Bohemian Wednesday & Closing Reception
Emerging Movement
A special evening of Art, Music, and Culture. Experience a vibrant closing reception of the Emerging Movement exhibition in Historic Fort Greene, Brooklyn and celebrate Bohemian Wednesday at Habana Outpost.
October 30, 2024
Habana Outpost
757 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NYC
Exhibition
Emerging Movement
Emerging Movement brings together a diverse group of artists whose works represent the cutting edge of contemporary art. Each work presents a unique perspective to explore themes of identity, culture, and the human experience. This exhibition aims to highlight the evolving trends and experimental techniques that are shaping the future of art.
Featuring
Vahakn Arslanian, Max Blagg, Nick Farhi, Rhys Gaetano, Jerami Dean Goodwin, David Aaron Greenberg, Melvin "Grave" Guzman, Raina Hamner, Nneka Kai, Ibrahim Kandji, Ben Keating, Eli Reed
Summer Solstice
Yebaga Gebata
A day of art and culture, celebrating the Summer Solstice as YEBAGA GEBATA. Special performances by Fre$co Van gOGh, NYCL KAI, BEKIM & Kanami Kusajima
Holiday Event
Norooz
The Trops celebrates an evening of music, poetry, dance and celebration of revival with the spring equinox and Norooz in Little Italy, NYC
An Interview with Nemo Librizzi
Bohemian Wednesday
Workshop
A vibrant creative evening of Art, Fashion, Music, and Boxing. Enter the creative process with Ibrahim Kandji who will be sharing his story and presenting new works at this special one-day studio event.
January 3rd, 2024
Hudson Boxing
333 Church street
Ibrahim Kandji, Untitled, 2024
Holiday Event
YALDA
Join us for the Trops Holiday Party!
Yalda is an ancient tradition to celebrate the solstice, where, as the longest night of the year, people are encouraged to stay up late, gathering and sharing music, art, and poetry to pass the long night and bring back the sun.
Featuring
Adjua Ajamu, Amelia A, Ayna Ivanova, Bako, Daniel Carter, DJ Sadra, Galen Passen, Ilka Scobie, Indya Moore, Martin Shamoonpour, Mehrnam Rastegari and Mehdi Darvishi, Mir Naqibul Islam
EXHIBITION
Love Is A Gas
The Trops presents Love is a Gas curated by Brittny Gastineau and Nemo Librizzi in collaboration with Surface Magazine, December 5-12 in Miami’s Design District.
The Trops presents diverse cultural programming in shows unique to each exhibition space. Integrating interior design, technology, and art in the heart of Miami’s Design District, the exhibition “Love is a Gas” approaches a gallery space where contemporary art meets contemporary interiors and contemporary technology, with a mobile application that let’s visitors “collect” art memories of the works. Curated by art world virtuosos Brittny Gastineau and Nemo Librizzi in collaboration with Surface Magazine, this show presents the intersection of the major forces of a modern art experience.
39 NE 39th St, Miami, FL
Learn more and RSVP by email
contact@thetrops.com
EXHIBITION
Keeping the Faith
By Appointment
contact@thetrops.com
The Trops presents community paintings created live in NYC’s public spaces, representative of the sort of pieces that were done on the walls, streets, and trains that manifested into a global movement. Mark making attached a figurative significance to the individual spirit that guides self-expression in these exhibitive spaces; however, in their original contexts, the art of writing was not necessarily intended as a painting in the western sense of the word. These works, painted by legendary living writers, are contemporary developments of the Style Writing tradition that bring the vitality of the culture into canvas.
