14BC Gallery is proud to present 4 DECADES: University of Florida to NYC Invitational, curated by artist and professor Richard Heipp. The exhibition features the works of artists Duane Bray, CHIAOZZA (Terri Chiao & Adam Frezza), Erika Mahr, Alison McNulty, Jason Mitcham, Orlando Estrada, Matthew Schreiber, Albert Shelton, Zac Thompson, Terry Towery and Ken Weaver.

Please join us for the OPENING Friday March 28th 5PM- 9PM. 

This exhibition celebrates the more than four-decade tenure of the University of Florida’s School of Art and Art History’s annual art trip to New York City. As a young professor at the University of Florida, located in rural north Florida, Heipp thought it was critical for students to experience “real” art in museums and galleries and to experience studio visits with successful and emerging artists in the capital of the art world. In Heipp's 40 years of leading the SA+AH NY trip, almost 800 students were exposed to what many participants described as a “life changing experience.” Each year following the trip, several students make the move to NY spanning a vibrant community of UF art alumni that remain active artists and art professionals in New York. For this exhibition Heipp selected 11 former students who are working artists exploring a variety of media and career paths. They have all forged successful paths in the complex, challenging and exciting Art world of New York. 

The exhibition continues Saturday March 29th 3PM- 7PM

Opening Friday March 7th from 5-9 pm.

Continuing March 8th, 13th, 14th and 15th from 3-7pm

The Hole World by Joe Square

"The Hole World," invites viewers into a philosophical exploration of identity emerging from darkness. Each piece portrays vibrant streams of color symbolizing the nuanced facets of human personality, flowing boldly from an ever-present yet intangible void. Square challenges us to confront the unformed mystery of self—the dark emptiness we carry within, from which individuality and emotional expression endlessly unfold. In this bold dialogue between color and emptiness, Square's minimalist aesthetic pushes beyond conventional perception, compelling viewers to question the intangible core beneath visible identity. Through playful yet profound visual inquiries, "The Hole World" encourages a celebratory, inward gaze, provoking us to wonder: When I open to the void, what colors emerge?

Tintypes of Tin Cans by Jim Fealy

A tribute to industrial photography. Dedicated to Earl and Evelyn Jernigan.

OPENING THIS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21ST from 5PM-9PM

The exhibition continues Saturday February 22nd, Thursday February 27th- Saturday March 1st from 3PM- 7PM. 

UGLY MAGIC is a conjuring: the magical practice of cajoling imagery from the depths of one's psyche.  In this way,  Zimmerman's works can be seen as a shamanic-self healing, visionary and divining while reflecting the past. The artist walks within the liminal space of the waking and dreams, between the past and the future, and the real and unreal.  Zimmerman often uses humor as his language of choice- making relatable what is often opaque within traditional art world presentation. Pop imagery is pulled from the artist's pantheon; utilizing visions with a horror-edged slant, personal notations and teen culture mashups.

The gallery will be filled with over 300 drawings and paintings; an imaginarium of exploration into the daily ritual of this talented artist's practice. 

Zimmerman will also be releasing the accompanying book UGLY MAGIC at the gallery Opening, with signed copies available, as well as copies of his previous book GBTR available for sale.

We hope you can join us for this very special exhibition. 

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Artist Statement 

“Ugly Magic is an exhibition that brings into focus the stuff I manage to eke out when I am exhausted, fucked up, exasperated and my inner critic is getting the best of me. It celebrates about-faces, side quests, cringe worthy moments, aimless play, times of creative gestation when I have nothing in mind and just want to let it all come to me. The title Ugly Magic comes from a sentence in the John Darnielle ( @monsterhat ) novel Wolf in White Van. “The world is a place full of ugly magic.” 

 Started as a daily drawing practice in 2015, I’ve made over 600 drawings and paintings and counting in this vein. Around 300 pieces made over the course of the last 10 years will be on view at 14BC Gallery. They are grouped, sequenced and separated into sections in a way that made intuitive sense to me as I worked on them on and off for many years. There are threads that weave through all my previous bodies of work to this exhibition’s material. Dark, juvenile humor, the profane, horror film imagery, metal music inspired pictures, the Gothic, the scatological, abstraction, the pitfalls of masculinity, Appalachian pathos, comics, cartoons, death, a certain dare to be stupid attitude, etc. 

