FiveMyles - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for FiveMyles. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Myrah Brown Green “My Underground Railroad and how I got through”
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[0]- Media: Installation - Crafts
- 2022-03-19 - 2022-04-10
FiveMyles presents the art of Myrah Brown Green, a professional quilt maker, curator, writer and teacher. This exhibition shows quilt forms, mixed media and photography by the artist, in special collaboration...More »
Emily Feinstein “In These Time”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-03-19 - 2022-04-17
This eight-foot-long structure on stilts built entirely of wood, mainly sourced from the cut-offs of local cabinet makers or recycled pieces of older projects is the artist’s ode to these past few years...More »
“TIME ???” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2022-02-12 - 2022-03-13
A FiveMyles Plus/Space installation by Larry Weekes. Larry believes that the role of the artist is to communicate, document and inspire thought. The artist must evoke the energy of feelings. The artist...More »
“Fulton Art Fair Artists” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2022-02-12 - 2022-03-13
Fulton Art Fair was established in 1958 as a collective of artists of African and African American descent, promoting their work in New York City and New York State; although most of its members are local...More »
Patrick Alexis and Marvin Franklin “All in a Day’s Work”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2022-01-08 - 2022-02-06
Curated by Barbara Campisi, Michelle Samedi and Hanne Tierney Patrick Alexis, a detective with the NYPD, and Marvin Franklin, who worked as a track worker for the MTA and was killed by a train in 2007,...More »
Nora Chellew and Jude Tallichet Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2021-10-30 - 2021-11-28
A two-person exhibition by Jude Tallichet and Nora Chellew Nora Chellew and Jude Tallichet present a collaborative exhibition of sculpture entitled even-toed ungulates, an uncanny and fantastic viewing...More »
Lane Sell “75-Foot Riot”
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Installation
- 2021-10-23 - 2021-11-14
A 75ft. silk screen labyrinth invites viewers to actively navigate the history of racial and class conflicts in Crown Heights. The installation is composed of two silk screened scrolls that detail the...More »
Luisa Caldwell “Infinite Butterfly”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-09-18 - 2021-10-09
Infinite Butterfly Installation by Luisa Caldwell The artist fills the Plus/Space with a 14ft floor to ceiling candy wrapper and thread column, made of thousands of reclaimed wrappers, and multiplied...More »
“The Way We See It” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2021-09-16 - 2021-10-09
Inside Outside Windowphilia by Meridith McNeal Window Paintings by ART YARD artists. The Way We See It is an exhibition of paintings by the artist Meridith McNeal in conjunction with paintings inspired...More »
Clara Wiest “Exploration Of The Everchanging”
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2021-07-10 - 2021-08-08
Performance residency with Clara Wiest and collaborators Clara Wiest and collaborators work on an experimental theater piece during a residency in the FiveMyles Plus/Space, culminating in public performances...More »
“Tin Foil Has Many Uses” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-07-10 - 2021-08-08
Curated by George Simonds George Simonds curates fellow emerging artists in a mixed-media exhibition. Varying personal backgrounds inform the eclectic works; collectively the exhibition offers a window...More »
Rowan Renee “That Day, We Looked Happy”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-04-24 - 2021-05-30
Ten years ago the artist’s father passed away in prison. Renee’s family was not given the opportunity to visit him as his health declined. The interruption of the grieving process caused by the carceral...More »
Rachelle Dang and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow “Daughters of Lam”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2021-04-24 - 2021-05-30
With this collaboration two female artists of Chinese descent pay tribute to the early 20th-century Cuban Chinese painter Wilfredo Lam, who fused elements of Cubism and Surrealism with African culture...More »
Thad Higa and Tammy Nguyen “O”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2021-03-06 - 2021-04-11
O, is an address, an utterance emerging from the body, passing the threshold of the throat and mouth then thrust out into the open. It’s a circle, the return of what has been presented as finished, done...More »
Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston “Essential Services: 2020 Woodcuts”
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2021-03-06 - 2021-04-11
As largely peaceful protestors filled the streets of cities around the world in response to the racist murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, among others, many of Manhattan’s retail...More »
