New Release - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for New Release. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Andy Ralph “…a Placebo, an Embryo, a Mosquito, my Libido”
If confronted by a starved great white shark, or a fast-approaching cement truck, the body triggers a physical response that prepares it to either take on obstacles or run from the situation altogether....More »
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“Family” Exhibition
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Michael Childress “LOVE & DEATH / The Entrance or The Exit”
New Release presents “LOVE & DEATH / The Entrance or The Exit”, Michael Childress’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. Two mirroring bodies of work, which Childress has dubbed Soft Tokens and Aether...More »
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“Yale MFA 2019 Painting & Printmaking” Exhibition
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Kerri Scharlin “In Her Studio”
When I first discovered Kerri Scharlin’s work in the 1990s I was fascinated, like many others, by her bold outsourcing of production, by her boundary-defying engagement with non-art fields (the legal system,...More »
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Gerald Sheffield “Democratic Paradox”
New Release presents Gerald Sheffield’s first solo exhibition in New York, Democratic Paradox. Focusing on the complicated intersections between power and occupation, and the politics of recognition, Sheffield...More »
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“Ain’t Them Body Saints” Exhibition
New Release presents a group exhibition, Ain’t Them Body Saints, including Joe Babas, Marliz Frencken, Eric Oglander and Mark Rowley. More »
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“Merge Records” Exhibition
New Release’s name comes from the story of its space; in the ‘90s the gallery was a video rental store and an Italian-run musical instrument store decades before that. In keeping with its history, New...More »
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“New Work” Exhibition
New Release presents a selection of new works by UCLA MFA 2018 graduates from the Painting, Sculpture, Photography & New Genre departments. Adrian Abela (b. 1989, Malta) studied architecture in...More »
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Linnéa Gad “Mound Remover”
In her sculptures, prints, paintings and installations, Linnéa Gad transforms images and materials to recognizable yet ambiguous landscapes. Growing up partly in the archipelago on an island, her father...More »
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Riley Payne “Any Day Now”
Water/Plants/People/Places New Release presents Any Day Now, Riley Payne’s first exhibition with the gallery and first solo show in New York. Drawing on the pictorial formulas of stock photography...More »
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Yves Scherer “Primal”
Behind every cultural revolution, there is a certain primal energy that drives the essence of its change, fervently yanking at the seams of cultural stasis or inertia. This primitive energy often gets...More »
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Signe Pierce “American Reflexxx”
American Reflexxx will begin its run at New Release on Saturday, January 20th from 6-9 PM. New Release is a former video rental store in Chinatown that was converted into an art gallery in 2015. In...More »
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Daniel Gibson “Buenos no shoes”
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,”...More »
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Rachel Libeskind “Stuck in the Shtetl”
Rachel Libeskind (b. 1988, Milan) is a New York based artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her degree in visual studies and comparative literature from Harvard University. She has shown...More »
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Ophelia Finke “Takes Two To Tango”
Ronald Reagan, actor and President of the United States during the Cold War, didn’t take long to realize that he needed a partner to dance with. Bulldozing walls. My newest installation Takes Two...More »
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Logan Criley “For Your Pleasure”
The American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake; where the boundaries between game and illusion are blurred, the art museum is contaminated by the freak...More »
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Andy Ralph “Idle Cure & The Deep Tissue”
New Release presents Idle Cure & The Deep Tissue, the first solo exhibition by artist Andy Ralph in New York City. In the exhibition, a new body of sculptural works trace a narrative through the use...More »
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“Bird / Plane” Exhibition
The philosopher Henry Bergson once wrote, “When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has...More »
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Arden Scott “Balancing Act”
New Release presents Balancing Act, a solo exhibition by artist Arden Scott. Scott’s large scale steel sculptures make up most of the upcoming exhibition. A resident of the north fork Long Island town,...More »
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“LABOR WORK ACTION” Exhibition
Organized by Silke Lindner Sutti LABOR is the activity which corresponds to the biological process of the human body […] The human condition of labor is life itself. WORK is the activity which corresponds...More »
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Andrea Arrubla “Still Absorbing the Good News”
Still Absorbing the Good News, artist and poet Andrea Arrubla’s first solo exhibition at New Release, carries an urgency in materials and content. Nearly all of the work was produced in the last two months...More »
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Duncan Hannah “Tomorrow’s Sensations!”
The stars are ageless, aren’t they? - Sunset Boulevard, 1950 New Release presents Tomorrow’s Sensations! a group of new paintings by Duncan Hannah. In this series, Hannah has navigated through the...More »
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Kamil Franko “Love and Violence”
“A simple description cannot fulfill the plenum of the vision. It seems to me futile to address it this way and so I will simply start from the beginning. Since I can remember I had a series of identical...More »