First Street Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for First Street Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Fritz St. Jean “Narrating the Haitian Story”
“Fritz St. Jean: Narrating the Haitian Story”, a solo exhibition of selected works created by renowned Haitian artist Fritz St Jean, is to be shown from August 13th - 29th, 2018. Fritz St Jean (1954...More »
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“2018 National Juried Exhibition”
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents the 2018 National Juried Exhibition. Curated by American lyrical abstract painter Ronnie Landfield, the works range across genres, styles, media and treatments, from figuration...More »
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“Drawing the Curtain” Exhibition
Zeuxis is a grass roots project founded in New York City in 1994. Its mission is to take the measure of contemporary still life painting. To that end, it has organized scores of traveling shows which have...More »
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Sallie Benton “The Shape of Things”
The paintings in this exhibition, while of different genres; portraits, still lifes and landscape are not of random objects, posed models or distant vistas. They are of lifetime friends, family, favorite...More »
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Tim Kennedy “S.R.A.”
S.R.A., is the abbreviation for State Recreation Area and is also the title of a solo exhibition of paintings by Tim Kennedy. This is Mr. Kennedy’s eighth solo exhibition at First Street Gallery. In this...More »
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Anahita Mekanik “re·membered”
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents the first solo exhibition of Anahita Mekanik: a collection of assemblages spanning the last ten years. Re·membered explores the reality of displacement through visual poetry...More »
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Dana Saulnier “Restless Measures”
In these paintings and drawings embodied forms grow and decay; they are tentative and are often undone; they mark passages that are less narrative than an enactment of forces. With the nominal subject...More »
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Tracy Collamore “A Doll’s House”
First Street Gallery presents a solo exhibition of recent work by Tracy Collamore. Entitled A Doll’s House. In her previous exhibitions, Tracy Collamore has shown highly colored, brightly lit paintings...More »
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“2017 National Juried Exhibition”
FIRST STREET GALLERY present its 2017 National Juried Exhibition, curated by Peter Colon, DC Moore Gallery. Representing artists from all sections of the country, Colon has chosen 50 works, featuring...More »
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Marion Miller “Dogs in Water”
I hope these paintings speak for themselves, as a celebration of light and space, and of course dogs. The “Dogs in Water” series grows concurrently with my series of horse-and-rider paintings. It explores...More »
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Kathleen Bennett Bastis “Tossed and Found”
Kathleen Bennett Bastis continues to explore and celebrate the inherent beauty of found objects that are cast off, washed up, worn out and walked over. This is her second solo at First Street Gallery. ...More »
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“2016 MFA National Competition” Exhibition
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents its sixth annual MFA National Competition. This exhibition highlights the vast reach of fine arts teaching throughout the United States. The competition is open to all...More »
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Suzi Evalenko “Re-Inventions: Collages and Paintings”
FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present Re-Inventions, an exhibition of mixed media collages and paintings by Suzi Evalenko. This is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition at FIRST STREET. The works...More »
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Wendy Gittler “Across the Years”
“Across the Years” is a journey through time exploring the origins and evolution of the leit-motifs of my paintings. Place and voyages have played an important role both in my childhood and later in my...More »
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Leslie Adler “Concealed Crossings”
Manifested in paintings, installations and hand made objects, this is an intuitive and dynamic exhibition. Mrs. Adler chose India ink, gouache, oil paint, natural colors, wood, paper, steel and string...More »
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“Pop Up - On and Off the Wall” Exhibition
It’s the 3rd season of Pop Up - On and Off the Wall at First Street Gallery! The series is held on 2 consecutive weekends in January. Diverse groups of artists are given room to exhibit an extensive...More »
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“PopUp: On and Off the Wall Series1” Exhibition
It’s the 3rd season of PopUp: On and Off the Wall at FIRST STREET GALLERY! The series is held on 2 consecutive weekends in January. Diverse groups of artists are given room to exhibit an extensive range...More »
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“4 NOW” Exhibition
First Street Gallery caps off the year with 4 Now, an exciting new exhibition that celebrates the unique and dynamic visions of four of its newest artists, Gilles Giuntini, Anahita Mekanik, Edmond Praybe,...More »
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“Alone Together” Exhibition
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents the group exhibition Alone Together, which features seven unique New York-based artists working in painting, mixed media, sculpture and installation art. For each of these...More »
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Mari Lyons “Floating Palettes”
In her new show, FLOATING PALETTES and other recent work, Mari Lyons borrows an image, a sign, from the late, magical studio paintings of Georges Braque — with a nod, too, to the floating world of the...More »