Jan Meissner and Richard Nonas Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture
- 2020-12-05 - 2021-01-03
This exhibition was originally scheduled for April 2020, and features photographs by Jan Meissner and sculpture by Richard Nonas. It is organized and shepherded through this difficult period by Filippo...More »
Av Ryan and Linnaea Tillett “If Not, Winter”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2020-12-05 - 2021-01-03
This exhibition is a site-specific installation that stems from AV Ryan and Linnaea Tillett’s work and reflections on light, lighting, and sculpture. The text below is an excerpt from an essay on which...More »
“She Taught Me to Stand on her Shoulders” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2020-10-10 - 2020-11-16
The curator, Dr. Myrah Brown Greene has chosen eight women artists to turn the FiveMyles gallery space into a homage, a kind of altar, to the women that came before. She has included three writers, Jacqueline...More »
Ronen Gamil “The Best Is Yet To Come”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2020-10-10 - 2020-11-16
The Best is Yet to Come is a textile collage installation about real estate speculation, gentrification and displacement and social control. The installation forms a diagrammatic neighborhood map of luxury...More »
Connie Fu “Lover / no reason”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2020-01-04 - 2020-02-16
A site-specific installation juxtaposing woven, fabric, and painted work by Connie Fu.More »
Heather Holden and Francks Deceus “Between the Waters”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2020-01-04 - 2020-02-09
For the past three decades, the two artists featured in this exhibition have put their vision on canvas; Deceus as individual experience and Holden as global/political outrage. Both trust in the power...More »
“Trajectory - FiveMyles” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2019-10-19 - 2019-12-15
curated by Charlotta Kotik with Will Corwin Artists: Nicole Awai, Bahar Behbahani, Mildred Beltre, Martha Haile Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe, Sa’dia Rehman, Sa’dia Rehman Roberto Visani The exhibition...More »
Florence Neal “Waters of the Future”
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2019-10-19 - 2019-12-15
An installation of water-based woodcuts that are hand-printed in answer to the question: What is the color of the water of the future? The artist plans to be on-site to hand-print responses and demonstrate...More »
“18 Stanzas Sung To A Tatar Reed Whistle” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2019-09-19 - 2019-10-05
“I first read Ts’ai Yen’s poem in a translation by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung about 20 years ago. I have loved this sad poem and always felt I would have wanted to know Ts’ai Yen. The daughter of a...More »
Barbara Hatfield “Always Light”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2019-09-14 - 2019-10-13
Barbara Hatfield’s art is marked by an elegant simplicity and sensitivity to form and material. Abstract paintings, done with oil-stick and gouache on linen, offer rich textures and space both deep and...More »
Ronen Gamil “Condo Conundrum”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-30
Condo Conundrum is a mixed-media sculpture-installation that composes a place to reflect on mass homelessness, on the context of the homeless in urban environments and on the relation between homelessness...More »
Shervone Neckles “Provenance”
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2019-06-01 - 2019-07-07
The artist’s newest manipulated print series features “a liminal figure maneuvering through space with a house structure worn as a mask or headdress”. The house is both a reference of her maternal family...More »
George Simonds “Work Machines”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2019-05-30 - 2019-07-07
These kinetic sculptures are made of found and repurposed materials, in an effort by the artist to “create a machine that functions, despite its incompatible materials”. More »
Judith Murray and Cordy Ryman “From Plane to Space”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2019-03-23 - 2019-04-21
Curator: Lilly Wei FiveMyles presents this two-generation exhibition. Painting, as we know, is not only not dead, but it is flourishing. And not only painting, but abstract painting. In this two-person...More »
Barbara Campisi “A Sound of Light appearing around the bend”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2019-02-09 - 2019-03-16
FiveMyles presents Barbara Campisi’s new large scale installation. In this all-encompassing maze-like environment, LEDs form colored lines of light when reflected off translucent ‘walls’, confounding any...More »
Andres J. Hoyos “Hope”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2019-01-05 - 2019-01-20
Through an installation and series of photographs, Andres J. Hoyos asks us to consider how fragile life can be under the immense pressure of immigration. Using the simple, easily recognizable symbols of...More »
“Text / Traces / Faces” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2018-11-29 - 2018-12-22
