Rare - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Rare. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Jin Lim “Our Pixelated Holographic Universe”
RARE Gallery presents Our Pixelated Holographic Universe, Washington, D.C.-based artist Jin Lim’s solo debut in New York. Her new series of mixed media paintings explores the fascinating concept that...More »
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Leslie Lyons & J.B. Wilson “Collateral Culture”
RARE presents Collateral Culture, Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The artists align themselves with curious aspects of cultural antiquity to present two types of contemporary...More »
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Johnston Foster “Hidden Driveway”
RARE presents Hidden Driveway, Johnston Foster’s sixth one-person exhibition (in twelve years) at the gallery. The artist’s new floor and wall sculptures are emblematic of his creative process of scavenging...More »
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Dionisios Fragias “Rush to Fill”
RARE presents Rush to Fill, Dionisios Fragias’ fourth one-person exhibition at the gallery. The artist’s new sculptures and “hybrid” paintings continue his exploration of humanity’s competing and parallel...More »
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Jimmy Joe Roche “Closed Eye Visions”
RARE presents Closed Eye Visions, Jimmy Joe Roche’s third one-person exhibition at the gallery. The artist’s new video, series of drawings, and paper & wood sculptures continue his multi-faceted engagement...More »
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Maya Brodsky “Instants”
RARE Gallery presents Instants, Maya Brodsky’s second one-person exhibition at the gallery. Her new series of paintings on Mylar explores notions of home in relation to the passage of time, the inevitability...More »
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Suzanne Unrein “Fresh!”
RARE Gallery presents Fresh!, Suzanne Unrein’s third one-person exhibition at the gallery. The artist’s new series of erotically charged yet intimately tender paintings and works on paper evokes a world...More »
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“Quiet Please” Exhibition
RARE Gallery presents Quiet Please, a group exhibition featuring contemplative new works by artists Holly Coulis, Matthew F Fisher, Carrie Gundersdorf, Mike Hein, Elisa Lendvay, Matthew Northridge, and...More »
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Santiago Cal “Giants and Gentility”
RARE Gallery presents Giants and Gentility, Nebraska artist Santiago Cal’s solo debut in New York. His series of painted wood sculptures begun in 2013, titled “40 Rings,” explores the intertwining of...More »
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Zach Horn Exhibition
RARE Gallery presents Kids These Days, Boston artist Zach Horn’s solo debut in New York. His new series of colored pencil and graphite drawings is based on absurd, bizarre, and zany thoughts that course...More »
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“Fin(n)ish: Fresh Contemporary Art from Finland ” Exhibition
RARE is pleased to present Fin(n)ish: Fresh Contemporary Art from Finland, our end-of-season group exhibition of six emerging artists who live and work in Finland. With show producer Aleksi Tammi, the...More »
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Brett Williams “Artifact of the Equinox”
RARE presents Artifact of the Equinox, Philadelphia artist Brett Williams’ New York solo debut. Williams’ installation, affectingly titled Untitled, which takes up virtually the entire floor space of...More »
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Kevin Mack “Pagan Knights & The Vertigo”
RARE Gallery presents Pagan Knights & The Vertigo, Philadelphia artist Kevin Mack’s first solo show in New York. Neither fully painting nor sculpture, Mack’s skillfully and meticulously crafted works...More »
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Daphne Arthur “Pancorum Hominum”
RARE presents Pancorum Hominum, artist Daphne Arthur’s third one-person exhibition at the gallery. In a new series of paintings and drawings, Arthur creates personal, psychological spaces for viewers...More »
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Aaron Holz “America-ecstatic”
RARE presents America-ecstatic, Nebraska-based artist Aaron Holz’s fourth one-person exhibition at the gallery. In a series of 12 new paintings, Holz explores an ecstatic, often surreal, vision of America...More »
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“Beneath the Surface” Exhibition
RARE presents Beneath the Surface, a group show featuring new works by Nicholas Hall, Zach Horn, Tom Snelgrove, and Daisuke Tsuchigahata. Although each artist utilizes mediums distinct from those of his...More »
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Eamon O’Kane “Fröbel Studio: The Institute for Creativity”
