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TESS BILHARTZ AT MAIN WINDOW. ‘Waves’ is on view 24/7 during Dumbo Open Studios weekend, April 18-19. . . . Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City. Her paintings and installations build on a lineage of artists who conceive a world beyond visible reality. She works with imagery from storytelling genres like fantasy, sci-fi, and horror that create familiar containers for extreme, absurd, or hidden feelings. She layers symbols like monstrous teeth, a distorted shadow, or an alien handprint with materials such as paint or pencil. Over time, this layering transforms the image to embody tangled interior states. In the spirit of these genres, she uses this process to suggest that perceived reality is like the surface of a river with hidden currents moving beneath. Bilhartz creates deliberately confounding images where invisible layers of colors and marks structure the visible surface. Ambiguity reigns. Cropping obscures the story that unfolds out of frame. What caused that impression in the sand? Whose hand is resting on a rock? Why is the figure transparent? This irresolution reflects an interior life that might feel familiar to many: conflicting emotions, changing sense of self, and unsettling unfixed boundaries. . On view 24/7 from April 2-May 21,2026.

JOIN US TONIGHT! Opening reception for artist Tess Bilhatz. Thursday, April 2 from 6-8pm . . . Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City. Her paintings and installations build on a lineage of artists who conceive a world beyond visible reality. She works with imagery from storytelling genres like fantasy, sci-fi, and horror that create familiar containers for extreme, absurd, or hidden feelings. She layers symbols like monstrous teeth, a distorted shadow, or an alien handprint with materials such as paint or pencil. Over time, this layering transforms the image to embody tangled interior states. In the spirit of these genres, she uses this process to suggest that perceived reality is like the surface of a river with hidden currents moving beneath. Bilhartz creates deliberately confounding images where invisible layers of colors and marks structure the visible surface. Ambiguity reigns. Cropping obscures the story that unfolds out of frame. What caused that impression in the sand? Whose hand is resting on a rock? Why is the figure transparent? This irresolution reflects an interior life that might feel familiar to many: conflicting emotions, changing sense of self, and unsettling unfixed boundaries. . On view 24/7 from April 2-May 21,2026.

UP NEXT at Main Window: Tess Bilhartz . Tess Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City. Her paintings and installations build on a lineage of artists who conceive a world beyond visible reality. She works with imagery from storytelling genres like fantasy, sci-fi, and horror that create familiar containers for extreme, absurd, or hidden feelings. She layers symbols like monstrous teeth, a distorted shadow, or an alien handprint with materials such as paint or pencil. Over time, this layering transforms the image to embody tangled interior states. In the spirit of these genres, she uses this process to suggest that perceived reality is like the surface of a river with hidden currents moving beneath. Bilhartz creates deliberately confounding images where invisible layers of colors and marks structure the visible surface. Ambiguity reigns. Cropping obscures the story that unfolds out of frame. What caused that impression in the sand? Whose hand is resting on a rock? Why is the figure transparent? This irresolution reflects an interior life that might feel familiar to many: conflicting emotions, changing sense of self, and unsettling unfixed boundaries. . On view 24/7 from April 2-May 21,2026.

JOIN US : Sunday, March 22 from 1-3pm for a closing reception. 1 Main Street. All are welcome. . . . Beck Lowry is a mixed-media artist whose intricate, wall-hung abstractions explore themes of protection, labor, and lineage. Drawing on the language of the natural world and on canonical histories of craft, Lowry’s assemblages are made of carved plywood, woven with crochet thread, and layered with oil paint, fabric scraps, and other materials. Their process arises from a need to build, to exert physical energy through ritual, and to connect to the long lineage of makers—from ancient stone carvers and weavers to the carpenters, boat builders, and jewelers in their own family. Blending tradition and innovation, Lowry explores the evolving relationship between craftsmanship and narrative meaning and a curiosity about the power of objects to embody memory, resilience, and transformation. (more info link in bio) . Presented in collaboration with Deanna Evans Projects. . On view 24/7 through March 22, 2026. . #becklowry #mainwindowdumbo #artindumbo #installationart deannaevansprojects

