Ownership actively contributes to the cultural community as an expression of ongoing commitment to excellence in the visual arts and architecture.
Since 2005, 499 Park has underwritten contemporary art exhibitions in the building’s lobby gallery. Working with internationally renowned curators, galleries and artists, the building has sponsored over 25 rotating shows during that time, primarily focusing on work by mid- to late-career artists as well as work from artists’ estates. Representative shows have included painting, prints, photography, small scale sculpture, and installations.
Among the artists whose work have been exhibited are: Thomas Downing, Doug Ohlson, Ray Parker, Robert Swain, Tadasky, John Walker and Richard Anuskiewicz.
Artist Currently on Display (Exhibit opened on May 3, 2021)
For all their concision, Sheinkman's works inspire multiple allusions. Over the years, they have suggested microscopic photographs of minerals, bones, proteins, tendrils, corals, coiling strands of DNA, or, ascending like Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten, everything from the darting trails of subatomic particles to maps of astronomical events. They are notable for their elusive scale; encountering them, a viewer might feel they've entered another realm, of physical forces beyond our human gauge. In this aspect, Sheinkman harks back to the idea of abstraction as reducing form to the basic building blocks of existence: not geometry, but something no less essential − the active alchemy of organic form, the dynamic calligraphy of creation. |
Previous Gallery Features Click on the images to download a PDF brochure of the featured artists.

James Little
July 20, 2020 − May 2021

Melissa Meyer
Oct 2, 2019 − April 3, 2020

Julian Stanczak
March 25 − Sept 13, 2019

John Walker
Sept 15, 2018 − Mar 30, 2019

TADASKY
Jan 27 − July 28, 2019

Gabriele Evertz
July 17, 2017 − Jan 5, 2018

Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Jan 24 − July 7, 2017

Richard Anuszkiewicz
July 29, 2016 − Jan 14, 2017

Robert Swain
Oct 5 − June 17, 2016

Ray Parker
Feb 3 − July 31, 2014

Doug Ohlson
June 29 − Dec 20, 2013

Thomas Downing
Jan 5 − June 28, 2013