Head to Williamsburg Friday, May 4, where area galleries will present special exhibitions, performances and panels, giving a Brooklyn-welcome to visitors of the inaugural New York edition of the Frieze Art Fair. Don’t miss events at Parker’s Box, Ventana244, Yes Gallery, Skink Ink, Onderdonk House and more. Gitana Rosa returns to the scene with “VOLVER” featuring pieces by Firelei Báez, Andrés García-Peña, Jean-Daniel Rohrer and Heidi Taillefer—giving you cause for pause—as each of the works in the exhibition evoke a memory, a historical reference or a rich culture now lost. Transport yourself from Randall’s Island to Brooklyn and get caught up in a moment or two. Be sure to “Return” on Friday, 5.11 for Williamsburg’s Every 2:ND Friday openings.
FRIDAY MAY 4 FRIEZE SPECIAL EVENTS
ART 101
101 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1-6pm
“New Paintings”
Shashaty has previously exhibited at ART 101, in group shows and a solo show in 2009. The new work is something of a departure for her. “I’ve let go of the landscape to concentrate on color, texture and spatial relationship which has been liberating.” Shashaty’s use of color is always a pleasure to experience, and while the paintings are not based on landscape as we know it, the work is informed by her understanding of the colors and configurations in the natural world. Yolanda Shashaty’s work has been exhibited widely in New York, in both the city and a number of up-state venues. She has had one-woman shows in New York, Washington, D.C., Ohio and Connecticut and she has participated in shows at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and the Butler Institute.
Open Late with a Musical Performance on May 4
CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY
92 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
“New Paintings” & “Acid Bath”
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-7pm, Sunday, 12-6pm
Causey Contemporary is pleased to present two solo exhibitions this April, New Paintings by Marc Brotherton and Acid Bath by Nina Carelli. Marking his third solo exhibition with the gallery, Brotherton will present his newest series of bold, mixed-media paintings, which explore ideas of new technology, communication, color and design. Acid Bath will feature Nina Carelli’s eclectic etchings and hand-made books. This will be her first solo exhibition. Both shows will be on view until May 27.
Open May 4 until 9pm
C.C.C.P. NORTH LIGHT
56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12-6pm
“The May Queen”
An eclectic group show
Opening Reception May 4, 6-8pm
FRONT ROOM GALLERY
147 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1-6pm
“Saturated Laughter on Cloud Nine”with Mindy Raf, Carla Rhodes, Victor Sheely, John F. O’Donnel and Special Guests, curated by Larry Walczak. On Friday, May 4th, the Front Room Gallery will present a series of short humorous performances in conjunction with the “Cloud Nine” exhibition.
Special Performances May 4 @ 8-9:30pm
GITANA ROSA
19 Hope Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 1-7pm, Saturday, 11am-5pm, and by appointment
“VOLVER”
A group exhibition featuring the works of Firelei Báez, Andrés García-Peña, Jean-Daniel Rohrer and Heidi Taillefer. Translated from Spanish, “volver” means “to go back” or “to return.” Each of the works in the exhibition evokes a memory, a historical reference or a rich culture now lost. The artist’s unique connection to his or her own history takes us back even as we keep both feet on the ground.
