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 artist, the value of the work that escapes the valuation of the market, the communities art builds through viewership and circulation, and the world of exchange between artists themselves. On February 11, Concrete Utopia opens its winter group show Dona Nobis at our project space in Crown Heights, featuring paintings, sculpture, electronic installation, and photography from:

John Krauss, Dave Brooks, Alexis Neider, Bill Liebeskind, Shana Moulton, Grayson Cox, Jeremy Shaeffer, Mara Sprafkin, Lane Sell, Paloma Crousillat, Emily Weiner, Nancy Woods, Jacqui LeBoutillier, Jesse Weiss, Theresa Himmer, Nate Flagg, Allison Halff, Erich Erving, Becky Hersch, Gabriela Vainsencher

Participating artists have spent time in each other’s working environments to produce examinations of one another’s work, published in our accompanying catalogue.

39 Hampton Place | Brooklyn, NY  11213

www.concreteutopia.org

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• CraftNEWYORK a benefit for CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resources
• “The Greatest City on Earth” by Linda Zacks
• Exhibit: The Influential Female at Kentler International Drawing Space

Installed through October 31, 2012 on Lincoln Road Bridge across from the Prospect Park subway station, between Ocean and Flatbush Avenues.

www.katherinedaniels.com

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• Exhibit: Dona Nobis at Concrete Utopia
• Exhibit: Rachel Pollak “…the I and the We” at Gowanus Print Lab
• CraftNEWYORK a benefit for CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resources
• “The Greatest City on Earth” by Linda Zacks
• Exhibit: The Influential Female at Kentler International Drawing Space

This exhibit and sale is a must see for anyone interested in the finest American craft being made today and will feature 120 internationally renowned artists producing one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces. Working within, and expanding from, the traditions of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Gustav Stickley, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima and Dale Chihuly, the award winning artists chosen for CraftNEWYORK have become America’s “living treasures”.

Net profits from admission to CraftNEWYORK will benefit CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resources), a non-profit organization committed to supporting the careers of craft artists throughout the United States.

Schedule

Friday, March 30 from 3 pm to 8 pm
Saturday, March 31from 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, April 1 from 11 am to 5 pm

http://www.artrider.com/CNY12.html

Syma, Ole Blue Eyes

“As Lower Manhattan continues to grow, construction can be tough on small businesses and confusing for pedestrians. While we look forward to all the great improvements happening downtown, this latest Re:Construction installation is a creative and resourceful way to support small businesses, direct visitors, residents and local workers and beautify Lower Manhattan all at the same time,” said Elizabeth H. Berger, president of the Alliance for Downtown New York.

The Greatest City on Earth is an ongoing series of skylines by artist, Linda Zacks. Linda’s art reflects her passion for the city of New York; she uses a combination of imagery and materials to capture the vitality of the urban, modern experience “that turns a jackhammer into a musical instrument.” Zacks’ powerful body of work captures the life and emotion in a city skyline evoking the frenetic and visceral to the quiet and serene moments that mark the experience of daily life in The Greatest City on Earth.

http://www.downtownny.com/node/10147

THE INFLUENTIAL FEMALE
Drawings Inspired by Women in History

CURATOR:
Randall Harris

ARTISTS:
Clarity Haynes, Meridith McNeal, Edward Monovich, Arlene Morris, Annysa Ng, K. Saito, Jacquelyn Schiffman, Vivianne Silvera, Lorene Taurerewa, Jono Vaughan

February 3 – March 25, 2012

RECEPTION:
Friday, February 3, 6 – 8pm

CURATOR’S TALK:
Sunday, February 19, 4pm

The human figure has been a subject for visual artists throughout history. With such an expansive subject matter, this exhibition has chosen to focus on contemporary artists drawing inspiration from the female form. Refined even more, these artists draw their inspiration from historic or specific female subjects to create fresh and challenging gender related artwork. This new work is intriguing because it directly reflects on history while making history.

A brochure with an essay by Randall Harris accompanies the exhibition.

KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE
353 Van Brunt Street
(Red Hook) Brooklyn, NY
718.875.2098

www.kentlergallery.org

Open free to the public:
Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm

On Tuesday, February 7 , 2011 from 8-10 p.m. at The Old Stone House

Remember Show and Tell in elementary school? When you got a chance to bring something in from home to show your class. It was simple, innocent, and fun.

Come be inspired!

Shawn Dulaney’s work is currently on view at the Sears Peyton Gallery in Chelsea. Her style, a layered construction of color merging to form spacious abstractions, has been described by William Zimmer of the New York Times as belonging to “a very strong tradition, that of 19th-century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states.” He says of her work, “Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction…Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur. but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them.”

