The National Exemplar - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The National Exemplar. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Nico Vascellari “1/2”
A half is two equal or corresponding separate parts. We could be split in half: Outside (eyes, ears, legs, arms, buttocks…) and Inside (lungs, testicles…). Almost perfection. Two symmetrical halves...More »
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“ASS” Exhibition
ASS : Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden. Synonymus with Donkey. ASS: from Middle English ars, ers, from Old...More »
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Alex Hay & Ryan Foerster “2 benches”
Alex Hay started making furniture in Bisbee, Arizona in the 1970s before he set up his painting studio there because he wanted a chair to lean back in. Eventually they evolved into “rocking benches” with...More »
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Lesley Raeside “Four paintings from 1999 to 2018”
After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, Lesley Raeside rented a studio in the east end of Glasgow where she met an American painter from Berkeley, California who was inspired by the energetic, experimental...More »
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Nate Lowman & Keith Sonnier “UNTITLED (flowers)”
The second show of Keith Sonnier & Nate Lowman together at the gallery, this one examines their similar interests in nature and abstraction from organic forms. Keith Soniier was born in Mamou,...More »
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John Miller “Early Drawings”
I got back into painting and drawing in a roundabout way. After concentrating on video during art school, I found that once I got out, I could no longer afford to do it, mainly because production standards...More »
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Tristano Di Robilant “Tarquinia”
The National Exemplar presents Tristano Di Robilant’s “Tarquinia” Tarquinia is a town, originally founded by the Etruscans, that lies northwest of Rome on the Aurelian Way. Birthplace to Vincenzo...More »
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Rand Hardy “Lost World”
“Lost World” a limestone cave tourist attraction located in Greenbrier, West Virginia near where Rand Hardy grew up. It has a constant temperature of 52 degrees Fahrenheit all year around. Continuity...More »
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Keith Sonnier “Inflated Works”
Keith Sonnier made the inflated series for his MFA thesis exhibition at Douglas College, Rutgers University in 1966. The materials ranged from plastic, canvas, cheesecloth, sculpt-metal, satin, velvet,...More »
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Matthew Barney, Steve Di Benedetto & John Miller “CHHUNKS”
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco, CA in 1967. Steve Di Benedetto was born in the Bronx, NY in 1958. John Miller was born in Cleveland, OH in 1954. More »
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Keith Sonnier “Tokobashira & Mardi Gras Masks”
Tokobashira series: SUKU-NA-BIKO, 1984 AIZEN-MYOO, 1984 Mardi Gras masks: GANESHA, 2005 OBELIN, 2008 RAYNE, 2008 BRAHMA, 2017 Concerned with western technology and eastern languages, communication...More »
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Julia Benjamin “Some more (black & white) paintings”
In the mill’s dream of itself, gray-scaled slugs inch their way through an apparatus known as the twittering machine. A shuffling turbine rigged from rope, painted timber, and tin sheets, periodically...More »
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Matt Kenny & Francis Picabia “Landscape paintings”
The National Exemplar is pleased to announce it’s new show by Matt Kenny & Francis Picabia “Landscape paintings” J.G. Ballard, Brigid Marlin, and Paul Delvaux “I have always been a great admirer...More »
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Aaron Aujla “Apartment Alteration Paintings”
The National Exemplar is pleased to announce its new exhibition by Aaron Aujla: “Apartment Alteration Paintings” “Apartment Alteration Paintings,” is a continuation of Aaron Aujla’s investigation...More »
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Dean Levin “Exterior objects for Interior use”
The National Exemplar presents “Exterior objects for interior use,” an installation of new works by Dean Levin. Pulling from an array of references culled during a recent trip to Japan, Levin presents...More »
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Robert Bordo “Back Flip”
Nature, roads, and signs, rendered predominately in thick, dark oil paint, imply oblique narratives about ecology, the current social political landscape, and autobiography. Untitled, 1988, the earliest...More »
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Enzo Cucchi “Mostra Scomparsa” (“Disappeared Show”)
We are preparing a work that gives back a form to sacredness, because an art event is not only a formal moment, but something that must be circumscribed precisely because it is sacred. It is a form of...More »
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Kevin Zucker and Richard Arstchwager “Chair, Wall”
Like much of the work made over Richard Artschwager’s extraordinary career, Chair, 1965, embodies a set of propositions that lead us to self-contradictory or mutually exclusive conclusions– that is, to...More »
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Rand Hardy “Working Man”
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Di Benedetto/Segre/Foerster “Plastic Bag in a Tree”
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Matt Kenny “Sweaty Tubes”
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“Cucchi/Festa/Colen” Exhibition
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Steve Di Benedetto, James Siena & Leo Villareal “Systems and Corruptions”
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“SKIN (Part 2)” Exhibition
Skin is the soft outer covering of vertebrates. (from Latin cutis, skin). In mammals, the skin is an organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of ectodermal tissue, and guards the underlying...More »
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“Skin (Part 1)” Exhibition
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Gloria Thurn und Taxis “Men of God”
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Alexander May “26”
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Matt Kenny “See Forever”
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Keith Sonnier and Nate Lowman “Stockprops”
There is a YouTube channel titled “Racks, Pillories, and Interrogations” that reveals the pillory’s comfortable exile to fantasy. In a clip from the 1969 film “Starlet!,” a woman is dragged to a pillory...More »
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Terry Winters “THICKNESS)POINTS:6 DRAWINGS”
Concentric geometries of transparency slightly joggled sink through algebras of proud inwardlyness to collide spirally with iron arithmethics and mesh witH Which when both march...More »
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“American Sculpture” Exhibition
The National Exemplar presents its new exhibition “AMERICAN SCULPTURE” Dylan Bailey from Springfield, Vermont was born in 1985. Julia Benjamin from New York City, was born in 1984. Rand Hardy from...More »
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Todd Eberle “Flowers”
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“Legs” Exhibition
A leg is a weight bearing and locomotive structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as “extensible struts”. The combination of movements at all joints can be modeled as...More »
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Justin Adian Exhibition
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Leo Fitzpatrick “Poem Paintings”
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Steve Di Benedetto and Terry Winters Exhibition
The National Exemplar is pleased to announce its new exhibition by Steve Di Benedetto and Terry Winters. Terry Winters and Steve Di Benedetto make paintings about information. They paint methods of...More »
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Gladys Nilsson and Julia Benjamin Exhibition
Gladys Nilsson, an original member of the Chicago Imagists, is one of America’s most compelling watercolorists. In her works, which are figurative, mystical and surreal, she transmutes real stories into...More »
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Keith Sonnier “Not Neon”
New materials and their physicality. How they feel, how they smell, how they sound, the combinations of dissimilar elements, both rough and delicate. The alchemy of its making, the new meaning the materials...More »
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Peter Coffin “Part 2”