Schedule of WGA Events
Live Music in WGA Galleries Thursday, June 11, 6-10 pm
Participating galleries: Art 101, Artbreak, Ch’i, Figureworks, Front Room, HQ, Like the Spice, McCaig-Welles, NURTUREart, Slate, and Spread Art.
Opening of The Artlog House Thursday, June 11, 7-8 pm
Artlog takes over the formerly Supreme Trading space at
213 N. 8th St. for an exhibition of interactive video installations accompanied by live music on Thursday & Friday night. Sponsors Indaba Music, Done to Death Projects, and Depaz Rum provide the treats. See below for more information or visit: artlog.com/northside
Williamsburg Every 2nd Friday – Galleries open late
Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
Each Friday during the season, WGA galleries open their doors until 9 pm and host special events. For the last 2nd Friday event of the season, many galleries will have music as part of the Northside Festival. Special events @ 3rd Ward, Art 101, Artbreak, Black & White Project Space, Ch’i, Figureworks, Front Room, Hogar Collection, ISCP, Like the Spice, McCaig-Welles, and Slate.
Every 2nd Friday Afterparty @ My Moon 184 N. 10th St. (b/w Bedford & Driggs) $5 cover
Friday, June 12, 9 pm - 2 am
Drink specials from Northside sponsors Amstel Light! Live music by Hess is More and sets by DJ Japanster and DAF 416. A curated slideshow with work from NURTUREart’s Artist Registry. The kitchen stays open late, so join the WGA at My Moon, one of Williamsburg’s premiere restaurants.
Williamsburg Walks Saturday, June 13, 12-9 pm
This summer, the WGA will share the art of Williamsburg's galleries with the community in one block of WGA programming on Bedford Avenue as part of Williamsburg Walks, with creative programming, such as live music, performance art, installations, gallery booths, public & community art projects, and much, much more.
Crest Fest & the Crest Hardware Art Show
Saturday, June 13, 1 pm all day
The legendary Crest Hardware store on Metropolitan Ave. holds its 8th art show and the first ever Crest Fest in Marci Park (Metropolitan and Union). Proceeds go to the refurbishment of the park. The day will feature live music, DJs, art and design vendors, food, drinks, and the art show. For more information visit: cresthardwareartshow.com.
Participating Galleries:
3rd Ward
195 Morgan Ave. (b/w Meadow and Stagg)
718.715.4961
3rdward.com
"Sex Cells": The arousing intersection between technology and eroticism at 3rd Ward
Everyone’s guilty of a little sexting, but only the brave are willing to step out from behind their cell phones and share their intimate moments with the world. This spring, 3rd Ward asked the public to create and share thought-provoking erotic work using only the abilities of their cellular devices in the nationwide open call Sex Cells. June 12th, we’ll reveal the fruits of their labor (and their loins) with a group show of provocative photos, videos and texts, created with the rosy little palms of people nationwide. So you weren’t willing to be an exhibitionist, but tonight you can indulge in your voyeuristic side. Expect to laugh, gasp and blush.
Events:
Opening reception featuring a live performance by Unicornicopia and DJs all night, Friday, June 12, 7-10 pm. Please RSVP cells@3rdward.com
Moviehouse (an ongoing film series): Sunday, June 14, doors 7 pm, movie 8 pm
Art 101
101 Grand St. (b/w Wythe and Berry)
718.302.2242
art101brooklyn.com
Yolanda Shashaty “New Paintings” - Yolanda Shashaty's atmospheric paintings, mysterious and inviting, evoke the natural world, with an added dimension. In her own words, "My new work combines nature and abstraction…nature for its inspiration and universality and abstraction for the freedom to take nature where I want to go." Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6 pm. On view through June 14
Events:
Live music: Konings Blauw, Thursday, June 11, 7-9 pm
Reception with Yolanda Shashaty: Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
Artbreak
195 Grand St., 2nd Fl. (b/w Bedford and Driggs)
718.302.1021
artbreakgallery.com
Gabriele Undine Meyer “Hazy Days” - German artist Gabriele Undine Meyer presents a year-long photo essay comprised of photo collages produced from over 5800 photos. The series Hazy Days gives a beautiful impression of painting through photography. The images of Light Days are quite transpatent, giving the appearance of light shining through many layers of photographs. Dark Days is a look into the darker side of daily life. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 1-6 pm. On view through June 30
Events:
Live music: Erik Deutsch, Thursday, June 11, 6-9 pm
Live music: Indonesian pop sensation RIO SILAEN, Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
Live music: RIO SILAEN, Sunday, June 14
The Artlog House
Formerly Supreme Trading
213 N. 8th St. (b/w Driggs & Roebling)
artlog.com/northside
Highlighting Brooklyn’s emerging artistic talent, Artlog.com has curated an exhibition of interactive video installations by Dawn of Man, Jason Krugman, Seth Carnes [sic], José Olivares and Eduardo Lytton. Dawn of Man will transform the Artlog House into a virtual orgy of animals with Living Space, an interactive media based collection of projected installations, creating a tameless, playful, and organic environment for partygoers, music fans, and art junkies alike. This is complimented by two other elegant interactive installations, so please, fan Jason Krugman’s flickering Firefly Wind Light System and play with José Olivares and Eduardo Lytton’s ghostly girls in Portrait of a Memory in VHS. The event is in partnership with the Williamsburg Gallery Association, Indaba Music, Done to Death Projects & Depaz Rum.
