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"Ashes For Breakfast" Exhibition
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[0]- at Goff + Rosenthal
- in the Chelsea 23rd area
- Closes tomorrow
“Ashes for Breakfast” refers to the title of a poem by the contemporary German poet Durs Grunbein which Joe Biel cites as a source for his sprawling, intricate and often apocalyptic graphite works on paper. (...)
"From Nature" Summer Group Show
[0] [0]- at Carolina Nitsch Project Room
- in the Chelsea 22nd area
- Closes tomorrow
"From Nature" focuses on various interpretations of the natural world, in different media. Bruce Nauman’s 1966-67 drawing The negative shape of the right half of my body carved into a living tree suggests, (...)
"M.A. thesis" Exhibitions
[0] [0]- at 80 Washington Square East
- in the Villages area
- Closes tomorrow
Natalie Alarcón presents The Elements, a series of abstract, atmospheric mixed media paintings inspired by the ephemeral beauty still found in an increasingly imperiled natural world. "I want [my paintings] (...)
"The Gallery" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at David Zwirner
- in the Chelsea 14th - 19th area
- Closes tomorrow
David Zwirner is pleased to celebrate fifteen years with an anniversary exhibition, titled The Gallery. Highlighting the evolution of David Zwirner, the exhibition presents early and recent work by all (...)
"White on White" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Number 35
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes tomorrow
a group show organized around the color white. From a blank piece of paper and a glass of milk, bathroom tissue and Fruit of the Looms to porcelain vases and newly fallen snow, white permeates our lives. (...)
Amy Kao "Dwellings of Immortals on a Cloudy River"
[0] [0]- at Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
- in the Chelsea 26th area
- Closes tomorrow
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Amy Kao titled Dwellings of Immortals on a Cloudy River, (24 June – 8 August, 2008). For her first exhibition with the gallery, the (...)
Rei Sato Exhibition
[4] [2]- at Lehmann Maupin (540 W 26th Street)
- in the Chelsea 26th area
- Closes tomorrow
Lehmann Maupin Gallery announces the first New York exhibition of Japanese artist Rei Sato. Drawing from Japanese manga, but also from Impressionism and abstract painting, her daring and bold use of color (...)
"Gallery Goulash" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Kim Foster Gallery
- in the Chelsea 20th area
- Closes in 2 days
Summer recipe of gallery and invited artists.
"New Blood Rising" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Fuse Gallery
- in the Villages area
- Closes in 2 days
Curator Les Barany, renowned for his eye for the dark and uncanny has brought together a group of both notorious and unfamiliar artists that will showcase their intricate and unique styles this summer (...)
Sixteenth Annual Friends Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Ceres Gallery
- in the Chelsea 27th area
- Closes in 2 days
"Daily Schemes | A Selection of Contemporary Artist Sketchbooks" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at A.M. Richard Fine Art
- in the Williamsburg area
- Closes in 3 days
[Image: N. Griffin "sketchbook" (2008) mixed media]
"Starship" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Ludlow 38 / The Goethe-Institut New York
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes in 3 days
The magazine launch will be framed by an exhibition, reflecting the territorial dialectics of marking off and crossing through, and including a visual research project on excess and sustainability – initiated (...)
Tyler Coburn and Sebastian Craig "Ghostwriters"
[0] [0]- at Jack the Pelican Presents
- in the Williamsburg area
- Closes in 3 days
The first collaboration between New Yorker Tyler Coburn and Londoner Sebastian Craig, "Ghostwriters" is an imaginary account of Brooklyn narrated in drawing, architecture and prose. Building upon the (...)
Eddie Martinez "Some Drawings"
[0] [0]- at The Journal Gallery
- in the Williamsburg area
- Closes in 4 days
The result of Martinez’s practice of constant documentation of his surroundings, the pieces in this show capture the artist’s frenetic energy and joyful, off-kilter view of the world. The drawings feature (...)
