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Reconfigurations Opening Reception
Reconfigurations brings together photographs by five artists, who have reshaped historical photographs into new, contemporary narratives.
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Tropospheric Painting Opening Reception
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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Lucky Risograph Open Studio Hours
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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Triangle Residency Program Fall Open Studios
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
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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Fall 2022 Open Studios
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
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
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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Blurr
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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?
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
A Mercado event featuring paintings, fabric prints, vintage posters, works on paper, collectibles, and crafts from Cuba.
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Shop the Studios
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
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
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
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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d’Ann de Simone: textilis mnēmosynē
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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