TONGUE-IN-CHEEK | Open Call Exhibition On view September 9th through October 3rd, 2011 Opening Reception September 9th, 6-9pm The Gowanus Print Lab is accepting submissions for the upcoming group exhibition Tongue-In-Cheek. Tongue-In-Cheek will feature irreverent, witty, humorous thought-provoking-work of all mediums. Artists working in print especially encouraged to apply. Tongue-In-Cheek will exhibit 6-10 artists, depending...
Follow any person off the street for one day, and watch her shift – between languages, mannerisms, states of mind. He might cover his tattoos for work. She may dress in drag on the weekends. He might have joint custody. She may lie about still going to church. He may have moved into a neighborhood...
KIDflix Film Fest of Bed-Stuy: Featuring THE WIZ A Tribute to Michael Jackson and Lena Horne Friday, August 26 | 7:00 PM (Rain Date: Saturday, August 27 | 7:00PM) Fulton Park (corner of Utica Avenue and Fulton Street) | A or C Train to Utica Ave. The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and...
Artist Statement I was born in Tucuman, Argentina. Growing up, I took every opportunity I had to create art. In the early 90′s, I was an exchange student in New York City. From the moment I arrived, I was stunned by the city’s art scene and knew that one day I would come back to...
Kunsthalle Galapagos presents their Fall 2011 kick-off show CAN’T HEAR THE REVOLUTION Curated by Julie McKim, Erik Hougen, Albert Shelton, and Gracie Kazer … CANT HEAR THE REVOLUTION is a group exhibition representing the unseen and unheard revolutions going on around the world and the forces of art that guide and inspire us. Featuring artworks...
Brooklyn artist Sheila Goloborotko launches her project 1001 dreams and is requesting submissions from the public. This project exists in the public sphere. In it, I’ll be taking people’s dreams out of their heads and out of their bed, so to speak, printing them on pillowcases and then seeding them into unexpected, far-flung corners of...
Gratitude Designs by Tara Dixon is a company based on acknowledgement and gratitude. Tara Dixon is a painter from Brooklyn, NY who started a series of paintings in the Spring of 2010 with the words “thank you” inscribed into the final layer of wet paint. The colors she uses are vibrant jewel tones and the...
Temporary Shelters is a book object built into a landsnail shell. The text begins curled into the shell as one long scroll to be unfurled and, ulitmately, detached completely by the reader. Each book is encased in dirt in a cardboard box, from which the reader is instructed to fill the emptied shell with dirt...
After some intense weeks of judging, Abe’s Penny chose the best O, Miami collaboration: a poem by Yaddyra Peralta submitted in response to photographs by Lee Materazzi. Peralta wrote and submitted the poem on location at New World School of the Arts’ Artseen gallery where Materazzi’s images were on exhibit as part of Abe’s Penny...