Smack Mellon - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Smack Mellon. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
“The Dissolution caus’d by Fire is in all Bodies” Exhibition
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[0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2022-09-24 - 2022-11-06
Smack Mellon presents a group exhibition featuring works by Leah Beeferman (with soundtracks by Byron Westbrook, Olli Aarni, and Bryce Hackford), Mimi Park, and Charisse Pearlina Weston, in addition to...More »
Luba Drozd “The Tenacity of a Fluid Trace”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-09-24 - 2022-11-06
In her first major solo exhibition in NYC, Luba Drozd presents a sprawling installation comprising construction materials and motors attached to piano strings and tuned to various frequencies, using the...More »
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian “How Can I Be Nobody”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-03-05 - 2022-04-10
How Can I Be Nobody combines elements from Udondian’s recent collaborative projects that include woven textiles, sculptures, and sound, connecting Smack Mellon’s Dumbo gallery, a former industrial site,...More »
Moko Fukuyama “Streaming Surfaces”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-03-05 - 2022-04-10
Streaming Surface unites various aspects of Moko Fukuyama’s multidisciplinary practice that spans filmmaking, sculpture, and installation, addressing topics of labor, subjectivity, and constructed realities....More »
Diana Shpungin “Always Begin At The End”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-01-15 - 2022-02-20
Always Begin At The End uses common iconography to address loss, memory, empathy and failure between the private and public, personal and political spheres. The exhibition centers around a marble tiled...More »
Farima Fooladi “A Moveable Feast”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2022-01-15 - 2022-02-20
Farima Fooladi’s paintings depict spaces using memory, compressing architecture and landscape from her upbringing in post-revolutionary Iran with those that surrounded her as an adult after emigrating...More »
Rowan Renee “Airport Beach”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-11-20 - 2022-01-02
Airport Beach is a site-specific, immersive installation of weavings, sculpture, and a handmade accordion book by artist Rowan Renee that spans Smack Mellon’s main gallery space. Created over the past...More »
Sara Jimenez “Roots Burrow Through Stones and Hard Facts”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-11-20 - 2022-01-02
Roots Burrow Through Stones and Hard Facts is an immersive installation environment in Smack Mellon’s back gallery by Sara Jimenez. The sound component of the installation is made in collaboration with...More »
Tamara Kostianovsky “Between Wounds and Folds”
[0] [1]- Media: Installation
- 2021-09-25 - 2021-11-07
Between Wounds and Folds draws together threads from the past fifteen years of Tamara Kostianovsky’s work and career, connecting issues of gender-based violence, personal memory, and ecological destruction...More »
Simonette Quamina “Canboulay”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-09-25 - 2021-11-07
Simonette Quamina’s practice is rooted in the intersection between family, agricultural histories, and sociopolitical events that have shaped global migration and labor. Growing up between Canada, Guyana,...More »
Shayok Mukhopadhyay “Waiting for Water”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-06-26 - 2021-08-08
Waiting for Water is a solo presentation by artist Shayok Mukhopadhyay spanning the entrance, stairway, and interior of Smack Mellon’s main gallery space. Employing two different styles of water-carrying...More »
Tammy Nguyen “Freehold”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2021-06-26 - 2021-08-08
The works that comprise Tammy Nguyen’s solo exhibition Freehold are inspired by the artist’s research and writing about Forest City, a tax free, man-made island in Johor, Malaysia, located along the Singapore...More »
Reade Bryan “Geomorphic Agents”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2021-06-26 - 2021-08-08
Geomorphic Agents includes five painted and sculptural installations by interdisciplinary artist Reade Bryan, focused on regions that have been dramatically altered by man-made irrigation systems. In this...More »
Katya Grokhovsky Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-03-20 - 2021-05-02
Katya Grokhovsky works in installation, performance, sculpture, video, painting and drawing, exploring ideas of gender, identity construction, alienation, labor, history, and the self. Through research...More »
JD Lenochan “Undoing White Mess”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2021-03-20 - 2021-05-05
Drawing from his experience in academia and critical discourse, jc lenochan’s work scrutinizes the way that history is taught, which narratives are given voice, and which ones are suppressed. In UNDOING...More »
“Bound up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2020-10-03 - 2020-12-13
