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10 November 2023

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s solo exhibition opens in Mallorca

Bat-Ami Rivlin
Boat, Plastic, Tire
17 November 2023 - 05 January 2024

Opening - Friday, 17 November 2023

L21
Hermanos García Peñaranda 1A
07010 Palma (S’ Escorxador)
Islas Baleares, España

Bat-Ami Rivlin
L21 Gallery


29 October 2023

Elzie Williams III included in What A Fool Believes at Subtitled NYC, Brooklyn

The exhibition curated by Elzie Williams III, consists of 13 artists carefully tying their own unique threads of memory to highlight and reclaim what is emerging now in mediums of sculpture, painting, video, and mixed media practices.

What A Fool Believes repurposes the popular 1979 song title, first released by The Doobie Brothers; covered as well by the ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin, and turns it on its head referencing a narrative or critique similar to The Emperor's New Clothes, but in the modern day art world. The walls in the exhibition are stripped of white Eurocentric dominance and painted matcha green, a gesture of healing, to symbolize and invoke a rebirth of life and artistic expression.

What A Fool Believes
Curated by Elzie Williams III

Opening Reception - Thursday, 09 November 2023
6 to 8 pm

Subtitled NYC
113 Franklin Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11121

Artist in exhibition: Ray Barsante, Kevin Claiborne, Lindsey Brittain Collins, Ian Decker, Hilary Devaney, Liz Kidwell, Sangmin Lee,
Nancy Paredes, Denisse Griselda Reyes, MARIANGELES, Kelsey Shwetz, Elzie Williams III, Rachel Eulena Williams

Elzie Williams III
Subtitled NYC


27 September 2023

Sean Donovan included in Forever Chemical in Montreal

Forever Chemical
Christy Kunitzky, Maya Beaudry, Sean Donovan, Shawn Kuruneru


Opening Reception - Thursday, 05 October 2023
5 to 9 pm

family
110 Rue du Square
Montréal, Canada H4C 2Z9

Sean Donovan
family


15 September 2023

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in The Socrates Annual 2023 exhibition

The Socrates Annual exhibition marks the culmination of the 2023 Socrates Annual Fellowship, which awarded six artists – selected through a competitive open-call application process – with funding, access to the Park’s outdoor studio, and the production support needed to realize ambitious public artworks. The central theme of this year’s exhibition revolves around transformation, echoing the Park’s evolution – from an abandoned landfill to a flourishing gathering space. These five projects reflect on diverse stages of growth, change, and renewal while also invoking a keen understanding of how visitors use this space, informed by the artists’ firsthand experience fabricating these works on-site over the summer. Many of these works are constructed with found and recycled materials that have been ingeniously repurposed, breathing new life into objects that were once discarded or considered undesirable. Collectively, these artists compel us to value the histories embedded in materials and the surrounding landscape.

The Socrates Annual 2023 is organized by Socrates Sculpture Park and curated by Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, Curator & Director of Exhibitions. — text via Socrates Sculpture Park

The Socrates Annual 2023
01 October 2023  - 24 March 2024

Opening Reception - Sunday, 01 October 2023
1:30 to 6:30 pm

Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Boulevard
Long Island City, NY 11106

Artists in exhibition: Ashley Harris, Ndivhuho Rasengani, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Kate Rusek, Maryam Turkey, Stefania Urist

Bat-Ami Rivlin
The Socrates Annual 2023


05 September 2023

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in The Backend at Montclair State University

The Backend is a group exhibition featuring works by 13 contemporary artists who delve into the protocols and agreements that shape our society and the framework of our participation. These often hidden structures, such as the code behind digital platforms or legal systems that dictate the use and access to information, significantly impact our daily lives and cannot be skirted without voiding participation. Artists approach these arrangements often already in place without mutual agreement, revealing societal givens we are born into regardless of our willingness and understanding. The artists aim to reveal these hidden structures and how they manifest, where encounters with refusals, confusion, bureaucracy, and denial function like dog whistles to investigate further. - exhibition text

The Backend
Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone
14 September – 01 December 2023

Opening Reception - Thursday, 14 September 2023
5 to 7 pm with remarks at 6 pm

Montclair State University Galleries
1 Normal Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07043

Artists in exhibition: Merlin Carpenter, Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu, Johann Diedrick,  Sophia Giovannitti, Liz Magic Laser,
Ari Melenciano, William Powhida, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Rose Salane, Finnegan Shannon, TJ Shin, Julia Weist

Exhibition page


23 August 2023

Connor McNicholas included in Super Dakota’s ten year anniversary exhibition opening September 2023

Einstein on the Beach
07 September – 21 October, 2023

Super Dakota
45 rue Washington
B – 1050 Brussels
Belgium

Artists in exhibition: Zachary Armstrong, Matt Bollinger, Arnaud Eubelen, Robert Gober, Jan Groover, Philip Guston,
Jennifer J. Lee, Danica Lundy, Isaac Lythgoe, LaRissa Rogers, Connor McNicholas, Surplus Project

Super Dakota


13 July 2023

Elzie Williams III Politics As Usual reviewed by Susan Canning for Sculpture Magazine

Camouflaged as art objects ready for sale, Williams’s sculptures and installations assert a provocative polemic. Turning commodity culture on its head, they declare from the margins: no more politics as usual. — excerpt, Susan Canning for Sculpture

Full Review
Exhibition Page


07 July 2023

Connor McNicholas speaks with Sam Dybeck for LVL3

It’s just what comes naturally to me. All of reality is continuously coming together and breaking apart. Acknowledging the fragments feels like it brings me closer to the whole. Pieces break down over time and transition into new things, it’s all in a perpetual state of becoming, where the boundaries of individual elements blur and new connections emerge. - excerpt

Full interview
Connor McNicholas


05 July 2023

Elzie Williams III Politics As Usual reviewed by Charles Moore for Widewalls

The exhibition is an unapologetically healthy take on self-discovery—on creating small-scale works that speak volumes and that, in the artist's words, serve as the "antithesis of nepotism or Euro structures." Black and queer, Baltimore-born and New York-based, the artist installed the show in the wake of Tina Turner's passing, with Pride Month and Juneteenth on the near horizon, and he notes that ‘Politics As Usual’ is meant to be both celebratory and skeptical of the collective rituals we share. The public, meanwhile, is invited to indulge in the politics of it all. — excerpt, Charles Moore for Widewalls

Full Review
Exhibition page


03 July 2023

Bat-Ami Rivlin participates in L21 Residency, Mallorca

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s summer residency culminates with an open studio event. New works realized on site from locally sourced materials, as well as works in progress will be on view.

