Company (145 Elizabeth St) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Company (145 Elizabeth St). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Will Sheldon “Raffaella”
Company Gallery presents Raffaella, a new series of paintings by artist Will Sheldon. Not unfamiliar to the figurative, Sheldon introduces us to another character in his world and her name is Raffaella....More »
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Leyla Faye “Trust Fall”
If you were a kid and that kid you were had a doll, then maybe you already know about doll parts. You already know about dressing and undressing an easily manipulated facsimile. You know of plastic and...More »
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase “FOG”
From the FOG – the title of Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s third solo exhibition at Company - bodies emerge, shaped by memory and myth, fed on desires, born of blood, flesh, and country. Chase, an artist of mesmerizing...More »
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Greer Lankton “DOLL PARTY”
“I got my sex change 16 years ago at 21 years old. My art deals with the body because I inhabit one. I have no shame in being eccentric, in fact, it’s given me the power and guts to do whatever I want....More »
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Hayden Dunham “Transmutation”
Hayden Dunham is an interdisciplinary artist whose sprawling assemblages move from organic to synthetic. Tracking energy through different states of materiality, Dunham investigates a human relationship...More »
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Na Mira “Tetraphobia”
In Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s archive I find one outtake of her laughing. The violence of being outside this world, the ecstasy of making another. 짤라 NECESSAIRE. I don’t have a radio but this station keeps...More »
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“My Private Hell” Exhibition
Company Gallery presents My Private Hell, an exhibition featuring Robert Bittenbender, Tobias Bradford, Cole Lu and Aleksandra Waliszewska whose works on view evoke feelings of anxiety, frazzled nerves...More »
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Troy Montes Michie “Dishwater Holds No Images”
In his second solo show Dishwater Holds No Images at Company Gallery, Troy Montes Michie builds on his interventionist collage practice with a series of work that weaves in the subcultural figure of ‘La...More »
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Colette Lumiere “Notes on Baroque Living: Colette and Her Living Environment, 1972–1983”
Curated by Kenta Murakami “So that all that which is yours should never again be taken away” - Inscription on Colette is Dead from Tomb, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, 1978 Between 1972 and...More »
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Barbara Hammer “Tell me there’s a lesbian forever…”
Curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden Centering a selection of works that demonstrate the range of Hammer’s technical, figurative and abstract investigations in 16mm film, collage, drawing, and photography....More »
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“DOG” Exhibition
AK Burns Alina Perez Ambera Wellmann Cajsa von Zeipel Christian DeFonte Cristina Covucci Devin N. Morris Emily Sundblad Estate of Barbara Hammer Farah Al Qasimi General Idea Hayden Dunham Jacolby...More »
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Tosh Basco “Angels, Hand Dances and Prayers”
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“Women’s History Museum MORT de la MODE….Everything must go!” Exhibition
Large signage announcing: “STORE CLOSING”, “EVERYTHING MUST GO”, “RETAIL SPACE FOR RENT” is now a common sighting. Perhaps the drying up of retail stores exposes the mirage of fantasies they always were...More »
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“De Por Vida” Exhibition
Curated by Ken Castaneda De Por Vida, “For Life” brings together the work of thirteen artists whose works portray cycles of life, death and legacy. The artists in this exhibition excel in their respective...More »
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Ambera Wellmann “Nosegay Tornado”
Nosegay Tornado is Ambera Wellmann’s first exhibition at Company Gallery and presents a body of paintings produced during the last six months. Inspired by William Blake’s apocalyptic works, Wellmann distorts...More »
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Ryan McNamara “The Consolations”
To be sad is to be in sync with humanity. I can’t think of anything worse than quoting Nietzsche in a press release in 2020, so I’ll paraphrase: The truth of life cuts so deep that we need art as a salve....More »
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Cajsa von Zeipel “Nine Lives”
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Jeanette Mundt “Still American”
Still American’s serialized reproductions exist, semi-altered, in a synergy of transference, from abstraction to figuration and back again. A re-ordering of collective recollection through a composite...More »
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Katherine Hubbard “Avoid glancing blows”
Avoid glancing blows This is not an instruction; this is a caption This is a stingray under the water in the Pittsburgh zoo, eyes no active no camouflage yes and sense organ and this is light on...More »
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden “Hold on, let me take the safety off”
Hold on, let me take the safety off Let me correct you. What you may only perceive as discipline I can describe as luxury. You will learn an economy of movement, body binding color to object. It’s...More »
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Raúl de Nieves “As Far As UUU Take Me”
A lone white figure sits enthroned at the threshold of Raúl de Nieves’ “As Far As UUU Take Me.” With imposing vestments recalling tawdry wares in a window display, it exudes an air of ambiguity between...More »
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John Edmonds “Between Pathos & Seduction”
New language beckons us. Its dialect present. Intimate. Through my eyes focused as pure, naked light, fixed on you like magic, clarity. I see risks… —Essex Hemphill, Between Pathos and Seduction (For...More »
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Hayden Dunham “Burns Blue”
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Fin Simonetti “Pledge”
Pledge, an exhibition staged by Fin Simonetti, first implicates thoughts of social ritual, fraternal initiations, national allegiance, and sterility with the sting of cleaning supply. From these unsettling...More »
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“Tissue” Exhibition
set really a setting writing in blank the spaces relate to each other they try the thing you find in the t-shirt and leave, your own a self alone attuned to the skin wet spot through your...More »
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Evelyn Taocheng Wang. Wang “What is he afraid of?”
