A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists EXTENDED

Two of Chris Costan’s textile collages have been selected for the group exhibition, A Legacy of Making and will take place at the Calandra Institute in New York.

This show addresses a discernible Italian art tradition — represented by a group of contemporary Italian American artists. The various works share a sense of Italianness covering a range from the clearly articulated to the suggested to the non-existent… all generally connected to italianità. 

A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists
Curated by Joanne Mattera and Joseph Sciorra
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 W 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York City
September 27th, 2023 - January 12th, 2024 NEW END DATE; April 15, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, September 27th, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
(212)-642-2094

Artists Draw Their Studios at the Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College curated by Michele Weinberg

Chris Costan will be included in the Artists Draw Their Studios show.

Invited by artist Michele Weinberg, and inspired by her practice of periodically drawing her own studio, approximately 50 artists will contribute drawings of their workplaces in a unique project that exposes the diverse ways that artists perceive their own creative work and lives.

Exhibition Dates: April 6– May 6, 2022
Location: The Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College

In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, an exhibition curated by Chris Costan and Laziza Rakhimova

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New York City Culture Club is proud to present In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, a group exhibition at the World Trade Center, in New York City.

In Nature, Nothing Exists Alone, compelled to act in accordance with concerns about planetary distress, each of the below artists have expressed commentary or philosophies in the form of art: Kim Abeles, Olive Ayhens, Elena Berriolo, Chris Costan,  Valerie Hegarty, Betsy Kenyon, Oskar Landi, Christopher Lin, Lenore Malen,  Laziza Rakhimova, Tattfoo Tan, Marion Wilson.

The artists incorporate concerns such as climate change, social justice, health and well-being, extinctions of flora and fauna and habitat loss into their works. All demonstrate the urgent need to live more responsibly within the Earth's finite resources. The show’s location will be effective in reaching a wide variety of people.

In Silent Spring (1962), the quote "in nature, nothing exists alone" illustrates Rachel Carson's critique that the actions of people have a vast impact on the natural world. All things in nature are interconnected, and impacting just one part of it will create numerous unintended results throughout the ecosystem.

Exhibition Dates: January 27, 2022 - March 7, 2022
Location: Oculus, C1 Level, South Concourse, World Trade Center Plaza, New York, NY 10007

click here for a review by LiveMag! of the exhibition