Opening exhibition: WeWork, Oral Moral

Opening: April 10, 6pm to late

Address: Suite 410, 1000 Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Artists: Abby Lloyd, Ada Bowman, Ariel Schlesinger, Austin Lee, Anna K.E., B. Wurtz, Bradford Kessler, Brian Oakes, Cato Ouyang, Cayetano Ferrer, Chris Retsina, Collin Leitch, Craig Jun Li, Dante Guthrie, David Humphrey, DM Simons, Earl Fox,Dahlia Bloomstone, Eli Ping, Fin Simonetti, Jin Meisenberg, Greg Carideo, Gregory Kalliche, Harris Rosenblum, Henry Gunderson, Joey Frank, Kristin Walsh, Kyle Clairmont Jacques, Lado Buchakuri-Andreev, Lucas Blalock, Marcus Jahmal, Michael Egan, Michael Assiff, Nathaniel de Large, Pol Morton, Philip Hinge, Riley Hooker, Su Su, Vijay Masharani, Viktor Timofeev, Zoe Chait

WeWork (oralmoral) is a 5 week exhibition project, (April 10 - May 18) initiated by The Gallery at 1000 Dean Street, the exhibition unfolds within a former 4,000 sq ft office in Brooklyn, approached not as a neutral container but as an environment dense with memory, use, and structure. The space remains largely untouched - its partitions, lighting logic, circulation paths, and marked surfaces intact becoming an active framework rather than a backdrop. Artists works will engage directly with these conditions, placing existing works in dialogue with the architecture so that a strong sense of site-specificity emerges. 

Emptied of its former hierarchies, the space opens into a rare, suspended condition, an “absence of power” where gestures can unfold freely, without obligation to permanence, branding, or control. 

These contributions will not appear as separate presentations but as parts of a single spatial composition that unfolds across the floor like a conversation carried from room to room that is curated by The Gallery. The existing infrastructure of the office becomes a script that artists read, interrupt, annotate, or quietly rewrite.

During the one-month runtime, artists and curators are invited to host events within the exhibition. These evenings may take the form of dinners, performances, screenings, talks, or listening sessions, activating the space through temporary gatherings that echo and transform its former social rhythms. Over time, these moments accumulate into a shared program shaped collectively by the participating artists.