Your New York

December 18 - December 27, 2018
Opening: Tuesday 12/18, 6pm - 10pm
Closing Karaoke event hosted by Team Macho : Thursday 12/27, 6pm - 10pm

Things come and things go. Sometimes this seems more rampant in New York, but change is constant everywhere. As we approach our 60th exhibition, that change has come for us with the impending expiration of our lease. For the final show in our current space - YOUR NY - we invite our friends, old and new, artists and not, to contribute a tangible object which speaks of their relationship to NYC. It can be an art object you made, or something you have lying around the house, like an old concert ticket, a photograph, anything other people might deem interesting.

To give an example, I will contribute to the exhibition the empty picture frame, which has sat on the toilet tank of our bathroom for the last 3 or so years. I picked it up from a pile of unwanted used frames at my frame-shop. When i inspected it, I discovered a signature on the back: Lee Krasner, the monumental American abstract expressionist. What a wonderful New York moment that was. [continues below]

Old NYC Parking Meter (Michael Anderson, Artist)

Made: unsure
Acquired: 1999
"...so i was going to Grainger with my buddy Tom Fruin. We were picking up a motor, like 1500 lbs, from the place, and when we got there at like 8am all the meters on the street are being replaced with digital ones, and I just kinda picked one up and walked away, and Fruin gave me a hard time, but I got my motor, and no one busted us, and I've had this thing ever since, with my nice sneak move. It's got the clockwork inside inside of the digitals..."

Monthly bill from New Yorker Storage (Mark Jannot, Magazine editor)

Made: 2018
Acquired: 2018
”I've rented a storage locker in NYC for about 20 years, paying about $90 a month. That's more than $20,000 in total. I have not visited the space in over a decade, and I barely have any idea what resides there.”

Citibike Basket (Matt Chaban, Writer)

Late Show with David Letterman Sponge (Myles, Stagehand)

Made: 1992
Acquired: 1992
Dave would give these sponges and collapsable cups out to his guests

Portrait of Tom Sanford (Peter Daverington, Artist)

Made: 2018
Acquired: 2018
Tom introduced me to Avi and quite frankly New York would be unbearable without them.

Custom Brass Plaque (Alfred Steiner, Artist)

Made: 2011
Acquired: 2011
Custom brass plaque to be installed illegally at track level of 14th Street ACE subway station to identify my piece there No Clearance in Niche (http://alfredsteiner.com/No-Clearance-in-Niche.htm). Buyer must agree to affix plaque with appropriate construction adhesive like other plaques at the station for Tom Otterness's works. Once installed, I will issue a certificate of ownership for the piece to the buyer

One-Sun Mask (One-Sun, Artist)

Made: 2001
Acquired: 2001
Clearing a locker with contents that had no place to go, an African art vendor stopped me and expressed interest in my TV, so I gave it to him. In return he gave me this mask. Later i internalized that moment, and the mask.

Boombox pillow + Art in Flux badge (Fab 5 Freddy, Artist)

Made: Unknown
Acquired: 2010
Saw the boombox pill in LA, and loved it, thought I would do something with it in NYC, make a lot of them. Project got pushed to the side it's sat in my art studio for years now. Clipped a Harlem Arts Fair badge to the pillow.

Embroidered Metrocard (Hazal Kelleci, Artist/Art Teacher)

Made: 2017
Acquired: 2017
This is MetroCard is a part of a series I call the Commuter Series. I have been commuting from NJ into Manhattan for the last 7 years of my life and the obsolete purpose of the embroidered card is to represent the frustration the archaic ways of the modern MTA and NJT make me feel.

LIRR Card (Joe Novogrodsky, Finance Professional)

Made: 2018
Acquired: 2018
All my time living in NYC has been spent at my Grandmother’s house in Kew Gardens - here is my KG LIRR pass

Flowering pear branch cut in the fall (Matthew Spady, Project Manager+Neighborhood Historian)

Made: Unkonwn
Acquired: 2018
Autumn branch from a flowering pear that my partner and I planted on the street outside our kitchen window when we had just begun forging a life together