chashama Gallery (461 W 126th St.) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for chashama Gallery (461 W 126th St.). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Eri Honda “HELLO, Universe!”
Eri Honda’s artworks are inspired by children, both real and imaginary. Since childhood she has created imaginary characters in fantasy worlds. Now her work is comprised of painted depictions of children,...More »
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Samm Cohen and Joseph A. W. Quintela “The Quarters Project”
The Quarter Project is the product of year-long collaboration between artists Samm Cohen and Joseph A. W. Quintela. Capitalizing on the contrast of their fluency in various media, the series uses the geometric...More »
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“Pantheon” Exhibition
Open hours: Saturday, June 20th & Sunday, June 21st, 12-7pm (Durational performances by Quinn Dukes) Tuesday, June 23rd, 1-6pm Saturday, June 27th & Sunday, June 28th, 12-7pm In keeping...More »
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Montserrat Daubon “Quiet Storm: Landscapes on Paper”
Montserrat Daubon’s landscape paintings are distillations of feeling and place. Presenting mostly all work on paper, this show is an exploration of plein-air work and how it fuels studio invention. The...More »
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Michael Kelly Williams “Works on Paper”
Works on Paper is an exhibition that resonates with a graphic sensibility imbued with music, myth and poetry. In most of the pieces, a textured, colored ground was created then worked onto with forms developed...More »
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Mark Wiener “Cross Narratives and Other Stories”
chashama presents an exhibition of collaborative works by three New York artists, Robert Aitchison, Iliyan Ivanov & the late Mark Wiener (1951-2012), “Cross Narratives and Other Stories”. At the...More »
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Gisella Sorrentino “Transitory”
Dance Performance & Photo Installation Wednesday, April 22nd at 7pm Concept and images: Gisella Sorrentino Dancer: Collin Ranf Choreography & Production Assistant: Gessica Paperini New Orleans: Poem...More »
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Gabrielle D’Angelo “Bread and Water”
Bread and Water is an exhibition of Gabrielle D’Angelo’s paintings over the past two years. Collectively, these paintings represent a certain amount of work, the work of simple reproduction and maintenance...More »
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Shihori Yamamoto “Akakabi”
Utilizing her background in Architecture, Shihori Yamamoto creates large site-specific installations composed of building materials. Yamamoto’s work expresses her obsession with warm colors that has protected...More »
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Sarah Allen Eagen “Anatomy of Desire”
Anatomy of Desire, Sarah Allen Eagen’s debut solo exhibition in New York City, presents new drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage from the artist’s cross- disciplinary art practice. Eagen explores...More »
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“winter 2015 art auction promoting the creative reuse of space + materials in NYC” Exhibition
Materials for the Arts has partnered with chashama, MFTA member since 1996, and Paddle8, premier online auction house, to bring you the work of ten artists who have either benefited directly from our creative...More »
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Gaetano LaRoche “Through the Grace”
Mural size paintings and intimate drawings from nature comprise this exhibition of work by Gaetano LaRoche who has long studied nature and the great paintings of the past. The artist’s work is inspired...More »
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David Baumflek “Carte du Ciel”
In 1887, the director of the Paris Observatory convened an international conference to discuss the possibilities that photography had created for astronomical exploration. The meeting ended with twenty...More »
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Jia-Jen Lin “We Might Have to Exise Your Lung”
Jia-Jen Lin presents a series of modular works exploring how modern medicine changes our physical perception with regards to our own bodies. Inspired by neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran’s research on...More »
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Candice Yates “What is Present”
The exhibition What is Present illustrates a duel between a man and himself. The duel is an internal struggle between who he feels he is and what he wants, versus whom he is “allowed” to be and what he...More »
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Bo Kim “No Small Potatoes”
Bo Kim received her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2013 and her BFA in Fine Arts at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. She lives and works in New York, NY. Executed...More »
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Chizuco Sophia Yw “Elemental”
For Elemental, Chizuco Yw compares the elemental forces in two different media: abstract landscape painting and eggshell chandelier installation. Employing multiple mediums and a few larger-scale works,...More »
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Judith Modrak “Imprints”
Imprints is a solo exhibition by sculptor Judith Modrak that loosely ties together two bodies of her visually charged work. Both series explore interior landscapes from psychological and neurological perspectives....More »