Open Studio
Friday, 07 July 2023
18:00 - 20:00

L21 Residency
Arxiduc Lluís Salvador 100
07004 Palma
Islas Baleares, Spain

L21 Gallery


01 July 2023

CODE 02 Launch Friday, 07 July 2023

The second edition of the annual Berlin based publication launches in New York on Friday, 07 July 2023 with a reception, and after party featuring sets by DJ Tati au Miel, DJ Celes, DJ Bryce Barnes. The after party is hosted by M 2 3 and Lubov at Cellar 36.

Code Launch
Friday, 07 July 2023

M 2 3
24 Henry Street
New York
6 - 9 pm

After Party
Cellar 36
36 Market Street
New York
10 pm - 2 am

Event Information


21 June 2023

Bat-Ami Rivlin selected for the Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellowship

Socrates Sculpture Park announces the recipients of The 2023 Socrates Annual Fellowship. The competitive program reflects the Park’s commitment to artistic experimentation and nurturing artists’ careers. This important training ground for early career artists allows the selected Fellows to gain experience creating large-scale public art, utilizing Socrates’ outdoor studio in Long Island City, Queens. Recipients were selected through an open-call application process. The thematic prompt for this year was “Transformation.”

The recipients of The 2023 Socrates Annual Fellowship are Ashley Harris and Ndivhuho Rasengani, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Kate Rusek, Maryam Turkey, and Stefania Urist. Selected from a pool of 250 applicants, this year’s cohort reflects the diversity of NYC working artists with varied artistic approaches, media and subject matter.

Bat-Ami Rivlin
Socrates Sculpture Park


15 June 2023

Elzie Williams III speaks with Brainard Carey about their practice and solo exhibition for Yale University Radio, WYBC

That is ultimately what I would want the work to do, is have a commentary of protest or resistance, but also be self-aware in terms of its sensibilities; that conversation is happening simultaneously, which is ultimately a balance of the intuitive and the intentional
— transcribed excerpt

Full interview
Elzie Williams III Politics As Usual


22 May 2023

Karinne Smith speaks with curator Samuel Staples for the Berlin based publication CODE

I had been working on this method at the time to transfer images onto collagen surfaces, and so I decided to put the two together, and began to use the melon as a substrate for the images I had collected. I use collagen film which is primarily used in the casing of sausages, the film is spread over the surface of the melon's flesh and the images imprinted over it. As the melon begins to decay the image transforms, molding, crumpling and bubbling beyond recognition. — excerpt

Full article
Karinne Smith - Melon Skin


08 April 2023

Elzie Williams III included in the School of Visual Arts MA Curatorial Practice Thesis Exhibition

Elzie Williams III included in a six artist exhibition as part of the School of Visual Arts
MA Curatorial Practice Thesis Exhibition curated by Virginia Ingram

Transcending the Ideal: Reimagining Femininity and its Relationship to Power 
13 - 27 April 2023

Opening Reception - Thursday, 13 April 2023
6 to 9 pm

The School of Visual Arts
Pfizer Building
630 Flushing Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Artist in exhibition: Svetlana Bailey, NARCISSISTER, Ryan Trecartin, Elzie WIlliams III,
Qinru Zhang, Annie Chen Ziyao

Exhibition page
Elzie Williams III


25 March 2023

Sean Donovan included in The Cargo Cult and other certainties at ZERO…

The Cargo Cult and other certainties
12 April - 25 May 2023

Opening Reception - Wednesday, 12 April 2023
6 to 9 pm

ZERO…
Via Carlo Boncompagni 44
20139 Milano
Italy

Artists in exhibition: Micol Assaël, Charly Bechaimont, Sean Donovan, Elise Duryee Browner, Chiara Enzo,
Irene Fenara, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Lydia Ourahmane, Cally Spooner, Damon Zucconi

ZERO…


20 March 2023

Karinne Smith included in Shapeshifting: Or, Synonyms for Skin at the Hessel Museum of Art

Karinne Smith included in a five artist presentation as part of the CCS Bard Thesis Exhibition, Rising and Sinking Again
at the Hessel Museum of Art, curated by Mary Kathryn Fellios

Shapeshifting: Or, Synonyms for Skin
01 April - 28 May 2023

Opening Reception - Saturday, 01 April 2023
1 to 4 pm

Hessel Museum of Art
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Artists in exhibition: Anna-Sophie Berger, Nicola Costantino, Hannah Levy, Karinne Smith, Rosemarie Trockel

Exhibition page


19 March 2023

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in the inaugural exhibition of Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris

Inauguration
31 March - 03 June 2023

Opening Reception - Friday, 31 March 2023
6 to 9 pm

Lo Brutto Stahl
21 rue des Vertus
75003 Paris
France

Artists in exhibition: Ivana Bašić, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Sebastian Black, Elana Bowsher, Simon Callery, Giulia Cenci, Neckar Doll, Brett Ginsburg, Jason Gringler, Tomasz Kowalski, Nicolás Lamas,  Cezary Poniatowski, Tornike Robaqidze, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Yves Scherer, Philip Seibel, Quay Quinn Wolf,  Randy Wray

Lo Brutto Stahl


04 March 2023

Connor McNicholas included in Circadian Gardens at eyes never sleep

Circadian Gardens
11 March - 26 May 2023

Opening Reception - Saturday, 11 March 2023
5 to 8 pm

eyes never sleep
East 76 Street
New York, NY 10021
(open by appointment)

Artists in exhibition: Ever Baldwin, Bradley Biancardi, Frances Cocksedge, Andie Dinkin, Annie Hémond-Hotte,
David L. Johnson, Em Joseph, Noel de Lesseps, Meaghan Elyse Lueck, Tim Lyons, Alissa McKendrick,
Connor McNicholas, Viktor Timofeev, Jean-Pierre Villafañe, Bradley Ward, Lulu White

eyes never sleep


01 March 2023

M 2 3 featured in the March Issue of The Brooklyn Rail in print and online

M 2 3 has chosen to focus on artists, exhibitions, and works that speak to art as philosophy, rather than commodity, and theory over hype—preferring a model that is closer to an American Kunsthalle, with exhibitions that reflect contemporary culture, and advance the conversation through channels of decentralized action and cooperation. - excerpt

Full article
The Brooklyn Rail


14 February 2023

Sean Donovan Praxis of Matter reviewed in Whitehot Magazine

The show touches on multiple levels of our understanding and experience – the phenomenological, the philosophical, and the ontological. It elicits latent feelings that linger on your skin like oil. It leaves an indelible mark like the enduring smell of a putrid body or toxic environmental waste. It rings in your ears like the echo of a gunshot. - excerpt, Raina Mehler

Full article
Praxis of Matter


11 January 2023

Sean Donovan Praxis of Matter in The Observer

With his second solo exhibit at the Chinatown space M 2 3, Sean Donovan is quickly establishing himself in the downtown scene. Opening on January 13, Praxis of Matter builds off of Donovan’s larger investigation into objects that have had a previous life, and takes on new meaning by exploring the larger aspect of firearms. Considering the larger topic of gun culture from varied perspectives, Donovan has created a new body of work that transforms purchased bullets that have been melted down to create new objects that the artist dubbs urns. This latest show, which comes out of a recent residency Donovan completed in Texas, is also helping to add to a larger conversation around gun violence in the US today. - Anni Irish

