The exhibition in the back room of A.I.R. Gallery‘s new space in Dumbo feels like a cross between a temple and an archaeological site. The objects in Sara Mejia Kriendler‘s The Anthropocene have a devotional, votive aura to them that is emphasized by their arrangement and lighting, but many are also cracked or smashed, displayed like curios from some perplexing civilization on shelves, styrofoam platforms, or behind glass.
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The lion’s share of the art galleries in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, long housed along a hallway on the second floor of 111 Front Street, will move this spring. Two Trees Management, the real estate company that owns many of the buildings in the neighborhood, including 111 Front Street, will provide new spaces for most of the galleries in storefront locations along Plymouth Street and in the former Galapagos Art Space building. The moves are due to happen in late April and early May.
Whither Dumbo Arts Center?
Dumbo Arts Center in 2009, at its former Washington Street space
Examining the Video’s Gaze at this Year’s Video_Dumbo
Opening night of video_dumbo (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)
After a year’s…
When I first saw it in November, I was immediately inclined to bemoan the fact that Deborah Kass‘s canary yellow public sculpture “OY/YO,” installed on the Brooklyn waterfront in Dumbo, will not be there permanently. I’m apparently not alone in feeling this way, as someone recently launched a petition calling on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to make it permanent. But perhaps its temporary nature is for the best. Perhaps it’s too of the moment, its alternate readings articulating all too perfectly the city’s current pecking order of interborough coolness — “Yo, welcome to Brooklyn!” and “Oy, you’re not reallythinking of going into Manhattan, are you?” Maybe it’s too perfect a prop for selfies, punctuating postcard views of Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge, or glowing against the manicured grittiness of Dumbo’s cobblestone canyons.
Yo, Make Deborah Kass’s Public Sculpture in Brooklyn Permanent!
From last weekend’s Dumbo Arts Festival, we spotted this on the waterfront:
Fort Makers, “Lawn Quilt: Spiral” (2013)
The street artist Craig Anthony Miller is suing the real estate developer Toll Brothers for using a mural he painted in Dumbo, Brooklyn, to market a nearby condo development. Miller, known by his tag “CAM,” claims in court documents that a “very recognizable” portion of the large mural — which he painted with fellow members of the 303 Collective — was featured in advertisements for the Toll Brothers project 205 Water Street in New York City subways, on bus shelters, on phone booths, and in a newspaper advertisement in 2012, according to the New York Post.
(via Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future)
Artist Saya Woolfalk has created a little utopian hive of serenity in the large front gallery of the Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Her installation resembles the laboratories of science fiction, where hybrid humans are suspended as if they are hanging out to dry after being churned out of a machine.
(via Artists Probe Urban Agriculture)
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there’s also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism. FOODshed: Agriculture and Art in Action, curated by Amy Lipton, opened last month at Smack Mellon in Dumbo, has 14 New York-based artists examining what we eat.
