North west view of the main gallery. Directly ahead is the north white wall, which has 4 paintings of various sizes installed on it. To the right, a white wall partition divides the east and west side of the main gallery; 3 pieces of art are hung on the visible side of the wall. To the left is the west, white wall, which has a large, arched entryway. To the right of the entryway is a large, square painting, and to the left of the entryway is a large sculpture of a dollhouse balanced on top of a ceramic pot, which stands on top of a wooden pedestal.
January 19–March 2, 2024

Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual – Selected by Randy Kennedy
Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual – Selected by Randy Kennedy
A colorful drawing depicting a medieval landscape teeming with mythical creatures and personified animals. In the foreground is a gray cat wearing yellow knight armor and riding a unicorn. The cat's gaze meets the viewer while holding a red flag with a written message. The cat is accompanied by five mice, also wearing armor, as well as a mouse fairy princess. In the background are two distant castles across a grassy plain, the sun peering just behind the castle to the right.
November 29, 2023–January 10, 2024

White Columns Online #26:
Joan of Arc and her Unicorn
curated by Daisy Sheff
White Columns Online #26 curated by Daisy Sheff
(A head-on view of three white walls in a gallery, on which six paintings are hung. Three paintings are on the left wall, two are on the back wall, and one is on the right wall. The paintings are all roughly the same size and color palette, and all are portraits of women, painted from the shoulders up. The women all resemble one another and gaze at the viewer from various angles. All are painted on backgrounds of dark blue or green.)
November 3–December 16, 2023

Na Kim
Na Kim
(A forward facing view of a freestanding gallery wall. Mounted to the wall with hangers are three pieces of business attire, all modified in unique ways; for example, the gray blazer on the right has two holes cut into the chest. A painted shelf that wraps around the entire wall displays a variety of ephemera relating to Pippa Garner’s work. The wall in the background holds 12 small photographs and underneath is another shelf holding more ephemera.)
November 3–December 16, 2023

Pippa Garner
ACT LIKE YOU KNOW ME
Pippa Garner
A photograph of a horizontally-hung sculpture of a long, skinny scrap of metal which is bent and creased.
October 3–November 10, 2023

White Columns Online #25:
Like a museum filled with things and bones 
curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg
White Columns Online #25 curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg
(View of a gallery at a slight angle. Nearest to the viewer is a papier-mâché sculpture of two nearly lifesize figures of an older woman and a younger woman embracing in a hug. Further behind them is a nearly lifesize sculpture of two men standing in front of a grill.)
September 12–October 21, 2023

Piero Penizzotto
Piero Penizzotto
Forward-facing view of a gallery. In the vitrines closest to the viewer are 23 pieces of ephemera related to Barbara Ess’ exhibitions. On the wall with the archway hangs 10 pieces of varying themed works. Towards the back are two rows of vitrines. One row stands against the wall and one extends through the gallery at an angle. On the wall behind both vitrines, 12 posters from various music performances hang on the wall, all varying in size, color and content. In front of the wall to the right are two vitrines holding a variety of material, behind it are 4 wall pieces.
September 12–October 21, 2023

Barbara Ess – Archives
Barbara Ess – Archives
Forward facing view of three gallery walls. On the front facing wall straight ahead is a large painting depicting a face, a set of arms and two cats in bed below two large spirals. On the wall to the left are two paintings, the one to the left is a small two panel blue and gold painting and to the right of it is a larger green painting including two wheels. On the right wall are two pieces resting on a bench and leaning against the wall including a wooden work in the shape of legs and a painting of a chair. To the bottom left is a sculpture resembling a chair similar to the chair painting on the right wall.
July 13–August 26, 2023

Pol Morton / Sara Murphy
Pol Morton / Sara Murphy
Angled view of a freestanding gallery wall displaying five drawings of architecture and a drawing of a fire extinguisher. Above the fire extinguisher hangs a small poem. On the back wall to the left hangs a blue reflective mixed media piece with cat ears. Behind the freestanding wall to the right is a large green painting of two bicycle wheels.
July 13–August 26, 2023

Everette Ball
Everette Ball
Centered view of three walls in a gallery, hanging on the wall to the left are three various shaped paper sculptures. The corner of the back left wall stands a life sized paper sculpture of similar material. On the back wall hangs two paper mask sculptures. In front of the wall to the right is a freestanding paper sculpture of a figure.
July 13–August 26, 2023

Carol Bruns
Carol Bruns
A framed photograph of a person lying on an ornate rug, eyes met to the camera.
April 13–May 27, 2023

White Columns Online #24:
Dwelling 
curated by Mihaela Chiriac
White Columns Online #24 curated by Mihaela Chiriac
Gallery view at an angle. 18 envelopes are laid out in a vitrine, covered in colorful arrangements of stamps. On the wall behind, 17 photocopies of drawings are pinned to a wood baton. The drawings are sketches for the stamp arrangements realized in the works in the vitrine. On the left wall hang 5 more of these drawings, also pinned to wood.
March 14–April 29, 2023

