Past exhibitions
FASHION FORWARD
January 25 - March 30, 2024
Fashion Forward presented a wide-ranging and exuberant celebration of the fashion arts, featuring original paintings and drawings by designers Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Balmain, Hubert de Givenchy, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix, Antonio Lopez, Christian Dior and others, as well as original textiles, garments, ephemera and contemporary artworks which straddle or investigate the art and fashion worlds.
2023
BLOSSOMING
November 3rd - December 3rd, 2023
BLOSSOMING, focuses on a new body of work by Lowell Boyers, in conversation with a selection of works by Françoise Gilot, Suzanne Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Marsden Hartley and others. The theme, broadly, is the flower, as we look back to the summer and ahead to the winter. But as we explore these new works by Boyers, we think not so much of static flowers, but rather, of our dynamic selves, as in James Wright’s poem, “Blessing,”That if I stepped out of my body I would break / Into blossom.
IDENTITIES
September 8th - October 21st, 2023
Identities, focuses on trans identity and presents recent works and a “femme wall” installation by artist Violet Frances, in conversation with a body of 100+ photographs by an anonymous photographer 1920-30s, and other works.
FIRST COME FIRST HUNG
June 22nd - July 27th, 2023
Open Call Group Exhibition featuring 230 artists
PICASSO/MATISSE: SOUVENIRS
May 5th - June 11th, 2023
Picasso/Matisse: Souvenirs, a modest contribution to the worldwide slate of blockbuster exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. Offering an eclectic mix of 25 works of art, rare books and manuscripts and pieces of memorabilia, this show offers souvenirs from not only Picasso but also a smaller selection of works by Henri Matisse. Arguably the two most important artists of the 20th century, the two were closer in spirit than any other artists of their time.
FULLY FURNISHED
March 10th, 2023 - April 30th, 2023
Fully Furnished brings 40 pieces to the spotlight including Weissglass's newest body of work, a series of paintings where antique tables, sofas, chairs and wash basin stands twirl through richly colored landscapes in a playful and sometimes cacophonous dance. While figures and flowers also populate the scenes, it is these furniture elements which steal the show, asserting themselves even through the richly textured and colorful terrain which surrounds, often dwarfing the people who attempt to alight, climb or straddle them. Emerging from the homebound period of the pandemic, these quirky and exuberant works celebrate the quotidian and, through the artist's vision, just as an innovative designer can do with a chair or table, transform what is familiar into a vision both magical and extraordinary.
THE MASKS WE WEAR
December 9th, 2022 - February 26th, 2023
The Masks We Wear asks what is written on our faces and aims to interrogate from an artistic-aesthetic perspective the idea of the mask. Contemporary works by a variety of artists including Doug Henders, Lavaughan Jenkins, Patrice Yourdon, Ryan Wilde, Jayson Edward Carter, Lowell Boyers and others will be in dialogue with works in various media by René Magritte, Pierre Molinier, Mark McKnight, Fergus Greer, Christopher Makos, Kathe Kollwitz, Wayne Thiebaud, Marisol and others, as well as a selection of masks of various kinds, including small masks functioning as amulets from the African Dan peoples and a rare Nepalese Ritual Fungus Mask.