Still, a dozen recent arrivals to
the downtown gallery scene stand out, as much for the scale and poshness of their layouts as for the art on view.
The downtown gallery scene has been transformed in the last few years, fueled by the opening of 356 Mission, the Mistake Room, Night Gallery, Francois Gheboly Gallery, and Venus Over Los Angeles.
The downtown gallery scene ended for many reasons.
«Though her filigree doodles of deceptively innocent - seeming flora and fauna were a fixture on
the downtown gallery scene a decade ago, the artist Simone Shubuck has had only one solo show in the last six years — in 2009, at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago.
Located close to other Soho mainstays such as The Drawing Center, the space is a welcome addition to
the Downtown gallery scene and allows the Team Gallery program an opportunity to showcase two different exhibitions simultaneously.
The show is a breath of fresh air amidst
the downtown gallery scene this fall.
Not exact matches
Asheville also takes pride in the 30 plus art
galleries in
downtown alone, a thrilling live music
scene, and in the daily experience of jaw - dropping views of the Appalachian Mountains.
Examining the New York art
scene during the fertile years between the apex of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism, Inventing
Downtown: Artist - Run
Galleries in New York City, 1952 — 1965 is the first show ever to survey this vital period from the vantage point of its artist - run
galleries — crucibles of experimentation and innovation that radically changed the art world.
Deitch sat down with Artspace's Karen Rosenberg at his Grand Street space to talk about the resurgence of figurative art, the evolving
downtown art
scene, and what's next for him and his
gallery.
Artists Space, the nonprofit
gallery and pioneer of New York's
downtown art
scene that was forced to move from its SoHo home last year when its landlord planned to build a penthouse on the building, has found a place to put down roots: 80 White Street, in TriBeCa.
Firestone
Gallery's «Role Play» exhibition provides a welcome insight into the vital world of New York City's mid-century
downtown art
scene as seen from the perspective of one of its principal players.
A founding member of the seminal Park Place
Gallery in Soho and perhaps best known for The Wall, located on the side of a building not far from the gallery, Myers was part of an emerging downtown scene that ignored traditional boundaries between disciplines and between aesthetics and fu
Gallery in Soho and perhaps best known for The Wall, located on the side of a building not far from the
gallery, Myers was part of an emerging downtown scene that ignored traditional boundaries between disciplines and between aesthetics and fu
gallery, Myers was part of an emerging
downtown scene that ignored traditional boundaries between disciplines and between aesthetics and function.
It was between Massimiliano Gioni, the visionary New Museum curator behind the last Venice Biennale, and Jeffrey Deitch, who ring - led the
downtown New York art
scene with his carnivalesque Deitch Projects
gallery before going off to try his hand at directing MOCA — an expedition as disastrous and empire - ending as Alcibiades's Sicilian expedition, for those who recall the Peloponnesian war.
«Inventing
Downtown,» an art - packed historical deep - dive at the Grey Art
Gallery at New York University, tells the story of that lost chapter, the upstart gallery scene that flourished for more than a decade in the East Village, bequeathing a body of work that considerably scrambles not only the map but also the lock - step narrative of 20th - century art mov
Gallery at New York University, tells the story of that lost chapter, the upstart
gallery scene that flourished for more than a decade in the East Village, bequeathing a body of work that considerably scrambles not only the map but also the lock - step narrative of 20th - century art mov
gallery scene that flourished for more than a decade in the East Village, bequeathing a body of work that considerably scrambles not only the map but also the lock - step narrative of 20th - century art movements.
Meanwhile, in the
downtown scene in New York's East Village 10th Street
galleries, artists were formulating an American version of pop art.
Born in Albany, California, in 1935, De Maria moved to New York City in 1960, where he became entrenched in the burgeoning
downtown art
scene, taking part in Alan Kaprow's «Happenings» and showing Dada - inspired wood sculptures at Paula Cooper's space on the Upper East Side (then called Paula Johnson
Gallery).
