Exhibition Details

The exhibition originated from a unique collaboration that allowed the organizers — thanks to the vision of an inspired landlord — to temporarily convert 40,000 square feet of corporate, under-construction space in Midtown Manhattan into an exhibition site. 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.

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.

Participating artists include:
Justin Adian, Uri Aran, assume vivid astro focus, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Sam Barsky, Marco Boggio Sella, Bryson Brodie, Edgar Bryan, Merlin Carpenter, You Ni Chae, Patrick Concklin, Rob Davis, Maia Del Estal, Andre Ethier, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Hanneline Røgeberg, Justin John Greene, Heather Guertin, Johanna Hickey, Chris Hood, Marcus Jahmal, Robert Janitz, Kosuke Kawahara, Bill Komoski, Sadie Laska, William Latta, Austin Lee, Justin Lowe, Alastair Mackinven, Servane Mary, Alissa McKendrick, Elizabeth Nicolaï, Valerio Nicolai, Alessandro Pessoli, Blake Rayne, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Hollis Robison, Sally Ross, Adrianne Rubenstein, Gibb Slife, Robert Storr, Su Su, Spencer Sweeney, Cheyney Thompson, Josh Tonsfeldt, Kon Trubkovich, Marianne Vitale, Michael Wetzel, Viola Yesiltac