Miguel Abreu Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Miguel Abreu Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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François-Marie Banier “Writings & Pictures”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents François-Marie Banier’s Writings & Pictures. The exhibition, comprised of paintings, drawings, photographs, along with various notebooks and ephemera. Situated somewhere...More »
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Alex Carver “Sequence 8: one work, one or two weeks”
Painting as a primitive form of cultural technology is abundant with all too exploited analogies for the body and its viscera. Often, invoking such a metaphor, contemporary painting is alluded to through...More »
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Eileen Quinlan & Cheyney Thompson “Displacements and Dead Trees”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Eileen Quinlan and Cheyney Thompson’s two-person exhibition, Displacements and Dead Trees. Eileen Quinlan’s sequence of new, mostly black and white photographs of trees...More »
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“Sequence 7: one work, one week” Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallerypresents Sequence 7: one work, one week, an exhibition wherein over the course of several weeks a single artwork will be on view at our 36 Orchard Street space for the duration of...More »
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“Book Week V: Editions & Objects” Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery and Sequence Press presents Book Week V: Editions & Objects with books, objects, and artist editions by R. H. Quaytman, Jimmy Raskin, Yuji Agematsu, Pieter Schoolwerth, Blake Rayne,...More »
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“Encore” Exhibition
Organized by Helena Papadopoulos Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Encore, a group exhibition featuring work by Wols, Eileen Quinlan, Josephine Pryde, Atelier E.B, and Jazz Leeb. The exhibition will be...More »
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Jean-Luc Moulène “Bouboulina with Works on Paper”
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“Mostly Early Works by Gallery Artists” Exhibition
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Eileen Quinlan “Too Much”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Too Much, Eileen Quinlan’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Although Quinlan’s work has often been discussed in terms of “abstract” photography, a label that she has...More »
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“Separation” Exhibition
Organized By Matt Moravec More »
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Liz Deschenes “Rates (Frames per Second)”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents the opening of Rates (Frames per Second), Liz Deschenes’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will take place at both gallery locations. With this new body...More »
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Sam Lewitt “COVER”
COVER, Sam Lewitt’s 5th exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery, follows and extends the artist’s work Stranded Assets, shown first at the 57th Venice Biennale. For Stranded Assets, Lewitt obtained a set of...More »
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“Memories of Utopia: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Collages de France’ Models” Exhibition
Organized by Miguel Abreu and Aurélien Poitrimoult This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Dan Talbot. As Nathan Lee wrote in his 2006 New York Times review, “the Georges Pompidou Center [Paris]...More »
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Jean-Luc Moulène “Hole, Bubble, Bump”
“This exhibition finds its coherence in the making or fabrication of each object,” says Jean-Luc Moulène, “in the sense that each object is responsible for manifesting a specific thinking, if you will....More »
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Pieter Schoolwerth “Model as Painting”
One of the clear characteristics of our digital age is that in it all things, bodies even are generally suspended from their material substance. This increasingly spectral state of affairs is the result...More »
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Rey Akdogan “Faction”
For this exhibition, as in her previous work, Akdogan employs standard materials that are ordinarily used for utilitarian ends. She examines objects that either lie outside our field of vision or are rendered...More »
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Yuji Agematsu “Self-Portrait”
What can be done? We must risk mortality and decay. —Yuji Agematsu Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Self-Portrait, Yuji Agematsu’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will be held across...More »
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“Cuban Socialist Posters from the 1970s” Exhibition
On January 1, 1959, a now famous poster was created and widely distributed to celebrate the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s army in Cuba. The use of public messaging graphics under the US-backed dictator had...More »
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Pamela Rosenkranz “Anemine”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Anemine, Pamela Rosenkranz’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. “Anemine” is a substance based on the ancient and abundant natural properties found in the Amazon....More »
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Florian Pumhösl “No One’s Voice”
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“Liz Deschenes / Sol Lewitt” Exhibition
Organized With Olivier Renaud-Clément More »
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“Sequence 6: one work, one week” Exhibition
Rochelle Goldberg (6/26 - 7/6); Paul Pagk (7/7 - 7/14); Aaron Flint Jamison (7/15 - 7/22); Pieter Schoolwerth (7/23 - 7/30) More »
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Blake Rayne “These Pellets Here This Powder There”
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Eileen Quinlan “Mind Craft”
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“In Place Of” Exhibition
Curated by Leah Pires Sarah Charlesworth, Liz Deschenes, Liz Glynn, Rochelle Goldberg, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nicolàs Guagnini & Gareth James, Pierre Huyghe, Silvia Kolbowski, Louise Lawler &...More »
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James Metcalf “Hammer & Forge: From Europe to Santa Clara del Cobre”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Hammer & Forge: From Europe to Santa Clara del Cobre, an exhibition of work by the late sculptor James Metcalf. The reception on Sunday, November 22nd will feature a conversation...More »
