NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS!
April 3, 2025
https://3004.blackbaudhosting.com/3004/Breakdown-Exhibition-Panel-Discussion
Join artists Jade Doskow and Lisa A. Schonberg in conversation with exhibition contributor Dr. Martin Melosi around their research and participation in the exhibition Breakdown: The Promise of Decay.
The conversation will be moderated by José Ramírez-Garofalo.
Jade Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, Staten Island, New York City. She is a New York based architectural and landscape photographer known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, architecture, nature, and time.
Dr. Martin Melosi is one of the nation’s leading scholars in Environmental History. Dr. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. In 2000-2001, he held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Helsinki.
Lisa Ann Schonberg is a composer, percussionist, and ecological sound artist. Informed by her background in ecology, Schonberg composes music with a focus on cryptic sounds of insects and other underappreciated beyond-humans. She documents soundscapes, insects, and habitats through music composition, writing, and multimedia collaboration, engaging the public in listening to prompt heightened consideration of these soundworlds.
José Ramírez-Garofalo is an Ecologist and serves as the President of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods, an organization focused on open space preservation on Staten Island. His work focuses on documenting changes in the ecological communities in New York City and understanding the coupled dynamics of the human-natural system. He uses cutting-edge methods and natural history information to inform natural resource management decisions and conservation actions, and has conducted collaborative research at Freshkills for ten years.
January 23 - September 27, 2025
Breakdown: The Promise of Decay examines the vibrancy of decay. This interdisciplinary exhibition explores notions of time, waste, and the in-between. Breakdown shines a light on the dark corners of the life cycle recognizing the oft-overlooked workhorses of the ecosystem. From mycelium to microplastics, this exhibition focuses on what breaks down and what does not.
Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental challenges in the 21st century. Microplastics, tiny pieces of non-biodegradable plastic, thwart the pressures of time and decomposition. They are ubiquitous, like fungi: found outdoors in soil and on plants, indoors on surfaces and in the air, on our skin and inside the body. In the end, it comes from our stuff – which is everywhere.
Featuring contemporary artwork, objects from the museum’s collection, and scientific innovations in the curious world of decomposition, Breakdown asks the public to value a world they cannot see in order to protect the one we can.
Curated by Rylee Eterginoso and Colleen Evans
Featured Artists:
Selin Balci
Jade Doskow
Tamara Kostianovsky
Phyllis Ma
Antonia A. Perez
Lisa Ann Schonberg
With contributions by Dr. Martin Melosi, Louis Vassar Semanchik, Heather Campanelli and Michael Falco.
156: ABC No Rio in Photographs
January 1 - 31, Umbrella House, 23 Avenue C
To celebrate the legacy of both ABC No Rio and longtime director Steven Englander, a group exhibition addressing the physical and spiritual presence of No Rio, even during exile.
Featured artists: Victoria Law, Jade Doskow, Robert Goldkind, Amy Westpfahl, Paul Granger, Bobby G, Maggie Wrigley, Jack Waters, Margarida Correia, Peter Cramer, Tom Warren, Becky Howland, and Ricardo Nelson
November 21, 2024 - Reclaiming a Wild Landscape
Podcast with B&H Photo, Jade Doskow and Cal Flyn
Upcoming: June 1st Closing Events at All Street Gallery, 119 Hester Street, Starting at 5 pm
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May - New York Times, May 24, 2024 by Travis Diehl
Exhibition Brings Together Waste Artists in Residency, Waste Dive, May 10, 2024 by Jacob Wallace
How Five Neighborhoods are Struggling with Climate Change’ New York Times, May 12, 2024 Writing by Hilary Howard Photography by Jade Doskow
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/nyregion/nyc-neighborhoods-climate-change.html
‘Art at Work: Sanitation and Social Practice’ - May 4 - June 1, 2024
NEW YORK, NY – All Street Gallery is pleased to present Art at Work, a group exhibition celebrating public sanitation art, featuring Lily Cox-Richard, Jade Doskow, Brian Hutsebout, Kimberly Lakin, sTo Len, Hilary Pfeifer, Francesca Pfister, Slinko, Mike Suri and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The show brings together for the first time works made by artists-in-residence at municipal sanitation departments and waste facilities in four different U.S. cities—New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Portland, OR—between 2000 and 2020. Art at Work will be on view from May 4 - May 30, 2024 at All Street’s Chinatown location, 119 Hester Street. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 4, from 6 - 9 pm.
