nyc art scene

a carefully curated calendar & cumulative catalog of new york city's most interesting art exhibitions and events. hand picked by Arthur Seen & Team

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Opens Tomorrow, Thurs, Apr 4, 6-8p: “L’Argento” Giosetta FioroniThe Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., NYCItalian artist Giosetta Fioroni’s first solo show in North America; featuring over 80 works in drawing, painting, film, theater design, and illustration, dating from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, decades during which the artist formulated a unique response to a developing commercial culture. Although many of the works are executed on canvas, drawing remains at the forefront of Fioroni’s oeuvre, and her investment in hand-rendering serves to distinguish her practice from that of her American Pop Art peers.

Opens Tomorrow, Thurs, Apr 4, 6-8p:

“L’Argento”
 Giosetta Fioroni

The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St., NYC

Italian artist Giosetta Fioroni’s first solo show in North America; featuring over 80 works in drawing, painting, film, theater design, and illustration, dating from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, decades during which the artist formulated a unique response to a developing commercial culture. Although many of the works are executed on canvas, drawing remains at the forefront of Fioroni’s oeuvre, and her investment in hand-rendering serves to distinguish her practice from that of her American Pop Art peers.

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Opens Tomorrow, Aug 25, 6-10p: LUSHKlughaus Gallery, 47 Monroe St., NYCThe Australian so-called “graffiti artist”, LUSH, will be showcasing a variety of whimsical illustrations.

Opens Tomorrow, Aug 25, 6-10p:

LUSH

Klughaus Gallery, 47 Monroe St., NYC

The Australian so-called “graffiti artist”, LUSH, will be showcasing a variety of whimsical illustrations.

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Tonight July 26, 7-10p:

Kingbrown Magazine Launch & Exhibition Opening

Klughaus Gallery, 47 Monroe St., NYC

Kingbrown and Morning Breath have collaborated with curators, John Leo and Melissa McCaig-Welles to produce this exhibition of skateboard inspired artwork. The exhibition will showcase influential artists from members of the “infamous Girl/Chocolate Art Dump, pioneers in NYC graffiti, talented illustrators, animators, art stars from Australia, sculptors, and that guy living in the NY green diamond.” Artists include: Morning Breath, Andy Jenkins, Chris Cycle, Dave Kinsey, “Grotesk” aka Kimou Meyer, Stefan Marx, Kevin Lyons, Mike Giant, “Razauno”, aka Max Vogel, Greg Lamarche, Zach Malfa-Kowalski, Steve Gourlay and Ben Horton

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Opens Saturday, June 30, 6-8p:

“Human Nature”……….Jason DeCaires Taylor

“Ashes to Ashes”……..Fulvio Di Piazza

Jonathan Levine Gallery, 529 W20th St., NYC

two solo exhibitions that imagine epic, apocalyptic visions. Photographer, sculptor and naturalist Jason DeCaires Taylor will be exhibiting haunting photos of his underwater sculptures in “Human Nature.” His life-like, stone figures appear sullen and haunting at a first glance, like petrified bodies preserved underwater in a sci-fi disaster video game. However, Taylor’s work speaks to the beauty of the cycle of life. Some of his sculptures have come to form parts of coral reefs, coexisting harmoniously with the ecosystem.

Fulvio Di Piazza’s show “Ashes to Ashes” features a series of paintings of a primordial Earth, where natural materials are anthropomorphized to form god-like heads. Volcanoes erupt and clouds of smoke billow to create animal and human shapes. Di Piazza’s dark, aggressive works invite us into a fantasy world that precedes civilization. - Hi•Fructose

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Just Opened:

Maurice Sendak Retrospective

AFA, 54 Greene St., NYC

AFA’s Maurice Sendak Retrospective, which runs through Labor Day, includes nearly 50 original works by Mr. Sendak.

