Reception for the artists on Thursday, May 30th from 6 to 9 pm: Starting from the standpoint that art should belong, and be accessible to everyone, OPA’s practices are context based, non-collectible and either ephemeral or distributed in multiple copies. In its earlier phase (2001-2010) OPA’s focus was the art system, the art institutions and art as an institution. Thus, OPA’s works were often fused with its members’ personal lives and their body of work consists of created situations, durational performances, mockumentaries, etc.

On View thru June 10th. Artists featured: Biba Kayevic, Natasha Das, Robert Dandarov, Gorazd Poposki, Mensur Bojda, Steven Crawford, 

Friday, May 17th from 6 to 9 pm: Group Exhibition featuring Erica Harris, Pam Toll, Sergej Andreevski, Gayle Tustin, Reshat Ameti, Kate Sinclear, Robert Dandarov, Voskresija Andreevska, Marija Pavlovska and Emil Shulajkovski

Reception for the Artist on Thursday, May 2nd from 6 to 9 pm: Addressing haptic sensations, McCleary’s practice is anchored by the embodiment of touch. Gallery MC, on the 8th floor of 549 West 52nd Street, will receive part of a growing collection of works in McCleary’s repertoire. The pieces, rendered on aluminum, focus on the pleasure of flesh, and the way that pleasure translates into our desire for our communication devices. With a keen eye for the mediation of corporeality, the depiction of real and abstraction, at turns, renders the body into an abject and sensuous landscape. McCleary filters this carnal depiction through a myriad of screens—queering the metaphorical body, and classifying an already detailed process through a progressive lens. Gallery MC will be transformed into a space in which desire, abjection and the digital are all at play.

Artists featured: Don Porcaro, Martin Mullin, Gary Dipasquale, Gorazd Poposki, Natasha Das, Mensur Bojda and Steven Crawford.