BravinLee Programs - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for BravinLee Programs. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“If Tomorrow Comes” Exhibition
If Tomorrow Comes is a love letter to the future, unified by common decency. However much our leaders fail us, we, the people are steadfastly aware of the beauty, hope and opportunity that the world offers...More »
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Thomas Nozkowski “80’s - 90’s”
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.” “The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.” Paul Cezanne In our small gallery, we are very pleased to present...More »
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Chechu Álava “The Restless Muses”
Muse When I wait, at night, for her to come, Life, it seems, hangs by a strand. What are honour, youth, freedom, Next to the dear guest, flute in hand? And now she enters, throws aside Her veil,...More »
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“A Fractured Sigh” Exhibition
Curated by Charlotte Bravin Lee and Chiara Mannarino While the concept of touch has been explored in many of the creative responses to this moment, breath remains largely neglected despite the critical...More »
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“Ornament: Ho-Hum All Ye Faithful 3” Exhibition
BravinLee Programs presents its third edition of Ornament: Ho-Hum All Ye Faithful, (version1 1991 and version2 2007). We’ve invited artists to make an “ornament,” and as the work has been arriving at...More »
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Claire Kerr “One Thing Turns into Another”
BravinLee Programs presents “One thing turns into another” New Paintings by Claire Kerr. Kerr was born in Wallsend, North Tyneside in Northeast England, has a degree from Oxford University and resides...More »
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“Comic Relief” Exhibition
Co-curated by Charlotte Bravin Lee “I wear a mask. And that mask, it’s not to hide who I am, but to create what I am.” —Batman, Batman Vol. 1 #624 Prior to being exposed to museums, galleries and...More »
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Philip Akkerman and Dennis Koot Exhibition
BravinLee presents the portraits of Philip Akkerman in collaboration with graphic designer Dennis Koot. Koot has designed a series of framing elements in reaction to Akkerman’s paintings. The frame is...More »
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Erik Olson “Deep Field”
BravinLee Programs presents DEEP FIELD, new space paintings by Erik Olson. In 1995, NASA engineers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a small and completely black section of space located in the...More »
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves “The Initial Impulse Paintings “
BravinLee programs presents the Initial Impulse Paintings by Jennifer Wynne Reeves, executed in 1999-2000 and never before exhibited in the U.S.A. Real. A book was just published about Jennifer’s epic...More »
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Gabe Langholtz “Americholia”
BravinLee programs presents recent work by self-taught painter Gabe Langholtz. Gabe Langholtz is a Naïve Modernist & Geometric Abstract painter from Austin, TX. In the tradition of folk art, Langholtz...More »
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Tom Burckhardt “Book Vitrine”
BravinLee presents artist books and book related wall works by Tom Burckhardt. Burckhardt was born 1964 in New York where he still currently resides and works alongside his partner the ceramist Kathy...More »
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Douglas Florian “Spells and Apparitions”
Bravin Lee presents Douglas Florian’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. In large-scale paintings, all oil on linen, language is merged with a vivid experience of line, shape, color, texture, and...More »
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Judith Henry “Casting Call”
Judith Henry’s Casting Call is comprised of 300 small sculptures made from salvaged detritus (otherwise destined for the landfill). Resembling latter-day Hopi Kachina Figures, they assume peculiar urban...More »
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Charles Ritchie Exhibition
BravinLee programs presents Charles Ritchie. This is our fourth amazing exhibition of his work. Charles Ritchie’s small scaled works on paper are intensely exquisite, muscular and authoritative in translating...More »
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Laura Krifka “Between You and Me”
Between You and Me is Laura Krifka’s second exhibition at BravinLee. Krifka dissects the way power and identity is constructed in visual culture. She is interested in how the language of art history has...More »
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves “Blobscapes”