The first major exhibition of Jean - Michel Basquiat will take place at the Barbican Art
Gallery in 2017, showcasing the work of the pioneering prodigy of the
downtown New York art
scene who first came to prominence in 1978 when he and classmate Al Diaz graffitied enigmatic statements across the city.
In 2006, he organized The
Downtown Show: The New York Art
Scene, 1974 — 1984, a major survey exhibition held at New York University's Grey Art
Gallery and Fales Library.
Tseng never left home without his camera, and the Grey Art
Gallery exhibition features rarely seen images he took that document the
downtown performance and club
scene of 1980s New York.
Several works here are by artists included in the historic Ninth Street Exhibition of 1951, mounted by Vicente and other Club members in a building that was slated for demolition — a kind of proto - alternative space that shifted attention away from the commercial
galleries of 57th Street to the
downtown artists»
scene.
1995 Cotter, Holland, Beneath the Barrage, The Modern's Little Show, The New York Times, April 7, p. C27 Hainley, Bruce Next to Nothing: The Art of Tom Friedman, Artforum, November, pp. 4 - 5, pp. 73 - 77 Kastner, Jeffrey, lo - fo, Frieze, September / October, pp. 72 - 73 Kim Levin, Choices, The Village Voice, May 2, p. 11 Mitchell, Charles Dee, «Critical Mass»: More Than Meets the Eye, Dallas Morning News, February 3 Narbutas, Siaurys, Modernus Menas Padeda Atlaidziau Zvelgti I Pasauli, Lietuvos Rytui, August Rich, Charles, At MoMA: A «Mad» Muse, The Hartford Courant, April 1 Schjeldahl, Peter, Struggle and Flight, The Village Voice, April 18, p. 79 1994 Connors, Thomas, Evanston Art Center, New Art Examiner, May Green, David, Doors of Perception, Burelle's, May, p. 18, p. 23 Mollica, Franco, Tema Celeste, Autumn, p. 64 Perretta, Gabriele, Flash Art (Italian edition), Summer Romano, Gianni, Tom Friedman, Zoom, no. 12 Romano, Gianni, In and Out Liquid Architectures (Through a Few Objects, Temporale, no. 31, pp. 34 - 37 Romano, Gianni, Interactive Child, Arquebuse, May, pp. 24 - 25 Tager, Alisa, Emerging Master of Metamorphosis, The Los Angeles Times, May 3, p. F1, p. F8 Trione, Vincenzo, De Soto, Ulisside del Bello, Il Mattino, May 27 1993 Artner, Alan, Sharp Conceptual Show Dares to be Different, The Chicago Tribune, January 22, section 7, p. 56 Auer, James, There's No More Than a Hairbreath Between Art, Reality in This Exhibit, Milwaukee Journal, January 17 Blair, Dike, review, Flash Art, November / December, pp. 112 - 114 Flynn, Patrick J.B. review, Hair, Artpaper, February Heartney, Eleanor, New York, Dans les Galeries, Art Press, October, pp. 24 - 28 Humphrey, David, New York Fax, Art issues, May / June, pp. 32 - 33 Levin, Kim, Choices, The Village Voice, February 23, p. 65 Lillington, David, Times, Time Out, June 16 Lillington, David, Times, Metropolis M, Winter, pp. 47 - 49 Nesbitt, Lois, Artforum, Summer, pp. 111 - 112 Paine, Janice T. Hair Pieces: Exhibition Worth Combing, Mikwaukee Sentinel, January 8, p. 8D Shepley, Carol Ferring, Tom Friedman Shapes Art Out of Everyday Things, St. Louis Post - Dispatch, January 14, p. 3E Southworth, Linda, An Extraordinary Exhibition at Arts and Letters, The Washington Heights Citizen & The Inwood News, February 28, pp. 10 - 11 1992 Bernardi, David, News Reviews, Flash Art, May / June, p. 149 Cameron, Dan, In Praise of Smallness, Art & Auction, April, pp. 74 - 76 Faust, Gretchen, New York in Review, Arts, March, p. 79 Kahn, Wolf, Connecting Incongruities, Art in America, November, pp. 116 - 121 Marrs, Jennifer, Simple Style With a Complex Meaning, Courier, October 2, p. 15, p. 18 Smith, Roberta, Casual Ceremony, The New York Times, January 3, section C 1991 Artner, Alan, Friedman Debuts with Winning Simplicity, The Chicago Tribune, February 22, section 7, p. 56 Barckert, Lynda, The Work of Art, The Reader, March 1 Brunetti, John, New City, March 14, p. 14 Heartney, Eleanor, Art in America, December, p. 118 Hixson, Kathryn, Chicago in Review, Arts, May, p. 108 Levin, Kim, Choices, The Village Voice, September 17, p. 104 McCracken, David,
