“A Taste of Paradise” opens Thursday, September 26th from 7-9pm, here at Nhà Mình! A group exhibition featuring the concept art behind the upcoming erotic puppet musical “That Paradise Place,” a celebration of sexual liberation, disability justice, and puppet pleasure!

Organized by Abby Lloyd & Chris Retsina in collaboration with Pussypaws Puppetry and Summertime Gallery, “A Taste of Paradise” will showcase a range of playful and expressive works including drawings and sketches, sculptures, and paper puppets.

“That Paradise Place,” (the play) presented by Pussypaws Puppetry and Summertime Gallery, will open at Abrons Arts Center, NYC, on November 1-2, 2024. This freewheeling, erotic live puppet musical spotlights the love, sex, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities.

Pussypaws Puppetry is an inclusive puppet troupe of visual artists, musicians, and performers with and without disabilities.

Drawing on flyer by Lauren McArthur.

Nhà Mình is pleased to present FARM STAND, an exhibition of works by

Gregg Woolard and Jim Damron.

Please join us Wednesday, June 5th at 7pm for the opening party, where we will be serving beer, wine and a special signature cocktail throughout the night, as well as complimentary flights of small bites from Nhà Mình’s own Fred Hua and Nate Lopez. DJ Slow Pony and friends will be providing accompanying tunes throughout the night.

An afterparty will follow at 9pm in Trans Pecos, with a free live show from New York-based Weak Signal, and special guests TBA.

FARM STAND

It’s mid-to-late summer and you are driving down a dusty, rocky dirt road in the afternoon, the sound of the car on the gravel road mixing in with the music from the radio, hot summer air swirling through the open windows. Up ahead on the left is a simple, roughly thrown together, mismatched bunch of planks with vegetables strewn across the lumber. A tin can with a slot in the top for the cash to go in. On top of the structure is a sign that says Farm Stand.

Tomatoes, not perfect looking but you know they will taste really good. Summer squash, zucchini, corn, perhaps a melon or a few. Every color food here that you need. Farm Stand is a place where trust and honesty meet, free from surveillance. No cameras. A place of surplus bounty. You can linger there, unmoor from the road, delight in the scent of the landscape and take a look around.

Select some vegetables that appeal to you, put some money in the can, and get back on the road, continuing on your journey, thinking about how you will later prepare and savor what you took away from the Farm Stand.

- Gregg Woolard

Nhà Mình is pleased to present AURAL VISION 8, an exhibition curated by Laura Craft and Jake Klotz.

AURAL VISION is an ongoing series exploring the dialogue between aural and visual disciplines through eclectic pairings of artists and performers. Now in its 8th installment, this iteration will feature an exhibition of works from Aliya Naumoff, Brian Chippendale, Erin Weckerle, Ted McGrath, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.

Please join us at Nhà Mình this Thursday, March 7th for the opening party, where we will be serving beer, wine and a special signature cocktail throughout the night, as well as complimentary flights of small bites from chef Nico Tower. DJ Mandy Weiss will be providing accompanying tunes.

An afterparty will follow at 9pm in Trans Pecos, with a free live show including performances from Brian Chippendale as Black Pus, and a time-based installation by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.

Clayton Skidmore

Nha Mình is pleased to present Breadcrumbs, an exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Clayton Skidmore.

Pleased join us Monday, October 30th at 7pm for an opening party in Nha Mình’s front space. We will be serving beer, wine and a special signature cocktail throughout the night, as well as complimentary flights of small bites from chef Fred Hua. DJ Mandy Weiss will be providing tunes.

An afterparty will follow at 9pm in Trans Pecos, with a free live show curated by Clayton and including performances from:

J. Albert and Will

August Park

Seetimo Cielo

Robbie Acuff

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Clayton Skidmore’s brightly colored landscapes are riddled with malice. Rendered in watercolor, acrylic and dye, the velvety surfaces evoke vignettes of classic Little Golden Book illustrations of the 1940’s - 60’s. Whimsical veneers are pried back to reveal and deconstruct the perversity of “innocent” story book fantasies of Mid-Century America. The resulting landscapes depict a dark side of the natural world.

In Breadcrumbs, Skidmore brings together his recent series of tie-dyed canvases and previously unexhibited watercolors on paper. Both bodies of work are scattered with his familiar vernacular of woodland creatures in tripped-out landscapes.

In a nod to classic t-shirt craft, the tie-dyed canvases provide a visually compelling ground for overlayed landscapes, aesthetically swaying between old foxed paper and psychedelic portals. The accompanying watercolors mark a starting point for uncanny anthropomorphized trees and transgressive interactions between characters and their surroundings.

