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Karma - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Karma. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Will Boone “No Man’s Land”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2023-01-07 - 2023-02-25
22 East 2nd Street New York, NY, 10003 Karma presents No Man’s Land, a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Will Boone. For the opening of the exhibition, please join us for a conversation on No Man’s...More »
Woody De Othello “Maybe tomorrow”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2022-09-24 - 2022-11-05
22 East 2nd Street Karma presents Maybe tomorrow, an exhibition of sculptural work by Woody De Othello. Maybe tomorrow takes its name from a catchy, unsettling 1971 tune by jazz musician Grant Green....More »
“Painting in New York: 1971–83” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2022-09-21 - 2022-11-05
organized by Ivy Shapiro Karma presents Painting in New York: 1971–83. This exhibition brings together the work of thirty women painters of diverse practice and backgrounds, all of whom were active...More »
Hughie Lee-Smith Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2022-08-03 - 2022-09-17
22 East 2nd Street New York, NY 10003 Karma presents a solo exhibition of paintings by Hughie Lee-Smith. The surreal compositions of Lee-Smith (b. 1915, Eustis, Florida; d. 1999, Albuquerque, New...More »
Ouattara Watts “Paintings”
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- Media: Painting
- 2022-04-23 - 2022-06-04
188 & 172 East 2nd Street Karma presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition by Ouattara Watts, Paintings. Ouattara Watts paints as if he is searching for a common root shared by all living...More »
Alan Saret “Allies”
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2022-04-21 - 2022-06-04
22 East 2nd Street Karma present Allies, a solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Alan Saret. The show is on display at the gallery’s 22 E 2nd Street location. In a light-filled studio in...More »
Tabboo! “Cityscapes”
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- Media: Painting
- 2022-03-03 - 2022-04-16
188 & 172 East 2nd Street Karma and Gordon Robichaux presents Cityscapes, a solo exhibition of paintings by Tabboo!. The expansive show will be on view across Karma’s 188 and 172 East 2nd Street...More »
Maja Ruznic “Consulting with Shadows”
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- Media: Painting
- 2022-01-13 - 2022-02-26
Karma presents Consulting with Shadows, a solo exhibition of paintings by Maja Ruznic. The exhibition will be held at 188 and 172 East 2nd street, and is Ruznic’s inaugural solo exhibition with Karma. Ruznic...More »
Nicolas Party “Watercolor”
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-11-18 - 2022-01-08
Karma’s 22 East 2nd Street location Karma presents Watercolor, a solo exhibition of around fifty recent watercolor paintings by Nicolas Party. The exhibition will be on view at Karma’s 22 East 2nd Street...More »
Keith Mayerson “My American Dream: This Land is Your Land”
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-11-16 - 2022-01-08
Karma presents My American Dream: This Land is Your Land, a solo exhibition by Keith Mayerson. “This Land is Your Land is the latest chapter of a personal project called My American Dream, a narrative...More »
Manoucher Yektai Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-09-30 - 2021-11-13
Who knows better than me the generosity of the morning As reflected in the eye of a fully blossomed flower … Let me get up Let me do some work Let me bring light —Manoucher Yektai, “A Worn Out...More »
Mathew Cerletty “This”
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- Media: Drawing
- 2021-08-14 - 2021-09-25
Mathew Cerletty’s This is an intimate showcase of nine colored pencil drawings made over the past year. Each drawing, on textured cold-press watercolor paper, reverently depicts an emphatically singular...More »
“The De Luxe Show” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2021-08-12 - 2021-09-25
“Art exists everywhere around us. The colors and shapes of paintings and sculptures are seen in our daily lives. The artists in this exhibition depict in their works the urge for complete exploration....More »
Andrew Cranston “Waiting for the Bell”
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-06-24 - 2021-08-06
“A painting by Andrew Cranston is a forest of reeds, going in, or a thick storm of rain, or a cloud of steam: we make out big things, and we get the textures first. We are moist or dry or scared or loved....More »
Kathleen Ryan Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2021-05-06 - 2021-06-19