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Opens Fri, May 25, 6-10p:”Silverlink” Jamie Brown, Dominic Corry, Will Robson-Scott & Jack Murray (ATG)Klughaus Gallery, 47 Monroe Street, NYC Subway: F to East Broadwaya group show featuring a collection of recent works by London-based ATG artists. Founded in 2000, ATG (Ahead’a The Game) is a diverse collective of graffiti writers, visual artists, musicians and DJ’s rooted in London sub-culture. The title of the show, ‘Silverlink’ refers to the former name of an over ground line that runs from the East to the West of London. This particular line played an integral part in the worlds of all the artists involved. The group show will showcase a mix of photography, illustration, painting, collage and sculpture. - thru June 17

Opens Fri, May 25, 6-10p:

”Silverlink”
 Jamie Brown, Dominic Corry, Will Robson-Scott & Jack Murray (ATG)

Klughaus Gallery, 47 Monroe Street, NYC
Subway: F to East Broadway

a group show featuring a collection of recent works by London-based ATG artists. Founded in 2000, ATG (Ahead’a The Game) is a diverse collective of graffiti writers, visual artists, musicians and DJ’s rooted in London sub-culture. The title of the show, ‘Silverlink’ refers to the former name of an over ground line that runs from the East to the West of London. This particular line played an integral part in the worlds of all the artists involved. The group show will showcase a mix of photography, illustration, painting, collage and sculpture. - thru June 17

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Tonight, 6-8p:”Pen and Ink and You and Me” You ByunEast Village Visitors Center, 75 E. 4th St., NYC (bt 2nd Ave & Bowery)You’s work is a ritual that recollects and records personal memories and emotions. - thru June 15

Tonight, 6-8p:

”Pen and Ink and You and Me”
 You Byun

East Village Visitors Center, 75 E. 4th St., NYC (bt 2nd Ave & Bowery)

You’s work is a ritual that recollects and records personal memories and emotions.
- thru June 15

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Thru May 20:”Freeze Your Eggs” Grant ShafferLa MaMa Galleria, 6 East 1st St., NYC Grant Shaffer has lived and worked in Manhattan as an artist illustrator for the past 17 years. He illustrates for magazines and newspapers such as The New Yorker, Interview, and The New York Times. His latest work, a series called “Freeze Your Eggs” features oil paintings of androgynous, earphone-wearing citizens.

Thru May 20:

”Freeze Your Eggs”
 Grant Shaffer

La MaMa Galleria, 6 East 1st St., NYC

Grant Shaffer has lived and worked in Manhattan as an artist illustrator for the past 17 years. He illustrates for magazines and newspapers such as The New Yorker, Interview, and The New York Times. His latest work, a series called “Freeze Your Eggs” features oil paintings of androgynous, earphone-wearing citizens.

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Opens Tonight, Feb 9, 6-8p:

”Night Falls”
 Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz

P•P•O•W Gallery, 535 W22nd St., NYC (3rd Floor)

Martin & Muñoz are an art team best known for their “Travelers” series of snow globes and photographs. In the world that they have developed, blizzard transformed landscapes often serve as backdrops for enigmatic narratives. For this exhibition, they have chosen night as a back drop. Fires, flashlights and moonlight puncture the dark to expressive effect. Some of the images and snow globes depict a sort of dystopian Kinderland. This is a place where children have no parents, a place where adults appear only as an opposing tribe. - thru Mar 10

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Opens Jan 4th:”Illustrators 54: Sequential-Series, Moving Image and Uncommissioned”Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators128 East 63rd St., NYC (bt Park and Lex)“The first of the three-part “Annual Exhibition: Illustrators 54,” the Sequential/Series, Moving Image and Uncommissioned Exhibit will be held at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators January 4 to January 28, 2012. It features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide, selected by a jury of professionals.”

Opens Jan 4th:

”Illustrators 54: Sequential-Series, Moving Image and Uncommissioned”

Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd St., NYC (bt Park and Lex)

“The first of the three-part “Annual Exhibition: Illustrators 54,” the Sequential/Series, Moving Image and Uncommissioned Exhibit will be held at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators January 4 to January 28, 2012. It features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide, selected by a jury of professionals.”

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