SKELETAL HAND ON THE GLASS HARMONICA

October 31 - December 23, 2024

Fabiola Alondra
Scott Covert
Jamie Fletcher
Christopher Garrett
Raina Hamner
Aisling Hamrogue
Robert Hawkins
Balarama Heller
RD Mayson
Jose “Cochise” Quiles
Valentina Vaccarella
Banks Violette
Alyssa Taylor Wendt

Snow Gallery re-opens in its new Brooklyn location on Via Vespucci, an area also known as Graham Avenue. We are opening our doors to the public on our favorite holiday: Halloween.

Our inaugural show, Skeletal Hand on the Glass Harmonica, is a group exhibition of 13 artists.

“Turning in one’s grave” is an idiom to describe a level of shock, surprise or disappointment expressed as the vicarious sentiment of a deceased person. What if the cemeteries of NYC were full of bodies rolling in their graves? Corpses spinning under the ground, like some kind of necrotic turbine generator, kinetic energy spinning into an electricity felt by those willing to feel. A lavender wind of harmonious ghosts ready to counsel our thoughts, guide our hands.

We have always felt led by the counsel of our ancestors, no longer with us in physical bodies. As we walk this earth, our feet are matching the spirits of the underworld in a mirror image, their feet matched to ours, always there as we navigate this world. While we believe the current is always available, many believe that this time of year the boundary between the physical and spiritual world is more permeable— a thinning of the veil as we enter the darker days.

We are letting the spirits guide us in how this all develops. Since we left our Eldridge street location at the end of 2023, we’ve been working nomadically: organizing shows at other spaces, continuing Frankie’s Clownhouse, and furthering our imprint – now called Heinzfeller Snow. A linear increase has also occurred, in the shape of a triangle, as Chip Kolpen is now working with us.

The 13 artists in this exhibition are a strong example of people who have shared and shaped our path. Many of them artists we’ve worked with multiple times.

We will have four new publications available at the opening:

Bibliotheca Diabolica
by Fabiola Alondra

This will be an accompaniment to Fabiola’s work in the exhibition, her first time presenting her research work as an installation.

Shirttail Kin
Chivas Clem

Made in collaboration with Alison M. Gingeras and the Dallas Contemporary
A full color, 56 page newsprint catalog with contributions from Hilton Als and Alison M. Gingeras

Some Random Images Left by Dead People on My Computer
2005 - 2016
Second Edition
Banks Violette

Witch Hotline Book 2

(author unknown)

The rear area of the gallery will house a store carrying books, artist editions, curated records and other art objects.

Snow Gallery 430 Graham Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211
Open Wednesday - Sunday 12pm-6pm