Martos Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Martos Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Martha Diamond, Jorge Pardo, Ugo Rondinone “Lunch Poems”
New York City is home to the world’s largest LGBTQ populations. LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, “The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every...More »
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Christine Burgone “Powder and Water”
This work revolves around modernist doubt, as Christine Burgon traces the means of creation, and how intentionality in the studio gives way to the viewer’s perception. How can one effectively locate the...More »
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Tyree Guyton “I Ain’t Playin”
For this immersive installation Tyree Guyton has transformed the gallery space into a specific subsect of the original Detroit neighborhood that he has developed and cared for over the past (nearly) 40...More »
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Arnold J. Kemp “Stage”
Martos Gallery presents new works by Arnold J. Kemp in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Concerned with the textures, textuality and contexts of painting, sculpture, performance, and language,...More »
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Jennie Jieun Lee “Marie”
Martos Gallery presents Marie, by Jennie Jieun Lee For her third solo exhibition at the gallery, Jennie Jieun Lee has conceived of and assembled a sculptural tableau connecting mausoleal, historical,...More »
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“Under Erasure” Exhibition
JPW3 Lisa Alvarado Marcia Hafif Arnold J Kemp Sven Loven Olivier Mosset Ren Light Pan Nicolas Roggy Rafael Sánchez Cullen Washington Kathleen White Martos Gallery presents Under Erasure, an...More »
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Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White “Earth Work”
Rafael Sánchez (b. 1960, Havana, Cuba) and Kathleen White (1960, Fall River, MA – 2014, New York) began to collaborate alongside their romantic partnership in Downtown New York in the mid-2000’s. Meeting...More »
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“The Collective: Chosen Family” Exhibition
The Collective comprises seven artists who center criminal justice reform in their practices, aligned by their shared experiences of incarceration and their commitment to supporting artists who have overcome...More »
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Chuck Nanney + Joel Otterson Exhibition
Curated by Ugo Rondinone More »
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“Lost & Found” Exhibition
A Lost & Found is a room where items that have gone astray are turned in and stored to await being claimed by their owners. Though all sorts of things are lost, simple representations of a hat, an...More »
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TARWUK “Bijeg u noć”
Martos Gallery presents its first exhibition with TARWUK, the collaborative duo of Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić. Originally from Croatia, now based in New York, the artists have been working...More »
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Kayode Ojo “The Aviator”
A great tale often carries two arcs to the story: one where everything goes right, and the other where everything goes wrong. Such is the storyline for Martin Scorsese’s 2004 biopic “The Aviator,” and...More »
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Alex Chaves “Oaks of Righteousness”
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Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste “Inna”
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Tyree Guyton “Love, Sam”
Martos Gallery presents Love, Sam, Tyree Guyton’s first New York solo exhibition at Martos. This exhibition will present new and old work by Guyton including portraits, assemblages, and works from Guyton’s...More »
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Jennie Jieun Lee “Sizzling Gouba and Long Beach”
If you’ve ever ordered Sizzling Gouba, you know it’s not an order for the timid. The loud crackling of sizzling rice at the table commands attention and stares. If you’re a young child out with your family,...More »
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“Ebsploitation” Exhibition
For this exhibition, Martos Gallery will transform into a movie theater and present a program of short films and videos that show a different side to filmmaking. The curated program will run daily during...More »
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“Eight Ball” Exhibition
Math Bass (b. 1981, New York, NY) received a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst in 2003, and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2011. They currently live and work in Los Angeles,...More »
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Aura Rosenberg “Statues Also Fall In Love”
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Nikita Gale & Pat O’Neill “Fall Apart”
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Kayode Ojo “Equilibrium”
“Equilibrium” is a balance between opposing forces, a calm state of mind, a movie featuring Christian Bale and Taye Diggs, and the title of Kayode Ojo’s first solo exhibition with Martos Gallery. While...More »
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“GWTW” Exhibition
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Michel Auder Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents Michel Auder’s second solo show with the gallery, And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s been said wrong, or it’s been covered wrong by the press, which...More »
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JPW3 “change is death”
When a caterpillar is fully grown it sheds its skin for the final time. Under the old skin is a hard layer called a Chrysalis. The Chrysalis stage for most butterflies is one with very little movement....More »
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Dan Asher Exhibition