Featuring:
KEO VFR JONA
SOZE RIFF
Villa Lina New York
431 E 6th St. NYC
Learn more about Style Writing and the creators of this movement
Shop Train Writers
EXHIBITION
Eroica Variations
Summer / Fall 2023
The Trops takes pride in standing behind emerging artists, whom you may not have heard of- yet- but you should, and likely soon will. By naming this survey after the Beethoven compositions we are putting forth a bold claim that these voices are heroically breaking through as a force to be reckoned with on the world stage
Featuring:
Ben Ruhe, Nick Farhi, Rene Saheb, Armando Nin, Vahakn Arslanian, Jerami Dean Goodwin, David Aaron Greenberg, Conrad de Kwiatkowski
Villa Lina New York
431 E 6th St. NYC
A Lucid Life Ensemble Soundbath at Eroica Variations No. 3
ARTICLES
By: Nathalie Martin
EXHIBITION
In Defense of Poesy
At one time the person born to be an Artist was the maudit, accursed. Making a living was hardly guaranteed. Somewhere along the way, a cult of art celebrity was born and suddenly, families encouraged their children to embrace the arts. In this new gold rush climate, it is increasingly rare to find talent devoted to original expression, making art for the sheer joy of creation. The Trops presents ‘In Defense of Poesy’ as a celebration of the human spirit blossoming in the ateliers of Paris.
25 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth
Paris, France 75003
14-21 AVRIL
Curated by:
Nemo Librizzi and Johnny Grizot
Featuring:
Esmael Bahrani, Roxane Depardieu , Gaadjika , Jay One, Genc Jakupi, Pharaoh Kakudji,
Krystofer Kimmel, Curtis Kulig, Mai Lucas, Apadola Nelson, Psyckoze, Hakim Sahiri, Charlotte Vitaioli
By: Nemo Librizzi
EXHIBITION
Closing Reception feat. Poetry Reading & Screening of STREET by Jamie Nares
SOCIAL REGISTER
Featuring:
Jamie Nares, Lee Quinones, John Newsom, Jim Jarmusch, Stefan Bondell,
Ryan McGinley, Lucien Smith and Raymond Pettibon
Curated by Nemo Librizzi
Social Register is a survey of artists well-known on the downtown scene. Each one generally confined to the platform of their respective gallery, a pop up show has the unique opportunity to exhibit these leaders side by side, creating a powerful representation of “what’s happening now” on the New York scene. Curated by Nemo Librizzi for cutting edge cultural movement, The Trops, long-standing friendships with seminal talents grant rare access into the artist’s studio.
OCTOBER 2022
PERFORMANCE
N'AP BOULE
Location: Manero's on Mulberry
Featured Performance: Sheila Anozier & Rufus Cappadocia
“Sak Pase” is a common Haitian Creole phrase that means “What’s happening?" It is often used to greet friends, similar to how you would say “what’s up” in English. The expected response is “N’ap boule.” N’ap boule is a contraction of “nou ap boule” from "Nous après brûler," literally meaning “we are burning" and representing the response “we’re good" or "we're hanging out.”
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3
EXHIBITION
Burnt Offering
ARMANDO NIN
SATURDAY JANUARY 14
As digital devices make us more connected, we somehow find ourselves isolated, our behaviors manipulated by an algorithm. How did we get here? Reflecting on our roots, there is a rediscovery of fire, the heat and light that enabled creative work to blossom. Gathering around the flames, we evolved culture, community, charcoal. Burnt Offering is a special one day exhibition presenting artworks by Armando Nin and performance by Kanami Kusajima, expressing contemporary art as an alchemy of fire and soot into fuel for the human spirit.
HOLIDAY EVENT
YALDA
DEC 21, 2022 (WINTER SOLSTICE)
Featured Performance:
Mehrnam Rastegari & Martin Shamoonpour
Originating in the pre-Zoroastrian tradition, Yalda, also referred to as Chelleh, celebrates the sunrise after the longest night of the year. Ancient Persians believed that evil forces were strongest on the longest and darkest night of the year. Every year, Iranian people celebrate Yalda night on the winter solstice by gathering together for eating, drinking and reading poetry through the night. In line with this tradition, The Trops hosted a Yalda evening of visual arts, performance arts, and poetry in the Heart of NYC.
