signs and symbols - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for signs and symbols . Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Benoît Platéus “Other Percolators”
signs and symbols presents Other Percolators, Belgian artist Benoît Platéus’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Long fascinated by found objects and the transmutation of images across mediums, Platéus...More »
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Rachel Libeskind “Transparent Things”
signs and symbols presents Transparent Things, Rachel Libeskind’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a series of photo-assemblages from the artist’s most recent body of work:...More »
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Claudia Bitrán “White Shoes at 89 Greene”
89 Greene at signs and symbols presents Claudia Bitrán. White Shoes is at its essence an ongoing archival project in which the artist photographs young people wearing white footwear and then translates...More »
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Sarah Entwistle “You allowed the object of your love to become abstracted. And as one gets older the arteries harden. I thought I should let you know.”
signs and symbols presents Sarah Entwistle’s exhibition titled You allowed the object of your love to become abstracted. And as one gets older the arteries harden. I thought I should let you know. For...More »
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Carol Szymanski “You Pair How”
signs and symbols presents You Pair How, a new exhibition by Carol Szymanski, which continues the artist’s ongoing investigation into the transmutability of language. Szymanski’s long-standing interest...More »
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“Glitter in My Wounds” Exhibition
signs and symbols is pleased to present Glitter in My Wounds. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Adam Broomberg invites CAConrad and Gersande Spelsberg as his collaborators. The exhibition presents...More »
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“That was then, this is now” Exhibition
signs and symbols presents That was then, this is now — a group show of the gallery’s artists as the first exhibition to inaugurate our new location at 249 East Houston Street. A celebration of our growth...More »
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Tony Orrico “Great Divide”
signs and symbols presents Great Divide, Tony Orrico’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a new series of performative graphite drawings, sculptures and a double-channel video....More »
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Zander Blom “Garage Party”
signs and symbols presents Garage Party, the first New York solo exhibition by South African artist Zander Blom. In this new body of work, Zander Blom’s exploration of painting is wide ranging. A phantasmagoria...More »
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Jen DeNike & Pola Sieverding “we tell ourselves stories in order to live”
signs and symbols presents we tell ourselves stories in order to live, a two-person lens-based photography exhibition by Jen DeNike and Pola Sieverding. The exhibition reflects on storytelling; the artist’s...More »
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Ornella Fieres “a group of people walking down a snow covered street “
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany. After the Second World War, Germany was divided between the allies — with the eastern sector controlled by the Soviet Union....More »
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Rachel Libeskind “Athenian Salt”
“Show me your image in some antique book, Since mind at first in character was done, That I might see what the old world could say To this composed wonder of your frame;” – excerpt from Shakespeare...More »
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Drew Conrad “Shake Them Ghosts”
signs and symbols presents SHAKE THEM GHOSTS, a solo exhibition by Drew Conrad. The exhibition consists of a site-specific sculptural installation, accompanied by Conrad’s most recent photographic series...More »
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Shaqayeq Arabi “Dancing on Stilts”
signs and symbols presents Dancing on Stilts, a solo exhibition by artist Shaqayeq Arabi. The exhibition features a site-specific installation composed of found objects and natural, symbolic material,...More »
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Jonah Bokaer “About An Arabesque”
signs and symbols presents About an Arabesque, the first New York solo exhibition by visual artist and choreographer Jonah Bokaer. The exhibition marks a moment in which the interplay of disciplines in...More »
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Annabel Daou “When In The Course Of Human Events”
signs and symbols is pleased to present WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, a solo exhibition by Annabel Daou. The work was conceived during a six-month performance in residence at signs and symbols where...More »
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Benoît Platéus “Scissors, hangers and other batteries”
signs and symbols presents Scissors, hangers and other batteries, a solo exhibition by Belgian artist Benoît Platéus. For this exhibition, Platéus continues his process of “frottage,” whereby the artist...More »
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Carol Szymanski “He Said I Thought”
signs and symbols presents He Said I Thought, a site-specific solo exhibition by New York based artist Carol Szymanski. The exhibition will mark the debut of the artist’s most substantial performance work...More »
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Sharon Louden & Hrag Vartanian “Origins”
signs and symbols presents Origins, a site-specific, immersive installation by Sharon Louden and Hrag Vartanian, a two-person collaboration between interlocutors who have long been in dialogue. Aluminum,...More »
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“signs and symbols: artists & allies II” Exhibition
For the month of august, signs and symbols will present a dynamic program of time-based work, screenings and performances. Conceived as an experimental glimpse for our upcoming season, a selection of works...More »
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Rachel Libeskind & Carmen Winant “sensation—sensitivity—creativity—productivity—communication”
signs and symbols presents sensation—sensitivity—creativity—productivity—communication, an exhibition of new works by Rachel Libeskind and Carmen Winant. A two-person show between artists who have long...More »
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Michelle Handelman “LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL Icons from Hustlers & Empires”
signs and symbols presents Michelle Handelman’s LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL, the first in Handelman’s series of video Icons from her latest multiplatform project HUSTLERS & EMPIRES (2018). Originally...More »
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Sarah Entwistle “It may prove a mere accident that we met, or it may prove a necessity”
signs and symbols present the first US solo exhibition of English artist/architect Sarah Entwistle. The exhibition, titled It may prove a mere accident that we met, or it may prove a necessity, is conceived...More »
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Jen DeNike “Crystal Cut Levitation”
signs and symbols presents Crystal Cut Levitation, a performance and solo exhibition by New York-based artist Jen DeNike, a call and response to her earlier Scrying Ballet (2010) which premiered at The...More »
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Tony Orrico “A continued gesture towards us”
signs and symbols is pleased to present A continued gesture towards us, a site-specific performance and exhibition by artist Tony Orrico. Translating movement practice into visual form, Orrico’s solo exhibition...More »
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Paul Jacobsen “Material Ethereal”
signs and symbols presents Material Ethereal, an exhibition of new work by artist Paul Jacobsen. Challenging the idiom of the photograph with painterly form, Jacobsen’s new body of work questions authorship/viewership/reproduction...More »
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Jennifer Elster “The Wake the F*ck Up Show”
signs and symbols presents The Wake the F*ck Up Show, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist, filmmaker and activist Jennifer Elster. A call to action, Elster’s exhibition features a variety of conceptual...More »
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Wermke/Leinkauf “I THINK IT’S SAFE TO SAY”
In 2014, on the night of July 21st to July 22nd German artists Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf replaced Old Glory with hand-sewn White American Flags on the two towers of the Brooklyn Bridge to coincide...More »
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Andres Carranza “Superarchitectura”
signs and symbols presents Superarchitectura, a site-specific and experimental in-process exhibition by Costa Rican artist/architect Andres Carranza. In 2014, Carranza was invited to New York for a solo...More »
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Ornella Fieres “The Structure and Function of hidden Things”
signs and symbols presents the first US solo exhibition of German artist Ornella Fieres. The exhibition, The Structure and Function of hidden Things, questions notions of appearance and time, as Fieres...More »
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Rachel Garrard “Primal Forms”
signs and symbols presents Primal Forms by English artist Rachel Garrard from April 29 to June 2, 2018. The exhibition features a new series of paintings Garrard created in complete isolation and solitude,...More »