UNFOLLOW — Opening Night
May 1 · 6:00 PM till late
📍111 Broadway, New York
Falcon Art Collective presents UNFOLLOW — curated by Robert Storr, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi and Marco Boggio Sella.
Join us for the opening night:
— Live music by Greg Paulus Live band & Stretch
— After gathering @ La Noxe Trinity
— Drinks, energy, and a room full of artists, collectors, and chaos (the good kind)
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OPPORTUNITIES ALERT!
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Discover grants, prizes, fellowships, exhibition calls, and more, curated to help you take your creative practice to the next level.
National opportunities alongside a NYC focus.
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Please join 𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙎𝙋 𝙭 𝙍𝙊𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙇𝙇𝘼 𝙭 𝙏𝙀𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙎𝙏 for 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙧 𝙏𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨: 𝘼 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙎𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚
Saturday, April 11th
2-5pm
𝙏𝙀𝙈𝙋𝙀𝙎𝙏
1642 Weirfield St.
Ridgewood, NY 11385
We will be conducting a series of short screen tests led by filmmaker 𝒵𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓀𝒽𝒶 𝒵𝑜𝒽𝓇𝒶 𝒮𝒽𝑜𝒿𝒶 as an inquiry into memory, nostalgia, and childish ritual inviting all families, elders, kids and anyone with a relationship to migration and diaspora to participate. You will be invited to share a playful gesture of sticking out tongues in sorrow. Drop by for 15 minutes, eat blue candy, and connect through a light ritual.
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𝒵𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓀𝒽𝒶 𝒵𝑜𝒽𝓇𝒶 𝒮𝒽𝑜𝒿𝒶 is a U.S.-based Afghan artist, researcher, and غمخوار / gham-khoor* living and working on unceded Onondaga land (Syracuse, New York). Her work is engaged in ecologies of interdependence, collective myth-making, and the transmission of memory. With an academic background in migration and diaspora, she works with moving image, ephemeral fabric photobooks, and gestural studies to explore how collective experiences can be transferred, mirrored, and felt by others.
Her films and art have participated in international and national microcinemas, film festivals, and institutions including Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille), Goethe-Institut (Almaty and Tashkent), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna; upcoming), Millennium Film Workshop (New York), National Art Gallery — The Palace (Sofia), New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Rhizome DC (Washington, D.C.), silent green Kulturquartier (Berlin), VIFF Centre (Toronto), among others.
She was recently awarded a 2026 Light Work Urban Video Project Regional Experimental Media Commission and a 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Award pursuing creative research in Tajikistan and Türkiye.
*غمخوار / gham-khoor means “grief eater” in Persian
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𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙎𝙋 𝙭 𝙍𝙊𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙇𝙇𝘼 will be supporting this Pop-Up✨ Please follow them to learn more about opportunities & collaborations with artists and communities for upcoming Ridgewood Open Studios.
We’re excited to announce RRASP’s next collaboration with @falconart_nyc —bringing a major new exhibition into the heart of Lower Manhattan.
UNFOLLOW
Curated by Robert Storr, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, and Marco Boggio Sella
📍 111 Broadway, New York
🗓 May 1–31
🕒 Thursday–Sunday, 12–6pm
Following the success of R U Still Painting???, FALCON returns with UNFOLLOW, a bold group exhibition that expands the conversation around painting and its place in contemporary practice.
Bringing together an extraordinary roster of artists—including Dana Schutz, Maurizio Cattelan, Josh Smith, Michaela Eichwald, and Ragnar Kjartansson—the exhibition resists easy categorization, instead embracing contradiction, ambiguity, and transformation.
At its core, UNFOLLOW explores the idea of existing between states. Drawing on concepts like “Limbo” and the Buddhist “Bardo” (popularized in Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders), the exhibition reflects on a cultural moment defined by uncertainty—where past frameworks no longer hold, and new ones have yet to fully emerge.
Like its inaugural edition, FALCON activates vacant commercial spaces—transforming them into temporary sites for art, dialogue, and community. By repurposing storefronts that might otherwise sit empty, the project continues to build meaningful connections between artists, audiences, and the evolving urban landscape.
Rather than offering answers, UNFOLLOW invites us to sit within the tension—where doubt becomes method, and uncertainty becomes form.
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It’s a space to experiment, collaborate, and grow — with visibility, promotion, and occasional fellowships supporting every step.
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R U Still Painting???, the exhibition on view throughout May (extended until June 10th) hosted by RRASP at 520 8th Ave 15th floor, has sparked vibrant conversations around contemporary painting.
As part of the program, we hosted a panel talk featuring a group of exhibiting artists and an outstanding host—an inspiring exchange of views on the practice of painting.
We’d like to thank Valdo Spumanti for adding an Italian touch of elegance and sparkle to the evening.
Host: Massimiliano Gioni
Panelist: Robert Storr, Adrianne Rubenstain, Austin Lee, Elizabeth Neel, Jason Fox, Su Su, Sam Barsky
R U still Painting ???
The answer is YES—and I want you there!
Join me for the opening on May 6 at 520 8th Ave in Midtown Manhattan.
Live music + DJ at Wakamba with Greg Paulus live band to keep the vibes high.