Shawn Dulaney has worked as a painter for over three decades, exhibiting nationwide. Her paintings can be found in extensive public collections worldwide-the Hunterdon Museum of Art in New Jersey, the Trump International Hotel in New York, The Venetia Resort in Macan, China, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, artist Jo Andres and musician Stuart Copeland.

Hugh Crawford studied photography and received a BA from Bard College, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and Tattler.  His fine art work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in NYC and San Francisco. A recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he was also an artist-in-residence at ArtPark in Buffalo, NY. He is currently at work on a book about Polaroid photographer Jamie Livingston. His photos can be seen daily on the No Words Daily Pix feature of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. 

ART 101 heralds the New Year with EXPANDING THE LANDSCAPE, an exhibition of figurative drawings and sculpture by Alexandra Limpert and Patrick Whalen.

Limpert’s figurative sculptures reflect the architectural structures of her native New York. “Steel allows me to create life-size open bodily forms while leaving space for the unseen aspects of the figure. Several pieces in the exhibition are manually operated by a hand-crank…Interestingly, the mechanical motion adds an element of humanity to the work.”

She has been creating the animation for the holiday windows for Lord & Taylor, Macy’s and Saks Fifth Avenue for ten years. In 2006 and 2007, her sculptures were featured in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman.

Limpert has exhibited extensively here in New York and in Europe. She is a teaching Artist with the Rush Foundation.

Patrick Whalen began exhibiting in California, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum, prior to moving to New York where he has shown at White Columns and Smack Mellon Studios among other venues. This is his third exhibition at ART 101.

His drawings examine both time and memory. “How memory can mash events together. How it can play tricks on you. How your perceptions can be off, but so sharp in remembering a tiny detail. I base my work on photos I take. I have hundreds of them and I work from those re-assembling my memories… (The installation) … all came together to be a fiction, an image of something that very well could have happened.”

The closing reception is Friday 10 February, 6 – 9 PM.

The gallery is wheelchair accessible.

http://www.art101brooklyn.com/

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.

Doug Young

Christy Singleton

Liv Mette Larsen

Carla Knopp

Erika Keck

Luisa Kazanas

Scott Espeseth

Vincent Como

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

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)

http://www.mightytanaka.com/

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

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″

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

http://recessionartshows.com

Megan Berk, The Very Big Field

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/

The Gowanus Print Lab is now accepting entries for a solo exhibition in our bright and spacious exhibition space. Exhibition will run from February 8th through March 5th, with an opening reception 6-9pm on February 10th. The call is open to all mediums, those working in print or are interested in working in print encouraged to apply.

In addition to a solo show, the winner will receive a free 1 month studio pass at the Print Lab ($200 value).

See their website for submission requirements.

Please send all submission materials to info@gowanusprintlab.com with “GO SOLO (your name)” in the subject line.

Submission deadline is January 23rd.

Gowanus Print Lab
54 Second Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718.788.3930
gowanusprintlab.com

The opening reception is Wednesday January 25 from 7 to 9 p.m.

All artists in the show were selected from BRIC’s Contemporary Artists Registry, the oldest registry of visual artists in Brooklyn with more than 16,000 digital submissions from 800 artists. Founded in 1983, the Registry is open to artists living or working in Brooklyn; visit registry.bricartsmedia.org to view a range of artists’ work.

Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of sometimes seemingly disparate things; a person who engages in bricolage is called a bricoleur. The range of work in this show includes: video, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture and digital printing.
Christian Maychack Habitant, 2011
According to the curators: “We have chosen artists for the exhibition who pull together styles and materials that might otherwise appear disparate and unattractive save for the artist’s ability to combine them into one cogent, integral whole… With The Bricoleurs, we turn our analytical gaze more to the practice of creating bricolage less than the product, the bricolage itself.”

Artists featured in the exhibition are: Man Bartlett, Andrea Burgay, Danielle Durchslag, Alana Fitzgerald, Joseph Gillette, Max Greis, Cooper Holoweski, MaryKate Maher, Christian Maychack and Troy Michie.

Images: Danielle Durchslag, Relative Unknown 19, 2011

Location and Gallery Hours
BRIC Rotunda Gallery 33 Clinton Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours: Tues – Sat, noon – 6 p.m.
Directions: A/C trains to High St, 2/3 to Clark St, 4/5 to Borough Hall, R to Court St

About BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents contemporary art, performing arts and community media programs that reflect Brooklyn’s creativity and diversity. BRIC also provides resources to launch, nurture and showcase artists and media makers. We advance access to and understanding of arts and media by presenting free and low cost programming, and by offering education and public programs to people of all ages.
BRIC’s contemporary art exhibition program is supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Barclays/Nets Community Alliance; Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; and Robert Lehman Foundation, in addition to numerous individuals. Learn more at bricartsmedia.org

BRIC also acknowledges public funds for its contemporary art programs from Institute of Museum and Library Services; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York State Senators Velmanette Montgomery and Daniel Squadron; New York State Assembly members Inez Barron, Alec Brook-Krasny, Hakeem Jeffries, and Joan Millman; and New York City Council members Lewis A. Fidler, Brad Lander, Stephen Levin, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Albert Vann and Jumaane Williams.

