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2026 / The Flatbed Picture Plan
Underdonk is pleased to present The Flatbed Picture Plane, a four-person show with Bill Abdale, Dana Robinson, Zorawar Sidhu, and Dina Weiss, curated by Jude Broughan.
Exhibition dates: November 6 - 29, 2026
Opening: Friday, November 6, 6- 8 p.m., and Artist discussion: Saturday, November 21, 2- 4 p.m
The exhibition takes its name from art historian Leo Steinberg's classic 1968 MoMA lecture "The Flatbed Picture Plane," where he described the Renaissance window on the world - a picture plane built for the upright human body, read top to bottom like a landscape encountered by a standing viewer, and then the 1950s Rauschenbergian shift, seeded by Braque and Picasso's 1912 collages: art-making turned from a vertical, nature-oriented surface into a horizontal one, an information-strewn tabletop lifted onto the wall, borrowed in name from the flatbed of the printing press. Today, a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, we humans are less often looking straight ahead or straight down. We are on the diagonal. Phone in hand, laptop tilted toward us on a train, a screen propped at an angle on a desk. A comfortable viewing angle, a digital, diagonal picture plane.
Our screens run on the logic of the multiple, mashups and samples pulled from an algorithm that functions like a printing matrix, generating near-identical impressions the way a printing plate does, only now that matrix is a digital file of pixel values. The physical artworks in this exhibition interface variously with the "matrix and the multiple”, symbolically speaking about what algorithms produce - dynamics that are often invisible online, and left unconsidered in the mind of the scroller.
This exhibition, installed in a Lower East Side artist-run gallery space feels a bit like a clubhouse, with Zorawar Sidhu's huge dog-eared iconic images, seemingly ripped from book pages tacked to the wall, and Dana Robinson's scraps of pop culture collaged in unifying gestures like Two Fingers to the Sky; Or it feels like a fugitive hideout with Bill Abdale's fire escape in Night Shift, and Dina Weiss's After Gaudí chiffon curtains drawn across the windows with the brick wall of the adjacent building visible (maybe drawn against the problematic gaze/s, like in the classic 1954 Hitchcock movie Rear Window); Or maybe it's like a hospital room with a gallery check-in desk, Weiss's yarn-mummified medical drips, and Abdale's sideways airport walkway of purgatory. Whether it reads more or less as any of these environments, this is a space where art exists without settling the question of who it is for, whether it works against the rules, against the algorithms, or whether that resistance holds. — Jude Broughan
2026 / In the End, Everything Gives: Women Sculptors Group Exhibition at Silver Art
On view from January 23 – April 3, 2026
Curated by: Sarah Walko. At Silver Art Projects, Four World Trade Center, 28th Floor, 150 Greenwich Street, NYC
The exhibition takes its title from a line by poet Ada Limón, which names both material and emotional states of yielding: “Everything gives way—the shorelines, the house decaying and becoming shrub and moss and haunt, the body that gives and gives until it cannot give anymore.”
Participating Artists: Armita Raafat, Chang Sujung, Claire Lachow, Corinne Beardsley, Dena Paige Fischer, Dina Weiss, Gabriela Vainsencher, Gabrielle Shelton, Heidi Norton, Jemila MacEwan, Kate Bae, Kate Clark, Kate Rusek, Kate Stone, Katherine Vetne, Kirsten Ator, Laetitia Soulier, Linda Ganjian, Liliya Lifanova, Marianna Peragallo, Marilla Cubberley, Natale Adgnot, Natalie Moore, Niki Lederer, Rachel Frank, Rose Malenfant, Sandra Eula Lee, Sarah Bednarek, Sarah Trigg, Sonya Blesofsky, Sun You.
2024 / “On Drawing” at Orwell’s Garden
On view from November 9 - 24, 2024, at 535 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
The exhibition was inspired by a 1974 slide lecture by Philip Guston titled "On Drawing," which explored the intimacy and significance of the artist's drawing practice. The show featured drawings by a diverse group of artists, including painters, sculptors, and textile artists, to highlight the essential role drawing plays in their creative processes.
