September 23–November 28, 2009
Double Room
Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden
Hewitt and McFadden have approached the unique program at Recess as an impetus to merge production with performance.
January 13–March 20, 2010
BHQFU
Bruce High Quality Foundation
BHQFU defines itself as an unaccredited university where “students are teachers are administrators are staff… a university.
March 27–June 12, 2010
Tremendous
Kara Hearn
Hearn will complicate the roles of spectator and performer, inviting visitors to play an active part in the construction of a 60-90 minute video.
July 7–September 2, 2010
Spirit Tours 11
Dave Hardy and Siebren Versteeg
The artists collaborated as Spirit Tours for the first time in the summer of 2004. In summer 2010, they will continue dictating the future.
January 12–March 26, 2011
Scott Keightley’s solo exhibition
Scott Keightley
Keightley will create a series of sculptural and painted elements that will continually develop throughout his time on site.
January 31–April 25, 2011
Engage and Control
Lior Shvil
Shvil’s video project will launch Recess’s collaboration with Charlotte Kidd and Dustin Yellin from Kidd Yellin Studios.
April 13–June 11, 2011
Worn Thin
Jeff Williams
Williams will develop a series of sculptures, photographs, and videos along with a stratum of accumulated site-specific experiments.
April 26–June 1, 2011
Paintings
Gibby Haynes
Haynes’ project will be the second iteration of Recess’s collaboration with Charlotte Kidd and Dustin Yellin from Kidd Yellin Studios in Red Hook.
June 18–August 6, 2011
Wiggle Room
Larry Bob Phillips
Phillips will record four collaborative events, covering the walls inside 41 Grand Street with large-scale, and densely detailed drawings.
July 5–September 24, 2011
Them That Believe
Jonathan Durham
Durham will generate a series of photos, videos and sculptures that explore a literal translation of belief into radical action.
August 17–October 22, 2011
Matryoshka
Galería Perdida
galería perdida will build a series of galleries that will nest within one another utilizing the Russian doll as its model.
September 27–December 1, 2011
September 27th – December 1st
Park McArthur and Yve Laris Cohen
Laris Cohen and McArthur will use Recess as a space to work on individual and collaborative projects concerning the politics of inclusion.
October 1–December 10, 2011
The Family Creative
FCKNLZ
FCKNLZ will house a series of workshops adapted from The Family Creative Workshop, a twenty-three-volume encyclopedia of craft projects.
October 31–November 4, 2011
Feedback: Nonstop (1 of 6)
Christine Sun Kim and Lukas Geronimas
Christine Sun Kim will begin work on the inaugural performance of her 6- event series as part of Session.
November 8–December 11, 2011
The Four Chambered Heart
Leila Hekmat
Hekmat will fuse the therapist’s office, researcher center, and performance set.
On view
Feedback 2 of 6: Now Hiring
Christine Sun Kim and Beka Goedde
Christine Sun Kim will initiate a performance and installation as the second event in her six-part Session at Recess.
January 10–March 10, 2012
Pavilion
John Miserendino
For Pavilion, Miserendino will reinterpret Dan Graham’s original plans for his architectural structures.
March 14–18, 2012
VVAVE (3 of 6)
Christine Sun Kim, John Andrew, and Aliza Simons
Christine Sun Kim will initiate a live and continuous 72-hour radio and internet broadcast as the third event in, Feedback.
March 22–April 11, 2012
Me and Everyone That is With Me
Alex Casso, Graham Hamilton, and Dan Herschlein
Artists collaborate with the Education Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art on classes for students from the Regent Family Residence.
May 1–June 30, 2012
Café
Andy Meerow and Rose Marcus
Marcus and Meerow will address specific economic conditions that inform their collaboration and autonomous creative practices in New York City
May 30–August 9, 2012
Invisible Men
Abigail DeVille
DeVille will amass bricolage, painting, and sculpture into a selective history of culturally invisible classes of people.