Past
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Matthew Morrocco: ORCHID.seasons - winter
December 14 - 22, 2018 In this series of self-portraits, the artist’s full body suit has turned from orange (fall) to a cold blue. In the suit, the artist becomes an abstract subject, the faceless character called Orchid. The figure traverses mountains and frolics in snow and ice. The resulting images provide a potential antidote... Read more -
Sarah Slappey: Night Feeding
November 15 - December 8, 2018 Crush Curatorial is pleased to announce Night Feeding, Sarah Slappey’s solo debut in New York. The exhibition premieres a series of new paintings that “investigate paradoxes within both the natural and human world.” Intersecting human and environmental boughs, Slappey’s enigmatic works connect vulnerabilities and affinities of the present through lush... Read more -
One Blue Eye, Two Servings
Nicole Won Hee Maloof and Tammy Nguyen October 18 - November 10, 2018 Crush Curatorial is pleased to announce One Blue Eye, Two Servings, a two-person exhibition featuring video, etchings, and silkscreens by Nicole Won Hee Maloof and a series of paintings by Tammy Nguyen. Troubling relationships linked to visual perception and cultural construction, Maloof and Nguyen’s individual practices investigate the role of... Read more -
Hope Floats
A basin-based art exhibition for a final autumnal dip October 6 - 7, 2018 Do not swim on a full stomach. There is a hollow feeling on Labor Day when the summer ends.(1) The pool knows it well. Once upon a time, the pool knew what it meant to shine. Now neglected. Do not swim on a full stomach. What exists now is... Read more -
Rebecca Warlick: I'm Your Man
September 20 - October 13, 2018 Invested in painting as a method of covering, Warlick’s experimental urethane compositions suggest the artist’s pivot away from traditional means of painting in pursuit of plastic-poured painting. Concealing bygone layers of wood panel with a material that cures in minutes, Warlick integrates epoxy clay forms into a selection of these... Read more -
Matthew Morrocco: ORCHID.seasons - fall
September 6 - 15, 2018 ORCHID.seasons features Morrocco posing in a variety of monochromatic body suits set in lush natural landscapes. These suits obscure his identity and represent the colors that comprise the spectrum of visible light: red, green, blue, orange, yellow, violet. Whereas his earlier bodies of work court and complicate cultural narratives... Read more -
Science Fictions
Curated by Nicole Kaack June 28 - August 6, 2018 Approaching the present from opposing tenses, Vainsencher and Nelson cast archeological discovery and space exploration as fictions of a future and past. The composite forms of Nelson’s gelatin silver prints and Vainsencher’s photo-collages offer terrain for postulation and exploration in the full-bodied invention of a vase’s plump form and the... Read more -
Electric Mayhem: Caroline Wells Chandler and Jennifer Coates
May 24 - June 23, 2018 Electric Mayhem is the name of the band on The Muppet Show that had their debut in 1975 and featured colorful puppets playing rock music. Electric Mayhem is best manifested in the character of Animal, who played drums and couldn’t contain his unwieldy orange and pink energy, and whose spirit... Read more -
Aglaé Bassens
You Can See Better From Here March 16 - April 14, 2018 Inspired by her recent move to New York City from London and experiences here as an immigrant, Aglaé Bassenscontinues her exploration of windows, obfuscated views, and the gaze. The paintings in this exhibition remain opaque, offering only reflections or closed curtains or blocked views. Keeping their back to the wall,... Read more -
LAUREN FAIGELES in FUNNY GIRL!
February 8 - March 10, 2018 Have you ever wondered how to achieve self-actualization while never having to leave your bed? Well I have a few ideas and if you do too, we should join forces, create a product and go on Shark Tank. While films have The Bechdel test, my works have to comply with... Read more -
HUNGER: DeYoung + Westbrook
January 4 - February 3, 2018 The exhibition takes its name from Knut Hamsun’s seminal modern novel, a story of an unnamed starving artist who wanders the urban landscape in search of fulfillment for insatiable yearnings. Like Hamsun’s novel, DeYoung and Westbrook’s collaboration is driven by desire. The work explores a longing to reconcile ego, culture,... Read more