MISSION:
Kentler International Drawing Space, founded in 1990, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing contemporary drawings and works on paper by emerging and under-recognized national and international artists to the public, and to providing the opportunity to experiment, explore and expand the definition of art in society. Our programs include Exhibitions & Events, K.I.D.S. Art Education and The Kentler Flatfiles.
HISTORY:
Kentler is located in the diverse neighborhood Red Hook, Brooklyn. Founded by artists Florence Neal and Scott Pfaffman, Kentler opened its doors in April 1990 and quickly became the focus of a burgeoning artists community in this historic, inspiring, and challenging area of New York City.
The gallery is located in a storefront space facing Van Brunt Street, a busy commercial avenue. The building was erected in 1877 by the Kentler family and housed a men’s haberdashery serving Brooklyn seaport business workers. Today the neighborhood is a lively mix of diverse families, small businesses, creative collectives, waterfront parks and churches. Although Red Hook is geographically isolated, the gallery is located steps away from the B61 bus, attracting neighbors and visitors who would otherwise have little opportunity to meet artists or see new works of art.
The Kentler Flatfiles, consisting of drawings and works on paper by over 290 artists, are housed in a showroom behind the gallery and are available for viewing by curators, collectors and the general public by appointment. Our new organizational website, which launched in February 2017, provides full online access to the Flatfiles collection, The Red Hook Archives as well as Kentler’s 30-year exhibition history.
Kentler hosts five rounds of exhibitions per year, including solo shows, guest-curated group shows, selections from the Flatfiles, and collaborative installations. Shows drawn from the international community have given many artists the opportunity to visit the United States and show their work to a New York audience. The gallery is open to the public: Thursday through Sunday from 12 – 5pm. Exhibition dates, hours and related events are updated on the Kentler website.
EXHIBITION HISTORY (with links)
1990
April Earth Night, Group show
May The Red Hook Story, Invitational Group Show
September The Design Show, Invitational Group show
November Fred Skellinger, Here and Now, Brooklyn artist
1991
January Exploit/Expose-Why War? Group Show, Poetry and performances
March Robert Sestok, Work on Paper, Detroit artist
April Robert Grenier, Memorial, Brooklyn artist
May Julius Valiunas, Oil & Water, Brooklyn artist
July Brian Jost, Music/Art, Brooklyn artist, musician
August Celebrate Labor, Invitational Group show
October Bill Nogosek, Works on Paper, Brooklyn artist
November Richard Mock, Recent Prints, Brooklyn artist
December Peter Bellamy, The Artists Project, Portraits of the Real Art World / New York Artists, 1981-1990, Brooklyn artist
1992
January Mariella Bisson, First Day in the Forest, Brooklyn artist
March Valentin Popov, Work on Paper, Russian artist living in Califormia
May Jennifer Protas, Work on Paper, Brooklyn artist living in Holland
June Sculptors Drawings Ten years of Outdoor Sculpture Proposals at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park
July Carrie Waldman, New Work from the Anza-Borrego Desert
September Work, Invitational Group show
October Ettl, Hahn, Katterbach & Zarm, German artists, Works on Paper
November Sherry Hendrick, Watercolors, artist from Detroit
Poetry Reading, Celia Bland & Sharon Kraus
1993
March Bodoya & Cavazos Multiple Views, artists from Mexico & Argentina
May Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Works on Paper
June Karni Dorell, Works, installation, Brooklyn artist
July Richard Dennis, Runconada, Watercolors from Mexico
September To Be How do you see yourself, as an artist, in American culture today? Invitational group show
October Jan Theun Van Rees, Branding, Recent Drawings, artist from Amsterdam
November Douglas Campbell, The Illustrated Dream and Derangement
December Friedemann Bender, Hawaiian Work, German artist living in Hawaii
1994
January Michael Delia, Cantata, installation and music performance, NYC artist
February Gone to Pieces: Collage Extremists, curated by Mariella Bisson
April Bill Fick, Satirical Linocuts, artist from North Carolina
