Grotto exhibits contemporary work in grotesque figuration and abstract form — painting, sculpture, and assemblage that trades comfort for the uncanny. Six shows a year, one unfinished argument about what art is allowed to look like.
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Now Showing — Sep 12 – Nov 8
Tender Ruin
A group show on decay as a form of intimacy — six artists working in flesh-adjacent color, slumping material, and forms that were clearly something else once. Curated across the main floor and the Sculpture Room.
Six fields of force, fused and split in real time — rendered as an actual triangulated surface, not a lighting trick. The Sculpture Room runs continuously; no two visits look the same.
A running demonstration piece — the surface never fully sets. Every vertex and every sampled pixel is pushed by the same noise field, twice, so the image drips and re-forms rather than looping. Get close and it reacts to you.
Press
“Grotto does not want you comfortable. It wants you looking twice.”
The City Review
“A project space that treats the grotesque as a discipline, not a shock tactic.”
Paper & Pigment
“The most physically unsettling gallery hang in the borough — meant as a compliment.”