The Painting Center - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Painting Center. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Gerri Rachins “Almost Everything Is Going Well”
The Painting Center presents Almost Everything Is Going Well, an exhibition of new works by Boston-based painter Gerri Rachins. Rachins’ paintings on paper evoke the complicated zeitgeist of our time...More »
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Chris Nau “I’m Not Your Animal”
The Painting Center presents I’m Not Your Animal, an exhibition of new work by the Brooklyn-based painter Chris Nau. Nau’s experience working across painting, printmaking, drawing, and sculpture is...More »
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Connie Brown “Chromatic Journeys”
The Painting Center presents Chromatic Journeys featuring new paintings by Connie Brown. The exhibition will be on view in the Main Gallery and Project Room from March 1-26, 2022. A plethora of color greets...More »
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Donna Scarpa “Reconstructing”
The Painting Center presents Reconstructing a new exhibition by Connecticut painter Donna Scarpa. Exploring relationships in shape, texture, color and line, Donna’s works on linen traverse concepts of...More »
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“The Body In Question” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents The Body in Question, a group exhibition curated by painter Ophir Agassi and critic Karen Wilkin. The artists in The Body in Question include William Bailey, Matt Blackwell,...More »
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Izzy Nova “Straight Forward, Image Driven”
The Painting Center presents Straight Forward, Image Driven, a Pratt Institute alumni exhibition curated by Izzy Nova. This exhibition’s first constant is that the exhibiting artists each attended...More »
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“Breaking Glass” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Breaking Glass, a group exhibition. The exhibition showcases watercolor artists on the forefront of developing modern techniques to present their watercolor artwork in a permanent...More »
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“Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love. After the year we have had, what else is there? In the face of tragedy, artists and poets have characterized these Bohemian ideals over and over...More »
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Katharine Dufault “To Be In The Same World”
The selection of recent paintings by Katharine Dufault seen in her solo exhibition at The Painting Center display a deep connection to nature as a source of inspiration. Encountering these quiet confident...More »
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Anki King “Waiting”
The Painting Center presents Waiting, a group of recent figurative works by painter Anki King. Growing up in a small town in Norway, as a child, King heard stories about trolls, nisse, and other magical...More »
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Elizabeth Reagh “Day in, Day Out”
The Painting Center presents Day in, Day Out, a solo exhibition of recent works by Elizabeth Reagh in the Project Room. Produced from 2019 to 2021, these works represent the artist’s response to a move...More »
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Robin Feld “Energized”
The Painting Center presents Energized, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Robin Feld. The exhibition will present 15 paintings belonging to three related series of oil paintings made between 2019 and...More »
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Sue Collier “Looking For Answers”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Sue Collier. The show includes two large-scale drawings (50” x 77” and 48” x 96”) in color pencil and a large tryptic (50”...More »
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Barbara Marks “Isolation Journal and The Before Times”
The Painting Center presents two contrasting side-by-side exhibitions of recent work by Barbara Marks: Isolation Journal (13 February 2020–Present) and The Before Times (2019). Everything is changed. In...More »
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Andrew Zarou “Views From the Paraffin Parapet”
The Painting Center presents Views From the Paraffin Parapet, the recent work Andrew Zarou in the Project Room. Andrew Zarou is a visual artist and Brooklyn native. Anyone familiar with Zarou’s artistic...More »
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Alix Bailey “New Paintings”
The Painting Center presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alix Bailey in the Main Gallery. The large paintings depict a world which she observes within the confines of a six by six foot space...More »
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Gerri Rachins “In-Between”
The Painting Center presents In-Between, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Gerri Rachins. The elaborate art of Gerri Rachins is like no other. The work features abstract shapes moving together...More »
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Randi-Reiss Mccormack “A Visceral Pursuit”
The Painting Center presents Randi Reiss-McCormack’s exhibition of A Visceral Pursuit in the Main Gallery and Project Room. This exhibition resists the containment of a singular category. Excerpt from...More »
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Ophir Agassi “One To The Next”
The Painting Center presents One to the Next, an exhibition of recent works by Ophir Agassi in the Main Gallery and Project Room curated by Karen Wilkin with an accompanying catalogue and essay by Christina...More »
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“Plain & Fancy” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Plain & Fancy, an exhibition that makes visible connections between anonymous, traditional artisans of old order Pennsylvania Germans lent by the Historic Bethlehem Museum...More »
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Joanna Kidney “The Blues”
The Painting Center presents The Blues, an exhibition that explores the multifaceted color of “Blue”. The curators, Lisa Pressman and Kathy Cantwell, both colorists, have chosen work done in a variety...More »
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“New Optics” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents New Optics, a curated exhibition whose fundamental ambition is to engage material and images to create transformational moments. Curators Jack McWhorter, Lisa Mintz, and Perri...More »
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“Intersections” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Intersections curated by Dylan Williams. This exhibition brings together the work of eight artists from the United States and Mexico who in recent years have been developing...More »
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Claire McConaughy “Not So Far Away”
