"Le Sel Noir" from the ‘Carib’s Jhator’ series by Firelei Báez at Gitana Rosa

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Rohrer and Heidi Taillefer—giving you cause for pause—as each of the works in the exhibition evoke a memory, a historical reference or a rich culture now lost.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 10^th 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

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 1^st 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 10^th 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

Galleries open late for 4/13/12 Every 2:ND Friday:

BLACK AND WHITE PROJECT SPACE

www.blackandwhiteprojectspace.org/

483 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn NY11211

SANTIAGO TACCETTI: Smoke & Mirrors / Nothing To See Here

Black & White Project Space will have a special event for Santiago Taccetti whose site-specific installation is currently on view.

March 10th – May 19th, 2012

Open late on April 13th, 6-9pm.

CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY

www.causeycontemporary.com

92 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn NY11249

Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-7pm, Sunday 12-6pm

MesMer Eyes: The paintings, photography and sculpture of Kathy Goodell

Causey Contemporary is pleased to present Mesmer Eyes, a solo exhibition by Kathy Goodell. Sculpture and drawing, Goodell’s most familiar forms, are utilized as physical accents within Mesmer Eyes, the tactile qualities leading one from nature to the metaphysical. Mesmer Eyes is characteristic of Goodell’s meditative approach to space, time and consciousness, while optimizing her interests in light and prismatic color to create a hypnotic effect, allowing the tangible to meet the abstract. This will be the first solo exhibition by Ms. Goodell at the gallery, which will include a large-scale, interactive painting installation, aqueous pigment print photographs, sculptures and drawings from 2011-2012.

March 2^nd  - April 15^th, 2012

Open late on April 13^th

COTTON CANDY MACHINE

www.thecottoncandymachine.com

235 South 1st Street, Brooklyn NY 11211

Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, Noon – 8pm

Skinner -The Undermining Satanic Energies Of An Incongruent Suburban Sickness

Skinner will be back inNew Yorkfor his solo show The Undermining Satanic Energies Of An Incongruent Suburban Sickness at Cotton Candy Machine. Skinner’s love for metal-dressed fully erect demons eating their enemies goes beyond his incredible paintings and murals. This amazing moster maker fromSacramentoalso plays in the metal band “Ungoliant” and he practices and tours in between in busy painting schedule. The custom toy world now has a new super star with his collaborations from Lulubell toys. Skinner decided to stop teaching years ago so that he could focus on his personal art. Even though he is not in the classroom anymore he is still teaching a new generation of artists by the way he works. Skinner collaborations range from our local homies atMishka toEuropewith the Dead Sea Mob. Just last October, Skinner created a huge body of work and a zine called the ”Butcher Kings” by teaming up with long time murder accomplice Alex Pardee. And 2011 marked the year Skinner and Zerofriends launch his personal apparel line Critical Hit. 2012 is going to need more than Armageddon to stop this Monster.

April 13^th – May 6^th, 2012

Opening Reception: April 13^th, 7-11pm

FIGUREWORKS

www.figureworks.com

168 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn NY11211

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm, and by appointment

NIGHTMARES & FANTASIES

Sometimes we are terrified to fall asleep and sometimes the dream is better than reality. With Warren B. Davis, Felix Chavez, Sante Graziani, Artem Mirolevich, Rafael Alvarez Ortega, Frederic Taubes, George Tooker, Pierre-Yves Tremois

March 10^th – May 6^th, 2012

Open late on April 13^th

THE FRONT ROOM
www.frontroom.org

147 Roebling Street, Brooklyn NY11211

Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1-6pm and by appointment

Useful Things (For Getting Lost)
Front Room is pleased to present “Useful Things (For Getting Lost)”, a solo exhibition of new work by Melissa Pokorny. As the title suggests, this show is about looking—for things, at things, or through things. It’s about the pleasure that can be had from getting lost, as well as the anxiety that can produce in those left behind.
These new photo/collage/sculptural works reveal the extraordinary beauty hidden in the guise of the quotidian. Domestic objects gleaned from estate sales are combined with photographs and casts of utilitarian things—hammers, flashlights, pin cushions and coat hooks, to create evocative tableau that blur the boundaries between the domestic sphere and the natural world, the animate and the inanimate, the magical and the mundane, and remembered or invented memories of places and things.
Melissa Pokorny’s sculptural work examines connections between “things” as potent containers of memory, capably representing loss and estrangement, and the deeply metaphorical, haunted landscape of the everyday. Drawing on traditions of assemblage, these sculptural tableau and wall mounted forms address the status of marginal objects and things. Narratives that incorporate these occulted objects allude to the allure of magical thinking, and the collapse of boundaries between the animate and inanimate.

