Thomas Erben Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Thomas Erben Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Accrochage” Exhibition
Accrochage, a French term loosely translated as ‘hanging’, refers to the act of arranging various works of art, not necessarily under the auspices of theme or curatorial vision, but - as in our case -...More »
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Piotr Janas “Blue Is the Decayed Pink”
Thomas Erben Gallery present Piotr Janas’ (b. 1970, Warsaw) first exhibition with the gallery, featuring paintings made between 2008 and 2020. Since emerging in the young Polish scene in the early ‘00s,...More »
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Harriet Korman “New Work”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Harriet Korman’s fourth showing with the gallery, which includes a solo presentation of her work at the 2021 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. These new paintings and drawings...More »
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“Gestures of Affection: In Memory of Louise Fishman” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery present Gestures of Affection: In Memory of Louise Fishman, a special exhibition of work by Louise Fishman (1939-2021), who passed away over the summer, alongside that of some of her...More »
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Anne Minich “Her Bone”
Curated by Ezra Tessler Thomas Erben presents Her Bone, a solo exhibition with Philadelphia-based artist Anne Minich (b. 1934, Philadelphia). Bringing together drawings on paper, carved wooden sculptures,...More »
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Dona Nelson “Stretchers Strung Out On Space”
“I aim for my abstract paintings to have a quality of specific imagery and my figurative paintings to have a quality of material reality.” Dona Nelson Thomas Erben presents Stretchers Strung Out On...More »
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Newsha Tavakolian “For the Sake of Calmness”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Tehran based Newsha Tavakolian’s For the Sake of Calmness (19min, 2020). The film depicts a bifurcated state of mind, removed from the real world while being hyper sensitively...More »
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Harriet Korman “Notes on Paintings 1969 - 2019”
We are very excited to announce Notes on Painting: 1969 -2019, Harriet Korman’s second show with the gallery, which will feature some of her seminal paintings from the early ‘70s and trace her development...More »
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“ecofeminism(s)” Exhibition
curated by Monika Fabijanska Ecofeminism is one of the richest hidden caches of contemporary art. It is art that delights the eye, provokes the mind, and can inspire change. It also restores art’s function...More »
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Yamini Nayar “Three Spaces For Time”
Thomas Erben presents THREE SPACES for TIME, Yamini Nayar’s third solo exhibition, and her seventh showing with the gallery, including a two-person show with Sheela Gowda in 2009, as well as solo presentations...More »
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“Middle European Mysticism” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Middle European Mysticism, an exhibition featuring Czech and Slovak artists Juraj Bartusz, Jiří David, Viktoria Langer, Štefan Papčo and Jitka Válová, whose work will be on...More »
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Elaine Stocki “Caput Mortuum”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Caput Mortuum, an exhibition of new paintings and photo-works by artist Elaine Stocki. By working within and across the two mediums, Stocki’s practice critically explores...More »
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Mike Cloud “Tears in abstraction”
Thomas Erben presents artist Mike Cloud’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, Tears in abstraction. In these works, Cloud speaks to the suffering of a series of named individuals, addressing their trauma...More »
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“Pleasure in Precariousness” Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents Pleasure in Precariousness, an exhibition of works by Sarah Faux, Haley Josephs, RJ Messineo, and Wang Chen. Across painting, video, and collage, Pleasure in Precariousness surveys...More »
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Marcus Weber “C&A”
Thomas Erben presents C&A, the gallery’s second exhibition with Berlin-based painter Marcus Weber. Presented here in their entirety for the first time, C&A collects Weber’s series of 14 pedestrian...More »
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“out on a limb” Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents out on a limb, a three-person exhibition featuring a series of new paintings by Jason Eberspeaker, sculptures by Martin Maeller, and ceramics by Stanley Rosen. For each of the...More »
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Jackie Gendel “Stained Glass Cliff”
Thomas Erben presents Stained Glass Cliff, a new series of paintings by Jackie Gendel. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Casting a sense of peril and irony upon Gendel’s...More »
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Mithu Sen “I have only one language; it is not mine”
“Mithu Sen plays. She messes. She creates. Her practice revolves around creating situations of impossible possibility. She lets strangeness and strangers in, radically, hospitably. In doing this, she...More »
