Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
718-237-3001
amosenogallery@gmail.com
Gallery open Thursday through Sunday, 12 - 6 PM
Celebrating Over 45 Years of Exhibitions
Masks required for gallery entry and vaccinations are checked for reception events.
Events:
October 29,2021
6-9 PM EST
Opening Reception:
Sur/Reality at Amos Eno Gallery
Reception for Sur/Reality, a new exhibit featuring works by artists Joyce Yamada, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, David Olivant and Kahori Kamiya curated by Audra Lambert
In-person reception Friday, 10/29 from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public
Exhibition on view from Oct 28 - Nov 14, 2021
Sur/Reality is on view at Amos Eno Gallery from 10/28-11/14/2021. Featuring works by new member artists oyce Yamada, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, David Olivant and Kahori Kamiya , curated by Audra Lambert, the exhibit forms a dialogue with reality and its discontents. The opening reception will take place on Friday, 10/29 from 6-9 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Works on view find a range of expressions as each seeks to analyze how reality can be skewed and re-interpreted utilizing new media, photography, mixed media, painting, collage, sculpture, and installation.
Sur/Reality posits how alternative views of reality can enhance our awareness of what is and what could be. In the 1927 Surrealist manifesto, André Breton shares his view that Surrealism seeks to combine the real world and dreams into a ‘super-reality,’ or an absolute reality. Surreal visions of the world integrate impulses from the unconscious into reality, forming a composite worldview reflecting our perception of the world around us.
Works on paper by Nishiki Sugawara-Beda harness the subconscious mind and spiritual intuition to produce monochromatic marks, and framing the natural world as both subtle and sublime. Kahori Kamiya’s work embraces textural dissonance commenting on life’s idiosyncrasies presenting works that comment on the distinctive experiences of breastfeeding. David Olivant’s works exert a vision of a world fragmented against itself. His collages are composed of often dissonant elements that present a comprehensive yet contradictory view of how we perceive reality. Paintings by Joyce Yamada reflect on our tumultuous relationship with the natural environment, mining a deeper understanding, through intuition and instinct, of humanity’s relationship to the surrounding landscape.
In a world demanding that we accept often-conflicting realities and assimilate them into a universal worldview, Sur/Reality shifts our focus away from the idea of truth, instead speculating on what it is that we take for granted, and exposing how it can be impermanent, faltering, and unreal.
Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.
Image: "Truncated Landscape - RoadtripI, Joyce Yamada (2004) acrylic on canvas 60 x 44"
September 17, 2021
6-9 PM EST
Bushwick Open Studios 2021 Special Event for Ulrike Stadler: A Retrospective
Reception in honor of Stadler's life and artistic practice with family present for attendees of Bushwick Open Studios tour 2021
Friday, September 17th
In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public
Exhibition open from Sept 2nd- Oct 3rd, 2021
Multidisciplinary artist Ulrike Stadler (1942-2019) was celebrated as an accomplished artist and served as a member of Amos Eno Gallery beginning in 1996. This retrospective, on view at Amos Eno Gallery from September 2nd through October 3rd, opens with a reception in memory of the artist on Friday, September 3rd from 5-8pm. Stadler’s retrospective honors her work as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, exhibiting works spanning across the past thirty years of her career.
Stadler exhibited with Amos Eno for over twenty-five years. Her work was also shown at Wingspread Gallery (Northeast Harbor, Maine) over twenty years. Her legacy encompasses numerous solo and group shows, and her work is held in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Born in Germany in 1942, Stadler received a degree in Art from the Klosterschule in Hamburg, and then studied Philosophy and Medieval Languages at the University of Hamburg. In 1965, Stadler immigrated to New York City, living in the Upper West Side and renting a loft on the Bowery to house her art studio; sculptures representing this period are included in the Retrospective exhibit. Twenty years later, Stadler moved to Maine permanently, where she continued to work throughout her life.
Stadler experimented with many techniques and approaches to transform the surface of the canvas. With this innovative mindset, she began using natural materials such as burlap, birch bark, and kozo fibers. She even adapted pigment application by changing the paint itself, from oil-based and encaustic (pigmented beeswax) to egg tempera. Stadler was enthusiastic in finding ways to express compositions, at times moving off the canvas entirely and experimenting with gelatin monotype printmaking. “I always like to learn and teach myself new things,” she once remarked. When Stadler decided to start painting with encaustic, she reflected, “I bought myself a book and a minimal set of supplies and went ahead. It became a terrific journey into totally new territory of texture and color.” Amos Eno presents this look back across the astounding breadth and scale of works that Stadler produced over her active career full of curiosity and exploration.