March 9^th – April 15^th, 2012

Open late on April 13^th, 7-9pm

Galleries with ongoing and upcoming exhibitions:

DEVOTION GALLERY
areyoudevoted.com
54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn NY 11206
Hours: Saturday 1-5pm, Sunday 1-6pm

DELUGE 

Devotion Gallery is pleased to present DELUGE, a multimedia sound installation bySan Franciscobased artist Matt Ganucheau. Matt Ganucheau’s latest work, Deluge , entails a minimalist aesthetic rife with complex meaning. The work explores the way we, collectively, engage and interact with sound in our environment. Comparable to a visual parallax, our sense of sound in concert with our minds seems to produce an innumerable amount of sounds and tones contingent upon the viewer. Deluge  creates a sensory experience through kinetic sound. This latest work is an exploration in our relationship to signal and noise. Each serve as auditory cue forcing the participant to re-configure themselves in physical space. Pushing through the cacophony of noise, a warm undulation of drones and rhythms emanate from a multi channel sound array. The transformation is controlled by the participants’ placement around the sculpture. Many contemporary interactive pieces rely on visuals but Deluge is dependent on our collective sense of sound and our relationship with others. From a fire alarm to syncopated drums to crying and laughter, the body and mind react to what we hear within our environment. Ganucheau’s work incorporates performative and gestural qualities reminiscent of relational aesthetics while utilizing sound as the primary medium.

March 23^rd – April 13^th, 2012

RAWSON PROJECTS

rawsonprojects.com

223 Franklin Street, Brooklyn NY11222

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 1-7pm and by appointment

HELL TO PAY: Scott Hug

The exhibition is the second in a series in which artists are commissioned to make a poster for purchase. Artists are encouraged to explore the history of the poster as well as consider their role when working in an uneditioned, unsigned format. In lieu of a traditional press release, we have included an excerpt from a discussion about the project with the artist below.

March 31^st – May 6^th, 2012

SOUTHFIRST

www.southfirst.org

60 N 6th Street, Brooklyn NY11211

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm, and by appointment

Ariel Dil

Opening Reception: April 27^th, 6-8pm 

Still from "Suspended" by Bahar Behbahani, single channel video, 7 min, 2007 (courtesy of the artist)

Saturday, March 10th, Williamsburg galleries will come alive, open late-night for special events and receptions for Brooklyn Armory Night. This year, on-screen reigns, with special video installations and performances throughout Williamsburg—on the streets, in businesses and in the galleries. Visit Causey Contemporary, Front Room, Like the Spice, Parker’s Box and Ventana 244, among others, as well as Ascenzi Square and local businesses Dokebi Bar & Grill and Cadaques for film-work including “Roebling Tango” by Christine Sciulli, “Slanted Walk” by Chris Jordan, “Passage” by Jenny Morgan and “Suspended” by Bahar Behbahani. An afterparty at Indiescreen (289 Kent Avenue) at 10pm will feature a series of video artist presentations. Look for the limousine departing from The Armory Show & VOLTA at 5:30pm & 7:30pm, circulating between NYC and BKLYN throughout the night… or just hop a train or a taxi and come across the bridge for a moving night of pictures.

Promotional support provided by AKArt

COMPLETE GALLERY LISTINGS

ART101

www.art101brooklyn.com

101 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Friday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

“Critical Path,” new work by Nicola Ginzel and Chester Nielsen, an intriguing pairing of minds and talents. Their art is distinctly unique; their paths surprisingly similar. February 17 – March 18. Reception with the artists: March 10, 6 – 9pm

BLACK & WHITE GALLERY/PROJECT SPACE

www.blackandwhiteprojectspace.org

483 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Friday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm and by appointment

Black & White Gallery: “The World According To….” Group show, Participating artists: Eric White, Michael Van den Besselaar, Isidro Blasco, Roberley Bell, Alejandro Moreno, Santiago Taccetti. Reception: March 10, 6 – 9pm.

