Maintain Frame Control

14BC Gallery 626 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009

Part One: April 16–18

Part Two: May 7–9

14BC Gallery is pleased to present Maintain Frame Control, a two-part exhibition featuring

40 + artists working across multiple mediums.

“Maintain frame control” is advice commonly given to avoid manipulation by staying

grounded in one’s own reality and vision of a situation. For artists, this often means

continuing to make work quietly and persistently, on their own unique terms while dealing

with lives shaped by day jobs, caregiving, economic pressure, and a culture that often

frames art making as indulgent or expendable.

The show honors commitment to craft and affirms creative practice as a vital contribution

to community life and cultural dialogue. Here, artwork is not presented as a commodified

product isolated from real life, but as part of an ongoing process woven into the

complexities of daily experience.

The exhibition includes a wide range of visual work and is equally centered on public

programming that invites visitors to experience how artists integrate creativity into their

daily lives and relationships. Each Saturday during the run of the show, the gallery will host

performances, film screenings, sound works, and participatory events designed to foster

connection, reflection, and shared energy among artists, friends, families, and the broader

public.

Curated by an artist for artists, Maintain Frame Control welcomes collectors and viewers to

connect directly with those who made the work. The gallery will take no commission;

100% of sales will go directly to the artists.

The exhibition invites visitors to slow down, participate, and reflect on the importance of

art making at this critical moment in U.S. and world history. Guests are encouraged to come

for the art and stay for the conversations and community.

Part Two

Friday, May 8 | 6–9 PM

Opening Reception

– Sound performance by Race and Maz Rambam

– Live portraits by Lyndon McCray

Saturday, May 9 | 12–6 PM

– Film screenings by Lyndon McCray, Christopher May, Jana & Simone Flynn, Rashida

Abuwala

– Meditation and discussion on creativity led by Doris Chang, Claudia Ghigliotty, Millie

Benson

– Sound performance by Race and Maz Rambam

– Sitting with Leah Durner: an intimate discussion centered on her handheld sculpture,

passed and shared

14BC Gallery is proud to present PUPP3TSH0W, new works by Brooklyn based artist James Godwin.

PUPP3TSH0W will be OPENING this FRIDAY APRIL 24th from 5PM- 9PM.

The exhibition continues Saturday April 25th; then Thursday April 30th through Saturday May 2nd. Gallery hours are from 3PM- 7PM.

James Godwin is a Brooklyn NY based artist and puppeteer whose paintings, drawings, performances and sculptures inhabit a world where psychology, surrealism, and the occult intertwine. Godwin’s creative vision is that of a modern day shaman — crafting work that is as beautiful as it is uncanny; daring to peer into the deeper, stranger recesses of the human experience.

At the heart of Godwin’s practice are marionettes: figures carved in wood, and etched with the full spectrum of human emotion. With a delicate tilt of the head, hollow, haunted eyes, and mouths poised to speak, they pull us into their internal stories; and somewhere within their vulnerability and pathos, we recognise ourselves.

Practicing since the 1980s in New York City, Godwin is a founding member of the Elementals Puppet Company and Uncle Jimmy's Basement, with work presented at PS 122, Dixon Place, La MaMa, and the Walker Art Center. Recent productions Flatiron Hex and Lunatic Cunning have played Dixon Place and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. A cast member of Jim Henson Alternative's off-Broadway Stuffed and Unstrung, he has also collaborated with Julie Taymor, Dave Chappelle, David Bowie, and Aerosmith, with screen credits including Saturday Night Live, High Maintenance,The Daily Show, Ice Age 2, I Sell the Dead, and PBS's It's a Big, Big World.

Artist Statement

"I am a storyteller. I engage with my imagination to gain access to the things that interest me. I think with my hands. I make things and they begin to respond. Then we make connections and corrections. Happy accidents combined with technical processes. Narratives emerge and weave into each other in surprising ways. Animism underneath it all. Eventually it’s time to share this with others so that the stories can grow beyond my little hut."

We are also THRILLED to announce there will be puppet performances by Godwin during the OPENING on FRIDAY the 24th! This is definitely not to be missed, and we hope to see you there!

Opening April 17 from 6-9 pm

Continuing April 18 from 12-6 pm

14BC Gallery is pleased to present Maintain Frame Control, a two-part exhibition featuring

40 + artists working across multiple mediums.

