January 8 - February 8, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 4 - 6 PM

440 Gallery is pleased to announce Heart of the City, a solo exhibition of "deeply urban” photography by David Stock. Stock has long drawn inspiration from the rich social landscape in and around Jackson Heights, Queens. In this show, he turns his lens on "the intense rhythms of local streets, crowded with hardworking New Yorkers of every nationality, animated by irrepressible hope and energy." Within the seemingly random flow of the street, Stock discovers coherent scenarios and everyday dramas, offering a colorful portrait of grass roots New York that is both descriptive and evocative. Heart of the City marks Stock’s fifth one-person exhibition at 440.

David Stock is a long time photographer and political activist. After graduating from Harvard in 1972, he worked in gas stations, factories, shipyards and on the docks. Alongside his labor, solidarity and anti-imperialist organizing, Stock makes photographs that are widely exhibited, published and collected in the US and abroad.

Exhibition venues include Fogg Art Museum, Panopticon Gallery, California Museum of Photography, Museet for Fotokunst, Long Beach Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery, California Museum of Photography, Santa Monica College Photography Gallery, University of Sinalóa, UCLA, Casa da Fotografia FUJI, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Powerhouse Arena and dozens of other community and commercial spaces.