Curated by Rachel Gugelberger Natalia Almonte, Donna Bassin, Cristina Biaggi, Zoë Buckman, Indira Cesarine, Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Maya Ciarrocchi, Adinah Dancyger & Mykki Blanco, Mary Dwyer,...More »
Jude Tallichet “Heat Map”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2020-03-07 - 2020-04-12
Jude Tallichet fabricates sculptures of mundane items using materials drawn largely from the construction industry, such as acrylic, gypsum and rolled aluminum foil to remake the quotidian into the fantastic....More »
Summer McCorkle “des abends”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2020-03-07 - 2020-04-12
Multimedia artist Summer McCorkle works in moving image, photography, and site-specific photo-based installation to play with perception and to reflect on unseen forces at work. Her practice involves engaging...More »
Really Large Numbers “The Observatory” and Cecile Chong “_other Nature”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2020-01-18 - 2020-02-23
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions, Really Large Numbers: The Observatory and Cecile Chong: _other Nature, opening concurrently on Saturday, January 18, 2020. In both exhibitions, the artists depict...More »
“Idol Worship” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2019-11-16 - 2019-12-29
Organized by guest curator Emily Colucci, the group exhibition Idol Worship celebrates the ongoing cultural, social and political significance of role model adoration as an essential survival strategy....More »
Esperanza Cortés “Canté Jondo/Deep Song” and Viviane Rombaldi “Seppey Voice”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2019-09-28 - 2019-11-03
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions, Esperanza Cortés: Canté Jondo/Deep Song and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey: Voice, opening concurrently on Saturday, September 28, 2019. Both artists make work that...More »
“I come to this place” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2019-06-15 - 2019-07-28
Curated by Eva Mayhabal Davis Smack Mellon presents I come to this place, a group exhibition that explores abstraction in art as a chain of histories that align, unpack, communicate, and translate connections....More »
Katie Bell “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place” and Austin Ballard “Shadow Lake”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2019-03-09 - 2019-04-21
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions, Katie Bell: A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place and Austin Ballard: Shadow Lake, opening concurrently on March 9, 2019. Both artists create work...More »
Bonnie Collura and Rachelle Mozman Solano Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2019-01-12 - 2019-02-24
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions, Bonnie Collura: Prince and Rachelle Mozman Solano: Metamorphosis of Failure, opening concurrently on January 12, 2019. Both artists create installations that...More »
“Empathy” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2018-11-17 - 2018-12-30
Curated by Gabriel de Guzman Divisive rhetoric has reverberated in our current political climate, and empathy has proven to be a challenging sentiment for many Americans to conjure. This exhibition...More »
Luisa Caldwell “A Cat in God’s Garden”
[0] [1]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2018-09-29 - 2018-11-04
Luisa Caldwell’s exhibition encompasses personal interests that have spanned her childhood and adult life: cats, flowers, and art books. Her project is inspired by the flowers she grows in her Brooklyn...More »
Paula Wilson “Spread Wild: Pleasures of the Yucca”
[0] [1]- Media: Video installation
- 2018-09-29 - 2018-11-04
Paula Wilson’s mixed-media installation transforms Smack Mellon’s industrial space into a landscape resembling the high desert plains of New Mexico where the artist lives. Central among the flora and fauna...More »
“Laugh Back” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2018-07-14 - 2018-08-19
Participating Artists: Farah Al Qasimi, Natalie Baxter, Deborah Castillo, Kristina Davis, Dynasty Handbag, Jesse Harrod, INNER COURSE (Rya Kleinpeter and Tora López), Lady Parts Justice League’s Vagical...More »
“AFRICA’SOUT! Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-06-02 - 2018-06-30
Guest Curator: Kalia Brooks AFRICA’SOUT! and Smack Mellon present the group exhibition Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora curated by Kalia Brooks Nelson. Carry Over: New Voices...More »
“Smack Mellon Art Ready Exhibition”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2018-05-09 - 2018-05-13
Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program Student Artists: Andrea Astudillo, Shennelle Bingham, Maryam Chadury, Atiyah Dayes, Awa Doumbia, Giordalis Fabre, Gillian Goris, Maximus Harrell,...More »
Summer Wheat and Lina Puerta Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2018-03-10 - 2018-04-22
Summer Wheat Inside the Garden Summer Wheat’s exhibition transforms Smack Mellon’s main gallery into an interior garden space that serves as a respite from the harsh realities of the outside world....More »
