Current

• Leo Kaspar and Andrew Pierce Scott: Robusted

  Leo Kaspar and Andrew Pierce Scott: Robusted

  The inaugural collaboration between designers Leo Kaspar and Andrew Pierce Scott, who have created eighteen unique objects in metal and glass. The works, ranging from sconces and lanterns through candelabras and tables, will be on view at TIWA Gallery in Tribeca through May 5. 

  Robusted references the dynamic energy involved in the fabrication processes of metal and glass work. While seemingly very different materials from the outset, both materials require intense heat, pressure, and physical strength to produce finished forms. Working on opposite sides of the Atlantic—Leo in Southern England and Andrew in Philadelphia—the two artists used materials that come together to create completed objects that have a whimsy, lightness and delicateness that one might not expect from the raw materials.

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  On view Mar 22—May 5, 2024
  TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

Past

• Andrew Tarlow: 5 Urns, 7 Faces. Pegasus 2

  Andrew Tarlow: 5 Urns, 7 Faces. Pegasus 2

  We are proud to present the first solo show of works on canvas by acclaimed New York City restaurateur and artist Andrew Tarlow.

  Widely recognized for pioneering the artisanal food movement in Brooklyn with establishments including Marlow and Sons, Achilles Heel, Diner and Romans, Tarlow has created a fantasy world in his paintings where the Classical world collides with color and depth with punchy results.

  The pieces—ranging from intimate sketches to large-scale canvas hangings—focus on Tarlow's curiosity for mythology, eating and drinking vessels, and human faces. TIWA Gallery's first show of works on canvas will sit in the gallery amongst its permanent collection of furniture and objets d'art.

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  On view Feb 16—Mar 7, 2023
  TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

• Earth Landing Project: Constellation Club

  Earth Landing Project: Constellation Club

  Constellation Club is the first show by Stefan White in New York City. Working in the medium of resin, Stefan casts flexible arms and rigid shades in a kaleidoscopic palette with subtle nods to the colorscape of the natural and urban environments in his home town, Los Angeles. Experimenting with different casting techniques for the resin, some shades take on organic forms that look more like algae or moss, while others lean bold and kitsch. The conversation between the color, texture and form of each shade is exaggerated by the kinetic arms of the lights  that make the works feel like living sculptures.

  In addition, Tieghi-Walker has invited two other artists also using recycled materials in unexpected ways to create works. Painter Daniel Evan Long has created evocative portraits in shades of greens, mustard and taupe on pieces of found cardboard; craftsman and designer Chris Rucker has contributed a series of patchwork quilts created from moving blankets, and chairs formed from packing crates, including a whimsical two-person conversation chair.

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  Dec 1—21, 2023
  TIWA Gallery, 86 Walker Street, New York City NY-10013

   

• Dana Arbib: Vetro Orto

  Dana Arbib: Vetro Orto

  TIWA Select presented its second show of works by glass artist Dana Arbib, who has created a unique series of lighting objects and vessels in Murano glass, on view at TIWA Gallery, the new permanent home for TIWA Select on Walker St, Tribeca.

  Vetro Orto literally translates from the Italian as “the glass vegetable garden,” with the pieces alluding to the shapes and forms found in gourds, brassicas, and root vegetables. The works continue to demonstrate Arbib's fascination with the complexities of patterns found in the natural world, mimicking fractals and logarithmic sequences that push the physical capabilities of glass in a spectacular fashion. 

  To provide the context to the works, TIWA Select has partnered with Alan Eckstein of Queens-based vintage design gallery The Somerset House, who will be displaying a range of pieces spanning a 200-year history alongside Dana’s works, including pieces by Alvar Aalto, Tucker Robbins, and a historic Biedermeier daybed.

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  Sept 20—Oct 13, 2023
  TIWA Gallery

• Frieze: The North American Pavilion

  Frieze: The North American Pavilion

  From June 22 – 24, 2023, TIWA Select will be showing alongside an innovative group of galleries, all under five-years-old and hailing variously from New York City, Los Angeles, México City, Atlanta, and Montréal: Bruises Gallery, Emma Scully Gallery, Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, NOON Projects, MARTA, OF THE CLOTH, and Studio IMA.

  The guiding principle behind the North American Pavilion is a celebration of the cultures existing side-by-side in the vast North American landmass; each gallery will occupy an entire room in the former townhouse-turned-exhibition space, with the simple brief to represent their unique North American perspective of curation and narrative.

  Request a catalog of works: studio@tiwa-select.com

  June 22 - 24, 2023
  No. 9 Cork Street, London W1S 3LL

• Megumi Shauna Arai: Moments of Fulfillment

  Megumi Shauna Arai: Moments of Fulfillment

  Megumi Shauna Arai created an ensemble of folding screens inspired by shoji (Japanese room dividers), each representing the changing seasons. In this context, the function of dividers was not just to demarcate physical space, but to also acknowledge the ebbs and flows of existence throughout the year, and a foundation that has the depth to root us in a life with moments of fulfillment. 