May BWAC, PaperWorks
June Teri Slotkin, Mixed Doubles, Photographs / photo session of people in pairs from Red Hook
July Beth Caspar, Loca Sanctorum, Red Hook artist
August Margaret Neill, Fixed in Time, Wall Drawings, Brooklyn artist
September Dissonant Worlds, 6 artists, curated by Howard McCalebb
October Cat Hnatov, Monoprints, Brooklyn artist
November John Morton, New Work from Portugal, Red Hook artist
December DNR Xerox Project An AIDS related collaborative installation, organized by Spiral Arts
1995
February Lillian Maurer, Installation, Brooklyn artist
March Eileen Weizman, Paper Sculpture Installation, Brooklyn artist
April Stuart Nicholson, 200 Object Lamps, Installation, Brooklyn artist
May BWAC, Works on Paper – 64 artists
June Three Printmakers, Bushra Chaudry, John D. Gall, Matt Myers, from New York and North Carolina
August Richard Gins, Subway Riders, Line drawings done on the subway, 1985-95, Red Hook artist
Aug. 13 Teri Slotkin, Couples, Photo Session in the gallery of Red Hook community
September AVOCET, The Avocet Portfolio, silkscreen editions, printed at Art Awareness in Lexington, NY
October Jim Napierala, The Vision Thing (Redux), Drawing installation, NY artist
November Jirí Kornatovsky, Large scale drawings and prints, Czech artist
December Installation
1996
January Jens Veneman Take It or Leave It, paper and mixed media installation, German artist living in NY
February Bettina Magi, Silent Movies, Work on paper and a tableau installation, Red Hook artist
March An Ngoc Pham, Procedure@life.begin…end\repeat.life<, Vietnamese artist living in Brooklyn
April Pat Soderberg , Peripheries, work on paper, Detroit artist
May Small Work: Big Vision, BWAC,Works on paper, 62 artists from the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Dale Williams, Work on Paper, Brooklyn artist
July Fran Kornfeld On the Border, A Drawing Installation, Brooklyn artist
August Neddi Heller Paintings & Drawings, Brooklyn artist
September Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
October Ellen Katterback & Brigitte Zarm, Works on Paper, German artists
November On the Waterfront, Work on Paper, Curated by Jackie Lima
December An Installation of Documentation, Day Without Art Installation, by Keith Hanson
Dec. 15: Poetry Reading: John Penn, Carol Wiersbecki, curated by Tsaurah Litzky
1997
January Gesture as Value Project by Jerelyn Hanrahan, artist living in Italy and Switzerland
Jan 14 – 27 The Big Picture, Prints & Drawings, Group show
Jan. 26: Poetry Reading by David Huberman, Lorraine Schein, coordinator: Tsaurah Litzky
February Ursula Clark, Spirals: Sacred Energy, Brooklyn artist
Feb. 23: Poetry Reading by Cynthia Andrews, Tina Olsen, coordinator: Tsaurah Litzky
March John Morse, 3D22D23D, Installation, New York artist
April David McKenzie, Naked Singularity, Works on Paper, Brooklyn Artist
May BWAC Work on Paper, Group Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Susan Schroeder, Meditations, paper and dyed fabric works
July Kentler Archives
August Harriet Zucker Unbidden Waters, photographs, Red Hook artist
Weekend: Red Hook Photo Session: Mixed Doubles, photos of people in pairs by Teri Slotkin
September Pi Backus installation, Dutch artist
October Sunny Balzano Work on Paper, Red Hook Artist
November exhibition continues
1998
January Jackie Lima Work on Paper
Jan. 24 – Poetry Reading
February Heimo Wallner, Uli Vonbank-Schedler, Martin Dickinger, artists from Austria, on site installations
Feb. 14 – Poetry Reading
March Gertrude Moser Wagner installation, artist from Austria
April
May BWAC group show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Computer Art / past & present, Curated by John Buchanan, Red Hook filmmaker
July Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
August Sunny Balzano Large Works on Paper, installation in Archive space
September Mary Rosenthal, Mad Women, Block prints, artist from Ohio
October Peter Levinson, Lantern, Paper installation, Brooklyn artist
November Morgan O’Hara Drawings, New York artist living in Italy
December Tone Johansen Installation, Red Hook artist
1999
January Home Away From Home An installation of project porposals for Red Hook Homes, Nine artists /Organized by Ildiko Repasi & Pablo Helguera
February Monica Mazzoleni Bound Doors, Photo installation, artist from Italy
March George Schroeder Collages artist from Ohio
