Half Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Half Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Brach Tiller “Wading”
Malaprops and homophones almost sound like imaginary musical instruments from an 80s synth band, but they are very real - indeed - to the artist Brach Tiller. Can a prism be your prison? Are you wading...More »
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Yuan Fang “Stratospheres”
“I see my canvases as a metaphor for the human condition: feelings of anxiety, turbulence and unpredictability. I love the gesture of compressing passages in my paintings on to such a flat surface. For...More »
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Se Oh “Han”
Half Gallery Annex 233 East 4th Street NY NY 10009 At nine month sold, a white American couple from Tennessee adopted me from Incheon, South Korea. Growing up in America’s Deep South came with challenges....More »
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Asif Hoque “Golden Boy”
“These pictures are conceptions of light - the essence of fire, not as we see it in the material world but as the radiance of the inner being. They are produced from that state of consciousness from which...More »
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Mike Lee “No Man’s Land”
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Kyle Staver “Tout Court”
Kyle Staver builds worlds. Inside, we are close to nature. The light feels familiar but just out of reach. Scenes unfold inside darkening forests and drooping wisteria. I look up to see the skies of Northern...More »
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Lucien Smith “Incidentals: A Brief Survey 2011-2021”
Lucien Smith made his public debut in May of 2011 with a two-person thesis show, “Imagined Nostalgia,” at 41 Cooper Union. The student exhibition was about longing for a history that wasn’t your own, tracking...More »
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Geoff McFetridge “Sleeping Shapes”
Seeing Strangers Sleeping Driving across the U S Dusk winking with eyes A lion in Montana Deer in Pennsylvania A year spent seeing strangers sleep Bodies on the hillside Bedded down in the park Making...More »
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Ethan Cook “Associated Bodies”
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Ginny Casey “Combing The Honey Home”
The interplay between organic and man-made was already an important notion in Skeleton Key, Ginny Casey’s last show with Half Gallery back in 2018. Three years later, in the time of a global pandemic and...More »
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Cheikh Ndiaye “Memories of Underdevelopment”
The paintings of Cheikh Ndiaye are inquiries into the current state of modernist dreams. The artist evokes images of human resilience, which serve as commentaries on our own times. Referring to the novel...More »
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Natalie Frank & Rene Ricard “Who knows where the madness lies?”
Half Gallery presents a two-person exhibition with Natalie Frank and Rene Ricard. Natalie Frank’s recent body of drawings, based on the beloved comic novel, Don Quixote, suggests an idiot hero for...More »
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Peter Schuyff “New Paintings”
Half Gallery presents New Paintings, Peter Schuyff’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Since the late ’80s, the abstract artist has made waves with his mind-bending visuality and his graphic, ironic...More »
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Andrea Joyce Heimer “Big Sky”
“Big Sky refers to my home state of Montana, where I grew up and lived until my early twenties or so. These paintings contain autobiographical snippets of my adolescence there, but to me they’re more about...More »
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Ted Pim “When Time Stood Still…”
Half Gallery presents When Time Stood Still… Ted Pim’s first solo exhibition in New York. Ted Pim grew up in a working-class strict Irish catholic family in Belfast. His grandmother was a well-known...More »
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“UNDER GLASS” Exhibition
UNDER GLASS can be viewed from the outside of Half Gallery.More »
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Tanya Merrill “Woman Laughing Alone in the Woods at Night”
Peter Schjeldahl once said “Looking at art is like, ‘Here are the answers. What were the questions?’ I think of it like espionage, ‘walking the cat back’—why did that happen, and that?—and eventually you...More »
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Asuka Anastacia Ogawa “Feijão”
