Soapbox Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Soapbox Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Angèle Lebert “Je t’aime Je t’aime”
Angèle Lebert’s new show, Je t’aime Je t’aime, stands at a crossroad. It closes The Cycle of Fuck to open The Cycle of Love of the French visual artist. In her previous fairy tale for adults, entitled...More »
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Halina Marki and Winicjusz Lysik “Brooklyn”
Soapbox Gallery presents recent paintings and sculpture by Brooklyn-based artists Halina Marki and Winicjusz Lysik. Focusing on the unspoken interconnectedness that links all human beings, they reflect...More »
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Sara Erenthal “Be! (הְוֵי)”
Raised in an ultra-orthodox Jewish community, Erenthal escaped to avoid an arranged marriage at age 17 and was subsequently rejected by her entire community. The work exhibited at Soapbox Gallery tells...More »
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Howard Better “Everything You Always Wanted”
Howard Better creates sculptures using recycled cans of various sizes. These colorful constructions carry images cut out of magazines and newspapers, echoing the missing can labels. This is a sculpture...More »
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Anne Burlock Lawver “Indelible”
Anne Burlock Lawver focuses on the personal, the intimate, and the fleeting emotions that could be captured only in close-up. At Soapbox, she will present a series of striking photographs taken at the...More »
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Dorothy Krakovsky “Recent Paintings”
90 year old painter Dorothy Krakovsky is diminished in physical capacity, but when in the act of painting moves as if she is possessed. The dream of flying is so real, yet when we wake we know it is not...More »
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Strauss Yawney “Through The Light I See Trash”
Strauss W. Yawney’s Through the Light I See Trash saga explores detritus in distinct locations around the globe. His first installment features New York City. Using his cinematography and photography...More »
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Frogwell “A Sound Performance”
Frogwell is an improvising unit incorporating elements of conceptual and performance art. Formed in the Spring of 2009, Frogwell plays many things not originally intended to be instruments as well...More »
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“WATER (OR THE ABSENCE OF IT)” Exhibition
Water is at the heart of life, the single most important resource, a worldwide symbol throughout the ages for cleansing, rebirth, balance, harmony, and wisdom. Water is essential to life. In ample supply...More »
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David Connolly “Be Careful For What You Wish For III, 2013”
This installation questions the idea of Utopia in modernity as a result of rapid economic growth. Suggesting a cautionary tale for both the West and East in relation to perceiving each other’s role in...More »
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“TRANSMUTATION: The Future Of Man” Exhibition
Humans rely increasingly on machines and technology to live their daily lives – to communicate, to move, to eat, to explore, to cure themselves from illnesses and to enhance their bodies. Technology has...More »
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Jacobus Capone “TOWARDS A MERIDIAN”
This fascinating durational performance takes place during the whole night of the September equinox. Jacobus Capone explores notions of reality and appearances, inwards and outwards, and the complexity...More »
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Jessie Kotler “Primary Work”
Jessie Kotler is interested in vulnerability and mortality, choosing to look at things that many prefer to look away from, such as death. Her photographs show what is real, to make us aware of the whole...More »
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“Plethora” Exhibition
Collaborative performance work by New York-based artist Lia Chavez and Los Angeles-based artists Linnéa Spransy & Maggie Hazen. During the course of Plethora, vacant space will become a complex...More »
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Suzan Shutan “Through the Looking Glass”
This delicate installation reveals a generally ignored reality: one of the largest oil spills in history is right there, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. “Through the Looking Glass” of Soapbox’s window gallery,...More »
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Dan Carlson “Sublime Trajectories” Exhibition
Sublime Trajectories is an arrangement of relics from the recent past that reference the Cold War Space Race, the Viking funeral pyre ceremony, and imagery from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain. Carlson’s...More »
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Jessie Kotler “Where and When”
Jessie Kotler is interested in vulnerability and mortality, choosing to look at things that many prefer to look away from, such as death. Her photographs show what is real, to make us aware of the whole...More »
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Kevin Stapp “BRUCE RATNER TOOK MY HOME”
Flaws inherent in language are strengths. Not being able to codify what is felt by experiencing art is one of its strengths. It gives rise to ‘talking around the thing’ but never getting at it. A cultural...More »
