Freight + Volume - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Freight + Volume. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Natalie White “The Bleach Paintings”
Freight+Volume presents The Bleach Paintings, an exhibition of a new body of work by Natalie White. Confronted with the closures that followed in the wake of COVID-19, Natalie White had to rethink...More »
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Rebecca Goyette “My Snake is Bigger Than Your Snake”
Freight+Volume presents My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake, an exhibition of a new body of work by Rebecca Goyette. My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake is an exhibition initially conceived in 2018 when...More »
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Cordy Ryman “Constellations”
Freight+Volume presents Constellations, an exhibition of recent work by Cordy Ryman. While continuing his engagement with site-specificity, formal abstraction, and the physicality of his materials, the...More »
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Paige Beeber “Farbe”
Freight+Volume presents Farbe, an exhibition of recent mixed media works by Paige Beeber. Furthering her investigation into order and chaos from her 2020 exhibition Severed Mends,at Arts+Leisure, Farbe...More »
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James Hyde “Public Sculpture”
Freight+Volume presents Public Sculpture, an exhibition of new paintings by James Hyde. Continuing the photographic/ painterly integrations and contradictions of West, his last show at the gallery,...More »
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David Kramer “Mar-A-Lago Sunsets…”
Freight+Volume presents Mar-A-Lago Sunsets…, an exhibition of recent work by David Kramer. Comprising a collection of paintings, drawings, and hook rugs that grapple with the palpable sense of a fading...More »
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Polly Shindler “Time Management”
Freight+Volume presents Time Management, an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptural objects by Polly Shindler. In her first showing at the gallery, the artist presents a series of domestic and interior...More »
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Thérèse Mulgrew “Unfolding”
Freight+Volume presents Unfolding, an exhibition of intimate, psychologically probing portraits by Chicago based artist, Thérèse Mulgrew. Depicting her subjects in various states of undress and against...More »
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Anne Katrine Senstad Exhibition
Freight+Volume presents Hyperborea, an exhibition of recent work by interdisciplinary artist Anne Katrine Senstad. Reflecting a deep engagement with various avant-garde movements, including the Neo-Concrete...More »
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Erika Ranee ” Dear God”
Freight+Volume presents Dear God, an exhibition of mixed-paint mediapaintings by Erika Ranee. Presenting works both on paper and canvas, Erika Ranee’s workexudes lively, fast tempo pours of paint layered...More »
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Johnston Foster “Bone Pendulum in Motley”
Freight+Volume presents Bone Pendulum in Motley, the exhibition of mixed media sculpture by Johnston Foster. The exhibition will run from October 11th through November 10th. Expanding upon motifs suggested...More »
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Natalie Collette “Wood Splendour”
Freight+Volume presents Natalie Collette Wood Splendour - the debut exhibition of mixed media collages by Natalie Collette Wood. The work in Splendour features keyed up versions of a fantasy life filled...More »
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Eloy Arribas “Frugivore Bats”
Freight+Volume presents Frugivore Bats, a new body of acrylic and collage works by Spanish painter Eloy Arribas. Recalling CAMA, Arribas’ 2018 exhibition at Arts+Leisure, the gallery’s uptown project...More »
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Bel Fullana “Isla Bonita”
Freight+Volume presents Isla Bonita, an exhibition of recent works by Bel Fullana. Questioning dynamics of gender and sexuality, Fullana’s paintings employ a diverse range of painterly idioms, including...More »
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Nicholas Cueva “Sex Wax”
Freight+Volume presents Sex Wax, our debut exhibition of a new body of paintings on fabric by Nicholas Cueva. Drawing from his upbringing in the Calvary Chapel Surfing Association, a self-described “surfing...More »
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“Waking Dream” Exhibition
Freight+Volume presents Waking Dream, a group exhibition of work by Angela Dufresne, Elizabeth Huey, Lauren Luloff, Erika Ranee, and Lisa Sanditz. Encompassing a wide variety of artistic approaches,...More »
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Benjamin King “Homeland”
Freight+Volume presents Homeland, a new exhibition of paintings by Benjamin King. Following Simple Mountain, his 2014 showing at the Arts+Leisure project space, the works on display present visionary,...More »
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Paul Gagner “Holding Out For A Hero”
Freight+Volume presents Holding Out For A Hero, our first solo exhibition of paintings by Paul Gagner. The artist’s signature amalgam of satire, whimsical expressionism, and starkly honest realism takes...More »