Karma presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Kathleen Ryan. This is her first exhibition with the gallery. Assertive in their materiality, Ryan’s sculptures tackle formal concerns such as volume,...More »
Reggie Burrows Hodges Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2021-01-08 - 2021-02-28
Karma presents the first New York solo exhibition of Reggie Burrows Hodges. Hodges creates paintings centered on the human form, imbuing his subjects with the mystery and significance of remembered...More »
Louise Fishman “Ballin’ the Jack”
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- Media: Painting
- 2020-11-05 - 2020-12-20
Derived from an early-twentieth-century, vernacular expression, “ballin’ the jack” means going very fast or doing something very quickly. Such connotations are mirrored in the lateral, tilting swipes and...More »
Henni Alftan Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2020-09-17 - 2020-11-01
188 & 172 E 2nd St Karma presents Henni Alftan’s first American solo exhibition. Henni Alftan’s paintings open a dialogue between medium and image by reimagining the process of making pictures...More »
Thaddeus Mosley Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2020-02-29 - 2020-06-28
188 East 2nd Street 172 East 2nd Street Karma presents a solo exhibition by Thaddeus Mosley. This will be Mosley’s first exhibition with the gallery. Thaddeus Mosley’s monumental freestanding...More »
Mark Flood “Protest Signs from 1992”
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- Media: Painting
- 2020-01-11 - 2020-02-23
172 East 2nd Street Karma presents a solo exhibition of paintings from 1992 by Mark Flood. This will be Flood’s first exhibition with the gallery. On the occasion of the exhibition Karma will publish...More »
Robert Grosvenor Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2020-01-08 - 2020-02-23
Karma presents a solo exhibition by Robert Grosvenor. For his third show at Karma, Grosvenor will present a room-sized sculpture that the artist refers to as a “block of water,” as well as a collection...More »
Alex Da Corte “Marigolds”
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-09-20 - 2019-11-03
Karma presents Marigolds, a solo exhibition by Alex Da Corte. Karma will publish a fully illustrated catalog of the exhibition, which will include newly commissioned texts by animator and historian...More »
Henni Alftan, Matt Hilvers, Ruth Ige and Andrew Sim Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-08-08 - 2019-09-15
Karma presents a group of four solo exhibitions by Henni Alftan, Matt Hilvers, Ruth Ige and Andrew Sim. Everyone, even the most unembodied person, experiences themselves as inextricably bound up with...More »
Woody De Othello “To live in hope”
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- Media: Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2019-06-27 - 2019-08-04
Karma presents the first New York solo exhibition by sculptor Woody De Othello, titled To live in hope. Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. It’s become a platitude, a cynical cypher for inaction,...More »
Marley Freeman “Park Closes at Midnight”
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-05-17 - 2019-06-23
Posted all over the park are signs that read “PARK CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT”. The term signifies ending. The death of a day. The park closes but it will again re-open. You can find yourself in the park after...More »
Paul Lee “I see with my body now”
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-04-04 - 2019-05-12
The photographer Jacques Henri-Latrigue once wrote that his first darkroom was his own room when he was a child and his lens was the crack through which light penetrated his window shutters. Karma presents...More »
Robert Duran “1968–1970”
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- Media: Painting
- 2019-02-21 - 2019-03-31
Karma presents Robert Duran: 1968–1970, the gallery’s first exhibition with the Estate of Robert Duran and the first showing of Duran’s work in New York City since 1977. Born in Salinas, California...More »
“Auguries Cast Aside” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2019-01-10 - 2019-02-17
Karma presents an exhibition by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, CAConrad, Jason Dodge and Tony Just. Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (b. 1979) lives and works in Berlin. CAConrad (b. 1966) grew up in Pennsylvania....More »
Dike Blair Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2018-11-08 - 2018-12-21