April Martin Zet Installation, Czech artist
May BWAC Small Work on Paper, group show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Christel Kremser Couples, photography, German artist
July Installation
August William Moekler Drawing Red Hook, Brooklyn artist
September Claudia Schmacke Installation, German artist
October Harald Busch The Story So Far installation, German artist
November Mariella Bisson Work on Paper, Brooklyn artist
December Marek Chlanda Drawings, artist from Poland, in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art in Niepolomice, Poland
RED HOOK READINGS : Poetry and Prose / Monthly Readings in 1999, organized by Paul van Linden Tol
2000
January Red Hook Eight, Paintings and drawings by Red Hook artists, organized by Sunny Balzano & Florence Neal
February Hildegard Skowasch, Paper installation, German artist
March Renate Hoffmann Korth, Drawing installation and performance, German artist
April Red Hook Housing, organized by Bob James, Red Hook resident
May BWAC, Small Works on Paper, artists from the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
June Ideas You Believe Are Absurd Ultumately Lead To Success. Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol, Dutch artists
August 27, 7pm Tenderly to Light / Music by I. & V. Havel
September Damian Aquiles Silvestre, Drawing installation, artist from Cuba
October Joan Criswell, Imagine II, Brooklyn artist
October 7 Art Metabolism, Video presentation and discussion by Gertrude Moser-Wagner, artist from Austria
November Jane South, Drawing installation, artist from England
December Dusty, Curated by Theo Tegelaers, Artists: Voebe de Gruyter, Cynthia Phillips, Juana Valdes
2001
January Daily Drawings, Andrea Callard, Susan Crowe, Rosalinda Kolb, Margaret Neill
February Paintings on Paper Group show of Nine Artists, Curated by Tone Johansen
March Stefano Locatelli, Drawings and paintings, artist from Italy
April Ernesto Pena, Juan Carlos, Double Fantasy Drawings and prints, artists from Cuba
May BWAC, Small Works on Paper, artists from the Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition (BWAC)
June Proximity Karni Dorell, Stuart Nicholson, Susan Powers, Gloria Williams
June 15 Second Hand Twilight, a music performance, petr nikl, jana hrabova, jaroslav koran, michael delia
July Unseen New York 1 – Brooklyn Photographs, Mike Heffernan
September Relief: Block prints, Organized by Beth Caspar, Artists: Beth Caspar, Richard Mock, Florence Neal, Bill Stahl
October Marit Skjermo, Monoprints, artist from Norway
November 911 SHOW Artists Respond, Art made on or after 9/11/01, 87 artists
November 11, 4pm READ HOOK: Reading in a Strong Light / Robert Kocik
November 24, 4pm READ HOOK: Reading in a Strong Light / Tom La Farge
Nov 1 – Dec 27 Taking Notes Installation by Margaret Neill. Organized by the Kentler for the Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library
December Ellen MacDonald Paper and drawing installation, Brooklyn artist
2002
January Ellen MacDonald, Paper installation, Brooklyn artist
Jan 1 – Feb 28 Screen Memories, Collaboration between writer, Wendy Walker and artist, Florence Neal. Organized by the Kentler for the Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library
February/March 4sight, Realism to Abstraction, Elizabeth O’Reilly, Hovey Brock, Margaret Neill, David Konigsberg, Brooklyn artists
March 1 – April 30 Brooklyn Elements A solo exhibition by Tone Johansen Organized by the Kentler for the Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library
March/ April Phillip Chen, What We Are Named For, Relief etchings, artist from Iowa
May/ June Small Works on Paper Group Show
July BIG: Large Scale Drawings & Prints
September Janell O’Rourke, Within/Without, Drawings and paper sculptures, Brooklyn artist
October Aung Myint, Drawings, artist from Myanmar
November Kazuhiro Nishijima, Drawings & performance artist from Nogoya, Japan
December The PEACE Show, International Call to Artists, Writers and Musicians, Over 200 Artists participated.
2003
January Jared Handelsman Drawing with Light
Feb/March Richard Herbert Howe, Drawings
March/April Ursula Scherrer, Looking into the Dark, Photography / video installation.
May 100 Small Works on Paper / Benefit Show
May/June Jane Ingram Allen, Site Maps, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Sept Kostas Kiritsis Artist’s Books, Curated by Mercedes Vicente.
