Exhibitions

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

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

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

Tammy Nguyen

Cave Matter @ CRUSH CURATORIAL ONLINE November 17 - December 19, 2020 CAVE MATTER IS AN ON-LINE EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS BY TAMMY NGUYEN WHICH DRAWS FROM HER RECENT WRITTEN WORK, PHONG NHA, THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN SMILE (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE, 2020). THE PUBLICATION IS A STORY ABOUT A GIRL WHO WAS BORN MISSING TWO OF HER FRONT TEETH, THE... 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

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

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

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

All By Myself

in collaboration with DRAWER August 31 - September 20, 2020 Drawer and Hesse Flatow are pleased to present All By Myself, an online exhibition of original works on paper by Aglaé Bassens, Jaqueline Cedar, Devra Fox, Eliot Greenwald, Barry Hazard, Peter LaBier, Sophie Larrimore, and Elizabeth Schweizer. All By Myself highlights work made this year in social isolation. Left to... 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

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

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

Unraveling: An episodic online group show

Brian Belott, Jordan Barse, Francesca Facciola, Billy Grant, Bahareh Khoshooee, Kate Klingbeil, JJ Manford, Courtney Puckett, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Theodore Sefcik, Jessie Stead, Jacques Louis Vidal May 22 - August 8, 2020 An episodic online group show to be released over the course of a month Read more

This is Fair

NADA On-line Fair May 20 - June 21, 2020 FAIR Presented by NADA Featuring works by Aglaé Bassens, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is pleased to present FAIR, built in partnership with Artlogic. FAIR , a new art fair initiative designed to be entirely online, function cooperatively, and act as a benefit for NADA’s community of galleries, nonprofits... 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

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

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

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