Lesley Heller Workspace - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Lesley Heller Workspace . Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Elise Siegel & Judy Hoffman “Coarse Fragility”
Curated by Monika Zarzeczna Coarse Fragility is a two-person exhibition presenting the work by ceramic-based artists, Elise Siegel and Judy Hoffman. The show features work examining ideas of vulnerability,...More »
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Carol Hepper “Four Directions”
Lesley Heller presents Four Directions, a solo exhibition of new works by Carol Hepper. For this exhibition, Hepper—who is primarily known for her freestanding sculptures and work with photography examining...More »
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Tom Pnini “Two Figures in a Field”
Lesley Heller presents Two Figures in a Field, an experiential installation by the New York based, Israeli-born artist Tom Pnini. In this exhibition, Pnini—known predominantly for his films—has constructed...More »
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Rachelle Dang “Uncertain Haven”
Lesley Heller presents Uncertain Haven, a site-specific sculptural installation by Rachelle Dang in the Project Space. Over several years Rachelle Dang has reconstructed various 18th century botanical...More »
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Nicole Awai “Envisioning the Liquid Land”
Nicole Awai is a multi-media artist best known for her work that incorporates non-traditional materials—including nail polish, black resin, and found objects—to create forceful artworks with a sculptural...More »
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Daniel Wiener “Wide-Eyed and Open-Mouthed”
“While the faces I’ve made are far from traditional, they possess a directness that my previous, faceless work does not. They can be as monstrous as they can be beautiful. My hope is that they expose and...More »
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Paul Loughney “Confetti of the Mind”
Lesley Heller presents a solo exhibition of recent collage works by Paul Loughney in the Project Space. In this body of work, Loughney culls images from contemporary magazines—a source material he approaches...More »
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Amanda C. Mathis “Collage Dwellings”
Lesley Heller presents a solo exhibition of recent small-scale multi-media collages by Amanda C. Mathis in the Project Space. Predominantly known for her large-scale site-specific installations which often...More »
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Jeff Way “Topsy-Turvy”
Lesley Heller presents Topsy-Turvy, a solo exhibition of paintings by New York artist Jeff Way. A veteran of the Downtown art scene of the 1960s, 70s and 80’s, Way is widely known for his mask-based performance...More »
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JF Lynch “Word Drawings”
“If you set pen to paper, is the letter “i” a written sound sign or a drawn glyph of a standing figure? When you look at a narrative drawing and understand the story, have you not just read the drawing?” Lesley...More »
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Cyrilla Mozenter “See Why”
Lesley Heller Gallery is pleased to present, See Why, an exhibition of new work by Cyrilla Mozenter. A follow-up to her previous exhibition with the gallery—the failed utopian (2015)—See Why continues...More »
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Delano Dunn “Phantom Paradise”
“The first night of the riots, I believed my family and I were having a slumber party on the living room floor, while in reality we gathered there for protection. Meanwhile, my Grandfather sat perched...More »
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Tony Ingrisano “The Map and The Territory”
“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.” Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski wrote, in 1933.[I] The...More »
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Carol Saft “Fallen Men”
Lesley Heller is pleased to present an exhibition of small-scale figurative bronze sculptures by Carol Saft. An artist, filmmaker, and activist, Saft is widely known for her documentary short films about...More »
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Erika Ranee “Psychedelic Galactica”
Lesley Heller presents a solo exhibition in the Project Space of recent paintings and works on paper by Erika Ranee. Ranee builds her paintings slowly, layer by layer. She allows herself to completely...More »
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Jim Osman “The Walnut Series”
Lesley Heller present Jim Osman: The Walnut Series, the artist’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Jim Osman is known for his sculptures that explore structure, architecture, furniture, and space....More »
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Lothar Osterburg “Waterline”
Lesley Heller Gallery presents Waterline, Lothar Osterburg’s 4th solo exhibition with the gallery. Lothar Osterburg is known for his photogravure images of lost or imagined worlds, created using models...More »
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Drew Shiflett “Sculptural Works 1984–2006”
Lesley Heller Gallery presents a special one-week exhibition—on the occasion of the inaugural Lower East Side Art Week—of early sculptural works by Drew Shiflett, spanning her career from 1984-2006. The...More »
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“Picnic” Exhibition
Lesley Heller Gallery presents Picnic, a group exhibition featuring a smorgasbord of work representing our full roster of gallery artists. The show offers a sampling of the gallery’s program, with artworks...More »
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Nene Humphrey “Transmission”
Transmission, a new a multi-media installation by Brooklyn-based artist Nene Humphrey, examining ritualized spaces and the products of grief through a practice rooted in the integration of art and science. Humphrey...More »
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Ken Buhler & Ellen Driscoll “Slipstream”
Lesley Heller presents Slipstream, a two-person exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Ken Buhler and Ellen Driscoll. The exhibition explores the parallel use of botanical imagery and motifs...More »
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Monika Zarzeczna “Recent Sculptures”
Monika Zarzeczna: Recent Sculptures — the artists’ second solo exhibition with Lesley Heller Workspace — presents new free-standing and wall-mounted sculptural works created from found wood, plywood, and...More »
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“Interior Landszaft” Exhibition
Interior Landszaft, curated by Monika Zarzeczna is an exhibition exploring the intimate and imagined landscapes found and created through the necessity of life in a large city. Featuring works by Ewelina...More »
