ART + ARCHITECTURE 2011
A group art exhibition and performance event featuring emerging Brooklyn artists, performers and musicians.
LOCATION: Gowanus Ballroom at Serett Metalworks, 55 9th Street, Building 61, Brooklyn
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 8th, 6pm-12am
DATES: Friday, April 8th through April 17th.
Art + Architecture 2011, a diverse and multidisciplinary exhibition comprised of works that examine, question, or outright challenge everyday interpersonal and contextual relationships.
Through the integration of a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance and works on paper, the installation weaves a wide ranging fabric of form and style, which envelops the immense Gowanus Ballroom and transforms the space into a thoroughly interactive experience. This affords both artist and audience a chance to dismantle and construct anew one’s perceived environment. By alternately reinforcing and undermining the suppositions defining social and physical arrangements, the exhibition implores participants to reexamine the boundaries delineating self.
More information about the artists and performers, including a schedule of daily performances can be found online at gowanusballroom.com.
The event stretches across two weekends and four nights of ongoing performances. There will be a small fee during performances to help support the artists, and a bar on weekend nights.
FLOWERS
The amazing Tracy Morford shot this photo for a group show happening later this week. The theme was flowers.
If you live in NYC, come by the event at Max Fish this Wednesday and buy this print or a painting from some great tattoo artists.
think long
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
Oh, What a Night
Chet Baker is perfect rainy day music.
Right Now
The Obama Administration is considering a deal with Republicans to give up key EPA pollution safeguards in order to gain cooperation on passing a government funding bill.
The President can’t sacrifice the health of us and our communities. He must not succumb to Big Oil and Coal and their cronies in Congress.
Email President Obama and tell him you’re disappointed that he’d ever consider putting the EPA and our health protections on the chopping block.
It’s time for change.
SAMO©
SAMO© Graffiti appeared in New York at the end of the Seventies to the beginning of the Eighties, in two phases. The second phase was solo work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The first phase was an anonymous effort by the team of Basquiat, Al Diaz, and Shannon Dawson. Basquiat was the team’s driving force. Flynt photographed the first phase, taking the photos in 1979 without knowing who the graffitists were. When Flynt first exhibited his portfolio, he got to know Diaz and Dawson, and was able to cross-check the authorship of every graffito.
Basquiat had the idea for SAMO© when he and Diaz were students in High School. Diaz was a graffiti veteran, having had a tag published in a book on graffiti in 1974.
The collective graffiti employed anonymity to seem corporate and engulfing. The tone was different from the morose and abject tone of Basquiat’s solo work. The implication was that SAMO© was a drug that could solve all problems. SOHO, the art world, and Yuppies were satirized with Olympian wit. Site-specific as the piece was, it is enhanced by the rich tropical colors that materialize in the photos.
Photography by Henry Flynt
Better Than Heaven
Get into it.