Gallery Scene, The Chicago Tribune, February 8, section 7, p. 68 McCracken, David,
Gallery Scene, The Chicago Tribune, August 30, section 7, p. 54 Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, September 23, p. 12 Palmer, Laurie, Artforum, May, p. 151 Patterson, Tom, Trio of Solos: Thoughts on Three Current Shows at SECCA, Winston - Salem Journal, September 1, p. C6 Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, The New York Times, September 13, p. C5 1990 Harris, Patty, Four Summer Art Shows,
Downtown, August 29, pp. 12A - 13A Levin, Kim, Choices The Village Voice, August 7, p. 102
The
Downtown Show: The New York Art
Scene, 1974 - 1984, Grey Art
Gallery, New York, NY and traveled to Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Located steps from The New Museum in New York's Lower East Side, both
galleries strive to provide more accessibility to visitors to the developing
downtown art
scene.
In addition to serving as senior editor at Paper magazine, McCormick was lead curator for The
Downtown Show: The New York Art
Scene 1974 — 1985, an exhibition organized by New York University's Grey
Gallery and Fales Library in 2006.
New York Cool also functions as a prequel to the Grey Art
Gallery's heralded
Downtown Show from Winter 2006 which focused on the eclectic art
scene from 1974 to 1984.
There, he met Philip Glass, Richard Serra, John Cage and the
downtown New York art
scene, exhibiting and playing an important role in the historic Green
Gallery.
Spanning Frank Moore's entire career, the retrospective will be on view at both the Grey Art
Gallery and the Tracey / Barry
Gallery at Fales Library, which houses NYU's special collections and renowned
Downtown Collection, the world's most extensive archive of books, journals, posters, and ephemera relating to lower Manhattan's artistic
scene since 1970.
A new exhibition at the Grey Art
Gallery revisits an influential performance artist and photographer from the 1980s
downtown scene.
Scintillating survey of the New York Art
Scene from 1974 to 1984 debuts at the Grey Art
Gallery and Fales Library January 10 — April 1, 2006 [DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE] New York City (December 2, 2005)--
Downtown New York has been an epicenter of creative ferment for more than 150 years.
This show, curated by New York University's Melissa Rachleff, traces the development of the
Downtown art
scene, zeroing in on spaces that were run by artists, from the Tenth Street Galleries to Green
Gallery.
Both Dodd and Drummond, who are friends, exhibited at the Tanager
Gallery and were part of the burgeoning
downtown scene.
During the month of May, the exhibition Picturing the
Downtown Eastside will re-activate this historical building, once a hub for Vancouver's art
scene, which included artist run initiatives such as the Perel
Gallery, Artspeak, the Kootenay School of Writing, the Or
Gallery and artist studios.
Over the last four years, the projects I have curated with CC grantees include: Brent Green's Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, presented by artwithoutwalls at LOT
Gallery in 2011; Shih Chieh Huang's Luminosity, an artwithoutwalls installation at LOT and at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts during IdeaFestival 2011; Chris Doyle's The Underglow, a site - specific public projection in Stockholm (2011), and two related works in
downtown Louisville,
Scenes from the Underglow and Rondo (2011).
