BWAC showcases Brooklyn artists who have received rejections from the highly anticipated "Brooklyn Artists Exhibition" at the Brooklyn Museum.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 1-6pm.
Gallery hours: Weekends Saturday, Sept 21 – Oct 13, 2024, 12-6pm.
Open Studios is back! I'll be showing new work from my Empty Vessels sculpture series, among earlier work that will be for sale at a discount. My studio at TI Art Studios at Cube Smart (3rd Fl, Studio 57) is one of over 350 artist spaces that will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.
“The Every Woman Biennial Is a Supportive, Salon-Style Celebration of the ‘Divine Feminine’” - Artnet
It’s the world’s largest and female and non-binary art festival! This salon-style exhibition features painting, photography, installation, sculpture, video art, textile, and multimedia works, activated by performance, dance, music, poetry readings, theater, and film.
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2, 1-4pm
Collages from my The World Without Us series will be included in an upcoming group exhibition at the National Arts Club, organized by Artpoetica and curated by Sasha Chavchavadze, Heather Topcik, and JoAnne McFarland, showcasing the work of twenty-one artists using art to explore who and what we want to belong to, and why.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8, 6-8pm
On view: Mon-Fri, 9-4, Sat-Sun 10-4
Considered mere eyesores today, the first suburban shopping malls were examples of exemplary design: innovative civic architecture created to foster a sense of shared community. Against the background of the recent rezoning of the Gowanus neighborhood, this exhibition explores the optimism of urban planning against the eventual decline of these utopian dreams.
Opening Reception: October 8, 1-4pm
Gowanus Open Studios Weekend: October 15-16, 12-6pm
Curated by Lisa Wirth & Marly Hammer of Work in Progress, this exhibition seeks to reveal new artistic growth from the seeds of what was fertilized in this historic period of COVID-19, and how work by women remains a vector of connection and reflection. This group exhibition will feature artworks and new methods of artistic production that speak uniquely to this moment in human history. Participating artists reflect on what this period meant and awakened within them. Read the press release.
Opening Reception: September 28
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Artworks consider what a “utopia” (ideal place) would look like for the neighborhoods bordering the Gowanus Canal. Exhibiting artists comment on existing “utopian” endeavors in these communities, or imagine their own. Some explore iconic or beloved places, people or traditions and the importance of their preservation. Others look critically at differing and often competing plans for the neighborhood’s future during a time of rapid redevelopment and rezoning.
With the effects of climate crises, gentrification, financial instability and an ongoing pandemic hitting these communities especially hard, several artists offer unique visions for a greener, healthier and more equitable Gowanus, in some cases in collaboration with community members.
Together, these personal accounts of the Gowanus area are meant to help shape a broader vision of utopia with both local and global implications.
The opening reception will take place on Sunday, April 10 from 4-6pm. Gallery hours are Friday-Sunday, 12-4pm.
Presented in collaboration with Artpoetica Project Space, Best and Brightest: Redefining Excellence uses art and artifacts to express new concepts of excellence rooted in community and collaboration. The exhibition also looks back at earlier hierarchical forms of excellence that rewarded the few while neglecting everyone else, often proving ruinous across space and time.
The opening reception will take place Saturday, April 9 from 4-6pm.
Open by appointment from April 10-May 15: Email sashachav@gmail.com or DM @sashachav
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art is curated selection of over 130 independent and emerging artists. I will be presenting gold leafed pieces from my Objects of Desire series with the Arts Gowanus booth.presenting gold leafed pieces from my Objects of Desire series with the Arts Gowanus booth.
Open Studios is back! Come see my larger studio where I'll be showing new work from my The World Without Us collage series, among earlier work that will be for sale at a discount. My studio is one of over 350 artist spaces that will be open to the public (with Covid precautions in place) on Saturday and Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.
The last two years have deepened a chasm, culturally and politically, but also temporally. Oscillating between what can feel like fully realised but distinct realities characterized by separation as well as collision, leaves artists with the unique role of carving out spaces to meditate on the flux particular to this moment. We are actors of this new timescape engaging in the ritual of making that for tens of thousands of years has helped to define and dissolve what are fundamentally temporary boundaries. We are looking for artworks that slow, speed, stand outside of time or see their works as dynamic witnesses participating on a continuum. Curated by Amanda Nedham.