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Harriet Korman “Permeable/Resistant: Recent Drawings and Paintings”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents a solo exhibition with New York-based painter Harriet Korman. The artist previously participated in two of our group shows, Painting in due time (2017) and of certain instability...More »
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Aditi Singh “so much the less complete”
“I love repetition. Repetitions turn time into a place, turn the days into a space. Repetitions form the foreground, middle-ground, and background of the picture plane. And inside this plane, the lattice...More »
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“Spirited Densities” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Spirited Densities, a group exhibition exploring density and layeredness through a perspective of compression (as opposed to expansion). As images and information in our media-infused...More »
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Róza El-Hassan “Labyrinth of Rebellion”
“How to proceed in these times of humanitarian disasters, racism, organ trafficking, climate change…” is a fundamental question for Róza El-Hassan. She seeks to address such difficult issues in sculptures...More »
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Marcus Weber “Adalbertstraße, Krazy Kat und Artforum-Leser”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents the first U.S. solo exhibition of Berlin-based painter, Marcus Weber. Last seen in New York at the Sanya Kantarovsky curated group show, Sputterances, at Metro Pictures (Spring...More »
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Mike Cloud “Quilt painting”
Thomas Erben Gallery brings together Mike Cloud’s formative painted-clothing series from 2007 and 2008, a period in which the artist incisively foregrounded printmaking and collage strategies—incorporating...More »
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“are you dead, yet?” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents are you dead, yet?, a group exhibition of artists whose work fervently apprehends the world as a domain of powerful, intransigent, often fickle forces that threaten to destabilize...More »
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Kathrin Sonntag “Problems and Solutions”
“In the Hollywood movie Apollo 13, a group of scientists and engineers manage to square the circle in an emergency situation: three astronauts in space are in danger of suffocating because of an exploded...More »
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Hanneline Røgeberg “Hard Sauce”
Thomas Erben presents his first solo exhibition with Oslo-born, Brooklyn-based painter Hanneline Røgeberg. In the exhibited paintings, the artist works with traces of local, factual and personal narrative,...More »
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“Painting in due time” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Painting in due time, a group exhibition of multistylistic and intergenerational painters. In the works of Scott Anderson, Lydia Dona, Denzil Hurley, Harriet Korman, Hanneline...More »
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“Photography Out of Germany” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Photography Out of Germany, a group exhibition of photographers who engage and expand the practice of contemporary German photography. The exhibition considers how photographic...More »
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Dona Nelson “models stand close to the paintings”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents models stand close to the paintings, an exhibition of new constructed paintings by Dona Nelson. Praised for her two-sided canvases that incorporate a wide range of techniques...More »
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Ali Van “Weather Trust / Between Stars: Offer Balancing Scenarios”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Weather Trust / Between Stars: Offer Balancing Scenarios, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with interdisciplinary artist Ali Van. At the center of the show is an installation...More »
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“Los Angeles Bound” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Los Angeles Bound, an exhibition of works by Diedrick Brackens, Thomas Lawson, Tiffany Livingston, and Mark Roeder. The show brings together four Los Angeles-based artists...More »
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Elaine Stocki “Hoar Frost”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Hoar Frost, Elaine Stocki’s second exhibition with the gallery. Hoar Frost refers to the rare crystallization that descends upon the natural world overnight, momentarily suspending...More »
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Jackie Gendel Exhibition
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“Soft Haze” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Soft Haze, an exhibition of works by Xinyi Cheng, Nabuqi, and Ali Van. The show features sculptures, paintings, audio, and works on paper in which the conventions of each...More »
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Bahar Behbahani “Garden Coup”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Garden Coup, a solo exhibition by Bahar Behbahani, an Iranian artist living and working in New York. The exhibition comprises paintings and an installation structured around...More »
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Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller “Cut”
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Cut, an exhibition of video work by Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, who since 1999 have collaborated on over a dozen film projects. For these pieces, Girardet and...More »