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Daniel Heidkamp “Elevated States”
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Natalie Ball “Bad Lucky Indian”
Half Gallery presents Bad Lucky Indian, Natalie Ball’s first solo exhibition in New York. Her art engages proposals of refusal, complicating easily affirmed and consumable narratives and identities without...More »
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Rene Ricard “but you love me, you said so”
“His poems are of the urban experience: ironic and deprecating; always with a slight twist. His epigrams, bare as prose, recall the work of the great Latin poet Catullus, through a wedding of classical...More »
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Vaughn Spann Exhibition
Half Gallery presents Vaughn Spann’s first solo exhibition in New York, Orange, Yellow, Purple, Blue Skies, comprised of Spann’s social abstraction and figurative painting. Recently, Spann has been in...More »
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Hiejin Yoo “Quotidian”
Half Gallery presents Quotidian, Hiejin Yoo’s first solo exhibition in New York. Quotidian, meaning of or occurring every day, reflects Hiejin’s practice of allowing the viewer to see behind their own...More »
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Geneive Figgis “Flat Earth”
Half Gallery presents Flat Earth, Geneive Figgis’ second solo exhibition at the gallery. Figgis synthesizes historical paintings, interior distortions and mythological planes to highlight her unique tincture...More »
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Joseph Hilton “Paintings from 1976-1979”
“Throughout the ’70s and since, Hilton has cultivated a personal style that takes inspiration from pre-High Renaissance modes of rendering people and places. Its trademarks include deliberately, clumsily...More »
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Natalie Frank “O”
Story of O - an erotic novel that shocked and aroused millions - was published in 1954 under the pseudonym Pauline Réage; many suspected the book, with its frank descriptions of bondage and desire, must...More »
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Ginny Casey “Skeleton Key”
“Skeleton Key” marks Ginny Casey’s second solo exhibition with half gallery since her September 2016 debut. The title makes reference to the master key of fantasy and lore, but also the strange biomorphic...More »
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Geoff McFetridge “The Beringians”
Recently revealed in the 11,500 year old remains of a baby girl in Alaska is new DNA of a lost Native American ancestor, the Ancient Beringians. The Beringians existed in the west and interior of Alaska,...More »
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Grace Metzler Exhibition
Grace Metzler, (b. 1989, New York, NY) received her MFA from Hunter College in 2017. She was the recipient of the Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2017. This is Metzler’s first solo exhibition...More »
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Mario Sorrenti & John Baldessari “Noses Elbows and Knees”
On the surface at least, the photography of Mario Sorrenti and the art of John Baldessari, share little other than the idea of an impure beauty. Baldessari, who in 1970 famously cremated his previously...More »
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Duncan Hannah “Early Days”
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Louise Bonnet Exhibition
Swiss-born Louise Bonnet makes her New York solo debut with a set of four new paintings and eleven works on paper. Wakefield work refers to the Rhode Island town which has become her summer retreat of...More »
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Michael Bauer Exhibition
The goal is ” unaufgeregte extase ” - relaxed ecstasy ! I don’t worry about terms like abstraction or non-objective. For me, it’s about organizing a painting, organizing pigments. Of course, you have...More »
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Daniel Heidkamp “Boston to Brooklyn”
Half Gallery presents a dozen new oil paintings depicting Daniel Heidkamp’s recent travels from Boston to Brooklyn. The paintings shown here are part of a larger dialogue which will be presented concurrently...More »
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Nathaniel Mary Quinn Exhibition
Nathaniel Mary Quinn lays bare the honesty of humanity - with ripples of hope, anxiety of failure, and the traumas of childhood. Quinn experiences visions that he translates into paintings, most of which...More »
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Rene Ricard “So, Who Left Who?”
