Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Benjamin Butler “Pinecones”
Benjamin Butler’s sixth solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery centers around a body of work that began taking shape shortly after his 2022 exhibition at the gallery’s Ludlow Street space. In that...More »
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Amna Asghar “A Meadow in the Clouds”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Amna Asghar’s third solo show at the gallery, titled A Meadow in the Clouds. This front-gallery exhibition will consist of landscapes and skyscapes painted entirely...More »
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Glen Baldridge “Wigwag”
In Jennifer Egan’s novel “The Candy House” a slightly futuristic world is connected through an experimental technology — Own Your Unconscious — that can capture consciousness. It allows people to upload...More »
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Geoffrey Hendricks “Berlin Sky Drawings”
This September, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery has the privilege to present a show of works by the late Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018). The exhibition will comprise sculptures, paintings and installations...More »
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David Scanavino “Nosedive”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents new works by David Scanavino. The exhibition will feature a series of large paintings on tanned cowhide mounted on linen, upon which Scanavino has painted archetypal...More »
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“87 Franklin Inaugural” Exhibition
A group show comprised of works by gallery artists to celebrate Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery’s new location at 87 Franklin Street in Tribeca.More »
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Benjamin Butler “Lake Gosau”
The title of this exhibition refers to a weekend family trip we took to Lake Gosau, Austria, in Autumn of last year. The north end of the lake offers a spectacular view of the highest peak of the Dachstein...More »
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Holly Coulis “Eyes and Yous”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show of new works by Holly Coulis. Titled “Eyes and Yous,” Coulis’s fourth solo show with the gallery will include oil paintings on linen and painted sculptural...More »
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Irwin Kremen Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show of works by the late artist Irwin Kremen (1925-2020). This is the first exhibition of Kremen’s work since his death in February 2020 at the age of 94. The...More »
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Kemar Keanu Wynter “Pairings”
chevrolet diesel perfume rolling amidst waves of petrichor the warmth of cancháncharas and croquettes on sunsoaked cross-streets opposed concrete plinths quizzical fixations upon stenciled planes 18...More »
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Tamara Gonzales “Horrible Beauty”
September 10, 2021 will mark the opening of Tamara Gonzales’s fourth solo show with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Titled Horrible Beauty, the show encompasses large scale canvases, a series of new works...More »
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Jennifer J. Lee “Planet Caravan”
Klaus von Nichtssagend presents Jennifer J. Lee’s second solo show with the gallery, Planet Caravan. Inspired by the Black Sabbath song of the same name which follows the travails of lovers floating endlessly...More »
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Donna Chung “fun! the! get! on! up!”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a new show of works by Donna Chung. The show, titled, fun! the! get! on! up!, features a selection of sculptures that display Chung’s refined aesthetics, arrived...More »
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Graham Anderson Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a new show of oil paintings and gouache works on paper by Graham Anderson. Graham Anderson continues his use of pointillist brushstrokes and trompe l’oeil effect...More »
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Mark McKnight “Hunger for the Absolute”
Earth you know is round but seems flat You can’t trust Your senses. You thought you had seen every variety of creature but not this creature. — When I met him, I knew I had weaned myself...More »
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“I Contain Multitudes” Exhibition
The microbiome — all the bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses that cohabitate our genetic biomass, actually outweigh us by volume, some estimate that there are over 10 times as many microbial cells than...More »
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Barry Stone “Drift”
The first thing you should know is that we lived. For a second there, I wasn’t sure if we would. They say when you think you’re about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. I don’t think that’s necessarily...More »
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Joy Curtis “Skeleton Woman”
The man became drowsy, slid under his sleeping skins, and soon was dreaming. And sometimes as humans sleep, you know, a tear escapes from the dreamer’s eye; we never know what sort of dream causes this,...More »
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“Mask” Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show spotlighting Masks in the practices of 15 contemporary artists. Masks protect and pervert, decorate and distort, provide clues towards identity while potentially...More »
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Alex Dodge Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery opens its fall 2020 season with a show of Alex Dodge’s newest paintings. Drawn using animation and design programs and executed in paint with Dodge’s advanced stenciling...More »