Guests are invited to explore the exhibit and to chat with the artist's family, and Amos Eno gallery director, to learn more about Stadler's work and life.
Image: Ulrike Stadler, "Glorious Morning"
June 18, 2021
6-9 PM EST
Opening Reception, Chris Esposito: Wall Sandwich
Opening Reception with the artist Chris Esposito
Friday, June 18
In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments, Artist will be present
Free and open to the public
June 17 - July 18, 2021
Opening Reception Friday, June 18th, from 6-9 pm
Amos Eno Gallery proudly presents Wall Sandwich, an exhibition of new works by Chris Esposito. An opening reception will take place Friday, June 18th at the gallery from 6-9 PM in our new location in the center hallway at the 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY. The solo show presents new work featuring industrial materials at a range of scales, making visible what is regularly invisible in the surrounding environment.
This exhibition shows the artist’s inspiration in dialogue with Gordon Matta-Clark’s practice from the 1970s engaging with New York City’s spaces of decay by highlighting dilapidated buildings and condemned architecture. In these works, Matta-Clark cut into sections of his birth city’s urban landscape to reveal its “anarchitecture.” In Wall Sandwich, Esposito has taken up the mantle of what could be called the "Anti-Matta-Clark" - not because he is operating as the opposite of Matta-Clark, but because his is an intervention that reveals the material composition of these removed sections. Esposito concentrates on the interior and exterior of the walls, the space in between, the endless layers of palimpsest both polished and tarnished. It is a study of the soul of New York City, and as such Esposito takes the matter and material of those Matta-Clark interventional cuts and places this detritus into the context of the white cube contemporary art gallery.
Works on view in Wall Sandwich combine layers of found materials from locations across New York City, exerting the poignant presence of lived environments from the city’s neighborhoods and bringing the outside in to confront the viewer. This makes it impossible for the viewer to escape the truth behind Art, Capitalism, Commercialism, and Consumption and the effect it has on this City - and every other city that fails to control the juggernaut of development and capitalist "progress." Where Matta-Clark brought our attention to the cuts, Esposito focuses our gaze on the guts, where can be found the pentimenti of healing and the record of rise and fall surrounding us in the urban landscape.
Queens-based artist Chris Esposito is a native New Yorker whose practice employs an anti-aesthetic process of selecting specific found materials, which are then either constructed or deconstructed to create a juxtaposition of culture. Esposito holds an MFA from Queens College and currently teaches Studio Art at both Queens College and SUNY Maritime. in the past he has been known to make a racket with other like minded individuals in basements and lofts that culminated in a recording studio with a subsequent album. He concluded the business of music and keeping a band together wasn’t cutting it and made a career shift to the physical manifestation of paintings and objects. With a hermetic approach to his studio practice he often finds escape from the city on his motorcycle.
Image: “Wall Sandwich” (2021) Wood, fresco, oil paint, metal, tar, tar paper, cement blocks and bricks; 43 x 62 x 9.5”
April 18, 2021
4-6 PM EST
"Irja Boden: Fractured Light" Closing Reception at Amos Eno Gallery
Closing Reception of "Fractured Light" with the artist Irja Boden present
Sunday, April 18th from 4 PM
In-person at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Free and open to the public
Amos Eno Gallery invites guests to the final event celebrating, "Fractured Light": an exhibition of new ceramics by Hudson Valley-based artist Irja Bodén. This is Irja's first solo exhibit with the gallery, and the show's title is in reference to Leonard Cohen's song Anthem, which declares, “There is a crack . . . in everything; that's how the light gets in.” These works emphasize a particular dimension of ceramics: as clay hardens, it gets fragile. Clay in that way echoes our society; as it hardens, it gets fragile and brittle, but it is within its cracks where a hopeful light may shine through.
Bodén uses stacking as a method of spatial organizing The stacks run between three to forty-five inches, richly textured, wheel-thrown and hand-built. Many of the works contain unique loose objects precariously perched upon larger vessels to express that within balance inheres precariousness. Some are layered richly with glaze, others are made in alternative firings of raku. Bodén's work alludes to the natural world and domestic interiors. Ceramics are an unpredictable material and it is largely out of one's hands how it will appear after firing. But it is the unpredictability which keeps her interested in the material, as it echoes life and because clay, like our bodies, retains memories of how it has been treated. It is not unusual for her to subject her works to multiple firings, since she enjoys experimentation with surface techniques.
