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February 15–April 26, 2013

Eyes as Big as Plates

Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth

Ikonen and Hjorth will create costumes, settings, and performance programs for senior residents of New York

January 7–March 9, 2013

We Buy White Albums

Rutherford Chang

Chang will create an archive, listening library, and anti-store to house and grow his collection of the Beatles’ iconic record.

December 2012

Handicapped Spaces

Joanna Smolenski

October 22, 2012–January 18, 2013

Holistic Approach

Alina Tenser

For Holistic Approach, Tenser will create a series of sculptures, images and videos that begin with her body and extend into new, related forms.

October 2012

Untitled

Sara Roffino

September 2012

The Object of Sound Art

Jackson Moore

August 17–October 12, 2012

Date the Time

Molly Dilworth

For Date the Time, Dilworth will create a series of banners and flags, bearing patterns generated from user-submitted photos.

July 11–September 15, 2012

White Sands

Laura Vitale

Vitale will create a research laboratory for testing the audio-visual properties and material behaviors of gypsum plaster.

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.

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

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.

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 2012

Pavilion: Interceptor

Gideon Fink Shapiro

January 10–March 10, 2012

Pavilion

John Miserendino

For Pavilion, Miserendino will reinterpret Dan Graham’s original plans for his architectural structures.

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.

November 8–December 11, 2011

The Four Chambered Heart

Leila Hekmat

Hekmat will fuse the therapist’s office, researcher center, and performance set.

November 2011

Listening in

Bethany Ides

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.