BOS09
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 intensity of her work.
Her paintings struck me at first as a type of painterly macrame, which seem to hover on the surface of more conventional abstract canvases. The three-dimensional layer of paint creates a net-like form and often incorporates words that evoke race, ...
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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 ... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Edouard Nardon
Sometimes, the contents of a freezer can be dreadful -- other times, they can be enlightening. The outcome depends on your religious views... -
BOS Profile: 'Draw' at Norte Maar
"Draw: Vasari Revisited or a Sparring of Contemporary Thought" was the exhibition on view in the beautifully renovated storefront gallery space on Wyckoff Avenue... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Stephen Truax
In the hallway connecting his railroad "wings" were prints of "photo errors" taken in Italy and India -- the technical process of which I was quickly told is a secret...
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Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Mary Judge
Part of the reason I visited Mary Judge up on St. Nicholas Avenue was because so many people told me I had to just so that I could see her studio... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Jake Messing
Jake Messing likes to paint dark, decaying urban and industrial landscapes, but enjoys dipping into different styles when he gets bored... -
BOS: 'Gods of Mars' at English Kills
Taking its title from the Burrough's Basroom, "The Gods of Mars" at English Kills is a solid group show with video, installation art, and some really massive paintings... -
BOS: Pass Kontrol and Eastern District
At Eastern District on Bogart, Pass Kontrol played one of it's sexiest shows yet, among the work of photographer Justine Reyes... -
BOS Profile: Jennifer Slavin Harris
One of the best parts of BOS is seeing how artists live and the ways they set up their work spaces -- something that makes Jennifer Slavin Harris a bit nervous... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Vicious/Delicious
Putting Vicious/Delicious, the show for the Brooklyn College MFA 2009 Thesis Exhibition, up during BOS ensured maximum foot-traffic for this class of graduates... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Deborah Brown
Deborah Brown's sunny Stockholm street painting studio was our second stop of the day Saturday and it ranked as one of my favorites of the weekend... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Cream Studios
For me, the highlight of BOS was discovering Cream Studios at 238 Melrose Street: not a gallery, not a home, just several artists sharing a work space... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Stephen Workman
Stephen Workman's fascinating figure drawings and paintings stood out from the crowd. His love for the human form seems to flow unconsciously through his hands... -
Bushwick Open Studios Profile: Sandra Jogeva
The art on display wasn’t completely obvious during Sandra Jogeva's installation, “Human Touch, Divine Touch,” at Grace Exhibition Space... -
