Mike Weiss Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Mike Weiss Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Dan Schein “Where Do We Dump The Bodies?”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Dan Schein’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery, Where Do We Dump The Bodies? For his first major solo show in New York, the thirty-year-old artist has created a series of...More »
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“School’s Out!” Exhibition
The final seconds tick away. The sunlight beckons through the window. The bell rings. It’s the same high-pitched bell that has been blaring out all year. This time though, it provides sweet music – a coda...More »
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Koen Delaere “Vaya”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Koen Delaere’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery, Vaya. In each of his twelve works for the show, the Belgian artist has created juxtapositions of texture and color that...More »
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Michael Brown “in the meantime…”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Michael Brown’s second solo show with the gallery, in the meantime…. For this body of work, the thirty-three year old artist hand-cuts and polishes stainless steel until he...More »
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“Objects and Everyday Goods” Exhibition
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Objects and Everyday Goods, a group exhibition featuring works by Michael Brown, Tom Fruin, Cameron Gray, Liao Yibai, Michael Zelehoski, Ugo Schildge and Adam Parker Smith that...More »
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Stefanie Gutheil “The Home of Mr. Peeps”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Stefanie Gutheil’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, The Home of Mr. Peeps. For this show, the Berlin-based artist has delved deep into the recesses of her imagination – back...More »
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Virginia Martinsen “Exhibition Space”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Virginia Martinsen’s Exhibition Space, her inaugural solo show with the gallery and her first in New York in six years. The exhibition will consist of oil paintings and photographic...More »
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Thrush Holmes “Heavy Painting”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Heavy Painting, the third solo exhibition by Thrush Holmes with the gallery. Using diverse materials, which range from oil paint to neon to driveway sealer, to depict a variety...More »
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Jerry Kearns & Nora York “Diva’s Song”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Diva’s Song, the second show by Jerry Kearns and the first in collaboration with singer/performer Nora York at the gallery. The exhibition features eight acrylic wall paintings...More »
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Michael Zelehoski “New Order”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents New Order, the first solo exhibition by Michael Zelehoski with the gallery. Zelehoski takes found three-dimensional objects like pallets and police barricades and restructures...More »
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Fernando Mastrangelo “Nothing”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Fernando Mastrangelo’s first solo show in New York: NOTHING. Strategically using materials for their aesthetic and historical senses and for their power to signify, the works...More »
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Marc Séguin “I Love America and America Loves Me”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Marc Séguin’s third solo show with the gallery, I Love America and America Loves Me. The title references Joseph Beuys’ definitive 1974 performance where Beuys spent three days...More »
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Cameron Gray “Gymnasty”
Cameron Gray and Mike Weiss Gallery invite you to GYMNASTY, an equal opportunity exhibition filled with multisensory integration experiences, joyous celebration, spiritual reflection, contemporary contemplations...More »
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Tom Fruin “Color Study”
Mike Weiss Gallery present Color Study, an exhibition featuring new works by Brooklyn-based artist Tom Fruin. This exhibition marks the first time Fruin’s sculptures, usually seen against the backdrop...More »
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Jerry Kearns “Rrrgghh!!!”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents RRRGGHH!!!, Jerry Kearns’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. This will be the artist’s first show in New York since 2006, and will feature 8 new paintings on canvas as...More »
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Joe Fleming “Suckerpunch”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Joe Fleming’s first NY solo show, SUCKERPUNCH. Fleming’s works are re-mades, where recycling materials and a worn-out character are pronounced through a visual statement encompassing...More »
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Martin Wickström “Perfume River”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Swedish artist Martin Wickström’s inaugural solo exhibition in New York. Blending signage, landscape, figuration, and Sixties paraphernalia into montage, Perfume River presents...More »
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Thrush Holmes “More”
Thrush Holmes lives and works in Toronto and has been widely exhibited throughout Canada. His work can be found in permanent collections such as the Elton John Aids Foundation, Sony Dreamworks, and Defjam...More »
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Thrush Holmes “All Lit Up On Wine”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents All Lit Up On Wine, the debut solo exhibition by Thrush Holmes. Splaying wood panels with exuberant spray paint and slapdash neon tubing, Holmes’ unapologetic methods elevate...More »
