Programs | Ford Foundation Live Gallery

New York Live Arts (Live Arts) Ford Foundation Live Gallery presents three recent paintings by renowned artist Chaz Guest, in which he reclaims longstanding cultural narratives through powerful new tales. The works will welcome audiences to Live Arts’ fall 2022 season with an opening reception on Thursday, September 15th at...

Kicking off Pride month at Live Arts on June 16 and setting the mood for The House Party is Gio Black Peter’s commissioned installation “FIRE IN THE NIGHT, A Celebration of Queer Tenacity,” which icludes a 7’x7’ painting of and honoring activist,...

“Thou shines beautiful on the horizon of heaven, O Living Disk, who lived from the beginning.” -Akhenaten’s Hymn To The Sun This altar contains the elements of earth, water, fire, and air. It offers an assemblage of works that speak to the heavenly bodies that comprise the ATEN project [The Aten...

On view now through January 2022; Opening reception with complimentary refreshments: Nov 19th, 5pm at New York Live Arts This installation is part of Live Arts 2019 – 2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Raja Feather Kelly’s world premiere WEDNESDAY, Dec 1-4 & 8-10, 2021.  Concept: Raja Feather Kelly Design: Raja...

Bjorn Amelan returns to the Ford Foundation Live Gallery with his large sumi ink paintings. Amelan’s paintings, suggestive of archaic writing systems such as ideograms and pictographs, live between the real, the evocative, and the symbolic. He makes a primal mark that he then teases into shapes and figures through...

Opening this June and on-view through the summer, interdisciplinary and performance artist Emily Oliveira will debut a large-scale installation created for Live Arts’ glass front lobby and building entrance vestibule titled You are Only Sea Foam, So Give Yourself Away Like the...

Theater and Live Gallery Interactive Installation by Jasmine Murrell The lobby installation is an extension of the Immortal Uterus series by Jasmine Murrell. The immortal uterus concept was inspired by the true story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor African-American farmer who suffered from ovarian cancer in 1951. The cells taken...

On view now: Outdoor in-person viewing at New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 Raja Feather Kelly HYSTERIA Concept and Design by Raja Feather Kelly Photography by Kate Enman Film Editing by Laura Snow Sound for Performance by Raja Feather Kelly and Remy Kurs Lighting Design...

Live Arts is honored to announce the four commissioned artists of The VOTE Project installation, on view at the Ford Foundation Live Gallery later this month: Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Ayo Janeen Jackson, Stephon Senegal, and Hong Wu. Four commissioned artists and the letter they will be responsible for: V...

Online viewing open NOW; in-person Sept. 8 through Oct. 1, 2020. In/Between 2020: TRANSFIGURE is a group exhibition curated by artists Martita Abril, Yanira Castro, and Poppy DeltaDawn and presented by New York Live Arts. It was developed to support the artists of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program. All...

The roughly 21′ x 7′ backdrop entitled Femmejoy was created in relation to Dirks-Goodman’s Open Spectrum: The Feminist Dinner Party: Present/Future at Live Arts on Sunday, March 8th. The artist has arranged flower imagery over Andy Warhol’s famous camouflage pattern. The flowers draw on iconic...

FIVE SFMOMA Prints An expansion of the digital data captured during his 2016 FIVE SFMOMA performance. Using 3D data obtained during the live performance, he translated the fierce, spiraling movements of five vogue dancers to the two-dimensional surface of the prints. In collaboration with Tamarind Institute, ten plates were...

Presented in partnership with NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Wild, Wild Earth is a group exhibition co-curated by Yanira Castro, Martita Abril, and Dain DeltaDawn that assembles artists from the New York Foundation for the Art’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program who are re-imagining and re-assigning the world in which they...

Designed by Avram Finkelstein, co-creator of SILENCE=DEATH, and Rodrigo Moreira. The installation is produced in conjunction with Visual AIDS’ 2019 Pride Broadsheet project and in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and NYC/World Pride.  What Is 21st Century Liberation? highlights quotes from...

Derrick Adams: The Journey Continues emerged from Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams​’s continued research into the archive of the influential African-American fashion designer Patrick Kelly​ (1954–1990), housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Featuring abstract collage works on paper framed with glazing. At the center of The Journey Continues is Adams’s...

On view through June 1- September 2018 OPENING RECEPTION JUNE 15, 2018, 4:30-6:30 PM These bags we carry are filled with promise Nick Cave and Bob Faust New York Live Arts Artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust create a kaleidoscopic mural from one of Cave’s iconic soundsuits constructed entirely of woven bags collected from around...

New large-scale mixed-media works on denim inspired by and responding to the physical processes of making dance, and collaborating across disciplines. Opening MAR 7, 5–7pm Jonathan Allen works in painting, collage, video, and performance and frequently collaborates with poets and performers. He will be performing in Joanna Kotze’s evening length work, ‘What...

This fall the Ford Foundation Live Gallery features a new work by Nat Ward. A Nationless Place features a narrative text, written by Nat Ward, that weaves across the wall through five black and white photographs of the Mojave Desert. The photographs are heavily obscured by playful lightleaks, flare, and a...

“We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident”, an installation by celebrated artists Zoë Buckman and Natalie Frank!   “For this mural we have compiled quotations from politicians about women and our bodies whose truths we do not hold as self-evident,” states Frank. “This fight and struggle...

Presented as the first “Obama Out” event is Say It Loud!, a participatory installation in the Ford Foundation Live Gallery by For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC. The installation opens September 19, 2016, 6PM and continues through December 5, 2016. Visitors are invited to add to the installation sharing their thoughts about freedom, the election, the...

The Ford Foundation Live Gallery at New York Live Arts currently features Noctua, Corvus, Hydra, Filis, a commissioned, site-specific work by celebrated artist Kiki Smith. The monumental mural occupies a prominent wall in the New York Live Arts lobby, and is also visible from the street. Noctua, Corvus, Hydra, Filis is...