Dirty Work RISD MFA Painting ’25 May 3 – May 11, 2025 81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present Dirty Work, a group show featuring RISD MFA Painters. This exhibition unravels the seductive shimmer of virtuosic painting and grounds the act of making in the persistence and physicality of material investigations. These works embrace the…
KEVIN COBB SELECTED WORKS: kevin web1 Category kevin web12 Category kevinweb Category kevin web14 Category kevin cobb web Category kevin web15 Category kevinweb4 Category kevin web13 Category kevinweb2 Category EDUCATION: MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY | 2023 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2016 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: Ekstasis (solo), 81 Leonard Gallery,…
Miserere: The Life and Work of Marilyn Seven in collaboration with Union Theological Seminary curated by Sebastian A. T. Grant April 3 – April 26, 2025 81 Leonard Gallery, in collaboration with Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, is pleased to announce Miserere, a retrospective exhibition of the work of Marilyn Seven,…
Kevin Cobb Ekstasis curated by Elizabeth Skalka January 30 – March 23, 2025 81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of New York-based artist Kevin Cobb. Curated by Elizabeth Skalka, the exhibition will feature Cobb’s recent paintings, drawings, and digital works grappling with themes relating to the displacement of self and transference.…
Abby Cheney Common Structures November 14, 2024 – January 12, 2025 Artifacts and archaeology, ruins and recreations come together in the work of Abby Cheney in her solo exhibition Common Structures at 81 Leonard Gallery. Through an engagement with the history and tradition of craft and a solid foundation in contemporary sculpture, Cheney’s works illuminate…
Pluperfect: an action of continued relevance a Loft Projects curation by Leslie Weissman and Charlotte Hailstone September 5 – November 3, 2024 81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present Pluperfect: an action of continued relevance, featuring Cande Aguilar, Ever Baldwin, Colleen Barry, Heather Bause Rubinstein, Lindsay Burke, Abby Cheney, Melanie Delach, Alexander Deschamps, Jared Friedman,…
Exhibition Review: Jewish Artists Take On Jew-Hate by RIchard McBee, Jewish Press June 28, 2024 Artists on Antisemitism, currently running at 81 Leonard Gallery in Manhattan, is a courageous artistic proclamation attacking an insidious cancer growing in the midst of New York’s cultural capital. Each artwork defiantly says, “Never Again!” The myriad aspects of…
Artists on antisemitism by Joanne Palmer, New Jersey Jewish News July 3, 2024 The art world isn’t a terribly comfortable place for Jewish artists right now. Even before October 7, being Jewish was becoming increasingly less fashionable; now, after Hamas terrorists invaded, raped, tortured, and murdered 1,200 people inside Israel, often the feeling in…
A Tribeca gallery is showcasing art about antisemitism, including a Hitler-Kanye West portrait by Julia Gergely, Jewish Telegraphic Agency June 24, 2024 Anyone stepping inside 81 Leonard Gallery — an artist-run space named after its Tribeca address — will come face to face with Adolf Hitler. The Hitler on display at this gallery,…
The distressing truth behind an exhibit about antisemitism — it’s always timely by Stav Ziv, The Forward July 5, 2024 The first thing you see when you walk into 81 Leonard Gallery in Tribeca is an uncanny amalgamation of two faces: Adolf Hitler and Kanye “Ye” West. Is it a powerful dictator or a popular…
