PROGRAMS
RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS
RICO GATSON: Three Trips Around the Block
September 30 - November 23, 2011
Opening Friday, September 30 / 7-9pm
This exhibition, a ten-year solo retrospective of the New York-artist Rico Gatson, will include new paintings, sculptures and video work. This exhibition is the third in Exit Art’s SOLO program, aimed at providing public visibility for under-represented, mid-career artists...
NEW MONEY:
Business Models for a Sustainable Future
September 30 - November 23, 2011
Opening Friday, September 30 / 7-9pm
This exhibition highlights business models that have socially- and environmentally- conscious practices at their core...(more)
CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY
June 3 - August 5, 2011
The exhibition will feature images of modern slavery worldwide, from human trafficking and the sex trade; to the exploitation of farm workers, immigrants and prisoners; to sweatshop, bonded, and child labor. A video program will be held in connection with the show and a symposium on Saturday, June 11 will unite scholars, activists, and documentarians in discussion on this pressing issue...(more)
PAINTING CLUB
June 3 - August 5, 2011
Exit Art announces an exhibition of selected work from the Painting Club, an ongoing program that unconventionally presents painting in a theatrical setting...(more)
AUTOTOPIA
Extended through August 5, 2011!
Autotopia is an exhibition and timeline exploring the history of alternative vehicles. A project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), it coincides with Earth Day and the CO2 E-Race in Times Square.
DIGIMOVIES CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY SCREENINGS
Tuesdays in July / 7pm
DIGIMOVIES is a new movie theater at Exit Art exclusively
devoted to presenting digitally-produced independent cinema. DIGIMOVIES presents a selection of documentary and narrative features that examine various forms of modern-day slavery ...
GEOMETRIC DAYS
February 25 - April 30, 2011
Opening Friday, February 25, 2011 / 7-9pm
Geometric Days is an exhibition of new painting by eight artists whose deployment of geometry exposes organizational structures...(more)
AUTOTOPIA
April 8 - April 30, 2011
Autotopia is an exhibition and timeline exploring the history of alternative vehicles. A project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), it coincides with Earth Day and the CO2 E-Race in Times Square.
FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill
EXTENDED! Through March 26, 2011
This exhibition, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), will expose this process of gas extraction...(more)
GRAPHIC RADICALS: World War 3 Illustrated
December 7, 2010 - February 5, 2011
Opening Tuesday, December 7, 2010 / 7-9pm
Graphic Radicals is a 30th anniversary retrospective of World War 3 Illustrated, an independently published, political comic magazine founded by artists Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper...(more)
DISTANT SEX
November 12, 13, 19, 20, 2010
Performances at 8pm
Distant Sex is a new theater performance work written and directed by Papo Colo for the Trickster Theater...(more)
ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opening Friday, September 24, 7-9pm
Alternative Histories is a history of New York City alternative art spaces, projects, publications, and artist collectives since the 1960s...(more)
ECOKIDS
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opening Friday, September 24, 7-9pm
SEA in Exit Underground
ECOKIDS, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), showcases the work of youth environmental activists working to raise awareness and solve environmental issues...(more)
ECOAESTHETIC
June 18 - August 25, 2010
Opening Friday, June 18 / 7-10pm
ECOAESTHETIC, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), is the first SEA exhibition to be mounted in Exit Art's main gallery...(more)
CONSUME
June 18 - August 25, 2010
Opening Friday, June 18 / 7-10pm
SEA in Exit Underground
CONSUME, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), is a multimedia group exhibition and event series that investigates the world's systems of food production, distribution, consumption and waste...(more)
RAFAEL SANCHEZ: The Limit as the Body Approaches Zero
June 18 - August 25, 2010
Opening Friday, June 18 / 7-10pm
Rafael Sanchez, winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will present a series of new performances pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work...(more)
GLOBAL / NATIONAL
The Order of Chaos
March 13 - May 1, 2010
Opening Saturday, March 13, 7-10pm
Global / National - The Order of Chaos examines tensions of uncontrollable forces that are dislocating our society to redefine a new civilization. To reach the global you need to express the national but the national is in a state of chaos...(more)
What Matters Most?