Oct /Nov Dragan Ilic, Drawing / Devices
December Beyond the Page: 3D & The Artist Book, Curated by Maddy Rosenberg. Ten artists. In conjunction with an exhibition at Brooklyn Public Library.
2004
Jan/ Feb Kenya Art, Curated by Judy Ogana & Carol Lees, Nairobi – In conjunction with 5 Brooklyn venues.
March/April Mary Judge, Spolvero Drawings Installation.
May 20 100 Small Works on Paper /Benefit
May/June Katarina Wong, Drawing Installation
July Nature Trails, Selections from The Kentler Flatfiles
Sept/Oct Herbert Brün, Computer Graphics and Musical Scores, Sept. 17 & 18 / Symposium and Music performances in conjunction with exhibition.
Oct /Nov Judith Egger, Accumulation, Drawing Installation
Nov/Dec Toine Horvers, Passers-By, Drawings with Written Text
Dec/March 2005 Gyrations, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles in our new exhibition venue, The New Space.
2005
Jan/ Feb Sasha Chavchavadze – Matchwork, Brooklyn artist.
Feb/March Barry Ledoux, Fall into Language, Drawing Installation.
April Project Diversity, a project of the Rush Foundation, 16 participating Brooklyn venues,
13 Brooklyn Artists
May 19 130 Small Works on Paper /Benefit
May/June Mimmo Roselli, Drawing Space, Artist from Italy
July Flowers / Kwiaty, Guest Curator: Mariola Malinowska, 8 Artists
Sept/Oct Derek Bernstein, Portraits of Amy, Over 300 Drawings
Nov/Dec Elise Kaufman, On the Waterfront, New Drawings, Brooklyn Artist.
Sept – Dec Figurations, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, The New Space
2006
Jan/ Feb Ernst Benkert Drawings 1959 – 2004. Incollaboration with a show of Benkert’s Artists Books at Proteus Gowanus. Exhibition Catalog.
Feb/March Gelah Penn, Detour , Drawing Installation.
April Critical Mass Curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian,
Drawings by Robert Gunder, Colin Keefe, Lucas Monaco.
April 7 – May 14 125 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition
May 18: Benefit
May/June Figure?Ground. Selections from The Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Carter Foster, Drawings Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Sept/Oct Monika Weiss, Limen II, Multi-media installation, drawing and performance.
Nov/Dec Marietta Hoferer, Fieldwork, Drawings.
2007
Feb 2 – March 17 Re:Generation / Works on Paper by 13 Emerging Women Artists
, Curated by Joan Snyder and Molly Snyder-Fink.
In conjunction with an exhibition at Smack Mellon.
March 30 – May 6 Elaine Smollin, Drawing from Palisades
Drawing installation.
June 1 – July 22 Chance and Necessity: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
Guest curator: Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum.
Sept. 7 – Oct. 6 Paul Santoleri Confluence,
Drawing installation.
Oct. 12 – Nov. 10 Nina Buxenbaum Topsy-Turvy
, Large scale charcoal drawings.
Nov. 16 – Dec. 15 Observing the Edge
Guest Curator: Jennifer McGregor, Visual Arts Curator at Wave Hill.
2008
February 8 – March 23
Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art / Works on Paper
Curated by Deborah Everett and Raquel Chapa
. Partnering with FiveMyles and Long Island University_Brooklyn Campus to present this exhibition.
March 28 – May 4 Gosia Wlodarczak, Shared Space New York, Exhibited works are the outcome of numerous performance drawing situations with social interaction.
April 10 – 20 Red Hook Stories
Photographs by Janet Neuhauser (1982 – 1992)
Reading from the Red Hook Stories by Maureen McNeil
April 26 – May 11 100 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition of works donated by 160 Artists. Benefit Date: May 15.
May 24 – June 1 What’s the Hook? Preview exhibition of Harriet Zucker‘s Community Photo Project
June 6 – July 13 The Persistence of Line: Selections from The Kentler Flatfiles
Guest Curator: Charlotta Kotik
September 5 – October 5 44 Artists from Argentina / works on paper
Curated by Rafael Bueno and Arturo Carrera
October 4 OHNY Family Drawing Workshop and Architectural Tour of Red Hook with teaching architect: Ann deVere
October 10 – November 9 Hedya Klein, Still a Life
Drawings, prints and graphite drawing animation
November 21 – December 21 Ernest Concepcion
The Line Wars Deluxe, Drawing installation.
