Congratulations to Shelton Walker for her upcoming residency at the Bemis Center this spring and to Francois Deschamps on his upcoming exhibition at the Dorsky Museum of Art. The opening receptions is Friday, February 2.
Francois Deschamps, Gado Diallo, 2011, courtesy of the artist
Thank you to all of the amazing artists who shared their work and time with us over the course of 18 months. Now.Here.This. has come to a close, but you can still see the archives on our website. Enjoy!
Kara Smith, People in our Neighborhood, 2012, 8 ½”x 11″ A list with my good ol’ typewriter
From Now.Here.This. January 2012
xo, Leah, Sara and Andrea
It’s been a great 18 months of sharing great work through the exhibition project NOW. HERE. THIS. The first six installments were geared toward promoting cross-cultural dialog, highlighting the variety of media represented in contemporary art and the different responses to the idea of location or place. The following six installments from January to June 2012 featured a single artist in order to delve deeper into the power of the artist’s process. With the last six installments, from July through December 2012, we have been exhibiting work made by teams, duos and collaborators. By showcasing a variety of disciplines and approaches, we’ve seen the power of having multiple points of view working towards a common goal.
And now it’s time for our final installment. We are featuring OFF CENTER, a project by the collaborative partners of HUSK, Christina Kelly and Jeff Hutchinson. Over the next month, check in to see their progress as they delve into an exploration of the controversial site of the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn. At the conclusion of the month they will have a series of exchanges and ideas that have gone through various processes of accumulation, transformation and perspective shifts with open-ended possibilities.
The November 2012 exhibition for Now.Here.this features PeepingTrain, a new project by dynamic art-duo Pietre Valbuena and Laura Torres!
Get to know some Chicago residents through their exploratory, witty and interactive project .
It’s a big weekend in Brooklyn for many 3-art artists!
Molly Dilworth is at her Recess residency in Red Hook.
Kansas Patterns by Molly Dilworth
And some Windows Brooklyn artists are participating in GO BROOKLYN ART:
Lia Zuvilivia, Julia Whitney Barnes, and Jess Levy.
Candy Chang, a fabulous artist who participated in Windows Brooklyn, is a TED Senior Fellow.
In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: “Before I die I want to ___.” Her neighbors’ answers — surprising, poignant, funny — became an unexpected mirror for the community. (What’s your answer?)”
Windows Brooklyn artist, Katherine Gressel, wrote a thought-provoking piece in response to the July-August Atlantic Monthly cover story, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter. Check out the link here.
We apologize for being so behind in updating the news page of our website. But now we have some big news to announce: We are launching the last six installments of Now. Here. This., our 18-month web-based exhibition. With the last six installments, from July through December 2012, we are taking a look at collaborations (2 or more artists working together) and the power of having multiple points of view working together for a common goal. As in the previous series, each exhibition will change over time and provide an in-depth look into the visceral responses, performative gestures and inspired moments of artists affected by their surroundings. Please click here to learn more!
At the end of the series, the exhibition will have existed in three distinct parts, and we are planning to publish a corresponding catalog at the end of the year.
Please view an archive of the first installment (July-December 2011) here.
An archive of the second installment, which ran from January-June 2012, is on view here.
Karen Rosenkrantz, one of the artists featured in both Now.Here.This and our upcoming Made to Move traveling exhibition was featured in this article. Great work, Karen!
Two current exhibitions in New York City reference artists’ response to location in polar ways.
Oleg Yushko, from the series “Implications,” 2002-07
At The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space through March 10, 2012, visitors can view art made by Belorusian artists as curated by Olga Kopenkina in Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship. “Sound of Silence presents videos, posters, installations and paintings by nine of the most active artists and collectives from Belarus. These artists create work in solidarity with recent popular protest in Belarus, using their practice to challenge the status quo and contribute to the democratic movement, which expands far beyond their native land.” The result is powerful and educational.
Uptown at the Howard Greenberg Gallery through March 17, 2012, New York in Color is on view. This show is sweeping view of the beauty, vibrancy and glamor of New York City from the 1950s until present day. Photographers on view include Bruce Davidson, Margaret Morton, Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Marvin Newman, and numerous others.