Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Saya Woolfalk “The Woods Women and Other Works”
Saya Woolfalk creates works of art that combine elements of her African American, Japanese, and European heritage, with allusions to anthropology, feminist theory, science fiction, and Eastern religions....More »
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Betsy Kaufman “14 Sculptures, 1 Painting”
For almost thirty years, Betsy Kaufman has created highly personal paintings and works on paper by subverting the minimalist orthodoxy of systems, seriality, and hard-edged geometry. A self-described “abstract...More »
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“To Light” Exhibition
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Amy Cutler “Points of Egress”
Amy Cutler’s seventh one-person exhibition at the gallery includes new works on paper originating in “memories, misunderstandings and anxiety,” that explore the psychological impact of these volatile times...More »
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Helène Aylon “Elusive Silver 1969–73”
The exhibition features a series of abstract paintings, created between 1969 and 1973, that are imbued with meanings that transcend their formal inventiveness and powerful aesthetic presence. Beginning...More »
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Dean Byington “The Kennecott Diaries”
Our fifth solo presentation of works by Dean Byington features ten new paintings created during the past two years. Nature and culture collide in epic urban landscapes in which the artist contemplates...More »
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“Mother” Exhibition
Video & Photographic Works from the 1960s to now by Tracey Baran, Patty Chang, Kate Gilmore, Mary Kelly, Lisa Kereszi, Justine Kurland, Malerie Marder, Marilyn Minter, Laurel Nakadate, Yoko...More »
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Tim Maul “When Walls Become Pictures”
Leslie Tonkonow presents a survey of photographic works by Tim Maul. The exhibition, including more than forty pieces made between 1974 and 2011, is our third solo presentation of the artist’s work. Since...More »
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Laurel Nakadate “The Kingdom”
Leslie Tonkonow presents the fourth one-person exhibition of new works by Laurel Nakadate including photographs, videos, and a sound installation. For almost twenty years, Laurel Nakadate has created...More »
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Agnes Denes “Truth Approximations Psychograph and Other Works”
Our fifth solo exhibition of works by Agnes Denes is the first to focus primarily on conceptual projects undertaken throughout her long and distinguished career. It traces the evolution of her philosophical...More »
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“The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery Celebrating Twenty Years A Changing Group Exhibition”
Dean Byington Amy Cutler Agnes Denes Betsy Kaufman Malerie Marder Tim Maul Peter Moore Charlotte Mooreman Laurel Nakadate Richard Serra Michelle Stuart Kunié Sugiura Lawrence Weiner James...More »
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Saya Woolfalk “ChimaCloud and the Pose System”
For her second one person show at the gallery, Saya Woolfalk builds a symbolic world that brings new meaning to her investigations of the shifting and relational nature of culture. Video animations, life-sized...More »
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Betsy Kaufman Exhibition
Betsy Kaufman’s eighth one-person show at the gallery includes four large paintings on canvas and twenty small paintings on paper from her ongoing series entitled Visual Notes. Working emotionally and...More »
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Tracey Baran “In Process”
The exhibition, our fourth solo presentation of works by Tracey Baran, surveys the brief life and career of a young photographer who in barely more than one decade, produced an expansive visual diary composed...More »
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Amy Cutler “Fossa and Other Works”
Fossa is a multimedia Installation created in collaboration with the musician Emily Wells and the hair Stylist Adriana Papaleo, originally commissioned by Site Santa Fe in 2015 for their Twentieth Anniversary...More »
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“Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts” Exhibition
The exhibition will feature new conceptually-based works that examine aspects of the natural environment in relation to the element of time. The second in a two-part series, it follows our current show,...More »
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“Land/Sky” Exhibition
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Kunié Sugiura “Chance and Fate”
This is the eighth one-person presentation of works by Kunié Sugiura, a Japanese artist who has lived and worked in New York since the late 1960s. The exhibition features sculptural works and installation...More »
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Dean Byington “The New City”
In his newest works, Dean Byington presents vast urban landscapes shaped by imagined history. Contemplating the defining global issues of our time, he invents new cities in which culture and nature collide...More »
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“In the Realm of the Pyramids The Visual Philosophy of Agnes Denes” Exhibition
The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Agnes Denes’s expressive uses of the pyramid form surveys the artist’s interpretations, inventions, and expansions of this iconic structure, a central theme...More »
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Saya Woolfalk “ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization System”
Our first one-person presentation of new works by multimedia and performance artist Saya Woolfalk continues her ongoing exploration of hybrid identities and material culture in the form of elaborately...More »
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MIchelle Stuart “Silent Movies”
We announces our next one-person presentation of new works by Michelle Stuart in which she continues to draw upon her lifelong passion for photography. Here Stuart uses the vast archive of analog and digital...More »
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Ian Davis “Rituals: New Paintings”
“When morality is lost, there is ritual. Rtual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos.” –Tao Te Ching Ian Davis’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery will feature eleven paintings of various...More »
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“PaperWork” Exhibition
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Betsy Kaufman “A Story of Red and Other Works”
For more than twenty-five years, Betsy Kaufman has created highly personal works by subverting the minimalist orthodoxy of systems and seriality within the lexicon of hard-edged geometric painting. A self-described...More »
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“Photographs” Exhibition
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“Imprints” Exhibition
Organized with Amy Wolf [Image: Laurel Nakadate “The Insomnia Series: Performance #3 (Exterior) ” (2012) Paint and lipstick, on inkjet print, 61 ½ x 41 ½ in.]More »
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Malerie Marder “Anatomy”
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects announces our representation of Malerie Marder and her first one-person show at the gallery. The exhibition will include approximately thirty photographs from her newest...More »
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Kunié Sugiura “Collages: 1977–1981 and now”
Since arriving in the U.S. from Japan in 1963, Kunié Sugiura has created innovative works that expand the uses of photography while exploring its relationship with drawing and painting. The exhibition...More »