Company Gallery presents the second solo show by artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang. Wang’s practice emerges from an interest in what constitutes identity and how one’s own body is culturally relative to - and...More »
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EJ Hill “An Unwavering Tendency Toward the Center of a Blistering Sun”
An unwavering tendency toward the center of a blistering sun. The name of the exhibition summoned in my mind all the times the sun touched my eyes, or rather when my eyes were seduced by the sun’s touch:...More »
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“Condo New York” Exhibition
Company Gallery Diana Lozano, Marisa Takal Hosting Carlos/Ishikawa, London Rose Salane Preview: Friday, June 29, 12 - 8 pm & Saturday, June 30, 12 - 6 pm Summer Hours: Tuesday - Saturday,...More »
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“Altered” Exhibition
Boundaries that define us And the holding we give to others A concept in hand Liquid in practice Material in knowledge I imagine my experiences as much as they are created Asking an artist about...More »
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase “Quiet Storm”
I meet Jonathan at Giovanni’s Room in the Gayborhood of Philadelphia, the city where I have lived and worked for 11 years. This is our second meeting. I’ve seen the paintings for his upcoming show. Before...More »
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“Paroikia” Exhibition
The word Paroikia - Παροικία meaning sojourning in a foreign land comes from the ancient Greek word πάροικοσ - dwelling beside, stranger, soujourner is comprised of the prefix παρά (pará) meaning beside...More »
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Troy Michie “Fat Cat Came to Play”
Company Gallery presents Fat Cat Came to Play, a solo exhibition of new works by Troy Michie. The works on view use photographs, magazine images, clothing objects, paper, wood and clothing patterns to...More »
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Barbara Hammer “Truant: Photographs, 1970 – 1979”
Throughout the 1970s, filmmaker Barbara Hammer toured the United States, Africa, and Europe, making film after film about women and the lesbian experience, neither of which had seldom been seen by a woman,...More »
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Cajsa von Zeipel Exhibition
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Maja Čule “A Feature Shared By All”
There are no good stories of air travel. Passengers, often paying high prices for heavily delayed, crowded flights, can expect to face indifferent ticketing agents, long security lines, and sometimes hostile...More »
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“Body Language” Exhibition
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Allyson Vieira “Disinherited”
New York City, “the capital of the world.” Seat of global capital. One of the international free trade ports left over like backwash from the British Empire, scattered strategically across the world’s...More »
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Paul Kopkau “Palm Crest & Suites “
Company Gallery present Palm Crest & Suites, a solo exhibition by Paul Kopkau. Referring, in its title, to the name of a fictional, aspirational housing complex, Kopkau’s new body of sculptural wall...More »
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Jesse Darling and Phoebe Collings-James “ATROPHILIA”
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Natalie Czech, Aram Saroyan and Jason Simon “Sought Poems”
Co-curated with Convolution, a journal of conceptual criticism, Sought Poems considers the legacy of minimal and found poetry in new work by Natalie Czech, Aram Saroyan, and Jason Simon. The poet K. Silem...More »
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Raul De Nieves “El Rio”
In the tribal cultures of New Guinea, an adolescent boy will be arrayed in the most elaborate paint and finery, singing as he approaches death. Among the Aztecs, the highest honor to which one could attain...More »
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Yve Laris Cohen “Embattled Garden”
In summer 2015, Yve Laris Cohen began working part-time as a production assistant for the Martha Graham Dance Company. Through that work, he became increasingly familiar with the Company’s theatrical...More »
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“Someday This Will Be Funny” Exhibition
In her short story “Save Me from the Pious and the Vengeful” from the collection Someday This Will Be Funny,[1] Lynne Tillman writes: “I don’t believe any response, like invention, is sad. The world is...More »
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Felipe Meres “Fsision”
Company Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition by Felipe Meres (b. 1988, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). A play on the term fission (the process by which certain organisms reproduce asexually), Meres’...More »
