EXHIBITIONS

Alina Tenser

Circles with Sharp Corners February 29 - March 30, 2024 CHELSEA “Repetition changes nothing in the object repeated, but does change something in the mind which contemplates it.' - David Hume via Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Circles with Sharp Corners , Alina Tenser’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Working across sculpture, video, and... Read more

Emma Schwartz & Amy Stober

Ditto February 29 - March 30, 2024 CHELSEA Emma, 7:37  PM Hey Amy, 7:39  PM Should I fire away? Emma, 7:39  PM Yes! Amy, 7:40  PM Ok, I prepped a few questions so it might feel formal in some instances, but I think filling in gaps will happen in a natural way. Emma, 7:41  PM Totally, that is... Read more

Elizabeth Hazan

Under the Sun January 25 - February 24, 2024 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce Under the Sun , painter Elizabeth Hazan’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Elizabeth Hazan’s hieroglyphic landscape paintings maintain an ambiguous relation to real territories. Large passages of oil in muted oranges, glowing pinks, and cherry red become skies, fields, and rivers, each discrete... Read more

"Getting to Ick"

Ever Baldwin, Corydon Cowansage, Alison Croney Moses, Lucy Kim, Julia Kunin, Molly Lowe, Leeza Meksin, Bridget Mullen, Estefania Puerta, Douglas Rieger, Victoria Roth, and Grace Sachi Troxell December 15, 2023 - January 20, 2024 CHELSEA Inside a body there is no light. A massed wetness pressing in on itself, shapes thrust against each other with no sense of where they are. They break in the crowding, come unmade. You put your hand to your stomach and press into the softness, trying to listen with your... Read more

Joshua Frankel

Within the crowd there is a quality November 1 - 18, 2023 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Within the crowd there is a quality , an exhibition of paintings, videos, and a sculptural chandelier by Joshua Frankel, shown in conjunction with his four-channel video installation of the same name at the Moynihan Train Hall. Fine art journalist Laura van Straaten, writing... Read more

Kirsten Deirup

EX VOTO IN SILICO October 26 - December 2, 2023 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present EX VOTO IN SILICO , an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Kirsten Deirup , marking her second solo exhibition with the gallery. Derived from the Latin term “ voto ” for votive or offering, and the pseudo Latin “in silico” for... Read more

Nat Meade

Hank Stamper's Bones September 8 - October 14, 2023 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Hank Stamper’s Bones , an exhibition of paintings by Nat Meade, marking his second solo-presentation with the gallery. A cross between sage philosopher, woodsy outdoorsman, hopeless romantic, and impressionable youth, the bearded figures in Nat Meade’s paintings and works on paper... Read more

Nat Meade

Nothing, Happens For A Reason March 24 - April 23, 2022 CHELSEA Read more

Fawn Krieger

Mouth of the Cave February 18 - March 19, 2022 CHELSEA Read more

Alina Tenser

A Particular Kind of Embrace February 18 - March 19, 2022 CHELSEA Read more

Aglaé Bassens

The Feeling is Mutual January 13 - February 12, 2022 CHELSEA Sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives... Read more

Affective Histories

S. Erin Batiste, Christina P. Day, Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, Cate Richards, Julia Rooney, Kelsey Tynik November 18 - December 18, 2021 CHELSEA S. Erin Batiste, Christina P. Day, Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, Cate Richards, Julia Rooney, Kelsey Tynik “The tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legsand head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever.”... Read more

Annette Hur

Watching From the Other Side November 18 - December 18, 2021 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is excited to present a new body of work by Annette Hur, marking the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.Titled Watching From the Other Side, it will feature varied scales of oil paintings and Korean silk textile-collages. In recent years image-making has taken on a deeply personal... Read more

Kate Klingbeil

Uprooted October 14 - November 13, 2021 CHELSEA “To understand light you need first to have been buried in the deep-down dark.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey Read more

Devra Fox

Stem October 14 - November 13, 2021 CHELSEA Read more

Kirsten Deirup

Hyper Pastoral September 9 - October 9, 2021 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Hyper Pastoral, a solo exhibition by New York-based painter Kirsten Deirup. For the exhibition, which includes fourteen new works in oil on linen, Deirup expands upon her years-long rumination on the idea of the pastoral into the hyper-pastoral, creating works depicting an amplified version... Read more

