Bohemian Wednesday

Cinema Circle

Introducing CINƉ CIRCLE

in collaboration with ArtxNYC

The Trops screened a series of short films at "Cinema Circle", in collaboration with ArtxNYC.

An Interview with Nemo Librizzi

"I think that each of us have an inclination or sensibility to create based on a dream or a feeling"

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

Recent Articles

Norooz

February Cinema Circle

An Interview with Nemo Librizzi

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 Miamiā€™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 Miamiā€™s Design District, the exhibition ā€œLove is a Gasā€ approaches a gallery space where contemporary art meets contemporary interiors and contemporary technology, with a mobile application that letā€™s visitors ā€œcollectā€ 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 NYCā€™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

DAH Hoodie

$65.00

RIFF classic tee

$40.00

SAMO classic tee

$40.00

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

Norooz
February Cinema Circle
An Interview with Nemo Librizzi
An Interview with Barron Claiborne (Part 1)

By: Nathalie Martin

"I want to do my own thing. I donā€™t really care about doing other people's thing."

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 ā€˜In Defense of Poesyā€™ 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


Conscious Darkness: Richard Hambleton (Part 1)

By: Nemo Librizzi

He didnā€™t sign his name. He left a trail of inspired silhouettes in his footsteps for a signature and indeed we called him ā€œShadow Manā€

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 ā€œwhatā€™s happening nowā€ 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 artistā€™s studio.

OCTOBER 2022

PERFORMANCE

N'AP BOULE

Location: Manero's on Mulberry

Featured Performance: Sheila Anozier & Rufus Cappadocia

ā€œSak Paseā€ is a common Haitian Creole phrase that means ā€œWhatā€™s happening?" It is often used to greet friends, similar to how you would say ā€œwhatā€™s upā€ in English. The expected response is ā€œNā€™ap boule.ā€ Nā€™ap boule is a contraction of ā€œnou ap bouleā€ from "Nous aprĆØs brĆ»ler," literally meaning ā€œwe are burning" and representing the response ā€œweā€™re good" or "we're hanging out.ā€

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.

Photos of the Mind: An Interview with Jamie Nares (Part 1)

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 oneā€™s own unique vision. But to then go at it as if oneā€™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 ā€œconstellationā€ 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


An Interview with Barron Claiborne (Part 1)
"I want to do my own thing. I donā€™t really care about doing other people's thing."

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

COCO 144
One of the first ā€˜Writersā€™ of the late 1960s, COCO 144 embossed New York City subway cars, underground tunnels, and concrete walls with his spray-painted pen nameā€”inspired by a popular Puerto Rican pet name and the street that he grew up on in Manhattan, 144th street. His art lives on, both literally and figuratively, throughout the hollows of New York City.

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 ā€œevolution of styleā€ towards a convoluted new application of the alphabet Tracy 168 called ā€œwild styleā€. This innovative language dismissed as ā€œgraffitiā€ 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 ā€œIconoclast Panzerismā€. Finally, writers would eschew the signature altogether, and pure abstractions would serve as the artistā€™s calling card, beginning with Futuraā€™s seminal non-representational ā€œbreak trainā€. 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