Events:
Thursday, June 11, 7-8 pm. Opening Reception with drinks by Depaz Rum. Please RSVP at http://artlog.com/member_events/20. Free
Thursday, June 11, 8 pm-4 am. Live music by Sia, JD Samson, Mark Alan Gray, and Alex English. $10
Friday, June 12, 8 pm-4 am. Live music by The Recovery, The Fear and Trembling, Sheik ‘n’ Beik residents Julio+Roman, Re:Solute’s Connie, Basic NYC heads Sleepy & Boo, Memek (of minimoo fame), Biatch Corp. resident Pito, and flawless regular Andrew Vogt. $10
Saturday, June 13, 8 pm-4 am. Free Evening (enjoy music and art installations)
Black and White Project Space
483 Driggs Ave. (b/w N. 9 & 10)
718.599.8775
blackandwhiteprojectspace.org
Alina & Jeff Bliumis “Casual Conversations in Brooklyn" - Casual Conversations in Brooklyn is an anthropological inquiry into Brooklyn’s immigrant communities. Confronted by a radically different reality, these new Americans are bound together by pursuing their American dreams and searching for new identities reflective of their new lives. How does one retain cultural roots while creating a new identity? Casual Conversations in Brooklyn approaches this and other challenging questions in a two-part site-specific installation occupying both the indoor and outdoor gallery spaces. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-6 pm. On view through June 14
Events:
Closing reception: Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
Capricious Space
103 Broadway (b/w Berry and Bedford)
718.384.1208
capriciousspace.com
"We Belong Together" Yale MFA Photography 2009 - Featuring work by: George Awde, Dru Donovan, David La Spina, Justin Leonard, Catherine Maloney, Caitlin Price, Elaine Stocki, and Ka-Man Tse. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5 pm. Special gallery hours for Northside: Saturday-Sunday 12-6 pm.
Events:
Live music: Saturday, June 13 - Zachary Cale (acoustic guitar, vocals)
Live music:
Sunday, June 14 - Jane Herships aka "Spider" (acoustic guitar, vocals)
Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art
293 Grand St. (b/w Roebling and Havemeyer)
718.218.8939
chicontemporaryfineart.com
Joe Mangrum: “New Creations” - Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is excited to present Chrysalis Stage, installation and sculpture by Joe Mangrum, the artist's second solo show at the gallery. Joe's works were most recently featured at the Williamsburg Armory Night, the Conflux Festival, All Points West, and the Mile High Music Festival. In 2007 he was the artist in residence at the De Young Museum in San Francisco and in 2008, one of the artists featured at the opening of the Sunshine Museum in China. Gallery hours: Monday 9-5, Wednesday-Sunday 11-7. On view through July 13
Events:
Thursday, June 11, 6-9 pm – Preview with an artist talk, wine tasting, and music by the voice, tap, and jazz ensemble TrioNada. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm – Come meet artist Joe Mangrum at the gallery as part of 2nd Friday and share some champagne.
Saturday, June 13, 2 pm – Join Ch'I on the WGA block of Bedford Ave. as Joe Mangrum creates one of his spontaneous installations.
