COMING SOON

Curated by: FALCON Art Collective
Produced by: RRASP   

Opening: Tuesday, May 6,  6-9PM

520 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018, 15th Floor

Justin Adian, Uri Aran, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Sam Barsky, Marco Boggio Sella, Bryson Brodie, Edgar Bryan, Merlin Carpenter, Yu Ni Chae, Patrick Concklin, Rob Davis, Maia De Estal, Andre Ethier, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Hanneline Gjerdrum Rogeberg, Justin John Greene, Heather Guertin, Chris Hood, Marcus Jahmal, Julian Kent, Bill Komosky, Sadie Laska, William Latta, Austin Lee, Alastair Mackinven, Servane Mary, Alissa McKendrick, Elizabeth Neel, Valerio Nicolai, Alessandro Pessoli, Blake Rayne, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Hollis Robison, Sally Ross, Adrianne Rubenstein, Gibb Slife, Robert Storr, Su Su, Cheyney Thompson, Josh Tonsfeldt, Kon Trubkovich, Marianne Vitale, Michael Wetzel.

FALCON Art Collective, a group of New York-based artists and curators dedicated to reactivating urban spaces through independent cultural initiatives, is pleased to present their inaugural exhibition, R U STILL PAINTING???, an arbitrary, non-national, non-rational, unofficial, and incomplete painting survey.

The show will transform 40,000 square feet of corporate, under-construction space in Midtown into a sprawling exhibition. The curators’ choice of a gutted, raw space expresses the will of an artist community to reclaim agency in a landscape where independent creative space is vanishing at speed. With R U STILL PAINTING???, FALCON carries onward the spirit and playfulness of New York’s early 2000’s art scene. 

R U STILL PAINTING??? is not a question posed to the artists, but a provocation drawn from online culture — both a meme and an ironic response to a digital visual world where the human hand is allegedly no longer required to generate multiple imaginaries. This survey celebrates the imperfect nature of the physical — painting that bleeds and groans, stumbles and laughs as it fractures imagery into unexpected forms. These canvases reclaim inconsistency as a virtue, discovering meaning through the push and pull of physical gesture. Far from being a relic of history, painting reemerges here with evolving urgency: in a disembodied age, paint becomes a declaration of the artist’s embodied presence.