Month: January 2012

Exhibit: XS – Extra Small at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Recent acquisitions Hypochondriac and Diagnosis by Amy Bennett are currently on view in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing as a part of the exhibition XS – Extra Small, curated by Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator Sabine Rewald.  The show features more than fifty works by about 30 American and European artists including Klee, Dali, Warhol, Vuillard,…

Proteus Gowanus Presents Tales of the Gowanus with Leslie-Arlette Boyce and Chris Matias

Tales of the Gowanus with Leslie-Arlette Boyce and Chris Matias Saturday, January 21, 7pm $5 suggested donation Join us for wine and conversation with Leslie-Arlette Boyce, lead author of The Glory of Brooklyn’s Gowanus: Legacy, Industry, and Artistry. Boyce will discuss her book, its images and local history from the arrival of the Dutch West India Company to…

Exhibit: “Lost & Found” at Mighty Tanaka

Lost & Found explores the usage of found materials and how artists choose to reinterpret the world around them.  Featuring the artwork of five very different artists, Adam Void, Alice Mizrachi, Curtis Readel, ELLE & John Breiner, their work both compliments and juxtaposes, as they express themselves through a myriad of techniques and approaches centering around artwork…

Exhibit: “Ellen Emmet Rand Ellen Emmet Rand” at Figureworks

JANUARY 13, 2012 – MARCH 4, 2012 RECEPTION: JANUARY 13th from 6-9PM Figureworks is pleased to welcome 2012 with a two-person exhibition by Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand, grandmother and granddaughter. The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rand’s portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen…

Exhibit: Grey Full at Jeff Bailey Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th, 6-8pm Jeff Bailey Gallery opens the New Year with a large group show of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography, an exhibition poised and eager to explore the color Grey in all its moody ramifications. In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that he had mixed 46 shades…

Exhibit: “Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge” Paintings by Megan Berk at Recession Art

January 21 – March 11, 2012 | OPENING January 21 6 pm to Midnight Featured Artist Megan Berk will inaugurate RAC and kick off Recession Art’s solo shows with Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge, a show that explores the impulse towards heaven. In abstracted landscapes and altered architectural spaces, a sort of…

Exhibit: Smack Mellon Presents Three Solo Projects

Smack Mellon is pleased to present three solo exhibitions featuring new work and site specific projects by Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon. Tamara Gayer reconfigures and translates the geometry of urban landscapes into an intricate vinyl installation for her window project The Final Contraction. Covering all 24 windows with various colors…