Rudy Shepherd and Theresa Ganz Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2018-01-13 - 2018-02-25
New year, new shows! We have two solo exhibitions opening this Saturday, January 13th. Join us for the opening reception of Rudy Shepherd’s Everything in the Universe is My Brother and Theresa Ganz’s Wave...More »
“UPROOT” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2017-11-18 - 2017-12-31
Curated by Gabriel de Guzman Artists Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Beverly Acha, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Laura Arena, Anthea Behm, Yael Ben-Zion, Justin Blinder, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Michele Brody, Hector...More »
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky “The Perilous Journey of María Rosa Palacios”
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2017-09-23 - 2017-11-05
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky’s half-hour, performance-based film documenting her travel from Ecuador’s Chota highlands to the coastal town of Guayaquil. The expedition serves as a re-creation of her great...More »
Ron Baron “Beyond-Beyond”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Ceramics
- 2017-09-23 - 2017-11-05
Ron Baron’s expansive installation of nearly one hundred pairs of life-size cast ceramic shoes. Although each pair is small in comparison to the gallery’s vast space, their combined poetic and ghostly...More »
“Race and Revolution: Still Separate - Still Unequal” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2017-06-24 - 2017-08-06
Smack Mellon presents the second Race and Revolution exhibition in a series that utilizes a combination of contemporary artworks and historical documents as a platform to examine patterns of systemic racism...More »
“Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Show”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2017-06-07 - 2017-06-17
The Department of Art at Brooklyn College present the 2017 MFA thesis exhibition Commencement, curated by Heather Bhandari, Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon. Through various media and thirteen...More »
Linda Herritt “Grease Rust Soot Sweat” and Shanti Grumbine “Zeroing” Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2017-03-11 - 2017-04-23
Smack Mellon presents solo exhibitions by Linda Herritt and Shanti Grumbine. Herritt’s Grease Rust Soot Sweat is a monumental installation based on a portion of Buckminster Fuller’s list of impactful...More »
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze “Star Fish” and Jarrod Beck “The Moon”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2017-01-14 - 2017-02-26
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions. Jarrod Beck’s text, collaborative performances, and astounding site-specific installation comprise The Moon. For the duration of the exhibition, a 60-foot-diameter,...More »
“20th Anniversary Show” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2016-11-12 - 2016-12-31
Smack Mellon turns 20 and marks the milestone with a large exhibition of 90+ works by artists who have participated in their Artist Studio Program, curated by Charlotta Kotik, the former curator at the...More »
Ghost of a Dream “When the Smoke Clears: The Fair Housing Project”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-09-24 - 2016-10-30
Smack Mellon presents Ghost of a Dream’s latest installation, When the Smoke Clears: The Fair Housing Project. Ghost of a Dream breathes new life into discarded materials once destined for a landfill...More »
Bobby Neel Adams “Memento Mori”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2016-09-24 - 2016-10-30
Smack Mellon presents Bobby Neel Adams’ photo series Memento Mori. Bobby Neel Adams’ ongoing photo series, Memento Mori, pays homage to the many species that have been pushed to the brink of extinction...More »
“Of the people” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2016-06-17 - 2016-07-31
Curated by Erin Donnelly The exhibition Of the people reflects of-the-moment political opinions shaping the 2016 presidential race in the United States. With video, drawing, photography, painting and...More »
“(SIGNAL)” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-03-05 - 2016-04-17
(SIGNAL), curated by Alexis Heller, opens at Smack Mellon. This exhibition presents artworks that challenge the gender binary and explore a continuum of self-definition. Working in diverse mediums, these...More »
Christine Sciulli “ROIL” and Nona Faustine “White Shoes”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-01-09 - 2016-02-21
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions of Christine Sciulli and Nona Faustine. Both artists present work, which conflates New York City’s history within a unique and compelling contemporary lens. Christine...More »
Michael Kukla and Karin Giusti Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-09-26 - 2016-01-13
Smack Mellon presents Karin Giusti’s monumental installation Honorem: Three Seasons at Black Forest Farm and Michael Kukla’s first large scale site-specific project Jeskyne. Karin Giusti’s installation...More »