Karma presents new paintings by Dike Blair. Having begun his pictures of quotidian (mostly)-American scenes in the 1980s, Blair has only in the last few years painted them in oil. Working on panels, Blair’s...More »
Paul Mogensen Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2018-09-27 - 2018-11-04
Karma presents its first one-person exhibition with Paul Mogensen. Since the mid-1960s Mogensen has made work that exists unto itself, without any temporal or spatial reference, offering expansive and...More »
Gertrude Abercrombie Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2018-08-09 - 2018-09-18
Karma presentS Gertrude Abercrombie’s first exhibition in New York since 1952. Abercrombie (1909–1977), a key figure in mid-century American Surrealism, was a sui generis artist who, from the late 1930s...More »
Ann Craven “Sunset Moon”
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- Media: Painting
- 2018-06-21 - 2018-08-03
Karma presents new paintings by Ann Craven. This is the artist’s first presentation with the gallery. The exhibition is comprised of two bodies of new paintings: Birds and moons. Like much of Craven’s...More »
Mathew Cerletty “Shelf Life”
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- Media: Painting
- 2018-05-05 - 2018-06-17
Karma presents Shelf Life, an exhibition of nine paintings by Mathew Cerletty. This is the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery. These new pictures, each roughly equivalent in size, describe...More »
Matthew Wong Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2018-03-22 - 2018-04-29
Karma present Matthew Wong’s first one-person exhibition. Working with equal curiosity and confidence in oils and watercolors, Wong deploys a wide-ranging color, tonal, and mark-making vocabulary to delineate...More »
Alex Da Corte “C-A-T Spells Murder”
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- Media: Installation
- 2018-02-17 - 2018-03-18
There’s a shutter at the door and your cat’s your best friend but everything is fine because you just know that but did you leave the window upstairs open? Was it supposed to rain tonight? I can’t...More »
“Kinder Gentler Nation” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2018-01-07 - 2018-02-09
Karma presents Kinder Gentler Nation, in which five generations of artists use the figure as a point of departure and arrival. This is not an attempt to catalog ideas about figurative painting and sculpture,...More »
Jean Conner, Wally Hedrick, Deborah Remington and Franklin Williams Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2017-11-12 - 2017-12-22
Karma presents four presentations of artists who emerged in Northern California in the 1950s and 1960s. Artists in that place and time were not saddled with a canonical modernist art history, and were...More »
Nicolas Party “Pastel”
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- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2017-09-24 - 2017-11-05
Karma presents Nicolas Party’s first exhibition with the gallery, comprised of works in soft pastel, installed in a unique environment conceived by the artist. Soft pastel is a fugitive medium: It can...More »
Urs Fischer “Faules Fundament (Rotten Foundation)!”
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2017-08-16 - 2017-09-10
Robert Grosvenor Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2017-06-22 - 2017-08-06
Karma presents an exhibition of a new sculpture by Robert Grosvenor. Three objects sit in the gallery. Things that don’t appear to be of this time or even from this realm—like they fell from the sky,...More »
Will Boone “Sea Wall”
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- Media: Painting
- 2017-05-05 - 2017-06-18
Karma presents an exhibition of new paintings by Will Boone. Continuing the use of fragments of language, Boone has developed a new body of work which maintains a vocabulary of fractured letter forms while...More »
Peter Halley “Boats Crosses Trees Figures, Gouaches 1977–78”
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- Media: Drawing
- 2017-03-01 - 2017-03-31
Karma presents Peter Halley, Boats Crosses Trees Figures, a survey of the artist’s early works on paper produced in 1977 and 1978, during his years living in New Orleans. In these gouaches and cut-paper...More »
Rita Ackermann “Nudes and Jacket”
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2017-01-27 - 2017-02-26
Karma presents an exhibition of new works by New York-based painter Rita Ackermann. The exhibition consists of two different bodies of work. Nudes are small oil paintings on cardboard inspired by a...More »
Walter Price “Pearl Lines”
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- Media: Photography
- 2016-12-18 - 2017-01-22
Lee Lozano “c. 1962”
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- Media: Painting