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Jory Rabinovitz “oikos love love love”
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Kathleen White “A Year of Firsts”
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Jessica Vaughn “Receipt of a Form”
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Alex Chaves “Dizzy Buchanan”
Alex Chaves has remade Édouard Vuillard’s First Fruits (1899) as the focal point of his latest exhibition, Dizzy Buchanan. For his second solo show at Martos Gallery, Chaves continues his unwieldy, comedic...More »
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Sofi Brazzeal “Hi cruel dame, adieu Mr. Lech”
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“Invisible Man” Exhibition
Martos Gallery opens its new location in Chinatown with Invisible Man, a group presentation featuring new works by Torkwase Dyson, Kayode Ojo, Pope.L, and Jessica Vaughn. Invisible Man reflects on...More »
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Agnes Lux “Winter, summer together”
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Alex Chaves “The Rose Period”
I give you a Rose Period. It started because I thought I had found mine, my circus—sunbeaten argyle pastels of loved costumes, faded pink tarps, and thick tightropes. I saw posters for old school rose...More »
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“Hard Love” Exhibition
St. Paul got it wrong with that “love is patient, love is kind” stuff. Love is a come on, love is release. Love is exhausting, love is enduring and enduringly difficult. Works by the thirteen artists in...More »
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Rachel de Joode, Kate Steciw and Letha Wilson “Touch-tone”
Martos Gallery presents Touch-tone, featuring new works by Rachel de Joode, Kate Steciw and Letha Wilson. Continuing their dialogue that challenges the limits of photography as an artistic medium, Touch-tone...More »
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Michel Auder “Everybody Knows”
In Everybody Knows (2015), projected in the back room of the gallery, the maker and the spectator join in the act of looking, negotiating what is there to be seen and how to look at it. Scenes are edited...More »
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Scott Campbell “Crown Victorious”
Martos Gallery presents Crown Victorious, a Ford Crown Victoria highway patrol car remodeled and customized by Scott Campbell. More »
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Jennie Jieun Lee “Mrs. Thompson’s Mirror”
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Jason Metcalf “Hie to Kolob”
Martos Gallery presents Hie to Kolob, an exhibition by Jason Metcalf on view. For his first solo exhibition in New York, Metcalf presents four new paintings, a sculpture, and a light work as a continuation...More »
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JPW3 “I drive and I think and I look, but I don’t know. Lanquidity”
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Jess Fuller “Planet without a body”
Thought that is planned is tradition. Thought that is unplanned is imagination. Thought that is both is spirit. - Old Sufi proverb Martos Gallery presents Planet without a body, a solo exhibition...More »
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Nicolas Roggy “Thick Pink, Stuffed Light”
Martos Gallery presents a new series of paintings by artist Nicolas Roggy. Most recently, Roggy has exhibited his work in a solo show at Triple V, Paris and in group shows at Galerie Perrotin, Paris; Middlemarch,...More »
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“Slippery” Exhibition
The title of the exhibition, Slippery, draws directly from Dali’s theory of “hardness and softness” as expressed by the melting clock in his iconic painting The Persistence of Memory (1931). Dripping,...More »
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Henry Codax Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents a solo show of monochrome paintings by Henry Codax. Working for the first time in an iridescent hue, Codax’s third show features thirteen 7 x 7 foot silver paintings that seamlessly...More »
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“Every day in every way I’m freely opening my senses to the beauty in myself and opening up to all the beauty around me and in all the people I will encounter” Exhibition
Group show curated by Ebony L. Haynes and Taylor Trabulus More »
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Jory Rabinovitz “Eighty Three”
In 1983, the U.S. government began minting pennies with a ratio of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper—an inverse of the previous formula of 95% copper and 5% zinc. The coin had become increasingly more valuable...More »
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Justin Lieberman + “Poor Working Conditions” Exhibition
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“Bad Fog” Exhibition
I would guess everyone has had his or her own Bad Fog. Bad Fog makes me think of alcohol, and OCD, depression, and OCD, food, drugs, alcohol, anger, and OCD. Jesse and I met in ‘94 when I, along with...More »
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David Malek Exhibition
[Image: David Malek, “Ra”, enamel on canvas, 75 x 75 in.]More »
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RK Projects @ Shoot The Lobster “Sense-Data”
Esse Est Percipi (“to be is to be perceived”) — George Berkeley “H. H. Price found that although he was able to doubt the presence of a tomato before him, he was unable to doubt the existence of his...More »
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Tim Lokiec “Pink Footpath”
A discrete hand and an even more discrete sensibility paired with a soft color palate is all one needs to achieve the perfect outside/inside sensibility — a place where figure and gesture can mingle comfortably. What...More »
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“Lonely Girl” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-10-26
