Rhombus Space -- New Gallery in Red Hook

www.rhombusspace.com

183 Lorraine Street

3rd Floor of the Art Spaces/Studio Complex
Red Hook

Jessica Campbell, YEAH NO TOTALLY, 

varying materials and size, 2012/2013

Poetry Slam exhibit (closed)

Ann Stewart, Tethering Corollaries II,
etching and aquatint on paper, 18 x 24"
Fine Lines exhibit (open Oct. 18)

Samuel Jablon, Poet Sculpture, variable 

dimensions, enamel on plywood, 2013

Poetry Slam exhibit (closed)

Katerina Lanfranco -- artist, curator and founder of Rhombus Space, in Red Hook -- is excited to be able to showcase and promote the work of artists whom she sees as truly contributing to the contemporary art dialogue. She opened Rhombus Space on September 20th of this year, and just wrapped up the space's first show, Poetry Slam, which closed Sunday, October 13. The show explored four artists' use of text in their visual art, and pieces included paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation and video. Featured artists were: damali abrams (lower case intentional), Jessica Campbell, Samuel Jablon, and Mwamba-Salim Wilson.

Lanfranco says that what gives Rhombus Space it's strength is "the dialogue that emerges from the grouping in each show", and invites people to not only focus on the individual artists and works, but on how they interact, how they compliment and inform each other.

Rhombus Space's forthcoming show, Fine Lines, is slated to open October 18, and aims to carry patrons "between familiar form and elegant abstraction" by exploring line as the primary artistic element and building block of the works shown. Featured artists will be Helen Dennis, Nils Folke Anderson, Jason Peters, and Ann Stewart, each of whom utilizes architectonic design and architectural references in their work, with the aim to bring the world of line and shape that is all around us into new and unexpected perspectives. Works will range from painting, drawing and printmaking to photography and sculpture.

Lanfranco is also hugely pleased to announce that the gallery will be participating in the Gowanus Open Studios event this weekend. The event is free, and will be open October 19 and 20, 12-5pm. Many of the other spaces and studios in the 183 Lorraine Street complex will be opening their doors for the event, so bring some snacks, some friends, yourself (or any combination thereof!) and enjoy some great hours of art absorption.

A few more teasers from Fine Lines:

Nils Anderson, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, 7"x21"

Nils Anderson,Bench, Painted wood, 17"x13"x48"

Helen Dennis, Grand Central, NYC, photographic drawing, 40 x 48"

Jason Peters, untitled, silver ink on black paper, 11 by 11 by 16.5

Poetry Slam (closed)

September 20 -- October 13, 2013 

More information about this show and the artists can be found at:
http://rhombusspace.blogspot.com/2013/09/rhombus-space-presents-poetry-slam-w.html

Fine Lines
October 18 -- November 17, 2013
Reception: Friday October 18
6:00-8:00 PM
More information about this show and the artists can be found at:
http://rhombusspace.blogspot.com/2013/10/rhombus-space-presents-fine-lines.html

Gowanus Open Studios
October 19 -- 20, 1013
12:00-- 5:00 PM
More information about this event can be found at:
http://artsgowanus.org/gowanus-open-studios

New Show Opening at Clayworks

News from Clayworks...

We are excited to announce the first joint exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Bonnie Levine and Naomi Hudson-Knapp on March 24th from 4-8pm. Mark your calendars and join us at Clayworks on Columbia! Preview our work by going to Naomi's blog, nhudsonknapp.blogspot.com. 

bonnie levine

naomi hudson-knapp

paper and clay

opening reception

saturday, march 24, 4-8pm

Clayworks on Columbia

195 columbia street

brooklyn, ny 11231

gallery open by appointment or during studio hours

contact bonnie or naomi at claygurl@gmail.com or nhudsonknapp@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Bonnie and Naomi

Jalopy to Expand to become Jalopy Tavern!

A message from our friends at Jalopy:

We’d like to let you in on a little secret…
The Jalopy Theatre is expanding. As of two days ago, Jalopy and some of our friends
got our hands on the building next door, and will be expanding into Moonshine Bar! Introducing...
 

 
We’ll keep you posted on our progress. We will invite you all down for a holiday toast.