“Maintain frame control” is advice commonly given to avoid manipulation by staying

grounded in one’s own reality and vision of a situation. For artists, this often means

continuing to make work quietly and persistently, on their own unique terms while dealing

with lives shaped by day jobs, caregiving, economic pressure, and a culture that often

frames art making as indulgent or expendable.

The show honors commitment to craft and affirms creative practice as a vital contribution

to community life and cultural dialogue. Here, artwork is not presented as a commodified

product isolated from real life, but as part of an ongoing process woven into the

complexities of daily experience.

The exhibition includes a wide range of visual work and is equally centered on public

programming that invites visitors to experience how artists integrate creativity into their

daily lives and relationships. Each Saturday during the run of the show, the gallery will host

performances, film screenings, sound works, and participatory events designed to foster

connection, reflection, and shared energy among artists, friends, families, and the broader

public.

Curated by an artist for artists, Maintain Frame Control welcomes collectors and viewers to

connect directly with those who made the work. The gallery will take no commission;

100% of sales will go directly to the artists.

The exhibition invites visitors to slow down, participate, and reflect on the importance of

art making at this critical moment in U.S. and world history. Guests are encouraged to come

for the art and stay for the conversations and community.

Programming Schedule:

Friday, April 17 | 6–9 PM

Opening Reception

Performance by Oskar Sagar

Saturday, April 18 | 12–6 PM

– Film screenings by Alexis Karl

– Shamanic Walk with Cathy Towle

– Sound performance by Oskar Sagar

– Sound performance by Claudia Mogel

Participating Artists:

Alexis Karl, Carolyn Russo, Cathy Towle, Christopher May, Claudia Ghigliotty, Claudia Mogel

Cybele, Danny Carello, David McClelland, Deniz Zeynep, Donn Davis, Doris Chang

Duwenavue Sante Johnson, Edson Pavoni, Elena Wong, Faisal Azam, Franklin McClelland

Halona Hilbertz, Jana Flynn, Jen May, Ken Weaver, Kirsten Nash, Leah Durner, Louis Brawley

Lyndon Mccray, Matt Miller, Maz Rambam, Michan Pourazar, Millie Benson, Nanette Villanueva

Natasha Sweeten, Oskar Sagar, Race Rambam, Rashida Abuwala, Rylan Morrison, Sarah Duke

Simone Huelser, Sunny Chapma, Suzanne Kiggins, Tom Towle, Toma Fichter

The Cruelest Month
Video and Artificial Intelligence Reports

By Jon McKenzie, Jack Stenner, Ralo Mayer, and Yann Malka

Opening Friday April 3 from 4-9 pm

Continuing April 4, 10 and 11 from 4-8 pm

Artist talk on Saturday April 4 from 4-6 pm

 "April is the cruellest month, breeding  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 

Memory and desire, stirring  

Dull roots with spring rain."

T,S. Elliot,The Wasteland

Seasons and the geology of gestures suggest that Creation, creativity, and other generative acts nurture alien movements deep within those places we call home: body, soul, Earth, mind. This exhibition reveals and documents gestures and spirits embedded in everyday and extraordinary lifeforms. 

Jon McKenzie

Globally,  the  sharing  of  aesthetic  practices  at  individual  and  collective  scale  increasingly  unfolds  via  transversal  media,  transient  ideation,  and  algorithmic  processing by any media necessary. Given the multiple cascading crises of world-making and unmaking: Who or what makes and unmakes worlds today, what composition of players constitute contemporary cosmographers or world destroyers? What aesthetic practices, materials, and structures enable and/or disable contemporary subject for-mation, creative and critical collaboration, and shared world making? To what ends – if any – might such world-making or – unmaking proceed, and for whom or what? What    signposts    or    onto-historical    markers  might  guide  or  hinder  these  ways  of  proceeding  toward  or  beyond  the all too human?

Ralo Mayer

Ralo Mayer is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Vienna. Informed by the multivalent notion of plot and a practice of performative research, he examines objects and places from space exploration, science fiction, or everyday life, and translates his research into artistic storytelling across media. From 2003-2008 Mayer was a co-founding member of the self-organized Manoa Free University, where he also started the research series HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORLDS. In his artistic research PhD “Space Un·Settlements”, Mayer investigated the interrelations of scenarios for future life in space and rather earthly realities here, on our planet. Ralo Mayer’s work has been presented at international museums, film festivals, conferences, and theaters and has been awarded several prizes and scholarships. For the “Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space” Mayer contributed a chapter about the closed ecosystem Biosphere 2 as an experiment of un·Earthing. In 2024, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Science Fund awarded him a "Disruptive Innovation" PostDoc grant for his transdisciplinary research project “Plots of Un·Earthing.”

