Art in General - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Art in General. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Lukas Hofmann “Skin Come Leather”
Curated by Karina Kottova Water of Death Ingredients: Alcohol denat, Aqua, Achillea millefolium, Cupressus sempervirens, Boswellia carterii, Citrus aurantium. Water of Life Ingredients: Sphagnum,...More »
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Caitlin Berrigan “Imaginary Explosions”
Art in General presents the first solo exhibition in NewYork by artist Caitlin Berrigan as part of its New Commissions Program, curated by Laurel Ptak. In our urgent era of climate crisis, her work investigates...More »
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Chim Pom “Threat of Peace (Hiroshima!!!!!!)”
Curated by Jason Waite Art in General presents a major solo exhibition in New York by Tokyo-based collective Chim↑Pom (Ryuta Ushiro, Ellie, Yasutaka Hayashi, Masataka Okada, Toshinori Mizuno, and Motomu...More »
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“Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center Don’t Follow the Wind” Exhibition
Curated by Jason Waite Beyond the threshold of the inhabitable, how does culture contest the crippling effects of long term catastrophe? Don’t Follow the Wind is a project situated inside the radioactive...More »
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Ander Mikalson “Scores for a Black Hole”
Art in General presents Scores for a Black Hole, a New Commission and the first major solo exhibition by New York-based artist Ander Mikalson. Across her work, the artist uses performance and collaboration...More »
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Joseph Buckley “Traitor Muscle”
Art in General presents Traitor Muscle, a New Commission and the first major solo exhibition in New York by Joseph Buckley.The artist’s practice centers on the relationship between grief and postcolonialism....More »
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Zach Blas “Contra-Internet”
Art in General presents Contra-Internet, the first-ever solo exhibition in New York by artist Zach Blas and world premiere of his new film, Jubilee 2033. Contra-Internet confronts the growing hegemony...More »
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Danilo Correale “At Work’s End”
Art in General presents At Work’s End, a New Commission by Danilo Correale marking the artist’s first solo show in New York City. The exhibition grapples with our hopes and anxieties in an era of increased...More »
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Postcommodity “Coyotaje”
Art in General presents a newly commissioned installation by arts collective Postcommodity, marking the group’s first solo exhibition in New York. Composed of artists Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez,...More »
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Freya Powell “The Silence of the Unsaid”
Art in General presents an exhibition with Freya Powell as part of its New Commissions Program. The collective works on view engage issues around distance, separation, and empathy in relationship to...More »
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Dineo Seshee Bopape “sa ____ ke lerole, (sa lerole ke ___)”
For her new commission sa ____ ke lerole, (sa lerole ke ___) at Art in General, Dineo Seshee Bopape will create a large-scale, immersive installation using materials such as soil, clay, brass objects,...More »
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Ieva Epnere “Sea of Living Memories”
Art in General presents Sea of Living Memories, a New Commission by artist Ieva Epnere. The project is Epnere’s first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, and is presented in partnership...More »
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“Shifters” Exhibition
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“Beyond Credit” Exhibition
Art in General presents the inaugural exhibition at its new ground floor gallery at 145 Plymouth Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, opening on January 30, 2016. The exhibition Beyond Credit is presented in partnership...More »
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Chubika “The Echoes”
Art in General presents The Echoes, a New Commission by Nino Chubinishvili aka Chubika in the Storefront Project Space. The exhibition is presented as part of the International Collaborations program in...More »
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Lior Shvil “Protocols”
Art in General presents PROTOCOLS, a New Commission by Lior Shvil in the 6th floor gallery. This performance is programmed in conjunction with Performa 15. Shvil’s New Commission PROTOCOLS will include...More »
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Katie Torn “Myopia’s Toil”
New York-based artist Katie Torn integrates animation, 3D computer graphics, and video to model virtually simulated scenes out of the detritus of internet and consumer culture. Collecting elements available...More »
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Halmos “INCUBATORACCELERATOR”
Art in General presents INCUBATORACCELERATOR, a New Commission in the Storefront Project Space. Halmos is a collaborative distribution platform and publisher that facilitates new writing and works by contemporary...More »
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Andrea Galvani “The End, a New Commission”
Art in General is pleased to present The End, a New Commission by Andrea Galvani in the 6th floor gallery. Developed over two years of research conducted in the United States and Mexico, The End is...More »
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Marwa Arsanios “Notes for a choreography”
