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Terrain Biennial Newburgh 2023 “Mycelium Connection”
Blue Brack Water, Newburgh Bay was on view outdoors at Safe Harbors Green, at Broadway and Liberty Street in Newburgh, NY from September 30th – November 15th, 2023. The installation was part of Terrain Biennial Newburgh 2023 “Mycelium Connection” —a grassroots public art festival that featured artists and artist-groups at 25 sites around the city.
The sculpture takes its title from the slightly salty mixture of fresh and sea-water found in Newburgh Bay on the Hudson River.
Blue Brack Water, Newburgh Bay, 2023
Recycled plastic bottles, machine screws, hex nuts, nylon rope.
27 x 3 x 1½ feet
Plasticulture: The Rise of Sustainable Practices with Polymers
Plasticulture: The Rise of Sustainable Practices with Polymers 
October 26 – December 7, 2024
SVA Chelsea Gallery
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10001
Red River, 2019. Niki Lederer
Found re-purposed plastic bottles,
machine screws, hex nuts, nylon rope.
15 x 3 x 1 ½ feet
SVA presents “Plasticulture: The Rise of Sustainable Practices with Polymers,” an exhibition of works by 15 artists from Project Vortex, an artist collective innovating with plastic debris, and curated by founding artist Aurora Robson. By combining artistic expression with scientific exploration, “Plasticulture” aspires to encourage individuals and communities to embrace more sustainable practices and play a part in fostering a healthier planet.
Operating at the intersection of art and science, the 45 works in “Plasticulture” inspire a rethinking and reinvention of plastic debris. Exhibiting artists include Leticia Bajuyo, Tom Deininger, Ellen Driscoll, Alejandro Durán, Natalya Khorover, Niki Lederer, Pam Longobardi, Kristyna and Marek Milde, Portia Munson, Bryan Northup, Studio KCA, Ian Trask, Tyrome Tripoli, and Benjamin Von Wong. As members of the Project Vortex Collective, their work supports and contributes to efforts to reduce the influx of plastic waste in the environment. Comprised of artists, designers and architects around the globe who are actively intercepting the plastic waste stream as part of our independent practices, the collective is a constantly expanding network.
The SVA Chelsea Gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00am to 6:00pm, and closed on Sundays and Mondays. It is fully accessible by wheelchair.
Travelers, Liars, Thieves
Bloomies Kintsugi, 2019. Niki Lederer
Umbrella canopies, nylon thread, nylon webbing, grommets
52 x 39 inches
New sculpture at KinoSaito
Knickerbocker Ice at KinoSaito
Homespun: Hudson Valley Artists 2023
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz will open its annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, “Hudson Valley Artists 2023: Homespun” on Feb. 4, 2023. The exhibition will remain on view through April 2.
Breaking Repeated Patterns, 2023. Niki Lederer.
Umbrella canopy gores, nylon thread, nylon webbing, grommets
Artists in the Exhibition
Paolo Arao | Grace Bakst Wapner | Natalie Baxter |Samantha Bittman | Orly Cogan | Melissa Dadourian | Ana Maria Farina | Kathy Greenwood | Kat Howard | Laura Kaufman | Laleh Khorramian | Niki Lederer | Will McLeod | Rachel Mica Weiss | Courtney Puckett | Padma Rajendran | Hanna Washburn | Deborah Zlotsky | Ishraq Zraikat
Curated by Karlyn Benson, The Dorsky’s interim curator and exhibitions manager, the 16th Hudson Valley Artists exhibition features 19 local artists who were selected by invitation and will open in February, a new winter timeslot for this annual exhibition. The exhibition will return to its open-call, juried format in 2024.
“Homespun” is a group exhibition of artists working in the Hudson Valley who use fabric and fiber as their primary medium. It features a range of approaches to working with textiles, from contemporary quilts to sculpture and weaving.
“Homespun” explores the ways in which some artists use fabric in order to honor traditional crafts and “women’s work,” while others use sewing and needlework techniques learned from relatives to connect with their personal histories. Many artists in the exhibition utilize materials that have been recycled, donated, or repurposed to create new forms and structures.
AiOP Art in Odd Places 2022: STORY
AiOP Art in Odd Places 2022: STORY
Art in Odd Places 2022: STORY curated by Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn features visual and performance artists on 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River on September 23-25, 2022.