Also, join us on Sunday for a special blues session led by Pat Conte, Show starts at 7 pm.
 
And…look for a special trivia question in tomorrow’s email and win a pair of tickets to JALOPY’s 5th Anniversary Party!


Congrats to Geoff, Lynette, and the whole Jalopy team! 

Changes on Columbia Street

We're seeing some new businesses opening soon in the Waterfront District, and one sudden and sad closure.

First, the good news.
The long-closed Waterfront Restaurant
space will soon be a new diner called
Water's Edge Diner.

We hope it will be a 24-hour diner!

What WILL be open 24 hours is a new
bagel shop on Summit and Hamilton.
New signage was posted this week and
a neighbor says the opening is imminent.

http://www.zachhellerphotography.com/

I also recently passed by the space on Union and Hicks which housed
The Coffee Den (RIP). A few gentlemen were seated around the bar tasting wines, and they told me the bar will have an excellent wine list and will be opening
"soon."

image by http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiarescott/

And I'm told the space on Columbia St next to Margaret Palca will be a ballet school!

The windows were uncovered last week to reveal the interior. It looks almost ready to open!

image from http://barsinbrooklyn.com

And the sad news. Many of you know that Moonshine's last night will be September 17. The bar's owner wanted to move on. Rumor has it that the new owner plans to keep the space a bar but with a new look and new staff. We will miss the friendly bartenders and unpretentious, friendly community that gathers there. The Columbia Street News wants your stories,  photos, and memories for a tribute they are putting together. Send them to columbiastreetnews <at> gmail <dot> com.








If you have more of a scoop on these openings and closings than I do, please share in the comments.

WORK Gallery presents Low Fat Pop

LOW FAT POP

New Sculptures and Installation by:

JAN MOLLET

Opening
Friday May 13th
6 – 10 PM

Artists Talk
Sunday May 22nd @ 6PM

Read more about the exhibition here.

WORK Gallery is located on Union street at the corner of Van Brunt.

Opening Hours: Sat May 14th - Sun May 15th 12 -6 PM, Friday May 20th - Sunday May 22nd 12-6 PM

The Brooklyn Collective Spring Fling - May 6

The Brooklyn Collective Spring Fling!

Please join us as we celebrate over 30 new collections

by local artists and designers

Complimentary cocktails will be served throughout the evening

along with a surprise musical performance!

Friday, May 6th

212 Columbia Street

(between Union and Sackett)

6pm-10pm

Featured Artists

Patricia Jo Peacock, Catherine Lauigan, Little Sea Monsters, Sara Pfau, Noble Savage Vintage, Michael Murray, Designerica, Brooklyn Bowls, Thimali Kodikara, Beautiful Brooklyn Birds, Vigilism, GIRLFAUXPAS, Lightexture, The Royal Creature, Papertopias, In The Seam, Alexandra Batsford, Design and Labor, Lewis Henry Nicholas, Twig Terrariums, Sunghee Bang, Rachel Goldberg, Kate Hockstein, Catherine Hnatov, elle s'appelle, AshiDashi, Near Modern Disaster, Pippi Hepburn, Jess Yam, Stella Saves the Day, Courtney P. Hewitt, and Sovereign Beck

For further info please visit www.brooklyncollective.com

Artist Robin Hoffman opening at the Jalopy - Feb 11

Local mom, ex-ballerina, ukulele player and artist, Robin Hoffman has been sketching musicians and bands on the stage of the Fabulous Jalopy Theatre since 2009 (you can read about her first exhibit here).
Please join Robin on Friday, Feb. 11 from 6-8pm for the opening reception of her second solo exhibit at Jalopy. The show will run through March 26. It's all new work since October 2010, all drawn live on location at Jalopy.

The East River String Band
John Henighan, Eden Brower, and special guest Robert Crumb
November 2, 2010

The Fabulous Jalopy Theatre is located at 315 Columbia street.

Check out Robin's latest news here.

