American Contemporary - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for American Contemporary. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Shara Hughes “Far Out”
Shara Hughes’ new paintings present layers of abstracted, actual and pictorial space, all in search of simplicity. These clouded windows of ambiguous form, pattern, and texture are like vibrated, vibrant...More »
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Dwyer Kilcollin “Banquet, Conference”
The exhibition emerges from a fuzzy memory of the last ending, told from a present-day perspective where nothing seems to end. Like a conversation hosted over social media, where sentence fragments accumulate...More »
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Joel Holmberg “You Line”
For the greater part of the 20th Century , companies that controlled the lion’s share of markets got there by joining partnerships and forming associations as a way to reduce transaction costs below market...More »
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Stephen Vitiello Exhibition
American Contemporary announces a two - part installation by renowned sound artist Stephen Vitiello. The exhibition pairs together a major early work, Frogs in Feedback (2002) , and a ne w sculptural sound...More »
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Jean-Baptiste Bernadet “Fugue”
Bernadet’s paintings present mark making as a layered language and a process of active contemplation. He describes a process of infinite gesture where every mark is engaged in a moment of call and response...More »
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Michael Manning “Wild Fusion : Vol. I – Total Collapse”
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Ethan Cook “Problem In Chair Not In Computer”
As human activity is increasingly made technical—molded to autocorrected, auto-tuned, or photoshopped standards—what happens to the productive potential of error? While the standardization of human experience...More »
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“The Cardboard Lover” Exhibition
The Cardboard Lover explores how cultural objects reflect the subjective experiences and objective styles produced by the late capitalist organization of labor. As it has shifted from a factory assembly...More »
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Mariah Robertson “Permanent Puberty”
A philosophical discourse via photographic materials and visual language. A box of photo paper in my darkroom got ‘blown’, that is, opened in a fully lit room. Photography is all about the control...More »
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Julia Goldman “Magazine”
American Contemporary Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Julia Goldman. In Magazine Goldman presents a new, extensive, series of oil paintings, all of a similar size, that explore her continued...More »
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“Yes I Will Yes” Exhibition
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Sarah Braman & Wallace Whitney “Contact High”
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Anna Conway "It's not going to happen like that"
Anna Conway's recent paintings pose a number of questions: are we able to, by acting on our environments, change ourselves? Can our labor and attention to the spaces around us really protect us from feelings...More »
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Joel Holmberg "Soft Laws"
I don't always write statements about my work, but when I do, I prefer to start sentences with “As an artist.†As an artist, it is thrilling to go through customs and be asked what I do. Nothing else...More »
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Daphne Fitzpatrick Exhibition
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Shara Hughes "See Me Seeing Me"
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Stan VanDerBeek Exhibition
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Sam Falls Exhibition
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David Brooks "Notes On Structure (imbroglios, heaps and myopias)"
Is it conceivable through conventions of knowledge-production to see the world through the lens of a fish, a tree, a rock, or from the perspective of petroleum? Even this simple proposition seems absurd,...More »
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Jeffrey Gibson "One becomes the other"
American Contemporary presents one becomes the other, an exhibition by Jeffrey Gibson. A concurrent solo exhibition of works from one becomes the other will take place at PARTICIPANT INC. from February...More »
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Benjamin Degen and Yuri Masnyj "Night X"
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Stefan Sandner "Autonomie und Wirklichkeit"
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Jacob Robichaux "Stickkarton"