Room East - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Room East. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Black Cherokee” Exhibition
What can we say of art that leaves no trace? That its existence is purported, its absence assured? Since 1997, Otis Houston, Jr., aka Black Cherokee, has made art on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive...More »
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“O / U” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2016-07-15 - 2016-08-20
P! and ROOM EAST present a summer group show, O / U, organized in collaboration with artist Aaron Gemmill. It is the first time the two galleries have worked together. The exhibition will take place in...More »
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Lito S. Freeman and Benoît Maire “Proposition”
Proposition, artifact, chance. These are leitmotifs of the conversation between Lito S. Freeman and Benoît Maire. Both artists have found object-based work on view in the upper gallery, while a 17-minute...More »
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Lebbeus Woods “Zagreb Free Zone”
On the 25th anniversary of Lebbeus Woods’ project Zagreb Free Zone (Muzej za Umjetnost i Obrt, Zagreb, 19 April – May 22, 1991, with Leo Modrcin), ROOM EAST presents drawings, a model, and ephemera related...More »
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Dario Guccio Exhibition
Dario Guccio cuts silhouettes of human bodies and outlines of quotidian objects out of papers, faux skins and cardboards. He layers the cutouts and, by sewing or nailing them together, creates complex...More »
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“Blackboxing” Exhibition
Why is it so difficult to measure, with any precision, the mediating role of techniques? Because the action that we are trying to measure is subject to blackboxing, a process that makes the joint production...More »
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Hollis Frampton Exhibition
In cooperation with The Estate of Hollis Frampton, ROOM EAST presents the artist’s last major portfolio of photographs, ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, 1982. This will be Frampton’s first solo exhibition in New York...More »
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Dan Shaw-Town Exhibition
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“The Crack-Up” Exhibition
“…the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things...More »
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Ebecho Muslimova Exhibition
Ebecho Muslimova (b.1984 Dagestan, Russia) continues the legacy of satirical artists from Honoré Daumier and George Grosz to Peter Saul and Raymond Pettibon. She is known for her alter ego “Fatebe” who...More »
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Marte Eknæs and Sean Raspet “Calculus of Negligence”
P = Probability of Accident B = Burden of Precautions L = Gravity of Loss c. = Economically Efficient Outcome: minimum expense for precautions that carries an acceptable level of risk. A...More »
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Alison Veit “Say It With A Black Rose”
Alison Veit (b. 1989) lives and works in Los Angeles. Previous solo exhibitions include “I Can’t Read” at Chin’s Push, Los Angeles; and “Déjà Voodoo” at Important Projects, Oakland. Her work has also been...More »
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Sebastian Lloyd Rees Exhibition
Overpopulation, inequality and sustainability are just a few of the topics the art of Sebastian Lloyd Rees addresses. His work is built upon a regimen of field studies, travel, and his own research into...More »
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“Castel Burning” Exhibition
To visit the Brion Tomb is to simultaneously step into the future and the past. Such contradictions abound in the plan, which celebrates life and death, infinity and confinement. Carlo Scarpa’s commission...More »
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David Andrew Tasman and G. William Webb “Bi- Stable States”
Room East presents a two-person exhibition by David Andrew Tasman and G. William Webb, which takes as its subject the state of materiality in a rapidly dematerializing world. The title of the show “Bi-...More »
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Miles Huston “Force Growth Velvet”
FORCE-n-1. The capacity to work or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power. 2. The transfer of inherent energy. Any interaction which tends to change the motion of an object. 3. Power...More »
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Darja Bajagić Exhibition
Darja Bajagić (b. 1990) recently completed her MFA at the Yale University School of Art. Her recent exhibitions include “Abnormcore” at ROOM EAST, New York, NY; “Infinitude” at Roberts & Tilton, Los...More »
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“Abnormcore” EXhibition
Perhaps you are familiar with the term normcore, which bubbled up through the web late last year to be embraced by several major media outlets. Propagated by the trend-forecasting group K Hole, normcore...More »
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Robin Cameron “Who You”
For her second solo exhibition at ROOM EAST, Robin Cameron has made a series of new works that address identity, personality types, and the interchangeability of psychological characteristics. A new book...More »
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Michael Rey “Ibject”
ROOM EAST presents its first exhibition of work by the Los Angeles-based artist Michael Rey. The works on view combine humor and curiosity; the results of which range from subtle similarity to radical...More »
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Tony Lewis, Nate Young Exhibition
1. Three people leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 2. Have rational judgments. 3. Watch irrational judgments at least once a year. 4. Remember formal art is essentially other people’s birthdays. 5....More »
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Davide Balliano “Four o Four”
ROOM EAST presents Davide Balliano’s exhibition “Four o Four”. With a background in performance, painting and sculpture, he has created gilded wooden reliefs and multi-paneled paintings incised with a...More »
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“Bachelor Machines” Exhibition
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Mike Yaniro Exhibition
“The features of a writer’s face / The body as location. A surface. Her skin. Her inks. His “I imagine she imagines insects” The body as photograph the body in light the writing lost in light. The body...More »
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Emily Henretta and Andrea Longacre-White Exhibition
“According to ancient doctrine, the essence of a thing is considered to be what the thing is. We ask the question concerning technology when we ask what it is. Everyone knows the two statements that answer...More »
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Kyle Thurman Exhibition
An exhibition of new work by Kyle Thurman will feature a group of process-based paintings made with pigment reclaimed from dyed flowers, and sculptures of wooden wind chimes stripped of their function....More »
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Sebastian Black and Jacob Kassay Exhibition
“One could say that the press release, considered as a medium, meets its match – for fraughtness, for derision inspiring valedictorianism, for metonymic fidelity to the churning undercurrents of value,...More »
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Dan Shaw-Town Exhibition
[Image: DAN SHAW-TOWN "Untitled" (2013) steel bar and fittings, spray enamel, screenprinting ink, newspaper ink, carbon black toner and graphite on Econolite with steel frame, 72.5 x 120 in.]More »
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"But the Clouds" Exhibition