Surfer by Wayne Levin

Quick links:

Time Out New York and Animal New York both recommend the show!

Be sure to check out the sites of the individual artists: Lyle Owerko, Wayne Levin, Drew Carolan, Antoine Verglas, Joni Sternbach, Thierry des Fontaines, Burton Machen, Alberto Vargas, Ron Church, Pete Cabrinha, Jean-Phillipe Piter, and Patrick Cariou.

After visiting the show, stay with the theme and make sure to drop around the corner for delicious coffee at Saturdays Surf NYC.

SURF/SKATE opens today at Clic Centre Street! Check out the fantastic coverage we’ve gotten in Flavorpill and the Wall Street Journal and then come to the gallery to see the beautiful photography, mixed-media pieces, and SKATEBOARDS!

Quick reminder: EXOTICA closes this Sunday. Catch Gian Paolo Barbieri’s fantastic reveries on tropical islands before it ends!

FLAVORPILL NYC says:

Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last year. Drew Carolan shot skaters and punk kids on Astor Place and assisted Richard Avedon. And Alberto Vargas, a “crazy talented” 17-year-old was discovered by a gallerist while in high school in Queens. The artwork of these and many other noted documentarians of the surf and skate scenes is on view at Clic. And come early; the limited-edition decks by Hirst, Koons, and Murakami starting at $500 are sure to be flying fast.

- Rozalia Jovanovic

Clic’s popular STORE FRONT show, featuring the photographs of James and Karla Murray, is now available as a calendar for pre-order. And don’t forget, select pieces from STORE FRONT are currently on view at Clic Broome Street as part of our summer group show!

Check out Clic Gallery’s post on Apartment Therapy, up today: Staffed by friendly, passionate photography lovers, Clic is committed to affordable price points and the new collector. They’ll walk you through their wide range of limited edition prints, from scrappy street scenes shot by a New York photojournalist to conceptual portraits by some of Europe’s most acclaimed art and fashion photographers.

Clic hosted the launch party for Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small Spaces, and you can see pics from that evening here. (And of course, the book is available for sale at Clic locations.)

On July 20, Clic is teaming up with our favorite cafe Oro (right down the street from us on Broome) to open Lafayette Espresso Bar and Marketplace in our former bookshop space. Dorina Yuen, who opened Oro in 2008, will offer will serve made-to-order juices, espresso and drip coffee brewed to order, and sell sandwiches and salads, as well as an array of local artisanal food products like Brooklyn Brine pickles, Anarchy in a Jar preserves, vegan Cave Man Cookies and homemade granola. It’s safe to say the Clic staff will get lunch here every day.

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Catherine Malandrino for our next opening. Drop by Clic Gallery East Hampton from 6 to 8 pm on August 7 for the opening of “Christopher Makos Polaroids”, featuring original SX-70 Polaroids shot in the 70s and 80s. Christopher Makos was a seminal figure in the downtown art scene as well as a close friend and collaborator with Andy Warhol, and these are his revealing snapshots of friends and lovers, shot at parties at Studio 54 and during lazy days out in the Hamptons. After the opening, swing by the Catherine Malandrino boutique next door, which will be open late especially for gallery-goers.

Clic artist Antoine Verglas is one New York’s top fashion photographers, known especially for his photographic collaborations with supermodels including Stephanie Seymour, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, and Cindy Crawford. You can see his fantastic black and white nudes here, and his work will be included in SURF/SKATE in late July.

Vincent Fournier’s evocative, creepy photographs of astronaut training centers are currently on display at Broome Street as part of our summer group show. Wallpaper* says:

Playing on the stylised notion of a sci-fi utopia, Fournier’s otherworldly photographs of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile – alongside a series of surprisingly stringy trainee astronauts – offer an alternative view of the world, unseen by many and known by few.