I start to paint. I squeeze out lumps on the palette. One little blob speaks to me. He seems to say, “I am the sun. You revolve around me.” I swipe at him with my brush and lay a piece of him on the canvas....More »
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Michael Rees “Clown Town”
BravinLee programs presents Michael Rees’ new n-dimensional sculptures. When looking at Michael Rees’s art many people might be tempted to ask “what is this about?” In Rees’ case the answer is “Who...More »
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“9 Sculptures” Exhibition
BravinLee programs presents 9 sculptures. The works are all intimate in scale. The artists in the exhibition are: Lisa Beck, Stacy Fisher, Ethan Greenbaum, Joanne Greenbaum, Jesse Greenberg, Emily Noelle...More »
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“Introspective, A group exhibition of self portraits” Exhibition
The self portrait is the lingua franca of the smartphone era. The scourage and proliferation of “selfes” and “profiles” is certainly indicative that we are enduring the best of times-as well as the worst...More »
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Erik Olson “Dusseldorfer”
“As with my previous work I paint what’s around me: the colors and forms and subjects at hand. The 24 paintings that make up ‘Düsseldorfer’ are the result of the last year as a guest student in Peter Doig’s...More »
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Elektra KB “The Accidental Pursuit of The Stateless”
BravinLee programs presents “The Accidental Pursuit of The Stateless,” its second solo project with Elektra KB. KB, born in Odessa, Ukraine, is a Colombian artist living and working in Berlin and New...More »
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“Paper Route 66” Exhibition
BravinLee programs presents Paper Route 66. BravinLee has invited 6 curators from 6 U.S. cities to select three artists from their respective regions. The show will include 18 works on paper. We are excited...More »
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Judith Henry “Hidden: Two Iterations”
Bravinlee programs is pleased to present two new series of work by Judith Henry; Me as Her and The Artist is Hiding, 2013-2014. For over 40 years, Judith Henry has created evocative multimedia artworks...More »
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Amparo Sard Exhibition
Spanish artist Amparo Sard uses a very unique form of physical pointillism to build an intricate pixilated image/narrative. By perforating the sheet of paper with thousands of pinholes using techniques...More »
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Jeffrey Beebe “The Battle of The Invoked Impossibility”
BravinLee programs bravely kicks off 2015 with Jeffrey Beebe’s The Battle of The Invoked Impossibility. Though facts are scarce, the wan scholars of esoterica have assembled some information regarding...More »
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Halley Zien “We’re All in Here”
BravinLee programs presents Halley Zien’s “We’re All in Here.” Made from collage and paint, Zien’s densely populated surfaces suggest claustrophobic interior spaces packed with feverishly active, expressive...More »
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves “Place”
BravinLee programs to opens its season with Place, a selection of paintings, photographs and drawings by Jennifer Wynne Reeves. Jennifer Reeves life was cut too short when she succumbed to brain cancer...More »
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Clint Jukkala “Cosmic Trigger”
Clint Jukkala’s new paintings combine elements of landscape, abstraction and portraiture into one enigmatic, compelling and almost satirical image. The paintings suggest that seeing and believing are subjective...More »
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Katie Armstrong “Dark Spring”
Katie Armstrong uses traditional hand-drawn animation techniques to explore the interaction between popular culture and personal experience, creating a dialogue between internal and external worlds. Dark...More »
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Douglas Florian “The Beestes and the Briddes Alle”
In Douglas Florian’s fourth solo show at BravinLee Programs he moves from small works on paper or wood to large oil on linen canvases in a series entitled, “The Beestes and the Briddes Alle.” In these...More »
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“Space is the Place” Exhibition
“Every man’s memory is his private literature.” - Aldous Huxley BravinLee programs presents Space is The Place, a group exhibition including Jeffrey Beebe, Fred Tomaselli, Chris McCaw, Amy Wilson,...More »
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Erik Olson “New Portraits”
BravinLee programs presents New Portraits by Erik Olson. Olson, 31 lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is a graduate from Emily Carr University in Vancouver. New Portraits consists of 21...More »
