Pierogi - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Pierogi. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Darina Karpov “Between the no-longer and the still-to-come”
Pierogi presents Between the no-longer and the still-to-come, an exhibition of new work by Darina Karpov.. This will be Karpov’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery and will include paintings, works...More »
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Jonathan Schipper Exhibition
Pierogi presents a solo exhibition of Jonathan Schipper’s recent sculpture and work on paper. These works embody Schipper’s reflections on consumption and consequence or, more precisely, consumption without...More »
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“Under Erasure” Exhibition
Curated by Raphael and Heather Rubinstein Pierogi presents “Under Erasure,” an exhibition curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein. The exhibition will include works by 81 contributors, including visual...More »
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Hugo Crosthwaite “Tijuana Bibles”
Pierogi presents our third one-person exhibition of Hugo Crosthwaite’s work. The exhibition title references the original Tijuana bibles which were small, cheaply made pornographic books showing popular...More »
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William Mckearn “Sculpture”
Pierogi present the first one-person exhibition of William McKearn’s sculptures. McKearn develops narrative subjects using models, dioramas, and miniatures. Some of his narratives are inspired by mythology...More »
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Jane Fine “Love, American Style”
Pierogi presents an exhibition of Jane Fine’s recent paintings. This exhibition will include seven large, exuberant new paintings, along with about two dozen small, dense and tightly executed pieces, installed...More »
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Brian Conley “Cairo Oblique”
Brian Conley’s Cairo Oblique will include three video projections, 90 still photographs, and wall maps of the Cairo region that Conley photographed over a five-month period. This will be Conley’s seventh...More »
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“Traces” Exhibition
“It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.” (William Gibson) A “trace” denotes “a mark, object,...More »
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David Scher “The first bird wore a bird costume”
Is David Scher a painter or a draftsman? A cartoonist or an old master? A baroque fantasist or a documentarian? Shivering sheep shake off the ink they’re made of, and vanish from the page; a Roman warrior’s...More »
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Tom Burckhardt “Studio Flood”
Dominating the main gallery is Tom Burckhardt’s life-size, walk-in installation— ”STUDIO FLOOD”—executed entirely in cardboard and black paint, and centered on the image of an artist’s studio that has...More »
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“Double Down” Exhibition
In developing the concept for this exhibition we were interested in the experience of observation and perception. “Double Down” is a group show featuring fifteen artists whose included works deal with...More »
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Dawn Clements “Tables and pills and things”
We are delighted to present an exhibition of recent works on paper by Dawn Clements. This will be Clements’ seventh one-person exhibition at Pierogi. Clements captures alternately quotidian and filmic...More »
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Elliott Green “Human Nature”
Pierogi presents a one-person exhibition of recent paintings by Elliott Green. A decade ago, Green believed that his “home was in his head, and the ideas and images it produced would be carried independently...More »
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Jim Torok “The New Age of Uncertainty”
Pierogi presents a one-person exhibition of recent work by Jim Torok. The exhibition title comes from the period between World War I and World War II, known historically as the Age of Uncertainty. It was...More »
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Ati Maier “The Placeless Place”
Pierogi presents an exhibition of new works on paper and two new videos by Ati Maier. The exhibition at Pierogi takes its title from the video, “The Placeless Place,” which will be screened at our satellite...More »
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John O’Connor “Thin, Dark Crash (how I dread that blue jay)”
“O’Connor plainly knows something but does not fake it which is all to his credit. Rather, his is a deliberate art from start to finish… But as purposeful as the decisions he makes are, and as resolute...More »
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Sarah Walker “Space Machines”
“If a time machine moves through time, a space machine moves through space, but what kind of space? While such a vessel usually brings to mind rockets, satellites even UFOs, I use the interstellar image...More »
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James Esber “Dewey Defeats Truman”