Notes for a choreography premieres Marwa Arsanios’s new film, OLGA’s NOTES, all those restless bodies, 2014, a co-commission by Kunsthalle Lissabon, Portugal, and Art in General, New York. This project...More »
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Matt Lipps “Figures”
Art in General presents Figures, a New Commission with Matt Lipps in the Storefront Project Space. Matt Lipps’ artistic practice speaks to a sense of longing when confronted by most photographs—a longing...More »
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Michael Linares “A Random History of The Stick”
Art in General presents A Random History of The Stick, a solo exhibition with Michael Linares in the Musée Minuscule. As early as the Pliocene epoch, the stick as a specific, three-dimensional form...More »
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Lea Cetera “Sprawl”
Art in General is pleased to present Sprawl, a New Commission with Lea Cetera in the Storefront Project Space. In this newly created installation, Cetera draws inspiration from the consumer language...More »
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“Lily’s Pool” Exhibition
Art in General presents Lily’s Pool, a group exhibition organized in partnership with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia as part of the International Collaborations program. Now I will tell...More »
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“Three Solo Exhibitions”
Basim Magdy: An Absent Population Laughs at its Haunting Withdrawal Interested in the power of mass media, information systems, and scientific theories—and the relationship between what is real and...More »
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Mika Tajima “Total Body Conditioning”
Total Body Conditioning is an exhibition by Mika Tajima comprised of three scenes—display, work, and fitness—that invoke technologies developed to control and affect the body. These are techniques that...More »
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Halsey Rodman “Gradually / We Became Aware / Of a Hum in the Room”
Art in General presents Halsey Rodman’s Gradually / We Became Aware / Of a Hum in the Room, a new commission in collaboration with High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, California. Gradually / We Became...More »
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Maxine Henryson “from Ujjayi’s Journey”
from Ujjayi’s Journey consists of works from a twelve-year project, begun in 1996, which culminated in the book Ujjayi’s Journey, published by Kehrer in 2012. Eighteen photographs of varying sizes allow...More »
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Iris Goldstein “Bits and Pieces II”
Iris Goldstein’s latest mixed-media constructions examine the possibility of using discarded packing materials to create new ways of looking at things that have been thrown away after doing the job for...More »
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Susan Stainman “Color All The Way Through”
Stainman creates process-based sculptures starting from a love of fabrics. In addition to her desire to disrupt hierarchical categories within art, the color, texture and tactility of these domestic materials...More »
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Lisi Raskin “Recuperative Tactics”
“The space of a tactic is the space of the other…. It must vigilantly make use of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers. It poaches in them. It creates...More »
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“The Still House Group: +1 #7” Exhibition
For their Art in General New Commission, The Still House Group (an emerging artist-run organization based in Brooklyn) presents +1, a new artist-run space in the heart of Chinatown. Housed in a storefront...More »
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Ola Vasiljeva “Jargot”
- Dear Jargot, how to act in the middle of this sentence? Here, on the stage, where abandoned ideas are given roles to play, where a clandestine visual vocabulary interacts with the eye, and where references...More »
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Jill Magid “Woman With Sombrero”
What does it mean for a corporation to own an artist’s legacy? This question forms the core of Jill Magid’s latest work Woman With Sombrero, the first part of an ongoing multi-media project entitled The...More »
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“Cimetière d’Ixelles” Exhibition
When she came looking for B’s grave a few months after he died in the Hotel de Francia in Port Bou, A found nothing. Nothing, that is, other than one of the most beautiful places she had ever seen. “It...More »
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Kimberlee Venable "All this comes back"
The empty blue sky of space says “All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don’t care, it still belongs to me”–The blue sky adds “Don’t call me eternity,...More »
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Youmna Chlala "Days of Being Wild"
Art in General presents Days of Being Wild, a short film by Youmna Chlala. Youmna Chlala is an artist and writer born in Beirut and based in New York. Her work investigates the relationship between...More »
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Letha Wilson "Landmarks and Monuments"
Art in General presents Landmarks and Monuments, a series of new works by Letha Wilson in Art in General’s sixth floor galleries. Letha Wilson’s new series of photo-based sculptures explore the magnetic...More »
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Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová "Clash!"
