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 …

Ubu Gallery presented an exhibition of manipulated and un-retouched photographs, as well as the photomontages, by Pierre Molinier, an influential French gender performance artist. Although he had begun photographing himself seriously as early as 1950, Molinier created an obsessive photographic documentation of his private “male lesbian” fantasies in the mid-1960s. These images were “recycled” in the late 1960s as source …

Organized in collaboration with Barbara Moore, proprietor of Bound & Unbound as well as an art historian specializing in Fluxus and other contemporary avant-garde art movements, this first solo exhibition was devoted to the full range work created by Fluxus founder, George Maciunas. The exhibition included many scarce Fluxus and non-Fluxus works, highlighting the process of Maciunas’s work in the …

This solo exhibition consisted of the surviving photographic material, from the pre-World War II period, executed by the extraordinary Polish filmmaker, writer, editor and co-founder of the remarkable Gaberbocchus Press, Stefan Themerson. Working with his wife, Franciszka, Themerson created some of the most influential films in Eastern Europe during the 1930s. This exhibition also included innovative photographs, photograms and collages, …

Ubu Gallery presented works of art by a diverse group of modern and contemporary artists, in which the image of the gun was incorporated. The media shown in this exhibition included objects, collages, assemblages, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art explored the role of this ‘loaded’ icon, whose cultural role and presence has influenced …

Russian Constructivist film posters, selected from the esteemed Susan J. Pack collection, have long been recognized by graphic designers and design curators as among the most significant examples of graphic design of the twentieth century. The works on display at Ubu Gallery for this exhibition included the renowned work of Aleksandr Rodchenko for the Sergei Eisenstein Film, “Battleship Potemkin,” as …

Ubu Gallery presented Yoko Ono’s “automatic” drawings from Franklin Summer and the Family Album objects: bronzes of everyday items (e.g. a splintered bat, a mirror, a high-heeled shoe) splattered with blood red pigment. These objects, containing Ono’s metaphoric and poetic response to violence experienced both globally and at a personal level, were contrasted with the spontaneous pleasure and biomorphic references …

Ubu Gallery presented a collection of photographs and drawings by Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), a Surrealist whose overt influence on current art trends far outweighs the public’s recognition of his emotionally and intellectually charged oeuvre. The appreciation of the photographs is enhanced in the broader developmental context of Bellmer’s continuous production of drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture—represented in this exhibition principally …

Held concurrently with a showing of his art project at the International Library in The Center for Book arts in Soho, Visual Text at Ubu Gallery was Helmut Löhr’s first solo exhibition in New York. A dual resident of Düsseldorf and New York, Löhr—at the time this exhibition opened—had participated in over 170 gallery and museum shows in Europe, Japan …