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Reconfigurations Opening Reception

November 3, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Klompching Gallery, 89 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Reconfigurations brings together photographs by five artists, who have reshaped historical photographs into new, contemporary narratives.

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Tropospheric Painting Opening Reception

November 3, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Gallery Gaia, 79 Hudson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Laurel Shute’s painting practice is about transferring the natural environment into a flat painting, with the colors and shapes expressive of capturing the feeling of being in relation to the Sun and Earth.

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Open Studios, Special Event

Lucky Risograph Open Studio Hours

November 3, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Lucky Risograph, 20 Jay Street #217
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Drop by Lucky Risograph studio to check out their printing in progress and browse their selection of affordable prints and books! Lucky Risograph is a POC-owned print, design studio, and publisher based in DUMBO. Primarily working through the medium of risograph printing, they create a wide variety of printed matter ranging from postcards to art books. Since their establishment in 2018, they have continued to incorporate risograph’s eco-conscious and affordable nature into their everyday practice, working with diverse artist communities…

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Open Studios, Special Event

Triangle Residency Program Fall Open Studios

November 3, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Triangle Arts Association, 20 Jay Street, Suite 317 & 318
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Triangle is excited to announce its Fall Open Studios featuring Laurie Kang, Iona Roisin, Kim Brandt, and Adelita Husni Bey at 20 Jay Street #317 and #318. Triangle is a visual arts residency in New York founded in 1982, providing a life-changing working environment for committed artists through studio-based opportunities to experiment and create new work; shared community with other artists that lasts a lifetime; introduction of curators and other experts to the work at crucial times; cultivation of new…

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Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: Inhabiting Zenobia

November 3, 2022, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Pearl Street Triangle, Water Street between Pearl Street and Anchorage Place
Brooklyn, 11201
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This exhibition of video art shows some of the forms of "vertical world-cities”: scattered, suspended, nameless like the people who live in them, hidden in megalopolises and cities everywhere, seen through the outlook of Italian Mediterranean culture.

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Open Studios, Special Event

Fall 2022 Open Studios

November 4, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Join Smack Mellon on Friday, Nov 18 for the first day of Fall 2022 Open Studios alongside the opening receptions for their upcoming exhibitions! Open Studios continue on Saturday, Nov 19, 1–6 PM. Meet and check out the studios of their current artists-in-residence: Gi (Ginny) Huo, Miatta Kawinzi, Kiyan Williams and New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows Joseph Liatela, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, and Ogemdi Ude.

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Fall 2022 Open Studios

November 5, 2022, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Smack Mellon Fall 2022 Open Studios continues. Meet and check out the studios of their current artists-in-residence: Gi (Ginny) Huo, Miatta Kawinzi, Kiyan Williams and New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows Joseph Liatela, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, and Ogemdi Ude.

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Poetry Reading from “No Chronology” by Karen Fish

November 6, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A poetry reading from No Chronology by Karen Fish, hosted by Jane Swavely on the occasion of her solo exhibition Pareidolia. Accompanied with a screening of the iconic 1960 film of Balanchine’s ballet Agon. Karen Fish is the author of three poetry collections, The Cedar Canoe, What Is Beyond Us, and most recently, No Chronology published by University of Chicago Press. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and was a…

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Exhibitions

Blurr

November 11, 2022 - December 17, 2022
Platform Project Space, 20 Jay Street, #319
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Blurr features work by four stylistically different painters—Jimbo Blachly, Sunny Kim, David Scher, and Kate Teale—who blur boundaries visually and in their subject matter. Interiors blend with landscapes, abstract elements with pictorial episodes.

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Always In My Heart

November 18, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Always In My Heart is an exhibition of works by Morehshin Allahyari, Hangama Amiri, and Fatemeh Kazemi, that explores the artists’ shared inquiry into popular visual and textual idioms of love, desire, and intimacy in each of their respective identity positions. Curated by Muheb Esmat in conjunction with Aziz Hazara’s solo exhibition in Gallery One, Always In My Heart brings together textiles, drawings, printed matter, and a web-based project that highlight how pop-culture idioms fall short of expressing all of…

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Aziz Hazara: It’s Only Sound That Remains

November 18, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Aziz Hazara’s first major solo exhibition in NYC, It’s Only Sound That Remains examines sound as a powerful repository for memory, recognition, and a source of critical reflection in contemporary Afghanistan. Curated by Muheb Esmat, the exhibition brings together two large-scale video installations by Hazara that highlight the sonic performativity of power and politics in the everyday. Through two distinct acoustic experiences: a mourning ritual, and Kabul’s soundscape during the most recent regime change, the works in this exhibition portray…

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New Work: Genesis Baez and Jenny Calivas

November 18, 2022, 8:00 pm
20 Jay Street, 20 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY, NY 11201 United States
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Interventions in the landscape and performances with community conjure communion with both the self and kin, both real and imagined, past and present. Baez’s work exists in a diasporic universe, tracing the invisible threads that tether her to people dispersed throughout the world and time. Calivas’s ritual self burials elongate time and facilitate a reclaimed communion with the self. View the work at 20 Jay Street #309C.

