439 W 127th St. - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for 439 W 127th St.. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair”
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Film
- 2023-05-18 - 2023-05-21
Founded in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, 1-54 is the first and only international fair dedicated to contemporary African art. With three editions per year—in London, New York and Marrakech—as well as an annual...More »
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“Real Corporeal” Exhibition
Gladstone Gallery presents Real Corporeal, a group exhibition of works by Amanda Ba, Rhea Dillon, Cyprien Gaillard, Chase Hall, Arthur Jafa, Klein, Mark Leckey, Tommy Malekoff, Jasper Marsalis, nakaya...More »
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Uri Aran “House”
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Ed Atkins “I like spit now”
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“Bethlehem Hospital” Exhibition
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Alex Katz Exhibition
This exhibition tells the story of a year in Alex Katz’s painted-life. A life where landscapes are observed from the edge of his home in Maine. For more than half a century, Katz painted this land with...More »
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Verne Dawson “The Theft of Fire, Expulsion & Mudslide”
The Theft of Fire, Expulsion & Mudslide is a two-venue exhibition by Verne Dawson, at Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Galerie Eva Presenhuber. It is Verne’s tenth solo show with Gavin Brown. His first...More »
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Cy Gavin Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents an exhibition of paintings by Cy Gavin. It is the artist’s first show with the gallery. Comprised of new paintings, the exhibition features a series of nocturnal landscapes...More »
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Ella Kruglyanskaya “Fenix”
In her third solo exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Ella Kruglyanskaya envelops us in a world of high melodrama, with a series of musings on familiar tropes in painting, distorted, reconfigured,...More »
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Michel Auder Exhibition
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Jannis Kounellis Exhibition
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Rirkrit Tiravanija Exhibition
First Floor More »
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Rob Pruitt “American Quilts 2018”
Fourth Floor Gavin Brown’s presents American Quilts 2018, a new exhibition by artist Rob Pruitt. For his eighth show at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rob Pruitt has produced a series of new works based...More »
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Leilah Weinraub “Shakedown”
SHAKEDOWN tells the story of Los Angeles’ black lesbian strip club scene and its genesis crafted by Weinraub over a fifteen-year period that began in 2002. Owned and operated by women, underground and...More »
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Frances Stark “Teen O.P.E.R.A.”
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Arthur Jafa “Air Above Mountains, Unknown Pleasures”
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Frida Orupabo “Cables To Rage”
On Sunday, March 4th, Gavin Brown’s enterprise will open Frida Orupabo’s first solo exhibition, presenting a group of new collages constructed from Orupabo’s prolific archive of found materials. These...More »
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Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys “Objects As Friends”
Objects as Friends, the title of the show, finds its origins in the German language and was first spoke by Johannes* – an amateur painter who lived from 1947 to 2010 near Aachen, Germany. Shortly before...More »
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Avery Singer “Days of the Weak (computer pain)”
Avery Singer (b. 1987) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Sailor, Vienna Secession (2016) and Kölnischer Kunstverein (2017); Scenes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Hammer...More »
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Latoya Ruby Frazier Exihibition
“Through photographs, videos and text I use my artwork as a platform to advocate for others, the oppressed, the disenfranchised. When I encounter an individual or family facing inequality I create visibility...More »
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Alex Katz Exhibition
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Rirkrit Tiravanija “Skip The Bruising Of The Eskimos To The Exquisite Words…”
Skip The Bruising Of The Eskimos To The Exquisite Words Vs. If I Give You A Penny You Can Give Me A Pair Of Scissors More »
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Rachel Rose Exhibition
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“Sturtevant” Exhibition
Curated By Robert Snowden More »
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Brian Belott “Dr. Kid President Jr.”
