EXHIBITIONS

Katie Butler

Pomp and Circumstance January 6 - February 18, 2023 Read more

Michael Childress

HUB January 6 - February 18, 2023 Read more

Maureen St. Vincent

Ripple Hiss November 10 - December 22, 2022 Read more

Carl D'Alvia

Fundamentals November 10 - December 22, 2022 Read more

Luis Edgar Mejicanos

Hypermnesia October 6 - November 5, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Hypermnesia, an exhibition of paintings by the Miami-based artist Luis Edgar Mejicanos, marking his first solo-presentation with the gallery. At the heart of Mejicanos’ narrative-driven works is a fascination with painting and its potent ability to convey and elicit emotion. Grief... Read more

Madeline Donahue

Strange Magic October 6 - November 5, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Strange Magic an exhibition by the Brooklyn-based artist Madeline Donahue, marking her first solo-presentation with the gallery. Part innate sensibility, part acquired skill – strange magic is one way to describe the extraordinary power wielded to achieve countless feats of parenting.... Read more

Sonia Louise Davis

resonant frequencies, blossoming tones September 1 - October 1, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of resonant frequencies, blossoming tones by Sonia Louise Davis. Marking her first solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition premiers a new body of large-scale, immersive work from her emergence series that the artist calls “soft paintings.' Throughout her multi-disciplinary practice, Davis... Read more

Amanda Martínez

querencia September 1 - October 1, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of querencia, an exhibition of sculptural works by the Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Martínez, marking her first solo presentation with the gallery. querencia, derived from the Spanish verb querer meaning “to want or desire,” roughly translates to “a homing place where one draws... Read more

Andrea Marie Breiling: Summer Eileen

in collaboration with Rachel Uffner at HESSE FLATOW, EAST August 13 - 18, 2022 Read more

Augurhythms

Organized by The Fragile Institute July 14 - August 26, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Augurhythms, a group exhibition organized by the The Fragile Institute, for the purpose of studying forms of material and visual divinations through rhythms of the body, nature, and nascent explorations of ritual practices. The exhibition includes the work of Earth Aengel, Suzanne Anker, Phong... Read more

Kevin Ford

Duh at CRUSH Projects June 30 - August 5, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Duh, an exhibition of paintings by Kevin Ford, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. Duh is a nod to the seemingly obvious subjects Ford captures in this selection of paintings. These are objects we see so frequently, appearing in the backgrounds of... Read more

Michael Childress

Equivalents June 3 - July 1, 2022 OPENING RECEPTION: June 3, 6-8PM HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Equivalents, an exhibition of paintings by Michael Childress, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. The theatre of reality emerges from its unobservable matrix by the agency of form and relation. That which takes form... Read more

Sung Hwa Kim

I Still Dream June 3 - July 1, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present I Still Dream, an exhibition of paintings by the New York-based artist Sung Hwa Kim, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. Sung Hwa Kim’s paintings embody a spirit of contemporary Romanticism in their portrayals of lightness. His Nocturneseries, which began during the... Read more

Quentin James McCaffrey

Limina at OCHI AUX, Los Angeles May 21 - July 2, 2022 Read more

Charlotte Hallberg

Sharper Still at OCHI AUX, Los Angeles May 21 - July 2, 2022 Read more

Johanna Robinson

Wish Fulfillment at CRUSH PROJECTS May 12 - June 24, 2022 Read more

Clark Filio

The Art of War at Sea April 28 - May 28, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of The Art of War at Sea, an exhibition of paintings by the artist Clark Filio, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. “What does it mean for a fairy to be white?” Clark Filio asked me this in late December.... Read more

Nat Meade

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

Fawn Krieger: Mouth of the Cave

February 18 - March 19, 2022 Read more

Alina Tenser: A Particular Kind of Embrace

February 18 - March 19, 2022 Read more

Aglaé Bassens

The Feeling Is Mutual January 13 - February 12, 2022 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