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Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, Matt Miller Exhibition
BravinLee programs presents an exhibition of work by Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, and Matt Miller. These artists share an ambivalence towards being easily categorized by using sculptural form, painted surfaces,...More »
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Elektra KB “There Are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World…”
BravinLee programs presents an exhibition in the gallery’s project room by Elektra KB of new works on paper, photography, and a selection of cloth pages of her 20 page, hand-sewn artist’s book. The...More »
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“Floater” Exhibition
Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, and consistency that exist within the eye’s vitreous humor. They may appear as spots, webs, fragments, or threads that float slowly before the observer’s eyes....More »
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Laura Krifka "Viper Kingdom"
BravinLee presents “Viper Kingdom” an exhibition of new paintings and an animation by Laura Krifka. Krifka, twenty-seven, lives and works in Southern California, this is her first one-person exhibition...More »
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves "The Worms in the Walls at Mondrian's House"
BravinLee programs presents an exhibition of new works by Jennifer Wynne Reeves. Reeves emphasizes the sensual and appealing nature of lushly rendered surfaces, colors and forms. Though an abstract...More »
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Tom Sanford "100 Little Deaths"
BravinLee programs presents 100 Little Deaths by Tom Sanford. Tom Sanford set out to draw one hundred notable individuals who passed away in 2012 with the idea of “Petite Morte” in mind. Translated...More »
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Charles Ritchie Exhibition
BravinLee presents its third exhibition of work by Charles Ritchie. BravinLee first learned of Charles Ritchie’s astonishing work in 2007 on the website of the esteemed art collector Mickey Cartin. On...More »
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Philip Akkerman "Miners"
BravinLee programs presents Miners, new paintings by Philip Akkerman. BravinLee programs has exhibited Philip Akkerman since 1993. Akkerman's work is entirely self-portraiture but limitation leads to...More »
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Guy Richards Smit
BravinLee programs presents a new work on paper by Guy Richards Smit. Mr. Smit mines his brooding absurdism as a performance artist, front man, artist and filmmaker. In his many guises, Mr. Smit is a provocateur...More »
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"A New Generation of T.A.G. Opens an Exhibition at BravinLee programs" Exhibition
On July 11th, Teen Art Gallery will open T.A.G. : A New Chapter at BravinLee programs in Chelsea. This will be the first show curated by the second generation of T.A.G. members. T.A.G. was founded by...More »
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Syd Mead "Future (Perfect)"
BravinLee programs presents "Future (Perfect)", a survey of gouaches on board by the legendary concept designer and Futurist Syd Mead. "Future (Perfect)" at BravinLee programs represents an almost unprecedented...More »
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Elena Berriolo Exhibition
The BravinLee artist's book program presents a selection of books from an ongoing series of hand-painted and embroidered books by Elena Berriolo. Each book is inspired by a piece of music from composers...More »
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Douglas Florian "Dawn Thieves"
BravinLee programs presents its third one person exhibition of new paintings by Douglas Florian. The work in the exhibition was painted over the last five years. They obliquely reference geology, paleontology,...More »
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Amy Wilson "We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes"
BravinLee programs presents Amy Wilson’s sprawling exhibition, We Dream of Star Fish and Geodesic Domes. Incorporating a wide variety of media, including watercolor on paper, acrylic on panel, collage,...More »
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Katie Armstrong "When It All Goes White"
In the Project Space we are showing a new video by Katie Armstrong, “When it All Goes White.” Blending performance, video and animation, “When It All Goes White” is an exercise in accepting the ephemeral....More »
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Jonathan Lasker "Sketchbooks"
Jonathan Lasker’ sketchbooks reveal the initial stage of his process the proto-permutations of the glyphs, color fields and arrangements that will later occupy his finished work. Some motifs are cursory,...More »
