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ZieherSmith - Past Events

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

“All a tremulous heart requires” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2014-06-26 - 2014-08-15
All a tremulous heart requires is inspired by the 1985 song “Rusholme Ruffians” by The Smiths, a rollicking reminiscence and a lonely, caustic celebration of the revels and bedevilments of Manchester youths’...More »
Jason Brinkerhoff “Painting”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-05-09 - 2014-06-21
In his first exhibition to exclusively feature works on canvas, Jason Brinkerhoff presents a group of paintings that, like his acclaimed works on paper, show a singularity of purpose through diversity...More »
“Evidence of Absence” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2014-04-03 - 2014-05-03
The simplest of searches informs us that an argumentum ad ignorantiam is impossible. For today’s artist, there is little concern for proof per se— validity is mostly immaterial. Proof is taken for granted....More »
Lauren Silva “I Tried to Catch the Fog. I Mist.”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-02-27 - 2014-03-29
ZieherSmith presents Lauren Silva’s debut solo exhibition. Painting in oil and acrylic, she alters the perception of dimension and space with a palette that erupts, perforates and unfolds, at times resembling...More »
Allison Schulnik “Eager”
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Performance Art
- 2014-01-09 - 2014-02-22
ZieherSmith presents Allison Schulnik’s second solo exhibition at the gallery featuring the world premiere of her fourth animated film since 2000, Eager, along with related paintings, sculpture, and works...More »
“Hope Despite The Times” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Performance Art
- 2013-11-23 - 2013-12-21
There is no conceptual conceit underlying the selection of these artists. The title, a lyric from the song “These Days” track two of R.E.M.’s 1986 Lifes Rich Pageant, was the impetus for grouping a selection...More »
Christoph Ruckhäberle “Frühstück im Freien”
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-10-10 - 2013-11-09
Christoph Ruckhäberle has a distinctive voice among painters of his generation, creating tightly composed figurative scenes that balance the peculiar and the familiar with a detached reverence of nostalgia....More »
Mike Womack “Observer Effect”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2013-09-05 - 2013-10-05
In his fourth exhibition with the gallery, Mike Womack presents 14 works of sculpture that act as mnemonic mausoleums. This body of work was conceived in the winter of 2011, while the artist was caring...More »
"Collider" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Installation - Crafts - Video installation
- 2013-04-26 - 2013-05-24
Titled in reference to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (which recently proved the existence of the Higgs Boson, or God particle), Collider is a group exhibition organized by ZieherSmith artist Rachel...More »
Paul Anthony Smith "Transience"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2013-03-07 - 2013-04-20
Transience, the debut solo exhibition for Jamaican-American artist Paul Anthony Smith, features paintings and unique works on paper that speak to a search for identity that is at once autobiographical...More »
Tucker Nichols "ROCKS & PLANTS"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-12-13 - 2013-01-26
The son of a champion flower arranger, Tucker Nichols conceived the framework of his exhibition as “very loosely based on the idea of a store that sells rocks and plants.” The exhibition acts as a cabinet...More »
Mathew Lusk "More Broken Glass Than There Was Window"
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-09-06 - 2012-10-06
Mathew Lusk transforms the gallery with his installation inspired in part by a 1936 photograph by Arthur Rothstein of a lonely structure seen in the Kansas plains titled “A Bank That Failed.” Conceived...More »
Sasha Sokolov Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2012-06-15 - 2012-07-27
This is the world debut of British artist Sasha Sokolov. In the fall of 2011, Scott Zieher received an email from the artist with a selection of his drawings. I'm 33, born near Liverpool in England,...More »
Chuck Webster "Paintings"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-04-26 - 2012-05-25
Working against his customary impulse to inform his oil on panel pieces with titles containing a vague personal exemplum, Chuck Webster has kept each of the paintings in this exhibition untitled, pushing...More »
Paul Housley "Mudpusher Blues"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2012-03-22 - 2012-04-21
ZieherSmith presents a new body of work created by London-based artist Paul Housley during a solitary three month residency in Manhattan. Known for adept and captivating reprisals of old master imagery...More »
Liz Markus "The Look of Love"
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- Media: Painting
- 2012-02-16 - 2012-03-17
The Look of Love is Liz Markus’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery and her first to exclusively feature landscapes. With all the immediacy of plein air painting, these large canvases approximate the...More »
"Other Bodies: A Collection of Vernacular Photography" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2012-01-14 - 2012-02-11
ZieherSmith proudly presents 65 found photographs spanning the American 20th century, celebrating its conspicuous beauty and encapsulating a lifestyle of exquisite hubris, baffling habits and poetic leisure....More »
Allison Schulnik "Mound"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2011-10-22 - 2011-12-17
In her first exhibition at ZieherSmith, California native Allison Schulnik presents thickly impastoed paintings, porcelain ceramic sculptures and the widely anticipated debut of her sixth and most complex...More »
Mike Womack "Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists"
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- Media: Installation
- 2011-09-15 - 2011-10-15
Mike Womack explores the ephemeral nature of technological advances, accepted by the public at large without serious regard for understanding. Modern media is here contrasted with more primitive materials...More »
"Grasping for Relics" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2011-06-16 - 2011-07-22
Freud suggested that bad dreams let the brain learn to gain control over emotions resulting from distressing experiences. So do good dreams do the opposite?Grasping for Relics is a group exhibition organized...More »
"Tensile Strength" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Other
- 2011-05-13 - 2011-06-11
Using hydrocal, fiberglass, and paper, Joy Curtis begins her sculptural process with molds made in situ from urban architectural elements. While some pieces are tinted through the mixture of sumi ink with...More »