"Crocodile Tears: Small Works of Art by Over 50 Artists" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Giant Robot New York
- in the Villages area
- Closes in 6 days
Following up on 2007’s hugely popular Look Behind You and Snack Isle group shows, Crocodile Tears will feature a large assortment small works that measure 5” x 7” or smaller. Each of the over 50 artists (...)
"What the Midnight Can Show Us" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Museum 52
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes in 6 days
"What the Midnight Can Show Us," the title borrowed from a 1901 seasonal field guide titled Sharp Eyes, considers the artists' common interest in the connection between observation, representation and (...)
“Lauren Fensterstock, Dylan McManus, Justin Novak” Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
- in the Queens area
- Closes in 6 days
Alumni of Graduate Programs, SUNY New Paltz, Studio Art Department show, organized by Anat Shiftan.
"Transmitting From The Third Planet From The Center of The Universe" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Fischbach Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 7 days
Transmitting From The Third Plant From The Center Of The Universe presents a selection of these Fischbach Gallery Artists’ varied observations on the world as it exists around them. Displaying contemporary (...)
Kazuhiro Koga "Lucent Lullabies"
[0] [0]- at A-forest Gallery
- in the East Chelsea area
- Closes in 7 days
Sangbin Im Exhibition
[1] [1]- at Walter Randel Gallery
- in the Chelsea 27th area
- Closes in 7 days
Walter Randel Gallery announces an exhibition of recent photographs, paintings, drawings and video works by Sangbin IM. For the first time the public will have the opportunity to view two large-scale (...)
"American Drawings 1915-1965" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at DC Moore Gallery
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 8 days
"Drawn from Maine" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Nancy Margolis Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 8 days
“Drawn from Maine” features seven highly accomplished artists, ranging from emerging to established, whose works on paper are attracting attention both nationally and internationally. To varying degrees (...)
"New Views, Re-Views" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Cavin-Morris Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 8 days
"The artists in the show are our peer group, their work has kept us on the path we have been traveling since 1980, in looking for the kinds of work that straddles multiple cultures and flirts with various (...)
"Painting: Now and Forever, Part II" Exhibition
[2] [1]- at Greene Naftali Gallery
- in the Chelsea 26th area
- Closes in 8 days
Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery announce the exhibition Painting: Now and Forever, Part II. The exhibition is organized on the tenth anniversary of the show Painting: Now and Forever, (...)
"Road Works" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Adam Baumgold Gallery
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 8 days
Adam Baumgold Gallery presents the exhibition "Road Works." This group exhibition features 29 artists' meditations on the open road, crowded thoroughfares and nature's paths. Through paintings, drawings (...)
"Summer Group Show" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at ACA Galleries
- in the Chelsea 20th area
- Closes in 8 days
"The Left Hand of Darkness" Exhibition
[2] [2]- at The Project
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 8 days
The Project is pleased to present "The Left Hand of Darkness", a group exhibition curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmine Dubois. "The Left Hand of Darkness" borrows its title from the first feminist science (...)
"The Shallow Curator" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Winkleman Gallery
- in the Chelsea 27th area
- Closes in 8 days
The exhibition skims the surface of art-making, buoyed by such concerns as an artist’s sense of style. It features projects by Gisel Florez, George McCracken, the Spirit, and Kevin Zucker. To counter the (...)
Edward Hopper Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Craig F. Starr Associates
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 8 days
May Stevens "Big Daddy, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1968-1976"
[0] [0]- at Mary Ryan Gallery
- in the Chelsea 26th area
- Closes in 8 days
May Stevens "Big Daddy, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1968-1976" Also on view : Prints by Luise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith [Image: May Stevens "We cut off fingers, toes, scalps, ears" (1971) Xerox, collage, (...)
Scott Burton, Richard De Vore, Buckminster Fuller Exhibition
[2] [0]- at Max Protetch
- in the Chelsea 22nd area
- Closes in 8 days
Max Protetch Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Scott Burton, Richard De Vore, and Buckminster Fuller in both the main exhibition space and the project space. The centerpieces of the exhibition (...)