RARE presents Fröbel Studio: The Institute for Creativity, Eamon O’Kane’s third one-person show at the gallery. O’Kane transforms nearly the entire exhibition space into an interactive installation that...More »
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Christina Shurts “A Ban Done”
RARE presents A Ban Done, Christina Shurts’ second one-person exhibition at the gallery. With her new series of paintings and drawings, Shurts continues her visual and psychological exploration of familiar...More »
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“Wayward Bound” Exhibition
RARE presents Wayward Bound, a group show featuring drawings by seven artists each of whom is exhibiting at the gallery for the first time. Visual artist and independent curator Aaron Skolnick has assembled...More »
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Dionisios Fragias “Game Changer, or History Is Made at Night”
RARE Gallery presents Game Changer, or History Is Made at Night, Dionisios Fragias’ third solo show at RARE. Comprised of three-dimensional objects and wall-relief paintings, the exhibition continues...More »
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Maya Brodsky "Far and Long Gone By"
RARE Gallery presents Far and Long Gone By, Maya Brodsky's solo debut at the gallery, and her first one-person exhibition since graduating with an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2010. The show...More »
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"Material Concerns" Exhibition
RARE Gallery is pleased to present Material Concerns, a group exhibition of three-dimensional work by artists Reade Bryan, Travis Childers, Bradford Kessler, Jay Kissel, Frederick McSwain, Noah Olmsted,...More »
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Christine Gray "On Entry"
RARE Gallery presents On Entry, Christine Gray's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Comprised of new paintings and works on paper. While traversing the hinterlands of France, Iceland, Scotland,...More »
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Francesco Longenecker "Inside-Out"
RARE presents Inside-Out, a series of new paintings and drawings by Francesco Longenecker that marks his third solo show at the gallery. The exhibition continues the artist's exploration of the interplay...More »
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Nathan Ritterpusch "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"
RARE presents Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, an exhibition of new paintings by Nathan Ritterpusch. Running from October 11 through November 8, this is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and...More »
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"What's the Story?" Exhibition
RARE presents What's the Story?, an exhibition of new paintings by Huey Crowley, Dawn Frasch, Luis Rafael Galvez, and Emet Sosna. Each artist depicts visually and psychologically disturbing scenarios based...More »
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"Strange Fruit" Exhibition
RARE presents Strange Fruit, a group exhibition of photo-based work by Randall Bellows III (Denver, Colorado); Andrew Brodhead (Savannah, Georgia); Nicholas Hall (Brooklyn, New York); and Tom Lovelace...More »
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Johnston Foster "The Natural"
RARE presents The Natural, a series of new sculptures by Johnston Foster in his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Using a process that relies on the hunting and gathering of discarded, cast-off objects,...More »
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Suzanne Unrein "Interlopers"
RARE Gallery presents a group of new paintings by Suzanne Unrein in her second solo exhibition at the gallery, entitled Interlopers. With an oeuvre greatly inspired by Baroque sensibilities, Unrein's...More »
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Kristof Wickman & Chadwick Augustine "Friend's Bones"
RARE Gallery presents Friend's Bones, an exhibition of new three-dimensional works by Kristof Wickman and Chadwick Augustine. The joint show is the artists' first exhibition with the gallery. Exploring...More »
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Donovan Barrow "Gleaning"
RARE presents an exhibition of new mixed media works by Donovan Barrow. The show, titled Gleaning, marks the artist's third solo turn at the gallery. Barrow intermingles various techniques and mediums...More »
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Daphne Arthur & Shanga Manning "Poetics of Reverie"
RARE presents Poetics of Reverie, an exhibition curated by Daphne Arthur that features new artwork by her and introduces the drawings of Shanga Manning. The show marks Arthur's second exhibition at the...More »
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Tim Maxwell "Weltschmerz"
