utopia - my eyes see me in everything 
september 13 - 30th, 2024

Lili Burrows, Michaela Cusin, Ellington Davis, Adam Dowling, Ruby Faye, Hmac, Edward Hernandez, Zach Hussein, Will Jewkes, Mackenzie Kirkpatrick, Sonia Langouev, Jude Larson, Maria Mosier, Jake Molter, Lili Perih, Sierra Petrocelli, Tyler Philipps, Ciara Sergi, Mira Seeba, Nick Silva, Dylan Teaford, Ryan Wehbe.

KB is proud to present our inaugural exhibition utopia - my eyes see me in everything, a group show spanning multiple disciplines by 22 artists.

utopia - my eyes see me in everything deals first and foremost with self. Who am I and who are you and who am I to you? These questions plague our naive and most surface levels of our self-under-standing. Many turn to their passions to claim identity - and we turned to art. Process and creation tend to reveal something about who we are and there’s a simple thread here that connects us to you and you to us. The art on display represents an artist’s understanding of themselves and the world around them, and with tender eyes, we see ourselves in their works. Art is kind in its tangibility for it allows your gaze to place that lost thing you need to see in it.

Windows finds itself in metaphors a lot, and it’s one here too. Sierra Petrocelli’s untitled (window), provides an opening to a nostalgic utopia. Through her multi-media approach the past dances out from the window of memory where it normally remains still. She captures the brief flashes of childhood we all carry with us, yet still embodies its nimble nature. Another window appears in Lili Perih’s Demolition, Hastings on Hudson, NY. where an abandoned childhood bedroom is empty for your eyes toplace the twin bed you once slept in. And if the lighting is just right, you catch a glimpse of yourself today in its plexiglass reflection just as you are caught up remembering who you once were.

Then there are the more present and fantastical imaginings of self. In Will Jewkes’s Me if I Was a Body Builder, he imagines himself as a sickly saturated bodybuilder with World Heavyweight Championship-winning Americana tits to match. Beyond ourselves is the world around us, and Mackenzie Kirkpatrick’s Tower Under Eclipse micro-doses the built environment to a collaged utopic world.

There’s also something to be said of the self that is revealed with process and time. Edward Hernandez captures how affection and body language manifests in the love shared between his parents. His mom stares off into the sunset while his dad scrolls on his phone, each having two separate experiences of that moment, but connected through the hand Edward’s mom places on his Dad’s knee. The family bond then extends off the picture to the space with the frame Edward and his Dad built together just for this show, the past into the present once more.

We created KB with one essential founding principle: everyone starts somewhere, and we’re starting now. “We’re” extends beyond Fran and Coco- the “we’re” is all of us. utopia - my eyes see me in everything, is about creating something that we believe in, our utopia is a place where everyone can see themselves in too.

The exhibition will be open by appointment only until September 30th. 

For inquires please email us at kb.bkny@gmail.com