RECENT EXHIBITIONS

December 7, 2011 - March 7, 2012

Main Gallery

Toys & Games with a Twist is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and board and video games that investigates and comments on issues of construction of gender roles and stereotypes, consumerism, hierarchies of power, globalization, migration, memory and loss, fantasy, the environment, love, war, violence, urban and popular culture.

Artists include: Jennifer Bakalar, daniel Baltzer, Amir Bey, Chris Bors, Peter A. Brinson & Kurosh ValaNejad, Nick Black, Mark Blackshear, Anton Cabaleiro, Melissa A. Calderon, Hector Canonge, Gigi Chen, William Corwin, Regina Farrell, Susan Finch, Orlando Franco, Terri Gold, Rory Golden, Andra Gunraj, Christopher Hart Chambers, Meredith Hedges, Jessica Kaire, Zoe Keramea, nancy koan, Reiko Kawahara, Sujin Lee, Zaun Lee, Cecilia Mandrile, Lawrence Mascia & Clay Ewing, Nao Matsumoto, Ashley McClennon, John Meza, Ira Merritt & Aaron Olshan, Niu Miao & Don Wei Lei, Ricardo Miranda-Zuñiga, Chalice Mitchell, Alfonso Muñoz, Shervone Neckles, Douglas Newton, Erika Pettersen, Dave Rittinger, Margaret Roleke, Peter Rywelski, Miriam Schaer, Jamel Shabazz, StatusHoe Collective, Fred Stesney, Tattfoo Tan, Monica Velez, Jose A. Vicenty,  Bree Westphal, and Mary Wharmby. This exhibition was curated by Longwood Gallery Director Juanita Lanzo and Vanessa Gonzalez.

Read more about some of our artists and play some of the games in our game room.

For Toys and Games with a Twist, Longwood is partnering with Curate NYC, a juried exhibition and online marketplace that exists to heighten exposure and opportunities for New York City visual artists. The project also helps promote New York City’s image as a vital cultural hub. Launched in 2010 by Full Spectrum Experience, Inc. and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Curate NYC provides a free online platform for curators, collectors, and art lovers everywhere to discover work by hundreds of local artists.

Last year, Curate NYC attracted 1,200 entries in three weeks. The project generated 600,000 website hits in three weeks, and positive news in The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The L Magazine, and on The Brian Lehrer Show. In 2011, one art gallery per borough will curate and exhibit their own shows of actual works by Curate NYC artists. After the call-for-entries, we will open the Curate NYC E-Marketplace, allowing artists to upload more than one entry and to sell the work from their website.

Stations of the Lost

A Mixed Media-Installation by Sean Paul Gallegos

Stations of the Lost explores the growing disconnect from traditional religious iconography and belief systems in modern culture.

Inspired by the biblical Stations of the Cross, Gallegos' fourteen stations become interactive meditations on our obsessions with material goods and commercial icons. He explores and unpacks how the traditional 'sacred' is being replaced with kitsch, toys and profit icons elevating them as objects of adoration and desire.

October 5 - November 12, 2011

Main Gallery and Project Room

La Enramá is a multi-media installation of photography, videos, musical instruments, crafts highlighting Afro-Dominican culture along the southern coast of the Dominican Republic.

The centerpiece is a recreation of an enrramada, a shelter without walls common in the Dominican countryside that, depending upon the season, serves as a storage shed for seed and farming implements or a venue for community meetings, domino matches, religious observances and, most importantly, for drumming and dancing. Humble in structure, the enrramada is of vast importance, socially and spiritually, to Domincan culture.

This exhibition is curated by Marino Corniel & Wallace Edgecombe in collaboration with folklorist Leonardo Iván Dominguez & musician Pedro Raposo.

June 1 - August 3, 2011

Main Gallery

Born Again: A Lebanese-Dominican Dominican York is Born Again as a Bronxite
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Eight Artists Respond to Born Again

Born Again: A Lebanese-Dominican Dominican York is born again as a Bronxite focuses on Estevez’s time spent with groups and individuals in the Bronx and unearthing the perceptions and misperceptions that have shaped the identity of the borough since the 1960s.

In Eight Artists Respond to Born Again the show’s artists play off Estevez’s quest for these perceptions by bringing Bronxites’ perspectives and voices on the subject to the gallery.

Artists include: Michael Paul Britto, Kathleena Howie-García (Lady k-Fever), Nancy Hwang and wowe, Norene Leddy and Melissa Gira Grant, Ivan Monforte, and Linda Mary Montano.

This show was conceived by Nicolas Dumit Estevez for the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos and presented in collaboration with Bronx River Alliance, El Museo del Barrio, Banana Kelly High School, Lehman College Art Gallery, and two programs from Phipps Community Development Corporation: Drew Gardens and La Casa de Felicidad, among others. Born Again and related materials © 2007 Nicolas Dumit Estevez.

The April 6th Bronx River Baptism of Nicolas Dumit Estevez in the photoe above (courtesy of Nicolas Dumit Estevez) sets the scene for this exhibition.

June 1 - August 3, 2011

Project Room

En Castellano and in other Languages:
Video Artists From Andalucía and the Bronx

En Castellano and in other Languages: Video Artists From Andalucía and the Bronx is a curatorial project that presents three artists from Andalucía and three from the Bronx whose work engages in cultural memory, popular rituals and the day-to-day in the streets of two distant or not-so-distant locations, one in Europe and the other in the Americas.

