Arts + Leisure - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Arts + Leisure. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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H. Peik Larsen “Prints in Time”
Arts+Leisure presents Prints in Time, an exhibition of a new body of work by Peik Larsen. Critics and art historians alike generally distinguish prints from fine art. This is largely due to a loaded...More »
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Chambliss Giobbi “Renew-Re-Knew”
Arts + Leisure presents Renew-Re-Knew, an exhibition of recent work by Chambliss Giobbi. Does art carry a universal message? Yes and no. Some believe art always implies a kind of utopian prospect....More »
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Lance Rautzhan “Specter Spectre Specter”
Arts+Leisure presents Specter Spectre Specter, an exhibition of recent work by Lance Rautzhan. While he is a multidisciplinary artist, often working with sound collages, his primary praxis is painting,...More »
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Julia Rooney “@SomeHighTide”
Arts+Leisure presents @SomeHighTiide, an exhibition of recent work by Julia Rooney. Comprising a series of two by two-inch paintings, Julia Rooney’s exhibition @SomeHighTide queries our intimate relationships...More »
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Jared Deery “ProtoPhotoTropism”
Arts+Leisure is thrilled to announce ProtoPhotoTropism, an exhibition of recent work by Jared Deery. Encompassing a series of fifteen richly layered and textured paintings, the works on display highlight...More »
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Paige Beeber “Severed Mends”
Arts+Leisure presents Severed Mends, an exhibition of recent mixed-media works and paintings by Paige Beeber. Reflecting her background in sculpture, Beeber’s work bears a pointed physicality, with traces...More »
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Michael Anderson “Armageddon Yacht”
Arts+Leisure presents Armageddon Yacht, an exhibition of collage-based works by Michael Anderson. Spotlighting the artist’s visceral approach to collage, the works on display combine images drawn from...More »
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Brian Whiteley “Beasts”
Arts+Leisure presents Beasts, an exhibition of recent paintings by Brian Whiteley. Often incorporating elements of new media art, performance, and social provocation in his work, Whiteley probes the absurdity...More »
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Bradley Biancardi “Moving Pictures”
Arts+Leisure presents Moving Pictures, an exhibition of paintings and woodblock prints by Bradley Biancardi. Presenting a body of smaller, restrained canvas alongside two large-scale paintings characteristically...More »
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Brian Wood “Drawings”
Arts+Leisure presents Brian Wood: Drawings, a survey exhibition of the artist’s graphite drawings. Working across a variety of mediums, Wood’s practice is intimately attuned to the specificity of his materials....More »
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Natalie White “Introspection”
Arts+Leisure presents Introspection, an exhibition of recent Polaroid transfer self-portraits by Natalie White. Exploring the meaning of the “muse” and her own identity as an artist and prolific model...More »
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Emilia Olsen “There Is Another Sky
Arts+Leisure presents There Is Another Sky, an exhibition of recent paintings by Emilia Olsen. Depicting voluptuous female figures in a range of settings, particularly coils of snakes and verdant layers...More »
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Miles Debas “Blind Spot”
Arts+Leisure presents Blind Spot, our debut exhibition of paintings by Miles Debas. Incorporating elements of collage, and shaped and unconventional supports, the works on display reflect a deep engagement...More »
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Joe Nanashe and Jamie Powell “Somewhere”
Arts+Leisure presents Somewhere, a collaborative exhibition of work by Jamie Powell and Joe Nanashe. In their first exhibition as a couple, the two navigate the vicissitudes of geography and place, modes...More »
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Johnston Foster “Souvenirs of the Suzerain”
Arts + Leisure presents Souvenirs of the Suzerain, an exhibition of new sculptures by Johnston Foster. In his first showing at the gallery, the artist presents his constructions of found objects, which...More »
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Becky Brown “The System Is Down”
Arts+Leisure presents The System Is Down, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Becky Brown. Grounded in experimental deconstruction and alteration of language, the artist presents an incisive...More »
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Zach Seeger and Amie Cunat “Field Days”
Arts + Leisure presents Field Days, an exhibition of new work by Zach Seeger and Amie Cunat. Cunat’s paintings feature biomorphic forms and abstractions of natural subjects, while Seeger presents a group...More »
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“Summer of Love” Exhibition
Freight+Volume presents Summer of Love, a large group exhibition which presents the engagements of a diverse body of 100 artists with themes of love and romance, the quandaries of relationships, and sympathetic...More »
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Bel Fullana “UN MOHITO, DOS MOHITOS”
Arts+Leisure presents UN MOHITO, DOS MOHITOS, an exhibition of new paintings by Bel Fullana. Combining oil and spray paint, Fullana’s style is painterly and expressive, a vehicle for her inchoate and fluid...More »
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Aimee Odum “Infinite Infinite”
Arts+Leisure presents Infinite Infinite, an exhibition of new work by Aimee Odum. Melding video, ceramics, and fragments of a variety of sculptural and technological materials, Odum forges a dialogue between...More »
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Eloy Arribas “CAMA”
Arts + Leisure presents CAMA, an exhibition of new collages on fabric by Eloy Arribas. Drawing upon the allusive power of language and forms, the work presents a network of associations in a discourse...More »
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George Jenne “ASS, BACKWARDSS”
Arts+Leisure presents ASS, BACKWARDSS, an immersive installation of work by interdisciplinary artist George Jenne. Fusing his experience as a prop maker with his obsession for films, Jenne’s work interrogates...More »
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Maria Marshall “I Can See the Wood for the Trees”
