Leila Heller Gallery (507 W 27th St.) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Leila Heller Gallery (507 W 27th St.). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Nick Moss “Rigorous Perception”
The exhibition, spanning across two gallery spaces will showcase nine nudes, three abstract works, and four of Moss’s earlier emoji and text works that respond to the process of working with steel, through...More »
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“Exemplary Bodies” Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery presents Exemplary Bodies, which encompasses perceptions of anatomy in contemporary art, from images of the nude to interpretations of the human figure in political contexts. The body...More »
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“Verdure” Exhibition
The title of the show, Verdure, finds inspiration from the Latin word for “lush arrangements” and “fresh, natural abundance.” Just as the term denotes, works within this show encompass the employment and...More »
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“Summer Group Show” Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery presents a summer group show featuring installation pieces, photographs, sculptures, mixed media work and paintings by a selection of the Gallery’s artists and other contemporary artists:...More »
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“Said by Her” Exhibition
Lesley Heller Gallery presents Said by Her, an all woman exhibition exploring female identity in art today. Each of the six featured artists investigates female presentation in their work—psychologically,...More »
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Rachel Lee Hovnanian “The Women’s Trilogy Project”
Leila Heller Gallery presents a contemporary artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s first three-part exhibition, The Women’s Trilogy Project, on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Manhattan. The multi-part exhibition...More »
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Ran Hwang “Sacred Space”
Leila Heller Gallery presents Ran Hwang’s third solo show, Sacred Space. As a Korean artist living and working between Seoul and New York City, Ran Hwang finds solace, peace, and calm in meditative principles....More »
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“Grisaille” Exhibition
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.. Rumi Taking a monochromatic grey palette as its organizing principle, this exhibition reveals the emergence of...More »
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Afruz Amighi “No More Disguise”
Leila Heller Gallery presents a new body of work by Iranian-American artist Afruz Amighi, No More Disguise. “We are a country of civil war, and from the eternal divide, the ever present rift, lifting...More »
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Lalla Essaydi “Still In Progress”
“I wish for my work to be as vividly present and yet as elusive as “woman” herself – not simply because she is veiled or turns away– but because she is still in progress.” - Lalla Essaydi: Crossing...More »
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“Exilic Pleasures: Surrealism Refuged in America” Exhibition
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Shiva Ahmadi “Ascend”
Leila Heller Gallery presents Ascend, an exhibition of new works by Iranian-American artist Shiva Ahmadi, whose ethereal, evocative use of the aesthetic modality of traditional Persian painting ensnares...More »
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“The Museum of Non-Objective Painting: The Birth of the Guggenheim” Exhibition
‘I saw in this Art a medium for the American painter to exceed the past.’ Solomon R Guggenheim Leila Heller Gallery presents The Museum of Non-Objective Painting: the Birth of the Guggenheim, including...More »
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Zaha Hadid Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery New York presents “Zaha Hadid,” an exhibition featuring the oeuvre of the late internationally renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid. On view will be works spanning from a breadth of...More »
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Francesca Pasquali “Plastic Resonance”
Leila Heller Gallery presents Plastic Resonance, the first U.S. solo exhibition of Italian artist Francesca Pasqual. Through the saturated hues of site specific installation, wall reliefs, and undulating,...More »
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“Summer Group Show”
Including: Shiva Ahmadi, Afruz Amighi, Reza Aramesh, Noor Ali Chagani, Loris Cecchini, Wim Delvoye, Richard Hudson, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Ran Hwang, Pouran Jinchi, Y.Z. Kami, Farideh Lashai, Kambiz Sharif ...More »
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Seydou Keïta Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery presents an exhibition of African photographer Seydou Keïta, drawn from a selection of his black and white portraits of the residents of Bamako, Mali from 1948 to 1960. Keïta’s...More »
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“Shrines to Speed: Art and the Automobile From the Post-war to the Post-modern” Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery presents Shrines to Speed: Art and the Automobile From the Post-war to the Post-modern, co-curated by Alexander Heller and Vivian Brodie. From ideas of acceleration, to the iconography...More »
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Arthur Carter “Reflections on Form: Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings”