This new model of self - curation redefined contemporary art and moved the contemporary art
gallery scene from Manhattan's Midtown and Upper East Side to
downtown, a transformation that led to the re-establishment of the city's cultural geography, a legacy that remains to this day.
Sparks
Gallery has been a fixture in the
downtown art
scene since 2013.
2006 The
Downtown Show, The New York Art
Scene 1974 - 1984, New York University Grey Art
Gallery, New York, US Onestar Shop by Hans Schabus, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA Public Space / Two Audiences, Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, NO Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, FR Cerealart, Cerealart Lounge Pier 90, The Armory Show, New York, US Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US The Early Show: Video from 1969 - 1979, curated by Constance De Jong, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art
Gallery at Hunter College, New York, US Onestar Press, The First Five Years, The Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna, AT Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger, a project by Chris Hamond, Bar MOT for Kippenberger (MOT), London, UK That Was Then This Is Now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Czesław Miłosz / To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir
Gallery, Tel - Aviv, IL Mental Image - Wortwerke und Textbilder, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, CH Conceptual Comics, curated by AA Bronson, Max Schumann, Walter Phillips
Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, CA Libri Books Bücher, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), IT The Shape of Sound, Radio Arte Mobile, Sound Art Museum, Rome, IT Wall Works - Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak, Lawrence Weiner, Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA I: An Exhibition in Three Acts, Futura
Gallery, Prague, CZ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Lithographs, Publications and Ephemera from The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US On the Ball, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition, curated by Peter Kogler, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, AT The Title As The Curator's Art Piece, A Summer Show by Mathieu Copeland (spoken word exhibition), Blow de la Barra, London, UK Into Me / Out Of Me, curated Klaus Bisenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Turtle, curated by Michael Shamberg, Chelsea Space, London, UK Moving On: Motion, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE The Known and the Unknown, Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, West Bank & Art School Palestine, Palestine, IL The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow
Gallery, New York, US The Urban Forest Project, Times Square Information Station, Times Square, New York, US Word, curated by L. Brandon Krall, Deborah Colton
Gallery, New York, US Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, curated by Jean - Marc Bustamante, City of Toulouse, FR Contraband, curated by Carolina Grau, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR São Paulo Bienale, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, BR Busy Going Crazy, collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR The RxArt Ball, New York, US The Title As The Curator's Art Piece (spoken word exhibition) curated by Matthieu Copeland, Blow de la Barra, London, UK Concrete Language, Contemporary Art
Gallery, Vancouver, CA Project 2023 - Arteast Collection 2000 +23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, SL Break Even, Andrew Roth
Gallery, New York, US Open, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, New York, US Ideal City - Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina von der Ley & Markus Richter, Europe Projects, Zamość, PL Into A Journey, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery Of Images, designed by John Baldessari, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US Art Metropole: The Top 100, National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA Poster, Paula Cooper
Gallery, New York, US Pandora's Reisen, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Dedica - 20 Anni Della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, curated by Julia Draganovic, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, IT Good Riddance, curated by Claire Davies & Sam Gathercole, MOT, London, UK Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, curated by Susan Davidson, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN Not For Sale, curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US Il Faut Rendre À Cézanne, The Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York's
downtown art
scene in the 1980s — from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a legitimate
gallery business in SoHo.
Barbican Art
Gallery, London: Exhibition, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta - Clark: Pioneers of the
Downtown Scene, New York 1970s, 3 March - 22 May 2011 - # 12,000
In the early 1950's, when his tall, angular presence first became known on the New York art
scene, he showed painterly abstractions at several
downtown galleries before branching into sculpture.
Organized in New York for the
gallery's Shanghai space,
DOWNTOWN is a group exhibition featuring eight artists whose work exemplifies the alternative
scene in New York City's burgeoning Lower East Side art district.
