CURATED BY DAVID GIBSON

It is not a gallery. I do not work with a stable of artists, nor do I desire to form one. I do have artists who have been featured in my exhibitions regularly, but this is based on two factors, the accessibility of the work to a variety of themes, and the good working relationships which I have been able to nurture with each of these individuals. These relationships are founded upon a mutual trust and regard for each other’s talents and tastes, and an understanding that I am not interested in becoming a dealer for them. I am interested in the tangent between their abilities and the sense of generational or epochal ideas that can be expressed by commingling their forms of expression with mine. I primarily organize group exhibitions, or sometimes organize site-specific or scale speciific exhibitions, but primarily in non-traditional, non-commercial spaces like storefront windows and abandoned warehouses, sometimes in conjunction or under the authority of traditional non-profit organizati...

I am often asked by journalists or naifs, for vastly differing purposes, why I do what I do. And I am more often than not unhinged by the prospect of addressing such issues. I suppose it is because I both trust and admire creativity, and work in service to it—mainly the idea of it, not the people themselves; they are the ones I have chosen, by mere chance and circumstance—and find that it connects very intimately with my own alternately poetic or utillitarian sensitivity towards subjects and agendas that exist in the world between transmission and reception. As Henry Miller used to say, “I am an antenna.” [to be continued...]

ALICIA ACKERMAN 2001: The Body or The Landscape, The Artists Alliance 2002: Erotika, Riva Gallery KRISTIN ANDERSON 2003: Market Value at Cuchifritos 2004: Kristin Anderson: The Block Where I Grew Up, Realform Project Space 2006: "Identity Aesthetics" Real Art Today Lecture at The Makor-Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y 2006: The Social Body, Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida PEGGY BATES 1998: Peggy Bates: Water Rocks, John Gibson Gallery 2001: Some Are Painting, John Gibson Gallery 2002: Some Are Painting II, The Educational Alliance 2003: Liminal, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2005: Everland, Annina Nosei Gallery 2005: Beautiful Dreamer, Spaces Inc, Cleveland, Ohio 2008: Barachois, Gallery Thomas Jaeckel ERIK BENSON 2003: Void, The Educational Alliance 2005: Everland, Annina Nosei Gallery 2008: Lost Horizon, Herter Gallery, University of Masachusetts in Amherst JOHN BERENS 2002: Some Are Painting II, The Educational Alliance 2003: Void, The Educational Alliance...

Hosted by The Makor Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y, located at 35 West 67th Street 2005 March 1: Chrissy Conant, Jeff Feld, Charley Friedman, Deborah Garwood April 5: Erik Benson, Susan Leopold, Gae Savannah, John Zinsser May 12: Alexis Karl, Cheryl Van Hooven, Conrad Vogel, Ruth Waldman September 13:  John Berens, Nancy Friedemann, Kim Keever October 11: Adam Cvijanovic, Jonathan Feldschuh, Mark Woods November 8: Orly Cogan, Rebecca Hackemann, Dean Monogenis December 12: Amy Chaiklin, Mike Cockrill, Leemour Pelli 2006 January 10: "Identity Aesthetics--Exploring Humanity" with Kristin Anderson, China Blue, Rainer Ganahl, Richard Humann. February 14: "Significant Other--Collaboration and Collusion" with Feral Childe (Moria Carlson and Alice Wu) Marni Kotak, Lisa Levy, Tom Schreiber March 21: "Artifice Analysis--Between Art and Science" with Mark Esper, Carter Hodgkin, Michael Rees April 11: ...