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“The 2013 NYC Mom Show” Exhibition
John C. Kuchera, an American painter, started the Mom Show, a traveling art show. The Mom Show features Kuchera’s large oil paintings, which were done at the NAAS Harlem in the Winter of 2011. Along with...More »
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"Vanishing Anatomies" Exhibition
The most simultaneously personal and universal experience is inhabiting a body. Artists Alicia DeBrincat and Johnny Thornton take this theme as a departure point, interweaving highly realistic painting,...More »
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Hugh Sullivan "Nouns: Heart, Mind and Soul"
"Nouns: Heart, Mind and Soul" consists of current and past works, chronologically spanning four decades. The older works, consisting mostly of portraits, are included to show the consistence of vision...More »
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Ray DiCecco "Face Dreams"
I refer to my newest multi-media works as photo-paintings. Portraiture for the digital age. I use photography to render the details of a face, then employ paint mediums to take the image to a another...More »
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Deborah Farnault "This Must Be The Place – Phase 1"
A direct reference to the Talking Heads, This Must Be The Place is Deborah Farnault’s second solo exhibition in New York. She will present a new body of works, which she has produced while a Swing Space...More »
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Carl Auge "Resound 2"
Resound 2 is a solo exhibit of oil on canvas works, a continuation with the conflicting task of seeking visual equivalents to sound. A musical background often becomes subject matter, conjoining a sense...More »
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"If You Think I'm Sexy" Exhibition
If you think I'm Sexy examines themes of seduction, lust, and sex through a variety of vantages. The show brings together artists whose work examines both the pleasures and fun of sexuality, as well as...More »
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"Bait and Switch" Exhibition
In today's culture, the average person is constantly bombarded with information. Works of art frequently benefit from looking like one thing but saying another. bait-and-switch presents artists who employ...More »
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Catherine Newman "Creases and Flecks on the Map"
Creases and Flecks on the Map presents a series of paintings using figuration and self-portrait as the primary subjects. The artist’s use of saturated color, blended forms, lush surfaces and a fluid line...More »
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"Imaginary Eyes" Exhibition
IMAGINARY EYES is a group exhibition featuring international gay artists, curated by Wolfgang Busch -- founder of Art From the Heart Films, which strives to raise awareness for LGBT artistic communities....More »
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Robert Holden "Saturday Models"
This exhibition is a collection of 250 portrait and figure sketches of models created by Robert Holden over a 25-year period in a saturday class at the Art Students League of New York. Unlike the subjects...More »
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Laura Alvarez "Orishas: The Gods Behind the Santos"
Open everyday from March 9 to March 14, from 12 to 6pm. Opening reception: March 8, 2012, 7 – 10 p.m. Special performance by Dr. Drum & Friends Encore March 8, 8:30 p.m. Encore March 9, 4:30 p.m. What...More »
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"Chashama North Artist Residency 2011 Alumni Show" Exhibition
Gallery Open: February 18, 1-7 p.m. (and by appointment: chanorth@chashama.org) Viewing Party: February 18, 7-9 p.m. Featuring work by: Adrianna Santiago, Amy Lisenmayer, Audra Graziano, Claire Falkenberg,...More »
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Diane Davis Exhibition
Ms. Davis' paintings, consist of modified viscosities of polymer paint on canvas. Though she is most recognized for her exquisite color sense, "stain glass" cobalt blues to her misty sea foam greens,...More »
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Sequoyah Aono "Face to Face"
Sequoyah Aono presents a collection of three-dimensional and relief works designed to be viewed from multiple angles and even touched. He is interested in how the multiple cultures In New York City mix...More »
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Jude Broughan “Nauscopy”
Jude Broughan’s exhibition “Nauscopy” (the obscure term refers to the ability, sometimes pretended, to sight ships or land at great distances) is a meditation on contingency. A sequence of imagined journeys,...More »
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"Telling Herstory" Exhibition
The focal point of the exhibition is a series of five large-scale hand-made artist books inspired by the stories collected from Harlem senior citizens. Listening stations are placed throughout the gallery...More »
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Jeff DeGolier and Stacie Johnson Exhibition
Stacie Johnson and Jeff Degolier create a multiple media exhibition in flux. The artists will be working in the gallery during open hours for the duration of the exhibition. Their finished works and...More »
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Jennie Booth "The Universe Goes Looking 4 an Answer"
