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worthless studios, 7 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

09/14/2026

Last Friday, the WARP Selection Committee and friends of WORTHLESSSTUDIOS came together at Chapter NY Gallery Chapter NY for a walkthrough with Alix Vernet Alix Vernet in her show LANDMARKS.

This week, Alix starts her 2026 WARP residency at UAP UAP | Urban Art Projects to begin work on a new sculpture. She will begin work on her proposed project, supported by $45,000 in materials, an artist stipend, a private studio at UAP, fabrication resources, and support.

Visit LANDMARKS at Chapter NY through October 17, 2026. Stay tuned as more work is made this fall by Alix Vernet, the 2026 WARP Artist.

Photos by Billie McKelvie billie mckelvie

09/10/2026

Welcome Pedro Wainer, Pedro Wainer, our September Photographer in Residence in Brooklyn, NY. 🎞️📷

Continuing years of photography documenting industrial buildings and construction sites in Red Hood and Gowanus, Pedro’s project will document the studio warehouse located at the Beard Street Pier. Last September a fire destroyed the building, displacing nearly one hundred artists and small creative businesses.

Using a custom camera built from wood and fitted with different lenses, Pedro will photograph the building and the physical traces left by the disaster producing direct negative images on photographic paper and produce portraits of the affected.

Pedro Wainer was born in Mexico City to Argentine parents and grew up in Buenos Aires. Through research and hands-on transformation, Pedro repurposes analog cameras and cinema machines into new devices, kinetic sculptures, and interactive installations.

He is a recipient of several grants including the City Arts Corps Grant, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, and more, as well as residencies at Penumbra Foundation, and more. His work has been exhibited at The Slip Gallery, Revolver Gallery, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, The Loisaida Center, Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, Little Berlin Gallery, MAR Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Argentina) among others.

1. Pedro Wainer by Geoffrey Berliner.
2. Pedro Wainer, North Adams, 2017. Gum print with charcoal and brick powder, 11 × 14 in.
3. Pedro Wainer, Averill Park Barn, 2018. Direct exposure on silver gelatin paper, 8 × 11 in.
4. Pedro Wainer, Telefunken 2, 2019. Direct exposure on silver gelatin paper (diptych), 56 × 84 in.
5. Pedro Wainer, Lentes en penumbra, 2019. Direct exposure on silver gelatin paper, eight single prints, 11 × 14 in. each.
6. Pedro Wainer, Untitled, 2025. Digital prints, wood, iron, and aluminum, dimensions variable.

09/10/2026

Welcome Pedro Wainer, Pedro Wainer, our September Photographer in Residence in Brooklyn, NY. 🎞️ 📷

Continuing years of photography documenting industrial buildings and construction sites in Red Hood and Gowanus, Pedro’s project will document the studio warehouse located at the Beard Street Pier. Last September a fire destroyed the building, displacing nearly one hundred artists and small creative businesses.

Using a custom camera built from wood and fitted with different lenses, Pedro will photograph the building and the physical traces left by the disaster producing direct negative images on photographic paper and produce portraits of the affected.

Pedro Wainer was born in Mexico City to Argentine parents and grew up in Buenos Aires. Through research and hands-on transformation, Pedro repurposes analog cameras and cinema machines into new devices, kinetic sculptures, and interactive installations.

He is a recipient of several grants including the City Arts Corps Grant, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, and more, as well as residencies at Penumbra Foundation, and more. His work has been exhibited at The Slip Gallery, Revolver Gallery, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, The Loisaida Center, Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, Little Berlin Gallery, MAR Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Argentina) among others.

1. Pedro Wainer by Geoffrey Berliner.
2. Pedro Wainer, North Adams, 2017. Gum print with charcoal and brick powder, 11 × 14 in.
3. Pedro Wainer, Averill Park Barn, 2018. Direct exposure on silver gelatin paper, 8 × 11 in.
4. Pedro Wainer, Telefunken 2, 2019. Direct exposure on silver gelatin paper (diptych), 56 × 84 in.
5. Pedro Wainer, Lentes en penumbra, 2019. Direct exposure on silver gelatin paper, eight single prints, 11 × 14 in. each.
6. Pedro Wainer, Untitled, 2025. Digital prints, wood, iron, and aluminum, dimensions variable.

09/09/2026

Celebrate Eric Garner’s 56th Heavenly Birthday with us! 🎉 We’re coming together at Tompkinsville Park for an afternoon packed with community, incredible music, delicious food, art, and pure celebration.

Bring your chairs, bring your energy, and get ready to move, this is a party for Eric’s legacy!

