SUGAR introduces Lineup, round 3
1.28.12 – 3.10.12
opening reception Saturday January 28, 6-8 p.m.
Heavy brush strokes diminish, colors are defined, divided, and consolidated. Shapes are realized while surfaces melt, glisten, shine, and give-in. The transitioning is a tickle to the ribs, and the whole of round 3 is an offering of pleasantries.
SUGAR the alternative to the alternative
449 Troutman St. #3-5, bell #21, Brooklyn, NY
718-417-1180
F-Su 12-6 by appointment
Opening reception: Friday, February 27, 6.30pm-10pm. Lorene Taurerewa and Warwick McLeod THE SUGARBREAD HOUSE drawings and paintings opens at THE END, a recording house/gallery/performance space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. http://theendnyc.com/blog/
THE END, 13 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn (G Train to Greenpoint Ave, exit at Greenpoint Ave)
JESSICA BAKER at 34 West 38th Street
‘Winter Look’
Winter Look is made entirely of materials found in nature and is intended to contrast with the surrounding windows filled with fashion accessories indicative of New York’s metropolitan “personality.”
Brooklyn-based artist Jessica Baker collects leaves, seeds, branches and other fallen materials from trees to create prints on paper, prints on leaves, two and three-dimensional work, and site-specific installations. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally.
The Fashion Center BID is pleased to present the Fashion Center Space for Public Art, a vibrant series of public window displays which showcase the work of local artists. There are three windows in the Space for Public Art series – 215 West 38th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue), 34 West 38th Street and 36 West 38th Street (both of which are between 5th and 6th Avenue). Join us as we celebrate local talent!
http://www.fashioncenter.com/neighborhood/art-design-in-the-district/art-space
Recent acquisitions Hypochondriac
Tales of the Gowanus with Leslie-Arlette Boyce and Chris Matias
Saturday, January 21, 7pm
$5 suggested donation
Join us for wine and conversation with Leslie-Arlette Boyce, lead author of The Glory of Brooklyn’s Gowanus: Legacy, Industry, and Artistry. Boyce will discuss her book, its images and local history from the arrival of the Dutch West India Company to the present day. She will be joined by Chris Matias, founder and director of the Redhawk Native American Arts Council, who will discuss the continuing presence of native americans in the Gowanus area. Join us for wine and conversation.
The Glory Of Brooklyn’s Gowanus begins with the arrival of the Dutch West India Company, encounters with the indigenous population and the land sales made, early slavery in Brooklyn and the Revolutionary War. The text in this section is surrounded by reproductions of early maps and lithographs. The second section of the publication is primarily comprised of archival photographs, and bills of sale from nineteenth century industries along the shores of the Gowanus Canal that had a hand in creating the now infamous pollution. In addition, section two of The Glory of Gowanus takes a look into the lives of the people who called the surrounding area home through the nineteen sixties. The third section focuses on local artists of multiple ethnicities and the work they created that was inspired by the post-Industrial beauty of the Canal. The book was co-authored by local historian Brian Merlis.
Photo Credit: Mike Sorgatz
Lost & Found explores the usage of found materials and how artists choose to reinterpret the world around them. Featuring the artwork of five very different artists, Adam Void, Alice Mizrachi, Curtis Readel, ELLE & John Breiner, their work both compliments and juxtaposes, as they express themselves through a myriad of techniques and approaches centering around artwork created from found objects.
Lost & Found Opening Reception:
Friday, January 13th
(show runs until February 5th)
6pm – 9pm
Mighty Tanaka
111 Front Street, Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(F Train to York Street, A/C Train to High Street)
JANUARY 13, 2012 – MARCH 4, 2012
RECEPTION: JANUARY 13th from 6-9PM
Figureworks is pleased to welcome 2012 with a two-person exhibition by Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand, grandmother and granddaughter. The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rand’s portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen Emmet Rand’s new abstract collage paintings, which have been inspired from and created directly over a series of her earlier figurative paintings done in the 1990’s. Though these women have created quite different works in technique and subject, there is a remarkable similarity in palette, use of light, and a unified sensitivity to composition. These women, having come from very different generations, paths and circumstances, manage to share a unique bond of creativity and perspective.
FIGUREWORKS
fine art of the human form
168 North 6th St. (1 block from Bedford Avenue “L” train)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.figureworks.com
hours: Saturday and Sunday from 1-6PM
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 13th, 6-8pm
Jeff Bailey Gallery opens the New Year with a large group show of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography, an exhibition poised and eager to explore the color Grey in all its moody ramifications.
In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that he had mixed 46 shades of grey that morning, just to get a feel for grey’s chromatic range. Our own Jasper Johns has been a master of grey since the mid-fifties. Younger artists use grey constantly, whether as graphite, in drawing, or as a mixed color in painting.
If black is at one extreme, and white the other, does everything that falls between qualify as grey? What makes one grey warm, another cool? Does charcoal belong to black, or is it really grey? Is photography’s nostalgia for black and white really a claim for the color grey? What if that rainbow is a bruise on the sky, as Nellie McKay asks in a song?
Thirty-seven artists, including Kay Rosen, Nathlie Provosty, Noah Post, Carol Diehl, Martin McMurray, Jennifer Coates, Wayne White, Audrey Stone, Cary Smith, Walton Ford, Mel Bochner and Will Yackulic—among many others–will address these questions by bodying forth their answers in new works.
And what of silver? Battleships? Gym-rat hoodies? Rockefeller Center? Clouds? The sidewalks of New York?
Jeff Bailey Gallery, 625 W 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
http://baileygallery.com/
Rachael Wren, Ethersphere, 2011, oil on linen, 20″x20″
January 21 – March 11, 2012 | OPENING January 21 6 pm to Midnight
Featured Artist Megan Berk will inaugurate RAC and kick off Recession Art’s solo shows with Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge, a show that explores the impulse towards heaven. In abstracted landscapes and altered architectural spaces, a sort of bright beyond is suggested where light meets shadow. These moments of possibility allude as much to the idea of heaven as they might to an idealized future, the idea of Summer before it has arrived, or the improbable optimism that drives creative progress. They seek to transform moments of desire, self-delusion, and optimism into form and color; In this way, they echo religious painting, though the icons here are taken from the glossy pages of architecture and lifestyle magazines.
Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton St NY, NY
Megan Berk, The Very Big Field
Smack Mellon is pleased to present three solo exhibitions featuring new work and site specific projects by Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon. Tamara Gayer reconfigures and translates the geometry of urban landscapes into an intricate vinyl installation for her window project The Final Contraction. Covering all 24 windows with various colors and textures of vinyl, Gayer presents an alternate all-encompassing prismatic cityscape. Disorganized spaces, often hidden from public view by design, are the focus of Heeseop Yoon’s Still Life #11. Yoon provides a dramatic view of chaotic interior spaces using black masking tape on the gallery’s oversized 24′ x 60′ long wall. In the back gallery, Stephen Sollins presents Piecework, a series of large scale works on paper made entirely of collected mailing envelopes. Intersecting his mathematical approach with his interest in the sentimental, Sollins methodically assembles the recognizably patterned paper into the form of traditional American quilts.
Tamara Gayer, The Final Contraction
Stephen Sollins, Piecework
Heeseop Yoon, Still Life #11
Exhibition Dates: January 21 – March 4, 2012
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, January 21, 5-8pm
Smack Mellon | 92 Plymouth Street | Brooklyn | NY | 11201
http://smackmellon.org/
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