Exhibitions

Lizzie Gill

Paraphernalia March 21 - April 26, 2025 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Paraphernalia , an exhibition of paintings by Lizzie Gill, marking her first solo presentation with the gallery. Known for her elegant tablescapes featuring a menagerie of porcelain animals and antique ceramic wares, Gill centers her inquiry around the care and continuity... Read more

Carolina Jiménez

All That We Carry March 21 - April 26, 2025 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of All That We Carry , an exhibition by New York-based textile artist Carolina Jiménez. Marking Jiménez’s debut solo presentation, the exhibition comes on the heels of her recent residency at the Albers Foundation and will feature her modular textile works, which... Read more

Xiao Wang

Seeing Through February 14 - March 15, 2025 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Seeing Through , an exhibition of paintings by New York based artist Xiao Wang, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. Wang’s hyperrealistic paintings depicting intimate social gatherings and sumptuous still lifes combine scenes of enjoyment with the sheer pleasure... Read more

Alyssa Klauer

The Dreamers February 14 - March 15, 2025 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of The Dreamers , an exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn artist Alyssa Klauer, marking her inaugural presentation with the gallery. Alyssa Klauer’s vivid and layered works invite viewers into an ethereal world of color and meaning, where the boundaries between reality and... Read more

Even In Arcadia There I Am

Curated by Andrew Gardner January 10 - February 8, 2025 “...how is it that that particular, not overly opulent, region of central Greece, Arcady, came to be universally accepted as an ideal realm of perfect bliss and beauty, a dream incarnate of ineffable happiness, surrounded nevertheless with a halo of ‘sweetly sad’ melancholy?” — Erwin Panofsky[1] HESSE FLATOW is proud... Read more

Adama Delphine Fawundu

go-slow November 15 - December 21, 2024 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce go-slow, Adama Delphine Fawundu’s second solo presentation with the gallery featuring a collaborative painting with the artist’s sister Frances Fawundu, photography, and mixed media works as part of her ongoing exploration of indigeneity, lineage, and its diasporic permutations. Mining her Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and... Read more

Charlotte Hallberg

Touch Every Flower October 11 - November 9, 2024 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Touch Every Flower , an exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Charlotte Hallberg, marking her fourth solo presentation with the gallery. Hallberg’s vibrant, kaleidoscopic abstractions indulge in the subtle vivifications of slow looking, often directed at objects within nature. Converging... Read more

Emily Harter

Eager for the Wound September 6 - October 5, 2024 'For there is no respite without shadows, no husbandry without grief, no queen without her bees eager for the wound.' - Jocelyn Saidenberg, On Recipe HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce Eager for the Wound , an exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Bay Area artist Emily Harter, marking her... Read more

Randi Renate @ HESSE FLATOW East

I’m moving to the reef (and other oceanic ways of forming radical relationships) July 20 - August 3, 2024 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce I’m moving to the reef (and other oceanic ways of forming radical relationships) , an exhibition featuring sculptural works by New York-based artist Randi Renate, on view at the gallery’s Amagansett location as part of her month-long residency at HESSE FLATOW East. Known for... Read more

Reverse Cascade @ HESSE FLATOW East

Bridget Caramagna, Kirsten Deirup, Chie Fueki, Hope Gangloff, Delphine Hennelly, Sophie Larrimore, and Grace Rosario Perkins June 22 - July 13, 2024 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Reverse Cascade , a group exhibition curated by Kirsten Deirup featuring the work of Bridget Caramagna, Kirsten Deirup, Chie Fueki, Hope Gangloff, Delphine Hennelly, Sophie Larrimore, and Grace Rosario Perkins. Chef Mina Stone will prepare a culinary presentation during the opening reception. The earliest... Read more

Alina Tenser

Circles with Sharp Corners February 29 - March 30, 2024 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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

Trodden Path

@ HESSE FLATOW EAST July 22 - August 31, 2023 HESSE FLATOW is proud to present Trodden Path , featuring the works of 17 artists: Beverly Acha, Louise Belcourt, Sarah Blaustein, Michael Childress, Carl D’Alvia, Tara Geer, Elizabeth Hazan, Virva Hinnemo, Charlotte Hallberg, Paloma Izquierdo, Jonathan Ryan, Kathy Sirico, Charles Manion, Emma Safir, SR Lejeune, Claire Watson, and Alina Tense... Read more