The Painting Center presents the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Claire McConaughy entitled Not So Far Away: Paintings by Claire McConaughy. McConaughy. McConaughy’s exhibit features 10 paintings...More »
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Jack McWhorter “Crossing the Horizon” Barbara Campbell Thomas “Thisness”
The Painting Center presents Crossing the Horizon, an exhibition of new paintings by Jack McWhorter in the Main Gallery. McWhorter is searching within painting for a connection between something that hovers...More »
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Robert Solomon “The Last Temptation of St. Anthony or Ming and the Spider from Mars”
The Painting Center presents The Last Temptation of St. Anthony by Robert Solomon or Ming and the Spider from Mars in the Main Gallery. Robert Solomon: The Last Temptation of St. Anthony or Ming and the...More »
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Michael Wille “Vibrations”
The Painting Center presents Vibrations: New Paintings by Michael Wille in the Project Room. Michael Wille: Vibrations presents paintings of meticulous construction, built with individual layers of...More »
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Thomas Berding “Field Test”
The Painting Center present Field Test, an exhibition of recent work by Thomas Berding in the main gallery. This solo exhibition of paintings by Thomas Berding continues the artist’s mining of both...More »
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“Patterns Of Influence” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Patterns of Influence, a group exhibition that brings together diverse works by 44 contemporary artists who teach in settings ranging from preschools to high schools, community...More »
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“About Face: Portraits In Paint & Clay” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents About Face: Portraits in Paint & Clay. The exhibition is curated by Patricia Spergel and Shazzi Thomas and funded by a generous donation from the Caroline Lowndes Foundation. In...More »
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Barbara Laube “A Breath Away”
The Painting Center presents A Breath Away by Barbara Laube in the Main Gallery. This is Laube’s solo exhibition at The Painting Center. The title alludes to an inner prompting, “I am a breath away.” These...More »
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Victoria Pacimeo “Lunar Rhythms”
The Painting Center presents Lunar Rhythms by Victoria Pacimeo in the Project Room. Since childhood she has been fascinated with lunation cycles and their sensory effect. Strokes swirl reflecting sea,...More »
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Katharine Dufault “Early One Morning”
The Painting Center presents Early One Morning, an exhibition of new paintings by Katharine Dufault. Dufault’s work reflects her deep love of nature and landscape, nurtured by a childhood spent in the...More »
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Alannah Farrell “Worlds Without Rooms”
The Painting Center presents Worlds without Rooms, the first solo exhibition for Alannah Farrell. The exhibition will include over a dozen paintings of the artist’s close-knit community of friends in their...More »
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“The Unusuals” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents The Unusuals featuring thirteen contemporary artists who exemplify this theme. Curators Kathy Cantwell and Molly Herman bring together a group of paintings that defy easy categorization. The...More »
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Tony Moore “Transit”
“What Tony Moore refers to as ‘the relationship of humanity and nature’, that magnificent mix of man and mother earth is at the core of his content. There is that sense of monumentality, that massiveness...More »
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“Artists & Mentors 2018 Exhibition”
Artists & Mentors is a group exhibition on view at The Painting Center in New York City featuring twelve painters who also teach and inspire students in the classroom. Golden Artist Colors began working...More »
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“Chain Reaction” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Chain Reaction in the Main Gallery and Project Room. This exhibition introduces a novel idea in curation by asking each Painting Center member to invite artists from their...More »
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“JuxtaPositions” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents JuxtaPositions, curated by Anthony Cuneo, Alannah Farrell and Robin Feld. The artists who were chosen to present their work in this exhibition explore the idea of placing different...More »
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Kathy Cantwell “Walking The Line”
The Painting Center presents Walking The Line, a solo exhibition of paintings by Kathy Cantwell. In recent years, artist Kathy Cantwell found expressive freedom in the constant of simple stripes. In “Walking...More »
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Gerri Rachins “Seen/Unseen”
SEEN/UNSEEN unites two bodies of work by Gerri Rachins in her first New York exhibition The SEEN part of the show, in the Main Gallery, features six paintings from Rachins’ recent POPROCK series.The UNSEEN...More »
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Robin Feld “Arrivals and Departures”
The Painting Center presents Robin Feld: Arrivals and Departures in the Main Gallery In developing the work for Arrivals and Departures, Robin Feld has questioned how real life events influence one’s...More »
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“Cultivate Your Own Garden” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Cultivate Your Own Garden, an exhibition of twelve contemporary artists: Cecile Chong, Elisabeth Condon, Daniel Dallmann, Carlo D’Anslemi, Lois Dodd, Ashley Garrett, Xico Greenwald,...More »
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Alix Bailey “Recent Paintings” and Alyce Gottesman “Rangadravya”
The Painting Center presents Alix Bailey: Recent Paintings and Alyce Gottesman: Rangadravya in the Main Gallery and Project Room. Alix Bailey’s recent paintings feature mostly large figure paintings....More »
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Sue Collier, Anthony Cueno and Phillip Gerstein Exhibitions
The Painting Center presents Sue Collier: Recollections and Reflections and Anthony Cueno: Traces in the Main Gallery and Phillip Gerstein: Sacred Geometry in the Project Room. Sue Collier’s  Recollections...More »
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Harvey Gordon “Seeing the Small Picture”
The Painting Center presents Seeing the Small Picture an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Harvey Gordon. For more than fifty years, Harvey Gordon’s art has reflected his life by depicting resonant aspects...More »
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Bill Hochhausen “The Polyoptical”