Leila Heller Gallery presents a new exhibition by Arthur Carter, Reflections on Form: Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings. Pursuing his inquiry into the use of geometry in his practice, for the past twenty-five...More »
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Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi “The Cold Earth Sleeps Below”
‘The cold earth slept below/ Above the cold sky shone; And all around/ The breath of night like death did flow’ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Leila Heller Gallery presents a collaborative exhibition...More »
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Noor Ali Chagani “House of Bricks”
“The greatest dream of one’s life… All the struggles, efforts … are to accomplish this wish of building one’s own house” … Noor Ali Chagani Leila Heller Gallery presents House of Bricks, the first solo...More »
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Moataz Nasr “Broken Patterns”
Broken Patterns is the first solo exhibition in the United States of artist Moataz Nasr. In addition to new installations, the show will feature iconic sculptural, mixed media, neon and video works from...More »
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Pouran Jinchi “Black and Blue”
Leila Heller Gallery New York presents an exhibition of recent works by Pouran Jinchi. Drawing on diverse cultural sources including literature, history, folk art and religion, Jinchi has developed a visual...More »
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“Summer Show”
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Aida Mahmudova “Passing By…”
Aida Mahmudova’s first solo exhibition in the United States, Passing By…, will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery, 568 West 25th Street. The exhibition will feature seven new paintings that build on the...More »
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Reza Aramesh Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery presents Reza Aramesh’s first New York solo exhibition with the gallery. In Friday April 25, 2003 at 07:55 Aramesh presents a continuation of his Actions series through sculptural...More »
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Hadieh Shafie “Surfaced”
Surfaced, Hadieh Shafie’s first solo show in New York will feature twenty new artworks and both builds on her much acclaimed past work and explores new mediums. An illustrated catalogue with an essay by...More »
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Ganzeer “All American”
Leila Heller Gallery presents “All American By Ganzeer”, the first solo exhibition in the United States of Ganzeer. “All-American By Ganzeer” is curated by Dr. Shiva Balaghi, one of the world’s foremost...More »
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Loris Cecchini “Emotional diagrams and other micrologies”
Continuing his inquiry into the evaluation of space in relation to nature, technology, and art, “Emotional diagrams and other micrologies” proposes an overview of the artist’s practice whereby materials...More »
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“Ethereal” Exhibition
The visual arts of the Indian Subcontinent are typically associated with abundant ornament, rich encrustation and riotous color. However, the region has also given rise to a tradition of quiet restraint,...More »
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Rachel Lee Hovnanian “Plastic Perfect”
In Plastic Perfect, Hovnanian revisits obsession, narcissism and intimacy in a collection of interactive installations, sculpture, video and photography to explore where our natural and synthetic worlds...More »
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“Look at Me: Portraiture From Manet to the Present” Exhibition
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Steven Naifeh Exhibition
The exhibition will include paintings, wall sculptures and floor sculptures that blend the patterns and colors of traditional Islamic art with the shapes and minimalism of the Geometric Abstraction movement....More »
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Ran Hwang “The Snowfall of Spiders”
The exhibition will feature six new works that explore the cycle of life, death and rebirth. These new works, in shades of champagne golds, cherry reds, tiffany blues, and luminous silvers, are created...More »
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Murat Pulat “Image-Animal”
Image-Animal will feature 10 paintings depicting iconic scenes from old Hollywood movies, New Wave French films, and 1960s television shows. A three-dimensional painting installation by Pulat will be on...More »
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LA2 “A Young Collectors Exhibition”
Based in the Lower East Side of New York City, LA2 is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Keith Haring in the 1980s. Of the increasingly popular NYC graffiti artists, Haring felt that Ortiz displayed...More »
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Shoja Azari “Fake: Idyllic Life”
In his most recent video, The King of Black (25 min., 2013), Azari defies the boundaries between two- and three- dimensional media by treating his projection screen as a standalone canvas rife with imagery...More »
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Jay Shinn “Neonish 24.7”
Throughout his career, Shinn has explored minimal geometric abstraction through a variety of mediums, including works on paper, paintings, projected light on murals, neon and Plexiglas sculptures. His...More »
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Iké Udé “Style and Sympathies”
Style and Sympathies includes a selection of self-portraits from Udé’s critically-acclaimed Sartorial Anarchy series and, for the first time, the series will be broadly continued and presented. Udé’s distinctive...More »
