Transmitter - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Transmitter . Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Nooshin Rostami and Shantia Zakerameli “The Ripening Sun in the Basin of the Present”
Curated by Lila Nazemian Transmitter is thrilled to present The Ripening Sun in the Basin of the Present, an exhibition of new sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Nooshin Rostami, as well as paintings...More »
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Jiwon Rhie “Undertow”
Transmitter presents Undertow, a solo presentation of work by artist Jiwon Rhie. Undertow presents a collection of sculptures and videos that document Jiwon Rhie’s performances. The show combines her most...More »
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Jazmin López “The Great Dane”
Transmitter presents The Great Dane, featuring work by Jazmin López. In partnership with KODA. The installation is based on the Surrealist film Un Chien Andalou—a 1929 French silent short film written...More »
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Zeshan Ahmed and Yasi Alipour “to bleach, to fold”
Work by Zeshan Ahmed and Yasi Alipour Transmitter presents to bleach, to fold, co-curated by Martha Fleming-Ives and featuring new work by Zeshan Ahmed and Yasi Alipour. Ahmed’s complex abstractions...More »
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Tanyth Berkeley “A Field Day For The Heat”
This collection of Tanyth Berkeley’s work from the last ten years takes inspiration from the 1966 Buffalo Springfield song “For What it’s Worth,” which provides the title for the show. The song details...More »
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“Revisions” Exhibition
Transmitter presents Revisions, featuring works by Kalyn Fay Barnoski, Alexandra Hammond, Alicia Smith, and Jean-Marc Superville Sovak. Historical narratives, both personal and cultural, frame how we...More »
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“Material Mutations, part one: The Canvas” Exhibition
In Material Mutations, part one: The Canvas, three artists are brought together who utilize painting and particularly the canvas in inventive ways to realize there is still a multitude to discover and...More »
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“A Discourse of Accord” Exhibition
Transmitter presents A Discourse of Accord, a group exhibition featuring works by Fang Daqi, Daonne Huff, Karolina Majewska, and Leila Seyedzadeh. The artist’s gesture is here totalized and viewed...More »
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Naomi Kawanishi Reis and Christopher Edward Rodriguez “Wildflowers & Fever Dreams”
“As a child when home sick from school, I would gaze out the window at a large tree, its branches forming a chaotic nest of lines. I was convinced if I concentrated hard enough, I would find order in the...More »
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Andrea Monti “All that memory can retain”
“The neat ruins of the war lie like a boring scar, whose history is all of the repetitive future, and all that memory can retain.” — Elizabeth Smart Transmitter presents a solo exhibition of new works...More »
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“Patchwork” Exhibition
Transmitter presents Patchwork, a group exhibition - featuring Manuela Gonzalez, Esteban Ramón Pérez, and Micheal Two Bulls –highlighting works that deal with the process and legacy of assembling fragmented...More »
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“Word, Image, Object, Action: Benefit” Exhibition
As part of Transmitter’s commitment to strengthening and supporting organizations that champion racial, social, and environmental equity we have started a new donation-based program as an ongoing effort...More »
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Romke Hoogwaerts “Vreugdevuur Scheveningen”
Transmitter presents Romke Hoogwaerts’ Vreugdevuur Scheveningen, a solo exhibition of photographs and a short film that examines a tradition in The Hague, Netherlands of building dangerously large bonfires....More »
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Samantha Bittman “To Touch with Your Eyes”
Transmitter presents To Touch with Your Eyes featuring new woven paintings by Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist Samantha Bittman. Long fascinated with the mathematics of weaving, along with...More »
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“Making the Cut” Exhibition
Transmitter presents Making the Cut, a group exhibition focused on abstracted representations of the human body using textiles and other found materials. The artists included employ items such as cut fabric,...More »
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“American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012 - 2019. 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio & 2019 Monoprint Portfolio” Exhibition
“The AAA created an open and generally egalitarian forum for the exhibition of abstract and non-objective art stressing the common bond between artists who understood form as a vital physical and visual...More »
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“Under Time Of Lampshades” Exhibition
Co-curated with Far By Wide Transmitter presents Under Time of Lampshades, a group exhibition co-curated with Far By Wide and benefitting The Campaign Against Hunger. Under Time of Lampshades marks...More »
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Yin Ho and Theo Mullen “What Things Don’t”
Whether reconstructing a past or imagining, against all current evidence to the contrary, a future, it is a challenge to not only imagine a world unlike our own, but also imagine reacting to it in a manner...More »
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Lauren Portada “Night Blindness”
“The dominant plant in the paintings is called Monstera deliciosa; for its naturally occurring holes, it is often called the swiss cheese plant. These passages allow the viewer, when positioned right,...More »
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Joy Episalla and Carrie Yamaoka “The leaden circles dissolved in the air”