The Painting Center presents The Polyoptical, new and related work by Bill Hochhausen, which represents his decades long effort at realizing a combinatorial art. Compositions unite carved sculptural forms...More »
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“Unearth” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Unearth in the Main Gallery. Unearth, organized by Shona Macdonald brings together four artists: John Dilg, Regan Golden, Shona Macdonald and Melissa Oresky for whom ‘unearth’...More »
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Jan Lhormer “Passing Through in the Project Room”
Passing Through, an exhibition of recent work by Jan Lhormer takes place in the Project Room and features abstract paintings influenced by the coastal landscape of Cape Cod, Massachusetts where she currently...More »
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“Small Talk” and “Hope” Exhibitions
The Painting Center presents Small Talk in the Main Gallery and Janet Mueller: Hope in the Project Room. Small Talk references a typical form of surface-level conversation and our desire as artists...More »
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“FIGHT OR FLIGHT” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents FIGHT OR FLIGHT curated by Alix Bailey, Barbara Marks and Patricia Spergel the Main Gallery and Project Room. There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that the November 2016 presidential...More »
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Al Peters “Just Painting and Small Drawings”
The Painting Center presents the solo exhibition of Paintings and Small Drawings by Al Peters in the Main Gallery and the Project Room. In the introductory essay to the exhibition catalog entitled “Just...More »
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Jason Lahr “Electric Funeral”
The Painting Center presents Jason Lahr’s solo exhibition, Electric Funeral in the project room. This exhibition features recent paintings on shaped panels. Utilizing brief texts which he writes and images...More »
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“The Unstilllife: A Celebration of the Eccentric Possibilities of Still Life” Exhibition
The Painting Center is pleased to present The Unstilllife celebrating the eccentric possibilities of still life. Trevor Winkfield has collaborated with Zeuxis in organizing this exhibition, which includes...More »
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“The Big Idea” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Big Idea curated by Sue Collier, Leslie Ford, Jack McWhorter and Jo Ann Rothschild. A big idea can be expressed in any format in any style. Substance would be the real physical...More »
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Sarah Lutz & Patricia Spergel and Aubrey Levinthal Exhibitions
The Painting Center presents Sarah Lutz & Patricia Spergel: A Conversation Afloat in the Main Gallery and Aubrey Levinthal: Refrigerator in the Project Room. Writing in the catalog essay that accompanies...More »
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“Band” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Band, an exhibition curated by Stephanie Buhmann, featuring a selection of abstract paintings based on lines, banners, and associations of the grid. In the canon of nonobjective...More »
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James Patrick Reid, Craig Manister and Caren Canier Exhibition
The Painting Center presents James Patrick Reid: Paintings and Craig Manister: Slow Looking in the Main Gallery and Caren Canier: Town & Country: Paintings in the Project Room. Comprising moody...More »
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Lois Dickson and Pamela Salisbury “New Work 2016”
The Painting Center presents Lois Dickson: New Work 2016 in the Main Gallery and Pamela Salisbury: New Work in the Project Room. Lois Dickson makes her paintings in response to images that emerge from...More »
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Sue Post, Barb Laube and Louisa Waber Exhibitions
The Painting Center presents Sue Post: Weed/ Garden and Barb Laube: First Beach in the Main Gallery and Louisa Waber: Recent Painting and Drawing in the Project Room. Weed/Garden, an exhibition of recent...More »
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“Loose Canon” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Loose Canon, which references the ways in which students at Indiana University Bloomington study and work within art historical precedents, while simultaneously trying to loosen...More »
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“The Retrieval of the Beautiful” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents the exhibition The Retrieval of the Beautiful featuring 84 artists working in a variety of media. Galen Johnson’s book The Retrieval of the Beautiful (Northwestern University...More »
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Kathy Cantwell, Suejin Jo and Pat Badt Exhibitions
The Painting Center presents Kathy Cantwell: Nightlines and Suejin Jo: The Rite of Spring in the Main Gallery and Pat Badt: Short Stories in the Project Room. Artist Kathy Cantwell knows her way around...More »
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“Exhibit EH!” Exhibition
The Painting Center welcomes the 5 Star Collective, a group of talented Canucks who celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding Canadian Artists. The Collective’s “Exhibit Eh!” will present a slice of...More »
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“Something Else” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents the exhibition Something Else in the Main Gallery and Project Room. Curated by Dee Shapiro and Miriam Brumer, Something Else features ten artists whose work deals with the...More »
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Marianne Gagnier “Liv Mette Larsen Insight/ Outsight”
The Painting Center presents Insight/Outsight, concurrent one-person exhibitions by Marianne Gagnier in the Main Gallery and Liv Mette Larsen in the Project Room. These painters both begin the painting...More »
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“Signals that Gather” Exhibition
The Painting Center present Signals that Gather. Signals that Gather examines the legacy of Modern/Postmodern abstraction in the work of four artists: George Schroeder, Nancy Seibert, Bridget O’Donnell,...More »
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David Brown “Urban Scrawl”
The Painting Center welcomes David Brown, a prominent figure from Toronto’s creative community, for a solo-exhibition titled Urban Scrawl. In his latest series of paintings, David Brown explores the...More »
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“Color Matters” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Color Matters, an exhibition featuring work by April Hammock, Barbara Campbell Thomas, Becky Yazdan, Carla Aurich, Claudine Metrick, Kimberly Thorpe, Fukuko Harris, Louise...More »
