Wintercheck: Furniture From the Back of a Truck

Kristen Wentrcek in her box truck. — Photo courtesy of Wintercheck Factory.

Kristen Wentrcek is a Bushwick-based furniture maker who creates clean and clever designs for her company, Wintercheck Factory. The company’s website lists her titles as…

Summer Wheat: ‘My First Rap Song’

Sometimes you never know what you’ll find in Bushwick. During Bushwick Open Studios, I stumbled upon the work of Summer Wheat — her real name she assured me — and was taken aback by the quality and…

Serious Omissions, but Biennial Brings Focus

Bushwick Biennial logo, NURTUREart banner. — Photos by Hrag Vartanian

Curator Benjamin Evans understands the irony that half a world away in Venice, the art world cognoscenti gathered for the world’s foremost biennial mating ritual known as the…

BOS Retro: Grace Exhibition Space

Recreating Brion Gysin’s “Dream Machine” in John Nicholson’s Studio at Grace Exhibition Space

Nicholson invited me in when I couldn’t help but notice him trying to hallucinate while staring into the strange light construction in his studio. He enlightened…

Bushwick Open Studios Retro: Max Abeles

This sculpture, “040801,” looked like it was ripped from the set of a 1970s sci-fi film — think Logan’s Run. The bizarre form was quite intriguing but with the added zing of technology it was 10x better but not…

Bushwick Open Studios Retro: Ann Oren

Presented at her studio at 117 Grattan St., Ann Oren’s video installation depicts a supervisor with a bullhorn trying to encourage the lazy workers to up their production of some unknown product. Oren plays all the roles in the…

Bushwick’s Art Adoption Agency

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This awesome (and light) sculpture by Ben Godward is available for adoption via Bushwick’s Pocket Utopia.

I wish Pocket Utopia success at supporting a great idea…i.e. to match up artworks and those who…

A Tour of Bushwick Open Spaces 2007

Today’s Open Spaces festival by Arts in Bushwick was a solid attempt at generating a greater sense of community and the one day event was packed full of open studios, gallery shows, performances, video screenings, poetry readings and…

Knickerbocker Mural Paints 400 Feet of History

There’s a new art zine on the scene called ArtCal and in it I review the new major mural that went up in Bushwick.

Incorporating the barrios’ German past, fire filled not-so-distant past, hipster present and still undecided…

Bushwick’s New Art Listing Gods

Gallery hopping in Bushwick on Saturday — yes, you read that right, there are enough galleries now in Bushwick to “gallery hop” — I came across a new arts listing for the barrio curiously called “Gods of Mars.” I’ve…