Full article
Exhibition Page


20 December 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin featured in PIN-UP, issue 33, F/W 2022/23 (print)

“Design is not closed off. It’s one of the most accessible spaces, an open source for anyone to explore,” says Alexander May. Last year the L.A.-based artist, curator, an entrepreneur co-founded SIZED, the peripatetic exhibition studio for collectible art and objects, which freely blends work by artists with more craft-oriented decorative arts, as well as industrial design. Through sophisticated curation, SIZED perfectly showcases the cross-disciplinary May describes. “It’s not about gatekeeping, but about championing the merging of talent from seemingly unrelated sectors,” he explains. For PIN-UP May curated work by 31 artists and makers spanning the North American continent, celebrating the range of American practice today. - text from the feature NEW WAVE by Alexander May for PIN-UP, issue 33, F/W 2022/23, pp 182-197

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PIN-UP


08 November 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin featured in Juliet Art Magazine

The starting point to theorize her work is the sculpture. Rivlin is, first of all, a mixed media sculptor capable of dealing with a very wide range of materials that are re-proposed and investigated using structures that can only be traced back to the universe of the ready-made by visual affinity. What matters is, in fact, the immediacy of the material that is concretized in the common use object (of industrial derivation, waste material and so on), integral and connotating part of our existence at any stage of formation. It is here that immediately emerges a key element for the approach to Rivlin’s works: the direct confrontation with the objects, their material nature and the functionality for which they were conceived, freeing from the risk that labyrinthine narrative supra-structures could hinder the immediacy of their existence as a constituent and delineating element of our being present. Adopting a “systemic” perspective, Rivlin’s object work is presented to the eye of the beholder without any claims. What is subjected to the eye does not refer to anything other than what it is, that is the ultimate outcome of an entire capitalist production process for that anything is generated for a reason and with a very specific function. Perhaps it is here that the concept of ready-made as commonly understood is surpassed. - excerpt from The objects by Bat-Ami Rivlin by Gabriele Medaglini for Juliet

Full article


07 November 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in please come flying at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn

please come flying
Curated by Elizabeth Wiet and Taylor Bluestine
19 November - 19 December 2022

Opening reception - Saturday, 19 November 2022
6 to 8pm

A.I.R. Gallery
155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

please come flying, a group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Wiet and Taylor Bluestine. Drawing its title from a poem that Elizabeth Bishop wrote in homage to her mentor Marianne Moore, please come flying explores the importance of intergenerational dialogue and exchange to A.I.R.’s history by bringing together works by A.I.R. New York & Adjunct Members and former A.I.R. Fellows on the occasion of the gallery’s 50th anniversary. Please come flying traverses themes such as migration, inheritance, and home, and honors the formal and conceptual similarities that unite A.I.R.’s Members and Fellows, while also celebrating their differences. - text via A.I.R. Gallery

Exhibition page


28 October 2022

Karinne Smith included in VISCERA at Simone Subal

VISCERA
curated by Moira Sims
04 November - 17 December 2022

Opening Reception - Friday, 04 November 2022
6 to 8 pm

Simone Subal
131 Bowery, Floor 2
New York, NY 10002

Artists in exhibition: Carolina Fusilier, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace,
Priscilla Jeong, Umico Niwa, Sydney Shen, Karinne Smith

Exhibition page


27 October 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin featured in Fahrenheit Magazine

Bat-Ami Rivlin, On-Site is made up of an outdoor installation, Untitled (92 tires) in which the objects interact with each other fulfilling and nullifying their use value. She works with found and leftover objects, usually within the exhibition area or museum space, as the artist's interest is how objects change the way we move in different spaces. This particular exhibit is interesting because it uses common objects that are usually part of a complete whole. Normally tires, especially truck tires, are not objects that are part of our daily lives, so their proportions with respect to the body are not familiar to us. - excerpt from Meet the five international artists of 'Plenitud'

Full article
Installation views


12 October 2022

Anne Wu awarded the Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2022 Emerging Artist Grant

The Emerging Artist Award identifies promising, emerging visual artists who demonstrate a serious commitment to a contemporary creative practice and have great potential to make a significant impact in the field.

Since its inception, the Emerging Artist Grant has recognized hundreds of promising visual artists at a critical juncture in their creative development and artistic careers. Past RHMF Grantees are represented by major galleries and their works housed in numerous museums, public and private American and International collections.

Many eventually went on to have solo museum shows, were represented in the Whitney Biennial, represented the United States in the Venice Biennial and several winners went on to be awarded the prestigious MacArther Foundation Genius Award. Our growing list of past recipients includes artists such as Korakrit Arunanondchai, Keltie Ferris, Rashaad Newsome, Virginia Overton, Dana Schutz, Sarah Sze, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley, among others.

ARTnews
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
Anywhere or Not At All
Press Materials


03 September 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in Plenitud at Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s solo site-specific project Place-Hood is included in the exhibition Plenitud at Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro. The exhibition presents solo projects by Keren Anavy, Guy Aon, Tal Frank, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Nadav Weissman; Curated by Gabriel Hörner García and Tal Frank

Plenitud
11 September - 26 November 2022

Opening Reception -
Sunday, 11 September 2022, 1 pm

Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro
Guerrero 27 Norte Centro Histórico
Querétaro, Qro. 76000 México

/// Bat-Ami Rivlin’s site-specific exhibition PLACE-HOOD at Museo de la Ciudad is a two-part installation exploring ideas of immediate function—ways in which an object is directed to act by its utilitarian design. In the outdoor installation, Untitled (92 tires), objects interact with each other by way of fulfilling and nullifying their use value: cable ties wrap and zip together; trailer tires lean on each other, indicating their use but never truly exercising it.

The installation indoors, Untitled (duct tape, duct tape, duct tape, tires), presents a material pun of sorts—a series of tires lined up and duct-taped together into a row. Here, the duct tape acts as both a positive and negative function. As intended, the tape is “taped” but its positive application is also inhibiting the moving function of the tires. The tires are standing as they would be while in use, their rows’ vicinity to each other reminiscent of chain tracks. Broken cantera stones, smashed by the artist into manageable pieces, anchor the tires to the floor. The installation in both spaces include hints to the objects’ larger context of use; one which include the concept of transportation (of objects, places, and sometimes peoples) and the systems and actions which those objects populate. \\\ - exhibition text

Museo de la Ciudad
Installation views

The artist would like to extend a special thank you to UTEP for their donation of recycled materials and generous support.