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“Ulterior Motif” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents the exhibition Ulterior Motif in the Main Gallery and Project Room. Ulterior Motif curated by Naomi Cohn features thirteen artists who explore the language of pattern and art....More »
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Martha Sedgwick “Where the Sea Meets the Shore”
Martha Sedgwick continues her ongoing series of paintings influenced by the ever evolving and dynamic natural environment of Cape Cod, where she has maintained a studio for 13 years. It is an environment...More »
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Alyce Gottesman “COSMOS : BEAUTY”
The Painting Center presents Alyce Gottesman’s solo exhibition, COSMOS : BEAUTY in its Main Gallery. Alyce Gottesman continues her ongoing examination of organic abstraction with a process-driven approach...More »
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“The Writing on the Wall” Exhibition
The Painting Center announces the exhibition, The Writing on the Wall. Writing is a subversive activity, the marker of both the rise of civilization and its decadence. It is used to express, sell, persuade,...More »
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Galen Cheney “Scorpion and Chickadee”
The Painting Center presents Scorpion and Chickadee, an exhibition of new paintings by Galen Cheney, the artist’s first solo show in New York City. Painted over the last year, these works embody her ongoing...More »
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Julie Karabenick “Architectural Fantasies”
The Painting Center announces Julie Karabenick’s solo exhibition, Architectural Fantasies, in its Project Room. Each painting features complex and intricately balanced clusters of architectural fragments...More »
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Thomas Berding “Discard Parade”
The Painting Center presents Discard Parade, an exhibition of recent paintings by Thomas Berding in the main gallery. In Thomas Berding’s paintings, both the history of abstract painting with its encrypted...More »
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Al Peters “Recent Paintings”
The Painting Center announces as part of a two-person show Recent Paintings of Al Peters in one-half of the main gallery and Drawings 2011-2013 in the Project Room. “What I am after are dense, complex,...More »
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Al Peters “Drawings 2011-2013”
The Painting Center announces as part of a two-person show Recent Paintings of Al Peters in one-half of the main gallery and Drawings 2011-2013 in the Project Room. “What I am after are dense, complex,...More »
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Marianne Van Lent “Prima Materia”
Marianne Van Lent is a painter of the natural world. Filtered through memory, her work examines the mysterious forces of the physical world and investigates our fragile position in the universe through...More »
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Peter Malone “Paintings”
With these recent selections from a series of portraits begun in 2011, visitors are invited to join the artist in exploring the possibilities inherent in a genre as old as painting itself. Straightforward,...More »
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“Talismans” Exhibition
The privilege of being invited into an artist’s studio is something that many never have a chance to experience. Talismans offers a glimpse into the studios of four New York based painters—Robert Berlind,...More »
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“Inside and Out” Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Inside and Out , a group exhibition of works by 15 different artists. Inside and Out presents the work s of fifteen MFA painting candidates from Indiana University Bloomington....More »
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Claire McConaughy “Recent Paintings”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Claire McConaughy. McConaughy makes open-ended visual fictions. Her recent body of work combines representation and painterly abstraction....More »
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“Shifting Ecologies” Exhibition
This exhibition is a survey of the way artists are reacting to the current ecology of our planet and our ecological crisis and challenge. The artists include: Yura Adams, Robert Barthelmes, Harry Bartnick,...More »
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Harriet Finck “Life Forms”
Long interested in the similarities of growth patterns in starry skies and cellular life, and using the creation story in the book of Genesis as a touchstone, Finck looks in this series at the evolution...More »
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Mona Brody “The Idea of Things”
Mona Brody is an artist who generates imagery from found, made, or gifted objects. Evocative objects act as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory and sustain new ideas; the expressive...More »
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Fran Shalom “Just This”
The Painting Center presents Just This a solo exhibition of paintings by Fran Shalom. From the catalogue essay written by Nancy Shaver: “Fran Shalom uses shape to contradict itself, to confuse the...More »
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Molly Herman “Lingua Franca”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Molly Herman, titled Lingua Franca. Her work is concerned with the elemental language or “building blocks” of the painting process: pigment,...More »
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Mark Wethli “New Work”
Mark Wethli uses hand-woven paper as the underpinning for rectilinear compositions whose contours sometimes align with the edges of the weave and sometimes don’t, suggesting a negotiation between the inherent...More »
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Emily Berger and Claire Seidl “Vis-à-Vis”
The Painting Center presents vis-à-vis/Emily Berger and Claire Seidl in the Main Gallery. Berger and Seidl are abstract painters who have visited each other’s studios regularly for thirty years and engage...More »
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Gandy Brodie “City, Country, City”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of paintings by the second-generation New York School painter Gandy Brodie (1925-1975). Brodie’s work combines stark almost primitive imagery with dense heavily...More »
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Ro Lohin “Snow Paintings”
This selection of paintings by Ro Lohin conveys the idea that landscape can be used as a metaphor for emotional states. Working outdoors, under winter’s harsh conditions, Lohin paints from passages of...More »
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Suzanne Laura Kammin “Greater and Lesser Vehicles”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Suzanne Laura Kammin. Kammin uses the vernacular of 1970’s era design, electronica to explore ideas of transit, connectedness, and Buddhist-influenced...More »
