Instead of mourning your missed opportunism this past Valentine’s Day, head over to the Brooklynite Gallery and check out Kathryn MacNaughton ‘Filthy Rautten’ prints. They make for spanky neat gifts and make walls pretty too.
Brooklynite Presents “Artists Above The Radar”
For their first exhibition of 2010, Brooklynite Gallery opens its space to Houston-born abstract artist Derek Shumate (left) and Dutch “Pop-Fantasy Life” painter Collin Van Der Sluijs (right). Until I get back into the swing of these listings, please try and decipher the gallery’s artspeak for yourselves.
“Artists Above The Radar,” February 13 – March 6th, Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd.
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- M-City and Gaia Mural
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- M-City and Gaia Mural
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- M-City and Gaia Mural
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- M-City and Gaia Mural
Street artist M-City followed up his recent wall painting in Long Island City, putting up a legal mural with Gaia in Bed Stuy. The duo finished stenciling and pasting up their collaborative collage over the last couple days in spite of frigid temperatures. Organized by Brooklynite Gallery and situated down the street, the finished work features some of the artists’ signature styles: bold buildings, birds and gears.
Inspired by the challenge of earning cash in this economic crisis, Brooklynite Gallery is opening an exhibition inspired by “the world’s simplest way to make a living,” shining shoes. “Go Get Your Shinebox” brings together more than a hundred artists, including Skewville, Ben Frost, Miss Bugs, Aiko and Broken Crow, showcasing their cubic works, a “survival box” for getting by. The show opens November 21st and is on view through December 19th at 334 Malcolm X Boulevard. Read more »
Brooklynite Gallery is venturing into Manhattan this summer, opening a pop-up shop in the East Village. The new shop, Brooklynite NYC, will be showing and selling a bunch of prints and pieces of art from the Bed Stuy-based gallery’s coterie of artists and image makers. The grand opening, featuring the release of this Specter print, is tonight from 7 to 9 PM at 632 East 11th Street.
Tomorrow, artist Ben Frost opens “Plague Landscapes,” a show of his twisted pop culture-packed paintings at Brooklynite Gallery. On Sunday, “Sacrosanct” shuts its doors at 1610 Lexington Avenue and 102nd Street with a closing reception in Spanish Harlem. And the Bicycle Film Festival continues through the weekend with the Joyride art show, film screenings, block parties and other festivities.
Australian artist Ben Frost is showcasing new work at the Brooklynite Gallery later this month as part of his “Plague Landscapes” exhibit. It will run from June 20th through July 18 and feature the artist’s latest collection of canvasses that are teeming with highly recognizable, but thoroughly “skewed pop culture imagery.”
The hyper-colorful, “jam packed” work overwhelms, yet leaves you gawking for more or according to the show’s description, is “reminiscent of the the billboards and video screens we are forced to view in a ‘Clockwork Orange’ like fashion everyday—yet far more savory.”
Kid Vandal Promotes Upcoming Art Exhibit
In Brooklyn they start ‘em young. Check out KID WHEAT-PASTE as she slaps up her work on the street for this video promoting an upcoming show at Brooklynite Gallery featuring collaborations between children and a band of contemporary artists such as: Sickboy, Pure Evil, Miss Bugs, Dain, Joe Black, K-Guy, and Ludo. “By Any Means Necessary” opens on May 16th and they even got the kids to do the invites although the gallery notes, that because their only between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5, “child labor laws only allowed us to make 110 pieces.”
‘2 Many Artists’ Are Better Than One
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- “Long Live the King” by Joe Black
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- “Found It and Chagned It” by Joe Black
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- “The Wonderful Repeating Pattern in Art” by Miss Bugs
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- “Lynch the Original Unknown Artist” by Miss Bugs
This past weekend, Brooklynite Gallery opened “2 Many Artists” featuring the work of Joe Black and Miss Bugs, who also dropped a new superhero collage last week. The show pays homage to the many artists and icons that influence and shape their works: Miss Bugs’ collaged and layered silk screens and Joe Black’s assemblages of buttons and legos. The show is on view through May 2 at 334 Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed Stuy. Click the images above for our favorite cut from the pop-culture-drenched display.
Artists Renders Superheroes Fabulous
Captain America, Superman, and Wonder Woman get the Miss Bugs treatment in this triptych print to be released on Thursday the 26th from the image making collager. It drops a few days ahead of her exhibit with found object assembler Joe Black at the Brooklynite Gallery. “2 Many Artists” opens on April 4th and is described as a “public Summit on the infallibility of comic books, fairy tales, and emerging artists – a cut to the core of blue chip art and born-into pop culture.”
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