Tayo Heuser Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Reeves Contemporary
- in the Chelsea 24th area
- Closes in 8 days
Tomashi Jackson “Everything There and Not There”
[0] [0]- at Broadway Gallery
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 8 days
The works on view at The Broadway Gallery are an introduction to the language that will be used to translate field work data into imagery and experience for Tomashi Jackson's upcoming project Everything (...)
"City Light" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at George Billis Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 9 days
CF and Erin Womack “Deathold”
[0] [0]- at Mountain Fold Gallery
- in the Villages area
- Closes in 9 days
Mountain Fold presents two person show “DEAFTHOLD” by CF and Erin Womack. Embedded in the tradition of comics and fantasy, "DEAFTHOLDS" is a show of drawings, paintings and sculpture that focuses on (...)
"Cube Without a Cube" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Christopher Henry Gallery
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes in 10 days
‘There is no need to invent new forms. The square and cube are efficient and symmetrical.’- Sol Lewitt ‘The Cube’ The cube is a fundamental and iconic form; it is composed solely of right angles - the (...)
"Fair Market" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Rental
- in the Lower Manhattan area
- Closes in 10 days
'Meatpacking Art: Volume 1" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Hpgrp Gallery
- in the Villages area
- Closes in 10 days
Pieces culled together for Meatpacking Art will include paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography from our most popular and celebrated artists, all at attractive prices sure to be appreciated by seasoned (...)
Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
[0] [0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 10 days
Some 60 drawings by the brilliant Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) and his son and valued assistant Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804) are on view in the court level of the newly (...)
"Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 11 days
This exhibition surveys the widespread and recurring impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art. Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are featured: (...)
"How Soon Is Now?" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Bronx Museum of the Arts
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
- Closes in 11 days
How Soon Is Now? features an array of work by 36 artists from Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country. The title, a nod (...)
Jersey GIRLS Artists
[0] [0]- at Susan Teller Gallery
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 14 days
"New Acquisitions" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Forum Gallery
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 15 days
"New Acquisitions," showcases thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists (...)
"No Images of Man" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Gering & López gallery
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 15 days
In 1959 the Museum of Modern Art presented New Images of Man, an exhibition of recent imagist art from Europe and the United States assembled by the expatriate German art historian Peter Selz. Coming at (...)
"Other Ideas" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Charles Cowles Gallery
- in the Chelsea 24th area
- Closes in 15 days
"Summer Selections" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Denise Bibro Fine Art
- in the Chelsea 20th area
- Closes in 15 days
Denise Bibro Fine Art presents Summer Selections, a show featuring nine artists working in diverse concepts and media. Lindsey Adams Adelman works with human hair to create elegant and precise drawings (...)
"Ceremonies of Summer" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at latincollector gallery
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 16 days
"Eggcartonopolis" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at HQ
- in the Williamsburg area
- Closes in 16 days
Eggcartonopolis is a group show featuring artwork that focuses on the dialogue between artists and their environment. The show is divided into drawings and sculpture in a way that echoes the plans and (...)
"5 Identities, 5 Destinations" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Ad Hoc Art
- in the Williamsburg area
- Closes in 17 days
"5 Identities, 5 Destinations," is an art exhibition featuring the work of emerging female artists from the realms of pop surrealism, Asian pop, contemporary folk, and a handful of other fringe contemporary (...)
"Drawbridge" Exhibiton
[0] [0]- at Work Gallery
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Closes in 18 days
Drawbridge, a show of new work by Chris Domenick and Anne Pearce. Focusing primarily on figure, landscape, and still life, Domenick and Pearce construct from within a traditional framework in order to (...)
"The Line That Connects You to Me" Exhibition
[2] [0]- at BAC Gallery
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Closes in 21 days
The Line That Connects You To Me asks audiences to go beyond the passive observation too often found in the gallery setting by presenting a physical line connecting one work to another that acts as a dialog (...)
