East Village Art Galleries

Updated 05/31/2023 by: Ryan Lutz

Discover the best East Village art galleries (and Greenwich). Our Cultural Score objectively calculates art gallery ranking in East Village and all NYC art districts. The top rated NYC art galleries are in Chelsea arts district, however Tribeca and LES are both very popular for emergent art. Use the rankings below to navigate East Village, where Postmasters Gallery is the top ranked gallery at 73%

Top rated East Village Art Galleries

Postmasters Gallery 73%
1969 Gallery 73%
Lomex 73%
David Lewis 72%
Andrew Kreps Gallery 72%
CHART 72%
Chapter NY 72%
Jack Hanley Gallery 72%
52 Walker 71%
Ortuzar Projects 71%
Patrick Parrish Gallery 71%
The Journal Gallery 71%
One Art Space 70%
Mother Gallery 70%
Denny Dimin Gallery 70%
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery 69%
Jane Lombard Gallery 69%
Sapar Contemporary 68%
Pablo's Birthday 67%
Cristina Grajales Gallery 67%
Twenty First Gallery 67%
Freight + Volume 67%
George Adams Gallery 66%
LATITUDE Gallery New York 66%
Anderson Contemporary 65%
Jack Barrett 64%
Kerry Schuss Gallery 63%
Y2K group 63%
Deanna Evans Projects 63%
Cheryl Hazan Gallery 63%
Art Projects International 62%
Salomon Arts Gallery 61%
Queer Thoughts 60%
Theodore Art 59%
Christine Park Gallery 57%
Hionas Gallery 57%
On The Fringe NYC 55%
Muriel Guépin Gallery 55%
Off Paradise 55%
Projekt 105 53%
Theta 50%
Calderón Gallery 47%
E.TAY Gallery 44%
Julian Weissman Fine Art 44%
JDJ Tribeca 44%
A.M. Bjiere 43%
81leonardgallery.com 39%

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Swiss Institute | Walter Pfeiffer | 5/4/22-8/28/22 | East Village'

Swiss Institute | Shen Xin | 5/4/22-8/28/22 | East Village'

MARCH | Y. Malik Jalal | 6/18/22-7/29/22 | East Village'

MARCH | Anne Doran | 6/18/22-7/29/22 | East Village'

20220416 - 20220310 | Mitchell-Innes & Nash | Chelsea | Karl Haendel-Praise New York
Mitchell-Innes & Nash a Chelsea is showing the works of Karl Haendel starting 3/10/2022 and ending 3/10/22. This body of work from Karl Haendel is titled Praise New York.Visit for more details: http://www.miandn.com/And please phone ahead to confirm the gallery hours and availability +1 212-744-7400This spring artist Karl Haendel (b. 1976 New York) will unveil Praise New York a group portrait of contemporary religious diversity and practice in New York City. The exhibition presents a series of large-scale realist drawings depicting the hands of some of the city’s most inspiring Muslim Buddhist Hindu Jewish Christian and Sikh faith leaders paying homage to a diverse group of pastors imams rabbis and priests who have shared vital resources—from wisdom and hope to food and shelter—with thousands of New Yorkers in a time of pandemic racial injustice climate crisis and civil unrest. Highlighting how these communities of believers are vibrant welcoming and tolerant the artist hopes to provide space for viewers to reassess their own systems of belief embrace complexity and expand their acceptance.“While this project is about religious diversity it is equally about ethnic and racial diversity as much of the religious activity is found amongst the city’s immigrant groups providing community and systems of support ” says Haendel. “New York a place that generations of immigrants have called home is one of the most diverse places in the world. What New York looks like at any point in time is what America looks like many decades later. Using my ability to render (to draw) I hope to help render (bring to fruition) the multi-racial multicultural multi-faith democracy that New York currently is and that America will one day be.”For Haendel the act of drawing invokes the human impulse to leave a mark while also offering a physical system to reconsider accepted imagery. This exploration—of the act of drawing itself—has led the artist to examine the hand as a tool of creation a means of expression and an organ of knowledge. Over the past two years the New York-born Los Angeles-based artist has been exploring portraiture through the drawn representation of his subjects’ hands. “It’s a novel way to make a portrait allowing people to express themselves with gesture and nuance but free from the tropes and standards of beauty associated with traditional representational portraiture which generally focuses on the face ” explains the artist. “In a time of pandemic when touching isn’t allowed representing hands became only more interesting to me. And the hands of religious leaders as they pray or perform rituals are filled with potential healing and spiritual resonance further compelling me to the project in a time when faith is in short supply.”To make the work the artist met with each leader in their house of worship to talk about their faith the history of their congregation in the city and to take reference photos of their hands. Back at his studio Haendel digitally manipulated these photos to create new and often physically impossible hand compositions which subtly reference hand gestures found in religious imagery across art history. But the digital affect is left imperceptibly visible (the same hand holding itself or a hand with too few or too many fingers) reminding us that these mystical and uncanny appendages are of the present. With these digital renderings used for reference Haendel drew each hand portrait in pencil on paper slowly and meticulously at very large scale.“As much as Praise New York is a portrait of contemporary faith it is just as much a portrait of New York City itself. Although the city is often thought of as secular in truth it is home to numerous religious communities and according to demographers would be considered fairly religious ” says Haendel. “We all regularly walk by storefront mosques and basement temples often without notice. For this reason I deliberately sought out leaders who not only support inter-faith dialogue and practice tolerance but who also lead houses of worship located in neighborhoods within all five boroughs of New York making clear that religion is all around us if we only take the time to look. And look we must as each subjects’ hands are drawn nearly 9 feet tall towering over the viewer as an embodied presence.”The artist has said that the reason he chooses drawing is that “no other medium can combine touch scale and intimacy to such powerful effect.” A parallel forms between the power of drawing as a mode of artistic creation and the religious symbolism surrounding the hands of gods as creators and protectors—from hamsa the middle eastern helping hand and protector from the evil eye; to the Mexican mano poderosa the all-powerful hand; to mudras ritual gestures found in Hinduism and Buddhism often facilitating spiritual knowledge protection stimulation and healing. “I will use my hand and my labor to honor each leader’s labor be it intellectual or as service to their community as a kind of homage ” said the artist. “It will be drawing as ritual as meditation as service.”About the Participants The artist is grateful to his subjects and collaborators for their participation in Praise New York including Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis pastor of Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village; Venerable Chang-Hwa of the Chan Mediation Center in Elmhurst; Ravi Vaidyanaat Šivãchãriar of the Ganesh Temple in Flushing; Imam Souleimane Konaté of Masjid al-Aqsa Mosque in Harlem; Reverend Emma Jordan Simpson Executive Pastor of the Concord Baptist Church in Bed-Stuy; Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope; Reverend Christine Lee Priest of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Chelsea; Simran Jeet Singh of the Sikh Coalition and faculty at Union Seminary Morningside Heights; Father Patrick Longalong of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Queens Village; Reverend Dr. Terry Troia of Project Hospitality and the Reformed Church of Huguenot Park in Staten Island; Reverend Samuel Cruz Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Sunset Park; Father Enrique Salvo of the Church of St. Anselm and St. Roch in the Bronx; Reverend Dr. Protopresbyter Nicholas Kazarian Priest of Saint Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church in Chelsea; Imam Khalid Latif of the Islamic Center at NYU in Greenwhich Village; Venerable Bhante Heenbunne Kondañña Abbot and Chief Incumbent of the Staten Island Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center; Reverend Joe Holland of Bethel Gospel Assembly in Harlem; and Reverend Sherin Swift of New Life Fellowship in Elmhurst.PRESS RELEASE

