Shoot the Lobster - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Shoot the Lobster. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Henry Curchod “Hugging a tree is like kissing a dog”
I stuff my suitcase with a laundry bag and the bare essentials then trot over to the gallery where I find Henry standing outside, box vape in hand. It’s Saturday afternoon and the city is buzzing with...More »
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“& Now I’ve Said the Opposite of What I Mean” Exhibition
In the poem “February 25” Bernadette Mayer speaks of possession, fear, desire, and entanglement. This piece swirls with descriptions of losing oneself in the act of writing, how the words of others get...More »
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Jean-François Lauda “recent works”
Jean-François Lauda’s marks are soothingly efficient, his color logic displayed between subdued pastels and rich earth tones. He scratches numerous compositional itches, leaving viewers to satiate over...More »
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“Candy Cane presents new images of women” Exhibition
Hilton Als, Matías Añón, Alex Bag, FP Boué, Leander Capuozzo, Bella June, Duncan Hannah, Pieter Hugo, Peter Hujar, Yasmin Kaytmaz, Richard Kern, Brittany Adeline King, Sophia Lamar, Curtis Mitchell, Alex...More »
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“Step Count” Exhibition
Every painting and sculpture has been picked up on foot. From the Lower East Side to Red Hook. The process of selecting work has been largely intuitive, following conversations and ongoing relationships...More »
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AJ Kahn “Woke Up And Wore What You Had On”
Shoot the Lobster is pleased to announce AJ Kahn’s first New York solo exhibition, Woke Up And Wore What You Had On. Organized by Reilly Davidson. AJ Kahn (b. 1996, Santa Cruz, CA) probes the machine...More »
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“DOMINO” Exhibition
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Dante Cannatella “Heat”
Organised by Rebecca Ryba Dante Cannatella’s first solo exhibition Heat, explores intimacy, melancholy and identity in an expressionistic occasionally grotesque form of storytelling that verges on abstraction....More »
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Arthur Simms “Throughline”
Curated by Marquita Flowers Throughline presents six works by Arthur Simms from the 1990s which highlight the extensive threads, literal and metaphorical, that Simms has drawn in his practice across...More »
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Cudelice Brazelton & Nicholas Grafia “Prune”
There is a question to be asked (but like, really): how do we deal with the surplus of produced images of black bodies and their innocent apposition on the seemingly untouched walls of galleries – very...More »
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George Egerton-Warburton “Penal Cafe”
When Saddam Hussein invaded his oil-rich neighbor, Kuwait, in 1990, the US led a multi-national military coalition, which included Australia. The country from down under joined the US again in 2003 to...More »
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FLAME Exhibition
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Kunle F. Martins “Portraits: Looking Like A Snack”
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Tau Lewis “I bet this cave has been here for a really long time”
The 45-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in Grand Park, Los Angeles, and marked a 400-year history, was removed by an order honoring years of petition. For some it was an erasure of an...More »
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Ben Morgan-Cleveland and Eli Ping “Geschichten”
The Universe can function in one of two ways: homogenous or isotropic, meaning, it’s either constant in all directions or, though it may seem rigid, there is actually a favored direction buried deep in...More »
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Sasha Phyars-Burgess “Sea Full”
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John Miller and Megan Plunkett “Plus One”
Plus One is a tourist, an extra, and sometimes a spy. John Miller and Megan Plunkett approach photography as a form to be subverted through self-imposed restrictions and localized anonymity. Their idiosyncratic...More »
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“epigenetic” Exhibition
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Brandon Ndife “Ties That Bind”
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Elizabeth Karp-Evans “Type of Blue”
New York is a blue space. It’s blue in how it feels: deep and sad, but also vast and bright. The city is reflected in the fields of blue surfaces: windows, mirrors, and steel. Darondo is the soundtrack. For...More »
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“To A Body” Exhibition
Curated by Elisa R. Linn & Lennart Wolff The exhibition will be followed by a performance and screening by Julia Heyward at the Bronx Museum in February 2018.More »
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Mieko Meguro “My Love, Dan and Potato Chips”
For My Love, Dan and Potato Chips, Mieko Meguro presents eight new paintings and one sculptural installation. Potato chip bags are collected and flipped inside out revealing their silver lining, and then...More »
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Theodore Titolo “The Birth of Art”
“When I go to art galleries and museums, I feel that artists are, on the whole, dealing with an ‘another’ and wonder why they try to hide themselves in this ‘other.’ Perhaps they feel it is what is expected...More »
