Franklin Street Works

Franklin Street Works programming includes on and off site collaborative projects. We were excited to be asked to collaborate with ArtSpace New Haven on a project as part of the City Wide Open Studios alternative space on October 20 and 21! On view October 20 and 21 at the New Haven Register Building at 40 Sargent Dr., New Haven, Connecticut, … Read More

Franklin Street Works presents the original exhibition Working Alternatives: Breaking Bread, Art Broadcasting, and Collective Action, on view from October 27, 2012 – January 13, 2013. The exhibition looks at three threads of alternative art space histories and examines how engaged, inclusive strategies are still being used to break down perceived barriers between contemporary art and its audiences. The themes … Read More

Virtually since television’s invention, artists have used its form, content, and media to create artworks whose intentions range from homage to critique. Your Content Will Return Shortly is a group exhibition that explores how contemporary artists harness the in-between moments of our television experiences. By taking their cues from the physical and functional qualities of television and a variety of … Read More

The newest contemporary art exhibition at Franklin Street Works is structured via a string of invitations. Three participants were invited by the art space with the understanding that they, in turn, would ask a collaborator to join them – a framework that encourages improvisation, experimentation and exchange. Titled Strange Invitation (also the title to a Beck song), this show brings … Read More

As We Perform It is a two-week, group exhibition at Franklin Street Works that brings together emerging and mid-career artists who use performance, painting, video, photography, and social practice to expand on the rich, ever-evolving role of contemporary art as a tool for exploring self-representation. This exhibition is the first by emerging curator and Franklin Street Works’ staff member Sandrine … Read More

Franklin Street Works is proud to present Kool-Aid Wino, a group exhibition curated by Brooklyn-based writer and critic Claire Barliant. The exhibition explores the foregrounding of mistakes and missteps in contemporary art practices and features works by Anne Carson, Choi Dachal, Frank Heath, Owen Land, Rotem Linial, James Merrill, Alice Miceli, Jenny Perlin, Aki Sasamoto, as well as an ikat-dyed … Read More

The New Media program at Purchase College, SUNY and Franklin Street Works, a contemporary art space in Stamford, CT, will present a group exhibition, “Collective Action Archive,” at Purchase College’s The Passage Gallery, beginning September 6. Curated and coordinated by Purchase College faculty and students along with the Franklin Street Works team, the exhibition kicks off the 2013 season at … Read More

From October 6 – 20, 2013, Franklin Street Works presents documentation of our programs and exhibitions in the form of zines, gallery handouts, slideshows and videos from the last two years. This two-week show celebrates our accomplishments and highlights the 160 artists, curators and cultural producers with whom we have collaborated since opening on September 22, 2011. This overview is … Read More

ArtShop! The Show is an exhibition on view from November 2 – December 1. During this time we will turn the galleries into a shop featuring new and existing multiples by artists we’ve worked with in our first two years. This show will form the backdrop, and provide an added funding stream, for our first fundraiser, which will take place … Read More

Franklin Street Works in collaboration with The Ferguson Library – Stamford’s public library, The Aspen Institute and New Haven artist, produced a site specific piece at the library with artist David Livingston. The work is titled “Vote Your Conscience,” a site-specific, interactive artwork that is part of the Ferguson Library’s contribution to the Aspen Institute’s “What every American should know” … Read More