Irja Bodén (b. Sweden) holds a BFA from SUNY Potsdam, magna cum laude, in visual arts and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Recipient of several grants, awards, and residencies, her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Bodén was awarded an 2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She was an artist in The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020; Here Together!, NY. Bodén is currently based in New York's Hudson Valley.
February 19, 2021
5:30 PM EST
"The Illusion that Light Travels" Virtual Tour and Presentation
Exhibition Tour and Presentation for solo show by artist Jose-Ricardo Presman
Introduction by Audra Lambert
February 19, 2021 at 5:30 PM EST
Attend via this Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72601204952?pwd=SU1XanErRXpoV08yZllzTVFoZVlqZz09
Free and open to the public
Amos Eno Gallery presents The Illusion that Light Travels, an exhibition of new works by long-time gallery member and co-founder José-Ricardo Presman. A virtual exhibition tour and presentation will take place from 5:30 PM on Friday, Feb 19th via Zoom (link here) followed by an opening reception from 6-9 PM at the gallery's location at 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY. The artist’s presentation will cover themes such as how the creative mind coordinates with the rational mind in an artistic context.
José-Ricardo Presman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has exhibited in numerous solo shows at Amos Eno Gallery in New York and in various group shows throughout the US and Canada.
January 15, 2021
Artists in Dialogue, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude"
Virtual Dialogue: 12:30 PM EST via Zoom
Friday, January 15, 2021 (exhibition closing weekend)
Join the artists of "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude" for this exclusive artist dialogue in conversation with the curator Audra Lambert. The conversation will center on the practices of individual artists whose work is included in the exhibition, including details on their artistic process and themes that their work encompasses.
Free and open to the public.
Zoom Link for Virtual Discussion:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73335239128?pwd=WUhkMVRNS21idEE1NkMveVhoM2tIZz09
December 18, 2020
Virtual Opening Reception, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude" Small Works Group Show
Virtual Reception: 5:30 - 6:15 PM EST
In-Person Reception: 6:30 - 9 PM EST
Friday, December 18, 2020
Part of Virtual Bushwick Open Studios 2020
Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present this group show of small works featuring artists Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Irja Boden, Chris Esposito, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Sam Jones, Kahori Kamiya, Charleen Kavleski, Robert McCann, David Olivant, Mimi Oritsky, Kathy Loev Putnam, Philip Swan, Jessica Tawczynski and Aaron Wilder.
Zoom Link for Virtual Reception:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2662622699?pwd=M09IWHJzOHI0MktSMUV6ODBCUjhidz09
October 8, 2021
6-9 PM EST
Opening Reception:
Hyper/Reality at Amos Eno Gallery
Reception for Hyper/Reality, featuring artists Ligia Bouton, Grant Johnson and Aaron Wilder, curated by Audra Lambert
In-person reception Friday, 10/8 from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public
Exhibition on view from Oct 7 - Oct 24, 2021
Hyper/Reality is on view at Amos Eno Gallery from 10/7-24, 2021. Featuring works by new member artists Ligia Bouton, Grant Johnson and Aaron Wilder, curated by Audra Lambert, the exhibit forms a dialogue with reality and its discontents. The opening reception will take place on Friday, 10/8 from 6-9 PM. Light refreshments will be served. Works on view find a range of expressions as each seeks to analyze how reality can be skewed and re-interpreted utilizing new media, photography, mixed media, painting, collage, sculpture, and installation.
Baudrillard’s 20th century art criticism introduced the concept of the hyperreal, which marks the ascendance of the Simulacrum over lived reality. Hyper/Reality confronts the many ways in which the hyperreal has overtaken the impact reality for civilization in the present day, delving into digital and wireless technologies that have pervaded our view of what is, and is not, real. Works on view in Hyper/Reality present altered visions of the ‘real,’ as defined by digital, natural and social phenomenon defining our everyday lives. Sculpture by Ligia Bouton embraces industrial materials examining legends of the Old West, viewing these myths as appropriated narratives with a bracing humor. Works by Grant Johnson layer artificial intelligence with manually captured imagery, questioning how we experience and analyze our surroundings and what information may be left out of the conclusions we surmise. New media, photography and installation work by Aaron Wilder asks us to reconsider narratives and how they become co-opted, censored or re-interpreted in ways that may escape our notice, and how these layered realities impact spaces concomitantly environmental and deeply personal.
Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.
Image: detail from Aaron Wilder's Instax installation, part of his "Details" series.
September 3, 2021
5-8 PM EST
Opening Reception, Ulrike Stadler: A Retrospective
Opening Reception in honor of Stadler's life and artistic practice with family present
Friday, September 3rd
In-person reception from 5-8 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments, Artist's daughters will be present
Free and open to the public
Exhibition open from Sept 2nd- Oct 3rd, 2021
Multidisciplinary artist Ulrike Stadler (1942-2019) was celebrated as an accomplished artist and served as a member of Amos Eno Gallery beginning in 1996. This retrospective, on view at Amos Eno Gallery from September 2nd through October 3rd, opens with a reception in memory of the artist on Friday, September 3rd from 5-8pm. Stadler’s retrospective honors her work as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, exhibiting works spanning across the past thirty years of her career.
Stadler exhibited with Amos Eno for over twenty-five years. Her work was also shown at Wingspread Gallery (Northeast Harbor, Maine) over twenty years. Her legacy encompasses numerous solo and group shows, and her work is held in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Born in Germany in 1942, Stadler received a degree in Art from the Klosterschule in Hamburg, and then studied Philosophy and Medieval Languages at the University of Hamburg. In 1965, Stadler immigrated to New York City, living in the Upper West Side and renting a loft on the Bowery to house her art studio; sculptures representing this period are included in the Retrospective exhibit. Twenty years later, Stadler moved to Maine permanently, where she continued to work throughout her life.
In 2001, Stadler opened the eponymous Stadler Gallery for Contemporary Art in Maine’s Carrabassett Valley, where she made a commitment to providing artists in all stages of their career with dedicated exhibitions. She became an anchor that helped revitalize the town’s arts community. It was in this region of northern Maine where she completed the bulk of the collection currently on display at Amos Eno.
Stadler experimented with many techniques and approaches to transform the surface of the canvas. With this innovative mindset, she began using natural materials such as burlap, birch bark, and kozo fibers. She even adapted pigment application by changing the paint itself, from oil-based and encaustic (pigmented beeswax) to egg tempera. Stadler was enthusiastic in finding ways to express compositions, at times moving off the canvas entirely and experimenting with gelatin monotype printmaking. “I always like to learn and teach myself new things,” she once remarked. When Stadler decided to start painting with encaustic, she reflected, “I bought myself a book and a minimal set of supplies and went ahead. It became a terrific journey into totally new territory of texture and color.”
“Her art was often an experiment,” explains Pelham Art Center-exhibiting Melita Westerlund, internationally known sculptor, fiber artist, and decades-long friend and neighbor of Stadler’s in Bar Harbor, Maine. It is in this sense of forging new horizons that Amos Eno presents this look back across the astounding breadth and scale of works that Stadler produced over her active career full of curiosity and exploration.
Image capturing the artist when she was at work in her studio in Maine.
May 21, 2021
6-8 PM EST
Opening Reception, Tulu Bayar: Traces
Opening Reception with the artist Tulu Bayar and special guest, Pianist Sezi Seskir
Friday, May 21
In-person reception from 6-8 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Join us in our new space in the building's center hallway!
Free and open to the public
May 20- June 13, 2021
Opening Reception Friday, May 21st, from 6-8 pm
Amos Eno Gallery proudly presents “Traces,” an exhibition of mixed-media installation by Tulu Bayar. Join us Friday, May 21 from 6-8 pm for the opening reception of Bayar’s most recent installation, which draws upon her decade-long exploration of drawing with photographic film, and utilizes meditative repetition to communicate the idea of oneness: all binary concepts share and are connected to one source. In contrast to an examination of the physical, Bayar’s work focuses on the spiritual essence of wholeness and mysticism that are deeply rooted in Rumi’s teachings. The artist will be creating ephemeral drawings to gift visitors to her opening in tandem with pianist's Sezi Seskir, who will be performing a work by Philip Glass, "Two Pages" (1968). Cage's performance instructions for this work are sparse, allowing the performer to repeat each pattern cell as many times as they wish, meaning each performance is slightly different, thereby allowing different patterns to emerge from the repeated pattern cells.