  Continuing from this theme, Moments of Fulfillment also celebrated the seasonality of botanical dyes and textiles. Each screen anchored four domestic scenes—i) Winter, ii) Spring, iii) Summer, and iv) Autumn—bringing the wonder of the natural world in unison with the interior scenes, also a core tenet of traditional Japanese architecture. 

  Oct 28 - Nov 11, 2022
  181 Mott Street, New York City

   

• Vince Skelly: After the Storm

  Vince Skelly: After the Storm

  On Friday Jan 21, 2022, a severe wind storm hit Southern California, with gusts of over 83mph hitting Claremont, a small university town just outside of Los Angeles locally known as “The City of Trees.” During the six-hour event, over 300 trees were blown over. In both an effort to assist the city with the cleanup, and to preserve the legacy of the felled trees, Skelly drove around in the days following the storm and marked trees which had usable timber, which he gathered at his studio.

  The show featured an enticing array of pieces sculpted from six different wood types – deodar cedar, pine, redwood, live oak, eucalyptus and magnolia; varieties that were all new to Skelly. Ranging from the functional, like chairs, tables and benches, to the purely decorative, the collection provided Skelly with a unique opportunity to finesse his practice while still expressing the poignancy of the regrettable circumstances that the materials arose from in the first place. 

  July 2-13, 2022
  FARAGO x TIWA, Los Angeles

• Dana Arbib: Vetro Alga

  Dana Arbib: Vetro Alga

  Having worked within several facets of design, self-taught Arbib pivoted to designing glassware, applying her multifaceted perspective to oversized vases and vessels glass pieces produced by master glass artisans in Murano. Each handmade piece united chapters in Arbib’s heritage. Her Libyan father fled Tripoli as a refugee in 1967, instilling Arbib with a romanticized portrait of a time when Jewish, Italian, and North African cultures existed symbiotically in one land. Her pivot to glassware itself is also part reconnecting with her three-times removed great uncle, Salvatore Arbib, a Libyan migrant-turned-glassblower owning a Furnace in Venice during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

  Vetro Alga literally translates from the Italian as “Seaweed Glass,” with the pieces alluding to the uniqueness of Venice being a city built on water. Colors and shapes found in Roman glass and North African relics are also used as sources of inspiration.

  May 13-18th, 2022
  Galerie Michael Bargo, New York City

• FARAGO x TIWA Select: Everyday Rituals

  FARAGO x TIWA Select: Everyday Rituals

  An exhibition of sculptures, paintings, and utilitarian objects on view in tandem with the 2022 edition of Frieze Los Angeles. The show, co-curated by Max Farago of FARAGO and Alex Tieghi-Walker of Tiwa Select, celebrated talents with more unconventional practices and careers, including Jim McDowell, Andrée Singer Thompson, Peter Shire, Louis Mueller and E’Wao Kagoshima. The result was a pepto pink room filled with works that feel like glimpses into the imaginations, dreams and workings of magicians who may or may not have thought others would see their work. Above all, this was a show that celebrated the creative power of experience: all artists on view were aged 75 or over at the time of the show.

  March 18-April 22, 2022
  FARAGO x TIWA, Los Angeles

• SIZED: The Boro Room

  SIZED: The Boro Room

  Born as a meditation on necessity, excess, and our relationship to the spaces we occupy, this two week exhibition in Los Angeles featured works from more than 60 artists and designers, curated around the potential of human touch. Articulating the centrality of human connection to the objects that surround us, Tiwa Select created an immersive and poetic space on the mezzanine of the space, showcasing textile works by Megumi Shauna Arai, and wooden furniture from Vince Skelly. 

  June 15-27, 2021
  www.sized.studio

• Object & Thing: At the Noyes House

  Object & Thing: At the Noyes House

  At The Noyes House, presented by the uptown galleries Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing, featured works by Jim McDowell and Megumi Shauna Arai. Their pieces were seamlessly curated, honoring the house’s original spirit which married architecture, design, and functional objects as a living, breathing monument to daily life lived through art. 

  September, 2020
  www.object-thing.com

• Big Plates

  Big Plates

  An exhibition of of oversized platters, simply titled ‘Big Plates’, in honour of outdoor entertaining. Featuring the creative efforts of 13 artists on the Tiwa Select platform, ranging from designers Simone Bodmer-Turner and Minjae Kim to former editor Deborah Needleman, and presented in a barn upstate in New York, the plates ran the material gamut.

  Aug 5-7, 2021