PARSONS FINE ARTS

Traces, Leftovers, & Residue is about what remains. Displaying the different ways that artists consider their traces; past to present. Navigating trauma, existence, the body,…

25East Gallery is delighted to present Material Automatism, a group exhibition recontextualizing “Automatism,” in art, defined as, “the avoidance of conscious intention in producing works…

25East Gallery is pleased to present Displaced Landscapes, an exhibition curated by Anahita Bagheri featuring artists Paguio, Devin Duster, Fran Harris, Guangyuan Xing, Hannah Bang,…

25East Gallery is delighted to present Metamorphosis, a group exhibition that reflects on the idea of change and transformation. Showcasing paintings, sculptures and installations that…

Curated by: Richard Valentin Artists: Mari Rios Cacua Parisa Mah Ryan Van Der Hout Elias Diplas Dagmar Hillel Arden Kraatz Qasim Hussain Mahayla Meyer Jade…

25 East Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition Don’t be Chicken: Fear is the Mind Killer. Representing the work of eight emerging artists who…

In places worlds apart. In wildly disparate politics, an epoch of unprecedented collective pause. In doubt. Enraged. In solitude. In shambles. In rusted and renewed…

Alice, Wake Up, originates from the classic fairy tale Alice in Wonderland. At the end of the story, the self-awakening of Alice enables herself to escape from the wonderland and return to the physical world. The artists create the seemingly harmless, innocent, and humorous works as victims, bystanders or healers to criticize and question families, societies, others, and even selves, inadvertently or intentionally inflict physical or mental harm on the objects. From the perspective of self-analysis, social practice, and theoretical research, this exhibition reveals the close internal relationship between public, private, physical, spiritual, and environmental.

Between Here and There

Places are difficult to describe but not impossible to express. We all live and work at a certain address, a place. The address is precise and clear, while the place is indistinct, relative, difficult to describe.

How is a place built in our minds? What can be used as a symbol of a place? Can a picture can represent a place? Can a description can represent a place, or is an address is enough to represent?

This show offers a comprehensive view of different places, stemming from thoughts to visual forms. The artists in this show explore places on different layers, a faraway place, a place in memory, a place in reality, a place that has disappeared, a new place…

Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 16th, 6 – 8pm 25 E 13th Street, New York, NY, 5th Floor The artists’ appetite for contemplation is met without attempt…

‘More Than Landscape’ is an exhibition of artists working primarily in the medium of painting and drawing. In a time where landscapes are very much…

Zinc-Finger Like Folds is an exhibition of texts. ( heard & read & seen )

25 East Gallery is pleased to present There Are Dog-Years and The Infinitely Small, a group exhibition which brings together artists whose practices of archiving,…

Xavier is an imagined planet where life never ends and only exists in the streets. Here, artists arrange fantastical reactions to their realities. As adaptations…

FOMO comes to us in an era of user error, collective insecurity, and evolving non-verbal cues. In 2015, Apple introduced a new line of emojis,…

  As the world shifts into further extremes of power polarizations, with radical right wingers dominating the results of many democratic elections, countries already at…

The Junior Class of the Parsons Fine Arts program is pleased to announce Fire in the Wet Lab, a group exhibition featuring recent work by…

Conceal and Carry represents a moment of reflection on the individual and cultural accumulation of contemporary national trauma. This exhibition investigates the ways in which sensationalism, tragedy, scale, and violence dictate and inform image making and cultural identity. The early twenty-first century has arrived in its own reckless and blurry sense of identity, one that is rooted in the terminal nature of imperialism and the ever-evolving rapport of terror and documentary.

All photos from https://www.elysejohnson.info

The reflective reflex is a reflex, which is a reflective self projected onto itself. It is a simulation of its own, made by itself. A…

Many things can spark the boldness of resistance. Natural disasters, episodes of mental or physical trauma, political turning points, and the transition – or distortion…

In a climate of political urgency, artists have taken on the role of commentators, introspective poets and instigators of movement. “How an Artwork Should Speak”…

The idea that Earth was not plain but round meant also that there was part of it unexplored, but also, the world itself had changed; The…

X-Life Opening Reception: November 6, 2017, 6-8 PM 25 East Gallery 25 East 13th St, 5th Floor Show Dates: November 6 – 18, 2017 Featuring…

We have encountered tremendous challenges to the understanding of who we are and how we live in this post-trump and the post-truth era of our…

  How can abstraction be utilized as a site for queerness? How can abstraction be re-appropriated as a political strategy for re-framing our thinking in regards…

“Convergence” is an exhibition that creates a network of visual and sonic constellations. These networks orient us to view our practices not in isolation but…

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And…

Spaces, people, objects, and time are always mutually affecting each other, existing in their own logic yet contributing to a greater logic. The works on…

The Fine Arts department at Parsons The New School For Design is pleased to announce the group exhibition Twist. The diverse selection of works presented…

“No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other, and no one, as far as I know,…

God or the Equivalent lives in those moments when the materials of an artistic practice take over the creative process. Picture the delighted eyes of…

We have entered a new geological age recognized as the Anthropocene or “Age of Humans” giving rise to much theory and debate. The intensification of…

Un-Object <Post-Objective Perspective> is the last 25 E Gallery show of the semester. The opening reception is from 6pm-8pm on 12/5/16 @ 25 E 13th…

