RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS

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)


Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: CHARLES JUHASZ-ALVARADO

 

   

S.E.A. (Social Environmental Aesthetics)

A major new initiative on the environment

First Project: E.P.A. Open though July 12

S.E.A 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)

   

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)


   

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)


Podcast tour : EXIT ART PRESENTS: BRAINWAVE

   

SOMEHOW

"a precious lie that evolves to light that exists in the darkness of us"

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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)

Podcast tour : EXIT ART PRESENTS: 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)

   

SHELTER

December 15 - 22, 2007 EXTENDED through January 26, 2008.

OPENING December 15, 2007, 7-10 PM

 

Shelter is an exhibition of photographs by Lucky Michaels, chronicling the everyday lives of the young LGBTQ that temporarily inhabit Sylvia’s Place...... (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

 

Podcast tour : EXIT ART PRESENTS: ELECTRIC LAB

   

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 PROGRAM

Sunday, May 13


Panel Discussion 4-6pm

Cuban Dinner 6-8pm

Live Performances 8-10pm... (more)

   

ONE SEED IN FOUR STAGES

March 9 - May 5, 2007

Installation in the windows of 36th street

 

One Seed in Four Stages by Mat Laibowitz is a large-scale piece comprised of four window installations connected by an illumination unit traveling from window to window... (more)

   

OBJECT OF DESIRE

Friday April 20, 2007

 

Artist Talk with Yael Kanarek 7:15 PM

Panel Discussion 8:00 PM


The world premiere of Internet artwork Object of Desire by Yael Kanarek.... (more)

   

CONSTRUCT

Saturday March 17 and 24 at 8PM, 2007

Live Performances by Trickster Theater


An evening of new performances by Trickster Theater exploring ideas of building and layering including: Rob Andrews, Eduardo Cintron, C. Ryder Cooley, Saeri Kiritani, Jolie Pichardo, Pasha Radetzki, Boryana Rossa, Rafael Sanchez, Aki Sasamoto, Mark Stafford... (more)

   

THE BUILDING SHOW: FILM SERIES

March 1- March 31, 2007

 

Exit Art partnered with The Cinema Guild to co-produce The Building Show film series, featuring five documentaries that examine high and low architecture, gentrification, squat housing, urban planning and the controversy surrounding each of these topics..... (more)

   

THE BUILDING SHOW

February 17- March 31, 2007

 

Buildings have become iconic figures of cities and countries; these architectural wonders are either loved or despised by their neighbors, visitors and passersby. Oftentimes buildings have deeply rooted historical significance, they form skylines.... (more)

   

SERIOUS GAMES

Saturdays, January 20 and 27, 2007

 

An evening of new performances by Trickster Theater that explore ideas of child's play, chance and strategy... (more)

   

RENEGADES

December 16, 2006 - February 3, 2007

 

Renegades is a history of performance art that was produced or presented at Exit Art over it’s 25 year history. Through video, photographs, slides, ephemera and other archival materials, this exhibition will examine Exit Art’s seminal place in the history of performance art... (more)

   

THE SECOND COMING

December 16, 2006January 27, 2007

 

Continuing the tradition of presenting holiday window displays, Exit Art has invited Peter Caine to produce his provocative animatronic installation work. By transforming found objects into quirky and kinetic sculptures... (more)

 

   

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

CONVERSATIONS ON SEX, DRUGS, ROCK 'N' ROLL

Saturday October 28, 2006

 

A daylong symposium consisting of three panels organized by Carlo McCormick, What’s Wrong With This Picture? Conversations on Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll is about “the unholy trinity of what mainstream America has always vilified... (more)

   

INTERPLAY

October 14 - November 25, 2006

 

Interplay focuses on four emerging New York-based artists whose work is equally defined in a multiplicity of mediums. For each of these artists, the expression of ideas in different mediums is a necessity. Interplay will explore individual bodies of artwork by ... (more)

   

CITY LIGHTS: NEONART

October 14 - November 25, 2006

Over the past fifty years, the use of neon has grown from commercial advertising and signage to fine art sculpture and installation. In City Lights: Neonart, contemporary artists will explore the diversity of this vibrant and colorful light... (more)

   

¡VIVA LA MÚSICA!

October 14 - November 25, 2006

 

¡Viva la Música! explores the evolution of Latin music album cover art over the last 50 years. Taking inspiration from Pablo Yglesias’ recent book Cocinando! 50 Years of Latin Album Cover Art, this exhibition will visually trace the history of Latin identity, culture and... (more)

   

WILD GIRLS

June 24 - August 26, 2006

 

Wild Girls featuring a bold international group of fearless, transgressive, provocative, challenging, pioneering, astute, fabulous, strong and obsessive women artists who are breaking new boundaries, asking challenging questions and creating groundbreaking visions... (more)

   

THE DROP

April 8 - June 10, 2006, 2006

 

The Drop focuses on what many environmentalists consider to be one of the most important issues of the 21st century: water and its controversial role in the global environment. ... (more)

 

   

THE STUDIO VISIT

January 7 - March 25, 2006

 

The Studio Visit exposed over 160 artists’ workspaces through short videos created by each of the artists. Critics, curators, collectors, and friends regularly visit artist’s studios; The Studio Visit revealed this experience to a greater public.... (more)

   

HOLIDAY WINDOWS

November 19, 2005 - January 1, 2006

 

In the spirit of the holiday windows featured in New York’s major department stores, Exit Art has commissioned ten artists to create installations in its eight storefront window spaces... (more)

 

   

EXIT BIENNIAL II: TRAFFIC

October 1 - December 21, 2005

 

Traffic was the second of five biennials planned over ten years. All of the biennials will focus on issues relevant to life in the metropolis and extend Exit Art’s commitment to showcasing the work of young and emerging artists. ... (more)

 

 

For information on previous exhibitions and programs please visit our Exit Art History page.