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Tony Ingrisano Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace presents a solo exhibition of multi-media works on paper by Tony Ingrisano. This will be Ingrisano’s second exhibition with the gallery and features all new large-scale works. Ingrisano’s...More »
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“Shaky Ground” Exhibition
Foreign and domestic terrorism, war, hate crimes, discrimination, social media, partisan politics, corporate corruption, major ‘accidents’, health threats and the stress that follows go a long way in keeping...More »
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“Holiday Salon” Exhibition
Over 200 artworks priced under $1,000 More »
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Cyrilla Mozenter “the failed utopian”
Lesley Heller Workspace presents the failed utopian, new work by Cyrilla Mozenter. This series began by Mozenter questioning the failed utopian vision of modernism and asking if failure can sometimes be...More »
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“Barely There” Exhibition
Workspace: Barely There, curated by Pamela Matsuda-Dunn, brings together a group of contemporary artists whose work emphasizes discovery through installations that invite close looking. There is the surprise...More »
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“Who” Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace presents Who, a look at contemporary portraiture. Although we live in the “digital age” and human contact is often limited to social media, artists continue to have the desire to...More »
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Helen O’Leary “Delicate Negotiations”
“The end of art is peace / could be the motto of this frail device,” writes Seamus Heaney in The Harvest Bow, but it is an end that is rarely, if ever, easily attained. In between the identified need and...More »
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Daniel Wiener “Kooks & Villains”
Lesley Heller Workspace presents “Kooks and Villains,” Daniel Wiener’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Though best known as an abstract sculptor, three years ago Wiener began drawing and modeling...More »
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“KEEP OUT” Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace presents KEEP OUT, featuring the work of Lisa Corinne Davis, Elisa Jensen, Michael Krondl, Holly Miller, Natalie Moore, and Ellie Murphy. This exhibition explores both the intended...More »
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“Domestic Ideals: Nostalgia and the Home” Exhibition
“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but the space within to be lived in” -Lao Tse The home is more than a building, it forms a corporeal arena from which the body,...More »
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Grace Knowlton “Survey 1975 - 2014”
Lesley Heller Workspace presents the survey of Grace Knowlton. The exhibition includes her work in photography, sculpture, drawing, and painting - highlighting her extensive oeuvre from the beginning of...More »
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Brenda Garand “Northern Passage”
Lesley Heller Workspace introduces the sculpture and drawings of Brenda Garand in her first New York solo exhibition, Northern Passage. Garand is French Canadian, Abenaki and English. This distinct personal...More »
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“Pressed Flowers” Exhibition
Emily Dickinson did it. It is considered the lowliest of art-like activities, only practiced by spinsters and faeries. In this case the flowers are “pressed” into serving as new content in a post-nature...More »
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Tom Pnini “Ballade to the Double”
Lesley Heller Workspace opens the fall season with Israeli video artist Tom Pnini. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Pnini’s work references silent movies, the natural world, and art...More »
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“Destructure” Exhibition
These artists have each inspired me in their tireless practices, their playful and often irreverent observations, their seemingly endless inventive reinterpretations, and their unique and often revolutionary...More »
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“Dark Map” Exhibition
“More is unknown than is known. We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the Universe’s expansion. Other than that, it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery....More »
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“This Music Crept by Me upon the Waters…” Exhibition
“This music crept by me upon the waters…” looks at collaborations between poets and artists, with a formal focus on the print medium. While there are countless examples of fruitful collaborations between...More »
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Ming Fay “Figures”
Lesley Heller Workspace presents Ming Fay’s third solo exhibition with the gallery entitled Figures. This exhibition features Fay’s latest series of mixed media sculptures inspired by Tai Chi Chuan postures....More »
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Monika Zarzeczna “Sculpture and Collage”
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“Intangible” Exhibition
The world is full of things, people, places and words that at first glance seem unconnected and stand alone. Artists have that uncanny ability to find new languages to make the intangible viewable and...More »
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Katherine Newbegin “Vacant”
Gallery 1: For the past nine years, Newbegin has photographed vacant spaces of leisure, travel and transitional occupancy. All of the spaces she photographs are deeply informed by traces of the human activities...More »
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“Enticing Luminosity” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Fashion - Video installation
- 2014-03-16 - 2014-04-20
Gallery 2: Enticing Luminosity: curated by Olive Ayhens, presents thirteen artists who have a passion for, and are inspired by, the use of light. The artists selected reference fashion, current events,...More »
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Deborah Brown “Outer Limits”
Deborah Brown’s paintings are inspired by the industrial landscape of Bushwick, the location of the artist’s studio, where car salvage lots, cement factories, and scrap metal yards are common sights. For...More »
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“Clouds” Exhibition
Tell me, you enigmatic man, whom do you love the most? Your father, your mother, your sister or your brother? — I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? — You’re...More »
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Ted Larsen “Do Not Stack!”