Stacy Fisher

The Fact That September 9 - October 9, 2021 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is pleased to present The Fact That , an exhibition of abstract paintings by Stacy Fisher. The exhibition borrows its title from the novel Ducks, Newbury Port by Lucy Ellmann. Written as a stream of consciousness narrative, the protagonist speaks in a single run-on sentence and her brief... Read more

Plum Cloutman

Emergency July 15 - August 13, 2021 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is delighted to present Emergency , a solo exhibition of London and North Norfolk-based painter and printmaker Plum Cloutman. The exhibition, the artist’s first in the United States, features sixteen works richly redolent of Cloutman’s idiosyncratic world and distinct sensibility. Whole scenarios unfold in her elusive story-book vignettes,... Read more

Carl D'Alvia

Sometimes Sculpture Deserves a Break June 3 - July 10, 2021 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by sculptor Carl D’Alvia, which will include the debut of his newest series of large-scale, brightly-colored aluminum sculptures which he refers to as “Liths.” Sometimes Sculpture Deserves a Break marks the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. Known... Read more

Glyphadelphia

Alyssa McClenaghan, Amanda Martinez, Amy Feldman, Amy Pleasant, Andrea Belag, Angela Heisch, Beverly Fishman, Carl Ostendarp, Carolyn Salas, Catherine Haggarty, Chris Bogia, Christina Tenaglia, Devra Fox, Drea Cofield, Elise Ferguson, Emily Kiacz, Fawn Kr April 29 - May 29, 2021 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present “Glyphadelphia,” an intergenerational group exhibition organized by sculptor Carl D’Alvia of artists who use different variations of a glyph—ancient hieroglyphics, a question mark, shapes, icons and symbols—as a departure for their work. Artists: Alyssa McClenaghan, Amanda Martinez, Amy Feldman, Amy Pleasant, Andrea Belag, Angela... Read more

Gordon Hall

End of Day March 26 - April 24, 2021 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is delighted to announce END OF DAY, a solo exhibition of 16 new sculptures by Gordon Hall to be presented across all three gallery spaces. As an inanimate proxy for the type of worker whose name it shares, the clothes valet was designed to serve a very specific... Read more

The Symbolists: Les Fleurs du Mal

Alicia Adamerovich, Joseph Buckley, Maho Donowaki, Hilary Doyle, Clark Filio, Caroline Garcia, Eliot Greenwald, Exene Karros, Nat Meade, Tammy Nguyen, Louis Osmosis, Georgica Pettus, Johanna Robinson, Sistership TV, Alicia Smith, and Astrid Terrazas February 18 - March 20, 2021 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present, The Symbolists: Les fleurs du mal, a group show featuring Alicia Adamerovich, Joseph Buckley, Maho Donowaki, Hilary Doyle, Clark Filio, Caroline Garcia, Eliot Greenwald, Exene Karros, Nat Meade, Tammy Nguyen, Louis Osmosis, Georgica Pettus, Johanna Robinson, Sistership TV, Alicia Smith, and Astrid Terrazas. In... Read more

Courtney Puckett

The Helpers January 14 - February 13, 2021 CHELSEA TENDING TO THE EARTH, TO OTHER PEOPLE, OR TO THEIR OWN INNER LIVES, PUCKETT’S NEW SCULPTURES ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE PLANET, OF COMMUNITIES, OF THEMSELVES. EACH IS A BODY WITH AN ARMATURE OR SKELETON MADE FROM FOUND OBJECTS AND WITH A SKIN OF REPURPOSED TEXTILE. The... Read more

Annette Hur

Willful Unknowing January 14 - February 13, 2021 CHELSEA ANNETTE HUR’S WILLFUL UNKNOWING IS A TRIUMPH OVER TRAUMA. THE IMAGES IN HER WORKS ARE INTUITIVE, FROM MEMORIES THAT IMPRINT A KIND OF BODY KNOWLEDGE FOR THE ARTIST. HER PAINTINGS CREATE STORIES THAT EXIST SOLELY ON AN EMOTIONAL LEVEL BUT THAT FEEL MORE REAL THAN REALITY. The metaphorical use of... Read more

