Smack Mellon

05/12/2026

05/04/2026

Get your tickets for our Spring Benefit this Wed, May 6 and catch Pat Oleszko’s performance activating our 30-year archive!

“A timed performantz creating sartorial splendor from the capacious archives of Smack Mellon publicity excess, Oleszko will transform the past into a wearable Version of the Future that she will don in relative discomfort the rest of the evening. A Fool’s errand not to be missed.”

You won’t get these looks at the Met gala 👀

05/01/2026

Next week on Wed. May 6th, join us for our Spring Benefit!

As part of the evening’s festivities,
catch a performance by Pat Oleszko 💃
win prizes in the “pearl-diving the archive” game 🦪 bring your best song for a karaoke after party 🎤
enjoy food by 🫓🥗🧀

Celebrate our enduring community and sustain Smack Mellon’s future by buying your ticket today! Tickets start at $175.

More information at the link in our profile. 🎟️

Thanks to our generous event sponsors:

04/23/2026

This , meet Kamari Carter, a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance.

His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and Whitewall, among others. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MFA from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.

Image: Kamari Carter, The Horrorscope is back and letting you know that someone is giving you an awful lot of attention recently, and you are not comfortable with it. Your best tactic is to try to ignore them. You can’t try to fake it, but there is also no need

04/22/2026

In two weeks on Wed. May 6th, join us for our Spring Benefit in celebration of 30 years supporting emerging and underrepresented artists in NYC!

As part of the evening’s festivities, catch a performance by the one and only Pat Oleszko, win prizes from our 30-year archive, and bring your best song for a karaoke after party! 🎤

Celebrate our enduring community and sustain Smack Mellon’s future by buying your ticket today! Tickets start at $175. More information at the link in our profile. 🎟️

Thanks to our generous event sponsors:

02/23/2026

Happy snow day y’all! ❄️❄️❄️

Stay safe and warm out there!

02/14/2026

Now open! Come by this weekend for a visit to our current exhibitions on view through March 29.

Golnar Adili, To Measure the Emotions of Others
Gallery One

Kate Teale, Vanishing Points
Gallery Two

Installation photos by

01/23/2026

We putting the final touches on new exhibitions by Golnar Adili (pictured) and Kate Teale!

Join us tomorrow for the opening reception, which will take place as scheduled on Sat. January 24, 6-8PM.

Please note that, due to the anticipated winter storm, the galleries will be CLOSED on Sun. Jan 25. Stay warm! ❄️

01/19/2026

Opening this Saturday, Kate Teale’s site-specific installation in the back gallery departs from the architecture in and around Dumbo, including Smack Mellon’s own interior.

The ornate concrete and brick structures impose as well as protect, highlighting persistent tensions and durations between human bodies and the spaces constructed to hold them. Using intense tonal greyscales of graphite and charcoal on Tyvek, Teale visually excises these architectural details and transports them onto the walls of the gallery.

Kate Teale, Vanishing Points
Opening Sat. Jan 24, 6-8PM
On view Jan 24-March 29, 2026