rainy day find:
brooklyn-based artist Élböw Töe
“The Wasteland,” 2013, cut paper on panel, 31 x 20 inches
thru July 28:
“Watercolors”
John Singer Sargent
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn , NYC (at Prospect Park)
“Sargent fans and watercolor hobbyists will be in heaven with more than 90 watercolors, more than a third of which are from the Brooklyn collection, the rest from Boston. Sargent was a pioneer of the kind of watercolor painting — loosely gestural yet clearly representational of vacation scenery — that today’s popular culture adores. The Brooklyn Museum has introduced a novel way to appeal to Sargent’s following. Here and there throughout the exhibition videos on little flat screens show artists demonstrating watercolor techniques used in nearby paintings.” - Ken Johnson, NY Times
Opens Tonight, June 6, 6pm-12am:
“On-Looking”
curated by Daniel Kingery
Kunsthalle Galapagos, 116 Main St., Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC
“This is an exhibition about looking. It’s about looking at ourselves, looking at others and how that affects the way we see the world. It’s about looking at art and the complicated and complicit relationship that this creates between ourselves, the work and the artist. It’s about desire, frustration, transparency and opacity.”
Diana Artus, Barbar, Katie Cercone, Elly Clarke, Linda Franke, Delia Gonzalez, Jennifer Herrema, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, Daniel Kingery, Lisa Kingery, Phuc Le, Mira O’Brien, Eva Maria Salvador, Andy Warhol
Just Opened:
“Based on a True Story…”
Daniel Zeller
Pierogi Gallery, 177 North 9th St., Brooklyn, NYC
Zeller’s drawings continue to oscillate between micro and macro views of invented worlds and organisms. Using only graphite or ink and acrylic on paper, he explores incredible nuances of texture and structure that develop into powerful extensions of perceived reality. - thru June 30
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 Tomorrow, May 10, 6-9pm:
(Opening coincides with Greenpoint Gallery Night)
“Disorderly Orderly”
Nancy Baker, Janice Caswell, & Debra Hampton
Calico, 67 West St., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY (#206)
calicobrooklyn.tumblr.com
Debra Hampton, Janice Caswell and Nancy Baker are three artists whose practice methods are informed by creating a greater whole than the sum of its humbled and disordered parts. They cut, paste, enumerate, and file; and from these disparate and solitary objects, assemble a cohesive narrative that attempts to satisfy and solidify a disordered beginning. Passion, obsession and minutiae are the slightly offbeat driving forces that characterize their work methodology, especially in these times of the re-entrenchment of the minimal and the deadpan.
photo: Janice Caswell, “Fall 2012 Shuffle,” collage & Ink on paper, 2012. 19” x 24”
Opens Friday, May 10, 6-9p:
“Even Romantics Love Violence”
Hellbent
Mighty Tanaka Gallery, 111 Front St., Dumbo, NYC (224)
“Hellbent’s first solo gallery show unveils the graffiti / Street Artist doing a new collection in abstraction, “The Mix Tape Series”. With each piece named after a song he was listening to while creating it, the series testifies to his intense love of music (from punk to country to big band and indie rock) and the practice of making custom collections for friends and lovers on blank cassettes.” - read more at Brooklyn Street Art (photo of studio: Jaime Rojo)
Fri, May 10, 6-9:
“GREENPOINT GALLERY NIGHT”
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.greenpointgalleries.org/
To kick off the second weekend of May - as the Frieze NYC and NADA art fairs bustle away at opposite ends of the East River - over a dozen galleries in the historic neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn open their doors to art seekers from near and far.
Participating galleries include: Beginnings, Booklyn, Calico, Theceeflat Gallery, Dobbin Project Space, Fowler Project Space, G Spot (at CoCo66), Greenpoint Gallery, Heliopolis, Janet Kurnatowski, Laundry Lung, Rawson Projects, The Yard, Yashar Gallery, and Yes Gallery
mural on India street by Ad Deville (of Skewville), Chris Stain and Logan Hicks, photo credit: Will Sherman
Continues thru Aug 4:
“Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works”
El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show features over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.
Included in the exhibition are twelve recent monumental wall and floor sculptures, widely considered to represent the apex of Anatsui’s career. The metal wall works, created with bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka, are pieced together to form colorful, textured hangings that take on radically new shapes with each installation. Anatsui is captivated by his materials’ history of use, reflecting his own nomadic background. Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new, African medium.
photos: C-Monster
thru July 28th:
“John Singer Sargent : Watercolors”
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
This landmark exhibition unites for the first time the John Singer Sargent watercolors acquired by the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the early twentieth century. The culmination of a yearlong collaborative study by both museums, John Singer Sargent Watercolors explores the watercolor practice that has traditionally been viewed as a tangential facet of Sargent’s art making. The ninety-three pieces on display provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity to view a broad range of the artist’s finest production in the medium.