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Iva Gueorguieva and Rebecca Morales Exhibition
Bravinlee programs presents five new works on vellum by Rebecca Morales and two new large monotypes by Iva Gueorguieva. Rebecca Morales manically realistic works, executed in painterly applied gouache...More »
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Boo Ritson "All Aboard"
BravinLee programs presents “All Aboard,” new photographs by London artist Boo Ritson. Defying simple categorization, Boo Ritson’s work straddles the realms of painting, sculpture, performance and photography....More »
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Melissa Meyer "Just Painting"
In the artists’ book vitrine, we will present “Just Painting” by Melissa Meyer, made specifically for BravinLee's book program. This handmade book that consists of twelve luminous abstract watercolors...More »
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Katie Armstrong "Once More"
"Once More, Once More" is an animated piece set to Armstrong's own bittersweet rendition of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time, a song dug up from the garbage of American pop culture. She attempts to...More »
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Lisa Kellner "Love Is A Place"
BravinLee programs presents Lisa Kellner’s paintings on Mylar. In her series titles, “Love is a Place” Kellner integrates puddles of raw pigments with thousands of tiny hand drawn circles, merging an unpredictable...More »
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Chuck Close, Thomas Nozkowski, Fabian Marcaccio, and Alex Brown Exhibition
[Image: Alex Brown "untitled" (2011) Watercolor on paper 10.125 x 14.125 in.]More »
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Iva Gueorguieva "Cut"
Iva Gueorguieva’s works on paper are composed of densely packed elements of collage, drawing and painting. Orchestral in their complexity, recognizable forms and images emerge from energetic, animated...More »
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Marcia Kure "Fashionable Hybrids"
BravinLee programs presents “Fashionable Hybrids” new work on paper by Marcia Kure, born in Nigeria. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at BravinLee. Marcia Kure’s imagery is partially influenced...More »
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Rebecca Morales "While There's Calm"
Rebecca Morales exhibition at BravinLee is comprised of two triptychs, Adjacent Plumes and Still Forest, painted on vellum, each measuring approximately 40 x 108 inches. In the second gallery Morales...More »
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Philip Akkerman "Am I A Person?"
BravinLee programs presents “Am I A Person?” paintings by Philip Akkerman. BravinLee has exhibited Philip Akkerman since 1993. The following is an essay written especially for this exhibition by English...More »
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Michelle Blade “Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, Rubedo”
The title of the exhibition, nigredo(blackness), albedo(whiteness), citrinitas (yellowing) and rubedo(redness) are the four chromatic stages of an alchemical work. The terms are rooted in medieval European...More »
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Justine Kurland and Francesca Woodman Exhibition
BravinLee programs presents photographs by Justine Kurland and Francesca Woodman. The exhibition consists of a selection of Justine Kurland’s “Girl Pictures” made between 1998 and 2004 and photographs...More »
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Mark Grotjahn, Sol LeWitt, Alan McCollum James Siena, James Welling Exhibition
[Image: Alan McCollum "9 Perfect Vehicles" (1985-1990), Number 907, enamel and acrylic on cast hydrostone, 21 x 30 x 28½ in.]More »
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Chris Astley "Geronimo"
BravinLee programs presents Geronimo, a new artwork by Chris Astley. Astley collects and alters bags and containers to use as molds for making sculptures. He fills them with materials that they were...More »
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Douglas Florian "Letting In the Light"
BravinLee programs presents its second show of work by Douglas Florian. Using gouache and collage on gesso-primed brown paper bags, Florian obliquely explores the natural world, referencing geology,...More »
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Amy Wilson "It takes time to turn a space around"
It Takes Time To Turn A Space Around, 2010, is a 10” x 280” seven panel drawing by Amy Wilson that was commissioned for her first public project. The 150’ outdoor installation is currently on view in lower...More »
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"The Hendersons Will All Be There" Exhibition
The Hendersons Will All Be There includes collage-based work by Dianna Frid, Jason Gringler, Matthew Rich, Steve Roden, Letha Wilson and Halley Zien. The title of this show is taken from the Beatles song...More »