Devra Fox

Limbs July 13 - August 11, 2023 Rendered with hyper-realistic precision, Devra Fox’s graphite drawings of anthropomorphized plant forms muse on notions of containment outside of the body. In seamlessly grafting anatomical features like spinal vertebrae or arterial chambers with vegetal offshoots, she extends the metaphor of the vessel beyond the somatic. Thoughts, memories, and emotions are... Read more

Kristyna and Marek Milde

Conductive Fields July 13 - August 11, 2023 Kristyna and Marek Milde’s cross-disciplinary practice spanning sculpture, photography, and installation mines an ever-evolving, anthropocentric landscape, its systems of power and communication in relationship to the natural world that may affect one’s connection to a place. Across its myriad manifestations, from the geographic to the architectural, the home lies at... Read more

Sarah Blaustein

Central Feeling July 13 - August 11, 2023 Known for her brightly hued, gesturally abstract compositions of acrylic and ink, Blaustein approaches her painterly practice as a meditative kind of ritual, initiated by filling a jug full of water. A conduit both for her pigments and pronouncements, water functions as a dynamic medium that the artist manipulates between... Read more

Aglaé Bassens

DOWNTIME May 25 - July 7, 2023 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of DOWNTIME , an exhibition of paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Aglaé Bassens, marking her third solo presentation with the gallery. Aglaé Bassens is interested in the overlap of the private experience with the communal one. While her paintings stem from her... Read more

Louise Belcourt

Hug May 25 - July 7, 2023 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Hug , an exhibition of paintings by the Canadian-American artist Louise Belcourt, marking her first solo presentation with the gallery and her first solo in New York in over ten years. Throughout her decades-long practice, Belcourt has developed a singular vocabulary... Read more

Jonathan Ryan

Bad Lands April 6 - May 20, 2023 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of Bad Lands , an exhibition of paintings by the Los Angeles-based artist Jonathan Ryan, marking his first solo-presentation with the gallery. Sweeping plains interspersed with jagged, pyramidal slopes and silky bodies of water delineate the painterly topographies of Jonathan Ryan’s abstracted... Read more

Sarah Blaustein: Present Tense

Institute of Contemporary Art San José March 31 - August 13, 2023 “These are not just physical works. There’s a radiance here, as though we’re looking at visions of saints, not of the saints themselves, but of what they see when they behold the world ecstatically.” -Alexander Nemerov The ICA San José is thrilled to display a series of site-specific, bodily works... Read more

Winter

Justin Chance & Sylvie Hayes-Wallace February 24 - April 1, 2023 Winter is a word, feeling, thought, season— a blank space which contains the multitudes and the nothingness of timelines remembered and those yet to be written. HESSE FLATOW is pleased to a nnounce the opening of Winter , a two-person exhibition of works by Justin Chance and Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, organized... Read more

Annette Hur

Act of Wings February 24 - April 1, 2023 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce Act of Wings , an exhibition of new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Annette Hur, marking her third solo presentation with the gallery. Resonating with her upbringing, a decision to leave South Korea, and women’s movements against patriarchal entitlement and violence, Hur’s striking and... Read more

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 Neither wholly abstract, nor acutely figurative, Carl D’Alvia’s meticulously rendered and whimsically playful sculptures of creatures, shapes, and humanoids oscillate between liminal states. Enshrouded entirely in textural “skins” resembling tessellated patterns, wood grains, or shaggy furs, his chameleon-like sculptures complicate preconceived correlations between subject matter, form, and material composition, often... 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.... 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... Read more

Andrea Marie Breiling

Summer Eileen @ HESSE FLATOW EAST August 13 - 18, 2022 in collaboration with Rachel Uffner 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,... Read more

Kevin Ford

Duh @ 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... 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... 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 Nocturne series, which began... Read more

Quentin James McCaffrey

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

Charlotte Hallberg

Sharper Still @ OCHI AUX, Los Angeles May 21 - July 2, 2022 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present Sharper Stil l , an exhibition of paintings by the New York-based artist Charlotte Hallberg. Organized in association with OCHI PROJECTS, this occasion marks her third solo presentation with the gallery, and first in Los Angeles. Through vibrantly hued compositions, Hallberg’s signature tondos engage... Read more

Johanna Robinson

Wish Fulfillment @ 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... Read more

NADA Curated: Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura)

Johanna Robinson April 1 - May 1, 2022 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 For her third solo show with the gallery, Aglaé Bassens brings together figures, landscapes and interiors. In The Feeling is Mutual , Bassens reflects upon her use of subjective imagery as a vehicle for collective emotion. Sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid... Read more

