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October 2016

Rapport

Corrine Fitzpatrick

September 1–October 29, 2016

Refuge in the Means

Canaries

Canaries will address the two primary components of their practice—collective care and self-care—through programs and documentary activities

July 2016

Ecstatic Resilience

Sable Elyse Smith

May 14–July 9, 2016

Kingdom Splurge (4)

Lauren Halsey

An interplanetary liquid environment composed of hyperreal gardens, fantasy landscapes, and pools of beauty water.

May 2016

Float

Birgit Rathsmann

March 12–May 7, 2016

Flow Pool

Marie Lorenz

A two-month long project that proposes the titular structure as a site for investigating questions ranging from the practical to the poetic.

January 7–March 5, 2016

Living Magasine

Total Effekt

The artists conducted a speculative archaeological study of “the home,” examining the practical and symbolic value of the dwelling.

December 2015

You Have 4 Messages

Metropolarity

November 10–December 19, 2015

My Twilight Zone Thing

Sondra Perry

Perry takes the television series The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) as the starting point for an investigation of multi-dimensional identity construction.

October 2015

Four to the Fourth

Morgan Bassichis, Jaime Shearn Coan, Katherine Brewer Ball, and Leeroy Kun Young Kang

September 4–November 3, 2015

Double Mouth Feedback

Jonah Groeneboer

Double Mouth Feedback explores the human voice as an instrument to express, or conversely, to repress, the self.

July 2–August 29, 2015

Small Town Sex Shop

Katherine Hubbard and Savannah Knoop

Hubbard and Knoop will explore connotations of production through a synthesis of clothing-making, sculpture and installation.

June 2015

Search History

Rebecca Worby

April 30–June 27, 2015

Seek

The Institute for New Feeling

IfNf will create an installation that offers individuals a clairvoyant reading generated by the misuse of online search engines.

March 19–April 25, 2015

False Alphabets

Sara Magenheimer

Magenheimer will construct sculptural sets composed of photographs, objects, and film equipment that will become the backdrop for a new video.

March 2015

Notes on a Cinema Sad Bar

Christopher Carlton

January 22–March 14, 2015

Movie in a Bar Mirror

PK

PK Worryshop will explore the cinematic trope of the “sad bar” along with the historical use of private cinema viewing machines.

January 6–17, 2015

1/2 a Cord

Jessica Segall

Jessica Segall’s installation at Recess involves a very simple task rendered complicated in New York City.

November 4–December 20, 2014

You are Apple/Pear

Chris Domenick

Domenick will explore the historical genre of the still life and its accompanying fruit basket.

September 2–October 25, 2014

Half of What’s There

Mira Friedlaender

The artist will unpack, document, and inventory the life’s work of Bilge Civelekoglu Friedlaender.