Arts+Leisure presents I Can See the Wood for the Trees, a new solo project by Maria Marshall. Consisting of a video installation on two screens as well as a photograph, a sculpture, and a painting, the...More »
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Peter Hutchinson “Nature of Language”
Arts+Leisure presents Nature of Language, a solo exhibition by Peter Hutchinson. The exhibition presents new watercolors, photographs from Hutchinson’s garden and travels, drawings, and text. This exhibition...More »
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JJ Manford “Greenport Magic”
Arts+Leisure presents JJ Manford’s first project at the gallery, Greenport Magic. The thirteen paintings in this exhibition present the viewer with intricate and luminous representations of surreal landscapes...More »
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Noah Klersfeld “Pillow”
Arts+Leisure presents Noah Klersfeld’s first project at the gallery, Pillow. Working with surface and depth, color and light, timing and rhythm, Klersfeld creates textural videos, harmonizing multiple...More »
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Paul Brainard “Swamp Honkey”
Arts+Leisure presents Paul Brainard’s first project at the gallery, Swamp Honkey. Comprising of a dozen large-scale graphite drawings and an oil painting, the exhibition presents the artist’s vision of...More »
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Robert Hodge “20ft Tall”
Arts+Leisure presents Robert Hodge’s first solo exhibition in New York, 20ft Tall. The works in this exhibition showcase Hodge’s innovative multi-media based practice, which starts with the artist scouring...More »
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Ezra Johnson “Angry Sea”
Arts+Leisure presents Ezra Johnson’s new solo exhibition, Angry Sea. For this exhibition, Johnson has created an animation representing the brain in a state of anger, displayed alongside several small-scale...More »
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Brad Tucker “Knuckle Mountain Lookout”
Arts + Leisure presents Brad Tucker’s solo exhibition, Knuckle Mountain Lookout. For Tucker’s first project with Arts+Leisure, the artist will present a new series of minimalist wall and installation-based...More »
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Cecilia Salama “The Butterfly Reprise”
Arts + Leisure presents Cecilia Salama’s solo exhibition, The Butterfly Reprise, opening July 21 and running through September 7, 2016. For Salama’s first project with Arts + Leisure, the artist will present...More »
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Kelley Johnson “Flickering and Floating / Here and There”
Arts+Leisure presents Miami-based artist Kelley Johnson’s solo project Flickering and Floating / Here and There. This will be Johnson’s first solo project in New York City. The heart of Kelley Johnson’s...More »
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Samuel Jablon “Life is Fine”
Freight+Volume and Arts+Leisure present Life is Fine, a two-gallery exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Samuel Jablon. This marks Jablon’s second solo exhibition at...More »
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Tess Bilhartz “Purple Nights”
Two women cruise the high desert looking for enlightenment. Instead they encounter blood and dark energy, time and again finding themselves caught in their own headlights. In Purple Nights, Tess Bilhartz’...More »
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Ash Ferlito “I Want to Break Free”
Arts+Leisure presents I Want to Break Free, an installation of new work by Ash Ferlito. The show’s title comes from the Queen song of the same name. It is one of a few songs stuck in her head since the...More »
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Eric White “1/3-Scale Retrospective”
White’s original paintings typically feature images drawn from cinema, especially 1940s Hollywood and new-noir films, which he gives a surrealistic and psychological twist. In LA Weekly, Peter Frank describes...More »
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“Your Bad Self: Group Self Portrait Exhibition”
For our next project at Arts+Leisure, we are presenting an array of artists’ self portraits. This salon-style group exhibition is titled “Your Bad Self”, and includes: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner,...More »
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Jennifer Sullivan “House Cat”
House Cat, a collection of recent work by Jennifer Sullivan offers an eclectic collection of paintings, works on paper, and a new video, in which the artist makes a conscious effort to move away from direct...More »
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Sophia Narrett “This Meant Nothing”
Arts+Leisure presents a new series of embroidered paintings by Sophia Narrett, her debut solo in NYC. This Meant Nothing weaves together a narrative gleaned from social media including Tumblr, pop tabloids,...More »
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David Humphrey and Jennifer Coates “Plush Onus”
This exhibition consists of a thirty-five minute video commissioned by the Garth Newel Music Center to accompany a live performance of Terry Riley’s piece “In C”, as well as a selection of collaborative...More »
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Aaron Johnson “¡Eso Si Que Es!”
For his first project at Arts+Leisure, Aaron Johnson presents ¡Eso Si Que Es! (S.O.C.K.S) - roughly translated, “It is what it is.” ¡Eso Si Que Es! focuses exclusively on Aaron Johnson’s sock paintings,...More »
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Rebecca Goyette “Sausage Party Bride”
Rebecca Goyette has created a hybrid, multimedia practice including video, performance, sculpture and 2-D work which explores the humor of sexuality and human nature through art. For Goyette, sex is a...More »
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Cristina de Miguel “Extraños en la noche intercambiando miradas”
Cristina de Miguel makes disarmingly witty and endearing gifs* and sketches in a new series on view at Arts+Leisure project space in East Harlem. On the heels of very well-received solo exhibition at...More »
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Katherine Bradford “Shelf Paintings”
Katherine Bradford has been developing and enriching the art of hybrid painting/wall sculpture, which she calls Shelf Paintings, for her latest project now on view at Arts+Leisure in East Harlem. Her past...More »
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Donald Baechler “Sixteen Bad Neighbors”
Arts+Leisure presents a brand new suite of graphite on paper works by the renowned artist Donald Baechler, entitled Sixteen Bad Neighbors. Disarmingly simple and childlike at first glance, these drawings...More »