Holiday ArtBUZZ: November 20 – December 3, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21^st, 7-10pm

 

A group show and auction featuring over one hundred international artists and their respective visual articulations of what a shoeshine box represents to them. In the gallery’s words:

 

“These objects, our inspiration, have all been created out of necessity- a need to earn money, or further, to survive. We push ‘the need to survive’ beyond its literal context, commissioning our favorite established and emerging artists to design their own, ’survival boxes.’”

 

 

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 22^nd, 4-6pm

 

Artist Navin June Norling’s site-specific installation combines painting, sculpture, windows, and performance art to create an unconventional, constantly changing billboard.

 

Opening Reception: Friday, November 20^th, 7-10pm

 

“Vomir Des Yeux,” which translates into “puking eyeballs” marks the first U.S. show of notoriously irreverent French underground DIY artist duo Pakito Bolino and Caroline Sury, aka Le Dernier Cri. The exhibition will also include prints by Mike Diana, Matt Brinkman, Ota Keiti, Leif Goldberg, Valium, Stu Mead, ATAK, Moolinex, Julien Rictus, LEO, Pigassou, Ichiba Daisuke, Emre Orhun, Fredox, Nemoto, and Ms. Bastion, as well as many of Le Dernier Cri’s silk-screened books, posters, and animations.

 

Opening Reception: Friday, November 20^th, 7-9pm

 

Cross-generational art works, including film, sculpture, paintings, installations, and photographs, curated by Chris Sharp, featuring Becky Beasley, Charles and Ray Eames, Per Martensson, Goran Petercol, Luca Trevisani, Marianne Vierø and Will Yackulic

 

Opening Reception: Friday, November 20^th, 6-8:30pm

Bersohn’s whimsical ink and watercolor drawings, including pattern-like compositions of boxing matches and body builders.

 

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21^st, 1-8pm

 

Curated by Brett Casper and Vanessa Liberati, the group print show features works that use silkscreen, wood block, pigmented ink jet, giclee, linoleum, lithograph and eco hand-printed wallpapers, as well as “re-touched” and further individualized prints. Participating artists include: Heidi Taillefer, Marcellus Hall, Tom Bob, Yoko Furusho, Dmitry Borshch, John Plunkett, Katie Deedy, Anna Podris, Keith Norval, Brett Wintle, Holly Iversen, John Solis, Lisa Petker-Mintz, Aimee Wilder, Tom Billings, and Suzy Q.

 

 

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21^st, 7-9pm

 

Group show, curated by Josie Miner, featuring artists Michael Ackerman, Mae Fatto, Allen Frame, Leila Hekmat, Allan Macintyre, Mariah Robertson, Go Sugimoto, and Hannah Whitaker.

Artists’ Reception: Saturday, November 21^st, 5-8pm

 

Snellin’s multimedia installation piece, “Woman on the Run,” and Britto’s new video work, “Society’s Children,” reveal contrasting ideas on pop culture, urban realities, and Old Hollywood.

 

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21^st, 7pm

 

Pfostl’s multimedia pieces incorporate ominous, blearily delicate images with traces of ephemera, texts, and found objects. Mysterious and mesmerizingly haunting,

 

 

Saturday, November 21st and Sunday, November 22^nd, 1-5pm

Free, but RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

 

70 (!) participating Brooklyn art galleries will offer visitors outstanding exhibitions and refreshments as well as a unique opportunity to learn more about Brooklyn’s expanding art scene and galleries during the second annual smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop, an initiative of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Brooklyn Tourism.

 

The free “smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop” features bus loops that depart from select hubs every hour on the hour from 1pm–5pm and run through four different gallery districts, allowing participants to hop on and off the bus within each line’s loop.

 

RSVP for free transportation to galleries in Brooklyn “gallery districts,” including Red Hook, DUMBO, Gowanus, Park Slope, Crown Heights, Sunset Park, Williamsburg/Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuyvesant, and Fort Greene.

 

For more information on the “smART” hop, and a list of all participating neighborhood galleries, click here.