RARE presents an exhibition of new pen & ink drawings by Tim Maxwell entitled Weltschmerz. The show marks the artist's second solo turn at the gallery. Underpinning Maxwell's work is the German...More »
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Eamon O'Kane "There Is Another World, But It Is In This One"
RARE Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Eamon O'Kane titled There Is Another World, But It Is In This One. The show marks the artist's second solo turn at the gallery. The...More »
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Aaron Holz "A Heart's Hot Shell"
RARE Gallery presents A Heart's Hot Shell, an exhibition of new paintings by the artist Aaron Holz. The title of the exhibition is taken from Chapter 41 of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, which...More »
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Christopher Rodrigues ". . . all of you on the good Earth,"
Rare Gallery presents ". . . all of you on the good Earth," an exhibition of Planets, a series of otherworldly photo-collaged digital images by British/Canadian artist Christopher Rodrigues. The exhibition's...More »
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James Davis Exhibition
Rare presents Indian Summer, an installation of various sculptural works by James Davis. Indian Summer references the metaphor of the late and sudden bloom of something unexpectedly, just as dry and...More »
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Dionisios Fragias Exhibition
Rare presents a series of new sculptures and tapestries by Dionisios Fragias in an exhibition titled Cyclical Tales of Mother's Unmentionables. The show marks the artist's second one-person exhibition...More »
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Christina Shurts Exhibition
Rare presents a new series of paintings by Christina Shurts in her New York solo debut entitled Luxury Soup, her fifth one-person exhibition. Shurts' latest work embodies a nostalgic longing for getaways...More »
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Jim Wright "Tolerable Barbarians"
RARE presents an exhibition of new paintings by Jim Wright entitled Tolerable Barbarians, which opens February 10 and runs until March 10. This marks the artist's fourth solo show with the gallery, having...More »
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Francesco Longenecker "Animated Landscapes"
RARE presents a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Francesco Longenecker. The show, titled Animated Landscapes, runs from November 18 through December 23, and marks the artist's second one-person...More »
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Daphne Arthur "Beyond Boundaries"
Arthur's work, which analyzes archetypes of society and culture through a deconstructive lens, can be described as a rebellion or resistance to the traditional articulation of space-related art and its...More »
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Jean-Pierre Roy "A Rational Spectacle"
RARE Gallery opens its 13th season with an exhibition of new paintings by Jean-Pierre Roy titled A Rational Spectacle, marking his second solo show with the gallery, and his first at its new space on West...More »
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"Psychedelic Summer: Lo-Fi Record Shop & Art Show" Exhibition
RARE Gallery presents a group exhibition and independent record shop curated by Seattle-based collaborative studio CMRTYZ. "Psychedelic Summer" brings together artists from around the country who share...More »
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Johnston Foster "Catch & Release"
Johnston Foster, a Richmond, VA-based artist, will present his fourth solo show, titled Catch & Release, at RARe. He will exhibit a group of new sculptures created from salvaged materials gathered...More »
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Nic Rad Exhibition
Nic Rad, Brooklyn-based artist, media addict, and social curiosity, hosts his second solo show at RARE. Rad will be showcasing his 18-month long project PeopleMatter, a collection of 99 painted portraits...More »
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Christine Gray Exhibition
RARE Gallery presents a series of new paintings and works on paper by Christine Gray, a Richmond, Virginia-based artist, in "Closer and Closer," her solo debut in New York. Her works focus on the very...More »
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Christopher Mir "Endgame"
Christopher Mir’s third solo show at RARE, titled Endgame, presents a new series of paintings offering meditative passage through cosmic dreamscapes, both spiritually transcendental and outwardly revelatory. Christopher...More »
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Matthew Fisher "Forever Is"
