The National Exemplar - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for The National Exemplar. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

  • poster for Nico Vascellari “1/2”

    Nico Vascellari “1/2”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2019-03-04 - 2019-03-30

    A half is two equal or corresponding separate parts. We could be split in half: Outside (eyes, ears, legs, arms, buttocks…) and Inside (lungs, testicles…). Almost perfection. Two symmetrical halves...More »

  • poster for Lesley Raeside “Four paintings from 1999 to 2018”

    Lesley Raeside “Four paintings from 1999 to 2018”

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2019-02-05 - 2019-03-03

    After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, Lesley Raeside rented a studio in the east end of Glasgow where she met an American painter from Berkeley, California who was inspired by the energetic, experimental...More »

  • poster for “ASS” Exhibition

    “ASS” Exhibition

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2019-02-05 - 2019-03-03

    ASS : Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden. Synonymus with Donkey. ASS: from Middle English ars, ers, from Old...More »

  • poster for Alex Hay & Ryan Foerster “2 benches”

    Alex Hay & Ryan Foerster “2 benches”

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    • Media: Painting - Installation
    • 2019-02-05 - 2019-03-03

    Alex Hay started making furniture in Bisbee, Arizona in the 1970s before he set up his painting studio there because he wanted a chair to lean back in. Eventually they evolved into “rocking benches” with...More »

  • poster for Nate Lowman & Keith Sonnier “UNTITLED (flowers)”

    Nate Lowman & Keith Sonnier “UNTITLED (flowers)”

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    • Media: Painting - Drawing
    • 2018-12-11 - 2018-12-21

    The second show of Keith Sonnier & Nate Lowman together at the gallery, this one examines their similar interests in nature and abstraction from organic forms. Keith Soniier was born in Mamou,...More »

  • poster for John Miller “Early Drawings”

    John Miller “Early Drawings”

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    • Media: Drawing
    • 2018-11-11 - 2018-12-21

    I got back into painting and drawing in a roundabout way. After concentrating on video during art school, I found that once I got out, I could no longer afford to do it, mainly because production standards...More »

  • poster for Tristano Di Robilant “Tarquinia”

    Tristano Di Robilant “Tarquinia”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2018-09-11 - 2018-10-27

    The National Exemplar presents Tristano Di Robilant’s “Tarquinia” Tarquinia is a town, originally founded by the Etruscans, that lies northwest of Rome on the Aurelian Way. Birthplace to Vincenzo...More »

  • poster for Rand Hardy “Lost World”

    Rand Hardy “Lost World”

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    • Media: Photography
    • 2018-05-23 - 2018-06-28

    “Lost World” a limestone cave tourist attraction located in Greenbrier, West Virginia near where Rand Hardy grew up. It has a constant temperature of 52 degrees Fahrenheit all year around. Continuity...More »

  • poster for Keith Sonnier “Inflated Works”

    Keith Sonnier “Inflated Works”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2018-04-01 - 2018-05-20

    Keith Sonnier made the inflated series for his MFA thesis exhibition at Douglas College, Rutgers University in 1966. The materials ranged from plastic, canvas, cheesecloth, sculpt-metal, satin, velvet,...More »

  • poster for Matthew Barney, Steve Di Benedetto & John Miller  “CHHUNKS”

    Matthew Barney, Steve Di Benedetto & John Miller “CHHUNKS”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2018-01-31 - 2018-03-24

    Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco, CA in 1967. Steve Di Benedetto was born in the Bronx, NY in 1958. John Miller was born in Cleveland, OH in 1954. More »

  • poster for Keith Sonnier “Tokobashira & Mardi Gras Masks”

    Keith Sonnier “Tokobashira & Mardi Gras Masks”

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    • Media: Installation - Art Competition
    • 2017-10-24 - 2017-12-09