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, children’s art has been vital to any understanding of modern and contemporary art. A child’s ability to ignore the constructs of external reality allows them...More »
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Joan Jonas “What Is Found In The Windowless House Is True”
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Dara Friedman “Mother Drum”
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Arthur Jafa “Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death”
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents Arthur Jafa’s, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. This is Jafa’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and will be the first time this work has been shown publicly. Love...More »
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Ed Atkins Exhibition
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Kounellis, Sturtevant, Tiravanija Exhibition
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Alex Katz Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents ALEX KATZ’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, and first exclusively devoted to his series of landscape paintings. A full color catalogue will accompany the exhibition....More »
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Karl Holmqvist and Rirkirt Tiravanija Exhibition
HERE’S GOOD LOOKING @U, KID is an exhibition of new paintings, sculptures, and a site-specific written intervention by Karl Holmqvist. Working across various media, including painting, sculpture, film,...More »
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“Call and Response” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2015-01-24 - 2015-02-28
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Urs Fisher Exhibition
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Rob Pruitt “Multiple Personalities”
This Fall Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Rob Pruitt. For this upcoming exhibition, Pruitt leaves behind his trademark mixture...More »
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“Afrika Bambaataa” Exhibition
Born In The Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop, Boo-Hooray c/o Gavin Brown’s enterprise present Afrika Bambaataa. In 2007, the Cornell Hip Hop Collection was established by Johan...More »
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Oliver Payne and Nick Relph “Ash’s Stash”
I heard something the other day about the comeback of the Nokia brick. Nothing has comebacks anymore, I thought to myself. Today, everything is always ‘on’ at once, simultaneously forever - we’ve simply...More »
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Gavin Brown “MAPSRICARDOIKEA”
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents the work of Gavin Brown - for the first time in New York in two decades. Raised in suburban London and working in New York since 1988, Gavin Brown has owned and operated...More »
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Kerstin Brätsch / Mark Handforth / Mark Leckey Exhibition
KERSTIN BRÄTSCH “UNSTABLE TALISMANIC RENDERINGS” MARK HANDFORTH MARK LECKEY “A MONTH OF MAKING”More »
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Jennifer Bornstein, Judith Bernstein, Frances Stark Exhibition
Jennifer Bornstein printed the gallery space. This doesn’t mean metaphorically but literally and physically. Monotype prints were pulled from the floor, window, ceiling beams, heating vents, and cracks...More »
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Dara Friedman Exhibition
In PLAY, (Part 1&2), 2013, 15 couples—some real-life couples, others paired by the artist, all of them actors—develop and play out scenes of intimacy. The poetic, intense, and humorous situations grow...More »
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Alex Katz Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents ALEX KATZ. Marking the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery, ALEX KATZ features a rare yet integral series of Katz’s works—his cutouts. Existing as painted portraits...More »
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Martin Creed Exhibition
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Bjarne Melgaard “Ignorant Transparencies”
Those intrepid heroes, how are they treated, Those who wade out into battle? Wolf-skinned they are called. In battle They bear bloody shields. Red with blood are their spears when they come to fight. –...More »
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“Made in Space” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-07-11 - 2013-08-10
Curated by Peter Harkawik & Laura Owens Made in Space 1. Someone drank tea. Someone else felt that a specific kind of taco eaten at a particular geographic location was like a drug. The spices...More »
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“Afrika Bambaataa Master of Records Open Vinyl Archive” Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Johan Kugelberg/Boo-Hooray Gallery, together with Afrika Bambaataa, the Universal Zulu Nation, and Cornell University Library announce the public archiving of one of the most...More »
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Joe Bradley “Lotus Beaters”
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Elizabeth Peyton Exhibition
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Rirkrit Tiravanija "Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future, again"
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Jonathan Horowitz "Group Self-Portraits in Mirror #1"
From Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" to Edouard Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere", the mirror has continued to enchant art lovers. Jonathan Horowitz presents the newest exploration of the mirror's...More »
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"John Deere Model D" Exhibition
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Christopher Knowles Exhibition
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Jeremy Deller, Alex Katz Joint Exhibition
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Thomas Bayrle Exhibition
So it went on cooking and the porridge rose over the edge, and still it cooked on until the kitchen and whole house were full, and then the next house, and then the whole street, just as if it wanted to...More »
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Kerstin Brätsch Exhibition
In her first solo exhibition in New York, Kerstin Brätsch employs the tradition of stained glassmaking as a device to examine both her own practice as a painter and painting's attendant histories and techniques. The...More »
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Akira Horikawa "1000 Drawing Project"
I first met Akira last year when he applied for a job to help me with a painting project. In his application, he included very exact, expert life drawings and a link to a Tumblr account. I hired him without...More »
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"Group Shoe" Exhibition
Curated by Joe BradleyMore »
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Ella Kruglyanskaya "Woman! Painting! Woman!"