Jack Stenner

Jack Stenner synthesizes culture, hardware and software to create conceptual art taking forms such as networked installation and experimental cinema. His work explores how ideology, power and material conditions coalesce through technology to produce tangible effects on our lives. Social and economic inequality, climate change, racism, war and hunger are symptomatic of the failure of ideological and material power structures inadequate to our contemporary needs. His practice is engaged with issues of place (chora) grounded in personal experience (mystory). The psychogeography of place unmasks the operation of ideology, power and materiality, providing a means with which we might enact change through the questioning of our core assumptions and the creation of new institutions that support well-being and a just society.

Yann Malka

Born in Madrid (1972).
Studied music, first finishing Grado Superior de Piano at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, and then studying analysis and composition in Paris (Conservatoire d'Issy-les-Moulineaux, IRCAM).
In 1997, after working on a stop-motion short film based on a scene of Alban Berg's Lulu, he starts working in advertising; first in his father's studio and production company, as an editor and vfx composer, and later as a director.
Specializing in high-speed photography for food and cosmetics, he creates his own production company Toyann S.L., working for international clients such as Mcdonald's, L'Oréal or Ferrero.
Gradually stepping out of the commercial paths again, and returning to his native love for music, he progressively and painstakingly builds his own visual language; trying to reach a sort of "in-between" the static and the moving image, trying to escape from the pitfalls of meaning conveyed by the too direct representation photography and cinema offer, he tries to convey an emotional response that is closer to our perception of painting or music. 
After almost 20 years working on and off his first attempt in this new path ("it's Mystery Time" 1998-2017), he is now working on a sort of aesthetic meditation around the work and the figure of one of his most beloved idols, the french symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé ("Prose (pour Mallarmé)". 2019-ongoing).

www.yannmalka.net

Opening February 13 from 5-9 pm.
The show will be continuing February 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 from 3-7 pm..

Transformations is Liv Tyler's second solo show at 14BC Gallery in New York City. This show debuts a new collection of over twenty works reflecting on the power of art to transform emotions and to transform ones perspective of the world around them. With so much heaviness in the world Liv remains dedicated to positivity and using their art as a way to face what is happening in the world and offer messages of hope and transformation.

See more about Liv’s work here: www.livtyart.com

Artist Statement:

I went through a lot of transformation this year in my life, graduating college, moving into my first apartment, and taking my business full time. These big life changes have carried their way into my work, exploring the meaning of home, feelings about my career, and overall just such a feeling of triumph and excitement for what is to come. The concept of transformation in my work first emerged when I created the piece Sunshine. It ended up being this really loose piece that emerged in a time where I was feeling a bit unsettled, but instead of capturing those feelings of being unsettled, I wanted to see what would happen when I tried to create the opposite of it. What happens when I transform those negative feelings into good? There is so much darkness and negativity in the world right now and I want to remain a positive beacon of light through it all. I will not let the darkness of the world take away my light, I will keep making light. I will keep being positive and share my positivity, not toxic positivity, I fully acknowledge what is happening in the world and how awful it is, but remaining hopeful despite it all. I truly believe we have the power to change the world around us and it starts within so that it can radiate out. My art shifted a lot this year, it transformed, I feel a vast openness of the time ahead, so much opportunity ahead. I have found myself wondering what my art will look like in 30 years. I feel so much freedom in my work, no pressure from school or outside influence. I feel so grateful to have such an amazing base of supporters and collectors that trust my creative vision and help make this possible. Being able to devote so much more of my time to my artwork has allowed me to really dive into experimenting, working in new sizes, and diving deeper into concepts, allowing myself to sit with one emotion and palette across multiple pieces.

Please join us for the final show of the year!

Opening December 12 from 5-9 pm and continuing on December 13 from 3-7 pm.