24 August 2022

Sean Donovan selected to participate in the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, Fall 2022

Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency advances the production and presentation of new work and ideas by an international community of artists and writers by providing an arena of generous support and historic space enriched by the legacies of Corsicana, Texas.

Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency


17 June 2022

Karinne Smith included in Augurhythms at Hesse Flatow opening July 2022

Augurhythms
organized by The Fragile Institute
14 July - 26 August 2022

Opening Reception - Thursday, 14 July 2022
5 to 7 pm

Hesse Flatow
508 West 26 Street
New York, NY 10001

Artists in exhibition: Earth Aengel, Suzanne Anker, Phong Bui, Geoff Chadsey, Justin Cloud, Coleman Collins, Theresa Daddezzio, Angela Dufresne, Lauren Fejarang, Sasha Fishman, Kara Gut, Ronald Hall, Anthony Hawley, Fox Hysen, Mala Iqbal, Myeongsoo Kim, Mo Kong, Michael Jones McKean, Lubos Plny, Nevena Prijic, Erik Probst, Timur Si-Qin, Karinne Smith, Jane South, Peat Szilagyi, Didier William, Andrew Woolbright

Exhibition page


16 June 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in COLAPSO at Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

COLAPSO
02 July - 18 September 2022

Opening Reception - Saturday, 02 July 2022, 7 pm

TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Avda. de San Sebastián, 10
38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Islas Canarias, Spain

The exhibition explores the concept of waste from both a philosophical and artistic perspective, revolving around that which is “left over”, of that matter that is out of place. 'COLAPSO' amalgamates metaphorical, human and ecological waste in diverse stages decomposition. We aim at experiencing the exhibition space as an accumulation of residual strata, which is built in different stages and whose experience is multiple.

Waste is commonly conceived as the opposite of that which is valuable, permanent. Something that does not deserve to be preserved. In this sense, garbage is that which stands in the way of progress. A form of imbalance of the beautiful and of the productivity chain that regulates and organizes matter. From food waste to human waste - garbage is something we want to hide because it is the ineffable consequence of a late capitalist system whose progress has no end. Not even waste itself, paradoxically a concept associated with the end of matter’s life, has an end within the late capitalist system. Waste can always be recycled, returned to the system which it comes from and which capitalizes even this “second life” of matter. The concept of zero waste conceals an untamed notion of never-ending progress - a utopian fantasy of a self regulated system which fails over and over again.

Artists in exhibition: Amy Balkin, Lucía Bayón, Marcin Dudek, Berenice Olmedo, Céline Struger, Inés Miño + Mon Cano + Íñigo de Barrón, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Luis Lecea, Marina González Guerreiro, Cajsa von Zeipel, Maï Diallo + Lucía Dorta, Shanie Tomassini, Rafael Pérez Evans, Jack Almgren, Young Boy Dancing Group

Exhibition page


27 May 2022

Connor McNicholas solo exhibition opens at Super Dakota June 2022

Since Each of Us Was Several
09 June - 16 July 2022

Opening Reception - Thursday, 09 June 2022
6 to 9 pm

Super Dakota
45 rue Washington
B – 1050 Brussels
Belgium

Exhibition page


14 March 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin speaks with Daniel Sharp for Public Parking

...“waste” is not a material in and of itself, it’s a judgment. It’s true we’re making materials that are completely released from their duties rather quickly. There is a specific, practical relationship that we have with things for a very short period of time before they are deemed waste.

One use, over and over: in conversation with Bat-Ami Rivlin


23 February 2022

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in whereabouts at the Hessel Museum of Art

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in a three artist presentation as part of CCS Bard’s Curatorial Studies program at the
Hessel Museum of Art, curated by Dominika Tylcz

whereabouts
Bat-Ami Rivlin, Cudelice Brazelton IV, K.R.M. Mooney
02 April - 29 May 2022

Opening Reception - Saturday, 02 April 2022
1 to 4 pm

Hessel Museum of Art
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Exhibition page


07 January 2022

Connor McNicholas included in Ecosystems of Relations at Super Dakota, Brussels

Ecosystems of Relations
13 January – 19 February, 2022

Artists in exhibition: Alex Clarke, Jeremy Deller, Krista Gay, Jennifer J. Lee, Carmen Kirkby,
Connor McNicholas, Magali Reus, Ariane Schick, Julia Wachtel, Alberta Whittle

Super Dakota
45 rue Washington
B – 1050 Brussels
Belgium

Exhibition page


28 December 2021

Sean Donovan speaks with Raina Mehler for the January/February 2022 issue of Sculpture

Sean Donovan, an emerging artist living in Brooklyn, uses sculpture, video, and printmaking to call attention to environmental degradation. His works, which repurpose – and sometimes replicate - abandoned objects, including chemical containers and plastic bags, expose the myopic thinking and avaricious behavior that result in unchecked consumer and industrial waste, pollution, and a poisoned planet. Another group of words created from found snapping turtle shells pays homage to one of the worlds most threatened animals, besieged by habitat loss, the illegal pet trade, and overhunting. Skillfully combining materials, post-Minimalist arrangements of forms, and thoughtful installation methods, Donovan alludes to the magnitude and acceleration of climate change while revealing the ugly consequences of human domination. - Raina Mehler

Abandoned Utility: A Conversation with Sean Donovan
Sculpture Magazine


02 November 2021

Karinne Smith at Bennington College

Karinne Smith with participate in the Bennington College Visual Arts Lecture Series -
Body Image: Racing Abstraction and Surfacing Figuration in Contemporary Art and its Histories

Karinne Smith
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, 09 November 2021
7 to 8 pm

Bennington College
Tishman Lecture Hall
219 Campus Road
North Bennington, VT 05257

Each term, Bennington offers a program of lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance classroom activities of various disciplines in the visual arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art, these thematically connected presentations will build on each other, offering students the opportunity to explore ideas from multiple perspectives over the course of the term.

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06 October 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin public panel The Anatomy of Grandeur: Women in Sculpture

The Anatomy of Grandeur: Women in Sculpture is a public panel organized and moderated by 2020-2021 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow Bat-Ami Rivlin with the participation of artists Tamar Ettun, Dana Davenport, and Clare Koury. The event will take place on Wednesday, 13 October 2021, at 7 pm (New York) via Zoom.

The three women sculptors are invited to discuss their relationship to the medium and canon of sculpture. Large-scale sculpture is often the realm of the ‘Strong Male Material Artist’, both in representation and theory. Its forms are often understood as an expression of erectness, dominance, and material conquest. The panel will address the following: how can artists that represent in their very existence opposite experiences and realities relate to this canon, and develop a practice that critically investigates these types of monumental strategies?⁠ - Text via A.I.R. Gallery

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29 September 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin is now represented by M 2 3

M 2 3 is pleased to announce representation of Bat-Ami Rivlin

Artist’s page
Press Release - PDF


01 August 2021

ELLE Japan Feature

M 2 3 included in ELLE Japan’s August 2021 print edition ELLE Art feature organized by Manami Fujimori.