Opening Reception May 4, 6-9pm
LIKE THE SPICE
224 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-7pm, Monday by appointment
“Cross-Reference”
A collaborative of Nashville-based painter Hans Schmitt-Matzen and Brooklyn-based photographer Gieves Anderson. The series enables a philosophical contemplation of color and composition through an alchemy of the disparate mediums of photography and painting. Gieves’ images of overlooked corners and alcoves within the book-lined halls of their subjects—including the main branch of the New York Public Library—and Hans’ dense yet dynamic strokes of paint could both very well exist alone, but the artists’ creative roles disappear into the individual pieces. Gieves’ printed colors become Hans’ palate, and the photographer’s complex geometrics form a palpable grid from which Hans expounds upon in painterly language. Exhibition Dates April 20 – May 27, 2012
Special Performance by Sylva Dean and Me May 4 @ 7:30pm
MOMENTA ART
56 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Hours: Thursday – Monday, 12-6pm
“Mark Tribe | Rare Earth”
Momenta Art is pleased to present Rare Earth, a solo exhibition of works by Mark Tribe. Tribe uses video, performance and print media to examine the aesthetic dimensions of political action. His latest project explores the function of landscape as a symbolic setting for paramilitary combat in video games and in the training exercises of right-wing militia groups. May 5 through June 18th, 2012
Opening Reception Saturday, May 5, 6-9pm
ONDERDONK HOUSE
1820 Flushing Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Hours: Saturday, 1-5pm, and by appointment
“Sculpture Garden”
Historic Onderdonk House, located on the Bushwick/Ridgewood border, is the site of a group show of sculpture by contemporary artists, many of whom have studios in the neighborhood’s thriving arts community. Local artist and Bushwick gallerist, Deborah Brown, has joined forces with LES gallerist, Lesley Heller, to curate “Sculpture Garden.” The work in the exhibition responds to the unique pastoral landscape of this 17th century Dutch farmhouse, remarkably preserved in a now industrial neighborhood on Flushing Avenue. The House’s gardens, sloping hill, and tree-lined promontory provide a context for a wide-range of sculptural practices and materials. The curators are delighted to present this exhibition during Bushwick Open Studios, with the opening to take place a month before Bushwick’s well-regarded community-wide art event. The show features the work of Sarah Bednarek, Reade Bryan, Joy Curtis, Adam Distenfeld, Ryan Michael Ford, Wendy Klemperer, Jolynn Krystosek, MaryKate Maher, Jim Osman, Brent Owens, Kirk Stoller, Kai Vierstra, and Natalia Zubko.
Open May 4, 6-8pm
PARKER’S BOX
193 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 1-7pm
“Facetime #3 – John Byam and Matt Blackwell”
On Friday May 4 Parker’s Box be hosting a discussion around their current exhibition, featuring outsider artist, John Byam with well-known Brooklyn artist, Matt Blackwell. Participants will include Matt Blackwell and artist, Denny Tomkins who is managing the work of John Byam, as well as Jason Glasser, currently Parker’s Box artist in residence. Jason Glasser will also be opening his studio (at the gallery) to the public.
Open May 4 until 9pm with Artist Discussion @ 7:30pm
REVERSE
28 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2-6pm, and by appointment
“Conosco”
A group exhibition featuring the works of thirteen emerging artists from around the world including: Haley Bueschlen, William Carrà, Eric Chakeen, Łukasz Łyszak, Chad Moore, Vitor Moreira, MRKA, Carolina Pimenta, Alexandra Velasco, Armando Veve, Marie Vic, Jade Yumang and Yichen Zhou.
Opening Reception May 6, 5-9pm
SKINK INK EDITIONS GALLERY
177 North 10th Street, Room G, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 11am-7pm
“Stillness and Quietude”
In the noble tradition of Edward Hopper, the Hudson River School, the Barbizon School and even back to John Constable and beyond, Jim Ebersole paints ‘en plain air’. The resulting studies are every bit as much about paint as they are about what is being painted. This is a show of small paintings converted to very large prints on canvas, a study in what happens when you render a three dimensional scene into two dimensions.
Open May 4 until 9pm
SECRET PROJECT ROBOT
389 Melrose Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 6-11pm, Saturday and Sunday, 2-7pm
“My rainbow World: the continuing adventures in rainbow cloud city”
An art installation created by happy fun, which explores the jovial creation of art in a collaborative group project.
Opening Reception May 4
THE ART POP UP SHOP (T.A.P.S)
672 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12-7pm
“Show/03″
T.A.P.S will be showing eclectic works by artist painter Mika Azegami, sculptor Joe Caswell, photographer Thomas Brodin and a silkscreen installation by Amanda Keeley. Closes May 18th. Also on view is the permanent “Wall of affordable works.”
