CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK ART EXHIBITIONS

Originating in NYC, experienced worldwide

AN ALCHEMY OF MATTER: GREGORY KITTERLE - ORAZIO DE GENNARO
October 1–25, 2025

Installation view from AN ALCHEMY OF MATTER, a two-artist exhibition by Arco Gallery featuring works by Gregory Kitterle and Orazio De Gennaro in New York City

Exhibition view from AN ALCHEMY OF MATTER showing paintings where fresco-like surfaces and earthen abstraction meet a contemporary sense of light

Detail-focused installation view from AN ALCHEMY OF MATTER highlighting patina, mineral texture, and layered surfaces across the two artists’ works

Gallery view from AN ALCHEMY OF MATTER in New York City, presenting Gregory Kitterle and Orazio De Gennaro in dialogue through surface, density, and light

Installation view from AN ALCHEMY OF MATTER emphasizing ancient surface resonance and contemporary pictorial presence in a two-artist show organized by Arco Gallery

GIAN BERTO VANNI: THE EARLY YEARS – 1952–1960
July 17–August 17, 2025

Detail from Gian Berto Vanni: The Early Years (1952–1960), introducing geometric tensions within luminous color fields

Artwork detail from Gian Berto Vanni: The Early Years (1952–1960), highlighting Vanni’s crystalline forms punctuating restrained chromatic grounds

Detail image from Gian Berto Vanni: The Early Years (1952–1960) emphasizing rhythmic relationships between color planes and structural elements

Artwork detail from Gian Berto Vanni: The Early Years (1952–1960) where floating geometries and vector-like marks create quiet spatial tension

Representative artwork detail from Gian Berto Vanni: The Early Years (1952–1960) presenting Vanni’s early abstraction as a disciplined yet poetic visual language

ENZO RAGAZZINI: WAITING FOR GODOT
May 3–June 15, 2025

Photograph from Enzo Ragazzini’s WAITING FOR GODOT depicting commuters and advertising imagery colliding in a Roman transit space

Photograph from WAITING FOR GODOT highlighting urban waiting, visual dissonance, and the presence of consumer spectacle

Photograph from WAITING FOR GODOT emphasizing painterly color and the tension between real bodies and printed ideals

Photograph from WAITING FOR GODOT presenting bus stops and transit spaces as contemporary stages of estrangement

Representative photograph from WAITING FOR GODOT tracing Ragazzini’s long-term inquiry into isolation, desire, and everyday ritual in Rome

PARRIS JARU: VIRAL FAME – THE RISE AND FALL OF BAD GERM
February 17–March 30, 2025

Artwork detail from Parris Jaru: VIRAL FAME, introducing bold black-and-white compositions and comic-inspired figures

Artwork detail from VIRAL FAME highlighting Parris Jaru’s graphic linework, satire, and dense visual rhythm

Artwork detail from VIRAL FAME where monochrome fields and thick outlines amplify the series’ social commentary

Artwork detail from VIRAL FAME emphasizing character-driven scenes and the comic-strip logic of the Bad Germ universe

Representative artwork detail from VIRAL FAME presenting Parris Jaru’s satirical paintings as episodic visual narratives

RUGGERO VANNI: COLOR - MATTER
May 3–June 15, 2025

Exhibition view from COLOR - MATTERS showing a sequence of Ruggero Vanni paintings arranged to emphasize rhythm, contrast, and light

Detail view from COLOR - MATTERS highlighting textured passages of pigment and luminous color transitions in Ruggero Vanni’s paintings

Installation view from COLOR - MATTERS emphasizing tonal depth and spatial tension across Ruggero Vanni’s abstract works

Wall view from COLOR - MATTERS where color temperature and surface build-up shape the viewing experience

Exhibition view from COLOR - MATTERS foregrounding Ruggero Vanni’s balance of gesture, structure, and atmospheric light

Installation view from COLOR - MATTERS showing Ruggero Vanni paintings in dialogue through contrast, saturation, and material relief

Exhibition view from COLOR - MATTERS emphasizing luminous highlights and darker structural zones across Ruggero Vanni’s paintings

Exhibitions as Shared Explorations

Exhibitions at Arco Gallery are not conceived as events to be consumed in a single moment, but as shared explorations that unfold over time. Each project is shaped to remain legible beyond physical attendance, allowing works to be encountered through relation, sequence, and sustained attention. Rather than emphasizing immediacy or spectacle, exhibitions are built to reward return and comparison, so meaning emerges gradually through how works speak to one another.

An Expanding Body of Work of Modern and Contemporary Art

Over time, these exhibitions form an expanding body of work connecting modern and contemporary practices through recurring concerns such as material and surface, memory and image culture, and the persistence of historical form. Each exhibition page offers a clear entry point into an artist’s practice, with paths outward to related series and individual works for those who wish to explore further.

How Arco Gallery Exhibitions Are Experienced

Each project is conceived with an online presentation from the outset, allowing viewers around the world to engage with the work in depth. Some exhibitions also take physical form as New York art shows, realized in independent venues chosen specifically to meet the curatorial demands of the work. In these cases, the online presentation functions as an integral counterpart rather than a secondary record. Both formats are curated as complete experiences, allowing the work to be encountered in its full integrity.

The SoHo Gallery and One-on-One Viewing

The SoHo gallery is reserved for private viewing by appointment, offering a focused encounter shaped around the interests of each visitor. Each viewing is conceived like a personal exhibition, with works selected and arranged in advance to create context and comparison. Because not all inventory is held on site at all times, visitors are invited to share what they would like to see—an artist, a theme, a period, or a scale—so the experience can be prepared with care. The aim is a quiet, attentive exchange where questions are welcome and decisions are unhurried.

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