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Aditi Singh “All that is left behind”
Aditi Singh’s densely worked, often large scale drawings are generated – over extended periods of time – through the meeting and clashing of mediums: paper, ink, graphite, and charcoal. It is the transcendental...More »
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“Re(Set)” Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents (Re)Set, an exhibition including works by Hans-Peter Feldmann, Niklas Goldbach, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Elaine Stocki, as well as a collaboration between...More »
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Dona Nelson “New Paintings”
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Yevgeniya Baras, Carolin Eidner and Adelhyd van Bender Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents an exhibition of three artists: Yevgeniya Baras, Carolin Eidner and Adelhyd van Bender. Though working in markedly different media, these artists show a similar commitment to their...More »
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Pablo Bartholomew “Outside In”
Thomas Erben presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition with photographer Pablo Bartholomew (b. 1955, New Delhi). Outside In is a selection of photographs taken throughout the 1970s in three cities:...More »
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Rose Wylie “Girl and Spiders”
Thomas Erben presents the gallery’s second solo exhibition with British painter Rose Wylie. Since What with What, which introduced Wylie to the US audience in 2010, she has received wide recognition, including...More »
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Barry Gerson “The Parting of the Clouds”
Thomas Erben presents four works by seminal New York avant-garde filmmaker Barry Gerson (b. 1939, Philadelphia, PA), dating from 1970 to 1975. Gerson’s films were part of the now historic Castelli-Sonnabend...More »
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Schandra Singh “God Don’t Like Ugly”
Thomas Erben presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Schandra Singh, after her inclusion in two group shows, in 2012 and 2013. Working in oil on exposed linen – often at a monumental scale –...More »
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Róza El-Hassan Exhibition
Róza El-Hassan (b. 1966, Budapest) is an artist of Syrian/Hungarian nationality, who works and lives in Budapest. Showcasing El-Hassan’s acute sensibility, her exhibition will include wooden figures, works...More »
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Mike Cloud “Bad Faith and Universal Technique”
Mike Cloud (b. 1974, Chicago, IL) appropriates well known symbols to reexamine historical events or phenomena, exploring the perspective of survivors rather than winners or losers. His paintings break...More »
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“On Permanence and Change” Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents an exhibition of four artists: Barry Gerson, Duy Hoang, Nandita Raman and Giovanna Sarti. Though the practices of these artists are visually and conceptually diverse, the show finds...More »
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Elaine Stocki “The Palms”
Thomas Erben presents the first US solo exhibition of photographer Elaine Stocki (b. 1979, Winnipeg, Canada). Through her unique and formally eloquent images, Stocki highlights the tenuous connection between...More »
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Dona Nelson “Phigor”
Thomas Erben presents a third solo exhibition by American painter Dona Nelson, a participant in the 2014 Whitney Biennial (on view until May 25). With an impressive group of newly produced, large scale...More »
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Gauri Gill “Balika Mela’ and ‘Jannat”
Thomas Erben presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition with New Delhi based photographer Gauri Gill. Combining formal clarity with a strong compassion for her subjects, Gill gives us a personal and...More »
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“Leather Japan 2014” Exhibition
The Leather Japan exhibition showcases a group of select works from the fields of fashion, craft work, and art, ranging from ancient Japanese traditional artifacts to everyday goods and artistic works...More »
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Shanna Waddell “( it’s like ) roadside stuffed animals”
Thomas Erben presents American painter Shanna Waddell’s second solo exhibition, following her well-received show in 2011. In this new group of works, Waddell’s fascination with cults – religious or personal...More »
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Yamini Nayar “an axe for a wing-bone”
It is our great pleasure to announce an axe for a wing-bone, Yamini Nayar’s second solo exhibition with Thomas Erben Gallery. This new body of work continues Nayar’s process-oriented practice, further...More »
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Barbad Golshiri “Curriculum Mortis”
Thomas Erben presents Curriculum Mortis, a sculptural installation of a cemetery, by Iranian multimedia artist Barbad Golshiri, his second solo exhibition with the gallery after Nothing Is Left to Tell...More »
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Tom Wood “Men and Women”
Thomas Erben presents a third solo exhibition with celebrated photographer Tom Wood (b. 1951, Ireland). Since his last show with the gallery in 2003, Wood has been recognized as a defining presence in...More »
