Psychic Readings

The streets of the East Village are lined with fortune tellers and psychics. It's $5 to get your palm read, $20 if you're near NYU. The thing about that kind of psychic reading is that it homes in on your insecurities, preys on your fears, and tries to sell you something you don't need.

Psychic Readings riffs on this, inviting you to bring the questions you’d take to a psychic, bring them to art instead, and trust your intuition about the work and the worlds around you, both seen and unseen.

The founders both come from filmmaking, and it shows. We’ve seen shows by documentary photographers that open doors to worlds you might never otherwise enter, atmospheric paintings intended to transport emotionally and spiritually into other realms, and exhibitions illuminated solely by flashlights.

Regular film screenings extend the journey into predicting the difference between what we can predict and control and what we can’t.

Psychic Readings was founded in 2021 by documentary filmmaker and photographer Meshakai Wolf and animated filmmaker Alexander "Sandy" White. Both maintain active practices alongside the gallery: Wolf's latest film Flames of God won Best Film at Kosovo's Rolling Film Festival, and White has taken home Best Animation at the Independent Shorts Awards two years running. The gallery is an extension of how they both already see the world: as something to be looked at very closely.