Special Performances by Ana Lola Roman, Coco Dolle, Isaac Gut, ‘Sylva Dean and Me’ and Nico Mazet May 4 from 7-9pm
VENTANA244
244 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Thursday and Friday, 5-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-6pm
“Burnt and Burnished”
At Ventana244, Ana Busto and Andrew Huston come together in a visual dialogue to generate a conversation about the use of found objects in their art practices. “Burnt and Burnished” presents pieces of the cityscape together with pieces of nature; gilded found woodblock, cast iron, burnt wood and slip fired clay forms sit next to, across from and on top of each other. “Burnt and Burnished” also recalls, and in some ways traces, several collaborative projects Ventana presented over the past year-and-a-half when artists, artist/curators and multi-media artists have interacted with each other, reacted to the environment of the space and re-situated art objects.Tornadoes, hurricanes, and high temperatures are some of the punches of the violent relation that we have developed with our landscape. Busto’s installation at Ventana uses materials from “the burning forest phenomenon”; trees reduced to charcoal, fired and baked clay remnants with an added a sound element (a radio dial turns and tunes to the sounds of farm animals).Katz’s Delicatessen was renovating its kitchen and tossing out its old, well used butcher blocks. In the studio Huston, treated them with formal gilding method; sanded, sealed, gesso, clay layers and then metal leaf lightly burnished. Past labor is writ all over them; the roto-reflection, flip symmetry of indentations etched from years of chopping, cutting, slicing and all forms of kitchen labor. These indentations have the shape a body might leave in the sand. “Burnt and Burnished” joins Huston and Busto in an exchange of opposites.
Open May 4, 6-10pm
FRIDAY MAY 11 WE:2 FRIDAY GALLERY LISTINGS
ART 101
101 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1-6pm
“New Paintings”
Shashaty has previously exhibited at ART 101, in group shows and a solo show in 2009. The new work is something of a departure for her. “I’ve let go of the landscape to concentrate on color, texture and spatial relationship which has been liberating.” Shashaty’s use of color is always a pleasure to experience, and while the paintings are not based on landscape as we know it, the work is informed by her understanding of the colors and configurations in the natural world. Yolanda Shashaty’s work has been exhibited widely in New York, in both the city and a number of up-state venues. She has had one-woman shows in New York, Washington, D.C., Ohio and Connecticut and she has participated in shows at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and the Butler Institute.
Reception with the Artist May 11
BLACK & WHITE GALLERY/PROJECT SPACE
483 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12-6pm and by appointment
After a successful run at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Peter Brock’s solo show returns to the indoor space. In the outdoor space Santiago Taccetti’s site-specific installation will be smoking in Brooklyn for another week or so before it goes to Art Omi Sculpture Park.
CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY
92 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
“New Paintings” & “Acid Bath”
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am-7pm, Sunday, 12-6pm
Causey Contemporary is pleased to present two solo exhibitions this April, New Paintings by Marc Brotherton and Acid Bath by Nina Carelli. Marking his third solo exhibition with the gallery, Brotherton will present his newest series of bold, mixed-media paintings, which explore ideas of new technology, communication, color and design. Acid Bath will feature Nina Carelli’s eclectic etchings and hand-made books. This will be her first solo exhibition. Both shows will be on view until May 27.
Open May 11 until 9pm
COTTON CANDY MACHINE
235 South 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12-8pm
“Tender Times”
Scott C. is a maker of paintings, illustrations, comics, kid’s books and video games. He studied illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, focusing on comic and children’s book illustration. Soon after graduating, he began at Lucas Learning as concept artist on children’s video games. Four years later, he joined Double Fine productions as Art Director on such games as the critically acclaimed Psychonauts and Brutal Legend. Alongside this career in games, he has published numerous comics and created paintings that have appeared in galleries and publications around the world.
