Exhibitions & Events
The Contemporary hosts over 12 onsite and offsite dynamic exhibitions every year which include emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in a variety of media to provide a full range of the depth and scope of contemporary art.
Past Exhibitions
Jamal Cyrus, Lemon’s New World Blues, 2014.
Please Form A Straight Line
Hye-Ryoung Min, Untitled from the series Re-membrance of the Remembrance, 2017.
Hye-Ryoung Min: Re-Membrance of the Remembrance
Posterworks
César A. Martínez, Veterano.
Veterano
César A. Martínez, El Mestizo, 2017
Red Dot Show
Victoria Rodriguez, Isolation, 2020. Prismacolor on paper, 11.5 x 14. “While being in isolation for so long, I’ve begun to feel a little out of my mind mentally, and my dreams have become more vivid. It feels like my mind is stretched thin and exhausted. Contrasting those feelings with bright colors associated with more positive feelings, I feel will draw the viewer’s attention to my work.”
Quarantine Diaries
Installation view. Rand Renfrow, More Findings, 2020.
More Findings
Installation view. Sarah Welch, Giveth and Taketh, 2020.
Giveth and Taketh
INFUSION
Publishing Against the Grain
Candace Hicks
Secret Passage
Novel Ideas at Blue Star Contemporary. Photo credit: Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Novel Ideas
Arturo Herrera, Set #1 Flüsse und Seen, 2012, Silkscreen and mixed media on paper, 26,8 x 20,2 x 1,2 cm, 3 of 12
2020 Spring Exhibitions Preview
Zeandra Menjares, In Bloom, 2019.
CUT OUT
Johanna Cerda Elizondo Te Amo, Mi Vida, 2020. Oil on canvas. (Above, detail) Leonardo Arteaga Toledo, An Apple, 2020. Ceramic. (Below, detail)
Intuitive Exploration
Novel Ideas Art Book Fair
Installation detail. Tsuyoshi Anzai, Healthy Machines, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Healthy Machines
Installation view. Formal Proof, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Formal Proof
Installation view. Margaret Craig, Sea Islands, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Sea Islands
Laeree performing during Teardowns performance on October 4, 2019. Photo credit Francisco Cortes.
Teardowns
Makayla Morris, Parker, 2019. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary.
UNCHARTED
R. Eric McMaster, Pendulum, 2014. Digital video, 5 minute 12 seconds looped. Image courtesy of the artist.
Effort Economy at TXST
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition
NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition
Amada Miller, Hollow moon rings like a bell, 2019. Handblown glass and meteorites. Image courtesy of the artist.