Events
Chris de Boschnek: Essays on Fragility
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.
HARD PACK and Cole Richardson Present INTERMISSION: A Visual Exploration of a Ski Season
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.
KAMIKAZE PONZI: ASTRID DICK
From large to small scale painting, video, zines and installation, Astrid Dick engages with the possibilities of contemporary painting through her bold and complex mix of “high” and “low” art, her mastery of oil paint, and her exuberant use of color, non-traditional materials and supports such as discarded foam, sequins, and glitter, simultaneously embracing and subverting her love of modernism and the history of painting.
Beyond Face Value
BEYOND FACE VALUE
November 1 - December 1, 2024
Opening: Friday, November 1, 6 - 8 pm
Participating artists: Nicole Awai, Henry Chung, Nick Ghiz, Clara Nartey, Rigo (José Rigoberto Rodríguez Camacho), Elise Siegel, Kim Weston, and Daniel Wiener Curator: Lesley Heller
More than meets the eye in Beyond Face Value, a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper, ceramics, textiles, and mixed-media works by eight contemporary artists that challenge traditional assumptions about portraiture. Moving beyond a surface reading, the works on view address themes surrounding belief systems, cultural heritage, and the current political climate along with the realms of fantasy, memory, inner turmoil, and self-expression. About the Artists: Nicole Awai’s mixed-media abstract works conjure up folklore from the artist’s native Trinidad surrounding a feared female witch called Soucouyant, who sheds her skin at night and turns into a fireball. Awai uses the Soucouyant’s transformation as a metaphor for the shaping and reshaping of resources (material and human) and culture throughout the history of the Americas. Henry Chung’s anonymous portraits formed from stacks of hand-punched paper explore the experience of memory. While registering at a distance, facial features become mere impressions close up thus alluding to the fracturing and fading of recollections through time. Nick Ghiz’s intricate, acrylic-on-wood paintings depict fantastical worlds in which faces serve as compositional elements rather than as centerpieces. While his choice of imagery reflects influences ranging from Northern Renaissance painting to personal photographs, his unconventional sense of scale and clever use of perspective defies direct interpretation. Clara Nartey’s digital-based, mixed-media paintings explore universal themes within the context of her Ghanaian roots and contemporary experiences. Highlighting the beauty and intricacy of Afro-textured hairstyles in her vibrant depictions of Black women, she explores seemingly contradictory themes including strength versus vulnerability. Rigo’s richly colored and textured paintings, punctuated by bold loose brushstrokes, bring raw emotion to the surface. Responding to restrictive government regulations as an artist working in Cuba, his portraits examine anxiety’s hold over the human condition. Elise Siegel’s ceramic busts embody familiar emotional states, particularly those moments of inner conflict, disquiet, ambivalence, and unease. Resembling objects including idols, reliquaries, masks, and puppets, her sculptures are animated by facial expressions that hint at underlying psychological complexities. Kim Weston’s large-scale photographs of dancers from various tribes taken at powwows held in New England delve into themes of heritage, cultural identity, and complex narratives surrounding the Black Indigenous experience that have shaped her personal history. Taking the viewer on a meditative journey, she utilizes long exposure to capture the essence of spirit in motion. Daniel Wiener’s highly expressive visages formed from Apoxie Sculpt evoke the artist’s emotional state of loss, shock, and panic over the rise of authoritarian nationalism in the current era. About the Curator: Lesley Heller established her first gallery, The Work Space, 30 years ago in Soho as a non-commercial, curatorial venue presenting thematic group exhibitions. After 10 years of programming, she moved to the Upper East Side and reopened as Lesley Heller Gallery presenting salon-style solo exhibitions. In 2010, she was among a handful of pioneering dealers who opened galleries on the Lower East Side. Combining her two past programs, she opened Lesley Heller Workspace.
Daily Dreams: Arthur Cohen, Judy Glantzman, Tony Mascatello, and Tommy White
“Daily Dreams” is an exhibition that delivers nutritious works born of image, proficient language, instinct, and generosity.
Dominic Terlizzi: The Scheme of Grand Things
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.
What the Thread Recollects
What The Thread Recollects is the latest manifestation of “nakhātereh (threadmemory),” an ongoing performance installation which traces by way of the maternal line how stories and memories are articulated, reconfigured and passed down while exploring the boundaries of the body.
Melika Abikenari is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Abikenari holds an M.F.A in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2021) and a B.A. from UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (2017). She is a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York grant and NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program. Abikenari is an artist-in-residence at Art Cake and completed an artist residency program at Textile Arts Center. She has exhibited at Bronx Council on the Arts’ Longwood Gallery (Bronx, NY), Bob’s Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), New York Live Arts (New York, NY), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), PØST (Los Angeles, CA), The Main Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Noysky Projects (Los Angeles, CA), among others.