🔥 THE LINEUP
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Kitty Ca$h (KITTY CA$H)
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Venus X (Venus X)
Powered by: Bridge Street Sounds (bridgestreetsound)

📍 THE DETAILS
When: Saturday, Sept 12 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island
Getting There: Jump on the free, scenic 25-minute Staten Island Ferry from Whitehall Terminal, then take a quick 15-minute walk straight to the park!

ACTIVITIES & EATS
🍗 Smoky, delicious bites from JahAmerican Jerk Smoker (Delroy Burke)
🧊 Sweet treats by Nice Ice Baby (Ashekia)
🎲 Domino tables hosted by Capicu! NYC (Capicu! NYC 🦂)
🌱 Indigenous seed-ball making w/ Friends of Mahoney Playground (friends_of_mahoney_playground)
📚 Resource Library by Thicker Than Water, A Creative Home
🎨 Card writing, art, and family activities all afternoon

PUBLIC EXHIBIT (Sept 3 – Dec 1) Check out the 24/7 public phone booth installations across Staten Island

Grab a friend, pack a lawn chair, and come dance with us. 💖

Artist: Mohammad Ali Gorjestani
Curator: BJ McBride
Partners: Eric Initiative Foundation and NYC Parks NYC Parks
Production: BLACK DISCOURSE Zion Estrada & djalibo
Installation and design: free alexander tripp
Spatial design: Nuevayorkinos®
Fabrication:

Created in collaboration by WORTHLESSSTUDIOS, Even/Odd, Campaign Zero
Supported by Eric Garner Foundation, Staten Island Urban Center, Kelly Villar & Friends of Tompkinsville Park, and The Mellon Foundation

09/04/2026

Join us at the opening of Alix Vernet’s LANDMARKS at Chapter NY, . Alix Vernet Alix Vernet is our 2026 WARP Artist in residence, this fall she will be working at UAP UAP | Urban Art Projects foundry to create a new sculpture, with a $45,000 fabrication budget, artist stipend, private studio, housing, and production support from our team. Come see her show before she dives into her residency!

LANDMARKS opens Wednesday, September 9, 6-8 pm. 🏙️

For LANDMARKS, Alix Vernet pulled the aluminum condenser coils out of the window air conditioners and industrial units that punctuate New York’s fire escapes and rooftops. Installed throughout the gallery as freestanding columns and wall reliefs, weathered and deformed, they read like the contemporary ruins of the infrastructure that keeps our air moving.

Into those surfaces, Alix pressed fragments of monuments, street signage, and public typography, borrowing the physical logic of stone carving. The words come from overheard conversations and chance encounters around the city.
See you there!

1-2. Alix Vernet, Repeat, As, 2026. Aluminum, copper, approx. 41 x 32 x 19 in.
3-5. Alix Vernet, Almost Night, Almost Baby, 2026. Aluminum, copper, approx. 42 x 31 x 9 in.

08/28/2026

One month left to apply to our 2027 Photographer in Residence Open Call and spend one month in the Airstream darkroom. 🎞️📷

Photographer in Residence is a unique analog photography residency that provides photographers with 24/7 access to a darkroom inside an Airstream trailer, an artist stipend, materials, and the option to host a public program as they make a site specific project.

For 2027, 7 artists will be selected for the months April - October and have the opportunity to work with one of our NYC partners in the city’s 5 boroughs. 🏙️

Alice Austen House Alice Austen House Museum (Staten Island)
Inspiration Point Inspiration Point (Bronx)
The Green-Wood Cemetery The Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn)
The Center for Arts and Advocacy Center for Art & Advocacy (Brooklyn)
The Lower Eastside Girls Club The Lower Eastside Girls Club (Manhattan)
NYC Parks NYC Parks (5 Boroughs)

Apply now at the link in our bio! 🔗

1. Photo by Sebastian Ferruzo, Photographer in Residence, April 2025
2. Photo by Olivia Harrison, Photographer in Residence, October 2025
3. Photo by Helena Goni, Photographer in Residence, March 2026
4. Photo by Tanner Pendleton, Photographer in Residence, November 2025
5. Photo by Sophie Joseph Schwartz, Photographer in Residence, July 2025
6. Photo by Sabrina Slavin, Photographer in Residence, May 2025
7. Photo by Luis Manuel Diaz, Photographer in Residence, November 2025

08/26/2026

This August, Photographer in Residence Roni Aviv Roni Aviv continued producing photos for her project 1 to 10, mixing ordinary objects, mark making and text as abstract contemplations on growth and recovery in precarious times.

Take a behind the scenes look at Roni’s residency and practice through these process images from this August. 🎞️☀️

Roni Aviv is a photographer and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. Aviv works with photography, text, and mark making to give form to a psychological space of re-processing experiences.

