Our gallery, located at 171 Chrystie Street in the heart of Manhattan's Lower East Side, is home to a unique multipurpose creative space. We work in partnership with Brian Morris Gallery to bring daring exhibitions, a myriad of festivities, and all-around good vibes to the community.
Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm to 7pm.
Now Showing:
Into The Woods (November 14 - December 20, 2015)
Featuring: Aimee Burg, Nicholas Cueva, Jytte Holte, Jon Legere, Gregory MacAvoy, Esperanza Mayobre, Abraham McNally, Jason Middlebrook, Jim Osman, Kardash Onnig, Cordy Ryman, Darragh Rooney, Jill Satterfield, Frank Shattuck, Peter Thorne, Lindsey A. Wolkowicz
November 14 – December 20, 2015
Morris-Warren Gallery.
171 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Opening Reception: Saturday November 14, 7-10pm
"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
-Herman Hesse, excerpt 'On Trees'
Morris-Warren Gallery is pleased to present “Into The Woods”, a group show featuring Aimee Burg, Nicholas Cueva, Jytte Holte, Jon Legere, Gregory MacAvoy, Esperanza Mayobre, Abraham McNally, Jason Middlebrook, Jim Osman, Kardash Onnig, Cordy Ryman, Darragh Rooney, Jill Satterfield, Frank Shattuck, Peter Thorne, and Lindsey A. Wolkowicz. The artists in this show are all using wood in one form or another as the medium for their work.
The "Woods" is traditionally a place of mystery, enchantment, and adventure. In so many of our stories, fairy tales and mythologies, the hero goes into the forest to face challenges, encounter enemies, or discover whatever magic they were seeking on their way toward transformation or apotheosis. The Woods is also a source of shelter, materials for building, and a multitude of utilitarian apparatus and accessories. "Into The Woods" offers elements of Fine Art and Design reflecting the gallery's recent transition from Design Store to Contemporary Art Gallery.
From Antique Furniture to Contemporary Sculpture, "Into The Woods" offers a wide array of interesting, beautiful and thought provoking hand-made objects from some of the Gallery's favorite artists.
Past Shows:
To The Edge (September 9 - October 11)
Featuring Jaqueline Cedar and Nate Ethier
Come to the edge.
We might fall.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
And we pushed,
And they flew.
-Christopher Logue
We stand upon a precipice, fraught with uncertainties. The world seems troubled. Each day brings new tragedies, often too many to process. Time seems as though it is speeding up, and all that has happened is happening with greater frequency and intensity. The economy is unsteady and at times erratic. Extreme weather conditions, natural disasters, war and terror are now commonplace occurrences. There is a general sense of foreboding, and yet life continues and at that moment in which collapse seems inevitable and the weight of gravity is pulling us down toward oblivion, some of us take flight.
These two young artists are soaring!
Both artists are exploring and pushing the limits of paintings long history. There work is honest, hauntingly beautiful and challenging. At the end, we must submit and ‘COME TO THE EDGE’ with them and trust that these two artists together will provide us with the push we need, and even though we might fall… we may still fly!
‘To The Edge!’
Worlds Without End (June 12 - July 26)
Brian Morris Gallery and Buddy Warren Inc. is pleased to present "Worlds Without End", a group show featuring works by twelve artists:
David Ambrose
Charles Geiger
Julie Heffernan
Ruth Marten
Gerald Saladyga
Kyle Staver
Teresa Braun
Brent Green
Sharon Horvath
Ronnie Rysz
Lisa Sanditz
Robert Taplin
This exhibition features paintings, video installation and mixed media. The works in this show are beautiful and haunting. There is at once a sense of hopefulness and foreboding. This dichotomy speaks directly to our present day dilemmas.
"Worlds Without End" marks the first exhibition in association with Silvermine Arts Center, our new partner from New Canaan, CT. Artists from both communities broaden our dialogue, and open up new and exciting possibilities for the future. The show has sense of humor, history, public and private mythologies, stark warnings of dystopia, a sincere hopefulness and a call for us all to elevate ourselves to be better than we are today.
The Wolf I Feed (April 30 - June 6, 2015)
Solo show featuring works by C. Michael Norton.
Some of C. Michael Norton’s paintings begin on his studio floor with their ear to the ground. Paint spills and splatters from the ones that began with such structure. Visitors to his studio walk across the raw linen. Life happens. Chaos reigns. He picks up the mess and makes sense of all that has gone on around and literally on top of the work. Once stretched, the chaos becomes Norton’s sanctuary, and his painting begins. He uses trowels of various sizes to layer paint, sometimes over several years, to create order amid the tumult. There are moments that must remain untouched or masked, resonating with the outside energy with which they’ve been infused. The act of painting itself is a refuge from his own demons--no idle hands.
This is C. Michael Norton’s second time exhibiting with Brian Morris Gallery and his first solo exhibition here. We are also pleased to announce that The Wolf I Feed has been selected for discussion at the artcritical Review Panel on May 29 at the National Academy Museum moderated by artcritical Editor and publisher David Cohen, with panelists Christina Kee, Peter Plagens, and Roberta Smith.
From Now On In (March 4 - April 25, 2015)
"One of the better consequences of the much maligned The Forever Now exhibition at MoMA has been to raise the question of what might really constitute significant painting today? With its snarky title, From Now On In, the show of seven mid-career painters at Brian Morris Gallery, attempts, if not a definitive answer, at least a very different kind of conversation."
-Dennis Kardon
Check out the full review on Art Critical