Lolly Batty
Lolly Batty
View of three gallery walls. On the far wall, straight ahead, are three pastel drawings of the same size. On the left wall are nine more pastel drawings, all the same size and hung in two rows. On the right wall are four more pastel drawings hung in two rows. The works are all figurative, mostly showing scenes from the artist’s daily life.
March 14–April 29, 2023

Camille Holvoet
Camille Holvoet
Gallery view at an angle. Nearest to the viewer is a freestanding wall on which hang five small, detailed and colorful framed works. The largest work, hung in the center, is a circular painting matted in a square frame. It is flanked on both sides by two paintings hung one above the other. Twelve more works can be seen on the far walls.
March 14–April 29, 2023

Philip Van Aver:
Paintings, Drawings and Miniatures,
1978 – 2021
Philip Van Aver: Paintings, Drawings and Miniatures, 1978 – 2021
A semi-transparent sculpture of an oversized insect with long, tentacle-like arms draping over the floor; the insect rests on its side, as if in sleep.
February 3–March 18, 2023

White Columns Online #23:
A Shapeshifter
with a Heavenly Secret
curated by Tamara Khasanova
White Columns Online #23 curated by Tamara Khasanova
Frontal view of two gallery walls. On the left wall, viewed head-on, hang two framed works. To the right of these works is a mannequin wearing a black dress topped with a headpiece of a giant stuffed hand. On the right wall hangs another small framed work.
January 20–March 4, 2023

Looking Back / The 13th White Columns Annual – Selected by Olivia Shao
Looking Back / The 13th White Columns Annual – Selected by Olivia Shao
An abstract depiction of a jacket sculpted in metal. The jacket is decorated with darker metallic floral cutouts, as well as the shape of a necktie down the center of the work.
November 19, 2022–January 27, 2023

White Columns Online #22:
A Good Jawn
curated by Brittany Adeline King
White Columns Online #22 curated by Brittany Adeline King
Front gallery view. A diverse array of posters and artwork are hung against a vibrantly-colored geometric-patterned wall covering, full of reds, greens, blues and yellows. White table vitrines display selected Pre-Echo Press titles such as (from left to right): Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax by Nick Relph, Ken Tisa: Objects Time Offerings, Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax by Ken Tisa, and Gay Areas Telephone Directory.
November 10–December 17, 2022

Other People’s Projects: Pre-Echo Press
Other People’s Projects:​ Pre-Echo Press​
Gallery view at an angle. Nearest to the viewer, a sculpture of an abstractly painted dresser drawer rests atop a plinth; painted black text on the drawer’s side reads “OF DEATH.” On the center free-standing wall hangs a large abstract painting. Installed on the floor to the left, a painted sandwich board reads “WHAT PART OF KEEP OUT.” On the rear wall hang six smaller paintings with painted text.
November 10–December 17, 2022

Cay Bahnmiller
Cay Bahnmiller
Gallery view captured at an angle. Two textile works are hanging on the wall to the left. Similar in design, they are constructed of found materials such as worn fabrics and rope, and decorated with quilted pattern squares covered in silver metallic paint. On the adjacent back wall, one sizable woven mat piece is hung. Finally, two pieces are displayed on the floor constructed of concentric circles in woven patterns with thicker woven sisal at the edges.
November 10–December 17, 2022

White Room: Sophie Stone
White Room: Sophie Stone
November 3, 2022

Otis Houston Jr.

Performance and Book Launch
Otis Houston Jr.
September 29, 2022

Mary Heilmann “The All Night Movie” Reading
Mary Heilmann “The All Night Movie”
Gallery view of diverse ceramics sits on yellow shelves on a yellow wall. The lower shelves contain smaller abstract pieces such as animals, and items such as cups, plates, and soap dishes. The high shelves contain larger pieces such as plates, vases, and interpretations of modern monuments.
September 23–October 29, 2022

Project: Ceramics Club
CC22
Project: Ceramics Club
Gallery view of paintings and collages on parallel walls, and two large pieces are on the back walls. The colorful works embrace patterns and decoration while drawing inspiration from dreams, folklore, and childhood memories. A bust constructed of plaster and oil is displayed on the right.
September 23–October 29, 2022

White Room: Karen Barbour
Karen Barbour
Gallery view of two walls. The wall on the left is freestanding in front of the back wall. Installed on the floor by the front wall is a multi-panel work depicting abstract and figurative images. On the back wall are four tie-dyed and screen-printed silk wall hangings with text and abstract images. From left to right, in hand-drawn capital letters, they read: “African Bird Dynasty,” “Order Justice Domination,” “Life in memory with art and nature,” and “The same but different.”
September 23–October 29, 2022

Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye
African Bird Dynasty
Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye
A painting of two figures seated around a pink table set with a kettle, mug and ashtray. The figure to the left is holding a lit cigarette.
August 12–October 15, 2022

White Columns Online #21:
The Feeling of Things
curated by Colleen Grennan
White Columns Online #21 curated by Colleen Grennan
Three sculptures in a gallery. One sculpture rests on a shelf against the back wall and is a bust of a person with painted white lips and eyes, a red collar and rhinestone earrings. On the table in the foreground, one sculpture depicting Gordon Parks is shirtless and holding a camera. To the right is a sculpture of a trumpet-playing figure wearing a straw hat and yellow suit.
July 8–September 10, 2022

Dr. Charles Smith
Dr. Charles Smith
Two side-by-side vertical panels show layered arrangements of intergenerational family photos. Some are singular portraits and others capture groups or pairs of people, and they vary between black-and-white and color images.
March 31, 2022–April 30, 2022

White Columns Online #20:
Bone Black
curated by Jenée-Daria Strand
White Columns Online #20 curated by Jenée-Daria Strand
Two adjacent white walls exhibit five vertical paintings. One painting is on the right, depicting a pond with lilies, vegetation, and reflections of buildings, and the four on the left wall portray various landscapes.
March 19–April 30, 2022

White Room: John Maclean
John Maclean
A frontal view of a tripartite bulletin board encased in glass. It contains several poems written on paper decorated with children’s drawings that are hung with push pins. Various photographs and collages are arranged around the poems.
March 19–April 30, 2022

The Bulletin Board: Christine Shan Shan Hou
Playdate
The Bulletin Board: Christine Shan Shan Hou
Multiple sculptures, framed works, and large photographs are installed in a gallery.
March 19–April 30, 2022

Lloyd Foster
Safe Journey
Lloyd Foster
A dirty, rusted sink with a yellow tray and a green bucket in the left basin and water running from the faucet into the right. A white-pained stone wall is in the background, and cleaning tools, pipes, and cords surround the sink.
February 14, 2022–March 5, 2022

White Columns Online #19:
Fragments are the only forms I trust
curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte
White Columns Online #19 curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte
Eight works installed to the left of the exhibition entrance. Two works hang on a freestanding white wall. Behind it are six additional works including a hanging garment.
January 22–March 5, 2022

Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual – Selected by Mary Manning
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual – Selected by Mary Manning
A hand holds a rock pierced with a metal arrow protruding out towards a grassy suburban homefront.
November 13, 2021–February 10, 2022

White Columns Online #18:
GMT
curated by Sahal Hassan
White Columns Online #18 curated by Sahal Hassan
From left to right, a ceramic vase on a white pedestal displays fabric flowers and a watercolor painting installed in the entrance of a gallery. In the back right, two sculptures depict an onlooking winged figure and a decorated pedestal with two hanging components.
October 30–December 18, 2021

Anne Chu
Anne Chu
Four paintings installed on a freestanding gallery wall. To the left, a painting details phallic patterns over a church focused landscape and pornographic scenery. To the right, two paintings themed around America present a bald eagle, the words USA, and the American flag. Centered on the right, a painting featuring a snake illustrates brick wall, anal beads, and country landscaping over a print of suggesting bodies. White boots displayed in plexi can be seen centered on the floor.
October 30–December 18, 2021

White Room: David Mramor
Rainbow Lilies Gangrene Blues
David Mramor
A painting of a figure reading a newspaper at a round table decorated with floral patterns. The newspaper, titled “Sometimes: In Crisis Comes Hope,” is illustrated with a masked person raising a fist in protest. To the front of the seated figure is an ashtray containing a lit cigarette surrounded by smoke.
September 14–November 13, 2021

White Columns Online #17:
‘Vision 20/20’
curated by Marcelle G. Yhap
White Columns Online #17 curated by Marcelle G. Yhap
August 28–October 16, 2021

White Room: Nicole Storm
Nicole Storm
Frontal view of two paintings that are similar in size. The painting to the left portrays a figure with a distorted green mask looking up. To the right is an abstract painting of an array of shapes in hues of red and blue.
August 28–October 16, 2021

Norma Tanega
Internal Landscapes: Paintings 1967 – 2005
Norma Tanega
Gallery view of a wall displaying sixteen White Columns Anniversary Editions. Two vitrines are placed in front of the wall, and to the right stand three mannequins, facing the window.
June 5–July 31, 2021

From The Archives:
White Columns & 112 Greene Street – 1970-2021 …
From The Archives: White Columns & 112 Greene Street – 1970-2021 …
April 15–June 7, 2021

