Downs & Ross (424 Broadway) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Downs & Ross (424 Broadway). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Flora Klein “Dates”
Paths of vibrant color in red, orange, violet, blue, and green wind symmetrically around a centerpoint, forming concentric rectangles that glide in a web of gestural lines. They suck the viewing eye in,...More »
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Darja Bajagić and Lionel Maunz “Forest Passage”
“The proximity of destruction gives new pleasure to the pursuit of these delicate objects.” — Ernst Jünger (November 26, 1943) Darja Bajagić (b. 1990 in Podgorica, MNE) lives and works in Chicago...More »
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Héloïse Chassepot “The will is almost nothing”
She took herself seriously. Motel rooms had lost their punch for her. She opened all her bags. There were two and inside those two, there were two more. It’s not an easy situation, but there was something...More »
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“The American Friend” Exhibition
The shot of a red light dangling in the art forger’s SoHo studio, the first indelible image of Wim Wenders’ 1977 neo-noir The American Friend, announces the appearance of a series of conspicuously red...More »
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“Legally Blonde” Exhibition
From our current perspective, Hollywood’s blonde heroines are always coming of age for the wrong reasons. A SoCal sorority sister enrolls in Harvard Law intent on winning back her WASP-y ex-boy- friend;...More »
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Jiang Cheng “U”
“You look charming. You look enchanting. You look dazzling. You look breathtaking. You look unique.” —Peter Handke, Offending the Audience You are the subject. You are at the center of attention. You...More »
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Kim Farkas “Permaculture”
I was surprised to learn that “permaculture” is a portmanteau for “permanent culture.” This permanence is one not of essentialized fixity, but achieved through the ongoingness of doing— a flexible system...More »
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Douglas Watt “Deep End Epiphany”
Yes, there are men in the showers drinking each other in; there are also seniors doing aqua fit, teenagers learning CPR, newborns bobbing in the kiddie pool, divers throwing themselves from unseen platforms,...More »
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Ivy Haldeman “Twice”
“How’s that gooey duck?” “Crunchy.” Emi looked down and around, following the curve of the counter scrutinizing the customers in varying stages of filling their faces with sushi, tea, and...More »
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Hou Zichao “Everlasting”
The curtain rises on yet another allegory to reveal a lifeworld beset with problems shocking in their undead, nearly non-invasive familiarity. Lipstick, tree moss, granite. Doses of things and doses of...More »
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Ragna Bley “Soundings”
Ragna Bley (b. 1986, Uppsala, Sweden) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She received her BFA at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, in 2011 and her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London...More »
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Vikky Alexander “A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism”
In Jill’s neighborhood there was a giant billboard advertisement for a perfume called Obsession. It was mounted over the chain grocery store at which she shopped, and so she glanced at it several times...More »
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Rute Merk “SS20”
Downs & Ross inaugurates the presentation of the exhibition Rute Merk: SS20. Rute Merk (b. 1991, Lithuania; lives and works in Berlin) received her BA in Painting from Vilnius Academy of Arts in...More »
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Tom Waring “Consistent Estimator”
Downs & Ross presents the first solo exhibition by Tom Waring (b. 1991, Reading, UK; lives and works in London). The artist gained his BA in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK, in...More »
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“Neighborhood Watch” Exhibition
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Alan Belcher “Friends”
Alessandra Alessandra Nardini, Stoney Creek cosmetologist, Italian friend of Lenny elements: soccer ball, four-leaf clover, tongue, Chiquita banana bunch Alice Alice Albert, New York photo editor,...More »
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“hysteresis” Exhibition
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Jacky Connolly “Ariadne”
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Rutene Merk “Sprites”
sprite /sprīt/ noun noun: sprite; plural noun: sprites 1. an elf or fairy. synonyms: fairy, elf, pixie, imp, brownie, puck, peri, goblin, hobgoblin, kelpie, leprechaun, dryad, sylph, naiad; literary...More »
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Mary Mito “Sifts, restores”
For more than a half-century, Mary Mito (b. 1944, Hartford, CT; lives and works in New Mexico and New York) has rendered permeable interfaces between constructed and natural environments with a singular...More »
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“Le Feu Des Hérétiques” Exhibition
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Ivy Haldeman “The Interesting Type”
“Money is the integral part of the representative mode of perversion. Because the perverse fantasy is in itself unintelligible and non-exchangeable, currency by its abstract character constitutes its universally...More »
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Igor Hosnedl “The Opening of the Wells”