November 18 - December 18, 2021 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 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 Read more

Devra Fox: Stem

October 14 - November 13, 2021 Read more

Kirsten Deirup: Hyper Pastoral

September 9 - October 9, 2021 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 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 thoughts... Read more

Carl D'Alvia: Liths

@ The Art Center at Duck Creek July 17 - September 4, 2021 This show is presented in collaboration with Hesse Flatow Gallery, based in New York City and Amagansett, NY. In a review of Hesse Flatow’s recent exhibit “Sometimes Sculpture Deserves a Break” New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz states ““Sculpture is in eternal struggle and perpetual conversation with gravity. In his... Read more

Shifted Horizon

July 15 - August 13, 2021 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present a group exhibition of contemporary landscape painting, featuring work by 8 artists. Shifted Horizon consists of natural and built horizons which range in medium and interpretation, collectively disrupting the cliché notion of the formal genre of landscape painting. The once steady horizon line has... Read more

Plum Cloutman: Emergency

July 15 - August 13, 2021 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, drawing... Read more

Quentin James McCaffrey, "False Azure"

@ HESSE FLATOW EAST June 19 - July 10, 2021 A solo show of new paintings by Quentin James McCaffrey, who draws from Quattrocento Italian painting and 17th century Dutch interiors in their use of simple geometry, symbolism, as well as in their stoicism. Drawing a parallel between intimate personal experience and imperfect historic narratives, he compares the domestic and... Read more

Carl D'Alvia: Sometimes Sculpture Deserves a Break

June 3 - July 10, 2021 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

curated by Carl D'Alvia April 29 - May 29, 2021 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 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

February 18 - March 20, 2021 In the gory aftermath of the Third Republic and the 1871 Commune, the Symbolist movement of 19th-century France turned away from the scientific rationalism and Realist reportage of an industrializing age. These artists and poets, disillusioned with the banal repetition of art in their time—“copy in copy, simulation in simulation”—looked... Read more

Courtney Puckett: The Helpers

January 14 - February 13, 2021 The armature and skin represent for Puckett a subcutaneous invisible energy that flows between the bone and the surface of the body. This energetic field is conducted through linear elements and color that heat up or cool down. The works in this show start by conglomerating discarded items then meditatively... Read more

Annette Hur: Willful Unknowing

January 14 - February 13, 2021 The metaphorical use of insects, animals, and nature delves into the expressive power of the simplest apparatus of a living human body: instinct, intuition, fear, survival. Hur demonstrates this with hyper color-filled large-scale oil paintings that flex between abstract and recognizable forms, such as a falling rabbit, flowers, butterflies or... Read more

Phil Cote: Almost Everything

January 14 - February 13, 2021 'DEEP FIELD,' the painting announces like a SIGNAL AHEAD sign along some intergalactic highway. Its boundaries contain a collection of tiny dots and dabs of oil paint, attentively applied with a #1 synthetic brush, signs for distant celestial events which sit across the painting's shallow pictorial surface. Cote's constellations of... Read more

Quentin James McCaffrey: Promises

December 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021 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 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

Curated by Jesse Greenberg December 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021 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 and Howard Spann are... Read more

Virginia Lee Montgomery: Dream Cocoon

October 22 - November 21, 2020 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. During... Read more

Aglaé Bassens: Sincerely,

October 22 - November 21, 2020 '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 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 rhythms and... Read more

Elisa Soliven: Memory in the Shape of a U

September 10 - October 17, 2020 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 conduits. Aluminum-leafed... Read more

Talia Levitt: Two Truths and a Lie

July 9 - August 8, 2020 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 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 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 which in a sense is a microcosm of... Read more

Ilana Harris-Babou: Decision Fatigue

February 20 - May 16, 2020 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 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

