THE NEW WAVE

BY DIANA McCLURE AND GREG HERBOWY

SUPERPOSITION, THE “NOMADIC” gallery founded by Storm Ascher (BFA 2018 Visual & Critical Studies; see page 56), is one of several recent e orts by SVA alumni to help create a more accessible, equitable and interconnected art world. Here are some others.

davidhasselho .net This members-only club in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood hosts exhibitions and performances, sells art and maintains a well-stocked bar and an anarchic, happily rude spirit. Cofounder and artist Brian Andrew Whiteley (MFA 2013 Fine Arts), whose Satellite Art Show (featured in the spring/summer 2020 Journal) takes a similarly iconoclastic approach to the typically staid art fair, started the project with artists Jen Catron, Joseph Latimore and Paul Outlaw. The venue opened last fall and quickly won admiring press from Artnet, Forbes and The New York Times.

The Satellite Art Club, co-founded by SVA alumnus Brian Whiteley (top right, second from left) o ers an anarchic, happily rude art venue.

Image from “The Rise of the Care Machines,” an online De:Formal exhibition; image from a De:Formal residency with Sid and Geri (MFA 2018 Fine Arts).

deformal.com Co-founded in 2015 by Vincent Cy

Chen and Wednesday Kim (both BFA 2015 Fine Arts), De:Formal curates and promotes critical conversations, exhibitions and interviews both online and o ine, as well as monthly virtual residencies. The artist-run platform is focused on contemporary art and makes space for video, performance, installation, sculpture, media art and other forms that are under-recognized in the conventional gallery system.

haul.gallery In 2021 Haul Gallery, co-organized by

Erin Davis and Max C. Lee (both MFA 2016 Photography, Video and Related Media), is o ering an “art share” inspired by the community farm share model. The structure o ers collectors a chance to purchase shares in one year’s worth of exhibitions, for which artists get paid upfront. Haul continues a forward-thinking and experimental ethos initiated in Davis and Lee’s previous collaborative project, Re: Art Show. Their new model aims to o er an alternative to the blue-chip gallery system, exploring new ways of presenting work and full financial transparency.

peepspaceny.com Artists and art teachers Jane Kang Lawrence (MAT 2006 Art Education) and Monica Carrier started Peep Space in the Westchester County village of Tarrytown in March 2020. Their goal: create a community-minded, artist-run space free from the high-profit pressures (and exclusivity) of a typical contemporary gallery.

Exhibitions have included “Plus One,” in which the invited artists were asked to invite another artist to show with them; “Art for Angels,” benefiting young students with special needs; a guest-curated group show on the theme of “family”; and “Flat File 2020,” featuring more than 50 artists’ work, culled from an open call. (The second annual “Flat File” opens in November.)

ABOVE, FROM TOP Ivoire Foreman (MFA 2017 Fine Arts), Every day I’m coloring coloring, 2020, from their solo show “I was busy thinkin’ bout toys” (2020), Haul Gallery; installation view of “L’Épilogue” (2021), a solo show by Marvin Touré (MFA 2016 Fine Arts) at Haul Gallery; Images courtesy Haul Gallery. LEFT Installation view of “Re-Union” (2021), a show at Peep Gallery featuring work by Debbi Kenote and Alyssa McClenaghan. Image courtesy Peep Space.

dragoncrabandturtle.com Painter Katherine Bernhardt (MFA 2000 Fine Arts) left New York City last year to resettle in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, where she had recently transformed a former car dealership into a studio and storage facility. That building is now also home to Dragon, Crab and Turtle, a gallery (currently open on Saturdays and by appointment) named for the terracotta fauna motifs that decorate the building’s preserved early-1900s façade and dedicated to showcasing underrepresented artists, art forms and artistic communities from around the U.S. and the world. The space has so far hosted everything from solo shows to a pop-up Moroccan rug sale to an exhibition of work from the eclectic and vast private collection of fellow St. Louis artist and gallerist Philip Slein.

ABOVE, RIGHT Karolina Majewska (MFA 2017 Photography, Video and Related Media), Credo, 2020, wax and water tattoo, from “A Discourse of Accord” (2021), Transmitter; Dáreece J. Walker (MFA 2016 Fine Arts), Black Fathers Matter series II | Rubber Ducky Crossing, 2020, charcoal on inkjet print and cardboard, from Transmitter’s 2021 Brooklyn Community Bail Fund benefit. Courtesy Transmitter.

transmitter.nyc Transmitter is a collaborative curatorial initiative founded in 2014 with a rotating leadership model; its current group of nine directors includes MFA Photography, Video and Related Media alumni Kate Greenberg (2010),

Melvin Harper (2017) and Sara Meghdari (2016). Based in Brooklyn and focused on multidisciplinary, international and experimental programming, Transmitter promotes racial and social justice in its messaging and operations; their current Benefit for the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund runs through December 19. ◆

LEFT Installation view, “Traders” (2020 – 2021), Dragon, Crab and Turtle.

FROM TOP Artworks by Roberta March, Amy Laskin and Jamaal Barber, from “Mirror in the Dark: Resiliency Through Art” (2021), a virtual show presented by Visionary Art Collective.

visionaryartcollective.com Founded by Victoria Fry (BFA 2012 Fine Arts), Visionary hosts online exhibitions, editorial content, workshops, educational materials and an artist directory. Focused on emerging, mid-career and established artists and educators, the organization’s mission is to connect contemporary art and education, decentralize the global art community and increase artists’ and teachers’ access to resources.