Project Space: Santiago Taccetti, Site-Specific Installation: “Smoke & Mirrors / Nothing To See Here” Reception: March 10, 6 – 9pm

THE BOILER  

www.pierogi2000.com

191 North 14^th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Thursday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm and by appointment

VIDEO - Videophoric: Video night at the Boiler 9 – 11pm

BROOKLYN OENOLOGY WINERY

www.brooklynoenology.com

209 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Monday 4pm – 11pm, Tuesday & Wednesday 2pm – 10pm, Thursday 2pm – 11pm, Friday 2pm – 12am, Saturday 12pm -12am, Sunday 12pm – 10pm

An exhibition of work by Brooklyn artist Jeremy Wagner, whose painting “These Colors Don’t Run, But They Can Fade”  is featured on BOE’s new release of 2008 Motley Cru red, will be on display.

From Wed. March 7 to Mon. Monday March 12 will honor any ticket from any current local art fair by providing glasses of all our BOE wines at ½ the price for the ticketholder. Show passes honored will include:  The Armory Show, Volta NY, Art Now Fair, Arts Not Fair, ADAA Art Show, Fountain, Pulse, SCOPE New York, Verge Art Brooklyn, Moving Image, New City Art Fair, SPRING/BREAK Art Show.  Demonstrable affiliations with galleries, museums, arts and cultural organizations will also be honored.

CAMEL ART SPACE

www.camelartspace.com

722 Metropolitan Avenue, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Weekends 1pm – 6pm and by appointment

“First Truth,” curated by Sara Hubbs and Sara Jones, featuring: Gina Beavers, Megan Hays, Sara Hubbs, Janelle Iglesias, Sara Jones, Siobhan McBride, Danielle Mysiliwiec. February 10 – March 11

CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY

www.causeycontemporary.com

92 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 7pm, Sunday 12pm – 6pm

“Mesmer Eyes,” a solo exhibition by Kathy Goodell. Sculpture and drawing. The centerpiece of Mesmer Eyes is a twenty-five foot long installation, comprised of more than 8,000 small oval shaped ink paintings, with suspended optical lenses. Causey Contemporary will be projecting a video by Bahar Behbahani at the front of their space from 8-9 pm. Artist Christine Sciulli’s “Roebling Tango” will be shown as part of Armory Brooklyn Night, Saturday March 10 from 7-10 pm. In this site specific projection installation Sciulli will choreograph roving planes of light into organized cacophony within the urban triangle park, Ascenzi Square. Ascenzi Square is located between Metropolitan, Roebling and N.4th Streets.

CAVE

www.cavearts.org

58 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211

VIDEO - Shige Moriya and LEIMAY (www.leimay.org) will be presenting a projection “Floating Point” in front of the CAVE. 

FIGUREWORKS

www.figureworks.com

168 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 1pm – 6pm, and by appointment

“Nightmares and Fantasies,” Sometimes we are terrified to fall asleep and sometimes the dream is better than reality. Felix Chavez, Glen Golton, Sante Graziani, Artem Mirolevich, Rafael Alvarez Ortega, Frederic Taubes, Pierre-Yves Tremois. March 9 – May 6

FRONT ROOM GALLERY

www.frontroom.org

147 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Friday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

“Useful Things (For Getting Lost),” Melissa Pokorny’s sculptures present a menagerie of exotic combinations of common and familiar elements, creating architectural constructions from farcical building materials. March 9 – April 15.

VIDEO - “Slanted Walk” Chris Jordan, 2012. This interactive projection installation examines public space through the use of light and movement. The installation combines live recordings of passerbys with color and texture through the use of projection and camera. By highlighting the individual in the urban landscape, “Slanted Walk” attempts to reexamine the effects of light and interactivity within the city. Also, site-specific video projection by Jeremy Slater. Reception: March 10, 7 pm – 10pm

Maider Lopez. Polder Cup. 2011. Photograph: Maider Lopez/SKOR/Witte de With.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM (ISCP)

www.iscp-nyc.org

1040 Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12-6pm.

