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EXHIBITION: What Possessed You. OPENING Friday, May 10th, 6-9pm
Molly Lowe, Cycle, video still
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MAY 10th FROM 6-9PM
EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 10 - JUNE 7, 2013
Perhaps the most distinguishing trait that separates human from animal is the compulsion to express the soul within, and to give it form. Could this be the reason art exists? The six artists included in What Possessed You deal with the mysterious, amorphous, and untouchable powers felt within us. Each are offering a contemporary response to ritualistic traditions from places and subject matter as far afield as Trinidad and Tobago, the Appalachian Mountains, Middle America, the Southern Bible Belt, and mythology.
Jonathan Durham uses his work to explore subjects of faith, violence, doubt, humor and the body as a sculptural application. For What Possessed You, Durham presents Pentecostal church footage of various incredible feats of faith, all of which he has edited into a trance-like loop.
With a simultaneously pointed and absurdist tone, Ben Fain’s work confronts culture head on. Using parade floats, film, and sculpture he examines the complications, prohibitions, and institutional contradictions operating within social spaces and contexts. His new work using logos from huge corporations like Starbucks and Whole Foods keenly bridges resistance and submission to the brand. He re-imagines the polished multi-national logos as home-made, even primitive symbols. In doing so, Fain is investigating the modern act of high-end consumption as a way to fulfill social, political and philanthropic desires.
Gigi Gatewood is a searcher, an open eye. Her interest in religion, science and magic leads her to explore the “space that exists somewhere between reality and the imaginary.” This pursuit most recently brought her on a Fulbright Grant to explore the multiple religions and uniquely mixed culture found on the Islands of Trinidad and Tobago. What Possessed You marks the first presentation of her work from that trip.
Using a natural palette, raw materials and intuitive formalism, JR Larson’s work has an intense energy and presence. Larson uses many materials that exist within our own bodies, and so an encounter with his work can elicit a physical response, a recognition.
Through sculpture, installation, costume, performance and video, Molly Lowe reveals uncanny relationships between everyday objects, organic materials, and interiors both in and outside the body. Lowe’s work Cycle, presented here, uses deconstructed narratives and a strong aesthetic sense of light and color, to produce evocative imagery of a myth-like, paganesque allegory.
For George Terry, an artistic pursuit is no different than a holy endeavor. For him, “studio practice” has become an adult metonym for what “play” was as a child. It is this aspect of play that keeps his practice vital. He feels that it’s important to open up his brain and just let things fall out.
Please join us for the opening reception of What Possessed You, Friday, May 10th from 6-9pm. The reception will be taking place during a special Gallery Night event in Greenpoint. For more information on this event, go here: greenpointgalleries.org
What Possessed You is on view from May 10th to June 7th, 2013. The exhibition is on view by appointment. Contact us here to make an appointment: info@fowlerprojectspace.org
Fowler Nation: Tommy Kwak
Fowler studio artist, Tommy Kwak, will be included in two upcoming group exhibitions. Preview more of his work here: tommykwak.com
1. Brooklyn Prints at St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery
Curated by Maribeth Flynn.
Exhibition Opening: Wed. March 13 from 5:30-8pm
Exhibition Dates: March 12 - May 1, 2013
Gallery Hours: Wed, 5-7 pm and Sat, 12-3 pm
Alumni Room Gallery, Tuohy Hall
245 Clinton Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11205
2. Red Show at Village @ Gureje. Website
Exhibition Opening: 6-9pm Saturday, March 16th
Exhibition Closing: 6-8pm Thursday, April 11
Village @ Gureje
886 Pacific Ave (btwn Washington and Underhill)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
EXHIBITION DATES: MARCH 22 - APRIL 1, 2013
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Rocking on Empty an exhibition of work by New York artist, Hyun Jung Cho.
In her work, Hyun appropriates and repurposes found objects and everyday cultural ephemera such as tires, guitar picks, and chains and assigns them new, idiosyncratic meanings. She inscribes her works with catchy, self-devised phrases such as “Rocking on Empty,” “YA YA YA,” or “Hunky Funky Junky.” Most recently, Hyun has been making sculptural assemblage using discarded mechanical parts and other found objects combined with rock and roll memorabilia. She reconfigures and manipulates these elements until they have a new vitality while still referencing nostalgia in a slightly disorienting and playful way. Hyun’s improvisational works aim to reflect the living streets and situations that provided her sculptural materials and objects.