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Siru Wen: Live, Dwell, Stay

November 19, 2022 - December 18, 2022
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Live, Dwell, Stay, a multi-channel video installation by artist Siru Wen. The work discloses the uncanny yet mundane activities that occur under the roof of an old Chinese couple. This is Wen’s first solo exhibition in New York City.

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please come flying

November 19, 2022 - December 18, 2022
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce please come flying, a group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Wiet and Taylor Bluestine. Taking its title from a poem that Elizabeth Bishop wrote in homage to her mentor Marianne Moore, please come flying explores the importance of intergenerational exchange to A.I.R.’s history by bringing together works by A.I.R. New York & Adjunct Members and former A.I.R. Fellows on the occasion of the gallery’s 50th anniversary.

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Teruyo Fujiyama: SAORI Weaving – IROIRO

November 20, 2022 - December 24, 2022
Loop of the Loom, 197 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A Japanese saori weaver, Teruyo Fujiyama at the age of 9, her art teacher's mother lead her to a saori weaving studio in Kobe, Japan. Since then she's been weaving with other weavers in an inclusive studio once a week for over 30 years. She received many international awards as an artistic fiber artist with Down Syndrome, she was recognized internationally through VSA Arts and influenced many saori weavers. The show at Loop of the Loom is her third in…

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Tomás Karmelo Amaya: Embracing Our Sovereignty

November 28, 2022 - December 16, 2022
Photoville, 20 Jay Street, Suite 207
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Instagram, in partnership with local Brooklyn non-profit Photoville, presents an immersive photographic exhibition that uses augmented reality to bring the work of artist Tomás Karmelo Amaya to life. Embracing Our Sovereignty is a series of photographs that offer a glimpse of Amaya’s Indigenous family, friends and collaborators. As Amaya explains: “I look forward to the stories we will tell together: your lived experience and existence is powerful, a universe of its own that deserves love and the warmest embrace.” This…

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Azucar!

December 1, 2022 - January 20, 2023
Cuban Art Space, 20 Jay Street, Suite 301
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Various Cuban artists, vintage-print fabrics from Cuba, handmade crochet clothing, books, and gifts on display.

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The Brooklyn Watercolor Society and Friends: A Water Show

December 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Gallery Gaia, 79 Hudson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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This show will take you through the magic of watercolors, from its purest transparent form of innocence to a more adventurous one with the use of mixed media creations. Curated by Christian Le Gars.

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Paolo Arao: mythweaver

December 1, 2022 - February 2, 2023
Main Window, One Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A multi-panel hand-woven textile installation. Arao is a Filipino-American artist making sewn paintings and site-responsive installations that are rooted in geometric abstraction. Arao mends this lineage of abstraction through his use of textiles, making work that explores the elastic nature of queerness and honors his Filipino heritage

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DUMBO Tree Lighting

December 1, 2022, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
DUMBO Archway, DUMBO Archway
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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The DUMBO Improvement District is thrilled to sponsor the 16th Annual DUMBO Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. Tree Lit at 5:30 pm Sharp! - TREE LIGHTING. With a countdown led by our very own Alexandria Sica! - SANTA CLAUS. All the way from the North Pole, in a fabulous setting generously created by West Elm. Photobooth from our friends at Self Portrait Project. - CALYPSO MUSIC. From Brooklyn-based steel drum band Jah Pan. - CHRISTMAS COVERS. By Curtis J. Social and…

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Eamon Goodman, Laurel Atwell, and Erica Newton

December 1, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
New York Studio School Projects @ DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Suite 307
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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New York Studio School (NYSS) Projects residents take the opportunity of the First Thursday event to showcase work in their community. This event brings together the work of Eamon Goodman (sound), Laurel Atwell (video), and Erica Newton (painting) in the exhibition space. Erica is a painter and current resident at the NYSS projects @ DUMBO space. She received her MFA from the New York Studio School in May 2022 Eamon Goodman is a musician, sound designer, and installation artist based…

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Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: If all bodies attract each other, how is it possible the Universe is expanding?

