nyc art scene

Opens Feb 9, 6-9p:

“Wrecktangles”
 Herbie Fletcher

The Hole, 312 Bowery, NYC

six major new works by surf legend and artist Herbie Fletcher that make us wish it was surfing weather here in NYC. “These pieces are made from the wave-munched fragments of broken boards actually used when surfing giant waves. The thunderous force of the ocean is apparent in these jagged and mishapen “wrecktangles”, but perhaps the most eye-catching component is the various decals, traction pads, fins or logos that show both the personalization of each board and the sponsorship and awards circuits of pro surfing.” - thru Feb 28

thru Feb 9:

“The Whoas of Female Tragedy II”
 Jaimie Warren

The Hole Gallery, 312 Bowery, NYC

In photographs that explore different female stereotypes from both art history and celebrity culture, distorted through the internet’s bizarre juxtapositions, disposable imagery and memes, this new body of work features the artist and her friends in roles as diverse as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Easy E, The Virgin Mary, Lana Del Rey or Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon.

Recently Opened:

“Houseface”
 Adam Green

The Hole Gallery, 312 Bowery, NYC

an end of summer exhibition by artist and musician Adam Green that includes painting, sculpture, and his feature-length film The Wrong Ferrari screened on continuous loop - thru Aug 25

thru Aug 10:

“Andrépolis”
 André Saraiva

The Hole Gallery, 312 Bowery, NYC

The exhibition is an installation of fifteen monumental sculptures, forming an urban landscape composed of stylized New York skyscrapers. It evokes giant toys, a theme park, or perhaps miniature maquettes of nightclubs with their ever so discreet, well-guarded doors, their nocturnal, informational neons … Once again André is creating clubs, but this time they aren’t in a city, they’re in a gallery. With this good-natured gesture, he reminds everyone that if he did contribute to the night scene with his clubs— which he continues to do — it is as an artist, and without ever giving up his vocation, which renders clear everything he does. - Olivier Zahm

Opens June 7, 6-9p:

“Portrait of a Generation”

The Hole, 312 Bowery St., NYC

The Hole will present “a kind of yearbook for New York City in 2012…over 100 artists who make up the art scene here will pair up and exchange portraits with each other. This massive exhibition will serve to give image to a community of people, both renowned and emerging, who are dedicated to making artworks. The works will be hung salon-style on our walls of Gallery 1 and 2, and include painted, drawn and photographic portraits.” - thru Aug 10

photo: iStock

Opens Today, June 1, 6-9p:

“YES 2012”
 JIM JOE

The Hole Gallery, 312 Bowery, NYC

For one evening and two days only during irregular gallery hours, New York Art Department and The Hole present JIM JOE YES 2012 (or YES 1 2), the artist’s first solo show. The culmination of five years of experience of writing on trash and other people’s property, the show consists of paintings, drawings and sculptures representing an attempt by the artist to transition ideas, emotions and intentions used in the street to a fine art gallery setting.

Opens Tomorrow, Apr 28, 7-9p:

”Pour Paintings”
 Holton Rower

The Hole, 312 Bowery, NYC

Rower will present the variations in technique that produce wildly different effects. From the entrance to the gallery featuring small pours with “hats” as the artist calls them (wood protrusions on which the paint is poured and flows down); to the medium-sized works with hats, some of which flow onto the floor; to the rear gallery where large works both with and without hats feature “exclusions” (where the artist placed obstacles that the paint was forced to flow around then removed); to Gallery Three where he shows five tectonic pours. - thru May 26

Continues thru Apr 21:

Nick Mead: Paintings

The Hole, 312 Bowery., NYC

In this group of new works, Mead explores a technique that blends abstraction and thickly impastoed moments of semi-figuration: his stark, tangled paintings of controlled scrawl ball up in some of the intersections and bespeckle the negative spaces in masses of paint that are then given “eyes”.

Opens Tonight, Mar 30, 7-9p:

”An Øje at The Hole”
 curated by Jens-Peter Brask

The Hole, 312 Bowery, NYC

a group show of young Nordic artists curated by Jens-Peter Brask, which puts together a group of the nine most exciting young artists from Denmark with works across media from painting and drawing to sculpture and installation.

Artists: Michael Kvium, Jan S. Hansen, Peter Funch, Kasper Sonne, John Kørner, HuskMitNavn, Maiken Bent, Søren Behncke, Jesper Dalgaard