South Korean-born Hyun is a New York based artist who received her BFA with Honors from Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia, in 2009. She obtained an MFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 2012 and has exhibited in New York City and Australia. Most recently, Hyun’s work has been featured at Apt16 Artspace in Newark, NJ, Parsons the New School’s 25 East Gallery, and The Kitchen in Chelsea. For more information on the artist, go here: hunkyfunkyjunky.com
Please join us for Rocking on Empty’s opening reception on Friday, March 22nd from 7-9 pm. The exhibition will be on view from March 22 - April 1, 2013, and can be viewed by appointment. Contact us here to make an appointment.
Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop. Our address is: 67 West Street, Unit 216, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Morph exhibition opening tonight!! Sat., Feb. 16th from 7-9pm. Don’t miss it! Performance by JIT Real and lotsa awesome artwork.
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Morph, a group exhibition curated by Alicia DeBrincat and Jade Yumang of eleven artists working in the mediums of photography, sculpture, performance, installation, video, and painting.
Morph investigates the body as a conduit for different artistic and theoretical strategies, revealing the body’s fundamental role in comprehending our sense of self. Working across diverse mediums, these artists approach the body as raw material. They adapt it at will in order to explore identity, gender, religion, technology, disease, and the body’s role within the social matrix. The body is reduced to nothing more permanent than a modifiable facade, which can be constantly changed and morphed to resist or compliment outside forces.
In Dean Dempsey’s Bound, part of his In the Dark series, historical and future narratives are collapsed into staged photographs where the body is altered to exist in a liminal space. Collaborative duo, Sara Jimenez and Kaitlynn Redell encapsulate and perform “inbetweenness” as a space where identity is fluidly determined with other bodies and the environment through a video performance in Negotiating Bounds.
Continuing her investigation of gender binaries through Kuwaiti garments in The Abaya Series, Dalal Ani offers new sculptural and photographic documentations of performance that blend female and male garments into an indistinguishable creature that navigates public and private domains. In Mirror Stage, Kreerath Sunittramat represents a transgendered moment by employing street portrait artists in NYC’s Times Square to draw his portrait while shirtless, donning a skirt and holding various items that suggest breasts as he endures the winter cold.
In her new painting series, Post-Medical Eden, Alicia DeBrincat explores and captures fleeting occurrences where bodies willfully deviate from the norm and seek out modes of interaction while opening up a generative space of play, exploration, and resistance to societal mandates . In NRML, JIT Real exploits and defies aesthetic hedonism and pop culture as the trio gender bends their way through a concoction of music, visuals, construction, and performance, hypnotizing audiences to a chaotic trance.
Jade Yumang generates his own accounts of queer folklore through his compulsive repetitive manipulation of materials visualizing the queer form. He presents a new sculpture, Backward! March!, where he dismantles a military jacket and impregnates it with an excess amount of fake flowers and erect seersucker appendages. In Lavar Munroe’s Of a Lesser People According to Tyler, deities are created to conjure up and reclaim negative stereotypes of black culture through a Bahamian and American lens. Munroe transforms detritus materials, such as cardboard, into beautiful mythological gods and goddesses that challenge racial and class discrimination.
Please join us for Morph’s opening reception on Saturday, Feb. 16th from 7-9 pm. During the opening, there will be a durational performance by JIT Real. The exhibition will be on view from February 11th to 28th, 2013, and can be viewed by appointment. Contact us here to make an appointment. For more information on the artists and exhibition, go here: morphshow.tumblr.com
Image credit: Bound by Dean Dempsey, 2012
EXHIBITION OPENING: SAT., NOV. 10th, 7-10PM.
RSVP ON FACEBOOK.
EXHIBITION DATES: NOV. 10 - 18, 2012
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Eye Candy an exhibition of 25 illustrators sponsored by the Society of Illustrators during NYC’s Illustration Week 2012.
They know it’s wrong, but they love it anyway. Eye Candy presents 25 young illustrators who have pulled back the shades to reveal their secret guilty pleasures of life in NYC. With common threads of industry and age, each artist is making waves in the illustration community. Their commissioned work ranges from editorial to poster design to comics and more, and their futures in the field seem bigger than the city they live in. Out of their comfort zones and on display, the illustrators have created a personal narrative of a single lowbrow for your viewing pleasure. Eye Candy.