Transmitter presents The leaden circles dissolved in the air, a two-person exhibition featuring work by Joy Episalla and Carrie Yamaoka. This is the first exhibition pairing the work of these two artists,...More »
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“Nestled in the Warm Embrace of ‘Painting’” Exhibition
Nestled in the Warm Embrace of “Painting” features seven artists who expand the parameters of painting as a medium without utilizing conventional painting materials. Primarily consisting of object-based...More »
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“Courtesy of” Exhibition
Transmitter presents Courtesy of, a spiritual sequel to an exhibition of ours from last summer titled Stop Making Sense. For the previous exhibition, each member of Transmitter brought an artist’s work...More »
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Ryan Oskin and Kate Stone “Inside Out”
In the mid to late 60’s, the quality of a photograph was often tied to how truthful it was, as journalism or personal expression. Postmodernism in photography rose up at this time as a rejection of this...More »
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Theresa Daddezio “Carbonara Sunrise”
Transmitter presents New York-based artist Theresa Daddezio’s debut solo exhibition, Carbonara Sunrise. Banding is a familiar motif in the world of design and architecture and has been for millennia; it...More »
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Angela Heisch and Alessandro Keegan “HEED”
As a historical movement, Surrealism emerged in response to a contentious socio-political climate as artists, poets, musicians and the like attempted to process their surroundings or look inward to depict...More »
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“Art to Go: A Benefit for Make the Road New York” Exhibition
Transmitter presents Art to Go: A Benefit for Make the Road New York. In these tumultuous times, we have acknowledged the potential in harboring community efforts for the common good. As a result, we’ve...More »
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Rehan Miskci and Natalia Nakazawa “The Wall that Went for a Walk”
Transmitter presents The Wall That Went for a Walk, featuring work by Rehan Miskci and Natalia Nakazawa. Taking its title from an Andy Goldsworthy sculpture, this exhibition explores the movement of metaphorical...More »
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Hilary Baldwin and Anna Ortiz “An Animal Unto Itself”
You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ’em perfectly. —John Carpenter’s The Thing Plein air painting is a weird choice for a contemporary...More »
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Gregory Kaplowitz “Egregore”
Transmitter Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in New York of San Francisco–based artist Gregory Kaplowitz. Kaplowitz sees his art practice as mirroring the occult concept of the egregore, a...More »
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“Stop Making Sense” Exhibition
Transmitter presents Stop Making Sense, a group exhibition featuring works by six artists, to be announced just days before the opening of the exhibition. Stop Making Sense is a collaborative project...More »
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“what’s MY line” Exhibition
Line is the cornerstone of the visual arts. With a distinctiveness that signifies its basic strength of purpose, it defines space, builds form, describes movement, and conjures optical effect. For the...More »
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“Living Still” Exhibition
The centuries-old stilllife allows artists to set a stage, cast characters, and direct a scene, then freeze the frame as their rendering unfolds. In a world where the majority of content is consumed and...More »
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Kyle Kogut, Michael Marcelle, and Jennifer Sullivan “Quinn Likes Trucks”
My sister and brother-in-law are liberal, have no connections to the construction industry, and have raised their son with gender-neutral toys, but by the age of 2, Quinn has developed a very stereotypical...More »
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Lindsay Packer “Day for Night”
Transmitter presents a new installation by Brooklyn based artist Lindsay Packer. Packer’s installations treat light as a material, with an analog approach rooted in the visual language of painting....More »
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Aidan Koch and Dawit L. Petros “In Search Of”
AIDAN KOCH • DAWIT L. PETROS Transmitter presents In Search Of, an exhibition pairing the work of Aidan Koch and Dawit L. Petros, two artists who, despite their disparate media, take related approaches...More »
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“The Blue of Distance” Exhibition
“The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color where you can never go.” –...More »
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“Portals” Exhibition
Portals is a group exhibition curated by Ashley Garrett and Anna Ortiz. “The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.” —Giles Delueze “I never succeed in painting...More »
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Liz Ainslie “Armature”
In his essay In Praise of Earnestness Clay Matlin writes the following about Liz Ainslie’s paintings: “Earnestness is hard. It is troubling, off-putting even, because it makes those who are suspicious...More »
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“Abstract Wall Paintings Iii #Destijl100Years” Exhibition
In May and June 2017 the exhibition Abstract Wall Paintings Iii #Destijl100Years will take place at several Art Spaces in New York, US • Apeldoorn, NL • Rotterdam, NL • Sydney, AU • Marseille, FR. ABSTRACT...More »
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“Oppler” Exhibition
This exhibition features artworks that visually move and shift beneath one’s gaze, triggering relational reactions, synaesthetic responses, and wobbly eyes. The artists included have created works that...More »