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Meg Lipke “The Woman In The Painting Has Left”
Freight + Volume presents Meg Lipke, The Woman in The Painting Has Left, an exhibition of new sculpture and paintings. Continuing her exploration of stuffed fabric forms, the works on display radically...More »
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Samuel Jablon “Unstung”
Freight + Volume presents Unstung, an exhibition of new paintings by Samuel Jablon. This show marks the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, as well as a shift from the glass, mirror, and tile...More »
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“Summer of Love” Exhibition
Freight+Volume presents Summer of Love, a large group exhibition which presents the engagements of a diverse body of 100 artists with themes of love and romance, the quandaries of relationships, and sympathetic...More »
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Peter Schenck “Comedy Cellar”
Freight+Volume presents Comedy Cellar, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Peter Schenck. In his second showing at the gallery, following his 2016 exhibition at the Arts+Leisure project space, Clear...More »
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James Hyde “West”
Freight+Volume presents James Hyde’s West. West is the artist’s first solo show in New York City since 2010. Fusing landscape photography with painted shapes and abstract forms, Hyde explores themes...More »
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Jennifer Coates “Correspondences”
Freight+Volume presents Jennifer Coates’ Correspondences. Diverging from her food-centered paintings, spotlighted in her previous solo exhibition at the gallery, All U Can Eat, Coates’ new works feature...More »
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David Baskin “The Speculative Gaze”
Freight+Volume presents The Speculative Gaze, a new body of work by David Baskin. Consisting of bronze sculptures, prints, and assemblages of chrome objects, the exhibition uses the Dutch Golden Age and...More »
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Kelley Johnson “Slow Hum”
Freight + Volume presents “Slow Hum,” New Works by Kelley Johnson. “Slow Hum” reveals new artworks by Miami-based artist Kelley Johnson. Johnson, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting and...More »
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Michael Haggiag “The Road Taken”
Freight+Volume presents The Road Taken, Michael Haggiag’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Consisting of close-up photographs of streets, walls, and graffiti, the work transmutes urban detritus...More »
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Ezra Johnson “Cap’n Crunch”
Freight+Volume presents Cap’n Crunch, a solo exhibition by Ezra Johnson. The works in this exhibition explore the presence of historical themes alongside current politics and personal images, while simultaneously...More »
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Bob Holman and Archie Rand “Invisible City”
Freight+Volume presents Bob Holman and Archie Rand’s Invisible City. Invisible City is a collaborative body of work consisting of 50 canvases inscribed with lines from Holman’s eponymous poem, which...More »
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“The Secret Life of Plants” Exhibition
Freight+Volume presents The Secret Life of Plants, a summer group exhibition co-curated by Jennifer Coates and Nick Lawrence. The works in this exhibition explore the relationship between plants, humans,...More »
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Robert Hodge “Rhythm for the Suffering”
Freight+Volume presents Robert Hodge’s first major solo exhibition in NYC, Rhythm for the Suffering. Following a two-month residency at San Antonio’s Artpace, as well as a winter project at Arts+Leisure...More »
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Jennifer Coates “All U Can Eat”
Freight+Volume presents All U Can Eat, an exhibition of recent paintings by Jennifer Coates which depict processed foods as devotional icons, using food as a vehicle to explore a variety of approaches...More »
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Charles Platt “encrypted messages”
Freight+Volume presents Charles Platt’s new solo exhibition, encrypted messages. The exhibition showcases Platt’s extensive body of collage work, a practice that he maintains parallel to his career as...More »
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Peik Larsen “Walking Prints”
Freight+Volume presents Peik Larsen’s new solo exhibition, Walking Prints. The exhibition displays Larsen’s virtuosic mastery of printmaking techniques and deep personal rapport with the medium, which...More »
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Erik den Breejen “Song of the Earth”
Freight+Volume presents Erik den Breejen’s new solo exhibition, Song of the Earth. The paintings in this exhibition showcase den Breejen’s characteristic text-based painting technique, applied to the representation...More »
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Sophia Narrett “Early in the Game”
Freight+Volume present Sophia Narrett’s new solo exhibition Early in the Game. For this exhibition, Narrett has created a body of embroidered wall pieces that weave a psychologically charged narrative....More »
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Rebecca Goyette “Ghost Bitch U.S.A.”
