The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Education Center, Inc.

107 Suffolk Street, #312, New York, NY 10002

January 15 - February 26, 2023:

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Curators: Haiba Hamilton and Natalia Nakazawa

Artists & Collectives: YVETTE MOLINA, CAROLINE GARCIA, DANAE HOWARD, DENNIS REDMOO, MAKEBA RAINEY, YANNI YOUNG, AnAkA, RHONDA L. HAYNES, ARIEL MERCADO, NAOMI MOMOH, YON MI KIM, MELIKA DAVE, HECTOR GOMEZ, DOUGLASS HENRY, ANDINA OSORIO, CHRYSALIS KALI, #DayonesArt, THE SALON

The Clemente and The Flux Factory Rhizome Project present visionary work from a range of artists working in and through collective action, creating solidarity networks that facilitate different ways of being with one another. We asked the artists to respond to the following set of questions: How, as a collective, do you center the work of building and sustaining communities? In what ways does your collective support others to surThrive?  How have you activated creativity in your world? Who are the people of your collective and community?

 

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Abrazo Interno Gallery (Part of: The Clemente)

107 Suffolk Street, #312, New York, NY 10002

January 15 - February 26, 2023:

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Curator: Michelle Song

Artists: Jaguar Mary X, Taro Masushio, Luna Luis Ortiz, Lisa Ross: Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger
“Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger” presents photographs and videos that explore queerness as performances of doubling. The four featured artists approach archives, popular culture representations, family photos, and dominant constructs of race and sexuality by reworking and restaging them through drag performances, acts of gender-reversal and literal copies made of the original. Using their lenses, the artists play on the gaze through doubling, deflecting, blurring, and redirecting to bypass subjugation and objectification. As such, the works animate double visions that are at once enigmatic and familiar; stranger and kin.

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McKenzie Fine Art

55 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002

January 6 - February 12, 2023

 

Rob de Oude : Unison

Rob de Oude creates his patterned geometric oil paintings through a process of repeating and overlapping bands of color in a grid formation. Patiently crafted entirely by hand, de Oude’s optically vibrant and precise compositions are never computer generated, but are instead created through a slow and careful cumulative process. His colors, as well as their translucency and opacity, are modulated through careful mixtures and varying densities of application. The resultant luminous paintings possess subtle shifting color, changing depth and volume, and most remarkably, a mysterious and atmospheric glowing inner light.

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website: www.mckenziefineart.com 

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M 2 3
24 Henry Street
January 13 - February 26, 2023

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Sean Donovan : Praxis of Matter

Sean Donovan’s practice is influenced by the refuse of industry, concentrating on the deleterious impacts of purported “progress.” His forms are propelled by the context of the materials he investigates – how can one activate decaying or supposedly inert substances? For his second solo exhibition with M 2 3, the artist (and activist) continues to examine the material language of decay and pernicious social praxis.

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website: https://www.m23.co

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FROSCH&CO
34 E Broadway
Jan 19 - Feb 26, 2023

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Yvette Cohen, Elise Engler, Leslie Kerby, Eva Lake, Magnolia Laurie, Vicki Sher, Jeanne Verdoux : PAPER POWER

Paper is small. Delicate. Fleeting. It is our notepads full of miscellany and marginalia. The to-do lists we hang on the fridge. Yet paper is also the letters we preserve, the journals we pass down, and the books we cherish. It is the substrate on which much of our memories survive, revealed to us in pen strokes, creases, and smudge marks. Featuring large drawings by all women artists, Paper Power engages paper as an archive of women’s embodied experiences and their claim to space.

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website: www.froschandco.com

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Hyacinth Gallery

179 Canal #4B New York, NY 10013
January 13 - February 26

 

Milly Skellington: Limited Views

Skellington utilizes inventive printing techniques often accented with hand-painted gestures that confuse the supposed distinction between autonomy and automation.

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website: www.hyacinthgallery.com

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Shelter
127 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002
February 9 - March 11, 2023

 

Kelli Thompson : Full Bloom

In her paintings, Kelli Thompson exaggerates color and texture to create an unnatural interpretation of people and objects. Subjects are rendered in isolation, floating within the void of a stark gradient and juxtaposed with flora the artist has sourced around the world. 

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website: shelternyc.com

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Foley Gallery
59 Orchard Street
January, 12 - February 12, 2023

 

Bradley Castellanos, Keith Maddy, Billy Renkl : CUT

Three artists working with cut paper collage

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website: www.foleygallery.com

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56 HENRY
56 Henry St, New York, NY 10002
January 25 - March 5, 2023

 

Polly Apfelbaum and Gregg Moore : Feed Your Head

In an exhibition ablaze with color, Polly Apfelbaum and Gregg Moore are complementaries. In their partnership, Apfelbaum’s generative formulation of color and instinct for a hybrid material practice fuses with Moore’s meticulous and technical ceramic expertise and knowledge. The two come together over a shared love of ceramics, material pleasure, and sensorial experimentation.

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website: https://56henry.nyc

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56 HENRY

105 Henry St,  New York, NY 10002

February 2 – March 12, 2023

 

Ohad Meromi : The Spirit of the Dance

How should a monument be? In his first solo show at 56 Henry, Ohad Meromi asks this question by presenting a gargantuan sculpture of a naked figure, rough-hewn but graceful, which towers over the space of the gallery. Loosely based on the 1932 William Zorach sculpture “Spirit of the Dance,” Meromi’s figure, made of orange Polyurethane foam and bearing both breasts and a penis, positions itself as a sculpture in the process of becoming. For Meromi, the monument, with its potential connotations of oppression, triumphalism, and force, is recreated here in the gentler form of a proposal: a model for a freer, better world.

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website: https://56henry.nyc

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THOMAS NICKLES PROJECT

47 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
February 6 – 20, 2023

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Elsa Mora : Mindset

With a combination of glassine paper and glue, Mora creates twisted volumetric rope-like “lines” mounted on wooden panels through a process that is meditative, introspective, and improvisational in a series called ‘Mindset’.

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website: www.thomasnickles.com

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