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 this kind of psychic reading is that they often hone in on our insecurities, prey on our fears, and try to sell us things we don’t need.

This gallery’s name and curatorial perspective riff on this, inviting us to bring the questions we’d take to a psychic and bring them to art instead. The point here is to trust your intuition — about art and the worlds around you, both seen and unseen.

The work here leans towards the experiential and cinematic. (The founders have backgrounds in filmmaking.) We’ve seen shows by documentary photographers that open doors to worlds we’d never otherwise enter, atmospheric paintings intended to transport emotionally and spiritually into other realms, and shows 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. Sign up, come out, unravel the mystery for yourself.

This artist-run space was founded by documentary filmmaker and photographer Meshakai Wolf, along with animated filmmaker Alexander “Sandy” White, in 2021. Aside from their work at the gallery, the pair have established themselves as visual creatives in their own right, with MeshakaiWolf’s latest film Flames of God winning Best Film at Kosovo’s Rolling Film Festival and Sandy taking home Best Animation at the Independent Shorts Awards for the second year in a row.