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St. (b/w Grand & Hope)
(718)388-2311
cindersgallery.com
Kyle Field and Jessie Rose Vala "Choke Joke / Storm Season" - A 2-person show featuring drawings, paintings and sculptural elements. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1-7 pm. On view through June 28
Figureworks
168 North 6th St. (b/w Bedford and Driggs)
718.486.7021
figureworks.com
"Adolf Dehn at Home and Abroad: Domestic, Foreign, and Other-Worldly Figures" - Figureworks will showcase Adolf Dehn's provocative and sensual watercolors, sketches, and lithographs from his travels to Paris, Vienna, and Berlin from the 1920s to 40s. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6. On view through August 2
Events:
Live Music: Elizabeth Mabon, piano. Thursday, June 11, 7-9 pm
Opening reception: Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
Live Music: Elizabeth Mabon, piano. Sunday, June 14, 2-4 pm
Front Room
147 Roebling St. (b/w Metropolitan & Hope)
718.782.2556
frontroom.org
Melissa Pokorny & Julia Whitney Barnes "Within the Menagerie" - Melissa Pokorny's "homemade cultural probes" are assemblages consisting of quirky casts, found objects, and synthetic building materials. Julia Whitney Barnes's work is often inspired by the evolutionary ability of organisms to adapt to their environment. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6 pm. On view through June 21
Events:
FLOW music event curated by Jeremy Slater and Partick Todd, Thursday & Friday, June 11 & 12, 7-10 pm
Hogar Collection
362 Grand St. (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)
718.388.5022
hogarcollection.com
Damian Catera "The End of History" - Catera will exhibiting his newest 5.1 surround sound installation that algorithmically deconstructs Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D-minor for organ along with sampled and manipulated soundless concert footage on digital flat screen monitors and digital works on paper of manipulated compositional sound scores. Gallery hours: Thursday-Monday, 12-7pm. On view through June 22
Events:
Live performance: Damian Catera, Friday, June 12, 7–10 pm
HQ
236 Grand St. (b/w Driggs & Roebling)
718.418.7182
hqbrooklyn.com
Jonathan VanDyke "Gloved Impediment" - This site-specific installation is a realization of the artist's ongoing impulse to make work that slowly unfolds and changes as it performs for the viewer. The central form of Gloved Impediment is an 8' tall by 25' long canvas, hung just in front of the gallery's main wall, loosely, as if it is a curtain. Behind the canvas, a system of tubes irrigates its surface with highly diluted liquid paint. The piece takes on new colors each day that the show is open to the public, so that each week the canvas will reveal new stains and washes of color. Gallery Hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-7 pm. On view through June 28
Events:
Thursday, June 11th, 6-10 pm: "The Last Waltz On Grand Street" featuring Acoustic performances by Tommy Lee McKean, Rachel A. Mason, Nicole Schneit, Moku Teraoka and Friends, Living Sacrifice, Jess and Shu, GURPS, Guitars, and General Freelove.
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
1040 Metropolitan Ave. (@ Morgan)
718.387.2900
iscp-nyc.org
“On the Tectonics of History” - Andrea Domesle and Martin Krenn have curated a wall installation with reprints of art works by international artists. This exhibition, which has travelled through Europe, exposes the historical traces of the Nazi era in the 1930s and 1940s. The show investigates the way in which imagery continues to shape our understanding of this regime and subsequently reflects on how present day society deals with this time-period. Exhibition catalogue is available. Gallery hours: Saturdays & Sundays 2-6 pm. On view through June 28
Events:
Friday, June 12, 7-10 pm, "Hear Myself In It" with live performances by: Feather and Folly, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Amelia Saul, and Private Time
Jack The Pelican
487 Driggs Ave. (b/w N. 9 & 10)
718.782.0183
jackthepelicanpresents.com
"That Was Then" - Group painting show featuring work by Robin Williams, Sarah Bereza, John Jacobsmeyer, Panni Malek, Tom Costa, and others, offers sumptuous renderings of the new world order. Gallery Hours: Thursday-Monday, 12-6 pm. On view through June 21
Janet Kurnatowski
205 Norman Ave. (@ Humboldt)
718.383.9380
galeriajanet.com
"Inside Abstraction" - Group show curated by Vered Lieb, featuring work by: Srule Brachman, Brice Brown, David Cummings, Scooter Flaherty, Sam Fryer, Chris Martin, Gelah Penn, Michal Shapiro, Kim Uchiyama, Evy Twitchell. Gallery hours: Friday-Saturday 1-7 pm, Sunday 12-6 pm. On view through July 12
The Journal Gallery
168 North 1st (b/w Bedford & Driggs)
718.218.7148
thejrnl.com
Evan Gruzis "Touch of Grey" - In Touch of Grey, his first solo exhibition at The Journal Gallery, Evan Gruzis takes a vacation from his 'New Wave Noir' style - literally. Inspired by a recent trip to Florida, Touch of Grey is a new selection of ink drawings and paintings that lack the stark silhouettes and graphic contrasts of his previous works. Instead the viewer is taken to a strangely tragic version of Margaritaville through his intimate studies of the Florida landscape and oil paintings based on vignettes of tourist T-shirt designs. The subject matter includes foreclosed homes, sunsets, skulls, tropical birds and fruit, ranging from the simply observational, to an exploration of kitsch. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm. On view through June 14.