“Maider Lopez: Polder Cup,” a solo exhibition by Spanish artist and ISCP alum, Maider Lopez. February 15 – March 10. Open late March 10, 6-10pm.

VIDEO - The exhibition includes videos of a one-day football championship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where the artist constructed a football field in the polders, low-lying tracts of land intersected by water ditches.

JANET KURNATOWSKI

www.janetkurnatowskigallery.com

205 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Hours: Friday and Saturday 1pm – 7pm, Sunday 12pm – 6pm

“Morphed,” a show of sculpture with works by Sandra Casti, James Clark, Forrest Myers, Gelah Penn, Heidi Pollard, Rebecca Smith and Kris Scheifele. February 17 – March 18

Jenny Morgan. Passage. 2012. Digital Video. 5 min.

LIKE THE SPICE

www.likethespice.com

224 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12pm – 7pm, Monday by appointment

“Arts not Fair: A Like the Spice Gallery Art Fair,” a month-long “art fair” highlighting special projects by the Like the Spice Gallery artists, including Chino Amobi, Jenny Morgan, Hans + Gleves, and more. VIP Preview Friday March 9th, 6-9.

VIDEO - Jenny Morgan “Passage.” 2012. Digital Video, 5min.  Reception: March 10, 6pm – 10pm with special performances and panels.

PANDEMIC GALLERY

www.pandemicgallery.com

37 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Tuesday – Friday 11am – 6pm, Saturday and Sunday 12pm – 7pm

“ALL TALK”, features some of New York City’s boldest anti-heroes, cynics and preachers. Those that run us through the gauntlet of fine art, design, and graffiti. Works by: Aakash Nihalani, Andrew H. Shirley, Cassius Fouler, Destroy & Rebuild, Gabriel Specter, Isabel Lasala, J. Ralph Phillips, Jenna Hicock, Jesse Edwards, Jesus Saves, Map, Merk, NohJColey.

PARKER’S BOX

www.parkersbox.com

193 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1pm – 7pm

Berlin-based German painter Stefan Sehler will be showing new works in a double exhibition at Parker’s Box and Volta. The shows, both titled “Because It’s There”, will be previewed at the VOLTA opening on Thursday, March 8, and at Parker’s Box on Saturday, March 10 as part of the Armory Show’s “Brooklyn Night”. Stefan Sehler will be showing the latest in his meticulous reverse glass paintings, with startling new forays into both abstraction and figuration.

PIEROGI

www.pierogi2000.com

177 North 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 6pm and by appointment 

“Ward Shelley, Unreliable Narrator” Unreliable Narrator is about believers. In this exhibition of timeline paintings, Ward Shelley proposes that believers are people who depend on collective narratives to explain the world around them.

RAWSON PROJECTS

www.rawsonprojects.com

223 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 1pm – 7pm and by appointment

“Allen Glatter,” January 28 – March 11

SIDESHOW

www.sideshowgallery.com

319 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Thursday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm and by appointment

“New Painting,” Lauren Olitski , Susan Roth, and Ann Walsh. March 3 – April 1

SOLOWAY

www.soloway.info

348 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12pm – 5pm

“Krypta” by the Italian Art Collective Draok (Marta Pierobon, Giorgio Guidi) February 26 – March 30

STOREFRONT BUSHWICK

www.storefrontbushwick.com

16 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 1pm – 6pm and by appointment

“Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley” February 10 – March 11. Saturday, March 10, we will be open 1pm – 10pm

VENTANA244

www.ventana244.org

244 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Thursday and Friday 5pm – 7pm, Saturday and Sunday 12pm – 6pm

Peter Dudek and Peter Soriano will open an exhibition of collaborative works at Ventana 244. Working together in Soriano’s studio over the course of several months the two have crafted together a series of works that echo aspects of each others practice while taking into consideration the specifics of the exhibition space. March 9 – April 1

WAH CENTER (WILLIAMSBURG ART & HISTORICAL CENTER)

www.wahcenter.net

135 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hours: Thursday – Monday 1pm – 6pm

