "threatened . . . by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire." - Pope...More »
"Not Exactly a Mountain" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-06-04 - 2008-06-28
The Proposition presents "Not Exactly a Mountain," a two-person exhibition in the Main Gallery featuring new paintings by Mike Park, in addition to new watercolors by Tim Evans (some of which are also...More »
"Blacklight Burner" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-06-04 - 2008-06-28
In the Project Room, The Proposition presents "Blacklight Burner," a collaborative video animation by Tim Evans, Mike Park and Jason Smith. Largely inspired by Hakim Bey’s TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous...More »
Jason Gringler "Various States of Undress Construction and Repair
[0] [0]- Media: Other - Sculpture
- 2008-04-19 - 2008-05-31
The Proposition gallery presents, Various states of undress, construction and repair, Jason Gringler’s solo premiere New York City exhibition opening Saturday, April 19th and on display until May 31st....More »
"The Unnameable" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-05-31
"Gothic Intrusion" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-04-12
The Proposition Gallery proudly presents Gothic Intrusion, a group exhibition in the Main Gallery featuring Huang Yan’s Skulls, in addition to work by Alfredo Martinez and Jason Gringler. Huang Yan (b....More »
"The Unnameable" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-04-12
The Proposition Gallery presents The Unnameable, a collaborative project in the Project Room by Jason Gringler and Martin Kuchar. “The Unnameable was roughly conceived by Jason Gringler and Martin Kuchar...More »
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