‘Visual Arts’ Archives
Trash Transformed into Eco-Art at NY Studio Gallery
America produces about 250 million tons of trash per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s enough garbage to cover the state of Texas two and a half times. For a new exhibit at the NY Studio Gallery in the Lower East Side called “Trash,” four artists created work that highlights our waste production by repurposing or [...]
YouTube as Fine Art
In the latest high art/pop culture mash-up, the Guggenheim and YouTube have joined forces to create an exhibit that celebrates and examines online video. This weekend, the museum announced the twenty winning videos for the installation “YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video.” The videos were culled from more than 23,000 submissions from [...]
In the Studio: Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed has mapped out her life. Literally. The 41-year-old Arab American painter and writer uses cartography to document and express the cultural markers of her life. The maps she draws are based on concrete locations – Egypt, New Jersey, New York City – but the markers are pure feelings. With a calming blue-green palette and humorous [...]
Artisan Boutique Brooklyn Collective Finds There’s No Place Like Home
“This is a realization of the last six years,” says Rachel Goldberg, looking around. Paintings and photographs hang on the walls around her. Next to her, a wooden table is neatly covered with hand drawn cards and small pieces of art. A few racks of women’s clothing and screen-printed t-shirts sit near the back wall. Armoires and shelves [...]
Elastic City Art Walks Unveil A Multi-Sensory City Landscape
Todd Shalom wants you to walk down Carroll Street with your eyes closed. He wants you to write poems in the sand at Brighton Beach. He wants to stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge with you, marveling at the worn planks and angled wires. He wants you to experience this great city in a whole new way. Living in New York City, it's easy to take our [...]
Art World Networking in the Digital Age
The sheer volume of emerging artists producing new art in our great borough is impressive, if daunting, especially for the recent art school grad competing to get their work noticed. For decades, artist registries (think massive volumes of slides and mission statements) have existed as neutral playing fields where artists can catalog and display [...]
Painting Like Pollock on the Coney Island Boardwalk
A lot has gone down on the boardwalk in Coney Island, that's for sure, but how about a woman painting circles with her wheelchair or a guy diving onto a slip-n-slide full of paint? This past weekend those were just two of the unique ways Brooklynites helped create ten large scale abstract paintings as part of an interactive performance art event [...]
Urban Society Through Abstract Art
Two years ago, Alex White Mazzarella was living in Hong Kong, working as a city planner. Now, he is a Brooklyn-based abstract artist, showing regularly in the city and selling to collectors in Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, and across the States. And he has his former boss to thank. "One day I handed my boss a proposal for a planning project, [...]