Metro Pictures - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Metro Pictures. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Paulina Olowska “Haus Proud”
Paulina Olowska presents a new series of paintings and a video work in Haus Proud, the final exhibition at Metro Pictures before its permanent closure at the end of the year. Olowska considered the special...More »
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Louise Lawler “Lights Off, After Hours, In The Dark”
LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK features a new series of works by Louise Lawler in which she has photographed the 2020 Judd exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. These photographs were...More »
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“Wish” Exhibition
Organized by Alexander Ferrando In his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Freud asserts that every dream is the expression of a wish. However, in dreams these repressed wishes often manifest...More »
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Louise Lawler “One Show on Top of the Other”
Louise Lawler presents two exhibitions––one on top of the other. Distorted for the Times is a selection of Lawler’s works that have been digitally altered to render a sense of unease, as what is to...More »
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Jim Shaw “Before and After Math”
Metro Pictures presents eight new paintings and five videos by Jim Shaw. The paintings are all made on found theatrical backdrops, a signature of Shaw’s, with two that incorporate three-dimensional sculptural...More »
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Olaf Breuning “RAIN”
Olaf Breuning presents RAIN, an exhibition of colorful new woodcut landscape paintings and carved stone sculptures that draw upon the natural world to consider the pressing environmental concerns we face...More »
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John Miller “The Collapse of Neoliberalism”
John Miller has been exploring notions of identity, economics, and social class throughout his forty-year practice. His latest exhibition at Metro Pictures concerns, among other things, a sense of everyday...More »
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Robert Longo “Fugitive Images”
The eight monumental, hyperreal charcoal drawings in the exhibition continue Robert Longo’s “Destroyer Cycle,” a series that focuses on the indelible imagery generated by the current politics of power,...More »
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Alexandre Singh “A Gentle Horror”
Alexandre Singh’s first major exhibition at Metro Pictures features the New York premiere of his short film The Appointment (2019, 19 min). Singh transforms the gallery into an abandoned cinema from an...More »
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Judith Hopf “Alifi”
Metro Pictures presents the first exhibition by Berlin-based artist Judith Hopf with the gallery. Comprised of three different sculptural series––Walls, Tongues, and Pears––the works on view further Hopf’s...More »
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Sara VanDerBeek “Women & Museums”
Sara VanDerBeek presents six large photographs from her new series Women & Museums in our upstairs gallery. Exploring the female body as a site of production and reproduction, VanDerBeek worked using...More »
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“Condo New York”
Koppe Astner at Metro Pictures We hosts Glasgow-based gallery Koppe Astner in our upstairs space, where they will present an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Miguel Cardenas. More »
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André Butzer Exhibition
Metro Pictures presents an exhibition of nine large, vibrant new paintings by artist André Butzer. In a striking reversal from his last exhibition at the gallery, which featured mostly black, largely monochromatic...More »
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Robert Longo “Amerika”
Robert Longo’s Amerika marks the beginning of a two-part exhibition by the artist and is a continuation of his Destroyer Cycle series, an investigation into the politics of power, futility, and aggression....More »
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Isaac Julien “Lessons of the Hour–Frederick Douglass”
Isaac Julien’s visionary ten-screen film installation Lessons of the Hour explores the incomparable achievements of America’s foremost abolitionist figure. After escaping slavery in Maryland, Frederick...More »
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Jim Shaw “The Family Romance”
Metro Pictures presents The Family Romance, an exhibition of five new paintings by Jim Shaw in the upstairs gallery. Known for blending personal, political, and surreal narratives, Shaw explores the realm...More »
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“Life To Come” Exhibition
Organized by Asad Raza Metro Pictures presents Life to come, a group exhibition organized by Asad Raza that brings together works that meditate on the creation of new worlds and new models for living....More »
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Paulina Olowska “Belavia”
Upstairs Gallery Metro Pictures presents Belavia, an exhibition by Paulina Olowska in the upstairs gallery featuring a new documentary film and related paintings. Since 2016, Olowska has made frequent...More »
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Nina Beier “Baby”