Contain

Curated by Nicole Kaack January 28 - February 1, 2020 Chang Yuchen, Paige Landesberg, Shanzhai Lyric January 28—February 1, 2020 Opening: Tuesday, 1/28, 6-8PM Book launch: Friday, 1/31, 6-8PM Closing event: Saturday, 2/1, 6-8PM HESSE FLATOW 508 West 26th Street, Suite 5G New York, NY 10001 Inquiries: info@hesseflatow.com A “good” shop window, like a “good” advertisement, organizes its selection of... Read more

Proposition

curated by Jesse Greenberg December 12, 2019 - January 11, 2020 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, an exhibition of seventeen... Read more

Liz Naiden: Piece for One

December 12, 2019 - January 11, 2020 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 each... Read more

Table Manner

Anthony Iacono, Sacha Ingber, and Caitlin MacBride October 24 - November 23, 2019 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 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 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 play... Read more

Asif Mian: RAF’s Red Plaid

What is it to be haunted by force instead of form… appearing like a blinding translucence rather than a deep footprint… June 6 - July 13, 2019 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 body of work, the artist takes eyewitness accounts of a personal trauma as the starting point. Comprised of drawings, sculptures and video, Mian’s installation interconnects... Read more

Alina Tenser: Reading Room

April 25 - May 24, 2019 CRUSH Curatorial is thrilled to present Alina Tenser: Reading Room, a participatory space that invites the viewer to leaf through the artist’s new sculptural volumes. A large S-shaped table supports three boxes. Scaled to resonate with bodily volume, specifically the torso and head, these six-sided containers can be seen as... Read more

Open Mind

Selvia Apparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery April 19 - May 19, 2019 CRUSHCURATORIAL is pleased to present OPEN MIND, a two person conceptual video-art and sculpture show about memory, materiality, death, and dreams. Selva Aparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery present new artworks made across Spain, Texas, dream-worlds, real-worlds, anatomy morgues, and corporate convention hotel rooms. Conceived from a text Virginia Lee Montgomery... Read more

Adama Delphine Fawundu: The Sacred Star of Isis

March 14 - April 6, 2019 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. Linking known and under-recognized geographies of the African diaspora, Ms. Fawundu’s work upends national and temporal borders, invoking... Read more

Jessica Sara Wilson: Faulty Bulb

curated by Alison Karasyk February 14 - March 9, 2019 One or more red or combination red and white lights, or one white light which must be revolving, rotating, flashing, oscillating or constantly moving light, may be affixed to an authorized emergency vehicle. - New York Consolidated Laws, Vehicle and Traffic Law - VAT § 375. Equipment, subsection 41: Colored... Read more

surreality

Alicia Adamerovich, Amanda Baldwin, Amie Cunat, Carl D'Alvia, Kirsten Deirup, Dominique Fung, Kathleen Granados, Angela Heisch, Peter LaBier, Zoe Nelson, Tammy Nguyen, Johanna Robinson, Sarah Slappey, Maureen St. Vincent, Emily Weiner, Ryan Wilde, Kalina January 8 - February 8, 2019 Featuring: Alicia Adamerovich, Amanda Baldwin, Amie Cunat, Carl D'Alvia, Kirsten Deirup, Dominique Fung, Kathleen Granados, Angela Heisch, Peter LaBier, Zoe Nelson, Tammy Nguyen, Johanna Robinson, Sarah Slappey, Maureen St. Vincent, Emily Weiner, Ryan Wilde, Kalina Winters Crush Curatorial is delighted to announce surreality, a group exhibition that brings together seventeen... Read more

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

Taro Suzuki / Charlotte Hallberg: Second Sight

November 9 - December 2, 2017 Starting a conversation via email, they pondered Goethe’s quote: “Every decided color does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ into opposition.” “Something about this idea resonates with me”, commented Charlotte, “even if its slightly hyperbolic. As a painter of highly saturated and sometimes extreme palette, I... Read more