Featuring: OK Davies, Halona Hilbertz, Sherwin Cadore, Elisa Blynn, Joe Square, Mark Higashino, Delissa Santos, Delphine LeGoff, Liv Tyler, Ken Weaver, Walter Salas-Humara

Opening Friday November 21 from 5-9 pm
Continuing November 22 & December 4, 5, 6 from 3-7 pm

Woody is a meditation on the persistence of the past in the present, with wood—both literal and symbolic—as its unifying element. Logs, stumps, beams, and forests carry stories of ambition and folly, serving as reminders of history’s weight. The paintings evoke the visual authority of historical realism, yet their unexpected interventions of color fracture the illusion, challenging viewers to see how history is told and twisted. Here, wood is not inert; it is freighted with memory and burden.

Figures from colonial and frontier life appear in precarious balance. Some literally carry logs on their heads, symbols of labor and the burden of consequences. In one major work, a 17th-century artist paints undisturbed in a barnyard while chaos rages beyond the fence—volcanoes, war, and plague unfolding in the distance. The juxtaposition between safety and chaos underscores the selective blindness with which history is recorded and retold. Other paintings twist art history into unsettling hybrids, such as a version of Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Deer with the grinning head of a frontiersman—part absurd parody, part unsettling commentary on cultural appropriation and historical mythmaking.

These paintings suggest that the past is never simply behind us; it is reshaped, warped, or split in every generation. Woody asks us to see history not as something static, but as a restless force—rooted in wood and echoing across time.

 Opening November 7th from 5pm-9pm and continued viewing on November 8th from 3pm-7pm

Catastrophe! is the second two person show by John Eder and Maready Evergreen at 14 BC Gallery. Eder’s work slices and dices closed-captioned TV shows into new, sinister narratives. Evergreen’s work presents The Toad and Rice, your worst enemy - an implacable, oblivious, world-wrecking tyrant manifesting as a calico and velvet toy. Bringing together these bodies of timely, pitch-black but often comedic work in one place is, indeed, catastrophic.

John Eder is a photographer and illustrator. He is also the artist-in-residence of the Naples Botanical Garden, in Naples, Florida. 

Maready Evergreen is a long-time artist and writer. In the early ‘90s, she became the editor of and a contributor to the Toad and Rice Weekly, a monthly newsletter that tracked the movements of the Toad and Rice (sworn enemy of all sentient beings, residing in the past, present, and future).

Opening Friday October 31 from 5-9 pm
Continuing Nov 1 from 3-7 pm

Featuring Works by: Max Henry aka Buck Henri, Malcolm Andrew, Glen Garver, Eileen Doster, Bob Pullen, Bill Doherty, David Sandlin, Delphine Le Goff

The artists in this show all have long time associations with Max Henry and 626-636 East 14th street. Most of them either live in the buildings currently or spent time here early in their careers when they first came to New York in the 1970s.

This space was Sun’s Laundry from 1959 to 2020 when Mr Lee retired. It was one of the city’s last Chinese hand laundries. Those who knew Mr Lee have fond memories of him and his  valuable service as the unofficial doorman for the buildings. 

Marc Grubstein Optical Delusion opening October 17th from 5-9 pm

The Show Continues October 18, 23, 24 and 25, from 3-7 pm

Marc Grubstein OPTICAL DELUSION My new paintings are abstract attempts to depict invisible energies such as gravity, magnetic, infrared, x-ray, musical tones and others that surround us everyday.

I paint in black and white as a homage to my father Milton Grubstein.

Black and white holds a certain mystery to me as it seems to sit on the periphery of the imagination but is also timeless and time specific such as yin and yang or the symbolism of b&w to color in the movie “The wizard of Oz.”

Opening October 10 from 5-9 pm and Continuing October 11 from 3-7 pm

Works by Delissa Santons and Mark Higashino

As photographers, Mark Higashino and Delissa Santos, we are thrilled to present “Lust for Life,” a collection that captures the vibrant energy and profound emotion of music across genres—from Jazz to Rap to Punk. 

Our work is a diverse tapestry of portraits and performance photographs, showcasing iconic musicians in their most authentic moments. 

In curating this exhibition, we delved deep into our archives, sifting through boxes of prints and negatives to assemble a show that reflects our passion for both photography and music.

 Each image is a testament to the power of music to evoke emotion and tell a story, inviting viewers to experience the same intensity and connection we felt through our lenses. 

 Everything was shot the old fashion way on film and most of the prints were handmade by us in the darkroom.