 If I may speak symbolically, I can say that I am using the divinatory instruments of drawing and painting to perform a taciturn seance that casts a visual hex powered by the witch’s cauldron of the self. And Ugly Magic is my Necronomicon.”

Reflections a solo painting show by Liv Tyler

Opening Friday February 7th from 5-9 pm, Continued viewing February 8, 13, 14, 15 from 3-7 pm

Drawings, Zines and Paintings

by John Eder and Maready Evergreen

Opening January 24th from 5-9 pm
Continues January 25th from 3-7 pm

Friends since the late ‘70s, John Eder and Maready Evergreen share a love of rock music, comic books, manga, witchy stuff, handmade things, cosmic allegory, and building little worlds all their own. While John is a photographer and Maready a multi-media artist, both never stop drawing. Drawing is core to their work, leading to very different but complementary styles. A pop-up show together seems a natural idea. Drawings, photos and zines – it’s all hijinks.

mareadyevergreen.org.

johneder.com

Opening Friday December 20, 5-9 pm

Saturday December 21, 3-7 pm

A group exhibition by 12 amazing artists including Paintings, Prints, Sculptures, Collages, All priced between $80 and $500

Walter-Salas Humara, Ken Weaver, Liv Tyler, James Godwin, Millie Benson, Delissa Santos, O.K. Davies, Mark Higashino, Halona Hilbertz

14BC Gallery is proud to announce MYSTIQMORTE, a solo exhibition of sculpture and film by Brooklyn based artist Ken Weaver. 

Please join us for the OPENING Friday December 6th from 5pm- 9pm. 

The exhibition continues Saturday December 7th, Thursday December 12th- Saturday December 14th from 3pm- 7pm. 

14BC Gallery 626 East 14th Street NYC

 MYSTIQMORTE is a sculpture and film installation where the arrival of alien Godheads are prophesied by shamanic netherworld characters, and the gallery itself becomes a portal where sound and image exist beyond temporal affliction. Weaver's sculptures take the form of otherworldly furies from an interstellar dimension, penetrating the gallery walls and protruding through the veil of this world. These forms are biological eviscerated reflections, a manifestation of the trauma and tragedy of our times. Weaver explores the physical realization of his alien fiction; they are figures unburdened by gravity, an alchemical abstraction of otherness. 

In the short experimental horror film MYSTIQMORTE: ALIEN DEMONOLOGY, Weaver is featured as performer, choreographer and musical composer in collaboration with director Alexis Karl. The viewer is confronted with four characters that are harbingers of doom, prophets from the nether realms foreseeing the fall of mankind and our rebirth within an alien world. The first character is bathed in burning light- silently incanting words we will never hear and lost to the glare of his personal eternity.  The second is a figure of dust and ash- he is the memory of civilizations lost, the sorrow of fallen worlds. The third is a shaman and seer, whose words reach us through the echo of time and space, he is the warning of the horror that is to come. The fourth figure is a nightmare manifest- a creature of blood and screams, caught in the vicious loop of his eternal rebirth. 

Together they herald the prophecy of MYSTIQMORTE.

14BC Gallery Open Sat Nov 23-Sat Nov 30: Opening Sat Nov 23  

By Jon McKenzie

Media and mediums guide our passage through time and space, shaping our encounters with one another and the world. I am interested in the ways images, sounds, and algorithms spirit away and return different senses of self, society and world, opening new modes of interaction and experimentation in art, life, and beyond. Inspired by experimental film and video of the 1970s and ’80s and MTV and activist tactical media of the ’90s and ’00s, these experimental music videos remix ethos, pathos, and logos. Recent scenographic work draws on modes of AI and machinic thought embedded in different mediums — gestural, oral,  literate, numerate, digital — in order to mix past, present, and future at different scales and tempos and thus expose different geologies of morals.