Artist Talk: International Center of Photography - April 17, 2024
"Reuse: City as Canvas" From ICP: Join us as Jade Doskow, ICP faculty member and Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, NYC, is joined in conversation in the ICP Library by choreographer Kathy Westwater, NYC Department of Sanitation Archivist and records manager, Maggie Lee, and Dennis Diggins, the former Department of Sanitation First Deputy Commissioner of New York City, NYC Sanitation Department for a conversation centered on how artists engage and document undervalued and reclaimed city land. Special remarks will be played from Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Artist Talk: Center for Photography at Woodstock - April 25, 2024
"Meet the Artist with Jade Doskow"
Join me up in Kingston at the wonderful Center for Photography at Woodstock where I will be sharing a selection of Freshkills work as well as discussing the relationship between this project and my recent environmental photojournalism with the New York Times.
Harvard Journal Article:
Harnessing Photography as a Force for Social Impact: The Transformation of NYC's Freshkills from Largest Waste Landfill to Utopian Wilderness: Q&A with Jade Doskow, Photographer-in-Residence
These last few months I worked with the writer and scholar Sandy Kresch on a wonderful interview and feature in the Harvard Journal Advanced Leadership Initiative / Social Impact Review on my partnership with Freshkills and the public presentations and conversations that have resulted from the work over the last few years. This project is ever-evolving and in this article we present just how multi-faceted both the site and the photographic archive are and continue to be.
New York Times: Snakes, Spores & Sewage: Life in a Neighborhood Known as ‘The Hole’
For this environmental piece, I again partnered with the climate writer Hilary Howard to describe the challenges faced by residents of a vulnerable New York neighborhood.
Photoville with Alice Austen House - June 3 - 23
Victoria Munro, Excecutive Director of the wonderful Alice Austen House Museum, has curated my Freshkills work into the annual Photoville Photography Festival. And on the Photoville site: https://photoville.nyc/people/jade-doskow/
New York, New Publics - through July 29, 2023
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Two photographs from the Freshkills work on view with Field Operations / Freshkills
Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller and his Plans to Save the Planet
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
From the Lost Utopias series, the photograph Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome is on view.
Triennial/ Ecologies - through May 27, 2023
Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York
Several Freshkills photographs are on view as well as a sound and image collaboration with the electronic composer Heather Campanelli
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events:
APRIL 13 -AUGUST 21, 2023 - Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller's Plans to Save the Planet
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
The photograph from the Lost Utopias series Montréal 1967 World's Fair, "Man and his World," Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome with Solar Experimental House will be on view as part of this fantastic exhibition celebrating Fuller's legacy.
MAY 20 - Screening and Q&A: Jade Doskow, Photographer of Lost Utopias
Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-and-qa-jade-doskow-photographer-of-lost-utopias-tickets-524549631067
January 19, 2023 at the International Center of Photography: Film screening of
‘Jade Doskow, Photographer of Lost Utopias’ info click here
January 24, 2023 - Panel discussion for exhibition ‘ In the Wake’ with Munipal Arts Society
DECEMBER 9 - Freshkills on Weltspiegel / ARD Germany https://youtu.be/bbcNLTgDJPg
NOVEMBER 8 - Cornell Freshkills lecture now viewable on Youtube as part of the Future Cities Colloquium
https://youtu.be/zupszJ-0x-Q
NOVEMBER 3: “EXTRA TERRESTRIAL - FRESHKILLS FEATURE” Urban Omnibus
OCTOBER 29 / 30: NEW YORK TIMES PORTFOLIO: THE CITY TEN YEARS AFTER HURRICANE SANDY
October 29 - Online “Five Ways to Prevent the Next Sandy”
October 30 - In print - Metro section - “Will New York Be Ready for the Next Time?”
OCTOBER 27 - Jade Doskow in conversation with Tyler Green on Modern Art Notes Podcast
October 10 - November 4, 2022
FRESHKILLS: Solo exhibition
as part of the Cornell Biennial Futurities, Uncertain at Cornell University
with a Special musical score by Heather Campanelli : https://heathercampanelli.bandcamp.com/
Organized by the Just Places Lab with support from the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, Cornell Council for the Arts, and the Department of City and Regional Planning.
OCTOBER 14, 2022, 5:00 - 7:00 PM - OPENING RECEPTION - John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome
OCTOBER 14, 2022, 12:25 PM - LECTURE - Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall
Links to exhibition here:
︎Cornell Biennial Artist Page
︎Just Places - Opening Reception/ Symposium
︎Architecture Art & Planning
︎ September 8-12, 2022 ‘Nudes, Palais de Tokyo,’ on view in the Spring Break Art Fair with Gentle Giant Projects
︎ May 4 - Artist talk for the members of Professional Women Photographers
︎March 5 to May 15, 2022 - Two photographs from the ‘Lost Utopias’ series will be on view at the Museum London as part of the exhibition From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures
April 3, 2025
Breakdown Exhibition Panel Discussion With Dr. Martin Melosi, Jade Doskow, and Lisa Ann Schonberg
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Register here:https://3004.blackbaudhosting.com/3004/Breakdown-Exhibition-Panel-Discussion
Join artists Jade Doskow and Lisa A. Schonberg in conversation with exhibition contributor Dr. Martin Melosi around their research and participation in the exhibition Breakdown: The Promise of Decay.
