Past Exhibitions
MARY DEVINCENTIS:
Another World in this one
Exhibition Dates
March 18 - May 1, 2023
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 18, 2023
6:30pm - 9:00pm
"I am very interested in the stories we humans tell about ourselves and others and about the world we live in. Whether myth or memory, imagined or experienced, personal or societal, our stories connect us to our core concerns, our deepest aspirations and the fears that we all have. I love the challenge of taking the elemental aspects of a narrative and creating work which I hope both transmits and transmutes and brings something that is fresh and relatable to the viewer.
Though the backstory of each painting is essential to me, I want the viewer to be free to approach the work from their own individual perspective, from their own history and sensibility. I love it when someone finds something in my work that is new to me. Narrative is a structuring device for me, suggesting imagery, an emotional tone and a formal approach for each individual painting.
Striving for a dynamic tension between form and content in my work, I try to tap my most deeply available self to create work that strikes a wordless chord of recognition in the viewer, as I believe that the idiosyncrasy of the personal, deeply and truthfully excavated, expresses the universal. I appreciate seeing indications of the artist’s physicality, their unique fingerprint, as evidenced in brush-stroke and mark-making. Paint is kin to skin, viscera, blood, mineral, plant and stardust."
Jared Deery:
where the wild flowers grow
Exhibition Dates
October 15 - December 5, 2022
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 15, 2022
6:30pm - 9:00pm
"I’m interested in the experience of making a painting. How actions of putting down color and texture, layer upon layer, add up to a mysterious thing that is at once recognizable and obscured as an image. My paintings play with symbolic ideas of organic growth and creation that focus towards or around a source of light. Through still life and portraiture I’m looking for the phenomenological perception of forms and trying to challenge my own ideas found in the simplicity of nature and the recognizable. In this cross pollination of genres I look to find a primitive place of creation where I can connect with a form in hopes of elevating its beauty. I’m also interested in how and why these images, found in memory and made of structures, speeds and pieces that are built to create form with color are recognized at all. How do we know what we see and why do we think we see it that way? Through this structure even the most basic of recognizable images can evolve to reveal mystery. Like a journeyman or puzzle maker its that visual mystery that I try to create for myself through the making and searching."
Exhibition Dates
March 1 - April 24, 2022
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 9th, 2022
12:30pm
Stopa describing his practice: "I make abstract paintings that reference architecture. I’m specifically interested in the formal possibilities of utopian architecture. My oil paintings are made of thin washes using archetypal, geometric forms. My paintings are highly physical works and resemble a kind of flattened sculpture. I’m interested in the capacity of graphic color to point toward idealism."
Kobayashi describing his practice: "My work is reductive and playful in form, verging on the surreal and comical. Utilizing an intuitive array of colors, shapes, and textures, I create visual dualities: fluid vs. rigid, abstract vs. figurative, warm vs. cool, large vs. small, etc. Like a good story, every element is integral to the structure of the whole. I aim for tension and mystery that never quite resolves."
Exhibition Dates
November 20 - January 15, 2022
Opening Reception
Saturday, November 20, 2021
6:30pm-9:00pm
About JJ Manford: JJ Manford is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Manford received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 2006, a Post Baccalaureate degree from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and his MFA from Hunter College in 2013. Manford’s work is characterized by, in his own words, the convergence of the projective and spontaneous with the formal and strategic. Utilizing textured surfaces such as linen, couch upholstery, and burlap, Manford's rich paintings depict tightly confined indoor spaces ornamented with art, animal companions, and a window to the exterior world, seamlessly blending figuration and abstraction throughout the composition. Leaning into texture as a means to amplify the interactions between his color layers, his paintings often emit a psychedelic and hallucinatory feel, an ambiance that is starkly juxtaposed by the domesticity of his imaginary dwellings.
About Michael Berryhill: Michael Berryhill received his BFA at the University of Texas in 1994 (Austin, TX) and his MFA from Columbia University in 2009 (New York, NY). His practice is marked by proclivity for fluorescent shades and a particular method of application that builds thin layers of chalky paint and elusive forms. Utilizing dry brushstrokes to apply his luminous pigments on a surface that has been scraped down, his combinations of complementary colors and ghostly shapes result in striking pictorial inventions that straddle the line between abstraction and representation. Michael Berryhill currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Arthur Boden:
memorial exhibition
Exhibition Dates
September 21 - October 5, 2019
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 21st, 2019
6:30pm-9:00pm
Arthur Boden, born in Newark, NJ, Art attended local public schools. After serving in the Navy, he attended Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, where he studied painting and illustration. Further study at The Art Students League, The New School, And Pratt Institute led to work in design studios and advertising firms as a layout artist, illustrator, and graphic designer.
Boden then joined the staff of IBM as a designer, where a new and innovative design program was initiated under the aegis world-renowned designer, Paul Rand.
Boden's concentration gradually shifted from printed materials to decorative prints and paintings. The Marlboro Graphics Gallery in New York City, under the direction on Barney Weinger, mounted a series of Arthur's silkscreen prints followed by a one man show of his large abstract acrylic paintings, the culmination of prior years of creative work.
