Two versions of interventions featured at The Wall Gallery as well as eight rogue interventions posted on the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn

The Wall Gallery is opening International Waters, featuring a small group of American and German artists. Petra Flierl, Martin Colden, Gregor Wiest, Hagen Klennert and Frank Lambertz with the American artists, Bill Nogosek, Richard Dennis, Anna Patalona, Chris Costan and Chad Abbley.

The Wall Gallery will feature 8 of Costan’s rogue interventions. All versions are titled, ‘A River Runs to Thee’ (or) Rivers of the World were created in 2020 at the earliest moments of the Covid Pandemic. Two intervention pieces will be located in the gallery with six interventions on the streets in Red Hook.

Check out this review of the show.

International Waters
curated by Scott Pfaffman
61 Seabring Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn (F train)
October 7th - November 12th, 2023

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
https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2023/11/an-italian-american-colloquy-with-joanne-mattera-and-john-avelluto.html
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

Alle V at Hochhaus Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Costan will be included in an international group of artists in ALLE V at Hochhaus in Berlin, Germany. The show runs from July 4-August 23, 2023

Studio in HIGH BUILDING
HOCHHAUS Zingster Strasse 25 | 13051 Berlin
hours: Mon - Fri 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. - 6 p.m

The Patriot at O'Flaherty's Gallery

“The Patriot", a huge exhibition commemorating the moving of locations for O'Flaherty's on the Lower East Side. This show Includes artists using all mediums and featuring artists of all abilities. Rogue and pandemonium in spirit and sensibility with the hanging reflecting a mood of rebellion. This show harks back to times past when the New York art world was less structured and more open. Covered by Hyperallergic, Cultured Mag, New York Times and Time Out. An irreverent remembrance of times past was the mood. July 14-August 10 2022.

"For its summer 2022 show, flippantly titled “The Patriot,” the gallery burnished its lack of pretense. 

Perhaps the bombshell art movement we’ve all been waiting for will crawl out of its clutter and turn the exhibition into 2022’s equivalent of the “Ninth Street Show.”(what it is and) what's actually desired —is a new model for art’s circulation and display, one less strangled by notions of business".  - Jerry Saltz

Check out this review from Art Forum.

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

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

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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