Lesley Heller Workspace presents new work by Ted Larsen. Informed by Euclidian geometry, Abstract Expressionist painting, and epistemological studies, Larsen’s work dwells between the abstract and reductive....More »
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Fran Siegel “Plans and Interruptions”
Plans and Interruptions, Fran Siegel’s solo exhibition of collaged drawings explores how populations inhabit urban centers. Plans of Siena, Genoa, Havana,Manta, and Los Angeles reveal cultural priorities,...More »
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“The Language of Painting” Exhibition
All painters say that their work is about light, line, form, and color. But there are many other artists who don’t paint, who have co-opted the same language to create vocabularies entirely their own....More »
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Ron Gorchov Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace presents recent watercolors by Ron Gorchov. Gorchov’s poetic compositions act as a prelude to his larger works and give insight into his creative process. Known for being ambidextrous...More »
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“Into the Vortex” Exhibition
The video game industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise and has surpassed the movie industry without many of us realizing it. Over the past 40 years, video games have altered our visual language by...More »
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“Yardsale” Exhibition
Lesley Heller closes the summer season with Yard Sale, a group show with a little bit of everything-painting, sculpture, and photography. Featuring the work of John Baber, Deborah Brown, Rachel Budde,...More »
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“Matinée” Exhibition
Spend the afternoon at the movies. Come to Matinée, a video exhibition presenting the work of Ira Eduardovna, Ben Hagari, Lenore Malen, Katherine Newbegin, Lothar Osterburg, and Tom Pnini. Mother,...More »
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Sara Sosnowy Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace presents the recent paintings of Sara Sosnowy. Her third exhibition with the gallery comprises paintings from three recent series: curtains, ribbons and gowns. Inspired by stage...More »
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“Shoot” Exhibition
Shoot examines the work of five emerging photographers. Shamus Clisset builds alternate realities that blend humor and absurdity. “Everything we picture in our heads or build on a computer exists as a...More »
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"Pour" Exhibition
Pour presents selected works by established and emerging artists, including: Ingrid Calame, Kris Chatterson, Roland Flexner, Angelina Gualdoni, Carrie Moyer, Carolanna Parlato, David Reed, Jackie Saccoccio,...More »
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Nene Humphrey "Circling the Center"
Nene Humphrey’s "Circling the Center" began as a private meditation on loss and grew into art making with surprising connections between the neuroscience of emotions and Victorian Mourning Braiding....More »
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Jim Osman "Stack"
In Stack, Jim Osman’s second solo exhibition at Lesley Heller Workspace, wood scraps – literally castoffs from the working process – rise vertically and with a casualness that disappears on closer view....More »
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"The New Picture Plane" Exhibition
The New Picture Plane looks at the work of six painters who explore the changing consciousness of space. In each case, computational systems are used or referenced, but the resulting image is more than...More »
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"X-tra" Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace presents X-tra, an exhibition of nine mid-career artists, all preoccupied with interdisciplinary relationships. Extra material, extra gaze, extra messy, extra energetic, extra...More »
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Ken Buhler "Birdlands"
Lesley Heller Workspace presents Birdlands, the new series of paintings and watercolors by Ken Buhler. While reading through copies of Audubon Magazine that his son had collected, Buhler found himself...More »
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"Modern Times" Exhibition
The ten artists in Modern Times, organized by Shari Mendelson, use the vessel as a vehicle for social and political commentary and/or as an exploration of form – indebted to history, yet engaged in a contemporary...More »
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Devin Powers "Devin Powers, Paintings"
Lesley Heller Workspace presents the paintings of Devin Powers in his first gallery solo exhibition in New York City. Powers explores forms drawn from unusual geometries. He follows the nature of these...More »
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"Semi Automatic" Exhibition
The exhibition Semi Automatic highlights the work of six artists that explore unusual means of art making. Most employ automatic systems that inform the creative process by replacing the personal touch...More »
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Drew Shiflett Exhibition
Lesley Heller Workspace announces a solo exhibition of recent works by Drew Shiflett, her third exhibit with the gallery. Chicago born, New York-based artist Drew Shiflett examines surface, structure,...More »
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"Shift" Exhibition