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Marianne Gagnier “of this world - new paintings”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Marianne Gagnier. Marianne Gagnier uses dynamic gestures and a lush palette to create abstract paintings which evoke the inscape – specific,...More »
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“Materialists” Exhibition
The Painting Center is pleased to present MATERIALISTS, a group exhibition of new works by Jeffrey Collins, Art Guerra, Nils Hill and Anders Knutsson. Materials have often been of particular importance...More »
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Lawrence Terry “Tattoo”
The Painting Center presents mixed media works by Lawrence Terry in the Project Room. The “Tattoo” series draws upon Lawrence Terry’s intuitive process to connect ancient energies of the Pacific Rim and...More »
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“Skin” Exhibition
The skin of an artwork speaks of the singular visual vocabulary of its maker. Each of these artists found a way of making a unique skin, either by using nontraditional materials or by employing traditional...More »
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Andrea Packard “Composite Views”
The Painting Center presents Composite Views, an exhibition of recent mixed media works on paper and panel by Andrea Packard. Working from both memory and improvisation, Packard creates abstracted landscapes...More »
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Craig Manister “Still LIfe”
The Painting Center presents Craig Manister: Still Life. The exhibition will include recent still life paintings done over the last two years. Craig Manister is a painter who was known for painting...More »
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Alyce Gottesman “Interconnections”
Alyce Gottesman continues her ongoing examination of organic abstraction in her exhibition entitled “Interconnections”. Her paintings and works on paper reflect the interconnectedness between nature, geometric...More »
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Martha Sedgwick “The Truro Paintings”
This exhibition, titled “The Truro Paintings”, expands on a body of work influenced by the vastly beautiful, ever changing and dynamic natural environment of the far end of Cape Cod, where the artist,...More »
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Patrick Webb “Love’s Progress”
Patrick Webb will be exhibiting in the main gallery of The Painting Center a selection of paintings from the last 23 years that explore a single theme: Love’s Progress. Inspired by the great cycle of Fragonard...More »
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Matthias Leutrum “Roofing Tar Paintings”
Matthias Leutrum ‘s “Roofing Tar Paintings” emerged from a surplus of roofing tar and plywood left behind in his studio attic by the previous owner. The vibrant, multi-hued imagery he creates from these...More »
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“Effigy” Exhibition
The Painting Center hosts “Effigy”, a group show of young artists that commemorates the loss of old work and the creation of the new. This collection of artists are all recent graduates from Pratt Institute,...More »
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“Working It Out” Exhibition
“Working It Out” features 112 artists of all disciplines who begin their creative process with preparatory drawings. This enables visual problem solving throughout the execution of an artwork that is...More »
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Marianne Van Lent “Cosmologies”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Marianne Van Lent. Cosmology is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, a study of its origins, and the eventual...More »
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Thomas Berding “Makeshift Futures”
Taking cues from the post-industrial landscape, provisional models, and makeshift networks, Thomas Berding’s recent work explores how the planned and built environment and the traffic of more spontaneous...More »
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Galen Cheney “Gut”
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Galen Cheney, her first large show of paintings in New York City. The exhibition, titled “Gut” affirms and expands Cheney’s longstanding...More »
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Rachael Wren "Square Roots"
Using geometry as a way to structure ephemeral sensations of light and air, Rachael Wren’s work creates a sense of place and atmosphere. The dense spaces in her paintings are inspired by moments in the...More »
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Mariam Stephan "Boat-Scapes"
The spaces in Mariam Stephan's paintings are located somewhere between the visible realm and the psychological/ spiritual/ philosophical one. Her haunting work explores the disjunctive nature of coaxing...More »
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Philip Ayers "Small Portraits"
Philip Ayers exhibits intimate portraits, mostly of his children, with a few others including a self-portrait. There are multiple portraits of his daughter Emmeline, and his son Alexander completed over...More »
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John McNamara Exhibition
John McNamara has investigated the relationship between painting and photography for the past twenty-eight years, through making paintings that engage photography as a hidden painted element. Since the...More »
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Alexander Ayers Exhibition
These drawings began with inspiration from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. They consider environmental issues like the spill, global warming, and the 20 square mile plastic garbage flotilla in...More »
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"Going Into the Dark" Exhibition
The exhibition Going Into the Dark focuses on the dark paintings created by artists Charles Hinman, Ronnie Landfield, Peter Reginato and Amalia Piccinini. These oeuvres stand in clear opposition to the...More »
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"Wit" Exhibition
Wit is defined as a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor. Abstract language is not immediately associated with humor, as pictorial and narrative language...More »
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Zeuxis "Reflections"
Zeuxis still life painters association presents Reflections, an exhibition of more than fifty paintings in which Zeuxis artists and their guests have incorporated a reflecting object. Reflections have...More »
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Alix Bailey Exhibition
Alix Bailey paints directly from observation; however she is not interested in the conventional aspects of portraiture. It is the human subject which activates her imagination and offers the possibility...More »
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"Necessary Arrangements" Exhibition
