WHERE BROOKLYN CREATES.
We are a space dedicated to the artists next door and the visionaries across the bridge. From immersive exhibits to late-night performances, we believe art belongs to the community that builds it. Attend. Participate. Explore.
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AMERICAN CARNAGE AND OTHER CONCERNS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH | 6:00 - 9:00PM
Join us September 10 for the opening reception of American Carnage and Other Concerns: Twenty Paintings Across Four Series.
Ahead of November's midterm elections, GALLERY 198 is thrilled feature a new exhibition of politically charged paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Timothy Brewer, whose work brings classical technique into conversation with urgent contemporary concerns. Brewer's richly observed works invite reflection on civic life, belief, and our shared responsibility to one another.
For Brewer, who grounds his work in Baroque methods and Impressionism, painting is "an effort to make visible the moral and emotional tensions of our time."
At once an expansive solo show and invitation for collective reflection on the state of the political moment we find ourselves in, AMERICAN CARNAGE brings together more than twenty paintings across four interconnected series—American Carnage, Ecce Homo, Boiler Room, and The Politics of Evolution. Included are paintings depicting the January 6 insurrection, evolution and de-evolution, children of Gaza, symbols of corrosion, and more.
Join us on Thursday, September 10, 6-9pm, for a public opening reception of the exhibition. Additional viewing opportunities include gatherings with live music on Friday, September 11, 6-8pm, and Saturday, September 19, 4-7pm.
The artist is grateful to the Puffin Foundation for it support of this project.
Free and open to the public.
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Gallery 198 x OHBK Present: 3rd Sundays
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th | 12:00 - 3:00PM
Join us every 3rd Sunday of the month for an afternoon of Creative Care, Ft. Artful Wellness Activities, Live DJ Sets. & Gallery Exploration.
This month's gathering takes its theme from the current exhibition, American Carnage, with an afternoon centered on Art Against Authoritarianism: Pocket Affirmation Cards.
Each gathering begins with a short art-therapy lesson introducing the day's creative process, followed by hands-on art-making. No previous experience is necessary.
This month's art activation is led by art therapists Melissa Diaz and Deborah Rice, with a live vinyl DJ set by Dmitri Russell.
Throughout the afternoon, visitors can also experience Timothy Brewer's American Carnage and Other Concerns: Twenty Paintings Across Four Series, currently on view in the gallery.
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JAZZ JAM & OPEN GALLERY HOURS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH | 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Spend an afternoon with artist Timothy Brewer for a live, improvisational jazz session in the gallery.
A performing jazz guitarist as well as a painter, Brewer will play throughout the afternoon in an informal jam session. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own instruments and join in.
The music will unfold alongside Brewer's exhibition, American Carnage and Other Concerns: Twenty Paintings Across Four Series, currently on view at Gallery 198.
Come to listen, play, wander through the exhibition, or stay awhile.
Free and open to the public.
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RISE MANGORR RISE!
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH | 7:00 – 8:00PM
A puppet play by Seán Taggart
This is a time of monsters. So what's one more?
In Rise Mangorr Rise!, mad scientist Dr. Necrosis offers humanity what sounds like a great boon: an opportunity to throw off the shackles of oppression.
There's only one catch.
We have to support him. And accept his leadership. And trust that this is how we will finally be made free.
Or so it would seem…
Written specifically for puppet theatre, Rise Mangorr Rise! is a new play by cartoonist and painter Seán Taggart, whose work is closely associated with the New York Hardcore punk scene of the 1980s.
Come for the monsters. Stay for the mad science.
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what difference NICHOLAS RYNEARSON
OPENING RECEPTION
SEPTEMBER 17TH | 6:00 - 9:00PM
Nicholas Rynearson's new exhibition begins with a simple question: what difference can a small difference make?
Selections from Story of Line and Curve and Duck-Rabbit reduce composition to simple shapes, lines, curves, color, and a handful of rules—then push those rules through their possible variations.
Sometimes the smallest adjustment changes everything.
CLOSING RECEPTION
Join Nicholas Rynearson at the close of the show for an artist-led walkthrough of what difference, exploring the two series represented in the exhibition and the compositional ideas behind the work. The event will take place October 10, 3:00 - 4:00PM.
On view: September 17 – October 10
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ACCESSIBILITY HOUR
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH | 2:00 - 3:00PM
We recognize that traditional gallery events can be difficult to access for many members of our community. In response, we’re holding a limited-capacity preview ahead of the public closing event for RYNEARSON’s “what difference.” GALLERY 198 will be offering entry in two sessions: one with masks-required, the other quiet / low-stimulus.
It’s a small shift, but an important one—making space for more people to enter the room on their own terms.
Note: If you prefer a solo viewing experience, that is easy for us to arrange. Please send a note to hello@gallery198.com to schedule a private viewing of this show.
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FALLING UPON THE CORRESPONDENCE: POETRY READING
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 | 7:00 - 8:00PM
A one-night poetry reading conceived as a structural film.Falling Upon the Correspondence, by Samuel Budin and collaborator Miguel Gallego, brings poetry and projected images together in a live experiment in coincidence, timing, and association.
A group of poets will read their work alongside a remotely controlled 35mm slide projection. The carousel contains slides submitted by a select group of contributors, largely visual artists. Rather than following a predetermined sequence, the “edit” of the work happens live through the coincidental interaction between speaker and image.
The project takes its cue from what film theorist Michel Chion calls synchresis: the phenomenon in which two separately occurring elements are perceived as belonging together when they happen simultaneously.
The result is part poetry reading, part projection, and part live structural film—an encounter between words and images that can never happen in quite the same way twice.
Doors: 6pm
Free and open to the public. NOTAFLOF!
ON VIEW
AMERICAN CARNAGE and Other Concerns: Twenty Paintings Across Four Series
On view
SEPTEMBER 10 - 27, 2026
Ahead of November's midterm elections, GALLERY 198 is thrilled feature a new exhibition of politically charged paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Timothy Brewer, whose work brings classical technique into conversation with urgent contemporary concerns. Brewer's richly observed works invite reflection on civic life, belief, and our shared responsibility to one another.
For Brewer, who grounds his work in Baroque methods and Impressionism, painting is "an effort to make visible the moral and emotional tensions of our time."
At once an expansive solo show and invitation for collective reflection on the state of the political moment we find ourselves in, AMERICAN CARNAGE brings together more than twenty paintings across four interconnected series—American Carnage, Ecce Homo, Boiler Room, and The Politics of Evolution. Included are paintings depicting the January 6 insurrection, evolution and de-evolution, children of Gaza, symbols of corrosion, and more.
Join us on Thursday, September 10, 6-9pm, for a public opening reception of the exhibition. Additional viewing opportunities include gatherings with live music on Friday, September 11, 6-8pm, and Saturday, September 19, 4-7pm.
The artist is grateful to the Puffin Foundation for it support of this project.
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