The artists in Shift share a desire to take traditional notions of landscape art and turn them on their head. By fusing elements of our modern consumer culture with classical notions of art and its presentation,...More »
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"Zooey" Exhibition
Zooey highlights artists whose work is inspired by the animal. Real and fantastical, animals have existed within our cultural imagery for thousands of years. The artists featured in this exhibition carry...More »
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Tony Ingrisano "Crosseyed and Painless"
Crosseyed and Painless features recent work by Tony Ingrisano in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Informed by a variety of systems: aerial city views, power grids, and variations in river circuits,...More »
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Michael Eade "The Wild Apple Forest"
Michael Eade, The Wild Apple Forest. Michael Eade's egg tempera paintings with their subtle to intense color, luminosity and super-clarity create lush, inviting landscapes that evoke some super-real realm...More »
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Jade Townsend "Leviathan"
Jade Townsend’s new body of work, Leviathan, assembles an absurd and fragmented narrative. As told by an amalgam of outcasts – the rebel, the orphan, the mystic – a coalescing set of stories manifests...More »
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"Inside, Outside - Outside, In" Exhibition
Inside, Outside - Outside, In highlights the work of four artists Dawn Clements, Theresa Ganz, Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, and Fran Siegel, who are informed by the space and structure found in architecture and...More »
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Nick Ghiz "Fiction Paintings"
In Nick Ghiz’s solo exhibition, Fiction Paintings, he uses a #1 brush on wood panel to create pictures of mystery and absurdity. There is no definitive plot in these narrative works so we are left to our...More »
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"Little Languages / Coded Pictures" Exhibition
Curators Theresa Hackett and Michelle Weinberg’s exhibition, Little Languages/Coded Pictures, includes abstractions constructed of idiosyncratic painting languages that vibrate on the edge of being and...More »
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The Herd Remorse
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Lothar Osterburg Exhibition
Lothar Osterburg makes photogravures of small, sculpted models of windmills, lighthouses, sailboats among others, staged in evocative settings. Built from memory of readily available materials, the models...More »
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Dana Melamed "Transforming Voids"
Lesley Heller presents the sculptures and wall pieces of Dana Melamed. It is her first show with the gallery. This exhibition represents an important milestone in Melamed’s work, namely the transition...More »
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"Limited Engagement" Exhibition
Limited Engagement curated by Krista Saunders. Limited Engagement uses artist Andrea Zittel’s insight that having “rules can be constructive and can catalyze creative impulses” as a point of departure....More »
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"Headcase" Exhibition
[Image: John Dilg "HEADDRESS" (2011) 20 x 16 in. Oil on canvas]More »
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Tom Kotik Exhibition
Tom Kotik began making sound pieces in 2004 while working on his graduate sculpture thesis at Hunter College. A longtime musician and member of a rock band while at Hunter, Kotik had kept his musical endeavors...More »
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Loren Munk "Location, Location, Location Mapping the New York Art World"
The cubistic compositions of Loren Munk recall the information-imaging techniques of Edward Tufte, not only in their bright colors and clean lines, but also in the amount of information Munk conveys in...More »
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"Don't Fence Me In... Or Out" Group Exhibition
In "Don't Fence Me In... Or Out," painter/curator Lisa Corinne Davis examines the sometimes contentious relationship between art and feminism, presenting the work of eight young female artists whose uneasiness...More »
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"A Desert in the Ocean—The View From Cill Rialaig" Exhibition
Catherine Howe curates an exhibition of works resulting from a convergence of Irish and American artists and writers in retreat on the remote coast of Co KerryMore »
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Elisabeth Condon "Climb the Black Mountain"
Exploded pours of paint determines the initial compositions in my paintings. To their improvisational shapes and translucent colors I add images and idioms from places lived or traveled, particularly Asia....More »
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"New Monuments" Exhibition
A group show curated by Ben Godward [Image: Audrey Hasen Russell 2009 "Souvenirs (Thinkin' on You)" Crystal blown glass, found glass, depression glass, green plastic, bricks, acrylic paint Left 40 (h)...More »
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"Resource" Exhibition
[Image: Scott Campbell 2010 "Game II, Board I" from Trojan Checker series Charcoal and graphite on paper 20 x 18 in.]More »
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Daniel Wiener Exhibition
