A Gathering of the Tribes - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for A Gathering of the Tribes. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Rio=+" Exhibition
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[0]- Media: Photography
- 2012-09-02 - 2012-09-30
The exhibition is a photo reportage in Black & White outside the historical RIO+20 conference, in Rio de Janeiro organized by the United Nations this past June, and of the numerous side events that...More »
"Brain Melt" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-06-16 - 2012-06-20
Come to Tribes Gallery for a group show featuring a hefty dose of monsters, other worlds, cat psychics, apocalyptic visions of the future, alternate dimensions, new alphabets, circle jerks, unexpected...More »
“‘93to Infinity” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2012-05-05 - 2012-05-05
Experience MIRF and the Peter Pan Posse transform legendary Lower East Side gallery, Tribes, into a nineties time capsule. The space will be bombed floor to ceiling by some of New York’s most loved (or...More »
"Blind Reproduction" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2012-03-10 - 2012-04-15
Inspired by the different descriptions Steve Cannon’s visitors would give of the art on the walls, and by taking the blind professor to art openings, curator Janet Bruesselbach organized an elaborate art...More »
"Occupy Tribes Now" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2012-02-17 - 2012-03-04
What do you do when you are faced with displacement? Do you roll over and die? Do you run? How do you survive in a world that seems invested in reducing your rights as a citizen and a human? Steve...More »
Erin Carmody "Zero, Infinity and The Guides"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2012-01-14 - 2012-01-28
The year is 2012 and it is the time for humanity to see itself clearly. Come celebrate the New Year and Erin Carmody’s first one-woman show in Manhattan! Erin is a set theorist studying the infinite...More »
"Blind Light" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2011-10-07 - 2011-11-06
Wassily Kandinsky, in an effort to explain bodily reactions toward form and color, wrote “Colour is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer....More »
Ga Hae Park and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright "Paper View, A Show of Works on Paper"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2011-09-03 - 2011-09-24
Two Artists Using Paper in Powerful New Ways Gathering of the Tribes presents a show of evocative and innovative works on paper by Gahae Park and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. Both artists cut, paint and...More »
"Inflorescence of Sparkling Evil" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-08-06
“Inflorescence of Sparkling Evil” is a group exhibition, which explores themes of cultural decay and the resurgence of the primitive within a technologically advanced society. Confronting the fragmentation...More »
"Vandalirium" Exhibition
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- 2011-06-17 - 2011-07-06
Building on the visions of their predecessors, the artists leave their mark creating a patchwork mixing old and new ideas, a makeshift mural in its entirety for the public to be its audience. It’s plastered...More »
Janet Bruesselbach "I Hate Art"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-04-23 - 2011-05-23
“I feel so sorry for myself” Exhibiton
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2011-04-12 - 2011-04-21
Yeoh Kean Thai and Zac Lee "Truth & Fiction Are Not Strangers"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2011-03-10 - 2011-04-10
In the Southeast Asian Art world, identity issues are often contrived and styled after well known western artists. Responding to the pressures of the commercial art market, it is common to see paintings...More »
"The Nuances of Storytelling" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-02-17 - 2011-03-07
Three Brooklynites, expatriates from the purgatory of rural life, present a body of work – The Nuances of Storytelling. Their artwork focuses on personal experiences with gender, relationships, and impressions...More »
Alexandra Rojas "Dismantled"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-02-15
A Gathering of the Tribes presents an exhibition of new work by Alexandra Rojas. In her first Solo show at Tribes, Colombian Artist Alexandra Rojas (born 1977) attempts to weave work throughout the space...More »
"Spirits in the Material World" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2010-11-07 - 2010-12-30
Valeria’s images explore the inseparable ink of the human race with nature and our reciprocal evolution with the other life forms that share this planet. Inspired by deities of ancient religions, myths,and...More »
Martin Myers and Ga Hae Park "Abstract-Dynamic Arrangements in concreto"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2010-10-02 - 2010-11-01
Martin Myers will premiere new paintings for the first time after a ten year hiatus. These paintings are brightly-colored and rhythmical abstractions which, in hard lines, allude to architectural forms...More »
"Unpop" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-09-04 - 2010-09-30
All artists contend with “the market”, both monetary and attention. It often seems the only ideology defining art remains anti-Capitalist antagonism, after pop art created the boundary between commercial...More »
"WHAT A Lost and Found Art Show" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2010-08-10 - 2010-08-30
This August, we celebrate how a gallery has become an orphanage for lost art. The makers rejected their object offspring, forgot them, or mostly simply hoped this gallery could give them better, or gave...More »
Samuel Bjorgum "Aporias"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2010-07-03 - 2010-08-10
Samuel Bjorgum plays the parallax between participant and spectator, which are partial perspectives not necessarily overlapping with artist and audience. The paintings methodically overlap desire-engaging...More »
"Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2010-05-21 - 2010-06-27
Tribes Gallery presents the exhibition Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage. This is the most recent and ambitious showing of the work of Poets in Collage regulars Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Heman, Yuko...More »
"A Starter Kit for Collectors" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-05-01 - 2010-05-16
Saturday May 1st, 2:00 - 6:00 pm : Public preview Saturday May 1st, 7:00 – 10:00 pm : Artist reception Sunday May 2, 7:00 –10:00 pm : New music and dance: “Ply Conundrium” Featuring: patrick brennan...More »
"The Girleye Show" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-04-03 - 2010-04-30
Small prints by young urban female photographers evidence a spontaneous and intimate female gaze enveloping homosociality. This is about both distance and closeness, intra-gender formal queerness and...More »