Necessary Arrangements, curated by Jennifer Samet, features recent still life paintings by Simon Carr, Xico Greenwald, Ying Li, Janice Nowinski, Betsy Podlach, and Thaddeus Radell. Necessary Arrangements...More »
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Patrick Webb "On the Beach, at Night"
In Patrick Webb’s new paintings his ubiquitous Punchinello figure heads out onto the night-time beach. Sometimes in groups of many Punchinelli, sometimes singly , Punchinello stands around, tells stories...More »
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Carmela Kolman "Roses"
Roses are an ancient cross-cultural symbol of love and beauty. Carmela Kolman developed a fondness for roses because her husband planted many rose bushes at their Port Jefferson home, where her studio...More »
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Mona Brody "Temenos"
Mona Brody’s new work, entitled "Temenos" is a compelling amalgamation of material and illusion. The word ‘temenos’ is the Greek word for a sacred place that acts as a vessel of transformation. Brody constructs...More »
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Jo Ann Rothschild "Garfield Park"
For several months at the beginning of 2012, Jo Ann Rothschild made large mixed media drawings. Her focus has been on touch, mark color and rhythm in the past, but the new works on paper introduce shape....More »
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Robert Bunkin "Inside Out"
The Painting Center opens its fall season with Inside Out, paintings by Robert Bunkin. This is Bunkin’s second show at The Painting Center, and his first solo show in the Chelsea location. His newest works...More »
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Donna Festa "Thirty Portraits"
The Project Room features the work of Donna Festa. Thirty Portraits captures Festa's unique point of view. According to the artist, "We wear our lives on our faces. These portraits are of people I've known...More »
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"Natural/Constructed Spaces II" Exhibition
Contemporary artists are painting their impressions of the constructed world and its impact on natural spaces, which underscores our persistent need to understand ourselves through space. This survey highlights...More »
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"Natural/Constructed Spaces I" Exhibition
Contemporary artists are painting their impressions of the constructed world and its impact on natural spaces, which underscores our persistent need to understand ourselves through space. This survey highlights...More »
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Enrico Riley "Around the Kitchen Table"
Enrico Riley's new body of work has embraced more of the intuitive both in terms of process and in terms of subject matter. He is trying to work with the attitude that many sources and types of subject...More »
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Jennifer Caine "Retrieval"
For Jennifer Caine, the function of painting is to explore the relationship between the external physical world and its parallel in memory, thought, and emotion. In the “Retrieval” paintings she considers...More »
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Colleen Randall "Intimations"
Colleen Randall is an abstract painter whose work explores space and light through the materiality of paint. In her work she seeks to investigate elusive states of consciousness through multi-layered...More »
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Rella Stuart-Hunt "New Work"
Despite the endless looking, adjusting and readjusting of paint-stroke or color in one's work; when it is finished, taken out of the studio and hung on the walls of a clean white gallery, one will, with...More »
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Fran Shalom "Paintings Painted"
Fran Shalom's Paintings Painted, is a collection of work created over the past two years. Built up through trial and error, these playful pieces are full of movement and color. They have been scraped,...More »
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Barbara Friedman "Alpträume"
In Barbara Friedman’s new paintings, alpine traumas exist as little bubbles of figuration within color-field abstractions. Hence the show’s title Alpträume, German for “nightmares.” Another name for the...More »
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Joe Caroff "The Liberated Line"
The Painting Center presents the opening of The Liberated Line, an exhibition of recent work by Joe Caroff. He was attracted to the creative freedom possible in book jacket design, and worked with many...More »
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Kate Davis "Select Small Paintings"
A group of small paintings of ovals, lozenges, curved meanders, zig-zaging diagonals updates the abiding formal concerns of Kate Davis. This series demonstrates her gifts as a painter who can lend mystery...More »
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Andrea Packard "Vista and Strata"
The Painting Center presents Vista and Strata, an exhibition of recent mixed media works by Andrea Packard. Packard's animated and undulating landscapes harmonize disparate layers of painting, printmaking,...More »
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"Shifting Speeds" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Shifting Speeds, an exhibition of recent paintings by Arden Bendler Browning, Rebecca Rutstein, and Charles Burwell, highly regarded artists who prompt us to reflect upon the...More »
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Susan Post "Color Balance"
Susan Post finds ways for paint to “behave”, in paintings where simultaneous contrast and ambiguous space create surfaces both flat and deep. The work in “Color Balance” derives from a single composition...More »
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Elizabeth Yamin "Wallabout"
My studio location on Wallabout Bay in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has strongly influenced my work: the dry docks, the river, the tugs and barges that make up the shifting scene. Looming as backdrop to the...More »
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Siri Berg Exhibition
In collaboration with the Re-Generation exhibition, Carrie Patterson has curated a solo show of new paintings by artist and educator: Siri Berg. A colorist and abstract painter, Ms. Berg has been painting...More »
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"Re-Generation" Exhibition
The Painting Center is pleased to present Re-Generation, a traveling exhibition featuring the work of three generations of painter-teachers. This exhibition traces the regeneration of thought in painting...More »
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"The Sword of Damocles" Exhibition
The Painting Center and Visual AIDS present The Sword of Damocles: Selections from the Frank Moore Archive a group exhibition of paintings presenting a range of work from twelve mid-career artists, who...More »
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Audrey Code Exhibition
