Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of works in various media, including collage, graphic design, posters, painting, photography, and sculpture, along with the most comprehensive collection of Polish avant-garde books and periodicals ever offered for sale. The Polish avant-garde went through several different focuses between 1920 and 1945, and the range of styles and influences—Cubism, Expressionism, Polish folk tradition, Constructivism, “Utilitarianism,” …

Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of photomontages and “manipulated” photographs created by the Jewish poet, artist and Surrealist, Jindřich Heisler, during World War II. Working clandestinely in the bathroom of the artist Toyen, where he was hidden during the entirety of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, he created a highly personal body of photographic work which to date has been …

Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition featuring a selection of over thirty original collages, incorporating images from both original photographs and sources such as newspapers and magazines. The exhibition focused on the “surreal” effects obtained by the juxtaposition of unrelated images, while still considering the political and graphic design uses of the medium. The title of the exhibition—employing the term fotomontage—is …

This exhibition at Ubu Gallery featured early working drawings, finished drawings, photographs and structures by Sol LeWitt. The works in this exhibition ranged from “Objectivity,” a painted canvas wall structure from 1962, to a plotted and cut-out photograph of an aerial view of Manhattan from 1979. As LeWitt has written, “The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as …

Ubu Gallery presented New York’s first commercial gallery exhibition of the extraordinary photographic work of Brooklyn resident, Ann Mandelbaum. Simply stated, Mandelbaum’s photographs detail close-up portions of the human body—eyes, mouths, nipples, tongues, eyebrows, necks, etc.—ambiguously and sensually presented; however, these photographs contain more than a simple figural quality. They are rigidly composed images, highly refined into mysterious prints which …

Each of the 40 artists in this exhibition created an artwork based on directively limiting the finished work to “one uninterrupted action” in the medium of the artist’s choice. About half of the exhibition, which originally consisted of Dutch and German artists, was installed earlier in the year at Parade Gallery in Amsterdam. The exhibition was expanded to include American …

Ubu Gallery presented the work of Gustav Klutsis, which included his photomontages, posters and books. Recognized as the father of Russian photomontage, creator of the Radio Orator, and master of dynamic typography, poster and display design, Klutsis remains one of the most creative and significant of all Soviet Constructivist artists. Central to Klutsis’s aesthetic was his deep commitment to Soviet …

Ubu Gallery presented two concurrent exhibitions exploring the interrelated themes of eroticism and dreams in Surrealist photography and collage. The eminent Czech avant-garde artist, Jindřich Štyřský (1899–1942), who was closely allied with the Parisian Surrealists, and who was the subject of Ubu Gallery’s inaugural exhibition in 1994, masterfully investigated the themes of eroticism and dreams in a series of publications …

Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition which featured altered found photographs and collages by contemporary artist, Gary Brotmeyer. Although not a photographer in the traditional sense (he does not take any photographs), Brotmeyer has a photographer’s “eye.” By transforming the specific reality of an existing photograph into some new “unreality” he is, as one critic stated, “logical, ridiculous and sly.” Included …

The Subverted Object explored ordinary objects subjected to “abrupt reversals” or “transformations” in the course of making art. Dada and Surrealist artists, whom recognized that the effectiveness of these transformations depended to a great extent on being able to recognize the authenticity of the original, exploited such “abrupt reversals” with unrelenting wit and cunning. This exhibition at Ubu Gallery conveyed …