“Story of a Story” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-06-13 - 2015-07-26
Storytelling is a universal desire of which sharing experiences, whether pertaining to heritage, traveling journeys, or day-to-day accounts, is a natural habit we communicate in many ways, including oral...More »
“Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2015-05-20 - 2015-05-24
Student Artists: Gustavo Bahena, Earl Douglas, Rateeba Ghaffar, Kuburatu Jagun, Jemila Mowarin, Fatima Khamise, Sahara Leung, Nephtali Madhere, Inayiah McKay Artist Mentors: Michael Paul Britto,...More »
Erica Bailey, Yumi Janairo Roth, Nadine Wasserman Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-03-14 - 2015-04-19
Smack Mellon presents Erica Bailey’s multimedia installation Its memory, the memory of its ribs, its knees, its shoulders, and Yumi Janairo Roth and Nadine Wasserman’s collaborative project ArtSourced:...More »
“Respond” Exhibitiom
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-01-17 - 2015-02-22
After learning of the grand jury’s decision to not indict Daniel Pantaleo, Smack Mellon postponed a planned exhibition in order to respond to the continued failure of the United States to protect its black...More »
Selin Balci, Alison Owen and Tracey Goodman “Three Solo Exhibitions”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-11-22 - 2015-01-04
Smack Mellon presents three solo exhibitions of Tracey Goodman, Alison Owen, and Selin Balci. Alison Owen, Species of Spaces: Using Smack Mellon as a type of archive for her installation, Species...More »
Saya Woolfalk and Vandana Jain Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-09-27 - 2014-11-09
Saya Woolfalk and Vandana Jain. In each of their hallucinatory installations, both New York-based artists explore the evolving influence of corporations and their relationship to the collective consciousness....More »
“FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-06-07 - 2014-07-27
This is an exhibition of upstate/downstate NY artists who work with food and agriculture, curated by Amy Lipton. FOODshed: Agriculture and Art in Action focuses on sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship,...More »
“Open Studios”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2014-03-15 - 2014-03-16
Smack Mellon will offer the unique chance to enter the private studios of our 2013-2014 fellowship artists. The artists will have work on display that they have been making during the first half of their...More »
“In Plain Sight” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2014-03-15 - 2014-04-20
Neil Armstrong planting the American flag on the moon; the destruction of the Berlin Wall; planes hitting the World Trade Center in New York; and so on. These images have come to encapsulate, indeed to...More »
Robert Hickman “DMMDIA”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-01-18 - 2014-03-02
“Drawn to the logic and universality of mathematics, I aim to engage viewers with a dangerous geometry. With razor-sharp edges, roughly 7,200 individually cut three-dimensional triangles jut out from...More »
Mónika Sziládi “Wide Receivers”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-01-18 - 2014-03-02
“In “Wide Receivers” I explore how the social sphere and its attendant behaviors are simultaneously tribalized and atomized amidst the ever increasing noise of mass (over)communication, digital media,...More »
LoVid “Roots No Shoots”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2013-11-23 - 2014-01-05
“Roots No Shoots” is a media-bricolage installation with visceral compositions of video, audio, and discarded electronic devices. In this new work we continue our ongoing exploration of raw electrical...More »
Andrea Loefke “Homecoming”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2013-11-23 - 2014-01-05
“For many years my work has cycled in and around the themes of nature at large and on a more specific level, the extremes of weather. Having experienced the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, this subject...More »
Shana Moulton “Morphing Essence Syndrome”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2013-09-28 - 2013-11-03
“Morphing Essence Syndrome” features several new videos presented in a dynamic installation designed specifically for Smack Mellon. These new videos have been created over the past year and this will be...More »
Bryan Zanisnik “Meadowlands Picaresque”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2013-09-28 - 2013-11-03
“Meadowlands Picaresque” (2013) is a site-specific installation that incorporates materials from my childhood home, a polluted swamp in northern New Jersey and suburban junk shops. These objects appear...More »
“Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2013-05-22 - 2013-06-16
Smack Mellon presents the opening of Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program. The exhibition presents the work of students who participated in the 2012- 2013 session of Art Ready, Smack...More »
"The Hollow Center" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-03-09 - 2013-04-21