Shop locally: Waterfront Mercantile on Columbia St

THE WATERFRONT MERCANTILE

A gift shop of winter wonders

OPENING SOIREE

prosecco, nibbles and hand crafted goods

Thursday december 16th, 6-9 pm

and shop on

Friday 12/17 & Saturday 12/18, 12-8 pm

Featuring

floral gifts from denise fasanello

luminaries from adam frank

printed textiles from lotta jansdotter

paper goods from sesame letterpress

home made sweets from nine cakes

jewelry from bonbon oiseau

children’s knits from eye spy baby

ceramic goods from paula greif

203 Columbia Street (btw Degraw and Sackett Streets)

Brooklyn, NY

New comer on Columbia street: Waterfront Antiques

About a week ago, a new spot has opened on Columbia Street between Sugar Lounge and the offices of the Brooklyn Greenway. It is an antique consignment store that specializes in European porcelain and glass, as well as ethnic art.

You can also find oil paintings, vintage jewelry, crystal, silverware, sculptures and antique furniture.

The president is Annick Sawaya. Belgian, born in the Congo, she moved to the US when she was 7 years old. Owning shops in Paris and Cannes, Annick has had 15 years experience in antiques. With this new venture, she wishes to make the store a center for Art Deco and Art Nouveau treasures.

The most valuable piece is this painting by Abbott-Fuller Graves, entitled Dusk, and priced at $10,000. But relax, prices of other items start at $15, so you are sure to find a little something for any occasion.

Here is Annick's favorite piece.
A Chinese neo-guardian figure, which was originally made to guard against evil spirits
(from the 18th century, possibly even older).

This was my favorite piece,
(in case anyone wants to get it for me for Christmas. Hint, hint, Chris)
a Navajo sterling silver bracelet.

Come by tomorrow night, Thursday, December 2nd, from 6 to 8 pm, for a wine and cheese opening party and discover Annick's treasures.

Waterfront Antiques is located at 147 Columbia Street - 917.805.2968

Showroom opening at Uhuru Design

Check out FOUND this weekend, a collective art and design show put on by Uhuru, a design + build furniture company based in Red Hook. All of the pieces have been made from found objects (some from the neighborhood).
They recently renovated the ground floor space, and will mainly be using it for a showroom for our pieces, kicking it off with a design show this Sat & Sunday from 10am-7pm.


They are located at 160 Van Brunt.

The Brooklyn Collective 's Grand Re-Opening - 10.01.10

The Brooklyn Collective Grand Re-Opening Event

Please join us to celebrate our brand new 1500 square foot location

More artists and designers than ever before!

Over 30 brand new collections!

Friday, October 1st

212 Columbia Street

(between Union and Sackett)

7pm-11pm

Featured Artists

Melangerie, Plane Jane Project, Lauren Simkin Berke, Jenny Belin, Alexandra Batsford, Design and Labor, Sam Phillips, Lewis Henry Nicholas, Ink and Joy, Twig Terrariums, Sunghee Bang, LanVy, Rachel Goldberg, SKT Ceramics, Brooklyn Pottery, Oh Clementine, Lauren Denitzio, Mina Georgescu, Munstre, Catherine Hnatov, J.Cravata,
elle s'appelle, AshiDashi, Near Modern Disaster, Johnny Sparks, Nancy Waller Handbags, Whimsiology, Patrice Yourdon, Jess Yam, Courtney P. Hewitt

Complimentary cocktails will be served throughout the evening

PLUS! A surprise musical performance!

For further info please visit www.brooklyncollective.com

New at the Art Lot on Columbia and Sackett

THE ART LOT

OUTDOOR SCULPTURE
IN BROOKLYN

MEDIA MIX x 4
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Babs Reingold, John Roach, Mary Schiliro

September 12, 2010 – January 9, 2011

Opening reception: Sunday, September 12, 2–5 p.m.

The ART LOT is proud to present “MEDIA MIX x 4” featuring the work of Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Babs Reingold, John Roach and Mary Schiliro.

Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo starts with the notion of photography that can capture and freeze time. As a starting point, she photographs urban spaces such as airport terminals, busy city streets or any place that has a flow of people. She then layers images on Plexiglas, subtly capturing the flow of time.

Babs Reingold has made a large structure reminiscent of a clothes line, but suspended are not clothes but a variety of materials that act as signifiers for memory and time. The piece is a beautiful metaphor on the relationship of support and the supported.

John Roach has a long history with combining materials, processes and light/sound to create three-dimensional collages. In some way, his work is a comment on and a foil to the extraordinary mash-up of contemporary life, with no small dash of humor.

