Now through January 14, 2023
The photographs in Harvey Silver’s solo exhibit at the EV Gallery document America starting in the late 1960’s — a time of historic change. Growing up in New York City and traveling across the country, Harveyphotographed the counterculture, artistic happenings, anti-war and civil rights actions, concerts and music festivals, landscapes, streets and people.
He was fortunate to record images of iconic folksingers, blues and rock artists, including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Buddy Guy, Gram Parsons, The Band, Tim Buckley, Eric Andersen, Dave Van Ronk and many more.
Through Getty Images, Harvey’s photographs have been published in major media, including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Times, New York Magazine, Smithsonian, Huffington Post, CNN and numerous other national and international publications, books, websites and networks, as well as documentary and independent films and videos.
Harvey lives in the Hudson Valley in Rhinebeck, NYwith his wife, Cindy Silver. Changin’ Times at the EV Gallery is his first solo show in New York City.
A comprehensive portfolio of Harvey Silver’s work can be found at:
For inquires and acquisitions, please email info@evgallery.art or call 978-799-9014.
EV Gallery is excited to present Portraits of the Revolution by Snaybelle AKA Sneha S. Please join us for an Opening Reception Friday, November 4 from 6-10pm. The exhibition highlights social injustices through portraiture of activists including Allison Renville, Water Protector and Indigenous rights activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, Saudi Arabian activist for women’s rights, and Marsha P. Johnson, pioneer for LBGTQIA+ rights.
Some work will be available for purchase by silent auction with 70% of proceeds benefitting grassroots organizations.
The exhibition will run through November 30, 2022.
About the Artist
Sneha S. is an artist based in Queens, New York. Sneha explored art from a young age due to her rough childhood upbringing. Born in Silchar, Assam of India, Sneha’s family shifted to the United States in hopes to “achieve the American dream.” In turn, the harshness of capitalism destroyed her family barely getting by while also dealing with the strained mental health of both of her parents. In order to cope with child abuse, Sneha turned to art for solace. Art took a pause when life took over being a working adult in New York City. But after getting out of a tumultuous relationship, old wounds opened up and Sneha had to address her childhood trauma with the help of therapy, and of course, art came back into her life. And since then, Sneha has continued to explore her artistic capabilities using materials such as acrylic, ink, watercolor, and color pencil.
For inquiries or to bid on a portrait, please contact info@evgallery.art.
EV Gallery is excited to present an exhibition of Photography by East Village neighborhood mainstay Michael Koster. Please join us for an Opening Reception:
Thursday October 27th from 6-9pm at 621 East 11th Street
Michael Koster was born in Cleveland Ohio to artist parents, his father a professional sports photographer and his mother a painter. He has been working as a photographer in New York for the last 26 years, most recently as a visual Storyteller for the Red Cross. He lives in the East Village with his wife Donna. He is looking forward to presenting his first photography show at the EV Gallery with thanks to Kerri Lindstrom.
Inquires to acquire work may be sent to info@evgallery or 978-799-9014.
EV GALLERY, NEW YORK
Reimagined Closes Saturday, October 22, 2022
Closing reception 6-9pm.
EV Gallery is excited to present Reimagined, an exhibition of mostly new works by Leilah Cohen. With inspiration spanning from anime to the renaissance, Leilah creates characters in a style all her own. The opening was a blast, with Special Guests Grady Tesch & Momentum Humans featuring Milo on keytar. Shoshanna Soleyn documented the event. Join us Saturday October 22 6-9pm for a closing reception.
October 11-13, New York, NY
EV Gallery is excited to present work by New York artist Matthew Marcot. Please join us for an Opening Reception Tuesday, October 11 from 6-11pm.
Renderings of the Spirit will focus on Marcot’s own brand of hieroglyphic-like calligraphy, biomorphic semiotics, and primal intuitive expression.
Renderings of the Spirit is on view October 11, 6-11pm, and October 12-13 by appointment only. Requests for appointments and purchasing works can be made via email to info@evgallery.art.
For more information about Matthew Marcot, please visit his website.
EV GALLERY, NEW YORK
September 9, 2022 from 5-9pm
a personal retrospective with data visualizations.
an immersive installation where water drips and flowers light up.
a story about losing wonder and finding hope, tentatively, ferociously.
an art show by Shirley Wu.
Bio
Shirley Wu is an award-winning creative focused on data-driven art and visualizations. She has worked with clients such as Google, The Guardian, Scientific American, SFMOMA, and International Rescue Committee to develop custom, highly interactive data visualizations. She combines her love of art, math, and code into colorful, compelling narratives that push the boundaries of the web.
In 2021, she co-authored Data Sketches with Nadieh Bremer, a hybrid textbook and coffee table book that detail the process behind 24 data visualization projects.
She is currently pursing a Master’s at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), with the goal of bringing her data stories into the physical world.
Her work can be found at shirleywu.studio.
EV GALLERY, NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 15TH 2022 – OCTOBER 8TH 2022
EV Gallery is pleased to present Mary Franck’s debut solo exhibition, Specimens, a sculptural series of new works.
Opening Reception: September 15, 2022 6-9 PM
Closing Reception: October 8th, 2022 6-9 PM
Visiting Hours: Saturdays 1-6 pm, and all other times by appointment.
Relief sculptures of fantastical biological specimens combine with generative organic animations in Mary Franck’s debut solo exhibition Specimens (2022). The series layers manual and algorithmic processes to create complex, organic forms: imagined specimens. Each piece lives both as a 3D print of a model and as a corresponding generative animation. These sculptures translate Franck’s practice of large-scale video installations and performances into more delicate and intimate work.
Specimens alludes to the way virtuality supplants the natural world with synthetic ones. The synthetic specimens embody the artist’s fascinations with natural systems and computational geometry. Geometry is an ancient art, now used to simulate and fabricate reality through VFX and the tensor calculations of AI neural networks. While the natural world becomes degraded and more remote, fully imaginary worlds created through computation proliferate. Geometry, once used to describe the world, now replaces it.
In this new series, intricate sculptural forms suggest plants, invertebrates, and multicellular colonies. Materialized in resin, a medium long associated with the preservation of insects, the sculptures’ translucence recalls membranes and fluids, eerily imitating organisms they may outlast. Their mounting and framing references naturalist traditions, further fictionalizing the
pieces. For each piece, the same algorithms and geometries that have been ossified as sculptures undulate and pulse as lush animations that accompany each 3D print.
Mary Franck
b. 1985, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn
Mary Franck is a media artist exploring presence and embodiment. She densely layers techniques and mediums to create her signature aesthetic of sensuous, unfolding complexity. Franck integrates sculpture, installation, video, performance, and digital technology to create spatial works that evolve over time.
Her work has appeared across the US and around the world in museums and festivals such as Sónar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Soundwave Festival, The Gray Area, Mutek Montreal,
and A+D Architecture and Design Museum. Selected commissions include Carapace for the Société des Arts Technologiques, Gilded and Unreal for New Experiments in Art and Technology at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Seed for the Night Festival of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Selected residencies include Autodesk’s Pier 9 Artist in Residence program, CounterPulse, and Million Fishes Arts Collective.
EV GALLERY, NEW YORK
AUGUST 5TH 2022-SEPTEMBER 3RD 2022
UPDATE: Join us for a closing reception Saturday September 3 from 6-9pm.
EV Gallery is excited to present Anaphoric Fractures, a collaborative exhibition of new works of layered paper and acrylic painting by Nicole Aptekar and Tilde Thurium. Anaphoric Fractures opens August 5th with a public reception from 6-9 pm and runs through September 3rd, 2022.
Nicole creates portals into a dark world, described with monochromatic paper and extruded out into three dimensional space. Tilde works in riotous colors, creating shape, line and texture that feel animated and alive. This unlikely coupling of materials and styles: chaotic, watercolor-esque palettes contrasting against precision cut edges and structures marks the evidence of an ongoing conversation.
Nicole and Tilde have been quiet collaborators for a decade, working with and supporting each other’s practices. Their shared understanding of how the other’s pieces come together led them to start experimenting with collaboratively authored work in 2018. Anaphoric Fractures four years later, is the result of that artistic dialog. Acrylic paintings are nestled deep inside layers of laser cut sculpted paper, with shapes and lines often transcending one medium and finding their way into the other. The visible, tangible material borders in these works only showcase further the juxtaposition between Nicole’s minimal, digital sensibilities and Tilde’s organic, maximalist radiance.
Nicole Aptekar lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. This is her second show with the gallery. Her work has previously been exhibited in New York, California, and Vancouver.
Tilde Thurium is based in San Francisco, California. In addition to painting, they produce experiential art events. Their previous works have been shown at the San Francisco Institute of Possibility.
Visiting hours are Saturdays 1-5 pm, and all other times by appointment. Email info@evgallery.art to set up an appointment. Requests for purchasing works can be made in person at the gallery, or via email.
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EV Gallery is excited to present a solo exhibition by psychologist/painter Patrick Rafferty running June 4-30, 2022. Please join us for an Opening Reception with the artist and New York Jazz Saxophonist Sunhyun Yoo. Read on for the artist’s statement:
In psychoanalysis, Projective Identification is a defense mechanism used to protect the self against self-hatred and other unacceptable qualities one feels about themself.
Projective Identification occurs when one person, unconsciously or consciously hating themselves, verbally or behaviorally projects their self-hatred onto another person, actually into the other person, by means of relational psychological conduits that are unconscious to both people who have a vested relationship.
The other person, not wanting to destroy the relationship and the first person along with it, by rejecting these violent, hateful projections, instead unconsciously identifies with them, taking in the projected qualities and believing that they are the one who actually embodies them.
People who use Projective Identification are often labeled as manipulative.
This would be false, as Projective Identification is a way that two people who are care about each other, protect their relationship from collapsing under the weight of the self-hatred of the first person, even though it tends to destroy the other person in the process.
This brings us to screaming cats.
Screaming cats are, well, cats that are very uncomfortable.
Despite the obvious discomfort of these cats, in these paintings, the cats are continued to be touched in a longing or violent way.
These paintings are part of a collection by Patrick Rafferty who is also a clinical psychologist in addition to being a painter.
He painted them because apparently his spirit animal is a screaming cat. Or it isn’t. He doesn’t know. But he knows that screaming cats have something to do with Projective Identification, sadness, masculinity, and troubled relationships.
EV GALLERY, NEW YORK
Up in Arms is an exhibition of 19 custom metal prints by Wrolf Courtney of police and protesters shot at a Brooklyn BLM protest in 2020 organized by The Gathering for Justice. Reception Saturday May 7, 6-9 featuring Lea Anderson and The Gathering for Justice
$100 of each sale benefits The Gathering for Justice.
May 30th, 2020. I didn’t want to go. During COVID, working from home to avoid infection. But I could not miss this, a BLM protest on Ocean Avenue, a short walk from me. What was the point of having a camera if I did not take it where it needed to be.
The crowd was gathering quickly as I arrived and pushed my way to the front. Justice League NYC had set up a stage and sound system, as we waited I shot photos of the expectant crowd, their signs expressing their passion.
Speakers started. One high school student described the oppressive nature of the system that she and her friends faced. A teacher spoke of her despair at how her kids were treated.
Then the organization collapsed. I don’t know whether this was at all planned, but somehow a march started, more of a directional shamble. No marshals, just peaceful protesters following each other down Flatbush Avenue.
Eventually the police decided that they owned the streets, they were going to stop us. They formed a ragged line, more symbolic than real. We walked around them. They broke and reformed. We walked around them.
At Tilden they brought in cars, and started pushing directly into the crowd. We had spread out a lot, and retreated to gather together for safety in numbers.
We didn’t mean to surround the cops. They pushed their way into the middle of the street, and the crowd naturally closed around them. There was some pushing. The cops started giving off a scared vibe.
Then they got violent. The crowd had been suspicious of me and my camera, but then calls went up to “let the camera through!” The arrests seemed to be random, whoever fell down in front of them. I have the shots.
One I remember vividly. A ginger-headed cop is standing over the woman he has just pushed over, violence in his stance and in his eyes.
I fell during a baton charge. Two thousand dollars of camera gear went flying, fortunately I managed to land under it and crawled onto the sidewalk. Across the street much the same happened to a HuffPo reporter, and despite his press pass he was arrested.
I had my shots. I was scared. I am just a guy with a camera. I was done for the day, and left for home.
Exhibition running through May 24
The Gathering for Justice is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005 by Harry Belafonte after he witnessed a news report of a 5 year old black girl being handcuffed and arrested in her Florida classroom for “being unruly”. The Gathering for Justice’s mission is to build a movement to end child incarceration while working to eliminate the racial inequities that permeate the justice system.
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