“J_ART 2nd, Tokyo – New York, 5th Annual Emerging Japanese Artists’ Exhibition,” Group show of 27 emerging Japanese artist (19 from Tokyo and 8 from New York) in all media (Painting, Print, Installation, Photo, Video Art, Contemporary Craft, and more) curated by Hiro Shiraishi, Director of Tokyo based Pepper Project. March 2 – 11 Armory Night Performance Program with several outstanding Japanese dancers and a musician. Saturday, March 10, 7pm – 11 pm

YES GALLERY

www.yesgalleryyes.com

147 India Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Hours: Wednesday – Friday 1pm – 7pm, Saturday and Sunday 1pm – 5pm

“Ale’, Ale’” Paintings by E.K Buckley. February 17 – March 18

Galleries with new exhibitions opening:

Camel Art Space 722 Metropolitan Ave.

First Truth, curated by Sara Hubbs and Sara Jones. Artists: Gina Beavers, Megan Hays, Sara Hubbs, Janelle Iglesias, Sara Jones, Siobhan McBride, Danielle Mysiliwiec February 10th – March 11th, 2012 
Yuka Otani, a new installation inspired by “Hojoki”, an essay by Chomei Kamono: a Japanese 13th century poet who expresses the sense of mujokan (impermanence) during the medieval age of wars and disasters. February 10th – March 11th, 2012 

Opening: 6-9

Like the Spice Gallery 224 Roebling St

Sutured, a mixed-media exhibition featuring the work of Adam Parker Smith, Jude Broughan, Joseph Heidecker, Richard Saja, Robert Raphael, Vadis Turner, and Zoe Sheehan Saldana, opens at Like the Spice Gallery on February 10th, 2012. 
Opening: 6:30-9

PARKERS BOX 193 Grand St.

WNTRSLN2, Gallery artists. February 10 – February 26.
Opening: 6-9

Storefront Bushwick16 Wilson Avenue

Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley

Open until 10pm

Galleries that will be open until 9pm with continuing exhibitions:

ART101 101 Grand St.

Expanding the Landscape, work by Alexandra Limpert and Patrick Whalen.

Causey Contemporary, 92 Wythe Avenue

Volumes, Group Exhibition of Artist Editions. Featured Artists: Carri Skoczek, Melissa Murray, Norman Mooney, Alexis Portilla, Michel Demanche, Gerald Mocarsky, Chuck Kelton, Shelton Walsmith, Nina Carelli, & Kathy Goodell.

FIGUREWORKS 168 North 6th St.
Ellen Emmet Rand / Ellen Emmet Randtwo-person exhibition by Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand, grandmother and granddaughter. The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rands portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen Emmet Rand’s new abstract collage paintings, which have been inspired from and created directly over a series of her earlier figurative paintings done in the 1990s.

Front Room Gallery 147 Roebling St

In-Habitat, an exhibition of new works by: Julia Whitney Barnes, Gregory Curry, Lisa DiLillo, and Kim Holleman. In the exhibition “In-Habitat” each artist takes a unique perspective of the concept of habitat, and what it is to inhabit this world. 

Sound Performance curated by Jeremy Slater featuring: Ian Epps, Gregory Reynolds, Maria Papadomanolaki and Jeremy Slater, Rothwell

 Pierogi 177 North 9th St.
Dawn Clements, with sculptures by Marc Leuthold.

Sideshow Gallery319Bedford Ave

Mic Check, The Human Mic,Group show, featuring works by hundreds of artists, ranging from well known mid-career artists to emerging artists.

THE JOURNAL GALLERY 168 North 1st St

Special Blend, Curated by Chris Martin

VENTANA244 244 North 6th St

Andrew Huston, selects multi-media works by Michelle Ceja, Matthew Eiraldi, George Hoffman, Sherrie Levine, Gerhard Mantz, and Mike Zahn. January 13-February 10, 2012 

Hopefully by now you have all recovered from your New Years Eve debauchery and are ready for a phenomenal 2012 art viewing experience.Well, since winter has finally made it to Brooklyn we once again advise you to bundle up, print out your trusty Every 2:ND Friday map, and guide yourself through the Williamsburg gallery scene. Please read the below listings carefully because some of our regular Every 2:ND galleries are hibernating for January and will not be open.

Galleries with openings on 1/13/12 Every 2:ND:

ART101 101 Grand St.