- 2016-11-17 - 2016-12-17
Karma presents it’s inaugural exhibition at 188 East 2nd Street of early paintings by Lee Lozano. Lozano went to New York as a painter in the early 1960s. Her first major body of paintings was a rough-and-tumble...More »
Bjarne Melgaard “Psychopathological Notebook”
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- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2016-02-13 - 2016-02-28
Cobra artists zealously embraced the art of the insane as part of their rejection of Western aesthetics and anything that smacked of classical culture. United by a keen interest in Marxism, the Cobra group...More »
Mark Grotjahn “Sign Exchange 1993–98”
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- Media: Installation
- 2016-01-08 - 2016-02-07
Spencer Sweeney Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2015-11-18 - 2015-12-31
Conversation with Abel Ferrara, Filmmaker On the phone (NYC + Rome), 2014 Spencer Sweeney: When I was a kid, I kind of lived at the revival movie houses in Philadelphia, and that’s where I first saw...More »
Brice Marden “Journals”
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Other
- 2015-10-15 - 2015-11-15
Karma presents an exhibition of works by Brice Marden from 1964 to 1973. A group of drawings and a single, fleshy-grey monochrome painting will be presented alongside his journals from the same seminal...More »
Rudolf Stingel and Marianne Vitale Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2015-09-13 - 2015-10-13
Stanley Whitney Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2015-06-15 - 2015-07-26
Karma presents the work of New York-based artist Stanley Whitney. The exhibition features drawings and paintings made in the 1990’s. An exacting glimpse into the decades-long career of a painter working...More »
Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-05-11 - 2015-06-13
Dike Blair “Gouaches 1984–2015”
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2015-04-10 - 2015-05-09
Looking at art leads one to calibrate degrees of effort against the power of effect. Everyone does that, consciously or not, whether at work, looking at sport, staring at art, or enjoying vacation. Most...More »
“Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- 2015-03-06 - 2015-04-07
The late 1960s was an era swept up by the current of a “post-medium” condition. Technology was rapidly advancing. “Specific Objects” were breaking the rectangular painting plane and delimiting the arrangement...More »
Nathaniel Axel “Weird Tales”
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- Media: Painting
- 2015-02-04 - 2015-03-03
This is not an artistically rounded off story, and nothing is explained in it, and there seems to be no reason why it should have happened. But that is no reason why it should not be told. You must have...More »
Amy O’Neill “Loaded and Rolling”
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- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2014-11-04 - 2014-12-06
Karma announces a solo exhibition by Amy O’Neill, titled Loaded and Rolling—a phrase borrowed from a long haul truck driver’s handbook, while alluding to a general visual aesthetic it also humorously conveys...More »
Ray Johnson Exhibition
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- Media: Prints
- 2014-10-07 - 2014-11-01
Karma presents an exhibition of previously unseen work by Ray Johnson (1927–1995). American popular culture and the environment of the “art world,” combined with a sly use of puns, codes, inside jokes...More »
Robert Grosvenor Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2014-09-04 - 2014-10-04
It all began with a picture of a rat surfing a wave, accompanied by the inaudible laughter that registered palpably nonetheless. Actually, it’s part of a trio of images seen in succession like a perfectly...More »
Sam Falls Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-07-18 - 2014-08-23
Jonathan Horowitz “402 Dots, Line, and the One Note Samba”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-06-12 - 2014-07-12
Karma is presents 402 Dots, Line, and the One Note Samba, an exhibition of three works by Jonathan Horowitz. 402 Dots (2014) is a monumentally-scaled painting comprised of 402 canvases, each one painted...More »
Will Boone “Graceland”
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2014-05-07 - 2014-06-07
The Graceland den received its “jungle room” look in the mid-seventies. Elvis decorated it himself, with furniture he selected in a Memphis store in all of half an hour. Elvis recorded the greater part...More »
Julian Schnabel “Flag Painting”
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- Media: Painting