Metro Pictures presents a selection of new sculptural work by Berlin-based artist Nina Beier in her second exhibition at the gallery. Known for incorporating found objects, Beier furthers her ongoing investigation...More »
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B. Wurtz “Domestic Space”
Coinciding with “Kitchen Trees,” B. Wurtz’s major installation for Public Art Fund at City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan, “Domestic Space” at Metro Pictures includes new large-scale sculptures and photographs...More »
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Catherine Sullivan “The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training)”
Renowned for elaborate video installations that draw upon theater and live performance, Catherine Sullivan debuts her most recent film project, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), at Metro Pictures....More »
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“Condo New York” Exhibition
Hosting Kosovo-based gallery LambdaLambdaLambda in the upstairs space, where they will present an exhibition by artists Nora Turato and Hanne Lippard. More »
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“Evidence” Exhibition
Organized by Josh Kline Metro Pictures presents Evidence, a group exhibition organized by Josh Kline. Featuring the work of seven artists, Evidence investigates the nature of documentation and reality...More »
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Camille Henrot “Born, Never Asked”
Camille Henrot presents more than fifty drawings in “Born, Never Asked,” curated by Kathy Noble for Metro Pictures’s upstairs gallery. The selection of drawings from her series Tropics of Love (2010- ),...More »
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Andreas Slominski “ANDREAS SLOMINSKYYY”
Andreas Slominski presents an installation comprising new wall reliefs and portable plastic toilets in his fourth exhibition at Metro Pictures. Well-known for his subversive approach to art and exhibition...More »
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Robert Longo “Them and Us”
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Oliver Laric “Year of the Dog”
Oliver Laric premieres a new video animation in “Year of the Dog,” his first one-person exhibition in New York at Metro Pictures. The animation continues his inquiry into concepts of metamorphosis,...More »
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David Maljkovic “Alterity Line”
David Maljkovic’s exhibition “Alterity Line” at Metro Pictures includes a series of paintings and expands upon his practice of reconfiguring and re-presenting his earlier works into site-specific installations....More »
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Jim Shaw Exhibition
Jim Shaw’s exhibition of paintings and sculpture at Metro Pictures is the influential artist’s first in New York since his 2015 New Museum survey “The End is Here,” in which he exhibited an immersive installation;...More »
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Trevor Paglen “A Study of Invisible Images”
Trevor Paglen’s A Study of Invisible Images is the first exhibition of works to emerge from his ongoing research into computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI) and the changing status of images. This...More »
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“A New Ballardian Vision” Exhibition
As a part of CONDO Complex New York, a gallery swap between New York galleries and national and international partners, Metro Pictures hosts Leo Xu’s two-part exhibition A New Ballardian Vision. The show...More »
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Robert Longo “The Destroyer Cycle”
In his exhibition The Destroyer Cycle at Metro Pictures, Robert Longo considers world events through the lens of American media with twelve new, large-scale charcoal drawings. The painstakingly rendered...More »
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Olaf Breuning Exhibition
Olaf Breuning’s multifarious practice is united by his distinctive sense of humor. His drawings, photographs, videos and sculpture utilize a vocabulary that draws from ubiquitous cultural symbols to present...More »
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“SPUTTERANCES” Exhibition
Organized by Sanya Kantarovsky In response to his appreciation of and heightened attention to the work of René Daniëls, Metro Pictures invited Sanya Kantarovsky to curate this special exhibition. Titled...More »
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André Butzer Exhibition
André Butzer came to international attention more than 15 years ago for his audaciously colored and thickly slathered paintings of cartoonish figures. In many of these works he drew from German and American...More »
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Paulina Olowska “Wisteria, Mysteria, Hysteria”
Paulina Olowska’s exhibition “Wisteria, Mysteria, Hysteria” at Metro Pictures focuses on recent paintings, ceramics and collages by the artist. Since Olowska’s last show at the gallery in 2010, she has...More »
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Cindy Sherman Exhibition
Cindy Sherman inaugurates Metro Pictures’ newly renovated galleries with stunning new photographs produced in 2016, her first new body of work since 2012. For more than 35 years Sherman’s practice has...More »
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Camille Henrot Exhibition