"Gumption" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-03-31 - 2011-05-07
ZieherSmith presents a group exhibition featuring vigorous paintings and works on paper by Melissa Brown, Tomoo Gokita, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Kirk Hayes, Keegan McHargue and Gary Panter. Melissa Brown...More »
Chuck Webster "My Small Adventures"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-02-17 - 2011-03-26
My Small Adventures features a suite of new oil on panel paintings by Chuck Webster. Though firmly rooted in the tradition of abstract painting, the works allude to themes concrete and intangible from...More »
"Sculpture In So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960-75" Exhibition
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- Media: Graphics - Other
- 2011-01-13 - 2011-02-12
Comprised of text sculpture from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s, Sculpture in So Many Words examines a body of work in which the most material of the visual arts was reduced to the least substantial...More »
Liz Markus "Are You Punk Or New Wave?"
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-11-18 - 2010-12-18
Recollecting a sequence of youthful inspirations with images gleaned from such wide-ranging sources as Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Johnny Rotten, Christopher Wool and Jean Michael Basquiat, Liz Markus’s...More »
Rachel Owens "Props"
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2010-09-09 - 2010-10-09
For her fourth solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, Rachel Owens will incorporate a dialogical theater project to her more traditional sculptural practices, both of which manifest her longtime interest in issues...More »
Tucker Nichols Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Sculpture
- 2010-06-03 - 2010-07-23
In his third solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, San Francisco based-artist Tucker Nichols presents sculpture, panels and works on paper created during a recent residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts...More »
"Transfer Function" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2010-04-29 - 2010-05-27
Transfer Function features four artists merging and manipulating – physically and visually – their mediums including photography, painting, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, and sculpture – creating their...More »
Wes Lang “Smile, It’s a Grey Day”
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-03-25 - 2010-04-24
Wes Lang’s latest exhibition “Smile, It’s a Grey Day” consists of 17 new paintings. Meditating on the recent loss of several loved ones, the artist professes a sometimes veiled reverence for life through...More »
"Band of Bikers" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2010-02-25 - 2010-03-20
In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the discarded effects of a recently deceased tenant. Exhibited for the first time at ZieherSmith...More »
Eddie Martinez Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2010-01-14 - 2010-02-20
In his recent paintings, Martinez expands an ever-widening visual vocabulary. Thoughts this cacophonous and grandiloquent do not translate to mere language, they are the stuff of dreams. Here, exclamations...More »
"Postcards from the Edge: A Benefit for Visual Aids" Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2010-01-09 - 2010-01-10
Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The...More »
Matt Stokes "these are the days"
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- Media: Video installation
- 2009-11-12 - 2009-12-19
ZieherSmith presents the New York debut of these are the days (2009), a film installation by British artist Matt Stokes originally commissioned by Arthouse, Austin, Texas, and the launch of the accompanying...More »
Stéphane Calais "Flowers for America"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2009-10-08 - 2009-11-07
Composites both practical and conceptual are at the center of the Stéphane Calais’s process in his second exhibition with ZieherSmith. The installation features paintings and sculpture as well as the artist’s...More »
"Grand Reopening" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-10-04
ZieherSmith announces its "Grand Reopening" in a 3500 square foot, storefront gallery at 516 West 20th Street. Designed by Dufner Heighes Architects and constructed by BILT/DFI, the new space more than...More »
Liz Markus "Hot Nights At The Regal Beagle"
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-04-18
In Liz Markus’s second solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, she moves beyond the hippie era subjects of her last show to an unexpected side of American culture. Instead of portraits of long-haired drop-outs,...More »
Mike Womack "High Grade Empty"
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- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-12 - 2009-03-14
In his second exhibition at ZieherSmith, Mike Womack continues to use simple materials to stimulate fantastic optical responses. He sculpts and draws on mirrors with illumination from flashlights, candles,...More »
Rachel Owens "Harboring"
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- Media: Other
- 2008-10-09 - 2008-11-08
In her third solo show at ZieherSmith, entitled Harboring, Rachel Owens creates a landscape littered with debris reborn into stilted, anthropomorphic forms and geo-political tableaux. Reforming palettes...More »
Corin Sworn "The Wild Ones Are So Tame Now"
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- Media: Installation
- 2008-09-04 - 2008-10-04
"The Wild Ones Are So Tame Now" is intended as an installation that conflates a vague archive with an institutional, scientific display of cultural artifacts; a constellation of images and memorabilia...More »
Jamison Brosseau, Bendix Harms, Federico Herrero and Ulrich Wulffs Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2008-06-27 - 2008-08-01
Artist and curator, Eddie Martinez brings together four painters who each translate his visions of the world onto canvas with bold tones, expressive strokes and an idiosyncratic visual language.More »
Wes Lang "Are You Ready For The Country?"
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- Media: Illustration - Drawing
- 2008-05-21 - 2008-06-21
Wes Lang dances through the bone-yard of America’s tattered narrative embracing both the darkness visible in gallows humor and the risky taunting of viewers in the face of their own taboos. Referencing...More »
Karin Weiner "Plan B"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2008-04-17 - 2008-05-17
In Karin Weiner’s new exhibition, her humorous vocabulary of survival and discovery spawns a combination of large scale sculpture and works on paper. In the latter, her signature collage elements are now...More »

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