nyc art scene

Tonight thru June 2:

Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) 2013

MAP/DIRECTORY: artsinbushwick.org/bos2013/directory
iPhone App (note: link launches App Store)

Over 600 sites to visit this year. Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) is a three day arts and culture festival that celebrates the community’s vibrant arts scene with the goal of fostering dialogue and collaboration between local artists and residents. The festival, now in its seventh year, is hosted by the volunteer organization Arts in Bushwick (AiB) and is free and open to the public.

Opens Tonight, 6-10p:

“Wessel Castle”
 Alli Miller & Trey Burns

et al projects, 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn, NYC
thurs - sunday, 1pm-6pm

A portmanteau of Tom Wesselmann and White Castle, Wessel Castle is an ongoing collaborative archive from the artists travels and commutes into the megatexture of the American landscape. With a nod to the legacy of pop art and culture jamming, Alli Miller and Trey Burns examine sign culture within the grammar of public space through the framing of that which is liminal, hyperbolic, and humorous.

Opens Feb 8:

“fiction/non-fiction”
 Jaclyn Brown, Holly Coulis,
 Michelle Hailey, Susan Homer,
 and Rebecca Litt

Storefront Bushwick, 16 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn NY

five women artists who work with representational imagery investigating the nature of reality, memory and art-making as a vehicle to understand our relationship with the physical world. - thru Mar 10

Continues Thru Nov 3:

“A Solo Exhibition”
 Brian Hubble & Kirsten Stoltmann

SUGAR, 449 Troutman St., Brooklyn, NY (#3-5, bell #21)

A Solo Exhibition pours concrete over the SUGAR platform. Utilizing all areas of viable space to render a perspective this installation embraces both the focal and vanishing points defined by two artists.

Opens Tonight, Aug 2, 7-9p:

“in the open”
Mark Farris, Hannah Holshouser, Paul Howe, Gabriel Serpa, & Harry Swartz-Turfle

KESTING/RAY Bushwick, 257 Boerum St., Brooklyn NY

Searching to discover new artists and trends outside of NYC, gallery directors Christina Ray and David Kesting found an opportunity to exhibit the work of a unique group of artists located in North Carolina. The artists contributing to in the open reveal mystery in subjects that are frequently overlooked or misunderstood. -thru Aug 18

Just Opened

“Cut Up”
artists: Myles Bennett, Susan Bricker, Andrea Burgay, Steven Charles, Paul D’Agostino, Jackie Hoving, Ken Kocses, Elissa Levy, Gelah Penn, Casey Ruble, and Mary Schiliro

Storefront Bushwick, 16 Wilson St., Brooklyn, NY

11 artists who shred, chop, clip, paste, and otherwise reconfigure a variety of materials to make collages, sculptures, and paintings. Their practice is protean and energetic, and the results are surprising, humorous, and poignant. The show aims to showcase a broad range of “attacks” on the art object, its surface, and its content. The fractured nature of identity is a subtext. Things are not what they seem. - thru Aug 5

Opening Reception Tonight, 7pm

“..Is This Free?”
 curated by Marco Antonini

NURTUREart, 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn, NY

this project will consist of three exhibitions, featuring artworks, ephemera and publications that have been mostly conceived and produced to be freely distributed. Historically relevant artworks, ephemera and publications loaned from private collections will be presented side by side with contemporary work by emerging artists, including a series of project-specific artworks commissioned to emerging artists.

Today Final Day:

Bushwick Open Studios 2012

http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/

over 500 participating studios & spaces this year

Show Directory & Map: [LINK]

Interactive iPhone App w/ Map & Directory: [LINK]

Hub Spaces:

Spread Art – 104 Meserole St
Paperbox – 17 Meadow St
56 Bogart – 56 Bogart St
Diana Jones Senior Center – 9 Noll St
Grace Exhibition Space – 840 Broadway 2nd fl
Airplane – 70 Jefferson St
Little Skips – 941 Willoughby Ave
English Kills – 114 Forrest St
Miles – 101 Wilson Ave
1717 Troutman – 1717 Troutman St
North East Kingdom – 18 Wyckoff Ave
Norte Maar – 83 Wyckoff Ave
Outpost – 16-65 Norman St