Wayfarers - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Wayfarers. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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David B. Frye “Milking the Golden Bull”
Curated by Mary Gagler Milking the Golden Bull is an exhibition of new works by David B. Frye, curated by Mary Gagler. A series of paintings on panel in carved wooden frames and a mechanical wood sculpture...More »
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Carole Garmon “The Victorious Underdog (and other favorites)”
Wayfarers presents the first New York solo show of Virginia-based artist Carole Garmon. The exhibition will feature Garmon’s recent drawings and wall sculptures. From the artist: The Victorious Underdog...More »
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“Anthropocene Blues” Exhibition
Curated by Jane Ursula Harris While a quick search on Google reveals several sources for the origins of the phrase Anthropocene Blues, this exhibition takes its name and inspiration from an eponymous...More »
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Taylor Baldwin “Everything All At Once”
Wayfarers presents Everything All At Once, the first NYC solo exhibition of work by sculptor Taylor Baldwin. The show features three multi-media sculptures and two videos that Baldwin has created in the...More »
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Patty Barth and A.W. Strouse “Transfer Queen”
Transfer Queen is a collection of drawings and poems about men on the New York subway. The exhibition showcases drawings by Barth and poems by Strouse—with copies of the book available and a poetry reading...More »
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Ivan Rivera “Mix Messages”
Mix Messages is a survey of Ivan Rivera’s works from 2012-2018 and includes multi-media work from several series and several points of departure. Each painting in the encaustic and mixed-media series...More »
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Ling-lin Ku “Play without Play”
Play has its own etiquette, rituals and ceremonies, its own absolute rules. As Johan Huizinga notes in Homo Ludens, a classic study of play and culture, play “creates order, is order. Into an imperfect...More »
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Leslie Lanxinger “Sick Rose”
Wayfarers presents Sick Rose, a collection of high-contrast charcoal drawings by Los Angeles-based artist, Leslie Lanxinger. Touching on both personal and shared experiences, Sick Rose acts as a catalyst...More »
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“How to Draw a Tyrant” Exhibition
A Multimedia Exhibition That Explores Labor, Surveillance, and The Political Economies of the Individual Artist’s Voice Curated By Jasmine Dreame Wagner Featuring works by Tahnee Pantig, Hiroki Otsuka,...More »
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Janel Schultz “LEGTOPIA”
LEGTOPIA by Brooklyn-based artist Janel Schultz is a large-scale grouping of three-dimensional animal legs, suspended as a herd of assorted soft-sculptural forms. With painterly allusion and textural...More »
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“Tympanum” Exhibition
Tympanum brings together eight artists whose work examines the interface between the inner life and the outside world of the other through the membrane of the body. Presented by Art Shape Mammoth and curated...More »
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Suso Phizer “Face Wear”
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Hiroki Otsuka “Men and Cats”
Artist Hiroki Otsuka’s solo show, Men and Cats, plays with two popular motifs that are found in both historic and contemporary Japanese art. The first is a bound figure; the second, the cat. Male figures...More »
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A. Pate “Finding the Honey”
“You’ll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar.” I heard that a lot growing up, and every time I thought, well I like vinegar more than honey anyways! The truth is I was, and always have...More »
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“The Darkest Side of Paradise” Exhibition
The Darkest Side of Paradise is a group show navigating the multi-faceted influence of drugs on US culture. Highly stigmatized but easily accessible, drug usage is deeply entrenched in the national landscape...More »
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“Art World” Exhibition
Curated by Apostrophe NYC and Brittany Natale “Art World” is an interactive group show investigating the entitlement of citizenship and its parallels to art world elitism. Before entering the show,...More »
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“BUZZ SAW” Exhibition
Come see over 60 works of original art from faculty, staff, and alumni from SAW, the country’s premier school for cartooning, comic arts, and graphic novels. Hailing from Gainesville Florida, Sequential...More »
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David (scout) McQueen “Long Lost”
It starts with a slip. My attention drifts and…shhht. It’s gone. It lingers on my periphery, flutters, and leaves. Then it dances back, days later, to remind me, not of what I’d forgotten but that...More »
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Rachel Hays “Trousseau”
In a feminist context, what identities and experiences does a woman carry with her? Bronx- based artist Rachel Hays explores this idea in her solo show, TROUSSEAU. A traditional “Trousseau” is a collection...More »
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Kristen Morin “Pictures from My Neighbourhood (or, This is how I see)”
Since the first darkroom manipulations of photographs, their veracity as authentic documents has been debated. Physical evidence is rarely as enlightening as an accurately portrayed emotional tone. We...More »
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Sara Jimenez “Remnants”
For several years, Jimenez has collected Spanish and American colonial images and texts, alongside familial narratives, keepsakes and photos from the Philippines. Using these objects, she attempts to piece...More »
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Sto Len “The End Papers”
Sto Len’s current mono-prints look like punk rock paper marbling. They’re dense with color - like the book-binders’ papers with which we’re familiar, and they possess a similar complexity of pattern. But...More »
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“Family Album” Exhibition
Wayfarers presents Family Album, the annual show of artworks produced by its resident and ghost members. The exhibition is a celebration of the artists who make Wayfarers happen. Featuring painting, sculpture,...More »
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Caroline Paquita “Woo-Woo-Womanival”
Caroline Paquita’s WOO-WOO-WOMANIVAL explores the yin-yang of life/death/happy/sad through a carnival-meets-healing-center installation. Building upon a larger body of work, Paquita uses her WOMANIMALS...More »
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Melissa Sclafani “Chew Me Up / Spit You Out”
Wayfarers is proud to present Chew Me Up / Spit You Out, a solo exhibition by Melissa Sclafani exploring desire, sex, and success in contemporary culture. The show features an installation which Sclafani...More »
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Macon Reed “Eulogy For The Dyke Bar”
Wayfarers presents the culminating project by our 2015 Summer Artist in Residence for her first solo exhibition in New York: Macon Reed’s Eulogy For The Dyke Bar revisits the legacy and physical spaces...More »
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George Ferrandi “Star!Star!Star!Circle!”
