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Sun is an exhibition by Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian featuring an autonomous robotic sculpture: a sphere sheathed in interlocking, hand-carved wooden fragments. The largest panels are engraved with a Mesopotamian eclipse ritual, anchoring the piece in ancient cosmology.

Alternating between hums and howls, Sun moves in rhythm with an internal prayer. As it navigates the space with self-correcting motion, it pauses, turns, and responds to obstacles and onlookers, weaving together machine logic and ceremonial rhythm.

Drawing from Neolithic stone balls, Mesopotamian mouth-opening rites, Ice Age flutes, and the myth of walking monoliths, Sun is a fragment of world memory: a composite of glimpses unearthed across history.

Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian (b. 1993, São Paulo, Brazil) holds a MSc from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening. The gallery is open weekends 12-5 or by appointment.

#merygates #nicolaskubailkalousdian by @mery_gates

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Mery Gates is pleased to present

SUN

Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian

Opening Friday June 20 2025 7-9PM
1345 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn NY

"I (am) your lord who roams around and does not sleep.”
BRM 4, 06 Artifact Entry by @mery_gates

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I Don’t Want a Nation of Thinkers,
I Want a Nation of Workers

Brittany Adeline
Allen-Golder Carpenter
Ryan Lucas
Martin Kaehler
Gabriel Rozell

Curated by Gnosiophobia

May 23 - June 13, 2025

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening! Please join us for open hours weekends 12-5 or DM to make an appointment during the week. Full documentation available upon request.

Mery Gates
1345 Dekalb Avenue, NY by @mery_gates

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I Don’t Want a Nation of Thinkers,
I Want a Nation of Workers

Brittany Adeline
Allen-Golder Carpenter
Ryan Lucas
Martin Kaehler
Gabriel Rozell

Curated by Gnosiophobia

Opening reception May 23 2025, 6-9pm
Mery Gates
1345 Dekalb Avenue, NY by @mery_gates

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a year ago

Ecce puella
Sam Cooke
March 1 - 30 2025

Thanks to everyone who came out for the opening! The show will be open weekends 12-5 and by appointment through March 30. Dm or email contact@merygates.net for inquiries.

#merygates #samcooke At the heart of Ecce Puella stands an eight-foot tall androgynous figure, sculpted from dyed
plastic clay. It looms like a relic of some forgotten mythology, both fearsome and absurd,
predator and child. A smaller, cruder form—a bunny, caught mid-frolic—lurks behind, its
presence nagging like a half-remembered dream. The walls frame a series of six works, their
lattice-like compositions evoking windows, portals, or cages. In the brick chimney remains that
punctuate the gallery's white walls: a voluptuous figure nailed to a cross, a crustacean wedged
between her lips.
Cooke’s material is singular—plastic clay, dyed, pressed, and hardened into forms that ooze
both synthetic sheen and bodily decay. Glossy imprints of Dora the Explorer’s face leer from the
surfaces, nestled among warped, baroque baby heads. The tension between innocence and
monstrosity, between object and organism, pulses throughout the exhibition. There’s a kind of
sickly ornamentation at play, a cathedral aesthetic corrupted, turned pliant, melting in real time. by @mery_gates

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2 years ago

MG is thrilled to announce our next exhibition

Ecce puella

A presentation of new works by artist Sam Cooke.

Please join us for the opening March 1 from 6-9pm. The exhibition will be on view weekends till March 30 with appointments during the week.

Painting by Rebecca Warlick Cooke @rebeccww

#samcooke #merygates by @mery_gates

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2 years ago

God is Chance, Lucky Me
Imogen Brent
Joe Greer
Vijay Masharani

January 17 - February 8 2025
Weekends 12-5 and by appointment during the week. Dm for appt

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening!

#imogenbrent #joegreer #vijaymasharani #merygates by @mery_gates

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Opening Friday 6-9pm January 17th 2025

God is Chance, Lucky Me
Imogen Brent
Joe Greer
Vijay Masharani

#imogenbrent #joegreer #vijaymasharani #merygates by @mery_gates

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2 years ago

Trickster

Danny Ische
Henry Johnson

November 22nd - December 15th, 2024

Thank you to all who came and appreciated the art

#dannyische
#henryjohnson
#merygates by @mery_gates

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Trickster

Danny Ische
Henry Johnson

Join us for the opening reception
Friday, November 22nd 6-10pm
1345 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY

On view November 22nd - December 15th

@okniceok
@henry_jawnson
@mery_gates by @mery_gates

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SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS, OR YOU NEED TO BE A FRIEND TO GET A FRIEND
Sophie Serber @sophieserber

Thank you to everyone who attended the opening reception. The work will be on view on weekends 12-5pm and by appointment during the week through October 12th.

1345 Dekalb Ave. Brooklyn NY

Photos by Emile Askey @emileaskey
Video documentation by George Rayson @georgerayson0

#sophieserber #merygates by @mery_gates

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2 years ago

Hope is Not— closing night

MG presents:
Imminent Death, Schema 7, Kanal Nula:
This Saturday, 8pm - late @mery_gates

Hope is Not— 09.07.2024.20:00

Mery Gates, 1345 Dekalb Ave
Brooklyn, NY

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@vialrecordings
@stefanalexandrejcvitanic by @mery_gates

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