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Justin Adian “Sun Tan”
BRONZAGE essay by Jeff Rian 2017 Justin Adian’s taken up bronze casting. He got the idea from vacation homes around lakes in Texas, where’s he from, which often have a decorator motif outside,...More »
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Che Lovelace Exhibition
Che Lovelace is a visual artist living and working in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He received his training at L’ Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts de la Martinique. He is a founder and director of CLAY J’ouvert,...More »
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“Global Times Painting Painting To” Exhibition
“Yeah, Well, you know, thats just like ah, your opinion man” -The Dude Half Gallery presents “ Global Times Painting Painting To ” a curated show by Alex Becerra The approach was simple: A...More »
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Bryan Hunt Exhibition
Half Gallery presents a selection of Bryan Hunt’s sculpture from the ‘70s on the roof. The work exhibited comes from Hunt’s Monuments & Wonders series including Nankow Pass (Wall of China) and his...More »
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Ginny Casey “Play Things”
Eyes peek out from under the lid of a jar. Bulging pots rest on tabletops, suggestively prodded and pinched by disembodied hands in gangrenous tones of blue, green, and purple. The handle of a hammer bends,...More »
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Jay Miriam “Catch the Heavenly Bodies”
I saw the park: yellow-green, blue-green, red-green, violet-green, sunny-green and shudder-green – and listened to the blossoming orange flowers, then I bound myself to the oval park wall and listened...More »
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Trudy Benson “Spooky Action at a Distance”
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Steve DiBenedetto “Pre-Linguistic Granola”
The artist is a kind of scientist and his project is to investigate the buzzing depths of our mind’s neural background radiation. He describes his marks as “clumpages of data” and “procedural evidence,”...More »
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Dan Attoe “Recent Landscapes”
Looking out his studio window in Washougal, Washington, one gets the sense that Dan Attoe’s subject matter is just beyond the next mountain range. Recent Landscapes captures much of the natural splendor...More »
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Matt Damhave “Deleuze’n My Mind”
In 1988 to 1989, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze sat down for a series of interviews with Claire Parnet, which resulted in the 1996 documentary, L’Abècèdaire de Gilles Deleuze, decidedly to be broadcast...More »
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Aurel Schmidt “Blast Furnace of Civilization”
Blast Furnace of Civilization is Aurel Schmidt’s latest installment from an ongoing series exploring the madness of capitalism. The first two iterations - both dubbed New Gods - offered a glimpse inside...More »
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Jan-Ole Schiemann Exhibition
” WHY DON’TCHA USE FRESH INK WHEN YOU DRAW ME? I’VE GOT NO MORE PEP THAN A SNAIL UNDER ETHER” Reds and blues and greens and oranges are interlopers in the paintings of Jan-Ole Schiemann whose palette...More »
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Gardar Eide Einarsson “Clearing Operations and Carelessness”
Clearing Operations and Carelessness is a new series of riot paintings by Gardar Eide Einarsson employing images taken from vintage law enforcement manuals on crowd control and protest containment. There’s...More »
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Tamuna Sirbiladze “Take It Easy”
Take It Easy is Tamuna Sirbiladze’s first solo show in the United States. A new set of unstretched banners teetering between the figurative and the gestural include oil stick pigeons, elongated noses and...More »
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“Intimate Painting” Exhibition
While interviewing Joe Bradley a few years ago he explained to me the origin of his modular paintings (a series that sometimes gets referred to as his “robots”). Initially, Joe had painted numerous rectangular...More »
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Josephine Meckseper “Silver Shadow”
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Daniel Heidkamp “Barbizon Beauty School”
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Peter Nadin “Still Life”
In the fall of 1983, a new gallery Spiritual America opened at 5 Rivington Street to little fanfare. Their inauguration featured Richard Prince’s now-iconic image of a young Brooke Shields. The third...More »
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“Rascal House” Exhibition
Half Gallery presents Rascal House, a collaborative project conceived by and including Blair Thurman along with John Armleder, Justin Adian, and Stéphane Kropf. The exhibition is the result of a strange...More »
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Chris Martin “Pirate Utopias”
Pirate utopias are fictional islands where inhabitants can be unburdened of social constraints and other normative traditions stifling individuality. The term was coined by writer Peter Lamborn Wilson...More »
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Genieve Figgis “Good Morning, Midnight”
The figures populating Genieve Figgis’s paintings emanate from some luminescent netherworld, suspended between life and death, or living life and death or life through death in a land of the willingly...More »
