A selection of works by Fanny Allie, via Art Observed
Bushwick Open Studios has come and gone in the North Brooklyn arts hub, with another year of exhibitions and projects spread across the sprawling industrial landscapes of the borough closing to strong attendance.
Outside Fuchs Project Space During a previous Bushwick Open Studios
With another summer comes another edition of Bushwick Open Studios, the vastly popular arts open that brings a flood of visitors, artists and events to one of North Brooklyn’s strongest arts communities. (more…)
Philip Taaffe, Choir (2014-2015), all photographs by Farzad Owrang, © Philip Taaffe; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
In his large-scale paintings on display at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick Gallery, Philip Taaffe blends historical and cultural motifs in dizzying collages full of color and life. His exploration of shapes and designs spanning space and time draw on historical narratives to bring overlapping cultural archetypes into view.
Marking an ambitious exchange between three New York galleries this summer, the exhibition Multiplicity is currently spread across the city’s varied arts communities for a three part show exploring the intersections of meanings, behaviors and interpretations of urban life around the globe. Taking up space at NURTUREart in Bushwick, the LES’s Invisible Exports and Mixed Greens in Chelsea, the exhibition culls work from artists in Tirana, Belfast, New Dehli, Tel Aviv, New York, and Hong Kong. (more…)
The colorful, shifting glasswork of Andrew Erdos
The annual festivities surrounding Bushwick Open Studios seem to get bigger each year, and 2014 was no exception, as the yearly summer art open wrapped its eighth year of open artist studios, new gallery shows, and a freshly inaugurated art fair in the heart of one of Brooklyn’s hotbeds for creative talent.
Seren Morey at 56 Bogart (more…)
David Pappaceno, Psychic Birth (Installation view,2013), at English Kills Gallery.
This past weekend, locals, gallerists, collectors and other art enthusiasts flocked to Bushwick, Brooklyn for the seventh-annual Bushwick Open Studios, organized by nonprofit community group Arts in Bushwick. With over 550 spaces participating, many with more artists than one, it was impossible to see everything, even for the most dogged observer. Art turned out at every corner—in galleries, art studios, apartments, bars/restaurants, shops and event spaces— in this rapidly-developing district with a concentration of studios and gallery spaces that rivals Chelsea.
‪‬Bushwick burgeons with artists and galleries paying low rent as the area may potentially become New York’s next gallery district, with Luhring Augustine’s new space possibly leading a migration from Chelsea [AO Newslink]
Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery establishes new storage and exhibition space on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn [AO Newslink]
Bushwick Open Studios marked its 5th anniversary with this year’s showcase, opening artist’s studios, lofts and even private apartments to the public. Over 350 artists participated in the event orchestrated by Arts in Bushwick, a volunteer-based organization. Those undeterred by the temporary (yet seemingly endless) suspension of the L train made their way to the offbeat Brooklyn neighborhood via a series of shuttles, bikes, car services and the like. The Bushwick area is arguably the highest concentration of new artist studios and residences in the greater metro area. Similar to the progression underwent by Soho in the 1970’s, Bushwick is filled with industrial lofts permeated by a natural light that results in suitable studio spaces for artists. In this neighborhood, however, the art hangs not only in these “designated spaces” but is alive in the streets and sidewalks.
Alana Fitzgerald with her work at Splinters and Logs Studio
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