Like the Spice
224 Roebling St. (b/w S. 2 & 3)
718.388.5388
likethespice.com
Reuben Negron "Dirty Dirty Love" - Negron’s painstakingly-rendered watercolors tell stories. Inspired by true events and by the people who surround him, he fashions intimate narratives about lives that normally go unsung. The stories told reveal a melancholic reality familiar to most yet rarely celebrated. By focusing on the everyday and the mundane, Reuben’s work communicates a universal experience that betrays the aspirations and shortfalls of everyone. Gallery hours: Monday, Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm.
Live music: Philly Bands: Bleep Blop THUD and Alien Architect, Thursday, June 11, 6-10 pm
Sex Toy Party: Friday, June 12, 8-10 pm
Live music: The Sound of Baltimore including Holy Holy Vine, The Exponentials, Sunday, June 14, 2-6 pm
McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling St. (b/w N. 4 & 5)
718.384.8729
mccaigwelles.com
Zonenkinder Collective "Bambule" - A gallery-wide installation and exhibition of artworks by the Zonenkinder Collective. The term “Bambule“ derives from the german argot and is traditionally used to describe a form of protest practiced by prison inmates – drumming with different objects, like spoons, inside jail cells to articulate resistance. Through murals, paintings and installations, the Zonenkinder Collective will transform the gallery into a visual epic meant to transport the viewer in to the peculiarity of their world and into the radicalism of their worldview. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-7, Saturday-Sunday 12-7 pm. On view through June 28
Events:
Live music: Plates of Cake, A Fermata, Thursday, June 11, 8-10 pm
Live music: Superpower, The Brian Wilson Shock Treatment, Friday, June 12, 7-10 pm
Momenta Art
359 Bedford Ave. (b/w S. 4 & 5)
718.218.8058
momentaart.org
Hunter Reynolds "Real Love: Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hunter" - In conjunction with his exhibition, Reynolds will present a remote story-telling/conversation performance via Skype and a mini-documentary covering the destruction of his Florida studio and his salvage efforts that transformed the wreckage into a testament of survival. Gallery hours: Thursday-Monday 12-6 pm. On view through June 15
Events:
Hunter Reynolds performance via Skype: Sunday, June 14, 12-6 pm
NURTUREart
910 Grand Street (b/w Olive & Catherine)
718.782.7755
nurtureart.org
"The Bushwick Biennial" -
Within the past few years, the neighborhood of Bushwick has made its way onto the radar of the New York art scene. As condos continue to replace studio space in Williamsburg and other New York neighborhoods, artists are migrating to Bushwick in search of large airy warehouses. Independent gallery and exhibition spaces, eschewing the capitalist-driven Chelsea and Upper East Side models, have followed with a more earnest goal in mind: showing emerging and local artists. Curated by Benjamin Evans of NURTUREart, Chris Harding of English Kills, Austin Thomas of Pocket Utopia, and Jill McDermid of Grace Exhibition Space, the Bushwick Biennial is a collaborative project that explores the artistic growth and talent that is flourishing in Bushwick and East Williamsburg.
Events:
Live music: DJ Mayonnaise Hands and Albert Shelton, with possible other musical guests. Thursday, June 11, 6-9 pm
Parker’s Box
193 Grand St. (b/w Bedford and Driggs)
718.388.2882
parkersbox.com
Steven Brower "BPL Mission 003 Pre-Launch Operations Test (PLOT) and Bake Sale!" - Our new project is by the Brooklyn artist, Steven Brower who is known for his work involving the aerospace industry, in recent years incarnated in his "dwarf" aerospace company: Brower Propulsion Laboratory. BPL's next mission will have a pre-launch presentation at Parker's Box, opening June 5th, and with special events during the Northside Festival! Gallery hours: Friday-Monday, 1-7 pm. On view through June 21
Events:
Saturday & Sunday, June 13 & 14: equipment testing, launching, and other important antics.
