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 Tonight, Mar 15, 6-9p:

”Materiality”
 Joey Archuleta, Yevgeniya Baras, Thornton Dial and Matt Stone

Allegra LaViola Gallery, 179 East Broadway, NYC

an exhibition of painting and sculpture investigating the rel-tionship between materials, process and product. The exhibition examines the formality and informality of the object. The four artists in Materiality arrive at the same point by very different paths. Each is circling his chosen media before deciding on how and when to attack, though when the strike occurs it is with a precise violence. - thru Apr 21

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Know Hope, Retna and D*Face have been painting up the streets in downtown Manhattan during Armory Arts Week.

Know Hope’s mural (in the video above) recently appeared on East 2nd Street at 2nd Avenue. The piece is titled “(STAMPEDED)” and is the first artwork in a new season for Fourth Arts Block’s “ArtUp” program, which is led by curator Keith Schweitzer in partnership with The MaNY Project.

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Opens Tonight, Mar 9, 6-8p:”Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now” curated by NuNu HungRooster Gallery, 190 Orchard St., NYCThe featured painters in this exhibition were born in the late 1970s and the 1980s. They were raised in a time when martial law had just been lifted in Taiwan. They grew up in the chaotic world of media after censorship had been relaxed, and they engaged with the information brought on by technological advancement. For these artists, the world map consists not just of countries with specific names, but also a virtual society without real borders.

Opens Tonight, Mar 9, 6-8p:

”Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now”
 curated by NuNu Hung

Rooster Gallery, 190 Orchard St., NYC

The featured painters in this exhibition were born in the late 1970s and the 1980s. They were raised in a time when martial law had just been lifted in Taiwan. They grew up in the chaotic world of media after censorship had been relaxed, and they engaged with the information brought on by technological advancement. For these artists, the world map consists not just of countries with specific names, but also a virtual society without real borders.

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Opens Tonight, Mar 4, 6-8p:KADAR BROCK, JASON GRINGLER, JIM LEEThe Proposition Gallery, 2 Extra Place, NYC (off East 1st Street, bt 2nd Ave & Bowery)The ties that bind these artist’s works together are an obsession with the use of traditionally irreverent materials. Shredded canvas, hanging staples, broken mirrors, jagged Plexiglas…as these clusters of objects work their way from waste to art, bending this way and that, sharp reflections and sharp edges, rip, torn, broken and busted, these creations become re-frozen in a moment of re-materialization.

Opens Tonight, Mar 4, 6-8p:

KADAR BROCK, JASON GRINGLER, JIM LEE

The Proposition Gallery, 2 Extra Place, NYC
(off East 1st Street, bt 2nd Ave & Bowery)

The ties that bind these artist’s works together are an obsession with the use of traditionally irreverent materials. Shredded canvas, hanging staples, broken mirrors, jagged Plexiglas…as these clusters of objects work their way from waste to art, bending this way and that, sharp reflections and sharp edges, rip, torn, broken and busted, these creations become re-frozen in a moment of re-materialization.

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Opens Tonight, Mar 4, 6-8p:

”A Series of Inspiring Women”
 Wardell Milan

Louis B. James Gallery, 143b Orchard St, NYC

The subjects of his drawings, taken from industry magazines and combined with other imagery of women  from fashion and pornography, hover between  the  heroic  and  the  grotesque.   Viscerally  and  starkly rendered in charcoal, both  large  and  small  in  format, Milan’s  figures become post-gender warriors, a tribe of contemporary Amazons who through extreme labor transmogrify their bodies and in turn push the contemporary ideal of physical perfection into uncharted realms. - thru Apr 14

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Opens Tonight, Mar 4, 6-8p:”Nothing New” Oded HirschThierry Goldberg Gallery, 103 Norfolk St., NYCIn a series of videos and photographs completed over the past few years, Hirsch presents seemingly purposeless collective endeavors, performed in real time, where the focus is more on the process than on the outcome of the undertaking. Questioning the very notion of “togetherness” and utopia, Hirsch produces works that, while profound and political, are also intimate and moving. - thru April 15

Opens Tonight, Mar 4, 6-8p:

”Nothing New”
 Oded Hirsch

Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 103 Norfolk St., NYC

In a series of videos and photographs completed over the past few years, Hirsch presents seemingly purposeless collective endeavors, performed in real time, where the focus is more on the process than on the outcome of the undertaking. Questioning the very notion of “togetherness” and utopia, Hirsch produces works that, while profound and political, are also intimate and moving. - thru April 15

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Lower East Side Gallery List & Map via lesgalleriesnyc.com A very handy list, complete with a custom-formatted printable map, alphabetical listing of galleries, hours of operation, URL’s, and physical addresses. Happy gallery hopping!

Lower East Side Gallery List & Map

via lesgalleriesnyc.com

A very handy list, complete with a custom-formatted printable map, alphabetical listing of galleries, hours of operation, URL’s, and physical addresses. Happy gallery hopping!

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Opens Tonight, Mar 5, 6-8p:

”LevelFive & Future Gestalt”
 Brody Condon

‡ On Stellar Rays ‡  133 Orchard Street, NYC (bt Delancey & Rivington)

Two new videos by Brody Condon. Future Gestalt is part sci-fi film, part participatory performance, and part experiential essay on the history of psychotherapeutic group encounters. LevelFive is the culmination of an immersive durational performance where 30 participants were invited by the artist to invent personae, and remain in character for 48 hours whilst enacting self-actualization procedures of the now infamous Large Group Awareness Training seminars from the 1970′s. Condon exacts a compelling investigation into a web of mid-20th century ideologies: the theorization of humans as bio-machines via Cybernetics, Minimalism’s engagement with the body as social space, and experimental theatre’s recursive dialogue with group psychotherapy. The exhibition articulates an organizing timeline, starting with a fictitious self-actualization seminar and moving forward to an imaginary future heterotopia. - thru April 15

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Opens Tonight, Feb 26, 6-8p:

”Long Ending”
 Bill Jenkins

Laurel Gitlen Gallery, 261 Broome St., NYC

Bill Jenkins’ sculptures are carefully worked-out problems in which found objects and hand-fabricated elements are held together by a tenuous formal inertia, the simple mechanics of which appear to come easily undone. His chosen materials — a discarded air filter, a lightbulb, an oyster shell, a vent cover, a mattress frame — are remnants of a domestic economy. Flimsy, toxic, saved from the trash or collected after being dejected from it, the objects are no longer of practical importance, instead incarnated into an alternate system of value that is informed by the contact, use, and visibility of vernacular things. -thru Apr 15

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Continues thru Mar 15:

”Iteration”
 Gerri Davis

Bridge Gallery, 98 Orchard St., NYC (bt Delancey & Broome)

Gerri Davis manages to balance a series of dichotomies, high art and popular culture; stylization and subjectivity, realism and fiction, discomforting imagery and visual pleasure, while capturing the viewer’s imagination through dramatic brushwork, and richly modulated surfaces.

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