Most of you are probably already aware that New York's favorite disgruntled art critic, Jerry Saltz, spent last Sunday afternoon checking out
the Bushwick gallery scene
Not exact matches
Other highlights this weekend include
Bushwick Basel, in which 11 mainstays of
Bushwick's
gallery scene will be curating their own show within Starr Space; the Buswhack series of performance and film at the
Bushwick Starr; «Sculpture Garden» at the Historic Onderdonk House, a group show of sculpture co-curated by Deborah Brown of Storefront
Bushwick and one of our favorite local artists, whose latest series of paintings, «Freewheeling,» opens at the Active Space during the festival.
While national and international Street Artists were already making
Bushwick a stopping point thanks to some of the earliest
galleries like Ad Hoc and Factory Fresh, the
scene recently got newly shot in the arm by a local resident who is facilitating much desired legal wall space to a crowd of artists who otherwise would be hunting and hitting up less - than - legal spots.
The Christopher Stout
Gallery might be opening its doors in East Williamsburg, but the area still seems spiritually close enough to the
Bushwick art
scene that it maybe won't seem too far.
«Overall the vibe felt about as far removed from the typical «
gallery experience» as possible, making most observers feel like they were really in on the ground floor of the
Bushwick scene as it happens.»
Recently relocated to the center of the burgeoning
Bushwick art
scene, we are again nestled within a diverse and vibrant community of artist studios, artist run spaces, commercial
galleries, and nonprofits, where we continue our mission to support women in the arts.
A huge survey of some of the most active artists in
Bushwick's
gallery scene should look like pretty formalist and heavy on geometric abstraction painting.
Located within the 56 Bogart building in
Bushwick, Brooklyn, SOHO20 is nestled in the center of the
Bushwick art
scene, neighboring many other
gallery spaces and artist studios.
I counted seven Lower East Side
galleries and two from
Bushwick, but had I escaped the global art
scene?
The Pfizer location gives the MFA students easy access to the established artist communities of Williamsburg, Bedford - Stuyvesant, and
Bushwick — vibrant art
scenes with more than 100
galleries showing a range of emerging and established artists.
Newcomer ODETTA
Gallery joined the
Bushwick art
scene in 2014 with a space over on Cook Street just off of Bogart.
The world - renowned painter Jules de Balincourt is converting his spacious Starr Street studio into a veritable showcase for sale, calling it «
Bushwick Basel,» and featuring work from the area's sprawling
gallery scene.
I have really grown to love and believe in
Bushwick's art
scene, and the more I thought about that, the more I realized I should stick around, and in fact double down, on one of the last communities in New York where artists, and the
galleries that support them, can still take risks, make mistakes, experiment, and let creativity flourish.
This past Friday, the beat returned to
Bushwick with Beat Nite: All Stars, a twice - yearly celebration of the
Bushwick and Ridgewood
gallery scene.
With half a dozen
gallery spaces (one of which, Regina Rex, participated in this past weekend's Nada art fair), a historic 17th C. farmhouse that is hosting a sculpture show curated by
Bushwick and Lower East Side gallerists Deborah Brown and Leslie Heller and the mothership of studio buildings that is 1717 Troutman, Ridgewood has all the trappings of an art
scene all its own.
This Thursday, Hyperallergic editor, Hrag Vartanian, who is no stranger to
Bushwick, broadens the discussion as he moderates the «Confronting
Bushwick: A Discussion on the Nature and Future of the
Bushwick Art
Scene» panel at
Bushwick's Bogart Salon, one of the
galleries in the burgeoning 56 Bogart Street art building.
The newest
gallery in the burgeoning art
scene of
Bushwick, Space 776 has been exceedingly successful in creating a space for a wide range of artist whose medium of work stretches from live multimedia performances to traditional oil painting.
With artists priced out of other neighborhoods, and the flood of art school graduates,
Bushwick's (mostly artist - run)
gallery scene has come to increasingly define this sprawling, rundown, predominantly Latin part of Brooklyn.
Like it or lump it, the commercial sector is part of the
Bushwick art
scene now, and while BOS is — as its name implies — about the open studios, there are dozens of
galleries and an art fair that also merit some of your time.
Rozalia Javanovic, Capital New York, «With Blue - Chip
Gallery Luhring Augustine Coming Soon, the Scrappy
Bushwick Art
Scene Contemplates its Future,» January 24, 2012 http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/null/2012/01/5110700/blue-chip-
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