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Rene Ricard “Remember”
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Eddie Martinez “Neanderthal Jeans”
“Neanderthal Jeans” is Eddie Martinez’s second show with half gallery following our “Studio Drawings” exhibition in September 2012. In an essay for his monograph (PictureBox), writer Glenn O’Brien compared...More »
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Andrew Kuo “My Bad”
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Peter Coffin “pp”
pp. is common book parlance for “pages” and the name of Peter Coffin’s solo exhibition at half gallery. The project was conceived in 2002/2003 and some images from this series of pictures initially debuted...More »
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Brendan Fowler “New Camera”
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Steve DiBenedetto “konstructshuns”
Steve DiBenedetto calls the elaborate multi-channel collages he creates konstructshuns in the same way that Ray Johnson coined the term moticos or Robert Rauschenberg dubbed his assemblages combines. The...More »
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Wes Lang “Blessing”
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Miroslav Tichý Exhibition
The International Center of Photography introduced many New Yorkers to the works of Miroslav Tichý in 2010. Their exhibition arrived on the heels of a major retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris....More »
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Robert Davis “Evergreen”
“He ghosts the whip of history into the architecture of anxiety first laid down by Mondrian, Stravinsky, and James Joyce. Paintings are not the reliquaries of nostalgia that they are thought to be. They...More »
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“Warhol Ones” Exhibition
Half Gallery gave ten of our favorite artists some original Warhol Ones to use as source material for a group show opening on Andy’s birthday, August 6th. He first made these bills in 1971 for a casino-themed...More »
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Daniel Heidkamp “Sneeze Buds”
Daniel Heidkamp presents his second New York solo exhibition, a series of outdoor paintings entitled “Sneeze Buds.” The canvases echo a sun-fueled romanticism found in much of the Hudson River School,...More »
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William Anastasi Exhibition
In 1964, Philip Guston recommended that Betty Parsons take a look at the work of an exciting new artist named William Anastasi recently arrived in Manhattan by way of Philadelphia. He exhibited publicly...More »
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Steven Parrino, Blair Thurman, Justin Adian Exhibition
"Objects being made without restrictions but under the moniker of painting." - Justin Adian More »
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Jack Siegel Exhibition
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Alexis Dahan Exhibition
Lines, even the most consistently linear lines, almost abstract at first and unrelated to the human body, become drunken lines, seized by ignoble undulations, unconnected to anyone or anything, but ignoble...More »
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Lucien Smith "Good Vibrations"
Ruskin talked of the innocent eye, but what of the innocent ear? Are we simply born with a punk rock proclivity? This latent desire to untwist the hidden chains of harmony? Pythagoras theorized that the...More »
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"Hearsay" Exhibition
The truth is an egg with a very thin shell, and much the same might be said of portraiture once you crack the surface, hence the title of this three person show "Hearsay." All three painters are art school...More »
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Eddie Martinez "Studio Drawings"
The eyes grab you. They're a Martinez signature, a dead giveaway. It's the DeKooning eye jaundiced through the kooky karma antics of Felix the Cat, Howard the Duck and Zippy the Pinhead. It is comic, but...More »
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Les Rogers "Summer Swells"
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David Armstrong "Night & Day"
Night & Day brings together a selection of iconic Kodachrome pictures from David Armstrong’s archive of the late 70’s and early 80’s New York scene. The images illuminate an intimate and carefree epoch...More »
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Wes Lang "Here Comes Sunshine"
Cultural conflation is one of the purest forms of appropriation available to an artist today, bonding geography, myth and media among other fundamentals. In Wes Lang's exhibition, "Here Comes Sunshine,"...More »
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Dustin Yellin "investigations of a dog"
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André Saraiva "Love Letters”
Street artist André Saraiva is perhaps best known for the creation of his "Mr. A" character which was featured last year in the award winning documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. He made his own directorial...More »
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Thomas Campbell "Capture and Release"
recent paintings, sculpture, and sewn paper stuffMore »
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Terry Richardson "Mom & Dad"
"My parents split up when I was four. It feels good for me to have them back together again, even if it's in a gallery and only for a little while. It's something I'm doing for me and in a way, for them."...More »
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Taylor Mead "Aphorisms from On Amphetamine and in Europe"