December 1, 2022, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Pearl Street Triangle, Water Street between Pearl Street and Anchorage Place
Brooklyn, 11201
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Janet Biggs, Meredith Drum, Dakota Gearhart, and Faith Holland propose tensions bursting with pleasure, effort, and abandonment. They create a sticky physicality that touches invisible realities and rejects “normal” behaviors, both of matter and of relationships. Would that mean that matter and relationships are malleable, and only ingrained perceptions and inertia prevent our dissolution into one joyful, fluid, ever-changing collectiveness? Curated by Eva Davidova.  

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Mercado/Made in Cuba

December 10, 2022 - February 28, 2023
Cuban Art Space, 20 Jay Street, Suite 301
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A Mercado event featuring paintings, fabric prints, vintage posters, works on paper, collectibles, and crafts from Cuba.

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Special Event

Shop the Studios

December 10, 2022, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Just in time for the holidays, 35 artists in DUMBO will open their studios to the public to sell their art on Saturday, December 10, 12-4pm. Organized by the DUMBO Improvement District and Art in DUMBO, Shop the Studios is an opportunity to connect directly with artists working in DUMBO, Brooklyn, explore their studios, and take home an original artwork priced for the holidays. Shop the Studios is organized in coordination with the DUMBO x Brooklyn Flea Holiday Market in…

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Letha Wilson: Folds and Faults

December 17, 2022 - February 18, 2023
Higher Pictures Generation, 16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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The Landscape Objects on view continue Wilson’s exploration of the interlocking relationships between sculpture, photography, and our natural environment. The sculptures are made from a carefully limited set of materials: a metal plate hinged with industrial fabric provides the substrate for foliage, stone, earth, and sky photographed in color. Wilson’s photographs, printed onto cut sheets of copper, steel, or brass, are made to fold and bend in countless ways.

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Orderly Chaos

January 5 - February 11
New York Studio School Projects @ DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Suite 307
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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The New York Studio School is pleased to present Orderly Chaos, a group exhibition curated by Artist-in-Residence Yiting Zhao feauring the work of sixteen painters. The works selected are painted from observation in a practice of painting that, as one artist observes, is “like putting in order the chaos in front of the painter.” The works in Orderly Chaos emphasize color, form, texture, surface, and other formal elements that indicate the experience of working from life. The visual languages specific…

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DUMBO Public Art Tour

January 5, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Join us to celebrate the latest projects from the Downtown Brooklyn and Dumbo Art Fund. See the works, and hear from artists Sherwin Banfield, Joseph Morris, and Owen Trueblood about their pieces and process. Sherwin Banfield, Sky's the Limit in the County of Kings is a sustainable sonic sculptural tribute dedicated to the legacy of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. Born and raised in Brooklyn, B.I.G.'s musical frequency is rooted in American, Jamaican and African rhythms. A true Diasporic sound,…

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Exhibitions

d’Ann de Simone: textilis mnēmosynē

January 7 - February 5
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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An exhibition of three-dimensional collages by d'Ann de Simone. The work brings together bits of found fabric, often acquired at garage sales and primarily made by women. The collaged textiles re-weave these fragments into a collective narrative, embedded in the text of the art.

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2. Exhibitions

Amy Ritter: Welcome to Li’l Wolf

March 18–April 16

A.I.R. Gallery

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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3. Exhibitions

Susan Bee: Apocalypses, Fables, and Reveries: New Paintings

March 18–April 16

A.I.R. Gallery

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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4. Exhibitions

Yuichi Idaka and László Moholy-Nagy: War Bonds

March 15–May 6

Higher Pictures Generation

Open: Mon (By Appt.); Tues–Sat, 11 AM–6 PM

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5. Exhibitions

ann/drew gayle: just a moment

March 11–April 23

Smack Mellon

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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6. Exhibitions

Itziar Barrio: did not feel low, was sleeping

March 11–April 23

Smack Mellon

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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8. Exhibitions

En La Lucha!

March 2–April 1

Cuban Art Space

Open: Wed–Sat, 12–6 PM; Sun–Tues By Appt.

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9. Exhibitions

To Tire of Grace

February 28–April 27

Main Window

Open: 24 Hours

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10. Exhibitions

Closing Soon

Winter Salon

February 15–March 24

Klompching Gallery

Open: Wed–Sat, 11 AM–6 PM

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11. Exhibitions

Closing Soon

Alfred Leslie

January 26–March 25

Janet Borden, Inc.

Open: Tues–Sat, 11 AM–5 PM

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12. Exhibitions

Closing Soon

Cris Gianakos: Works on Mylar 1983-1989

January 7–March 25

Minus Space

Open: By Appt. & Sat, 11 AM–5 PM

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First Thursday Gallery Walk

The first Thursday of every month, the galleries of DUMBO stay open late, hosting special events and receptions. Neighborhood restaurants and bars have specials for First Thursday patrons.

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