Martos Gallery presents Lonely Girl, a group show consisting of 7 female artists, all under the age the age of 30. The show’s title is derived from Lonelygirl15, a popular teenage girl’s YouTube video...More »
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Bruce Pavlow “Poster Child”
Shoot The Lobster presents Poster Child, a series of new photographic works by Bruce Pavlow. Poster Child presents photographs of posters that incorporate images from popular culture- pop stars, animals,...More »
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Peter Scott “No Place Like You”
Transmitting a fantasy of the metropolis through seductions, appeals, and commands, the contemporary “consumer city” shapes and reshapes itself according to conflicting agendas, while producing images...More »
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“No Place Like You (continued)” Exhibition
Continuing the theme of the psychological underpinnings of today’s urban condition, this group show includes work that spans several decades, emphasizing the experience of transparency, reflection and...More »
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Gengoroh Tagame “Works on Paper”
Bondage, sadomasochism, torture, humiliation: a realm of hard-core skirting the darkest corners of sexually charged desire. It all comes to life in the unmatched comics and artwork of Gengoroh Tagame....More »
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Agnes Lux “Aux quatre vents”
The Italian Antonio Marzi was positioned in Udine between 1944 and 1945 where he wrote a diary including observations of the events important to the war. This information was transferred to a contact person...More »
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“Why is Everything the Same? Works from the Collection of Anne Collier and Matthew Higgs” Exhibition
Over the past decade or so we have acquired – through purchases, trades or gifts – at least a hundred individual art works, perhaps considerably more. Almost by accident, certainly not by design, we have...More »
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"PECKHAMNEWYORKPARIS" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-04-25 - 2013-05-04
Seven Peckham-based artists: James Balmforth, James Capper, Bobby Dowler, Nathan Cash Davidson, Christopher Green, Oliver Griffin and Shaun McDowell will collaborate with Shoot the Lobster in an exhibition...More »
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Olivier Mosset Exhibition
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Aura Rosenberg "I Know It When I See It"
Martos Gallery presents Aura Rosenberg's first solo show with the gallery. The Golden Age: More than twenty-five years ago. I made paintings based on images from pornographic magazines. These publications...More »
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Dan McCarthy "New Paintings"
Shoot the Lobster is pleased to present new paintings by Dan McCarthy. Dan McCarthy’s recent paintings move in a new direction, using layered text as subject. Moving away from the centralized figure...More »
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Tamara Gonzales "Unicorn Kittens"
Dear Gracie, 1 acid fairy 15501 have kissed the sky manic panic was my schoolin some of my tumblr followers which inspired the name of the show: serotonin-sluts unicorn-p-e-a-s-a-n-t satansdught3r rainbow--kittens bambi-winks chanel...More »
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"Aaron Aujla, Charles Harlan, John Pittman" Exhibition
John Pittman's paintings are also reliefs, a field for light as much as they are a field for shadow. A trained frame maker, Pittman meticulously crafts variations of depth within the surfaces of his work....More »
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Aleksander Hardashnakov "Bring Me The You From You"
Martos Gallery presents Aleksander Hardashnakov’s first solo show in New York City. Bring Me The You From You “This is your bed, these are your brothers and your husband and your daughter and your...More »
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Christofer Amel Exhibition
Shoot the Lobster presents a solo exhibition of works by Christofer Amel. 1. Can you still like it if itʼs not perfect? Oh yeah. Sure. 2. Is it what you want it to be? Uh, rarely. 3. If you...More »
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Nick Van Zanten "It's Going Down"
The Case-Shiller Composite 20 index tracks the value of homes in the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The Case-Shiller Index value for Dallas in Mar. 2003: 112.93 Aug. 2007:...More »
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Ryan Foerster Exhibition
Into me, into you, into sky-lit nights we folded and pushed into our pockets. Thoughts untie, days press on. The grass is flattened from where we were lying—where we are lying now and always. Mercy of...More »
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Leif Ritchey Exhibition
Shoot The Lobster – New York City presents an exhibition of works by Leif Ritchey. ___________________ field recordings out here in the field tape -record pause primitive scan a puddle- to...More »
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Andy Cross "House Painter"
Martos Gallery begins its fall season with “House Painter,” an exhibition of new work by Andy Cross. Form and function have never felt so at home—“House Painter” is literally a house made out of paintings....More »
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Robert Janitz "How I Learned to Love The F"
How I Learned to Love The F (On the official staircase with Bree, Karl and the chorus, randomly) Charlie has his hand and face bruised. (Away from the audience) Feeling is too much and not...More »
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Grayson Revoir "Shoot The Lobster Recordings"
It fills me with great pleasure and pride to announce the beginning of the next extension of Shoot The Lobster, Shoot The Lobster Recordings. STLR will function as a record label with a monthly agenda...More »
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Henry Codax "Long Suffering"