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28 July 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s two artist exhibition opens in Copenhagen

Excess and Surplus: Anna Holtz and Bat-Ami Rivlin
06 August - 10 September 2021

Opening Reception - Friday 06 August 2021
4 to 8 pm

Sharp Projects
Blegdamsvej 38
Copenhagen, DK 2200

Exhibition page


25 July 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s solo project opens at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn in August 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin
Untitled (inflatable house, zip ties, blower)
06 August - 05 September 2021

Opening Reception - Friday, 06 August 2021
12 to 6 pm

A.I.R. Gallery
155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn NY 11201

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s exhibition was developed and supported through A.I.R. Gallery’s 2020-21 Fellowship Program. A.I.R. Gallery is an artist run organization and exhibition space founded in 1972 that supports the open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. A self-directed governing body, the organization is an alternative to mainstream institutions and thrives on the network of active participants. The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 to support under-represented and emerging self-identified women artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery’s Brooklyn space.

Exhibition page
Artist’s page


08 June 2021

Jonathan Mildenberg is now represented by M 2 3

M 2 3 is pleased to announce representation of Jonathan Mildenberg

Artist’s page


26 May 2021

Connor McNicholas included in the inaugural exhibition of Sharp Projects, Copenhagen

10 works
04 June - 16 July 2021

Opening Reception, Friday 04 June 2021
5 to 7 pm

Sharp Projects
Blegdamsvej 38
Copenhagen DK 2200

Artists in exhibition: Julie Falk, Rachel Fäth, Clara Lena Langenbach, Connor McNicholas, Elizabeth Orr,
Markus von Platen, Dena Yago, Julia Znoj

Sharp Projects


29 April 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin No Can Do reviewed by Jeffrey Kastner for Artforum

“No Can Do”, Bat-Ami Rivlin’s cannily spartan solo debut at M 2 3, mined the rich terrain of ontological weirdness that lies between functionality and uselessness, proposing a kind of conceptual junkyard where incapacitated things reveal themselves – and the larger networks of economic and social organization to which they belong—in ways they never could have while operational. Well acquainted with the informal economy of the New York City curb, au fait with both the lightly used cast off and the straight-up piece of junk, Rivlin makes meticulously impoverished bricolage that’s always attentive to the ways in which the human body sizes of the stuff of the world, and vice versa. Stymied, obstructed, bewildered by the nuanced detourments of her deceptively simple instructions, that worldmaking stuffs thwarted identity as equipment opens it up to new modes and expression: the servicing of clandestine vitality, grace and pathos.
— Jeffrey Kastner (more)

Full article
Exhibition


26 April 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin on view at Susan Inglett Gallery

Work by Bat-Ami Rivlin will be exhibited to accompany Maren Hassinger’s solo presentation We Are All Vessels on view 29 April through 12 June 2021 at Susan Inglett Gallery. The gallery will host a limited-capacity reception with the artist on Saturday, 01 May from 1-5 pm that adheres to COVID-19 safety guidelines.

Maren Hassinger: We Are All Vessels
29 April - 12 June 2021

Opening Reception
Saturday, 01 May 2021
1 to 5 pm

Susan Inglett Gallery
522 West 24 Street
New York, NY 10011

Exhibition page


07 April 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin No Can Do reviewed by Nicholas Heskes for The Brooklyn Rail

Staggered across the corridor-like space of M 2 3 are the discrete sculptures of Bat-Ami Rivlin’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Composed of single-use industrial materials like springs, coils, wires, zip ties, netting, yellow foam, remesh sheets, and duct tape, as well as a partially deflated kayak, “grab lines,” “grab handles,” and a gate, the sculptures seem to play games with the format of the readymade while suggesting an uneasy relationship between utility and objecthood. These materials are broken, stretched, and bound together in ways contrary to their intended purposes. The gestalt of each sculpture, irreducible to the sum of its parts, is bent into something distinctly alien and useless under the particular pressure Rivlin exerts. An ontological problem seems to lie at the heart of this work, which stands at the threshold of utilization and decay. - excerpt by Nicholas Heskes

Full review
Bat-Ami Rivlin No Can Do


25 March 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in Latent Memory; Dust on my Tongue opening at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn 01 April 2021

Latent Memory; Dust on my Tongue
01 April - 16 May 2021

Opening Reception -
Thursday, 01 April 2021
4 to 8 pm

Miriam Gallery
319 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Artists in exhibition: Justin Chance, Bryan DelValle, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Barb Smith, Shangkai Kevin Yu

Exhibition page
Bat-Ami Rivlin No Can Do


16 March 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin’s exhibition featured on Flash Art International

Bat-Ami Rivlin No Can Do is extended through 11 April 2021

Flash Art
Installation views


08 March 2021

Bat-Ami Rivlin interviewed by Roni Aviv for BOMB

Her current solo exhibition, No Can Do, at M 2 3 in New York City exemplifies the ways in which Rivlin puts her objects and her own physicality to the test. The product of constantly stretching both her own and her objects’ stamina as she builds and rebuilds, No Can Do is a wink to both Rivlin’s sculptures and her attitude as an artist: What can I do? How much can I do? There’s nothing that I can’t do, almost. - excerpt, Roni Aviv

Full interview
Bat-Ami Rivlin No Can Do


24 January 2021

Our current exhibition eddy reviewed by Anni Irish for the Observer

M 2 3’s latest exhibition eddy is deceptively complex. The exhibition’s title, eddy, literally means a spiral, a small vortex, which spins counter to and disrupts the current of the ten works by the five artists that were meticulously curated. eddy features the works of Daniel Klaas Beckwith, Clare Koury, Quay Quinn Wolf, Vladislav Markov, and Tenant of Culture. The work is meant to act as a disruption in the gallery space but also more broadly in the world right now with a very specific meaning. The show features a range of work that is both nodding to the minimalist and conceptual art schools of the 1960s but is reconfiguring it for this contemporary moment. With much of the work featured in this exhibit created in 2020, each of these artists’ larger comments on the pandemic seem intrinsically tied to it along with other sociocultural references. - excerpt, Anni Irish

Full review
eddy


15 January 2021

eddy reviewed in MAYDAY Magazine by Visual Art Editor Corey Durbin

An eddy, the titular inspiration for this show, is a flowing water phenomenon where the current is disrupted by inverse movement, causing a whirlpool. This exhibit of young emerging sculptorsmakes a similar gesture against a cultural current, long spiraling toward doom. M 2 3 is a small gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the island itself a gaudy illustration of excess and wealth disparity. We’re closing out a year spent mostly in quarantine insulted and endangered by the self-serving ineffectiveness of our leadership. Giant corporations and their owners have increased their wealth by billions, assisted by the government as their own employees struggle, at risk to their own health, and people all over have their basic needs neglected. This is the result of the American dream – an insatiable need for more. Even the purpose of creativity is made a facilitation of problem solving, unique solutions toward increased productivity and net gain. In a crisis of this magnitude, where people are so malnourished as we drown in excess, Art can feel as absurd, as superfluous, as it can be vital. As we’re seeing waves of digital fair booths and online viewing rooms offering little to the present, eddy is a reminder of the power of sharing space and time with art. - excerpt; Corey Durbin