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Jan De Vliegher “New Works”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents a new exhibition of paintings by Belgian artist Jan De Vliegher. Although referencing Koi ponds for this new body of work, he is working abstractly taking his inspiration from...More »
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Kaoruko “Enn”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents ENN, KAORUKO’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Synthesizing a thorough understanding of Western modernism and traditional Japanese artistry, ten monumental paintings...More »
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Michael Brown “Schematics and Silhouettes”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Schematics and Silhouettes, Michael Brown’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Employing rusted steel rods, oxidized copper, and graphite illustration, Brown presents a...More »
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Cameron Gray “Birth of a Legend”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents a questionable low-point in our program:Birth of a Legend, by nomadic artist Cameron Gray. Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz claim that “Cameron Gray is too big to fail,” and Paddy...More »
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Kim Dorland “Ghosts of You and Me”
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Canadian artist Kim Dorland’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, a tour-de-force of large-scale works on canvas that transport us to a place of heightened psychological portent...More »
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Will Kurtz "Another Shit Show"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents "Another Shit Show," the second solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Will Kurtz. Using the empty gallery as a site on which to stage operatic, all-encompassing mise-en-scene,...More »
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Christian Vincent "Ear to the Ground"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Ear to the Ground, a new series of paintings by Los Angeles based artist Christian Vincent. Ranging in size from an intimate 24" x 20" to an impressive 80" x 115", the series...More »
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Stefanie Gutheil "Die Beobachter"
Mike Weiss Gallery is proud to present Die Beobachter, a solo exhibition by German painter Stefanie Gutheil. In this new series, Gutheil surrounds imagined and fanciful creatures with colorful patterns....More »
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Yigal Ozeri "Territory"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Territory, a new series of Photorealist oil paintings by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri. Featuring his largest portraits to date, the series depicts a young, female Israeli soldier,...More »
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Liao Yibai "MADE IN CHINA"
"In China, the making of fake antiques is a thriving, profitable industry and has been since ancient times. Artist Liao Yibai calls it a 'glorious' tradition, his designation double-edged. The counterfeiters...More »
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Marc Séguin "My Century (An Illustrated Guide for Aliens)"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents My Century (An Illustrated Guide for Aliens), the gallery's second solo exhibition by Marc Séguin. The title, like his latest body of work, is rich with cynicism, melancholia,...More »
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Alex Gingrow "All the money IS in the label"
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Patrick Lundeen "Good For You Son"
For his first New York City solo exhibition, Patrick Lundeen brings together seemingly disparate objects - from flags to rugs to posters to keyboards to grocery store dailies and magazine pages - into...More »
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Jan De Vliegher "Treasury"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents "Treasury", a new exhibition of paintings by Belgian artist Jan De Vliegher. For his first solo exhibition in the United States, De Vliegher creates a series of monumental paintings...More »
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Eugene Lemay "Navigator"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Navigator by Eugene Lemay. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lemay presents an installation of large-scale, atmospheric tableaus composed of layers of digitally...More »
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Piet van den Boog "Bruised and Battered"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents "Bruised and Battered" by Dutch artist Piet van den Boog. For his third solo show at the gallery, van den Boog pushes the limits of portraiture by directly confronting emotion...More »
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Will Kurtz "Extra F***ing Ordinary"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Extra F***ing Ordinary, Will Kurtz's debut exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged torn sheets of newspaper, wood,...More »
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Kaoruko "New Paintings"
Japanese artist Kaoruko’s large-scale paintings depicting women in their private domestic spaces draw upon both the rich cultural history of her homeland as well as her experiences as a former Japanese...More »
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Trudy Benson "Actual/Virtual"
New York based artist Trudy Benson creates phosphorescent large-scale paintings that pulse with energy, perspective, and illusion. She stimulates the viewer’s senses with her cosmic titles and imagery,...More »
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Stefanie Gutheil "Dreckige Katze"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents their second solo exhibition with German artist Stefanie Gutheil. "Dreckige Katze (Dirty Cat)" expands her playful and perverse painterly language and attempts to shine a flashlight...More »
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Kim Dorland "For Lori"
Over the past decade, Kim Dorland’s wife, Lori, has been the subject and inspiration of countless paintings. Consisting of eight paintings and three works on paper dating from 2008 to present, this show...More »