Bayar's exhibition “Traces” is composed of several mixed-media works meticulously created from photographic film, ink and resin. Each exhibits an exploration in calligraphic abstraction, performance, drawing, and ebru (Turkish marbling art). Bayar’s meditative compositions of photographic film respond to the traditional Islamic understanding of the spirituality of text, and to Islamic manuscript painting. Repetitious play with material and form lends a performative element to the works, while their intimate size simulates an intensely personal interaction. Regardless of your familiarity with this language, the beauty of the symbolic expression comes to the fore.
Bayar’s practice is informed by her experiences and immediate context as an immigrant artist, and her work is deeply influenced by both her native and adopted cultures. Exoticism, otherness, hybridism, homogeneity, pluralism and containment are some of the concepts that she has been exploring throughout her practice. Bayar is interested in engaging with artistic strategies that blur the boundaries between strict categorizations and binary situations.
In “Traces”, Bayar draws with photographic films, as opposed to exposing, processing and enlarging the materials in the darkroom. She sees this work as a journey on a contained surface. She explains, “Drawing allows one to go back and reflect. The gestural record on the surface stages a moment of existence that is like no other moment. By containing that peculiar moment, I feel like I am able to memorialize the process."
The work draws an analogy between how we experience unconscious emotions through repetition and the accumulation of marks, and between the intonation, hesitation, and inflection of sound (which occur independent of sight, then is generated by the mind and mediated by perception). This way of working with unexposed photographic films gives Bayar a privileged relationship to the non-visible, as the work embodies and exposes the thinking process. “I usually start each work with a social issue in mind," reflects Bayar. "Gradually, the pragmatic develops and disintegrates, leaving behind a sense of the assembled material that transcends the literal. This opens a path to connect with the viewers on an emotional level, and it is also the point at which I assume the work is finalized”, she explains.
For Bayar's bio, please see "On View".
Seskir received her first degree in piano in her native, Ankara, Turkey. She went on with her studies in Lübeck Musikhochschule and then completed a D.M.A. degree with Malcolm Bilson in Cornell University. She concertized widely in Europe and the US. Seskir has given guest lectures at schools such as UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, Williams College and at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague among others. Her articles appeared in collected editions titled “Schumann Interpretieren” and “Schumann Studien 11” respectively by Studio Punkt Verlag. She is currently an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University and is an editor of Schumann's keyboard works for the Schumann complete edition for Schott and Bärenreiter publishing houses. Her CD of three Beethoven violin sonatas with Lucy Russell recorded on period instruments appeared in 2020 by the Acis label and garnered enthusiastic acclaim.
March 19, 2021
6-8 PM EST
"Irja Boden: Fractured Light" Opening Reception at Amos Eno Gallery
Opening Reception with the artist Irja Boden present
Sunday, March 19th from 6 PM
In-person at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Free and open to the public
Amos Eno Gallery invites guests to the opening reception, "Fractured Light": an exhibition of new ceramics by Irja Bodén. This is Irja's first solo exhibit with the gallery, and the show's title is in reference to Leonard Cohen's song Anthem, which declares, “There is a crack . . . in everything; that's how the light gets in.” These works emphasize a particular dimension of ceramics: as clay hardens, it gets fragile. Clay in that way echoes our society; as it hardens, it gets fragile and brittle, but it is within its cracks where a hopeful light may shine through.
Bodén uses stacking as a method of spatial organizing The stacks run between three to forty-five inches, richly textured, wheel-thrown and hand-built. Many of the works contain unique loose objects precariously perched upon larger vessels to express that within balance inheres precariousness. Some are layered richly with glaze, others are made in alternative firings of raku. Bodén's work alludes to the natural world and domestic interiors. Ceramics are an unpredictable material and it is largely out of one's hands how it will appear after firing. But it is the unpredictability which keeps her interested in the material, as it echoes life and because clay, like our bodies, retains memories of how it has been treated. It is not unusual for her to subject her works to multiple firings, since she enjoys experimentation with surface techniques.
Irja Bodén (b. Sweden) holds a BFA from SUNY Potsdam, magna cum laude, in visual arts and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Recipient of several grants, awards, and residencies, her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Bodén was awarded an 2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She was an artist in The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020; Here Together!, NY. Bodén is currently based in New York's Hudson Valley.
