Infinite Thread: Thorbjørn Bechmann, Maja Dlugolecki, & Kenny Nguyen
March 31 - May 7, 2022
508 West 28th Street, New York, NY
Come see Jon at work in his gallery-converted-studio through June 28th!
P.S. you can leave his studio with a piece of unique artwork for yourself... for free!
Join us on September 24th at 7:00PM sharp!
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Still: A Survey of Contemporary Still Life Paintings, presented by Sugarlift, examines contemporary artists from a variety of schools working in the still life genre.
Sep 7, 2019
Painting, picnics and parasols! For our annual artist get together, we took over Prospect Park to paint en plein air, as Monet would say...
July 15, 2019
Mother & Child was a literal blockbuster! With over sixty artists participating and Colossal co-sponsoring, we raised $15,000 to support immigrant children and separated families.
July 5-7, 2019
We brought Nicolas V. Sanchez's paintings and ballpoint pen drawings (oh yeah, and the artist himself) to the jam-packed Market Art + Design event in the Hamptons.
April 25, 2019
An exhibition and artist panel featuring the bold, non-referential paintings of Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo, Danica Lundy and Jacob Brooks.
April 15-19, 2019
Sugarlift presented "1000 Paintings in Your Pocket" at the TED conference in Vancouver, BC to offer previews of paintings by emerging artists in augmented reality.
Feb 23 - Mar 16, 2019
A baptism, a drowning: When context is stripped, the vulgarity and violence of the ritual is exposed. Layers of dirt, sand, wax and paint energize the struggle between persons and submersion. - Adam Lupton
March 7-10, 2019
Sugarlift's solo booth for Nicolas V. Sanchez at the Art on Paper fair featured his exquisite ballpoint pen drawings.
Jan 19 - Feb 16, 2019
Sketchbook Vol. 1 is more than a show. It's a rare chance to flip through masters' sketchbooks yourself and see where art starts.
August 25, 2018
Sugarlift and NYC Artists Took Over the 2nd Avenue Subway and Raised over $2,000 for Young New Yorkers!
July 9, 2018
With your help, we raised (and are still raising!) enough work to send $2000+ to each of our four partners that provide aid and services to separated immigrant families.
May 6 -7, 2017
Sugarlift Open Studios was an exhibition in downtown Manhattan featuring new and unfinished works by 24 NYC-based artists.
March 8-11, 2018
We are featuring works on paper by 25 New York artists, exploring similarities in the visual vocabulary across the figurative–abstract spectrum.
August 12, 2016
On Thursday night, Sugarlift partnered with ballpoint artists Guno Park and Nicolas V. Sanchez for an evening of figure drawing at WeWork NoMad. We had a blast.
July 7-10, 2016
Sugarlift made the trip from the city and ventured over to the Hamptons this weekend for the Market Art + Design fair in Bridgehampton.
June 22, 2016
Over 200 artists--from kids to the more seasoned among us--took over the High Line to sketch and receive some feedback from our host artists.
We were blown away by everyone who came out to last Friday's opening of "Ballpoint" here at Sugarlift. A huge thanks goes out to Braven Brewing, Guno Park, and all of the artists involved in the show. If you couldn't...
We don't want to be cliché, so we definitely WON'T say that Lizzie Gill's solo show "exceeded our Textpectations". But just know that we could. It was awesome celebrating Lizzie and her work on Friday night here at Sugarlift, with...
In the midst of the craziest storm we've seen out in Bushwick for a while, last Friday we hosted the opening for Jon Legere's solo show "Maelstrom" (the irony of the show's title was not lost on us). Guests braved...