Videos and installation produced, compiled, and edited by Jon McKenzie, with music, text, film, and other contributions by Ed Balko†, Chrys Bocast†, John Eder, Rick Ellis†, Jim Fealy, Jon Kane†, Ralo Mayer, Richard Panciera (aka lloop), Bryan Reynolds, Leeny Sack, Walter Salas-Humara, Emilia Simeonov, Saviana Stănescu, Aneta Stojnić, Amon Tobin, and others.

Open November 8th and 9th from 3 - 8 pm

My show, Intentionally Empty, offers my services as a Tin type photographer to capture the requests of the participants.  In other words, I will take a picture of what ever you bring into the 14bc gallery, on metal, in the old tin type traditions (1860- 2024) This could be anything you find worthy, example, a plastic milk jug, your face, your whole body, a interesting object you have on your shelf.  The only requirement is that the subject needs to try and sit still for around 1 minute. ( I would estimate  10-30 minutes of time per subject )

The photo's taken will be placed on display for all to see during the gallery  opening hours and at the closing.

thanks, jimfealy

Opening Friday October 18 from 5-9 pm

Continued Viewing October 19, October 24, 25, 26 from 3-7 pm

Horses have long been seen as mystical creatures, embodying a deep connection to the spirit world. In many cultures, they are regarded as guides between realms, their power and grace representing freedom, intuition, and strength. Horses are believed to carry messages from ancestors and spirits, acting as symbols of transformation and healing. Their wild, untamed energy mirrors the vast mysteries of the unseen world, making them both guardians and companions on spiritual journeys, helping souls traverse the boundaries of the physical and ethereal planes. 

In the spirit world, Elk symbolize strength, endurance, and a deep connection to nature. Their majestic presence represents power and stamina, guiding those who encounter them toward a path of resilience and wisdom. As protectors of the forest and the guardians of balance, elk are believed to offer spiritual guidance in times of transition, encouraging individuals to stay grounded while navigating life’s challenges. With their keen instincts and unwavering determination, elk spirits remind us to honor the cycles of nature and embrace the journey with patience and grace.

Walter Salas-Humara is a painter & musician living in NYC. He has had numerous art exhibitions and his band The Silos have been a part of the American music scene for 40 years.

Opening Friday October 4th 5-9pm

Continuing Saturday Oct 5th, Thursday Oct 10th- Saturday Oct 12th 3-7pm

'In a hybrid digital-physical showcase of her multimedia practice, Carla Gannis’ works in Reality Bites span a tantalizingly wide range of approaches, from feminist interrogations of selfhood in the age of algorithm to iterative materialities in the tradition of Jasper Johns. In the UFO (“Unidentified Female Objects”) portion of the show, Gannis leans into the subjectivity of post-photographic media, using her own body as model for generative and hybrid sculptural portraiture. These new works unfurl an uncanny combination of both the shockingly disgusting and quotidian expected forms of feminine beauty in what the artist herself calls a jolie laide style, piercing the veil of distance and immateriality we often expect from digital works. For Gannis, across the works of Reality Bites, the punctum of the corporal detail of an eye, teeth, or a too-many-fingered hand, pierces the studium of what we have come to expect from AI and other generative visual culture.

Similarly, the portion of the show entitled “Yonder” uses 3D LIDAR scans done on an iPhone to interrogate the specificity of place in a continuously global and online world. What is mise en scene? What is “real”?  When do the two begin to bleed together in our consciousness so as to become permanently entangled, our devices always tethered to our hands. For Gannis, ontological inquiry into human selfhood is fragmentary in a world where the reality of the image is always conditional, infinitely reproductive, corruptible, and corrupting. 3D printed and hand-crafted sculptural works that in turn engage with AR and volumetric scan bring this shifting punctum of objecthood to the gallery’s physical space, allowing viewers to imagine themselves extra-sighted, limbed, and even appendaged with an additional finger, a common artifact of CLIP diffusion images made by AI. In the works of Reality Bites, Carla Gannis asks not only what constitutes her own self, but also all of ours; our tenuous bodies situated in a networked world of hyper-artificed visuality on the brink.'