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Postcard from New York I JAN 06 - 10, 2025
Here is our weekly Postcard from New York, in collaboration with Clio Art Fair!
In this article, we will explore some of the highlights of this week, looking for the most interesting and inspiring exhibitions and events in NYC.
Let's discover our selection of NYC-based art events!
In Museums
(IN) FIGURATION
@SPACE776 GALLERY 20 DEC, 2024 - 08 JAN, 2025 Space776 New York is pleased to present (in) Figuration, a group exhibition featuring artists Rene Grgic Dakovic, Jeff Gomez, Frank Olt, Kyung Tae Kim, Hannah Hirsch, and Sahyun Paik. With each artist showing up to six paintings, this exhibition explores how artists interpret and depict objects. With each artist showing up to six paintings, this exhibition explores how artists interpret and depict objects. This show emphasizes the artists’ viewpoints, and their expression of representation. Artists often engage in a process of construction and deconstruction. In order to capture a figure in a representational manner, artists play, experiment, take apart, and rebuild. Each artist brings their own natural perspective in order to render objects with hyper-reality. In contrast to the mechanical grid, this allows the artist to capture a deeper essence of reality. As we consider the action behind a piece, the artist's outlook is revealed. With the exhibition (In)Figuration, Space776 New York encourages viewers to feel the difference between figuration and in-figuration. This group show showcases the unique viewpoint of each artist, all of them offering their distinct approach to seeing and representing the world.
In Galleries
NETWORKS OF KISSES - ALCHEMYVERSE @NUNU FINE ART. 18 DEC, 2024 - 08 FEB, 2025 Nunu Fine Art New York is pleased to present Networks of Kisses, an exhibition by the contemporary art collective Alchemyverse. In Networks of Kisses the artist duo will reenact their scale-shifting studio in the gallery space, bringing together sonic vibrations, material specimens, and extensive field research from various locales where profound transformations of climate, geology, and tectonic forces have exerted enormous influence, including the Atacama Desert of Chile, a pristine island in Lake Superior, China's Hainan Island, and the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. Their research-based installation will feature handmade prints, drawings on copper plates, and photographs taken by the artists, unfolding on a raised platform in the center. At the same time, sonic vibrations infuse the space through trembling ceramics and suspended objects.
In Brooklyn
DRUNKARD'S PATH - CORINNE JONES
14 DEC, 2024 - 01 FEB, 2025
SITUATIONS is proud to present our third solo exhibition of new works by Memphis-born, New York-based artist Corinne Jones. The exhibition’s provocative title refers to a quilting pattern that combines rounded shapes to create a meandering motif resembling a drunkard’s staggering walk. Jones is attracted to the idea that simple shapes and colors stitched together can be a vessel for signifying and imbuing meaning.The pattern, which is centuries old, evolved in this country in the years before and during the American Civil War. Narrative quilting was a means of sending messages and recording history. According to oral histories quilts were hung outside during the Underground Railroad to both give direction and warning to those fleeing enslavement. The Drunkards Path pattern signified that one should zigzag to throw hunters off their trail. It is a story of incredible resilience. Women made the Drunkards Path quilts and used them to support the abolition of slavery. Later the quilts were sold to promote women's rights when the name was co-opted by the Temperance Movement.
Outside
ImagiNATIONS: Art as Solidarity - ANDREA ARROYO
@FREDERICK DOUGLASS PLAYGROUND
18 NOV, 2025 - 28 MAR, 2025
Art as Solidarity is an ongoing series of artworks created in response to issues that touch us every day. The works reflect the universal values of love, justice, equality, and peace and aim to build bridges across borders, languages, and cultures and generate dialogue about issues relevant to both the local and global levels.
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