a Gallery - like you’ve never seen

  • Local Artists

    PROXY’s rotating arrangement of creative programming is dedicated to featuring local artists, highlighting our vast pool of local talent. Alongside other renown artists and craftspeople, these local artists underpin the cultural discourse of the City and region, to showcase a tangible conversation on how art nurtures a healthy perspective on significant happenings.

  • CURATION

    PROXY is thrilled to host shows, experimental works, and an evolving collection of creative production curated by our In-House Curator: SCHEMA.

    SCHEMA exhibits a regenerative practice as a celebration of co-creating and simultaneous imaginings. Made up of architects and artists Meriç Özgen and Michael Clapp, SCHEMA delves into questions philosophical and prescient in today’s blended spheres of the digital and the analogue.

  • Engagement

    At PROXY, we think it’s important to have an open mind - and we seek to challenged, stretch, enrich, nurture, provoke, and stimulate visitors with an array of mediums, messages, modes of creative expression. We welcome the community to engage with us, with the artists and with the creative community.

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Current Show_

At “day one” [PROXY] embraces how it came to be and where it is in development and in its life. “day one” bares its bones and heart in equal parts. The show explores themes of self meditative approaches in artists creating their own haven and hints at how [PROXY] itself aspires to become a haven of its own. [PROXY] envisions being a new third place; to create an artful space that invites exploration, contemplation, and joy.

Day One Featured Artists

  • Let me tell you a story for your eyes to hear.  We’re going to have discourse over being human with quirky illustrations in black and white ink.  It is messy.  It is inclusive.  The good and the bad, the understood and unintelligible, the hard truths and soft lies.  You have to look and listen, as you consider this ongoing dialogue of a series originating in 2020.  Maybe you too will discover on your own terms All The Things, seemingly black and white are resoundingly shades of gray.

  • a self-taught artist, he began his art career in Brooklyn, New York debuting abstract pen-and-ink work at the Brooklyn Fire Proof in a 2014 Exhibition. Since then, he has returned to North Carolina where he clarified his style: undulating, organic shapes systemically composed of straight lines. That his style is so deeply tied to rhythm and movement is no surprise, given Gabe’s formal education in jazz bass from William Paterson University.

    The connection between his visual work and music is most apparent in The Marathon – a series of twenty-six works, each composed of one mile (with the exception of Miles 13 and 26, at 1.1 miles each) of lines. This series premiered at Sawtooth School for Visual Art in April 2018, an exhibition that cemented his place in the contemporary Southern art scene, both among peers and collectors.

    Each piece begins with a set of rules or a central concept. sometimes the system is followed through to the completion of the piece (complete coverage of the paper). Other times it is followed until something unexpected emerges and a new route is chosen. Although the work is system/concept-driven, the primary goal is always a beautiful image.

  • Paul Mok (b. 1990, Hong Kong) is a New York-based visual artist, designer, and registered architect who situates his practice in the “in-betweens” — in between architecture and art, the technical and the abstract, the mundane and the wondrous.

    Treating reality as his first medium, Mok explores how mundane construction materials, often overlooked for their creative potential, can evoke extraordinary experiences.

    Mok holds a bachelor’s degree in architectural studies from the University of Hong Kong and a master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His diverse body of work spans sculptural installations, ink drawings, retail designs, and architectural projects. His artwork has been exhibited at notable venues, including A Space (2025), The

    Blanc (2025), RIVAA Gallery (2023), Yi Gallery (2023), New

    Collectors (2021), Art on Paper at Pier 36 (2021), Art Mora

    Gallery (2021), and Gallery GAIA (2020).

    Mok’s work has been featured in leading publications such as Wallpaper, Dezeen, Whitehot, FAD, Art Spiel, Pattern, and Cultbytes. Recognizing the interdisciplinary breadth of his practice, Cultured Magazine named him one of the Young Architects of the Year in 2022.

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