Opening Reception September 28th from 6-8pm.

Glass, as the support, is one constant in the practice of Christian de Boschnek. Light and shadow, activated as a kind of painting and drawing, are another. It is not surprising, then, that fragility and ephemerality are never far from the artist’s mind, and it is that precarity that you notice first in his almost sacramental creations. Glass, of course, can be easily shattered (although there are formulations of it that surpass steel in strength), its transparency further contributing to the image of (paradoxical) insubstantiality and frangibility that de Boschnek seeks to capture. He said that glass was “an obvious choice since it is already perceived as fragile.” And in choosing it as the ground for his elliptical imagery, he casts his tableaux into a place of uncertainty, their guise shifting with the changes in the ambient light.

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s Open Studio event. Artists will welcome the public into their studios on Friday evening from 6-9PM and Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 1-6PM.

HARD PACK and Cole Richardson Present INTERMISSION: A Visual Exploration of a Ski Season

Supported by Arc'teryx

Exhibition Dates:

October 12-13, 2024

12:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Hard Pack magazine, in collaboration with professional skier Cole Richardson, is proud to present INTERMISSION, an immersive visual exploration of a ski season. This exhibition, supported by Arc'teryx, features the works of photographers and filmmakers Marvin Leuvrey, AF Webb, and Leo Hoorn, each offering distinct interpretations of Richardson’s 2024 ski season.

“Daily Dreams” is an exhibition that delivers nutritious works born of image, proficient language, instinct, and generosity.

Richard O’Russa, Elegy, oil on panel, 22x30 inches, 2024

Artist Reception: September 7, 6-9pm

In The Scheme of Grand Things at Art Cake, Dominic Terlizzi presents a group of large-scale foot paintings created on August 10, 2024 under the BQE in East Williamsburg. Accompanying these large foot paintings is a video documenting the process of their creation. A collection of stamp drawings and mosaic paintings lead viewers into the main gallery contextualizing the transformation of Terlizzi's symbols.

Dominic Terlizzi is a Brooklyn based artist and curator. Terlizzi's studio work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, utilizing objects and textures to build imagery. Dominic recently exhibited at Craig Krull Gallery and Helen J Gallery in LA, The Front, Tappeto Volante, Good Naked, Underdonk, and Headstone Gallery in NY. International exhibitions include Mc Bride Contemporain in Montreal, Canada and NEVVEN Gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dominic founded and directed St. Charles Projects in Baltimore City from 2015-2023 and is currently a co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York. He has been awarded the Triangle Workshop, PNC Tranformative Art Prize, Belle Foundation Grant, and completed three public sculptures in Baltimore City.

Friday, June 14 6:00-9:00PM
Saturday, June 15 2:00-5:00PM

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s Open Studio event, to coincide with the opening of “All Tomorrow’s Parties” in the Main Gallery Space.

Artists will welcome the public into their studios on Friday evening from 6-9PM and Saturday afternoon from 2-5PM.

Before I Put My Eye Out (I could still see you): Susanna Kim Koetter, Natalie Lerner, and Kate Liebman will be on view in our 2nd Floor - Studio 10 Exhibition space during the Open Studios hours.

Starting in June 2024, M.David & Co. will begin its programming with a series of exhibitions at various times of the year at Art Cake in Sunset Park Brooklyn, with its vibrant and growing artist community. Art Cake, with its larger footprint and multiple spaces, will allow the gallery to continue its tradition of championing the intergenerational bond between emerging and established artists, while providing greater opportunities to serve so many of you deserving of a broader audience.

We are excited to welcome back many of the artists from Life on Mars/M.David & Co. who were featured in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions, and we are thrilled to be showing artists that we have always wanted to exhibit, including those currently in Art Cake’s terrific Artist Residency Program.

Join us in our Second Floor Studio 10 Gallery for “Before I Put My Eye Out (I could still see you,)” a group show featuring work from Susanna Kim Koetter, Natalie Lerner, and Kate Liebman.

“Honestly” brings together the sculptures, sounds, paintings, installations, and moments cultivated by the Queens College Studio Art MFA cohort. The works, materially and experientially, explore what is known and possible when the truth belongs to whoever needs to be doing the telling. If honesty is the best policy then policy is not a governing force, but instead a sense of language that we rely on when we need to find our way

Opening Reception: Saturday May 4th 6:00-8:00PM

Vernissage: Friday, May 10 6:00-9:00PM

Reynolds’s paintings describe an interior landscape riddled with ecological deformities and visionary possibilities. Twisting their way around pictorial formulae used to conflate women and nature, these paintings remain outside the linear tradition used to define gender norms. Transformative possibilities are marked in the ruins, as gravestones commemorate the altered landscape of the body. Post 9/11 and the Invasion of Iraq, the stones were marked with cuneiform to commemorate the loss, as a tidal wave of catastrophe threatened to swamp the world. The paintings became shades of white, which had a literal source in the ash of war, and the bleached coral and arctic melt of global warming. During the great sickness as humans stopped breathing, the air briefly cleared, and color crept back into the painting. She hand-ground 'interference colors' that reflected and mirrored the glittering network of fungi, bacteria, and virus that overtook the terrain and sky. From the depicted swamp her work continues to explore the ambiguous morphology between abstraction and a fractured representation.

Opening Reception April 26 6:00-8:00pm

On View through May 5

Summer Begins (2024) is a new installation by William Fleites in Art Cake’s main gallery space.

