Return to Downtown

Superhouse and Magen H Gallery are honored to present Return to Downtown, an exhibition of historical works from NYC’s Design Art movement of the 1980s and the 1990s. The show takes place September 16 – October 30, 2022 at Superhouse Vitrine, 75 East Broadway, Second Floor, New York, NY. Return to Downtown centers on 12 artists and designers at the forefront of the American Design Art movement, who worked in a broad range of styles, from Minimalism to Pop and from gestural to Industrial. Uniting the movement was the legendary gallery Art et Industrie, opened in 1977 by Rick Kaufman and Tracy Rust. The gallery inhabited various locations in Downtown Manhattan for 20 years and quickly became a locus of creative energy. Kaufman and Rust promoted the work of emerging (now historically significant) designers as well as established artists who were peers of Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Talking Heads, Andy Warhol and others.