- 2014-03-24 - 2014-04-26
Karma presents an exhibition of new work by Julian Schnabel. Using found flags as a blank canvas, Schnabel applies ink, gesso and spray paint in gestural strokes over the existing flag design. Schnabel...More »
Rosy Keyser “My Heads Are My Hands”
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- Media: Painting - Prints - Installation
- 2014-01-23 - 2014-02-22
Karma presents an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn and Medusa, NY based artist Rosy Keyser. A new artist book by Keyser will be released during the course of the exhibition.More »
Chris Martin “Yellow, Green, Red (& Blue)”
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-12-17 - 2014-01-11
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet “On Knowing & Not”
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- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2013-12-12 - 2013-12-22
Ten thousand years from now, Vega, not Polaris, will be our North Star. The space satellite Voyager, which was launched in 1979, and which has since been traveling 40,000 miles per hour, will be closer...More »
Cassandra MacLeod Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-11-09 - 2013-12-11
Karma presents the first solo exhibition by New York-based painter Cassandra MacLeod. The exhibition consists of a group of paintings created via the use of various manual, mechanical and digital processes....More »
Michael St. John “These Days”
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2013-10-10 - 2013-11-02
Matt Connors “Reverse Telescopes With Inflected Baffles”
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- Media: Painting
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-10-05
Will Boone and Torey Thornton Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Installation
- 2013-07-20 - 2013-08-15
Charles Harlan “The Gate”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2013-06-08 - 2013-07-13
If your house were to fall down, what would be left? The sheetrock will turn to dust. The wood floors will rot. Metal studs will rust away, and your pipes will be scavenged for scrap. But the marble countertop...More »
Piotr Uklański “Pornalikes”
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- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2013-05-03 - 2013-06-08
Karma presents Piotr Uklański’s Pornalikes (2002–ongoing): a series of photographs derived from the artist’s image archive depicting porn actors who strongly resemble famous contemporary personalities. Cultural...More »
Nicholas Gottlund "MAKE READY"
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- Media: Prints
- 2013-04-18 - 2013-05-01
MAKE READY As & Bs, A Series of Pairs I come from a family of printers. If I consider myself a printer, that would make me the sixth generation printer in my family. I worked in their printing...More »
Richard Aldrich "The Words of Tuck Tuck Tuck"
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2013-03-14 - 2013-04-20
Tuck Tuck Tuck was the name of artist Richard Aldrich's solo music project done between the years 1999 and 2001, with records released in 2002 and 2003 on his own Skul record label. The words of Tuck Tuck...More »
Will Boone "YES NO GOODBYE"
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-12-13 - 2012-12-22
Laura Owens "CLOCKS AND CLOCK PAINTINGS"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2012-10-04 - 2012-10-04
Bjarne Melgaard "NO MORE CHINOTTO FOREVER, AGAIN..."
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- Media: Installation
- 2012-09-15 - 2012-09-27
A book signing and installation by Bjarne Melgaard celebrating his newest book, Baton Sinister published on the occasion of his participation in the 2011 Venice Biennale. The artist book documents Melgaard's...More »
Bjarne Melgaard "Alarma! Boyfriends"
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- Media: Prints - Installation
- 2012-01-19 - 2012-01-31
Jonathan Berger "The House of Thought (Since 1980)"
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- Media: Drawing - Prints - Installation
- 2011-11-18 - 2011-12-01
The House of Thought is one version of an autobiography, rooted in part in the work that I do, and largely in the impact of that which I have encountered and remains on my mind. This is a personal history,...More »
Rebecca Kolsrud "Yackety Yack Girls"
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- Media: Painting
- 2011-10-29 - 2011-11-12
As far as titles, there are none, untitled (women in landscape), untitled (women studies #1, #2, #3, etc?). And I don't have a title for the show either. "New Paintings" as a title works for me, unless...More »

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