2009
February 6 – March 22
Hugh Williams, Alabama Wire Drawings
February 7 Hugh Williams, Artist’s Talk
February 6 – March 22
Joel Sokolov, Big Island Drawings
February 7 Joel Sokolov, Artist’s Talk
April 17 – May 10 100 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition of works donated by 157 artists / Benefit: May 14
May 1 Concert – Irena and Vojtech Havolovi, Viola da Gamba/Cello with Michael DeLia and Kevin Nathaniel, mbiras and other homemade instruments
June 6 – July 12 Degrees of Density, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Marilyn Symmes, Director, Zimmerli Art Museum, 29 artists.
October 11 OHNY Event: Drawing Together, Family Drawing Workshop and Architectural Tour of Red Hook with teaching architect: Ann deVere
Sept. 11 – Oct. 25 Re-Inventing Silverpoint, An Ancient Technique for the 21st Century, Curators: Susan Schwalb and Margaret Mathews-Berenson
November 11 The Nerve of Drawing: Three Artists from the Kentler Flatfiles – Panel, Tribeca Performing Arts Center’s Dialogues in the Visual Arts. Moderator: Florence Neal
November 13 – Video/Sound Event Dream Spaces, audiovisual live set, Alessandra Zucchi: video Antonio Della Marina: sound, Michael DeLia: live music
November 22 – Brooklyn smARTGallery Hop
October 30 – December 20 What’s the Big Idea? Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles
December 12 – 20 KIDS Picks, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Curated by BNS 5th Graders in Nancy / Antoinette and Laurie’s class
2010
February 5 – March 28 Mary Ting, Excerpts from the Dysfunctional Forest, Front gallery
February 5 – March 28 Ilene Sunshine, out of line, Back gallery
April 9 – May 10 100 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition of works donated by 154 artists. Benefit Date: May 13
June 12 – July 18 War and Peace: Artists from the Kentler Flatfiles, Curated by Florence Neal, Essayist: Charlotta Kotik.
July 2 – August 15 Degrees of Density: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Marilyn Symmes, The show of 55 drawings travels to the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas and Columbus, GA
October 2 – December 12 Cuba My Revolution, Artists: Inverna Lockpez, Cuba Drawings, Dean Haspiel, Drawing, Graphic Novel
2011
February 4 – March 27 Beverly Ress, Slippages and Openings Front gallery
February 4 – March 27 Arezoo Moseni, Changes Back gallery
April 15 – May 8 100 Works on Paper Benefit
May 21 Nene Humphrey, Circling the Center, Premier Video Performance in collaboration with Roberto C. Lange, Julie DeLano and Christopher Keohane
June 3–July 24 Marked Differences: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Roberta Waddell
September 16 – October 23 Ellen Moffat and Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Marking Space
November 11 – December 11 The Kentler Flatfiles @21, curated by Florence Neal and Sallie Mize
2012
February 3 – March 25 The Influential Females: Drawings Inspired by Women in History, Guest Curator: Randall Harris
April – May 100 Works on Paper Benefit
June 8–July 22 Uncovered: Prints: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Curated by Sallie Mize
September 7 – October 21 To Be Young Gifted and Black in the Age of Obama, Guest Curator: Camille Ann Brewer.