Affective Histories

S. Erin Batiste, Christina P. Day, Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, Cate Richards, Julia Rooney, Kelsey Tynik 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 “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 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... Read more

Carl D'Alvia

Liths @ The Art Center at Duck Creek July 17 - September 4, 2021 The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to present Liths, two large-scale sculptures by Carl D’Alvia on the grounds at Duck Creek. Opening Saturday, July 17, and on view dawn to dusk through September 4, 2021. This show is presented in collaboration with Hesse Flatow Gallery, based in New... Read more

Shifted Horizon

Amanda Baldwin, Aglaé Bassens, Natalie Birinyi, Sung Hwa Kim, James Morse, Alan Prazniak, Sarah Schlesinger, Lumin Wakoa July 15 - August 13, 2021 HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present a group exhibition of contemporary landscape painting, featuring work by 8 artists: Amanda Baldwin, Aglaé Bassens, Natalie Birinyi, Sung Hwa Kim, James Morse, Alan Prazniak, Sarah Schlesinger, Lumin Wakoa Shifted Horizon consists of natural and built horizons which range in medium and interpretation, collectively... 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,... 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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 December 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021 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 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 '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... 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... 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 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 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

Chang Yuchen, Paige Landesberg, Shanzhai Lyric January 28 - February 1, 2020 Curated by Nicole Kaack 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,... 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 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 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 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... Read more

Asif Mian

RAF’s Red Plaid @CRUSH CURATORIAL June 6 - July 13, 2019 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 @CRUSH CURATORIAL April 25 - May 24, 2019 …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

Open Mind

Selvia Apparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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 @CRUSH CURATORIAL March 14 - April 6, 2019 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

Jessica Sara Wilson

Faulty Bulb @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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 “X= an Orange Rabbit” -Meret Oppenheim 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 ,... Read more

Matthew Morrocco

ORCHID.seasons - winter @CRUSH CURATORIAL December 14 - 22, 2018 Crush Curatorial is pleased to announce ORCHID.seasons - winter, the second iteration of a four-part seasonal project by Matthew Morrocco . 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... Read more

Sarah Slappey

Night Feeding @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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... Read more

One Blue Eye, Two Servings

Nicole Won Hee Maloof and Tammy Nguyen @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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... Read more

Hope Floats

Su Jung Chang, James Chrzan, Allison Brainard, Sam Cockrell, Olivia Coeln, ray ferreira, Marysia Gacek, Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou, David Humphrey, Emily Janowick, Christine Navin Zara Pfeifer, Ana Popescu, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ben Thorp Brown@C October 6 - 7, 2018 Curated by Anna Hugo and Patrick Mohundro A basin-based art exhibition for a final autumnal dip Su Jung Chang, James Chrzan, Allison Brainard, Sam Cockrell, Olivia Coeln, ray ferreira, Marysia Gacek, Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou, David Humphrey, Emily Janowick, Christine Navin Zara Pfeifer, Ana Popescu, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Ben Thorp Brown Do... Read more

Rebecca Warlick

I'm Your Man @CRUSH CURATORIAL September 20 - October 13, 2018 CRUSHCURATORIAL is pleased to present I’m Your Man , the first solo presentation of artwork by Rebecca Warlick . The exhibition premieres seven multi-media paintings and sculptures made over the course of the last year.Invested in painting as a method of covering, Warlick’s experimental urethane compositions suggest the artist’s pivot... Read more

Matthew Morrocco

ORCHID.seasons - fall @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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 about... Read more

Science Fictions

Brittany Nelson and Gabriela Vainsencher @CRUSH CURATORIAL June 28 - August 6, 2018 CRUSHCURATORIAL is pleased to host Science Fictions, a two-person exhibition of works by Brittany Nelson and Gabriela Vainsencher. This show is presented in collaboration with independent curator and critic, Nicole Kaack. Approaching the present from opposing tenses, Vainsencher and Nelson cast archeological discovery and space exploration as fictions of a... Read more

Electric Mayhem

Caroline Wells Chandler and Jennifer Coates @CRUSH CURATORIAL May 24 - June 23, 2018 CRUSHCURATORIAL is pleased to present Electric Mayhem: Caroline Wells Chandler and Jennifer Coates, a two person show with collaborative works by Chandler and Coates as well as a selection of their individual pieces made in response to each other's work specifically for this show. Electric Mayhem is the name of... Read more

Aglaé Bassens

You Can See Better From Here @CRUSH CURATORIAL March 16 - April 14, 2018 In England, the windows open outward. In France, they open inward. In Brooklyn, windows materialize on cladded walls, adorned with awnings and AC units. We peer into lit windows on dark evenings. At home, we look beyond the glass pane at night, only to be greeted by our own reflection.... Read more

LAUREN FAIGELES in FUNNY GIRL!

