Sonnabend - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Sonnabend. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Andrea Robbins and Max Becher “Following the Ten Commandments”
For the past two years Andrea Robbins and Max Becher have been photographing Ten Commandment monuments on public land: at courthouses, public schools, parks and county seats in locations across the United...More »
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Gilberto Zorio Exhibition
Throughout Zorio’s body of work, the five pointed star has been a recurring and important image. In this show, a series of large metal stars are exhibited – each in a state of flux introduced by either...More »
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Carlito Carvalhosa Exhibition
In these rooms, the space is interrupted and criss-crossed from floor to ceiling by dozens of large wooden shafts, disrupting the usual flow of movement through the gallery rooms and thus altering perception...More »
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Robert Feintuch Exhibition
This exhibition includes paintings inspired by historic images of the Assumption, the Ascension, and of heaven. Influenced by both Gothic paintings and cartoons from his childhood, the artist inserts...More »
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Elger Esser “Saeculum Aureum”
Returning to the area of his Roman childhood, Elger Esser made his new series of photographs in the Giardino di Ninfa south of Rome. Since the Renaissance this extraordinary garden venue attracted painters...More »
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Lawrence Beck “Italian Pictures”
These new “Italian Pictures,” consisting of large format photographic tableaux of formal gardens, aqueducts, and fountains, were photographed in and around Rome last year. The patinated ruins, bridges,...More »
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Robert Morris Exhibition
The twelve works in the exhibition, completed between 2011 and the present, are from his new Hardwood series which revisits themes and forms Morris explored in his early plywood work of the 1960s such...More »
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Charlemagne Palestine “Bodyy Musicxx”
Sonnabend Gallery presents “Bodyy Musicxx” an exhibition of video work by Charlemagne Palestine. Since he rose to prominence in the 1960s, Charlemagne Palestine has been an influential artist whose...More »
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Candida Höfer “Villa Borghese”
On November 9, 2013 the Sonnabend Gallery opens “Villa Borghese,” an exhibition of new photographs by Candida Höfer. These images of the Villa Borghese were taken during a special installation that...More »
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Barry Le Va “Early Installations”
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Grazia Toderi Exhibition
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Rona Pondick Exhibition
Sonnabend Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Rona Pondick, her first full-scale exhibition of sculptures and drawings in New York since 2006. Since her first solo exhibition in 1988,...More »
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Elger Esser Exhibition
In 2011, Elger Esser followed the path of the Nile from Luxor to Aswan and, inspired by old postcards, photographed the landscapes along the river using the light of dawn or twilight, creating images that...More »
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Matthew Weinstein "The Celestial Sea"
In “The Celestial Sea,” Weinstein continues to create videos, paintings and sculptures based on photorealistic computer animations. The title refers to a story from the 13th century about a sailor who...More »
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Lawrence Beck "Italian Pictures"
Sonnabend Gallery presents “Italian Pictures,” an exhibition of photographs by Lawrence Beck. These twelve large scale, color photographs follow a continuum that originated with Beck’s “Botanical Gardens”...More »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher Exhibition
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Gilbert & George "London Pictures"
Sonnabend Gallery and Lehmann Maupin Gallery present Gilbert & George’s LONDON PICTURES at both Lehmann Maupin locations 540 West 26th Street and 201 Chrystie Street, and at Sonnabend Gallery, 536...More »
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Philip Haas “The Four Seasons (after Arcimboldo)"
Sonnabend Gallery presents “The Four Seasons (after Arcimboldo)," an installation of new works by Philip Haas. Inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Renaissance paintings of the four seasons, comprising...More »
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Carlito Carvalhosa Exhibition
Sonnabend Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Carlito Carvalhosa that makes use of light, fabric, aluminum panels and sound to create an installation in real and illusory space. In the first...More »
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Lawrence Beck "Italian Gardens"
Sonnabend Gallery presents “Italian Gardens,” a show of new works by Lawrence Beck. The Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio, considered by many to be the father of western architecture and...More »
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Clay Ketter Exhibition
Sonnabend Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Clay Ketter. Continuing his investigation into the familiar yet overlooked surfaces of architecture in various stages of construction and disrepair,...More »
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Anne and Patrick Poirier Exhibition
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Anh Duong Exhibition
Sonnabend Gallery presents an exhibition of 14 new paintings by Anh Duong. In these works of self-portraiture, Duong uses images of herself in varying poses - both clothed and unclothed - as staging...More »
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Elger Esser "Et nous avons des nuits plus belles que vos jours"
Sonnabend Gallery presents "Et nous avons des nuits plus belles que vos jours” - an exhibition of new works by Elger Esser. These photographs and heliogravures were made in Giverny, France at the gardens...More »
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Matthew Weinstein "The Childhood of Bertolt Brecht"
Sonnabend Gallery presents The Childhood of Bertolt Brecht - an exhibition of new works by Matthew Weinstein. Matthew Weinstein's new computer animated cabaret, The Childhood Of Bertolt Brecht, is a...More »
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Clifford Ross "Landscape to Imagination"
Sonnabend Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Clifford Ross: “From Landscape to Imagination” The tightly focused exhibition traces the artist’s creative arc from one of his groundbreaking...More »
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Robert Feintuch Exhibition
Sonnabend Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Robert Feintuch. Robert Feintuch uses himself as a model in most of his recent work, though in many of the paintings his...More »
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"Venice, Las Vegas" Exhibition
On February 17, 2011 Sonnabend Gallery opens “Venice, Las Vegas”, an exhibition of new works by Andrea Robbins and Max Becher. The work of Robbins and Becher examines visual evidence of the “transportation”...More »
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Philip Haas "Winter (After Arcimboldo)"
Inspired by Winter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting from 1563, Philip Haas has created a sculptural interpretation which accentuates the original work’s visual puzzle of natural forms: bark, branches, twigs,...More »
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Bernd and Hilla Becher "Water Towers"
Bernd and Hilla Becher’s almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes the most important project in objective and conceptual photography today. Water towers are industrial structures which were constructed...More »
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Robert Yarber "Irrational Exuberance"
Continuing his “Calaveras Gnosticos” series of intensely colored drawings on paper, Yarber follows the travels of his dapper skeletal protagonist. This grinning hero toils through caverns and mountain...More »
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Andrea Robbins and Max Becher "Black Cowboys"
The work of Robbins and Becher examines visual evidence of the "transportation" of cultural identities and signifiers. Their past series have included such subjects as Lutheran villages built in the Namibian...More »
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Robert Morris "Felt Pieces, Blind Time Drawings and Two Films"
Robert Morris began working with industrial felt in 1967. Over the years he has returned to this material, slicing it into shapes which he hangs and folds to create monumental and imposing forms. The four...More »
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Clifford Ross "Mountain Redux"
Sonnabend Gallery presents “Mountain Redux”, an exhibition of new work by Clifford Ross. In his original “Mountain” series, Clifford Ross created a “you are there” experience of Colorado’s Mount Sopris,...More »
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Philip Haas "The Butcher's Shop"
Sonnabend Gallery will open THE BUTCHER'S SHOP, a new film installation by Philip Haas. The work was commissioned by the Kimbell Art Museum. On two large screens facing each other on opposing walls of...More »
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Jean Royère Exhibition
Jean Royère’s career began in 1933 when he became one of the regular participants of the large Parisian design shows of the time, such as the Salon d’Automne (Autumn Salon) or the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs...More »
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Lawrence Beck Exhibition
Lawrence Beck began photographing water lilies a decade ago. His new large-scale, color water lily series blurs the distinction between photography and painting and has as inspiration French Impressionist...More »