Exhibiting Artists: Wesley Allsbrook, Elizabeth Baddeley, Jonathan Bartlett, Chi Birmingham, Sam Wolfe Connelly, Exit Deer, Johnny Dombrowski, Jensine Eckwall, Jeremy Enecio, Jared Fiorino, Daniel Fishel, Nick Iluzada, Tara Jacoby, John Malta, Keith Negley, Robyn Ng, Victo Ngai, Tae Querny, Matt Rota, Ross Schaner, Dadu Shin, Kim Sielbeck, Kyle Stecker, Skip Sterling, and Katie Turner.
Please join Fowler for the opening reception of Eye Candy on Saturday, Nov. 10th from 7-10pm. The exhibition can be viewed by appointment. Contact us here to view the exhibition.
Eye Candy is part of NYC’s Illustration Week 2012 and sponsored by the Society of Illustrators.
Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop. Our address is: 67 West Street, Unit 216, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
Call for postcard-sized works! Fowler Arts Collective December exhibition and fundraiser.
Fowler Arts Collective is putting out a call for art for our upcoming December exhibition. We are asking artists, writers, and designers to send postcard sized works in any medium.
Postcards can come off the wall (like a fold-out book) or can be writing, a real letter, a photograph, a drawing, anything! Be sure to send me your full name, title (if applicable), your website or email, and the price. Also, include contact information in case your postcard sells or if I need to send it back to you. We will photograph every postcard and put it up on the Fowler website.
The event will coincide with a Greenpointers.com holiday market that will be happening in From the Source downstairs from our space on Dec. 8th. We will also be celebrating Fowler’s 2 year (and two month) birthday with revelry and a raffle of fabulous prizes from local businesses! A percentage of the proceeds from the opening night events will go towards Sandy relief efforts in Brooklyn.
Details: Send as many postcards as you want! Framing not required.
Due date: Dec. 4th, 2012
Pricing: The postcards can be priced at $20, $30, $40, or $50. The artist gets 50% if the work sells… (woohoo!)
Size: The standard postcard size is 4”x6”, but you can be flexible as long as the size stays under or around 5”x7”
Send to:
Fowler Arts Collective
67 West Street, #216
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Can’t wait to see your postcards! Contact fowlerartsbrooklyn [at] gmail.com with any questions.
**image from Charles Simic article “The Lost Art of Postcard Writing”
Check out a slideshow of our current exhibition, Getting It. You can also view the images here. This awesome exhibition was curated by Maia Stern and Cal Siegel and includes artists Marnie Briggs, Rich Erickson, Austin Lee, Paul Richardson, and Cal Siegel.
The exhibition is up in the gallery until November 4th, and is viewable
by appointment. Come visit soon!
For more information on the exhibition and artists, go here: http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/GettingIt.html
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH FROM 7-10PM. RSVP ON FACEBOOK.
EXHIBITION DATES: OCT. 12 - NOV. 4, 2012
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Getting It, an exhibition curated by Maia Stern and Cal Siegel. Getting It includes new work by artists Marnie Briggs, Rich Erickson, Austin Lee, Paul Richardson, and Cal Siegel.
Getting It presents a seemingly disparate group of artists hell-bent on dousing the corrosive flames of irony and cynicism with honesty. The work is brought together by a collective ache for locating the jagged seam between tragedy and humor with the intent of tearing it wide open. Using levity as a basic access point, the work exposes itself on a universal level while simultaneously functioning as a deeply personal moment. The concept of “use less-ness” permeates throughout with a group obsession in gestural prudence. Not to be confused with “laziness,” this focus per square inch makes for a much more potent image. After all, we can agree as a team that it is the job of the artist to simplify the complicated, while the reciprocal action is left to the critic. Got it?
For more information on this talented group of artists and the exhibition, click on these links: Marnie Briggs, Rich Erickson, Austin Lee, Paul Richardson, and Cal Siegel
Please join Fowler for the opening reception of Getting It on Friday, Oct. 12th from 7-10pm. The exhibition can be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5pm and by appointment.
Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop. Our address is: 67 West Street, Unit 216, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
This exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
EXHIBITION OPENING: Friday, Sept. 7th from 7-10pm
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Odd Job, an exhibition of new work by artists Ted Carey, Jacob Goudreault, and Simon Slater. Painting in the 21st century is an odd job. With no rules or boundaries, how does one beat a path to new possibilities? Each exhibiting artist addresses this question in their own way, but shares an underlying strategy of poking around in little-noticed or neglected corners of painting culture.