Phil Cote

Almost Everything January 14 - February 13, 2021 CHELSEA Somewhere in low Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope adjusts its sensors to 13.4 μm. Measuring the redshift at the edge of the known universe against the local galaxy environment, it produces a thermal image of the expanding cosmos. Somewhere in Brooklyn, Phil Cote adjusts a Cadmium Yellow Medium with... Read more

Quentin James McCaffrey

Promises December 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021 CHELSEA McCaffrey’s worlds are of an arrested time, a stillness emphasizing the activity that is outside its borders. Using single-point perspective, layers of oil paint on panel or canvas, and a focus on light, he renders domestic interior spaces. His motionless interiors seek to call into question the narratives that become... Read more

Chang Sujung

88.61 lbs December 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021 CHELSEA This exhibition features the artist’s newest body of work completed over the past year and a half. Chang carves miniature versions of her bedroom furniture and other personal belongings out of alabaster. Each object is scaled to replicate the weight of the original. For example, Chang carves two iterations of... Read more

Common Expression

Gordon Hall, Carrie Rudd, Ilana Savdie, Howard Spann, and Alina Tenser December 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021 CHELSEA Curated by Jesse Greenberg Common Expression is an attempt to call to attention newly emerging themes in art that have been dormant for some time, works that reinvigorate abstract expressionism and performative objects that induce intimate expressions by the viewer. The paintings in this show by Carrie Rudd, Ilana Savdie... Read more

Virginia Lee Montgomery

Dream Cocoon October 22 - November 21, 2020 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is pleased to present Virginia Lee Montgomery's DREAM COCOON , a multi-media exploration of metaphysical feminist panpsychicism through sculpture, performance, and film. Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM) exhibits a series of marble ponytail sculptures, made after ambiguously erotic shapes of primordial protozoa, and a dream-logica film: BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED... Read more

Aglaé Bassens

Sincerely, October 22 - November 21, 2020 CHELSEA 'Soon, objects take form and fall into place; in a little while, the vigorous, firm totality appears, and one tastes real pleasure in contemplating this bright, serious painting, which yields up nature with a sweet brutality.' - Emile Zola, writing on Edouard Manet, 1867 Hesse Flatow is pleased to present... Read more

Amanda Baldwin

Raindrops are Spheres September 10 - October 17, 2020 CHELSEA A field of navy evening sky. A washed-denim zigzag; the horizon of a mountain range. An ultramarine melon. An indigo cypress tree. For Amanda Baldwin 's solo exhibition, Raindrops are Spheres , the artist expands her focus from still life to landscape, finding commonalities between micro and macro in the... Read more

Elisa Soliven

Memory in the Shape of a U September 10 - October 17, 2020 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is pleased to present Memory in the Shape of a U , a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculpture by Elisa Soliven . Soliven's ceramic vessels bulge and twist, braced in by the clay network that interconnects the surface. Studded grids of colorful tile-like fragments are linked by... Read more

Talia Levitt

Two Truths and a Lie July 9 - August 8, 2020 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, the debut solo exhibition of paintings by Talia Levitt. Levitt's mischievous and maximalist still life paintings reveal the artist's interest in games, mise en abyme, and meta-experiences. Establishing a surprising kind of mimicry in which the surface and material... Read more

Eliot Greenwald

Night Car July 9 - August 8, 2020 CHELSEA HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Eliot Greenwald's NIGHT CAR, his first gallery solo exhibition in New York City. A book will accompany the exhibition. NIGHT CAR is a series of paintings and drawings that are the result of a tangent or mutation that was sparked from something unrelated, a... Read more

Lost World

Alexander Harrison, Barry Hazard and Quentin James McCaffrey July 9 - August 8, 2020 CHELSEA Alexander Harrison, Barry Hazard and Quentin James McCaffrey Hesse Flatow is pleased to present Lost World , a three-person show addressing longing and the nostalgia for place, a kind of ache for the location of origin and desire. Each of these artists seeks to formulate a realizable world, a world... Read more