Participating Artists: Sonya Blesofsky, Katherine Bradford, Leslie Brack, Geoff Chadsey, Mike Cloud, Jennifer Coates, Holly Coulis, Jaclyn Conley, Vince Contarino, Amy Cutler, Lisa Corinne Davis, James Esber, Joanne Greenbaum, Glenn Goldberg, Josephine Halvorson, EJ Hauser, Ridley Howard, David Humphrey, Vera Iliatova, Jena Kim, Raul de Lara, RJ Messineo, Tracy Miller, Nyeema Morgan, Sangram Majumdar, Sheila Pepe, Kyle Staver, Mary Temple, Richard Tinkler, Dina Weiss
Press: Orwell’s Garden featured in Hyperallergic, December 2024
2024 / Textures of Feminist Perseverance
Presented in two venues at the James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center and Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
On View at the James Gallery: February 15 - June 7, 2024
On View at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space: March 1 - April 27, 2024
Presented in two venues, Textures of Feminist Perseverance asks how women's daily experiences and contributions are recorded in physical, virtual, and social public spheres. Centering the work of 17 female-identifying artists, this project supports artists who are imagining ways for women to take up the space they are already producing. What might a city honoring women's lived experiences look like? How can the city be a living archive of women's accomplishments in a visual vocabulary that may not already be recognized in the dominant discourse? This work is often achieved through a preoccupation with hands-on and labor-intensive making practices that foreground physical and embodied attentiveness to materials, social gathering, and awareness of time.
Textures of Feminist Perseverance is conceived and curated by artist Dina Weiss and curator Katherine Carl, Ph.D. (James Gallery Institute for Art, Inquiry & Collaborative Practice, CUNY Graduate Center) and presented in partnership with Jodi Waynberg, Executive Director of Artists Alliance Inc and Director of Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space.
Press: The exhibition is featured in Hyperallergic Spring 2024 Art Guide and Art Spiel June 2024 Pick
2021-2023 / James Gallery Curator and Artist in Residence on upcoming project and exhibition.
How many waves will it take? Women continue to persevere around the world in situations of extreme and growing inequality. Infrastructures of society keep women’s contributions and labor invisible. In particular, although cities are designed for physical inhabitation and mark the historical contributions of its people, the public sphere has not been made with women’s safety and contributions in mind. Furthermore, virtual public spaces are also assaulting young women’s health and safety.
This series supports artists to make projects that imagine ways for women to visibly take up the space they are already producing. What might a city honoring women’s lived experiences look like? How can the city be a visual and spatial record, a living archive of women’s accomplishments in a vocabulary that has not been recognized in the dominant discourse? The project will support investigations of how women have grappled with problems through everyday practices of mutuality, unheroic gestures, and intergenerational mentoring.
These projects will take myriad forms ranging from public window projects, posters, public gatherings, samizdat/zines, talking circles, mentoring exchanges, inspiration swap meets, crafting, conversations/interviews with public figures, speculative designs, new street names, historical research, making archives public, oral histories/ethnographies, and social media interventions.
This multi-year project is an artistic-curatorial partnership of Dina Weiss (James Gallery artist in residence); Katherine Carl, James Gallery; and Jodi Wayneberg, AAI/Cuchifritos.
— Katherine Carl, Deputy Director of The Center for Humanities and James Gallery Curator at The Graduate Center, CUNY
2022 / Equity Gallery, Personal Geographies group exhibition, curated by Matt Rota and Alayio Bradshaw, Personal Geographies showcases artists working in the intractable media of watercolor to explore memories through objects, landscapes, and atmospheres that carry the weight and implication of personal history. On view from October 6 - 30, 2022.
November 2013 / BLDG Scarf featured at a pop up shop at GlasMagasinet through January 15, 2014 in Oslo, Norway
May 2013 / Ground Floor, a participatory art project in collaboration with Artists Alliance Inc that explored the potential uses for the ground floor of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) as untapped capital in the Lower East Side. Took place during the New Museum's IDEAS CITY Festival on May 4, 2013, Ground Floor will provide visitors with a forum for brainstorming, discussion, mapping, and an art project recreating the naturally growing morning glory flowers that cover the fencing surrounding the renewal site.
September 2012 through February 2013 / works featured at Product Porch by The Vitrine at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and the San Diego Art Fair.
April 2011 / works at Pop Under by The Vitrine held at Fitzroy Gallery in New York City.
February 2011 / Ascenseur project commissioned by The James Gallery at The Graduate Center CUNY. A textile based collaboration with fashion designer, Laaleh Mizani.