February 11, 2021
6:30 PM EST
The Long Goodbye: Reflections on a Divided Country
Discussion with artist Heidi Neff and Guests Elifnaz Caliskan, MPP; Stephanie Hallock, PhD; and Regina Roof Ray, MEd
Moderated by Audra Lambert, Director of Amos Eno Gallery
February 11, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST
Attend via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81195437546
Free and open to the public
What has happened here? Why is the country so divided, some say on the brink of Civil War? After viewing Heidi Neff’s animated short the Long Goodbye, a personal documentary of the time between Election Day 2020 and Inauguration Day 2021, the artist will discuss themes present in the project with panelists Elifnaz Caliskan, MPP, political scientist and public policy expert; Stephanie Hallock, PhD, Professor of Political Science and Regina Roof Ray, MEd, Associate Professor of Psychology. Themes for the discussion include political divisiveness, how we are living through a party realignment—a rare occurrence in American History which is always tumultuous—and how phenomena such cognitive inflexibility, confirmation bias, and misinformation effects have created a situation where people are unable to come together, even to agree on facts.
Heidi Neff is Professor of Art + Design at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland, where she was granted a sabbatical to work on animations for the Spring semester of 2020. Despite headaches of online teaching, small children, and a love/hate relationship with technology, Heidi makes apocalyptic animations with a hand-drawn/hand-painted aesthetic. Heidi earned her MFA from University of Iowa and her BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She makes her home in Maryland with her husband, Paul Chuffo, and their two children, Max and Maya.
Elifnaz Caliskan, MPP, is a Senior Project Manager at an international development firm focused on providing expertise in conflict and post-conflict countries. She holds particular interest in the role of diplomacy, negotiations, and human capital investment in conflict prevention and transformation. A native of Turkey, she has lived across 8 cities around the globe across 3 continents. She is currently baesd in Washington DC, and is a proud alumna of University of Maryland (MPP and BA). Caliskan sees herself a storyteller and aspires to help marginalized communities to tell their stories.
Professor Regina Roof Ray is Associate Professor of Psychology at Harford Community College in Bel Air, MD. Roof-Ray brings her expertise in social psychology and will explore how phenomena such as personality, cognitive inflexibility, confirmation bias, and misinformation effect. She has presented at national conferences including the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology and was a founding organizer of the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Psychology Conference. She holds a BA in behavioral science from Messiah College, studied at Temple University and Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya and holds an MEd in counseling from Millersville University.
Dr. Stephanie Hallock PhD, is a professor of Political Science at Harford Community College in Bel Air, MD. Dr. Hallock brings 20 plus years’ experience teaching American Government at the college level.
December 20, 2020
Virtual Exhibition Tour, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude" Small Works Group Show
Virtual Tour:
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Tour Begins 2:00 PM EST
Part of Virtual Bushwick Open Studios 2020
Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to offer a virtual tour of this small works group show, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude." Referencing "The Inward Morning" by Henry David Thoreau, the exhibit contemplates on the transcendence of silence and stillness as a catalyst for hope.
Artists will discuss their work on view during this virtual tour with curator Audra Lambert: attending artists include Philip Swan, Aaron Wilder and David Olivant.
Zoom Link for Tour:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2662622699?pwd=M09IWHJzOHI0MktSMUV6ODBCUjhidz09
September 18, 2021
6-9 PM EST
Bushwick Open Studios 2021 Special Event for Amos Eno Members' Small Works Show
Reception commemorating Amos Eno Gallery members' inaugural show in the Rear Gallery for Bushwick Open Studios tour 2021
Saturday, September 18th
In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments to be served, free and open to the public
Exhibition open in the Amos Eno Gallery Rear Gallery from Sept 16th - Sept 26th, 2021
Featuring works by over half the gallery's membership, this small works show spans painting, sculpture and mixed media, and this limited engagement show is up September 17th - 26th during Amos Eno Gallery hours (Thurs-Sun, 12-6 PM). Don't miss your chance to view works by gallery members Tulu Bayar, Irja Boden, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Charleen Kavleski, Ligia Bouton, Candace Jensen, Kahori Kamiya, Jose-Ricardo Presman, Chris Esposito, Stephen March, Heidi Neff, David Olivant, Phil Swan, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Aaron Wilder and Joyce Yamada.
Amos Eno Gallery is an artist-run nonprofit gallery and one of the longest-operating artist run spaces in New York City. Founded in 1974, the gallery is sustained by its members, and has an active annual programming schedule featuring visual arts, installations, new media, performance, lectures, and interactive activities. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, The gallery has been based in Bushwick for over ten years.