Taylor Mead Aphorisms features highlights taken from his underground classic "On Amphetamine and in Europe". The seminal 1968 text collected his singular stream of consciousness short form poetry. He's...More »
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Peter Sutherland "Peter Sutherland"
Victory Over Darkness is an exhibition by Peter Sutherland, a raconteur, traveler and filmmaker. Sutherland's voyages are embedded in his diverse body of work, which extends well beyond photography to...More »
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Craig McDean "Sumo"
[Image: Craig McDean "Untitled" (1993)]More »
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"Ray's a Laugh" Exhibition
Artists respond to the work of Ray Johnson in a group show More »
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"Exhibition A" Print Salon
Exhibition A will host a Print Salon -- a rare opportunity to view and purchase Exhibition A prints in person -- featuring current and yet-to-be released works by artists including Rene Ricard, James Franco...More »
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Ed Templeton "Teenage Kissers"
Half Gallery presents a new exhibition by Ed Templeton, "Teenage Kissers".More »
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Duncan Hannah "Country Life and Other Collages"
Duncan Hannah began making collages in the late 1970s, inspired by artists such as Joe Brainard, Kurt Schwitters and Peter Blake. There is a tangibility and sensuality to collage, a multi-layered and complex...More »
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Jack Walls "'Mona Lisa' Collage Paintings"
Jack Walls insists on putting quotation marks around each "Mona Lisa," because they are as much portraiture as history painting: sexually ambiguous, oddly mischievous and caught in an eternal metaphorical...More »
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Julia Chiang "Security is Mostly A Superstition"
Half Gallery presents "Security Is Mostly A Superstition" the first New York solo exhibition of work by artist Julia Chiang. Chiang will present a room-size installation of white chains, ranging in length...More »
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Ben Blatt "Heatbox Devolution"
[Image: Ben Blatt "Gray Deluge" 2010 Watercolor, gouache, ink, and color pencil on paper, 15-¼ x 19 in.]More »
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Eneas Capalbo "Fake Condos"
Eneas Capalbo celebrates the tenth anniversary of his fake George Condo series, while the artist in question stages his own survey just blocks away at the New Museum. Emeas pays tribute to the virtuosity...More »
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Hermann Amann "Fluorescence"
His first show in New York, Hermann Amann presents seven paintings on paper ranging from 2005 to 2010. Using Golden’s polymer gel and fluorescent pigments, Amann’s style and technique, The New Pigmentation,...More »
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Donald Shambroom "Bloodbath"
His first New York show in twenty years, Donald Shambroom’s flowers offer shades of seduction while each variety, be it poppy or pressed red rose, connects to a momento mori of some kind. Adding sculptural...More »
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David Armstrong "Mad About the Boy"
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Andisheh Avini "Screw, Spread, Slip, Suck, Stab, Fall, Cross and Writhe"
Combining Frank Stella's pattern pieces from the 1960s and an old traditional craft called marquetry, Andisheh Avini creates his latest series of arresting abstractions. The tile style here was initially...More »
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Geoff McFetridge "The Westest"
[Image: Geoff McFetridge "Girl in Bathing Suit" (2010) acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 in.] More »
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Miles Mendenhall Exhibition
[Image: Miles Mendenhall "Good and Lonely Luminous Structure no. 2" (2010) silkscreen on cotton rag 42 x 54 in.]More »
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"Normal Dimensions" Exhibition
The secret life of the object tells the story of what is not seen. It may be true that the holes in our imagination are filled with precious metal, that silence is the sermon of the owls flight, that the...More »
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"A Ways A Way" Exhibition
Curated by Meredith Darrow & Devendra Banhart. [Image by Devendra Banhart]More »
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Hanna Liden "As Black as Your Hat"
Liden's new series of photographs, accompanied by a neon-pentagram sculpture, continue her exploration of religious rite and gothic subculture through brooding still-life images of melting candles. [Image:...More »
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Leo Fitzpatrick "Revelations"
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Hannes Bend "Endlich"
The first U.S. solo exhibition of work by Berlin-based artist, Hannes Bend, features several of Bend’s “candy casts”— sculptures in hard candy—alongside a new series of abstract paintings. Bend’s unique...More »
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Mark Borthwick "If We're Pioneers"
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Mark Gonzales Exhibition
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Lowell Boyers Exhibition
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Grant Shaffer Exhibiton
[Image: Grant Shaffer “New Row” (2007) Pencil and ink on paper 25.5 x 35.5 cm.]More »
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Jay Gard "DoubleGard"