Pierogi presents an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by James Esber, his sixth one-person show with Pierogi. The title of this exhibition, based on the infamously incorrect headline printed...More »
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Ward Shelley “The Felicific Calculus and The Last Library”
Ward Shelley makes paintings with information the way historians make stories from facts. His new exhibition at Pierogi’s Lower East Side location is titled “The Felicific Calculus” and presents eight...More »
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“Rage for Art (Once Again)” Exhibition
After twenty-one years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, PIEROGI has relocated to Manhattan’s Lower East Side. For our inaugural exhibition we are pleased to present a group show including recent work by gallery...More »
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Michael Ballou “Mud and Toys”
PIEROGI presents the work of Michael Ballou as one of two final exhibitions at our Williamsburg location. It seems fitting since Ballou had one of the first exhibitions at PIEROGI when it opened in Williamsburg,...More »
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John Phillip Abbot “On Any Sunday”
Pierogi presents John Phillip Abbot’s paintings as one of two final exhibitions at our Williamsburg location. This exhibition will include recent paintings. The title of this exhibition, On Any Sunday,...More »
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“Identities” Exhibition
“In their recent paper, ’Humans As Superorganisms,’ Peter Kramer and Paola Bressan of the University of Padua describe a typical human body as a teeming mass of what they call ‘selfish entities.’ ‘We argue...More »
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Jane Fine “Contents Under Pressure”
For her sixth exhibition at Pierogi, Jane Fine once again surprises and seduces the viewer with work ranging from tiny paintings on paper, to one explosive six-and-a-half foot emblazoned with the American...More »
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“Scape-ism” Exhibition
We are pleased to present a three-person exhibition of paintings and works on paper in Gallery 2. Works by each of these artists seem to be simultaneously verging on or diverging from landscape. What Tan...More »
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Mark Reynolds Exhibition
In his second show at Pierogi, Mark Reynolds continues his explorations into uncharted areas of geometric systems and harmonic grids resulting from joining unrelated ratios that share a common element,...More »
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“Off the Grid” Exhibition
Whereas Mark Reynolds builds his drawings from principles of geometry and mathematics, each of these four artists incorporate geometric elements in their work, hinting at the grid but veering off in imprecise...More »
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Darina Karpov “Ignis Fatuus: Works on Paper”
Ignis Fatuus is an atmospheric, phosphorescent light seen by travelers at night, especially over swamps or marshes. It is said to recede if approached, drawing travelers away from the safe path. It was...More »
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Yoon Lee Exhibition
Pierogi presents recent work by Yoon Lee. This exhibition features large-scale paintings, made between 2013 and 2015, which revel in the complexity of Lee’s process and composition; they are visually complex,...More »
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Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis Exhibition
Nachtfluge, German for “Night Flight” is a series of videos and photographs that turn the urban experience of living under busy flight paths into a visual representation of the longing for transformation...More »
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Dawn Clements “Mother’s Day”
Pierogi presents an exhibition of recent work by Dawn Clements. In addition to continuing to explore the subject of domesticity, Clements takes on sentimentality. This new body of work includes paintings...More »
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Patrick Jacobs Exhibition
Patrick Jacobs’ third one-person exhibition at Pierogi, taking its title – “Come Closer to Me” – from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and features sculpture, printmaking, and a room-sized installation. Jacobs...More »
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Brian Dewan “Pop and Paregoric”
The filmstrip was an economical medium employed by public school systems, religious education and sometimes commercial presentations. Pedagogical in purpose, a narrator addresses the viewer – an ostensibly...More »
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Daniel Davidson “The Smuggler”
“My work is a fusion of hybrid characters, spaces and styles. Focusing on the urges and consequences of actions on a personal as well as social level, for the past few years my work has been about over-consumption....More »
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David Scher “Suspended Interruption”
Scher’s works resist simple categorization. His approach consists of establishing fields where multiple things occur in proximity. These are familiar fields including walls, bookcases, tabletops, stages,...More »