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Yigal Ozeri "Garden of the Gods"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents "Garden of the Gods", a solo exhibition by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri. The exhibition includes more than a dozen near-photorealistic oil paintings varying in size from small...More »
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Marc Séguin "Failures"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents “Failures”, our first solo exhibition by Canadian artist Marc Séguin. War images, churches in ruin, iconic portraits of an assassin, a billionaire and a pope make up more than...More »
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Hermann Nitsch "60. Painting Action // 60. Malaktion"
Mike Weiss Gallery hosts the first live painting action within the United States by Hermann Nitsch, founding member of the Viennese Actionism movement. On February 15th and 16th, the gallery is open to...More »
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Christian Vincent "Tunnel Vision"
In comparison with Vincent’s previous body of work, "Tunnel Vision" is notably reduced in palette, line, and narrative. Even the subject matter, while adhering to the male figure, is more stark and streamlined....More »
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Kim Dorland "New Material"
Consisting of paintings, watercolors, assemblage on paper and taxidermy animals, New Material pushes the limits of painting to visually narrate Dorland’s experience growing up in rural Canada. In his...More »
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Liao Yibai "Real Fake"
Mike Weiss Gallery and ATM Gallery present Real Fake, an exhibition of new works by Chinese artist Liao Yibai. By collapsing the concepts of “real” and “fake” through mash-ups of luxury labels, the appropriation...More »
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"Reflexive Self" Exhibition
The “reflexive self” is a view of self in the context of the people and situations around us. The show is comprised of five international artists of varying techniques whose depictions of other and object...More »
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Piet van den Boog "I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest"
Influenced by Dutch painters Frans Hals and Vermeer, van den Boog evokes an array of emotion in the spectator by allowing him/her to be present in a profoundly intimate setting. In this new series of...More »
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Elisa Johns "Huntress"
Inspired by iconic heroines of myth and history, Johns’ women are updated contemporary versions in an excessively glamour- driven society. Tipping her hat to illustrators of fashion, her figures set in...More »
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Sofi Zezmer "Remote Control"
With an engineer’s precision, Zezmer constructs her works by a gradual additive process dependent on intuitive responses to the materials and objects she uses forming color-saturated assemblages. Evolving...More »
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Stefanie Gutheil "Kopftheater"
This is the artist’s first exhibition in New York and at Mike Weiss Gallery. Stefanie’s bold, multi-dimensional paintings are tactile depictions of her own life. The patterns of unexpected fabrics and...More »
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Maya Gold "Wake"
Maya's use of a combination of soft, nearly see-through backgrounds and precisely executed subjects in the foreground blend the genres of abstraction and figuration and challenge the viewer to make that...More »
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Yigal Ozeri "Desire for Anima"
Using video and camera work in the initial stages of his process, Ozeri embodies the role of film director, choreographer, and painter. The essence of Ozeri’s paintings are the performative and psychological...More »
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Liao Yibai "Imaginary Enemy"
Unlike other Chinese contemporary artists, Yibai’s sculpture uniquely explores how the Chinese imagined the myth and threat of America during and immediately following the Cultural Revolution. Yibai was...More »
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Piet van den Boog "Ophelia"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents Ophelia, an exhibition featuring new works by Dutch artist Piet van den Boog. Working on black steel, the remarkable renditions of splashing water in van den Boog’s works are...More »
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Martin C. Herbst "Ariodante"
Mike Weiss Gallery announces Ariodante, an exhibition featuring a procession of new works by Austrian artist Martin C. Herbst. Working on polished stainless steel and aluminum, Herbst seeks to emphasize...More »
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"5 Year Anniversary" Exhibition
Featuring new works by the gallery artists. [Image: Stephanie Pflaum "Parallelweltenbummler" (2008) c-print 72 x 57.5 in.]More »
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Amy Myers "Spin Zero"
There are many realms beyond human comprehension that need endless investigation, curiosity and above all, the creativity and freedom to move in every possible direction, especially the seemingly impossible....More »
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Allison Schulnik "No Luck Too"
Mike Weiss Gallery presents No Luck Too, the first New York solo exhibition of L.A. based painter Allison Schulnik. Within thickly sculpted oil paint, Allison Schulnik presents moments that mix historical...More »
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Christian Vincent "Runyon Canyon"
We extend an invitation to discover yourself and the world around you in a body of images. Images that are at once confrontational yet inviting, where certainty and confusion are simultaneously displayed...More »
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Tony Magar "Buddha sometimes"
Mike Weiss Gallery announces Buddha sometimes, an exhibition featuring new work by painter/sculptor Tony Magar. Born in London, this visionary pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York...More »