Participating Artists: Nicky Enright, Amparo Garrido, Valeriano López, Laura Napier, Juan Carlos Robles and Christopher Smith. The show was co-curated by Juan Ramon Barbancho and Nicolas Dumit Estevez. Photo courtesy of Valeriano Lopez.

January 10 - May 4, 2011

Main Gallery

 

Observed, Imagined and Recreated, curated by Juanita Lanzo, is an exhibition of works by 2009 Urban Artist Initiative Grant (UAI NYC) winners in visual arts and media. The show focuses on how the recreation and reconstruction of the politics of representation, gender, national identity, historical events, migration, post-colonial history and politics impact on the construction of the self.

Featured Artists: Golnar Adili, Melissa Calderon, Cecile Chong, David Antonio Cruz, Sonjie Feliciano-Solomon, Laura Gadson, Florencio Gelabert, Tamara Kostianovsky, Lisa Iglesias, Hong Seon Jang, Jason Lujan,

Kimberly Mayhorn, Algernon Miller, Annysa Ng, Shani Peters, Lina Puerta, and Heeseop Yoon. All of these artists were 2009 Urban Artist Initiative Grant (UAI NYC) awardees in visual arts and media.

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January 10 - May 4, 2011
In the Project Room

EYE AM A MAN, curated by Ivan Velez Jr., includes painting, photography, drawing, sculpture and video. It explores gender constructions, religion, machismo, popular and street culture and how they shape our notions of queerness, and homosexuality.

This show contains Adult Content.

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Featured Artists: Chad Boss, Jennifer Camper, Ricardo Osmondo Francis, Jr., David Goldenberg, Louis Kwong, La Buruquena, Steve Macisaac, Harry Medina, Aaron Mustamaa, Kei Otani, Carlo Quispe, Joseph Radoccia, Jean Segarra-Rosa, Soulivanh Thammavong, and Ivan Velez Jr.

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Las Casitas Revisited is a timely recreation of the legendary Casitas exhibition originally produced in 1990 - twenty years ago - by the Bronx Council on the Arts.

The original Casitas exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., traveled to Chicago and closed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1991. Las Casitas Revisited highlights a unique urban phenomenon featuring an actual Casita recreated in the Longwood Gallery along with photography, found objects, video footage, musical instruments and art reflecting the history of the famous Casita de Chema formerly located on Brooke Avenue in the Bronx, which for over 30 years has served as a vital catalyst and incubator of Puerto Rican culture in the Diaspora.

Contributing Artists: Martha Cooper, Juan Fernando Morales, José “Chema” Sota, and Aurelio Rivera. Contributing Collectors: Henry Medina, Ivan Torres, and Richard Tanco. Join us in this important exploration of urban Puerto Rican culture and vernacular architecture.

This exhibition, co-sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts and the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, was made possible with funding from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYS Council on the Arts, the Scherman Foundation, and Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo.

In the Project Room

Proyecto Recinto Creativo

Proyecto Recinto Creativo is an exhibition of photography by Hostos students and faculty that documents their 2010 summer abroad in Mayaguez, Puerto Rica.

 

 

March 3-August 4, 2010

Main Gallery

...in the City: Memory, Places and Spaces is inspired by the city's unique urban flavor, socio-political, and economical issues as well as its inhabitants. Longwood had invited artists whose works comment on issues of displacement, migration, development, and urban planning. The show, curated by Juanita Lanzó, includes installation, mixed media, painting and video by Michael Paul Britto, Suzanne Broughel, Jerry Gant, Jayson Keeling, Juan Fernando Morales and Luis Stephenberg.

In the Project Room

 

Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
Transmit-Transit

In this exhibition Mr. Ramos-Fermin presents a multimedia installation focusing on issues of migration, access and globalization. The exhibition, curated by Ricardo Miranda-Zuñiga, addresses the notion of traveling in the city, in particular the ethnic diversity of the drivers and the borough. This project maps the Bronx residents and its diversity.

Special Projects

Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear
A provocative exhibition by indie craft designers who utilize a wide variety of materials in the construction of hats and hat related objects. Curated by Lisa Curran.

Featured artists are members of the Bronx Council on the Arts
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The Bronx Council on the Arts is a proud event partner for the Seventh Annual Immigrant Heritage Week, a program of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.

December 2, 2009- February 6, 2010

Main Gallery

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Anthem: an all-american dystopia
This exhibition, a 20th anniversary celebration of BCA's prestigious BRIO Award, explores an America within the crux of reforming a national identity; family, health, politics, urban crisis and decay, environmental issues, consumerism and globalization. All participating artists are 2008 and 2009 BRIO award winners. They include Gloria Adams, Cara Judea Alhadeff, Tenille Blair-Neff, Linda Cunningham, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Donna Diamond, Marisol Diaz, Juan Doe, Nicky Enright, Michael Ferris Jr., Rosemarie Fiore, Michelle Frick, Kuniyasu Hashimoto, Tracie Hervy, Kalissa Maxwell, Josh Millis, Vittorio Ottaviani, Micky Schon, Hrvoje Slovenc, and Jennifer Tomaiolo. This exhibition was curated by Melissa A. Calderón, a Bronx-based artist and arts activist for the revitalization of the South Bronx, founder of the Mott Haven loft series CONVERSIONS, and a co-founder of Haven Art Space and Coalition of Mott Haven Artists.

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