EXHIBITION MAP
Ben Ruhe
South Beach Constallation, Miami Beach, FL
Heavens to Murgatroyd is a mapped exhibition of paintings by artist Benjamin Ruhe, presenting artwork across an assortment of real world gathering places.
Integrating soulful whimsicality into his mixed media artworks, Ben Ruhe translates interdimensional beings and textures into his distinct figurative language.
EXHIBITION
RAMBO
Paintings by Lance de los Reyes
Miami Beach, FL
Lance De Los Reyes (1977-2021) studied painting, performance, sculpture and video at the San Francisco Art Institute, later living and working in NYC.
His abstract works combine figurative and abstract forms, with influences of street art, colors, shapes, and poetry that communicate a mythological mindset in cryptic composition.
Working at the edge of painting, photography, music and film over the course of five decades, Jamie Nares has profoundly explored the relationships between memory, time, movement and thought. I spoke with Jamie about her childhood, her move to New York City in the 1970s, her multidisciplinary practice, and her generous vision of art and life.
EXHIBITION
MONOMANIA
Grear Patterson & Nick Farhi
curated by Nemo Librizzi
For everything Art has ever been, it's amazing to see how every season, through the hand of each young visionary, it can be made new again. Particularly when the artist, with the weight of History crashing down, decides to limit themselves to the simplicity of a reserved color pallet or in the exploration of otherwise banal subject matter. With all the tricky techniques made available by successive waves of modernism and post-modernism, boldness relies on the singularity of expressing one’s own unique vision. But to then go at it as if one’s life depended on it, and still come across cool is the story of Nick Farhi and Grear Patterson, both of whom have only just embarked on promising careers. Painting while thinking and feeling. And in a time when social media tempts even the poet to flash cash, and show off clothes, shoes, or any eye-catching flummery, there is pure delight in hanging their paintings in bars, bodegas and old school neighborhood establishments in the first-ever dispersed “constellation” exhibit. As much passion as they put into their artworks, it was also thrilling to install, and watch it come to life on walls not accustomed to hosting high concept visuals.
Take a stroll through the streets with The Trops in Fort Greene, and share the cultural experience with a new kind of art scene.
July 2022
EXHIBITION:
ON MESSAGE OFF GRID
On Message Off Grid is an installation of Jona Cerwinske in New York City, presenting works created in situ, showcasing the gallery format as the ultimate studio visit as the artist creates additional works across the streetscapes of NYC.
March 2022
EXHIBITION:
MY NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER
Curated by Mike Malbon & Nemo Librizzi
Featuring: Phase 2, Jon One, Futura, Rambo, Coco144, Tracy168
Projection Photography by David Schmidlapp
In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, a generation of children took to the streets, and signed their names to the trains and walls of a crumbling New York City infrastructure. If unique autographs- like Coco 144- were a significant form of self-expression in their unadorned form, this group practice would undergo in time a transformation, what Phase 2 described as an “evolution of style” towards a convoluted new application of the alphabet Tracy 168 called “wild style”. This innovative language dismissed as “graffiti” by the media was illegible to the outsider, and a creative call-to-arms for the initiate, a battle of letters and words Rammellzee dubbed “Iconoclast Panzerism”. Finally, writers would eschew the signature altogether, and pure abstractions would serve as the artist’s calling card, beginning with Futura’s seminal non-representational “break train”. The subway era was brought to a dramatic finale with the spontaneous compositions of Jon One, who would go on painting in the same vein to artworld acclaim overseas. And in the short, rich career of Lance De Los Reyes, this story is recapitulated from his first humble Rambo tags, to an abstract body of paintings famed for sophisticated color instinct and poetic impact. In this historical context, The Trops presents My Name is Writ in Water, a survey of abstractions curated by Mike Malbon and Nemo Librizzi.
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022