NYAB Events - American Contemporary

American Contemporary - Past Events

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

Shara Hughes “Far Out”
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- Media: Painting
- 2015-03-26 - 2015-04-26
Shara Hughes’ new paintings present layers of abstracted, actual and pictorial space, all in search of simplicity. These clouded windows of ambiguous form, pattern, and texture are like vibrated, vibrant...More »
Dwyer Kilcollin “Banquet, Conference”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2015-02-04 - 2015-03-15
The exhibition emerges from a fuzzy memory of the last ending, told from a present-day perspective where nothing seems to end. Like a conversation hosted over social media, where sentence fragments accumulate...More »
Joel Holmberg “You Line”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-10-30 - 2014-12-19
For the greater part of the 20th Century , companies that controlled the lion’s share of markets got there by joining partnerships and forming associations as a way to reduce transaction costs below market...More »
Stephen Vitiello Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-09-17 - 2014-10-19
American Contemporary announces a two - part installation by renowned sound artist Stephen Vitiello. The exhibition pairs together a major early work, Frogs in Feedback (2002) , and a ne w sculptural sound...More »
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet “Fugue”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-06-11 - 2014-08-09
Bernadet’s paintings present mark making as a layered language and a process of active contemplation. He describes a process of infinite gesture where every mark is engaged in a moment of call and response...More »
Michael Manning “Wild Fusion : Vol. I – Total Collapse”
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-04-24 - 2014-06-01
Ethan Cook “Problem In Chair Not In Computer”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-02-27 - 2014-04-12
As human activity is increasingly made technical—molded to autocorrected, auto-tuned, or photoshopped standards—what happens to the productive potential of error? While the standardization of human experience...More »
“The Cardboard Lover” Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-01-16 - 2014-02-16
The Cardboard Lover explores how cultural objects reflect the subjective experiences and objective styles produced by the late capitalist organization of labor. As it has shifted from a factory assembly...More »
Mariah Robertson “Permanent Puberty”
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- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2013-10-31 - 2013-12-20
A philosophical discourse via photographic materials and visual language. A box of photo paper in my darkroom got ‘blown’, that is, opened in a fully lit room. Photography is all about the control...More »
Julia Goldman “Magazine”
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-09-11 - 2013-10-20
American Contemporary Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Julia Goldman. In Magazine Goldman presents a new, extensive, series of oil paintings, all of a similar size, that explore her continued...More »
“Yes I Will Yes” Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-06-27 - 2013-08-10
Sarah Braman & Wallace Whitney “Contact High”
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2013-05-01 - 2013-06-16
Anna Conway "It's not going to happen like that"
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-03-14 - 2013-04-21
Anna Conway's recent paintings pose a number of questions: are we able to, by acting on our environments, change ourselves? Can our labor and attention to the spaces around us really protect us from feelings...More »
Joel Holmberg "Soft Laws"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2013-01-11 - 2013-03-08
I don't always write statements about my work, but when I do, I prefer to start sentences with â€œAs an artist.â€ As an artist, it is thrilling to go through customs and be asked what I do. Nothing else...More »
Daphne Fitzpatrick Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-11-08 - 2012-12-23
Shara Hughes "See Me Seeing Me"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-09-20 - 2012-10-28
Stan VanDerBeek Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Prints - Installation
- 2012-07-12 - 2012-08-17
Sam Falls Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-05-10 - 2012-06-24
David Brooks "Notes On Structure (imbroglios, heaps and myopias)"
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- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2012-03-29 - 2012-04-29
Is it conceivable through conventions of knowledge-production to see the world through the lens of a fish, a tree, a rock, or from the perspective of petroleum? Even this simple proposition seems absurd,...More »
Jeffrey Gibson "One becomes the other"
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2012-02-19 - 2012-03-18
American Contemporary presents one becomes the other, an exhibition by Jeffrey Gibson. A concurrent solo exhibition of works from one becomes the other will take place at PARTICIPANT INC. from February...More »
Benjamin Degen and Yuri Masnyj "Night X"
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-01-12 - 2012-02-13
Stefan Sandner "Autonomie und Wirklichkeit"
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- Media: Installation
- 2011-11-03 - 2011-12-18
Jacob Robichaux "Stickkarton"
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- Media: Installation
- 2011-09-21 - 2011-10-21