Moments of
the Unknown

11.11

on East 11

An Artist-Led Building Takeover

Justin Aversano presents Enter through the Thrift Shop, a site-responsive exhibition occupying all seven floors of 60–62 East 11th Street. Bringing together 366 paintings, a feature-length film, large-scale moving-image installations, photography, and new works, the exhibition draws from a year-long journey across seven continents.

Installed throughout the building, the exhibition moves from past to present to future, unfolding as a meditation on life and death, memory, human connection, and our position within the larger structures of space and time. Moments shaped by chance and circumstance accumulate into a chain reaction, in which one event reverberates into another, revealing the often imperceptible structures that connect lives and suggest a deeper sense of human interconnectedness and oneness. The exhibition traces a continuum from analog to contemporary image-making, bringing painting, silkscreen, photography, and Super 8 into dialogue with digital forms. Across these mediums, fleeting moments are recorded, preserved, and transformed, reflecting on mortality, presence, and human connection within a culture increasingly mediated by technology.

60–62 East 11th Street: 1896, then, and now.

Enter through the Thrift Shop

The exhibition is also in dialogue with the building itself, whose history is deeply intertwined with photography, and extends Aversano’s ongoing engagement with image-making and new technologies. Developed and realized independently, the exhibition takes the form of a full-building takeover produced outside the conventional framework of gallery or museum support. Its realization has been made possible through the sustained support of collectors and patrons who have engaged with Aversano’s practice over the years, a community whose belief in the work has enabled an undertaking of this scale to emerge independently.

The Building

Built in 1895 and designed by Louis Korn, 60–62 East 11th Street was once home to the Scovill & Adams Company and its publication The Photographic Times. The building housed editorial offices, a photographic library, darkroom facilities, and a north-facing rooftop skylight used for photographic experimentation.

Aversano began working in the building more recently, producing the 366 paintings at the center of the exhibition in his studio there. Over the course of the year, he came to know the building’s photographic history and developed a relationship with its owner, Bijan Royal, which ultimately made it possible for the exhibition to expand beyond the studio and occupy the building in its entirety.

The site’s history and architecture become part of the exhibition itself, placing Aversano’s contemporary engagement with image-making and technology in dialogue with an earlier history of photographic production.

November 11, 2026

60–62 East 11th Street

New York, NY 10003

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An immersive storytelling art exhibition ascending from the past to the future across all 7 continents

By Justin Aversano