The show also features new work from tufting artist Jonathan Curran in Studio B.

”PRIVATE/NYC” presents 25 years of New York photography by Paul Vlachos. The exhibit opens in Art Cake’s 2nd Floor-Studio 10 exhibition space December 7th with a reception from 6-8pm.

Get ready for an electrifying night as Whispers of Rhythm: Emergence takes the stage for their first mind-blowing performance.

Sponsored by New York State Council of the Arts

Opening Reception: Friday, October 13 from 4-8 PM

Open to the Public: Saturday 10/14 and Sunday 10/15 from 2-5 PM

Please join us for the opening of an exhibition of new work by our current residents Melika Abikenari, Jim Condron, Billy Fleites, Ronald Hall, Kate Liebman, Justin Natividad and Richard O’Russa.

We’re pleased to introduce the work of four new residents in this exhibition as well - Christina Massey and Alyssa Klauer arrived this past summer. Charity Baker and Scott Vandervoort join us this October.

Opening Reception: Current Resident Group Exhibition

October 13th from 4-8 pm

Open Studios:

2-5 PM Saturday, October 14th

2-5 PM Sunday, October 15th

Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 (SPOS) is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The Bonnier Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Enthusiasm, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by American artist Richard Höglund on view from Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at Art Cake on 214 40th Street with a reception for the artist from 5 pm - 10 pm.

The show brings together five years of conceptual groundwork and experimentation. Using traditional metal point drawing and oil painting techniques, Höglund explores approaches to painting throughout history, in this case synthesizing renaissance, baroque and modernist frames of reference. Höglund draws from both visual and literary historical references to explore his unique blend of abstraction and figuration. The surfaces of the paintings, underscored in gold and silver, become alchemic vessels for Höglund’s drawings, which continue to push and pull against the painting depending on the material. “It’s especially important for me to keep returning to these paintings as they evolve,” says Höglund, “the narrative persists, keeps creeping back in as the drawing resurfaces, as the oxidizing metal point makes its way up through the layers of paint.”

“Collected Things” presents over forty sculptural works by Jim Condron and opens May 20th with a reception from 5-9 pm. Many of the pieces are constructed of personal items and ephemeral materials collected by Condron that once belonged to artists, writers, and thinkers such as Grace Hartigan, Graham Nickson, Lucy Sante, Rebecca Hoffberger, Carl E. Hazlewood and Cordy Ryman. The work explores thing theory. The genealogy of the use of objects gives them vitality and historical force. Everyday objects become something new as they collide and converse with other things through Condron’s engagement with them.

Opening Saturday, April 15, 2023

4 pm - 8 pm

Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12 - 6 pm

Closing Reception and Gallery Talk with exhibition curator, Mary Birmingham.

Sunday, May 14

Reception beginning at 3 pm

Curator talk at 4 pm

American Abstract Artists is presenting a show of recent work by its membership at ART CAKE, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The exhibition will feature a selection of abstract and non-objective works, in a variety of media, by a multi-generational group of member artists. This show represents the most recent iteration of AAA's 87 year tradition of group shows and, as such, the continuation of an important living tradition in abstract art.

Art Cake Residents Showcase, 2019 - present

Opening March 11, 2023

Reception: March 11, 2023 5-9 pm

Art Cake is excited to present a survey of new work by artists who have participated in the Art Cake residency studios since we opened in 2019. The exhibition will feature work by: Melika Abikenari, Eve Aschheim, Layo Bright, Jim Condron, William Fleites, Carolyn Forrester, Hilma’s Ghost, Blanca Guerrero, Nathan Randall Green, Carl E. Hazlewood, Kate Liebman, Naomi Lisiki, Ai Makita, Jeffrey Morabito, Justin Natividad, Richard Ó'Russa, Michael Rado, Michele Rushfeledt, Odessa Straub, Riley Strom and Dannielle Tegeder.

A group exhibition, curated by Gabriel Sehringer and Kenisha Rullan, featuring works by the security guards of New York City’s most acclaimed museums.

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s open studio event on occasion of SUNSET PARK WIDE OPEN with a reception for the artists on Friday, OCT 14 from 5-7P and continuing through the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, OCT 15-16 from 1-6P each day.

Art Cake is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Rhys Ziemba. On view, September 1 through October 8, 2022, will be a selection of the artist’s most recent paintings.

As part of his practice, Ziemba collects various objects, such as medical skeleton models, traffic cones, paint buckets, inflatable flamingos, or kettlebells, and assembles them in his basement studio. The basement serves as a stage for his paintings which in turn become documentation of the arranged eclectic elements. His works are carefully rendered with consideration to the objects and the space which surrounds them. Balancing between Ziemba’s close observation and saturated imagination, his paintings record time.

Art Cake is pleased to present its second dance series and performance featuring work by Kristel Baldoz, Vinson Fraley, Morgan Griffin, Sayer Mansfield, Raymond Pinto, and Grace Yi-Li Tong. The 2022 series is organized by Marina Gluckman and Morgan Griffin and is fiscally sponsored by The Brooklyn Arts Council.

During the residency period, each dancer is provided a studio at Art Cake to develop a solo or duet. Inspired and informed by the space and each artists’ personal investigation at this moment in time, the solos and duets will be presented side-by-side in a culminating performance, OCT 20 - 21, 2022.