Monthly Archives: September 2014
Superfund Stories: Dialogues in the Visual Arts at the Brooklyn Public Library – Oct 8th
Brooklyn Public Library Presents: Dialogues in the Visual Arts
An Artist Conversation Series moderated by arts professionals with visual artists featuring the exciting varied work being created in Brooklyn today.
Susan Newmark Fleminger, Program Curator
Superfund Stories: In Celebration of Gowanus Open Studios 2014
Wednesday, October 8 at 6:30 pm
Moderator: Ben Sutton, art critic, journalist andcurator
Artists: Brian Adam Douglas, Rachel Bernstein and Meena Hasan
Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Commons room, first floor, free to the public. Visit
Commons room, first floor, free to the public. Visit bklynpubliclibrary.org/events/exhibitions for more information about this series and Brooklyn Public Library programs.
Gowanus Open Studios 2014
Susan Newmark’s studio will be participating in this event :94 Ninth Street, fourth floor/ # 13 .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 2014
Press Contact: Abby Subak, Director, Arts Gowanus
Email: abby@artsgowanus.org
For one weekend each year, the always popular Gowanus Open Studios 2014 (GOS 2014) invites the public to visit private artist studios, attend opening parties and special events, and enjoy the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Last year, GOS 2013 boasted 231 artists opening their studio doors to over 5,000 visitors in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. This year, with over 200 artists already registered, GOS 2014 promises to be the largest in its 18-year history. This weekend-long arts event is free and open to the public and is recommended for adults, youths and families.
Arts Gowanus presents Gowanus Open Studios 2014 (GOS 2014) October 17-19, 2014.
Arts Gowanus is happy to announce the 18th annual Gowanus Open Studios 2014 (GOS 2014.) Visitors will be able to meet Gowanus artists working in all mediums: painters, sculptors, installation artists, performers, photographers, printmakers, jewellers, ceramicists, mixed media artists, woodworkers, and more. Participating artists range in experience from established artists represented by commercial galleries to emerging artists. Visitors to this free event have a unique opportunity to meet Brooklyn artists within the intimacy of their work spaces, purchase art work, attend openings and talks, and experience the world behind closed doors of Gowanus buildings.These work spaces are in former factories, warehouses, and mixed-use commercial buildings.
The official programming of GOS 2014 will be announced soon, including opening parties, public art events, panel discussions, exhibitions, and more. Please email Abby Subak at abby@artsgowanus.org to be put on the mailing list for up-to-date news or to become a sponsor at any level.
Where: The Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn is surrounds the renowned Gowanus Canal, and is tucked between Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, and Sunset Park. GOS 2014 includes studios from Court Street in the west to 5th Avenue in the east, and from Dean Street in the north to 18th Street in the south. You can get to Gowanus Open Studios by foot, bike, kayak, bus, LIRR, car and subway (take the F, G or R to 4th Ave/9th Street Station, or the R to Union Street, or the F or G to Bergen or Carroll).
GOS 2014 is presented by Arts Gowanus, a non-profit organization of artists and arts organizations working together to support each other, to connect to our community, and to ensure the Gowanus neighborhood continues to be a thriving and creative community of art-makers and art-appreciators.
www.artsgowanus.org
Arts Gowanus is happy to be partnering with ArtsicleOpen, the developer of the online Directory of Artists and map for GOS 2014, and Hyperallergic, the online arts blog, and our City Councilmembers Brad Lander and Steve Levin.
MASH UP: COLLAGE IN ALL MEDIA
A Group Exhibition at the Islip Museum
June 29 – September 14
Curator: Stephen Lamia,Ph.D ,Dowling College
Islip Art Museum
50 Irish Lane
East Islip, NY 11730
Hours: Thursday/Friday 10:00-4:00pm
Saturday/Sunday 12:00-4:00pm
Winners Circle/ Southampton Cultural Center
Dialogues in the Visual Arts: A Conversation Series
Susan Newmark Fleminger, Program Curator
Join us for a series of conversations moderated by arts professionals with contemporary Brooklyn visual artists, featuring the exciting, varied work being created in Brooklyn today.
The Capital, Sonia Gechtoff
Life Cycles: Women Abstractionists Working in the Arts
Chicago State University professor and art historian Camille Brewer moderates
a cross-generational discussion with artists Sonia Gechtoff, Jasmine Murrell and Rebecca Jean Norton.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 – 6:30 pm
Information Commons Lab
Central Library
Layered Narratives at Figureworks Gallery
Susan Newmark
Layered Narratives
Nancy and Her Adventures with the Fox Hunters (detail)
mixed media collage, 36″ x 24″, 2013
NOVEMBER 8 – DECEMBER 15, 2013
Reception:Friday evening, November 8th 6-9PM
(with Williamsburg’s Every 2nd Friday – when galleries stay open late)
After-Party at The Shanty, 79 Richardson Street from 9:30 on at:
FIGUREWORKS
fine art of the human form
168 North 6th St. (1 block from Bedford Avenue “L” train)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.figureworks.com
hours: Saturday and Sunday from 1-6PM
Susan Newmark is a mixed media artist focused on socially charged collage works. Her working process includes cutting, tearing, layering and sanding with added drawing and color parallels. She is fascinated with simultaneous levels of meaning as she explores her own emotional identity and reflects upon the many contradictions of being female.
“Layered Narratives”, Susan’s latest body of work, explores storytelling through the creation of imaginary landscapes integrated with abstract elements. She says of this series, “My work on paper explores narrative and storytelling through the creation of imaginary landscapes integrated with abstract elements, found papers from popular culture — such as wallpaper, wrapping paper, magazines, newspapers, comics, and paint. The layering process begins as an improvisation and an appreciation of how torn posters on the walls of subways and buildings reveal layers of memory as the disparate parts unravel and new unexpected realities emerge. Through an additive collage process and the juxtaposition of the abstract and the representational, my surfaces become interwoven networks and dense webs of vision not unlike our packed urban environment. The work constantly changes and fractures as papers are repeatedly added, then sanded, and painted. The distressed surfaces, the fragile female images, and the other figures contain their own histories and associations as they fuse with the fields of color, form and pattern. The inclusion of Nancy in many pieces recalls the daily comic strip I read as a child; she was fearless, curious, confident, a problem solver, and all seeing. I fantasized about having similar attitudes and adventures … and longed to play with her pets. I am as well, fascinated with tattooed bodies as expressions of identity, transformation, and their occurrence throughout history. They appear in my work as objects of an exotic beauty and messengers in the narratives. And, although there is no one way to read my work, there are many points of entry.”
Figureworks is located at 168 N. 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211, one block from the Bedford Avenue “L” train. The gallery is open to the public Saturday and Sunday from 1-6 PM and is dedicated to exhibiting contemporary and 20th century fine art of the human form. For more information please email harris@figureworks.com, call the gallery at 718-486-7021 or visit us online at www.figureworks.com
Exploring Green Mansions
mixed media collage, 30″ x 22″, 2013