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This exhibition features several recent paintings from Langsam’s long-running series of banded montages that set nearly monochromatic, tightly rendered views of iconic modernist buildings on top of a band of gridded abstract motifs inspired by classic modernist paintings and beneath ominously lit skies that invoke Romantic landscape painting.  The skies are, in fact, loose renderings (rather th...   [more]

Joan Semmel (b. New York, 1932) studied at the Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and the Art Student’s League of New York. She began her painting career in Spain and South America in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, she returned to New York, where her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes, in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation. He...   [more]

Opening: April 17th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Anna Kustera Gallery is delighted to present Will Laughlin and Eric N. Mack in a two person exhibition.  Will Laughlin's minimal, painted abstractions are layered, apparently authorless and only reluctantly handsome. In concerning himself with surface, navigability and architectural constraints on space, the artist holds onto Modernism's sense of progress and Op Art's visual and conceptually rigor wit...   [more]

Opening: May 11th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bureau is honored to announce the new production by seminal text and performance artist Constance DeJong, SpeakChamber. During the month of May, Bureau will be transformed into an intimate theater to host DeJong's hour-long spoken performance derived from a work of prose and accompanied by recorded sound and moving image. DeJong has worked for over three decades on narrative form within the conte...   [more]

Opening: May 5th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present My American Dream, an installation of new paintings by Keith Mayerson.  My American Dream is a non-linear narrative series of paintings that tell a story of contemporary America through a sequence of representational and abstract imagery. Inspired by avant-garde theater, prose poetry, independent comics, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Brian Wilson's Smile, May...   [more]

Opening: April 26th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Visionary designer, architect and artist Gaetano Pesce will have has first solo, New York exhibition at Fred Torres Collaborations from March 21-May 25, 2013. The exhibition focuses on issues of love and empathy, be it for ourselves, each other or the world, that have been important themes in Pesce’s work. L’ABBRACCIO, (The Hug) the name of the exhibition, refers to a cabinet designed by Pesce in...   [more]

Opening: March 21st   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

When I think about the conventions of painting -- a tradition I respect immensely -- I notice that my concern has always been with the interplay of light and structure" says artist Stephen Magsig. "Light, since it defines everything, is what my work is about -- how light changes things, how it inflects the surfaces of places we imagine for ourselves and inhabit, like sunlight touching a window si...   [more]

Opening: April 25th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Josée Bienvenu Gallery is pleased to present Running to Stand Still, an exhibition of new works by Ken Solomon. Amassing unique information in the form of algorithms, iPhones, iPads and computer screens, Solomon’s latest work documents a personal pilgrimage, a poignant self-portrait through screens on paper. Instant information is processed into long, slow, self-revealing watercolors. Running to...   [more]

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Season 1 Episode 0, an exhibition of new paintings by the British artist Ian Francis. This is Francis’ second solo show with the gallery. Working in mixed media on canvas and acrylic panels, Ian Francis combines abstraction, figuration, and elements of both painting and drawing. For this exhibition, the artist is unveiling over a dozen medium- to large-s...   [more]

Opening: April 25th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

UNTAPPED LOVE                       May 4 @ New Museum  11-6pm NEW YORK – The Love Yourself Project (LYP) uses the visual arts as a catalyst for inclusive, global and community-based projects designed to increase self-awareness, cultural self-esteem and collective progress. In this unique participatory installation, UNTAPPED LOVE brings a community together. LYP volunteers have tak...   [more]

Opening: May 2nd   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Miyako Yoshinaga is pleased to announce Something on Water, the fourth solo exhibition of figurative oil paintings by German artist Hans Benda, on view from April 18 through May 25, 2013. A reception will be held on Thursday, April 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. Hans Benda, in his own words, is “trying to catch one moment, one aspect of endless transition. Everything is on the move. The waves at the shore move in...   [more]

Opening: April 18th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Recent fiber and mixed media work exploring the artist’s vision of three cities   [more]

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts presents new work by Rico Gatson.  The Promise of Light is partly inspired by the book, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, which chronicles the black migration out of the American South spanning World War I through the early 1970’s. Gatson’s family undertook this journey, moving from Georgia to California in the late 60’s for the promise of a new beginnin...   [more]

Opening: April 6th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of paintings by Canan Tolon. Canan Tolon's paintings at first appear as purely abstract, but with time the eye discovers familiar urban landscapes in the rhythmic painted streaks. She explores the visualization of space by creating an illusion of depth and engages the viewer in the game of seeking recognizable imagery and inventing...   [more]

Opening: April 18th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Organized by the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, this exhibition includes more than 40 oil paintings spanning William Matthew Prior’s career from 1824 to 1856. Through his pragmatic marketing strategy, Prior was able to document the faces of middle-class Americans throughout his lifetime, making art accessible to a previously overlooked group. A versatile artist, Prior is well known...   [more]

Opening: January 24th   10:30 AM - 5:30 PM