Opening September 26th from 5-9 pm and continuing September 27th from 3-7 pm

Hand carved and painted wooden sculptures by OK Davies

Artist Statement:
It took a healthy (10 years) hiatus from the pursuit of High Art to unlearn my education and address expression from a different angle.

I’ve started over, using my hands & eyes to conjure simple, primitive figures from freefound hunks of wood. Rediscovering Appalachian traditional skills learned in childhood, a time when “talent” basically signified nothing more than hand-eye coordination. I recovered a sense of inspiration, immediacy and snap decision-making.

The ultimate value I hope for is that the sense of enjoyment & humor I experience in their making -and the evolution of subject-matter choice -conveys the same joy to the viewer.

Original works by Walter Salas-Humara opening September 19th from 5-9 pm and continuing September 20th from 3-7 pm

Please join us Monday, September 15th & Tuesday, September 16 from 5-9 pm for a pre-Affordable Art Fair small works preview.

ArtDog London pre-Affordable Art Fair opening at 14BC Gallery featuring paintings by Kate Felton Hall, Pete Hawkins, Becky Munting, Ak Jansen, and Walter Salas-Humara

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PETE HAWKINS

Living and working in Suffolk in the UK not far from the sea. Like many artists and creatives, he has been drawing, doodling, painting and playing around since early childhood. Having covered various subjects and styles in his career he has focused on paintings of Postage Stamps. Fascinated by their association with foreign lands, creatures and cultures. Using the structure of Stamps and playing with text and subjects in order to create a narrative to the works. This is what he finds interesting and inspiring. The opportunity for the viewer to get some sort of escapism, thoughtfulness and playfulness. 

AK JANSEN

Ak Jansen was born in the Netherlands, and currently based in Brooklyn.  His work lives at the intersections of craft, design and art; it’s rooted in the histories of hand-making that straddle the line.

A chair offers rest, a temporary home for contemplation, a place to have a conversation, and to be together, in the here and now. Design classics are translated into small sewn drawings that explore the visual through color, texture, hand work. 

Jansen holds a BFA from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands and a MFA in sculpture from Brooklyn College NY. Recent exhibitions include a solo show, WE’RE HERE, at Ivy Brown Gallery; group shows at 601 Artspace, South Etna, and Tchotchke Gallery.

BECKY MUNTING

Becky Munting studied at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and graduated in History of Art B.A (Hons).

“I am an East Anglian based artist, specialising in wildlife and animal paintings, and in particular birds. My love of the surrounding countryside and its richness in nature gives inspiration to my work. Working primarily in oils and gold leaf, I depict the birds and animals I see through close observation and try and capture their spirit and freedom”.

WALTER SALAS-HUMARA

Walter Salas-Humara is a Cuban-American painter and musician. Walter studied art at Pratt Institute in NYC. His paintings are in collections all over the world.

“Painting is a peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. It’s a dance with a blank canvas and a spiritual essence. The Horse and the Elk as historical icons symbolise wild abandon and freedom, but also point to overcoming obstacles. I do not literally paint the animal: I focus on movement, texture and light. My renderings focus on emotive effect, rather than manifesting a sense of true physical space. I look at the animal and I see shape, color and tone. Then I find those that will make the work alive and vibrate. I look to art for a direct experience. I revel in the drag, the smear, the splash and flow of liquid color, in the physicality of the strokes.”

KATE FELTON HALL

Kate Felton Hall lives and works in Suffolk, East Anglia. She works primarily in oil on linen and paints landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Kate’s floral paintings are all done from life. She captures the light, colour and beauty of each individual bloom with her own unique style. Her Thamesscapes and Harbourscapes are based on the horizon lines of the coastal communities of Suffolk and the Thames in London.

Kate studied at Reading University, she worked as an advertising Art Director in the Creative Department of Saatchi & Saatchi London, moved into Graphic Design, before going back into Fine Art. She created the original Childline identity with Esther Rantzen; Free John McCarthy Campaign during the Beirut hostage crisis; won NABs Gold Award and a Creative Circle Silver Awards for best TV. Kate is also a member of Ipswich Art Society.