Every painter of monochromes comes to the form by his or her own idiosyncratic route. -Antonio Clifton Gazing from the crow’s nest of a ship, silent and alone, great novelists like Herman Melville...More »
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Shaun Flynn, David Ostrowski, Max Warsh Exhibition
Shoot The Lobster presents a collaboration with Nudashank, an independent, artist-run gallery in Baltimore, Maryland founded by Seth Adelsberger and Alex Ebstein. Opened in 2009, Nudashank focuses on showcasing...More »
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Merkx & Gwynne "Can't Stop Rock Lobster"
Shoot The Lobster presents "Can't Stop Rock Lobster", the first formal gallery exhibition by artist and musician collaborators, Merkx & Gwynne. ----- Dear Nathan Gwynne, Andrea Merkx, Agnes Lux,...More »
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Jess Fuller "Jellie"
Martos Gallery presents Jess Fuller’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Sunshine Diet with a side of El Pussy Cat — Jess Fuller introduces a gridded language. Clarifying diagrammatic or butchered...More »
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"Some Facts About Manhattan" Exhibition
[Image" Hayley Silverman/Emily Shinada "Golem L.R. CERTAIN UNIVERSAL LOVE" (2012) archival inkjet print, 47 x 33.5 in.]More »
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Bill Saylor & Aidas Bareikis Exhibition
Shoot the Lobster presents an exhibition of collaborative works by Bill Saylor and Aidas Bareikis. Rivers are not supposed to catch on fire...yet sometimes they do.... And in case you were doubting,...More »
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"Chris Churchill — Justin Lieberman" Exhibition
"Me With My Belt Wrapped Around My Head And You Just Sittin' There" -Bob Dylan It takes two people to make a joke. Here Chris and I slip easily into our regular conversational roles, straight man...More »
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"New Traditionalists" Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents New Traditionalists, a group exhibition featuring works by American artists Justin Adian, Jess Fuller, Leif Ritchey, and B. Wurtz, organized by Mary Grace Wright. Justin Adian...More »
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Servane Mary "God Dies"
Martos Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new works by Servane Mary. From a large scale flag-like triptych suspended from the ceiling to the smallest piece in the show, a photographic glass plate...More »
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Robin Cameron, Elaine Cameron-Weir and Rochelle Goldberg Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents a three-person exhibition: Robin Cameron, Elaine Cameron-Weir, and Rochelle Goldberg. The exhibition will run February 16 through March 17 with an opening reception on February...More »
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Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents a two-person exhibition featuring work from Ryan Foerster and Ben Schumacher. Teddy Bear » Polar Bear Pictures » Black Bear » Love You Bear » Clean » Wash Machines » Fuentes...More »
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Bozidar Brazda "Advertisement"
My best work is always made in my head. My best work is always made in my bed. My best work is an Advertisement that sells you me. Bozidar Brazda. I am not a “studio artist” — although I do have a studio...More »
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Aaron Bobrow, Jo Nigoghossian and Grayson Revoir Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents a three-person exhibition featuring work from Aaron Bobrow, Jo Nigoghossian and Grayson Revoir. The juncture between the limitations and life of industrial materials and the...More »
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Davina Semo "We Begin with the Noise"
Martos Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new works by Davina Semo. We Begin with the Noise presents works that repurpose the ubiquitous industrial landscape of chains, concrete and glass. The works...More »
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Graham Caldwell "The Exploding View"
Martos Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Graham Caldwell’s latest installations. Manipulating glass to the limits of its expandability, Caldwell creates surfaces marked by crumpled and stretched...More »
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Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by New York based artists Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner. Continuing his ongoing analysis of pastoral and civic divisions, Colin Snapp will exhibit...More »
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"We Regret To Inform You There is Currently No Space Or Place For Abstract Painting" Exhibition
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"The Feral Child Has No Use for Art" Exhibition
We lived like this for months, roaming the mountainside, snarling, drooling, fucking the dirt, stoned on bitter peyote that grew by the fistful. Our hair tangled. Our teeth black. Self-orphaned. Blind...More »
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Alan Kane "Trove"
The British artist Alan Kane described himself recently as ‘a conceptual artist working in the field of still life, the nude and landscape’. His diverse practice often takes cues from forms of display...More »
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"Just Photography" Exhibition
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Tim Braden, Bianca Brunner, Hugo Canoilas, Ernst Caramelle, Lourdes Castro, Raphael Danke, Jane England, Jason Evans, Adam Gillam, Ilana Halperin, Anne Hardy, Raphael Hefti,...More »
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Leif Ritchey "Chameleon Jeans"
Leif Ritchey, born 1975 in Ann Arbor, MI, lives and works in New York City. Ritchey interests in art, music and fashion are integral in his work. Notable solo exhibitions include "Spots" at The Journal...More »