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eddy


13 January 2021

Connor McNicholas’ exhibition Where Remote Futures Meet Remote Pasts included in Momus’ featue/review

As New York galleries reopened after the first wave of lockdowns, I noticed a trend across a handful of exhibitions that channeled the alienation and heartbreak of our moment. Their artists were each drawing from materials readily available in their vicinity, and salvaging, foraging, or collecting. The processes of Jane South, Connor McNicholas, and Mike Cloud, all of whose shows I saw in those flickering moments of physical access across this global pandemic, involved no fabrication and no exorbitant budgets. Their work was idiomatic and isolated, defined by acts of assembly from what appears discarded and overlooked. Despite their material choices, these artists avoided the modest, aloof aesthetics of provisional painting and sculpture, and instead elevated their materials to acts of something like spiritualism. - excerpt, Andrew Woolbright

Full article
Where Remote Futures Meet Remote Pasts exhibition page


03 December 2020

Sean Donovan’s exhibition is featured on Mousse Magazine

Sean Donovan: Recent Work remains on view through 06 December 2020.

Full article


28 November 2020

Bat-Ami Rivlin speaks with Backyard Ghost about her practice and upcoming exhibition

It is kind of important to me that the objects that I gather are utilitarian and cast away, or surplus. If an object has too many decorative elements I lose interest.

Full conversation


11 November 2020

Sean Donovan conversation with Sibilla Maiarelli is now live

Sean Donovan speaks about his practice and current exhibition with Sibilla Maiarelli. Sean Donovan: Recent Work is on view through 06 December 2020

Watch video


07 October 2020

Sean Donovan included in Beautiful Bastards curated by Sergio Munoz Sarmiento

Beautiful Bastards now on view at 1209 Garage, Austin, Texas

In an age when some persist on gilding the lily, 1209 Garage presents beautiful bastards, a visual literary exposition featuring works by visual artists, writers, models, carpenters, designers, magazines, and radio stations. beautiful bastards considers sub-cultural and undying mindsets created by the desire to exist: life, liberty, and the pursuit to be let alone. This group of bastards spans different generations, backgrounds, disciplines, and formal practices, but the works presented—many of which are newly completed projects designed specifically to be sited at 1209 Garage—share a common vision in which noise, attitude, dispossession, perversity, secret spaces, sex, and violence find, like perpetual weeds, ways of existing and disrupting current moral undercurrents. Classy if you’re rich; trashy if you’re poor. When others go high, they go low. Life is beautiful. It’s even more beautiful if you’re a bastard. - Sergio Munoz Sarmiento

Artists in exhibition: Mike Kelley, Christoph Büchel, Karle Gwen, Stanley Kubrick, Cady Noland, KNAC.COM, Mark Leckey, Douglas Melini, Melinda Shades, Wu Ming, Alfred Steiner, Ladies Love Lemons, Chris Watts, Jehu Santamaria, Brian Filosa, Sean Donovan, Diamante Cruz, Steven Parrino, Gnarly Magazine, Richard Prince, Andrew Jilka, House of Chingasos, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ashley Bickerton, Aunt Clara, Current Resident

Exhibition page


23 September 2020

Sean Donovan included in O Que Não Temos Podemos Criar opening at PADA (Barreiro, Portugal) 26 September 2020

O Que Não Temos Podemos Criar
26 September - 31 October 2020

Opening Reception -
Saturday, 26 September 2020
4 to 8 pm

The title of this exhibition paraphrases the industrialist Alfredo da Silva, whose motto, ‘O que o País não tem, a CUF cria’ (What the country doesn’t have, CUF creates) came to capture the ethos and energy that transformed Barreiro in the 20th century. One hundred thirteen years since the foundation of Companhia Uniao Fabril, PADA looks to build on on this attitude, commissioning local artists to create artwork that responds to the history of CUF as well as reimagining the reality of the contemporary site of the Baia do Tejo park, in particular the redundant TINCO paint factory. - full text

Artists in exhibition: Diogo da Cruz, Emma Hornsby, Erris Huigens, Jéssica Burrinha, João Ferro Martins, Luísa Jacinto, Paulo Arraiano, Sean Donovan, Timothy Yannick Hunter, IN LIMEN

PADA
Rua 42, n2 Baía do Tejo
Parque Empresarial do Barreiro
2830-310 Barreiro
Portugal

Exhibition page


06 September 2020

Bat-Ami Rivlin collaboration with Erica Stoller now on view at A.I.R. Gallery and Public Swim

Soft Windows
12 August - 27 September 2020

Public Swim
105 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002

Soft Windows is a collaborative residency and online platform organized by A.I.R. Gallery and Public Swim.

Public Swim will host 12 collaborative pairs of artists drawn from the A.I.R. fellowship group and collective. One artist from each pair will use Public Swim as an experimental studio space, creating interventions that will be accessible via the gallery’s front window, while their partner will respond digitally from a separate location.

Exhibition page


01 September 2020

Connor McNicholas included in Off-Nostalg(h)ia at Super Dakota, Brussels

Off-Nostalg(h)ia
03 September – 17 October, 2020

Artists in exhibition: Kenneth Anger, Alex Clarke, Florence Henri, Oliver Laric, Dean Levin, Danica Lundy, 
Eric N. Mack, Connor McNicholas, Verner Panton, Elizabeth Peyton, David Salle, Slavs and Tatars,
Andrei and Arseny Tarkovsky

Super Dakota
45 rue Washington
B – 1050 Brussels
Belgium

Exhibition page


27 August 2020

David Roy featured on Hyperallergic

At Yale, students from the sculpture, painting, and printmaking programs showcased their projects via virtual exhibitions with M 2 3 and Perrotin galleries, respectively. The M 2 3 exhibition features an introduction by fellow Yale alum Holly Bushman, while the Perrotin presentation is introduced by Alexandra Thomas, a PhD student in Yale’s History of Art and Africana Studies programs (who is also a Hyperallergic contributor). Highlights from the two presentations include a conceptual project focused on conducting rocket science, “both technical and social,” as well as notable projects which made compelling, innovative use of materials such as textiles and advertisements. - Dessane Lopez Cassell

Full Article
David Roy
Yale Sculpture MFA 2020


01 August 2020

Bat-Ami Rivlin featured on Granta Hebrew

There is something one-dimensional in objects I work with, those created for a single purpose or for single use, and I treat them as raw materials without having to break them down into materials that are perceived as 'pure' building materials (wood, metal, etc.).