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R. H. Quaytman “29 Chapter”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Chapter 29, R. H. Quaytman’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition comprises a small selection of works from חקק, Chapter 29,1 originally presented this...More »
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Aaron Flint Jamison Exhibition
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Rey Akdogan “Crash Rail”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Crash Rail, Rey Akdogan’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will be on view at both 88 Eldridge and 36 Orchard Street. These are horizontal lines that are...More »
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Pieter Schoolwerth “Your Vacuum Blows, which Sucks”
This show began one day when a very rare space opened up while I was cleaning my house. I was using a shitty old green vacuum and noticed it wasn’t picking anything up and, out of banal frustration, I...More »
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James Benning & Peter Hutton “Nature is a Discipline”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents the opening of Nature is a Discipline, an exhibition of film and video works by James Benning and Peter Hutton. Internationally recognized as two of the most accomplished...More »
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Sam Lewitt “Casual Encounters”
Casual Encounters treats the floorplan of 88 Eldridge Street as a diagram of circulation. On display are plastic backed copper sheets used in flexible electronic circuit manufacturing. These sheets are...More »
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Jean-Luc Moulène “Torture Concrete”
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“Sequence 5” Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Sequence 5, a group exhibition that unfolds and constitutes itself over time with the regular installation and reinstallation of works spanning both gallery locations. Expanding...More »
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Liz Deschenes “Stereographs #1 – 4 (Rise / Fall)”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presetns Liz Deschenes’ Stereographs #1—4 (Rise / Fall). Deschenes’ Stereograph series was initially conceived for her exhibition at the Secession, Vienna, in 2012. It considers...More »
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Florian Pumhösl Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Florian Pumhösl’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the United States. The exhibition is comprised of six paintings depicting formally reduced letters from the...More »
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Dustin Hodges “Late Stick Style”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Dustin Hodges’s Late Stick Style, his first solo exhibition and first show at the gallery. The title of the show refers to a fictional “late” moment of a 19th century tendency...More »
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“Book Week III, Around the San Francisco Renaissance” Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery and Sequence Press present the third installment of our occasional Book Week presentation, Around the San Francisco Renaissance. The gallery floor will be arranged as a bookshop...More »
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Eileen Quinlan “Curtains”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents the opening on Saturday, October 26th, of Curtains, Eileen Quinlan’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new series of black-and-white gelatin silver prints,...More »
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Raha Raissnia “Series in Fugue”
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents “Series in Fugue”,Raha Raissnia’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. “I have to tell you, I learned filmmaking more from painters and musicians than from filmmakers,”...More »
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“Conspicuous Unusable” Exhibition
Martin Heidegger suggests that all materials refer to the ‘towards-which’ of their usability and the ‘whereof’ of their source. But how might a shift in context alter this relationship, if only provisionally? ...More »
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“drunken walks / cliché / corrosion fatigue / ebay” Exhibitition
The works in this exhibition draw on techniques of reproduction, such as stamping, molding, etching, and photography, in attempts to re-direct their legibility as means of relating signs to their material...More »
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Scott Lyall "Indiscretion"
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Jimmy Raskin "Petals, Ears & Tears"
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Pieter Schoolwerth "After Troy"
Miguel Abreu Gallery announces the opening, on Friday, November 9th, of After Troy, Pieter Schoolwerth’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new series of works, Schoolwerth furthers his...More »
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"Book Week II, In Translation with collages by Raha Raissnia" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery and Sequence Press present Book Week II: In Translation, with collages by Raha Raissnia. The gallery floor will be arranged as a bookshop and reading room with recent translations...More »
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Rey Akdogan "night curtain"
One of the particularities of the show is that it will be open to the public in the evening and night only, from dusk to midnight, Wednesday through Sunday. Within these late and dark hours of operation,...More »
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Nicolás Guagnini "Seven"
Miguel Abreu Gallery and Balice Hertling & Lewis announce the opening, of Sequence 4: Nicolás Guagnini, Seven, the fourth iteration of the gallery’s more or less annual Sequence exhibition, in which...More »
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"Surface Affect" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery announces the opening of Surface Affect, a group exhibition that brings together six artists working in various media, from sound work and slide projection to painting and video installation....More »
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Pamela Rosenkranz "Because They Try to Bore Holes"
Miguel Abreu Gallery announces "Because They Try to Bore Holes", Pamela Rosenkranz’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will feature new works that “take the form of paintings and sculptures,...More »
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"Accrochage" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents an installation of recent works by gallery artists and others.More »