Reviewing the fertile melting pot of
downtown New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, The East Side
Scene excavates the nightclubs and
galleries where that decade's defining art was first exhibited.
Nate Lowman was one of the post-9 / 11 «Three Amigos» who set Manhattan's
downtown scene a fire, along with fellow provocateurs Dan Colen (on view at James Cope's
gallery during Fair Week) and late Menil progeny / prodigy Dash Snow.
2006 27th São Paulo Biennial: Como Viver Junto / How to Live Together, São Paulo [itinerary: Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago][catalogue Mapping the studio, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Netherlands The
Downtown Show, Scintillating survey of the New York Art Scene from 1974 to 1984 debuts at the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, NYU — New York University — Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA The Empty Room, Henry Art Gallery — University of Washington, Seatle, USA, USA THE DOWNTOWN SHOW, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, USA Moving on: Motion, Group exhibition: Bas Jan Ader, Fischli & Weis, Rodney Graham, Mark Lombardi, Gordon Matta - Clark and Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin,
Downtown Show, Scintillating survey of the New York Art
Scene from 1974 to 1984 debuts at the Grey Art
Gallery and Fales Library, NYU — New York University — Grey Art
Gallery, New York, USA The Empty Room, Henry Art
Gallery — University of Washington, Seatle, USA, USA THE
DOWNTOWN SHOW, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, USA Moving on: Motion, Group exhibition: Bas Jan Ader, Fischli & Weis, Rodney Graham, Mark Lombardi, Gordon Matta - Clark and Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin,
DOWNTOWN SHOW, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA, USA Moving on: Motion, Group exhibition: Bas Jan Ader, Fischli & Weis, Rodney Graham, Mark Lombardi, Gordon Matta - Clark and Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
More than one
gallery has chosen to show charmingly dark, b / w photography to bring the past back: one is Chris Killip's series In Flagrante Two, shot in Northeast England between 1973 - 1985, at Yossi Milo Gallery until February 27; another is Irving Penn's lifetime Personal Work, on display at Pace Gallery through March 5; and Peter Hujar's Lost Downtown portraits from the 1970s New York art and queer scene, at Paul Kasmin Gallery through
gallery has chosen to show charmingly dark, b / w photography to bring the past back: one is Chris Killip's series In Flagrante Two, shot in Northeast England between 1973 - 1985, at Yossi Milo
Gallery until February 27; another is Irving Penn's lifetime Personal Work, on display at Pace Gallery through March 5; and Peter Hujar's Lost Downtown portraits from the 1970s New York art and queer scene, at Paul Kasmin Gallery through
Gallery until February 27; another is Irving Penn's lifetime Personal Work, on display at Pace
Gallery through March 5; and Peter Hujar's Lost Downtown portraits from the 1970s New York art and queer scene, at Paul Kasmin Gallery through
Gallery through March 5; and Peter Hujar's Lost
Downtown portraits from the 1970s New York art and queer
scene, at Paul Kasmin
Gallery through
Gallery through Feb 27.
While Spaces — a recent exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center highlighting the artists and
galleries of St. Claude — may not completely capture the raucous spirit of the
downtown art
scene, a weekend protest by some of the artists involved in the show more clearly illustrates the divide between St. Claude Avenue and Julia Street.
The exhibition, presented in collaboration with Pace / MacGill
Gallery, will feature over twenty photographs of the late photographer's portraits which offer a fascinating glimpse of New York City's
downtown scene during the 1970s - 80s.
An unprecedented number of
galleries appeared on the
scene, particularly in
downtown New York.
The
Downtown Show, The New York Art
Scene 1974 - 1984, curated by Carlo McCormick, NYU Grey Art
Gallery and The Fales Library, New York, NY
Asheville also takes pride in the 30 plus art
galleries in
downtown alone, a thrilling live music
scene, and in the daily experience of jaw - dropping views of the Appalachian Mountains.