Smack Mellon
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
Hours: Wed – Sun 12-6pm
(718) 834-8761Smack Mellon presents solo and group exhibitions in their singular 6000 square foot gallery space, providing technical and financial support for the creation of new and ambitious projects by emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women artists.
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Exhibitions
Spread Wild: Pleasures of the Yucca
Paula Wilson’s mixed-media installation transforms Smack Mellon’s industrial space into a landscape resembling the high desert plains of New Mexico, where the artist currently lives. Central among the flora and fauna depicted are the yucca plant and yucca moth. Their pollination ritual represents a quintessential example of mutualism, which Wilson reimagines as a love scene. She outfits the gallery’s towering columns as larger than life naturalists who act as guides and observers of the display. By portraying an untold narrative…
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Exhibitions
A Cat in God’s Garden
Luisa Caldwell’s exhibition encompasses personal interests that have spanned her childhood and adult life: cats, gardens, and art books. Her project is inspired by flowers and plants that she grows and nurtures in her Brooklyn garden, as well as the stray cats that come and go. On the gallery walls are hundreds of Caldwell’s botanical drawings illustrating fantastic flora. Caldwell has also created an installation of found porcelain and stoneware vases that have her own feline and botanical imagery etched…
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A Cat in God’s Garden
Luisa Caldwell’s exhibition encompasses personal interests that have spanned her childhood and adult life: cats, gardens, and art books. Her project is inspired by flowers and plants that she grows and nurtures in her Brooklyn garden, as well as the stray cats that come and go. On the gallery walls are hundreds of Caldwell’s botanical drawings illustrating fantastic flora. Caldwell has also created an installation of found porcelain and stoneware vases that have her own feline and botanical imagery etched…
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Deadline
Smack Mellon’s Artist Studio Program
Application for 2019-2020 via Submittable Deadline is Friday, November 2nd, 2018 at 11:59PM EST The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis of available affordable space for artists living and working in New York City. The program provides six eligible artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space, accessible 24/7, and a fellowship. Before applying, we encourage you to read about the Artist Studio Program and history at our website here.
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