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Rob Swainston "Centennial Drift"
- Media: Drawing - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-02-05 - 2010-03-13
Rob Swainston mixes installation, printmaking, sculpture, drawing and video in an exploration of social and historical processes. Because Swainston works large and in multiples he can cut up, overprint,...More »
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Group Show
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"The Degenerate Craft Fair"
The Degenerate Craft Fair, a sort of anti-art-fair featuring over 20 artists and designers. Just in time for holiday shopping, it will take place in the first three weekends of December at three different...More »
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Charles Ritchie "Books and Pages, 2004-2009"
BravinLee programs announces that this show of Books and Pages by Charles Ritchie has finally arrived. We first came across the work in 2007 on the website of collector Mickey Cartin. We immediately...More »
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Sebastiaan Bremer "Panta Rei"
BravinLee programs presents Sebastiaan Bremer's first exhibition at BravinLee programs. We have admired Sebastiaan’s work for years and are thankful for the opportunity to make a show of his new work....More »
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Charlotte Lee and Kate Pressman "The Book"
The Book began as a project between two 12 year old schoolmates on a sleepover. It continued throughout the year as they turned 13. The book was passed back and forth daily and gradually filled with diaristic...More »
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"Opportunities" Exhibition
[Image: Jorge Macchi "Opportunities" (2005) newspaper cutouts, 20.25 x 16.125 x 1.75 in.] More »
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Mequitta Ahuja "Automythography I"
Mequitta Ahuja refers to her ongoing project as Automythography. A variation of author Audre Lorde’s coined term, Automythography combines history, myth and personal narrative. She uses two central pictorial...More »
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Nina Bovasso "New Works on Paper"
Nina Bovasso's work has been described at various times as being "euphoric," "intense," "over the top," and "a Dutch Still Life on acid." The paintings are executed principally with water based material-ink,...More »
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Bhakti Baxter "After Certain Amounts of Breath"
After Certain Amounts of Breath reflects Baxter’s strong interest in confronting the constructions of our daily existence and mortality in the face of other potential realities. Experiences of human relationships...More »
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Donna Ruff "Es-tu comme moi?"
BravinLee programs presents Es-tu comme moi? an artist book by Donna Ruff. Donna Ruff is interested in written language: as visual object and sign, to communicate or obfuscate, and in which authorship...More »
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Danny Hobart "If I Should Die Before I Wake"
A catalogue of personal belongings, memories, and individuals, Hobart's paintings inhabit the canvas with his contemporary quotidian, while invoking the style and technique of various Old World masters....More »
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Amy Wilson "The Myth of Loneliness"
"The Myth of Loneliness," Amy Wilson’s first exhibition with the gallery, featurs new books and drawings. Amy Wilson has developed an ensemble cast of child-like female characters inhabiting a storybook-like...More »
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Martin Wilner "Journal of Evidence Weekly, Vol. 140"
"The Journal of Evidence Weekly, Vol. 140" is an artist book by Martin Wilner. This sketchbook is one volume in a series Wilner executes while riding the New York City subway. Though compositionally he...More »
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Group Show
[Image: Mequitta Ahuja "Roots" (2008), enamel on charcoal on paper 30 x 22 in.]More »
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"Works on Paper" Summer Group Exhibition
[Image: Thomas Nozkowski "untitled (Q-80)" (2006) oil on paper 22 x 30 in]More »
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Boo Ritson "Then and Now and Forever"
Though ostensibly photographic, Boo Ritson’s work is essentially painting. It straddles a range of art disciplines and practices from painting and sculpture to happenings and conceptual art. The sitters...More »
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Amparo Sard "Mistake"
BravinLee programs is very pleased to present “Mistake” a new body of work in paper by Spanish artist Amparo Sard. Amparo Sard has exhibited extensively in Europe; this is her first one person exhibition...More »