What do objects tell us about the way we live and who we are? And what objects are permitted to become part of our cultural history? Unnatural Histories seeks to unearth obscured stories from the past while creating a space for new stories to be told. Artists included in the exhibition shift our gaze to see the subtle or peripheral in a new way, liberating everyday objects from their usual meanings to reveal fresh narratives. The artworks often use artifacts as talismans of meaning that enable us to reinterpret the present and reinvent the future. Integral to the exhibition are artifacts from the Hall of Gowanus, an archive related to the Gowanus Canal. While many of these items seem like detritus – a preserved clothespin, a piece of plaster, a toothbrush – each has its own story to tell.
NEST at Artpoetica is an interdisciplinary exhibition that emphasizes our personal spaces, both internal and external, as infinitely generative and erotic. Each artist in NEST layers sounds, colors, or textures to create worlds that are at once intimate and profoundly expansive.
Just as atmospheres are bound together by a center of gravity, this exhibition looks at Pace’s role as a center of gravity for its community and celebrates the many ways in which art resonates in the lives of those operating within its orbit. Highlighting a diverse range of work produced by the gallery’s global staff, the exhibition presents a group portrait of the creativity and imagination that defines Pace.
Works from my “No More Lip Service” series will be on display—collaborations with Marly Hammer and Lisa Wirth of Work In Progress—originally created for the 2019 SPRING/BREAK Art Show.
Opening reception on Thursday July 15, 6-8pm.
This holiday season give her what she really wants 🍒 TART— an exhibition of art works by 6 women artists, all priced $500 or less. 🍒 Support women. Shop local. Buy art. 🍒 Curated by Work In Progress.
The TART online shop will be open December 1st - Jan 4th, with our in-person pop-up event on December 12th from 11-7pm at Meg in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
This year, the Arts Gowanus annual benefit will be held as an outdoor socially distant event, but for those out-of-towners, anyone can participate remotely too!
It's a really fun event where you get to TAKE HOME ONE PIECE OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK from a local artist! I have also contributed a painting that will be available to choose.
I would love your support, and extending a $25 discount for you using the promo code KAREN.
Tickets are limited — only 50 available — and can be purchased here. Thank you for helping Arts Gowanus survive during this challenging time!
My artwork will be included with more than 80 others specially chosen by gallerists and art world luminaries Katelijne De Backer, Michael De Feo, Elizabeth Fiore, and Bernard Lumpkin and will be on view in the Cynthia C. Wainwright Gallery for CMA’s 2019 Gala. Bidding on silent auction lots begins via Artsy on October 23 and will close on November 6.
It’s that time of year again! Take a peek inside my studio at Spaceworks and the creative environments of 400+ Brooklyn artists studios this month with the return of Gowanus Open Studios. More details to come!
Selected by Artnet News as one of the 18 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
“In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.” -Charles Revson, American businessman, co-founder of Revlon
“Message in a Bottle” is an immersive installation transforming the gallery space into an upscale beauty boutique experience. Opening reception will be held on October 17 from 6:30-9pm and will be on view from October 12-November 10.
JOIN US FOR CLOSING COCKTAILS! Sunday, November 10, 1-3pm
Work from my ABC’s of Plastic Surgery series will be part of this group exhibition focused on artists exploring text in their work. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 24 from 6:30-8:30pm, and the show will be on view through October 19, 2019.
This group show curated by Indira Cesarine examines themes of “real life” and “reality” versus fictional, internet or idealized worlds through a wide array of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, video art, and textiles. Each artist reveals their own personal vision of “reality” with works in the show juxtaposing the mundanities of everyday life, addressing themes of “authenticity” versus edited, retouched or fictitious realities, nature versus cyber constructed content, as well as exploring the intersection of digital and physical worlds.
