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A Brand New Year!

That’s it, 2010 is safely behind us! It was a busy year. Celebrated my first wedding anniversary with Eleanor. Showed my work in several new places including Red Dot Miami and Javits Convention Center. Co-curated my first group show with Atiba Edwards at FOKUS. My website www.artinbrooklyn.com is still going strong and continuing to grow. 2010 was a pretty good year, looking forward to 2011!

Insight Magazine Launch Party

The next big art event I’m planning is a joint venture with FOKUS to celebrate the publication of the latest issue of Insight Magazine. In their own words:

INSIGHT is a quarterly arts magazine that gives INSIGHT into the artists work and their creative process.  INSIGHT presents a tangible survey of the art world and serves as a platform for emerging and established artists to share their perspective on art.

The exhibit will feature work by artists that have been published in the magazine and I’ll be pulling in work from artists that have been shown on ArtinBrooklyn. I’ve been wanting to curate an exhibit with some of the excellent artists that have been on ArtinBrooklyn to get even more exposure to the amazing array of talent working in the area. To be able to co-host an event with the FOKUS group is an added bonus. They do fantastic community based work and are tireless in their efforts. Oh yeah, and they throw great parties! More info to follow.

INSIGHT Magazine Launch Party
Saturday, October 16, 7-11pm
Triomph Fitness, 540 President Street, Brooklyn, NY

New Paintings

Just added a couple of new paintings to the website. The largest painting’s subject is Prince Street in Soho, it measures 36×48 inches. The view is from the rooftop of the New Museum looking west and shows rooftops across the skyline of downtown Manhattan. The other painting is titled Street Vendor and depicts a pretzel cart on 5th Avenue. This emphasizes more of figurative element to my work. Besides differing in terms of scale (Street Vendor is 16×20 inches, less than half the size) the subjects are also opposites. The cityscape shows the broad, sweeping, dramatic views of the city while the image of the vendor is a more personal view at street level. Two different views, two different experiences of the city.

Open Studio May 1-2nd

Been very busy in the studio preparing a painting for the upcoming Open Studio event on May 1st and 2nd. The new piece is a rooftop view of Soho, measuring 36 x 48 inches – a large one! Details on the open studio are available below.

I’m also offering digital prints of my work at very reasonable prices, the first item has been posted to my etsy store.

Artists’ Open Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Saturday, May 1st and Sunday May 2nd, 2010
from 12–6 pm

Screwball Spaces, Gowanus Canal’s newest addition of artists’ studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn, opens its doors to the public for a rare glimpse into the work spaces of New York’s contemporary artists.

http://openstudios.screwballspaces.com

New and Used Paintings Exhibit at Sweet Lorraine Gallery

I’m having an exhibit with John Tebeau at the Sweet Lorraine Gallery in our Red Hook studio. Location is the giant Treasure Island Storage building – featuring an outstanding view of the Gowanus Expressway! Come say hello to the nation’s newest Superfund site and see some great paintings. Drinks are on us.

Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time: 7-10 pm
Location: Sweet Lorraine Gallery, 183 Lorraine Street, Brooklyn, NY

www.screwballspaces.com
johntebeau.wordpress.com

Submissions Open for Brooklyn International Film Festival

FINAL FILM SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Categories: Feature, Documentary, Short, Experimental, Animation

Awards: $50,000 in services, products, and cash.

Final Deadline: March 17, 2010
(Entry Fee: $50. Deadline is “Postmarked by.” Packages can be mailed until
the day of the deadline)

Film Festival Dates: June 4-13, 2010

+ click here for more info or to submit online
(http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/submit/)