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Opener 23
Pam Lins: Denver Gold
February 6 - April 22, 2012
Brooklyn-based artist Pam Lins explores the psychological and aesthetic potential of objects and images. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
September 3 - December 30, 2011
Whiting Tennis creates paintings, sculptures, and drawings populated by mysterious forms that are at once recognizable yet otherworldly. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 21
Suzanne Bocanegra: I Write the Songs
July 17, 2010 - January 2, 2011
This exhibition will feature a range of work, including wall works, sound and video installations, and a new work that combines live dance and recorded sound See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 20
Paula Hayes: Understory
July 17, 2010 - April 17, 2011
Paula Hayes creates living art that intimately connects people with the natural environment. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
April 10 - August 7, 2010
Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) create surrealist-inspired sculptures, large-scale installations, and drawings. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series
Opener 18
Arlene Shechet: Blow By Blow
September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Shechet's new works shift away from her earlier explorations of iconographic Buddhist imagery toward more abstract forms. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 17
Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren't
September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Simultaneously playful, biting, and raunchy, Eisenman challenges cultural and social norms associated with gender and sexuality, popular culture, and the current art scene in a new series of paintings. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 16
Oliver Herring: Me Us Them
January 31 - June 14, 2009
Me Us Them weaves together fifteen years of work by New York-based artist Oliver Herring (b. 1964). His ever-expanding body of work explores many media, from sculpture and performance to photography and video. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 15
Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular
July 19, 2008 - January 4, 2009
On view for the first time, the drawings and paintings in "Third Person Singular" negotiate and complicate the intersections between abstraction and figuration. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 14
Dean Snyder: Almost Blue
May 17 - August 31, 2008
Situated in a gallery designed as one immersive and mysterious setting, the sculptures in "Almost Blue" represent a fusion of organic sources and high-tech materials. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 13
Joseph Grigely : St. Cecilia
February 9 - June 15, 2008
This new exhibition brings together a number of recent works by Joseph Grigely, an artist who creates works that explore the failures, idiosyncrasies, and ruptures of language and communication. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 12
Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion
February 3 - June 17, 2007
Kersel’s sculptures, photographs, and performances, though frequently funny and light-hearted at first reading, often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 11
Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction
June 24 - December 30, 2006
Incorporating sculpture, photography, video, and sound, “All Forms of Attraction” collects more than a decade of engaging and irreverent artworks by Nina Katchadourian that combine investigative practices with a more elusive, poetic logic. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 10
Kathy Butterly: Freaks and Beauties
October 1 - December 30, 2005
Kathy Butterly makes colorful porcelain and earthenware objects that push quirky forms, cartoonish actions and surprising textures into pint-sized packages. Though typically standing less than eight inches tall, Butterly infuses each of her freaks and beauties with a unique, often mischievous person... See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 9
Michael Oatman: A Lifetime of Service and a Mile of Thread
June 25 - September 11, 2005
Fusing the roles of librarian, archaeologist, taxonomist and artist, Michael Oatman makes intricately detailed collages and exhaustively researched installations focused on what he calls the “poetic interpretation of documents.” See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 8
Lee Boroson: Outer Limit
February 5 - June 5, 2005
The eighth installment of the Opener series featured seven large-scale works by Brooklyn-based artist Lee Boroson. Since 1995, Boroson has been known for his room-filling, inflated sculptures made of sewn-nylon and kept aloft by electric blowers. These colorful enclosures find inspiration in both na... See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 7
Julia Jacquette: I Dreamt
June 26 - September 5, 2004
The paintings on view stylistically resemble optimistic post-war era magazine illustrations, but beneath Jaquette’s polished renderings lays a critique of middle class Americana and its cultural reproduction through advertising. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions, Alumni Exhibitions
Opener 6
Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis
January 24 - April 11, 2004
Shazia Sikander: Nemesis features drawings, jewel-like paintings as small as six by eight inches, a site-specific installation, and two new animations See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 5
Alyson Shotz: A Slight Magnification of Altered Things
October 18 - December 31, 2003
Offering a clever commentary on the modern mediated experience of nature, Shotz’s imaginary structures—termed “dream plants of the imagination” by the artist herself—replicate natural things with obviously artificial materials. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Opener 3
Some Kind of Love: Nayland Blake, Performance Video 1989- 2002
September 28 - December 31, 2003
The work on view in "Some Kind of Love" revealed the wide range of Blake’s interests, including imagery from popular culture, the queer body and Camp sensibility, erotic and psychoanalytic texts, and the toxic legacy of American racism. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