The objects inherit their physical properties from their relation to the body, and their whole existence depends on their use by us. This dependence interests me, and leads me to perceive these substances as body substances of their own.

- excerpt from the article Captured Bodies, published 01 August 2020

Full article


28 July 2020

L.E.S Summer Night - Thursday, 30 July 2020

Twenty seven galleries will be open from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday, 30 July 2020 for L.E.S. Summer Night. Interactive map and full details below.

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20 July 2020

Yale Sculpture MFA 2020 launches on M23.co Monday, 27 July 2020

The online initiative supports the Yale Sculpture MFA graduating class of 2020 - Lauren Lee, Genevieve Goffman, Efrat Lipkin, Randi Renate, Anna Miller, Peyton Peyton, David Roy, Sam Shoemaker, Ann Wu, Alex Zak. A series of performances and discussions are planned from 27 July through 02 September 2020. 

Full schedule to be announced.

YaleSculptureMFA2020.com


07 July 2020

Vladislav Markov included in Together in Distance, an online auction for COVID-19 relief

Art institutions and non-profit organizations, in collaboration with Artspace, are launching the online benefit auction Together in Distance, to raise funds to help with COVID-19 relief, in support of healthcare workers, socially vulnerable groups and artists. Artist include Daniel Arsham, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julia Bland, Matt Connors, Jonas Wood, and many others. This online benefit exhibition is active as of 08 July through 20 July 2020.

View Vladislav Markov’s work at Together in Distance


01 June 2020

ARTIST SUPPORT FUND - FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Artists Sean Donovan, Vladislav Markov, Connor McNicholas, Jonathan Mildenberg, Bat-Ami Rivlin, R. Blair Sullivan, and August Vollbrecht were brought together through community and exhibition. As a collective response rejecting racism, these artists are uniting in solidarity and support. 100% of proceeds collected though the initiative ARTIST SUPPORT FUND - FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE benefit victims’ families, organizations fostering racial equality, and causes fighting racial injustice.

ArtistSupportFund.org


08 May 2020

Connor McNicholas Self-Isolation Loops EP now available at Mental Space

SoundCloud
Mental Space


01 April 2020

Bat-Ami Rivlin selected to participate in the A.I.R. Fellowship Program

A.I.R. Gallery has selected Aika Akhmetova, Destiny Belgrave, Lizania Cruz, Kyoung Eun Kang, Sky Olson, and
Bat-Ami Rivlin to participate in their 2020-21 fellowship program. The six artists were chosen from over 300 applicants by a panel of Gina Beavers, Nicole Russo, Monica de la Torre, and A.I.R. artists and staff. The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 by former artist member Stephanie Bernheim in order to support under-represented and emerging self-identified women artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery’s Brooklyn space.

A.I.R. Gallery is an artist run organization and exhibition space founded in 1972 that supports the open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. A self-directed governing body, the organization is an alternative to mainstream institutions and thrives on the network of active participants.

A.I.R. Gallery


14 March 2020

Temporary gallery closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to growing public health concerns, M 2 3 will temporarily close ‪from Saturday, 14 March until further notice. We are taking this precautionary measure in order to promote the safety of our staff, artists, and community.

Seven Artists/Seven Works remains on view ‪through 05 April 2020‬, and available by appointment. Gallery operations will continue remotely during this time.

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10 March 2020

Bat-Ami Rivlin collaborates with Russell Maltz for the project Performing Authorship: 31 Days in March, organized by Saul Ostrow at PS122 Gallery, New York

Performing Authorship: 31 Days in March is grounded in the principles of Robert Morris's “anti-form” masterwork Continuous Project Altered Daily, (1969) which rejected a finalized form. Morris wrote: "It is part of the work’s refusal to continue estheticizing form by dealing with it as a prescribed end.”  The exhibition is organized around a set context in which 8 collaborative teams of artists create in, and add to the gallery space.

Performing Authorship: 31 Days in March
01 - 31 March 2020

Closing Reception - Saturday, 28 March 2020, 6-8 pm

PS122 Gallery
150 First Avenue
New York, NY

PS122


17 February 2020

M 2 3 announces Manhattan exhibition space

M 2 3 is pleased to announce our new gallery at 24 Henry Street, New York. The inaugural exhibition
Seven Artists/Seven Works opens March 2020.

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04 February 2020

Sean Donovan selected to participate in the PADA residency program in Lisbon

Sean Donovan has been selected as an artist-in-residence at PADA in Lisbon, Portugal for the month of February 2020

PADA is an artist led, not for profit, arts association unique in its support to artists. As a cultural resource, PADA promotes interaction between national and international artists, the local community and surrounding region.

PADA


04 December 2019

Connor McNicholas included in Super Dakota’s presentation at NADA Miami Beach, December 2019

Super Dakota
Stand 6.01
NADA Miami
05-08 December 2019 

Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136

Artists in exhibition: Julia Wachtel, Jeanne Briand, Isaac Lythgoe, Hugo Pernet, Alex Clarke,
Connor McNicholas, Chris Dorland, Baptiste Caccia

Image:
Connor McNicholas
Perfect Lovers, 2019
Copper Aztec calendar, digital clock, electricity, hardware
11 4/5 × 24 inches (30 × 61 cm)

Preview on Artsy


17 July 2019

Bat-Ami Rivlin included in the exhibition Battleship Potemkin, now on view at Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami through 24 August 2019

Battleship Potemkin
Curatated by Rafael Domenech
28 June - 24 August 2019

Fredric Snitzer Gallery
1540 NE Miami Court
Miami, FL 33132

Artists in exhibition: Matthew Barney, Vivian Chiu, Justin Cloud, Alejandro Contreras, Dana Degiulio, Jose Iraola, Michael Joo, Jon Kessler, Jonas Mekas, Ernesto Oroza, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu, Fischli and Weiss, Ayoung Yu

Exhibition page


02 June 2019

Connor McNicholas solo exhibition opens at Super Dakota, Brussels June 2019

Connor McNicholas 
The Shape of Time
06 June – 13 July 2019

Opening Reception - Thursday, 06 June 2019, 6 to 9 pm

Super Dakota
Rue Washington 45
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Super Dakota


13 February 2019

Brian Dario included in Reserve Ames’ four artists presentation at Art Los Angeles Contemporary

Zoe Barcza, Brian Dario, Clare Grill, Jay Heikes
Reserve Ames, stand D10
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
13 - 17 February 2019

The Barker Hangar 
3021 Airport Avenue 
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Reserve Ames

Image: floor works Brian Dario; wall works left to right Jay Heikes, Zoe Barcza, Clare Grill


18 November 2018

Jonathan Mildenberg included in the exhibition Laugh Track opening 01 December 2018