April 15 - April 28, 2010
EXTENDED through Saturday, May 1!
in Exit Underground
What Matters Most? is an exhibition to benefit ecoartspace, a leading environmental art non-profit curated by Amy Lipton and Patricia Watts...(more)
NEW MIRRORS: Painting in a Transparent World
January 9 - February 6, 2010
Opening Saturday, January 9, 7-10pm
New Mirrors surveys the current state of painting through the work of seven New York-based artists...(more)
WATERPOD: Autonomy and Ecology
January 9 - April 10, 2010
in Exit Underground
Opening Saturday, January 9, 7-10pm
Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology, the sixth exhibition in the SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program, is a survey of the five-month voyage of the Waterpod in Summer 2009...(more)
Regina José Galindo
October 2 - December 19, 2009
Opening: Friday, October 2, 7-10pm
Regina José Galindo, the second exhibition in Exit Art’s SOLO series and the first in the Performance in Crisis program...(more)
Performance in Crisis
October 2 - December 19, 2009
Using Galindo's performance work as a point of departure, Performance in Crisis responds to crises in our culture...(more)
America for Sale
October 2 - December 19, 2009
Exit Underground
Opening: Friday, October 2, 7-10pm
America for Sale, the fifth exhibition in the SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program, explores the spiraling national debt and the fractured global economy...(more)
THE END OF OIL
June 13 - July 31, 2009
The End of Oil, the fourth exhibition in the SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program, addresses our human dependence on oil and other fossil fuels... .... (more)
NÉGRITUDE: Brazilian Film Festival
Fridays at 6pm: May 22 - July 24, 2009
The Brazilian Film Festival, curated by Tânia Cypriano, is a ten-week screening series that touches on topics from capoeira to samba, Quilombos to religion, and hip-hop to Milton Santos... (more)
NÉGRITUDE: July Events
Tuesday, July 21 / Thursday, July 23
Featuring Négritude Dialogues, Celena Glenn, the Last Minute Trio and Burnt Sugar...(more)
VERTICAL GARDENS
March 28 – May 23, 2009 EXTENDED THROUGH June 6!
Vertical Gardens is the third exhibition of S.E.A. (Social Environmental Aesthetics)...(more)
CORPUS EXTREMUS (Life+)
February 28 – April 18, 2009
Opening: Saturday February 28, 7-10pm
Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) will present work by artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life and death...more
THE LABYRINTH WALL: From Mythology to Reality
December 14, 2008 - February 7, 2009
Opening: Sunday, December 14, 3-9 PM
The labyrinth serves as a metaphor for the vexing problems that America, under a hopeful new presidential administration, must now navigate...more
SIGNS OF CHANGE
September 20-December 6, 2008
Opening Saturday, September 20
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now documents forty years of social protest and political activism through more than 300 posters, graphics, photographs, films and ephemera...(more)
SIGNS OF CHANGE: Film Series
More information about public programs happening during Signs of Change..(more)
EXIT ART ELECTION NIGHT PARTY
November 4, 2008 7PM - Midnight
RECESSION SPECIAL $10
3 BANDS CLUES, ELFIN SADDLE and AVA LUNA
Performances by Exiteers and R. Luke DuBois.
POLITICAL MASKS! SCREEN PRINTING! AND SOUP!!...(more)
SIGNS OF CHANGE: Events
More information about public programs happening during Signs of Change..(more)
THE HOUSE IS SMALL BUT THE WELCOME IS BIG
September 20-October 18, 2008
Opening Saturday, September 20
Over the past two years an unlikely group of amateur photographers has documented the life and death struggle of HIV/AIDS in Africa..(more)
SUMMER MIXTAPE VOLUME 1: the Get Smart edition
July 24 – August 29, 2008
Opening: Thursday July 24, 2008 7-10pm
This exhibition pays tribute to this vital form of popular expression with a group exhibition that compiles some of the hottest work from the New York area that the curators have seen all year..... (more)
IT'S NOT EASY
July 24 – August 29, 2008
Exit Underground
Opening: Thursday July 24, 2008 7-10pm
It’s Not Easy is the second exhibition of S.E.A. (Social Environmental Aesthetics)..... (more)
CHARLES JUHASZ-ALVARADO: Complicated Stories
May 17-July 12, 2008
Opening Saturday, May 17, 2008 7-10pm
Charles Juhasz-Alvarado: Complicated Stories will present the artist’s past and present bodies of works as an ongoing dialogue on social consciousness and cultural identity. ...... (more)
SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics)
A major new initiative on the environment
First Project: EPA Open though July 12
SEA is an exhibition program and archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. It will assemble artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address these issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series..... (more)
Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: EPA
CHARLES JUHASZ-ALVARADO: A Conversation About Art, the Island and U.S.
