“Bushwick has become one of the largest artists’ communities in Brooklyn, New York City and possibly the world. The exhibit “WAH Bridges Bushwick”, with over 60 artists, is a survey of this phenomenon. Exploring the works of artists in this show, one can identify new trends that the Bushwick artists community is contributing to the […]

Bobby Mathieson’s paintings reflect the emotional complexity shaping his relationship to these figures through a portraiture that is at once provocative, grotesque and deeply reverent. Bobby Mathieson, Cheats and Codes November 14 – December 14, 2013 Opening Reception, November 14th, 2013, 6:00-8:30 pm Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th Street New York City lyonswiergallery.com

This exhibit celebrates the career of one of the most influential living comic artists. Best known for Maus, his Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) has produced a diverse body of work over the course of five decades that has blurred the boundaries between “high” and […]

Nu Age Hustle is a group show featuring 9 artists working in video, fabric, installation and performance. Drawing equally from elements of “New Age” and Pop culture (hip hop, fashion, and e-commerce) these artists explore ritual, earth and sky awareness, embodiment and commodification at the increasingly blurred boundary of the spiritual and the secular. Organized […]

Free Form highlights the moment that exists between structure and abstraction. The interplay of these two forms – one of regulation, the other of play is explored from the aesthetic viewpoint of four artists who also skateboard and see a connection to that in their work. The inspiration for Free Form is the moment of […]

Floating Room is created from animated drawings, photographs and video. Through the process of remembering the space and reconfiguring it, these layered fragments form videos that are projected back onto the actual site of the gallery in which the footage was taken. The imagery moves from recorded representations to a diagrammatic idea of space, loosely […]

Featuring: Alejandro Almanza, Constance Armellino, Williamson Brasfield, Ashley Carter, Donna Cleary, Christian Dietkus, Chris Domenick, Leah Dixon, Allison Kuo, Ryan Lauderdale, Chris Martino, Jennifer McDermott, Andrea McGinty, Irvin Morazan, Kenya Robinson, Jacob Williams Antithesis proposes a counterpoint to the academic thesis show, which has traditionally served as a right of passage into the esteemed arena […]

Featuring: Maximus Clarke, Peggy Cyphers, Stefan Eins, Alyssa E. Fanning, Nancy Goldring, Alexander Heir, Nick Kline, Mike McLean, Gary Petersen, James Siena, Michael Taussig, Lisa Walker Curated By: Alyssa E. Fanning Heat Chaos Resistance, It’s Time to Live in the Scattered Sun October 25 – November 15, 2013 Radiator Arts 10-61 Jackson Ave. Long Island […]

Repackaged is a continuation of Richard Garrison’s analysis of ubiquitous materials, objects and places from the suburban, often consumer related, American landscape, such as Sunday newspaper sale circulars, parking lot colors, product packaging, Disney World and Wal-mart, among others. Garrison’s recontextualization of aspects of consumer culture affords us a new perspective on commonplace objects, places […]

Synthesizing a thorough understanding of Western modernism and traditional Japanese artistry, Kaoruko’s monumental paintings offer an unabashed glimpse of female figures behind closed doors – uninhibited, disrobed, and mid-gesture. Intermingling silkscreened kimono patterns, sumi calligraphy, rich acrylics, and graphite tracing, an eloquent portrait of hybrid identity emerges which unravels the intricate nature of human connection, […]