Asynchronous Viewing

Art Workers Coalition, Aubrey Beardsley, Lisa Di Donato, Corita Kent, Ryan Flores, Trevor Foster, Karolyn Hatton, Myeongsoo Kim, Sophy Naess, Alan Reid, Andrew Ross & Superstudio

July 8th - August 14th, 2021

Installation Views

Artworks

Lisa Di Donato, Ontic Glow #20, 2020, tintype, 12 1/4" x 14 1/2" (framed)

Art Workers Coalition, Q. And babies? A. And babies., 1970, offset lithograph on paper, 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" (framed)

Lisa Di Donato, Ontic Glow #15, 2019, Tintype, 12 1/4" x 14 1/2" (framed)

Myeongsoo Kim, Victor with two horses, 2015, paint on photograph mounted on Dibond, 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" (framed)

Superstudio, Niagara o l’architettura riflessa, 1970, offeset print on paper, ed. 500, 29 1/16" x 36 1/4" (framed)

Lisa Di Donato, Ontic Glow #12, 2019, tintype12 1/4" x 14 1/2" (framed)

Myeongsoo Kim, Untitled_Polished black graphite, 2017, polished solid graphite panel, brass inlaid stained walnut, 13" x 7" x 2"

Andrew Ross, Remember the Titans, 2021, uv ink on live-edge maple, 38" x 27"

Myeongsoo Kim, Meat market in Copacabana, Bolivia, 2018, paint on photograph mounted on Dibond, 8 1/4" x 10 1/2" (framed)

Lisa Di Donato, Ontic Glow #14, 2019, tintype, 12 1/4" x 14 1/2" (framed)

Trevor Foster, Forest Spirit IV - serpent-necked forest spirit with crevice spiny lizards and a sceptre of rainbow cactus blooms and havard agave, 2017, ink on paper, 15 1/4" x 12 1/4" (framed)

Aubrey Beardsley, Cover design for No. 4 of “The Savoy.” Printed in A Second Book of Fifty Drawings, by Aubrey Beardsley (Leonard Smithers & Co, London, 1899), ca. 1899, magazine page, 14 3/4" × 11 3/4" (framed)

Alan Reid, Aesthetic Composition, 2021, acrylic on linen, 15" x 20"

Ryan Flores, Summer Gloom, 2021, glazed ceramic, dimensions variable

Sophy Naess, 8-19 Woodward Avenue, 2020, oil on canvas, 11" x 14"

Sophy Naess, Instabile #1, Positive, Released, 2020, collograph on paper, 11” x 14” (published in collaboration with Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press)

Ryan Flores, Summer Gloom, 2021, glazed ceramic, dimensions variable

Aubrey Beardsley, Illustration titled The Coiffing. Printed in No. 3 of “The Savoy,” page 90, ca. 1896, magazine page, 14 3/4" × 11 3/4" (framed)

Sophy Naess, 1915 Putnam Avenue, 2020, oil on canvas, 11" x 14"

Sophy Naess, Instabile #2, Positive, Released, 2020, collograph on paper, 11” x 14” (published in collaboration with Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press)

Aubrey Beardsley, Illustration titled The Cave of Spleen. Printed in The Rape of Lock, by Alexander Pope (Leonard Smithers & Co, London, 1896), ca. 1896, magazine page, 14 3/4" × 11 3/4" (framed)

Karolyn Hatton, Waiting for a Signal, 2020, wool, leather, cotton, nylon, wool, metal, Flashe, polyfill, Plexi rods, 78.5 " x 28" x 5"

Corita Kent, Love at the end, 1969, silkscreen on paper, 26 1/8" x 15 1/8 " (framed)

Karolyn Hatton, March2021, wool, spray paint on canvas, hooked wool on hessian, t-shirt, painted metal, plexiglass, 60 x 30" x 1 1/2"

Download checklist

Press Release

Heroes Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition Asynchronous Viewing, a group show featuring the works of Art Workers Coalition, Aubrey Beardsley, Lisa Di Donato, Corita Kent, Ryan Flores, Trevor Foster, Karolyn Hatton, Myeongsoo Kim, Sophy Naess, Alan Reid, Andrew Ross and Superstudio.

As we open our new location at 162 Allen Street, Heroes Gallery will continue its ongoing curatorial mission. The gallery’s program aims to contextualize emerging artists alongside more established artists who have played pivotal roles in history; curating the contemporary while tracing genealogies through time.

The curatorial program began online during the Covid 19 pandemic, at a time when the New York arts community was battling financial, mental and logistical hardships. In an attempt to connect with other contemporary artists to foster a feeling of convergence and strength, Heroes Gallery looked both to its peers and to artists throughout history and brought together three virtual exhibitions.

All artists mine art history for inspiration, aesthetics and answers to our most challenging questions. Ideas surface and submerge through time creating a pattern that can be mapped over decades. Identifying these patterns and pulling at these threads allow us to feel part of a larger community, one that has also battled hardships such as pandemics, war and discrimination in the past. But because of social distancing we couldn’t explore these connections in person or view physical art very easily. To celebrate the availability of the vaccine and the careful reopening of New York City, Heroes Gallery invites all the artists that participated in our three online shows to come together in Asynchronous Viewing.

The definition of asynchronous is (two or more objects or events) not existing or happening at the same time. This exhibition celebrates finally viewing art and existing in our communities at the same time and in the same place.

Download Press release