Co-organized by Jenny Mushkin Goldman & Rebecca Goyette, Everyday Magic: Artistic/Gnostic Impulses is a cross-cultural group exhibition that considers how artists utilize ritual and the inherent power of creativity as a catalyst for social change and transformation. Many of the artists identify as spiritualists, and draw on repurposed aspects of the religious traditions they were born into, as well as their own lived experiences.

On view at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park from March 2nd through April 27th, Everyday Magic will feature a supplemental event series of art performances, workshops and unadulterated magical happenings.

In the midst of a global pandemic and a multitude of sociopolitical crises, the exhibition navigates sacred territory while adopting a tone of spiritual fluidity, embracing gender binaries as well as feminist-focused ideals. Moving out of isolation, each artist enters into a communal dialogue through this highly tactile installation, figuratively and literally reclaiming space. By exploring artistic practice as ritual, Everyday Magic presents a communion of interactive, sensory experiences guided by individual understandings of “belief,” providing an opportunity for catharsis, healing, resilience, and rebirth.

Exhibiting artists include: Jaishri Abichandani, Courtney Alexander, Clarina Bezzola, Jesse Bransford, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Rebecca Goyette, Alejandro Guzmán, Clarity Haynes, Elizabeth Insogna, Aaron Johnson, Alexis Karl, Staver Klitgaard, Tamara Kostianovsky, Qinza Najm, Lina Puerta, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Kenya (Robinson), João Salomão, Trish Tillman, and Kay Turner.