Downtown Manhattan’s art scene moves into mid-January with a packed slate of weekday openings, stretching from Tribeca through the Lower East Side and into Chinatown and Two Bridges. Galleries across these neighborhoods are unveiling new exhibitions this week, from focused solo presentations to lively group shows and experimental projects. The darker winter evenings offer a natural rhythm for moving between openings, slipping into both long-established spaces and newer rooms, and catching up with artists, curators, and fellow viewers. It’s an exciting moment to see how the season is shaping the city’s creative conversations, one gallery stop at a time.
Lower East Side | Weds
Post Times, 29 Henry Street, ‘Intermodal 53’ by Elberto ‘Sluto’Muller
Maxwell Graham, 55 Hester St, Jef Geys book presentation from 7pm
Management, 39 E Broadway, 404, ‘Außerkörperliche Erfahrung’ by Jura Shust
Long Story Short, 52 Henry St, closing reception for Kids Toys, Adult Issues by Shampoooty
Hair+Nails, 39 Henry St, EXCERPT, 6pm-9pm wtih Andy Graydon, Christina Ballantyne, Dahn Gim, Emma Beatrez, Erin Smith, Ish Lipman, Julia García, Lindsay Rhyner, and Rachel Collier
Entrance, 48 Ludlow Street, ‘The Stranger’ and ‘A Great Man’ by Seth Cameron
West Village | Weds
Anita Rogers Gallery, 494 Greenwich Street, Winter Group Exhibition with Paul Campbell, Jan Cunningham, Wm. Dilworth, Itamar Yehiel
Wednesday Art Crawl Map:
Tribeca | Thurs
Uprise Art, 264 Canal St, #4W, ‘In Other Words’ by Arlina Cai & Gail Tarantino, ‘Take Care’ by Andrew Alba, Brittany Ferns & Kate Roebuck
Timothy Taylor, 74 Leonard St, ‘To continue painting’ by James Bishop, curated by Molly Warnock
Ortuzar Projects, 5 White St, ‘Housekeeping’ by Kurt Kauper
Locker Room, 253 Church St, ‘Covet thy Neighbour’ by Marguerite Wibaux
Hal Bromm, 90 West Broadway, ‘On Paper’ by Luis Frangella
Duane Thomas Gallery, 137 W Broadway, ‘Lieder’ by Benedikt Gahl
Astor Weeks, 209 Canal St, 3rd Floor, work by Kyle Clairmont Jacques
Lower East Side | Thurs
Van der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St, Al Diaz: Like a Bomb & “Jason McLean: Boomerang Smile” film features from 6pm
Maxwell Graham, 55 Hester St, Daily Forecasts by Sadie Benning
Amanita, 313 Bowery, Swallow the Moon group show curated by Reilly Davidson
Company, 145 Elizabeth St, ‘soul breaker’ with Ivana Bašić, Christopher Bucklow, Giulia Cenci, Hayden Dunham, Samuel Guerrero, Maria Fragoso Jara, Julie Maurin, Sergio Miguel, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Giancarlo Montes Santangelo, Chiffon Thomas
Magenta Plains, 149 Canal St, ‘Viewing Room IV’ by Bill Saylor, ‘Off-Peak’ by Alex Kwartler, ‘Antechamber’ by Becky Kolsrud
King’s Leap, 105 Henry Street (Store 5), ‘Washed by the wind’ by Rina Yoshizawa
Thursday Art Crawl Map:
Closing out the week, one of the standout exhibitions anchoring downtown’s gallery circuit is soul breaker at Company, a timely highlight for anyone navigating art openings in Tribeca, the Lower East Side, Chinatown, and Two Bridges. Curated by Ken Castaneda, the group show brings together works by Ivana Bašić, Christopher Bucklow, Giulia Cenci, Hayden Dunham, Samuel Guerrero, Maria Fragoso Jara, Julie Maurin, Sergio Miguel, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Giancarlo Montes Santangelo, and Chiffon Thomas, exploring how the soul is materialized, fractured, and reformed through painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Moving room by room, the exhibition traces time, rupture, and transformation, positioning the body as both vessel and witness to lived experience. For viewers planning their weekday gallery route through downtown Manhattan, soul breaker offers a resonant, immersive stop that ties together many of the deeper questions circulating across New York City’s art scene this January.
Featured work above by Giancarlo Montes Santangelo at Company