Works by Liv Tyler and Walter Salas-Humara

Opening Friday September 5 from 5-9 pm

Continuing September 6, 11, 12, 13 from 3-7 pm

Expressive Explorations is a small works show featuring work by Liv Tyler and Walter Salas-Humara. The paintings in this exhibition distill the purest forms of visual language. Bold gestures and subtle marks, each piece reflects a need to communicate beyond words—capturing moments of vulnerability, resilience, and joy. The work highlights the power of essential forms, colors, and textures, inviting viewers to connect with the essence of expression.

Expressive Explorations features an assortment of works on paper by Liv Tyler. Liv is an abstract intuitive painter translating memory and emotion into paintings. Their works on paper are works they create in between their larger pieces, they allow them to experiment with new color palettes and texture, as well as process emotions and memories before translating it to a larger piece. Their works on paper offer a glimpse into the process behind their work.

Opening Friday August 22nd from 5-9 pm

Continued Viewing August 23, 28, 29, and 30 from 3-7 pm

Imperfect Reflections is Eckardt’s first exhibition of images captured with his trusty Holga 120S, created through the layering of multiple exposures. 

By juxtaposing two moments within a single frame, Eckardt seek to create images that suggest something entirely new—something that exists only in the meeting point between chance and design.

This series is presented as 16×20 silver-gelatin archival prints, made by hand at my own color lab, in Manhattan.

Wine and cheese will be served.

Artist Statement:

By day, Jay Eckardt works as an Assistant Camera in the film industry and has been a proud member of IATSE since 1996. The first decade of his career was closely tied to motion picture products, deepening his passion for film. This passion eventually led him back to his old Holga 120 S—an ancient yet beloved medium-format camera. While the technique itself is far from new, Eckardt has cultivated a distinctly personal vision through it. He believes life can often be reflected imperfectly. By juxtaposing different framings and subjects, he invites the viewer into a realm of imagination. Whether through deliberate manipulation or fortunate accident, his work challenges conventional perception. Through a mix of experimentation and serendipity, Eckardt has carved out a style all his own. One thing is certain: he will continue to push boundaries as he brings his unique images to life.

Please join us for Beings of Light: A Pride Show, opening Friday June 20th, from 5-9 pm

Continued show viewing is on the 21st, 26, 27 and 28th from 3-7 pm

Friday April 18th from 5-9 pm and Saturday April 19 from 12-4 pm

14BC Gallery is proud to present an exciting auction of Walter Salas-Humara’s artwork. Walter will be auctioning a gallery full of paintings. 

The auction will be happening Friday April 18 from 5-9 pm and continuing Saturday April 19 from 12-4 pm at 14BC Gallery, 626 East 14th Street, New York, NY. Refreshments will be served.

This is a silent auction. Your best and highest bids will be recorded during these hours. You can bid in person or by text. For those who cannot be present to bid in person, use 212-505-7533 to bid by text. Then Saturday at 4pm the winners will be notified by text and can pick up their paintings at the gallery Saturday 4pm to 7pm or Sunday April 20th from 10am-12pm. Paintings can also be delivered in NYC or shipped domestically via UPS.

As of 10am on the morning of Friday April 18th All artworks with titles and dimensions are listed here on: https://www.14bcgallery.org/exhibitions/wsh-painting-auction and 212-505-7533 will be open for remote bids. It will be what auctioneers call a silent auction., So you will not know what others are bidding. Everyone just makes their best and highest bid. Then at 4 PM on Saturday I will text all the winners. At that point winners can pick up their paintings at the gallery or I will deliver in NYC or ship via UPS. Depending on where you live and the size of the painting, there may be a charge for shipping.

For those not able to be present and bid in person, to text in a bid at 212-505-7533, state your name, the title of the painting you are bidding on, and your best and highest bid.

ALL PAINTINGS ARE ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, PLEASE CLICK ON THUMBNAILS FOR FULL IMAGE

14BC Gallery is proud to present 4 DECADES: University of Florida to NYC Invitational, curated by artist and professor Richard Heipp. The exhibition features the works of artists Duane Bray, CHIAOZZA (Terri Chiao & Adam Frezza), Erika Mahr, Alison McNulty, Jason Mitcham, Orlando Estrada, Matthew Schreiber, Albert Shelton, Zac Thompson, Terry Towery and Ken Weaver.

Please join us for the OPENING Friday March 28th 5PM- 9PM. 

