Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens: group exhibition at Stand4 Gallery

Three of Chris Costan’s interventions will appear in “Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens” a group show with Jennifer MacGregor guest-curating for Ecoartspace at Stand4 Gallery. The original intervention paintings will be placed in the gallery, with digitally printed versions installed on 5th Avenue in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn.

The exhibit will be on display at the gallery and at locations throughout Bay Ridge with film screenings at the Alpine Cinema.

Artists included: Rebecca Allan, Aaron Asis, Chris Costan, Kate Dodd, Peter Edlund, Kristin Reiber-Harris, Ellen Coleman-Izzo, Sergey Jivetin, Nathan Kensinger, Rita Leduc, Christopher Lin, Nikki Lindt, E.J. McAdams/ Jimbo Blachly,  Nancy Nowacek, Benjamin Swett.

Chris Costan’s three interventions;
BLOOD BLOOD (or the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab)
MORTALITY (the Verrazano Narrows)
OTHERING (or the Diamondback Terrapin)

Check out this review from Brooklyn Paper.

Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center
414 78th St, Brooklyn New York
April 15- June 17, 2023

Painting at Night at Collar Works, Troy, NY, artists selected by Judith Braun

Painting at Night

Selected by Judith Braun, Costan is included in the exhibition Painting at Night. The theme was developed during an episode of Artist/Mother Podcast. Allison Reimus recalls the time she read a statement in a New York Times article about how “You can’t paint at night in your kitchen and hope to be a good artist. It doesn’t work that way.”In true Artist/Mother fashion, this seemed like a great statement to respond to for a group show, as an act of resistance and rejection. To imply that good art cannot be made in domestic spaces, or that a person cannot claim the title of artist without meeting arbitrary requirements is a patriarchal myth, one that artists who are mothers have been resisting for decades.

Exhibition Dates: May 27 - July 31, 2022
Location: Collar Works, 621 River St, Troy, NY

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