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“Under the Influence” Exhibition
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents a group exhibition of Gallery artist members. In the spirit of individual artistic creation and expression, UNDER THE INFLUENCE is a collaborative curatorial project, where...More »
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“MFA 2015 National Exhibition Work”
First Street Gallery proudly presents our fifth annual MFA NATIONAL EXHIBITION. This exhibition highlights the vast reach of fine arts teaching throughout the United States. The competition is open...More »
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“Strange Paradise” Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents “Strange Paradise”, juried and curated by Steven Harvey, from Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in the Lower East Side. Harvey adapts the model of the juried show towards an...More »
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Hank Feeley “HAT TRICK”
The rabbit hopped on stage, reached into his top hat and pulled out Magritte’s painting The Explanation… and ate it Hank Feeley returns to First Street Gallery and, once again, waves his magic paintbrush...More »
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Tracy Collamore “PARADOX”
A paradox is an absurdity, a contradiction that oftentimes can be proven true. It is a dichotomy. It is a term used prolifically throughout the thought-processes of reason (or the lack thereof). The Paradox...More »
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Kathleen Bennett Bastis Exhibition
“I am inspired by the distinctive character, energy and form found in the fragments of discarded, washed up, broken or otherwise overlooked materials which I salvage from the street, river bank and scrap...More »
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Tim Kennedy “Paynetown”
Paynetown, a solo exhibition of paintings by Tim Kennedy, is held at First Street Gallery. This is Mr. Kennedy’s seventh solo exhibition at First Street Gallery. In this exhibition Mr. Kennedy looks to...More »
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Jessica McGarry Bartlet “Perception of Initial Conditions”
Overwhelmed - The theme of my life at this moment, yet, also the theme of my body of work. I paint uncontrolled growth in my backyard and call it wilderness. I paint person-less, urban, landscapes of decay...More »
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“Pop Up: On and Off the Wall” Exhibition
The series is held on three consecutive weekends in January. Diverse groups of artists are given room to exhibit an extensive range of work from abstract to figurative; paintings, installations, drawings...More »
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“45 Years Later: Works by Gallery Artists” Exhibition
When First Street Gallery opened in 1969, the main focus was a return to figuration, with a sense of art historical continuity in particular the classical tradition. Some of the artists were students of...More »
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Nancy Balliett and Louise Kalin
NANCY BALLIETT: Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1938, Nancy Balliett has been painting for almost thirty years and has appeared in countless group and one-person shows. Her pictures are in many collections,...More »
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Dana Saulnier “Stacks and Traps”
Visceral embodied forms seemingly enact sensations in these paintings. The nominal subject of the figure in landscape continues here with bodies that are open, situated, and contingent. Searching for figures...More »
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Teresa Dunn “Event Horizon”
Teresa Dunn’s second solo exhibition at First Street Gallery explores narrative worlds where the figures in her paintings confront points of no return. Color shift, texture, and complexity bend time and...More »
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“2014 MFA National Competition” Exhbition
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents our 2014 MFA NATIONAL COMPETITION, the fourth in a series of annual exhibitions open to current and recently graduated MFA students throughout the United States. Juried by...More »
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“2014 National Juried Exhibition”
First Street Gallery is pleased to present the 2014 National Juried Exhibition, juried by Jed Perl, the art critic for The New Republic, author of numerous articles, essays, and books. The exhibition includes...More »
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“View and Vision” Exhibition
First Street Gallery is pleased to present “View and Vision”, an exhibition of works by artists Bill Creevy (oils on paper), Rachel Gordon Bernstein (landscape oils and watercolors), and Jane Shoenfeld...More »
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Kathi Packer “Bone Dry Silence”
In her exhibition titled, Bone Dry Silence, artist Kathi Packer creates complex paintings imbued with notions of paradise and impending calamity. Saturated hues exalt nature, specifically Africa’s Sub-Sahara,...More »
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Sallie Benton “Paint-Drawings”
From large scale studies of the human face to delicate still lives, Benton works between figuration and abstraction, translating familiar subjects of painting into thoughtful meditations on themes of difference,...More »
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Marianne Perry Salas “Alla Prima”
Marianne Perry Salas presents a series of alla prima paintings, experimenting with oils in a transition from working mainly in watercolor for the last two decades. Also included are recent landscape and...More »
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“Zeuxis: Still, Blue” Exhibition
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents a group exhibition by Zeuxis, An Association of Still Life Painters. “Painters compose with color the way composers paint with notes; one form builds in space, the other...More »