May 21, 2008 7 PM
In conjunction with Charles Juhasz-Alvarado: Complicated Stories EXIT ART presents A Conversation About Art, the Island, and U.S.: Charles Juhasz-Alvarado talks with Deborah Cullen...... (more)
Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: A Conversation About Art, the Island and U.S.
BRAINWAVE: COMMON SENSES
February 16-April 19, 2008
Opening Saturday, Februrary 16, 2008 7-10pm
BrainWave: Common Senses responds to current neurological discourse by visualizing and investigating the brain’s capacity for perception, memory, emotion and logic — the forces that drive creativity...... (more)
Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: BRAINWAVE
BRAINWAVE: Somehow
"a precious lie that evolves to light that exists in the darkness of us"
Performances:
Wednesday, April 16, 10 PM
Thursday April 17, 8 PM...... (more)
BRAINWAVE: COMMON SENSES Events
Friday, February 29, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Friday, March 14, 6-10 p.m
Wednesday, April 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m
Friday, April 11, 6:30 - 8pm...... (more)
LOVE / WAR / SEX
December 1, 2007 - January 26, 2008
OPENING December 1, 2007, 7-10 PM
This exhibition connects longing with violence, love with war, imagining the business of war in its sexual manifestations...(more)
LOVE / WAR / SEX: Cannon Dialogues
January 19 and 26, 2008, 8 PM
Cannon Dialogues uses a visual art exhibition as the stage for a play that is, in part, written by the actors....(more)
NIME @ EXIT ART
December 13, 2007
Performances 8PM-11PM
Installations begin at 7PM
In the 6th annual NIME performance, students will perform on a series of newly designed electronic instruments that aim to keep the “live” in live performance of digital music...... (more)
ELECTRIC LAB
September 20- November 17, 2007
OPENING Thursday, September 20, 7-10 PM
This exhibition is dedicated to the scientist Nicola Tesla, who wanted to provide the entire world with free access to electricity...more
ELECTRIC LAB: Evenings at Exit Art
Thursdays, October 11, 18, 25, and November 1.
Electric Lab will be shown in conjunction with four evenings of music, performance and an ongoing film series....more
SULTANA'S DREAM
August 4- September 1, 2007
OPENING Saturaday, August 4, 7-10 PM
Sultana’s Dream showcases the spectrum of South Asian women’s intellectual and aesthetic perspectives, including over 30 artists of Bangladeshi, Burmese, Indian, Maldavian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Nepali, Afghani, and Iranian descent..... (more)
SULTANA'S DREAM THURSDAY EVENING EVENTS
Thursdays August 9, 16, 23 at 7pm
Sultana’s Dream will be punctuated each week by programming curated by past and present board members of SAWCC...... (more)
KILLING TIME
May 12- July 28, 2007
KILLING TIME, curated by Elvis Fuentes, Yuneikys Villalonga, and Glexis Novoa, focuses on the work of over seventy contemporary Cuban artists that have approached the subject of time.... (more)
TROPICAL AREA
Saturdays, June 16 and 23, 8PM
An evening of new performances by Trickster Theater including: Rob Andrews, Eun Woo Cho, Saeri Kiritani, Julia Mandle, Oleg Mavromatti, Jolie Pichardo, Pasha Radetzki, Boryanna Rossa, Rafael Sanchez, Aki Sasamoto... (more)
KiLLING TIME: Public Programs
Sunday, May 13
Panel Discussion 4-6pm
Cuban Dinner 6-8pm
Live Performances 8-10pm... (more)