Drawings and Paintings by John Valembrun This exhibition presents new work by young, self-taught artist John Valembrun, whose interest in transforming and representing language, along with his search...More »
Vittoria Chierici “I vestiti dei filosofi”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-10-27 - 2018-12-15
Curator: Jennifer Bacon Five Myles presents the solo exhibition of Vittoria Chierici: The Philosophers Clothes, curated by Jennifer Bacon. The artist presents large paintings she has dedicated to Raphael’s...More »
Sheba Legend “MasculineUS”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2018-10-27 - 2018-11-18
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Jamel Shabazz “Standing on the Square”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2018-09-13 - 2018-10-14
Curator: Dr. Myrah Brown Green FiveMyles presents the first solo exhibition in Brooklyn of the photographs by the esteemed and beloved photographer/artist Jamel Shabazz. This journalistic timeline...More »
Charmaine Bee “Dream Sequence”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-08-04 - 2018-08-30
Carl E. Hazlewood “Between Black & White from Here to There”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-08-04 - 2018-09-02
Edward Shalala “wind blown canvas thread in NYC Parks”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-07-05 - 2018-07-15
Edward Shalala is a reductive abstract painter, who has been part of the New York art world for the past four decades. For this recent series of photographs shown in this exhibition, Shalala has traveled...More »
Quiara Torrè “Samanà”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-06-27 - 2018-07-29
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Maksaens Denis “Selebrasyon ! Ayiti Angaje”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-05-27 - 2018-06-17
Maksaens Denis is an multi-media artist from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, a Parisian audio-visual school, in 1992. While freelancing for French...More »
Trokon Nagbe “New Work”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-05-26 - 2018-06-17
This exciting new installation by Trokon Nagbe includes a variety of approaches and techniques. Large sheets of rice paper - from 25ft. to 6ft. - are suspended, their surface pierced and marked like scarification...More »
Cyrilla Mozenter “the filed utopian & Other Stories”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-04-21 - 2018-05-13
In the failed utopian & Other Stories Cyrilla Mozenter exhibits two and three-dimensional pieces of hand stitched industrial wool felt and works on and with paper. While the pieces have been selected...More »
“Unreality Bomb” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-03-17 - 2018-04-15
“Unreality Bomb “ is a term first coined by Roger White in a seminal book on contemporary art titled The Contemporaries. White used this term to characterize a painting that had pieces deliberately removed...More »
Cecile Chong “In Between Daylight”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-03-17 - 2018-04-15
“In Between Daylight” is a site-specific installation that references ideas of danger, fear and risk taking in an environment that may be beautiful, disorienting and haunting all at the same time. The...More »
Otto Neals and Emmett Wigglesworth Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-02-10 - 2018-03-11
Co-curators: Carl E. Hazlewood and Hanne Tierney FiveMyles presents two artists whose work has been part of American art for the past 60 years. Although their work differs from each other in its imagery,...More »
Nina Meledandri “everything you do is perfect”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2018-01-06 - 2018-01-28
This intimate 12ft. x 12ft. added exhibition space (FiveMyles repurposed garage) has shown remarkable work by underrepresented artists since 2015. The photographer/artist Nina Meledandri will exhibit recent...More »
“Bête Noire” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-11-11 - 2017-12-10
Curator: Mario Naves Group show with 12 artists As a literary allusion, the French term “bête noire”—loosely translated as “bugaboo”, “bane” or “pest”—hones in on a quality that is, by turns, vexing...More »
Nicholas Cueva “The People Games Play”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-10-14 - 2017-11-05
This exhibition presents paintings that stem from visions of past moments after they were transformed by time and by the process of remembering, inviting viewers to fill for themselves the gaps in each...More »
Erin Gleason “The Tug”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture
- 2017-10-14 - 2017-10-29
Part installation, part drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture, the work in this exhibition addresses how our sense of truth is pulled between lived experience and terms of categorization these experiences...More »
Maura Sheehan “Migration”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2017-09-09 - 2017-10-08
Maura Sheehan is an installation artist and educator who experiments with a wide variety of materials that result in environments, sculptures and drawings. At FiveMyles she brings a flock of balancing...More »