Freight+Volume presents Rebecca Goyette’s new solo exhibition, Ghost Bitch U.S.A. For her third solo project with Freight+Volume, the artist will present a multi-media exhibition including two new films...More »
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Cristina de Miguel “Bad Habits”
Freight+Volume presents Cristina de Miguel’s new solo exhibition Bad Habits. This is her third exhibition with the gallery. As the title would suggest, de Miguel’s.new work is both an examination of, and...More »
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Samuel Jablon “Life is Fine”
Freight+Volume and Arts+Leisure present Life is Fine, a two-gallery exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Samuel Jablon. This marks Jablon’s second solo exhibition at...More »
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Meg Lipke “Pliable Channels”
Freight+Volume presents Pliable Channels, an exhibition of new work by Meg Lipke, along with a full-color exhibition catalog featuring an introductory essay by Julia Kunin. Meg Lipke’s work brings textiles...More »
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Peter Hutchinson “THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE”
Freight+Volume presents THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE, an exhibition of new collages and constructions by Peter Hutchinson, the artist’s fourth solo show with the gallery. Hutchinson’s fresh and imaginative...More »
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Alec Egan “Close to Home”
Freight+Volume presents Alec Egan’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery, Close to Home. The paintings in this exhibition, which depict objects and scenes ranging from a messy child’s bedroom to a grizzly...More »
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George Jenne “QUIETLY, KAREN BLACK”
Freight+Volume presents QUIETLY, KAREN BLACK, an exhibition of new videos and printed material by George Jenne. Jenne (b. 1973, Richmond, Virginia) is interested in language, cinematic structure, and...More »
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Maria Walker “Trees Breeze Green”
The show’s title is taken from a poem by Walker, whose studio practice also includes poetry writing. These three words reflect a sensibility that is at once highly personal and formally rigorous, and that...More »
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Joshua Dildine “Notating Hi Pops”
Freight + Volume presents the first east coast solo of LA painter Joshua Dildine, titled Notating Hi Pops. Casting a wry and languid glance at appropriation, and picking up where the “Pictures” generation...More »
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Mi Ju “Nest”
Mi Ju went out West. She ate a tangerine one night, and the fruit dribbled all over her dreams, which were suddenly sweet and orange-tinted and bizarre. Later, in her Long Island City studio, a painting...More »
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Mi Ju “Nest”
Mi Ju went out West. She ate a tangerine one night, and the fruit dribbled all over her dreams, which were suddenly sweet and orange-tinted and bizarre. Later, in her Long Island City studio, a painting...More »
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Richard Butler “naturalhistory”
For his third solo at Freight+Volume, Richard Butler continues his quest for the true portrait – the portrayal of emotion and soul – behind the façade. Using a motif of confessional screens, veils, masks...More »
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Margaux Ogden “Down The Rabbit Hole”
For her debut solo exhibition at Freight + Volume (and in New York City), Margaux Ogden has embarked on a voyage. Down The Rabbit Hole presents a new body of work for Ogden, in which she traverses unknown...More »
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Jeffrey Shagawat “SELFIE”
For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, photographer Jeffrey Shagawat explores self-portraiture - or in the parlance of the post-Internet age, Selfies - and takes the tradition to provocative new...More »
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Michael Scoggins “If You Can’t Say Something Nice”
Embarrassment, failure, dark secrets, anxiety, obsessive repetition, moments of self-deprecation tempered by hyperbolic flights of self-aggrandizement: it’s all part of the scribbled, sketched, and handwritten...More »
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Ezra Johnson “It’s Under the Thingy”
Ezra Johnson is always in motion. Whether he is creating hundreds – sometimes thousands - of individual painting stills in the animations for which is so well-known, or developing a new technique of fabricating...More »
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Samuel Jablon “Word: Play”
life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis ― E.E. Cummings I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery Word made flesh. As...More »
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JJ Manford and Max Razdow “Through Every Leaf”
Freight + Volume presents Through Every Leaf, a two-person conversation featuring the works of JJ Manford and Max Razdow. Manford and Razdow create paintings and works on paper that embrace the mystical...More »
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Cristina de Miguel “Absolutely Yours”
Freight + Volume presents Absolutely Yours, our first solo exhibition by painter Cristina de Miguel. This show features the current series of de Miguel’s idiosyncratic paintings - at once sophisticated...More »
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Erik den Breejen “There’s a Riot Goin’ On”
Freight + Volume presents There’s a Riot Goin’ On, our fourth solo exhibition by painter Erik den Breejen. A master of several disciplines, including singer/songwriter of his former band Big Game, Den...More »
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RÖMER + RÖMER “Party-Löwe”
