MPM / IRL

Jul 11 – Jul 27, 2025

David Onri Anderson, Reed Anderson, Lauriston Avery, Lisha Bai, Bijijoo, Sebastian Blanck, Pearl Blauvelt, Susan Carr, JJ Cromer, Christopher Charles Curtis, Christopher Davison, Alexandra Duprez, Joseba Eskubi, Nacho Eterno, André Ethier, Matthew F Fisher, Elliott Green, Uwe Henneken, Eric Hibit, Lisa Ivory, María Korol, Matt Leines, Robert Kraiss, Matt Lock, Gosia Machon, Frans Masereel, Michael McGrath, Richard McGuire, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Mepaintsme, David Moreno, Adam Stephen Novak, Gary Panter, Robert Pokorny, Rick Prol, C.J. Pyle, Joe Roberts, Spain Rodriguez, Aurélie Salavert, Christian Schumann, Dasha Shishkin, Casey Jex Smith, Jennifer Sullivan, Melvin Way, Martin Wilner, Robin Winters, Shai Yehezkelli

Mepaintsme is pleased to present the group exhibition, MPM / IRL (Mepaintsme in real life), on view at our temporary gallery space in New York's Lower East Side. The exhibition assembles a dispersed network of artists, whose relationships with the artist/curator have largely developed online, into a shared physical space. The show features over fifty contemporary artists, as well as works by 20th-century artists on loan from private collections.

"Although art resists a singular, universal function, it remains essential to how we think, feel, and connect as human beings. At its core, art is not only a tool for communication but a missive to other artists, reaching beyond the self to initiate a silent dialogue across time and space — a coded signal passed between souls seeking connection.

Social media has amplified the artist's desire for a creative collective by dissolving traditional boundaries of geography, language, and culture. It accelerates communication, often reshaping creative trajectories and reaffirming art's enduring purpose: not just to express, but to connect.

MPM / IRL offers a compelling testament by validating virtual engagement as not only legitimate, but generative. It brings a together a decentralized group of artists—whose practices have primarily intersected in digital spaces—into the physical world as a manifestation of a new kind of community."

—Mepaintsme

With works by:

Philip Akkerman (collection of Bijijoo)

Meg Atkinson (collection of mepaintsme)

Olivier Bringer (collection of Laura Foos and David Moreno)

Penny Davenport (collection of mepaintsme)

Stevan Dohanos (collection of mepaintsme)

Brian Gibson (collection of mepaintsme)

Herb Edwards (collection of mepaintsme)

Miguel Ángel Erba (collection of mepaintsme)

Jad Fair (collection of mepaintsme)

William Fellini (collection of Mary and JJ Cromer)