Nicholas Heller “This is what I see”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-07-18 - 2017-08-18
“At some point I became aware that my artwork needed in some way to reflect what was going on in the world. Over a period of time I made various attempts at this. Then in 2013, I saw an exhibit of Haitian...More »
Columbia Fiero “Heartbeat”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2017-06-18 - 2017-07-16
Painted and printed lines transverse the inner universe of the gallery space, where a 7-foot painting and mixed media small works come off the wall. Solar-powered fans and lights unsettle and illuminate...More »
Meridith Mc Neal “The View from Here”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-15
Eleanor Clark, in Rome and a Villa (Doubleday, 1952), uses the term windowphilia to describe the enchanting quality windows have in the design of a villa. My work included in The View from Here is from...More »
“Triad” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2017-04-29 - 2017-05-28
Curated by Kara Rooney Triad brings together the work of Yevgeniya Baras, Mike Cloud, and Zachary Wollard, all 2015-16 residents of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. In the painterly practices...More »
Kimberly Mayhorn and A.V. Ryan “Foundations”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2017-03-04 - 2017-04-09
New sculpture by two mid-career Brooklyn artists for whom architecture has been a source of inspiration for many years. Kimberly Mayhorn sees the world “as a lexicon of invisible grids and how bodies...More »
“everything continues … ” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2017-01-14 - 2017-02-19
Despite our recent, generally shell-shocked state of mind, everything will continue the way it always has, including the making and the exhibiting of art, and finding artists whose work incorporates layers...More »
Jessica Frederick Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2016-12-14 - 2016-12-23
“I am a figurative painter. I have always been fascinated in expressing the character of living things. Even if I paint something that’s not alive–like a pair of boots–I paint the life in them. I work...More »
Bianca Schreiber “No-One Gets Out”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-11-12 - 2016-12-04
Bianca Schreiber is interested in creating installations that evoke fragmented, haunted narratives. Through the combination of works on paper with constructed/deconstructed houses, her work explores themes...More »
Larry Weekes “IWE”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2016-09-10 - 2016-10-10
Larry Weekes shows his series of mandalas, that, combined, create “organisms of universal beauty”. In the PlusSpace.More »
“ALOE A Language of Exaltation: Seven Artists Reflect on their Work” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2016-09-10 - 2016-10-10
Featuring work in a variety of media by Amy Jenkins, Christopher K. Ho, Erika Ranee, John Jurayj, Rob Swainston, Sally Webster, Tyler Vlahovich Selected by Larry Qualls From the literally tens of thousands...More »
Alexandria Smith and Katherine Toukhy “And still, she grows flowers in her flesh”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2016-07-17 - 2016-08-07
Like Nayyirah Waheed, whose poem “A Genocide for Flowers” inspired the title for this exhibition, Alexandria Smith’s and Katherine Toukhy’s respective work responds to notions of multiple and developing...More »
“ABYSSAL” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-05-28 - 2016-07-03
Installation by Sara Jimenez Sound Installation by Sara Jimenez and by Or Zublasky Curated by Kim Whitener Over the past few years, Sara Jimenez has been investigating ideas around cultural displacement,...More »
Hanne Tierney “Baby, said Alice B. Toklas…”
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2016-04-23 - 2016-05-15
Conceived and constructed by Hanne Tierney This self-performing theater revels in and transcends its own artificiality. The precise movements of two cloth figures, hula hoops, copper pipes, and fabric...More »
“Fences & Neighbors” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-04-10 - 2016-05-15
Fences & Neighbors is a mixed media installation exploring the U.S.- Mexico border crisis. The installation is inspired by Janet Goldner’s research trip to Arizona in 2014. A woven barbed wire...More »
Jeanne Wilkinson “The Painted People in the Clouds and Beyond”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2016-03-25 - 2016-03-26
An interactive video installation featuring the “Cloud Tunnel” by Jeanne Wilkinson Jeanne Wilkinson’s Painted People are a kind of Paleo-Postmodern clan of wanderers who go on vision quests and...More »
“Progress” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-03-05 - 2016-03-18
Curated by McKenzie Angelo Seecharan and Anthony Rosado - Opening reception and performances: March 5, 6-9pm - Discussions: March 12, 1-4pm - Closing reception and performances: March 18, 6-9pm Performances...More »
Amanda Turner Pohan “Desiring to be Data for Others”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-01-23 - 2016-02-21