This exhibition celebrates the more than four-decade tenure of the University of Florida’s School of Art and Art History’s annual art trip to New York City. As a young professor at the University of Florida, located in rural north Florida, Heipp thought it was critical for students to experience “real” art in museums and galleries and to experience studio visits with successful and emerging artists in the capital of the art world. In Heipp's 40 years of leading the SA+AH NY trip, almost 800 students were exposed to what many participants described as a “life changing experience.” Each year following the trip, several students make the move to NY spanning a vibrant community of UF art alumni that remain active artists and art professionals in New York. For this exhibition Heipp selected 11 former students who are working artists exploring a variety of media and career paths. They have all forged successful paths in the complex, challenging and exciting Art world of New York. 

The exhibition continues Saturday March 29th 3PM- 7PM

Opening Friday March 7th from 5-9 pm.

Continuing March 8th, 13th, 14th and 15th from 3-7pm

The Hole World by Joe Square

"The Hole World," invites viewers into a philosophical exploration of identity emerging from darkness. Each piece portrays vibrant streams of color symbolizing the nuanced facets of human personality, flowing boldly from an ever-present yet intangible void. Square challenges us to confront the unformed mystery of self—the dark emptiness we carry within, from which individuality and emotional expression endlessly unfold. In this bold dialogue between color and emptiness, Square's minimalist aesthetic pushes beyond conventional perception, compelling viewers to question the intangible core beneath visible identity. Through playful yet profound visual inquiries, "The Hole World" encourages a celebratory, inward gaze, provoking us to wonder: When I open to the void, what colors emerge?

Tintypes of Tin Cans by Jim Fealy

A tribute to industrial photography. Dedicated to Earl and Evelyn Jernigan.

OPENING THIS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21ST from 5PM-9PM

The exhibition continues Saturday February 22nd, Thursday February 27th- Saturday March 1st from 3PM- 7PM. 

UGLY MAGIC is a conjuring: the magical practice of cajoling imagery from the depths of one's psyche.  In this way,  Zimmerman's works can be seen as a shamanic-self healing, visionary and divining while reflecting the past. The artist walks within the liminal space of the waking and dreams, between the past and the future, and the real and unreal.  Zimmerman often uses humor as his language of choice- making relatable what is often opaque within traditional art world presentation. Pop imagery is pulled from the artist's pantheon; utilizing visions with a horror-edged slant, personal notations and teen culture mashups.

The gallery will be filled with over 300 drawings and paintings; an imaginarium of exploration into the daily ritual of this talented artist's practice. 

Zimmerman will also be releasing the accompanying book UGLY MAGIC at the gallery Opening, with signed copies available, as well as copies of his previous book GBTR available for sale.

We hope you can join us for this very special exhibition. 

To see more work by Aaron Zimmerman 

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Artist Statement 

“Ugly Magic is an exhibition that brings into focus the stuff I manage to eke out when I am exhausted, fucked up, exasperated and my inner critic is getting the best of me. It celebrates about-faces, side quests, cringe worthy moments, aimless play, times of creative gestation when I have nothing in mind and just want to let it all come to me. The title Ugly Magic comes from a sentence in the John Darnielle ( @monsterhat ) novel Wolf in White Van. “The world is a place full of ugly magic.” 

 Started as a daily drawing practice in 2015, I’ve made over 600 drawings and paintings and counting in this vein. Around 300 pieces made over the course of the last 10 years will be on view at 14BC Gallery. They are grouped, sequenced and separated into sections in a way that made intuitive sense to me as I worked on them on and off for many years. There are threads that weave through all my previous bodies of work to this exhibition’s material. Dark, juvenile humor, the profane, horror film imagery, metal music inspired pictures, the Gothic, the scatological, abstraction, the pitfalls of masculinity, Appalachian pathos, comics, cartoons, death, a certain dare to be stupid attitude, etc. 

 If I may speak symbolically, I can say that I am using the divinatory instruments of drawing and painting to perform a taciturn seance that casts a visual hex powered by the witch’s cauldron of the self. And Ugly Magic is my Necronomicon.”