The Universe comes to Harlem, chashama's 461 Gallery, presenting mixed-media paintings by New York City artist Jennie Booth. Booth fills the gallery with glowing portraits of an iconographic Universe,...More »
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"Fill the Barn" Exhibition
The title of the show takes its name from an old tale about a farmer who asks his sons to prove their love by filling his barn.The youngest son wins the challenge by lighting a match and singing – a minimalist...More »
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Cypha "The Muse"
Cypha titled this body of work “the MUZE” as an ode to hip-hop music, an illuminating force of creativity, which catalyzes inspiration and evolution in his work. Through these pieces and the various forms...More »
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Anina Gerchick "Thresholds and Guardians"
Drawing from influences ranging from the art of the beautiful grotesque to Yogic philosophy and practice, these newest works present volatile landscapes attended by mythic escorts. Water, the key element,...More »
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Aimee Hertog "Digital Universe"
The New York Times' Critic Benjamin Genocchio wrote on March 5, 2009: "Among other outstanding photographs are Aimee Hertog's wickedly funny 'Hampton Fun v. Iowa Flood,' in which the artist has digitally...More »
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Jin Chen "Danger Third Rail"
chashama’s 461 Gallery presents the works of Harlem-based artist Jing Chen, a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Social Work. Having studied art at Barnard college art history dept., Jing discovered...More »
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Michael Rosenblum "Rear Window Print & Perception"
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Kristin Anderson "My Eyes Betray Me"
As the barrage of images continually mashes together in my mind, those which have become the most ingrained through repetition can suddenly appear before my eyes in completely unrelated objects, due to...More »
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Daina Shobrys "Plastic Flowers"
"Plastic Flowers" is an installation of 25 sculptures. Flowers are grown for their beauty. But, showy sepals aside, their real business is perpetuating themselves. All of the action is in the center and...More »
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John DiLorenzo "A Decade in the Hadal Zone"
The “hadal zone” comprises the deepest parts of the ocean floor: a lightless and harsh terrain far from our immediate existence. To me, this environment serves as a fitting metaphor for the place in my...More »
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Roy Secord Exhibiton
Based on a tradition of mid 20th Century geometric abstraction modernism to utilization of contemporary abstractional trends, Roy Secord creates large format abstract paintings on canvas (usually in series)...More »
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"possibilities" Exhibition
"possibilities" is a show about painting curated by Rick Herron, featuring the artwork of Danny Coeyman, Eric Doeringer, Kate Fauvell & Daniel Turner. More »
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Pat Arnao "Killing Time"
Pat Arnao's work is an ongoing examination of time passing, expanding and collapsing; dissecting the effects of the past upon the present. Her work is informed by literature, driven by urban landscapes,...More »
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"A Meeting of Lines" Exhibition
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Caleb Nussear "Recent Works"
Chashama announces an exhibition of recent work by New York based painter/installation artist Caleb Nussear. Nussear examines the natural landscape through a framework of formal abstraction. Nussear interweaves...More »
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"underEXPOSED" Exhibition
A traveling photography exhibition dedicated to highlighting the works of Black women photographers in America. This exhibition showcases their vision of the world captured through the camera lens. The...More »
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Florencio Gelabert "Birth and Accumulations"
The works presented illustrate the diverse nature of Gelabert's oeuvre, from sculptures to video installation, in which he addresses themes such as man's relationship with nature and environmental conservation....More »
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Marina Tsesarskaya "Works on Paper"
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"Herstory/Mystory" Exhibition
Harlem-based artist, Elvira Clayton, is pleased to present "Herstory/Mystory", an art exhibit that is the culmination of a collaborative art project between the artist and a group of young girls from The...More »
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Shawn Pannell "Nocturnal Playthings"
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Lisa Ingram "Visual Conversations"
This is a solo exhibition of new paintings by resident artist, Lisa Ingram. "Visual Conversations" explores the patterns, rhythms, and dynamics of speech, music, and daily activities. Ingram's interest...More »
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Richard Wager Exhibition
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Katherine Daniels Exhibition
Artworks by a chashama artist-in-residence. More »