Critical Mass: Saturday September 24, 2022, 3pm – 5 pm between Sixth Avenue and Eighth Avenue
Artists:
Yasmeen Abdallah | AnimaeNoctis | Clover Archer | Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Balitrónica, & La Pocha Nostra | Haifa Bint-Kadi | Leopoldo Bloom | Suzanne Joy Clark | Nick Daniels | Dr. Evilletown | Jana Greiner | Juan Hernandez & Mai Tran | Wes Holloway | Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz | Julia Justo | Christopher Kaczmarek | Niki Lederer | LuLu LoLo | Feixue Mei | MiSWiP & Kiki | Traci Molloy, Karen Oh & Tina Lee Hadari | Ana De Orbegoso | Noah Ortega | Ellice Patterson | Lone aka Bryan Pettigrew | Gina Peyran Tan | Poets, Of Course | Shana Robbins | Vivek Sebastian | Heather Sincavage | Yeseul Song & Jesse Simpson | Tilted Axes | Emily Tironi | Theo Trotter | Ramona Jingru Wang | Yu-Ching Wang | Chen-Yi Wu, Shou-An Chiang & Hsiao-Chu (Julia) Hsia | Tamara Wyndham | Iren Yu | Geraldo Zamproni | 3rdHouse: Oh-Kyung & Deena
Umbrella Gown, 2022
Umbrella canopies, nylon thread
50 x 70 x 2 inches
No Dumping Drains to River is a shopping cart stroll along 14th Street from the East River to the Hudson River, continuing Lederer’s decade long practice of keeping an eye to the ground, on the lookout for discards for the artist to later transform from trash to treasure.
State of Escape x Niki Lederer
State of Escape x Niki Lederer launched October 28th in Tokyo Japan @stateofescape @ronhermanjp
Volume 2 of State of Escape artist series introduces sculptor Niki Lederer. A collaboration which inspired State of Escape‘s first bio-based neoprene and recycled polyester capsule – Neochroma.
Reimagining brightly coloured plastic objects into artful sculpture, artist Niki Lederer, brings attention to global overconsumption and waste through her original artistry. Inspired by her captivating vision, State of Escape has collaborated with Niki to design a collection made from bio-based oyster shell blend rubber and recycled polyester, featuring a 2D interpretative print of her work.
NEOCHROMA – neo meaning ‘new’ and chroma defined in colour theory as ‘the degree of vividness of a colour’, consists of 3 styles: our classic Escape tote, Petite Escape, and Satellite Folio. Each creation features Niki Lederer’s artwork “Runner, 2017″.
Hudson Valley Artists 2022: The Material, The Thing
Hudson Valley Artists 2022: The Material, The Thing. Curated by Nicole Hayes.
June 22 – November 6, 2022
Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz
Vancouver Honda, 2019. Niki Lederer.
Umbrella canopy, nylon thread, nylon webbing, grommets. 43 x 32 inches
Curated by Nicole Hayes, the 15th annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition will feature 26 local artists chosen from over 300 applications. Exhibiting artists include: Miguel Braceli | Louis Brawley | Royal Brown Jr.| Sydney Cash | Adam Chau | Monica d. Church | Melissa Dadourian | Shoshana Dentz | Dan Devine | Adriana Farmiga | Daniel Giordano | Romina Gonzales | Meg Hitchcock | Laetitia Hussain | Will Hutnick | Niki Lederer | Elisa Lendvay | Ashley Lyon | Patricia Miranda | Joel Olzak | Courtney Puckett | Jordan Rosenow | Julie Torres | Katharine Umsted | Melissa Weaver | Millicent Young.
The Material, The Thing considers how artists understand and reimagine the material culture we live in. Every time we walk into a big box store, we are inundated by meaningless disposable things. We have collectively lost an understanding of the materials that make the things we live with. Who even knows how plywood is made, or what microcrystalline cellulose is, but we all have it in our homes. In this cultural moment, artists and artisans become an essential conduit of understanding the materials and the things in our society.
Artists and artisans submitted work that investigates materials and their physical and cultural properties. We looked to see artistic practices that consider the inherent beauty of physical materials and work that questions or champions the things produced by our culture.
Re:Growth: A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park and the New York Spirit
Re:Growth Riverside
Re:Growth: A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park and the New York Spirit
June 5- September 13, 2021
A Public Art Exhibition Produced by the Riverside Park Conservancy — Curated by Karin Bravin
Rendering of proposed banner made from upcycled umbrellas.
Re: Growth is a site-specific public art exhibition that will include work by over twenty artists. With diverse installations ranging across several miles, this outdoor exhibit will give people a safe, entertaining celebration to enjoy as we slowly emerge from the pandemic.
The exhibit will focus on all aspects of Regrowth and its many connotations: literal, metaphorical, poetic, philosophical. The projects will infuse the park from 68th Street to 145th Street with color and unexpected materials expanding visitors’ ideas of how to encounter art. We all are finding the need to escape the confines of our interior spaces. Trees and grass allow us to escape our urban environment for a moment; Re:Growth will enrich that experience, allowing us to appreciate the creativity and diversity that exist in New York City.
The exhibition includes 16 site-specific installations and an additional ten flag and banner projects. Artists Include: Blanka Amezkua, Kenseth Armstead, Vanessa Albury, Lee Boroson, Dahlia Elsayed,Mark Joshua Epstein,Rico Gatson, DeWitt Godfrey, Joshua Goode, Valerie Hegarty, Wennie Huang, Beth Krebs, Sadie Laska, Niki Lederer, Wendy Letven, LoVid, Mary Mattingly, Joiri Minaya, Sui Park, Shuli Sadé, Jean Shin, Glen Wilson, Letha Wilson, Woolpunk.