Nicole Peyrafitte

Water, Agent of Life & Mementos of a Living Practice
2026-06-18 18:00 - 2026-07-04 17:00 UTC | 198 Gallery, 198 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Besty Damon :Water, Agent of Life
Nicole Peyrafitte: Mementos of Like Practice
June 18 – July 5, 2026
Two artists whose work bridges art, ecology, performance, and activism.
Betsy Damon, a Guggenheim Fellow and pioneering ecofeminist artist, presents recent paintings and collages inspired by the creative agency of water itself:
“Every piece in this exhibition is created from two basic water images: one is water spinning into vortices in a creek and the other is the movement of healthy microbes in a drop of water as seen through a microscope. In this intense investigation from which all life is created.” – Betsy Damon
Nicole Peyrafitte presents paintings, bird studies, performance-based work, and reflections drawn from an ongoing interdisciplinary practice spanning visual art, food, language, and observation.

Opening Reception: June 18, 6–9pm
Action Painting Performance at 7pm

Betsey Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte — Living Practices: Short Films/Conversations
2026-06-26 19:00 - 20:30 | 198 Gallery, 198 24th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Living Practices
Friday, June 26, 7pm Short Films & Conversations, Betsy Damon & Nicole Peyrafitte
Moderated by Alex Jones

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Bird State : a Performance Reading
2026-06-30 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Bird-State: A Performative Reading
Tuesday, June 30, 7 PM
Free event but RSVP here
Please join Nicole Peyrafitte at the gallery for Bird-State: A Performative Reading, an evening of bird poems, field notes, voice, and embodied attention presented within the exhibition.
She will read from her ongoing Bird-State series, alongside selected bird poems by Pierre Joris.
Rooted in fieldwork, memory, shores, migration, and the other-than-human world, the evening will bring together poetry, observation, and performance as part of Peyrafitte’s living practice of Bird-State

Her exhibition, Mementos of a Living Practice will also be on view (running June 18 – July 4, 2026).
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
