Since its inception in 1969, FIRST STREET GALLERY has held juried exhibitions for nonmember artists. These shows provide emerging and mid-career artists, as well as artists with established backgrounds outside of major art centers, with exposure to the New York City art community, its curators and collectors, other artists, critics, and the gallery-going public. The artists’ work is shown in the gallery, shared on social media, and publicized in communications to the gallery’s extensive contacts nationwide.
SELECTS 2025
First Street Gallery is pleased to announce its “SELECTS 2025” juried exhibition call for artists. This is an opportunity for artists to exhibit a small body of work that explores a current or long-standing artistic interest.The show opens on January 9, 2025 and runs through January 24, in our Chelsea Gallery located at 547 West 27th Street, Suite 514 in New York City. “SELECTS 2025” will highlight a select group of artists, who will each have an exhibition area of approximately 10’H x 10’W of wall space (not necessarily contiguous). Artists with free-standing 3D work will be given the equivalent amount of floor space.
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National Juried Exhibition
Initiated decades ago, the annual National Juried Exhibition is open to nonmember U.S. resident artists, working in a diverse range of two- and three-dimensional media. Recent past jurors include nationally prominent art writers (John Yau, Jed Perl, Lance Esplund); artists (Susanna Coffey (2023), Clintel Steed, Paul Resika, Ronnie Landfield); art historians (Dore Ashton, Donald Kuspit); curators and gallerists specializing in contemporary works (Steven Harvey, Lori Bookstein, Peter Colon of DC Moore, Nancy Margolis, Andrew Arnot, Thomas Erben).
Our juror for the 2024 National Juried Exhibition is artist April Gornik. She shows in New York City, where she had been a resident since 1978, and now lives in North Haven, Long Island, NY. She received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1976. She has work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Museum, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Orlando Museum of Art, and other major public and private collections. She has shown extensively, in one-person and group shows, in the U.S. and abroad. Some noteworthy one-person exhibitions at: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in conjunction with the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, PA.,1998; Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY,1994; the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 1993; and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY,1988. Her work was represented in the 1989 Whitney Biennial in NY, the 10+10 Show of American and Soviet Painters originating at the Fort Worth Museum in 1989, The Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Art and Design, 1988, and “Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained” at the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 1984. She is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City. She has had one-person shows in New York regularly since 1981, her most recent in September 2023.
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