LES GALLERY NIGHTS

Bridget Donahue

99 Bowery, 2nd Fl

February 10 - April 8, 2023

Mark van Yetter: Politics of Charm

 

Mark van Yetter's third solo exhibition with the gallery.

website: bridgetdonahue.nyc

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Carriage Trade

277 Grand St, 2nd FL New York, NY 10002

Thursday, February 16th 4-8PM 

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Social Photography X

Now in its tenth year, and over two thousand unique cell phone pictures later, Social Photography has become a Carriage Trade tradition, with evolving participants (both artists and non-artists) reflecting the growth of the gallery's audience, while many of the gallery's regular visitors returned for each show. As the societal consequences of social media have became more clear, the show now proposes a kind of alternative, a "progressive anachronism" where the pictures we take on our phones are shared online and printed out and shown in a physical space, without suffering the pressure to accumulate likes, or doled out based on an analysis of our preferences. This LES February Gallery Night coincides with the Catalog Launch and Closing Reception of Social Photography X. The Social Photography X catalog, which includes all the pictures from the 2023 edition of Social Photography, will be available at the gallery for a reception purchase price of $40.

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website: https://www.carriagetrade.org/

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Cindy Rucker Gallery

143B Orchard Street

January 5 - February 15, 2023

 

Javier Arce, Dave Bopp, Charles Dunn, Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann, Adam Hayes, Frederick Hayes, Gereon Krebber, Juan Pablo Langlois, Julius Linnenbrink. Markus Linnenbrink,  Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Martin Schwenk, Hirosuke Yabe: How did we get here? 15th Anniversary Exhibition

15th Anniversary Show featuring gallery artists and friends changing weekly.
 

website: www.cindyruckergallery.com

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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

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Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space

88 Essex Street, no 21 (inside Essex Market) NYC 10002

Dec 10, 2022 - Mar 11, 2023

Javier Castro: Open Wounds

 

Through a series of videos, installations, documents, and sculptures, Afro-Cuban artist Javier Castro’s solo exhibition Open Wounds questions the broken promises of a postcolonial world. While many of the practices at the center of the work on view draw directly from the artist’s experiences with the island, the larger exhibition interrogates methods of manipulation embedded within prevalent social structures, including language, economic power, and religion. The show is the artist’s most personal contemplation of the social foundations that underlie our intimate and communal relationships, and the oppression, grief, and injustice that they represent within Black communities.

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website: www.artistsallianceinc.org

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Essex Flowers

19 Monroe 
February 11th - March 12, 2023

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Samara Kupferberg: Wander Any Way

Samara Kupferberg draws from Automatism and Biomorphic Surrealism, evoking undetermined living forms that the artist propels into a timely imagery of cosmic abstraction.  Her art reminds us of how political any relationship with the unknown is, especially when occurring in the intimate sphere.

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website: www.essexflowers.us

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LICHTUNDFIRE

175 Rivington Street, NY NY 10002

February 2 — February 25, 2023

Vian Borchert, Laura Duggan, Edward Jackson, Don Keene, Joyce Pommer, Robert Solomon, Martin Weinstein and Rodney Zelenka : REFRACTURE — Visual Realignment.

 

Exhibition in various media, painting, process art and works on paper, bringing together work that both conceptually and visually emphasizes on an oxymoronic sounding method of deliberate breaking to fix something. In medical terms, the rebreaking of a fracture united in a malaligned position, constitutes the Method of Realignment by deliberately breaking the malaligned bones to join them more effectively back together.In Visual Arts, it requires a visual realignment and has a conceptual component and implications — aiming to deepen the content or perspective. EXHIBITION WALK THRU and RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 | 6-8 PM

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website: https://www.lichtundfire.com

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M 23

24 Henry Street

13 January - 26 February 2023

 

Sean Donovan: Praxis of Matter
Sean Donovan’s practice is influenced by the refuse of industry, concentrating on the deleterious impacts of purported “progress" - the artist continues to examine the material language of decay and pernicious social praxis.

website: www.m23.co

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MARC STRAUS

299 Grand Street

February 16 - April 15, 2023

Jessica Alazraki: Here We Are

 

The exhibition features recent paintings of Alazraki which focus on familism as a cultural value that emphasizes warm, close, supportive family relationships. "Here We Are" is Alazraki's first one-person exhibition with the gallery. The artist will be present. 

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website: www.marcstraus.com

 

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Shelter

127 Eldridge St. New York, NY 10002

February 16 - March 25, 2023

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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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signs and symbols

249 East Houston Street

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Tony Orrico : THIS ONE HERE NOW

 

signs and symbols is pleased to present THIS ONE HERE NOW, Tony Orrico’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Since 2011, Orrico has been generating Textiles, an ongoing series of hand-written tessellations derived through a somatic ritual that amasses memories from his attentive body. THIS ONE HERE NOW marks Orrico’s first exhibition solely composed of these drawings, all graphite on archival paper, engendering new meaning through deliberate thought-interventions that abruptly shift the regenerative patterns and stage tension between building forms.

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website: http://signsandsymbols.art/

 

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steven harvey fine art projects

208 Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002

January 18- February 18, 2023

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Abigail Dudley: Invention Observed : Abigail Dudley

 

A young painters dream like images of the space around her.

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website: www.shfap.com

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Susan Eley Fine Art

190 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002

February, 16 - March, 25, 2023

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Kathy Osborn & Bradley Wood

 

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website: https://susaneleyfineart.com/
 

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THOMAS NICKLES PROJECT
47 Orchard Street
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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