November 9 – December 16 Tamiko Kawata, Beyond Lines, Beyond Surface, Front gallery
November 9 – December 16 Joan Grubin, Paper Optics, Back gallery
2013
February15 – March 31 Selections from the Red Hook Archives, Back gallery
February15 – March 31 Nancy Manter, Water Prayers, Front gallery
April 12 – May 12 100 Works on Paper Benefit
June 13–July 21 Inside Out: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Laura Phipps, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art
September 13 – October 27 Michael Kukla, Hex & Grid
September 13 – October 27 David Ambrose, Surface To Surface
September 29 Poetry Reading by Charles Bernstein, Elaine Equi and Geoffrey Young
November 8 – December 15 Sepideh Salehi and Kamran Taherimoghaddam, Trace: Drawings in Motion
2014
February 8 – March 23 Circumstance: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curators: Holly Shen Chaves, Rachel Nackman
April – May 100 Works on Paper Benefit
June 6 – July 20 Large & Small: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Curated by Florence Neal and Sallie Mize
September 12 – October 26 Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, A Sense of Place, Back gallery
September 12 – October 26 Hedwig Brouckaert, A knot, a tangle a blemish in the eternal smoothness, Front gallery
November 7 – December 14 New York Mokuhanga, Curated by Florence Neal
December 19 Morio Agata, concert by Japanese singer songwriter, U.S. Premier
2015
February 13 – March 29 Chris Gonyea, From Ashes, Front gallery
February 13 – March 29 Jaanika Peerna, Light Matter, Back gallery
April 3 – May 16 100 Works on Paper Benefit
April 9 – May 3 The Kentler Flatfiles: Red Hook Artists, The 90s, Curated by Florence Neal for Peninsula Art Space
June 13 – July 26 Stack/File: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Ana Torok
September 12 – October 25 Margaret Cogswell & Ellen Driscoll, Soundings
November 13 – December 13 Kentler Celebrates 25: Advisory Board Selects, Curated by the Kentler Advisory Board
2016
February 5 – March 27 K. Saito, WORDROACH, Front gallery
February 5 – March 27 Orlando Richards, In Bold Colors, Back gallery
April 29 – May 15 100 Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition
June 12 – July 24 Mapping Spaces: Carte Blanche, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Dita Amory, Acting Associate Curator in Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
September 9 – October 23 Golnar Adili, Language Landscape
November 6 – December 18 Keiko Hara, Topophilia Ma and Ki – Memory
2017
January 15 – February 19 Kellie O’Dempsey & Jennifer Wroblewski, Resistance Movement
January 15 – February 19 Focus on the Flatfiles: Movement in Black & White, Front gallery
March 4 – April 9 Nancy Friedmemann-Sanchez: Cornucopia
March 4 – April 9 Focus on the Flatfiles: In Bloom
April 28 – May 14 100 Works on Paper Benefit
June 17 – July 30 Patterning: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Samantha Friedman
September 8 – October 22 Lucile Bertrand, Travelers and Strangers
September 8 – October 22 Focus on the Flatfiles: A Point of View
November 10 – December 17 Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles: New Additions
November 11, 5-7pm Wendy Walker, The Camperdown Elm, book launch
November 18, 4pm KENTLER CONNECTS #1: Expanding Perception in a Global Culture / Moderator: robin holder / Artists: Tamiko Kawata, Jaanika Peerna
2018
January 12 – February 25 Itty Neuhaus, Sublimation: An Iceberg’s Story
January 12 – February 25 Focus on the Flatfiles: Water Reflections
March 9 – April 29 Jarrod Beck, Temple
March 9 – April 29 Focus on the Flatfiles: Ritual, Curated by Jarrod Beck
May 12 –27 connect + collect: Kentler Flatfiles Fundraiser
May 27 KENTLER CONNECTS #2: Collectors – how to be a voice in culture today, Moderator: robin holder / Panelists: Perian Carson, Wes Cochran
June 8 – July 15 Flat??? Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: William Stover
June 8 – July 15 Focus on the Flatfiles: Flat??? Guest Curator: William Stover
September 7–October 28 Nancy Bowen, For Each Ecstatic Instant
September 7–October 28 Focus on the Flatfiles: Echo Echo, Curated by Nancy Bowen
November 9 – December 16 Diogo Pimentao, Drawn Towards
November 9 – December 16 Focus on the Flatfiles: Inter(action), Curated by Diogo Pimentao
2019
January 4 – February 10 Spotlight on the Flatfiles: Meridith McNeal, A Portrait of My Mother
January 4 – February 10 VIEW FILE Spotlight: Glendalys Medina
January 27, 4pm / Music Performance Time and Truth – 50 years of the music and art of Herbert Brün and Frederic Rzewski, interpreted by percussionist Allen Otte
March 1 – April 21, Alexander Gorlizki, Your Eyes, So Beautiful, Like Washing Machines (But Not As Big)
March 1 – April 21 Focus on the Flatfiles: Links
March 1 – April 21 VIEW FILES: Mokuhanga
May 100 Works on Paper Benefit
May 15, 4pm KENTLER CONNECTS #3: Curiosity (what is that?),
June 7 – April 21 Mildred Beltré, Science of the Word
June 7 – April 21 Focus on the Flatfiles: When the Morning Gathers the Rainbow. Curator: Mildred Beltré
September 13 – October 27 Hannah Israel, Imagined Language
September 13 – October 27 Focus on the Flatfiles: Igniting the Pendulum, Curated by Hannah Israel
November 9 – December 15 Portrait: The Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: David Houston
November 9 – December 15 View Files: The Essential Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: David Houston
December 7, 4pm TALK: A Conversation with David Houston and Florence Neal
2020
January 12– February 9 robin holder, Access & Inequities: I Hear You. Do You See Me?