What I find I cannot talk about, and what is frequently left out when artists talk about making art, is the need to make it. Let me paraphrase something from Nietzsche that has stayed with me: someone...More »
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"The Incipient Image" Exhibition
[Image: Sharon Lawless 2010 "Cans" Collage on paper 11 x 15in]More »
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"Fractured Earth" Exhibition
[Image: Nicola López 2009 "Closing In" Ink, watercolor, gouache, graphite, gesso, photolithoon-aper and mylar, collage on paper 18 x 18 in.]More »
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Deborah Brown "The Bushwick Paintings"
"I am interested in the post-industrial beauty of Bushwick, Brooklyn, the poor and working class neighborhood that surrounds my studio. Parts of Bushwick resemble a post-apocalyptic landscape of rubble,...More »
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Claire Seidl Exhibition
In my abstract painting over the last three decades I have developed a kind of visual thinking that includes emotion and feeling, and a human response to paint and its qualities rather than one that is...More »
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"Building Beauty" Exhibition
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Juan José Cambre and Alfredo Prior "Hypothesis of Psychodelia"
[Image: Juan José Cambre "YMC" (2010) Acrylic on canvas 77 x 63 in.]More »
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Judith Page "Night Walk"
[Image: Judith Page "Doreen (DAV), from The Mouseketeers in Iraq" (2004) Graphite, tar gel, gesso on paper 30 x 22.5 in.] More »
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"The Young Israelis" Exhibition
While addressing questions of identity and individuality ranging from deeply personal to epic, philosophical to political, sanguine to satirical, each artist also explores certain universal truths behind...More »
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Catherine Howe Exhibition
[Image: Catherine Howe "Proserpina (Winter #2)" (2008-2009), Oil on Linen, 68 x 60 in.] More »
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"Wells Street Gallery Revisited: Then and Now" Exhibition
A juxtaposition of works from the late 50s and the present by artists associated with Wells Street Gallery, one of Chicago’s early vanguard galleries. [Image: Robert Natkin "Earth Quake" (1957) Oil...More »
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Ken Buhler Exhibition
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Michael Eade Exhibitin
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Sara Sosnowy Exhibition
[Image: Sara Sosnowy "Spring Painting" (2009) Oil on canvas, 70 x 57 in.] More »
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Lothar Osterburg Exhibition
[Image: Lothar Osterburg "Congestion Planet" (2008) Four Color Photogravure on Somerset white, 8.5 x 8.5 in.]More »
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"Triple Play" Exhibition
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Judith Page Exhibition
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Tom Doyle Exhibition
Enniskillen, 2009, Tom Doyle’s newest, large-scale, wood sculpture is inspired by imagery of solitary Celtic crosses that mark the Irish countryside. Its monolithic, vertical, and carved out form integrates...More »
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Nick Ghiz Exhibition
In his recent series of 12, small-scale, acrylic on wood panel paintings, Nick Ghiz brings together divergent themes surrounding the exoticism of nature and the domesticity of city life through delightfully...More »
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Mike Childs Exhibition
While Modern architecture remains Mike Childs’ primary source of inspiration, he is increasingly drawn to biomorphic forms in order to explore with greater focus the relationships of shape and line,...More »
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Nene Humphrey Exhibition
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"On Linear Thinking" Exhibition
The drawings and sculptures of Drew Shiflett are sensuous and tactile, yet capable of transcending their own physicality to embrace both pathos and comedic self-consciousness. More »
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Jim Osman Exhibition
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Tom Kotik Exhibition
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Cordy Ryman Exhibition
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Mary Hambleton Exhibition
These paintings are meditations on our uncertain existence. Reflecting on the complexities of our lives.The paintings strive to give a sense of how we can exist in our world.More »
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Merrill Wagner Exhibition
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Nancy Brett "In the viewing room"
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Ming Fay "In the Garden"
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Creighton Michael
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Michael Cochram "In the Viewing Room"
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Ruth Hardinger "In the Garden"
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Deborah Brown Exhibition
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Ming Fay and Elizabeth Condon Exhibition
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Laurel Farrin "In the viewing room"