In her first exhibition at Metro Pictures, Camille Henrot presents an installation comprising large gestural drawings and sculptural works that constructs a view of dysfunctions and felt inadequacies inherent...More »
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Trevor Paglen Exhibition
For his second exhibition at Metro Pictures Trevor Paglen presents new photographs, a video and a sculpture that continues his ongoing investigation of covert military and intelligence operations. Using...More »
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Olaf Breuning Exhibition
Always a beguiling social pundit, Olaf Breuning has created an immersive installation of steel sculptures and large photo collages to continue his discerning humor and astute visual language. These new...More »
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David Maljkovic Exhibition
David Maljkovic exhibits an installation comprising a video work, collages and a slide projection in Metro Pictures Upstairs Gallery. Maljkovic covers two of the gallery’s walls in black-and-white wallpaper...More »
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Nina Beier Exhibition
Metro Pictures announces the opening of Nina Beier’s first one-person exhibition in New York, following her participation in two group shows at the gallery. The Danish artist, who is based in Berlin, spent...More »
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Claire Fontaine “Stop Seeking Approval”
Claire Fontaine exhibits monochrome paintings and readymade sculptures in “Stop Seeking Approval,” her second exhibition at Metro Pictures. A self-declared “readymade-artist” with a readymade name—Claire...More »
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John Miller “Here in the Real World”
“Here in the Real World” is John Miller’s 14th exhibition at Metro Pictures since joining the gallery in 1984. Miller exhibits his game show paintings (begun in 1998) and two series of relief portrait...More »
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Gary Simmons “Fight Night”
Gary Simmons presents paintings and drawings along with a 40-foot wall-installation. The immense installation on the gallery’s back wall comprises 160 posters for historic boxing matches that Simmons manipulates...More »
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Trevor Paglen Exhibition
Trevor Paglen presents “Code Names of the Surveillance State,” a video installation in Metro Pictures’ upstairs gallery composed from more than 4,000 National Security Agency (NSA) and Government Communications...More »
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Andy Hope 1930 “Impressions d’Amérique”
Andy Hope 1930 exhibits paintings from his series “Impressions d’Amérique” in Metro Pictures’ upstairs gallery. As the title suggests, the paintings explore American landscapes, locations, protagonists...More »
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Jim Shaw “I Only Wanted You to Love Me”
Jim Shaw presents new paintings in his exhibition “I Only Wanted You to Love Me” at Metro Pictures. One of the most influential artists of his generation, Shaw ardently researches a vast spectrum of subjects—from...More »
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Louise Lawler “No Drones”
In her exhibition “No Drones” at Metro Pictures, Louise Lawler exhibits black-and-white images that are traced from her iconic photographs, printed on vinyl and mounted directly on the wall. Lawler uses...More »
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Tris Vonna-Michell “Postscript III (Berlin)”
In Metro Pictures’ Upstairs Gallery, Tris Vonna-Michell exhibits Postscript III (Berlin), a newly reworked iteration of a developing narrative. Synching a dual-slideshow with an audio work playing from...More »
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Robert Longo “Gang of Cosmos”
“Gang of Cosmos” an exhibition by Robert Longo at Metro Pictures includes twelve charcoal drawings of well-known Abstract Expressionist paintings. In entering into this dialogue with major figures of 50...More »
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René Daniëls Exhibition
Metro Pictures presents paintings, watercolors and drawings by Dutch artist René Daniëls produced between 1977 and 1987. Selected from the artist’s own holdings, the exhibition of Daniëls’ groundbreaking...More »
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“Bad Conscience” Exhibition
Metro Pictures presents “Bad Conscience,” an exhibition organized by artist and writer John Miller that features a multigenerational group of artists with whom Miller has collaborated in the past or maintains...More »
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Alexandre Singh Exhibition
Alexandre Singh presents six bronze busts in his first one-person exhibition in Metro Pictures’ Upstairs Gallery. Recalling the grisly caricatures of Honoré Daumier, each of the busts represent a mask...More »
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Isaac Julien “PLAYTIME”
Metro Pictures presents Isaac Julien’s “PLAYTIME,” an exhibition that explores current debates on the relationships between capital, the art world and the individual. The exhibition comprises the large...More »
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David Maljković Exhibition
For his second exhibition at Metro Pictures, David Maljković presents an animation, film installation, sound works and display forms, along with collaged inkjet prints mounted on aluminum and a slide projection....More »
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“Noa Noa” Exhibition