Expanding the Landscape,work by Alexandra Limpert and Patrick Whalen
Opening: 6-9.
FIGUREWORKS 168 North 6th St.
Ellen Emmet Rand / Ellen Emmet Randtwo-person exhibition by Ellen Emmet Rand and Ellen Emmet Rand, grandmother and granddaughter. The work in this show will combine Ellen Emmet Rands portrait paintings and drawings from the turn of the century with Ellen Emmet Rand’s new abstract collage paintings, which have been inspired from and created directly over a series of her earlier figurative paintings done in the 1990s. Jan 13 – March 4.
Opening: 6-9.
VENTANA244, 244 North 6th St

Andrew Huston, selects multi-media works by Michelle Ceja, Matthew Eiraldi, George Hoffman, Sherrie Levine, Gerhard Mantz, and Mike Zahn. January 13-February 10, 2012
Opening: Friday January 13, 6-9.
PARKERS BOX, 193 Grand St.

Kenn Bass and Mike Rogers, A new video work by the Brooklyn artist, Kenn Bass along with drawings by Los Angeles based Mike Rogers. Exhibition January 13 to February 5.
Opening: 6-9.

THE JOURNAL GALLERY, 168 North 1st St

Special Blend, Curated by Chris Martin Jan 13 -Feb 12 2012
Opening:6-9.

Galleries that will be open until 9pm with continuing exhibitions:

 Black & White Gallery/Project Space, 483 Driggs Ave.

F***ED UP IN MINNEAPOLIS, Robert Whitman, Polaroids of the artist and his friends partying in the early 80s. December 9, 2011 – January 14, 2012

Cotton Candy Machine, 235 S 1st St

Holiday Group show and prints. New Prints from Travis Louie Art, Esao Andrews, Jeremy Hush, Paul Pope and Tara McPherson.

 Camel Art Space, 722 Metropolitan Ave.
Narrative Ability, Curated by Carl Gunhouse, featuring works by: Linda Gallagher, Joe Lawton, Ted Partin, Amber Hawk Swanson, Ryan Syrell. Also, new works by Matthew Mahler and Andrew Zarou in the project space. Both shows run from January 6th Through 29th.
Opening: Friday January 06, 6-9.

Causey Contemporary, 92 Wythe Avenue

Stewards, Zane York. December 16-January 22.
War Paint, Gerald Mocarsky December 16-January 22.

Front Room Gallery, 147 Roebling St

Like the Spice Gallery, 224 Roebling St

Winter group exhibition: Featuring all new work created in 2011 by, Chino Amobi, Jason Bryant,Treasure Frey, Joseph Heidecker, Brian LaRossa, Eric LoPresti, Jenny Morgan, Reuben Negron, Nicki Stager, Allie Rex, Matt Stone, and Jason Yarmosky.

January 13th – February 8th, 2012.

Opening 6-9pm for Williamsburg Every Second Friday.

 Pierogi, 177 North 9th St.

Dawn Clements, with sculptures by Marc Leuthold, 6 January – 12 February.

Skink Ink Editions, 177 North 10th Street, Room G

‘Flatlands’, Ross Racine & Lekan Jeyifous. Visions of the manmade landscape from two artists that each emulate the creation of artificial cityscapes, suburban & utopic environments. Original works made on the computer and rendered as digital prints. December 9th- January 22nd.

Tonight Friday, December 9th, please join us for our monthly gallery crawl!

Print out the map above and put your mittens on to take a self guided tour through these gallery’s current shows during extended hours from 6 to 9pm:

ART 101: 101 Grand St.

Camel Art Space: 722 Metropolitan Ave.

Like The Spice: 224 Roebling St.

The Cotton Candy Machine: 235 South 1st St.

The Journal: 168 North 1st St.

PIEROGI: 177 N. 9th St.

Ventana244: 244 N. 6th

Willamsburg Art & Historical Center: 135 Broadway

Black and White Gallery/Project Space: 483 Driggs Ave.

Front Room Gallery: 147 Roebling St.

Skink Ink Editions: 177 North 10th St., Room G

Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday 11/11/11

NEW EXHIBITS OPEN IN WILLIAMSBURG FOR NOVEMBER’S EVERY SECOND FRIDAY GALLERY CRAWL SPONSORED BY AT&T

New shows at Devotion Gallery, Pierogi, and Cotton Candy Machine join exhibits at perennial favorites Like the Spice Gallery, Causey Contemporary and many others for November’s Williamsburg Every 2:nd Friday gallery crawl on Friday, November 11, from 6–9 p.m., presented by AT&T. Seasoned and budding collectors, artists, gallerists, community members and tourists alike join galleries for opening receptions, artist discussions, performances and refreshments.

A guided tour of the neighborhood galleries will be led by Stephan Fowlkes, Arts Editor, The New YorkOptimist, and will leave from Like the Spice (224 Roebling St.) at 7 p.m. During the gallery crawl. Williamsburg Every 2:nd and AT&T will continue the “Learn to Collect” project, which invites attendees to create their own “collections” by photographing artwork with their smartphones and uploading the pictures to the Williamsburg Every 2:nd Facebook page. The individual whose collection comprises the greatest amount of artwork from the most galleries will be awarded a smartphone.

Maps of the art walk will be distributed at participating galleries, local businesses and the Bedford and Union Square L stations.

Participating galleries: (Galleries with openings in pink)

· ART 101: 101 Grand St.

www.art101brooklyn.com

· Black & White Gallery / Project Space: 483 Driggs Ave.

www.blackandwhitegallery.com

· Cotton Candy Machine: 235 South 1st Street.

www.thecottoncandymachine.com

· Camel Art Space: 722 Metropolitan Ave.

www.camelartspace.com

· Causey Contemporary: 92 Wythe Ave.

www.causeycontemporary.com

· Devotion Gallery: 54 Maujer St .

www.areyoudevoted.com

· Figureworks: 168 N. 6th St.

www.figureworks.com

· Front Room: 147 Roebling St. (Performance)

www.frontroom.org

· The Gallery at Skink Ink Editions: 177 N. 10th St.

www.skink-ink.com

· Like the Spice Gallery: 224 Roebling St. (Tour leaves at 7pm)

www.likethespice.com 

 · Parker’s Box: 193 Grand St.

www.parkersbox.com

· Pierogi: 177 N. 9th St.

www.pierogi2000.com

· Sideshow: 319 Bedford Ave.

www.sideshowgallery.com

· Ventana 244: 244 N. 6th St. (Performance)

www.ventana244.org

· WAH: 135 Broadway. (Performance)

www.wahcenter.net

Every2nd Map October 14th, 2011

Want to keep tabs on your friends this Williamsburg Every 2:ND?—Whose gallery are they in? Which shows are hot? What drinks are cool? This month, the Williamsburg Every 2:ND and AT&T ‘Learn to Collect’ project is enhanced as they join forces with WAGMAG and Pernod Absinthe. Together, they’re launching the latest addition to the Williamsburg gallery circuit—The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn. This must-get mobile app for iPhone and Android, featuring WAGMAG’S gallery listings as well as the nabe’s best bars. And it connects (and directs) users with nifty GPS, Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter integration. Best of all, it’s free! Get it HERE.

Changing Leaves and Changing Art:  

NEW EXHIBITS OPEN IN WILLIAMSBURG FOR OCTOBER’S

EVERY SECOND FRIDAY GALLERY CRAWL SPONSORED BY AT&T

New shows at the Williamsburg Art and Historic Center and The Gallery at Skink Ink Editions join exhibits at perennial favorites Like the Spice Gallery, Causey Contemporary and many others for the Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday gallery crawl on Friday, October 14, from 6–9 p.m.

This after-hours event, where seasoned and budding collectors, artists, gallerists, community members and tourists alike join galleries for opening receptions, artist discussions, performances and refreshments, will be sponsored by AT&T.

The Williamsburg Art and Historic Center (135 Broadway) will bring whimsy into this month’s art walk, as it presents “The Potato Revolution,” featuring the artwork of 20 artists from eight countries inspired by the potato. Meanwhile, the Gallery at Skink Ink (177 N. 10th St.), also focusing on a natural theme, will present Madeline Von Foerster’s “Cabinet,” a series of evocative prints that showcase man’s chaotic relationship with nature.

Be sure to join art enthusiasts at Like the Spice (224 Roebling St.) to see the opening of “Re/Deconstructing History,” where five artists take techniques, materials and symbols from the past to reconstruct and challenge moments inworld history.

During the gallery crawl Williamsburg Every 2:nd and AT&T will continue the “Learn to Collect” project, which invites attendees to create their own “collections” by photographing artwork with their smartphones and uploading the pictures to the Williamsburg Every 2:nd Facebook page. The individual whose collection comprises the greatest amount of artwork from the most galleries will be awarded a smartphone. Maps will be distributed at participating galleries, local businesses and the Bedford and Union Square L stations.

Building on the success of last month’s guided tours led by Amy Kisch, Founder/CEO of AKArt and Manish Vora, Founder of ARTLOG and GREY AREA, this month a guided tour will be led by Stephan Fowlkes, Arts Editor, The New York Optimist, which will leave from Parker’s Box (193 Grand Street) at 7pm.

This month, the “Learn to Collect” project is also enhanced as it joins forces with WAGMAG and Pernod Absinthe. Together, they are launching the latest addition to the Williamsburg gallery circuit—The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn. The mobile app for iPhone and Android features WAGMAG’S gallery listings as well as neighborhood drinking spots and connects (and directs) users with GPS, Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter integration, and is free.

ART 101: 101 Grand St., www.art101brooklyn.com
Black & White Gallery / Project Space: 483 Driggs Ave., www.blackandwhitegallery.com
Camel Art Space: 722 Metropolitan Ave., www.camelartspace.com
Causey Contemporary: 92 Wythe Ave., www.causeycontemporary.com
Figureworks: 168 N. 6th St., www.figureworks.com
Front Room: 147 Roebling St., www.frontroom.org
The Gallery at Skink Ink Editions: 177 N. 10th St., www.skink-ink.com
Like the Spice Gallery: 224 Roebling St., www.likethespice.com
Journal Gallery: 168 N. 1st St., www.thejournalinc.com
Parker’s Box: 193 Grand St., www.parkersbox.com (Tour location)
Pierogi: 177 N. 9th St., www.pierogi2000.com
Ventana 244: 244 N. 6th St., www.ventana244.org
Williamsburg Art and Historic Center: 135 Broadway, www.wahcenter.net

Friday September 9th, 2011 6-9pm Join Williamsburg Every 2:ND and Artlog for our fall kickoff Art Crawl sponsored by AT&T. Check into Causey Contemporary or Like the Spice Gallery to get your maps, create your own route, or come on a tour with our experts through the Williamsburg Gallery scene! Walking tours, refreshments, and a special after party from 9-11pm at Causey Contemporary will be provided for those who check-in! Come and see what’s going on in this Brooklyn burgeoning art hub.

Event Details:
6-9pm, (Pick up your map at any of the below participating galleries, Bedford L Stop, or check-in galleries.)

Check-in: Causey Contemporary: 92 Wythe Avenue, 718 218 8939, ; Like the Spice Gallery 224 Roebling Street, 718.388.5388.

Guided Tours: Begin at 7pm led by Amy Kisch of AKArt and Manish Vora of ARTLOG with special guest stars People’s Champs leading as a marching band!

Participating Galleries: (More participating galleries updated daily)

Front Room Gallery
Causey Contemporary- Check-in gallery
Black & White/Project Space
Art 101
Figureworks
Pierogi
Like the Spice Gallery- Check-in gallery
Parker’s box
Ventana 224
Camel Art Space
‘Learn to Collect’, in collaboration with AT&T, invites Williamsburg’s ‘Every 2:ND Friday’ gallery crawl attendees to ‘create personal art collections’. Photograph artwork using your smartphone and upload the picture to the AT&T/Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday Facebook page. The ‘collector’ with the most uploads from the greatest number of galleries is eligible to win a new HTC Inspire 4G smartphone provided by AT&T. Visit the Williamsburg Every 2:ND page and friend us!
About Every 2:ND Friday:
Join us the second Friday of every month. Visit many risk-taking Williamsburg galleries and alternative art spaces as they spring into action during our monthly WILLIAMSBURG EVERY SECOND: FRIDAY art walk. Galleries open from 6-9pm and beyond.