Clash!, a New Commission by Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová, takes the form of an installation that imitates piles of stones usually found on streets or construction sites. Referencing stones that...More »
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Shezad Dawood "Trailer"
Trailer, 2011, presents an alternative edit from Shezad Dawood’s science-fiction feature film Piercing Brightness as a 15-minute, experimental “trailer”. As a recognized cinematic format, Trailer belies...More »
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Meriç Algün Ringborg "The Library of Unborrowed Books"
Art in General, in collaboration with The Center for Fiction, New York, presents Stockholm-based artist Meriç Algün Ringborg’s New Commissions project, The Library of Unborrowed Books. The project,...More »
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robbinschilds "I came here on my own"
robbinschilds was formed by choreographers, Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs in 2003. Though trained in and rooted by a background in dance, robbinschilds often works outside of that discipline, engaging...More »
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Christopher Duffy " I Think I Want My Energy in All Colors"
Art in General presents Christopher Duffy’s New Commission, I Think I Want My Energy in All Colors, a series of new glass sculptures presented together as a dynamic installation. Suspended from the...More »
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Lia Lowenthal "Fifteen Seconds"
With Fifteen Seconds, Lia Lowenthal places Henry Moore, known primarily for his large-scale public works, in the confining and transient space of an elevator. Lowenthal recreates Moore's sculptures as...More »
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Rob Carter "Faith in a Seed"
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. -Henry David Thoreau Faith...More »
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Katrin Sigurdardottir "Stage"
Art in General presents Katrin Siggurdardottir’s Stage, a New Commissions installation in the storefront Project Space. A miniature theater hangs from the ceiling of an empty, unlit storefront space....More »
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Theresa Himmer "All State"
Art in General presents the opening of Theresa Himmer’s site-specific audio installation All State, realized in collaboration with Kristján Eggertsson. Responding to the physical and psychological parameters...More »
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Mounira Al Solh "Dinosaurs"
Art in General presents its first international New Commission, a new film installation by Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh. A series of scenes that seem both familiar yet brand new. A grouping of characters...More »
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Zefrey Throwell "I'll Raise You One..."
Art in General presents I'll Raise You One..., a site specific performance by Zefrey Throwell Using the conflicting languages of teenage love and small stakes capitalism, I'll Raise You One is continuous...More »
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"Walking Forward-Running Past" Exhibition
In his 1971 video, Walking Forward-Running Past, John Baldessari utilizes sequence, repetition, and montage to deconstruct the notion of cinematic chronology. Exploring the visceral and tactile relationship...More »
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Audint "Dead Record Office"
Art in General presents Dead Record Office, a New Commission project by AUDiNT. The researchers currently active within the AUDiNT research cell are Jon Cohrs, Toby Heys and Steve Goodman, whose combined...More »
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Jason Bailer Losh "Chinese Take Out"
Art in General presents Chinese Take Out, a New Commissions project conceived by Jason Bailer Losh, in which he invited ten artists to engage in a creative cultural exchange with restaurants in New York's...More »
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Ioana Nemes "Times Colliding"
Art in General presents Times Colliding, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Romanian artist Ioana Nemes. Having just completed a five-year project of self-evaluation and recording, Monthly Evaluations...More »
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Studio SM Exhibition
STUDIO SM is a graphic design duo that consists of Sara Kaaman and Martin Falck. Their practice involves both self-initiated projects and commissioned work. They have worked with: Swedish Museum of...More »
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Marie Jager "L’heure bleue"
Marie Jager’s L’heure bleue is the first project to debut in Art in General’s newly launched elevator program Musée Miniscule. The work takes its title from the French expression ‘l’heure bleue’, which...More »
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Emily Roysdon "Positions"
Throughout her practice, Emily Roysdon’s multidisciplinary approach to art making has incorporated photography, printmaking, performance, and an extensive history of collaboration. For her first solo exhibition...More »
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Ohad Meromi "Rehearsal Sculpture"
Drawing from research on modernist architecture, Israeli Kibbutzim, and Constructivist set design, Meromi will develop a modular construction that will function as a “set” for collaborating artists and...More »