Amanda Turner Pohan’s practice seems a cool and rational one—at first. It is based on precise scientific manipulation of chemistry, with additional aural and visual elements. While her installation appears...More »
“Endless, Entire” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2015-11-21 - 2015-12-20
Endless Entire highlights 58 members of American Abstract Artists who engage with the circle, a form often associated with perfection, although it can seldom be found as such in nature. The artworks gathered...More »
“Detroit: 2 Stories” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2015-11-01 - 2015-11-29
An installation by Detroit-born Sandra Osip (sculptures) and Douglas James (paintings) in the FiveMyles lab garage. Sandra Osip: The destruction of my childhood neighborhood in Detroit deeply affected...More »
“Trace/Matter” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2015-10-10 - 2015-11-08
Trace and Matter are words endowed with a vastly rich and varied significance, both metaphorically and figuratively. So is the sculptural work of Ruth Hardinger and Kara Rooney, who for this exhibition,...More »
“The Sublime of the Mundane” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2015-07-19 - 2015-08-23
FiveMyles presents this group exhibition presenting five weeks of interactive installations and performances. The curator Jasmine Murrell has chosen work that directly engages the viewer, both visually...More »
Constance Slaughter “Running Out of Thread”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2015-07-01 - 2015-07-12
Running Out of Thread is Constance Slaughter’s first solo show in New York. Constance’s work is both playful and dark. Her light suspended sculptures, made from wire and semi-transparent fabric, hover...More »
“Color: Sculpted and Painted” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2015-06-06 - 2015-06-28
This exhibition highlights four artists whose work is informed by their particular use of color. Cindy Millin’s paintings are nearly three-dimensional works with layers upon layers of sculpted paint that...More »
“Artistic Weapons of Mass Communication” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2015-04-23 - 2015-05-24
A common thread connects the selected works being shown in this exhibition. Represented in “Artistic Weapons of Mass Communication” are five artists who utilize different artistic means in order to communicate...More »
“New American Sculpture” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2015-02-28 - 2015-03-29
New American Sculpture highlights the work of nine artists who seek to challenge conventional thinking about sculpture and simultaneously express their cultural agency. The exhibition’s title not only...More »
Alex Cornelius and Yu Nong Khew “DepthForms”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-01-17 - 2015-02-21
In 2013, Khew and Cornelius were unexpectedly displaced from New York City. Suddenly finding themselves based in Singapore, they took this as an opportunity to explore, both as architects and artists,...More »
“BAU Institute” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-12-27 - 2015-01-04
BAU Institute exhibits new works inspired by its 2014 residency in Cassis, France, hosted by the Camargo Foundation. Curated by Saul OstrowMore »
Jack Ceglic “My Mother’s Store”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-11-08 - 2014-12-14
FiveMyles presents this installation by Jack Ceglic, the co-founder and designer of Dean & Deluca. Seventy years ago Jack Ceglic’s parents ran an egg and butter store on St. Johns Place in Crown Heights,...More »
“New Visions: Crown Heights Artists” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2014-09-06 - 2014-09-05
Old and new Crown Heights artists exhibit together, forming a new community in this changing neighborhood. ARTIST: Lourdes Bernard: My goal is that each work should be intense in its presence, and...More »
Eric F. Avery and Julia Smith “It’s Very Difficult to Keep…”
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2014-08-28 - 2014-08-31
This performance and installation is inspired in part by notable hoarding families such as the Collier brothers of Harlem and the Beales of Grey Gardens.More »
“Unframed” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2014-08-10 - 2014-08-24
Unframed presents particular visions of our daily environment through photographs, drawings, and a sculpture that stand on their own - without frames or pedestals. ARTIST: Michael Britto: Having...More »
“Outdoor Sulpture: Gnomes and a Rosebush” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2014-08-04 - 2014-09-10
Tufnell’s friendly, 32” tall gnomes are cast in pigmented resin. They will interact with the passing public in this Crown Heights neighborhood, delighting young and old alike. A steel rose bush joins...More »
Rashanna Rashied-Walker “The Perception of Wilderness in The Garden of Us”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-07-19 - 2014-08-09
Creating a temporary habitat of the borrowed, procured and hand grown, The Perception of Wilderness in The Garden of Us, a site-based installation will explore how we relate to nature. The recognition...More »