Manipulating painting language with materials only occasionally including paint, Ted Carey melds painting and sculptural traditions to exploit and question our cognitive tic of finding representation in abstraction. Jacob Goudreault’s work addresses the painting support and its construction, redirecting our attention backward to focus on the process that precedes what we traditionally conceive as creative activity. Uber-Modernist critic Clement Greenberg believed each artistic medium was evolving toward an ultimate purity, and in Simon Slater’s work this vision achieves its absurdist apotheosis. Slater eliminates the use of any support, inventing methods to make paintings composed purely of paint.
For more information on the exhibition and to read the full exhibition essay by Daniel Gerwin, please go to: http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/OddJob.html
Please join Fowler for the opening reception of Odd Job on Friday, Sept. 7th from 7-10pm. The exhibition can be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm and by appointment. The exhibition runs from Sept. 7 to 30, 2012.
Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop. Our address is: 67 West Street, Unit 216, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
This exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
So, I’m late with posting these photos, but they are of a gorgeous exhibition! Check out our gallery’s May 2012 exhibition, Weather-Eye, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by James Vanderberg that accompanied the release of a book of poetry by Peter Vanderberg.
Go here for more information on the Vanderberg brothers and the exhibition: http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/WeatherEye.html
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Space Half Empty, co-curated by James Vanderberg, Keighty Alexander and Elizabeth Grammaticas. Space Half Empty features the work of 14 Fowler artists and highlights the unique influence the collective has had on these artists and their work. From the collaborative energy that comes from working in close proximity to other artists to the unique character of the studio’s historic warehouse building, this nearly two-year-old collective has had a particular influence on each exhibiting artist’s work. Go here for more information on the artists and exhibit: http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/spaceHalfempty.html
The exhibition and reception coincide with the kickoff of Northside Art: Open Spaces, a part of the Northside Festival, which will continue through the weekend at various art spaces in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Fowler artists and studio artists throughout the building at 67 West will be participating in Northside’s open studios day on Sunday, June 17th from 12-6pm. Follow the signs and lights posted in the hallways of the building to explore the amazing work that is being done in this unique building. For more information on the weekend of events go here: http://www.northsidefestival.com/art
The past two years have seen the building at 67 West St. and the surrounding industrial landscape of the Greenpoint waterfront revitalized with new life. 67 West’s purpose has repeatedly shifted over the years, but the building’s identity has never fully transformed. Cleats that were used to braid rope so long ago are still visible on the building’s many timber pillars, and coffee beans are still found in tiny crevasses between planks of the ancient wooden floors. These remnants of the past serve as constant reminders that the building will never fully belong to its present inhabitants. It is these blips and traces of 67 West’s long lifetime that have inspired Fowler’s studio artists in Space Half Empty and that will be on view during the open studios event on Sunday. Please come visit us, explore this amazing building, and enjoy beautiful views of Manhattan across the East River!
Please join us for the opening reception of Space Half Empty on Friday, June 15th from 7-10pm. Space Half Empty will be on view from June 15 to July 15, 2012. The exhibition can be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays from 12-5pm and by appointment.
Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop. Our address is: 67 West Street, Unit 216, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
This exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Weather Eye, a collaborative exhibition of paintings and poetry by two brothers, James Vanderberg, a Brooklyn based artist, and Peter Vanderberg, a poet from Long Island. The exhibition opens Saturday, May 26th from 6-9pm.
The exhibition presents drawings, paintings and poems inspired by the coasts and waters of Long Island, where the Vanderberg’s grew up. James’s semi-abstract drawings and paintings allude to bay reeds, red skies, oyster shells and refracted summer sun through water. His series of knot drawings explore the context of a line both physical and drawn. Peter’s poems engage the same physical environment while also giving voice to the metaphysical currents at play there. Many of the works by the brothers were mutually inspired. Poems give voice to paintings; paintings illuminate poems and a multi-dimensional portrait of the Great South Bay is offered.
For more information, and to view sample poems and images from the book, please visit: weather-eye.blogspot.com.
Please join us for Weather Eye’s opening reception on Saturday, May 26th from 6-9 pm. There will be a poetry reading and discussion with the authors from 7-8pm during the reception. Weather Eye will be on view from May 26th to June 3rd, 2012. The exhibition can be viewed by appointment. Contact us here to make an appointment.
Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop. Our address is: 67 West Street, Unit 216, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
This exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
