First Street Gallery

08/26/2026

First Street Gallery is pleased to open the new season with MUSINGS – What is Seen and What is Not, the first part of a two-part exhibition of works by Gallery Artists. Part I opens September 9 and runs to September 26, 2026. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 10th, 6-8 PM.

The eight artists featured in the exhibition are Jessica McGarry Bartlet, Carrie B. Belk, Hank Feeley, Tim Kennedy, Michele Liebler, Lisa Noble, Marie Riccio, and Jill Sarver Rossi.

Read the full press release for MUSINGS in the link below:
https://www.firststreetgallery.org/exhibitions/2025-2026-season-archive/musings-what-is-seen-and-what-is-not-part-1-press-release/

07/25/2026

FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present Close to Home, a summer Invitational. An exhibition of works by seven artists invited by individual Gallery members, the show will run from July 29 to August 15, 2026. A reception will be held on Thursday, July 30th, from 6 to 8 pm. Exhibiting artists include Leslie Adler, Marianne Barcellona, Ken Carbone, John Harms, Marion Held, Susan MacMurdy, and Gillian Wainwright.

“Close to Home”, open to literal and metaphorical interpretations, can certainly be a ‘place’ near to ‘home’. But those two words, themselves, embrace not only a location, but the realm of the imagined, the deeply felt, the present, the past, or future, a foundation or a search, a source of inspiration or inquiry, or several at once.

Read more about the participating artists' insight, through the full press release here:
https://www.firststreetgallery.org/exhibitions/2025-2026-season-archive/close-to-home-summer-invitational-press-release/

06/25/2026

FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present its 2026 National Juried Exhibition. Located in the Chelsea Art District in NYC, the exhibition will run from June 25 to July 18, 2026. A reception will be held on Thursday, June 25th, from 6 to 8 pm.

Curated by Scott Noel, celebrated Philadelphia-based painter, curator, and long-time professor of painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the exhibition presents works by thirty-seven contemporary artists from all regions of the country.

05/23/2026

FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present, "A Clock Without Hands," by Tim Kennedy. The exhibition will be on view May 27 – June 20, 2026.

Join us, Thursday, May 28, 2026 from 6 to 8pm to celebrate the opening of "A Clock Without Hands," Tim Kennedy's 10th solo exhibition with First Street Gallery. Featured in the exhibition are intimately scaled still life paintings in oil and opaque watercolor painted directly from life.

Mr. Kennedy will give a talk in the gallery about the work at 5pm on Saturday, June 20, the final day of the exhibition.

04/29/2026

Dana Saulnier’s lush oil paintings evoke the figure in landscape. Embodied forms, weighty and carnal, enact fundamental tensions that are always with us; now further pressurized and near collapse in this anxious era. ‘A Slow Burn’ by Dana Saulnier will be on view at First Street Gallery April 29 – May 23, 2026, with a closing reception on Thursday, May 21, from 6 to 8pm.

04/08/2026

FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present American Archive 2026, a multidisciplinary exhibition of Jessica McGarry Bartlet’s paintings and drawings, documenting the artist’s lived experience in a time of profound social tension.

McGarry Bartlet constructs a visual record of observation shaped by the question of how individuals persevere within conditions they did not author and over which they have little control.

The exhibition is on view April 1-25, 2026. Join us on Thursday, April 23, from 6-8PM for the closing reception, and meet the artist. ✨

03/25/2026

Join us at the gallery on Saturday, March 28, for an artist talk by Marie Riccio! The talk begins at 3pm, and Riccio will be present in the Gallery until 6pm to answer any questions you may have about her solo exhibition "Community."

We look forward to seeing you there!

03/08/2026

To all my artist friends who make marvelous paintings, drawings, sculptures, mixed media, or photography I invite you to to apply to First Street Gallery's 2026 National Juried Exhibition (I Chair this annual exhibition). The exhibition, which has been a highlight of every season for more than 35 years, will be held in the First Street Gallery's Chelsea space in NYC, June 25 -July 18, 2026. This year's Juror is painter, curator, and long time teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Scott Noel, whose work has been shown in over 40 solo shows in commercial and university galleries, and numerous group shows. His curatorial credits include organizing ten exhibitions exploring themes in perceptual painting, featuring celebrated contemporary artists. See the attached announcement, Prospectus summary and link to full Prospectus and Entry Form.
Don't make art yourself, but have friends whose work you admire? Please share this invitation with them!

whose friends make art they love, please share this exhibition opportunity

Call for Artists - DUE: APR 15
"FIRST STREET GALLERY'S 2026 National Juried Exhibition will be held June 25 through July 18, 2026 in the Gallery's exhibition space in New York City's Chelsea Art District. The Opening Reception will take place on Thursday, June 25, from 6–8 PM."
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"INFORMATION FOR ENTRANTS:
ELIGIBILITY
Open to U.S. resident artists at least 18 yrs. old. Exception: Artists currently represented by First Street Gallery.
- Eligible Works/Media: ORIGINAL oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache, pastels, drawings, prints, photography, mixed media, collage, and sculpture in any medium. No giclées or similar reproductions.
- Size & Weight Limits: All Wall-Hung Work (2D or 3D): May not exceed 36 inches in height OR width including any frame (ie.36×36 inches max). Maximum depth from wall: 10 inches. Maximum weight: 30 lbs.
- 2D work must be suitably framed (or sides cleanly finished or painted), wired, ready to hang. Works on paper MUST be framed under plexi-glass or glass. For works that will be (but are not already) framed, measure the work and estimate total framed size. Make note of your ‘framed’ estimate, so the work does not exceed the size limits after framing.
- Free Standing Sculpture (3D): Maximum width or depth of sculpture is 30 inches. No height limit. Maximum weight is 50 lbs. Sculptors must provide floor stand with maximum footprint of 30 x 30 inches. The gallery has a small number of stands for small sculptures on request. NO work can be hung from ceiling or pipes."
More Info:
https://www.firststreetgallery.org/exhibitions/nje-prospectus/