Past
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How to Return to a Place that Isn’t There
Group Show September 11 - October 27, 2024 My friend Haydée has asked me to write. She almost never asks for anything. She almost always gives instead. In my case: clothes, food, her bed, her time. I say yes. I couldn't answer her any other way. It is her latest exhibition as curator at Thomas Nickles Project, a... Read more -
ABUNDANCE
Osmeivy Ortega June 5 - August 23, 2024 Explain your technique. What are the engraving processes and materials you use most and why? The technique is woodcut. Completely handmade impression with a stainless-steel spoon, on Japanese paper. Basically, I use woodcut in black and white because I believe it is one of the most expressive engraving techniques... Read more -
INWARD LIGHT
Carlos Estévez March 30 - May 25, 2024 New York, NY – Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with the gallery of Cuban-born artist Carlos Estévez. Animated by a deep interest in questions of human spirituality, Estévez’s stated goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm of the spirit that... Read more -
PLACE
Group Show January 20 - March 16, 2024 New York, NY – Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce Place, a group show of Rocío García, Linet Sánchez, Gertrudis Rivalta and Sandra Cordero. On view from January 20 to March 16, 2024, the exhibition will feature a selection of works that meditate on art’s relationship to site: Place... Read more -
An Inventory of Tools for Coping
Elsa Mora September 9 - December 23, 2023 -How do you define yourself and your work and why? As an artist, I find it hard to define myself and what I do. Perhaps it’s fear of closing the door to possibility and re-invention. Like every other human, I am in constant conflict with myself, but that’s not necessarily... Read more -
Materials
Group Show June 22 - August 11, 2023 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce the group summer show Materials. The exhibition delves into the profound impact of material choices on artistic expression, offering the tools to foster awareness, shape meaning, rewrite history, and embody symbolic content. By combining disparate materials, found objects, and discarded consumer packaging, the... Read more -
I Remember This Room
Linet Sánchez April 20 - June 11, 2023 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce the first NYC solo exhibition of Cuban- born artist Linet Sánchez; I Remember this Room is designed as an in-depth journey into the artist’s mind and features images developed between 2013 and 2021. Sánchez, who was trained as a painter and a ballerina... Read more -
Peripheries Vol. 1
Selected works by Samuel Riera February 24 - April 9, 2023 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce the first solo show with the gallery of Samuel Riera: Peripheries Vol. I: Selected Works by Samuel Riera. The exhibition will showcase both small and large-scale works from two different series: Analytical Boards and Evolving Natura. Developed between 2012 and 2020, the works... Read more -
Mindset
Elsa Mora February 6 - 20, 2023 This series of 6 process-oriented pieces under the title Mindset is based on the book: 'Obliquity. Why our goals are best achieved indirectly' by John Kay. This book describes the process of achieving complex objectives indirectly through risk-taking and discovery. With a combination of glassine paper and glue, I created... Read more -
Sketch for a Monument
Adrián Fernández November 17, 2022 - February 5, 2023 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce the first solo show with the gallery of Adrián Fernández, Sketch for a Monument, bringing together sculptures and photography from three different series: Pending Memories, Monument to the Incomplete Man and the eponymous Sketch for a Monument, focusing on aging industrial fantasy monuments... Read more -
Par | ergon
Roger Toledo September 15 - November 6, 2022 Toledo’s PAR|ERGON brings together two series which bookend the artist’s oeuvre, highlighting how his lifelong fascination with mathematics and color manifests as the structural underpinning for the analytical investigation of his heritage. Throughout the gallery large canvases from one of Toledo's earliest bodies of work, Days at the Museum, translate... Read more -
Torn Canvas Project
William Pérez July 8 - August 27, 2022 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present Torn Canvas Project, William Pérez’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Characterized by diversity, curiosity and inventiveness, Pérez’s work embodies transformation. Recognizing and honoring his desire and duty to evolve and embrace change has led him to experiment with numerous media and techniques... Read more -
Selected Pages
Gertrudis Rivalta March 16 - June 26, 2022 In sequined paintings and intricate paper doll dioramas, Cuban artist Gertrudis Rivalta uses the magazines of her youth to comment on the lived experiences of Black women in Cuban society. Read more -
A base de viandas
Arien Chang Castan January 19 - February 27, 2022 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present Arien Chang Castan's A base de viandas Series, which celebrates the art of body building in Cuba. In a country where scarcity is the norm, these portraits of hyper-muscled, half-naked men posing for the camera contain a certain narrative of the improbable. In... Read more -
Bellas flores del mal
Rocío García September 22, 2021 - January 2, 2022 With a five-decade long career, Rocío García’s (b. Cuba, 1955) voice is one of the most coherent, iconic, and universal languages of the contemporary art scene in Cuba; the line, the monochromatic provocation, the disregard for naturalism, the scene-based nature, the sense of humor, the dysfunctional, the theater of life,... Read more -
Window Gallery | Sakura Series
Rocío García September 17 - 20, 2021 Read more -
Ain't No Cure
Group Show July 15 - September 5, 2021 On April 17, 1961, in the early morning, would begin what has become known in history as the Bay of Pigs: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans. However, the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours... Read more -
Welcome to the Everglades
HAROLD GARCIA V May 12 - July 11, 2021 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present a solo exhibition of investigative work by Cuban-born artist Harold García V that focuses on the conditions, both past and present, that pose a threat to the Everglades’ fragile ecosystem and their underlying causes. Featuring a video and eleven watercolors, the exhibition examines... Read more -
Window Gallery | Occasional Landscapes
Roger Toledo April 22 - May 9, 2021 Roger is a searcher and a researcher, an innovator of technique and a student of color. He is a formal minimalist owing as much to Seurat as he does to Albers. His contemporary landscapes vibrate with a subdued ambience generated from a mathematical approach to color pairing and composition. For... Read more -
Take A Minute: A Show of Resilience
Dionnys Matos February 17 - April 18, 2021 Take a Minute: A Show of Resilience is the first solo exhibition of multi-disciplinary artist Dionnys Matos. The work is a celebration of the resiliency of the materials he uses and a testament to the artist's inventiveness. He forces awareness of the harm brought to the natural world by our... Read more -
Window Gallery | Vagabundus Dreams
Sandra Cordero February 3 - 14, 2021 The sadness many of us felt during the quarantine and the monotony of the subsequent lockdown during informs the somber tone of these new entries to the world of Planeta Sandra. It is safe to say that the usual characters that inhabit that world are colorful to say the least.... Read more -
Good Things Come
Group Show November 27, 2020 - January 10, 2021 The art of possessing (and giving). Perhaps the wonder of living lies in finding, collectively and individually, imaginative ways to (re)enchant our lives through desire. Satisfying this wishing, wanting, longing and craving can take many paths. For some of us, possessing certain things is a form of happiness. The belongings... Read more -
My House is My Body
Alejandra Glez September 9 - October 18, 2020 Initially a virtual exhibit by featuring 14 limited edition prints and a video performance conceived and executed during the quarantine of 2020, the show has been expanded to include a unique edition of 8 dye sublimation prints on aluminum panels. In collaboration with and essay by Dayneris Brito. THE... Read more -
El Zorro y La Flor
Ronald Vill August 4 - November 13, 2020 Creativity finds a way in El Zorro y La Flor, a bountiful new series by Ronald Vill comprised of 72 digital drawings and an accompanying short film. Wrestling with notions of ideal ways to spend time while in quarantine versus the reality of his everyday activities and anxieties, the... Read more -
Fresh : Preview
Group Show May 1 - 31, 2020 Envisioned with a slight twist to the virtual exhibition format, FRESH: Preview offers a glimpse of works from what was to be the inaugural exhibition at our new gallery space in New York City. The opening was originally scheduled for early May, what turned out to be a time of... Read more -
Planeta Sandra
Sandra Cordero October 10 - 13, 2019 Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Sandra Cordero (b. Havana, Cuba 1979). This will be the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in New York City. This pop-up exhibition will be held at Lazy Susan Gallery, 191 Henry Street with an... Read more -
Apple in my head
R10 November 3 - 14, 2018 The first New York solo exhibition by Cuban artist Jorge Rodríguez Diez (R10), Apple In My Head was a pop-up exhibit on display in the Lazy Susan Gallery at 191 Henry Street which ran from November 3rd - November 14th, 2018. Apple in My Head, the New York premiere exhibition... Read more