Opening Event May 11, 7-11pm
EIGHT OF SWORDS
115 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Hours: Wednesday – Monday, 12-8pm
“Seeking Whales, Snails & Puppy Dog Entrails”
A solo exhibition of original works by local artist, Nyahzul. Born in Bogotá Spain, Nyahzul’s work has evolved from a compilation of feelings – the timelessness of love, the beauty in peeling off a scar, the overwhelming sensation of breaking in the dark, happiness, pain, and the in-betweens. They are purposely imperfect as life is complex.
Opening Event May 11, 7-11pm
FIGUREWORKS
168 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 1-6pm, and by appointment
“Children of Conflict”
In 2002, Mary Westring traveled to Uganda to confront the ongoing abduction of children who were taken by the Lord’s Resistance Army and used as porters, child soldiers and “wives”. She documented these children through individual portraits expressing their pain and suffering. Ten years later, Mary has again documented these “Children of Conflict”, this time with young adults who have lived through this horrific past and become the next generation addressing the changing needs of Uganda. Profoundly different from the children depicted ten years ago, this grouping shows healthy, hopeful and joyous young adults who are now attending college. Mary and her family have worked for many years to bring attention to this crisis through a small but dedicated organization, uccef.org, which continues to provide much needed support for the positive changes in these children’s lives. Figureworks is honored to be able to showcase these portraits with their stories.
Opening Reception May 11, 6-9pm
FRONT ROOM GALLERY
147 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1-6pm
“Saturated Laughter on Cloud Nine”with Mindy Raf, Carla Rhodes, VIctor Sheely, John F. O’Donnel and Special Guests, curated by Larry Walczak. Front Room Gallery will be open late with special performances and a reception with the artists 7-9pm, in celebration of Williamsburg Second Friday event, on view “Cloud Nine” curated by Larry Walczak.
Open Friday May 11, 7-9pm
GITANA ROSA
19 Hope Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 1-7pm, Saturday, 11am-5pm, and by appointment
“VOLVER”
A group exhibition featuring the works of Firelei Báez, Andrés García-Peña, Jean-Daniel Rohrer and Heidi Taillefer. Translated from Spanish, “volver” means “to go back” or “to return.” Each of the works in the exhibition evokes a memory, a historical reference or a rich culture now lost. The artist’s unique connection to his or her own history takes us back even as we keep both feet on the ground.
Open May 11, 6-9pm
LIKE THE SPICE
224 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-7pm, Monday by appointment
“Cross-Reference”
A collaborative of Nashville-based painter Hans Schmitt-Matzen and Brooklyn-based photographer Gieves Anderson. The series enables a philosophical contemplation of color and composition through an alchemy of the disparate mediums of photography and painting. Gieves’ images of overlooked corners and alcoves within the book-lined halls of their subjects—including the main branch of the New York Public Library—and Hans’ dense yet dynamic strokes of paint could both very well exist alone, but the artists’ creative roles disappear into the individual pieces. Gieves’ printed colors become Hans’ palate, and the photographer’s complex geometrics form a palpable grid from which Hans expounds upon in painterly language. April 20 – May 27, 2012
Open May 11 until 9pm
PARKER’S BOX
193 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 1-7pm
“Lone Star”
The third solo show by Jason Glasser at Parker’s Box.
Opening Reception May 11
PRESENT COMPANY
101 North 13th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm, and by appointment
“Mutual Friends”
Please join Present Company for “Mutual Friends”, the debut exhibition in our new Williamsburg gallery space. The artists in this exhibition were selected using an algorithm that pointed to the combined mutual Facebook friends of Balderston, Ruiz, and Stayrook.