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Benjamin Butler and Bastian Muhr “Ludlow/Leipzig”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Ludlow/Leipzig, a two-person show of new works by Vienna-based American painter Benjamin Butler and Leipzig painter Bastian Muhr on June 26th, 2020. The show consists...More »
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Pamela Jorden “Reflector”
Reflector, a new exhibition of five large scale oil paintings by Pamela Jorden, each of these new paintings consist of two separate shaped canvases adjoining to form a single compositional work. A theme...More »
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Virginia Holt Exhibition
My work is intuitive and emotional, about movement and the figure in space. The physical action of making a bold mark on a canvas is a direct reflection of my own controlled body movement, and overcoming...More »
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Zachary Leener “Shekhinah”
Klaus Gallery presents an exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Zachary Leener. Each of the eight domestically scaled works made for this exhibition feature a duo of sentinel-like...More »
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Mark McKnight “In this temporarily prevailing landscape”
How do I meet the gaze of another matter-machine? There and here borders cut between different ways of being a life form. I, with my silhouette: without becoming a tree I dare to rest here beneath...More »
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Holly Coulis “Counter Space”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Holly Coulis’s third solo show at the gallery. The show will feature paintings and sculptures. Over the past several years, Coulis’s unique approach to still...More »
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Amna Asghar “Portals”
Klaus Gallery presents its second solo show of paintings by Amna Asghar. In her new works, Asghar appropriates and recontextualizes images to infer portals revealing other realms. Asghar pulls from myriad...More »
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Nancy Brooks Brody Exhibition
Klaus Gallery presents a solo project by Nancy Brooks Brody installed in the front room of the gallery. Consisting of a narrow 18-foot 8-inch length of smooth, flat lead embedded directly into the surface...More »
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“Paint School Exhibition”
presented by Shandaken Projects Join Shandaken Projects and the 2019 cohort of Paint School for an exhibition of work related to their session’s theme of Color. Participating artists include Ana...More »
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“The Second Body” Exhibition
Organized with Sam Contis The Second Body brings together the work of 8 artists whose practices explore the body via examinations of landscape, labor, time, and ritual. The show’s title is drawn...More »
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Tamara Gonzales “Bo Yancon”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show of new works by Tamara Gonzales. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. The title Bo Yancon, is the nickname given to her by indigenous Shipibo...More »
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Jared Buckhiester “Refusing to Shake”
Klaus Gallery is pleased to present Refusing to Shake, an exhibition of monoprints and ceramics by Jared Buckhiester. In his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Buckhiester takes a more objective and...More »
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David Scanavino “Slingshot Broken Branch Life Vest”
In David Scanavino’s current show, Slingshot Broken Branch Life Vest, six images hang above a blue linoleum floor. In one, a broken branch is silhouetted against the sun, and in another, purple life vests...More »
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“All That Is Solid Melts Into Air” Exhibition
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Lisha Bai “Year Without a Summer”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a solo show of work by Lisha Bai in the front gallery. The show, titled “Year Without a Summer,” will feature a new series of sculptures cast from colored sand....More »
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Benjamin Butler “Silver/Landscapes”
Klaus von Nichtssagend presents a new solo show by Benjamin Butler in its main space. The show is titled Silver/Landscapes, and will feature monochromatic works in silver oil paint on linen. The past...More »
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Jennifer J. Lee “Day Trip”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show of new oil paintings on jute by Jennifer J. Lee. The show of small-sized canvases will be installed in the main space of the gallery. Lee paints in a...More »
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Joy Curtis “Soul Shell”
This January, Klaus von Nichtssagend will show three new sculptural works by Joy Curtis in the front gallery. Curtis uses hand-dyed fabrics inlaid with wire supports to create cavity-like forms alluding...More »
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David Gilbert “House & Garden”
House & Garden, David Gilbert’s fourth solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend, consists of new work made in and around his home. The main space features photographs, while the front gallery houses an...More »
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Alex Dodge Exhibition
Alex Dodge’s latest paintings explore the promise of technology as it interacts with and shapes human experience. His imagery is generated in 3D-rendering programs and applied to canvas with thick oil...More »
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Group Exhibition
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Liz Luisada “Find Your Way”
