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Sam Branden SLALOM

Sam Branden
SLALOM

Through October 8 @ 79 Walker Street

NYC MOCA is pleased to present SLALOM, a new work by Brooklyn-based artist Sam Branden. Constructed from hand-sewn mesh spandex, cotton canvas, construction mesh, painted armature, and a pair of Salomon Speedcross 3 sneakers, the work brings together the visual languages of sportswear, the city, and abstraction. At its center, the sneakers appear almost diagrammatic, their mirrored forms embedded within a field of stretched and layered materials. Bands of color, exposed mesh, and intersecting seams move across the surface like streets, subway lines, or topographical markings, while the tension of the spandex introduces a sense of movement and expansion.

The title SLALOM evokes a course defined by rapid shifts in direction, a fitting reference for a work concerned with movement, navigation, and collision. Branden’s practice begins with fleeting visual encounters—unexpected color combinations, fragments of clothing, signage, and other urban detritus—which are absorbed and reconfigured through a methodically physical process of cutting, stretching, painting, and sewing. His use of athletic materials and aesthetics also draws from his upbringing in Northeast Ohio, where his mother coached youth soccer while operating an upholstery studio from the family basement. In SLALOM, these histories converge with the sensory density of contemporary New York: synthetic and organic forms, utility and ornament, rigidity and elasticity converge with visible seams.

Sam Branden (b. 1991, Cleveland, OH) received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2014. Solo exhibitions include Stowaway Gallery, Los Angeles; Beverly’s, New York, NY; and the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Group shows include darkZone, New Jersey; PRP Agency, Dallas, TX; Pangeé, Montréal, QC; and Bible Gallery, New York, NY; among others. Branden was recently included in “Who’s Who?” New York City edition (sponsored by Puma and Newco Studio, 2023), a hard-backed publication highlighting 75 notable downtown creatives. Branden lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Table for a Rose by Pauline-Rose Dumas

Table for a Rose

Pauline-Rose Dumas

79 Walker Street // August 2026

NYC MOCA is pleased to present Table for a Rose, a work by Paris-based artist Pauline-Rose Dumas. Created as the final sculpture in advance of her solo exhibition A Rose is a Rose at Hesse Flatow, Table for a Rose functions as both a summation and a preview. The work takes its title from the artist’s studio table, where fragments, dye tests, and material samples for the upcoming exhibition had accumulated alongside remnants from earlier works, including those from her solo presentation at Anne-Laure Buffard Gallery in Paris. In gathering these scraps into a single installation, Dumas transforms the studio table into both an object and a site of potential narrative.

The title also recalls the artist’s own name, Pauline-Rose, while echoing Gertrude Stein’s use of repetition in “Sacred Emily”, where language accrues meaning through return, variation, and insistence. Here, repeated forms, suspended lines, and gridded color tests—resembling both textile swatches and Post-it notes—suggest a living work that oscillates between process and completion. Like much of Dumas’s practice, Table for a Rose brings together forging, drawing, photography, and textile processes through a shared language of line, while its conceptual and material engagement with sewing echoes Tribeca’s history of textile manufacturing. Ultimately, Table for a Rose offers a portrait of the studio as an organic and evolving space, where fragments of works continue to accumulate and reassemble, living on in one another like DNA.

Nights by Paul Ferney

Nights

Paul Ferney

79 Walker Street // June 2026

Nights by Paul Ferney (b. Utah, 1976) continues the artist’s long exploration of how light and time shape human experience. In the work, swimming and the swimming pool become metaphors for the shifting nature of memory, atmosphere, and perception. Under full sunlight, every movement is revealed with clarity and permanence—time appears to slow, as though a scene is being fully recorded. At night, however, the same environment becomes softened and ambiguous. Time stretches, identity becomes fluid, and the pool transforms into a kind of portal.

This painting continues Ferney’s ongoing exploration of time and memory through the visual language of swimming pools, water, and light. The works attempt to preserve fleeting moments of joy, connection, and escape—those suspended experiences when the glow of the pool becomes transporting and life momentarily feels complete.

Ferney is a New York-based visual artist whose work has examined memory and place for more than 25 years. His paintings employ distortion and simplification through rich color, gestural brushwork, and layered texture, reflecting both the instability of memory and the changing natural and cultural landscape. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University and has exhibited in New York, California, and Texas. His work is included in numerous private collections across the United States.

“It is often the moments between work, routine, and obligation that most deeply define how life is lived. A night swim offers a brief suspension from all of it—a chance to push off into the water and take flight.” —Paul Ferney

Is This Yours by Olivia Gossett Cooper

Is This Yours

Olivia Gossett Cooper

Found Materials // 2026

Is This Yours by Olivia Gossett Cooper (b. 1988) presents ten black shoulder bags, all similarly sized, each holding a brick that fits precisely inside it. The bags’ proportions align so closely with the bricks that they seem destined to cradle the weight.

The installation behind a glass window offers a playful yet thoughtful reflection on the responsibilities we carry each day and the temptation of rebellion. The nuanced differences between the bags mirror our own diverse characters and experiences. As the bags form a pattern within the confines of the window frame, serendipitous relationships emerge between neighboring elements. The grid-like arrangement follows Cooper’s broader practice of repeated, imperfect forms as a path to new meaning and discovery. The heaviness of the bricks placed behind fragile glass introduces a tension between containment and rupture. Passersby are asked to consider not only the weight they carry, but also the impulse to act upon it.

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The Crown Returns

Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Crown Returns

April 4 – August 10, 2026

A sweeping retrospective of Basquiat’s charged visual language, uniting rare works from international collections for the first time in over a decade. Through large-scale canvases, street-level ephemera, and a full-room soundscape of sampled hip-hop and jazz, The Crown Returns situates Basquiat as both poet and prophet of post-industrial New York.

Curated by: Rina Patel

Radiant Lines: Public Energy, Private Worlds

Keith Haring - Radiant Lines: Public Energy, Private Worlds

September 12, 2025 – January 18, 2026

This exhibition re-examines Haring’s graphic vocabulary through large mural reconstructions, subway-drawing archives, and immersive neon installations. Radiant Lines positions Haring’s activism and visual rhythm as precursors to today’s digital street culture, bridging the dance floor, the billboard, and the screen.

Curated by: Elena Marković

Combines Reconsidered

Robert Rauschenberg - Combines Reconsidered

March 7 – July 19, 2026

A focused re-installation of Rauschenberg’s seminal Combines alongside later technological experiments in print and light. The show draws parallels between mid-century assemblage and contemporary remix culture, revealing the restless curiosity that blurred art’s boundaries long before the digital era.

Curated by: Glenn Patterson

The Architecture of Memory

Louise Bourgeois - The Architecture of Memory

October 9, 2026 – February 14, 2027

Spanning sculpture, textiles, and drawing, this exhibition transforms the gallery into an intimate psychological architecture. Towering spider forms, stitched fabric cells, and diary fragments invite viewers into Bourgeois’s lifelong dialogue between protection and exposure, mother and child, home and body.

Curated by: Sofia Martens

The Body Unfolded

Francis Bacon - The Body Unfolded

April 2 – August 22, 2027

Bacon’s visceral portraits return in a major thematic survey examining distortion as empathy. New conservation imaging reveals the painter’s process, scratched, layered, and brutally human, while a digital installation allows visitors to step inside the brushstroke, confronting the raw intensity of being seen.

Curated by: Damian Rees