Reflections a solo painting show by Liv Tyler

Opening Friday February 7th from 5-9 pm, Continued viewing February 8, 13, 14, 15 from 3-7 pm

Drawings, Zines and Paintings

by John Eder and Maready Evergreen

Opening January 24th from 5-9 pm
Continues January 25th from 3-7 pm

Friends since the late ‘70s, John Eder and Maready Evergreen share a love of rock music, comic books, manga, witchy stuff, handmade things, cosmic allegory, and building little worlds all their own. While John is a photographer and Maready a multi-media artist, both never stop drawing. Drawing is core to their work, leading to very different but complementary styles. A pop-up show together seems a natural idea. Drawings, photos and zines – it’s all hijinks.

mareadyevergreen.org.

johneder.com

Opening Friday December 20, 5-9 pm

Saturday December 21, 3-7 pm

A group exhibition by 12 amazing artists including Paintings, Prints, Sculptures, Collages, All priced between $80 and $500

Walter-Salas Humara, Ken Weaver, Liv Tyler, James Godwin, Millie Benson, Delissa Santos, O.K. Davies, Mark Higashino, Halona Hilbertz

14BC Gallery is proud to announce MYSTIQMORTE, a solo exhibition of sculpture and film by Brooklyn based artist Ken Weaver. 

Please join us for the OPENING Friday December 6th from 5pm- 9pm. 

The exhibition continues Saturday December 7th, Thursday December 12th- Saturday December 14th from 3pm- 7pm. 

14BC Gallery 626 East 14th Street NYC

 MYSTIQMORTE is a sculpture and film installation where the arrival of alien Godheads are prophesied by shamanic netherworld characters, and the gallery itself becomes a portal where sound and image exist beyond temporal affliction. Weaver's sculptures take the form of otherworldly furies from an interstellar dimension, penetrating the gallery walls and protruding through the veil of this world. These forms are biological eviscerated reflections, a manifestation of the trauma and tragedy of our times. Weaver explores the physical realization of his alien fiction; they are figures unburdened by gravity, an alchemical abstraction of otherness. 

In the short experimental horror film MYSTIQMORTE: ALIEN DEMONOLOGY, Weaver is featured as performer, choreographer and musical composer in collaboration with director Alexis Karl. The viewer is confronted with four characters that are harbingers of doom, prophets from the nether realms foreseeing the fall of mankind and our rebirth within an alien world. The first character is bathed in burning light- silently incanting words we will never hear and lost to the glare of his personal eternity.  The second is a figure of dust and ash- he is the memory of civilizations lost, the sorrow of fallen worlds. The third is a shaman and seer, whose words reach us through the echo of time and space, he is the warning of the horror that is to come. The fourth figure is a nightmare manifest- a creature of blood and screams, caught in the vicious loop of his eternal rebirth. 

Together they herald the prophecy of MYSTIQMORTE.

14BC Gallery Open Sat Nov 23-Sat Nov 30: Opening Sat Nov 23  

By Jon McKenzie

Media and mediums guide our passage through time and space, shaping our encounters with one another and the world. I am interested in the ways images, sounds, and algorithms spirit away and return different senses of self, society and world, opening new modes of interaction and experimentation in art, life, and beyond. Inspired by experimental film and video of the 1970s and ’80s and MTV and activist tactical media of the ’90s and ’00s, these experimental music videos remix ethos, pathos, and logos. Recent scenographic work draws on modes of AI and machinic thought embedded in different mediums — gestural, oral,  literate, numerate, digital — in order to mix past, present, and future at different scales and tempos and thus expose different geologies of morals.

Videos and installation produced, compiled, and edited by Jon McKenzie, with music, text, film, and other contributions by Ed Balko†, Chrys Bocast†, John Eder, Rick Ellis†, Jim Fealy, Jon Kane†, Ralo Mayer, Richard Panciera (aka lloop), Bryan Reynolds, Leeny Sack, Walter Salas-Humara, Emilia Simeonov, Saviana Stănescu, Aneta Stojnić, Amon Tobin, and others.

Open November 8th and 9th from 3 - 8 pm

My show, Intentionally Empty, offers my services as a Tin type photographer to capture the requests of the participants.  In other words, I will take a picture of what ever you bring into the 14bc gallery, on metal, in the old tin type traditions (1860- 2024) This could be anything you find worthy, example, a plastic milk jug, your face, your whole body, a interesting object you have on your shelf.  The only requirement is that the subject needs to try and sit still for around 1 minute. ( I would estimate  10-30 minutes of time per subject )

The photo's taken will be placed on display for all to see during the gallery  opening hours and at the closing.

thanks, jimfealy