SUMMER EXHIBITIONS

OPENING SAT. JUNE 26

Reade Bryan, Geomorphic Agents

Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Waiting for Water

Tammy Nguyen, Freehold

June 26 - August 8, 2021

Join us Saturday, June 26 for the opening of our summer exhibitions. Timed entry registration is required on the opening day, 4-7 PM. Due to our limited capacity, you must sign up to attend during a one-hour time slot. Each guest may sign up for 2 tickets maximum. As a courtesy to our guests, please do not sign up for more than a single time slot.

If Smack Mellon's capacity for opening day is reached, you may visit the exhibition without a ticket during our regular hours Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 PM, beginning on Sunday, June 27. Please read our COVID Courtesy Code prior to your visit. Face coverings are required for all visitors, even if you are vaccinated.

This summer, Smack Mellon presents three solo exhibitions spanning the entrance and two gallery spaces. Through installation, sculpture, paintings, and prints, the artists each address the current politics, histories, and cultural imaginaries surrounding the state of climate change and global water issues.

Reade Bryan’s painted and sculptural installations focus on regions that have been dramatically altered by man-made irrigation systems. The exhibition’s site of departure is the Aral Sea, which was an endorheic lake located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia.

Through an immersive installation that contrasts two different types of vessels intended to carry water, Shayok Mukhopadhyay’s Waiting for Water is an effort to publicly reevaluate the vulnerability of technologically complex societies to the volatility of climate change.

Tammy Nguyen’s exhibition Freehold is inspired by the artist’s research and writing about Forest City, a tax free, man-made island in Johor, Malaysia, located along the Singapore Strait and adjacent to the Strait of Malacca–-one of the busiest trade conduits in the world. The exhibition brings together three new bodies of work in addition to a flag that the artist has created to frame the exhibition.

This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation, Select Equity Group Foundation, many individuals and Smack Mellon’s Members.

Smack Mellon’s programs are also made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with generous support from The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust, Jerome Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc., and Exploring The Arts. In-kind donations are provided by Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.

Smack Mellon would like to extend a special thanks to all of the individuals, foundations, and businesses who have contributed to the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund.

Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas family and Two Trees Management.

Waiting for Water was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

Opening Reception: Summer Exhibitions