The conversation will be moderated by José Ramírez-Garofalo.
Jade Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, Staten Island, New York City. She is a New York based architectural and landscape photographer known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, architecture, nature, and time.
Dr. Martin Melosi is one of the nation’s leading scholars in Environmental History. Dr. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. In 2000-2001, he held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Helsinki.
Lisa Ann Schonberg is a composer, percussionist, and ecological sound artist. Informed by her background in ecology, Schonberg composes music with a focus on cryptic sounds of insects and other underappreciated beyond-humans. She documents soundscapes, insects, and habitats through music composition, writing, and multimedia collaboration, engaging the public in listening to prompt heightened consideration of these soundworlds.
José Ramírez-Garofalo is an Ecologist and serves as the President of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods, an organization focused on open space preservation on Staten Island. His work focuses on documenting changes in the ecological communities in New York City and understanding the coupled dynamics of the human-natural system. He uses cutting-edge methods and natural history information to inform natural resource management decisions and conservation actions, and has conducted collaborative research at Freshkills for ten years.
January 23 - September 27, 2025
Breakdown: The Promise of Decay
Staten Island Museum
Breakdown: The Promise of Decay examines the vibrancy of decay. This interdisciplinary exhibition explores notions of time, waste, and the in-between. Breakdown shines a light on the dark corners of the life cycle recognizing the oft-overlooked workhorses of the ecosystem. From mycelium to microplastics, this exhibition focuses on what breaks down and what does not.
Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental challenges in the 21st century. Microplastics, tiny pieces of non-biodegradable plastic, thwart the pressures of time and decomposition. They are ubiquitous, like fungi: found outdoors in soil and on plants, indoors on surfaces and in the air, on our skin and inside the body. In the end, it comes from our stuff – which is everywhere.
Featuring contemporary artwork, objects from the museum’s collection, and scientific innovations in the curious world of decomposition, Breakdown asks the public to value a world they cannot see in order to protect the one we can.
Curated by Rylee Eterginoso and Colleen Evans
Featured Artists:
Selin Balci
Jade Doskow
Tamara Kostianovsky
Phyllis Ma
Antonia A. Perez
Lisa Ann Schonberg
With contributions by Dr. Martin Melosi, Louis Vassar Semanchik, Heather Campanelli and Michael Falco.
156: ABC No Rio in Photographs
January 1 - 31, Umbrella House, 23 Avenue C
To celebrate the legacy of both ABC No Rio and longtime director Steven Englander, a group exhibition addressing the physical and spiritual presence of No Rio, even during exile.
Featured artists: Victoria Law, Jade Doskow, Robert Goldkind, Amy Westpfahl, Paul Granger, Bobby G, Maggie Wrigley, Jack Waters, Margarida Correia, Peter Cramer, Tom Warren, Becky Howland, and Ricardo Nelson
November 21, 2024 - Reclaiming a Wild Landscape
Podcast with B&H Photo, Jade Doskow and Cal Flyn
Upcoming: June 1st Closing Events at All Street Gallery, 119 Hester Street, Starting at 5 pm
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May - New York Times, May 24, 2024 by Travis Diehl
Exhibition Brings Together Waste Artists in Residency, Waste Dive, May 10, 2024 by Jacob Wallace
How Five Neighborhoods are Struggling with Climate Change’ New York Times, May 12, 2024 Writing by Hilary Howard Photography by Jade Doskow
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/nyregion/nyc-neighborhoods-climate-change.html
‘Art at Work: Sanitation and Social Practice’ - May 4 - June 1, 2024
NEW YORK, NY – All Street Gallery is pleased to present Art at Work, a group exhibition celebrating public sanitation art, featuring Lily Cox-Richard, Jade Doskow, Brian Hutsebout, Kimberly Lakin, sTo Len, Hilary Pfeifer, Francesca Pfister, Slinko, Mike Suri and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The show brings together for the first time works made by artists-in-residence at municipal sanitation departments and waste facilities in four different U.S. cities—New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Portland, OR—between 2000 and 2020. Art at Work will be on view from May 4 - May 30, 2024 at All Street’s Chinatown location, 119 Hester Street. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 4, from 6 - 9 pm.