In the relationship between aesthetics and politics, there is always a risk of falling into the gap between the personal and the communal. Art, and by extension aesthetics, is often discussed as a highly...More »
Janet Biggs "Somewhere Beyond Nowhere"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2013-01-12 - 2013-02-24
Smack Mellon presents Janet Biggs and Aude Moreau as part of Brooklyn / Montréal, a contemporary art event with the aim of establishing a cultural exchange between 2 cities, 16 institutions and 40 artists....More »
Aude Moreau "Sugar Carpet"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2013-01-12 - 2013-02-24
Smack Mellon presents Janet Biggs and Aude Moreau as part of Brooklyn / Montréal, a contemporary art event with the aim of establishing a cultural exchange between 2 cities, 16 institutions and 40 artists....More »
Cheryl Molnar "Better Homes and Gardens"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-09-29 - 2012-11-04
Smack Mellon is pleased to present Adriane Colburn's installation Spectral Reckoning and Cheryl Molnar's new collage works in Better Homes and Gardens. This will be the first solo exhibition in NY for...More »
Adriane Colburn "Spectral Reckoning"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-09-29 - 2012-11-04
Smack Mellon presents Adriane Colburn's installation Spectral Reckoning and Cheryl Molnar's new collage works in Better Homes and Gardens. This will be the first solo exhibition in NY for both artists....More »
"A Garden of Visuality" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-08-25 - 2012-08-26
A Garden of Visuality is an exhibition of work created by students during Smack Mellon's Summer Arts Intensive arts education program. Every August, Smack Mellon's 6,000 square foot gallery is transformed...More »
"Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Fashion - Video installation
- 2012-06-06 - 2012-07-15
Smack Mellon is pleased to announce the opening of Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program. The exhibition presents the work of students who participated in the 2011-2012 session of...More »
Yoko Inoue & Jeanne Quinn Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2012-03-17 - 2012-04-22
Smack Mellon presents two solo exhibitions of new projects by New York-based artist Yoko Inoue and Colorado-based artist Jeanne Quinn. Yoko Inoue’s latest multimedia installation Mandala Flea Market...More »
Tamara Gayer "The Final Contraction", Stephen Sollins "Piecework" & Heeseop Yoon "Still Life #1"
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Installation
- 2012-01-21 - 2012-03-04
Smack Mellon presents three solo exhibitions featuring new work and site specific projects by Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon. Tamara Gayer reconfigures and translates...More »
Rachel Beach "Distance Trance"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-09-24 - 2011-10-30
Re-imagining the basics of structure and image, Rachel Beach's skillfully constructed architectonic objects curiously hover between sign and real, visible and invisible. Highlighting the tension between...More »
Isidro Blasco "Tilted"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-09-24 - 2011-10-30
Madrid-born New York-based artist Isidro Blasco creates photographic sculptures and multimedia installations composed of images of places where he has lived, worked and visited. In Tilted, Blasco creates...More »
"The Smack Mellon Files" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-08-27 - 2011-09-04
The Smack Mellon Files is an exhibition of work created by students during Smack Mellon's Summer Arts Intensive arts education program. Through this program, every August, Smack Mellon's 6,000 square foot...More »
"Heat Island" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2011-06-18 - 2011-07-31
In the New York summer, escalating temperatures alter the shape and feeling of everyday life. Pavement sweats. Air stagnates; the pace slows, tensions rise. The city's combination of structures, surfaces,...More »
"Art Ready" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Sculpture
- 2011-05-18 - 2011-05-22
Smack Mellon presents the opening of Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship Program. The exhibition presents the work of nineteen students who participated in the 2010-2011 session of Art...More »
"Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby" Party & Art Auction Benefit
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2011-05-07 - 2011-05-07
Bidding and Betting-Come and Win! For $250 you and your guest will attend the best Derby Party outside of Louisville and bring home an original work of art. Guests bet on horses (which determines the...More »
David Henderson "A History of Aviation - Part 2"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-03-05 - 2011-04-10
Inspired by the Late Gothic style of the Bath Abbey’s fan vaulted ceiling, David Henderson recreates the Perpendicular architecture and presents the iconic form flipped on its side in his installation...More »