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Brendan Fernandes Exhibition
Often drawing on post-colonialist theory, Fernandes’ work investigates the concepts of cultural identity and authenticity. From Hiz Hands explores the dissemination of Western notions of an exotic Africa...More »
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Luis Jacob "Without Persons"
Art in General presents Without Persons, an exhibition, of new and recent works by Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob, including video, painting, and a new work from the artist’s Album series. Receiving increasingly...More »
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"The General Public Library" Project
The General Public Library is a library/reading room project organized by Art in General Designer in Residence Mylinh Nguyen, in conjunction with the upcoming launch of six 2009-2010 New Commissions publications...More »
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Joyce Kim and Carlos Roque "Mostly Shadows"
- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2010-06-11 - 2010-07-10
Art in General presents Joyce Kim and Carlos Roque's Mostly Shadows. This first-time collaboration is presented in Art in General's Storefront Project Space as the second Intersections exhibition . Intended...More »
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"Whitney ISP Studio Program 2010" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-06-11 - 2010-06-26
An exhibition of works by the 2009-10 Studio Program participants of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent...More »
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Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi "Liquid Door"
“A liquid door, created just by the pressure of the air inside the house, used to be the only untouchable surface dividing the intimacy of the domestic from the wildness of the oceans: an ever-calm lake,...More »
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Audra Wolowiec "Private Space in a Public Time"
Audra Wolowiec’s multidisciplinary art practice mines themes of communication, voice, and ephemeral moments of the everyday. In recreating phenomena and trace effects, she explores the idea of a fading...More »
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Božena Končić Badurina "More Passive Than Every Passivity"
The work of Art in General’s artist in residence, Božena Končić Badurina (Croatia, b. 1967) involves performance, intervention and constructed participatory situations that interrogate the power structures...More »
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"Double-Bill" Exhibition
“Double-Bill” is a group exhibition curated by New Commissions artist Redmond Entwistle that includes his new film Monuments along with works by Mary Billyou, Suzanne Goldenberg, Rafael Sánchez, and Kathleen...More »
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Peter Rostovsky and Olav Westphalen "Anti-Prow"
Anti-Prow is a project by Prow – the collaborative duo Peter Rostovsky and Olav Westphalen – that addresses fantasies of empowered authorship and rational control in the creative process. Taking the artist’s...More »
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Lukasz Jastrubczak "Distant Drum"
For Distant Drum Polish Resident Artist Lukasz Jastrubczak draws on the feeling of deja vu he has experienced exploring the New York cityscape—familiar through movies and television—for the first time....More »
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Judith Hoffman "I've Heard That Disembodiment is the New Black"
In a short video created for Art in General’s elevator, Judith Hoffman mines stereotypes of the female artist to unveil the struggles of marginalized creative communities. Through the presentation of a...More »
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"Erratic Anthropologies" Exhibition
Art in General presents three performance installations by Guy Benfield, Shana Moulton, and Rancourt/Yatsuk that mine the visual culture of flawed but influential community structures: the hippie commune...More »
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"Mobile Archive" Exhibition
Art in General presents the North American debut of the Mobile Archive, an international collection of over 1000 video artworks assembled by the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. The Mobile Archive...More »
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Josh Melnick "The 8 Train"
Through an extensive collection of slow motion black-and-white videos, in 6th floor gallery, Josh Melnick's "The 8 Train" takes advantage of cutting edge scientific video technology to re-examine the function...More »
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Julia Oldham "The Timber"
In "The Timber" Julia Oldham, in the first floor Project Space, explores her fascination with bug culture through a combination of performance and video art. Shooting her videos outdoors in the wilderness,...More »
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"Impermanent Collections" Exhibition
For the collaborative project between Art in General, M.S. 131, and Adam Simon’s Fine Art Adoption Network, Educator Christine Hou led 20 curatorial studies workshops with a class of twelve Seventh and...More »
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"Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Studio Program" Exhibition