Artist Talk: International Center of Photography - April 17, 2024
"Reuse: City as Canvas" From ICP: Join us as Jade Doskow, ICP faculty member and Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, NYC, is joined in conversation in the ICP Library by choreographer Kathy Westwater, NYC Department of Sanitation Archivist and records manager, Maggie Lee, and Dennis Diggins, the former Department of Sanitation First Deputy Commissioner of New York City, NYC Sanitation Department for a conversation centered on how artists engage and document undervalued and reclaimed city land. Special remarks will be played from Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Artist Talk: Center for Photography at Woodstock - April 25, 2024
"Meet the Artist with Jade Doskow"
Join me up in Kingston at the wonderful Center for Photography at Woodstock where I will be sharing a selection of Freshkills work as well as discussing the relationship between this project and my recent environmental photojournalism with the New York Times.
Harvard Journal Article:
Harnessing Photography as a Force for Social Impact: The Transformation of NYC's Freshkills from Largest Waste Landfill to Utopian Wilderness: Q&A with Jade Doskow, Photographer-in-Residence
These last few months I worked with the writer and scholar Sandy Kresch on a wonderful interview and feature in the Harvard Journal Advanced Leadership Initiative / Social Impact Review on my partnership with Freshkills and the public presentations and conversations that have resulted from the work over the last few years. This project is ever-evolving and in this article we present just how multi-faceted both the site and the photographic archive are and continue to be.
New York Times: Snakes, Spores & Sewage: Life in a Neighborhood Known as ‘The Hole’
For this environmental piece, I again partnered with the climate writer Hilary Howard to describe the challenges faced by residents of a vulnerable New York neighborhood.
Photoville with Alice Austen House - June 3 - 23
Victoria Munro, Excecutive Director of the wonderful Alice Austen House Museum, has curated my Freshkills work into the annual Photoville Photography Festival. And on the Photoville site: https://photoville.nyc/people/jade-doskow/
New York, New Publics - through July 29, 2023
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Two photographs from the Freshkills work on view with Field Operations / Freshkills
Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller and his Plans to Save the Planet
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
From the Lost Utopias series, the photograph Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome is on view.
Triennial/ Ecologies - through May 27, 2023
Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York
Several Freshkills photographs are on view as well as a sound and image collaboration with the electronic composer Heather Campanelli
Upcoming Exhibitions and Events:
APRIL 13 -AUGUST 21, 2023 - Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller's Plans to Save the Planet
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
The photograph from the Lost Utopias series Montréal 1967 World's Fair, "Man and his World," Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome with Solar Experimental House will be on view as part of this fantastic exhibition celebrating Fuller's legacy.
MAY 20 - Screening and Q&A: Jade Doskow, Photographer of Lost Utopias
Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, New York
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-and-qa-jade-doskow-photographer-of-lost-utopias-tickets-524549631067
January 19, 2023 at the International Center of Photography: Film screening of
‘Jade Doskow, Photographer of Lost Utopias’ info click here
January 24, 2023 - Panel discussion for exhibition ‘ In the Wake’ with Munipal Arts Society
DECEMBER 9 - Freshkills on Weltspiegel / ARD Germany https://youtu.be/bbcNLTgDJPg
NOVEMBER 8 - Cornell Freshkills lecture now viewable on Youtube as part of the Future Cities Colloquium
https://youtu.be/zupszJ-0x-Q
NOVEMBER 3: “EXTRA TERRESTRIAL - FRESHKILLS FEATURE” Urban Omnibus
OCTOBER 29 / 30: NEW YORK TIMES PORTFOLIO: THE CITY TEN YEARS AFTER HURRICANE SANDY
October 29 - Online “Five Ways to Prevent the Next Sandy”
October 30 - In print - Metro section - “Will New York Be Ready for the Next Time?”
OCTOBER 27 - Jade Doskow in conversation with Tyler Green on Modern Art Notes Podcast
October 10 - November 4, 2022
FRESHKILLS: Solo exhibition
as part of the Cornell Biennial Futurities, Uncertain at Cornell University
with a Special musical score by Heather Campanelli : https://heathercampanelli.bandcamp.com/
Organized by the Just Places Lab with support from the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, Cornell Council for the Arts, and the Department of City and Regional Planning.
OCTOBER 14, 2022, 5:00 - 7:00 PM - OPENING RECEPTION - John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome
OCTOBER 14, 2022, 12:25 PM - LECTURE - Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall
Links to exhibition here:
︎Cornell Biennial Artist Page
︎Just Places - Opening Reception/ Symposium
︎Architecture Art & Planning
︎ September 8-12, 2022 ‘Nudes, Palais de Tokyo,’ on view in the Spring Break Art Fair with Gentle Giant Projects
︎ May 4 - Artist talk for the members of Professional Women Photographers
︎March 5 to May 15, 2022 - Two photographs from the ‘Lost Utopias’ series will be on view at the Museum London as part of the exhibition From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures
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