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Cristin Tierney Gallery Cristin Tierney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery with an international exhibition program.

Founded in 2010, Cristin Tierney Gallery is a contemporary art gallery committed to the development and support of both established and emerging artists. The international exhibition program emphasizes critical theory and art history, with an attendant interest in under-recognized artists and art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

We are pleased to present “The Linden Trees,” a solo exhibition of recent paintings and writings by Maureen O’Leary. Thi...
10/02/2026

We are pleased to present “The Linden Trees,” a solo exhibition of recent paintings and writings by Maureen O’Leary. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.

The exhibition opens Saturday, October 31st, and will be on view through Saturday, December 19th. An opening reception with the artist will be held during the inaugural Art Week NYC, on Friday, November 13th, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Coinciding with the exhibition, the artist will release an animated film and a publication with the same title. The gallery will also present new paintings by O’Leary at the ADAA Fair from November 12th through 16th.

“The Linden Trees” is O’Leary’s first narrative painting installation. Composed of thirty-four oil paintings and thirty-five text panels written by the artist, the work gives new life to two female characters from 19th-century Russian literature: Natasha Rostova from Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and Princess Polina from Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished story “Roslavlev.”

O’Leary reimagines what might have been possible for these women had their artistic ambitions not been constrained, diminished, or left unresolved by the narratives that first contained them.

Read more at the link in our bio.

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Maureen O'Leary, “Rome of Madame de Staël’s novels,” 2023. Oil on linen. 20 x 14 inches.
Maureen O’Leary, “Residents fled in carts and on foot,” 2023. Oil on linen. 20 x 14 inches.

For Art at a Time Like This’s Take One Action campaign, Shaun Leonardo created “Defend”—a work inspired by step-by-step ...
09/15/2026

For Art at a Time Like This’s Take One Action campaign, Shaun Leonardo created “Defend”—a work inspired by step-by-step actions we can take to preserve democracy. Leonardo connected the piece with the New York Immigration Coalition, which advocates for immigrant communities and all New Yorkers.

That same spirit of collaboration takes center stage this Thursday. Join Leonardo, filmmaker Christy Chan, and Jahsia Montrevil of Families for Freedom at Laundromat Project, 6:30–8 PM, for a conversation on how artists and activists can work together to support our communities.
Hosted by Art at a Time Like This.

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Shaun Leonardo, “Defend,” 2026. Charcoal on paper, 12 x 18 ⅛ inches.

09/12/2026

In Janet Biggs’s “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858),” an unnamed performer turns the pages of “An Account of the Eclipse of the Sun,” an account by Lt. James Melville Gilliss. A nineteenth-century astronomer and naval explorer, Gilliss becomes a point of departure for Biggs through his eclipse observations and expeditions.

In “Path of Totality,” Biggs draws on Gilliss’s historical trajectories to consider perception, place, and the limits of visibility.

Across “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858)” and “Eclipse (Antarctica, December 4, 2021),”!Biggs layers expedition footage, psychological studies of extreme isolation, and poetic texts collapsing distinctions between past and present, observation and disorientation.

What emerges is less a record of an eclipse than an inquiry into what it means to locate oneself when visibility fails.

Come see “Janet Biggs: Path of Totality,” on view September 9–October 24, 2026.

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Janet Biggs, Excerpts from “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858),” 2025. Three-channel HD video with spatial sound. 10:14 minutes.

09/11/2026

In Janet Biggs’s “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858),” an unnamed performer turns the pages of “An Account of the Eclipse of the Sun,” an account by Lt. James Melville Gilliss. A nineteenth-century astronomer and naval explorer, Gilliss becomes a point of departure for Biggs through his eclipse observations and expeditions.

For “Path of Totality,” Biggs draws on Gilliss’s historical trajectories to consider perception, place, and the limits of visibility.

Across “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858)” and “Eclipse (Antarctica, December 4, 2021),” Biggs layers expedition footage, psychological studies of extreme isolation, and poetic texts collapsing distinctions between past and present, observation and disorientation.

What emerges is less a record of an eclipse than an inquiry into what it means to locate oneself when visibility fails.

Come see “Janet Biggs: Path of Totality,” on view September 9–October 24, 2026.

Cristin Tierney Janet Biggs


Janet Biggs, Excerpts from “Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858),” 2025. Three-channel HD video with spatial sound. 10:14 minutes.

September 11, 2026.
09/11/2026

September 11, 2026.

Join us tomorrow from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for the opening of Path of Totality, an exhibition of new and recent video install...
09/08/2026

Join us tomorrow from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for the opening of Path of Totality, an exhibition of new and recent video installations by Janet Biggs. This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery, who will be present at the opening reception. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, October 24th.

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Photographs by MISHIN

Janet Biggs is no stranger to environmental extremes. Across her practice, she explores landscapes as reflections of the...
09/07/2026

Janet Biggs is no stranger to environmental extremes. Across her practice, she explores landscapes as reflections of the psychological and emotional terrain of human life.

In anticipation of her upcoming solo show, “Path of Totality,” we sat down with Biggs to learn how her love of adventure began. The exhibition opens September 9th, 6:00 to 8:00 PM.

Cover image by Katja Aglert

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Janet Biggs, “Can’t Find My Way Home,” 2015. Single-channel HD video, 16:9 format. 9:45 minutes.

Janet Biggs, “Fade to White,” 2010. Single-channel HD video, 16:9 format. 12:28 minutes.

Janet Biggs, “A Step on the Sun,” 2012. Single-channel HD video, 16:9 format. 9:05 minutes.

Janet Biggs, “In the Cold Edge,” 2010. Single-channel HD video. 5:29 minutes.

Through the modification of vintage postcards, David Opdyke transforms visions of early twentieth-century leisure into e...
08/17/2026

Through the modification of vintage postcards, David Opdyke transforms visions of early twentieth-century leisure into emissaries from different futures. From flying meteors to preying tentacles, Opdyke brings humanity into the center of these dystopian imaginings, revealing the consequences of climate change, displacement, and migration.

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David Opdyke, “Invasive Species,” 2023. Gouache and ink on postcard, 4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 15.2 cm).

David Opdyke, “What can I say?,” 2024. Gouache and ink on postcard, 4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 15.2 cm).

David Opdyke, “Shall Not Be Infringed,” 2023. Gouache and ink on postcard, 4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 15.2 cm).

David Opdyke, “The Main Attraction,” 2015-20. Gouache and ink on postcard, 4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 15.2 cm).

An interview with Tim Youd, where we ask the questions you really want answered. Responses typed by typewriter only.Cris...
08/12/2026

An interview with Tim Youd, where we ask the questions you really want answered. Responses typed by typewriter only.

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Tim Youd, “Typewriter Ribbon Painting 5 (Series 3),“ 2020. Oil and typewriter ribbon on panel. 12 x 9 inches.

Tim Youd, “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five,” 2019. Typewriter ink on paper. 17 x 25 inches.

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