Astor Weeks

Three floors above the chaos of Canal Street, the noise stops. Everything slows down. And you can breathe.

Artists shown here notice things. Like how peaceful a room can get at sunset, and the light goes chalky, moody, and soft.

You might see tiny paintings of spare apartments, light coming through windows. Stars mapped against musical notations on giant paper. Metal rods bent to trace the phases of the moon. Photographs of ordinary places shot so you see them fresh and new.

It's the opposite of scroll energy. No performance. Just reflections of an interior life that happens when no one else is watching.

Artist Cal Siegel and curator Poppy Pulitzer founded the gallery in 2022 in a spare bedroom of Cal’s apartment on Astor Row, a block of nineteenth-century Harlem townhouses known for their distinctive wraparound porches. They moved to the Canal Street space in late 2023. Cal also runs a furniture studio with his brothers in Vermont, where the work is rooted in Shaker craft traditions and shares the gallery’s attention to craft and handmade production.