Falcon Art Collective: Unfollow
A RRASP Collaboration
Unfollow, an exhibition hosted by RRASP
Curated by Robert Storr, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, and Marco Boggio Sella
Participating artists:
Andy Roberts, Asher Liftin, Austin Lee, Austin Martin White, Bertrand Lavier, Cecily Brown, Chibuike Uzoma, Craig Kalpakjian, Dana Schutz, David Brody, Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Diego Perrone, F. P. Boué, Hollis Robison (RRASP AIR), Huma Bhabha, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, Josh Smith, Jules de Balincourt, KT Hickman, Ljiljana Blazevska, Marcus Jahmal, Marco Boggio Sella, Marianne Vitale, Maurizio Cattelan, Michaela Eichwald, Michael Wetzel (RRASP AIR), Merlin Carpenter, Morteza Khakshoor, Olaf Breuning, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Patrick Conklin (RRASP AIR), Rachel Harrison, Ragnar Kjartansson, Reena Spaulings, Regan Heiserman, Richard Prince, Rudolf Stingel, Sangram Majumdar, Shoji Yamasaki, Spencer Sweeney, Su Su, Tatiana Grigorenko, Uri Aran, Vitaly Komar.
May 1 – 31, 2026
111 Broadway, New York, NY
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
The exhibition follows the collective’s inaugural presentation, R U Still Painting???, which debuted last year and established its commitment to probing the relevance, elasticity, and endurance of painting and its expanded field in contemporary practice.
As with its first edition, FALCON Art Collective activates vacant commercial real estate, transforming
unused retail and office spaces into temporary exhibition sites. By repurposing storefronts that might
otherwise sit empty, the collective fosters dialogue between creative and commercial communities
while demonstrating how art can catalyze new forms of civic engagement.
UNFOLLOW is inspired by two metaphysical thresholds. In Western theology, “Limbo” denotes a
suspended realm between salvation and damnation. Its Eastern analogue, the Buddhist “Bardo,”
describes an intermediate spiritual state—one that entered contemporary literary consciousness
through George Saunders’s novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Together, these concepts frame the exhibition’s
central proposition: that our present cultural moment occupies a similar in-between condition.
As conceived by the curators, this condition is also aesthetic and historical, evident in the unresolved
tension between Modernism and Postmodernism. From Francis Picabia’s shadowing of Pablo Picasso’s
formal affirmation to Marcel Duchamp’s strategic negation, the “isms” of the last century have
continually collided and destabilized one another. We find ourselves once again in a charged interval
where inherited categories no longer hold.
The exhibition foregrounds practices that resist easy classification, neither wholly declarative nor purely
ironic, neither utopian nor nihilistic. Artists include (but are not limited to): Uri Aran, Huma Bhabha,
Jules de Balincourt, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Marco Boggio Sella, F. P. Boué, Olaf Breuning, David
Brody, Merlin Carpenter, Maurizio Cattelan, Michaela Eichwald, Jason Fox, Rachel Harrison, Marcus
Jahmal, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Craig Kalpakjian, Morteza Khakshoor, Ragnar Kjartansson, Bertrand
Lavier, Austin Lee, Diego Perrone, Hollis Robison, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Reena Spaulings, Josh
Smith, Rudolf Stingel, Su Su, Spencer Sweeney, Chibuike Uzoma, Marianne Vitale, and Michael Wetzel,
among others.
If R U Still Painting??? asked whether the medium persists, UNFOLLOW broadens the inquiry: where,
historically and conceptually, do we stand now? Rather than resolving the tension between inheritance
and rupture, the exhibition inhabits that suspended space—where doubt becomes method and
uncertainty becomes form.
About FALCON Art Collective
FALCON Art Collective is a group of New York–based artists and curators dedicated to reactivating urban
spaces through independent cultural initiatives. FALCON’s mission is to promote contemporary art while
cultivating meaningful relationships among artists. The collective takes a pragmatic view of the New
York art market — using it as a tool, not as an end in itself. FALCON was founded by Paololuca Barbieri
Marchi, Marco Boggio Sella, and Rebecca Reyes Rock.
For more information visit: FALCONNYC.com
Follows us @FALCONArt_NYC
About RRASP
RRASP is a non-profit organization established to support exhibitions, residency programs, and cultural
collaborations across the fields of art, entrepreneurship, and real estate in New York City. Its mission is
to foster the circulation of independent, high-quality cultural initiatives, support emerging talent, and
serve as a catalyst for dialogue between creative and commercial communities.
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