The Development Gallery
75 Leonard Street
Between Church and Broadway
(down the block from Anish Kapoor’s bean sculpture)
TriBeCa, NYC
The Development Gallery is curated by artist Jennifer Elster. Bringing back the old-school art vibe with an ahead-of-its-time vision, the gallery is lauded for its multi-media exhibitions; dynamic performance artwork, talented musicianship, and special guests which have run the gamut from the underground to public icons.
The gallery began underground and now occupies the ground floor at 75 Leonard Street in a historic 4,000 square foot Cast-Iron building located in Tribeca with Corinthian columns that run down the center of the space.
For private appointment inquiries for Take Heed at The Development Gallery
please email atachiatthedevelopment@gmail.com or call 212-524-9281
Currently Showing:
Jennifer Elster:
Take Heed
Private appointments avail
Please email AtachiAtTheDevelopment@gmail.com or call 212-524 -9281 The Development Gallery
Events
Upcoming Event: Night of Film
TBA
May 4th’s Night of Peformances
W H A T A N I G H T The Take Heed exhibition was sparkling in its Closing, Closing night party —-with a very special Night of Performances in The Development Gallery. It was a spectacular blast! Below are some photos from the performances. There was so much that made this night special, and I will share more so you can experience it too. Sign up on our YouTube for longer videos which will appear on the Now Featured page.
Performers here in order of photos Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Junyi Liu, Anthony Haden-Guest, Monique Erickson, Mike Handelman, Eimi Tanaka, and myself.
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March 16th Reception
The March 16th reception of Take Heed was an evening of dynamic performances that played into the timeline of the art exhibited; each artifact’s date pieces together a reeling story of awareness, defiance, and insight of and about our times. The closing night reception was a night of unusual warmth and spontaneity that was just as unexpected as the space and exhibition itself. Special words and music by Jennifer Elster, Chief Dwaine Perry of the Ramapough Lenape Tribe, Heide Hatry and Jane LeCroy, Mike Handelman, and Nargiz Aliyarova.
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Whitehot Magazine
Jennifer Elster: Take Heed at The Development Gallery
Amid the jungle of construction lights illuminating the artwork and in what feels like a surreal cinematic experience, the exhibition speaks to our complex
"She feels the wider, macro pain and trauma of the world deeply."
-- Kurt McVey, Whitehot Magazine Read
“ ‘Harrow Head,’ a work Elster painted last year, features an anxious face trailed by an inky, roiling cloud that looks a bit like a caterpillar … The exhibit is essentially a distillation of Elster’s reactions living through the dual realities of the pandemic and Trump.”
-- Lincoln Anderson, The Village Sun Read
“Crystalizing the flurry of cultural norms that have been introduced in the past two years, Take Heed is the first honest retrospective of work that was created or heavily reconsidered under the shadow of an on-going global pandemic and an affronting war.”
— Benjamin Schmidt, The Knockturnal Read
Collect Art
Even the Fighters Won’t Want to Fight, 2016
Photograph, self-portrait, triptych
Digital C-Print, mounted
19h x 48w in
Limited Edition of 8
$12,500.00
Charge, 2015
Don’t FREEZE Don’t GET STUCK Series
Photograph series, self portrait,
Digital C- Print, mounted on Sintra
40h x 39.5w in
Limited Edition of 8
$8,000.00
I’m Not Scared, 2009
Handwritten Word Series
Digital C-Print, mounted
50.75h x 44.50w in
Limited Edition of 8
$7,500.00
The J.Elster Collection Gift Shop
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Former Solo Exhibitions featuring Jennifer Elster:
