Exhibitions
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Artists & Recipes
Curated by Abby Lloyd 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Artists & Recipes curated by Abby Lloyd. The exhibition is located in the indoor/outdoor extension of Marvin Garden, R&R, at 15-48 Decatur Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385. Showcasing 40 works by 36 original artists from the cookbook, the exhibition is hung salon style in the... Read more -
CHRISTOPHER DUNLAP
Morningside 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Morningside, a solo show of 10 new paintings by Christopher Dunlap. Titled after the neighborhood he lives in, this exhibition of oil and flashe paintings brings back a local focus to a painter’s painter. Labored surfaces are carefully layered and seem incredibly specific, yet... Read more -
ADA GOLDFELD
On the Rocks 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present On The Rocks, a solo exhibition of paintings by Ada Goldfeld. Four discrete works, each easily holding their own wall, comprise this show. Within each work is embedded a moment of tension, or an idea of uncertainty. Snow Day pictures a glass liquid measuring... Read more -
ANNIE HÉMOND HOTTE
Nights 19 May - 16 Jun 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Nights , Brooklyn based painter Annie Hémond Hotte’s first solo show in New York. Known for her folkloric imagery mostly of women sharing space with landscapes, plants and animals in a semi-hierarchical arrangement of flattened compositional planes, Hotte spares no effort in these exceedingly... Read more -
XIANGJIE REBECCA WU
Blue Murmur 19 May - 16 Jun 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Blue Murmur, the debut solo exhibition of painter Xiangjie Rebecca Wu. These ten mostly intimate sized works take the artist’s personal memories from childhood as their main generative force. The color scheme of predominant blues mixing with warmer tones have an antiquing effect to... Read more -
VANITAS
DAVID BASKIN, ANGELO FILOMENO, JUDE GRIEBEL, NIR HOD, TAMARA KOSTIANOVSKY, STUART LANTRY, GRACELEE LAWRENCE, JENNIE JIEUN LEE, TONY MATELLI, ROSE NESTLER, WHITNEY OLDENBURG, ZACK RAFULS, WILL RYMAN, STEPHANIE H. SHIH, AND YI XIN TONG 17 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 CHART and R & R are pleased to present Vanitas, a group exhibition featuring sculptural works that explore classical notions of transience and mortality, as well as the power of objects to exude symbolic meaning. The jointly-organized exhibition will take place across both venues in Tribeca and Ridgewood. The show’s... Read more -
SARAH ROCHE
Altered Scenery 17 Mar - 14 Apr 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present ALTERED SCENERY, Sarah Roche’s debut solo exhibition in New York. A self-taught painter hailing from Scottsdale Arizona, Roche paints in a stylized surrealism documenting human interventions in the natural world. Painting her local landscape, these seven intimately sized canvases in our second gallery display... Read more -
JAMES WARREN
Viewing Devices 17 Mar - 14 Apr 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present VIEWING DEVICES, James Warren’s debut solo exhibition in New York. This succinct group of six oil paintings takes us on a journey through semi-impressionistic landscapes by way of dialectical signs, as the title hints. Warren impresses with measured detail in both technique and depiction,... Read more -
CHUCK WEBSTER
A Good Group 17 Mar - 14 Apr 2024 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present A Good Group, a solo exhibition of drawings on vintage hand made paper by Chuck Webster, curated by Jens-Peter Brask. On display are ten unique framed works made between 2022 and 2023. Webster fuses bits of filmic dialogue, song lyrics, language-like symbols, and riffs... Read more -
MATT LEINES
Promiscuous Takes 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Promiscuous Takes, a solo exhibition of new black and white ink drawings by New York based artist Matt Leines. This show of fourteen pen-and-ink works on paper is part of an ongoing series of 100 portrait busts in the same format. Part psychedelic, part glitch, these works are made by combining sourced shapes and patterns into a unified portrait that still retains hints of its disparate originations. Read more -
MEL SKLUZACEK
Early Work: 1993 - 2003 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Early Work: 1993-2003, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings by New York based sculpture and multi-media artist Mel Skluzacek. Made over the course of a decade, these unique paintings reveal the artist’s early drive toward materiality in three-dimensional techniques and establish a record of themes still being grappled with by the artist’s contemporary works. Read more -
DEBBI KENOTE & ZURIEL WATERS
Reverse Reverb 1 - 29 Oct 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Reverse Reverb, a two-person exhibition of shaped works on canvas featuring Debbi Kenote and Zuriel Waters. The Brooklyn based painters have honed in on two very distinct ways to literally stretch the boundaries of paintings. Both display a command of carefully chosen color, building... Read more -
ANDRE ETHIER | ELIOT GREENWALD | EMMA KOHLMANN | PAULA LAWRIE
Earthbound 1 - 29 Oct 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present EARTHBOUND, a four-person painting exhibition featuring Paula Lawrie, Emma Kohlmann, Eliot Greenwald, and Andre Ethier. Four painters based outside of New York are brought together for this show of works examining parallel notions of depicting our natural world. This group of paintings displays a... Read more -
STRANGE FIGURES
Tony Coleman, Andre Ethier, Tristan Higginbotham, Annie Hémond Hotte, Hein Koh, Koichi Sato, Trude Viken, James Ulmer, Jamie Gray Williams 13 Aug - 10 Sep 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present STRANGE FIGURES, a group exhibition celebrating diverse perspectives on figurative work. For our summer exhibition, the gallery has invited nine artists and friends within our community to participate. A few are long-standing friends or artists we’ve admired from afar yet this is the first... Read more -
JAMES ULMER
PAPER WORKS! 13 Aug - 10 Sep 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present PAPER WORKS!, a solo exhibition ofpaintings on paper by James Ulmer in our annex space. On display are sevenunique works depicting figure-groups or solo figures actively engaged andpainted in Ulmer’s characteristic style of flatly painted shapes in bright,punchy colors. In this body of work... Read more -
Jonathan DeDecker & Jonathan Edelhuber
JONATHAN ^2 13 Aug - 10 Sep 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present JONATHAN2, a two-person painting show in our exterior yard space. Continuing our summer theme of bringing together friends within our community, this show also brings together -as the title suggests- two artists who share the same given name. Jonathan DeDecker and Jonathan Edelhuber each... Read more -
DABIN AHN | MIHO ICHISE | GONÇALO PRETO
"BIG OBJECTS" 25 Jun - 23 Jul 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present BIG OBJECTS, a three-person exhibition of new paintings, which take physically small objects as their primary subject matter. The genesis of this show was a contemplation of how “big” relatively small things can actually be in daily life. Size is such a relational notion,... Read more -
JONNY CAMPOLO
"Strangers Will Change You" 25 Jun - 23 Jul 2023 Ladies and gentlemen, step right up! It’s the supple glass with a slumping edge. It’s the hieroglyphic pose. C’mon, we talk with our hands. We all aspire to magic hands. Don’t be shy. Don’t start with the eyes; start with the feet. Swat with the smooth-edged glove filled with Vaseline.... Read more -
ANNIE HÉMOND HOTTE | GRETTA JOHNSON | ROB POLIDORO: Wandering with a Place in Mind
7 May - 4 Jun 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present “Wandering with a Place in Mind,” a three-person exhibition of paintings featuring Annie Hémond Hotte, Gretta Johnson, and Rob Polidoro. This show features a variety of rich and inventive scenes based loosely in the natural world, yet generated almost entirely from the imagination. Polidoro’s... Read more -
PETER MIX: Red Car
7 May - 4 Jun 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Red Car,” a debut solo exhibition of paintings by Peter Mix. In this recent series of work, scenes are illustrated of individuals arriving and departing from one another. The images convey transitions between union and solitude using contemporary archetypes of transport... Read more -
MAX HEIGES: “...and the horse you rode in on”
7 May - 18 Jun 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “...and the horse you rode in on,” a solo exhibition consisting of a single monumental steel sculpture by Max Heiges, inaugurating the gallery’s new outdoor yard space. Heiges presents an ambitious sculptural work of an abstracted horse figure. The sheer size... Read more -
Jonathan DeDecker & Grace Rosario Perkins, "Lifeeeee Is For Ever"
26 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present “Lifeeeee Is For Ever,” a two-person exhibition by Jonathan DeDecker and Grace Rosario Perkins. The nine paintings on view leap from the white walls with a contrast so great it’s almost as if they were cut from the encrusted graffiti on the exterior of... Read more -
Andrew Moeller: "Hurry up and Wait"
26 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Hurry Up And Wait”, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Andrew Moeller. This is the artist’s first solo show in New York, and his first with the gallery. Painstaking and time-consuming details are at times completely worth it. This is... Read more -
Liam Allan: 1:1
5 Feb - 5 Mar 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “1:1,” a solo exhibition of recent graphite drawings by Liam Allan. This is the artist’s first solo show in New York, and his first with the gallery. In this extremely tight show of only four works, Allan presents us with intensely... Read more -
Sean Gannon: New Work New Work
5 Feb - 5 Mar 2023 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “NEW WORK NEW WORK,” a solo exhibition of recent paintings and assemblages by Sean Gannon. This show generously expands the artist’s focus on combining painting with fine woodworking, accompanying an often tongue-in-cheek humor. This exhibition marks both the artist’s first solo... Read more -
TONY COLEMAN
TONY COLEMAN RIDGEWOOD SOLO 4 Nov - 4 Dec 2022 Read more -
JAMIE GRAY WILLIAMS
FOUNTAIN 4 Nov - 4 Dec 2022 Read more -
Choose Your Fighter !
A FALL EXHIBITION CURATED BY TIF XB 16 Sep - 16 Oct 2022 with Artists... CAROLINE ABSHER AMALIA ANGELO SARAH ALLWINE MARGOT BIRD MORGAN BLAIR ELIZABETH FERRY CHARLOTTE FOX AL FREEMAN JR. IRENA JUREK RAINEN KNECHT KATELYN LEDFORD TAYLOR LEE LAURYN LEVETTE ABBY LlOYD GRACE MILK CLAIRE MILBRATH ANJA SALONEN RIIKKA SORMUMEN Opening Reception Promo: Read more -
MATTHEW KING
Eternal Bliss 29 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Eternal Bliss,” a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Matthew King. This show evidences a continuation and expansion of the artist’s focus on combining hard-edged abstraction with collaged images culled from various offset print sources. Incredibly crisp at a distance, up... Read more -
Michael Childress | Christopher Dunlap | Georgia Hourdas | Benjamin Styer
Pleasures in Space 29 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Pleasures in Space” a group exhibition on exercises in world-building with Michael Childress, Christopher Dunlap, Georgia Hourdas, and Benjamin Styer. An embodiment of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok’s Umwelt, each artist enacts a world-unto itself where color, light, pattern,... Read more -
WALLACE DIBBLE + TOM HENRY
Blue Sunset 10 Jun - 10 Jul 2022 “Blue Sunset”, is a phrase taken from AI generated lyrics that Henry created by extracting words from Dibble’s dew drop poems and using terms that described both his and Dibble’s works.
“This rainbow after blue, Give me colors that do not need wings Fly tonight, after the blue sunset I dare you bring me flowers” As time is spent with their work, a rich dialogue unfolds, revealing a myriad of compelling similarities. These include the speed at which one understands the paintings, the technicality, and their sensitivity to time. Each piece in the show captures an intimate and ephemeral moment of time. Tom’s painting’s tonality and depiction of light, shadow, and reflection immediately transports the viewer to a specific time-of-the-day, if not a specific day. The water droplets' rendered as text from Wallace’s personal written poetry could evaporate, drip or morph with a second, while her words and the visual impression of the muted background communicate a specific time-in-life and a specific time-of-the-year.
Both artists’ paintings exude an observationally-derived technical quality. Tom’s watercolor scenes are direct and textural, and his sensitive and purposeful frames secure the images. Wallace utilizes trompe-l'oeil on acrylic wash dyed canvases to give life and ephemerality to her painted words.
