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About No Longer Empty
No Longer Empty (NLE) orchestrates public art exhibitions in vacated storefronts and properties in New York City. The non-profit organization was conceived as an artistic response to our present economic condition and to revitalize empty spaces and areas around the venues by bringing thoughtful, high-caliber art installations with accompanying programs to the public.
Locating art in unexpected places in the public domain suggests new models of community art that are different from major institutions and galleries. Committed to art as a positive component for community and cultural development, No Longer Empty conducts outreach into the community to contribute meaningfully and bolster the local businesses through the increased flow of visitors that these exhibitions attract and by arranging programs such as panel discussions, music and performance evenings, children's workshops, artist conversations and more.
These exhibitions could not have happened without the vacant spaces being generously donated rent-free by the landlords. The exhibitions and art chosen or created are site specific in the sense that they reflect such issues as the former use or history of the site, the nature of the neighborhood and, of course, the specific features of the space. Both established and emerging artists have been selected for the exhibitions, benefiting our audiences with rich variety and discovery.
A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS!
Manon Slome | Asher Remy-Toledo| Naomi Hersson-Ringskog | Jodie Dinapoli | Kathy Zeiger | Barbara Feldman | Ella Levitt | Mira Friedlander | Anke Lemmens | Jay Moorthy | Ace Brown | Julian Navarro | Keith Schweitzer
Guest Curators | Julia Draganovic | Steven Evans | Dan Cameron | Tara de la Garza| Regine Basha |
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Manon Slome
Founder - Chief Curator
manon@nolongerempty.org
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Asher Remy-Toledo
Founder
asher@nolongerempty.org |
Manon Slome (PhD) is an independent curator working in New York City. From 2002 to June 2008 she was the Chief Curator of the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. During that time, she curated and oversaw a program of some forty exhibitions, symposia and museum publications as well as monographs and scholarly essays. Ms. Slome became highly involved with the Israeli art scene during her research for the exhibition, Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on, (2005) and has followed and researched the Israeli scene for the last three years. Prior to the CAM, Ms. Slome worked as a curator at the Guggenheim Museum for seven years and was a holder of a Helena Rubinstein curatorial fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study program. She has written widely on contemporary art and has recently completed The Aesthetics of Terror published by Charta Press. |
Asher was born in Colombia and has been based in New York since 1992. He has studied in Jerusalem, Madrid and Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2004-2007 he focused on presenting conceptual art installations, new media and feminist art at the Remy Toledo Gallery in Chelsea. Asher co-founded the inaugural Latin American Cultural Week in New York City 2007 and serving as the co-organizer of “Public Viewing” in Shanghai during the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair in Sept. 2007. He organized a media technology art intervention at Art Miami/Art Basel this past December 2008 where six international museums participated. He is an associate at FACT.co.uk, a museum of media technology in Liverpool UK where he periodically takes residency. |
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Naomi Hersson-Ringskog
Director of Programming and External Affairs
naomi@nolongerempty.org |
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Julian Navarro
Curator
julian@nolongerempty.org |
Naomi Hersson Ringskog received her Masters of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University. At NLE, she is designing community and real estate outreach strategies and programs. Her interest lies in studying the effects on urban design and revitalization. During her studies at Columbia University, she focused on urban green sustainability specifically on green roofs. Naomi will continue her study of green roofs and green infrastructure as recipient of the William Kinne Fellowship, which will take her to Berlin and Paris. On the heels of an architectural study trip to Japan, she is currently drafting a Japanese contemporary architecture guidebook that will be published with Dr. Lynne Breslin of Columbia University.
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Julian Navarro is currently a New York based artist-curator. Previously based in Miami, Navarro worked in a variety of arts institutions, most recently as associate curator at the Art Gallery System of Miami Dade Collage, where he assisted in the development of the exhibition program. From 2001-2006, he was associate director for Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. In 2008, during Art Basel Miami Beach, he worked with Art Miami and Remy Toledo in the creation of the exhibition Art Video-New Media Lounge in collaboration with six international museums participated. In 2009, he curated Beyond the Daily Life exhibition based in monumental sculptures and video installation. Navarro is member of the curator-selectors for Celeste Prize 2010, and nominator for the International Award for Participatory Art. Navarro has presented and developed projects in Berlin, Beijing, New York, Miami, Oaxaca, and he continues to develop art projects nationally and internationally.
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Jodie Dinapoli
Associate Curator and Press Coordinator
jodie@nolongerempty.org |
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Kathy Zeiger
Director of Multimedia
kathy@nolongerempty.org |
Hailing from Spain and also studying in Mexico, Jodie Dinapoli completed her Masters Degree in Art History at University of Valencia in Spain. After earning experience at MoMA, PS1 and the Brooklyn Museum, she has been working with Praxis International Art Gallery for three years, where she has worked in the organization of over fifteen exhibitions promoting Latin American contemporary artists in New York and abroad. In addition, at the Instituto Cervantes in New York she teaches a course on Spanish Cinema. At No Longer Empty, Jodie has taken the helm of the press and communications and is also actively involved in the curatorial team.
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Kathy oversees the photography and video documentation of NLE exhibitions and special events. An award winning photography graduate of the Art Institute of Houston and The University of Florida, she combines her creative and technical prowess to produce images and marketing materials for NLE.
Kathy is the founder and supervisor for “The NLE Photography and Video Collective” that provides emerging photographers/videographers internships and opportunities for professional advancement.
Kathy’s comes to NLE from the corporate world where she worked as a Marketing & Sponsorship Manager for the Six Flags Corporation and Pace Concerts.
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