Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 8 August 2019

Nitemind-Sync 26 Fulton St projected lights, moving images, and contoured shadow installation reception: Solar Flashback 6-10 free

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St reception: 2019 Certificate of Fine Arts Final Exhibition 5-7

Chameleon 325 Canal St reception: Longing Pierre Friquet, Luke Ikard, Miao Tian & Yang Liu, curated by Haoran Chang 6-10

Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre St artist talk: Hilda Shen 6:30-7:30 #15

Leslie-Lohman Museum 26 Wooster St performance project  opening: Savannah Knoop Tripod Sweep 6-8 free, registration Eventbrite
Rolf Benz 21 Greene St reception: Studio Art Series VI Binna Kim, Fernando Espinosa, Doris Neidl, Sanggon Chung, Phillip Coley, Jihoe Koo 6-9

Artists & Fleas Soho 490 Broadway celebration: Grand Opening Party 6-9

Patagonia 72 Greene St screening and panel: Dirt Magic, a film documenting Downieville, CA’s journey from dying mining town to mountain-biking mecca; speakers: trail-advocate Jordan Carr with lineup of advocacy and conservation groups 7, film 7:30

Land Studio & Gallery/Shelter 179 East Broadway reception: If This Is Paradise Matthew Bede Murphy and Cynthia Alberto 6-8

Shrine 179 East Broadway reception: Kyle Breitenbach When the Leaves Come Down 6-8

Sargent’s Daughters 179 East Broadway reception: Elisa Lendvay Rise 6-8

Shin 68 Orchard St reception: Keunmin Lee Redefining the Undefine 6-8

Con Artist Collective 329 Broome St reception: Where We're From 7-11 free

601Artspace 88 Eldridge St participatory performance event: The Self-Esteem Salon Chris Verene (aka Cheri Nevers) and The Group Facilitators 1-9:30, continues Friday 1-8 and Saturday 1-6

Dacia 53 Stanton St reception: David Scoven Non + Binary 6-9

Karma 188 E 2 reception: Henni Alftan, Matt Hilvers, Ruth Ige, and Andrew Sim 6-8

Aicon 35 Great Jones St reception: Intricacies: Fragment and Meaning Mequitta Ahuja,  Peju Alatise, Rina Banerjee, Faiza Butt, Saba Qizilbash 6-8, artist talk 7

Institute 193 (1B) 292 E 3 inaugural exhibition eception: Tan Lines Joseph Algieri, Everette Ball, Mary T. Bevlock, Mike Goodlett, Camille Holvoet, Lucy Nagle, Byron Smith, and Alice Wong, presented by Summertime 6-8

Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery 4th, 5th and 7th floor galleries 417 Lafayette St opening reception: Korean Media Arts Festival: Technoimagination; exhibitions: Technoimagination: Memories in Time and Space and Technoimagination: Living Data 6-8 reservation requested

AIA Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Pl panel: Learning About Schools: Where Do Design and Research Fit In? Speakers: Elliot Felix, Founder and CEO, brightspot; Evie Klein, Co-Founder, User Design Information Group, Graduate Center, CUNY; Michael A. Nieminen, FAIA, Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects; Dina Sorensen, Assoc. AIA, Senior Associate, DLR Group 6-8 $10

Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art 38 St Marks Pl performance: Eva Kot'átková Asking the Hair About Scissors 7

No Bar - The Standard East Village 25 Cooper Square Studio Museum listening, dancing, and convening  event: A Listening Party with Sable Elyse Smith sonic exploration of the themes in her latest body of work, currently on view in Mood; reading by Anaïs Duplan and DJ sets by Henry Murphy, Skype Williams, and Telfar 8-11:30 at capacity 

Pintô International 431 E 12 reception: Halo-Halo Patrick Quilao, Ethan G. Brown, Jessie Burnes, Ricardo Partida, Jiaming You, Mary Celeste Griffin, Yuhao Chen, Journie Nikala Kirdain, Jessie Burnes, Francisco Herrero, Deanna Miera, Ruth LizBeth Poor, Caleb John Schroder, Ythan Aldrik Ponio, curated by Eleanor Giron 6-9