In RARE PLUS, Matthew Fisher presents Forever Is, an exhibition of four new, large-scale paintings. Against the backdrop of an ever-changing political identity, Fisher's paintings speak of a romanticized...More »
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Nathan Ritterpusch "de-lir-i-um"
In his second one-person exhibition at RARE, titled de-lir-i-um, Brooklyn-based artist Nathan Ritterpusch exhibits a series of paintings and works on paper that depict various individuals struggling with...More »
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Donovan Barrow "Portraits of Villa Savoye"
In his second solo show at RARE, entitled Portraits of Villa Savoye, Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Donovan Barrow exhibits large-scale, vibrant paintings of deconstructed icons of 20th century architecture...More »
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Ryan Ford "Globhammer"
Ryan Ford presents oil paintings that explore a metaphysical fascination with and fear of the eternal unknown, balancing notions of the rational and irrational in a world that is as symbolic as it is abstract. In...More »
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Federico Pietrella "Day-Specific"
In RARE PLUS, Federico Pietrella presents an exhibition entitled Day-Specific that combines a selection of new works on paper with an installation of flashlights laid in a row on the floor to create a...More »
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Eamon O’Kane "The Architect’s House"
In his first New York solo exhibition, entitled The Architect’s House, Eamon O’Kane presents new large-scale oil paintings that explore his fascination with architecture and landscape. Created during...More »
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Francesco Longenecker "Paintings"
In his exhibition entitled Paintings, Francesco Longenecker presents new medium and large-scale abstract works that are a complex synthesis of references as diverse as abstract masterpieces, street art,...More »
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Jeff Lutonsky "Mötley Crüez"
In his second exhibition in RARE PLUS, entitled Mötley Crüez, Jeff Lutonsky presents a group of new magic marker drawings on paper. Unlike his earlier narrative genre scenes, these works eschew some of...More »
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Johnston Foster "Summertime Blues"
In his third solo exhibition at RARE, Johnston Foster continues his signature style of creating sculptures out of discarded materials that he finds strewn across highway medians, tossed into dumpsters,...More »
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Jimmy Joe Roche "Totems"
For his first gallery solo show, seventh-generation Floridian Jimmy Joe Roche presents a series of painstakingly hand-cut, obsessively hand-painted, and intricately hand-woven paper works. For Roche, they...More »
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Matthew McGuinness "Rudolf: A Salutary Pipelin"
Brooklyn-based artist Matthew McGuinness exhibits a series of collages and a soap sculpture documenting his all-encompassing lifestyle and various projects that focus on efforts to promote the use of alternative,...More »
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James Davis "Another Time’s Forgotten Space"
For his second solo show at RARE, Mississippi-based artist James Davis has fashioned objects both elegantly simple and sublime employing his customary obsessive, repetitive, and meticulous craftsmanship....More »
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Eugenio Percossi "Black and White"
In his US gallery solo debut, Italian artist Eugenio Percossi evokes vintage black & white photographs with an installation of a bedroom set where everything from the furniture, wall decoration, carpeting,...More »
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Bryan Savitz “New Sculpture”
For his second solo show at RARE, Brooklyn-based artist Bryan Savitz presents a series of milky white sculptures created through a complex process of disfiguration and reformation. By co-mingling natural...More »
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Boyd Holbrook "Iscariot"
In his gallery debut, Boyd Holbrook exhibits a sculpture that interprets the recent revolutionary revisions to the classic story of deceitfulness and betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas, who is depicted...More »
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Jordan Spade "In Actaeon's Gaze: Watching a Lover Bathe in Two States"
Jordan Spade exhibits a new sculpture that investigates the duality of “the sacred and the profane” that exists within classic romanticism.More »
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Aaron Holz "External Unconscious"
External Unconscious, Aaron Holz's second solo show at RARE, represents further development of his series of paintings and drawings titled Public Perversions & Delights, which is based on still and...More »