It’s a little known fact that the North Star - the fixed point in the night sky that helped lead slaves to freedom in America - is not the same North Star that helped the Egyptians align the pyramids....More »
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“Thebes” Exhibition
Thebes is a seedy carnival, an analphabetic fantasyland that lies just beyond the portal of consciousness exploring the kaleidoscope of what is known but unthought a pre-Oedipal color convergence of images...More »
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Stacey M. Holloway “Instinctual Drift”
Chi Chi and Pablo were Capuchin monkeys who lived in a Florida sanctuary in the nineties. Chi Chi had performed in the circus, and wore a little skirt. She and Pablo had been a couple for twenty years....More »
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Douglas Degges and Eric Oglander “Making Stuff Out of Things”
Art and walking have an ongoing romance in New York. From Vito Acconci following people around the city in 1969, to Christine Hill leading them around it thirty years later, right up to Elastic City’s...More »
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Mitsuko Brooks “Do You Care About This Feeling?”
Wayfarers and Ferro Strouse Gallery present Mitsuko Brooks: My recent collages, mail art pieces, and text paintings, are principally concerned with my longtime interests in the power of taste, the (un)certainty...More »
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“Body in Eden” Exhibition
When we look at fragments of the body, or an implied body, can we for a little while cease to be ourselves? This show proposes that new ground can be covered through juxtaposition of fragments and materials...More »
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Kutikuti “Business Talk Partner Zone”
This fall, Wayfarers is proud to present Business Talk Partner Zone, a special comic art exhibition with Finnish artist collective KUTIKUTI, opening in conjunction with New York’s annual festival of comics...More »
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Scott Saunders “Integument”
This fall, Wayfarers is pleased to present Integument, an epistemological body of work by Scott Saunders that investigates how we construct knowledge about the world around us. Stemming from the Latin...More »
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John Orth “The Golden Age of Souvenirs”
The installation John Orth has developed as the culmination of his residency at Wayfarers focuses on the idea that the objects we collect reflect and sometimes inform our emotional lives. The Golden Age...More »
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“The Whales of August” Exhibition
Bette Davis and Lillian Gish are both a little over a million years old in the film The Whales of August, and they have spent each one of those million-plus summers on the craggy coast of Maine. It’s understood...More »
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“Congratulations on Everything” Exhibition
Ben Coode-Adams makes mystical watercolor paintings of spirit world / Sasquatch – like figures adorned with or comprised of tribal patterns that seep off of the characters and into the spaces around them....More »
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Mike Taylor “Bad Credit”
As convoluted as the multiple interpretations of that damned Confederate Flag, The South still stands as a metonym for the various neuroses that define life in the United States. Impossible strands of...More »
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Patrick Barth “Observations and Dreams”
The painter Dick Carlyon used to make elaborate and extended analogies between the many types of relationships we have with specific people in our lives and the many types of relationships we have with...More »
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Joshua Ben Longo “”Hypnagogia”
Hypnagogia will include sculpture, paintings/drawings, a wall-sized installation, a limited edition, four-color screenprint and a small run of toys/sculptures. Longo’s works are masterful ruses, often...More »
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“Ashen Branches, Vibrant Keys” Exhibition
With their emphasis on vividness of color and vitality of form and line, the works in the show provide a welcome counterpoint to the bleakness of midwinter in Brooklyn. The show takes its title from the...More »
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“Not Everyone Feels Like They Have To Win All The Time” Exhibition
Not Everyone Feels Like They Have To Win All The Time is an exhibition of new work by Renee Delosh and Craig Hein. Both artists share a similar approach in creating their work, lampooning the inherit seriousness...More »
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David (scout) McQueen "Adrift in your ocean, trying to find my way…"
“There are stories we need to remember, stories we wish to forget, and stories we are meant to imagine.” -V. Gamba (1649) I have a friend who often dreams of sculpture. In her dreams, there are amazingly...More »