Chris Costan's Tabletop Sculptures in the Time of Cholera featured in Evergreen Review

Three pieces from a series of Costan's Tabletop Sculpture in the Time of Cholera are featured in the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of The Evergreen Review. They are paired with the poetry of Amber Atiya who lives/works in Brooklyn. The Evergreen Review is a literary magazine founded in 1957. It has existed intermittently since then featuring the work of Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bertolt Brecht, Amiri Baraka, James Purdy and Edward Albee. It has always been known as a publisher that launched an assault on American propriety: literary, sexual, and social presenting writers. Fall/Winter, 2022 issue, Evergreen Review

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.

Upstate Art Weekend

Summertime Hues, a Pop-Up Group Exhibition associated with Upstate Art Weekend, Lemon Sky Projects, Kingston NY. July 22-24, 2022

Commemorating the 3rd annual Upstate Art Weekend, lemon sky projects is presenting a pop-up exhibition whose theme embraces a joie de vivre, with most of the artists spending significant time of living in the Hudson Valley. The show engages in a vibrant dialogue-- rough hewn bricolage approaches, counterbalancing more refined techniques--an explosion of color and textures to lift the spirits.

Artists: Jesse Bransford, Judith Braun, Colby Cannon, Susan Carr, Chris Costan, Anne Devine, Louis Constant Duit, Phyllis Galembo, Tommy Grenas, Clarity Haynes, Lisa Kirk, Anne Leith, Carmen Lizardo, Dylan Musler, Michael Rodriguez, Karen Schifano, Melissa Stern, Diane Tenerelli, Jonathan Williams.
66 W Chester St
in the back garden
Kingston NY

Hours:
Friday, July 22 noon-7pm
Saturday July 23 noon-7pm
cool off —-at a cold beverage reception—-: Sat July 23 5-7pm
Sunday July 24 noon-5pm

Alle IV, Studio Im Hochhaus, Berlin, Germany curated by Uwe Jonas

CHRIS COSTAN is included in Alle IV, a group exhibition curated by Uwe Jonas at Studio Im Hochhaus, Berlin, Germany. On view until July 30, 2022.

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, NYC

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