Image: Stephen March, "Dawn" 2020, acrylic and collage on canvas, 20"x10"
July 23, 2021
6-8 PM EST
Opening Reception, Good Neighbors
Opening Reception with the artists and juror Melanie Delach
Friday, July 23
In-person reception from 6-8 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Light Refreshments, Artists will be present
Free and open to the public
Exhibition open July 23-30, 2021
Amos Eno Gallery proudly presents Good Neighbors, a group exhibition juried by artist Melanie Delach. Selected works reflect on what it means to be a neighbor, how neighbors interact and the particular impact that neighbors have exerted during our recent global pandemic. Works on view reflect a broad range of disciplines, spanning mixed media, painting, sculpture and installation. Featured artists include: Mia Ari, Angela Arrocha, Ainsley Burrows, Efrat Baler, Eric Anthony Berdis, Gabrielle Benak, Noga Cohen, Kelwin Coleman, Judy Giera, Kay Healy, Michael Kondel, Tania Qurashi, Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez, and Katherine Volpe.
An opening reception will take place Friday, July 23rd at the gallery from 6-8 PM at the gallery’s 56 Bogart location in Brooklyn, NY. Visitors are invited to attend and meet the artists and juror to further explore the theme of this group show, on view at the gallery for one week only through July 31st. The selected theme, Good Neighbors, offers space to reconsider the networks we have formed through physical proximity: connections that became particularly loaded during a period of isolation and quarantine. Come and experience this stunning range of works from local artists in the Tri-state area during this summer group show.
About the Juror: Melanie Delach is a Queer mixed media artist from Queens, New York. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Adelphi University in 2017 and an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in New York and Philadelphia at RegularNormal NYC, Anna Zorina Gallery, LatchKey Gallery, the Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and more. Her recognitions include Fine Arts Venture Fund and The Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize. Her work is part of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts permanent collection. Delach has curated and juried exhibitions at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Artwork image by Katherine Volpe.
April 23, 2021
5:30-9 PM EST
Opening Reception, "Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: Marching Across Your Lawn, The Grass is on Fire"
Opening Reception with the artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Friday, April 23rd
Virtual reception from 5:30 PM EST
In-person reception from 6-9 pm at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Free and open to the public
Amos Eno Gallery presents, Marching Across Your Lawn, The Grass is on Fire, an exhibition of new works by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, on view at the gallery from April 22-May 16, 2021. A virtual exhibition tour and presentation will take place at 5:30 PM on Friday, April 23rd via Zoom (link here) followed by an opening reception from 6-9 PM at the gallery’s location on 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn, NY.
Meza-DesPlas’ current artworks are centered upon the act of marching: it is the simplest use of the physical body as a political force. Researching the history of women-led marches, Meza-DesPlas considers the role of the individual within a demonstration. Vast numbers of clamorous bodies in motion translate to a robust show of strength and determination; however, eventually, the individual goes home to their daily existence. When the protest is over, the pussy hats put away, signs disposed of and costumes packed up – is political activism embraced as an ongoing individual practice?
Figurative artworks, with minimized or nonexistent facial features, convey the individual subsumed by the larger group. Compositionally, these feminine bodies reflect the varying tempos and pauses of a demonstration thus illustrating the visual structure of marching. Meza-DesPlas’ nude figures exude vulnerability yet defiance; furthermore, they allude to art historical images of partially nude women representing political ideology. In the words of Beyoncé: ‘Okay, ladies, now let’s get in formation.’
Hand-sewn fiber works are featured in this exhibition. Meza-DesPlas’ embroidery of hair speaks to material culture, its relationship to identity and the sociological meaning of hair. A self-taught fiber artist, she approaches the process of stitching hair from a drawing perspective. Watercolors and a new video piece round out the exhibition. Bleeding watercolors are stained and layered to create figurative forms; the textural application of color conveys fleshy blemishes. "These United States", a video piece, begins with a montage: drawings emphasizing the faces of silenced women. A voice-over narration of an evocative mantra accompanies the imagery followed by three stanzas of poetry performed by the artist.
Latina artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas currently resides in Farmington, New Mexico. She has a MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art (Hoffberger School of Painting) and a BFA from the University of North Texas. Her artwork has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Articles about her artwork have appeared in several publications including the Huffington Post, Interview Magazine, and Wall Street International. Meza-DesPlas parallels the themes in her visual artwork with poetry and spoken word performances. Upcoming, in 2022, her artwork will be featured in the exhibition (curated by Karen Gutfreund) Agency: Feminist Art and Power at the Museum of Sonoma County in California.
