Deborah Colton Gallery

If you are near Williamsburg, Virginia please take note of this outstanding Jonas Mekas exhibit and film screening! This project follows the Jonas Mekas Film Festival and exhibition that we organized in Asbury Park, New Jersey last summer! A special thanks to Lee Matney for his dedication to this project in the Williamsburg area.

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The Andrews Gallery at the College of William & Mary presents “Still Beautiful in My Memory”, an exhibition of works by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas (1922–2019). Organized in collaboration with The Jonas Mekas Estate, Deborah Colton Gallery, OUTPOST NYC DCG, and Lee Matney Gallery, the exhibition brings together Mekas’s rarely exhibited framed still images – known as the “Frozen Frames” – with a continuous screening of his final major film. Together, these works explore fragmentation, memory, displacement, and the poetic construction of a life through cinema.

Please join us for this inspiring event!

SAVE THE DATE! This solo exhibition of our artist, Lowell Boyers will be exquisite! At the Jung Center in the museum district of Houston!

Second evening of Daniel Johnston related film screenings at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village, NYC. It’s all going great! Daniel’s sister, Marjory Johnston - who was his artist-collaborator, is here for all the screenings!

We are getting international press on this exhibition and film showing this weekend too…!

The exhibition is organized and in collaboration with Deborah Colton Gallery’s east coast arts initiative, OUTPOST NYC DCG. www.deborahcoltongallery.com and www.outpostnycdcg.com

Noriko and Ushio Shinohara- Cutie and the Boxer come to Asbury Park, New Jersey TONIGHT!

They will be at their vibrant art exhibition at Parlor Gallery, 717 Cookman Avenue tonight from 6:00 to 8:30 pm. And at ShowRoom Cinema to welcome guests at the showing of the award winning film that they are featured in “Cutie and the Boxer” tomorrow at 4:30 pm. Please join us if you are in the area!

Internationally acclaimed Pop Artist Ushio Shinohara will be exhibiting at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, New Jersey …. along with Noriko Shinohara… “Cutie and the Boxer in Asbury Park”. Artist reception / art opening: Saturday night, August 16th, 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Join us if you are in this area! 💚

Coming soon to Asbury Park, New Jersey: Ushio and Noriko Shinohara - “Cutie and the Boxer” at Parlor Gallery and Showroom Cinema on Cookman Avenue…. Art Exhibition and film screenings. Starting mid August!

Exciting News!

A pioneering figure in American avant-garde cinema, Jonas Mekas co-founded FILM CULTURE Magazine with his brother in 1954 and became a film columnist for THE VILLAGE VOICE in 1958. In the early 1960’s he founded the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, which evolved into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest repositories of avant-garde film. Jonas Mekas published over thirty books of prose and poetry and taught at institutions such as the New School, Cooper Union, NYU, and MIT. His work has influenced generations of filmmakers and artists, such as Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, and Chantal Ackerman. His films and art installations have been exhibited at major institutions worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, Tate Museum, Serpentine Gallery, Whitney Museum, MoMA and Centre Pompidou.

Jonas Mekas captured moments that we all cherish in art history, in American history, in life…. from filmmakers, Salvador Dali, the Kennedys, Warhol, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Elvis Presley, the World Trade Center…to the more personal special moments of nature, his family, being humans and celebrating life, cherishing life to its fullest

Please join us for this special Festival!

If you are around the greater New York area, mark your calendars for the Jonas Mekas Film Festival in the cool music and art beach location of Asbury Park, New Jersey this July 17 to 27th! Organized by our OUTPOST NYC DCG.

The Film Festival is at Showroom Cinemas with an art exhibition of Mekas still-framed photographs at Parlor Gallery which is one door down from the Cinema… both of Cookman Avenue, just half a block from the train station!

For more details, please view our OUTPOST NYC DCG website under Projects. www.outpostnycdcg.com or www.deborahcoltongallery.com

Pictured below: a still-framed photograph by Jonas Mekas of John & Yoko’s Bed-In for Peace, May 26, 1969, edition of 3, archival photographic print, Co-produced by Deborah Colton Gallery in 2013 with Jonas Mekas.

If you don’t see our sign outside the front door now, it’s because the 2445 North Boulevard Exhibition space is closed now as we focus our time and efforts on promoting our artists on the east coast and nationally. I’m working from our Bay Head, New Jersey studio, but we still have staff working in Houston supporting our projects in Houston and nationwide. We are still operating full time as we successfully continue to create private and museum acqusitions and exhibitions for our artists throughout the country.

For art consultations in Houston regarding our artists, please contact us at [email protected] or our OUTPOST NYC DCG www.outpostnycdcg.com