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Smack Mellon

Name: Smack Mellon
Address: New York, NY, US
Telephone: +17188348761
Rating: 3.6

Smack Mellon’s mission is to nurture and support emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women a

Smack Mellon is a nonprofit arts organization located in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Smack Mellon's mission is to nurture and support emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women artists in the creation and exhibition of new work, by providing exhibition opportunities, studio workspace, and access to equipment and technical assistance for the realization of ambitious projects. We see ourselves as a vehicl

e whereby under-represented artists can create, explore and exhibit their creative ideas outside the concerns of the commercial art world, offering many artists the exposure and recognition they deserve.

06/18/2025

Forever inspired by Pat Oleszko and her resist ants! We’ll march with her any day 🐜🐜

Pat has emceed several of our benefits and was the mastermind behind the inflatable sculptures at our recent 30th anniversary party. A self-proclaimed “artist of some repute,” Pat works in pop art rooted in the streets, party, parade, stage, film, and burlesque, presenting in the MoMA and Lincoln Center to Sesame Street, Pl***oy, and Artforum.

06/17/2025

This pride month, a special thanks to for highlighting the incredible work of spring exhibiting artist Avram Finkelstein, founding member of the SILENCE=DEATH collective, ACT UP, and the activist artist collective Gran Fury.

The SILENCE=DEATH pink triangle, which subverted the dehumanizing pink badges used by N***s to identify LGBTQ+ prisoners, became a way for organizers to “market a movement before the movement actually started.” Later, the design became an icon for ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a civil disobedience group committed to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 90s.

This spring, Finkelstein presented his first solo exhibition in NYC, “Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus Fluxus).” The exhibition brought together drawings that span the narratives from his own coming out story to the layered nature of accessibility, with a focus on the body, its physicality, metaphysical ideations, and shape-shifting porosities—the corpus fluxus.

06/04/2025

THANK YOU to all who joined us for and supported the ARTISTS FIRST - 30th Anniversary Launch Party & Fundraiser! Feeling so much love from our community 💚💚💚

If you have not yet had the chance, please consider a donation to ensure our next 30 years in support of emerging and underrepresented artists.

https://www.smackmellon.org/support/donate/

05/19/2025

Announcing “Remains to be seen,” our 2025 emerging artist summer group exhibition guest curated by Pallavi Surana! Opening Sat. June 14, 6-8PM.

Featuring artists: Maia Chao & Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Yusuf Demirors, S. Emsaki, Sujin Lim, Jessica Maffia, Lucas Odahara, Yunfei Ren, Julia Standovar and Merry Sun.

The exhibition brings together nine artists whose practices probe the afterlives of waste in relation to memory, ecology, consumerism, and identity. Through sound, sculpture, video, and ritual, the artists ask how we might engage waste not only as residue, but as witness. The exhibition unfolds across three thematic zones—absurdity and system failure, material and ecological memory, and ritual materiality—guiding visitors through overlapping constellations of rupture, residue, and renewal.

05/15/2025

In just TWO weeks we’re celebrating 3️⃣0️⃣ years of putting ARTISTS FIRST on Thurs. May 29.

Come party with us and enjoy
🪩 performances by the incredible
🏰 inflatables by the one and only Pat Oleszko
🎥 a special screening by the Barnstormers
🎤 and KARAOKE by YOU

It will be a special night in celebration of our artist community, and you won’t want to miss it! Tickets are at a sliding scale starting at $130. More info at the link in our profile. 🎟️

Thanks to our generous sponsors for making it all possible:

05/14/2025

Please consider supporting Smack Mellon in this difficult time for arts and culture! No amount is too small—every little bit counts and makes a difference.

There are many ways to help us fill the funding gap including:

📣 spreading the word
💸 making a donation
🖼️ buying a print
🎟️ purchasing a ticket to our 30th anniversary launch , ARTISTS FIRST, on May 29 🎉

Links to all at the link in our profile!

05/07/2025

Check out our very own intern Shivani Mithbaokar () in ’s review of the MFA exhibition! Congrats, Shivani!!

05/05/2025

We’re turning 30!!!! 🎂

In honor of our 30th anniversary, and to ensure our next thirty years, we’re throwing ARTISTS FIRST on May 29 to celebrate 30 years of putting artists first across our programs. 💫

Support Smack Mellon by purchasing a ticket to the event, which will feature performances by , a special archival screening, and karaoke! 🎤

Tickets are available at the link in our profile starting at $130. 🎟️

Special thanks to our:

Party Co-Chairs 👯
Cecile Chong
Gabriel de Guzman

Party Hosts
Heather Bhandari
Janet Biggs
Alison Burstein .burstein
Juan José Cielo
Jack Eriksson
Sasha Fishman
Ghost of a Dream
Subhas Kandasamy
Simon Lee
Angélica Maria Millán Lozano
Linda Nagaoka
Nana Olivas
Sage & Coombe Architects
Isabelle Simone
Eve Sussman

Generously sponsored by:

04/19/2025

Hot off the press! Featured in , Avram Finkelstein’s “Something Terrible Has Happened (Corpus Fluxus)“ is open for one more week through Sunday, April 27!

Don’t miss!

03/28/2025

Next Thursday, April 3, join us for the launch of the 2025 DUMBO Projections Project!

Starting with exhibition tours at Smack Mellon at 6:30PM, a walking tour will visit projection sites across DUMBO. The lineup includes work by Studio Artist Juan José Cielo () at locations 1 & 2. In his short films, Cielo performs a series of experiments as artist-in-residence at a Mars Simulation program in the Utah Desert. Cielo’s work invites audiences to rediscover elements of our daily lives by seeing them in the context of space travel and the future.

Register for the walking tour at the link in our profile!

Address

New York, NY

Opening Hours

Wednesday	12pm - 6pm
Thursday	12pm - 6pm
Friday	12pm - 6pm
Saturday	12pm - 6pm
Sunday	12pm - 6pm

Telephone

+17188348761

Website

http://www.smackmellon.org/

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