Opening Reception: Saturday May 4th 6:00-8:00PM

Vernissage: Friday, May 10 6:00-9:00PM

Reynolds’s paintings describe an interior landscape riddled with ecological deformities and visionary possibilities. Twisting their way around pictorial formulae used to conflate women and nature, these paintings remain outside the linear tradition used to define gender norms. Transformative possibilities are marked in the ruins, as gravestones commemorate the altered landscape of the body. Post 9/11 and the Invasion of Iraq, the stones were marked with cuneiform to commemorate the loss, as a tidal wave of catastrophe threatened to swamp the world. The paintings became shades of white, which had a literal source in the ash of war, and the bleached coral and arctic melt of global warming. During the great sickness as humans stopped breathing, the air briefly cleared, and color crept back into the painting. She hand-ground 'interference colors' that reflected and mirrored the glittering network of fungi, bacteria, and virus that overtook the terrain and sky. From the depicted swamp her work continues to explore the ambiguous morphology between abstraction and a fractured representation.

Opening Reception April 26 6:00-8:00pm

On View through May 5

Summer Begins (2024) is a new installation by William Fleites in Art Cake’s main gallery space.

The show also features new work from tufting artist Jonathan Curran in Studio B.

”PRIVATE/NYC” presents 25 years of New York photography by Paul Vlachos. The exhibit opens in Art Cake’s 2nd Floor-Studio 10 exhibition space December 7th with a reception from 6-8pm.

Get ready for an electrifying night as Whispers of Rhythm: Emergence takes the stage for their first mind-blowing performance.

Sponsored by New York State Council of the Arts

Opening Reception: Current Resident Group Exhibition

October 13th from 4-8 pm

Open Studios:

2-5 PM Saturday, October 14th

2-5 PM Sunday, October 15th

Sunset Park Open Studios 2023 (SPOS) is an annual, multi-day arts celebration of exhibitions, events and open studios throughout Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The Bonnier Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Enthusiasm, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by American artist Richard Höglund on view from Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at Art Cake on 214 40th Street with a reception for the artist from 5 pm - 10 pm.

The show brings together five years of conceptual groundwork and experimentation. Using traditional metal point drawing and oil painting techniques, Höglund explores approaches to painting throughout history, in this case synthesizing renaissance, baroque and modernist frames of reference. Höglund draws from both visual and literary historical references to explore his unique blend of abstraction and figuration. The surfaces of the paintings, underscored in gold and silver, become alchemic vessels for Höglund’s drawings, which continue to push and pull against the painting depending on the material. “It’s especially important for me to keep returning to these paintings as they evolve,” says Höglund, “the narrative persists, keeps creeping back in as the drawing resurfaces, as the oxidizing metal point makes its way up through the layers of paint.”

“Collected Things” presents over forty sculptural works by Jim Condron and opens May 20th with a reception from 5-9 pm. Many of the pieces are constructed of personal items and ephemeral materials collected by Condron that once belonged to artists, writers, and thinkers such as Grace Hartigan, Graham Nickson, Lucy Sante, Rebecca Hoffberger, Carl E. Hazlewood and Cordy Ryman. The work explores thing theory. The genealogy of the use of objects gives them vitality and historical force. Everyday objects become something new as they collide and converse with other things through Condron’s engagement with them.

Opening Saturday, April 15, 2023

4 pm - 8 pm

Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12 - 6 pm

Closing Reception and Gallery Talk with exhibition curator, Mary Birmingham.

Sunday, May 14

Reception beginning at 3 pm

Curator talk at 4 pm

American Abstract Artists is presenting a show of recent work by its membership at ART CAKE, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The exhibition will feature a selection of abstract and non-objective works, in a variety of media, by a multi-generational group of member artists. This show represents the most recent iteration of AAA's 87 year tradition of group shows and, as such, the continuation of an important living tradition in abstract art.

Art Cake Residents Showcase, 2019 - present

Opening March 11, 2023

Reception: March 11, 2023 5-9 pm

Art Cake is excited to present a survey of new work by artists who have participated in the Art Cake residency studios since we opened in 2019. The exhibition will feature work by: Melika Abikenari, Eve Aschheim, Layo Bright, Jim Condron, William Fleites, Carolyn Forrester, Hilma’s Ghost, Blanca Guerrero, Nathan Randall Green, Carl E. Hazlewood, Kate Liebman, Naomi Lisiki, Ai Makita, Jeffrey Morabito, Justin Natividad, Richard Ó'Russa, Michael Rado, Michele Rushfeledt, Odessa Straub, Riley Strom and Dannielle Tegeder.

A group exhibition, curated by Gabriel Sehringer and Kenisha Rullan, featuring works by the security guards of New York City’s most acclaimed museums.

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s open studio event on occasion of SUNSET PARK WIDE OPEN with a reception for the artists on Friday, OCT 14 from 5-7P and continuing through the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, OCT 15-16 from 1-6P each day.

Art Cake is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Rhys Ziemba. On view, September 1 through October 8, 2022, will be a selection of the artist’s most recent paintings.

