What Is Here Is Open

Exhibition installation photos by Stan Narten.

Partnering with Hi-ARTS, we produced the What Is Here Is Open exhibition at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery, featuring a curated selection of items from our Treasures in the Trash collection. The exhibition, co-curated by Alicia Grullón and Nelson Molina, paired the works of seven contemporary NYC-based artists alongside some of Molina’s reclaimed objects, creating an ephemeral conversation about the past, present, and future of East Harlem.

“Molina’s 35-year work of assembling hundreds of discarded personal items into a museum fosters a sense of self-determination and a belief in a resident’s ability to tell their own story of where they live through the objects in the collection and display.”

Alicia Grullón

Learn more about What Is Here Is Open and Nelson Molina’s Treasures in the Trash collection!

The artists and curators at the opening reception of What Is Here Is Open

from left: Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Maria Hupfield, Tomie Arai, Alicia Grullón, Nelson Molina, Shellyne Rodriguez, Pepe Coronado, Dominique Duroseau