UP NEXT! Main Window is excited to present ‘And above it sky,’ an installation by artist Beck Lowry. . Beck Lowry is a mixed-media artist whose intricate, wall-hung abstractions explore themes of protection, labor, and lineage. Drawing on the language of the natural world and on canonical histories of craft, Lowry’s assemblages are made of carved plywood, woven with crochet thread, and layered with oil paint, fabric scraps, and other materials. Their process arises from a need to build, to exert physical energy through ritual, and to connect to the long lineage of makers—from ancient stone carvers and weavers to the carpenters, boat builders, and jewelers in their own family. Blending tradition and innovation, Lowry explores the evolving relationship between craftsmanship and narrative meaning and a curiosity about the power of objects to embody memory, resilience, and transformation. (more info link in bio) . Presented in collaboration with Deanna Evans Projects. . On view 24/7 from January 17 through March 22, 2026. A closing reception will be held on Sunday, March 22 from 1-3pm. . #becklowry #mainwindowdumbo #artindumbo #installationart deannaevansprojects

ARTIST RECEPTION TONIGHT! Join us for the opening of Circumambulations, a site-specific installation by artist Ben Cowan. Thursday, November 6 6-8pm 1 Main Street, Lobby . Circumambulation is the act of walking around something, often in a ritualistic context. The paintings in this series are modular and activate the space where they hang. There is also a looping animation component, allowing the works to live in a kind of digital afterlife. The motion of the objects contained within the frames and their framing of sacred architecture, refer to how we create systems to understand death, grief, and loss, through things like metaphor and ritual, and simultaneously reflect on the hope of rebirth and continuing cycles of life. Cowan’s work has been shown in solo and group shows throughout the United States including New York City’s Deanna Evans Projects, 550 Gallery, The Painting Center, and Spring Break Art Show. He has been featured by Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual and The Brooklyn Review, and also mentioned in articles from cultbytes.com, The Wall Street Journal, and Vice.com. Cowan’s work is in private and public collections including The University of Scranton, Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan, and The Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. On view 24/7 from November 6, 2025 through January 8, 2026. . #bencowan #mainwindowdumbo #artindumbo #installationart #deannaevansprojects

UP NEXT! Main Window is excited to present Circumambulation, a site-specific installation by artist Ben Cowan. . Circumambulation is the act of walking around something, often in a ritualistic context. The paintings in this series are modular and activate the space where they hang. There is also a looping animation component, allowing the works to live in a kind of digital afterlife. The motion of the objects contained within the frames and their framing of sacred architecture, refer to how we create systems to understand death, grief, and loss, through things like metaphor and ritual, and simultaneously reflect on the hope of rebirth and continuing cycles of life. Cowan’s work has been shown in solo and group shows throughout the United States including New York City’s Deanna Evans Projects, 550 Gallery, The Painting Center, and Spring Break Art Show. He has been featured by Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual and The Brooklyn Review, and also mentioned in articles from cultbytes.com, The Wall Street Journal, and Vice.com. Cowan’s work is in private and public collections including The University of Scranton, Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan, and The Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. On view 24/7 from November 6, 2025 through January 8, 2026. . #bencowan #mainwindowdumbo #artindumbo #installationart #deannaevansprojects

FINAL WEEK to see Hatshepsut’s Maw by artist Leeza Meksin. On view through Saturday, November 1. Continuing her exploration of gender and architecture, Leeza Meksin creates a new site-specific installation inspired by the ecofeminist idea that the world is on fire due to patriarchal abuse and subjugation not just of the planet’s resources but of all Others. In fiery and toxic neon hues, Hatshepsut’s Maw, evokes the irrational fears of the female mouth and genitalia. Using neoprene, polyfil and upholstery tacks, Meksin creates a window display that is at once an outstretched maw, a cushy daybed, and a reflection on the climate and civil catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. Depicting both monumental architecture, such as Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple and The White House, she sneaks in imagery of ruined homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and the recent LA fires.  Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin received her MFA in Painting from Yale University, a BFA from SAIC, and a joint BA/MA in Comparative Literature and Humanities from The University of Chicago. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP). On view 24/7 November 1, 2025. In Coordination with Deanna Evans Projects . . . #leezameksin #hatshepsutsmaw #mainwindow #mainwindowdumbo #dumbo #brooklyn #MWD2025