Isaac Pelepko "Cartoony Sexy & Violency"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2010-03-06 - 2010-03-31
Isaac Pelepko is a Russian-born artist trained at the New York Academy of Art. He exhibits grotesque paintings and drawings satirizing both romance and Romanticism. Like John Currin, Pelepko uses careful...More »
Jackie Skrzynski and Hila Sela "Blood and Love: The Ties That Bind"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Performance Art
- 2010-01-30 - 2010-02-27
The artists sharing their hearts with us this month at Tribes commit a rare act of optimism. They describe love. Parent, child, husband, wife, son, daughter, friend. These relationships of blood and love...More »
Philip J. Hardy & Michael Gibson "Language Paintings"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-02 - 2010-01-27
Two one-room exhibitions of painters who engage with words without including them in the image. Hard uses an illustrative style that frustrates meaning, taking on the colloquial and making referentless...More »
Loie Howell "Sleep Remedy"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2009-12-01 - 2009-12-31
Artist Loie Howell will display a single painting in a darkened space. A sound piece by the artist will also be played in the viewing area . In this presentation, painting is given center stage and demands...More »
Aymar Ccopacatty "Recycling Urgencies"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-11-07 - 2009-11-30
Peruvian-American artist Aymar Ccopacatty will display his woven treasures for one week only in a solo exhibition. Ccopacatty brings handspun, woven and painted works inspired by the Andean highlands...More »
"Nothing for Itself; Paintings of Diversity, Born in the Middle of Salad" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2009-10-03 - 2009-10-31
A show of young emerging artists in irrationally exuberant involvement with the city. Curated by Janet BruesselbachMore »
"16th annual Charlie Parker Festival" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2009-08-01 - 2009-08-31
A month long Improvisation inspired by the Yardbird himself, A celebration in images, music and words. The big wall in the front room,(with piano) will be painted half black and half white a reference...More »
"Images from Tribes #12 and John Millisenda's Photography" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-06-06 - 2009-06-30
M.L. Rouleau "At Both Ends: Paintings, Drawings, Portraits"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-05-07 - 2009-06-03
At Both Ends, a 10 year survey of portraits by M.L. Rouleau, refers to the artist’s position vis a vis her life and work. A position reflected through styles, mediums and subjects that shift according...More »
Lisa Renko and Sarah Valeri "Difficult Dreams"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2009-04-04 - 2009-04-30
Gathering of The Tribes Gallery presents Difficult Dreams, an exhibition of work by Lisa Renko and Sarah Valeri. Difficult Dreams will include paintings, photographs and installations. Both artists derive...More »
“Back To The Wall” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-03-31
Curated by Angela Valeria “Back To The Wall”is an evolving ongoing bi- monthly attempt by many and diverse artists to keep Tribes as alive, vital ,and relevant as it has been for the last 18 years by...More »
Loie Hollowell "Elusive Interiors Paintings"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-03-02 - 2009-03-28
Elusive Interiors Paintings by Loie Hollowell Poems by Iris Cushing Loie Hollowell will present paintings that address the idea of intimate interiors and what one artist does within. These paintings act...More »
The Urban Individualists "Space and Time"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2009-02-07 - 2009-02-21
This exhibition explores public and private, tangible, psychological and fantasy perspectives of connections and disconnections between time and space. This artist collective was born from the vision...More »
Carl Musa Hixson “View into a new world landscape"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-01-10 - 2009-02-01
Musa is a Brooklyn-based Installation Artist and Sculptor. His work has been described as “Abstract Commentary.” This description relates to the fact that many of his works are strictly formal while others...More »
Jamie Martinez and Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda "Gone Away"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Video installation
- 2008-12-13 - 2008-12-31
A Gathering of the Tribes presents GONE AWAY an exhibition featuring work by Jamie Martinez and Gonzalo Andrew Penaranda. The inspiration behind the work is the exploration and adventure of the gorgeous...More »
""3 li'l NDNs" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2008-11-08 - 2008-12-07
The gallery at A Gathering of the TRIBES is once again staying true to its name as "3 li'l NDNs", a group exhibition, will be their next show opening November 6th. "3 li'l NDNs" features the work of emerging...More »
"At Home" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Video installation
- 2008-10-02 - 2008-10-30
A Gathering of the Tribes presents "At Home" an exhibition featuring work by three Brooklyn-based artists: Amy Lincoln, Christina Medina, and Helena Wurzel. The exhibition explores themes of domestic life...More »
John Ranard Works (1952-2008)
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-04 - 2008-09-30
A Gathering of the Tribes Gallery will be holding an exhibition of works of the late documentary photographer, John Ranard. Ranard’s work is collected by the Brooklyn Museum, the Andrei Sakharov Museum...More »
HiCoup “Izm”
[0] [1]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-06-19 - 2008-07-31
Racism. Sexism. Alcoholism. Hedonism. Opportunism. Nationalism… Deconstructing the different “isms” that pervade society, hip-hop emcee and visual artist HiCoup (Haiku) presents a mixed media abstract...More »
"Platonia - Land of Nows" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-05-08 - 2008-06-06
It is not known who made the first clock nor when. The same can be said for works of art. What is the relationship between clocks and art? Both are signposts of temporal distance. The title, “Platonia”...More »
Chin Chih Yang "The Secret of XS"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2008-04-11 - 2008-04-30
New York - based artist Chin Chih Yang’s recent body of work is at once enticing and disturbing, alluring and disconcerting. In his first solo show at Tribes Gallery, Yang’s conceptual works will tantalize...More »
Acquaetta Williams “Deconstructing Time: Memories”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-03-04 - 2008-03-30
A Gathering of the Tribes has announced “Deconstructing Time: Memories,” an exhibition of totems sculpted from remnants of childhood memories and glass by Acquaetta Williams. The totems of Ms. Williams...More »
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