Special thanks to lead sponsor for this exhibition: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.

For more information, please visit bricartsmedia.org
Press contact: Colleen J. Ross, BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn,
cross@bricartsmedia.org 718.683.5629

Hugh Crawford’s photographic tangles of rose bushes, ocean waves, the banks of the Gowanus Canal, architecture, and trees reify the tension between detail closely observed and panoramic vista intrinsic to the act of seeing. Created in the Autumn of 2011, the work addresses the entwinement of growth, death, and rebirth.

Synthesized from multiple exposures reassembled in jagged composition, the work is printed in sections on photographic canvas, some as large as eight feet.

Hugh Crawford studied photography and received a BA from Bard College, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Tattler, and Newsweek. His fine art work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in NYC and San Francisco. A recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he was also an artist-in-residence at ArtPark in Buffalo, NY. He is currently at work on a book about Polaroid photographer Jamie Livingston. His photos can be seen daily on the No Words Daily Pix feature of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.

Sections: New Work by Hugh Crawford
Opening reception on December 15, 2011 6-9PM
The show runs through January, 2012
The Old Stone House
Third Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope
718-768-3195

Rose rows, 2011, pigment on canvas, 85″ x 45″

Grounded in the belief that art is the best way to navigate the potential of networked culture, we aim to cultivate challenging and experiential modes of engaging with new media. Leisure is an ongoing social exchange exploring electronic music, visual performances, installations and spectacle.

319 Scholes supports digital arts and experimentation through exhibitions, lectures, panels, participatory workshops, and live performances. Established in 2009, 319 Scholes is run by artists and a core group of collaborators, operating out of a renovated warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Artists:

Keith Fullerton Whitman
- http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/

Ben Vida
- http://www.kranky.net/artists/birdshow.html

James Fei
- http://jamesfei.com/

Chuck Johnson
- http://www.cirrusoxide.com/

Philip White
- http://www.prwhite.net/

For more information
please see http://319scholes.org/december-9-2011-leisure/

319 Scholes
Brooklyn, New York 11206

Dumbo Arts Center is pleased to present our 2011 Holiday Pop Up Sale, featuring more than 50 artists selling art affordably priced, with special selections by each artist at $30! 50% of sales benefit DAC and the creation of new art and 50% of sales benefit the participating artists! So you can get great art and support emerging artists!

DAC will use the funds to continue our cutting edge programming, like building a summer library, making human pyramids that represent the economic system, doing experimental mediations, and more exhibition and events than you can shake a candy cane at. While we can’t say for sure what the artists will do with their share, we are pretty sure it will go to producing more art.

Participating artists include:
Leesa Abahuni, Nicole, Abahuni, Steven Anderson, Nicole Antebi, Bridget Batch, Sarah Bostwick, Jude Broughan, Robmat Butler, Sean Cavanaugh, Barb Choit, Elizabeth Conn, Megan Cump, Kenneth Dale, Rodney Dickson, Tim Dowse, Karl Erickson, Shingo Francis, Gina Fuentes Walker, Jesse Gelaznik, Katy Hamer, Linda Herritt, Cathrin Hoskinson, Patrick Jewell, Aileen Leijten, Catherine Lewis, Jen Liu, Lia Lowenthal, Peter Max Lawrence, Kayla Mohammadi, Kaveri Nair, Rick Parker, Walter Patrick, Tara Romero, Bill Roundy, Jennifer Schwartz, Sam Seawright, Karen Shaw, Janos Stone, Holly Sumner, Gabriela Vainsencher, Michelle Vaughan, Barbara Weissberger, Bradley Wester, Michael Wilson and more!

Check out some the delightful artwork that is coming in on our Flickr page!

Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit contemporary arts organization located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York. DAC’s mission is to catalyze interaction between visual artists, the local community and the wider public.

Event Coordinator: Olivia Eckfeld

Directions:
F train to York Street A/C train to High Street
B61 to York and Gold Streets

Dumbo Arts Center
111 Front St. #212
Brooklyn, NY 11201

DAC’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The New York State Council on the Arts, Two Trees Management LLC., and the Board and Members of DAC.