Thanks to the artists who generously opened their studios and also to the galleries that mounted exhibitions and events–I only got to a small fraction this year. If I didn’t get to yours, I’ll put you on the list for 2014. For readers who haven’t had enough 2013 Bushwick Open Studios coverage, check out Part I� as well as the images below.
Lisa Corrine Davis‘s elegant paintings @ 1717 Troutman are inspired by maps, portraits, and complexes of digitized information. Image above: Delirious Network, 2013, oil on panel, 48 x 64 inches.
Jeanne Tremel presented large wall pieces and paintings on paper @ 119 Ingraham Street.
Lael Marshall continues her seriously funny exploration of dishtowel abstraction @ 119 Ingraham.
A few small Rebecca Litt paintings on view @ 119 Ingraham Street
“My frequent consumption of fiction influences the way I think about art making,” Litt writes in her statement. “I want my paintings to have a novelistic, artificial quality, rather than be tied to fact and first-person perception in the manner of a documentary or a memoir. Thus, although there is a degree of naturalism in some of the details, the work depicts an invented, introspective world; a fictionalized autobiography loosely inspired by my own experiences.”
Neo-fauvist Gili Levi makes colorful large-scale abstractions in which color and brushwork dominate @ 119 Ingraham Street.
Oliver Jones makes compelling room-sized stage-like pieces about fictional characters that may or may not include paintings and wall pieces @ 1182 Flushing Ave
MK Mahler makes sculptural objects with rocks, but she also presented a few drawings and collages. I want one. @ 1182 Flushing Ave
aka Timothy Ribbons. It’s a long story, but he paints under two different names @1717 Troutman.
Heidi Elbers @ 1717 Troutman, a classmate of aka Timothy Ribbons at the NY Academy of Art. They shared the space with a bunch of other figurative painters trained at the NYAA. Underpainting, glazing, the works.
Lauren Collings: Loosely painted and loveable @ 119 Ingraham Street
Michael Voss @ 119 Ingraham. Voss also had work in “What I like About You @ Parallel Art Space.
Latest post, link in profile / Tony Robbin: Art and the cosmos / Contributed by Chunbum Park / Tony Robbin – a scientist and computer programmer as well as an artist – has spent decades pursuing fundamental questions of the cosmos and human existence. His visually enchanting work, currently on view in his solo exhibition “HyperSpace: Line, Color, Form, Pattern” at David Richard Gallery, appears non-representational. But if reality is not merely what is commonly observed at human scale but also what is observable at the quantum and cosmological levels, the distinction between representational, abstract, and nonrepresentational art can get murky. Link in profile
Image: Tony Robbin, WC 92–17.2, detail,1992–2020, pen plotter on Arches watercolor and oil, 28.5 x 39.5 inches
Opalka Gallery and Albany Public Library present "Tag, You`re It," an Art at APL exhibition of exquisite corpse drawings from 76 artists.
June 2—Nov. 4, 2023 Opening Reception, June 2, 6-7:30pm Albany Public Library, Pine Hills 517 Western Ave, Albany, NY 12208
Artists: Yura Adams, Fern Apfel, Polly Apfelbaum, David Austin, Ever Baldwin, Richard Barlow, Sharon Bates, David Behl, Judith Braun, Farrell Brickhouse, Donnabelle Casis, Beth Casper, Ashley Norwood Cooper, Pauline Decarmo, Andrew Evans, Jean Feinberg, Rebecca Flis, Peg Foley, Rich Garrison, Danny Goodwin, Kathy Greenwood, Niki Haynes, Andrea Hersh, Juan Hinojosa, Natasha Holmes, Tana Kellner, Jenny Kemp, Anna Kenar, Hedya Klein, Chad Kleitsch, Henry Klimowicz, Lucretia Knapp, Jacqueline Lake- Sample, Madison LaVallee, Jessica Loy, Iain Machell, Jeff Mack, Willie Marlowe, Mindy McDaniel, Josh McPhee, Catherine McTague, Jeanna Mead, Susan Meyer and Jeff Starr, Paul Miyamoto, Laura Moriarty, Michael Oatman, Gina Occhiogrosso, Sara Farrell Okamura, Fernando Orellana, Ruby Palmer, Ahndraya Parlato, Giselle Potter, Tatiana Potts, Ken Ragsdale, Steve Rein, Ben Schwab, Dana Sela, Claire Sherwood, Gail Skudera, Greg Slick, Kamilla Talbot, Kim Tateo, Christina Tenaglia, Melissa Thorne, Barbara Todd, Rebekah Tolley, Rebecca Shepard, Stephen Tyson, Anya Ulinich, Jason Kates van Staveren, Hanna Washburn, Jeff Wigman, Immanuel Williams, Lynne Yamamoto, Deborah Zlotsky
Art at APL is made possible by the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library.
Latest post, link in profile / Peter Halley: On the cusp / Contributed by Sharon Butler / Peter Halley’s catalogue raisonné needs to be updated. This month, a group of his paintings from 1980 and 1981 are on display in a surprising and revelatory two-gallery collaboration between Craig Starr on the Upper East Side and Karma in the East Village. Most of the paintings have rarely been shown, a few never, and I was delighted to see them, however belatedly. Link in profile
Image: Little Spanish Prison, 1981. Acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas, 30 x 40 inches. On view at Craig Starr Gallery.
Latest post, link in profile / Donna Dennis’ extraordinary invitation / Contributed by Iris Cushing / Donna Dennis is an artist of transition and transformation. Her architectural installations – which she pioneered in the 1960s and has continued to develop – often take the shape of transitory sites: subway stations, hotels, tourist cabins, and, in the case of her show “Ship/Dock/Three Houses and a Night Sky” at Private Public Gallery in Hudson, a loading dock. Like much of Dennis’ work, this installation draws on her experience and observation of vernacular spaces. Link in profile
Joshua Nierodzinski / HOW IT STARTED, HOW IT’S GOING / On view at @contextspacebk through June 11 / Artist talk and brunch on Sat, June 3, 11am -1 pm
"Context is pleased to announce the opening of HOW IT STARTED, HOW IT’S GOING, the first solo exhibition in New York City by artist Joshua Nierodzinski. Curated as a retrospective, the presentation spans a decade exploring the forensic imagination through drawings on microscopic slides, videos, and multi-layered photosensitive painting. It is accompanied by a publication with essays by the artist and Sam O’Hana, a performance and research-led practitioner in critical and lyrical writing."
Joshua Nierodzinski (b.1982) is an artist who merges painting and forensic photography to address personal and national histories. He is a co-founder of HEKLER, a transnational artist-run platform that fosters the critical and experimental examination of hospitality and conflict. Selected awards include the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, and the Wassaic Artist Residency. Joshua is a recent AIM Bronx Museum Fellow and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Context Art Space 948 Third Ave., 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm
I saw Alicia Feng’s haunting and beautiful graphite drawings at Sunnyside Arts the other day when I popped in to buy a tube of paint. Director Ed Kim tells me that she pens well known graphic novels under a different name.
Latest post, link in profile / Chakaia Booker’s lyrical muscle / Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Making deeper sense of some abstract art past its initial visual impact can require extended consideration. Not so much Chakaia Booker’s sculpture, now on view in her solo show “Public Opinion” at David Nolan Gallery. Composed predominantly of exactingly configured pieces of black rubber tires along with wood and metal, the work immediately grips you like a confident advocate, calm and insistent. Link in profile
i'm sorry i missed it
yes please add my email for the 2014 Bushwick studio tour
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Wow, amazing work. Very impressive and inspiring.