White Columns Online #16:
The Position of the Sun in the Sky
curated by Bridget Finn
White Columns Online #16 curated by Bridget Finn
Gallery interior with a white column. Three wall-mounted mixed media collages and three clothed mannequins are visible.
March 23–May 15, 2021

Gerald Jackson
Gerald Jackson
A vitrine display table containing Ailanthus seed pods. Above it 18 wall-mounted photographic prints depicting the Ailanthus tree are visible.
March 23–May 15, 2021 Project: Matthew Schrader “M. Obultra 3”
Project: Matthew Schrader “M. Obultra 3”
Nine paintings are installed salon style on a white wall to the right. One large painting is mounted to the wall on the left.
March 23–May 15, 2021

White Room: Daisy May Sheff
A Mountain Girl with Skyblue Teeth
Daisy May Sheff
Two decorative semi-circular metal grates with different patterns arranged to form a circle. Several long, thin cucuzza squash that are woven into the grates hang from the piece.
January 30–April 14, 2021

White Columns Online #15:
The Void
curated by Daisy Sanchez

 
White Columns Online #15 Curated by Daisy Sanchez
Ten works installed on walls behind acrylic face mounts. Four works are installed on the white wall to the left, three at the back wall and three on the brick wall to the right.
January 12–March 6, 2021

Project: S*an D. Henry-Smith
“in awe of geometry & mornings”
Project: S*an D. Henry-Smith
Thirty six works of uniform size installed in a three by twelve grid on a gray wall. On the adjacent wall, a single piece of similar size is installed.
January 12–March 6, 2021

White Room: Julius Caesar Bustamante
White Room: Julius Caesar Bustamante
Three free standing sculptures and seven paintings installed in a gallery with a white column.
January 12–March 6, 2021

Jeffrey Meris
Still Standing
Jeffrey Meris
Two figures gambling with dice against a background decorated with card suit symbols. The figure on the right smokes a cigarette. They wear colorful clothes with gold detailing.
September 22–December 12, 2020

White Columns Online #14:
‘El que busca, encuentra…y sigue encontrando’
curated by Danny Baez
White Columns Online #14 Curated by Danny Baez
Five paintings installed on gray walls. In the foreground, two found object sculptures lie on a pedestal.
September 22–December 12, 2020

Diane Kotila
Diane Kotila
Several illuminated neon signs installed along the walls of a gallery with three columns. The rest of the space is empty except for a table to the left with postcards displayed on stands.
September 22–December 12, 2020

Maya Stovall

LUX
Maya Stovall
A person sitting in a bathtub as a pair of hands belonging to another person dyes their hair with black hair dye.
June 18–September 12, 2020

White Columns Online #13:
‘Private Behavior’
curated by Lauren Marinaro
White Columns Online #13 ‘Private Behavior’ curated by Lauren Marinaro
A close-up of a person’s face painted with red, blue and green splotches over a white base, framed by orange, blue and blond hair of varying textures. Red liquid dribbles from their mouth.
April 25–June 17, 2020

White Columns Online #12:
‘Strange Days: Hit Pause’
curated by Jackie Klempay
White Columns Online #12 Curated by Jackie Klempay
Four works installed on walls in a small room. On the back wall is a bulletin board case in which twenty four uniformly sized drawings are installed in a four by six grid.
January 23–March 7, 2020

Adam Opet
Bulletin Board Adam Opet
Six roughly rendered yellow flowers with blue stems and leaves against a painterly backdrop with brown, red and black patches.
January 23–March 7, 2020

White Columns Online #11:

“Cloud Memories”

curated by Adrianne Rubenstein
White Columns Online #11 ‘Cloud Memories’ curated by Adrianne Rubenstein
The large triptych Gumiho Reaper (RIP Yu Gwan Sun + Na Hye Sok), 2017. Scenes depicting an oil barrel, a body bag, police tape and a large fox-like mechanical monster.
January 23–March 7, 2020

Kim Westfall

Splendid Bitch
Kim Westfall
Five pieces of significantly differing sizes installed on adjacent walls.
January 23–March 7, 2020

Anne Minich
Anne Minich
Eight large works installed on walls in a gallery. In the lower left corner, a partial view of a table on which similar, much smaller works are laid out in groups.
November 14, 2019–January 11, 2020

Wilder Alison

Slit Subjects
Wilder Alison
Various bottles and jars with handwritten labels on blue tape, filled with organic materials and liquids and arranged on the stairs of a fire escape.
November 14, 2019–January 11, 2020

White Columns Online #10:

Wise Child

curated by Zhoe Granger

 
White Columns Online #10 Wise Child curated by Zhoe Granger
Three paintings installed on white walls. Entrée, 2019 is installed on the left wall, while Collections Permanentes, 2019 is on the right and Gratuite, 2019 at the back.
November 14, 2019–January 11, 2020

Esteban Jefferson

Petit Palais
Esteban Jefferson