Freight + Volume presents Party-Löwe, the debut solo exhibition in NYC of RÖMER + RÖMER at the gallery. Nina Römer and Torsten Römer work together as an artist couple and collaborative. The exhibition...More »
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Loren Munk “You are Here”
Freight + Volume presents Loren (aka James Kalm-artworld-bicycling-reporter-at-large) Munk’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Munk lives, breathes and thinks art. He is a: painter, draftsman, teacher,...More »
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BroLab “Dead Lift”
Freight and Volume presents BroLab’s first solo gallery exhibition in NYC, Dead Lift. BroLab is a collective of the artists Ryan Roa, Jonathan Brand, Adam Brent, Travis LeRoy Southworth, and Rahul Alexander....More »
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Damian Stamer “Sundays”
Freight and Volume presents Damian Stamer’s third exhibition at the gallery, Sundays. Stamer is a young artist whose latest suite of paintings is born from a neat geographic triangulation of influence...More »
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Kent Dorn “Shadowland”
Freight+Volume is pleased to announce its third exhibition and second solo of the paintings of Texas-based, Carolina-born painter Kent Dorn, Shadowland, as well as the debut screening of Masshole Love,...More »
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“The Decline and Fall of the Art World, Part II: The Other 99%” Exhibition
If Part One posed the various problems and dysfunctions of the artworld by a mid-career generation, Part Two poses some possible solutions by a younger generation who, despite all the obstacles, manage...More »
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“The Decline and Fall of the Art World, Part I: The One-Percenters” Exhibition
If this were a typical press release, for a typical summer group show in NYC, we might pontificate about how the Art World is steadily failing, and give examples of its slow and embarrassing demise due...More »
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Peter Allen Hoffmann “Outer Space”
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing. ― John Berger In...More »
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Richard Butler "ahatfulofrain"
In Richard Butler’s newest body of work – and in this case “body” can be taken quite literally – his portraits, brushwork and palette demonstrate a painter at the top of his game. The compositions are...More »
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Peter Hutchinson "Logic of Mountains"
Freight+Volume presents Peter Hutchinson’s 50-year survey, The Logic of Mountains although it’s very possible that there is in fact no logic to mountains: much like Peter’s work in general, they are cloaked...More »
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"What's the Story?" Exhibition
In an age when Google can provide instantaneous public information and images of anyone or anything - anytime and anywhere - it has become increasingly difficult to determine what is fact and what is fiction....More »
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"Do Something (Else) To It " Exhibition
Take something. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Now do something else to it. (excerpt from Jasper Johns’ notebooks, circa 1960). Based on Johns’ classic advice to himself (and artists...More »
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Mi Ju "Gaia" and Ezra Johnson "The Time of Tall Statues"
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. -Blaise Pascal Symbolism – in art as in life – has always played a dual role. In the context of fantasy...More »
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"The Double Dirty Dozen (& Friends)" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2012-08-16 - 2012-09-22
When Robert Aldrich released his seminal war film in 1967 The Dirty Dozen, starring a seasoned, tough ensemble cast including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, John Cassavettes,...More »
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Panni Malekzadeh "Love Me Till It Hurts"
Panni Malekzadeh makes beautiful, complicated portraits of contemporary Persian women coming of age. What age, exactly, they are coming into is not entirely clear. The young women she depicts, mostly based...More »
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Kelly McCafferty "Good Luck"
[Image: Kelly McCafferty still from "Orange You Glad" Hi-def video (2012) running time 3 minutes]More »
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Nicole Wittenberg "The Malingerers"
In an age of sound bites sandwiched by social media excess and information overload, Nicole Wittenberg's paintings are a refreshing antidote. Distilled down to their essentials, Wittenberg's work - whether...More »
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Damian Stamer "Southern Comfort"
The history of grand American landscape painting – Church, Bierstadt, Inness, the Hudson River School, etc – has always been glossed with nostalgia and sentimentality for a utopian Wilderness come before....More »
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Michael Scoggins "Us Against Them"
Amidst the ebb and flow, the wax and wane of fashion and trend in the art world, Michael Scoggins has been consistently true to himself. His bold, very real and idiosyncratic style, his ability to channel...More »
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David Kramer "Age Old Story"
"Age Old Story" tells the tale of two young artists who struggle out of the gate on their paths towards artistic greatness. Both careers are heavily influenced by luck and circumstance. One artist's luck...More »
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"MIE: a portrait by 35 artists" Exhibition
Long a muse and subject of many contemporary masters in the art world, curator/model Mie Iwatsuki joins forces with gallerist/curator/artist Nick Lawrence, of Freight+Volume, to create a very special,...More »