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“CALLIGRAFFITI: 1984-2013” Exhibition
Originally curated in 1984 by Jeffrey Deitch (Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) at Leila Heller’s former uptown gallery, Calligraffiti explored a myriad of possible connections shared...More »
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“Summer Selects” Exhibition
Highlights of the exhibition include Negar Ahkami’s (Baltimore, MD, 1971) The Water is Turbid from its Source (2012), a calligraphic and patterned meltdown of a Persianate cityscape. Ahkami’s visually...More »
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Negar Ahkami “The Consumption”
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“Bass! How low can you go?” Exhibition
Hip Hop artist Simon Harris’ 1989 Number One hit song “Bass (How low can you go?)” was based on a sample of Public Enemy’s foot-stomping, metal crunching 1987 song “Bring The Noise,” which, itself, was...More »
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"Thus in Silence in Dream's Projections: In Memory of Farideh Lashai" Exhibition
Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art (ETNFA) and Leila Heller Gallery are pleased to present two posthumous New York exhibitions celebrating the life and career of internationally renowned, recently deceased, Iranian...More »
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Shiva Ahmadi "Apocalyptic Playland"
Although on the surface Ahmadi’s works appear vibrant, playful, and even mythical, they nevertheless deal very much with the harsher sides of reality. Through thick layers of generously spread opaque reds...More »
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"Gayle Wells Mandle & Julia Mandle Game II" Exhibition
In Game II, Gayle Wells Mandle and Julia Mandle use images – not of ladders but of chairs and a teeter-totter – to depict humanity’s eternal struggle against imbalanced societies that deny their citizens...More »
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"The Young Collectors Exhibition" Exhibition
The Young Collectors Exhibition is a show of works from a number of the gallery's artists plus a wide selection of works by international emerging artists who are not represented by the gallery. Curated...More »
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Kate Eric "Ripped Seam and Other Delights"
“Their painted forms overlap and intrude and over the course of days and weeks a kind of frustration gives rise to the inexorable painted macrocosm. What began as a conversation methodically becomes noisier,...More »
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Gulay Semercioglu "Variations on Line"
Semercloglu forms geometric, 3-dimensional compositions by weaving thin vibrantly colored metal wires on to a wooden plank. More than twenty layers are created from one long piece of metal wire wound around...More »
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Shoja Azari "Windows"
The idea of making a film, or rather films looking through windows, first came to me when I was watching one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films. I think it was Whitey. There was a long tracking shot moving...More »
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Reza Derakshani Exhibition
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"Rock, Paper, Scissors" Exhibition
The show’s title is derived from the name of the popular hand game and refers to the mediums and formalistic choices of the works represented in the show, which is divided into three sections. An illustrated...More »
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Mitra Tabrizian "Photographs"
The exhibition will feature seven monumental photographs taken in Iran and England. The artist had a solo show at Tate Britain in 2008, and has been commissioned to do a portrait for the London Olympics...More »
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Rachel Lee Hovnanian "Mud Pie"
This powerful narrative begins with a photograph, Texas Mud Pie, Hands and Feet (Self-Portrait), 2012, and finishes informed by the unfiltered world of digital technology with the sculptural work Gates...More »
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Ran Hwang "Transition"
Using common, mass-produced fashion materials, Hwang creates striking works of art that transform and re-contextualize these everyday objects. Sparkling buttons, shimmering beads, and long spools of thread...More »
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Khosrow Hassanzadeh "Haft Khan: The Seven Labors of Rostam"
Hassanzadeh’s murals are enormous in size: the largest is more than 6 feet tall and nearly 28 feet long. Inspired by Iranian traditions of manhood that existed in a pre-revolutionized Iran, Hassanzadeh...More »
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Ayad Alkadhi "Umbilical"
The new series of recent paintings and works on paper explores Alkadhi’s experiences under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the casualties of war, the Arab Spring, and ultimately confronts immigration and assimilation....More »
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Elizabeth Thompson "Stories From the Everglades"
Celebrating a primeval wilderness, "Stories From the Everglades" will present paintings and watercolors depicting the vast serene and fragile ecosystem in South Florida. A portion of the proceeds from...More »
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"The Mask and The Mirror" Exhibition
The Mask and The Mirror, an exhibition of self-portraits curated by artist Shirin Neshat, will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition will present photographs and paintings by 17...More »