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Justin Amrhein and Colette Robbins “Remainders”
In Remainders, mythological totems, meticulous drawings of mechanical objects, and graphite drawings reminiscent of Rorschach tests coalesce in an investigation of rational and psychological interpretations...More »
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“Photo II” Exhibition
In the late 1970’s, when post-modernism in photography was born, two well-defined camps evolved, pitting straight (or traditional) photography against set-up (or conceptual) photography. These divisions...More »
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Joshua Liebowitz “After the Feast”
“…sans eyes, sans ears, sans teeth, sans everything, the National Assembly had gradually converted itself into a French Parliament of olden days, that must leave all action to the Government, and content...More »
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“An Introduction” Exhibition
At the time of its invention, photography was a revolutionary technology, and critical discussion of the medium to this day seems doomed to be tied to technology’s development. Currently, discussions of...More »
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“Waterlogged” Exhibition
Waterlogged presents works made with water based media, representing in various ways an awareness of and sense of urgency regarding current environmental and urban realities. With water covering 71%...More »
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“The Black & White Project” Exhibition
Curated by Yifat Gat for Look & Listen “The very nature of working in The Black & White Project lends a sense of unity, which facilitates the assemblage of works from a broad range. Illustrative,...More »
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“Rules of the Game” Exhibition
Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.—Johan Cruyff The primary difference between sport and art is the existence of agreed-upon rules. Art has etiquette, a context...More »
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“Not Invited…” Exhibition
Not Invited… presents four artists who blur the boundaries between the interior and exterior of the gallery, making work inspired by the urban spaces that surround us, as well as artworks that inhabit...More »
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“Publish or Perish” Exhibition
“The definition of artistic activity occurs, first of all, in the field of distribution.”—Marcel Broodthaers Publish or Perish focuses on artists who align their practice with varied modes of content...More »
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“Faulted Valley Fog” Exhibition
“I am interested in scenarios and artifacts where the artificial and natural are confused.”—Katie Bell In Faulted Valley Fog, Katie Bell, Elliott Green, and Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis subvert...More »
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“Stupid Cartoons to Pass the Time in the Desert” Exhibition
“Don’t have the hubris of being the comedian. You are the straight man in this farce; the universe is the funny man.” —Lars Iyer, from “Nude in Your Hot Tub, Facing the Abyss: A Literary Manifesto After...More »
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Mariana Garibay Raeke “Every Number is One: A Whole in Three Parts Composed of Twenty-Four Stages of Difference or How Can We Know The Moon If We Never See Its Dark Side?”
This work is made up of twenty- four plaster figures cast from a single malleable mold. The figures stand atop three tables that echo the floorplan of the gallery. The first cast is a simple polygonal...More »
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“Painting, More or Less..” Exhibition
Painting, More or Less.. is an exhibition featuring artists from the US and abroad who use minimalist or maximalist, reductive or accumulative approaches in their painting practices. The basis of painting...More »
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“Each Ellipse Includes a Point” Exhibition
The work in this exhibition deals with transitions, boundaries, and voids, drawing attention to the liminal spaces in-between reality and illusion, as a means to destabilize the perception of physical...More »
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Kim Bennett and Chris Hosea “OVER TIME ACROSS SPACE”
Visual artist Kim Bennett and poet Chris Hosea collaborate using outmoded technologies to bridge time, distance, medium, and personal practice. Each work is part of a larger document, telling a story...More »
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“The Model Reader” Exhibition
In conjunction with Space Available, organized by Rob de Oude and Paul Corio, Transmitter (minus Rob de Oude) presents The Model Reader. Like so many good ideas, this show stemmed from a conversation at...More »
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“Spooky Laughter at a Distance” Exhibition
The abyss does not underlie things, but rather allows things to coexist: it is the nonspatial “betweenness” of things. Whenever I put my hand into the toaster oven I am thrusting part of my body into an...More »
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“Politics” Exhibition
Politics is a collection of attractive, compelling, entertaining art that looks to provoke a dialogue about world events. The artwork of Politics, whether protests in Cairo, America’s “war on terror” or...More »
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“6 x 6” Exhibition
Transmitter presents 6 x 6, with works by Jeff Feld, Erik Shane Swanson, Lynn Sullivan, John Bohl, Skye Gilkerson and Sandra Ono. 6 x 6 is a show created through a process of “curatorial telephone.” Each...More »
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Clinton King “Open Ended”
Clinton King’s responsive practice is an exploration in open process and focuses on the nature of transformation. With abiding interests in psychoanalysis and sleight of hand, he investigates the uncanny...More »