OPENING RECEPTION: June 6, 2019, 6-9pm
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
June 6 – June 21, 2019
Please join me for this Arts Gowanus annual fundraiser and take home one piece of original artwork! Celebrate the arts and artists in the Gowanus area, all while supporting the critical mission of Arts Gowanus: to promote, support, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in the Gowanus neighborhood.
This month’s salon Womening 2.0 will focus on the female experience. I will have works from my #MeTooBoutique on view, and be giving a presentation about the influences and process of making this body of work.
This Women’s History Month, we are asking, what does it mean to be a woman? What is unique about the female spirit and how do we express our femininity through art?
In today’s world , we sometimes forget to celebrate all the strength and beauty that is innately feminine, so for this event, we are taking the time to explore the essence of the female spirit, feminism and female empowerment. through music, dance, poetry and art.
In collaboration with the I am Series, a monthly event that connects people through art and heart, I will be part of a group of emerging female artists in NYC to presenting our work in a pop-up gallery to complement performances by dancers, storytellers, and singers.
Since at least the 18th century, the expression “birthday suit” has been used to refer to nudity, and it rarely describes a private, quiet sort of nudity. Rather, as the phrase and its frequent uses intimate, to appear in one’s birthday suit requires that one be seen—and the more spectators, the better. There’s something distinctly theatrical about this type of undress. It is neither the contemplative nudity of the classically posed model in a life drawing class, nor a modest or timid type of nudity; it is exaggerated, embellished, celebratory, strange, attention-grabbing, and potentially alarming.
Join me at the opening reception on Friday, March 15 from 6-9pm.
“We’ve reached a point in our history where even a tepid apology from a man is cause for artistic commemoration.” - Karen Mainenti
When organizers of the annual SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW chose a curatorial theme for the 2019 edition ( Fact and Fiction ), NYC-based artist Karen Mainenti knew exactly how she was going to demonstrate the fine line that lies between. She would commandeer #MeToo male apologists’ mea culpas , and draw attention to how rare such public admissions are from men regarding their flaws.
In the artist’s solo exhibition, “No More Lip Service,” curated by independent curators Marly Hammer and Lisa Wirth (of Work in Progress), Mainenti explores parallels between recent apologies made by men accused of sexual harassment and fault-finding marketing claims routinely displayed on consumer products for women. “No More Lip Service” opens March 5th, at the SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW .
Complementing the #MeToo Boutique, “No More Lip Service” features three additional series of work by Mainenti in which the artist further tackles her exploration of feminine and masculine archetypes. Using reductive word play and technique, the artist transforms everyday objects into artworks that forever change how you perceive them.
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Tuesday, March 5
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Tuesday, March 5
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I will have a small piece from my Color Me Beautiful series on display in this small works group show of over 50 artists.
Take a peek inside my studio and the creative environments of hundreds of Brooklyn artists this month with the return of Gowanus Open Studios. I’m proud to have been chosen as one of the top 10 studios to visit by the renowned painter Jules De Balincourt. I will be showing work from my series of drawings inspired by the #MeToo movement, and pieces from my recent Bard Graduate Center Library Artist-in-Residence installation.
This year I have had the pleasure of being an artist-in-residence at the Bard Graduate Center Library. A culminating exhibition will be on view for the month of August, opening on Wednesday, August 1, from 6-8pm. Inspired by my research of Bard's unique library collection which focuses on material culture, design, and anthropology, this new work will be a site-specific installation including my largest drawing yet!
This group exhibition pays homage to the Cigar Factory's past as a thriving network of local makers by inviting New York City’s living artists — the current generation of makers — to show original art works made with paper. I will be showing three drawings from my new series inspired by the #metoo movement.
I’m honored to have been asked to participate in this benefit for Arts Gowanus. Seventy-five works by local artists will be shown during an exciting evening at Shapeshifter Lab. The event will be a combination of art exhibition, chance to mingle with local artists, yummy food and drink and best of all everyone will go home with an original artwork, including one of my limited edition screen prints from my Product Placement series!
Tickets are limited and can be purchased here. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to support the fantastic work of Arts Gowanus.