Bill Komoski/Lauren Silva

October 5 - November 4, 2017 Bill Komoski has been praised since the late 1980’s for “not pursuing novelty at the expense of painterly exploration” but offering a visual experience “akin to watching a system go from order to chaos and back.” Singled out by Howard Halle as an artist “every art fan should know (Timeout... Read more

EAT/ING YOUR HEART OUT

Curated by Molly Surno September 16 - October 2, 2017 As part of an ongoing collaboration and conversation with artist-run CRUSH CURATORIAL, Eat/ing Your Heart Out is an investigation of how, why, how much, and what drives our impulse to eat. Eating nourishes and depletes; gives and erodes; is both solitary and collective. What happens to our bodies through eating:... Read more

Romantic Destinations

Curated by Charlotte Hallberg July 13 - August 5, 2017 Parallel vistas, soupy knolls in dimmed half-light, the acid color of an infinite gaze, the celestial lawn. ROMANTIC DESTINATIONS presents a vision of the natural world pressed through the custom filter of each artist’s observations. The land is a perennial subject, and our current landscape is mirrored, magnified, and enhanced... Read more

Fantastic Plastic

Curated by Jaqueline Cedar May 25 - June 24, 2017 The works in FANTASTIC PLASTIC stretch the humor in their making. They hold meaning with slippery hands and languish in pleasure as impending doom abounds. Dispassionate and stuck, sutured and tucked, these artworks drag their feet and lift their chins. The artists presented play with their own vulnerability as they... Read more

Eva O'Leary: Spitting Image

April 6 - May 13, 2017 CRUSH CURATORIAL is pleased to present Spitting Image, Eva O’Leary ’s New York solo debut exhibition which opens April 6th, 6-8 pm and runs through May 13th, 2017. The women in Spitting Image are not vain or pitiable, nor are they comfortable in their own skin. They are young women... Read more

Kate Klingbeil: Thick

February 17 - March 26, 2017 CRUSH CURATORIAL Chelsea is pleased to present “THICK” new work by Kate Klingbeil, opening February 17th from 6-8, and running through March 26th, 2017. As a constant observer and an American woman, Kate Klingbeil has borne witness to a tremendously affecting, and undeniably bizarre, sociocultural harvest. Events of recent years... Read more

Eric Brown: Suchness

October 28 - November 11, 2016 He used to call himself a “secret painter,” but has quite visibly gone public over the past three years, with solo outings at Ille Arts in Amagansett and at a survey show at Vassar College. Brown’s small-scale and medium-scale works are all about possibilities. Each displays a record of generative... Read more

The Castle of Perseverance

Curated by Molly Surno October 8 - 22, 2016 The show takes its title, The Castle of Perseverance, from the first theatrical production to citevand utilize props outside of masks. Theatrical property, later known as props, was characterized by their portability and capacity to suspend disbelief. In the original play, there is an “allegorical battle between good and evil... Read more

Jacqueline Cedar: Hug Me, Squeeze Me

September 8 - October 16, 2016 In Jaqueline Cedar’s new work featured in Hug Me, Squeeze Me, the artist grapples with the unstable relationship between the whole and its parts, as once captured by Gogol in his satirical story of a Russian “committee-man” whose nose leaves his face and gallivants around St. Petersburg. As a painter,... Read more

Territory: Abstraction in the East End Today

Organized by Henry Brown, Karen Hesse Flatow & Li Trincere June 18 - 26, 2016 Territory has a double meaning. It refers to an area of knowledge or experience, the artists’ voice in their work, their territory. Territory also has a geographic reference to an area of land with regard to a particular type of activity or characteristic. American Impressionists, Abstract Expressionists, and artists through... Read more

Charlotte Hallberg: Short Sight Soft Touch

June 2 - 30, 2016 CRUSH CURATORIAL is pleased to present Short Sight Soft Touch, new paintings by Charlotte Hallberg, opening June 2nd, 6-8pm, and open by appointment through June 30th. “And the students asked me what I was going to do. I said, and stuttered, ‘To open eyes.’ And this became the rule... Read more