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"Paint as Figure" Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents an exhibition featuring the work of five young painters. The human form is intensely present throughout the show, with bodies sometimes breaking apart into abstract materiality, yet...More »
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Senga Nengudi Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents an exhibition of photographs documenting performances by seminal artist Senga Nengudi (b. 1943, Chicago, IL), which took place in public or for the camera between 1976 and 1981. Best...More »
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Haeri Yoo "Running Pit"
Thomas Erben presents a third solo show by New York based painter Haeri Yoo (b. 1970, Korea). Over the years, Yoo has developed her work around a tangle of dichotomies, with conflicting forces constantly...More »
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Jenny Scobel "Women"
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Jenny Scobel’s Women, her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2001. Beginning in the early 90s, concurrent with a reemergence of the figure in contemporary painting,...More »
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Whitney Claflin "As Long As You Get To Be Somebody’s Slave, Too"
Thomas Erben presents the first solo exhibition at the gallery of new work by Whitney Claflin. On display are paintings of various sizes on linen, canvas, scarves, glass bottles, laundry bags and dresses,...More »
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Lauren Luloff, Cassie Raihl and William Santen Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents an exhibition featuring three emerging New York-based artists. The paintings, sculptures and films in this show all share an experimental attitude veering into the enigmatic,...More »
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Yuh-Shioh Wong Exhibition
Yuh-Shioh Wong presents the first solo exhibition at this gallery of Los Angeles-based artist Yuh-Shioh Wong (b. 1977, Taipei, Taiwan). Her mostly small format paintings – acrylic and aqua oil on raw canvas...More »
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"New Selections: South Asia" Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents work by a selection of artists related to the larger South Asian field, whose wide variety of concerns, media, and practices have recently garnered our attention. Ehsan...More »
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"Iran Via Video Current" Exhibition
A week-long screening of two curated programs and the database of current video art from and in relation to Iran, organized by Tehran-based curator and artist Amirali Ghasemi and New York-based curator...More »
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Yamini Nayar "New Photo Works"
In this new body of work, Nayar enables us – through an increase in scale - to more directly inhabit her photographs, documents of temporarily fashioned tabletop sculptures and environments. A slow-down...More »
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"of Certain Instability" Exhibition
These painters use enjoyable colors, accessible geometric shapes veering into the anthropomorphic and repertoire abstract styles, resulting in seemingly welcoming works. Once granted full attention, however,...More »
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Nadia Khawaja Exhibition
Khawaja executes her black felt-tip pen drawings on often large-scale (up to 8’ x 5’) sheets of paper. Part daily routine, part meditation, her work appears to sublimate interior as well as exterior conditions,...More »
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"15 Years Thomas Erben Gallery" Exhibition
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PAT "Unseen, unheard, unexplained"
This first US exhibition of Mumbai born photographer PAT presents to us an overview of his work dating from 1998 onwards. Whereas his practice is based on a personal approach, it simultaneously addresses...More »
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Shanna Waddell "Misshapen Chaos of Well-seeming Forms!"
Thomas Erben presents the first solo show of American painter Shanna Waddell (b. 1981, Long Beach, CA; lives and works in Philadelphia). “Misshapen Chaos of Well-seeming Forms” titles a group of new paintings...More »
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Natasha Conway, Alisha Kerlin and Cassie Raihl "QuietlyLoud"
Thomas Erben Gallery presents a three-person show, comprised of paintings by Natasha Conway and Alisha Kerlin as well as sculptures by Cassie Raihl. In their late twenties, these artists have already received...More »
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Lu Chunsheng and Birdhead Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery presents an exhibition of Shanghai-based artists Lu Chunsheng and Birdhead (Song Tao and Ji Weiyu). The exhibition features a full-scale projection of Lu Chunsheng's 90-minute feature,...More »
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Rose Wylie "What with What"
British painter Rose Wylie was born in 1934, Wylie attended the Folkestone & Dover School of Art until 1956 and received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1981. This exhibition includes...More »
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"Handshakes" Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents an exhibition of works by three emerging New York-based artists who are tied by bonds of age, friendship, alma mater, attitude towards art making and artistic sensibility. From a...More »
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Ala Dehghan "I Can Explain Everything!"