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JANINE IVERSEN
TOMATO IN THE MIRROR 10 Jun - 10 Jul 2022 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present “Tomato in the Mirror”, a solo exhibition featuring 11 new paintings by Janine Iversen. Painting resulting from the constant and continual performance of some act is called painting acquired by constant practice and habit, as, for instance, the painting of painting intercourse, the painting... Read more -
MARGOT BIRD
Knuckles and Cockpits 22 Apr - 22 May 2022 Read more -
ELIOT GREENWALD
Walkers 22 Apr - 22 May 2022 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are pleased to announce the opening of “Walkers” an exhibition of new paintings by Eliot Greenwald. The show title takes its inspiration from the two large multi-panel works, which share the name of ‘walker’ in their respective titles. These two works mirror each other as... Read more -
AUSTIN ENGLISH
Standard Treacle 11 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are pleased to announce the opening of “Standard Treacle,” an exhibition of drawings on paper by New York based artist AustinEnglish. Fresh off the long awaited release of his new book Meskin and Umezo we are happy to present some of English’s most recent drawings.... Read more -
ZACK RAFULS
LONG TIME LISTENER FIRST TIME CALLER 11 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of Brooklyn based artist Zack Rafuls. What seems at first glance an evenly-paced installation, soon turns into a complex journey through sensitive and nuanced details in image and material. Rafuls’ materials are sui generis, and New York City... Read more -
Lauren Anaïs Hussey | Janine Iversen | Jamie Gray Williams
Picture-Writing 19 Nov - 19 Dec 2021 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Picture-Writing,” an exhibition of oil paintings featuring the work of three different artists. Within this group of works, largely in an autumnal color palette, each artist creates their own cumulative compositional language through a focus on line-work that is almost calligraphic... Read more -
DAN SCHEIN
WINDOW PAINS 19 Nov - 19 Dec 2021 Best Western is pleased to announce the opening of “Window Pains,” a solo exhibition by New York based painter Dan Schein. On view are eight intimate oil portraits each depicting a single subject in a scene. Though the artist withholds in scale, material is given in abundance. Thick oil paint... Read more -
Marlon Kroll
A CHRONIQUE FEAR 16 Oct - 16 Nov 2021 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of Montreal-based Marlon Kroll’s “A Chronique Fear” in our Best Western space. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. There is a poetics in Kroll’s work that dances around the familiar and spins it slightly into the unknown, in both... Read more -
JAMES ULMER
Laid Back 16 Oct - 14 Nov 2021 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Laid Back,” an exhibition by the painter James Ulmer. This is the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. This exhibition will run concurrently with a second solo exhibition by Ulmer - “Painting Pictures” - at The Hole on Bowery. The... Read more -
ISABELLA CUGLIEVAN
THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING SMALL 27 Aug - 26 Sep 2021 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “The Advantages Of Being Small.” This exhibition marks Isabella Cuglievan’s first solo show. We are excited to present both paintings on canvas and on paper.
In these works, highly pigmented watercolor and ink immediately offer an intensely vivid kaleidoscopic effect, ripe with floral and textile references. While the patterning may reference textile and quilting from across the globe, the color palette shows influence distinctly Peruvian – Cuglievan was born and raised in Lima.
These paintings are made by layering carefully chosen blends of color upon carefully chosen blends of color, within a predetermined framework often radiating around and from the center. At times we see thick ribbons of color which look as if sliced-through, revealing additional bands of color inside, a reading that suggests the psychedelic, while also akin to digital glitch patterns. As symmetry is tested and pulled into asymmetry, the works remain grounded in repetitive compositions and controlled brushwork. The surfaces return the viewer again and again to the thin and delicate nature of the application.
The paintings are as delicate as they are strong, a challenging combination to achieve. We look forward with great excitement to seeing Cuglievan take her place in a new generation of painters, leading us in expanding our language of abstraction. Read more -
Jenna Ransom
Eating a Peach Sky 27 Aug - 26 Sep 2021 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are pleased to announce the opening of “Eating A Peach Sky” a solo exhibition by Brooklyn based artist Jenna Ransom. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The show consists of nine carefully painted canvases that pace the viewer at a slowed down... Read more -
Elizabeth Ferry
Sensory Overlord 24 Jul - 22 Aug 2021 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are excited to announce “Sensory Overlord” a solo exhibition by Elizabeth Ferry. This is the artist’s first show with the gallery. Sparked by original sketchbook drawings Ferry made twenty-five years ago, “Sensory Overlord” unveils a new process for the New York based artist, utilizing pigmented... Read more -
DAN MANDELBAUM
MIGHT BE THE LAST SHOW 24 Jul - 22 Aug 2021 Marvin Gardens is happy to announce, “might be the last show” the third solo exhibition at the gallery by New York based sculptor Dan Mandelbaum. Here the artist positions five individual works sparsely throughout the gallery on custom-made octagonal pedestals, a shape reminiscent of the kiln shelves he fired the... Read more -
Matija Bobicic
SNEAKERHEADS 10 Apr - 10 May 2021 Marvin Gardens is excited to present SNEAKERHEADS, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Matija Bobičić. This group of paintings is from the outset a direct nod to the show title. Motifs that the artist has painted for years, such as the recurring clown mask, and various cartoon heads... Read more -
Mark Sengbusch
70 Raindrops 10 Apr - 10 May 2021 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are excited to announce the opening of '70 Raindrops' the first solo exhibition by Mark Sengbusch, born and raised in New York. In this debut show the artist displays a visual language generated in free intersections between art, design, interiors, and architecture. Growing up in... Read more -
JASON SILVA
THUMBNAILS 30 Oct - 22 Nov 2020 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are excited to announce “Thumbnails” in collaboration with CHART, a two-venue solo presentation of work by artist Jason Silva (b. 1979). The exhibition features a series of drawings spanning six years alongside new paintings. Silva’s most prolific body of work, the graphite works on paper,... Read more -
KEVIN O'HARA
COLOSSUS 10 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 Marvin Gardens and Best Western are excited to announce “Colossus” a solo exhibition by Kevin O’Hara. This is the artist’s first show with the gallery. Intimately sized oil paintings on prepared paper, framed without glazing, all share the same subject matter: driving at night. The viewpoint is that of being... Read more -
DAN MANDELBAUM
DAN'S SHOW 31 Jul - 4 Sep 2020 Marvin Gardens cordially invites you to take an appointment to see the first show in our new project space, Best Western, adjacent to the main gallery. Throughout the Covid-19 lockdown this spring, Dan Mandelbaum continued to work at home with what spare materials were at hand, creating soft sculptures. Stylistically,... Read more -
PAULA LAWRIE + ZACK RAFULS
TENDERSWEET 28 Feb - 28 Mar 2020 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of Tendersweet, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Paula Lawrie and Zack Rafuls, which will take place in Montreal, Quebec. We are grateful to be invited by Family Exhibitions (Montreal) and Grifter (New York) to join alongside their concurrent exhibitions. Shows... Read more -
LULU WHITE + JENNY LEE + RAE HICKS
MATERIAL IMAGES 18 Oct - 17 Nov 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of Material Images, a display of intimate sized works with subdued color palettes, each taking a turn into process whereby the material aspects of the artwork operate as the primary channel for their creation. Lulu White’s papier mâché constructions are arrived at... Read more -
EUN-HA PAEK
TWO, TOO 18 Oct - 17 Nov 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture by Eun-Ha Paek. Displaying works that are distinctly figurative and with a surreal curve lent by the traditional material handling of the clay itself to which the artist combines refined minimal color palettes. Extrusion and hand building are... Read more -
ANDY CAHILL + NICK PAYNE + BILL SAYLOR + CLAYTON SCHIFF + JAMIE WILLIAMS + NIKI WILLIAMS
WAY OFF SOMEWHERE 13 Sep - 13 Oct 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Way Off Somewhere , curated by Jonathan DeDecker. In this painting and drawing exhibition, six distinct voices coalesce into a curation of affective unity. DeDecker suggests that these images “might help lead us into a fantastically energized pictorial pursuit of the future, but just... Read more -
GUIL MACEDO
SEED DREAM 19 Jul - 18 Aug 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of “Seed Dream” by Brazilian artist Guil Macedo. This exhibition marks the beginning of a large collaborative technological project in which Macedo ultimately plans to use brain wave mapping toward an immersive audiovisual virtual reality experience built in real time by viewer-participants.... Read more -
PHILIP HINGE
TAKE MY LIFE, PLEASE 19 Jun - 18 Aug 2019 Philip Hinge (973)886-1056 phinge88@gmail.com www.phinge.net Take My Life, Please Marvin Gardens Morbid ruminations and an endless rehashing of the sights that constitute my visual being are on blast. Conjuring a historical misfit, I exorcise the anxiety entombing his guilt; this cosmic clown was born on earth instead of the stars.... Read more -
SCOTT ZIEHER
OBJETS D’ARP 14 Jun - 14 Jul 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new collages by artist and poet Scott Zieher. Concurrent with this exhibition, Zieher has released his newest publication: Brownsville Quarterly , copies of which will be available for viewers throughout the duration of the show. As the title suggests, this... Read more -
AUSTIN ENGLISH
MESKIN / UMEZO 10 May - 9 Jun 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Austin English. ‘Meskin/ Umezo’ takes its title from a three-part graphic narrative that English began in June 2016, working on it without pause for the last three years. On view are 46 original works... Read more -
PETER CLEARY
SEA VIEWS 10 May - 9 Jun 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the U.S. solo debut of Irish painter Peter Cleary. On view in our second gallery space are six new oil paintings on panel depicting human-like figures in various interactions within shadowy landscapes. Cleary’s process is to work on several paintings simultaneously, building each of... Read more -
FLESH AND FANTASY
CURATED BY KENNETH HEYNE 5 Apr - 5 May 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Flesh and Fantasy , a group exhibition featuring 17 artists, curated by Kenneth Heyne. The works in Flesh and Fantasy carry a seductive and eerie narrative that resonates through the gallery space. The exhibition shares its title with a 1943 film noir fantasy drama... Read more -
MIKA AGARI + ZACK RAFULS
OLD MUSIC 1 - 31 Mar 2019 Marvin Gardens is pleased to open ‘Old Music’ a two-person exhibition featuring Mika Agari and Zack Rafuls. The show is composed of new work that shares both artists’ multimedia approach to sculpture, and includes a single collaborative piece titled Bubble , pictured above. The show title takes its name from... Read more -
DAN SCHEIN
PAINTINGS OF HORSES AND OTHER THINGS ALSO 2 Nov - 2 Dec 2018 Marvin Gardens presents Paintings of Horses and Other Things Also , a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based painter Dan Schein. Dan Schein paints tableaux of primeval landscapes dominated by human desire. These narrative scenes portray the entangled lives of humans, horses, and environments in a temporal frame that... Read more -
JONATHAN DEDECKER
INFINITY LAND 20 Jul - 26 Aug 2018 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of two concurrent solo exhibitions on July 20 th . Jonathan DeDecker will occupy the gallery’s main space, showing 5 new large mixed media works. Matija Bobicic will occupy the gallery’s second exhibition room, showing a selection of new paintings. This will... Read more -
MATIJA BOBICIC
UNDER THE RAINBOW 20 Jul - 26 Aug 2018 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of two concurrent solo exhibitions on July 20th. Jonathan DeDecker will occupy the gallery’s main space, showing 5 new large mixed media works. Matija Bobicic will occupy the gallery’s second exhibition room, showing a selection of new paintings. This will be the... Read more -
JAMES ULMER
PLAY ORBIT 8 Jun - 8 Jul 2018 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Play Orbit, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn- based painter James Ulmer. This show shares a title with a now near half-century-old exhibition staged at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, which featured toys and games created by visual artists, and introduced interesting ideas... Read more -
HEIN KOH
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS 4 May - 3 Jun 2018 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Splendor in the Grass , a solo exhibition of sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Hein Koh. With towering flowers and anthropomorphic edibles strewn among a field of Astroturf, Hein Koh has transformed Marvin Gardens into a phantasmagorical garden of another variety altogether. Created with the... Read more -
SEBASTIAN GLADSTONE
PICTURES FROM MY DREAM 6 - 30 Apr 2018 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of Pictures From My Dream , a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based painter Sebastian Gladstone. The works in this exhibition represent a “back-to-basics” approach to painterly process for Gladstone, a transition that began in late 2016. Prompted in no small part by... Read more -
MEG FRANKLIN
SMALL, SMALL WORLD 2 Mar - 1 Apr 2018 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the opening of Small, Small World , the New York debut solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based painter Meg Franklin. Though obviously objects, there’s something eerily curious about the contents of Meg Franklin’s still-lifes. The baubles and doodads that populate her pieces look and feel familiar—you... Read more -
MASON SALTARRELLI
THURMAN MUNSON 17 Nov - 17 Dec 2017 Marvin Gardens presents “Thurman Munson,” a solo exhibition featuring sculptures by Mason Saltarrelli. Culling from past and present studio settings and travel, Mason Saltarrelli applies an open-ended approach to 3-D assemblage, utilizing the objects not as prepackaged readymades, but as opportunities to expand intuitive responses to surrounding environments. Where the... Read more -
ALICIA GIBSON
BACKSEAT BINGO 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2017 Marvin Gardens presents “Backseat Bingo,” a solo exhibition featuring paintings by Alicia Gibson. Electric in both color and tone, the paintings of Alicia Gibson vibrate with frenzied energy reminiscent of a DIY punk aesthetic. Just like a photocopied zine might be filled with personal photos, favorite albums, or inside jokes,... Read more -
RORY BARON
DOWN THE WAY 8 Sep - 8 Oct 2017 Marvin Gardens gladly presents “Down the Way,” a solo exhibition featuring sculptures by artist Rory Baron. Hailing originally from Elyria, Ohio, a small suburb slightly south and east of Cleveland, Rory Baron draws inspiration from the architecture of his hometown—the cookie cutter houses, highways, and strip malls—infusing these mundane motifs... Read more -
CHRISTOPHER PROVENZANO
DEAD MAN'S ISLAND 2 Jun - 2 Jul 2017 Marvin Gardens gladly presents “Dead Man’s Island,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Christopher Provenzano. The artist loosely takes the title from research of different places on the globe with the same name, and remembering the 1996 made for television movie. Like most of Provenzano’s references -and influences- the... Read more -
NICKOLAUS TYPALDOS
PARTITION 7 Apr - 14 May 2017 Partition, an exhibition of new work by Nickolaus Typaldos, centers on notions of confusion, obstruction and the ever-shifting relationship between power and position as they affect not only perception but also political agency. At the heart of the show is a site-specific architectural intervention – the construction of a vinyl-covered... Read more -
DAN MANDELBAUM
FREE HONEY 18 Nov 2016 - 8 Jan 2017 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Brooklyn based sculptor Dan Mandelbaum. On view are nine of his most recent ceramic sculptures, displayed in three different ways. The works are displayed on pedestals of vastly different heights between the front and back rooms. Additionally, four pieces... Read more -
ADRIANNE RUBENSTEIN + JENNIFER SULLIVAN
BUNNICULA 14 Oct - 13 Nov 2016 Bunnicula is a collaborative exhibition featuring new drawing, painting and sculpture by Jennifer Sullivan and Adrianne Rubenstein. The title Bunnicula is borrowed from a series of books for adolescents about a vampire rabbit that sucks the juice out of vegetables. Drawing upon the idea of a character that is deceptively... Read more -
SUSUMU KAMIJO
I THINK SO 9 Sep - 9 Oct 2016 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Susumu Kamijo. The show title: “I Think So” pulled from conversations with the artist, characterizes in part his humble and dedicated approach toward exploration in painting and drawing. A sense of chasing discovery is evident in the concise handling... Read more -
MINÁ MINOV
AMERICAN ELEGANCE 19 Aug - 4 Sep 2016 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present American Elegance , Bulgarian native Miná Minov’s first solo exhibition in New York. All of the works shown here were created onsite or filmed in Ridgewood and Bushwick. The title itself is borrowed from a furniture store one block up the street from the... Read more -
Doris Boneparte + S. Evans + Alvin Hamilton + Dana Licht + Amanda Martin + Misael Medina + Eric Nelson
PYRAMID INC 15 Jul - 14 Aug 2016 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Pyramid , Inc. an exhibition taking its name from the organization where the paintings and drawings in this show were produced in Florida. I have been intently watching the flow of work coming from Pyramid for over two years now. Upon first discovering some... Read more -
William Crawford + Marlene Frontera + Walter Price + Dan Schein + Jason Silva
PAPER PEDDLING 3 Jun - 10 Jul 2016 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present Paper Peddling , an exhibition displaying graphite on paper works by five artists. To a large degree the seeds of this exhibition were in seeing the work of these artists in separate contexts (mostly their studios) and noticing graphite as a possible common element... Read more -
BROWN AND BROWNING
PENETRATION IN THE MONTH OF WALT WHITMAN’S BIRTHDAY 29 Apr - 29 May 2016 Marvin Gardens is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of sorts. Brown and Browning are pleased to present to you this photo of Walt: The eight sculptures in this show were made in the month of Walt Whitman’s birth, in 2014. Everett Brown, a Dallas native, and Rachael Browning,... Read more -
BILL ADAMS + AUSTIN ENGLISH + SUSUMU KAMIJO
I'VE BEEN MEANING TO SUE FOR SOMETHING 11 Mar - 24 Apr 2016 Marvin Gardens is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition “I’ve Been Meaning To Sue For Something.” Taken from a mistyped sentence in conversation with the artists while planning the exhibition (the intended word was ‘use’ rather than ‘sue’). Playfully gritty, timely and to-the-point, it aptly characterizes a starting-point from which... Read more