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“Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition”
Pierogi opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on North 9th Street September 1994, where it remains today. Williamsburg doesn’t look the same as it did twenty or thirty years ago but it was around that time...More »
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Sermin Kardestuncer Exhibition
Included will be works from Kardestuncer’s earth series. The earth series, which she began in the 1990‘s in Greece, was inspired by the exterior coloring of an old dome-shaped water cistern. She discovered...More »
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“My God, It’s Full of Stars” Exhibition
In My God, It’s Full of Stars, collaborative team Kevin Cooley and Phillip Andrew Lewis expand the production of a common object, a vinyl record, into a metaphor for the cosmos. In distilling the malleability...More »
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Kim Jones “mountain girl door”
Another body of drawings enters a world of teeming fantasy, like fairy tales from the devil’s diary. They are nothing on the order of the brooding War Drawings and show an exquisite facility that is a...More »
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Reed Anderson “The Way You Look Is the Way I Feel”
This will be Anderson’s fourth show at Pierogi and will feature the synthesis of two series; his exuberant cut paintings on paper, as he refers to them, and his on-going “Papa Object” project. These works...More »
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“Idiom II” Exhibition
“Idiom” typically refers to the written word, meaning either, a characteristic vocabulary or usage of a particular group or, an expression whose meaning as a whole is not inferred by the typical meanings...More »
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“Idiom 1” Exhibition
Idiom I is developed around the concept of “willing suspension of disbelief,“ the notion proposed in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He suggested that if a writer could...More »
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Jim Torok “Jesus”
Pierogi presents an exhibition of Jim Torok’s recent Jesus series. These are spare, small-scale ink and colored pencil line drawings depicting Jesus on the cross, each with its own text. Contrary to possible...More »
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Larry Krone “Together Again”
Larry Krone’s work has been described as “an expression of manufactured pop emotion taken seriously” by Holland Cotter. In Larry Krone: Together Again, the artist goes beyond expressing these borrowed...More »
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John O’Connor “The Machine and the Ghost Gallery”
This exhibition will include O’Connor’s recent graphite and colored pencil drawings on paper (both large and small-scale), a series of “Sunspot” portraits, text paintings, and sculptural works. One drawing,...More »
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Ati Maier “The Map is Not the Territory”“
The Apollo 11 space mission to the moon is today the stuff of legend. For German-born artist Ati Maier, the first Moon Walk serves as both metaphor and unifying theme to her latest exhibition, The Map...More »
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“Unhinged” Exhibition
Unhinged is a sprawling group exhibition tapping the depth and breadth of eclectic work contained in Pierogi’s iconic Flat Files. Work by nearly eighty artists will be exhibited salon style throughout...More »
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“Unhinged” Exhibition
A curated salon show, selections from the Pierogi flat files. More »
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Mark Reynolds “Compositions”
These drawings are passionately developed and result from many years of investigation into geometry. Reynolds describes drawing the various systems of geometric structures he works with as exciting, meditative,...More »
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Daniel Zeller “Based on a True Story…”
In his sixth exhibition at Pierogi, Zeller’s drawings continue to oscillate between micro and macro views of invented worlds and organisms. Using only graphite or ink and acrylic on paper, he explores...More »
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Tony Fitzpatrick "The Other Kind"
Tony Fitzpatrick is a passionate storyteller conveying his tales across multiple media: as a playwright, a stage and film performer, a radio personality, and as a visual artist through his iconic drawing...More »
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James Esber "Fourteen Drawings and One Painting Perpetually Shown"
Carefully shaped brushstrokes boisterously assert their position and presence on the paper’s surface while at the same time contribute to a bubbling stew of uncertainty in pictorial space. In Untitled...More »
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Sarah Walker "Planet X"
Walker continues to develop visually as well as physically rich surfaces. In these works there is a distinct and new focus where she explores a centralized composition and from this potential narratives...More »
