UP NEXT in MPLS:
Kaz K Sherman — Aflutter Aflame Adrift
Opening reception Friday, November 6th, 7-10pm
In NY: ***EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 1st***
In New York at 39b Henry St, NYC, NY, 10002:
Emma Beatrez Candy Apple (more below)
Open hours Friday/Saturday/Sunday 1-6pm
UP NEXT in NYC:
Cameron Patricia Downey — get you a straw
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HAIR + NAILS NYC
39 Henry St. New York, NY 10002
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 13, 2026. 6:00-9:00pm
OPEN GALLERY HOURS: walk-ins welcome: Fridays/Saturdays/Saturdays 1:00-6:00 starting November 14 through the end of 2026. Also, appointments can be scheduled 7 days/week via hairandnailsart@gmail.com.
HAIR + NAILS is thrilled to present get you a straw, a solo exhibition by Minneapolis born and based artist Cameron Patricia Downey at the gallery’s New York location, opening Friday, November 13, 2026. Get you a straw is a site-specific installation, filling the gallery from end-to-end in a single gesture.
Cameron Patricia Downey‘s practice is rooted in an intimacy with the inanimate. It is interested in the private lives of objects and an investment in seeing through the question of what happens when we let the things that crowd our life speak back. Downey‘s second solo show with the gallery and their first solo show in New York City is marked by an ongoing devotion to the shapes, aesthetics and surfaces that allow one space to flow into another: crown molding, interstices, veneers and joints. Downey splices together common, everyday objects, imbuing them with new life and revealing their motives which sit outside of their duties.
Black material culture, blues philosophy, and poetic interpretations of colloquial craft histories, coalesce in an installation that spans from one edge of the gallery to the other. Get you a straw is clearly kin with To the 9’s (currently on view as part of “Let’s Meet at the Horizon” at the Katherine Nash Gallery at University of MN) about which Downey describes as a ramp “as old as the first desire for transformation, a monument concerned with itself, jubilant and as futile as the things that tell tale of our mortal lives. I’m thinking in the language of our oldest promises of splendor recurring: COGIC purple and brass waves crashing along a small shore.
***EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 1st***
In New York at 39b Henry St, NYC, NY, 10002:
Emma Beatrez Candy Apple (more below)
Open hours Friday/Saturday/Sunday 1-6pm
In Minneapolis: X: a Decade of HAIR+NAILS
***THIS SHOW IS CLOSED***
opens Saturday, August 29th, 2026 from 7-10pm
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 29, 2026. 7:00 -10:00pm
OPEN GALLERY HOURS: walk-ins welcome: Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays 1:00-5:00 starting August 30 through the end October 25. Also, appointments can be scheduled via hairandnailsart@gmail.com.
HAIR+NAILS is thrilled to announce X: a decade of HAIR+NAILS, a group exhibition opening Saturday, August 29, 2026, at the gallery’s Minneapolis location in South Minneapolis. All are invited to the celebratory party at 2222 E. 35th St. with small bites by Chef Asher.
X: a decade of HAIR+NAILS is in no way an exhaustive description of the 10 years of HAIR+NAILS gallery. It is a group show of works by 25 of the 148 artists that have exhibited with the gallery since the first show opened in September 2016. True to the spirit of their decade of curation, HAIR+NAILS founders/directors Kristin Van Loon & Ryan Fontaine selected artworks to live together for this show that is abundant in terms of form, texture, medium, perspective with massive trust in artists to self-define and shape the world at this moment.
The unlikely/inevitable story of how an experimental choreographer and a punk musician came to open a contemporary art gallery has been well chronicled (*see links below). Since opening the storefront gallery next door to their home, Van Loon and Fontaine have presented nearly 100 shows in Minneapolis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Miami, Los Angeles, NYC, Houston, Rochester MN. In 2024, they opened a second location (celebrating two years strong) in Chinatown, NYC.
X: a decade of HAIR+NAILS is a celebration of past, present, and future as the gallery launches their 11th (Minneapolis) and 3rd (NYC) seasons of shows.
X: a Decade of HAIR+NAILS includes art by:
AMTK
Andy Graydon
Cameron Patricia Downey
Christina Attié Ballantyne
Dahn Gim
Daniel Luedtke
Emma Beatrez
Emmett Winship Ramstad
Erin Smith
Ginny Sims
Gregory Rick
Hannah Motzel Brown
John Fleischer
Jonathan Herrera Soto
Julia García
Lamia Abukhadra
Lee Noble
Lindsay Rhyner
Manal Kara
Rachel Collier
Rachel Youn
Rose McBurney
Ryan Fontaine
Sophia Chai
Tetsuya Yamada
(*) (HAIR+NAILS origin stories in the press):
“Do It Different: HAIR+NAILS’ Approach to an Artist-Run Gallery”, interview with Jake Yuzna for MNArtists, 12/9/2022
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/do-it-different-hair-nailss-approach-to-an-artist-run-gallery
“HAIR+NAILS Is the Minneapolis Gallery for Artists, by Artists”, by Maxwell Rabb for ARTSY, 11/27/2023
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hairandnails-minneapolis-gallery-artists-artists
“When Preparation Meets Opportunity | An Interview with HAIR+NAILS Art”, longform video interview with Filling The Blank, 3/2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXfSWBC4pSM
“Now Representing: Hair and Nails Gallery Expands to NYC”, by Lindsey Scharold for MplsStPaul Magazine, 9/5/2024
https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/now-representing-hair-and-nails-gallery-expands-to-nyc/
“Cameron Downey: Lord Split Me Open” by Michael Curran for ART PAPERS, summer 2023
https://www.artpapers.org/lord_split_me_open/
In New York at 39b Henry St, NYC, NY, 10002:
Emma Beatrez Candy Apple
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, September 9, 2026. 6:00-9:00pm
OPEN GALLERY HOURS: walk-ins welcome: Fridays/Saturdays/Saturdays 1:00-6:00 starting September 11 through October 25. Also, appointments can be scheduled 7 days/week via hairandnailsart@gmail.com.
HAIR+NAILS is thrilled to announce the opening of Candy Apple, a solo show of new oil paintings by Emma Beatrez. This will be the gallery’s third solo show with the artist, their second in the New York location.