Shannon Plumb "The Window Series"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-03-05 - 2011-04-10
Since falling in love with the silence of her very first Super 8 films, Shannon Plumb has been using storytelling without dialogue as the perfect medium for her dynamic physical humor and witty characterizations....More »
"Site 92: Work Permit Approved" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-02-20
Smack Mellon ipresents SITE 92: Work Permit Approved, the third exhibition in a series that features site specific installations. Smack Mellon’s expansive gallery space lends itself well to site specific...More »
eteam "Gallery Cruise" & Charlotte Schulz "The Uneven Intensities of Duration"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2010-09-25 - 2010-11-21
Smack Mellon presents Gallery Cruise by eteam and a series of new charcoal drawings by Charlotte Schulz. Both New York-based 2010 Guggenheim fellows, eteam and Schulz explore the relationship between...More »
"A Canvas of Opportunities" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-08-28 - 2010-08-29
A Canvas of Opportunities is an exhibition of work created by students during Smack Mellon’s Summer Arts Intensive arts education program. Through this program, every August, Smack Mellon’s 6,000 square...More »
"Condensations of the Social" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-06-19 - 2010-08-01
Smack Mellon's summer group exhibition Condensations of the Social will feature artistic projects that refer to the strands of the social that contribute to the formation of culture: pedagogy, ritual/performance,...More »
"Art Ready: Selected Works from the Artist Mentorship Program" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-19 - 2010-05-27
This exhibition presents the work of students who participated in the 2009-2010 session of Art Ready, Smack Mellon's arts mentorship program for motivated high school students interested in possibly pursuing...More »
"New York Photo Festival: Use Me, Abuse Me" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2010-05-13 - 2010-05-16
Use Me, Abuse Me begins with Kessels’ a posteriori observation that easy access to photography tools and software results in quicker, more facile modes of image production, consumption and disposal. Perhaps...More »
Pawel Wojtasik "At the Still Point" & Marietta Hoferer "Coptic Light"
[0] [1]- Media: Drawing - Video installation
- 2010-03-06 - 2010-04-11
Smack Mellon presents a five-channel video installation by Pawel Wojtasik and a series of pencil and tape drawings by Marietta Hoferer. Wojtasik’s visually powerful videos typically take on weighty...More »
"MAHOGANY" Concert
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-02-04
Smack Mellon presents Press Play, a free concert series held in conjunction with the Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Walk*. While listening to the latest sounds from the best new local bands, enjoy a free...More »
John von Bergen "Whip Lash" & Michelle Weinstein "Shine, Perishing Republic"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2010-01-16 - 2010-02-21
Smack Mellon presents the ambitious site-specific installation Whip Lash by Berlin-based American artist John von Bergen and Shine, Perishing Republic, two series of meticulous ink and watercolor drawings...More »
Tracey Snelling "Woman on the Run" and Michael Paul Britto "Society’s Children"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2009-11-21 - 2010-01-03
Smack Mellon presents Tracey Snelling’s installation Woman on the Run and Michael Paul Britto’s new video works in Society’s Children. The two artists incorporate elements of pop culture, cinema, and reality...More »
Fernando Souto "The End of the Trail"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-09-26 - 2009-11-08
“My parents emigrated from Uruguay to Australia when I was eighteen months old. With my extended family still in Uruguay, I never had the opportunity to really know my relatives, particularly my grandmother,...More »
Ellen Driscoll "FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-09-26 - 2009-11-08
“This installation is a continuation of a multi-year series which explores the dynamics of resource harvesting and consumption. This part of the series focuses on oil and water. Rising at 5:30 AM, I harvest...More »
"Cinema 16" Screening
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-09-10
Named after the New York-based avant-garde film society in 1947 and inspired by Maya Deren's Greenwich Village exhibition of experimental films, Cinema 16 pairs edgy contemporary musical artists with vintage...More »
"Beauty Underfoot" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2009-06-20 - 2009-08-02
Apropos of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage once remarked, "Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look." His comment suggests not merely that the commonplace can be transformed into art,...More »
"Cinema 16" Film Screening
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2009-06-04 - 2009-06-04
Named after the New York-based avant-garde film society in 1947 and inspired by Maya Deren's Greenwich Village exhibition of experimental films, Cinema 16 pairs edgy contemporary musical artists with vintage...More »