“KOREA” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2014-06-25 - 2014-07-13
This exhibition features works by artists from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Korea has been divided for the last sixty-nine years. Koreans...More »
“Surveillapocalypse” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2014-06-07 - 2014-06-22
Brooklyn-based art collective artCodex invites Canada-based Native American collective OO7 to collaborate on an exhibition on building trust between communities in the face of a security obsessed society. Guest...More »
Anders Bernard Jones Graceful “Transitions”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2014-05-10 - 2014-05-31
The exhibition presents a selection of works from a series created by Anders Bernard Jones, a New York based photographer. His photographs explore the elegance and grace found in decaying flowers; they...More »
“Re: Purpose” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Digital - Performance Art
- 2014-04-12 - 2014-05-04
This exhibition, a collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) features Pamela Council, Sara Jimenez, Sondra Perry and Patrice Renee Washington. Through sculpture, photography,...More »
“For Marian” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2014-03-01 - 2014-03-30
Marian Griffith (1923-2008) was an important and much loved figure in the New York art scene during the years from 1980-1999 when she directed the Sculpture Center in New York at its old site on east 67...More »
“Color Formed” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-01-16 - 2014-02-23
Rachel Beach My works begin with something elemental - a basic geometry, a basic construction: a stack, an edge, a mark, the seam where two things meet. Each piece employs real and implied structure —...More »
Olu Oguibe and Carl E. Hazlewood Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Ceramics
- 2013-11-02 - 2013-12-16
FiveMyles presents an exhibition of new work by these two artists. Carl E. Hazlewood’s most recent work are bold, dimensional colored shapes constructed of paper, canvas, tar paper, tape, push pins...More »
“Process and Synthesis” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-10-20
Emily Berger: “My work is experiential, meditative and intuitive. I am interested in the light and rhythm created by repetitive and deliberate gesture in these paintings and drawings. I brush, wipe, rub,...More »
“Convergence” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
- 2013-08-03 - 2013-08-18
The third exhibition in this year’s Summer SpaceProgram at FiveMyles presents the work of three artists to the public who have not previously shown in New York. Barbara Norman is a professional photographer....More »
Cedric Michael Cox “Polyphonic Playground”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2013-07-13 - 2013-07-27
Cedric Michael Cox’s paintings and drawings fall between surrealism and representational abstraction. The work of this Cincinnati based artist expresses his experience of living in the inner city, with...More »
“From Decay to Illumination” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2013-06-22 - 2013-07-07
The three artists have based this exhibition on the premise that a society’s survival depends on a continual process of decay followed by a rebirth of ideas. More »
“Empire” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-05-05 - 2013-06-09
Curated by Natika Soward Featuring works by Jaishri Abichandani, Hacksworth Ashley, Daniel Bejar, Brendan Fernandes, Yoko Inoue, Pooneh Maghazehe, Yeni Mao, Wardell Milan, Aime Mpane, Glexis Novoa,...More »
"Abstraction and Empathy" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2013-03-16 - 2013-04-22
“The will to abstraction is to be understood as one of the two aesthetic impulses known to human culture, the other, of course, being the urge to empathy, which manifests itself in the naturalistic depiction...More »
"Sign of the Tides" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2013-01-19 - 2013-02-21
The second of two exhibitions at FiveMyles on the notion of Landscape shows the work of four artists who collaborated on presenting their interpretation of the urban landscape in a global world. The artists...More »
James Cavanagh Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2013-01-10 - 2013-01-13
"American Landscape" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
- 2012-11-17 - 2012-12-16
This exhibition collects 15 young artists from across the country who use the Romantic landscape paintings of the Hudson Valley School as a point of departure to make work that re-contextualizes America's...More »
Hanne Tierney "Strange Tales of Liaozhai"
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2012-09-06 - 2012-09-22
Through choreography and manipulation, master puppeteer Hanne Tierney conducts an intricate counterweight system of over 100 strings, transforming a full stage of inanimate objects into the players of...More »
Mildred Beltre "Since the Beginning of Resistance . . ."
