Explore/Archive
September 7–October 19, 2021
Dana Davenport
Dana’s Beauty Supply constructs an experimental beauty supply store and hair gel manufacturing lab.
June 29–August 10, 2021
Smita Sen
In The Manipura Sanctum, artist Smita Sen nurtures an altar space that reaches toward contemplative, social healing.
May 4–June 15, 2021
Sophia Giovannitti
Untitled (Incall) interrogates the material overlap between the art and sex industries to address the ambivalent labor identity of cultural producers.
March 2–April 13, 2021
Through: The Fold, The Shatter
Charisse Pearlina Weston
Through: The Fold, The Shatter continues material investigations into the ways in which glass creates encounters of perceived visibility, intimacy.
January 5–February 16, 2021
Ogemdi Ude and Sydney King
Living Relics draws out a shared sense of loss and understanding of death that hasn’t yet been physicalized in the body or manifested in thought.
November 16–December 30, 2020
Marcela Torres
Petición; for Exorcism is an installation that uses scent as a tool for ritual practice, the space will often have smoking incense and ash.
September 14–October 26, 2020
something else (Variations on Americana)
Kiyan Williams
The American flag, when deep-fried, forms an outer skin that appears to be cankerous, bubbling with calcified flour and charred detritus.
January 16–March 21, 2020
Naima Green
Pur·suit is a 54-card poker deck by artist Naima Green that features portraits of queer womxn, trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people.
January 9–February 22, 2020
Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin
Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization.
November 7–December 21, 2019
Christopher Udemezue
Duppy reflects Udemezue’s complex longings and projections of nostalgia toward his and his mother’s homeland, Jamaica.
September 3–October 26, 2019
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Life of Mohammad constructs a fictional single life from the lives of seven real people named Mohammad.
June 20–August 3, 2019
E.T. Chong
Slaysian Dynasty is a media installation that will serve as a space of dialogue and performance exploring the intersection of Asian Queer and Trans.
April 19–June 8, 2019
Lex Brown
The Inside Room is a project that transforms Recess into a production studio for impromptu, tactile TV made for the body and voice.
February 14–April 6, 2019
Lizania Cruz
$200 From… To… -With Love a participatory art project focused on remittances, the money migrant send to their homelands.
January 3–February 9, 2019
Demian DinéYazhi´
R.I.S.E.: COLLECTIVE FURY is a project that will explore how outrage and anger can be mobilized not as tools of division,.
November 6–December 15, 2018
Camilo Godoy
Out of Control is a project that will transform Recess into a dance studio to develop a choreography entitled What did they actually see?
September 7–October 26, 2018
Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin
Jes Fan
Obscure Functions: Experiments in Decolonizing Melanin will investigate the material agency of melanin, the natural pigment that determines skin color
June 7–August 14, 2018
Ilana Harris-Babou
Harris and Daughter Home Goods will transform Recess into a hardware store, cooking show set, showroom, and interrogation of the American Dream.
May 3–June 2, 2018
Manuel Molina Martagon
EL RECREO will turn Recess into a home base for restaurant workers, with diverse programming addressing current issues faced by the food service.
March 6–April 21, 2018
Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Shug Avery’s Kiss, a project that will turn the physical space of Recess into a juke joint.
January 9–March 3, 2018
Doreen Garner
Invisible Man Tattoo is a pop up tattoo shop offering designs that reflect the histories and experiences of Black people and the African Diaspora.
November 3–December 23, 2017
Troy Michie
A Ponemos Chancla is an installation that simulates a men’s formalwear shop to explore camouflage, the semiotics of fashion.
September 8–October 28, 2017
Maayan Strauss
The Service Room is a project that will create a unique environment and framework for the communal exchange of services.
July 13–September 1, 2017
Brendan Fernandes
Steady Pulse is a club that plays host to a diverse range of happenings and interventions, including performances, movement workshops, conversations.
May 27–July 9, 2017
Allison Janae Hamilton
Wonder Room is a hybrid of a treehouse, resource lounge, imaginative think tank, and community environment.