From the monthly archives: February 2012
Mann’s large paintings in Root, created by combining chance stains with highly rendered decorative elements on oversized, un-stretched paper, function as human-sized portholes into a landscape alive with minute details, patterns and interlocking systems.
A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111 Front Street #228, Brooklyn, NY.
GALLERY HOURS: Wed-Sun, 11AM – 6PM
Manetamed is a multi-purpose venue located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It operates as a hair salon, and has exhibited a wide variety of visual artists amongst a setting of music, installation and performance. The upcoming gallery opening will celebrate Manetamed’s art show entitled “Human,” which features the visual art of several contemporary artists. The opening will [...]
SATURDAY MARCH 3 / SUNDAY MARCH 4 / PERFORMANCE / Le Petit Cirque [The Small Circus] is a complex sound object object made of wood, plastic, strings, springs and fragility. A mere breath can set it vibrating. Twelve small microphones draw resources from its interior. Le Petit Cirque is a circus. Its handling [...]
Muriel Guépin Gallery is pleased to announce “Cut and Paste”, a collage exhibition featuring the artworks of James Cullinane, Sharon Lawless, and Andrew Zarou.
This new exhibition-curated by Henry Chung and Robert Walden of RHV Fine Art- examines many of the ways in which artists use collages as the dominant element in creating abstract imagery.
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BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents a night of performance and closing reception for The Bricoleurs, featuring artists from the exhibition. Cooper Holoweski will perform a live score to his animation piece, Nebuchanezzer’s Dream, with the accompaniment of his brother Doc Holoweski. Joseph Gillette will also perform his ongoing “Neo Media So-Real-ism” project, PARTY [...]
Green Form (detail)
Red Plastic Form
GardenScape
Yellow Growth from Grid
AirConGreenCircle
Artist Statement
Generally my work is about integrating disparate elements, creating unlikely relationships and new meaning to appropriated objects and industrial materials.
Plastic Construction Series:
This series is comprised of blending pre-existing [...]
February 23 through April 8, 2012.
Opening reception: Thursday, February 23th, 6 -9pm
“I’m going out for A Cup of Air,” Brooklyn artist Karen Gibbons’s mother would say to her five children as she stepped outside for a reprieve from the stresses of parenting. The free-standing sculpture and sculptural wall pieces in this exhibit, A [...]
Trainset Ghetto is voyeurism more than it is hobbyism. It is the physical byproduct of teenage suburban daydreams and attempts to live vicariously through an alien post-urban 1980s landscape that was in no way part of my quotidian existence-a landscape that I caught glimpses of [...]
ART 101 will exhibit the respective works of Nicola Ginzel and Chester Nielsen, artists whose process is both visible and coherent. CRITICAL PATH opens on February 17 and runs through March 18. The opening reception is from 6 to 9 on February 17.
The exhibition reveals each artist’s CRITICAL PATH — from photographs of corners [...]
OPEN CITY DIALOGUES presents:
ARTISINAL PENCIL SHARPENING
w/David Rees
FREE LECTURE!
Monday, Feb. 13
7:30pm, Pete’s Candy Store
(709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn. L to Lorimer; G to Metropolitan)
In New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. His artisanal service is perfect [...]
“Sutured,” a mixed-media exhibition featuring the work of Adam Parker Smith, Jude Broughan, Joseph Heidecker, Richard Saja, Robert Raphael, Vadis Turner, and Zoe Sheehan Saldana, opens at Like the Spice Gallery on February 10th, 2012.
Fabric cannot be disassociated from both its practicalities and its histories. It can be soft or course, rigid or supple, [...]
Dona Nobis
On view February 11 – March 3, 2012
Opening reception February 11, 2012, 7-10 p.m.
at Concrete Utopia
39 Hampton Place, Brooklyn, NY
Art is a gift. This winter the 20 artists of Dona Nobis have probed the gift dimension of the work of art—the idea that seems to come from somewhere beyond the [...]