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"Us and Them" Martos Gallery Project Space Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents Us and Them, a selection of single channel videos from artist collaborations Jules Marquis and P Smith, organized by Parinaz Mogadassi. Us and Them marks the inaugural exhibition...More »
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Group Show
Here we are, a bottle pumped with carbonation, ruminating over our escape. And there we go, acting in hast, guided by chance, the accidental becoming the aesthetic. Dominic Nurre will present a movable...More »
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Baldvin Rinsted "BPM"
Martos Gallery presents BPM, Scottish-Icelandic artist Baldvin Ringsted’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Auditory to visual, Baldvin Ringsted finds a delicate transaction that occurs from...More »
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"Day to-day" Exhibition
Day to-day is a group exhibition curated by Anne Couillaud. This exhibition gathers artists who incorporate the time dimension into their daily practice. Each artist connects to different types of time...More »
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"Day to-day" Exhibition
The gallery is pleased to present "Day to-day," a group exhibition curated by Anne Couillaud. This exhibition gathers artists who incorporate the time dimension into their daily practice. Each artist...More »
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Marc Ganzglass "Middle Sized Aggregates"
Martos Gallery presents Marc Ganzglass's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Jokes depend on logical non-sequiturs. Though there is a certain humor in this narrative of the meteorite, the sudden shift...More »
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Bill Albertini "Space Frame Redux"
Albertini will be showing two new series of works: a group of sculptures fabricated in ABS plastic using the "fused deposition modeling" process and also several wall mounted, digitally printed, paper...More »
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"Ben Berlow and Graham Caldwell" Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents a two-person exhibition of works by Ben Berlow and Graham Caldwell, organized by Bob Nickas. Ben Berlow's works on paper are mostly abstract meditations on the act of painting...More »
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Lincoln Tobier " SCREWED to the Wall"
"Lincoln Tobier's current work can be seen through a process of building, collapsing, and reassembling an illusion of 'form.' This exhibition will include works of photography, painting and sculpture. La...More »
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Curtis Mitchell Exhibition
The project by Curtis Mitchell, featuring two ensembles from his series Personas. While the viewer of Mitchell's video works is spectacularized, the spectacle is temporarily personalized. This conceptual...More »
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"The Golden Age" Exhibition
Martos Gallery announces the second solo show of Servane Mary, featuring new works by the Swiss-French artist. Apart from her interest in the purely aesthetic aspect of color, Mary is greatly fascinated...More »
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Sharon Lockhart, Juliana Paciulli, Caecilia Tripp Exhibition
The artists' fascination with music and its various manifestations, modes of expression and effects constitutes the thematic focal point of the exhibition. Yet, even though linked by a common interest,...More »
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Lyle Starr "Drawings"
Martos Gallery announces an exhibition of new drawings by Lyle Starr. This is Starr's first show to feature drawings and his fourth solo show with Jose Martos since 2001. Using adapted mark-making tools...More »
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Susanne Thiemann "Entangled"
The show will include a series of sculptures, installations, collages, along with a single channel video in collaboration wit performance artist Martin Pfisterer. Thiemann uses ancient techniques to...More »
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Jan Kopp "Kammerspiel"
Kammerspiel is a four channel video installation. The screens are organized in a symmetrical order given within a rectangular space, one screen per wall. The video is composed of an introduction and three...More »
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Oliver Sudden & Michael Portnoy "The Dudion Levers"
The central piece of the show will be the first time exhibition and public use of THE INSTRUMENT, with which Michael Portnoy will perform the night of the opening. Portnoy will expose a series of sculptures...More »
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"Love, Love,Love" Exhibition
Martos Gallery presents Love Love Love, a provocative group exhibition exploring the physical and emotional effects of love on a diverse group of artists and their practice. Are artists bound by the same...More »
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Pawel Wojtasik "Like a Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves"
This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery. For the exhibition, which takes its title from the poem Nothing but Death by Pablo Neruda, Wojtasik will address the subject matter of autopsies....More »
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"Selected Works" Exhibition
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Servane Mary " Works on Paper" Exhibition
Servane Mary was born in 1972. She lives and works in Paris and New York. Her works have been recently exhibited in Los Angeles (solo), New York (Alona Kagan Gallery), Miami (Art Basel Miami Beach) and...More »
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Bill Albertini "Structures and Facades" Exhibition
"Structures & Facades" revisits a series of sculptures that Bill Albertini created in the early nineteen eighties. These works originated with his relocation to the US from Europe and consequential...More »