BravinLee programs
| Founded | 1991 (SoHo); 2006 (as BravinLee programs, Chelsea) |
|---|---|
| Founders | Karin Bravin, John Post Lee |
| Type | Art dealer, curatorial and public art organization |
| Location | New York City |
| Website | bravinlee |
BravinLee programs is a New York art dealing and curatorial partnership of Karin Bravin and John Post Lee. It organizes off-site exhibitions and public art projects, produces limited-edition hand-knotted rugs designed by artists, publishes sculptural editions, and runs an artists' book program.[1]
History
[edit]Bravin and Lee opened a gallery in SoHo in 1991. In 2006 they opened BravinLee programs in Chelsea to exhibit artists and to collaborate with colleagues and institutions on a project-by-project basis.[1] That year the organization produced Studio in the Park, a public art project that placed eleven site-specific artworks in Riverside Park.[2]
BravinLee operated its Chelsea exhibition space until the end of 2024 and has since worked through off-site exhibitions and public art installations.[3]
Artist rug program
[edit]BravinLee Editions produces limited-edition hand-knotted rugs designed by artists, made in Nepal.[4] Artists who have designed rugs for the program include Louise Bourgeois, Willie Cole, Rashid Johnson, Jonathan Lasker, Wangechi Mutu, Thomas Nozkowski, James Welling, Jonas Wood and Christopher Wool. Cole's edition Original Sin debuted in 2024.[4]
Exhibitions
[edit]The Golden Thread
[edit]In April 2024 BravinLee opened The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition at 207 Front Street in the South Street Seaport, a warehouse built in 1797 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The show occupied all four floors of the building, which had not previously been open to the public, and included more than 100 works by 61 artists, among them ten site-specific installations.[5][6]
A second edition, The Golden Thread II, ran at the same building from April 10 to May 16, 2025, with work by about 60 artists not shown in the first edition and ten new site-specific installations.[7]
Stay Frosty
[edit]Stay Frosty is an open-air exhibition in which artists, galleries and curators present work in and around vehicles in parking spaces, with free admission for visitors and no fees for participants.[8] The first edition took place October 24–26, 2025, in a parking lot at 16–20 Convent Avenue in Harlem, lent to the organizers without charge, and included a car built from recycled water bottles by Willie Cole and an inflatable boulder by Guy Richards Smit.[8][9]
The second edition, Stay Frosty Kingston, was held June 25–28, 2026, at 80 Smith Street in Kingston, New York, in collaboration with the nonprofit ArtPort Kingston and as part of Upstate Art Weekend. It occupied ArtPort's parking lots with more than 50 presentations, including sculpture, installation, performance and workshops.[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition". The Seaport. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ Vogel, Carol (May 5, 2006). "Inside Art". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018.
- ↑ "After Hours Tour: Fiber Arts Exhibit "Golden Thread 2"". Untapped Cities. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 "The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition". Willie Cole. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ "It has all the capacity to move somebody: fibre art celebrated in pop-up New York show". The Art Newspaper. May 2, 2024.
- ↑ "The Golden Thread – BravinLee Offsite at The Seaport". Art Spiel. 2024.
- ↑ ""Golden Thread" Fiber Art Show Returns to the Seaport This Month". Downtown Alliance. April 1, 2025.
- 1 2 "Cool Art Cars: Staying Frosty in Harlem". This Week in New York. October 22, 2025.
- ↑ "Warhol and Basquiat Are Back in the East Village—and More Juicy Art World Gossip". Artnet. 2025.
- ↑ "Stay Frosty Kingston". BravinLee programs. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
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BravinLee programs is an art dealing and curatorial partnership of Karin Bravin and John Post Lee. They also produce artist-designed hand-knotted rugs, made in Nepal.
In April 2025, BravinLee opened "The Golden Thread 2" in an historic building located at 207 Front Street in New York's South Street Seaport. The exhibition includes over 60 fiber artists including: Liv Aanrud, Alissa Alfonso, Abdolreza Aminlari, Paolo Arao, Natalie Baxter, Felix Beaudry, Sammy Bennett, Montrel Beverly, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Jess Blaustein, Chris Bogia, Eileen Braun, Jennifer Cecere, Ruby Chishti, Willie Cole, Poppy Deltadawn, Rima Day, Sam Dienst, Lesley Dill, Ali Dipp, Lucia Engstrom, Mark Fleuridor, Terri Friedman, Manuela Gonzalez, Françoise Grossen, Tali Halpern, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Valerie Hegarty, Ana María Hernando, Candace Hicks, Rashid Johnson, Traci Johnson, Deborah Kass, Anna Kunz, Lauren Luloff, Karen Margolis, Ruben Marroquin, Caitlin McCormack, Lior Modan, Tomo Mori, Ellie Murphy, Thomas Nozkowski, Tura OliveiraMia Pearlman, Sheila Pepe, Julie Peppito, Debra Rapoport, Walter Robinson, Josie Love Roebuck, Baylee Schmitt, Sylvia Schwartz, Michelle Segre, Manju Shandler, Fran Siegel, Emily Silver, Jacqueline Surdell, Rhian Swierat, Suzanne Tick, Trish Tillman, Tiny Pricks Project (Diana Weymar), Maris Van Vlack, Cyle Warner, Rachel Mica Weiss, Ulla-Stina Wikander, Christopher Wool, and Halley Zien.
In 2006, the gallery organized a public art project called "Studio in the Park" that brought 11 site-specific artworks artworks to Riverside Park in upper Manhattan.[1]
One of the gallery's programs involves working with artists who design limited edition hand-knotted rugs. Rugs have been designed by Rashid Johnson, Wangechi Mutu, Louise Bourgeois, Jonas Wood, Christopher Wool, Thomas Nozkowski, Jonathan Lasker and James Welling, Willie Cole and others.
BravinLee programs opened in 1991 to represent artists and collaborate with colleagues and institutions on a project-by-project basis.
References
[edit]- ↑ Vogel, Carol. "Inside Art" Archived July 28, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. New York Times. May 5, 2006.