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-08-23 - 2012-09-16
Mildred Beltre’s large-scale paper installations on the gallery wall take their inspiration from anarchist ideals, and the creation of a new society. These drawings resemble maps, or lines of ants. A second...More »
Hiroki Kobayashi & Jamie Williams "Altered Land – Perspectives from Tohoku"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2012-08-09 - 2012-08-19
These photographs, showing the devastation caused by the tsunami in the area around Minami-Sanriku in Japan one year ago, were taken in March 2012. A series of photographs of local fishermen from the town...More »
Veit Stratmann "Special Showing of video by Veit Stratmann"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2012-08-03 - 2012-08-06
The artist was asked by the French National Agency for the treatment of Nuclear Waste (ANDRA) to contribute to a “think tank” on how to keep the memory of the waste sites and the knowledge of what is stored...More »
"Field Notes" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2012-07-19 - 2012-08-02
Influenced by Philip Guston as well as matchbook art, Deborah Everett’s work presents allegorical scenes steeped in a sense of place, spatial ambiguities, and figural interaction.More »
Martin McCormack & Elizabeth White "A Map is Not the Territory"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2012-06-29 - 2012-07-08
The exhibition brings together two artists who question the authority of maps to quantify our identity as two-dimensional ‘fact’. From a giant assemblage of New York City to the delicate lines of the human...More »
Chin Chieh Yang "Commissioned Installation"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-05-05 - 2012-06-06
This project will be primarily made of cans and other recyclable materials (Industrial cables, plastic and hospital use oxygen tube and more). The artist looks for a conservational aesthetic in a society...More »
Edouard Steinhauer "In No Strange Land"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-03-25 - 2012-04-22
In this multi-media installation Edouard Steinhauer pays homage to James Hampton’s extraordinary shrine “The throne of the third heaven of the nations’ Millennium General Assembly” at the Smithsonian Institute...More »
Musa Hixson "Time Harvest"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-02-11 - 2012-03-10
The sphere, an important theme in the artist’s work, is here presented by eight large weather balloons that fill up half of the gallery space. The balloons are an undecided presence; their density is as...More »
Robert Toyokazu Troxell "Material Dreams from China" & Grace Sachi Troxell "Woman of the Moon"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints - Sculpture
- 2012-01-19 - 2012-01-23
Material Dreams from China Robert Toyokazu Troxell Impressions and recollections of China: an exhibition of etchings and ceramic sculptures from a recent residency at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute...More »
"Street Art Legends Collective" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2011-12-09 - 2011-12-11
Curated by Frank Gerard Godlewski More »
"Asia Unspecific" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-10-29 - 2011-12-10
Asia Unspecific refers to the complexity of influences that shape artists today who are more or less nomads, moving through different cultural spheres. It is an exhibition about the ongoing dialogue that...More »
Claudia Cannizzaro "Flags of Whose Fathers"
[0] [0]- Media: Other - Installation
- 2011-10-13 - 2011-10-23
A special viewing of Claudia Cannizzaro's embroidered sentences extracted from the 2003 Guantanamo Bay Camp Delta GITMO SOP manual on how to prep detainees for intelligence interrogations, an unclassified...More »
Caroline Cox and C. Micheal Norton "Two One–person show"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-09-10 - 2011-10-09
SPIN installation by Caroline Cox Caroline Cox's installation, Spin, transforms the gallery into an ever shifting optical field. The work's suspended, translucent forms sweep around and through the...More »
"Contemporary Expressions: Art from the Guyana Diaspora" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-08-09 - 2011-09-04
When it comes to fitting into variously defined categories and narratives, Guyana, the only Anglophone country on the continent of South America, is often caught between its close cultural, political,...More »
Erin Gleason "To Gather"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2011-08-06 - 2011-08-14
To Gather; is a collection of performative and architectural artifacts from a cross section of Crown Heights social spaces. Bringing a local perspective to urban flux, the artwork raises questions about...More »
Hiroki Kobayashi "Crown Heights Memory Project"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-08-06
A photo booth at FiveMyles invites neighbors and friends to be photographed by the artist. The images will become part of an on-going exhibition.More »
Francis Hollenkamp Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-07-01 - 2011-07-09
The artists explores what happens to our responses when a large group of people becomes abstracted into a number.More »
Ernest Rosenberg Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-06-21 - 2011-06-27
