Curatorial Projects
YARD SALE
Co-curated with Jonell Logan
Awarded the Single Palm for "Best Curation”
Taylor Lee Nicholson, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist, is launching the trash renaissance with YARD SALE. For the “art fair that never quits”, Nicholson flips the script of the typical “fine art booth” by transfiguring the space into a yard sale complete with kitschy signage, over trampled lawn grass and an open-barter system of negotiable prices.
Participating Artists:
Taylor Lee Nicholson (Charlotte, NC)
FEBRUARY 15 - 19, 2023
SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA
5880 Adams Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90232
A Sinking Vision ~ A Rise Above
The works in A Sinking Vision ~ A Rise Above pose questions of utopian being, thinking and visioning amongst our desperate present. These artists lift their heads above a rising sea undeterred in their sober imaginings humming the different tones of utopias past, present and future. A siren song for our time.
Participating Artists:
Daniel Shieh (NYC)
Dylan Hurwitz (NYC)
Isabelle Higgins (Boston, MA)
Janet Loren Hill (NYC)
Jessica Tawcynski (Boston, MA)
September 7 - 12, 2022
SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2022 NAKED LUNCH
625 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Cuddle Puddle
Dylan Hurwitz, builds paintings that offer spaces of male intimacy to sink into. They document as well as reimagine, and re-stage the actual workshops Hurwitz participated in at a queer men’s sexuality and consciousness raising festival in Berlin pre-pandemic. His paintings seep outwards, their cropped edges suggesting we are only seeing a partial glimpse into a body landscape that reaches all the way out to our own. The vibrant warm hum of his painted marks swirl and wrap us in a long embrace or a passing touch. Our eyes dance along the undulating arcs of naked bodies becoming one landscape. Timeless in their lack of clear costuming markers, his paintings speak to the shared contingent threads of historical queer spaces and contemporary havens that have become even more vulnerable in a world grappling with COVID, Monkeypox and anti-LGBT backlash. Hurwitz’s paintings suggest that the thriving community-body is what makes the landscape; what turns it into a space of belonging, of experimentation, and of liberation.
Participating Artists:
Dylan Hurwitz (NYC)
September 7 - 12, 2022
SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2022 NAKED LUNCH
625 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
SPRING/BREAK SECRET SHOW
“Call it the worst-kept secret of New York’s fair season.
Last week, Spring/Break, the bicoastal bazaar of aesthetic excess, announced to its 30,000-plus Instagram followers that it was staging a “special secret superlative” salon exhibition in its original headquarters, a stately brick house on Prince Street.
The atypical event gathers 100 artists and curators from past editions for a presentation that deviates from Independent and TEFAF, the two big fairs taking place in New York this week, both in style and sentiment. Enter through the front door, and proceed to the airy rooms to the left or right: each holds a smattering of paintings (the flat and sculptural sort) and ceramics (alien fungus forests and molting figurines), in addition to works occupying more fluid mediums: painted wall hangings illuminated from within, a moss-covered table sprouting flowers, and a delicate painting of devils at work framed by a cushion.”
-Tessa Soloman, Artnews
Participating Artists:
Becky Bailey (Central New York)
Courtney Stock (Boston, MA)
Daniel Shieh (NYC)
Deric Carner (New Jersey)
Farwah Rizvi (NYC)
Kevin Dudley (NYC)
Victoria Nunley (Virginia)