My work has always involved the use of organic forms derived from the figure, botanicals, landscape, the sea, the cosmos. I begin with drawings of natural forms done in pencil and pastel, then transform...More »
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Craig Manister "New Paintings"
Craig Manister’s paintings are found during the act of painting with largely unexpected outcomes. In invented landscapes he continues an investigation that began with paintings in the tradition of modernist...More »
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Matthew Farina "Recent Collages"
Somewhere between chromophilic landscape and geometric abstraction, we find Matthew Farina’s newest body of collage works. These tactile pieces are made with an embrace of improvisation that has allowed...More »
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Philip Ayers "Paintings"
The Painting Center presents an exhibit of paintings by Philip Ayers. This exhibit, entitled “Philip Ayers, Paintings: History in Nature” contains works from the 1990s to the present. There is a catalogue...More »
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"From Jamaica to China, a new evolution" Exhibition
"From Jamaica to China, a new evolution" examines the work of Three Jamaican artists. In addition to four artists who have lived in China since childhood: Two who currently has residence in New York City....More »
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"Grey Matter" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents "Grey Matter" a nationally juried exhibition exploring the role of grey in contemporary painting and drawing. Mutable and mysterious, grey can signify both a presence and an...More »
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Emily Berger "New Paintings and Works on Paper"
The Painting Center presents "New Paintings and Works on Paper" by Emily Berger in the Project Room. In these works Berger explores the horizontal elements of the grid often dispensing almost entirely...More »
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Monique Ford and Susan Ross "Shared Space"
Shared Space features work by Monique Ford and Susan Ross. For a number of years the two artists have shared a painting studio and a natural dialogue arose. Within their abstract paintings, flowing forms...More »
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"Wall Works" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents “Wall Works,” an exhibition of painting, drawing and installation engaging the gallery’s walls as the primary support and framing device. The participating artists are Rob...More »
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Earl Kerkam Exhibition
The Painting Center is pleased to host an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Earl Kerkam (1891-1965). The show will have a range of works that include still-lifes, portraits, self-portraits,...More »
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"Charged Brushes" Exhibition
Charged Brushes presents paintings by ten artists from The Painting Center's Artists Registry. There is no theme to this exhibition, rather works were selected for their visual power and diverse painterly...More »
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"Particular Light" Exhibition
"Particular Light," a group show in the Project Room of the Painting Center, features recent artwork by Xico Greenwald, Peter Allen Hoffmann, Adrian Nivola and Monica Welborn. The four artists in "Particular...More »
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"Nature Is the Teacher" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents "Nature Is the Teacher" featuring the artists Simon Carr, Stanley Lewis, Thaddeus Radell and Deborah Rosenthal in the Main Gallery. Many of us believe Wordsworth’s dictum,...More »
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Julie Shapiro and Rachael Wren "Thought Patterns"
Visually and conceptually distinct but with a range of common concerns, the work of Rachael Wren and Julie Shapiro sets up an exciting dialog in this two-person exhibition. Both painters explore qualities...More »
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Lorraine Tady "Small Abstract Paintings"
The exhibition “Lorraine Tady: Small Abstract Paintings” will be in the Painting Center’s Project Room and will present a selection of small scale recent paintings representative of a larger, ongoing body...More »
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Small Works Invitational
The Painting Center presents a benefit exhibition, Artists Invite Artists; Small Works Invitational. The Painting Center, which has been in existence since 1993, moved from its original Greene Street location...More »
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Rella Stuart-Hunt "New Paintings"
When Rella Stuart-Hunt read Ernst Mach's 'The Analysis of Sensations' in which he talked of parallel lines providing an illusion of wave-like curvatures and swellings, she thought about the early paintings...More »
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Daniel G. Hill "From Paint to Print"
The Painting Center presents From Paint to Print, a concise survey of work from the past fifteen years by Daniel G. Hill, a painter currently working in the realm of photography and digital media. Hill’s...More »
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Andrea Packard "Assembling Nature"
Packard’s mixed media works on paper and panel recombine fragments of prints, papers, and fabric with layers of pastel, gouache, and acrylic. Many of her artworks take inspiration from the New England...More »
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Douglas Wirls "Terrains"
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent work by Douglas Wirls to take place in the Project Room beginning on October 5, 2010. This show, his third at the Painting Center, will present a selection...More »
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Caren Canier Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Paintings by Caren Canier in the Project Room. Canier’s paintings in mixed media borrow imagery from the classical world along with nineteenth century and contemporary...More »
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Patrick Webb "Punchinello As Other"
The Painting Center presents the one person show in the main gallery: Punchinello As Other, paintings by Patrick Webb. This exhibition marks the fifth New York City solo exhibition of Webb’s ongoing series...More »
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"Philadelphia Painters" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Philadelphia Painters curated by Matthew Farina. This regional survey of painting, focusing in and around Philadelphia, showcases some of the areas most promising and accomplished...More »
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Ryan Cobourn "Personal Territories"
The Painting Center presents Personal Territories, an exhibition of new work by Ryan Cobourn. The paintings in the exhibition focus on three themes that have occupied him for several years: the city, the...More »
