Tiwa Select

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  • JAMES CHERRY: FROM POLLEN

    JAMES CHERRY: FROM POLLEN

    Opening Dec 12, TIWA Gallery will present an exhibition of lighting works by itinerant lighting artist and sculptor James Cherry, the artist’s first solo show in New York City and with TIWA Gallery. Titled FROM POLLEN, the show will consist of twenty five intriguing lamps, created in two very contrasting environments: a hillside cabin during a residency at Salmon Creek Farm, a queer arts program in Mendocino, Northern California, and at a studio in Brooklyn, New York City. Principally, the works are a reflection of the opposing environments, utilizing materials familiar to the two distinct landscapes; for example, tree branches and plant materials foraged in the woods, contrasting with rebar and steel that are more familiar materials found in the city.

    December 12, 2024—January 11, 2025
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

Past

  • VINCE SKELLY: PLAY SCULPTURES

    VINCE SKELLY: PLAY SCULPTURES

    Play Sculptures consists of twelve large works, including benches, modular chairs and tables and kinetic sculptures designed by California-based Vince Skelly, with pieces straddling functional and decorative purposes. 

    For his second show with TIWA Select, Skelly referenced playful (and child-friendly) forms found in mid-century playgrounds, including those designed by Jim Miller-Melberg, who is known for making concrete brutalist play structures. Miller-Melberg’s undulating concrete forms—with descriptive names such as “Turtle Tent,” “Fantastic Village,” and “Spiral Slide”—were designed as simple play apparatus void of sharp edges that enabled open and creative physical play for infants. Converting the visual approach into wood sculptures and functional objects has resulted in a body of works by Skelly that will incite playful and childish association, while fitting into Vince’s continued aesthetic as an established artist and designer. 

    Oct 19—Nov 20, 2024
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

     

  • COETIR: OF THE WOODS

    COETIR: OF THE WOODS

    TIWA Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition of works by over twenty international artists from June 21 - July 20, 2024. Titled Coetir, the Welsh word for woodland, the show is a nod to TIWA Gallery founder Alex Tieghi-Walker’s heritage and upbringing in Wales, and his love of woodlands – which hold significant importance in Welsh folklore. Revered by ancient Celtic and Pagan culture and believed to be enchanted places where magical events and encounters occur, these woodlands have influenced local legends and stories passed down through generations. Tieghi-Walker’s curation will explore the textures, light and ambience that ancient woodlands evoke, paired with objects that touch on ritual and spirituality. 

    Participating artists: A History of Frogs, Cinnamon Projects, Dana Arbib, Emily Frances Barnett, Skye Chamberlain, James Cherry, Field Studies Flora, Moch Hahn, Louie Isaaman-Jones, Leo Kaspar, Christabel MacGreevey, Lee Mary Manning, Jeff Martin, Jim McDowell, Eric Oglander, Rafael Prieto and Loup Sarion, Andrew Pierce Scott, Vince Skelly, The Perfect Nothing Catalog, Alex Tieghi-Walker and Hsien Hua Li, Stefan White / Earth Landing Project, Zachary White, and Max Zinser

    June 21—July 20, 2024
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

  • LINDSEY ADELMAN: A REALM OF LIGHT

    LINDSEY ADELMAN: A REALM OF LIGHT

    TIWA Gallery is proud to present a collection of oil lamps by prolific lighting designer Lindsey Adelman. A departure from her usual large-scale studio creations, Adelman’s oil lamps are personal and quieter; a whispered interaction rather than a loud proclamation. 

    Returning to the basics of her philosophical interest in light, Adelman’s oil lamps aim to induce a collective ritual experience that toys with perceptions of time and space, drawing inspiration from ancient spiritual rituals. The collection of thirty-two oil lamps—some hanging, and others sitting on surfaces—will illuminate a path through a space framed by hand-stitched hanging panels by Nigerian-American textile artist Sarah Nsikak.

    On view May 9—June 8, 2024
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

  • LEO KASPAR AND ANDREW PIERCE SCOTT: ROBUSTED

    LEO KASPAR AND ANDREW PIERCE SCOTT: ROBUSTED

    The inaugural collaboration between designers Leo Kaspar and Andrew Pierce Scott, who have created eighteen unique objects in metal and glass. The works, ranging from sconces and lanterns through candelabras and tables, will be on view at TIWA Gallery in Tribeca through May 5. 

    Robusted references the dynamic energy involved in the fabrication processes of metal and glass work. While seemingly very different materials from the outset, both materials require intense heat, pressure, and physical strength to produce finished forms. Working on opposite sides of the Atlantic—Leo in Southern England and Andrew in Philadelphia—the two artists used materials that come together to create completed objects that have a whimsy, lightness and delicateness that one might not expect from the raw materials.

    Mar 22—May 5, 2024
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

  • ANDREW TARLOW: 5 URNS, 7 FACES. PEGASUS 2

    ANDREW TARLOW: 5 URNS, 7 FACES. PEGASUS 2

    We are proud to present the first solo show of works on canvas by acclaimed New York City restaurateur and artist Andrew Tarlow.

    Widely recognized for pioneering the artisanal food movement in Brooklyn with establishments including Marlow and Sons, Achilles Heel, Diner and Romans, Tarlow has created a fantasy world in his paintings where the Classical world collides with color and depth with punchy results.

    The pieces—ranging from intimate sketches to large-scale canvas hangings—focus on Tarlow's curiosity for mythology, eating and drinking vessels, and human faces. TIWA Gallery's first show of works on canvas will sit in the gallery amongst its permanent collection of furniture and objets d'art.

    Feb 16—Mar 7, 2023
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

  • EARTH LANDING PROJECT: CONSTELLATION CLUB

    EARTH LANDING PROJECT: CONSTELLATION CLUB

    Constellation Club is the first show by Stefan White in New York City. Working in the medium of resin, Stefan casts flexible arms and rigid shades in a kaleidoscopic palette with subtle nods to the colorscape of the natural and urban environments in his home town, Los Angeles. Experimenting with different casting techniques for the resin, some shades take on organic forms that look more like algae or moss, while others lean bold and kitsch. The conversation between the color, texture and form of each shade is exaggerated by the kinetic arms of the lights  that make the works feel like living sculptures.

    In addition, Tieghi-Walker has invited two other artists also using recycled materials in unexpected ways to create works. Painter Daniel Evan Long has created evocative portraits in shades of greens, mustard and taupe on pieces of found cardboard; craftsman and designer Chris Rucker has contributed a series of patchwork quilts created from moving blankets, and chairs formed from packing crates, including a whimsical two-person conversation chair.

    Dec 1—21, 2023
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

     

  • DANA ARBIB: VETRO ORTO

    DANA ARBIB: VETRO ORTO

    TIWA Select presented its second show of works by glass artist Dana Arbib, who has created a unique series of lighting objects and vessels in Murano glass, on view at TIWA Gallery, the new permanent home for TIWA Select on Walker St, Tribeca.

    Vetro Orto literally translates from the Italian as “the glass vegetable garden,” with the pieces alluding to the shapes and forms found in gourds, brassicas, and root vegetables. The works continue to demonstrate Arbib's fascination with the complexities of patterns found in the natural world, mimicking fractals and logarithmic sequences that push the physical capabilities of glass in a spectacular fashion. 

    To provide the context to the works, TIWA Select has partnered with Alan Eckstein of Queens-based vintage design gallery The Somerset House, who will be displaying a range of pieces spanning a 200-year history alongside Dana’s works, including pieces by Alvar Aalto, Tucker Robbins, and a historic Biedermeier daybed.

    Sept 20—Oct 13, 2023
    TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

  • FRIEZE: THE NORTH AMERICAN PAVILION

    FRIEZE: THE NORTH AMERICAN PAVILION

    From June 22 – 24, 2023, TIWA Select will be showing alongside an innovative group of galleries, all under five-years-old and hailing variously from New York City, Los Angeles, México City, Atlanta, and Montréal: Bruises Gallery, Emma Scully Gallery, Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, NOON Projects, MARTA, OF THE CLOTH, and Studio IMA.

    The guiding principle behind the North American Pavilion is a celebration of the cultures existing side-by-side in the vast North American landmass; each gallery will occupy an entire room in the former townhouse-turned-exhibition space, with the simple brief to represent their unique North American perspective of curation and narrative.

    June 22 - 24, 2023
    No. 9 Cork Street, London W1S 3LL

  • VINCE SKELLY: AFTER THE STORM

    VINCE SKELLY: AFTER THE STORM

    On Friday Jan 21, 2022, a severe wind storm hit Southern California, with gusts of over 83mph hitting Claremont, a small university town just outside of Los Angeles locally known as “The City of Trees.” During the six-hour event, over 300 trees were blown over. In both an effort to assist the city with the cleanup, and to preserve the legacy of the felled trees, Skelly drove around in the days following the storm and marked trees which had usable timber, which he gathered at his studio.

    The show featured an enticing array of pieces sculpted from six different wood types – deodar cedar, pine, redwood, live oak, eucalyptus and magnolia; varieties that were all new to Skelly. Ranging from the functional, like chairs, tables and benches, to the purely decorative, the collection provided Skelly with a unique opportunity to finesse his practice while still expressing the poignancy of the regrettable circumstances that the materials arose from in the first place. 

    July 2-13, 2022
    FARAGO x TIWA, Los Angeles

  • DANA ARBIB: VETRO ALGA

    DANA ARBIB: VETRO ALGA

    Having worked within several facets of design, self-taught Arbib pivoted to designing glassware, applying her multifaceted perspective to oversized vases and vessels glass pieces produced by master glass artisans in Murano. Each handmade piece united chapters in Arbib’s heritage. Her Libyan father fled Tripoli as a refugee in 1967, instilling Arbib with a romanticized portrait of a time when Jewish, Italian, and North African cultures existed symbiotically in one land. Her pivot to glassware itself is also part reconnecting with her three-times removed great uncle, Salvatore Arbib, a Libyan migrant-turned-glassblower owning a Furnace in Venice during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

    Vetro Alga literally translates from the Italian as “Seaweed Glass,” with the pieces alluding to the uniqueness of Venice being a city built on water. Colors and shapes found in Roman glass and North African relics are also used as sources of inspiration.

    May 13-18th, 2022
    Galerie Michael Bargo, New York City