Arthur Boden's paintings are held in numerous private collections and a silkscreen print was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He is also a fine photographer and a proud grandfather of four children.
Olivia Baldwin
Exhibition Dates
July 13 - September 18, 2019
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 13th, 2019
6:30pm-9:00pm
Built from gestures, layers, high chroma, and sprawling geometric forms, Baldwin's art present a convergence of unconscious thoughts. She works intuitively, seasoning the paintings with washes and dense pigment, layering and uncovering until a direction appears. Time spent on mountains and an isthmus translate to cartographic compositions resembling the places of her recent past:. These remembered landscapes become a context for a space between feelings and ideas.
Jerome China
Exhibition Dates
February 16 - March 27, 2019
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 16th, 2019
6:30pm-9:00pm
Found metal sculpting demands an appreciation of random form and texture, as well as the ability to visualize a composition where disparate found pieces find a home. He attempts to use the objects in a way so that they are not readily recognizable by the viewer. Although the pieces have been transformed, they still carry the memory of their former function. Their meaning is essentially multiplied, amplified and reinvented as a piece of art.
Ioanna Pantazopoulou
Exhibition Dates
September 15 - November 24, 2018
Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 15th, 2018
6:30pm-9:00pm
Pantazopoulou creates ephemeral sculptural monuments and large installations out of unwanted and discarded materials (that tell a story). The sculptures follow the principles of architecture without being trapped in them. They overturn the notion of experience and participation, they attempt – through unexpected collisions – to create new connections between the past and the present, of what is lost and found.'s art approach.
Jared Deery
Exhibition Dates
July 21 - September 12, 2018
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 21, 2018
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Jared Deery's work is characterized by a proportionately hermetic sense of mark making and repetition, and a balance between the familiar and the esoteric with a strong commitment to the unknown. The wide range of media in his artistic practice combines painting, installations, drawing, sculpture, and films. His work can best be connected by motif, mood, color, and process. It can be viewed individually, in dialogue with a group installation or seen as part of a larger long-term project.
Michael Berryhill
Exhibition Dates
March 24 - May 12, 2018
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 24, 2018
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Michael Berryhill unearths symbols used throughout the history of Western painting - flowers, open books, heroic figures, animals and architectural elements. The commonplace nature of these symbols, however, belies their pliancy of meaning, a characteristic Berryhill underlines by rendering them blurred and indistinct, simultaneously overworked and imprecise. It becomes as difficult to attach a specific meaning to these symbols as it is to fully identify the objects depicted.
Angela Heisch
Exhibition Dates
November 18 - January 10, 2018
Opening Reception
Saturday, November 18th, 2017
6:30pm-9:00pm
Angela Heisch paints monolithic abstractions using a limited palette. Through the depiction of vague yet associative atmosphere, there is the sense of architecture in her work, even if it is unfamiliar. These arrangements often appear disjointed, like broken pieces of a once whole, while still maintaining an image of confrontation and intentionality. She plays with space, depth and her own iconography to create anthropomorphic, funny, unsettling paintings.
Matt Philips
Exhibition Dates
September 16 - November 12, 2017
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 16th, 2017
6:30pm-9:00pm
Phillips’ art contains certain essential paradoxes. Most of his pictures are made over long periods of time and through successive layers, yet the final product is both fresh and luminous. The works lay bare the imperfections and spontaneity of the artist’s hand, yet are principally constructed with geometric elements. More often than not, Phillips’ images are constructed on the rational structure of the grid, but at some point, spontaneity, revolt, and humor emerge, helping them arrive at their poetic conclusions.
Catherine Haggerty:
Bleu-Jaune Champ
Exhibition Dates
July 13 - September 10, 2017
Opening Reception
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
6:30pm - 9:00pm
The work on view in Bleu-Jaune Champ is a reaction from the time spent in St. Chamas, France and sifts through a dream like state with characters and forms occupying the landscape Haggarty soaked up. Recurring forms sift through the paintings in the shape of vases, moons, shoes, arches and flowers. These observational and auto-biographical moments live in a landscape soaked in color and light.
Austin Eddy
Exhibition Dates
April 29 - June 18 2017
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 29th, 2017
6:30pm - 9:00pm
The paintings and sculptures fluctuate between the worlds of representation and abstraction. They are rooted in narrative images, but have simplified and been broken down beyond initial recognition. The work is exploring the vulnerability and anxiety of the human condition though images and objects.
JJ Manford
Exhibition Dates
March 10 - April 23, 2017
Opening Reception
Friday, March 10th, 2017
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Manford describes his body of work that elaborates upon his preexistent lexicon of forms, towards a more overtly representational painterly language, which includes: Spindly, wire-sculpture-like depictions of aging & solitary wanderers, meditatively poised plant goddesses, esoteric language plants, geometric structures, and a Quixote-esque horseman traversing primordial-hieroglyph forests.