The Development Gallery Events
EXHIBTIONS LIMITED EDITIONS ARTSY CONTACT
75 Leonard Street
Between Church and Broadway
(Down the block from Anish Kapoor’s bean sculpture!)
TriBeCa, NYC
For private appointment inquiries for Take Heed at The Development Gallery please email atachiatthedevelopment@gmail.com or call 212-524-9281
Jennifer Elster
Take Heed
“A sinking despair. It is with the force of wisdom and a relentless, dissecting of what is, that I bring forth Take Heed. Mounted on experience and sharp and proven, reliable intuition, I beckon the patron to pay attention …but only if they could see! Yet I hope on, like the chances a child gives a parent who constantly disappoints. “They will”, I say to myself, but not aloud, and still unsure. A wicked lashing out to an asleep and/or deadened audience, or all love to those who know true concern. And now War and Climate Disaster and Pandemics do an interwoven dance in the intake of our global, daily lives. But will we respond? It is with no assistance to our world crisis that the global majority have a stubborn resistance to the truth. I think it’s good to not be callous during these times, which are only worsening. Instead we need to come together, with compassion for one another,
to try and help resolve some of the pressing, critical issues of our time. The urgency of now.
Take Heed. “
—Jennifer Elster
Upcoming Event:
Night of Film
May 4th Night of Performances
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.
Take Heed
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" Serrated rage."
--Tyler Nesler, Interlocutor Magazine Read
“Artist Jennifer Elster Revolutionizes Mixed Media to a New Platform”
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.
Virtual tour and catalog coming soon.
Jan 12th Mid-Opening
So much fun last night in The Development Gallery NYC, celebrating my art collection, Take Heed, and its limited editions available here as of right now.
Yeaahhhh!
Wow night of art and dance
What fun! Thank you.
“The experience of the exhibition is its own very unique experience” says the artist.
November 17th Opening
David Bowie Installation
And with comedy and horror, pathos and style, she weaves in momentos from her earlier life and career, including an installation and artifacts from her avant garde styling work with David Bowie and photographer John Scarisbrick. The installation has been described as “multi dimensional bliss” and ‘serrated rage”.
In a corner, a large-scale homage to David Bowie. Elster presents an installation piece that incorporates her styling work in a photo shoot on Bowie from 1995 for his 1. Outside album. The artist expanded on this work numerous times, including in 2020 for the 25th anniversary of the shoot’s execution, where she painted on the same print in recurring black paint, applied with considered recklessness. In a “tribute to the awesomeness of the whole situation,” Elster here has the cutout piece and bullet belt that was used in the original shoot, and then she built Bowie’s grinning, lipsticked, Codpieced, androgynous photographic specter into a cut web. “I met Bowie as I was referred by the Swedish photographer John Scarisbrick who took the original photograph for 1. Outside,” Elster recalls. “Bowie and I went very deep. I wanted to pay tribute and incorporate but not overwhelm the show. I do like to have my remnants around. I had to go into my hoard to find them.”
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
About:
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 occupies the ground floor at 75 Leonard Street in a historic Cast-Iron building located in Tribeca with Corinthian columns that run down the center of the space.
The focus for exhibitions will be to debut New York City artists that the public is not aware of and would not otherwise have access to.
Past exhibitions include Jennifer Elster’s The Retrospective of an Extroverted Recluse, the J. Elster Pop Up, The Window Exhibition including Elster’s multi-discipline artworks, a 9/11 memorial tribute, a special commemoration of Elster’s work with the late David Bowie, and a tribute to Mick Rock and Steve Hiett’s life in photography from Elster’s private art collection.
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Former Solo Exhibitions include:
