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Shawn P Bruce: 99 Cent Dreams

May 4 - June 1
Aegir, 99 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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New York is home to some of the most iconic skateboarding locations in the world, drawing countless skaters from far and wide into the city. This project has sought to explore skateable locations around New York, looking at the forms in the landscape and examining each space as works of art. It provides us an opportunity to step into the minds of the skaters who have tackled each obstacle.

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rE-ordering architecture: making machine and material kin

May 4 - May 25
Usagi NY, 163 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, 11201 United States
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rE-ordering architecture: making machine and material kin is an exhibition of digitally fabricated clay columns. Each column in this show presents a new “order”—a seed or fragment of a future entwinement between architecture and environment. Each of the four columns was digitally fabricated by 3D printing clay, a process which requires reconsidering anthropocentric notions of authorship, precision, and control. Featuring work by Shelby Doyle; Frank Melendez and Nancy Diniz; Kelley Van Dyck Murphy; and Jonathan A. Scelsa with Greg Sheward.

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Melanie Vote: Night & Day

May 4 - June 27
Main Window, One Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Night & Day revisits Melanie Vote's previous work from the Washhouse series, infused with a new twist. Inspired by a small work painted during the pandemic, this collection of pieces explores the themes of place, time, and impermanence. Through the juxtaposition of the tattered facade of an outbuilding of rural Iowa flooded with daylight, dropped at twilight in a New York City park, Vote challenges our perceptions of space and time. The installation invites us to consider the significance of…

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Carri Skoczek: FACES

May 4 - May 28
Gallery Gaia, 79 Hudson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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FACES comprises a selection of vibrant oil pastel portraits from the daily drawing series Carri Skoczek began in 2019. The portraits are of people she admires, past and present, including artists, musicians, chefs, designers, filmmakers, and friends.

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Screening, Special Event

Light Year x DUMBO Improvement District: Digital Fairy Tales, Myths of Brazil

May 4, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Pearl Street Triangle, Water Street between Pearl Street and Anchorage Place
Brooklyn, 11201
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LIGHT YEAR 97: Digital Fairy Tales, Myths of Brazil brings together a diverse selection of stories and characters from Brazil’s folk history. Contributing artists come from all over the world, with an emphasis on Brazilian creators. This mix of perspectives adds depth and archetypical resonance by tapping into universal axioms of folk and fairy stories. Only a few more Light Year events remain—the project will end at 100.

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Reading

Poetry Reading

May 4, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
New York Studio School Projects @ DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Suite 307
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Poetry reading co-curated by Tenaya Nasser-Frederick and Erica Newton, whose work is currently on view for the exhibition Sleeper is a Player.

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Special Event

Friends of Adams Street Library Book Sale

May 6, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Adams Street Library, 9 Adams Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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The Friends of Adams Street Library are hosting a Book Sale to raise funds for the Adams Street Library. All proceeds will go to the Adams Street Library to support programming and resources for our community. The Sale will be held outside on Adams Street between Plymouth Street and John Street. Get some fresh reads and help your library all in one go! (The Adams Street Library will be accepting donations of gently used or new books at the Library…

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Performance

“Before and After, What the Witches Nose Knows that Andy Warhol’s Nose Doesn’t Know”

May 6, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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“Before and After” is Part 6 of an ongoing performance and writing project, created by Kay Turner and begun in 2012, with a lecture performance series on fairy-tale witches at A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn. Turner’s What a Witch series expands witch pedagogy to include witch embodiment performativity. Her performances expose the witch’s negative, abject history as fabricated by men and use communal ritual to reverse its effects. “Before and After” was first performed by Turner at A.I.R. in 2017. Lardieri…

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Tour

Artist-led Tour: Lodestar

May 6, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Minus Space, 16 Main Street, Suite A
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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MINUS SPACE is excited to present the exhibition Lynne Harlow: Lodestar, which premieres a suite of new sculpture in glass by the Providence, Rhode Island-based artist. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery since 2007. For her exhibition Lodestar, Lynne Harlow presents a configuration of new small-scale, glass artworks, which are cast from molds taken of specific rocks collected by the artist at personally-resonant sites in the United States and Europe, such as Downeast, Maine; Cape Cod,…

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Prudence Whittlesey

May 20 - July 8
Higher Pictures Generation, 16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Higher Pictures presents early oil paintings by Prudence Whittlesey, selections from series the artist made in the 1990s. This is the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery. Prudence Whittlesey’s early oil painting series are painted from life at life-size or larger, an imposing scale chosen “to convey the impact upon myself of my perceptions of individuals that I sought to paint who felt overwhelmed and haunted by daily life.” These were not artists’ models; they had never sat for paintings before. Whittlesey’s…

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Love Fest

May 24, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Group show celebrating Platform Project Space's fifth anniversary and the collaborative spirit between artists that makes the program possible. Participating artists include: Lauriston Avery, Jennifer Coates, Carl D’Alvia, Jared Deery, Alyssa Fanning, Steve Hicks, Jennifer Macdonald, JJ Manford, Patrick Neal, Margaux Ogden, Erika Ranee, Michelle Segre, Jennifer Sirey, Paul Whiting

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Yiting Zhao: Linger

May 26 - June 15
New York Studio School Projects @ DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Suite 307
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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"Linger" is a series of works by New York Studio School Artist-in-Residence Yiting Zhao. Taken from observations in her day-to-day life, Zhao's paintings depict her apartment, studio, and locations she frequently passes. The title stems from the artist's process of lingering with her paintings, emphasizing color to provoke an intimate aura and building intricate textures with various densities of paint.

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Opening Reception

Opening Reception: Linger

May 26, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
New York Studio School Projects @ DUMBO, 20 Jay Street, Suite 307
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Opening reception of “Linger,” a series of works by New York Studio School Artist-in-Residence Yiting Zhao. Taken from observations in her day-to-day life, Zhao’s paintings depict her apartment, studio, and locations she frequently passes. The title stems from the artist’s process of lingering with her paintings, emphasizing color to provoke an intimate aura and building intricate textures with various densities of paint.

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Keli Safia Maksud: old blues new bruises

May 27 - June 25
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A.I.R Gallery is pleased to announce old blues new bruises, a multimedia exhibition by 2022–2023 Fellow Keli Safia Maksud. This is Maksud’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Mapping and sound are at the center of old blues new bruises. Drawing from diagrammatic systems such as musical notation, architecture, and city planning, and practices of counter-mapping that are used in multiple disciplines to reclaim colonized territory, Maksud presents an aurally and visually rich environment in the gallery, including embroidery…

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Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang (鄭慧蘭): never settling into the stability of objects

May 27 - June 25
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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In never settling into the stability of objects, 2022–2023 Fellow Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang (鄭慧蘭) presents a new body of work consisting of sculptural weavings and paintings that foreground the resilience and bonds of her Chinese-Guatemalan diasporic kinship networks. Looping metals, entangled natural and synthetic fibers, and strung black beans gesture toward the intimacies and movements of her ancestors, seeding connections that honor their various migrations and everyday environments.

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Maxine Henryson: Frequently the woods are pink

May 27 - June 25
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Frequently the woods are pink, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Maxine Henryson, and the artist’s fourth exhibition at the gallery. Henryson introduces a new body of work that intermixes large and medium-sized photographs with non-linear narratives in small leporellos. By using variations of the blur—through depth of field, movement, and intentional soft focus—Henryson captures photographic imagery that favors feelings and memory over traditional representation. Her poetic, painterly approach celebrates light and color.

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Sudip Chatterjee: POETIC JOURNEY

June 1, 8:00 am - June 25, 5:00 pm
Gallery Gaia, 79 Hudson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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“I have always searched for a mental form which reflects the essence of my thought, my being, and the very nature of my work…condensed into a dominant image with resonance to evoke the viewers involvement in my vision.” - Sudip CHATTERJEE, Lives/Works in Kolkata, India

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Opening Reception

Opening Reception: New Exhibitions at A.I.R.

June 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Join A.I.R. at the opening reception of three new shows! GALLERY I Maxine Henryson: Frequently the woods are pink GALLERY II Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang (鄭慧蘭: never settling into the stability of objects GALLERY III Keli Safia Maksud: old blues new bruises

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Photoville Festival

June 3 - June 18
Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Returning for its 12th consecutive year, the annual Photoville Festival returns to the Photoville Village in Brooklyn Bridge Park with their classic shipping containers, in addition to open-air exhibitions throughout all five boroughs of New York City.

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Jennifer Greenburg: Constructed Portraits

June 7 - July 27
Klompching Gallery, 89 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Klompching Gallery is thrilled to be launching this new body of work by Jennifer Greenburg. The photographs that make up the Constructed Portraits are complex, fascinating, innovative, and visually stunning. In this work we can find smart references to art historical movements, and resonances with key historical art figures and artworks. Exquisitely printed, these fascinating photographs build on Greenburg's past work, bringing a new sophistication to her long-standing creative practice. She employs many devices in her methodology of making, making visible the…

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Sandy Skoglund: The Outtakes

June 8 - July 31
Janet Borden, Inc., 91 Water Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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Please join us for a new exhibition by renowned American installation artist and photographer Sandy Skoglund. For The Outtakes, Skoglund plumbed her archives to pick out alternative images to those used in her original tableaux. The new images are smaller, their information somehow distilled.  This exhibition includes twelve photographs and four sculptures; it is  basically a retrospective historical survey. The sculptures, of dogs, a fox, and a cat, enliven the exhibition. These works are a fresh view of her magical world…