Mary Schiliro’s work poses the question, what is a painting? How does it work? And how far can one push that definition before it becomes something else? Her installation, a hanging plane of Mylar that she perforates and dips in paint, is sited in the corner, which is transformed into more than the meeting of two planes. The painting hangs like a three-dimensional object demonstrating gravity, all while inconspicuously functioning as her picture plane.

The Art Lot is located at 206 Columbia Street, corner of Columbia and Sackett Streets in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The exhibition is on view 24/7. Rain date for the opening is September 19.

Drawing Blood opening at WORK - tomorrow 5/1

DRAWING BLOOD

May 1 – May 28, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, May 1, 6-9pm

ERIC AYOTTE – ELIZA MYRIE – OWEN RUNDQUIST – KARIN STOTHART – BRIAN ZEGEER Curated by KATHLEEN SMITH

WORK gallery is on Union Street at the corner of Van Brunt.

DO I MOVE YOU, ARE YOU WILLING at WORK

WORK Gallery presents

DO I MOVE YOU, ARE YOU WILLING

November 21 - December 14, 2009

a group exhibition of photography

opening SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 7-9PM.

Curated by JOSIE MINER, the exhibition features eight New York City based photographers whose works collectively consider the meditative quality of photography. Featuring a range of representational and abstract imagery, the exhibition explores the ephemeral and enigmatic interstices of life and offers an opportunity for reverie and feeling.

Featuring the works of Michael Ackerman, Mae Fatto, Allen Frame, Leila Hekmat, Allan MacIntyre, Mariah Robertson, Go Sugimoto, Hannah Whitaker.



More information about the exhibition and about Work Gallery here.

Live From the Audience Illustrations by Robin Hoffman

Live From the Audience documents a selection of memorable performances at the Jalopy Theatre over the past year. Former ballet soloist Robin Hoffman studied Illustration at the School of Visual Arts and settled down to live and work in Brooklyn. She can regularly be found in the audience at Jalopy, with a pencil behind each ear.

Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 6-9 PM

Show runs through January 2, 2010

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

315 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

718-395-3214

Check out Robin's work here.

Chris Domenick at WORK

CHRIS DOMENICK: HIGH TIDE

SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 11, 2009

OPENING SATURDAY SEPT. 26, 2009, 7PM

WORK is pleased to present HIGH TIDE, a solo show of new works by Chris Domenick. The artist's large graphite and marker collages on paper are delicate, exploratory seascapes. Littered amongst likenesses of sunken manufacturing materials and dark gradations of shimmering graphite, a luminous sea life washes over the drawings' imagined ocean floor surfaces.

The appearance of abstraction and loosening of representational space are elements subdued by the subtlely of the artist's expert mark making. Domenick's carefully cast net catches the taut action of these scenes with a sweeping gestural grayscale, sparingly employing dashes of color as bait to lure in a viewer's gaze.
A series of 'high tide artifacts', collage studies in artist frames, accompany the large-scale works. HIGH TIDE is Chris Domenick's first solo show at WORK. He has previously had a one-person show at Jack the Pelican in Brooklyn in 2007 and a two-person show at WORK in 2008.



WORK is also pleased to present A DRIVE-IN 4, with a light show performace by Fluxus artist JEFFREY PERKINS and special guests, Saturday September 26 at 8:30PM in the empty lot across the street from WORK. More details to follow. Please join the artists for an evening of FREE art and entertainment at WORK, 65 Union Street (at Van Brunt), Brooklyn, NY, 11231.

Images from Work's site

Sat, Aug 22: WORK presents "The Breaking Point"

THE BREAKING POINT

AYOTTE - BOONE - O'CONNOR

SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 6PM - 12AM

WORK is pleased to present The Breaking Point, a one-night exhibition of new work by ERIC AYOTTE, MELODY BOONE and RYAN O'CONNOR. Please join the artists for an evening of art, BBQ, spirits, and dance at the red tin shack.

The Breaking Point relates to the moment when the energies of societal conflict shift from being potential to being active. Envisioning the artist as an agent of substantive change, this exhibition investigates how the fragmentation of established order is manifest through the exhibition of painting, video installation and sculpture.