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Kimberly Trowbridge "Open-In"
The Painting Center presents Open-In, an exhibition of works by Seattle-based painter Kimberly Trowbridge. This selection of paintings combines abstract and figurative works that express the particular...More »
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"New Walls/Fresh Paint" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents New Walls/Fresh Paint, an exhibition that celebrates sixteen years of outreach and visual dialogue among painters at the Center’s original location—52 Greene Street—and heralds...More »
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"Continuing Color Abstraction" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Continuing Color Abstraction curated by Rella Stuart-Hunt. Color abstraction has been a subject for painters for almost a century. The innovative masters of this genre in the...More »
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Phillis Ideal "Recent Paintings"
Phillis Ideal’s work is about the materiality of paint which represents a wide range of abstraction: including layers of transparent and thick, brushed and sprayed paint; collaged fragments embedded in...More »
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Craig Maniste Exhibition
The Painting Center hosts a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Craig Manister. The genesis of Manister’s work is in the tradition of modernist abstraction and still maintains a strong sense of surface...More »
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Brian Brooks and Robert Bunkin Exhibition
The Painting Center presents Paintings and Works on Paper by Brian Brooks and Robert Bunkin in the Main Gallery. Brian Brooks’ acrylic paintings and drawings represent intimate, domestic interiors and...More »
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"Modern Romantics: Spiritual Expressions In Paint" Exhibition
Modern Romantics: Spiritual Expressions In Paint focuses on artistic depictions of feeling that do not merely reproduce reality, but reveal components more internal and intrinsic about it, in the uplifting...More »
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"Twenty-Five Painters Under Thirty-Five" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents an exhibition of paintings,Twenty-Five Painters Under Thirty-Five. The exhibition presents the work by 25 painters who are under the age of 35 years. John Yau writes, in...More »
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Edward Shalala "Documentary Photographs"
The Painting Center announces an exhibition of photographic works by Edward Shalala in the Project Room. Shalala makes temporary raw canvas thread paintings in NYC parks and grasslands and photographs...More »
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Philip Ayer and William Itter Exhibition
The Painting Center announces an exhibit of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Philip Ayers and William Itter in the Main Gallery. Philip Ayers describes the start of his interest in root forms:...More »
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"Placing Color" Exhibition
The Painting Center presents a travelling exhibition Placing Color on view Tuesday April 28, 2009 through Saturday May 23, 2009 in the Main Gallery. The show is coming from Boston University’s Sherman...More »
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Douglas Witmer "Field + Stream"
Since the late 1990s, Douglas Witmer’s paintings demonstrate an increasingly distilled sensibility related to surface and color. Intuitively combining simple geometric imagery, emphatic color, and subtle...More »
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"Extreme Possibilities: New Modernist Paradigms" Exhibition
According to one definition, the course of modernism has involved each discipline’s gradually purging itself of everything not intrinsic to its medium until it arrived at its irreducible quality. By this...More »
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"Water" Exhibition
The Painting Center hosts Water, an invitational exhibition of over 20 watercolors by 11 contemporary artists. The show explores a particularly intriguing aspect of the watercolor medium: its proficiency...More »
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Carmela Kolman "Fruit Works" and Ying Li Drawings Exhibition
Clusters of softly glistening grapes, shimmering pears, or radiant apples in Carmela Kolman’s new paintings, each isolated against fields of muted hues, present minimalist evocations of the traditional...More »
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"Selected Work: Carbone, Grimes & Webb" Exhibition
David Carbone paints figures in invented worlds infused with a mood of disquieting strangeness. More inscapes than landscapes, these paintings meld aspects of figuration and abstraction. The familiarity...More »
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"American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina" Exhibition
This exhibition of small works pays tribute to one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists (AAA). In addition to work by Esphyr Slobodkina, the exhibition will feature 75 current members...More »
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Ryan Cobourn "Bloom"
Ryan Cobourn’s paintings, drawings, and collages move freely between representation and abstraction. His images are derived from natural reference, but almost always stray towards abstraction. Drawing...More »
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Sangram Majumdar "Form & Fiction"
Sangram Majumdar’s paintings are grounded in perceptual empiricism as much as they are in the sense of memory’s role in what our eyes claim and our brain acknowledges as truth. In a time when reality is...More »
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Sarah Hunter "Animal Histories"
Sarah Hunter is a still life painter whose work conjures an alternate, or future, animal run world. These pseudo-narratives look to early Renaissance frescoes, illustrations in natural history texts and...More »
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Emily Berger Exhibition
In these layered works, by Emily Berger, painterly grids are both formed and disrupted by color, gesture, and sometimes a looping line that introduces organic form to vertical and horizontal structures. This...More »
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Claire Seidl Exhibition
The paintings in this show are representative of Claire Seidl’s most recent work. Seidl’s sensibility is one of ordering and shaping that is both modest and certain, dark and joyful, emotional and restrained....More »
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"Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis" Exhibition
The 7 artists represented in Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis move beyond the static or sentimental motif to reframe habits of seeing. These artists differ significantly in style, but they...More »