March 14, 2021
4:30 - 6 PM EST
"The Illusion that Light Travels" Closing Reception at Amos Eno Gallery
Closing Reception with the artist present for solo show by artist Jose-Ricardo Presman
Sunday, March 14th from 4 PM
In-person at Amos Eno Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Please RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/413555796614524/
Free and open to the public
Amos Eno Gallery invites you to our final event for "The Illusion that Light Travels": New works by José-Ricardo Presman. The gallery will be open from 12-6 pm Sunday, culminating in a closing event featuring refreshments on Sunday, March 14th from 4:30-6 PM at the gallery space. Guests will be encouraged to keep masked when not enjoying refreshments, and to remain socially distanced throughout the event in line with municipal guidelines.
José-Ricardo Presman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has exhibited in numerous solo shows at Amos Eno Gallery in New York and in various group shows throughout the US and Canada.
January 22, 2021
Virtual Reception, Heidi Neff: "The Long Goodbye"
Virtual Reception from 6:30 PM EST on Friday, 1/22 via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87350010998
Free and open to the public.
Join artist Heidi Neff as she discusses her process creating "The Long Goodbye": leading up to the election, Neff decided to make one frame-by-frame animation every day beginning on Election Day and ending on Inauguration Day itself. It is by nature a personal diary reflecting on all of the possible outcomes - and resulting worries – of this time period. Like the several months preceding it, there was plenty of madness to spare on a daily basis. Neff shares the YouTube premiere of this completed work as part of this virtual reception, followed by a Q&A with Amos Eno gallery director Audra Lambert. Please join us for the half hour long program and feel free to ask the artist questions at the conclusion of the virtual opening!
This exhibition also features limited edition prints available for purchase. An Artsy link will be added here once these works are live and available for sale (once the exhibition is open.)
Zoom Link for Virtual Reception, "The Long Goodbye": https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87350010998
December 19, 2020
Virtual Exhibition Tours, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude" Small Works Group Show
Two Virtual Tours Available:
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Tour #1 Begins 2:00 PM EST
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Tour #2 Begins 4:00 PM EST
Part of Virtual Bushwick Open Studios 2020
Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to offer a virtual tour of this small works group show, "Where'er His Silent Beams Intrude." Referencing "The Inward Morning" by Henry David Thoreau, the exhibit contemplates on the transcendence of silence and stillness as a catalyst for hope.
Artists will discuss their work on view during these virtual tours with curator Audra Lambert: attending artists include Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Irja Boden, Kahori Kamiya, Kathy Loev Putnam, Robert McCann, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Sam Jones and Jessica Tawczynski.
Zoom Link for Tours:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2662622699?pwd=M09IWHJzOHI0MktSMUV6ODBCUjhidz09
2020-Previous Events:
November 13, 2020
Opening Reception, Hildegard Hsieh Holman "The Faces of Quarantine" and Andre Rubin, "Downfall: The Going Under"
Opening Reception: 6 - 8 pm
Friday, November 13, 2020
Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions, Andre Rubin, Downfall: The Going Under and Hildegard Hsieh Holman: The Many Faces of Quarantine, two solo exhibitions presented in tandem with new works by artists Andre Rubin and Hildegard Hsieh Holman. This joint exhibition will run at Amos Eno Gallery from November 13 – December 13, 2020.
November 6, 2020
Significant Soil in Communities: Philip Swan and Angela Arrocha in Conversation
A Dialogue on Sustainability in Urban Environments
Friday, November 6th at 2 pm EST
Phil Swan, Artist and Member, Amos Eno Gallery in dialogue around his solo show, "Significant Soil", with Angela Arrocha, Artist and Member, Bushwick City Farms
Moderated by Audra Lambert, Director of Amos Eno Gallery
October 16, 2020
Opening of Philip Swan, "Significant Soil"
Opening Virtual Talk: 6 - 6:30 pm
Opening Reception in Gallery: 6:30 - 8 pm
Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present Significant Soil, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Philip Swan. The opening reception takes place on Friday, October 16, 2020. In addition to the in-person opening reception on Friday, October 16th from 6:30-8 PM, a virtual tour will take place on the opening night with the artist Philip Swan.