Ilana Harris-Babou

Decision Fatigue February 20 - May 16, 2020 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow presents our first solo show with Ilana Harris-Babou, Decision Fatigue, debuting her latest video alongside ceramics and collage works. In the video, the artist’s mother stages an intimate, absurd, sometimes painful makeup tutorial and traces the choices she has made in her life, both large and small, to hold onto youth and remain well. Read more

Francesca Facciola

Evil Microwave (A New Era in Cooking) February 20 - May 16, 2020 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow presents the debut solo exhibition of oil paintings by Francesca Facciola. Facciola's paintings create a peculiar parallel universe, corralling stream-of-consciousness images with obsessive attention. Read more

Proposition

Maria Antelman, Carver Audain, Karen Azoulay, Nathaniel deLarge, Ben Hagari, Hugh Hayden + Zachary Heinzerling, Meredith James, Jonah King, Bahareh Khoshooee, Molly Lowe, Asif Mian, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Robert Sandler + Jessica Wilson, Theodore Sefcik December 12, 2019 - January 11, 2020 CHELSEA curated by Jesse Greenberg Maria Antelman, Carver Audain, Karen Azoulay, Nathaniel deLarge, Ben Hagari, Hugh Hayden + Zachary Heinzerling, Meredith James, Jonah King, Bahareh Khoshooee, Molly Lowe, Asif Mian, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Robert Sandler + Jessica Wilson, Theodore Sefcik, Jessie Stead, Alina Tenser, and Siebren Versteeg Hesse Flatow announces Proposition... Read more

Liz Naiden

Piece for One December 12, 2019 - January 11, 2020 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is pleased to announce Liz Naiden's debut solo exhibition, Piece for One . This participatory, multichannel video installation is part of an ongoing body of work that uses projected text to guide the visitor's movements through space. Drawing on choreography, architecture, and experimental theater, Piece for One asks... Read more

Table Manner

Anthony Iacono, Sacha Ingber, and Caitlin MacBride October 24 - November 23, 2019 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is pleased to present Table Manner, showcasing the collaged paper works of Anthony Iacono, the multi-material sculpture and wall works of Sacha Ingber and oil paintings by Caitlin MacBride. Read more

Amy Beecher

Container Store Cantastoria September 19 - October 19, 2019 CHELSEA Amy Beecher's show of 'printed-out paintings' are explored through cantastoria, an ancient and still-practiced method of performing paintings through song. Beecher's libretto borrows language from Hans Hoffman's Search For The Real mixed with assembly instructions for Container Store shelving units. Paintings will be activated as didactic props by a performer... Read more

Charlotte Hallberg

Blind Aura September 19 - October 19, 2019 CHELSEA Hesse Flatow is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Charlotte Hallberg entitled Blind Aura . This is her second show with the gallery. Hallberg will showcase her most recent tondo oil paintings, as well as small scale graphite drawings on paper. Bold geometries and atmospheric color... Read more

Asif Mian

RAF’s Red Plaid June 6 - July 13, 2019 CHELSEA CRUSH Curatorial is pleased to announce Asif Mian ’s solo debut exhibition, RAF’s Red Plaid , the prologue to the artist’s multi-chapter project, RAF . Working at the intersection of sculpture, installation, video and performance, Mian’s practice explores how ritual, (hyper)masculinity, power, and violence shape our culture. In this new... Read more

Alina Tenser

Reading Room April 25 - May 24, 2019 CHELSEA …emotions create the very effect of the surfaces and boundaries that allow us to distinguish an inside and an outside in the first place… -Sara Ahmed CRUSH Curatorial is thrilled to present Alina Tenser: Reading Room , a participatory space that invites the viewer to leaf through the artist’s new... Read more

Adama Delphine Fawundu

The Sacred Star of Isis March 14 - April 6, 2019 CHELSEA Crush Curatorial is delighted to announce Adama Delphine Fawundu: The Sacred Star of Isis , a solo exhibition. In this newly-conceived body of work, the artist takes the ancient West African deity, Mami Wata, as a departure point and builds on her engagement with her Mende heritage of Sierra Leone.... Read more