"Short Stories" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-05-21 - 2011-06-19
This exhibition presents work by an eclectic group of artists, whose work has not been much seen in public. Two of the artists, Stephen Kuzma, and Sandra Osip, have been working artists for over four decades;...More »
"Art/Sewn" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- 2011-03-26 - 2011-05-08
"Art/Sewn" explores the power of the needle in the making of contemporary art. It presents work by nine artists who use sewing and embroidery to create outstanding work. [Image: Jessica Rankin, Empty...More »
"The Page Turners" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Illustration - Drawing
- 2011-02-05 - 2011-03-06
To convey a story visually is one of the fundamental tasks to which the artistic imagination lends itself. The Page Turners presents the work of several emerging artists all concerned with narrative and...More »
"What's Your War?" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Fashion - Other
- 2010-10-30 - 2010-12-05
In response to the multiple wars our government is fighting these days – the war in Iraq, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war in Afghanistan – the two curators posed a question to twelve artists:...More »
"A State of Flux" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-09-12 - 2010-10-10
The exhibition juxtaposes the human impermanence implied in two photographic installations on the gallery walls with the solidity of the squat and solid forms made from plaster casts of blank canvases....More »
Ann Rosen "In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-08-08 - 2010-08-29
The photographs in the exhibition were taken between 2003 and 2007 at street fairs and in the artist’s studio. They present a continuation of the artist’s interest in the shifting definitions and experiences...More »
Charles Lutz “Charts, Price Lists, Corrections, and other Relevant Statements”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2010-07-10 - 2010-08-01
Five Myles announces a major solo exhibition of new work by Charles Lutz. “Charts, Price Lists, Corrections, and other Relevant Statements” is the most significant and ambitious exhibition of new work...More »
Hiroki Kobayashi "The Slave Theater"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2010-06-06 - 2010-07-04
In an effort to preserve the beautiful murals and paintings on the walls, Hiroki Kobayashi has documented this old theater on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, where generations of kids saw their first movies...More »
"May" Space Program
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-05-06 - 2010-05-29
The Space Program presents short exhibitions and impromptu events in the gallery space in-between FiveMyles' regular exhibition schedule. These performances, workshops, film viewings and exhibits show...More »
"Mean and Sneaking" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-05-02
The artists in Mean and Sneaking all work with modest, easily available material. They are experts at scrounging and taking items that are part of the daily fabric of contemporary life, and claiming all...More »
Elizabeth Josephson "Drawing II – Adolescent Boys"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-03-04 - 2010-03-21
This exhibition in two parts presents a series of drawings the artist Elizabeth Josephson made, while teaching at the Rikers Island correctional facility. Drawing II is an installation of seven drawings...More »
Elizabeth Josephson "Drawing I – Women"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-02-11 - 2010-02-28
This exhibition in two parts presents a series of drawings the artist Elizabeth Josephson made, while teaching at the Rikers Island correctional facility. Drawing I shows ten large portraits of incarcerated...More »
Engels "Strange Intersections"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-12-03 - 2010-02-05
The work in this exhibition by the Haitian born artist Engels shows an artist’s sure eye for details that, when combined on a canvas or a piece of plywood, become a unit. These solid constructions have...More »
Adam Niklewicz "The Soup Show"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-10-25 - 2009-11-29
The Soup Show, a gallery-wide installation, explores the unique and emblematic position of soup as a universal phenomenon (means of nourishment) and as a metaphor. Soup – the work proposes – helps to sustain...More »
"Fortune Tellers" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2009-09-13 - 2009-10-18
FiveMyles has invited visual artist Kimberly Mayhorn to organize an exhibition based on a question she has asked herself: are artists the fortune-tellers in their societies? The six artists Mayhorn has...More »
Elizabeth Josephson "Turnstile I"
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-08-06
The first of three exhibitions from The Riker’s Island Project, Turnstile I presents 44 paintings by adolescent inmates. Several of the artists in the exhibit are young men with unusual visual aptitude,...More »
"Photo Essays/Remembering Myles" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2009-01-10 - 2009-01-22
[Image: Debbie Branch "David Byrne"] More »
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