20220402 - 20220212 | Andrew Edlin Gallery | Bowery | Spain Rodriguez-The Art of Spain Rodriguez
Curated by Dan Nadel this career-spanning retrospective will include unique drawings for comics from the 1960s through the 1990s alongside sketchbooks paintings and ephemera. Spain Rodriguez (1940-2012) called the “socialist soul” of the 1960s underground comics movement combined leftist politics outlaw biker adventure and science fiction in dynamically drawn stories. He was a natural yarn spinner with an entertainer’s flair for dramatic staging noir cityscapes and striking figures. Robert Crumb who has called Spain a mentor said recently “His politics were driven by genuine authentic class anger class hatred. It was always clarifying bracing to discuss politics social and cultural issues with him.” Raised in Buffalo New York he attended an art trade school for a few years before working a factory job for the first part of the 1960s. In Buffalo he became a member of the Road Vultures Motorcycle Club which offered him comradery and decades of material. When Spain moved to New York’s East Village in the mid-1960s he began a nearly fifty-year run of publishing that ended with his passing. He became a staff cartoonist for the most renowned of the underground newspapers the East Village Other appearing alongside the likes of Ed Sanders and Allen Ginsberg. There he introduced the world to Trashman Agent of the 6th International a kind of urban Marxist James Bond and the corrupt cop Manning. Original drawings from both series will be on view for the first time in decades. Trashman in all his class-warrior glory is further represented by individual drawings and complete stories from the 1960s through the 1980s. Two of his autobiographical comic book epics originally published in Zap Comix in 1975 and 1982 will be exhibited in their entirety as well as a painting made in honor of the motorcycle club. In 1969 Spain moved to San Francisco where he was invited to join Zap Comix by Robert Crumb. Two intensely detailed collaborative “jam” drawings for Zap by Spain Crumb Robert Williams Victor Moscoso and S. Clay Wilson will be on view. Spain went on to either found or contribute to many of the most important underground comics including his own Subvert Comics Insect Fear Comics and the seminal anthologies Arcade and Weirdo. Rare editions of these comic books as well as underground newspapers flyers sketchbooks and art from Spain’s personal collection by the likes of Robert Crumb Gilbert Shelton Willy Mendes and Johnny Craig will offer historical and visual context for Spain’s life and work.

20220402 - 20220205 | 3A Gallery | East Village | Aislinn McNamara-
Thirty years ago the first time I visited the Picasso Museum in Paris the building seemed to me just an ordinary mansion. At the entrance I found the stairs and a high ceiling. The high ceiling had a rustic ironwork chandelier; my professor told me that it was Albert Giacometti’s brother Diego Giacometti’s work. When the door was open it was because Picasso’s cat sculpture was sitting there as a door stopper. It was super charming. But now Picasso’s museum in Paris has renewed itself into a white museum with a stylish doorman standing by the door. Where has that cat sculpture gone? Nowadays every museum has become similarly white-walled with cheap materials. The style looks the same as commercial galleries so it is easy to change with the installations. I can’t say that I like Renzo Piano because he has decorated almost all museums like shiny white cubes with no character and no blood. They are made for “style”. It’s easy that all the walls are white. However as much as I love the Metropolitan Museum in NYC I also love Tate Britain. The walls have strong colors yet this makes the artworks stronger emphasized by the background. If all walls end up white William Morris’s beautiful wallpapers will be framed and shown on a white wall which doesn’t make sense. I very much enjoyed and was excited to visit Aislinn’s studio; seeing her playful artworks and the world she made that belongs to her soul. I hope 3A Gallery can represent Aislinn’s art as it was in the world of her studio. The many holes of her sculptures might be inhaling you or groundhogs will be jumping up from those holes so you must be careful.

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Updated May 31, 2023 by Ryan Lutz

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