DEATH MASQUERADE 2023
Join us for the newest iteration of our annual group exhibition: DEATH MASQUERADE. This year all are invited to join the group exhibition. Click through to read more details.
JAILBREAK: Artwork from Quantum Criminals
JAILBREAK is an exhibition, celebration, and sale of the paintings created for Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan, illustrated by Joan LeMay and written by Alex Pappademas.
Join us for the closing reception to celebrate and revel in Joan Lemay’s envisionings.
PRIX FIXE - a group exhibition of table-based work
Underland is pleased to announce PRIX FIXE — a group exhibition of table-based work. The event will occur during two separate nights, Saturday, September 23 & Friday, September 29. In PRIX FIXE, a sequence of artworks are served to four participants seated around a table.
Thunderland Concert Series: The Cradle, Miriam Elhajli, Die Artist
Thunderland is a new concert series hosted by Underland Gallery that showcases exceptional music in an intimate and exciting setting. It serves as a melting pot where various musicians are invited to collaborate.
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Please join us this coming Saturday, September 2nd, for a performance in three parts. The Cradle, Miriam Elhajli, and Die Artist will all be performing original and exciting material.
Doors 7pm, Music 7:30pm. Suggested donation of $10. All proceeds go to the artists.
Mouthing a Star Shaped Grave - opening reception
Underland Gallery is thrilled to present Mouthing a Star Shaped Grave, a group show featuring the works of Isabella DeMatteo, Kiani Ferris, and Allison Saltz.
NYWW @ Underland Reading Series Spring 2023
NYWW @ UG is a monthly reading series featuring some of the region's, the nation's, and the world's most significant writers, presenting their work and taking your questions in the charming space of Brooklyn's Underland Gallery, located in Bay Ridge at 457 77th Street. Click for more details on writers reading at the June event.
NYWW @ Underland Reading Series Spring 2023
NYWW @ UG is a monthly reading series featuring some of the region's, the nation's, and the world's most significant writers, presenting their work and taking your questions in the charming space of Brooklyn's Underland Gallery, located in Bay Ridge at 457 77th Street. Click for more details on writers reading at the April event.
Thunderland Concert Series: Kevin Dorff and the Dead
Thunderland is a new concert series hosted by Underland Gallery that showcases exceptional music in an intimate and exciting setting. It will serves as a melting pot where various musicians are invited to collaborate
Our inaugural show will be heralded in by the brilliant and talented songwriter, Kevin Dorff, along with his band, The Dead. He will be playing a selection of songs from his new record Silent Reply. There may be a few new songs sprinkled in as well...
Take a listen to his record on Bandcamp.
The show will take place at Underland Gallery on February 18th.
Doors at 7:30m, Performance at 8pm.
No cover charge, however there is a suggested donation of $10. All proceeds go to the artist.
We look forward to seeing you there.
DEATH MASK 2022
Underland Gallery is thrilled to present DEATH MASK 2022, a group show featuring twelve artists and their interpretations of the death mask.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Melika Abikenari, John Avelluto, Day Brièrre, Clare Burson, Katrina Demarcus Santiago, Sabina Hahn, Ellen Coleman Izzo, Ji Yong Kim, Megan Mehta, Isolina Minjeong, Sophie Page, Paul Wirhun/EGGMAN
Curated by Maxim Elrod, Ester Kwon, Hannah Salyer
This exhibition will be family friendly, costumes are encouraged, and refreshments will be BYOB.
New York Writers Workshop x Underland Gallery: Reading Series - October
NYWW @ UG is a monthly reading series featuring some of the region's, the nation's, and the world's most significant writers, presenting their work and taking your questions in the charming space of Brooklyn's Underland Gallery, located in Bay Ridge at 457 77th Street. Click for more details on writers reading at the October event.
New York Writers Workshop -- Reading series at Underland Gallery
We are delighted to host the first in a series of reading events put on in partnership with NYWW. Join us to experience readings of original works from accomplished writers, enjoy refreshments, and take in some visual art. Featuring the works of Dr. Ravi Shankar, Deedle Rodriguez-Tomlinson, and Tim Tomlinson.
Doors will open @6PM, reading will begin around 6:30 PM. If you plan to attend, please be sure to register for the event on eventbrite. Otherwise, entry is based on space capacity and a first-come-first-served basis at the door.
Kindred Spirits: Artist Talk
Beginning at 6:30 PM, curator and fellow artist, Hannah Salyer, will moderate a discussion with both artists about their work, their influences, inspiration and impetus behind each of their practices. A Q&A section will be opened up towards the end of the talk so that attendees can take part in the conversation.
Kindred Spirits: Honoring Animals in Death — opening reception
Join us in ushering in Kindred Spirits an exhibition highlighting the practice of memorializing and honoring animal kin through photography, painting, writing, and installation by Amanda Stronza and Rachel Ivanyi.
Curated and designed by Hannah Salyer with floral installations by The Moo Ampapatshara
To find out more information about each artist, you can visit Their websites:
https://www.amandastronza.com/
https://rachelivanyi.com/
DEATH MASK: Inaugural Group Show
Join us on the night before Halloween, as a wide range of talented artists reimagine the concept of the DEATH MASK.
In Underland Gallery's inaugural group exhibition, 18 different artists will be exhibiting their own interpretations of the "Death Mask". Known to some in Western cultures as an artistic tool for post-mortem portraiture and bust creation. Take a brief glimpse at any culture around the world throughout time, however, and you can find different iterations of masks that represent death: as a character, a symbol, a transformation, a journey to be undertaken, or a destination. The night before Halloween, submerge yourself in a gallery show rich with mythos, imagination and darkness.
To celebrate the shadows, to celebrate what lies in the Underland.
Exhibiting artists: ann/drew gayle, Casey Lin, Edel Ferri, Frid Branham, Janet Morgan, Jordan Auffrey, Jordin Isip, Julissa Llosa Vite, Katie Coughlin, Kelley Donahue, Lindsay McAleavy, Meryl Bennett, Moo Stein, Paige Womack, Rachel Chicaguala, Ricardo Diseño, Sarah Hughes, and Tiana Tucker.
Costumes highly encouraged. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Limited capacity.
KINDLING: Book Launch and Gallery Exhibition for Linnea Ryshke
In the summer of 2019, artist and poet Linnea Ryshke worked as a laborer at an organic meat farm. She transformed what she saw, as well as the specific and acute interactions she had with the animals, into a series of poems, photographs, and artwork. Ryshke’s intimate, honest, and poignant account reflects what it means to confront the lives and deaths of individual creatures who are valued commodities. Through image and text, Kindling profoundly evokes experiences with animals that will leave a lasting impression on the reader.
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“It is difficult to find the balance between art and activism. Linnea Ryshke’s, Kindling, weaves poetry, photography, and painting into a heartbreakingly beautiful book about finding and holding space for the more-than-human. She creates a lasting dialogue between embodiment and materiality, the didactic and the ambiguous, and art and activism that avoids the trap of overt sentimentality. Kindling provides us that elusive and magical space in between, where empathy and change can flourish and grow.”—Kathryn Eddy, artist activist and co-editor of The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore the Sexual Politics of Meat
**PLEASE NOTE:** To enter, you will need to show proof of full vaccination along with your ticket. Masking indoors will be required. This is a limited capacity event. Refreshments will be provided. Talk will start at 8PM.
Link to purchase KINDLING: https://lanternpm.org/books/kindling/