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Pooh Kaye “Object Actions 1975-1980”
It was 1975 when Pooh Kaye—then twenty-four and recently graduated from Cooper Union—shot Dig in a forest on the outskirts of New York City. The film opens skyward to a treetop clearing, before panning...More »
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“Kennen Sie Turner?” Exhibition
Class of Frances Scholz: Gert Pretorius, Raphael Aumann, Alrun Aßmus, Tilman Berrer, Carolin Von Den Benken, Judith Crasser, Carlotta Drinkewitz, Christopher Gerberding, Jan Gerngroß, Kolja Gollub, Hannah...More »
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Tom Forkin “Manhattan”
Prequel vs Preface: As a film, the prequel does not need to be “pre.” Actual sequence is not important. Rather, the prequel is additional information or context, which can be given after. As a novel,...More »
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Raque Ford “Carolyn”
Grandfather would call her Carolyn I’m pretty sure she hated it I call her Ahn*dree*uh but most people call her Dre Robbie is only Robbie to us And my name is already a nickname but I have a few ...More »
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Bea Fremderman “How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself”
The apocalypse is part of our ideological baggage. It is aphrodisiac, nightmare, a commodity like any other. You can call it a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism, which as we all known has been imminent...More »
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Athena Papadopoulos “Wolf Whistles”
Featuring a new collaboration with Monster Coat Club (PaPa X MCC) More »
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“New World UNLTD” Exhibition
ACTIONS BY: Patti Harrison + Mary Kosut + Rebecca Peel + Eileen Isagon Skyers Greetings, Intrepid Voyagers! Shoot the Lobster and GWC, Investigators invite you to the release of NEW WORLD UNLTD, Vol...More »
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Magnus Andersen “Seedless_Grapes_<3”
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Charles Irvin “Grandpa’s Secret Stash”
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Bryan Dooley “The Next 200 Years”
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Urban Zellweger “Tables and Landscapes”
Published by Hacienda Books on the ocassion of his exhibition, Zellweger’s new book, Snow, will also be displayed and available for purchase at the gallery and on our webstore. More »
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“2015 Holiday Bazaar” Exhibition
Shoot The Lobster presents its 2015 holiday bazaar and party! The sale features clothing, jewelry, DVDs, CDs, soaps, candles, furniture, artworks, holiday goodies and more by 50+ artists. To close...More »
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Miami-Dutch “My Sole, On the Sidewalk”
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“Pet Sematary” Exhibition
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Michael Assiff “Hangry”
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“Charmed” Exhibition
Organized by Tamara Gonzales and Maggie Lee Work by Cameron, Lance and Anna De Los Reyes, Tom Forkin , Tamara Gonzales, Daren Ho, Maggie Lee, Annie Pearlman, Bill Saylor , Jack Smith, Sophie...More »
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Zoe Barcza “International Loner”
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Sara Gernsbacher “Hold The Drill”
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Wallace Berman, Jeff Davis, Matthew Langan Peck, Sophie Stone Exhibition
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Keith Boadwee “Poppies”
Over the past three decades, Keith Boadwee has integrated photography, painting and performance in a prolific pursuit of the “pure joy of uninhibited expressive creativity coming from the place of radical...More »
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Bozidar Brazda “Unisex Basics”
From February 12th to March 1st, artist Bozidar Brazda presents a collection of unisex basics — available in cult-member white, bondage black and beet-juice pink — at the Shoot The Lobster storefront on...More »
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Liz Craft and Pentti Monkkonen “Dead End Street”
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Amy Granat and Fabian Marti “Mississippi Mud Papers”
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“Manic Panic” Exhibition
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Joseph Geagan and Jessica Reaves “La Casa del Casu Marzu”
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“Pleh” Exhibition
Beginning July 13th, STL presents “Pleh”, a collaborative installation by Gobby, Nicholas Buffon, and Allegra Crowther. “Pleh” encompasses a collection of drawings and comics made by artist and musician...More »
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“My Old Friend, My New Friend, My Girlfriend, My Cousin and My Mentor” Exhibition
Organized by JPW3 Featuring work by Bruce Asch, Carol Bove, Sara Gernsbacher, John Ingiaimo, JPW3 and Jessi Reaves More »
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Toshio Matsumoto Exhibition
STL presents an exhibition of three films by the innovative Japanese filmmaker and video artist Matsumoto Toshio. One of the leading figures of the postwar avant-garde, Matsumoto is a pioneer of experimental...More »
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“The Grand Opening” Exhibition