Naomi Lawrence is a NYC Fiber Artist based in East Harlem. She works with acrylic yarn to create oversized 2-Dimensional crochet flowers, trees, and wildlife. The site-specific installations are sewn onto chain-link fences in parks and public spaces. Originally from England, UK she studied Floral Design...
About Installed in the fall of 2021 at 3rd Ave and 76th Street, this exhibition featured artwork by artists Ebony Bolt and Naomi Lawrence to celebrate the essential workers who continued to support NYC through the pandemic. The artists were selected via an open call with...
About “Clean Energy” is an exhibition by artist Tijay Mohammed produced by ArtBridge in collaboration with NineDot Energy and the Bronx Charter Schools for Better Learning - BBL2.Throughout the winter and spring of 2023, BBL2 elementary school students, along with BBL2 staff and NineDot Energy volunteers,...
About “A City in Motion” is a 600-foot-long exhibition by artist and native Queens New Yorker, Zeehan Wazed. The colors and shapes within the artwork reference a graffiti aesthetic and also take inspiration from the rich movement of this amazing city — from kids dancing in...
About “Bronx Communal Spaces” featured works by Bronx-based artists Laura Alvarez, Blanka Amezkua, Trevon Blondet, Matthew Burcaw, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Carlos Wilfredo Encarnación, and James Martocci. It was installed at the construction site for a Camba Housing Ventures affordable and supportive housing development at 202nd and...
About Brownsville Reflections: Past, Present, Future, is a 600-foot-long exhibition adorning the construction site of an affordable housing development at the intersection of East New York and Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The exhibition includes artworks by three artists with local ties to the neighborhood: Jocelyn...
About “Steal Away,” is an exhibition by fiber artist and cultural activist Xenobia Bailey located on 5th Avenue, 125th Street, and 126th Street in Harlem. The 500-foot-long artwork is installed on the construction fencing surrounding the future home of the longest-running Black theater in New York...
About Installed on 65 lamp posts in Lower Manhattan during the winter of 2021-22, this exhibition explored the notion of resiliency. The art was selected through a public-design competition organized in collaboration with the Alliance for Downtown New York and brought in over 150 applicants. The two...
Lesley Heller has a storied career as a pioneering gallerist. She first opened The Work Space in SoHo in 1994 as a non-commercial art space. After 10 years she moved to the Upper East Side and reopened as Lesley Heller Gallery. In 2010, Heller was...
Gary Carrion-Murayari is Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum where he has curated monographic exhibitions of a number of artists including Phyllida Barlow, Nathalie Djurberg, Ellen Gallagher, Haroon Mirza and Jim Shaw. He organized the New Museum Triennial with Alex Gartenfeld in 2018. From...