Thomas Erben Gallery presents the first US solo exhibition of works by Ala Dehghan (b. 1982, lives and works in Tehran). I Can Explain Everything! is a compilation of small mixed media works on paper that,...More »
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Haeri Yoo "Body Hoarding"
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Haeri Yoo's (b. 1970, Korea) second solo exhibition with the gallery. Body Hoarding, a new group of paintings, investigates the fractured and entangled human body as a site,...More »
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Barbad Golshiri "Nothing Is Left to Tell"
The gallery is proud to present the first US solo exhibition of Tehran based conceptual artist Barbad Golshiri (b. 1982). The five pieces in "Nothing Is Left to Tell" are exemplary of the artist's prolific...More »
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"Animate Matter" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-02-25 - 2010-04-03
Thomas Erben Gallery presents Animate Matter, an exhibition of works by Pia Maria Martin, Dona Nelson, Richard Staub and Rose Wylie. Although from vastly different generations, all four artists are seemingly...More »
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"New Art from Pakistan" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-01-07 - 2010-02-20
Thomas Erben presents an exciting group of emerging artists from Pakistan while also including distinguished professor and activist Lala Rukh (b. 1948, Lahore), whose pared down aesthetics have influenced...More »
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"A Selection from Travancore" Exhibition
A viewing of works from our exhibition Moment as Monument in New Delhi. In the viewing room: Chitra Ganesh's "delicate line;" a set of 10 prints, in an edition of 20, recently released by Brodsky Center...More »
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John Finneran, Leeza Meksin, Christopher Quirk Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery announces an exhibition that brings together three New York-based painters whose work engages a dialogue between material, conceptual and technical aspects of painting. Using complex...More »
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"Moment as Monument" Exhibition
Thomas Erben Gallery and Aparajita Jain of Seven Art present Moment as Monument, a curated exhibition of work in a variety of media by thirteen artists from Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Pakistan...More »
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"Looped and Layered: A Selection of Contemporary Art from Tehran" Exhibition
Iranian culture defines itself through a strategy of long-term resistance and in the Islamic Republic, contemporaneity is thus characterized by suspension and a state of tension. The resulting art uses...More »
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Sheela Gowda and Yamini Nayar Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents a two-person exhibition, which juxtaposes new photoworks by Yamini Nayar with Private Gallery, a 1999 sculptural installation by Sheela Gowda, which was part of How Latitudes Become...More »
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"back, forth and round about" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2009-02-19 - 2009-03-21
Thomas Erben presents a group of three artists who play with the poetics of relation, activating the spaces in between text, photography, painting, video, film and experience. Parallels, conundrums and...More »
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Exhibition
In the project space, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi (b. 1980, New Delhi) exhibits a selection of photographs taken of Bollywood film sets in between scenes. Relaxed and not-in-character, the actors contrast the hyper-artificiality...More »
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Haeri Yoo Exhibition
Thomas Erben presents new paintings by Haeri Yoo. After a successful solo presentation of her work at dc Düsseldorf last year and inclusions in several shows with the gallery, including in Shanghai and...More »
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Mansi Bhatt, Nikhil Chopra and Sadanand Exhibition
Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai presents Mansi Bhatt, Nikhil Chopra and Sadanand Exhibition at Thomas Erben Gallery Performance by Nikhil Chopra: Sunday, June 29, starting at 2pm in the gallery Sunday,...More »
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Dona Nelson "In Situ: Paintings 1973 - Present"
In this survey exhibition of paintings by Dona Nelson, Thomas Erben Gallery revisits and reconsiders the motivations of an artist widely regarded as one of the most vital, intellectually considered, agressively...More »
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Ashok Sukumaran "Glow Positioning Systems and Other Forms of Address"
Thomas Erben Gallery presents the first US solo exhibition of Ashok Sukumaran, an artist increasingly recognized for his conceptually oriented new-and-old media interventions into the urban infrastructure....More »