Eric Firestone Gallery focuses on breaking new ground with exhibitions that expand the lexicon of contemporary art. Showing a number of contemporary artists, as well as representing several estates of historically significant artists, the gallery confronts the canonical dialogue between modern and contemporary art though exhibitions that feature artists working in multiple disciplines including painting, photography and sculpture.
Along with numerous solo exhibitions, including Sanford Biggers, Kenny Scharf, Bäst, and Tseng Kwong Chi, the gallery has mounted several popular group exhibitions. In 2013, Eric Firestone and New York-based commentator and art critic, Carlo McCormick, co-curated Seventh Inning Stretch, exploring baseball as our national pastime through the artworks of artists, such as Daniel Arsham, Nari Ward, Deborah Kass and Rob Wynne. The 2012 exhibition, Parts and Service celebrated the grit and glory of the garage as a shrine to racing, bike culture, and all things automotive. It featured artworks by Olivier Mosset, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Liz Cohen and others.
In 2011, Eric Firestone developed The Boneyard Project in conjunction with Nose Job, another curatorial collaboration with McCormick. The project resurrects disused airplanes from America’s military history through the creative intervention of contemporary artists, taking entire airplanes and their elements out of aeronautic resting spots in the desert, known as “bone yards,” and putting them into the hands of artists. Nose Job paid homage to the old vernacular folk-art form of nose art dating from both World Wars, in which soldiers painted images and slogans on the noses of military planes. The exhibition comprised airplane nosecones that were reappropriated by artists, including but not limited to: Dan Colen, Aaron Young, Ryan McGinniss, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, and Shepard Fairey.
The Gallery has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Art in America, ArtNews, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair and many other publications.