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“POP UP Show” Series 2
Introducing First Street Gallery’s second 3-day POP UP Show. One, of a series of three to be held on consecutive weekends in January. Diverse groups of artists are given room to exhibit an extensive range...More »
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“NO RESTRICTIONS” Exhibition
In our age of polyphonic diversity the title, “NO RESTRICTIONS” easily assimilates into today’s vast canons of possibilities. So too, First Street Gallery has evolved over the decades into more open expressions...More »
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Jennifer Aldridge “Floodplain”
In her first show at First Street Gallery, artist Jennifer Aldridge acknowledges, “Every artist’s job is to notice what she notices.” All of the work in this exhibit of paintings consist of water media...More »
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Mari Lyons “Transformations in the Garden”
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents recent paintings by Mari Lyons. This is her fourteenth show at the gallery. In a letter to the gallery Ms. Lyons wrote of her recent series of paintings: “I am reminded...More »
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Beverly Brodsky “Abstract Visions”
First Street Gallery presents ABSTRACT VISIONS featuring Beverly Brodsky’s large-scale oils on canvas. Her paintings reflect evocations of natural elements such as light on water, fire, and the earth’s...More »
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“2013 MFA National Competition” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-07-18 - 2013-08-09
FIRST STREET GALLERY presents our 2013 MFA NATIONAL COMPETITION, the third in a series of annual exhibitions open exclusively to current MFA students throughout the United States. Juried by PHONG BUI...More »
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“2013 National Juried” Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents the 2013 National Juried Exhibition, juried by Donald Kuspit, renowned art critic and author. The exhibition includes paintings, photography, drawings, mixed media, and sculpture...More »
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Nicole McCormick Santiago “The Sweet Life”
Nicole McCormick Santiago is a painter of the domestic narrative. Her autobiographical images explore the contrast between unabashed indulgence and the selfless constraints of motherhood. [Image:...More »
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Rallou Malliarakis "Imprints: New Works on Paper"
First Street Gallery presents a new exhibition of recent works on paper by artist Rallou Malliarakis. The title of this exhibition pertains as much to the method applied in creating these drawings as...More »
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Marianne Barcellona "Arduous Terrains"
Marianne Barcellona loves raw nature but lives with conflict: "I'm a New York City girl - I can walk down the Bowery alone at 3 am, but put me in the woods and every snap of a twig portends a bear or a...More »
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Wendy Gittler "Dialogues and Departures"
Dialogues and Departures take place in the spatial theater of a two dimensional surface. Encounters occur, as if under a proscenium arch, mingling mythical characters with particular personages and thereby...More »
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Jessica Bartlet "Backyard Wilderness"
While conservation may be a distinct side effect of the observation of wilderness, to Jessica Bartlet, painting may be anotherside effect. To find a wilderness, one may need to look no further than one's...More »
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Suzi Evalenko "The Blue Glove"
In her sixth solo exhibition at First Street Gallery, Suzi Evalenko presents a whimsical world of still life paintings whose 'personal' character - and vitality - challenge the notion of stillness. All...More »
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Jenni Freidman "Joy"
In Jenni Freidman's exhibition at the First Street Gallery she fills the space with vibrant monotypes and ink drawings inspired by candy and flora. Her recent work reflects a search for happiness. Continuing...More »
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"WinterLight" Exhibition
"WinterLight" not only illuminates a season but can also reveal states of mind. Painters usually are drawn to light like moths to a flame. Some artists observe with acute penetration the way a particular...More »
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Marion Miller "The Arena Series"
These paintings are a continuation of Marion Miller's paean to the controlled circus environment of horses, riders and handlers in an indoor arena. She is pursuing the special visuals of these moments...More »
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Lisa Zwerling Exhibition
Throughout history, artists have been inspired by music. Now, Lisa Zwerling has created a series of 38 paintings inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic fantasy The Magic Flute. For Zwerling, who...More »
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"2012 National Juried Exhibition"
First Street Gallery presents the 2012 National Juried Exhibition, juried by Dore Ashton, renowned art critic and author. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, mixed media and sculpture by 31 artists...More »
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Hank Feeley "Musings"
Hank Feeley returns to First Street Gallery with an exhibition of new paintings titled "Musings", signature color-filled canvases that explore the nature of the creative muse. As the art blogger Olivia...More »
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Ashley Norwood Cooper "Down from the Hills"
"Down from the Hills," an exhibition of paintings and works on paper of life in the Catskill Mountains by Ashley Norwood Cooper, will be on view at First Street Gallery. "Sometimes the country is scary"...More »