Art Cake Open Studios
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.
All Tomorrow's Parties
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.
Before I Put My Eye Out (I could still see you): Susanna Kim Koetter, Natalie Lerner, and Kate Liebman
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: Queens College MFA
“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
Reynolds - Forgotten Futures: Post-Pandemic Paintings
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.
Little Egg - Under 18 NYC Show
Toronto’s Little EGG Gallery is a unique gallery only for Under 18 artists. The gallery has been featured on Readers Digest, CBC, Toronto Star, TLN TV and more.
The Under 18 NYC Show features over +50 artists from around the world, in-show live performances and awards for best in show artwork. This event is a showcase and celebration of the next generation of contemporary art.
William Fleites: Summer Begins
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: Photos by Paul Vlachos
”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.
Whispers of Rhythm: Emergence
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
SPOS Art Cake Residents Exhibition
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.
Sunset Park Open Studios
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.
Richard Höglund: "Enthusiasm"
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.”
How To Make A Revolution Without Giving Offense Or Arousing Resentment
The Brooklyn Rail is proud to present How To Make A Revolution Without Giving Offense Or Arousing Resentment, a new play by Kim Golding, Jordan Jones, and Sam Myers. The play tells a story about T, a melancholy marketing associate prompted to respond to an Unnamed Tragedy while working at The Museum.
Jim Condron: Collected Things Sculptures from the Collected Items of Artists, Writers and Thinkers
“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.
On Balance: New Work by American Abstract Artists
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.
3 Year Anniversary Resident Showcase
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.
OSMOSIS
A group exhibition, curated by Gabriel Sehringer and Kenisha Rullan, featuring works by the security guards of New York City’s most acclaimed museums.
SUNSET PARK WIDE OPEN 2022
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.
GUESSROOM
Bi-coastal-based indie trio, GUESSROOM, walks the line between indie, pop, and funk, combining the styles of artists like Remi Wolf, The 1975, and Still Woozy.
Hailing from both Washington, DC and Los Angeles, GUESSROOM is comprised of Lily Clayton (lead vocals & rhythm guitar), Isaac Han (lead guitar), and Coleman Keffer (drums).
Rhys Ziemba: Enchanted Bullshit
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 DANCE SERIES II
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.
Joy Guidry
Radical Acceptance is the title of Joy Guidry’s new album. It tells their story of processing trauma, self-care, self-love, and finding hope for the future. Drawing inspiration from the work of Sonya Renee Taylor, who has defined radical self-love as “its own entity, a lush and verdant island are offering safe harbor for self-esteem and self-confidence.” While Guidry’s musical offerings represent a range of musical idioms and methodologies from improvisation and graphic scores to multimedia and gospel, the uniting principle for Guidry is a focus on the importance of affirmation, validation, and self-care.
Surface World
Surface World is proud to present an evening of performances to celebrate the release of two new albums “Small Tremble in Slow Motion” by Sally Decker and Briana Marela and “The Invention of the Saxophone” by Cassiopeia Sturm and Patrick Shiroishi. Both albums are released as digital albums accompanied by a limited edition art object.
Art Cake Resident Presentation Series: Michele Rushfeldt
For the third year of the studio program, Art Cake is pleased to present a solo presentation by participating artist, Michele Rushfeldt. On view in Michele Rushfeldt: Kall Meg en Plantetøs is a new large-scale sculpture, measuring twenty-feet long, suspended from the ceiling. This is the eighth part of a series that Art Cake has organized for the participating artists-in-residence as an opportunity to present and document their work outside of the studio.
rivers, threads, folds
river, threads, folds is an installation by Wolf Tones (Nancy Shaver, Sterrett Smith, Maximilian Goldfarb and Pradeep Dalal), including works by Jean-Philippe Antoine, Hawkins Bolden, Jared Buckhiester, Pam Cardwell, Dawn Cerny, Public Collectors, Kenji Fujita, Charles Goldman, Incident Report, John Jackson, Julia Klein, Ken Landauer, Tracy Miller, Carla Herrera-Prats, Tyler Rowland, Soberscove Press, Steel Stillman, David Levi Strauss, Maya Strauss, Earl Swanigan, Mose Tolliver, Peter Lamborn Wilson.
ART CAKE OPEN STUDIOS
The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s Spring open studio event with a reception for the artists on Saturday, MAY 14, from 6-8P, and continuing through the weekend from 12-6P each day.