"I Won't Grow Up" Exhibiton
[0] [0]- at Cheim & Read
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 22 days
"I Won't Grow Up" presents works in various media by a variety of artists that embrace a child-like sensibility. These artists, gaining inspiration from childhood, incorporate compositional elements which (...)
"Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Exit Art
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 22 days
Long after the cassette tape has become an obsolete relic of a clumsier analog era, the essence of the mixtape lives on through CDs and MP3 playlists. "Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition" pays (...)
"This Is Not A Drawing" Exhibition
[2] [1]- at Spencer Brownstone Gallery
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 22 days
Using Magritte’s famous surrealist work "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" as a point of departure, the exhibition investigates how drawing attempts to surpass its various limitations and take on the more esoteric (...)
"Utopia/Dystopia" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
- in the Chelsea 22nd area
- Closes in 22 days
Conflicting moods of idealism and cynicism pervade the paintings, photographs, sculpture, drawings, and video created by an international group of artists. Ali Banisadr was born in Iran in 1976 and (...)
Chris Long "This is Fun"
[0] [0]- at gallery hanahou
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 22 days
This summer, London artist Chris Long is celebrating childhood with This is Fun, a solo show at gallery hanahou featuring his new original works of children in their natural environments. With bright acrylics, (...)
Grant Shaffer Exhibiton
[0] [0]- at Half Gallery
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes in 22 days
[Image: Grant Shaffer “New Row” (2007) Pencil and ink on paper 25.5 x 35.5 cm.]
“Summer Soho” Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 22 days
“Summer Soho” show is be a group exhibition of gallery artists in a three-part rotation, continuing through August 29th. This exhibition, changing throughout the summer, includes works in many media: painting, (...)
"intransit" Exhibition
[0] [1]- at Moti Hasson Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 23 days
"intransit" brings together 30 artists working in different media such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, film and video. To deal with the cracks in the urban landscape and its decay, the artists (...)
Art Student Exhibition 2008
[0] [0]- at Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 23 days
"Art Student Exhibition 2008" presents artworks by art students in Japan and the United States. Awards are to be given to some artists/artworks selected by jurors, the celebrated art professionals in New (...)
Fay Ku "Fairy Tales Retold"
[0] [0]- at Central Library
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Closes in 23 days
As an immigrant, I grew up hearing stories from my native Chinese culture. Aside from my parents' cooking and language, that was my only contact with that way of life. So, I understood from a very young (...)
Summer Group Show
[0] [0]- at Gallery Henoch
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 23 days
"Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing and Sculpture" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Like the Spice
- in the Williamsburg area
- Closes in 24 days
Translations between two and three-dimensional space, the works in this show explore the relationship between line and form. Drawings are both reference and original; sculptures are end product or study (...)
"Visual Slang 2008: The Modern Urban Imagination" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Abrons Arts Center
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes in 24 days
Innovative Artwork and Global Graffiti from Tehran to Tel Aviv. Curated by Lois Stavsky
Group Show
[0] [0]- at Dillon Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 24 days
Philip Guston "Works on Paper"
[2] [0]- at The Morgan Library & Museum
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 24 days
The first retrospective of Philip Guston's (1913–1980) drawings in twenty years, this exhibition is the only opportunity to view these drawings in America. Philip Guston was a prolific draftsman who often (...)
Summer Group Show
[0] [0]- at J. Cacciola Gallery
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 24 days
"Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 25 days
The exhibition tells the story of photography’s first 100 years through the work of key figures who helped shape the aesthetic and expressive course of the medium. The exhibition presents 10 to 12 iconic (...)
Max Beckmann "Self-Portrait with Horn"
[0] [0]- at Neue Galerie
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 25 days
“Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn” is an exhibition focusing on one of the greatest, most resonant paintings by the German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann (1881-1950). Self-Portrait with Horn was (...)