ON VIEW: Hatshepsut’s Maw by artist Leeza Meksin. Continuing her exploration of gender and architecture, Leeza Meksin creates a new site-specific installation inspired by the ecofeminist idea that the world is on fire due to patriarchal abuse and subjugation not just of the planet’s resources but of all Others. In fiery and toxic neon hues, Hatshepsut’s Maw, evokes the irrational fears of the female mouth and genitalia. Using neoprene, polyfil and upholstery tacks, Meksin creates a window display that is at once an outstretched maw, a cushy daybed, and a reflection on the climate and civil catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. Depicting both monumental architecture, such as Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple and The White House, she sneaks in imagery of ruined homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and the recent LA fires.  Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin received her MFA in Painting from Yale University, a BFA from SAIC, and a joint BA/MA in Comparative Literature and Humanities from The University of Chicago. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP). On view 24/7 from September 7 to October 30, 2025. In Coordination with Deanna Evans Projects . . . #leezameksin #hatshepsutsmaw #mainwindow #mainwindowdumbo #dumbo #brooklyn #MWD2025

JOIN US for an opening reception of Hatshepsut’s Maw by artist Leeza Meksin. Sunday, September 7 5:30-7:30pm 1 Main Street / Sidewalk & Lobby Continuing her exploration of gender and architecture, Leeza Meksin creates a new site-specific installation inspired by the ecofeminist idea that the world is on fire due to patriarchal abuse and subjugation not just of the planet’s resources but of all Others. In fiery and toxic neon hues, Hatshepsut’s Maw, evokes the irrational fears of the female mouth and genitalia. Using neoprene, polyfil and upholstery tacks, Meksin creates a window display that is at once an outstretched maw, a cushy daybed, and a reflection on the climate and civil catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. Depicting both monumental architecture, such as Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple and The White House, she sneaks in imagery of ruined homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and the recent LA fires.  Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin received her MFA in Painting from Yale University, a BFA from SAIC, and a joint BA/MA in Comparative Literature and Humanities from The University of Chicago. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP). On view 24/7 from September 7 to October 30, 2025. In Coordination with Deanna Evans Projects . . . #leezameksin #hatshepsutsmaw #mainwindow #mainwindowdumbo #dumbo #brooklyn #MWD2025

UP NEXT: Main Window is excited to present Hatshepsut’s Maw by artist Leeza Meksin. Continuing her exploration of gender and architecture, Leeza Meksin creates a new site-specific installation inspired by the ecofeminist idea that the world is on fire due to patriarchal abuse and subjugation not just of the planet’s resources but of all Others. In fiery and toxic neon hues, Hatshepsut’s Maw, evokes the irrational fears of the female mouth and genitalia. Using neoprene, polyfil and upholstery tacks, Meksin creates a window display that is at once an outstretched maw, a cushy daybed, and a reflection on the climate and civil catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. Depicting both monumental architecture, such as Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple and The White House, she sneaks in imagery of ruined homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and the recent LA fires.  Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin received her MFA in Painting from Yale University, a BFA from SAIC, and a joint BA/MA in Comparative Literature and Humanities from The University of Chicago. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP). On view 24/7 from September 7 to October 30, 2025. In Coordination with Deanna Evans Projects . . . #leezameksin #hatshepsutsmaw #mainwindow #mainwindowdumbo #dumbo #brooklyn #MWD2025

JOIN US! ARTIST RECEPTION TODAY! / SUNDAY 6/8 from 3-5pm Main Window is pleased to celebrate the latest installation by artist Meena Hasan. 1 Main Street in Dumbo. . Courtesy of Deanna Evans Projects . Terrible Beauty is shown in conjunction with Hasan’s site-specific installation at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. The project draws inspiration from the fact that British commander Charles Cornwallis, who occupied the Old Stone House during the Battle of Brooklyn, later defeated one of the fiercest opponents of colonialism in India, Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore. Hasan has created a body of work to wrestle with the connections and contradictions of history, memory, and image - and her relationships to them. Hasan’s subjects and processes invite viewers into a search for meaning in history. At Main Window, she engages with the infamous life-size semi-automaton organ of a tiger devouring a British soldier that Tipu Sultan commissioned - triumphantly displayed at the British East India Company museum after his defeat and currently on view at the V&A in London. A line drawing of this looted artifact has been scratched into paper and submerged in layers of competing pigments. A proscenium assembled from symbols of Americana like the inflamed bald eagle, fair paraphernalia, forms reminiscent of nearby Brooklyn Bridge, patterns from Tipu’s war tent and sword, and traces of the artist’s own legs, sets the stage. Hasan’s works are terrifying, but also playful. They are rooted in historical scenarios, but also create their own performative fictions. They hold the fearful symmetries and terrible beauties of centuries of violent dispossession and resistance, inviting us to piece ourselves together within the various layers of disruption, connection, destruction, and creation we have inherited. – Dylan Yeats . On view 24/7 through August 20.