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Laurel Nakadate “Strangers and Relations”
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects presents the third solo presentation of works by Laurel Nakadate. The exhibition features twenty large-scale color photographs made during the past two years. During...More »
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Wolfgang Laib "from me all has risen, in me all exists, in me all dissolves (Kaivalya Upanishad)"
The exhibition will include color photographs and projected images depicting Vedic fire rituals, and Pulimalai, a mountain in southern India, where the artist is planning the creation of a monumentally-scaled...More »
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Amy Cutler "Brood"
Amy Cutler examines the individual psyches of the female characters who have populated her work for more than a decade in her first group of portraits. Entitled Brood, the series includes nineteen works...More »
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Agnes Denes "Sculptures of the Mind: 1968 to Now"
Agnes Denes's third one-person show at the gallery focuses on her highly innovative sculpture, exhibited here for the first time, and related works on paper. To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of...More »
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Michelle Stuart "Palimpsests"
The forensic-archeological term palimpsest, defined as "something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form" can be seen as the operative metaphor for Michelle Stuart's entire...More »
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"Carnal Knowledge: Sex + Philosophy" Exhibition
The exhibition features contemporary and historical works of art in which sex penetrates philosophy or in which philosophy's hidden, or not so hidden, erotic metaphors are mined. Since the time of...More »
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Ian Davis "Jewel Sermons"
Ian Davis's third solo exhibition at the gallery will feature twelve paintings created between 20010 and 2012. Depicting dramatic scenes in which groups of uniformly attired men engage in enigmatic situations,...More »
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Kunié Sugiura "Photographic Works from the 1970s and Now"
The exhibition centers on multi-panel works from the late 1970s, constructed of monochromatic abstract paintings and photographs printed on canvas, and a selection of the artist’s recent works, in which...More »
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Robert Watts, Lawrence Weiner & Betsy Kaufman Exhibition
The exhibition features artists from three generations, working in disparate mediums, connected through their investigations of color and form. Robert Watts (1923–1988) was an enigmatic, influential...More »
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Amy Cutler "Acquainted"
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects presents their fifth one-person presentation of works by Amy Cutler. The exhibition explores the artist's involvement in the printmaking process, featuring etchings...More »
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"Plot: Plan: Process, Works on Paper from the 1960s to Now" Exhibition
[Image: Otto Piene "Watch It" (1969) Scorched paint on board 26-5/8 x 37-3/4 in.]More »
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Laurel Nakadate "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears"
We are pleased to present 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears (2011), a series of photographs documenting a performance by Laurel Nakadate, in which she photographed herself before, during and after weeping...More »
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Ali Banisadr "It Happened and It Never Did"
Inspired by a passage from Salmon Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, the title of the exhibition speaks to the highly personal meditation on sociopolitical systems and the mutability of truth in Ali Banisadr's...More »
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Michelle Stuart Exhibition
Michelle Stuart is internationally known for a prodigious body of work that includes site-specific earth works, monumentally-scaled works on paper, multimedia installations, and two and three-dimensional...More »
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Dean Byington "Black Maps"
A sense of discovery and dislocation exists in Dean Byington’s newest landscape-based paintings. Composed of a dense profusion of original and appropriated images, they envelope the viewer in an enigmatic...More »
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Agnes Denes "Body Prints"
Featuring thirteen small works on paper created between 1970 and 1976 that display the cerebral, sensual, and humorous aspects of Agnes Denes's singular aesthetics, the exhibition highlights her never-before...More »
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Danny Jaureui "There Goes the Neighbohood"
In a process that he calls a "queering of architecture," Danny Jauregui examines "invisible histories" through his own experience as a young gay Chicano man living in Los Angeles. He commemorates an aspect...More »
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"Merry Christmas Mr. Ordover" Exhibition
From the 1960s until his death in 2008, Jerry Ordover practiced law in the visual arts, representing many of the leading artists and galleries of the latter half of the 20th century. He was legal counsel...More »
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Tokihiro Sato "Tree"
Tokihiro Sato’s fifth one-person show at the gallery will feature fifteen black & white photographs created during the past two years in the primeval mountain forests of northern Honshu, the main island...More »
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"Out of the Woods" Exhibition
Curated with James Salomon, the exhibition brings together a diverse group of works from the 1960s to the present, in which materials, forms, concepts, and narratives are derived from the natural environment...More »
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"Photographs by Tracey Baran (1975–2008)" Exhibition
The exhibition celebrates the life and work of Tracey Baran who died after a brief illness in November 2008 at the age of 33. Tracey Baran was born in 1975 in Bath, a small rural town in western New...More »
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Laurel Nakadate "Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel"
Laurel Nakadate is known for powerful video and photographic works in which the artist, her subjects, and the viewer are entangled in an unsettling dance of seduction, power, trust, tenderness, loss, and...More »
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Ian Davis "Strange Geometry"
Ian Davis’s newest works form an absurdist theater in which little mysteries are enacted by large groups of men against the backdrops of anonymous institutions and forbidding landscapes. Since his first...More »
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Ali Banisadr Exhibition
Ali Banisadr’s first one-person exhibition features paintings in oil on canvas created during the past year. With lush applications of brilliant color, rendered in a semi-abstract style, they combine stylistic...More »
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"Utopia/Dystopia" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation
- 2008-07-08 - 2008-08-29
Conflicting moods of idealism and cynicism pervade the paintings, photographs, sculpture, drawings, and video created by an international group of artists. Ali Banisadr was born in Iran in 1976 and...More »
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Julia Oschatz "From the Closed World and the Infinite Universes"
An installation with paintings, drawings and videoMore »