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Erik den Breejen "Smile"
Much like the subject of his upcoming solo @ Freight+Volume, SMILE, Erik den Breejen’s new series of paintings is a long-awaited masterpiece. Following in the distinguished and venerable tradition of illustrated...More »
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Ezra Johnson "Five Points of Light"
In our video room Freight and Volume presents the new animation Five Points of Light by Ezra Johnson. Like den Breejen, Johnson relies much on the power of intuition in his organic, humorous and lo-tech...More »
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Kristen Schiele "Beyond the Rocks"
On September 19th, 1966, opening a press conference in NYC, Dr. Timothy Leary infamously advised America to "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" and thus sparked the beginning of the psychedelic era. Along the...More »
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Andrew Guenther "Talking to a Fish and Paraphernalia"
"Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves,...More »
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Jay Critchley "Deep Bones" and Chad Person "A Hero Never Fails"
Freight + Volume is very proud to announce the New York debut of two remarkably talented installation artists. As both politically- and ecologically-motivated voices, this pairing will transport the viewer...More »
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Matt Jones "Multiverse"
How and when does an image transcend its roots and become emblematic – a symbol for an entire generation or movement? What constitutes an archetype for a universal language - one instantly recognizable,...More »
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Richard Butler "hypochondriacatthegramercyparkhotel"
It has become increasingly difficult to find a painter who combines classic beauty and contemporary concerns with ease. Richard Butler is one such artist. His explorations of beauty and religion are cloaked...More »
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"Haymaker" Exhibition
Featuring five extraordinary talents new to the F+V arena, “HAYMAKER” examines the role of commerce in art, and in particular, the connection between opulence and decadence in this provocative quintuplet. “Money...More »
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Kent Dorn "Remails"
Kent Dorn has a story to tell, and it’s very much his own. My first glimpse of the remarkable painting “Mystic (Sage)” by this artist, ironically at a collector’s high-rise penthouse overlooking downtown...More »
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Okay Mountain "Benefit Plate"
Okay Mountain examines the tradition of customization when applied to automobiles and barbecue pit trailers. Often carried out within limited means, customization aims to improve performance and functionality,...More »
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Trudy Benson "Space Jam"
Freight+Volume announces the debut of a significant new talent, Trudy Benson. Working in the rich abstract vein of Hodgkin, Oehlen, and Murray, Benson conjures up a dazzling theatre of mark making and...More »
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Kent Dorn "Recent Work"
In the project space we are also pleased to present the first New York show of Texas-based artist Kent Dorn. In his haunting, thickly impastoed works, Dorn proves he is one of the chief narrators of American...More »
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Andrew Guenther "Recent Works on Paper (from the Last Five Years)"
A simple premise, but not without his singular brand of humor and irony, as Guenther explores all the big themes of nostalgia, capitalism, utopia, sexuality, phenomena and death on a small scale and with...More »
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Russell Tyler "Decomposing in the Land of Paradise"
Decomposing in the Land of Paradise consists of twelve oil-on-canvas, impasto paintings that bind themes of merriment and carnival with those of horror and the grotesque. Tyler critiques contemporary conventions...More »
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David Baskin "Seasonal Variation"
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"Heartbreak Hotel" Exhibiiton
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Andrew Guenther "Looking For Culture Part III: Back to My Old Ways"
New York-based Andrew Guenther presents old and new paintings together as a means of mining his individual artistic culture. Positing the installation of the exhibition in synecdochic relation to his painting...More »
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Sylvan Lionni "After the Flood"
New York-based Sylvan Lionni will present a series of solar panel paintings. These new works act as an extension of the artist’s fascination with the aesthetic and conceptual properties inherent within...More »
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Chris Gilmour Exhibition
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"Accident Blackspot" Exhibition
"Accident Blackspot" features a group of artists that work with highly personal and idiosyncratic languages to proffer a challenge to contemporary mainstream aesthetics. The title, drawn from the cult-classic...More »
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"Peter Allen Hoffmann" Exhibition
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Kim Dorland Exhibition
For his New York debut, Canadian artist Kim Dorland presents several new large-scale paintings, which explore the motif of figure and setting. His heavily impastoed works greet the viewer like vibrant,...More »
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Ophrah Shemesh "I and Thou"
For her first solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, and her third in New York, Israeli-born Ophrah Shemesh will present a selection of new large-scale paintings that offer themselves as complex and eroticized...More »