Let’s Talk About Sex Opening: November 14th, 6-8pm As human beings our sex drive engages interactions with other human beings, but what happens when an…

25 East Gallery 25 East 13th Street, NY, NY October 10th-October 21st, 2016 Curated by Haleigh Nickerson and Lydia Nobles   Work addresses identity politics through the…

25 East Gallery 25 East 13th Street, NY, NY Opening: Monday, September 26th, 6:30-8 PM September 26th-October 7th, 2016 curated by Sabine Penteado   The…

  TWO by TWO (art in conversation) Parsons School of Design 25 East 13th St., 5th floor September 12, 2016-September 23, 2016 Closing reception Thursday,…

“The Day After Tomorrow” is the culmination of a curatorial workshop in which artists are involved in a collective curatorial experiment. The exhibition features works…

Opening March 17 Dates: March 18 – April 1

Paradise In Progress is a group exhibition that engages the utopian project of thinking about what the future will look like. Inherent in each of…

This exhibition invites artists from the Parsons MFA Fine Arts Program to consider the discipline of drawing as already present in their studio practices.

  Opening for Both Galleries @ Parsons: Jan. 25, 2016, 6-8pm, Parsons: 25 E. 13th Street Gallery, 5th floor (closing Feb. 05) Lang Sky Bridge…

Enjoy art, created by six women in the MFA Fine Arts program at Parsons, to inspire a stronger community of individuals.

Curated by Jasmin Risk Debora Levy, Dulcina Abreu, Gina Chiappetta, Jasmin Risk, Jordan Strafer, Kayla Paeglis, and Zac Spears have problematized the fixed self, challenged…

Pouring, digging, and leaking all involve the transference of material from one space to another. All three actions call to mind the fluidity of structures,…

Jackie Brookner, an inspiring and much beloved teacher taught at Parsons from 1980 until her death in 2015. She was an ecological artist, writer, and educator. She worked…

This exhibition delves into the territory of memory and location to tell the story of a dual experience; all the artists selected for this show…

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Beyond the Obvious, is an exhibition expanding the ways of seeing and contemplating the processes’ of artwork; the relations between the artist’s intent, the artwork,…

The zine’s humble beginnings can be traced back to the 1920s where sci-fi fans began writing about their interests and distributing their writings in small…

This exhibit brings together a diversity of artistic practices and works that use text and language in direct, subtle or subversive ways. It is a…

CC #2 is an illumination of imagery, light, and sound exploring the sensory expressions of time and space through a complexity of imaginary processes. A…

February 2-13, 2015 OPENING RECEPTION: Monday February 2, 6-8pm

In this moment of crisis ordinariness, we need a way out, an exit strategy. There is a space of possibility for art somewhere between offering…

A group show during Open Studios featuring MFA Fine Arts students.

A portrait show brought to you by the MFA Fine Arts 2nd years. A celebration. Wine. Beer. Snacks.    

Bad Kid,Stupid Kid is an exhibition curated by Rui Lin and features work by BFA students from the class of 2015 which displays ‘serious’ matters…

Pudenda reconsiders the female body (and its relationships to self and viewer) through a multimedia presentation of artwork by Molly Teitelbaum, Nikola Kravitt, Amal Khan,…

Pleasure is perverse misconduct, especially through the eyes. In an artistic canon where the anti-aesthetic reigns supreme, chromophobia is the prerequisite of the market, and…

On the table are three project proposals—printed on 8.5” x 11,” white paper in Times New Roman, 12pt. font—from the three organizers of this exhibition….

Logos—Words And The Contact Zone is an exhibition exploring contemporary uses of text in art that seeks to understand, transcend, address, or provide a meeting…

In defining translation through four different voices we are examining the parallel structures we share in terms of language, as well as encountering the overlapping…

Often, what makes life beautiful is the ability to sense and perceive our surroundings; to hear, to see, and to be consciously aware of the…

In all the video work exhibited the theatrical construction and staging of the scene is a common denominator. The show wants to rethink as well…

FE:BODY reconsiders the female body (and its relationships to other bodies) through a multimedia presentation of artwork by Jessie English, Flynn Linehan, Leah Schrager, Alma…

OPENING RECEPTION: November 19, 6pm-8pm  

The body is a source and repository of a kind of knowledge that is difficult to access or understand. It has its own time, space,…

YONIC is a curated exhibit examining the work of artists at the MFA program at Parsons The New School for Design. The exhibit will encompass…

The word “Identity” implies an individual’s potential in having a stable self, when in fact we may have many different dimensions of identities we chose…

Historically, three-point perspective is a technique used in drawing and drafting to create the illusion of 3 dimensional space. The technique resolves in a vanishing…

OPEN STUDIOS: Thursday November 21, 12-4pm

As a very quiet medium, painters use painting as a language to depict abstracted memory and their interpretation of recent history. Nowadays most people are…

The initial concept of Tracing Erasure comes from an awareness that an absence of a voice, an idea, an object or a person, often affects…

In approaching this idea we engage with the institutional agreement and tacit contract we have made with Parsons through our enrollment in the MFA Fine…

Elevate. Descend. Draw a line through time. The end if the beginning. Ready made, made ready. Find and Oasis of the Mind. Draw a line…

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, artists have been disrupting the flow and progression of modern thought through works that challenge conventional, traditional and archaic…