FLAT OUT

JUNE 12 - JULY 24, 2026

Opening Friday June 12, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Open Studio is pleased to announce Flat Out, an exhibition of several hundred unframed works by artists from progressive studios across the United States. On view June 12 through July 24, 2026, the show opens with a reception on Friday, June 12 from 6 to 8 PM at the gallery's Lower East Side space at 127 Henry Street.

Flat Out is designed to feel less like a traditional gallery show and more like a great find waiting to happen. Works are priced from under $100 to $1,000, presented unframed, and sold cash and carry — meaning you can walk out with something under your arm the same day you fall in love with it. Loose, stackable, and made to be flipped through. Think print racks, discovery, and that particular pleasure of pulling something out and thinking: this one.

The exhibition brings together work from NIAD, Fountainhouse, Pure Visions, Cedars, Community Access Art Collective, and Slingshot, among others — a wide network of progressive studios from around the country whose artists work across every scale, style, and sensibility. Painting, drawing, works on paper — the breadth is the point. There is something here for everyone, and part of the joy of Flat Out is not knowing what you'll find until you're already holding it.

Open Studio was founded by David Fierman and Ross McCalla to showcase the work of artists with disabilities and to build careers — with openness, transparency, and the dismantling of outmoded hierarchies as its guiding principles. Flat Out reflects that mission in its most accessible form: great art, no barriers, no frames required.

Eric Sadowsky / Untitled / 2018 / ink on paper / 14 x 17" / Pure Vision Arts, NY

Luis Estrada / The Sunshine and the Weather / 2023 / mixed media on geological survey map / 18 24" / NIAD, Richmond, CA