Laugh Track
891 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02904

Opening Reception - Saturday, 01 December 2018, 6-10 pm

Artists in exhibition: Megan Cline, Hirokazu Fukawa, Jonathan Mildenberg,
Christine Navin, Jesse Sullivan

Exhibition page


01 November 2018

Brian Dario, Liza Lacroix, Vladislav Markov reviewed in the November 2018 issue of Artforum

The palette of this three-person show was dominated by brown hues: in the crude-oil-like sheen of paintings by Liza Lacroix, the grimy residues of sweaty hands and raw materials in sculptures by Brian Dario, and the delicate gradations of burnt umber to dark tan in an installation by Vladislav Markov. Materially, each work was in some way stained. The protective panels of suede in Dario’s Foam, 2018—a foot-and-a-half-high stack of eighteen single, used work gloves—looked rough, teased into a texture resembling sandpaper. Markov’s long sheets of old toilet paper, xC, 2017, which had been soaked in tar and gasoline, hung like a row of worn coats along one wall of the gallery. Though durable enough to withstand the artist’s process, the tissue was torn and puckered. Within this context, Lacroix’s works—Untitled, 2017, and Untitled, 2018—also seemed to be less “paintings” in the traditional sense than modifications of canvas as a textile. On the larger piece from 2017, thin brushstrokes and fingerprints feathered a border around the central block of a uniform, leathery color, which could have been some other viscous material. (more) — Mira Dayal


Full review
Exhibition


15 September 2018

Daniel Klaas Beckwith included in Yukon Gold organized by Dylan Ahern and Audrey Ryan

Yukon Gold
891 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02904

Saturday, 15 September 2018, 6 - 10 pm

Artists in exhibition: Daniel Klaas Beckwith, Brittni Ann Harvey, Kayla Jones,
Colin Klockner, Kevin Hernández Rosa

Exhibition page


19 July 2018

M 2 3 included in Brooklyn Magazine's gallery feature

Clearing, Luhring Augustine, M 2 3, Motel, 315 Gallery included in Brooklyn Magazine's Five Galleries To See in Brooklyn This July feature.  The exhibition of recent work by Brian Dario, Liza Lacroix, Vladislav Markov is on view through 29 July 2018 at our Waterbury Street space.

Full article


07 May 2018

Mikkel Carl Brooklyn Magazine interview

With a background in philosophy and a proclivity for the readymade, Mikkel Carl’s work epitomizes a transgenerational approach to the media. Much like the the originators of this type of found object work in Dada- and surrounding isms, Carl’s work comes with a strong message and intention of provoking thought in his viewers. Often described as having a certain grammar or syntax to it, his work consistently has a message to share with his audience. Through his installations, Carl elicits strong responses from his audience with the found objects central to his style. He engages with and provokes consideration, offering up a playful yet poignant point of view on current events and social trends.
 

Full article


02 April 2018

120 Waterbury Street opens May 2018

M 2 3 will inaugurate our ancillary space at 120 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn with the exhibition
Mikkel Carl - Terrified of Society and It’s Unclean Bite opening concurrently at M 2 3 Project Room, Morgan Avenue
 

Mikkel Carl
Terrified of Society and Its Unclean Bite
11 May - 17 June 2018

Opening - Friday, 11 May 2018, 7-10 pm

M 2 3 Project Room
120 Waterbury Street
Brooklyn, NY  11206

209 Morgan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11237


15 December 2017

M 2 3 at the 5th edition of Material Art Fair,  Mexico City

M 2 3 will present a new solo project by Connor McNicholas
08-11 February 2018
 

Material Art Fair
Frontón México 
De la República 17
Col. Tabacalera, Del. Cuauhtémoc
06030 Mexico City, Mexico
 

///Material Art Fair is a contemporary art fair dedicated to emerging practices that takes place in Mexico City. It features selected international exhibitors based on the strength of their proposals, their commitment to daring programming, as well as wide support for young emerging artists.\\\
 

Material Art Fair


26 September 2017

M 2 3 Project Room featured in What Should We Do's Guide

"“We’re a project space,” he says. “We’re driven by artists’ work, not by the market. We’re not about a checklist with prices.” Instead of offering traditional exhibitions, the one-room, 400-square-foot industrial space, which opened this month, will let a different artist take over every six weeks to create an installation of his or her own uncompromised vision."

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02 September 2017

Mikkel Carl at Code Art Fair featured on ARTLAND

"With inspiration from pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus via German Marxist/Jewish mysticist Walter Benjamin (author of the art world must-read essay called “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction), the Danish artist Mikkel Carl presents a deconstruction textbook example at this year’s of CODE Art fair."

Full Article


24 August 2017

M 2 3 Project Room included in This Fall’s Best Art Exhibitions and Gallery Openings
on What Should We Do

"Mark your calendar—these are the must-attend art shows of the season.  Instead of mourning the end of summer, art lovers should rejoice: Autumn will usher in a new batch of cool exhibitions and gallery openings to attend, giving you plenty to look forward to.  To help you sort through them all, we’ve rounded up the buzziest showcases of the season—from a spectacular display handpicked by one of the world’s leading art collectors to an imposing work that will stretch across the entire city."

Full Article


08 August 2017

Connor McNicholas included in The August Show opening 18 August 2017

The August Show
18 August - 16 September 2017

Galleri Jacob Bjørn
Thorvaldsensgade 33a
Aarhus, Denmark

Artist in Exhibition:  Nils Bleibtreu, Graham Collins, Kristian Kragelund, Connor McNicholas,
Evan Roberts, Maximilian Schubert,  Graham Wilson

Galleri Jacob Bjørn


01 July 2017

Daniel Klaas Beckwith included in From DADA to TA-DA!

From DADA to TA-DA!
23 June - 20 August 2017

Fisher Parrish Gallery
238 Wilson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11237

Artists in Exhibition:  Atelier Van Lieshout, Casey Jane Ellison, Daniel Klaas Beckwith, Eric Wesley, 
Jack Chiles, Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman, Jes Fan, Joe Kay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kyla Chevrier, 
Lloyd Corporation, Lucas Zallmann, MarieVic, Nathaniel deLarge, Nick Van Woert, Sarah Meyohas,
Tschabalala Self

Fisher Parrish Gallery

Image:
Daniel Klaas Beckwith
"*rare* ENRON Coffee Table Used Mirror Table", 2017
mirrored acrylic, LED lighting, desk legs


09 May 2017

M 2 3 Project Room opens September 2017

M 2 3 Project Room is a space for artistic debate, aesthetic and cultural research, knowledge production,
and exhibition. Presenting one artist project per month dedicated to the advancement of experimental, innovative, interdisciplinary artistic and cultural practice.

M23/Project Room
209 Morgan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11237

Opening hours 1-6 pm Saturday, Sunday; exhibition information forthcoming