Superhouse and Magen H Gallery are honored to present Return to Downtown, an exhibition of historical works from NYC’s Design Art movement of the 1980s and the 1990s. The show takes place September 16 – October 30, 2022 at Superhouse Vitrine, 75 East Broadway, Second Floor, New York, NY. Return to Downtown centers on 12 artists and designers at the forefront of the American Design Art movement, who worked in a broad range of styles, from Minimalism to Pop and from gestural to Industrial. Uniting the movement was the legendary gallery Art et Industrie, opened in 1977 by Rick Kaufman and Tracy Rust. The gallery inhabited various locations in Downtown Manhattan for 20 years and quickly became a locus of creative energy. Kaufman and Rust promoted the work of emerging (now historically significant) designers as well as established artists who were peers of Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Talking Heads, Andy Warhol and others.
| Hours | Saturdays and Sundays 2:00 PM - 6:00 PMOr by appointment |
| Venue | Superhouse |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| City | New York City |
About
Superhouse
Superhouse is a New York-based platform and nomadic gallery founded in 2019 by Stephen Markos with a focus on art furniture and design. In addition to presenting IRL and digital exhibitions, Superhouse provides online programming including daily content, special events, and designer interviews with the likes of Gaetano Pesce and OrtaMiklos. Following its 2020 inaugural in-person show, Super Group, which highlighted work by 50+ international contemporary creatives, Superhouse exhibited historically important works from the Radical period of Italian design in a widely-recognized 3D experience, Different Tendencies. Superhouse has been featured in numerous publications, including Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Elle Decor Italia, Interior Design, New York magazine’s Design Hunting, The Design Edit and Sight Unseen.