Listen to your cunt Listen to your quim What’s her mood today? Listen to your body Let your heart show you the way. Listen the the earth There are landscapes inside We are strong Listen...More »
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Pamela Jorden “Arm of the Sea”
Pamela Jorden’s show, Arm of the Sea will feature oil paintings on shaped supports that embody an ebb and flow between abstract and representational associations. These conspicuously constructed paintings...More »
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Irwin Kremen Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend presents the work of Irwin Kremen. Irwin Kremen’s art spans more than a half century; he began making collage, sculpture and paintings in the 1960s while then in his early forties...More »
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Ian Pedigo “Torch of a Hundred Statues”
Torch of a Hundred Statues, Ian Pedigo’s new show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery takes its name from 16th-century hermetic philosopher and scientist Giordan Bruno’s treatise on the art of memory titled...More »
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Demetrius Oliver “Pneumato”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Pneumato, a show of works by Demetrius Oliver. This will be the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery, and will feature photographs, sculptures, a video installation,...More »
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“Fingerspitzengefühl” Exhibition
curated by Andrianna Campbell and John Newman Eva LeWitt Jackie Winsor Nari Ward Ryan McNamara screens Klaus von Nichtssagend: The Musical AC: I’ve been thinking about form lately, but mainly...More »
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Glen Baldridge “Dream Burner”
A blue blip appears on my phone. Glen Baldridge is messaging me from Great Falls, Montana, where he was raised. He’s using the encrypted Signal app, not because he’s paranoid about surveillance, but because...More »
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Amna Asghar “Jhankaar”
Klaus von Nichtssagend presents Amna Asghar’s first New York solo show in our front gallery. The show will consist of a series of multi-panel paintings circling the exhibition space in a near-continuous...More »
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Thomas Øvlisen “See a Penny”
Klaus Gallery presents a new series of tabletop sculptures and wall works by Danish artist Thomas Øvlisen. The works on display continue Øvlisen’s process of transmuting post-consumer goods, polyurethane...More »
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Donna Chung “Citrus”
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Tim Lokiec Exhibition
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Emily Newman and Elaine Reichek “Walrus Radio; How to Speak to Child About the Communism?”
For the past 3 years, Emily Newman has been looking at the ways post-Soviet Russians talk about communism between generations. For Newman’s third show at Klaus von Nichtssagend gallery, she will extend...More »
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“Drawings” Exhibition
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“Thanks to Apple, Amazon, and the Mall” Exhibition
In our current state of digital media, telecommunications are ubiquitous and communications take place through screens, circumventing the tactile properties of the physical world. Words become one of...More »
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Tamara Gonzales “Winter is Coming”
It’s all I can really think of in the fall. The palette of this group of paintings makes me think of snow storms. Of white illumination and big foot, of frozen tree branches that you hope will bloom again....More »
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Thomas Øvlisen “Jørgen Larsen, Taarbæk”
For his fourth show at Klaus, Thomas Øvlisen will present a new body of sculptures with painted surfaces. Made from styrofoam blocks cut into shapes suggesting forms such as flying buttresses, surfboards,...More »
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“Daughter of Bad Girls” Exhibition
Twenty years ago Marcia Tucker wrote in the exhibition catalogue for her show Bad Girls of a discussion between herself and Marcia Tanner about how the show “grew like kudzu … and still cries out for more...More »
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Benjamin Butler “Green Forest”
“It’s always at the point where I’ve almost succeeded at talking myself out of painting another tree or forest that I find a new direction back into the work. This could come from a different way of thinking...More »
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Ian Pedigo “Cosmopolitan Sleep Positions”
Ian Pedigo’s spring solo exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery will include a new group of sculptures and wall works that engage with interpretations of the artifact and their preservation in context...More »
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Anne Eastman, Sara Ludy, Yuri Masnyj Exhibition
Anne Eastman, Sara Ludy, Yuri Masnyj This is the era of hyper-development; development of buildings for homes, stores, and offices; development of technology for entertainment and for business. Development...More »
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Joy Curtis Exhibition
There is an idea in science called a “gravity well” that surmises when a body is close to a massive object, time slows down just a little. If a person is in Death Valley, time passes slightly more...More »
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Jonah Koppel Exhibition
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David Gilbert “Coming of Age”
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Coming of Age, David Gilbert’s second solo show with the gallery. David Gilbert’s photographs in recent years have dramatized the transformative properties of...More »
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Shaun Krupa “The Flooded Room”
For the first two weeks of August (the 1st- 15th) the gallery will be home to a new installation and performance work by Shaun Krupa, entitled The Flooded Room. This is Krupa’s second performance at the...More »
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“Work” Exhibition
Organized in collaboration with Sara Greenberger Rafferty Work is a show constructed to engage issues of labor, value and authorship in the commercial art market. Here’s the process: Over two...More »
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Alex Kwartler & Elke Solomon Exhibition
In a recent book by a recently fallen star of hip philosophy—you know, “semiocapitalism,” etc.—he’s freaking out because babies like iPads so much. What will happen if our precious (European) babies don’t...More »
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David Scanavino Exhibition
David Scanavino presents a new body of work that includes sculptures and wall works which place the viewer in direct physical and psychological relationship to the institutional structures they pass through...More »
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Sara Ludy "Spheres 1-20"
In her first solo show in New York, Vancouver-based artist Sara Ludy will present a single channel video work, Spheres 1-20. Comprised of twenty episodes on a loop, the work - projected on the gallery...More »
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Barry Stone "Many Worlds If Any"
In Many Worlds If Any, his fourth solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend, Barry Stone continues to stretch the philosophical positions of his artistic practice within a world growing exponentially saturated...More »
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"Walled Garden" Exhibition
The Walled Garden, or Hortus Conclusus, has a long historical precedence in art. The term originates in the biblical verses of the Song of Songs, “Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus,...More »
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"Cosmo" Exhibition
Cosmo is a summer group show that explores the abstract representation of things undeniably hot. Graham Anderson employs a contemporary take on pointillist mark-making in his compositions of patterned...More »
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Donna Chung "Cloud Hem"
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show of new works by Donna Chung. This is Chung’s second solo show with the gallery and will feature several wall pieces and sculptures made from materials such...More »
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Benjamin Butler "Some Trees"
Klaus von Nichtssagend presents a solo exhibition by Benjamin Butler, entitled Some Trees. Featuring new oil paintings. The exhibition will feature a variety of Butler's oil paintings on canvas, from...More »
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Thomas Ovlisen "Tomato"
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents Tomato, an exhibition of new work by Thomas Ovlisen. The show will feature paintings and sculptures by Ovlisen, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. The...More »
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David Gilbert "Angels"
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents the first New York solo show by David Gilbert, a Los Angeles-based artist. David Gilbert's installations of photography and sculpture are an effort to pin down...More »
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klausgallery.net Debut Reception
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to announce klausgallery.net, an online exhibition project dedicated to premiering new work by emerging and established artists whose practices engage the Internet....More »
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Pamela Jorden "Sun and Moon"
Pamela Jorden’s paintings are composed of fragments, accumulations of shape, line, texture, and pattern which form varying optical densities. The paintings are influenced by her day-to-day surroundings;...More »
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Ian Pedigo "Dawn Goes by Round the Neck"
Klaus von Nichtssagend presents a solo exhibition by Ian Pedigo. The show will consist of recent sculptures, installations, and wall works. The show coincides with the publication of the monograph: Ian...More »
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"Discursive Arrangements or Stubbornly Persistent Illusions" Exhibition
Einstein claimed that “the distinction between past, present and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” The works in this exhibition exist between this idea of illusion and that of the "discursive...More »
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Liz Luisada and Shaun Krupa Exhibition
As a part of his two-person exhibition at the gallery, Shaun Krupa will perform "Rain Barrel", in which he interacts with a series of props and materials as a way to emphasize the element of time in the...More »
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"Liz Luisada | Shaun Krupa" Exhibition
Liz Luisada culls imagery from dreams and mysticism and abstracts her material into painterly brushstrokes, studies of color and at times three-dimensional installations. Faces, figures, and objects appear...More »
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David Scanavino Exhibition
Scanavino has approached this exhibition through three different formal strategies, all of which allude to a delineation of social and structural associations. From his use of institutional floor tiles...More »
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Joy Curtis "Empty is Run About Freely"
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents its second solo exhibition of works by Joy Curtis. Theatrics of architectural ruins and monumental artifacts, both elemental and manmade, are the focus of Joy Curtis’s...More »
