Experience ‘Below Constructions’ an Exhibition at Ki Smith Gallery

 

 

 

 

Artist Capucine Bourcart. Image courtesy of the artist.

Affected by the rawness of the walk down an unfinished staircase featuring the original plaster walls, exposed and weathered concrete floors, Below Constructions is a presentation of works by five artists who allow surfaces to act as their medium– exploring the “here and now” of art making materials. When completion doesn’t involve a conventional finishing or framing of the art object, but rather an affirmation of the reality of the object itself, the studio’s tool box becomes evident, and a glimpse of the worktable made visible.

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Kiyomi Quinn Taylor: Half Life Opens at Ki Smith Gallery in the East Village

 

 

 

Kiyomi Quinn Taylor: Half Life installation view. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Ki Smith Gallery is pleased to present Half Life, the gallery’s first exhibition across both spaces with multimedia artist Kiyomi Quinn Taylor. With a staunch belief in both a life after death and the presence of the deceased in our lived realities, Taylor presents her audience with a world that is both fantastical and autobiographical; one built on memory, a rich family history, dreams, and fables.

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Charlie Hudson: Points of Distraction, a two-part exhibition, at Ki Smith Gallery, East Village

 

 

 

Charlie Hudson, Points of Distraction, Part-Two at Ki Smith Gallery

Points of Distraction, a two-part exhibition featuring new sculptural paintings by Charlie Hudson, explores our  city from a stoplight in Williamsburg at 4am to the glaring sun refracting off a glossy skyscraper in Midtown. Exhibited in two-parts, the second installation will present our cityscapes mosaicked into an immersive, panoramic view of a single street corner.

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Ki Smith Gallery Opens a 2nd Gallery in Historic Gusto House, East Village

 

 

Matthew Capasso, Claire Foussard, Naomi Falk, Ki Smith.

Ki Smith Gallery is coming home! The Gallery announced that it will be opening a second location located in the East Village. The new showroom is on 4th Street,  between A and B in the famed Gusto House where decades of culture and history have taken place.

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Ki Smith Gallery Artists Join Christie’s CSR Auction for #GlobalGiving

 

 

Ki Smith Gallery will not be physically opening its doors to the exhibition, Base 12: Don’t Call It a Comeback due to coronavirus. However the artists in this group exhibition announced that they will participating in the Fight Coronavirus & Artist Aid online auction, organized by Christie’s Corporate Social Responsibility program.

Preview the available works and save the date, Saturday, April 4th at Noon, when bidding begins.

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BASE 12: Don’t Call It a Comeback at Ki Smith Gallery Harlem

 

 

 

Artists known as BASE 12. Image courtesy Ki Smith Gallery.

How do you engage with a painting hung on the wall of a subway station? On the sidewalks or in our Parks? What happens when an exhibition is staged at one of the most celebrated museums in New York City without the museum’s consent?

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