ERIC AYOTTE uses imagery of rioting crowds besieged by tear gas and water cannons as the basis of his heavily charged oil and resin paintings on aluminum. Multiple layers of paint are fragmented by mathematical patterns resembling a camera's lens or an intermittent television signal, referencing the various ways we receive information in our modern mediascape.

MELODY BOONE employs hand-made kaleidoscopes as the platform and context for her multi-media installations. Using images of her own family, Boone creates wallpapers from her video kaleidoscopes, which are mounted and loop endlessly back and forth, enticing the viewer to enter the fragmented interior space.

RYAN O'CONNOR uses the Tomfa, a Japanese martial arts billy club, to construct his Riot Chair. The resulting sculpture is riot gear furniture built with a Shaker aesthetic.

Space 414 presents: You are Standing into Danger

Space 414's newest exhibition is one of twenty-two artists working or living in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood with a functioning waterfront and a complicated history of isolation, violence and corruption.

“You are standing into danger” is a communiqué of the international maritime signal code, denoted by flying alone the flag “U” (pronounced uniform), which appears as a four-square of checkered red and white.

The artists who contribute work to You Are Standing into Danger deliver analogous communiqués, each one built from its own visual language. More than two dozen works of painting, sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, illustration and embroidery mediate the instability that persists between the contents of artwork and the honest and oftentimes horrific confrontations with contemporary life. A nausea emerges from this instability, as the viewer is held in a tenuous balance between beauty and terror.

Shanti Grumbine’s The Unsayable, for example, is a life-size plaster of a nude crouching in prayer. In place of the torso and head, the figure’s innards spill forth in a sensual mess on the floor. The horror of this depiction is sanitized by a logic of the unreal, giving Grumbine's object a macabre beauty.

Astrid Craven's At Sea, on the other hand, is an oil seascape in the moody spirit of J. M. Turner. The residue of a violent confrontation lingers on the horizon, as a plume of black smoke rises from the sea, offsetting an enigmatic swath of deep red in the water.

Curated by Walker Waugh, You Are Standing Into Danger is the third exhibition this summer at Space 414, following Vintage Violence and Disaster Kit, to address the persistence of threat, disaster, survival and the role of the artist as a purveyor of hope against harbingers of fear.

Featuring work by Audrey Anastasi, Joseph Anastasi, Rafael Bueno, Marie-Helene Carleton, Matthew Cox, Astrid Cravens, Layla Delridge, Karni Dorell, Emily Driscoll, Patrick Dunaway, Sean Eno, Micah Garen, Mollie Goldstrom, Shanti Grumbine, Cathrin Hockinson, Joetta Maue, Siobhan McBride, Stuart Nicholson, Susu Pianchupattana, Ryan Russo, J.T. Theodoracopulos, and Harriet Zucker.

Please join the artists for an opening reception and garden party on Friday, August 7 at 7pm. Exhibition runs through September 11, 2009.

For more info check out: www.space414.com

Saturday at WORK: Drive-in III

DRIVE-IN III

GABRIELA VAINSENCHER & SARAH WALKO

SATURDAY 18 JULY 2009, 7PM

WORK presents DRIVE-IN III, an evening of film, music, art, BBQ and spirits on the Red Hook waterfront.

Featuring an installation in the red tin shack and new stop-motion video projected onto parked semi-trailers by GABRIELA VAINSENCHER and SARAH WALKO with VICTOR RUANO. Live music by RYAN BRENNEN, ERIC SCHLAPPI, MEG REICHARDT, KURT HOFFMAN and MATT WHYTE.

Gabriela Vainsencher makes language infused drawings, video and installation. She is currently the Williams College Arthur Levitt Jr. artist-in-residence, Williamstown, MA. She has previously been artist-in-residence at Musee des Beaux Arts, Quebec City, Canada and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. She has had solo shows internationally in Quebec City, Canada and Skien, Norway and in the United States at WORK in Brooklyn, NY in November 2008.

Sarah Walko is a New York-based multi-disciplinary artist. In the artist's own words, she "examines context, connections, patterns, and the web of inter connectivity between self, group and environment." She creates sculptural assemblages which "examine our mortality and a back and forth between decay and preservation and work that contains/collects/preserves while simultaneously giving and disintegrating and is not a precious collection due to the poverty of the materials."