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Jonah Koppel "Towards a New Impending Idiot Utopia"
Koppel’s paintings deal with pictorial abstraction. The three works on display combine layers of pattern, gestural mark-making, and relief as devices to depict infinite space. This approach yields a landscape...More »
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Alex Dodge "Generative"
Each of these works address the notion of passive interfacing; engaging the human body through acquiescent means. While some works appear inspired by science fiction, such as his Sleep Talker dream interface,...More »
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Tim Lokiec "New Painting"
Tim Lokiec's new body of work employs a faux aesthetic of painterly ease; emphasis is placed on the formal concerns of composition, geometry, and psilocybin design principles. In these oil paintings, Lokiec...More »
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Barry Stone "I Met a Unicorn"
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents "I Met a Unicorn," an exhibition of seven framed photographs by Barry Stone. Barry Stone employs a wide variety of practices as a means of generating singular...More »
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Graham Anderson Exhibition
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Ian Pedigo "Accumulations of Matter"
Accumulations of Matter addresses the life of objects and the totality of the spaces within which they are contained. The sculptures in the show express a visual and physical fragility that opposes the...More »
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"Evidence of the Paranormal" Exhibition
Evidence of the Paranormal is an exhibition of questionable import, doubtful veracity and possibly misleading intentions. Featuring a selection of artists as unlikely as their generations and backgrounds...More »
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Joy Curtis Exhibition
Joy Curtis's sculptures incorporate details from the generic architectural spaces of modern life. In some works, readymade moldings that trim ceilings, floors, doors and elevator banks are turned structural...More »
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David Gilbert, Ian Pedigo and Jessica Stockholder Exhibition
Linking the three artists in this show is their tendency towards the creation of formal compositional arrangements, which are both distanced from and employ the associative qualities of their materials....More »
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Ryan McNamara "Klaus von Nichtssagend: The Musical" Performance
Years ago, a stranger landed in Brooklyn and quietly rented a storefront. No one saw him; the only evidence of his arrival was a sign that appeared in the window reading, "Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery."...More »
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"La Petit Mort D'Ete" Performance
- Media: Installation - Video installation - Digital - Performance Art
- 2009-08-27 - 2009-08-27
A collaborative performance and multimedia installation by TM Davy, Peter Zuspan, and Paul Monaghan, Little Death of Summer develops various metaphors of the body and human presence through sound, image,...More »
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Jonah Koppel "Modern Art"
Jonah Koppel makes pattern-based paintings that ride a thin line between decoration and abstraction. The paintings are literally cut from a larger cloth, with an all-over treatment that could potentially...More »
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Glen Baldridge Exhibition
The third solo exhibition of works by Glen Baldridge features his new body of work consisting of prints, drawings, and sculptures. Baldridge utilizes a diverse set of visual and material cues drawn from...More »
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"(Perfect) Invisible for Ever Changing" Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents the second New York solo show of Danish artist Thomas Ovlisen. The show will feature a new body of work including paintings and sculptures using auto-lacquer and...More »
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"Forth Estate Editions" Exhibitions
While some of the artists in this show have previous knowledge of printmaking processes, for others it was a first opportunity to work with a printer to create an edition that expands and enhances their...More »
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David Scanavino Exhibition
For his first exhibit with the gallery, David Scanavino has covered the exhibition space floor with institutional green linoleum tile. These tiles act both as environmental signifiers (hospital, school,...More »
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Donna Chung "Relax Earth"
“Relax Earth” will feature a visual language that spans a catalog of dialectics, from the allegorical to phenomenological. Chung’s work ranges from displays of skillful craftsmanship to the wry appropriation...More »
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"Tensegrity" Exhibition
The term Tensegrity was coined by Buckminster Fuller to describe the integrity of structures as being based in a synergy between balanced tension and compression components. Since then the term has been...More »
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Graham Anderson Exhibition
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presents a show of new oil paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Graham Anderson. At play in Graham Anderson's new abstractions is the idea of surface, here represented...More »
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Ian Pedigo "Titanium Pro"
Pedigo describes his work as "a process of construction through deconstruction". Each of the works, having developed into a specific form, is then reworked perhaps several times, accumulating more information...More »