This installation of a single-channel video and two photographs from the “Private” series of images of off-limits areas of commercial art galleries took place at The Future Perfect LA from February 28 to April 1, 2024.

Running from February 15 to May 12, 2024, A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine at the Colby College Museum of Art presents selection from the Esopus archive, acquired by Colby College Libraries in 2019. Items exhibited include original artworks, mockups, correspondence, press sheets, process-related materials, and all 25 issues of the magazine made available for perusal.

Nat Meade: Drawings in an exhibition I curated at One Mile Gallery in Kingston, New York, in September 2022, which featured 24 never-before-exhibited drawings by the Brooklyn-based artist Nat Meade. Like Meade’s acclaimed paintings — most recently seen in his spring 2022 one-person exhibition at Hesse Flatow Gallery in New York — the focus of these drawings is on fatherhood and other masculine tropes, which Meade subjects to a near-forensic analysis.

For more than three decades, retired attorney Randy S. Jones has been diligently at work in the confines of his house in Decatur, Georgia, on hundreds of boldly rendered abstract paintings that virtually no one has ever seen. Jones happens to live across the street from David Naugle, who, when he was living in Upstate New York more than a decade ago, introduced us to the stunning photographs of his neighbor Mark Hogancamp, which we published in Esopus 5. Naugle interviewed Jones—and photographed many of his artworks—for a piece in Esopus 25. This exhibition of Jones's work—featuring a series of his abstract paintings and collages, many included in this issue, was the first-ever public exhibition of this undiscovered artist’s work.

For his "Drawing Set" artist's project in Esopus 24, Marco Maggi created a removable sheet of tiny custom decals alongside a sheet of blank paper and invited Esopus readers to fashion artworks from these two elements. Esopus received nearly 80 submissions from readers including Marilyn Minter, Kerry James Marshall, Thomas Nozkowski and Michael Arad, and dozens of other subscribers, contributors, and colleagues. These artworks perfectly embody the Esopus Foundation's mission of breaking down barriers between creative disciplines—not to mention erasing those between artists and the general public.

“Ed Rosenbaum: Golden Years” features 20 never-before-seen images of musical icons David Bowie, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Pretenders, Blondie, Peter Gabriel, and many others taken by Ed Rosenbaum at rock-and-roll concerts in the New York area in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The show directly related to Golden Years: Photographs by Ed Rosenbaum, Esopus’s fall 2016 limited-edition artwork for Premium subscribers.

An exhibition and event series related to a years-long correspondence between the legendary late artist Ray Johnson and Robert Warner, a subject explored in depth in Esopus 16. The exhibition included a series of two-hour performances at Esopus Space in which Warner archived the contents of 13 boxes given to him by Johnson in the early ’90s, and also featured a number of never-before-seen works by Johnson from Warner’s collection, a sampling of the two artists' correspondence, and a screening of videos by Nick Maravell on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, from 7 to 9 p.m. Read Holland Cotter’s New York Times review here.

In conjunction with its release of Women of Marwencol: Recent Photographs, a limited edition by Esopus 5 contributor Mark Hogancamp, I co-curated "Women of Marwencol," an exhibition of Hogancamp’s recent works. The show featured large-scale prints related to the images reproduced in the Esopus edition along with other photographs—curated by Janet Hicks, director of One Mile Gallery in Kingston, NY—ranging from early works documenting the fascinating origins of the town to brand-new photographs by Hogancamp featuring life-size mannequins. Pioneer Works also presented a screening of the 2010 documentary Marwencol (directed by Jeff Malmberg) on November 15th, followed by a reception with the artist.

This exhibition, jointly organized with Matthew Higgs, was the first New York solo show in more than 30 years by the Los Angeles-based artist Don Bachardy. It included 30 recent drawings of male nudes, selected from the many hundreds Bachardy has worked on in recent years. Drawn from life, Bachardy’s drawings—when seen together—function almost as a “journal”: an often melancholic visual account of Bachardy’s sustained daily interactions and engagements with his sitters.

Esopus 5 contributor Mark Hogancamp’s one-person show at NYC’s White Columns as part of White Columns’s Other People’s Projects. Curated by Esopus editor Tod Lippy, it featured 45 recent photographs by Hogancamp as well as a sculptural installation. Read critic Jerry Saltz’s Village Voice review here.