@ CRUSH CURATORIAL 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 @CRUSH CURATORIAL January 4 - February 3, 2018 CRUSHCURATORIAL is pleased to present: HUNGER, a collaboration between artists Johannes DeYoung and Natalie Westbrook that uses mixed media animation and installation to create an environment entangled in abstraction, fecundity and mortality. The exhibition takes its name from Knut Hamsun’s seminal modern novel, a story of an unnamed starving artist... Read more

Taro Suzuki and Charlotte Hallberg

Second Sight @ CRUSH CURATORIAL November 9 - December 2, 2017 CRUSH CURATORIAL is pleased to present a two person show with New York artists, Charlotte Hallberg and Taro Suzuki who each share a desire to aggress the eye optically. Charlotte’s work is born from observation; watching someone take a selfie with the sunset, or the way car lights move through... Read more

Bill Komoski and Lauren Silva

@CRUSH CURATORIAL October 5 - November 4, 2017 CRUSH CURATORIAL and ZieherSmith present a two-person show pairing Bill Komoski and Lauren Silva, New York-based artists whose singular tactics of abstraction are not limited by traditional oil on canvas but instead are formed with paper, paint and textile on silk, un-stretched drop cloth and sprawling wall drawings. Bill Komoski... Read more

Romantic Destinations

LEAH BEEFERMAN, ANDREW GORIN, MEREDITH HOFFHEINS, DAN PERKINS, ALAN PRAZNIAK@CRUSH CURATORIAL July 13 - August 5, 2017 Curated by Charlotte Hallberg CRUSH CURATORIAL/Chelsea is pleased to present ROMANTIC DESTINATIONS , opening July 13, from 6 – 8 PM and running through August 5, 2017. LEAH BEEFERMAN, ANDREW GORIN, MEREDITH HOFFHEINS, DAN PERKINS, ALAN PRAZNIAK Parallel vistas, soupy knolls in dimmed half-light, the acid color of an infinite... Read more

Fantastic Plastic

GENESIS BELANGER, JAQUELINE CEDAR, VANESSA GULLY SANTIAGO, HEIN KOH, CHRISTOPHER LIN, ROSE NESTLER, ELISA SOLIVEN@CRUSH CURATORIAL May 25 - June 24, 2017 Curated by Jaqueline Cedar CRUSH CURATORIAL/Chelsea is pleased to present FANTASTIC PLASTIC , opening May 25, from 6 – 8 PM and running through June 24, 2017. GENESIS BELANGER, JAQUELINE CEDAR, VANESSA GULLY SANTIAGO, HEIN KOH, CHRISTOPHER LIN, ROSE NESTLER, ELISA SOLIVEN The works in FANTASTIC PLASTIC stretch the humor... Read more

Eva O'Leary

Spitting Image @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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... Read more

Kate Klingbeil

Thick @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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 @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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

ROBIN CAMERON, JAY DAVIS, STACY FISHER, ALEXIS GEORGOPOULOS, BEN HAGARI, JON KESSLER, MATHIAS KESSLER, MOLLY LOWE, OLIVER MICHAELS, PATRICK CARLIN MOHUNDRO, EVA O'LEARY, ALLISON SCHULNIK, PETER SUTHERLAND, ALINA TENSER, EMILY WEINER @CRUSH C 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 @CRUSH CURATORIAL September 8 - October 16, 2016 “And indeed how was it possible that the nose, which only yesterday he had on his face, and which could neither walk nor drive, should now wear a uniform?” — Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” In Jaqueline Cedar’s new work featured in Hug Me, Squeeze Me, the artist grapples with the... Read more

Territory

Abstraction in the East End Today @ CRUSH CURATORIAL EAST June 18 - 26, 2016 Organized by Henry Brown, Karen Hesse Flatow & Li Trincere 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... Read more

Charlotte Hallberg

Short Sight Soft Touch @CRUSH CURATORIAL 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 for... Read more