    Tokobashira series: SUKU-NA-BIKO, 1984 AIZEN-MYOO, 1984 Mardi Gras masks: GANESHA, 2005 OBELIN, 2008 RAYNE, 2008 BRAHMA, 2017 Concerned with western technology and eastern languages, communication...More »

  • poster for Julia Benjamin “Some more (black & white) paintings”

    Julia Benjamin “Some more (black & white) paintings”

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2017-10-24 - 2017-12-09

    In the mill’s dream of itself, gray-scaled slugs inch their way through an apparatus known as the twittering machine. A shuffling turbine rigged from rope, painted timber, and tin sheets, periodically...More »

  • poster for Matt Kenny & Francis Picabia  “Landscape paintings”

    Matt Kenny & Francis Picabia “Landscape paintings”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2017-09-11 - 2017-10-22

    The National Exemplar is pleased to announce it’s new show by Matt Kenny & Francis Picabia “Landscape paintings” J.G. Ballard, Brigid Marlin, and Paul Delvaux “I have always been a great admirer...More »

  • poster for Aaron Aujla “Apartment Alteration Paintings”

    Aaron Aujla “Apartment Alteration Paintings”

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2017-06-08 - 2017-07-12

    The National Exemplar is pleased to announce its new exhibition by Aaron Aujla: “Apartment Alteration Paintings” “Apartment Alteration Paintings,” is a continuation of Aaron Aujla’s investigation...More »

  • poster for Dean Levin “Exterior objects for Interior use”

    Dean Levin “Exterior objects for Interior use”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2017-06-08 - 2017-07-12

    The National Exemplar presents “Exterior objects for interior use,” an installation of new works by Dean Levin. Pulling from an array of references culled during a recent trip to Japan, Levin presents...More »

  • poster for Robert Bordo “Back Flip”

    Robert Bordo “Back Flip”

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2017-04-30 - 2017-06-03

    Nature, roads, and signs, rendered predominately in thick, dark oil paint, imply oblique narratives about ecology, the current social political landscape, and autobiography. Untitled, 1988, the earliest...More »

  • poster for Enzo Cucchi “Mostra Scomparsa” (“Disappeared Show”)

    Enzo Cucchi “Mostra Scomparsa” (“Disappeared Show”)

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    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • 2017-03-13 - 2017-04-23

    We are preparing a work that gives back a form to sacredness, because an art event is not only a formal moment, but something that must be circumscribed precisely because it is sacred. It is a form of...More »

  • poster for Kevin Zucker and Richard Arstchwager “Chair, Wall”

    Kevin Zucker and Richard Arstchwager “Chair, Wall”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2017-01-31 - 2017-03-05

    Like much of the work made over Richard Artschwager’s extraordinary career, Chair, 1965, embodies a set of propositions that lead us to self-contradictory or mutually exclusive conclusions– that is, to...More »

  • poster for Rand Hardy “Working Man”

    Rand Hardy “Working Man”

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    • Media: Drawing - Photography - Sculpture
    • 2016-09-20 - 2016-10-30
  • poster for Di Benedetto/Segre/Foerster “Plastic Bag in a Tree”

    Di Benedetto/Segre/Foerster “Plastic Bag in a Tree”

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    • Media: Drawing - Sculpture
    • 2016-06-23 - 2016-07-28
  • poster for Matt Kenny “Sweaty Tubes”

    Matt Kenny “Sweaty Tubes”

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    • Media: Painting - Photography - Installation
    • 2016-03-15 - 2016-04-24
  • poster for “Cucchi/Festa/Colen” Exhibition

    “Cucchi/Festa/Colen” Exhibition

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2016-01-27 - 2016-03-06
  • poster for Steve Di Benedetto, James Siena & Leo Villareal “Systems and Corruptions”

    Steve Di Benedetto, James Siena & Leo Villareal “Systems and Corruptions”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2015-11-30 - 2016-01-10
  • poster for “SKIN (Part 2)” Exhibition

    “SKIN (Part 2)” Exhibition

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    • Media: Photography - Installation
    • 2015-10-20 - 2015-11-22