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Sturtevant "Rock & Rap /c Simulacra"
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Jonathan Horowitz "Self Portraits in Mirror #1"
But man, proud man… Most ignorant of what he is most assured, His glassy essence — Shakespeare Gavin Brown's enterprise presents exhibition, “Self Portraits in Mirror #1”, by Jonathan Horowitz. In...More »
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Frances Stark "Osservate, leggete con me"
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Udomsak Krisanamis "Space Out"
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Uri Aran "By Foot, By Car, By Sea"
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Spencer Sweeney "The Pharaoh's Lounge -Party Painting and Sauna"
Spencer Sweeney, born and raised in Philadelphia, is a painter, musician and owner of Santa's Party House at 100 Lafayette St, two blocks below Canal. Sweeney is a cultural titan, bestriding the city,...More »
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Dara Friedman "Dancer"
To think with the body, to dance. Dancer, 2011. Is a new film by Dara Friedman. It is in black and white and 16mm. It is a film about movement. Inspired partly by the late Pina Bausch (1940-1990)...More »
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Urs Fischer and Cassandra Macleod Exhibition
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Alex Katz Exhibition
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Alex Katz "Billboard painting"
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Peter Nadin "First Mark"
Peter Nadin was born in 1954 in Bromborough in the north of England and moved to New York in 1976, after being presented with the Max Beckman Award at the Brooklyn Museum. Since then, he has lived and...More »
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Nate Lowman "Trash Landing"
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Rirkrit Tiravanija "Fear Eats the Soul"
Tiravanija's first exhibition in New York - Pad Thai - was over 20 years ago. Since that point Tiravanija has consistently defied expectations of the form, and status of the work of art. He has upended...More »
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"Billboards" Installations
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Joe Bradley "Mouth and Foot Painting"
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Mark Leckey Exhibition
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Mark Handforth Exhibition
‘I let objects collapse, and through their destruction they are transformed. So, in a sense, through their destruction they are reborn. It’s a creative act beginning with failure. In this failure things...More »
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Rob Pruitt "Pattern and Degradation"
Gavin Brown's enterprise presents Pattern and Degradation, a major exhibition of new works by Rob Pruitt. Opening on Saturday, September 11th, Pattern and Degradation will occupy the entirety of GBE's...More »
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"Billboads" Installation
Gavin Brown’s enterprise announces a second presentation of artist billboards. On view 24 hours a day, seven days a week.More »
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Jonathan Horowitz “Go Vegan!”
Gavin Brown's enterprise (GBE) presents the restaging of Jonathan Horowitz's widely acclaimed 2002 exhibition “Go Vegan!” Originally presented at Greene Naftali Gallery, this major installation work will...More »
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Martin Creed Exhibition
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Spencer Sweeney "Egyptian Diving Board."
Gavin Brown's enterprise presents the second part of Spencer Sweeney's unprecedented exhibition "Egyptian Diving Board." Sweeney is a seminal figure in the culture of 21st century New York. In a city...More »
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Nick Relph Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Nick Relph. The show comprises video, collage, and works on paper. Since 2000 Nick Relph has made work with his collaborator...More »
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Rob Pruitt "Pop Touched Me:The Art of Rob Pruitt"
On a Monday afternoon at the end of August 2006 I was on the corner of Greenwich and Leroy. I was with ten or so hired recent art-school graduates, a few hundred pairs of used blue jeans and a huge revolving...More »
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Silke Otto-Knapp "Interiors"
In Silke Otto-Knapp’s new works rooms, screens (partitions, windows, paintings within paintings) and stages together form a picture of what painting could be as a space of appearance: spaces become screens;...More »
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Spencer Sweeney Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents an exhibition of new work by Spencer Sweeney, featuring paintings, installation, and a multimedia rock opera that will evolve throughout the course of the show. The...More »
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Laura Owens "New Paintings" New Paintings
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"Spring Breakdown" Book Release Party
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"Europäisch-Amerikanische Freundschaft" Exhibition
Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents an exhibition of three young European artists: Ida Ekblad, Alistair Frost, and David Hominal. While all three have shown widely in Europe, they are relatively new to American...More »
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"The Living and The Dead" Exhibition
The living and the dead A long time ago was [is] a long time ago. Now is now. So the question is not so much “when?” but “where?” More »
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Verne Dawson Exhibition
Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius. By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius. It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet....More »
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Jennifer Bornstein Exhibition
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Peter Doig "New Paintings"
Michael Werner Gallery and Gavin Brown’s enterprise announce a joint exhibition of new works by Peter Doig. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition of new paintings in the United States in nearly 10...More »
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Jonathan Horowitz "Obama '08"
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Rob Pruitt "iPhotos"
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"Pretty and Ugly" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-07-10 - 2008-08-29
Pretty and Ugly, while both somewhat pejorative terms in intellectual circles, are handy, if deliberately sophomoric, positions that might be used to describe how artists try to aesthetically shape their...More »
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Dara Friedman "Musical"
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Tony Just "The Purest & the Dirtiest"
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Elizabeth Peyton Exhibition