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Nadja Bournonville "A Conversion Act"
This new work developed from her exploration into the fascinating factory of Hysteria that existed at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris at the end of the 19th century. Her previous work consisted...More »
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Darina Karpov Exhibition
As her exhibition title suggests, Karpov’s focus here is on interiority, both literal and metaphorical. First, the work points to a physical location, the place where it originates, the artist’s studio....More »
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Isabelle Hayeur "Death in Absentia"
Hayeur is known primarily for her large-scale photomontages, videos, and site-specific installations. After initially focusing on video works, Hayeur incorporated photography in 2008. The works in this...More »
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Andrea Way "Off the Grid"
Way continues to develop her idiosyncratic process of alternating system and randomness, ultimately building a tenuous order out of chance and chaos. It is “…the combination of two almost antithetical...More »
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Yoon Lee Exhibition
Pierogi presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Yoon Lee. This exhibition consists of large-scale paintings, expansive both physically and visually, punctuated by smaller works that appear to be...More »
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Kim Jones "Averno"
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Hugo Crosthwaite "Carnivorall"
Included in this exhibition is a series of small notebook-size drawings in ink and wash, as well as wall drawings, that explore the artist’s process of visually consuming his surroundings like a predatory...More »
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Matt Marello Exhibition
Nestled somewhere between Early Netherlandish painting and the graffiti work of Keith Haring, Matt Marello’s new paintings and drawings are whimsical pseudo-iconography for a non-existent religion. Drawing...More »
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"Modus Vivendi" Exhibition
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William Lamson "Action for the Delaware"
Action for the Delaware William Lamson creates the illusion that he is standing on the surface of the river, calmly floating downstream. The camera pulls back, however, and reveals his initial struggle...More »
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Ken Weathersby "Strange Fit"
Strange Fit, presents abstract paintings that shuffle optical and physical elements, playing the visual against the tactile. In each painting there is an unraveling of expectations as paint, linen, and...More »
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Ryan Mrozowski "A Mouth that Might Sing"
The exhibition title references the potential for something to happen, or the ability for a static image to feel animated or potent, and Mrozowski’s interest in transforming the meaning of source material....More »
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Jane Fine Exhibition
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Ward Shelley "Unreliable Narrator"
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Dawn Clements Exhibition
Clements’ powerful use of Sumi ink and ballpoint pen on small to large-scale paper panels remains her primary medium and scale. She often cuts and pastes the paper together to edit and compose a completed...More »
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David Brody "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
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Lynn Talbot "No Consequences"
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Brian Dewan "The Tide Waits for No Man"
This exhibition features a new I-CAN-SEE Film Strip of the same name. Film Strips are a form of projected image—a sequenced slide show—originally used for public school and religious education from the...More »
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David Scher "Between the Acts: the Bagnolo Suite"
“Not Virginia Woolf’s last novel, no, the little cigars we smoked in high school.” (Scher, 2011) This is an exhibition of new drawings by David Scher made after living in Marseille, France over the past...More »
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Michael Schall "Wall Cloud"
The drawings in Schall’s previous exhibition revealed the natural world and the man-made, industrial world often merging, and in some instances industry even seemingly attempting to rebuild what has been...More »
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Tony Fitzpatrick "Nickel History: Nation of Heat"
The second half of this title is from a song by Joe Pug—the last lines of this song go through Fitzpatrick “like an icicle”: There’s a straw-hatted man rowing away from the shore. . . He says; “It’s...More »
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"Subjective / Objective" Exhibition
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John O’Connor "What is Toronto???"
