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July 2–August 29, 2015

Small Town Sex Shop

Katherine Hubbard and Savannah Knoop

Hubbard and Knoop will explore connotations of production through a synthesis of clothing-making, sculpture and installation.

April 30–June 27, 2015

Seek

The Institute for New Feeling

IfNf will create an installation that offers individuals a clairvoyant reading generated by the misuse of online search engines.

March 19–April 25, 2015

False Alphabets

Sara Magenheimer

Magenheimer will construct sculptural sets composed of photographs, objects, and film equipment that will become the backdrop for a new video.

January 22–March 14, 2015

Movie in a Bar Mirror

PK

PK Worryshop will explore the cinematic trope of the “sad bar” along with the historical use of private cinema viewing machines.

January 6–17, 2015

1/2 a Cord

Jessica Segall

Jessica Segall’s installation at Recess involves a very simple task rendered complicated in New York City.

November 4–December 20, 2014

You are Apple/Pear

Chris Domenick

Domenick will explore the historical genre of the still life and its accompanying fruit basket.

September 2–October 25, 2014

Half of What’s There

Mira Friedlaender

The artist will unpack, document, and inventory the life’s work of Bilge Civelekoglu Friedlaender.

June 3–August 2, 2014

Ruka (To braid/ to knit/ to weave)

Nontsikelelo Mutiti

Mutiti will play the role of the artist, designer, and researcher to a space for the study and practice of hair braiding.

March 25–May 26, 2014

Metabolic Morphology

Nina Horisaki-Christens and Takashi Horisaki

The main component of Metabolic Morphology will take the form of a semi-modular installation of cast colored latex and vacuum-formed plastic elements

January 8–March 22, 2014

Bystander

Liz Magic Laser

Bystander will be developed at Recess through a series of interviews conducted by journalists and actors with members of the public.

October 22–December 21, 2013

Trad.

Courtesy the Artists

“Trad.” is an abbreviation of “traditional,” which is listed instead of an author on folk recordings when the work’s origin is unknown.

October 11–November 11, 2013

HANDS OFF

Molly Lowe

HANDS OFF invites artists to use Recess’s public space as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation.

August 17–October 12, 2013

Grey Lines

Jacolby Satterwhite

Satterwhite will create a 3D animated video using drawing, CG animation, and improvised and mediated performance.

August 7–October 6, 2013

Circular Track

Elizabeth Orr

For Circular Track, Orr will research the ways in which choreographed movement constructs narrative.

August 7–October 6, 2013

Citizen Bridge

Nancy Nowacek

Nowacek will design, create and test a series of prototypes for an eventual footbridge that crosses the Upper New York Bay waterway.

March 26–May 25, 2013

Volumes for Sound

Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson

Dubbin and Davidson will create new works influenced by the geometries of sound.

March 26–May 25, 2013

Seeing Voice The Seven-Tone Color Spectrum

Christine Sun Kim

Christine Sun Kim will initiate a conversation led by seven presenters, all of whom will give a lecture without using audible voice.

February 15–April 26, 2013

Eyes as Big as Plates

Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth

Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York

January 7–March 9, 2013

We Buy White Albums

Rutherford Chang

Chang will create an archive, listening library, and anti-store to house and grow his collection of the Beatles’ iconic record.

October 22, 2012–January 18, 2013

Holistic Approach

Alina Tenser

For Holistic Approach, Tenser will create a series of sculptures, images and videos that begin with her body and extend into new, related forms.

August 17–October 12, 2012

Date the Time

Molly Dilworth

For Date the Time, Dilworth will create a series of banners and flags, bearing patterns generated from user-submitted photos.

July 11–September 15, 2012

White Sands

Laura Vitale

Vitale will create a research laboratory for testing the audio-visual properties and material behaviors of gypsum plaster.

May 30–August 9, 2012

Invisible Men

Abigail DeVille

DeVille will amass bricolage, painting, and sculpture into a selective history of culturally invisible classes of people.

May 1–June 30, 2012

Café

Andy Meerow and Rose Marcus

Marcus and Meerow will address specific economic conditions that inform their collaboration and autonomous creative practices in New York City

March 22–April 11, 2012

Me and Everyone That is With Me

Alex Casso, Graham Hamilton, and Dan Herschlein

Artists collaborate with the Education Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art on classes for students from the Regent Family Residence.