Pierogi 30: a group exhibition
Closing reception event with live music:
6-8pm, Thursday Dec 19
Location: 394 Broadway 3rd Flr NYC
Exhibition Dates: 21 Nov–21 Dec, 2024
Hours: 11am–6pm, Tuesday–Saturday and by appointment
![Mark Lombardi - "World Finance Corporation and Associates, ca. 1970-84: Miami, Ajman, and Bogota-Caracas (Brigata 2506: Cuban Anti-Castro Bay of Pigs Veteran) 7th Version," 1999, 69 1/8 x 84 inches, Color pencil and graphite on paper
“I call [these works] ‘narrative structures’ because each consists of a network of lines and notations which are meant to convey a story, typically about a recent event of interest to me, like the collapse of a large international bank, trading company, or investment house. One of my goals is to explore the interaction of political, social and economic forces in contemporary affairs. Thus far I have exhibited drawings on BCCI, Lincoln Savings, World Finance of Miami, the Vatican Bank, Silverado Savings, Castle Bank and Trust of the Bahamas, Nugan Hand Limited of Sydney, Australia, and many more.
Working from syndicated news items and other published accounts, I begin each drawing by compiling large amounts of information about a specific bank, financial group or set of individuals. After a careful review of the literature I then condense the essential points into an assortment of notations and other brief statements of fact, out of which an image begins to emerge.” (Mark Lombardi, artist statement)
“The global conglomerate World Finance Corporation… intrigued Lombardi more than any other bank scandal except BCCI. It became a cornerstone for his work undoubtedly because of the central role that WFC reputedly played in the trafficking of Columbian drugs and the subsequent laundering of the profits derived from those activities. An important subtext of this work and other Lombardi pieces such as Frank Nugan, Michael Hand, and Nugan Hand Ltd. of Sydney, Australia…and BCCI-ICIC & FAB…is the wide-ranging collusion involved in global crimes.” (Robert Hobbs, *Mark Lombardi: Global Networks*)](https://i0.wp.com/www.pierogi2000.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/LombardiWorldFinance6.jpg?fit=160%2C118&ssl=1)
Press Release
Pierogi is proud to present our Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, opening November 21, 2024. We would like to thank and celebrate everyone who made Pierogi what it is by presenting works by many of the artists who have participated in exhibitions over the last thirty years. It will be an eclectic and expanding group of work by eighty+ artists. We will also present images from past exhibitions and projects on monitors throughout the gallery.
Pierogi opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on North 9th Street in September 1994. Williamsburg doesn’t look the same as it did thirty years ago but it was around that time and before (in the mid-to-late 1980s) that visual artists flooded into Brooklyn and created multiple communities and an international destination for savvy art viewers. Pierogi’s reputation for a unique unconventional approach is grounded in this context. Over time Williamsburg’s example fostered numerous artist communities throughout Brooklyn and Queens which continue to expand.
Pierogi represents the work of emerging, mid-career, and established artists engaging in conceptually driven, process oriented work in a wide range of media: from the diagrammatic drawings of Mark Lombardi, the large-scale, nuanced still life drawings of Dawn Clements, and Hugo Crosthwaite’s award-winning video portraits and murals, to the interactive installations of Andrew Ohanesian; as well as curated exhibitions such as the award-winning Dead Tree installation (a recreation of the Robert Smithson work originally shown in Dusseldorf’s Kunsthalle, 1969), to numerous painters, performers, sculptors, writers, and more.
From early 2006 through 2008, Pierogi operated a second gallery in Leipzig, Germany, which allowed us to expand an international audience and artist base. From 2009 to 2019 we opened a second Brooklyn location, The Boiler, which was a more expansive space in a former factory boiler room that allowed us to mount ambitious installations, performances, and other events such as Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder’s In Orbit, a thirty-foot diameter kinetic wheel that the artists lived on for ten days in early 2014.
Pierogi’s Flat Files, an integral part of the gallery since its inception, are ever-changing with new work added regularly and have traveled to many locations, including: Gasworks (London), Cornerhouse (Manchester), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Brooklyn Museum, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The Andy Warhol Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bard and Vassar Colleges, and Kent State University, among others.
Including work by—
John Phillip Abbott • Meredith Allen • Justin Amrhein • Reed Anderson • Karen Arm • Olive Ayhens • Michael Ballou • Ron Baron • Gregory Barsamian • Lothar Baumgarten • Louise Belcourt • John Berens • Jean Blackburn • Matthew Blackwell • Lee Boroson • Nadja Bournonville • Nina Bovasso • Katherine Bradford • David Brody • Phong Bui • Tom Burckhardt • Beth Campbell • Scott Campbell • Steven Charles • Amanda Church • Dawn Clements • Brian Conley • Kevin Cooley • Stephanie Costello • Caroline Cox • Hugo Crosthwaite • Daniel Davidson • Dan Devine • Brian Dewan • Nicole Eisenman • James Esber • Jane Fine • Amanda Finn • Tony Fitzpatrick • Matt Freedman • Peter Garfield • Rico Gatson • Kate Gilmore • Elliott Green • Stacy Greene • Donald Groscost • Willy Hartland • Douglas Henderson • Jonathan Herder • Linda Herritt • Elana Herzog • Peter Hildebrand • Jen Hitchings • Chan Kok Hooi • Sharon Horvath • James Hyde • Patrick Jacobs • Yun-Fei Ji • Kim Jones • Stephen Kaltenbach • Dana Kane • Sermin Kardestuncer • Darina Karpov • Lisa Kereszi • Kim Kimball • Wendy Klemperer • David Kramer • Larry Krone • William Pope.L • William Lamson • Robert Lazzarini • Yoon Lee • Maria Levitsky • Mark Lombardi • Ati Maier • Matt Marello • Karen Margolis • Chris Martin • Bob Marty • Alicia McCarthy • Sean Mellyn • Shari Mendelson • Ryan Mrozowski • Johan Nobell • Nicky Nodjoumi • John O’Connor • Andrew Ohanesian • David Opdyke • Roxy Paine • Marilla Palmer • Gary Panter • Bruce Pearson • Joyce Pensato • Shannon Plumb • William Powhida • Susan Rabinowitz • Mark Reynolds • Carol Saft • Katia Santibanez • David Scher • Jonathan Schipper • David Shapiro • Ward Shelley • James Siena • Amy Sillman • Adam Simon • Guy Richards Smit • Bob & Roberta Smith • Michael Smith • Robert Smithson • Tim Spelios • Lisa Stefanelli • Cathy Stone • Greg Stone • John Stoney • Tavares Strachan • Kurt Strahm • Lynn Talbot • Jude Tallichet • Kate Teale • Christophe Thompson • Fred Tomaselli • Jim Torok • Sarah Walker • Ken Weathersby • Lawrence Weiner • Martin Wilner • Mika Yokobori • Charles Yuen • Daniel Zeller • Mary Ziegler • and more
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