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Tom Burckhardt "Louder Milk"
In this new body of work, Burckhardt continues in his persistent effort to blur the boundaries between abstraction and representation, between painting and sculpture, between tradition and invention. Rather...More »
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Mark Lombardi Exhibition
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Patrick Jacobs "Familiar Terrain"
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James Esber Exhibition
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Ati Maier "Giant Dipper"
Pierogi presents an exhibition of recent work by Ati Maier. Maier combines abstraction with landscape and figuration in highly chromatic compositions. There is always a sense of motion, of movement through...More »
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Daniel Zeller "Incomplete Analysis"
Pierogi presents an exhibition of new work by Daniel Zeller. Zeller’s drawings continue to oscillate between micro and macro views of invented worlds. His imagery derives from his interest in satellite...More »
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David Scher "Regular Is Best"
At the edge of the paper, non-paper. At the edge of sense, non-sense. In David Scher’s new work he continues the development of a personal vernacular in tangible form; a development that began when he...More »
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"Instructions Not Included" Exhibition
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Darina Karpov "Wayward"
In his recent essay “Agrarian Anxieties,” historian Steven Stoll notes, “Whenever we seek control over our tiny scrap of the universe, we create hybrids—not fuel-efficient cars or cross-pollinated flora...More »
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Sarah Walker "Edge of Everywhere"
Walker continues to develop her highly active and dense surfaces, this time primarily on panel rather than paper. Structures found within technology, the sciences, nature and architecture provide the internal...More »
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Ken Weathersby Exhibition
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Ryan Mrozowski Exhibition
In Ryan Mrozowski's paintings strange and mysterious events appear to be in progress. Crowds of a few or many gather around some central activity. In Presentation, a crowd forms beneath the dark edges...More »
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Jim Torok "You Are A Vibrant Human Being"
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Kim Jones "Venice High"
Jones' work incorporates performance, sculpture, drawing, and painting. He became known early on for his performance persona, “Mudman,” and could be seen walking the streets of Los Angeles and Venice,...More »
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Tony Fitzpatrick "Drawings for Crazy Horse"
“One of my aims in making these meditations on Crazy Horse is not to convince you I know a lot about Native American History or Native Americans. I don’t. I am a white guy who is fascinated by the problematic...More »
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Jane Fine "Glad All Over"
Pierogi presents a fourth exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Jane Fine. The paintings in this exhibition incorporate a mash-up of techniques—multi-colored pools of acrylic paint, passages of...More »
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William Lamson "Work and Trade"
Work and Trade, William Lamson’s new solo exhibition at Pierogi, features three projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system through collaboration with forces outside of his control. In...More »
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Ward Shelley "Who Invented the Avant Garde/The Sleeper Experiment"
In his second exhibition of painted timeline drawings at Pierogi, Ward Shelley has expanded his concerns from the lives and careers of individual artists (as in Re-materializing Art, 2006), to mapping...More »
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David Shapiro "Everything Must Go"
From a distance, "Everything Must Go," an exhibit of new work by David Shapiro, appears as though someone's wares laid on the street were moved inside a gallery. Is this a yard sale? A document of tough...More »
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Brian Dewan "Housed"
Housed is a collection of paintings, drawings and constructions presented in a domicile-like setting where viewers may make themselves at home. The work portrays a variety of structures in which something...More »
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Nadja Bournonville "Part Two: Amor Omnia Vincit"
For Nadja Bournonville, the photographs of "Amor omnia vincit" have become a series of questions rather then answers, like stories left wide open. They question both the personal and universal experience...More »
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Les Stone "Reality Check"
During the last several decades, critically acclaimed photographer Les Stone has chronicled the human cost of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia and Haiti, among other war...More »
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Adam Dant "Temples and Theatres"
British artist Adam Dant has been compared to the 18th century English artist, William Hogarth, in satirically exposing human folly. Last year he spent six months in the offices of the major English hedge...More »
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John J. O'Connor "Flannel Tongue"
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"Apocalyptic Summer" Exhibition
[Image: David Scher "The End Is Near In A Way So Repent Somehow" (2008)] More »
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Darina Karpov "Infinitely Small Disasters"
Using graphite, watercolor or acrylic on paper or panel, Karpov weaves disparate elements—rocks, tree stumps, abandoned machinery, torn fabric, ropes, a truck, and architectural elements—through a continuous...More »
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Peter Garfield "Four Seasons"
Garfield’s "Four Seasons," celebrates the beauty of trash. Without moral or environmental commentary, Garfield rejoices in the aesthetic and archeological potential of our detritus with an installation...More »
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Daniel Zeller "Geomorphical Fluxitosis"
For this exhibition Daniel Zeller continues to develop his intricate works on paper. The imagery borrows from topographical maps, satellite images, anatomical and schematic diagrams—two dimensional translations...More »
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Yoon Lee Exhibition
Yoon Lee Recent Paintings. [Image: Yoon Lee "JFK" (2007-08) Acrylic on Sintra (PVC) 84 x 240 in.] More »
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J. Fiber "World War Me"
J. Fiber is a dual personality, with a multi-faceted vision. The artists' work on paper will be exhibited for the first time at Pierogi. The drawings, made with poured acrylic, colored pencil, graphite...More »