Pierogi
177 N 9th St
718.599.2144
pierogi2000.com
William Lamson "Work and Trade" - Lamson's exhibition of recent video, installation, and drawing features three projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system through collaboration with forces outside of his control. In all of the works, Lamson intervenes with natural forces and cultural systems in ways that question the artist’s agency. Drawings are made, objects are exchanged, and things are collected, but in all of these events the artist works with forces outside his control, be they wind, gravity, or visitors to a gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11-6. On view through June 21
The Boiler
191 N 14th St
718.599.2144
pierogi2000.com
Jonathan Schipper "Irreversibility" - An exhibition of recent sculpture and installation including: Measuring Angst, a beer bottle which is thrown across a forty-five foot room, smashes against a wall and attempts to reassemble itself; and The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle (exhibited in New York for the first time), a live, head-on collision which takes place in slow motion over the course of the exhibition. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11-6. On view through June 28
Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Avenue
(718) 486-8180
sideshowgallery.com
Gallery Hours: Friday–Monday: 12–6pm
Slate Gallery
136 Wythe Ave. (b/w N. 8th and N. 9th)
718.387.3921
slategallery.com
Dorothy Robinson: “Continental Drift” - A solo exhibition of new abstract paintings inspired by the beauty of landscapes, their underlying geographic processes, and physics. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6 pm. On view through June 14
Events:
Live music: Ellery Marshall & Micah Keren-Zvi, Thursday, June 11, 7-9 pm
Live music: Ellery Marshall & Micah Keren-Zvi, Friday, June 12, 7-9 pm
Artist talk with Dorothy Robinson, Friday, June 12, 7:45 pm
Works by Mr. Imagination on view at the Slate booth on Bedford Ave. as part of Williamsburg Walks, Saturday, June 13
Crash and Daze “Works on Paper” Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-6 pm
Events:
Opening reception: Friday, June 12th, 6-9 pm
Sponsor Galleries:
AG Gallery
107-A N. 3rd St. (b/w Wythe and Berry)
718.599.3044
aboutglamour.net
“Your Own Fairy Tale” - AG Gallery is pleased to announce their annual Open Call Group Exhibition. This year’s theme is “Fairly Tale” and artists created narratives to express their own fairy tale worlds. Featuring work by: Audrey Hasen Russell, Cynthia Ruse, Joshua Field, Lisa Olson, Roland Lusk, Wei-Hui Hsu, and Yura Osborn. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 2-10 pm, Saturday 12-10 pm, Sunday 12-8 pm. On view through June 21.
Gitana Rosa
19 Hope St. (b/w Roebling and Havemeyer)
718.387.0115
gitanarosa.com
Tom Bob “The Manhattan Project” - Exhibiting paintings and drawings created throughout Manhattan expressing the energy, color, moods, and emotions of past, present, and future worlds. Gallery hours: Friday-Monday, 12-6 pm. On view through July 6
Spread Art
104 Meserole St. (b/w Leonard and Manhattan)
347-526-2737
spreadart.org
“Improvisation” - Spread Art's Summer group show explores the theme of improvisation. Featuring work by: Heather Garland, Christina deRoos, Micheal Mandel, Irina Adam, Thomas Bell, Avoid Pi, Katharine Ng. Gallery hours in June: Sataday-Sunday, 12-6 pm. On view through June 20
Events:
Thursday, June 11, 6-11 pm: Opening reception, CD release celebration for Oxygen Music Collective's "Ten Years," Live music by The Tronic, the newest group from Oxygen Music Collective
Sunday, June 14, 2-4 pm: Artist Bruch Series @ Mojito Loco (next door to the gallery)
Center for Perfomance Research
361 Manhattan Ave. (b/w Jackson & Withers)
718.349.1210
cprnyc.org
Mathew Pokoik "Simulacrum, Signs, and Stacks" - Pokoik's photography explores representation, illusion, and
language. It takes as its subject the global consumer society and the mirror world that culture creates. Mathew Pokoik divides his time between New York City and the Catskill Mountains where he and his wife (choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke) founded and direct Mount Tremper Arts, a center for contemporary
performance and visual art. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6 pm. On view through June 14.
Events:
Closing reception: Friday, June 12, 6-9 pm
