Spotted on Houston Street
Yes!
BKLYN:111 - Everybody Gets Art
Photographs of the BKLYN 111: BAG Gallery Show and Fundraiser October 25, 2008 by kamauware.
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Brooklyn Artists Gym
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Gallery Show: October 17 - 25, 2008
Opening Reception: October 18, 2008
Benefit Reception: October 25, 2008
- Brooklyn Artists Gym is an artist studio and gallery facility in the Park Slope/Gowanus area of Brooklyn, New York.
- The BAG Fund consists of two programs, estate art assistance and support to single parent and promising young artists.
- The 12th Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour is Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008 from 1-6 p.m.
It’s Bacon!!!
Finally, I’ll get a chance to see a large selection of Bacon’s work:
“An exhibition of the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) opening in September 2008 at Tate Britain will be a major celebration heralding the artist’s centenary in 2009… The exhibition will tour to Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid… It will then travel to the US to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from 18 May – 16 August 2009. ”
In the meantime, I’ll have to be content with exploring the Tate’s extremely cool Flash presentation:
BKLYN 111: BAG Gallery Show and Fundraiser
I’ve donated my painting “Ascension” to the good folks at the Brooklyn Artists Gym for a fundraising event for The BAG Fund.
BKLYN:111
In anticipation of Brooklyn’s 111th year as a New York City Borough, The BAG Fund presents BKLYN:111: an exhibition, a fundraising event, a dialogue about our urban space both as environment and as a participant in the creative process.
BKLYN:111 opens October 18th with a free reception during the AGAST Studio Tour and closes in grand fashion on October 25 with a party called “Everybody Gets Art” from 6pm on.
At the “Everybody Gets Art” party:
- 110 works of art on the wall from 65 artists.
- 110 ticket holders.
- When a ticket holder’s number is called, they have 11 seconds to find the work of art they want and take it off the wall.
- Party!
Filming the art frenzy is the 111th work of art. Collectors meet the artists and artists meet the collectors. And all of the proceeds go to The BAG Fund. You will be able to preview the art at The BAG Fund website, or by coming to the BAG Gallery during the week of Oct. 18.
Tickets to get art: $200.
General admission: FREE.
Brooklyn Artists Gym
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Gallery Show: October 17 - 25, 2008
Opening Reception: October 18, 2008
Benefit Reception: October 25, 2008
- Brooklyn Artists Gym is an artist studio and gallery facility in the Park Slope/Gowanus area of Brooklyn, New York.
- The BAG Fund consists of two programs, estate art assistance and support to single parent and promising young artists.
- The 12th Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour is Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008 from 1-6 p.m.
Diamond District
Various graphic depictions of diamonds spotted along 47th Street, NYC.
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Mount Desert Island
Transplant
I just finished this collage called Transplant. I did the original collage in 1999, made some changes to it in 2005, then cropped and mounted it this past week.
I believe in remembrance
I recently scanned a book I made back in 1994. I was living in Boston at the time, and happened across several old books that had been discarded. Actually, it looked as if someone had died and their apartment had been cleaned out.
Included in the pile were some old medical books, some children’s books in Russian, and central to the creation of this work, some notebooks used for practicing written English.
There were many interesting phrases. Why, for example, would one practice writing “to take a walk down quicksand?” It was an evocative image.
I began to tear phrases out of the notebooks and arranged them on a table top into a collaged narrative. The process took a few days as I shuffled the fragments around, adding new bits here, taking out bits there. I then began to collect images from the other books to create illustrations of the constructed tale, and arranged the pieces into pages.
Click on the cover below to view the complete story.
a politic 2008
One of my works was included as an “Online Finalist” in the a politic 2008 exhibition presented by Reflect-arts and Gallery XIV (in affiliation with artscope magazine).
a politic 2008
An exhibition interpreting notions of politics, being political, freedom of expression and exploring ‘a politic’ with personal imagination and craft.
July 2-August 16, 2008
Gallery XIV
37 Thayer Street, Boston, MA.
Happy Birthday!
M: Glad you liked the cake.
Rockers and Posers Opening Reception
Rockers & Posers
BAG Gallery @ Brooklyn Artists Gym
Opening Reception: May 31, 2008
Thanks to everyone who made it to the opening. It was a special treat to have the subject of the portrait in attendance.
Live jazz trio. Swanky!