As part of his practice, Ziemba collects various objects, such as medical skeleton models, traffic cones, paint buckets, inflatable flamingos, or kettlebells, and assembles them in his basement studio. The basement serves as a stage for his paintings which in turn become documentation of the arranged eclectic elements. His works are carefully rendered with consideration to the objects and the space which surrounds them. Balancing between Ziemba’s close observation and saturated imagination, his paintings record time.

Art Cake is pleased to present its second dance series and performance featuring work by Kristel Baldoz, Vinson Fraley, Morgan Griffin, Sayer Mansfield, Raymond Pinto, and Grace Yi-Li Tong. The 2022 series is organized by Marina Gluckman and Morgan Griffin and is fiscally sponsored by The Brooklyn Arts Council.

During the residency period, each dancer is provided a studio at Art Cake to develop a solo or duet. Inspired and informed by the space and each artists’ personal investigation at this moment in time, the solos and duets will be presented side-by-side in a culminating performance, OCT 20 - 21, 2022.

For the third year of the studio program, Art Cake is pleased to present a solo presentation by participating artist, Michele Rushfeldt. On view in Michele Rushfeldt: Kall Meg en Plantetøs is a new large-scale sculpture, measuring twenty-feet long, suspended from the ceiling. This is the eighth part of a series that Art Cake has organized for the participating artists-in-residence as an opportunity to present and document their work outside of the studio.

river, threads, folds is an installation by Wolf Tones (Nancy Shaver, Sterrett Smith, Maximilian Goldfarb and Pradeep Dalal), including works by Jean-Philippe Antoine, Hawkins Bolden, Jared Buckhiester, Pam Cardwell, Dawn Cerny, Public Collectors, Kenji Fujita, Charles Goldman, Incident Report, John Jackson, Julia Klein, Ken Landauer, Tracy Miller, Carla Herrera-Prats, Tyler Rowland, Soberscove Press, Steel Stillman, David Levi Strauss, Maya Strauss, Earl Swanigan, Mose Tolliver, Peter Lamborn Wilson.

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s Spring open studio event with a reception for the artists on Saturday, MAY 14, from 6-8P, and continuing through the weekend from 12-6P each day.

Radiator is an exhibition of carefully selected, thoughtful and well-crafted home goods that encompasses furniture, lighting and home objects. Exhibited are individuals that are sources of design energy which the show amplifies (or radiates)to a larger audience, so that it might expand the diversity in the market and support the new generation of designers that make it exciting. This show is highlighted as a part of NYCxDesign’s 10th Anniversary Festival, the official city-wide celebration of design.

Please join us in Art Cake’s ground floor gallery to celebrate Scott VanderVoort: Arrangements, a presentation of the artist’s recent paintings and sculptures.

Art Cake is pleased to present Dwight Cassin’s first solo exhibition in New York. On view, March 19 through April 23, 2022, will be a selection of sculptures made of wood created over the last two years.

Cassin’s practice exists within a discourse of materials and repeated procedures and gestures. He explores the idiosyncrasies in wood to create sculptural works that evoke an emotive essence.

Spanning sculpture, performance, video, and drawing, Rado explores themes of idealism and order in his practice. Often using construction and domestic materials, such as masonite, red rosin paper, and Poplar wood, he creates compositions that are characterized by ideal proportions. He employs the geometry of dynamic symmetry, which is a set framework that is designed to promote continuity, rhythm, and balance within a composition. Each of the artist’s works begins with the same process of dividing the plane into a grid of squares, and further into dynamic rectangles, which is a system of proportions popularized by Canadian-born American artist Jay Hambidge in the early twentieth century as a means to constructing an ideal layout for landscape and portraiture.

William Fleites will present a new site-specific installation in Art Cake's ground floor gallery. This will be the artist's largest work to date. On Saturdays, MAR 12 and MAR 19, the artist will be on site welcoming visitors from 12-6P.

Things reside on shelves and are sometimes hinged and separate from the wall. Things are placed, can be manipulated. Once a scene of complex dimensionality is imagined flat and made flat with a camera, it must be brought back into dimensional space as a print or a screen or …. something. What happens between the camera’s imagined flat scene and the actual printed flat object on the wall affect how the image is understood.

For the second year of the studio program, Art Cake is pleased to present a solo presentation by participating artist, William Fleites. On view is a new site-specific installation and accompanying photograph. The artist notes, “This installation is an expression of the experience of making a painting.” On Saturdays, NOV 6 and NOV 13, the artist will be on site welcoming visitors from 4-6P. To reserve a time to visit in person, please email info@artcake.org.

The artists of the Art Cake Studio Program are pleased to announce the program’s open studio event on occasion of SUNSET PARK WIDE OPEN with a reception for the artists on Friday, OCT 15 from 5-8P and continuing through the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, OCT 16-17 from 1-6P each day.

For the second year of the studio program, Art Cake is pleased to present a solo presentation, titled The Endless Year, by participating artist, Jeffrey Morabito. On view are paintings made throughout the pandemic. The artist notes, “As time slowed down this past year during the (first) pandemic of our lifetimes, certain moments echoed; a rodent or squirrel scurrying by, a vast cemetery by the freeway, a neighbor’s lost pet poster. When time feels endless, these small moments reflect our own persistence.”