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Michele Liebler "Immersed: New Paintings and Monotypes"
First Street Gallery presents the opening of the exhibition IMMERSED: New Paintings and Monotypes by contemporary artist Michele Liebler. Ms. Liebler's paintings of swimming pools capture the geometric...More »
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Joseph D'Esposito "Krigstein: A Graphic Novel"
First Street Gallery presents the opening of the exhibition Krigstein: A Graphic Novel by Joseph D'Esposito in gallery 2. Is he a painter or a comic book artist, or is he both? That's the story that...More »
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Tim Kennedy "Appearances"
Appearances, a solo exhibition of paintings by Tim Kennedy, is held. This is Mr. Kennedy’s sixth solo exhibition at First Street Gallery. Once again, Mr. Kennedy looks to his neighborhood of 1920s bungalows...More »
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Erin Raedeke "Things Left"
In her first solo exhibition in New York City, Erin Raedeke explores complex relationships by observing the detritus of everyday life. In "Things Left," the still life becomes a vehicle for grappling with...More »
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Margaret Noel "Second Shift"
First Street Gallery presents an exhibition of recent works by Brooklyn artist Margaret Noel, recipient of the Gallery's 2011 National Juried Show Award. The densely layered surfaces of Noel's compositions...More »
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"Art for Clearwater" Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents a small works invitational exhibition and fundraiser in support of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Over a hundred regional and national artists have been invited to participate...More »
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Nancy Balliett "Then and Now"
Nancy Balliett is a very modern landscape painter (Long Island, Cape Cod, Florida, Lake Como, Venice) who passes into her subject, finds its spirit, and translates it into colors and shapes and rhythms...More »
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Dana Saulnier "Night Tides: Water, Flesh and Sky"
The night paintings began with the experience of loss when one I loved lost her memory. Our relationship collapsed into darkness. Even though my emotional orientation to these events is central to this...More »
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"New Work / New Space" Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents its first exhibition of the season, New Work / New Space. The show is a comprehensive exhibition of work by gallery artists, and will be presented in First Street's beautiful,...More »
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"2011 MFA Juried Exhibition"
First Street Gallery presents the 2011 MFA Juried Exhibition, the first in a series of annual exhibitions open exclusively to MFA students throughout the United States. Juried by SAIC Professor and artist...More »
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"2011 National Juried Show" Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents the 2011 National Juried Exhibition. Chosen by artist Paul Resika, the exhibition features paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media and sculpture by 32 artists from all parts...More »
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Teresa Dunn "but the winds come anyway..."
First Street Gallery presents Teresa Dunn's debut in New York City with her one person exhibition but the winds come anyway.... Dunn's dynamic narrative figure paintings explore identity and relationships...More »
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Doretta Miller "Portraits of Chairs"
The works on exhibit are the first in a new series of portraits of interesting and beloved chairs. Having worked in water-based gouache for many years, Miller recently returned to painting large oils on...More »
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Marianne Perry Salas "Out of the Studio: Works from 1982 to 2011"
The exhibition provides an overview of work produced since 1982, when Marianne Perry Salas joined First Street Gallery as a recent MFA graduate of Brooklyn College. Early works include large, figurative...More »
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Kathi Packer "Ngorongoro Passage"
“I never intended for my safari trip in Africa to radically redirect my creative sensibilities. At the outset, it was simply a long anticipated voyage of discovery. It was only later in my studio, that...More »
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"The Dog Show" Exhibition
First Street Gallery artists join the Westminster Kennel Club, which holds its 135th Annual Dog Show on February 14th and 15th, in celebrating the dog. Gallery artists draw and paint dogs ranging from...More »
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"Land, Water and Sky" Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents an invitational exhibition featuring recent works by three of its former members, Les Reker, Pearl Rosen and Rhea Sanders. Les Reker is a landscape painter, whose en plein...More »
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"Poetic License" Exhibition
First Street Gallery presents Poetic License, an exhibition of artworks inspired by pieces of poetry. Poetry and Painting have much in common and a rich history of cross-inspiration. The poet artist is...More »
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Mari Lyons "Sunsets/Hillsides"
First Street presents "Sunsets/Hillsides", Mari Lyons's fourteenth one-person show at the gallery. These new works follow and relate to her 2008 show of landscapes ("Green Thoughts.") This group of paintings...More »
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Sallie Benton "Shadows"
Benton has been exploring her immediate surroundings: garden flowers; ordinary images of domestic life, a plate, butter knife and jam jar; friends in front of her studio window as well as her old, three-legged...More »