Metro Pictures presents “Noa Noa,” an exhibition presenting eight American and European artists whose work incorporates the aesthetics of the exotic. The problematic history of cultural exoticism, as manifested...More »
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Sara VanDerBeek Exhibition
For her first one-person exhibition at Metro Pictures, Sara VanDerBeek presents new photographs and sculptures that explore the phenomenon of experience and the translation of memory into image and form....More »
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B. Wurtz Exhibition
B. Wurtz presents sculptures, paintings and photographs for his first exhibition at Metro Pictures since his 2011 retrospective at the gallery. For more than 40 years Wurtz has collected and repurposed...More »
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Trevor Paglen Exhibition
In his first exhibition at Metro Pictures, Trevor Paglen presents works related to his project The Last Pictures, a selection of photographs reflecting unease and uncertainty about the present, and a deep...More »
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Olaf Breuning "Home trilogy"
For one week Metro Pictures screens Olaf Breuning’s complete Home trilogy. Each 30-minute film finds Breuning’s gangly, oafish star and alter-ego, played by Brian Kerstetter, traveling to far-flung locations...More »
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Gary Simmons Exhibition
Metro Pictures presents a survey of Gary Simmons’s career that brings together a range of works produced over the last 20 years. The exhibition includes Simmons’s first chalk drawings on blackboards done...More »
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Andreas Slominski "Sperm"
Andreas Slominski's “Sperm” comprises the semen of humans and animals splashed on the walls and floors of Metro Pictures. The theme of the exhibition is that of touch, specifically the moment sperm fuses...More »
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"Dogma" Exhibition
During the sultry dog days of summer Metro Pictures presents “Dogma,” a group exhibition organized by Swiss Institute director Gianni Jetzer. Bringing together works by a diverse group of contemporary...More »
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Cindy Sherman Exhibition
Cindy Sherman exhibits new, large-scale works that depict outsized enigmatic female figures standing in striking isolation before ominous landscapes. Looking directly out of the picture in our direction,...More »
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Jim Shaw Exhibition
For Jim Shaw’s exhibition at Metro Pictures the Los Angeles-based artist presents a large mural and 20 drawings comprising a comic book that center on his fictional religion Oism, a narrative Shaw has...More »
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John Miller "Suburban Past Time"
John Miller elaborates on many of the tropes he has masterfully cultivated throughout his thirty-plus year career in “Suburban Past Time,” his latest exhibition at Metro Pictures. Through artificial rocks...More »
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Claire Fontaine "Working Together"
Paris-based collective artist Claire Fontaine presents “Working Together,” her first exhibition at Metro Pictures. Founded in 2004 Fontaine lifted her name from a brand of French notebooks and stationery...More »
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Claire Fontaine “Working Together”
Paris-based collective artist Claire Fontaine presents “Working Together,” her first exhibition at Metro Pictures. Founded in 2004 Fontaine lifted her name from a brand of French notebooks and stationery...More »
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Olaf Breuning "The Art Freaks"
Metro Pictures presents Olaf Breuning’s “The Art Freaks”, a group of color photographs transposing the signature styles of seminal 20th-century artists into prosaic body painting. If the manners in which...More »
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Tris Vonna-Michell Exhibition
Presenting a range of installation-narratives for his first exhibition at Metro Pictures, Tris Vonna-Michell exhibits a new sound edit of "Leipzig Calendar Works" (2011), which recalls the peaceful 1989...More »
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B. Wurtz "Works 1970-2011"
Metro Pictures presents a special summer exhibition: the first New York survey of the work of B. Wurtz. Spanning some 40 years, the show is a collaboration between B. Wurtz; White Columns director Mathew...More »
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Louise Lawler "Fitting at Metro Pictures"
For her exhibition at Metro Pictures, Louise Lawler has taken photographs of art in museums, galleries, private homes, and auction houses and stretched them to fit the gallery's walls. Printed on adhesive...More »
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Isaac Julien "Ten Thousand Waves"
"Ten thousand waves take us to the shore / Home will arrive under our feet" – Wang Ping, "The Great Summons" Isaac Julien's "Ten Thousand Waves" photographs, on view at Metro Pictures, are the photographic...More »
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David Malijkovic "Recalling Frames"
Croatian artist David Maljkovic's latest works, "Recalling Frames", are photomontages that interweave still images from Orson Welles' film "The Trial", shot in Zagreb in 1962, with the artist's own contemporary...More »
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Stephen G. Rhodes Exhibition