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Gareth James "Human Metal"
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Oleg Tcherny "The General Line"
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Oleg Tcherny’s The General Line on Wednesday, the filmmaker’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of the simultaneous screening of two video works by...More »
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"Footnote 6: As Model" Exhibition
One finds the footnote at the bottom of the page – as opposed to the endnote, which appears at the end of the book. Endnotes have the advantage of not affecting the image of the main text, but may cause...More »
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Raha Raissnia "Early Spring"
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Egan Frantz and Cindy Hinant "Used Youth"
Chance operations, mythically handed down by John Cage to Kaprow and the founders of New York Fluxus, have generated innumerable radicalities. The checkmate of the monochrome has been proposed as a de-alienating...More »
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"Commodity / Fetish" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery announces the opening of "Commodity / Fetish", a group exhibition organized by Nicolás Guagnini. Fetishes entered the West during colonialism, a historical period in which capitalism...More »
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"Sequence 3: One Work, One or Two Weeks" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents "Sequence 3: One Work, One or Two Weeks", an exhibition wherein over the course of seven weeks, several sometimes extremely different – not to say opposed– works will be installed,...More »
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Sam Lewitt "Total Immersion Environment"
“For the past several years,” Lewitt writes, “I have been stuttering around various conflicts that take hold between the alphabet and other imaging technologies. Stammering is one way in which language...More »
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Pieter Schoolwerth "Portraits of Paintings"
Miguel Abreu Gallery announces the opening on Saturday, October 30th, of Pieter Schoolwerth’s Portraits of Paintings, the artist’s third one-person exhibition at the gallery. With the six new paintings...More »
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Scott Lyall "An Immigrant Affection"
"An Immigrant Affection" is a kind of self-relationship in which the sender and the receiver, counted together, add to 3. "The Immigrant" introduces an im-migrant, fixed element along with another that...More »
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"False/Divide: representations of abstraction in a few photographic works" Exhibition
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Blake Rayne "Folder and Application"
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Blake Rayne’s Folder and Application, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. On view are a new series of paintings and floor works that are collectively structured...More »
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Eileen Quinlan "Nature Morte"
From the onset and before anything, Ms. Quinlan’s photographic works have been still lifes - or nature mortes - that is, images depicting arrangements of inanimate, commonplace objects. Apprehended as...More »
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Jimmy Raskin "Inseparability vs. Simultaneity"
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"Frottage" Exhibition
In many ways, frottage seems the most passé thing. Its focus on the action of the hand, its close alliance with pencil and paper and its interest in rubbing and touching all make it look a touch dated....More »
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"Adaptation" Exhibition
Adaptation, a two-part exhibition features a film by Portuguese director, Pedro Costa, and a new painting by Pieter Schoolwerth. The exhibition functions like a kind of diptych in which a single painting,...More »
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"Sequence 2: One or Two Works, One Week" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents Sequence 2: One or Two Works, One Week, an exhibition wherein over the course of four weeks, several sometimes extremely different – not to say opposed – works will be installed,...More »
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Zin Taylor "The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit"
Miguel Abreu Gallery presents The Bakery of Blok and the Three Forms of Unit, Zin Taylor’s first one-person exhibition at the gallery. Zin Taylor continues to explore the development of form as a densely...More »
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Liz Deschenes "Tilt/Swing"
By arranging six large, camera-less photograms into the loose configuration of a shallow portal, Deschenes materializes Herbert Bayer’s diagram of 360˚ field of vision (1935). Bayer’s ring, formed by empty...More »
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"Practice vs. Object" Exhibition
“But I am saying that we should look not for the components of a product but for the conditions of a practice. When we find ourselves looking at a particular work, or group of works, often realizing, as...More »
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Pieter Schoolwerth "The Z-axis Cycle"
The process Schoolwerth unfolds to produce each work in this series is identical. He begins by schematically reproducing a selected landscape painting onto the whole surface of the canvas. In the four...More »
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R.H. Quaytman "Chapter 12: iamb"
"Chapter 12: iamb" comprises two sets of paintings, one for a two-person show with Josef Strau at Vilma Gold in London and the other for Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York. Both sets use the motif of a...More »
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Sam Lewitt "I hereby promise... etc."
Press releases, like other species of promissory note, bind a projected quantity, a calculated sum of information within the limits of whatever standards dictate the scale of its economy. It is as credit...More »
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Raha Raissna Exhibition
The show will feature recent paintings and drawings by the artist alongside a slide and film projection with sound work by Charles Curtis. In a seminal sequence from Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie...More »
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"Sequence" Exhibition
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Blake Rayne Exhibition
Blake Rayne’s second exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery revolves around a number of paintings, each of which results from a standard operation of construction. Rayne unfolds, primes, folds and directs...More »