By Invitation Only

May 20 - July 12, 2014

Press Release

By Invitation Only celebrates Kinz + Tillou Fine Art's newly renovated salon exhibition space in a 1890s brownstone in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. This exhibition continues a long history of collaborating with guest curators to present fresh perspectives. For the third time, the gallery has invited colleagues to, in turn, invite artists and select works to be exhibited. The curators were encouraged to invite artists not exclusively represented, providing them with an exhibition opportunity and giving viewers an opportunity to see new and exciting works.

Invited guest curators are:
-  Mickalene Thomas, world-acclaimed Brooklyn-based artist.
-  Renée Riccardo, long established independent Brooklyn-based curator and ARENA Gallery proprietor.
- Andrew Gori & Ambre Kelly, artists/curators/event producers and founders of the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, an alternative curator-driven New York City art fair. 

MICKALENE THOMAS
Jeffrey Vreeland

RENÉE RICCARDO
Yevgeniya Baras
Osamu Kobayashi
Liz Nielsen
Macklen Mayse
Hiba Schahbaz
Vargas-Suarez Universal

ANDREW GORI and AMBRE KELLY
"Chiaroscuro":
Samuel T. Adams
Sarah Bereza
Chris Bors
Maria Louisa Calandra
Vince Contarino
Jason Gringler
Rin Johnson
Alex McQuilkin
Matt Mignanelli 
Andy Mister
Lauren Portada
Brian Randolph
Lauren Seiden
Andrew Sendor
Adam Stennett
John Whitlock
Stephen Zerbe
 

Past guest curators for By Invitation Only, and other Gallery exhibtions include: Pamela Auchincloss, Charles Desmarais, Charlie Finch, Jonathan Fineberg, David Gibson, Elizabeth Huey, David Humphrey, David Hunt, Jerome Jacobs, Rich Jacobs & Abigail Scholar, Shirley Kaneda, Douglas Maxwell, George Negroponte, Trong Nguyen, Saul Ostrow, Susan Reynolds & Mary Dinaburg, Michael Sellinger, Robert Storr, Chris Vroom & Illya Szilak, and Paul Weston.