For his debut exhibition at Metro Pictures, Stephen G. Rhodes fills the gallery with labyrinthine installations composed of collage, sculpture, painting, and film — constructions that revolve around the...More »
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Paulina Olowska "Applied Fantastic"
For her second exhibition at Metro Pictures, Paulina Olowska shows paintings adapted from postcards of home knitting patterns from late communist-era Poland. With these works Olowska continues her engagement...More »
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Andy Hope 1930 "On Time"
For his season opening exhibition at Metro Pictures, the Berlin-based artist Andy Hope 1930 presents ON TIME, an exhibition of painting and three-dimensional forms that channel the evidence of art as a...More »
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"Swell: Art 1950-2010" Exhibition
Nyehaus, Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Metro Pictures present "SWELL"—c urated by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro— a survey of surf-themed art that opens July 1st at the three locations in Chelsea. Each gallery...More »
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T. J. Wilcox Exhibition
T. J. Wilcox introduces three new films: The Heir and Astaire, L'eau de Vie, and Yours, Patsy Cline along with related, large photographic collages. One film is projected in each of the gallery rooms and...More »
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André Butzer "Nicht fürchten! Don´t be scared!"
André Butzer's second New York show at Metro Pictures "Nicht fürchten! Don´t be scared!" features a group of new, closely related works that focus on the "formal event" of painting. By emphasizing shapes...More »
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Gary Simmons "Midnight Matinee"
In the exhibition "Midnight Matinee," Gary Simmons uses images of drive-in theater marquees and infamous houses from vintage horror films to reflect on ghosts and abandoned pasts. Simmons has long referenced...More »
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Olaf Breuning "Small Brain Big Stomach"
The wall drawings and wood sculptures that make up the core of Olaf Breuning's exhibition are based on the content and imagery of his small, childlike pencil drawings that "speak about the simple questions...More »
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Paulina Olowska, Stephen G. Rhodes and Catherine Sullivan Exhibition
Based far from New York and each other—Poland, Los Angeles and Chicago—Metro Pictures brings together new work by each for this season-opening exhibition. Paulina Olowska's 5 large-scale collages use...More »
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Group Exhibition
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Robert Longo "Surrendering the Absolutes"
Metro Pictures presents "Surrendering the Absolutes," an exhibition of new work by Robert Longo. Featuring a group of Longo's signature large-scale charcoal drawings, the works represent a departure from...More »
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Tony Oursler "Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards"
Oursler has been a pioneer of new media art since the mid-1970s, known for his video and installation works combining spoken text, moving image and sculptural objects. For this show, Oursler will present...More »
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David Maljkovic "Retired Compositions"
Metro Pictures presents David Maljkovic's first solo exhibition. Maljkovic's films, collages, sculpture and installations deal with the Modernist remnants of Socialist Yugoslavia and their echoes in the...More »
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"Postcards From the Edge" Benefit Sale
The annual display and sale of postcard-size artworks donated from 1600+ artist. A list of all donating artists will be distributed at the Benefit Sale. All proceeds support the work of Visual AIDS...More »
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Cindy Sherman Exhibition
For her first exhibition of new work since 2004, Cindy Sherman will show a series of color photographs that continues her investigation into distorted ideas of beauty, self-image and aging. Typical of...More »
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Gary Simmons "Night of the Fires"
The 1972 film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the starting point for Gary Simmons' exhibition of paintings, drawings and monumental wall works. The film portrays apes enslaved by a repressive human...More »
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Louise Lawler "Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other"
Louise Lawler’s exhibition, "Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other" includes photographs of recent public presentations of artworks at auction houses and museums. The...More »
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Walter Robinson "80s Paintings "
Walter Robinson’s paintings from the Romance Series were first shown at Metro Pictures in the 1980s. The works are brilliantly-colored, deftly-painted illustrations that, as described by the artist, are...More »
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André Butzer Exhibition
For his New York debut, André Butzer will show 12 new brilliantly-colored paintings that survey the ongoing motifs of his work. Butzer’s paintings reference German and American history, culture and politics...More »