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Special Event

Pop-Up Artist Book Fair

June 10, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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There is a long tradition of A.I.R. artists creating artist books, as well as a long history of A.I.R. Gallery celebrating artist books and publications. Often this history is seen to start with the 1980 exhibit “Speaking Volumes: Women Artists’ Books,” curated by Lucy Lippard. We are pleased to continue A.I.R. Gallery's commitment to highlighting the artist book form by presenting a pop-up artists’ book fair of current women and non-binary A.I.R. artists. Organized by Maxine Henryson and Lauren Simkin…

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Live at the Archway Art Wall: Craig Anthony Miller

June 14, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
DUMBO Archway, DUMBO Archway
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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Since its launch in 2015, Live at the Archway has presented more than 200 artists & ensembles in virtually every genre imaginable. Doors at 5 pm | Music at 6 pm Featuring Art Wall, games, plus drinks + bites from the Dumbo Station! --- JUNE 14: PAUL BEAUBRUN Craig Anthony Miller (CAM) on the Art Wall The son of Haitian music royalty, Paul Beaubrun takes a break from his stints on The Tonight Show + touring with Arcade Fire to…

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CaraLee Sparry: IT’S ABOUT TIME

June 15 - July 15
Superfine, 126 Front St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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CaraLee Sparry is a Brooklyn-based and Dallas, Texas born artist, DJ, award-winning impresario, and daydreamer. Upon graduating from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor's Degree of Industrial Design in 1992, CaraLee moved to Dumbo, where she now returns after an extended hiatus from the Superfine Art Wall. She's extremely thankful for her family, friends & community who provided the incredible support and encouragement over the last couple months so that she could create easy-on-the-eyes things that will hopefully bring smiles to…

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Jean Carla Rodea: All Your Sojourns Have Led to This (Continuum)

June 15, 5:00 pm
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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In partnership with ISSUE Project Room, Smack Mellon is pleased to present All Your Sojourns Have Led to This (Continuum), the next commissioned work in interdisciplinary artist and 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea’s ongoing project. The work will premiere at Smack Mellon’s space in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

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Live at the Archway Art Wall: Eleanor Kupencow

June 21, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
DUMBO Archway, DUMBO Archway
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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Since its launch in 2015, Live at the Archway has presented more than 200 artists & ensembles in virtually every genre imaginable. Doors at 5 pm | Music at 6 pm Featuring Art Wall, games, plus drinks + bites from the Dumbo Station! --- JUNE 21: CRYS MATTHEWS Eleanor Kupencow on the Art Wall Nashville resident Crys Matthews is among the brightest stars of the new generation of social justice music-makers. She is joined by long time Dumbonian Eleanor Kupencow on…

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Outsider Art From Cuba

June 22 - July 22
Cuban Art Space, 20 Jay Street, Suite 301
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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A collection of self-taught artwork from the Cuban Art Space collection.

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Homorientalism

June 23 - August 6
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
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The group exhibition, Homorientalism, brings together the work of nine artists turning to the visual repertoires of orientalism to excavate the mixing of gender, race, sexuality, and empire. Returning to archives and lost desires, this exhibition hopes to make sense of the residue of Western imperialism in queer lives and after-lives of the twenty-first century. This exhibition is guest-curated by Noor Bhangu and features work by artists: Damien Ajavon, Aika Akhmetova, Hector Canonge, Jin-Yong Choi, Banyi Huang, Maya Jeffereis, Jongbum Kim,…

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1. Exhibitions

10 Billion Barrels

September 23–November 19

Smack Mellon

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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2. Exhibitions

Jessica Segall: Human Energy

September 23–November 19

Smack Mellon

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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3. Exhibitions

Art of Revolution

September 16–November 15

Cuban Art Space

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

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4. Exhibitions

FRESH 2023 Annual Photography Exhibition

September 13–October 21

Klompching Gallery

Open: Wed–Sat, 11 AM–6 PM

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5. Exhibitions

Blythe Bohnen: Process is Life

September 9–October 8

A.I.R. Gallery

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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6. Exhibitions

Joan Snitzer: The Last Garden

September 9–October 8

A.I.R. Gallery

Open: Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

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7. Exhibitions

Yutaka Obuchi: Cloth of Time「時を刻む布」

September 5–October 5

Loop of the Loom

Open: Tues–Sun, 11 AM–6 PM

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8. Exhibitions

Nicholas Galanin: In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra

May 16 2023–March 10 2024

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Open: 6 AM–1 AM; Special Hours for Pier 2/5/6, Squibb Park & Bridge, Education Center, & Playgrounds

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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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