Photos by Roni Aviv Roni Aviv.

08/25/2026

Join us on September 12, 2026 for a birthday celebration for Eric Garner at Tompkinsville Park in Staten Island 1-5pm. 🎂

1-800 Happy Birthday is installing Eric’s dedicated phone booth in the park and hosting a birthday celebration featuring card writing, family activities, food, music, and art. 🎈🖼️☁️

In collaboration with his mother Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s family, E.R.I.C. Initiative Foundation, and NYC Parks, wish Eric a happy heavenly 56th birthday, listen to voicemails left for him, and gather with community for an afternoon honoring his life.

📍The phone booth installation is free and open to the public, viewable 24 hours a day.

1-800 Happy Birthday is a multimedia voicemail project created by Mohammad Gorjestani Mohammad Ali Gorjestani that honors the Black and Brown victims of police and systemic violence. Explore the project and listen to the voicemail archive at 1800happybirthday.com 📞

RSVP at link in bio. 🔗

Artist: Mohammad Ali Gorjestani
Curator: BJ McBride
Partners: Eric Initiative Foundation Eric Initiative | Eliminating Racism & Inequality Collectively and NYC Parks NYC Parks
Created in collaboration by WORTHLESSSTUDIOS, Even/Odd, Campaign Zero
Supported by The Mellon Foundation
Produced by Black Discourse Zion Estrada

08/19/2026

Continuing the 2026 installations and exhibitions from the West Coast, 1-800 Happy Birthday is traveling across the country to New York City. Join us for birthday celebrations, public art installations, and community programming this fall.

Save these dates 🗓️

🎂 1-800 Happy Birthday Presents: Happy Heavenly Birthday Eric Garner
Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island
Eric Garner Phone Booth in Tompkinsville Park, Staten Island: Public Art Installation

On view September 3 - December 1

Public Opening and Eric Garner’s Birthday Celebration: September 12, 1-5 PM

In partnership with Eric Initiative Foundation , NYC Parks NYC Parks, and Black Discourse Zion Estrada

🎈1-800 Happy Birthday: Brooklyn Public Art Installation
The Plaza at 300 Ashland Place in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District
1-800 Happy Birthday Phone Booth: Public Art Installation

On view September 3 – December 1

Public Program to be announced. Stay tuned!

In partnership with: L10 Arts and Cultural Center L10 Arts & Cultural Center, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Downtown Brooklyn, Two Trees , Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) MoCADA, Brooklyn Public Library (BPL Presents) Brooklyn Public Library, 651Arts 651 ARTS, Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM.

1-800 Happy Birthday is a multimedia voicemail project created by Mohammad Gorjestani Mohammad Ali Gorjestani that honors the Black and Brown victims of police and systemic violence. Explore the project and listen to the voicemail archive at 1800happybirthday.com

Artist: Mohammad Ali Gorjestani
Curator: BJ McBride
Created in collaboration by WORTHLESSSTUDIOS, Even/Odd, Campaign Zero
Supported by The Mellon Foundation
Produced by Black Discourse Zion Estrada

08/12/2026

Welcome Roni Aviv, Roni Aviv, our August Photographer in Residence in Brooklyn, NY.

During her time in residence, Roni will continue developing her project 1 to 10, which takes its title from the pain scale and examines cycles of pain.

The project emphasizes slowness, growth, and recovery in contrast to a culture built for speed. The work is process-oriented, with dark humor and play, building a vocabulary out of the everyday labor of maintaining and pushing a body.
Roni Aviv is a photographer and educator living in Brooklyn, New York working with photography, text, and mark making to give form to a psychological space of re-processing experiences. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.
Recent solo exhibitions include CEPA Gallery, NY and Real Art Ways, CT. Recent group exhibitions include Voltz Clarke Gallery, NY, The Bronx Museum, NY, Center for Book Arts, NY, Longwood Art Gallery, NY, and The Jewish Museum, NY. Aviv is a grant recipient of Artis Contemporary (2025, 2021) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2024). Residencies and fellowships include NARS Foundation (2021), Center for Book Arts NY (2022), AIM Bronx Museum (2023), Centrum (2024), ProjectArt (2024–25), Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (2025), Ellis-Beauregard Foundation (2026), and NooArts (2026).

1. Roni Aviv by Fangzhou Xie
2. Roni Aviv, surrrre, silver gelatin print, 2026
3. Roni Aviv, TRY, silver gelatin print, 2026
4. Roni Aviv, 2B, silver gelatin print, 2026
5. Roni Aviv, Tissues River, silver gelatin print, 2026
6. Roni Aviv, To Be A Tree [shedding my bark], video + animation, 4:48, 2026

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