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BravinLee is posting frequently on Instagram about our upcoming public art exhibit. We have started with black and white portraits of each artist

Woolpunk

Kenseth Armstead

Niki Lederer

Mark Joshua Epstein

Sui Park

Dahlia Elsayed

Joiri Minaya

Joshua Goode

Wennie Huang

LoVid

Blanka Amezkua

Valerie Hegarty

Rico Gatson

Wendy Letven

It's all happening... #RegrowthRiverside

The hard work began in November after speaking with Dan Garodnick from Riverside Park Conservancy about curating a summer 2021 public art show in the park.

It started with thinking, making lists and a lot of day dreaming, which was followed by long walks, many blisters, endless photographs, emails and zoom calls. Then there were the site visits; some virtual, others in frigid temperatures. Lengthy proposals came next. Some plans were scrapped, some added. Press releases were sent out today. Follow the process here:

SITE VISITS:

We Miss You

BravinLee will re-open our doors again. But for now, we are closed due to Covid 19. We look forward to seeing you all soon. We had the urge to remain open for a few days when many were first closing, but ultimately we changed our minds: Nate Freeman, Artnet News

In the meantime, please view our Archie Rand exhibition on the website and keep up with our activities via Instagram @bravinlee

Bravin and Lee Visit The Rug Factory in Nepal

In May, we visited the factory in Kathmandu where we make our rugs. We brought our adult children as they have recently become an integral part of the family business. As we dive deeper into this new business, we continue to learn more and more about what we can do with rugs and what techniques we might be able to employ with different artists. We watched as weavers integrated wool, silk and aloe; we learned a lot from the gentleman at the dye factory. We observed as our Jonas Wood, Wangechi Mutu and Brian Calvin rugs were washed and tightened. And we solidified our relationships in Kathmandu.

(oh and did I mention we went trekking in the Annapurna Foothills??!)

Gabe Langholtz Americholia Extended through June 7

It is Time For SPRING/BREAK Art Fair

Karin Bravin will be curating at Spring/Break Art Show for the third year in a row. This year she will exhibit a show called Dis-Place that will include work by Jeffrey Beebe, Amanda C. Mathis and Shiri Mordechay

Karin Bravin will present three artists working in three different media that explore the idea of a voyage into unknown. Each world they explore is personal and familiar, yet simultaneously strange and foreign.

Shiri Mordechay explores an anthropomorphic society filled with embattled figures, animals and natural forces, a journey through the mind. Jerry Saltz wrote, in his review of Mordechay's 2008 exhibition "Shiri Mordechay gives us a topsy-turvy world of mundane and mad images…It's Charles Adams meets Edgar Allen Poe meets Animal Planet. Mordechay never allows us to look at any one thing; chaos and tumult reign”. Using ink, acrylic, wire and paper, Mordechay creates chaotic installations through cutting and reassembling. 

 With a profound debt to the world-building language of Dungeons & Dragons and the fantasy/science fiction genres, Jeffrey Beebe has been obsessively drawing and writing out his world of Refractoria—a comprehensive imagino-ordinary world that is equal parts autobiography and pure fantasy—for the last fifteen years. He lives a cloistered, studio-bound life fixating on the creation of his monomaniacal maps, diagrams, genealogical charts, portraits, and other pseudo-archival ephemera. Creating parallel universes filled with fantastical characters, unusual beasts, and alternative terrains, Beebe repackages the past and contextualizes a life. 

Whereas both Mordechay and Beebe give a nod to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, and depict a strange epic journey, Amanda Mathis’ work is an exploration of thoughts on dwelling and personal narrative.  She explores notions of home and memory through the use of architectural imagery, and salvaged materials. Her work evokes a home that has been unearthed, picked apart, spliced together or turned upside down. Blurring the boundaries, her works at once appear comforting, familiar and domestic and on the other hand disconcerting and warped. Is the home a place you really want to be? For her site-specific installations, she will use salvaged carpets, wallpaper remnants, bits of molding and furniture.

New Website for BravinLee Programs

BravinLee has created a new website to put an emphasis on our "programs"-- We have an exhibition programs where we organize  5 or 6 shows a year: group shows, 2-3 person shows and solo shows. We have an artists rug program, and artists unique book program, and a public art/site-specific installation program. We usually do about two art fairs a year and this past 2017-2018 season, we were pretty busy with Trump Rat,