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Taocheng Wang “Massage Near Me”
After Lisa found out my age, she burst into laughter and stopped: “Oh my dear, you can be my auntie now! I really don’t understand you. I don’t get it. I feel … I feel that you are so alone, almost like...More »
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Barbara Hammer “Lesbian Whale”
Barbara Hammer’s Lesbian Whale: Early Drawings and Paintings presents previously unseen works on paper from 1968 to 1970 alongside her first five films, all of which were made between 1968 and 1972. Hammer...More »
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“Close to the skin” Exhibition
Curated by Lumi Tan In an official list of trees approved for planting on New York City streets, there are a number of white flowering trees including Horsechestnut, Japanese Pagoda Tree, Amur Maackia,...More »
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Melanie Bonajo “Nocturnal Gardening”
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“Strangers” Exhibition
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Ren Hang Exhibition
Capricious 88 presents 2014, the first New York exhibition of Beijing-based photographer Ren Hang. In these new photographs, Hang investigates the complex optics of camouflage, focusing on the ways the...More »
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Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir “Changelings”
Capricious 88 presents Changelings, a new exhibition of works by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, a.k.a. Shoplifter, who uses local detritus—fur, wood, plastic bags, flagpoles—as well as mass-produced...More »
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Katherine Hubbard “Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else.”
Capricious presents Katherine Hubbard’s most recent work of black-and-white silver gelatin prints shot in southern Utah, entitled Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else. A site she has...More »
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Cajsa von Zeipel “Pony Tails: To Live Play Move and Clash As She Will”
Cajsa von Zeipel is recognized as one of the most exciting and highly regarded sculptural artists to emerge from Europe in recent years and has been the subject of numerous group and solo exhibitions....More »
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Tim Barber “Relations”
Capricious 88 presents Relations, an exhibition by Tim Barber. Relations, Barber’s most recent body of work, is a continuation of his ongoing photographic explorations. Culling from everyday life experience,...More »
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"The Show Must Go On" Exhibition
Final exhibition at Capricious Space – a soiree including over 30 artists who have been involved in Capricious in one way or another.More »
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Skye Parrott "First Love, Last Rites"
Having grown up with a photographer mother, Parrott’s life had been thoroughly documented until her adolescence, and then again by herself starting at seventeen. But the turbulent period in between was...More »
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Santiago Mostyn "The Sympathizer!"
Installation of photographs and sculptural works produced by Santiago Mostyn during a spring 2010 residency at Flaggfabrikken in Bergen, Norway.More »
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Sophie Mörner "The Name of a Song"
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"Saturday Sun" Exhibition
Released in 1969, when British musician Nick Drake was about twenty-one years old, the song “Saturday Sun” (Five Leaves Left LP) speaks of a brief reprieve from melancholy – sunshine that appears without...More »
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"Smoke Bath" Exhibition
Smoke Bath is a collection of photographs and artwork loosely based on the theme of camping/nature/exploring. The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations...More »
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Emmeline de Mooij "Muddy"
The exhibition will consist of site-specific sculptural installations, photos, collage and screen printing. She will also be launching her new book, co-published by Capricious, also titled Muddy. “Gravity...More »
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Melanie Bonajo "Captive Lives Western Spectacle"
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Martien Mulder "From Blue to Blue"
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"We Belong Together: Yale Photography MFA 2009" Exhibition
With the artists approaching their work from starkly different backgrounds and points of view, the result is a mélange of subjects and perspectives. The common denominator, however, is a fundamental one:...More »