Clayton Skidmore (1986) was born in Dallas, TX, and lives and works Ridgewood, Queens. He received a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute (2009) and an MFA from Cornell University (2017). Clayton works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture and video. Skidmore’s work has been shown at Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles; BasketShop Gallery, Cincinnati; Armenian Art Fair, Yerevan; Artsy, New York; Life Lessons Garage Project, New York; Lovaas Projects, Munich; Homeland Security, Dallas; and Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, MO.

Nhà Mình is pleased to present:

Double Parked

Curated by Amy Barkow

Please join us on Friday September 8th from 7pm - 9pm for our next art opening, Double Parked. Organized by Brooklyn based artist Amy Barkow. Double Parked celebrates community, everyday rituals, and creative use of public space because Nhà Mình truly feels like a community.

Artworks include photographs, paintings, drawings and sculpture.

We’ll be serving complimentary fights of snacks as well as a signature cocktail designed specifcally for the event. Beer and wine will also be available. Dj Virgil on the spins.

Participating artists include:

Sarah Bedford

Jimbo Blachly

Dawn Blackman

Marcus Civin

Orianne Cosentino

Robin Grant

Katherine Keltner

Melissa Martin

Pierre Obando

Maya Puchkof-Van Gelder

Greg Simsic

Lynn Sullivan

Rachel Urkowitz

Danielle Webb

Sher Wouters

The group cat show

Please join us on Tuesday, April 4th from 7pm - midnight for the opening of this fun group show, featuring cat-related art from Jennifer Sullivan, Rachel Jackson, Ky Anderson, Brian Degraw, Maya Hayuk, Morgan Blair, Bill Donovan, Jake Klotz, Andy Ryan, Josh Bayer, Justin Pollmann, MICHMASH w/ Katya Popova, Shura Skaya, Jef Scharf aka Wolfy pt. II, Clare Hilger, SKEWVILLE, Steph Terao, Ted McGrath, and Margot Bird.

We will be serving complimentary cocktails and hors d'oeuvres throughout the opening, to be followed by an afterparty at Trans Pecos with music from Christine Files as w0rmh0les and a headlining set by Hisham Baroocha as Soft Circle. DJ sets from Kewlharo, Ted Mcgrath and unannounced special guests follow. It’s gonna be a get-down banger! Think Friday on a Tuesday!

Native Neighbors / Cycles and Phases

We are super excited to host our next exhibition, Native Neighbors / Cycles and Phases by Queens artist Valentina Gallup Salerni.

Please join us Thursday, December 15th at 7pm for complimentary cocktails and fights of specialty Nhà Mình fare.

Valentina will be exhibiting original framed watercolors and limited edition prints depicting native and indigenous plants and flora from Queens and the Far Rockaway area.

http://www.valentinagallup.com

@valentunasalami

Valentina Gallup Salerni is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in painting and illustration.

Inspired by the preservation of generational wisdom and finding beauty in the mundane, she works within sculpture, painting, and community engagement to tell stories and share her collections.

Her enthusiasm for creating educational and visual work can be seen in her illustrations for books such as Horseshoe Crab's Crown, as well as collaborations with environmental organizations including Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy, NYC H20 and Gateway National Recreation Area.

She has over 10 years also working as set designer producing multimedia interactive environments, engaging viewers with both small and large scale projects for national and international clients.

Cycles and Phases is part of an ongoing collection of watercolors specifically exploring local native species and their ancestral/dynamic role within their habitats.

A New York City native herself, Valentina currently lives in Rockaway Beach, Queens, where she is continuously inspired watching her two young children engage with the natural world.

Nhà Mình and Laura Craft are pleased to present the 7th installment of Aural Vision, an ongoing series showcasing eclectic pairings of artists working in both visual art and music. Opening Wednesday, August 17th from 7pm-11pm here at Nhà Mình, Aural Vision 7 will include an exhibition of work by Kyp Malone, Josh Wildman, Dr. Evilletown, and Frank Haines, and culminate in live music from Kyp Malone and Garret Devoe, as well as vinyl jams by Ted McGrath. Complimentary appetizers and alcohol will be provided throughout the night.

Aural Vision 7
Wednesday, August 17th
7pm-11pm
Nhà Mình
915 Wycoff Ave, Ridgewood, NY

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All Art works available for sale.

Please contact Nhaminhllc@gmail.com care of Jake Klotz.