Spots are limited, so don’t be last-minute —reserve your slot now at falconnyc.com
Bring your friends and your good energy.
🎨 R U STILL PAINTING??? Studio Visit #11: Alissa McKendrick
Meet Alissa McKendrick, the next artist in our R U STILL PAINTING??? studio visit series. Known for her irreverent humor, textured surfaces, and fiercely imaginative narratives, McKendrick paints with a wild sincerity that makes you lean in and take a second look.
Her recent works embrace the weird and the whimsical, blending figuration with fantasy, and a lo-fi punk sensibility that challenges both genre and gender. Characters populate her canvases like actors in an absurd play—part myth, part meme, all McKendrick. Her paintings are gritty, vulnerable, and often hilarious—refusing neat interpretation while drawing us into their inner logic.
With nods to art history, underground comics, and internet detritus, McKendrick builds a world that is distinctly her own. Her brushwork is confident, chaotic, and entirely human—celebrating the awkward, the raw, and the uncool in a way that feels both deeply contemporary and timeless.
Alissa McKendrick is not asking permission. She's painting like the future of the medium is still up for grabs—and that’s exactly the spirit of R U STILL PAINTING???
🗓️ Don’t miss the exhibition opening: Tuesday, May 6, 5–9PM
📍 520 8th Ave, 15th Floor, New York, NY
Curated by: FALCON Art Collective @falconart_nyc Produced by: RRASP @rrasp_org
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HAPPENING AT OUR MIDTOWN LOCATION!
🎨 R U STILL PAINTING???
🖼️ An Exhibition by FALCON Art Collective @falconart_nyc
👩🎨 Produced by RRASP @rrasp_org
📍 520 8th Ave, 15th Floor, New York, NY
🗓️ Opening: Tuesday, May 6, 5–9PM
🎟️ RSVP: falconnyc.com
FALCON Art Collective invites you to their inaugural exhibition, R U STILL PAINTING???, a sprawling showcase of over 40 artists reclaiming 40,000 sq ft of raw, under-construction space in Midtown Manhattan.
This exhibition challenges the digital age’s detachment by celebrating the tactile, imperfect nature of painting. It’s a nod to the early 2000s NYC art scene, emphasizing community, spontaneity, and the raw energy of creation.
Curated by FALCON co-founders Paololuca Barbieri Marchi and Marco Boggio Sella, in collaboration with Heather Hubbs, and produced by RRASP, this exhibition is a testament to the enduring power of painting in a rapidly digitizing world.
🔗 Learn more and RSVP: falconnyc.com
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🎨 R U STILL PAINTING??? Studio Visit #10: Maia Del Estal
Next in our studio visit series is the deeply thoughtful and poetic painter Maia Del Estal. A former artist-in-residence during the RRASP Summer Pilot Program, Del Estal’s work continues to evolve through quiet experimentation, tactile materiality, and a reverence for the subtleties of observation.
Del Estal creates paintings that hover between dream and memory—delicate marks, soft textures, and offbeat compositions that suggest something just out of reach. Her canvases feel like intimate notations of emotional states, where time is slowed, and attention is sharpened.
With a background in both painting and sound, Del Estal brings a synesthetic sensitivity to her work, layering moments of quiet dissonance with painterly clarity. Her restrained palette and use of negative space invite the viewer into a contemplative pause—reminding us that painting doesn’t always shout to be heard.
Her participation in R U STILL PAINTING??? is a continuation of her relationship with RRASP, and a testament to the ways residencies can support long-form, process-based inquiry.
🗓️ Don’t miss the exhibition opening: Tuesday, May 6, 5–9PM 📍 520 8th Ave, 15th Floor, New York, NY Curated by: FALCON Art Collective @falconart_nyc Produced by: RRASP @rrasp_org
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🎨 R U STILL PAINTING??? Studio Visit #9: You-Ni Chae
We’re thrilled to feature You-Ni Chae in our continuing R U STILL PAINTING??? studio visit series. Chae’s work explores the fragmented and fluid nature of identity, memory, and displacement through lush, intuitive brushwork and a dreamlike color palette.
Her recent paintings are layered with emotional intensity—evoking shifting inner landscapes, submerged narratives, and a delicate balance between abstraction and figuration. Drawing from personal experiences and cultural memory, Chae’s canvases seem to glow from within, offering glimpses of figures or gestures that flicker in and out of clarity.
Chae’s intuitive approach to painting is both fearless and tender—working wet-on-wet, scraping back layers, and allowing accidents to become part of the story. The result is a body of work that feels deeply personal and simultaneously expansive—quiet yet insistent.
In a moment when painting is constantly asked to justify itself, Chae’s practice is a reminder of its emotional and psychological depth—why we turn to paint to say the unsayable.
🗓️ Don’t miss the exhibition opening: Tuesday, May 6, 5–9PM 📍 520 8th Ave, 15th Floor, New York, NY
Curated by: FALCON Art Collective @falconart_nyc Produced by: RRASP @rrasp_org
#RUSTILLPAINTING #YouNiChae #ContemporaryPainting #FigurationAndAbstraction #StudioVisitSeries #FALCONArtCollective #RRASP #NYCArtScene #EmotionalPainting #PaintingLives #WomenInPainting #ExperimentalArt
