RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS

New Mirrors

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

WATERPOD: Autonomy and Ecology

January 9 - February 6, 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)

   
 Volcano  

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

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

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

May 20 - July 25, 2009


Négritude an experimental multi-disciplinary exhibition at Exit Art, explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name.... (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)

 

Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: Signs of Change


   

CHANGE

September 20-December 6, 2008

 

By Juana Gallo and François Ziliff...(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)


Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: CHARLES JUHASZ-ALVARADO

 

   

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"

CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW VIDEO

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)

Video: EXIT ART PRESENTS: LOVE/WAR/SEX

   

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)

 

Video: LOVE / WAR / SEX: Cannon Dialogues

   

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

 

Video: 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 Programs

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)