January 12– February 9 Focus on the Flatfiles: HOME?, Curated by robin holder
Feb. 1, 4pm – KENTLER CONNECTS #4: Where is Home?
February 21 – March 29 Sa’dia Rehman, The Cost of Entry
February 21 – March 29 Focus on the Flatfiles: See the Unseen, Curated by Sa’dia Rehman
June 13 – July 19 Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles: In Reflection
April 11 – 26 100 Works on Paper Virtual Benefit Exhibition
November 7 – December 12 30 / 30 Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles: 30 Years/ 30 Artists
2021
January 22 – March 20 Music as Image and Metaphor, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles at the Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, Georgia
February 5 – March 20 Variations in Black and White
February 5 – March 20 VIEW FILES: Music as Image and Metaphor
March 20 – April 24 Joanne Howard, Skid Marks
March 20 – April 24 Focus on the Flatfiles: alternative solutions
June 12 – July 25 Richard Mock: The Cutting Edge
June 12 – July 25 VIEW FILES: Richard Mock
April 24 – August 22 Music as Image and Metaphor, Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles at the George Ohr Museum, Biloxi, MS
October 2 – 19 100 Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition
November 6 – December 12 Robert Aitchison, State of Emergency: Portraits from the Pandemic
November 6 – December 12 VIEW FILES: Portraits from the Pandemic
November 6 – December 12 Focus on the Flatfiles: Portraits
2022
February 12 – March 27 VIEW FILES: Night Drawings
February 12 – March 27 Focus on the Flatfiles: Escape into Reality
February 12 – March 27 WAKE UP! Fantastical Drawings of Julie Peppito
April 23 – June 5 Focus on the Flatfiles: Personal Matters
April 23 – June 5 It’s All Personal: Joan Snyder & Molly Snyder-Fink
June 17 – July 31 VIEW FILES: Between Worlds
June 17 – July 31 Focus on the Flatfiles: Between Worlds
June 17 – July 31 Between Worlds – Mokuhanga, Curated by the Mokuhanga Sisters
July 22 – August 20 ln the Elements: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles at Columbus State University. GA
October 1 – 14 Kentler Benefit Exhibition
November 10 – December 18 View Files: In the Elements
November 10 – December 18 ln the Elements: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Curated by Sallie Mize
2023
February 11 – March 26 VIEW FILES: Music as Image and Metaphor – The Musicians
February 11 – March 26 Music as Image and Metaphor at Kentler
April 15 – May 28 VIEW FILES: Cloth Books of Wonder and Protest by Maureen McNeil
April 15 – May 28 Focus on the Flatfiles: Views from Red Hook
April 15 – May 28 Maureen McNeil, Light + Material
June 17 – July 30 The Avocet Portfolio 2023
September 21 – October 6 100 Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition
November 4 – December 17 Focus on the Flatfiles: Likeness
November 4 – December 17 Shelby Shadwell, HAECCEITY
December 1 – 17 VIEW FILES: Kentler Flatfiles Holiday Fundraiser
2024
February 10 – March 24 VIEW FILES: Plexus
February 10 – March 24 Disrupting the Grid: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Hannah Israel
April 20 – May 26 Focus on the Flatfiles: Hive Mind
April 20 – May 26 Sascha Mallon, Wolf Tales
June 15 – July 28 We Could Be Heroes, Just for One Day: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Guest Curator: Dara Meyers-Kingsley
September 21 – October 18 100 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition
November 9 – December 15 Joell Baxter, Solo Exhibition
