If you’re planning your NYC gallery rounds this week, the stretch from Tribeca through the Lower East Side and East Village is packed with some of the city’s strongest summer art openings. With the week leading into the Fourth of July bringing increasingly hot temperatures, there is no better time to spend an afternoon exploring galleries, discovering new artists, and revisiting established names in downtown Manhattan.
Lower East Side | Tuesday
Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, ‘Double Bind" Belonging and Its Discontents’ group show curated by Catharine Clark
Tribeca | Tuesday
Matthew Brown, 390 Broadway, ‘Cricket Music’ with various artists
Theta, 184 Franklin St, ‘Bird World’ by Ty Palow
Canada, 60 Lispenard St, ‘Plants, Animals and Sky’ Ellen Altfest, Edward Bannister, Minnie Black, Ben Berlow, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Dietmar Busse, Paula Brooks, Ross Caliendo, Leidy Churchman, Noah Cohen, Emily Cole, Mira Dancy, Francesco Igory Deiana, Joe DeNardo, Lois Dodd, Laura Donohue, Robert S. Duncanson, Sam Falls, Deborah Falls, Gerald Ferguson, Mark Fleuridor, Brianne Garcia, Eliot Greenwald, Nora Griffin, Rachel Gross, Domenico Gutknecht, Anders Hamilton, Bendix Harms, Marsden Hartley, Karsen Heagle, Marc Hundley, James Hyde, George Inness, Kahlil Robert Irving, Gerald Jackson, Matthew Day Jackson, Marci Janusz, Sahar Khoury, Elisabeth Kley, Emma Kohlmann, Sandy Litchfield, Lily Ludlow, Lauren Luloff, Diana Mallett, Lee Mary Manning, Emily Manwaring, Tony Matelli, Richard Mayhew, Dean Millien, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Andrew Nash, Davida Nemeroff, Tessa O’Brien, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Ken D. Resseger, Joe Roberts, Joan Snyder, Mamali Shafahi, Claire Sherman, Eva Sturm-Gross, Mary Temple, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Scott Treleaven, Tabboo!, Nina de Creeft Ward, Trevor Warren, Gerald Wartofsky, Sterling Wells, Anke Weyer, Wallace Whitney, Jane Wilson, Beatriz Williams, Jimmy Wright, 6pm-9pm
Lower East Side | Wednesday
Anonymous Gallery, 136 Baxter St, ‘Trace’ with N Dash, Mitchell Kehe, Lotus Kang, Grant Mooney, Iris Touliatou, Minh Lan Tran
Lichtundfire, 175 Rivington St, ‘The Unknown’ group show curated by Stephen Cimini, Priska Juschka
Andrew Edlin Gallery, 212 Bowery, ‘American Landscape Summer Show Extravaganza!’ with Shuvinai Ashoona, Amanda Baldwin, Joanna Beall Westermann, Pearl Blauvelt, Casey Bolding, Joe Brainard, Beverly Buchanan, James Castle, John Hee Taek Chae, Carroll Cloar, Emma cc Cook, Henry Darger, Verne Dawson, Agnes Denes, Olive Diamond, David Dupuis, Paul Edlin, Chris “Daze” Ellis, Peter Fend, Jane Freilicher, Dennis Gordon, C’naan Hamburger, Daniel Heidkamp, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, Brad Kahlhamer, Matthew Kenny, Terence Koh, Bonnie Lucas, Ray Materson, Sarah McEneaney, Bill Miller, Steve Mumford, Nilda Neves, Erik Parker, Joseph Parker, Fairfield Porter, Caleb Hahne Quintana, Milton Resnick, Alexis Rockman, Spain Rodriguez, Samuel Sarmiento, Stephen Shore, John Shust, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Jordan Sullivan, Abraham Lincoln Walker, Frank Walter, Esther Pearl Watson, H. C. Westermann, Joseph Yoakum, Rhys Ziemba, Marina Zurkow
Nathalie Karg Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, ‘Sommardyner ’ by Kerstin Hans (1931–2001), ‘Certified Copy’ by Nicole Cherubini, André Hemer, Matvey Levenstein, Al Svoboda, and Tim Wilson
Peter Freeman, 140 Grand St, work by Robert Moskowitz, Myron Stout4
Wednesday Gallery Map:
Lower East Side / East Village | Thursday
14BC Gallery, 626 East 14th St, ‘Accidental Commitment’ by Jay Eckhardt, 5pm-9pm
The Hole, 312 Bowery, ‘New Traditionalists’ with MJ Kim, Serban Ionescu, Jorge Pardo, Jane Yang D’heane, Karin Gulbran, Autumn Casey, Rafi AJl, Darren Romanelli, Adam D. Miller, Chris Wolston, Terumi Saito, Jenny Krypell, Audrey Large, Pablo Tomek, Max Simon, Daniel Barragan, Shaina Tabak, Isabel Rower, Andy Dixon, Jim Drain, Chris Johanson, Alex Kerr, Holton Rower, Nick Lenker, Misha Kahn, Barbora Zilinskaite, Jessy Nite, Beverly Fishman, Warren Isensee and more
Magenta Plains, 149 Canal St, ‘Film Screening’ by Matt Keegan, ‘Dryer, Davie, Diamond’ by Moira Dryer, Karin Davie, Martha Diamond
Turquoise, 81 Elizabeth Street, Suite 302, ‘Laurentia by Morning’ by Wilson Miller and Sebastian Maseri
Our featured artist this week is Terry Winters, whose influential practice has shaped contemporary painting for more than four decades. Known for works that blur the boundaries between abstraction, biology, mapping, and visual language, Winters continues to investigate the relationship between systems, perception, and organic form, making his latest appearance one of the week’s essential stops on the NYC gallery circuit.
One of the standout exhibitions is Cricket Music at Matthew Brown, a group exhibition featuring Julie Beaufils, Michaela Eichwald, Tomm El-Saieh, Cynthia Hawkins, Stefanie Heinze, Marguerite Humeau, Nora Kapfer, Olivia van Kuiken, Heidi Lau, Terry Winters, and Masaomi Yasunaga. Borrowing its title from both Walter De Maria’s 1964 sound work and a later painting by Winters, the exhibition explores the space between intention and atmosphere. Painting, sculpture, and ceramics function less as fixed objects than living systems, while densely layered marks dissolve into color, geometric structures become fluid, and sculptural forms hover between the biological and the ceremonial.
Whether you’re gallery hopping through Tribeca, exploring exhibitions on the Lower East Side, or ending your day in the East Village, this week’s openings offer a compelling look at New York’s contemporary art scene. From museum-caliber artists to exciting new voices, these are the shows worth seeing before heading out for the long holiday weekend.
Featured work above by Terry Winters at Matthew Brown Gallery