An exhibition of works by the 2008–09 Studio Program participants of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Kasper Akhøj Natalia Almada David Baumflek Nanna Debois Buhl Heather Hart Emma...More »
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Yoshinori Niwa "Transforming puddle A to puddle B"
Yoshinori Niwa’s video documents a public intervention in Berlin, in which the artist uses his body as a means to transport water from one street-side puddle to another, inspired by the separation of East...More »
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Dave Hardy: "It's Grey, It's Grey"
Dave Hardy’s sculptures present the familiar anew, creating objects stripped of their utility and reconditioned as strange propositions. It’s grey, it’s grey plays with the ambiguity of the re-contextualized,...More »
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"Actions For Urban Spaces"
Actions for Urban Spaces critically explores the built environment, examining the relationship between the results of institutional decision-making and the actual public use of urban spaces. While not...More »
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Amy Yoes "Street-level"
Through a series of video projections and architectural interventions Amy Yoes considers the contradictory nature of storefronts as physically inaccessible but publicly present spaces. Focusing on the...More »
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Liam Gillick Lecture
Liam Gillick’s body of work—comprised of texts, social interactions, as well as art and design objects—conveys his experience of the post-war production mode. In his lecture, Gillick will present his investigations...More »
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"Custom Car Commandos" Exhibition
As chief executives of the Big Three auto manufacturers of Detroit plead for emergency government bailout, the exhibition "Custom Car Commandos" relates the auto industry to the image industry. The exhibition...More »
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Elizabeth Felicella "Reading Room"
"Reading Room," by Elizabeth Felicella, is in installation in Art in General’s Project Space excerpted from the artist’s ongoing photographic catalog of New York City’s branch libraries. Working with a...More »
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Martin Murphy "Today's Face"
Questioning common conceptions regarding the accuracy of time-based narrative and the authority of mass media culture, Martin Murphy presents the video installation, "Today’s Face" in the Art in General...More »
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"Reality Cinema/Live Video" Special Performance
Special guest performers participate in a recording for Jan Baracz’s Reality Cinema/Live Video storefront cinema project. More »
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"Feminism and Memory/Memories of Feminism" Conversation
A conversation between Kimberly Lamm, Assistant Professor of Critical and Visual Studies at Pratt Institute, and resident artist Renata Poljak. Poljak’s short films "Souvenirs" (1999) and "Skok/Jump"...More »
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Carla Herrera-Prats "Prep Materials"
Carl Brigham developed the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) that has since been administered to millions of students every year in order for them to begin their college educations. The SAT is only the first...More »
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Renata Poljak "Ruta and the Monument"
Renata Poljak is a Paris-based video artist originally from Split, Croatia. Her work explores the dramatic political upheaval and violence the Balkan region has undergone since the early 1990s, and the...More »
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Jan Baracz "Reality Cinema/Live Video"
Jan Baracz’s Reality Cinema/Live Video will transform the storefront gallery into a cinematic screening room, inside of which a live video feed, mixed from three cameras recording the streets outside Art...More »
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Chris Moukarbel "IN/OUT"
Chris Moukarbel's IN/OUT exhibit is an on-going project that has included In and Out lists, light sculptures and video. This recent iteration involves a large collection of hand made bricks that are reconfigured...More »
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Adrian Lohmüller "the way things are"
Adrian Lohmüller’s multimedia installation, the way things are, part of the Audio in the Elevator program, is located in both the elevator and stairwell and examines systems of ‘digestion’ and how one’s...More »
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Anna Molska Exhibition
In the past, Anna Molska has used performance-based video to explore the effect of culture on art making. Referencing the influence of Russian Suprematism and Soviet rule on the Polish avant-garde, she...More »
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"High Risk Citizen" Exhibition
The exhibition High Risk Citizen explores forms of political resistance and public engagement today, as considered by contemporary artists working in video. In this heated year of presidential electioneering,...More »
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Olivia Plender Exhibition
Artist in residence Olivia Plender (London) presents a video installation inspired by BBC’s mission statement and a 1960s program about artists living in London. In this work, Plender continues her investigation...More »