Life on Mars Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Life on Mars Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“An Occasional Dream” Exhibition
Life on Mars Gallery presents An Occasional Dream, our final exhibition celebrating our creative community. This show will feature Life on Mars artists: Todd Bienvenu, Farrell Brickhouse, Mandy Lyn...More »
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Phil Allen, Karen Schwartz, and Clintel Steed “Reckless in an Ever-Changing World”
Life on Mars Gallery presents Reckless in an Ever-Changing World, curated by John Yau with works by Phil Allen, Karen Schwartz, and Clintel Steed. In 1976, the American expatriate artist, R. B. Kitaj,...More »
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David Humphrey, Austin Lee, and Agatha Wojciechowsky “Ghost in the Machine”
Life on Mars Gallery presents Ghost in the Machine, works by David Humphrey, Austin Lee, and Agatha Wojciechowsky. Ghost in the Machine exemplifies one of our founding principles, namely, advocacy...More »
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“Karmic” Exhibition
Life on Mars Gallery presents Karmic, an exhibition championing the work of Glenn Goldberg, Steve DiBenedetto, and Brenda Goodman. Each artist has a different career arc: Goldberg an early meteoric rise;...More »
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Paul D’Agostino “Scriptive Formalities”
Paul D’Agostino’s third solo exhibition and his first with Life on Mars Gallery, Scriptive Formalities is a presentation of two diverse yet not at all divergent bodies of the artist’s recent works in painting,...More »
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“Sideshow on Mars” Exhibition
Life on Mars Gallery will ring in the New Year celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of our Brooklyn community of painters by partnering in a joint exhibition with Sideshow Gallery. The 15th annual Sideshow...More »
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Arnold Mesches “75 Years of Works on Paper”
Life on Mars Gallery presents Arnold Mesches - 75 Years of Works on Paper. Arnold Mesches was born in the Bronx, New York. His work has been featured in more than 140 solo exhibitions, included in countless...More »
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Todd Bienvenu “Exile on Bogart Street”
Life on Mars Gallery presents Todd Bienvenu’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show’s title references the Rolling Stones’ masterpiece Exile on Main Street. Bienvenu’s “sex, drugs and rock...More »
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“Jolie Laide” Exhibition
Life On Mars Gallery presents Jolie Laide, a group exhibition of works by Alicia Gibson, Mandy Lyn Perez, Karen Schwartz, and Agatha Wojciechowsky. Jolie Laide is a non-gender specific French term meaning...More »
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“Second Annual Summer Invitational” Exhibition
The Summer Invitational focuses on a broad range of contemporary portraiture. LoM will feature painters who contribute to making the Bushwick artistic community vibrant and active, many who have shown...More »
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Karen Schwartz “Down the Rabbit Hole”
Life On Mars Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of painter Karen Schwartz “Down the Rabbit Hole”. Schwartz lives and works in Atlanta and Long Island, and is represented there by The...More »
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Brenda Goodman Exhibition
Life On Mars Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Brenda Goodman’s new paintings and works on paper. A full color catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an essay by artist/critic David Brody. The...More »
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“Back to the Future, Part II” Exhibition
Part II of Back to the Future will focus on some of the painters who were working in Williamsburg in the early 1980s (many of whom were friends): Peter Acheson, Katherine Bradford, Rick Briggs, Bill Jensen,...More »
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Fran O’Neill “painting her way home”
O’Neill is making some of most ambitious and successful large-scale abstract gestural paintings seen today. Extending the tradition of the great ABEX masters DeKooning, Kline and Mitchell, she glides between...More »
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“Back to the Future Part I” Exhibition
One of the bedrock principles of the Life on Mars Gallery mission, and an important part my curatorial vision, is to explore painting’s continued relevance in the 21st century. One way to accomplish this...More »
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Farrell Brickhouse Exhibition
Brickhouse illuminates the subconscious via his exquisite intimacy of process, combined with use of metaphor and historical myth, a process honed over more than a thirty-five year commitment to painting....More »
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Arnold Mesches “Next In Line: The FBI Series”
Originally presented in 2002 at MoMA PS1, the works in The FBI Series was Mesches’ reaction to a series of events beginning with the 1950s-era theft of paintings he made as a response to the Rosenberg...More »
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Todd Bienvenu “Borrowing Tomorrow’s Fun”
A Brooklynite by way of Little Rock, Arkansas and New Iberia, Louisiana, Bienvenu paints babes, boozers, buckets of blood, brawlers, punk rockers, apocalyptic zombies, pro wrestlers, country outlaws, camel...More »
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“Never Mind the Bollocks” Exhibition
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“Drunken Angels” Exhibition
“They manifest a nature’s sublimity. That is why Gabriel is represented with wings. Not that angels have wings, but that you may know that they leave the heights and the most elevated dwelling to approach...More »
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Arnold Mesches “~ eternal return ~”
At age 90, Mesches’ powerful trans-generational art-world voice has been speaking about the American social landscape for seven decades; his “enigmatic landscapes, cityscapes and nowhere-on-this-planet-scapes”...More »
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“The Indexical Mark” Exhibition
John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ” Supporting the dogmas of fascist ideology, religious intolerance and racism, “Apollonian” definitions...More »
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“Outside In” Exhibition