    Skin is the soft outer covering of vertebrates. (from Latin cutis, skin). In mammals, the skin is an organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of ectodermal tissue, and guards the underlying...More »

  • poster for “Skin (Part 1)” Exhibition

    “Skin (Part 1)” Exhibition

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2015-09-15 - 2015-10-18
  • poster for Gloria Thurn und Taxis “Men of God”

    Gloria Thurn und Taxis “Men of God”

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    • Media: Photography - Installation
    • 2015-06-18 - 2015-07-23
  • poster for Alexander May “26”

    Alexander May “26”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2015-05-12 - 2015-06-14
  • poster for Matt Kenny “See Forever”

    Matt Kenny “See Forever”

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    • Media: Drawing - Installation
    • 2015-03-17 - 2015-05-03
  • poster for Keith Sonnier and Nate Lowman “Stockprops”

    Keith Sonnier and Nate Lowman “Stockprops”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2015-01-13 - 2015-03-01

    There is a YouTube channel titled “Racks, Pillories, and Interrogations” that reveals the pillory’s comfortable exile to fantasy. In a clip from the 1969 film “Starlet!,” a woman is dragged to a pillory...More »

  • poster for Terry Winters “THICKNESS)POINTS:6 DRAWINGS”

    Terry Winters “THICKNESS)POINTS:6 DRAWINGS”

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    • Media: Drawing
    • 2014-11-11 - 2014-12-31

    Concentric geometries of transparency slightly joggled sink through algebras of proud inwardlyness to collide spirally with iron arithmethics and mesh witH Which when both march...More »

  • poster for “American Sculpture” Exhibition

    “American Sculpture” Exhibition

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    • Media: Sculpture
    • 2014-07-09 - 2014-08-14

    The National Exemplar presents its new exhibition “AMERICAN SCULPTURE” Dylan Bailey from Springfield, Vermont was born in 1985. Julia Benjamin from New York City, was born in 1984. Rand Hardy from...More »

  • poster for Todd Eberle “Flowers”

    Todd Eberle “Flowers”

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    • Media: Photography
    • 2014-05-27 - 2014-07-03
  • poster for “Legs” Exhibition

    “Legs” Exhibition

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    • Media: Photography
    • 2014-04-08 - 2014-05-18

    A leg is a weight bearing and locomotive structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as “extensible struts”. The combination of movements at all joints can be modeled as...More »

  • poster for Justin Adian Exhibition

    Justin Adian Exhibition

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    • Media: Photography
    • 2014-02-18 - 2014-03-30
  • Leo Fitzpatrick “Poem Paintings”

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2014-01-07 - 2014-02-10
  • poster for Steve Di Benedetto and Terry Winters Exhibition

    Steve Di Benedetto and Terry Winters Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2013-10-30 - 2013-12-22

    The National Exemplar is pleased to announce its new exhibition by Steve Di Benedetto and Terry Winters. Terry Winters and Steve Di Benedetto make paintings about information. They paint methods of...More »

  • poster for Gladys Nilsson and Julia Benjamin Exhibition

    Gladys Nilsson and Julia Benjamin Exhibition

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    • Media: Painting
    • 2013-09-09 - 2013-10-19

    Gladys Nilsson, an original member of the Chicago Imagists, is one of America’s most compelling watercolorists. In her works, which are figurative, mystical and surreal, she transmutes real stories into...More »

  • poster for Keith Sonnier “Not Neon”

    Keith Sonnier “Not Neon”

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    • Media: Sculpture - Installation
    • 2013-06-18 - 2013-07-21

    New materials and their physicality. How they feel, how they smell, how they sound, the combinations of dissimilar elements, both rough and delicate. The alchemy of its making, the new meaning the materials...More »

  • poster for Peter Coffin “Part 2”

    Peter Coffin “Part 2”

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    • Media: Installation
    • 2013-06-18 - 2013-07-21

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