nyc art scene

Opens Feb 27, 6-9p:

“No Sun without Shadow”

Lu Magnus, 55 Hester St., NYC

a group show featuring Jonathan Allen, Chitra Ganesh, Kate Gilmore, Fawad Khan, Emily Noelle Lambert, Jean-Pierre Roy, and Kristen Schiele. Combining mythology and philosophy, the artists use the figure in their works of various media – video, drawing, collage, and painting – to illustrate the burden of the artist and the process of art making. - thru Mar 24

thru Dec23:

“Sowing the Seeds of Love”
 Justseeds

Munch Gallery, 245 Broome St., NYC (@ Ludlow)

the first group exhibition in NYC by Justseeds, an artists’ cooperative of 24 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods.

Artists: Jesus Barraza, Kevin Caplicki, Melanie Cervantes, Santiago Doesntsitstill, Alec Dunn, Molly J Fair, Thea Gahr, Nicolas Lampert, Josh MacPhee, Fernando Marti, Colin Matthes, Dylan Miner, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Pete Railand, Favianna Rodriguez, Shaun Slifer, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, Mary Tremonte, Bec Young.

Opens Sept 8th, 8-11p:

“Working on It”
 curated by Alex Ahn & Ari Lipkis

TEMP Art Space, 57 Walker St., NYC

inaugural exhibition. Featuring the work of twelve emerging young artists, the show “explores the dynamic nature in which young adults grapple with issues such as originality and identity within a rapidly evolving context.” - thru Oct 14

Opens Sept 4th:

“Ruptures: Forms of Public Address”
 curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam

Cooper Union School of Art, 41 Cooper Square, NYC

Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 6–8pm

group exhibition that considers the emancipatory potential of radical gestures, specifically focusing on how demonstrations and artistic practice are not isolated nor disconnected, but share a similar language of resistance.  - thru Oct 13

Opens Tonight, Aug 16, 6-9p:

“The Double Dirty Dozen”

Freight + Volume Gallery, 530 W24th St., NYC

large group exhibition about the quest for freedom of expression – sexual, intellectual, spiritual, political - and ultimately salvation through making art. - thru Sept 22

Artists: Michael Anderson, David Baskin, Chris Biddy, Ion Birch, Paul Brainard, Shiva Burgos, Richard Butler, Francesco Civetta aka DJ CASH, Andy Cross, Jules De Balincourt, Erik Den Breejen, Kent Dorn, Joel Dugan, Austin Eddy, Johnston Foster, Rebecca Goyette, Duncan Hannah, Daniel Heidkamp, David Humphrey, George Jenne / Damian Stamer, Aaron Johnson, Ezra Johnson, Misaki Kawai, Kevin Kay, David Kramer, Maria Kreyn, Hye Rim Lee, Travis Lindquist, Noah Lyon, Panni Malekzadeh, Andrea Mary Marshall, Taylor McKimens, Greg Miller, Jazz-minh Moore, Joe Heaps Nelson, Lance Rautzhan, Max Razdow, Tom Sanford, Bill Saylor, Kristen Schiele, Ryan Schneider, Andrew Smenos, Emet Sosna, Jennifer Sullivan, Ulrike Theusner, Russell Tyler, Eric White, Genevieve White, Kelli Williams and Nicole Wittenberg.

Opens Tomorrow, Aug 8, 7-9p:

“Détournement : Signs of the Times”
 curated by Carlo McCormick

Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 W20th St., NYC

“This exhibition is meant to both celebrate the lineage of détournement and bring attention to some of its current practitioners who embody its continued vitality through their art. We live in a forest of signs that are meant to confuse, distract and numb us to the more dire consequences of the human condition as it is. We do not need to follow these signs, we need to make our own so as to find a way out of the mess we are in. I cannot thank these artists enough for their contributions towards helping us find another way.” - Carlo McCormick

Artists Include: AIKO, Dan Witz, David Wojnarowicz, Dylan Egon, Eine, Ilona Granet, Jack Pierson, John Law (Jack Napier), Leo Fitzpatrick, Mark Flood, Martin Wong, Max Rippon (RIPO), Mike Osterhout, Posterboy, Ron English, Shepard Fairey + Jamie Reid, Steve Powers (ESPO), TrustoCorp, Will Boone, Zevs

Opens Tonight, Aug 2, 7-9p:

“in the open”
Mark Farris, Hannah Holshouser, Paul Howe, Gabriel Serpa, & Harry Swartz-Turfle

KESTING/RAY Bushwick, 257 Boerum St., Brooklyn NY

Searching to discover new artists and trends outside of NYC, gallery directors Christina Ray and David Kesting found an opportunity to exhibit the work of a unique group of artists located in North Carolina. The artists contributing to in the open reveal mystery in subjects that are frequently overlooked or misunderstood. -thru Aug 18

Just Opened:

“Lyrical Color”
Rico Gatson, Sam Gilliam, Brece Honeycutt, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, Jane Kent, Meg Lipke, Maggie Michael, Dan Steinhilber & David Storey.

Pocket Utopia, 191 Henry St., NYC (bt Clinton & Jefferson)

Color has an echo and at this exhibition’s center is Sam Gilliam, internationally recognized as one of America’s foremost Color Field Painters and Lyrical Abstractionist artists. Around Gilliam, there’s restraint, equanimity and balance. There is the blackness of both Rico Gatson’s and Dan Steinhilber’s sculptural abstractions, works that are intensified by Jane Kent’s overlapping musical scores, further blurred by Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson painting upon silk threads and made distinctive by Meg Lipke’s beeswax with India-inked and fabric dyed drawings. -thru Aug 24