Summer Group Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Max Lang
- in the Chelsea 23rd area
- Closes in 25 days
Yoko Furusho "Exhale"
[1] [0]- at Destination Art Space
- in the Villages area
- Closes in 29 days
Entitled "exhale," the gallery space will be filled with a series of drawings and sculptures that draw us into Furusho's wonderland between imagination and reality: lots of fluffy mushrooms, flying birds, (...)
"Mildred's Lane" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Alexander Gray Associates
- in the Chelsea 26th area
- Closes in 30 days
Mildred’s Lane is a group exhibition, organized by artists J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion. This group of artists are involved as residents and educators in the experimental arts program, Mildred’s Lane, (...)
"Nature Interrupted" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at The Chelsea Art Museum
- in the Chelsea 22nd area
- Closes in 30 days
The urgent and imperative message to restore health to the environment must be conveyed in every possible form of media and communication, and more so in art, for it is one of the most powerful languages (...)
"Opportunity as Community: Artists Select Artists, Part Two" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Dieu Donné
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 30 days
"Opportunity as Community is an exhibition" for which current and former residency artists were invited to recommend new artists to create work with Dieu Donné handmade paper. Based on their artistic experience, (...)
"Totally Rad: New York in the 80s" Exhibition
[4] [1]- at Paul Kasmin Gallery
- in the Chelsea 27th area
- Closes in 30 days
In June of 1980, Collaborative Projects organized the Times Square Show, held in a former bus depot and massage parlor, allowing artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel to exhibit work in (...)
Brian Wood Exhibiton
[0] [0]- at Jeannie Freilich Contemporary
- in the Chelsea 25th area
- Closes in 30 days
Brian Wood works with multiple media in New York City. His paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs are exhibited internationally and are held in many private and public collections.
"Toward Abstraction" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at Guggenheim Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 32 days
Culled from the museum’s extensive early modernist holdings of works on paper, this exhibition follows the course of early 20th-century avant-gardes, from Cubism, Orphism, Expressionism, Der Blaue Reiter, (...)
"Paintings & Drawings" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at L&M Arts
- in the Upper East Side area
- Closes in 33 days
"microwave, six" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Josee Bienvenu Gallery
- in the Chelsea 20th area
- Closes in 37 days
Josée Bienvenu gallery presents microwave, six, an exhibition of drawings by seventeen international artists who set up various processes of fragmentation and erosion of information. Close attention is (...)
Francisco de Goya "Los Desastres de la Guerra"(The Disasters of War)
[2] [1]- at Peter Blum Gallery (Soho)
- in the Soho area
- Closes in 37 days
Los Desastres de la Guerra is Francisco de Goya’s (1746-1828) most eloquent testament of man’s inhumanity towards his fellow man, precipitated by Spain’s War of Independence against Napoleon’s forces (...)
"Dalí: Painting and Film" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 39 days
Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Both an inspiration and (...)
"Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger" Exhibition
[6] [5]- at American Folk Art Museum
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 45 days
There is a long history of academically trained artists drawing inspiration from self-taught artists and thus freeing themselves to think in unexpected ways and on their own idiosyncratic terms, almost (...)
"Recent Acquisitions (And Some Thoughts on the Current Art Market)" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Galerie St. Etienne
- in the Midtown area
- Closes in 50 days
Galerie St. Etienne's summer exhibition is a potpourri of recent acquisitions and highlights of the preceding season. While the booming art scene has somewhat diminished the availability of top-quality (...)
"Cartoon Brooklyn IV" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Rocketship
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Closes in 54 days
"2008 Altoids Award" Exhibition
[1] [0]- at The New Museum of Contemporary Art
- in the Lower East Side area
- Closes in 66 days
The New Museum and Altoids, the Curiously Strong Mints®, present an exhibition of the winners of the The Altoids® Award: Ei Arakawa of New York City; Michael Patterson-Carver of Portland, Oregon; Lauren (...)
"Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880–1920" Exhibition
[0] [0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUM
