
This online exhibition features works donated by fifty artists to benefit Performance Space New York, and is available in tandem with a physical exhibition at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street location. Organized by Ei Arakawa, Kerstin Brätsch, Nicole Eisenman, and Laura Owens, the show explores playful dynamics between painting and performance.
In 1980, Performance Space New York was born in the East Village as Performance Space 122 when a group of local artists occupied the recently decommissioned Public School 122. Faced with the neighborhood’s gentrification, the government’s neglect of the AIDS epidemic, and a defunding of the arts nationwide, the artists made work as a passionate rejection of corporate mainstream culture—an effort that continues to expand the boundaries of live performance today.
Street View of Performance Space New York. 150 First Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY. Image courtesy Performance Space New York
Street View of Performance Space New York. 150 First Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY. Image courtesy Performance Space New York
Past performances at Performance Space New York. See footer for details.
Installation View, A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York, 2022
Installation View, A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York, 2022
Installation View, A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York, 2022
Installation View, A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York, 2022
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Featured artists and events at Performance Space New York in GIF: Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) performing at the TGNC Resilience Gala and Awards, March 2022. Photo by Santiago Felipe; Kia LaBeija, Untitled, The Black Act, November 2019. Photo by Julieta Cervantes; Stosh Fila (left) and Julie Tolentino (right), bury.me.fiercely., December 2019. Photo by Maria Baranova; Judith Ren-Lay, The Last Taboo at “Full Support,” February 1993. Photo by Dona Ann McAdams; Two photos from Ligia Lewis’s minor matter, May 2019. Photos by Julieta Cervantes; niv Acosta and Fannie Sosa, Choir of the Slain (part X), January 2019. Photo by Maria Baranova; Penny Arcade, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, May 2018. Photo by Julieta Cervantes; John Bernd, Go Go Boys, 1985. Left to right: Irving Gregory, Donald Flemming, Joseph Pupello, John Bernd, and Chris Burnside. Photo by Dona Ann McAdams.
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