Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
O'Flaherty's is returning for a month-long exhibit at 165 Allen St. between Stanton and Rivington.
This comes after the gallery-performance space spent a memorable 18 months at 44 Avenue A before an August departure.
The new exhibit featuring work by Matthew Barney and Alex Katz is titled "The Bitch." The opening reception is tonight between 6-8.
Artist, curator and owner Jamian Juliano-Villani invited us to check out the bi-level space the other night as they prepped for the opening...
O'Flaherty's previously had a year-long run at 55 Avenue C at Fourth Street, culminating with a packed show in July 2022.
"We're here for a fucking month," said Juliano-Villani, "after that, no clue."
2 comments:
Cool space, packed crowd last night. While no slouch as a painter I find JVs curatorial projects more interesting than her stuff on canvas. The Keith Haring posters on Broome St were pretty great too. His work has always ben hit or miss for me as I'm not a fan of some the goofy iconography which is kind of the hallmark short lived career. However his deathbed painting, a self portrait, depicts a photo of himself as a baby inside a balloon/bubble that's being pricked by a devil. Very moving and as real as it gets. Speaks for a whole generation that got wiped out.
I've now heard of so many places in Manhattan that used to be brothels, I'm convinced most of the island used to have sex-for-hire! (Money makes the world go round.)
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