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Emily Berger, Nancy Manter and Anne Russinof “Seeing Through”
“Seeing Through” implies the process by which we see and interpret our visual and psychological worlds. Emily Berger, Nancy Manter and Anne Russinof investigate and construct forms or places that speak...More »
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David Goldstein Exhibition
David Goldstein (b.1967) is a New York artist who is interested in furthering the possibilities of abstract painting, especially as it relates to Minimalism and other simplified, geometric painting since...More »
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Katarina Jerinic "Visitor Center for Erratic Monuments"
Erratics are large boulders that were left behind by glaciers. “Visitor Center for Erratic Monuments” is dedicated to the interpretation of some such peculiar rocks found along sidewalks in Brooklyn. Gallery...More »
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American Laboratory "Touch Me In Kansas"
Touch Me in Kansas is a dioramic homage to the USAmerican West, the cinematic tropes of ‘The Western’, and the domestication of certain USAmerican beasts. Performances April 12, 16, 20,...More »
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Patrick Todd "Object Relationships"
There is no past, the present is never solid, and the future is in our way. Thus, Patrick Todd's art consist of creating paintings that are neither worldly, nor subjectively imagined. Patrick Todd was...More »
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"re/spond/re/peat" Exhibition
re/spond/re/peat is a group exhibition curated by Audra Wolowiec that brings together artists and artist groups working across disciplines from performance, sound, and print media, all of whom invite dialog...More »
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"ART LOVERS" Exhibition
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution...More »
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Anabela Zigova "Grand Street Special"
Grand Street Special is a 7 minute experimental film which communicates a feeling of spontaneous joy in everyday life. The film was shot in a Brooklyn bar in Mexican Spanish with English subtitles. It...More »
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Darin M. White "OVERFLOW"
A Lawrence, Kansas based artist and arts advocate brings his debut New York solo exhibition to Brooklyn. White equates his artwork to digging in the field, looking for treasures and mysteries to uncover...More »
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Krystyna Borkowska "R-EVOLVE, RE-THINKING THE TEMPLE"
Like a small urban chapel or a reliquary, a gallery in this Brooklyn neighborhood encloses a hidden "presence," a presence that you may stumble upon or see in the corner of your eye as you stroll along...More »
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Fritz Horstman "Five Feet Under the Surface of a Pond"
There will be two bodies of work. 13 photographs will act as a frieze along the top of the gallery, and 5 sculptures made of tree sections will be presented at the front of the space. The photographs were...More »
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Esperanza Cortes "Throne"
Throne is a large installation work which incorporates over 500 clay flowers made by the artist. Each petal bearing the life lines from her left hand surrounding a bamboo baby chair. This work is fueled...More »
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Dorothy Krakovsky "The Retrospective Project"
Soapbox Gallery presents The Retrospective Project - An exhibition with artist Dorothy Krakovsky. At 88 years old, Krakovsky has been working for 50 years with few opportunities to exhibit her paintings....More »
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Tom Giebel "XYLEM AND PHLOEM"
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Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni Exhibition
Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni solo exhibition of ink drawings, hidden by a thread. More »
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Vanessa Hill “From My Streets”
3 photos on vinyl - 54"x78" eachMore »
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John Davis “Cut Out”
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Alex White Mazzarella “Society Under Fire”
The Soapbox Gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening “Society Under Fire” which presents recent works by visual artist Alex White Mazzarella. On display are six recent neo-expressionist mixed media...More »
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Leigh Davis “Debra Freeman, Room 1006”
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Michael Pribich “Too Much Sugar for a Dime”
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Chaw ei Thein & Brad W. Darcy "Transformed Conversation"
Soapbox Gallery presents the two person exhibition "Transformed Conversation" with New York based artist Brad Darcy and Burma based artist Chaw Ei Thein. In "Transformed Conversation", Mr. Darcy and Ms...More »
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Jessica Baker “Seasonal Fall”
Visual artist Jessica Baker’s window installation, Seasonal Fall, presents a final glimpse of the retreating season’s majesty. Seasonal Fall represents the culmination of the artist’s three-year journey...More »