Opening Reception May 11, 6-9pm, afterparty 9-11pm
REVERSE
28 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2-6pm, and by appointment
“Conosco”
A group exhibition featuring the works of thirteen emerging artists from around the world including: Haley Bueschlen, William Carrà, Eric Chakeen, Łukasz Łyszak, Chad Moore, Vitor Moreira, MRKA, Carolina Pimenta, Alexandra Velasco, Armando Veve, Marie Vic, Jade Yumang and Yichen Zhou.
Open May 11, 6-9pm
SECRET PROJECT ROBOT
389 Melrose Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 6-11pm, Saturday and Sunday, 2-7pm
“My rainbow World: the continuing adventures in rainbow cloud city”
An art installation created by happy fun which explores the jovial creation of art in a collaborative group project.
Open May 11, 6-11pm, with concert featuring Hidden Fees, All Dead Band, Disposable Rocket Band, FREE before 8pm
SKINK INK EDITIONS GALLERY
177 North 10th Street, Room G, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 11am-7pm
“Stillness and Quietude”
In the noble tradition of Edward Hopper, the Hudson River School, the Barbizon School and even back to John Constable and beyond, Jim Ebersole paints ‘en plain air’. The resulting studies are every bit as much about paint as they are about what is being painted. This is a show of small paintings converted to very large prints on canvas, a study in what happens when you render a three dimensional scene into two dimensions.
Open May 11 until 7pm
VENTANA244
244 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hours: Thursday and Friday, 5-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-6pm
“Burnt and Burnished”
At Ventana244, Ana Busto and Andrew Huston come together in a visual dialogue to generate a conversation about the use of found objects in their art practices. “Burnt and Burnished” presents pieces of the cityscape together with pieces of nature; gilded found woodblock, cast iron, burnt wood and slip fired clay forms sit next to, across from and on top of each other. “Burnt and Burnished” also recalls, and in some ways traces, several collaborative projects Ventana presented over the past year-and-a-half when artists, artist/curators and multi-media artists have interacted with each other, reacted to the environment of the space and re-situated art objects.Tornadoes, hurricanes, and high temperatures are some of the punches of the violent relation that we have developed with our landscape. Busto’s installation at Ventana uses materials from “the burning forest phenomenon”; trees reduced to charcoal, fired and baked clay remnants with an added a sound element (a radio dial turns and tunes to the sounds of farm animals).Katz’s Delicatessen was renovating its kitchen and tossing out its old, well used butcher blocks. In the studio Huston, treated them with formal gilding method; sanded, sealed, gesso, clay layers and then metal leaf lightly burnished. Past labor is writ all over them; the roto-reflection, flip symmetry of indentations etched from years of chopping, cutting, slicing and all forms of kitchen labor. These indentations have the shape a body might leave in the sand. “Burnt and Burnished” joins Huston and Busto in an exchange of opposites.
Open May 11, 6-10pm
YES GALLERY
147 India Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 1-7pm, Saturday and Sunday, 1-5pm
“Equality Now”
A benefit and exhibition featuring works by Lara Pacilio, curated by Lesley Doukhowetzky. Rather than showing women as elegant figures with attractive poses Lara Pacilio takes on a whole different perspective in which she exposes what women often go through in everyday life. With the use of unconventional tools such as iron and covered wood Pacilio is able to create pieces that are sensual yet bold, graphic yet subdued with images showing the pains and struggles of women. At an early age Pacilio traveled around the world with her family, spending parts of her childhood in Africa. It becomes evident that her experiences traveling have been used as a tool for inspiration. Pacilio tells us not only about herself and her experiences but also about a unique concept in a language that is sometimes extremely explicit, depicting problems linked to the gender differences which are still numerous and of difficult solutions. Women are defined legally equal to men, but this is an ideological attempt to enslave them at higher levels of society and the job market. Freedom for women is not living the role men have assigned to them but to create mutual respect based on equality. Art sales and donations will go towards achieving legal and systemic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
Open May 11 until 7pm



