Samsung 837 837 Washington St Galaxy Innovator Session panel: Redefine Beauty Africa Miranda, Summer Dinh Manske, Jazmin Alvarez, moderated by Natasha Eubanks 6:30-8:30

SVA Flatiron Gallery 133/141 W 21 reception: SVA Summer Residency Program Exhibition 2019 6-9

Noho-M55 537 W 25 reception: The Art of Craft: Artist-Craftsmen of New York 5-7:30

Flag Art Foundation 545 W 25 reception: Summer Cocktails in Celebration of Sam Gilliam’s Exhibitions 5:30-7:30; welcome remarks: Dia director Jessica Morgan introducing ourtney J. Martin, Director, Yale Center for British Art 6 rsvp@flagartfoundation.org 

Field Projects 526 W 26 #807 reception: Chlorine Tuidal Wave Jacob Banholzer, Corinne Beardsley, Dorielle Caimi, Alexander Churchill, Alexandra Evans, Mark Mann, Seren Morey, Chris Musina, Stacey Rowe, Benjamin Siekierski, curated by Tess Schwab 6-8

K&P Gallery 547 W 27  reception: Ho-Yeon Kim Sipjangsaeng 6-8

Montserrat Contemporary Art 547 W 27 reception: Human Nature Interaction Kenneth Burton, Jaume, Jean Merrill, Janak Narayan, Bill Summers 6-8

Carter Burden 548 W 28 #534 reception: On the Surface: A Ceramics Show Olivia Beens, Linda Casbon, Kathy Erteman, Susan Lisbin, Elaine Lorenz, Kate Missett, Syma; Barbara Herzfeld SkinOnSkin; On the Wall: Sue Koch 6-8

1st Dibs 269 11th Ave lobby 4, floor 7 design celebration: Gallery Thursday 6-8 reservation requested
Saphira & Ventura 4 W 43 #416 reception: Fabiana Walsh Solo Exhibition; Brazilian Naive Art 6-8 

Museum of Arts and Design 2 Columbus Circle exhibition: Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Design of Vera Neumann 

Bronx River Art Center 1087 East Tremont Ave Bronx reception: Re-Imagining City Island's Gateway: A Generative Reuse Project Studio Graduate Students from Rhode Island School of Design INTAR (RISD); Comfort in Concrete: A Design Project for the South Bronx Greenway by BRAC's Teen/Young Adult Project Studio, TPS(+2.0) 6-8

A/D/O 29 Norman Ave Greenpoint talk: Sustainable Buildings Through Parametric Design Sandeep Ahuja, Founder and CEO of URBAN-X Cohort 06 company, Cove.Tool 6-8 free, reservation required Eventbrite

Kickstarter HQ 58 Kent St Williamsburg Film Community Party and screening: Celebrate Metropolis; Lomography Film Group Show: Lanna Apisukh, John Blazzi, Kyle Depew, Lauren Roche, Zachary Hunter Rubin, Anthony Ryan Tripoli, Nick Collingwood 6:30-9:30 reservation required http://bit.ly/rsvpmetropolis

Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St discussion: Nappy Roots: A History of Black Hair; Lori L. Tharps and Ayana Byrd, co-authors of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, weave the tousled history, politics and culture of black hair in America; the authors in conversation withNoliwe Rooks, author of Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women, moderated by Dana Oliver, Beauty Editor at Yahoo Lifestyle 6:30 $10

Union Hall Bar 702 Union St Gowanus registration party: Arts Gowanus Open Studios 7-9

Ground Floor  343 5th St reception: Priority Mail: Our 2019 Mail Art Biennial 6-9

In Memoriam: 

Artist Don Suggs (1945-2019)

Artist John Goodyear (1930-2019)