I was reminiscing on my favorite poem earlier this week—Robert Frost’s Birches, in which he claims, “I’d like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over… Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.” And with Valentine’s Day coming up, my reigning singledom must believe that February is the right time for love. Further to Frost’s reasoning, I truly believe that Bushwick is the right place for art. As our crafty neighborhood reveals to us week after week, there are opening celebrations, closing parties, artist talks and plenty of wine, beer and good company in between. And hey, we might just find that Bushwick’s the right place for love as well.
#1 Introductions: ART BEASTIES @ Brooklyn Fire Proof East (THURS 7-10 PM)
ART BEASTIES hosts their first group exhibition in New York with an opening party this Thursday at Brooklyn Fire Proof East. This Japanese artist collective aims to deliver a more accurate and varied view of Japanese art that is underrepresented in most creative spaces. Curated by Sessa Englund, Introductions brings a contemporary mix of video, photo, sculpture, painting and screenprint, offering the audience a view into the works of artists who’s practice centers on the individual and academic exploration of self-identity.
#2 Björn Meyer-Ebrecht and Osamu Kobayashi @ Storefront Ten Eyck (FRI 6-9PM)
Artists Björn Meyer-Ebrecht and Osamu Kobayashi investigate their creative work with a shared interest in abstraction and geometry, referencing the tradition of modernism and reacting to its totalizing reductivity. With the upcoming exhibition at Storefront Ten Eyck, both artists invite the viewer to interrogate the extended meanings within the language of their practice. The artwork enters the real space of the viewer as the barriers between sculpture and architecture dissolve, resulting in graphical purity and logic, sparked by clarity and elegance.
