*Complimentary wine will be served

On view in the gallery's current exhibition: 

Solo Show:

WILLIAM MORTENSEN: AMERICAN GROTESQUE

Solo Show:

RIK GARRETT: EARTH MAGIC

Solo Show:

LU ZHANG: ALL THE LOST SOULS

Group Show:

"IN MISSA INTERFECTIONIS" The Dance of Death, Hexes, Voodoo, Curses and Witchcraft. Featuring the works of Colin Christian, Judy Chappus, El Gato Chimney, Darcilio Lima, Soey Milk, Dan Barry, Jumaadi, Jel Ena, Caitlin McCormack, Eric Richardson, Matthew Dutton, Pulu Zhao, Miki Saito, Lu Ke, Caitlin Karolczak, Sarah Jacobs, Phillip Grant, Rithika Merchant, Aunia Kahn, Kim Bo Yung, Gromyko Semper, Romney De Hooghe, Ted Victoria, Ellen Stagg, Found&Lost, Tine Kindermann, Amber Groome, Kalyana Thiru, Charles Dellschau, Jennifer Lin, Erna Kd, Lori Field, Amy Friend, Jana Brike, Damian Michaels, Peca, vernacular and spirit photography. 

About the Video Artist

Steven Trumon Gray, originally from Iowa City, obtained a BFA in Dance and a BA in Vocal Performance from the University of Iowa in 2012. In NYC, he has had the opportunity to perform with David Dorfman Dance, Jane Comfort and Company, White Wave Dance Company, Most Happy Fella for City Center's ENCORES as well as Queen of the Night. Steven is currently dancing full time with Company XIV in Nutcracker Rouge and doing photography work.

"Remedios" is a solo choreographed by dancer Andrea Murillo last summer when she was commissioned by Peter London whose dance company is based in Miami, FL. When the solo was accepted for First Look @ The Green Building, she decided to create the short with Steven Trumon Gray. This is a full collaboration between both dancer and video artist. 

About the Dancer

Andrea Murillo is a performing artist and producer from Miami, FL. After graduating from New World School of the Arts College, she began touring with the Martha Graham Dance Company. During her time there, Andrea performed solo roles such as “Lamentation,” “Serenata Morisca” and lead roles in “Embattled Garden,” “Steps in the Street,” and “Snow in the Mesa.” In 2012, she transitioned to Sleep No More NYC. Andrea is a founding member of Crux and has recently toured with Rosie Hererra Dance Theatre. Currently, Andrea is in the creative process of writing, directing, and producing dance on film. For more information please visitwww.AndreaMurillo.Info

The title of the piece is "Remedios"

About the Vocalist

Andru Pramuk

“Andrak is not just my solo project, it's a space for my subconscious to emerge. Andrak is storytelling through song. Andrak is a universal, androgynous character; he exists in nighttime, in dreams, in memories. He is a sort of contemporary cabaret, a modernist dealing with song in a digital landscape.”

About the Videographer

Eman Akram Nader 

www.cinemanader.com

Photography by: Alex Cimbal

About the Dj

Born in Paris in the early 90s, young music selector Zak Moon has just recently relocated to his second birthright home of New York City. Falling in love with electronic rhythms at an early age meant his ascension as a DJ and producer, shortly after arriving on the other side of the Atlantic he was thrust into a buzzing scene full of opportunities and quickly became a very well regarded artist playing inside clubs such as Output, Sankeys and for the renowned Blkmarket Membership event group amongst many others. His precise touch and carefully chosen blend of House, Techno, Minimal and Ambient music is sure to convey an inspiring journey of emotion.

About the curators 

Nyahzul is an oil painter born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a self-taught artist with a background of 10 years in Graphic Design. She has been actively painting and exhibiting for over a decade in cities such as Los Angeles, Orlando, Detroit, New York City, Las Vegas and Bogota (Colombia). Her style of figurative painting uses rich oil paint with undertones of collage to create moods of Bittersweet Romanticism. 

For the past 6 years, Nyahzul has also been curating exhibitions in Orlando and Brooklyn NY. Currently she is the Associate Director of Rabbithole Gallery in Brooklyn. She has a lush colorful oil painting style. Her paintings evoke surrealist and romantic narratives along with forgotten magic. They are as purposely imperfect as life is complex.

www.nyahzulart.com

Kalyana Thiru started the "Patternbraker" project in 2007 purely as a personal daily written record of her uncovering philosophy from lucid dreaming. In 2013, she began to make mandalas out of raw photographs to project optimism on dismal circumstances. She was adament to make these mandalas without retouching to preserve its raw identity. What she found was that the imagined, abstract reality she created also maintained the raw identity of the original image, thus triggering the analytical centers of the mind to uncover its "meaning". "Patternbreaker" is about polarity of extremes and their necessity in experience in order to trigger is full meaning and definition. The project furthers into an imaginary "Pattern" Movement as a personal express of her dissatisfaction with the Modernist's assertion of "a meaningless life". 

About Stephen Romano Gallery

Stephen Romano Gallery is a new addition to the DUMBO arts community, having opened its doors in April of 2014. Prior to opening the current gallery, Stephen Romano was a private art dealer for 10 years specializing in masters of self-taught and visionary artists such as Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Charles Dellschau, Bill Traylor, Darcilio Lima, and many others. The Gallery's most recent exhibition "William Mortensen: American Grotesque""is being well received and reviewed extensively.

Stephen Romano has been a participant in many art fairs including PULSE, Art Now, The Outisder Art Fair and The Metro Show.

In 2013, Stephen Romano produced a seminal 330-page monograph on Texas visionary artist Charles Dellschau designed by Marquand Books and distributed by DAP. The book generated several positive reviews from a wide variety of publications such as Bookforum, Raw Vision Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Antiques and the arts and Design Observer among many others. With an introduction by Stephen Romano, the book features the final published essay by renowned art writer Thomas McEvilley, as well as contributions from the founder of The Museum of Everything James Brett, and the curator of Smithsonian Museum of Aerospace, Thomas Croutch. In the same year, Romano also published the first ever post-mortem retrospective catalog of works by Darcilio Lima and most recently a catalogue of a previously unknown photographic series from 1925 by William Mortensen"A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft," with an introduction by A.D. Coleman. Most recently, Stephen Romano Gallery had the honor of publishing a catalog of works by artist Pavel Kraus with an essay by David Ebony as well as a catalog of new works by Chinese artist Lu Zhang with an essay by Robert C. Morgan.