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.
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"
[1][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
[2][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"
[2][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"
[1][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
[1][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
[1][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"
[1][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 »
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 »
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 »
"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"
[1][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
[1][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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