Thursday, November 12, 5-7pm: Picturing Color at FIT Art & Design Gallery

Before the eye even registers a silhouette, a texture, or a form, color provokes a gut reaction. It is an immediate, physical language that shifts our mood, sparks memory, and carries vastly different weight depending on where in the world we stand. Across paintings, sculptures, tactile textiles, and light-driven installations, each practitioner tests how the human eye perceives and processes the spectrum. Whether treated as a rigorous structural tool or pure emotional resonance, color takes center stage here—not merely as a surface detail, but as the subject itself.

Picturing Color: Artists Reveal the Spectrum invites viewers to step inside that visceral experience. Following the lively cross-disciplinary conversations sparked by Picturing Space (2019) and Picturing Light (2024), curator Anne Finkelstein once again brings together an eclectic mix of creative voices—this time uniting fine artists, photographers, graphic designers, and textile designers around a single, boundless subject. Left: Eileen Hoffman, Rapunzel Stories Installation 

So many AI-AP alum have been closely involved with FIT—including MFA Chair Brendan Leach, and Faculty members Lauren Simkin Berke and Martha Rich [to name a few] that this is a perfect fit for DART. You can easily hit the opening on your way to The Party [above]!

Through December 8, 2026. Art and Design Gallery at FIT, 227 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info

Friday, November 13. 6-8pm: Thaddeus Mosley | radial Forms at Karma

Tomorrow night, Thaddeus Mosley’s Radial Forms: Early Work 1954–68 will inaugurate Karma’s new Tribeca gallery. Even in his earliest sculptures, Mosley engaged the concerns that would drive his lifelong practice, including materiality, form, and equilibrium. Over a career rooted in Pittsburgh, Mosley hand-carved salvaged hardwoods into rhythmic forms that range in scale from intimate to monumental. Featuring sculptures, paintings, and collages from 1954 through 1968—the year of Mosley’s debut solo show, held at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh—Radial Forms is the first presentation dedicated to this formative period and the first posthumous exhibition of his work.

Through January 9, 2027. At Karma, 38 White Street, New York, NY Info

Saturday, November 14, 2-4pm: Tree Walk with Matthew Lopex-Jensen at Equity

Artist (and Citizen Pruner) Matthew López-Jensen will present his new book Street Tree Tarot at the gallery, then lead a wander  around the neighborhood looking at street trees and studying the history of care (or neglect) experienced by each tree. We’ll make a collective record of the trees we visit and hopefully offer a bit of help to a few along the way. Presented in conjunction with Reading Trees, Matthew López-Jensen’s exhibition in Equity Gallery’s Project Space, this walk extends the exhibition’s invitation to look more closely at New York City’s street trees and our relationship to them. This is also the last day to see the show. RSVPappreciated

Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, New York, NY Info

Sunday, November 15, 12-6pm: Woodside Open Studios

Since 2009, Woodside Studios has grown from 11 to 22 creative spaces, bringing together artists and creative practitioners working across disciplines including  painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, glass, music, DJing, printing, film, and video. Located at the crossroads of Jackson Heights, Woodside, and Sunnyside, we’ve built an independent creative community and an alternative home for artists in Queens. Join us for an afternoon of art, discovery, and conversation. Come wander through our studios, peek behind the scenes, discover new work, meet the artists, and experience the wonderfully authentic atmosphere of working creative spaces. Expect art, conversations, coffee, and refreshments! Our two studio buildings are directly across the street from one another:

MONDO Studios, 33-55 55th Street, Woodside, NY. HEPTAGON Studios
33-46 55th Street, Woodside, NY Info