INVISIBLE NYC is an exclusive, appointment only tattoo studio and art gallery. Our tattooists are some of the most highly sought after, respected tattooers in the world, and our art exhibits boast top young, contemporary artists. INVISIBLE NYC is a fusion gallery and studio supporting the contemporary art and tattoo communities.
Recent Exhibitions
- November 20, 2008
- Curated by Logan Hicks — Eye to Eye
- October 16, 2008
- Steve Smith — You Are Here (The Town)
- September 11, 2008
- AKO/Akayo — The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
- August 07, 2008
- S.C.1 vs. YUCK — 50 / 50
- July 03, 2008
- Terence Hannum — Threnody
- May 29, 2008
- Duane Bruton and Leif Parsons — Once In Awhile
- March 20, 2008
- Colin Stinson — Game of Death
- February 07, 2008
- Dosa Kim — High Contrast
- November 29, 2007
- Joshua Abram Howard & Carlyle Micklus — Augmentable
- October 20, 2007
- Phil Holt — Immolation
- September 13, 2007
- NORM, Amandalynn, PUSH — Three’s a Crowd
- August 10, 2007
- Shawn Barber — The New York Experience
- July 06, 2007
- Denise DeSpirito & Diana McClure — Constructed Consciousness / Spiritualized Matter
- May 31, 2007
- John Bush — New Photographs
- April 26, 2007
- New Skool — Full Coverage
Current Exhibition
Sandbox3 (detail), c-print, 2006
Trevor Traynor
Cold Soldiers
February 08 – March 10, 2007
Opening Reception: February 08, 2007, 12:09am
Invisible NYC is proud to host, Cold Soldiers, the premier of the SANDBOX series by Trevor Traynor, a solo-exhibit of photographs documenting his recent trip to Russia. Originally from Long Island, Mr. Traynor has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is the recipient of several prestigious awards including “Industrial Photographer of the Year” at the 1st International Photography Awards. Mr. Traynor’s work has also been featured in art fairs across the globe and in a variety of publications such as URB, cool’eh, and Remix. His photographs reside in some of the top private, public and corporate collections.
For his exhibition at Invisible NYC, Mr. Traynor will showcase Cold Soldiers. The images from Russia’s urban centers focus on playgrounds and their immediate surroundings. The works are eerily devoid of human presence. Color and textures are heightened so that the peeling paint on the broken basketball hoop is almost three-dimensional and palpable. The overall sense is of a nostalgic longing for light-hearted childhood play that remains distant, unattainable and haunted when viewed through the camera’s lens. And yet, while a sense of destitution is prevalent, there is a magical innocence in the cropped compositions and juxtaposition of the rich colors of slides, swings, and gates. The series is a look at universal images of childhood and objects of elation, given specific relevance of time and geographical location. The photographs expose stories of abandoned apparatuses and barren trees that were at one time enjoyed by laughing children, giving them life and yet bending and warping as if tired from many years of fleeting use - they are only hibernating, waiting for spring to once again bring life and companionship.
The artist notes,
As winter ended and spring began Russia was all mud and dust.
Behind the facade of storefronts
- bustling streets where people eagerly
displayed there adept consumption -
lay the apartment complexes where the city
sleeps and the playgrounds where their children play.
Toy soldiers. Cold wars.
The frost takes a long time to thaw and these images are
Testament to a false spring slowly but surely blossoming. Vacancy.
The photos are striking, stunning visual compositions of texture, color, and form. The exhibit will run from February 8th – March 10th, Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8:00 PM. The opening reception will be Thursday, February 8th, from 7:00-9:00 PM.