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"Artifex Studio (Mexico) ANAMNESIS" Exhibition
First Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of Artifex Studio (Mexico), presenting Egg tempera works of five Mexican artists: Alicia Amador, Alejandra Barrera, Marta Hernández, Rebeca Martínez...More »
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"2010 National Juried" Show
First Street Gallery announces and congratulate the 2010 National Juried Competition finalists chosen by Juror Lance Eslund. About the juror: Lance Esplund is an art critic for the Wall Street Journal,...More »
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Phyllis Floyd "Anne, Zoe, Emil & Other Subjects"
First Street Gallery presents an exhibition of watercolors entitled "Anne, Zoe, Emil, & Other Subjects" by Phyllis Floyd. The two-fold exhibition is comprised of work done over the past three years...More »
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Rallou Malliarakis "ILLUMINATIONS"
Branches lit by sunlight or a street lamp at dusk, dawn, or late evening; the image of a wintry tree emerging into view after an early morning shower; a stark cluster of summer trees against the side of...More »
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Penny Kronengold "Horses, Carousels, Child's Play"
The First Street Gallery announces an exhibition of recent work by Penny Kronengold. In 1996 the image of a powerful horse came to the artist and was quickly realized in clay; this terracotta sculpture...More »
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Wendy Gittler "Unmoorings – Displacement in Time & Space"
For years, I have been watching the kaleidoscopic and chameleon face of nature and despaired of ever catching its infinite details. Instead, I chose an alternate route where forms become gestural and iconic...More »
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Suzi Evalenko "What Mattered Most: A Life in Art and Letters"
First Street Gallery presents an exhibition of recent oil paintings and drawings by New York artist Suzi Evalenko. If all art is intrinsically autobiographical, for Evalenko it is especially so. Time...More »
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"Fortieth Anniversary" Exhibition
First Street Gallery celebrates its Fortieth Anniversary this December, with an exhibition featuring drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture by 70 current and former members. A full color catalogue...More »
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Mark Gotbaum "Paintings & Drawings"
First Street Gallery announces the debut exhibition of artist Mark Gotbaum. Gotbaum's artistic influences range from Renaissance painters to classic comic books. His themes much like his artistic influences...More »
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Lisa Zwerling "The Fountains"
Lisa Zwerling’s large painting The Fountain of Youth reflects her interest in age and aging. Lucas Cranach’s Fountain of Youth in Berlin was the inspiration; however, in her version, Zwerling uses models,...More »
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Hank Feeley "Forbidden Froot"
Hank Feeley returns to First Street Gallery presenting an exhibition of new paintings titled Forbidden Froot. "If Hank Feeley were not so strikingly original, I would say that he stands at the intersection...More »
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2009 National Juried Show
First Street Gallery announces the 2009 National Juried Competition finalists chosen by Juror, Patterson Sims. More »
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Michele Liebler "A New Norm"
[Image: Michele Liebler "Losing Face (detail)" oil on panel, 9 panels, each panel 19x25 in., installation size: 57x75 in.]More »
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Dana Saulnier "Sense and Absence"
[Image: Dana Saulnier "Spill" oil on canvas, 64 x 74.5in.]More »
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David Hewitt "Urban Remains"
[Image: David Hewitt "Baalbeck" (2007) oil on linen, 54x78 in.]More »
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Bryan Collins "Bloom"
[Image: Bryan Collins "Waterboy" (2008) 22x30 in.]More »
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Doretta Miller "Tales of Three Cities: Beijing, Florence, Saratoga Springs"
Doretta Miller exhibits the recent series of gouache paintings on paper. Urban scenes focus on the less traveled locations found in three of her favorite cities - Beijing, Florence, and Saratoga Springs. A...More »
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Marianne Perry Salas "Flora II"
Paintings from Florida (and Other Escape Venues). [Image: Marianne Perry Salas "Magnolia and Red-Eyed Vireo" (2008) watercolor on paper, 18" x 20"]More »
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Mari Lyons “Green Thoughts/Recent Landscapes”
“Green Thoughts/Recent Landscapes” is Mari Lyons’s thirteenth exhibition at First Street Gallery - and her first of country images in ten years. Previous recent shows have been of studio interiors, still...More »
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2008 National Juried Show
First Street Gallery announces the 2008 National Juried Competition finalists chosen by Juror Gregory Amenoff, the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts Department at Columbia University. The...More »
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"Squares" Exhibition
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Sallie Benton "On Dance"
Sallie Benton’s new work On Dance gives full-bodied expression to the physical intimacy of the Erotica series in her last show. Fascinated by the passion and frenzy of the multicultural dances of South...More »
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Suzi Evalenko "Euterpe's Disciplies: Classical, Latin & Jazz Musicians"
First Street Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new oil portraits by New York artist Suzi Evalenko. The exhibition takes its title from Euterpe, the Muse of Music in Greek mythology. An impressionistic...More »