Thursday, March 3, 2011
Art
Armory Week 2011: Art Brooklyn on the Verge (of Being Ready)
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- Installation of paintings by Lee Ji Hyang at 1 Main Street for Art Brooklyn.
After spending several hours yesterday in the belly of the Armory Week beast, earlier this afternoon I stopped by several of the Dumbo locations hosting Art Brooklyn, and while many of the exhibitors were still setting up at 1 Main Street (pictured) and 81 Front Street (where London gallery Arch 402 is an early favorite), the James Kalm-curated survey of Brooklyn artists at 111 Front Street (in suites 200, 204 and 222) is looking very, very strong.
- One of the "Brooklyn Art Now" survey rooms at 111 Front Street, with larvae-like Katerina Marcelja sculptures in the foreground.
- An incredible acrylic paint skin hanging by Kris Scheifele.
- A photograph from Peter Feigenbaum's Trainset Ghetto series.
- A collaborative canvas by Jenny Morgan and David Mramor.
- An incredibly creepy out-of-dress sculptural experience by Janet Kurnatowski titled "At Times, I Can't go on Without You."
- Typically, delightfully NSFW scroll by Don Pablo Pedro.
- Steven Brower's funny though slightly unsettling sculpture "Child Astronaut Test Suit 1999-2000."
- In this text collage, Meg Hitchcock reconfigured the letters from Sartre's "Neasea" into verses by second-century Indian philosopher Nagarjuna.
- An untitled landscape painting of the Red Hook waterfront (with conspicuous Ikea sign) by Greg Lindquist.
- A view of about two fifths of Despo Magoni's massive wrap-around series "The Thousand and One Nights."
- My favorite piece from Art Brooklyn so far: this stunning large-format gouache painting by Julie Torres.
- And, finally, Brooklyn Art Now curator James Kalm applying the last of the wall labels for the show.
Tags: Armory Week, Art Brooklyn, Verge, Dumbo, Art fairs, James Kalm, Julie Torres, Meg Hitchcock, Don Pablo Pedro, Greg Lindquist, Peter Feigenbaum