"Cinema 16" Film Screening
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2009-05-07 - 2009-05-07
Smack Mellon will host Cinema 16 as part of the gallery's Press Play First Thursdays concert series.Cinema 16 recreates the experience of the silent film era, as curator Molly Surno programs obscure vintage...More »
"The Good Life" Panel Discussion
[0] [0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-04-11 - 2009-04-11
Carin Kuoni will moderate as the panel examines the "documentary" aspect of The Good Life, a multi-media project by Carlos Motta which is currently on view at Smack Mellon until April 12, in particular:...More »
Blane De St. Croix "Artist's Walk-Through of Broken Landscape"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2009-04-05 - 2009-04-05
Blane De St. Croix, recent Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant recipient, will discuss his artistic process and recent trip to the US/ Mexico Border. De St. Croix will be joined by critic, independent curator...More »
Blane De St Croix "Broken Landscape"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-04-12
The Broken Landscape project is based on recent travels along the entire Mexico/United States border. Research for the project involved traveling over 3,000 miles and exploring both the old and new federal...More »
Carlos Motta "The Good Life"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-04-12
The Good Life is a two-part video project composed of a video installation and an Internet archive (www.la-buena-vida.info) formed by 400 video interviews with pedestrians on the streets of twelve cities...More »
Inaugural Ball Party
[0] [0]- Media: Art Party
- 2009-01-20 - 2009-01-20
Smack Mellon is going to have an Inaugural Ball to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama.More »
Kirsten Hassenfeld "Dans la Lune"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-01-17 - 2009-02-22
Smack Mellon presents the first solo exhibitions for 2009. The exhibitions feature the work of Kirsten Hassenfeld. "Since 1999, I have used paper to create ornate, obsessively detailed objects and environments...More »
Jennie C. Jones "The Walkman Compositions"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-01-17 - 2009-02-22
Smack Mellon presents the first solo exhibitions for 2009. The exhibitions feature the work of Jennie C. Jones. "This series of collage and ink on paper deconstructs the first mass-produced personal...More »
"Quintet for two Violas, two Cellos, and a Corpse" Composed by Masami Tomihisa
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2008-12-11 - 2008-12-11
"I commissioned Ms. Tomihisa to create an original music score accordingly to a set of instructions given to her in our officially signed music commission contract. These instructions include a number...More »
Three Solo Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-11-22 - 2009-01-04
Wayne Hodge "The Original Comedy" Wayne Hodge works in performance, video and film. His work is based in a historical evocation of Modernism and the early years of cinema as well as issues surrounding...More »
Sarah Kabot "One by One"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-09-27 - 2008-11-09
One by One is a site–specific work that replicates the architecture and lighting in the gallery. The paper recreation is rotated one foot counterclockwise from the original, creating a three-dimensional...More »
Shin Il Kim "Decoded Love"
[0] [1]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-09-27 - 2008-11-09
Decoded Love is based on the silent film, "The Toll of the Sea", the first color feature film made in Hollywood in 1922. This perplexing story of unrequited love, similar to Puccini's "Madame Butterfly,”...More »
Kwabena Slaughter "Oh, Very, Yes!"
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2008-09-27 - 2008-11-09
Oh, Very, Yes! is an exhibition of my ongoing experiment with the idea of the photographic-scroll. Before the invention of photography, and the movie camera, the scroll was the way to depict a narrative...More »
Open Studios
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2008-09-27 - 2008-09-28
The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis in availability of affordable workspace for artists living and working in New York City. The program provides artists working in...More »
"There is no synonym for hope" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-06-14 - 2008-07-27
We live in uncertain times of deep cynicism and audacious hope. Assumed structures, both political and social, once deemed infallible have once again revealed their cracks. Our global world has reshuffled...More »
"Three-person solo" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2008-03-08 - 2008-04-20
Smack Mellon presents the works of Jennifer Dalton, Rita MacDonald and Amanda Mathis, three Brooklyn based artists presenting new projects. In the main gallery space, Mathis’ disorienting large-scale installation...More »
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