June 20, 1954 Nice, France Dear Mikeš, It was worth it. The ragged smoke from potato fires will shroud the start to next year’s dandelion romance. Beside us, communist functionaries compromise advantageously,...More »
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Matteo Callegari “Dropouts And Fluids”
APPROPRIATE, AMASS, ACCRUE. These directives among others sweep in downward-canted textual runnels interpolated across Matteo Callegari’s oil-on-canvas painting amass (all works 2018). Unmoored signifiers...More »
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Budd Hopkins Exhibition
“All these calculations yes explanations yes the whole story from beginning to end yes completely false yes” proclaims the mud-bound narrator of Samuel Beckett’s 1961 novel How It Is as he reckons with...More »
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“Guarded Future II” Exhibition
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“Guarded Future” Exhibition
Constellating key works by Vikky Alexander, Ellen Brooks, Judy Chicago, and Karen Sylvester, this exhibition coordinates a historical survey addressing the consumption, surveillance, and circulation of...More »
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Joshua Nathanson “Forest Lawn”
The last beam of sun softly cuddles the skin. Children’s groans can be heard dissolving in the rocky ochre landscape as the strong yet gracile fever that stems from the first glass of absinthe rings the...More »
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Sojourner Truth Parsons “Dolphin, take me with you”
Sojourner Truth Parsons (b. 1984, Vancouver; lives and works in Los Angeles) gained her BFA at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax. Solo exhibitions: Downs & Ross, New York; Oakville Galleries,...More »
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Stephanie Hier “Part and Parcel”
In her landmark study of painting in the 17th century Dutch Republic[i], art historian Svetlana Alpers argued that this was fundamentally an art of description, in contrast to the Italian tendency towards...More »
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Beatrice Marchi “Summer in the North with Loredana”
It was if Loredana were the only one floating in the bowl of Endless Shrimp, waiting for returns. In the warmer months especially, she worked hard on her buoyancy. But it was not as if she did not know...More »
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Melanie Ebenhoch “Cornflakes”
HESTER presents Cornflakes, the first US exhibition of works by Melanie Ebenhoch. Proposing a taxonomy of objects that renders a house under duress, this exhibition is invested in a thing-based ideological...More »
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Sissel Blystad “Glenne”
HESTER presents Glenne, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of works by Sissel Blystad (b. 1944, Oslo; lives and works in Bergen, Norway). A central figure within Scandinavian textile arts for more than...More »
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Vanessa Conte “First Lessons: A Girl’s Tough Breaks”
Her gaze focused on a small spot on the sidewalk next to an empty pizza box, where hundreds of ants were piling onto a white, rotting bit of pepperoni. The tiny, shiny black bugs scrambled over one another,...More »
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“Tarantallegra” Exhibition
Lea Cetera Beth Collar Natalie Dray Mary Hurrell Sophie Jung Dorota Jurczak Allison Katz Melanie Lewiston Maria Loboda Liz Magic Laser Francesca Martinez Tagliavia Emily Pope Natalie Price...More »
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Aidan Koch and Ieva Kraule “The person you are trying to reach is not available”
Memories of I. Now time slips through I.’s fingers as a lamprey from the red washing bowl, as a nine-eyed eel who slides down the drain hoping to escape his certain death in stove enclosed by his own...More »
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Ragna Bley “Pine Pitch”
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Lorenzo Bernet “PARA VALLEY”
Wheels and Disks, once extricated from the history of utilitarian progress, in turn enabled and spurred, while we were clad in ill-fitting skins and furs, emerge as new machines. Their inherent faculty...More »
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Lisa Holzer “Be a funny mom”
2015 was heavy. Although I fell in love. A year never tired me like this one. December was hard. And it was too warm, at least in Berlin. All the year’s news seemed to have accumulated and lumped into...More »
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“The Grove” Exhibition
“Some days Rose and Sorrel go through the formality of full proper dining, char- cuterie, silver utensils, napkins, candles, assortments of raw vegetables. Rem- nants of civility. On other days, it’s the...More »
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Morgan Canavan and Erika Ceruzzi “Koroneiki”
California wildfires have damaged 134,000 acres this year. A new study has found that sixty people will die early in the next two decades from nitrogen oxide pollution caused by vehicle emissions test...More »
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Erin Jane Nelson “Dylan”
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Mathis Gasser “Seven Fell from Earth”
“Only in fantastic parallels can one imagine a modern recurrence [of a ‘spatial revolution’ like the European ‘discovery’ of the ‘New World’], such as men on their way to the moon discovering a new and...More »
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“Sara two” Exhibition
They slid inside the little tent without even pitching it, and it flopped around them like a limp membrane. The cold kept Jerzy awake all night and in the morning Sara was the first out of the tent,...More »